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fallen-symphony · 9 days

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Who do you guys like the most on your team? Who do you hate the most on the enemy team?

"An interesting question... Although I'm not one for relationships since I'm a superior being... I must admit that Obake's intellect and Motivations truly seem to resonate with me. He's like a more intelligent Dr. Regal.

"As for who I hate on the enemy team... Probably my stupid brothers... Especially RiFT. So much power, yet he uses it to serve lower beings. What an insult..."

"Glad to know we can get along, Slur. I have always found you fascinating... But as a brilliant mind who loves potential, Eggman Nega is a man after my own heart."

"The feeling is mutual, Obake. I do have respect for Dr. Starline and the Analog Man."

"Oh, it's such an honor to hear you say that, Mr. Eggman Nega, sir. Know that you are my favorite here as well."

"As for who I hate... Though I haven't met them in person, that Peni Parker and her robot, SP//Dr remind me too much of Hiro and Baymax, which remind me of my past Failure! If I can't get my revenge on Hiro, then Peni will be the next Best thing..."

"I feel the same way about that key wielding Sonic that showed up not too long ago! Dimensional variant or not, he's still a Sonic, and Sonic ruined my plans many times! I want to destroy him personally...!"

"Hey! You lay off him, Egghead! That Sonic is mine, ya hear me!? I'm the one who's gonna destroy him! I hate him and every other Sonic out there! I'll destroy them all until the only one left is me!"

"You tell 'em, Scourgey! Now, tell them how I'm your favorite person here!"

"If by that, you mean my LEAST favorite person here, then yes, that's you, Rosy."

"Awww! You say the meanest things, Scourgey! You're one of my favorite people here, too..."

"But her... This one right here... She's my girl..."

"Aw, thank you, Rosy. I like you, too. Such an adorable little psychopath ready to smash some heads... It's like having a little sister... But of course, my favorite has to be Dark Mega for obvious reasons."

"You're my favorite, too, Dark Empress! A beautiful Darkloid queen like you has stolen my heart..."

"As much as that Empress chick terrifies me almost as much as Rosy does... Gotta agree with her. Dark Megz is my favorite member here. We both got beef with our goodie-goodie two shoes doppelgangers, and we both want to live in a world of chaos."

"Yeah... I'm disliking that Megaman more and more each day. He gets to keep his Lan, while I was rejected by mine when I became the ruler of the Darkloids."

"I feel the same way about Roll. She gets to keep her Mayl, but mine wouldn't accept the new me..."

"Can I help you smash that good Roll that makes you look bad, best friend?! Can I, can I, can I?!"

"Sure... As long as I get the last blow."

"Deal!"

"Obake and Eggman Nega are inspirational. Their genius far exceeds mine, and I have much to learn from them. I don't have any personal beef with anyone on the enemy team... Yet... But that ARiA and her army of Guardiangemon might be a problem."

"CHYA HA HA HA HA HA!!! My favorite person here is obviously the Great Lord Brevon! No one can compare to his greatness...!

"As for who I hate the most, obviously it's that blasted Commander Torque! He and Squid Head have been getting in Lord Brevon's way far too many times! I promise to destroy them!"

"I can always count on you to praise me, General Serpentine. I, too, can't stand Commander Torque. That blasted dragon girl might not be with him now, but he can still be a problem... Especially with that new squad of his."

"My favorite member is Ophelia! Even if it's not official, she's awesome!

"And my favorite member on the other team is my beloved Nana..."

"You're supposed to be talking about the enemy members you hate, lover boy. Anyway, probably no surprise to anyone, but Mr. Tinker is my arch nemesis on the enemy team. I got over the grudge of him 'murdering' Dr. Eggman ever since meeting the superior Eggman Nega. That doesn't mean I don't want to show him up. What about you, Sync?"

"..."

"Gee, nice choices there, chatterbox."

"I think we can all assume he hates everyone equally, teammate and enemy alike. Anyway, it seems we reached our limit, time-wise. We need to get back to our plans of taking over the Multiverse."

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formerchaoslord · 10 months

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Happy Birthday, Sonic!

(I'm still on hiatus, but wanted to wish my favorite blue video game character, other than Mega Man, a happy birthday. I also wanted to give you all a preview of the next Paradox Muse to appear when I get back.)

"Alright! Which one of you heroes thinks they can take on the future King of the Multiverse?!"

"King of the Multiverse? Don't make me laugh!"

A Dimensional Gateway opens up, and flying out of it is a strange looking sword that strikes Scourge.

"What the...?! It can't be...!"

The owner of the strange sword emerged from the Dimensional Gateway, the sword disappearing from the ground next to Scourge and reappearing in the owner's hand.

"So who are you supposed to be? My Heartless or something? Eh, doesn't matter. All I know is the Multiverse doesn't belong to you, buddy!"

(New Paradox Muse coming soon! See you all when I get back!)

#new muse coming soon #Paradox Muse #all hail king scourge baby (ic)#the light gives prince sonic strength (ic)#early bird cameo #sonic archie comics #sonic the hedgehog #kingdom hearts #clash of good and evil (blog jump cameo)#fallen symphony

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batcavescolony · 2 months

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Jughead Jones would have beef with Michelle Obama over her 'The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids' Act of 2010.

#reason i know this: im aroace and have beef with Michelle Obama over her healthy hunger free kids act of 2010.#like ok i get that kids should have healthy food but thats not what happened. they just made everything whole wheet and now we needed to #buy a fruit and veg that was either half rotten of from a can. if schools actually made heathy good food that would be one thing but #they didnt! we used to have these warhead ices and the food was good and we ate it all then 2010 hit and the food was suddenly shit #and with this came alot of food waste too no one wanted to eat the oranges that fell off the back of the truck and over cooked green beans!#jughead jones #jughead comics #archie comics #and i took culinary and putting kids in the room with other kids makes them tey new things. their's a way you can them to eat healthy food #its by having that food NOT TASTE LIKE ASS! and not LOOK LIOE ROAD KILL! and obviously im not actually hating at Michelle she had her heart #in the right place its just the road to hell is paved with good intentions. it didnt work. usa school lunch is a literal joke!#and also in part with this what getting kids to move more and that didn't happen either! you known what i would have done?#got rid of the physical fitness test and have kids play funs games. making kids compeat against each other is a shit way to get them to #enjoy exercise! let them play. dont make them compare themselves to their peers. dont stop fun play in elementary!#and maybe dont cut their portions at luch and have them movie more? if you want them to move they need fuel to move!#just i have thoughts about the health and hunger free kids act of 2010 and how it utterly failed.#michelle obama #the healthy hunger free kids act of 2010 #school lunch #american school system #american school lunch program #comics #forsythe pendleton jones III #riverdale #yall get tagged get over it

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hadesknockedupintheunderworld · 2 months

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Which era of Archie Sonic did you enjoy more? Pre reboot or post reboot?

Hmmm that's a good question. Idk I think I liked some of the writing post reboot better and I did like the new characters. I also personally think the removal of the love triangles specifically made the comic so much more enjoyable for me and opened up for better characterization for Sally. However, reading post sgw I did miss some of the old charcters (rip all those claimed penders ocs) and their now unresolved storylines, was sad at the loss of certain character struggles (like Rotor who was struggling between his health and wanting to be in the field again), and I missed how pre sgw had just some of the most insane or out of the blue plot developments/world building choices.

In terms of enjoyment, though, I'd have to say post reboot for the following reasons:

1. I enjoyed pre reboot for what it was more often than not, but I had my most fun during Flynn era. I liked how the Penders era moved things to being more serious, but I often felt like he had good and interesting concepts/ideas without the writing to back it up. Meanwhile, while Flynn wasn't perfect either, I felt like he was able to make a lot of those established relationships more believable to me, and while he also made some batshit plot choices he had more of the writing skills to back it up. This is all to say that aside from some stuff at the very beginning of pre reboot, it was a long while before I was able to really enjoy what I was reading instead of just taking things I liked where I could. Post reboot was a lotta Flynn, so despite the loss of characters and plotlines I enjoyed greatly, I at least felt like I could enjoy everything post reboot.

2. It didn't have all of those Sonic based love triangles. I know I know I'm a multishipper I ship Sonic with a lot of people but by god. I just could not take the Sonic/Sally drama anymore. Bunnie/Antoine was fine. Flynn actually made me believe in Julie-Su and Knuckles as decent partners. But by that point (and this is coming from someone who loved Sonic/Sally before reading the comic) everything going on re-Sonic and Sally's romance prospects with the opposite gender and each other was like beating a dead horse. And for Sally specifically, she had been recharacterized so so so many times pre-reboot just for the sake of drama that she often...didn't feel like her own character. So post reboot with the love triangles and the romance with Sonic removed I felt like we could really see who she was as a character and a clear vision of her ambitions/cares. I could feel like who she *is* wouldn't be changed on a whim for the purpose of plot.

3. As they say, people get better with practice. And while I thought some of his pre-reboot stuff was interesting, I felt like by post reboot era, Flynn had grown better at depicting the nuance of living under the eggman empire.

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So yeah I guess I'd say, gun to my head? Post reboot. But it's really more complicated than that. I did enjoy both a lot, and especially in the last like 80 issues pre reboot. Pre reboot was wild an interesting in a way that I enjoyed with characters and storylines I loved, but it wasn't always written amazingly and contained much too many ongoing love triangles and mehhh canon relationships to me. Post reboot gave certain characters more time to shine as characters, reverted the pre reboot growth of other characters, delivered some of its nuanced situations better, and was largely written nicely, but you could often feel that the post reboot team was now restricted in a much different way than they were pre reboot (like, pre reboot's struggle was keeping up with existing storylines and relationships and keeping things true to what they have been, but post reboot's struggle feels more like it may have had some of Sega's restrictions we see nowadays).

In the end, though, I miss characters and storylines from both pre and post reboot after the cancelation.

#anon interview #archie sonic comics #sonic the hedgehog #Thanks for the ask anon!#Like I said it's all just complicated. There were some things post reboot I liked when it came to making things closer to the games' style #and continuity‚ but there were other things I felt were a bit of a loss to say the least #To me the removal of the love triangles and the giving her an actual character was good for Sally #But I can't help but feel like Knuckles reverted a bit. I do love canon Knuckles a lot‚ and it's fine that they added Relic and Fixit so he #wouldn't be completely alone on Angel Island‚ but I really miss the family he built with the Chaotix + Mighty and Ray #I miss Lien-Da and Shard and Scourge and Elias (among others) so so much‚ but I also loved new post reboot characters like Eclipse and the #egg bosses and the freedom fighter teams #Honestly I just wish we could have had meaningful resolutions to both the pre and post reboot timelines because I cared about them both #Although tbh at least post reboot got to finish the saving the world light gaia/dark gaia thing. Pre reboot left just in the middle of #current events #Anyways I digress #If you have any more questions on my thoughts re the archie comics or anything else like that‚ feel free to shoot me another ask!

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smoreal · 1 year

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The worst part I think is knowing that ppl are gonna scroll past the zonic poll and just automatically vote for modern without even a thought WE USED TO BE A COMMUNITY

#maybe they vote based on who would win in a fight??#who’s better?? who’s the coolest?? which one they even know in the first place???#who knows.#all I know is that we live in a time.#where all the new fans don’t eat up the Archie comics bc they’ve got IDW 😞#shitposts

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phoenix-before-the-flame · 1 year

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um, the tags on your last ask. What happemed in the sonic comics????

#talking to the firebird #i mean shit bro what doesnt happen in the sonic comics #there was a lot of relationship drama #lotsa implied cheatin/complicated ztuff #but it wasnt rlly sonic but his evil alternate universe self named Scourge #uhhhhh there was also a rift between sonic and tails bcus sonic was dating a girl tails had a crush on #but she was in cahoots with sonics evil alt and was manipulating sonic #there was racism too bcus humans came back and were being racist to sonic and co #i distinctly remember a panel wirh sonic innchains walkin down a street with humans saying fhey hate furries #uhm there was also other instances of racism too #knuckles was microwaved as a kid by his dad tryna make a super soldier #there was also a lot goin on with knuckles and the echidnas specifically tbh #cause kenneth penders used irl situations of like ethnic cleansing n genocide and zlapped it ontonthe echidna lore #knuckles also got took over by some chaos god spirit and tried to genocide run everyone #but this is all in the archie comics run of sonic #after the lawsuit between penders and sega that run stopped and they made a new sonic comic published by idw now and its good :)

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silver-ace-of-spades · 1 year

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I'm taking images of Silver the Hedgehog and using them as reaction images.

🍁🎃🍁🎃🍁

When you realize you have homework that's due in an hour:

When someone encourages you to leave your comfort zone:

Me after walking in wildfire smoke while binding:

When you get lost while playing Pokémon Go:

#toxic electricity #silver the hedgehog #wake up babe new reaction image just dropped #these are all real things that happened to me lmao #sonic archie comics #sonic universe #the silver saga #reaction images #i didn't learn my lesson for the binder one because my dysphoria was too bad #now my respiratory system feels a bit fucked up even one week after the smoke cleared #swearing in tags

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jhsharman · 1 year

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The new kid

Sure. Anxiety manifesting itself as dreams of Satan getting you. But look -- you need to understand Riverdale High at this time and place. Biker gang the Hell's Angels has the run of the place.

What is weird is we will never see or hear of this Hell's Angels crew again. Like, even if this is indeed a sanctioned school club, driving the motorcycles in the hallway are demanding of a reprimand of some sort. But I guess the Hell's Angels are just a herald for the new character -- or, here a reintroduction of a new character. In the world of students wandering the halls of Riverdale High, hippy demon Legion is too easily overlooked. And lest you think this is just Al Hartley with Spire Christian, no -- he made his initial appearance in Reggie and Me number 55.

Mr. Weatherbee does not meet him until Spire.

It is a little bit weird that the more overt biblical reference -- "for we are many" -- is in the secular version of this story. Legion, via wikipedia:

The earliest version of this story exists in the Gospel of Mark, described as taking place in "the country of the Gerasenes". Jesus encounters a possessed man and calls on the demon to emerge, demanding to know its name – an important element of traditional exorcism practice.[1] He finds the man is possessed by a multitude of demons who give the collective name of "Legion". Fearing that Jesus will drive them out of the world and into the abyss, they beg him instead to send them into a herd of pigs, which he does. The pigs then rush into the sea and are drowned (Mark 5:1–5:13). Or, your basic metaphor for Roman soldiers -- message: Jesus is more powerful than the Roman army.

His ideas interest me and I would like to subscribe to his newsletter. Or, hear his spoken word poetry maybe? "Life is a Squirrel Cage" shows real promise. Despite all his rage he's still just a squirrel in a cage. He knows why the caged squirrel sings. Stuff like that.

Yeah! Show us your perverts! Like, get to the bottom of the cosplay going on in the story just before the secular Legion story.:

Is this allowed on campus? I mean, Mr. Weatherbee appeared so he must approve somewhere. As for radicals, well there is this --

Probably some reasonable if not wholly formed insights from him. Unfortunately Ethel gets to him and sells him on, depending on which copy we have, general love and empathy or Jesus.

I would say -- Hey! Give me the danged back story -- but there is probably not much. A dime a dozen drug addiction story that in order to make interesting gets peppered with exaggerations and falsehoods and so you have the next A Million Little Pieces. Or if he has decided to make money on the Evangelical circuit, he can claim to have experienced a vast national Occult network -- make him a mint.

Someone let me know if he gets referenced in the present "Archie Horror" line of comics.

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iminaworldofpureimagination · 1 year

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oh shit they raceswapped him I was unaware

#pop tates #velma show #archie comics #i mean i dont care about new archies at all in general so i dont keep up with new stuff of it

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bed-buggier · 6 months

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Deadass on the verge of tears at the thought of Belle being adopted by Dr. Light 😭

#I would willingly read all of Archie to appreciate something like this #Please IDW give us a new run of Mega Man comics so this can happen

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fallen-symphony · 1 year

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A wittle digimon appears on every screen. It doesn't seem to want to though.

"Hwelp. I cwan't contwol it."

"Teseo! Is this one of your pranks or something?!"

"Why ya gotta point the finger at me when something weird happens on the computers? #Not cool! 😞"

"I dunno. Probably because your the hacker boy who's always foolin' around?!"

"As true of a description of Teseo that is, he's not at fault here this time. This creature on the screens is a Digimon."

"Interesting. This one looks quite different from you and your army of Machindramon, Mr. Analogman."

"Digimon come in all shapes in sizes. This particular one is a DemiVeemon. It's a week In-Training level Digimon, but it has the potential to Digivolve into very powerful Digimon like Magnemon, Ultraforce Veedramon, and Imperialdramon."

"Fancy. So, what will we do with this little creature? Experiment on it? Force it to take on its most powerful form? Give it a Dark Chip?"

"Ooh! I like that last idea! Maybe it will turn into a Digimon-Darkloid hybrid or something! Heh heh heh heh heh!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Time out! I know we're supposed to be the bad guys and all, but aren't we going a little too far with these suggestions? It's just a baby! Why don't we just send the little guy back home or something so we can get back to ruling the Multiverse and stuff? #Overkill! 😥"

"You fool! If what the Analogman said is true, then this creature has the potential to become a powerful weapon that will help us in our quest to rule the Multiverse. And I do like experimenting on creatures. I, too, am curious to see how it would react a Dark Chip. We shouldn't waste this opportunity!"

#thepersonaking56 #slur will rule (ic)#teseo hacks the world (ic)#all hail king scourge baby! (ic)#analogman unleashes his machinedramon (ic)#obake's new experiment (ic)#dark mega has logged in (ic)#bow down to lord brevon (ic)#megaman battle network #azure striker gunvolt #sonic archie comics #digimon #big hero six #freedom planet #(The poor little guy just had to show up in the computer screens of villains didn't he...?"

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formerchaoslord · 4 months

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(Continued from here.)

(One epic battle between Prince Sonic and Super Scourge later...)

"How...?! You didn't even turn into Super Sonic... How did I lose to you...?!"

"The power of darkness is no match against the Keyblade! Now, get lost, faker!"

"Grrr...!! I'll get (BLEEP)ing even with you, ya hear me...?! I'll take you down and destroy your stupid key...! I'll take you and every other dimension's Sonic down! After that, the Multiverse will belong to me...! ME, and no one else!! All hail the king, baby!"

(Scourge returns to the Dreadnought. You can find out what he's up to over at @fallen-symphony )

"A version of Sonic with a Keyblade... You must be from a paradox dimension."

"Yeah... And I assume you're this world's version of ARiA?"

"In a sense, I am. My name is RiFT. ARiA told me that more people from other paradox dimensions would appear."

"So ARiA already has you up to date with the whole Paradox Dimensions thing. I was a little surprised with the multiverse creating dimensions that were a combination of two or more different universes myself. And this is coming from a hedgehog who traveled to different worlds before meeting ARiA."

"A boy named Sora came to visit some time ago, and he had a Keyblade, too. So we know how powerful it is. It will be awesome having a Keyblade Master like you on our team, your majesty."

"Thanks, little guy... But no need for the formalities. You can just call me 'Sonic.' I'll do everything in my power to help you guys keep the Multiverse safe."

(Paradox Prince Sonic has joined the party!)

#new muse #all hail king scourge baby! (ic)#the light gives prince sonic strength (ic)#clash between good and evil (blog jump cameo)#rift is connected (ic)#wahoo! klonoa has entered your realm (ic)#sonic archie comics #sonic the hedgehog #kingdom hearts #paradox dimension #sonic x kingdom hearts #klonoa

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transgaysex · 1 year

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ive considered rereading the archie sonic comics

#wind howls #im not even up to date with idw anymore i havent read a new issue in like MONTHS #maybe even a year if im feeling quirky abt my memory #like ive read the archie comics before but i was younger and dont remember anything from them. i mightved been a teen still ?#i think it was before i was an adult for sure. it was way back when i still used my ipad regularly #i havent touched that thing in like. probably 5 years. maybe a bit less actually #still... those comics were so weird and confusing and quite an ordeal from what i remember nd have been seeing lately #so im not sure if its worth it. yet i miss my favourite characters most of them are in there (gold and nicole being 2 of them mostly)#at least my other regular faves persist.... ray and tails my little guys of all time...

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thankskenpenders · 7 months

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Amy's fortune cards

The Sonic fandom has long been the kind of fandom that takes minor details very seriously, for better or worse. On the one hand, this means fans will really dig for the diamonds in the rough, latching onto fun character interactions, animations, bits of background worldbuilding, and more in pieces of Sonic media that many would write off as "the bad ones." But it also feels like every week another needlessly hostile debate over Sonic minutia erupts on Twitter, whether it's over individual lines of dialogue, fanart that makes Tails' shoes blue, or the ideal length and volume for Sonic's quills.

So it was probably inevitable that a fandom-wide debate would erupt upon seeing Amy's new gameplay style in the DLC for Sonic Frontiers, which takes the once-obscure fact that she enjoys reading tarot and shines a spotlight on it like never before.

I mean:

The thing is, while I basically always try to tune out Sonic fandom bickering... for once, I kind of sympathize with the detractors? Don't get me wrong, I like Amy's tarot stuff, and people on all sides of the discussion are being overly nasty about their opinions, as usual. (Sonic Twitter remains my personal hell.) But when I set aside the hyperbole and zoom out, I do think I understand why some fans are put off by the sudden shift in focus for the character, even if I think it's cool.

It's complicated. Let me attempt to present the cases for and against Amy's fortune cards

For years, I was always one of those fans who thought it could be fun if they played with Amy's tarot reading, or even leaned into some kind of magic with her. Part of that is my own biases showing, but there's just something that makes sense there, especially when you look at Sonic, Tails, and Amy as a trio. (I would argue that's the real "Team Sonic" these days, especially in the comics where Knuckles is more likely to be stuck on Angel Island or otherwise doing his own thing.)

You could argue that Tails is all about logic, relying on science and technology and deductive reasoning to solve problems. But Amy is all about emotion. She wears her heart on her sleeve, is extremely empathetic, and is very prone to magical thinking - both figuratively and sometimes literally. Her origin story has always been that her tarot cards told her it was her destiny to meet Sonic on Little Planet. She's claimed to be able to "sense" peoples' presences - particularly Sonic's. She's the type to believe that The Power of Love is a literal magical force. So, on some level, it makes sense to mirror Tails's science by having Sonic's other best friend believe in magic. And then Sonic is somewhere in the middle, primarily following his own gut instincts but taking advice from both of them as needed. This isn't totally accurate to how their dynamics actually function in canon stories, but I think it's a mode that could work for them.

Going off of that, it's fun to lean all the way into Amy being a magical girl, or even a witch, using her fortune telling as a foundation. Take, for example, this version of Amy from Diana Skelly's old Sonic cast redesigns from before she freelanced for Archie and IDW. This is one of MANY such redesigns for Amy.

Fast forward to the 2020s, and Amy's tarot cards are, in fact, finally getting brought up again in canon. Which is fun! I like seeing that. I like all of the individual stories involving Amy's fortune cards. This is a fun character trait for Amy, a fun nod to old lore, AND a fun storytelling device, all in one. It's really cool that the Sonic universe has its own thematically appropriate arcana, and that the cards are getting made as physical merch. And sure enough, the official card backs and borders were designed by none other than Diana Skelly, in yet another cool example of an ascendant fan leaving their mark on the series.

BUT... when you step back and look at the big picture, I get why some fans find this shift in focus jarring. At the moment, it's starting to feel like every new story about Amy involves her fortune cards to some degree.

The most recent mainline comic arc to feature Amy as the lead character, 2021's Trial by Fire arc, prominently features a sequence where she reads fortunes while camping with the girls. The Origins version of Sonic CD now bookends the game with scenes of Amy and her tarot cards. Sonic randomly mentioned it in a scene in Frontiers. And now, just this week, we got the (very cute, gorgeously illustrated) Amy's 30th Anniversary comic with a story revolving around Amy's tarot cards, followed the very next day by the Frontiers DLC in which she gets a brand new tarot-based moveset. Even her base melee attack now has her throwing tarot cards instead of swinging her hammer. Again, I like all of these individual things, but after years of it almost never coming up at all, it's VERY noticeable that Amy's tarot cards are suddenly everywhere.

To be fair, I'm looking at this from the perspective of a superfan who's actively following ALL Sonic media. Casual fans - especially kids - aren't necessarily going to be reading the comics every month, buying the thousandth rerelease of the Genesis games, or playing the ultra-hard new alternate ending DLC for a game that came out last year. Each of these stories is going to be someone's introduction to the idea that Amy can read tarot, and that's probably part of the idea behind this unified push.

But to play devil's advocate, for my fellow superfans, I understand why it feels like a very minor footnote of Amy's character is suddenly becoming the entire focus of her personality. While Amy has always been said to enjoy fortune telling, that wasn't really a character trait in and of itself, but rather an example of her being a typical girl who hopes she'll be able to find true love one day. It's less that Amy can literally predict the future and more like her using a cootie catcher or going "he loves me, he loves me not" while picking the petals off of a flower. So I get not vibing with this stuff, or feeling like it's being pushed very hard out of nowhere.

What I don't agree with are comparisons like "it's like if they made Knuckles' moveset revolve around him liking grapes." Like, I get it. Ian Flynn loves shoehorning in his little winking references for us nerds, and mentions of Amy's tarot cards were previously on the same level as other random bullet points from old Japanese manuals. But a multifaceted hobby like fortune telling that opens up so many narrative and aesthetic possibilities is obviously very different from having a favorite food. It's ALWAYS been a part of her story, not just a random fact, and there's no reason why the fortune telling can't be elevated to something more.

And, hell, even if it wasn't an established character trait, there's nothing inherently wrong with injecting new ideas into a character. One of the best Amy stories in recent years, the Free Comic Book Day special "Amy's New Hobby" written by Gale Galligan, came up with the idea that Amy's secretly been drawing little comics about her and her friends. Is this based on Lore? No. But it's cute, and helps tell the story of a younger Amy who's still coming out of her shell as both a hero and a friend.

Certain fans are also looking at Amy's Frontiers moveset and using it as evidence that once again the Vile American Contributors like Ian are CORRUPTING Sonic Team's perfect vision of Sonic with their misinterpretations. And like. Come on. Ian does not control the gameplay. He's a freelance writer. The tarot stuff is clearly something that Sonic Team likes if they made it the basis of Amy's new moveset - and, you know, if they keep approving comics and animations about Amy's fortune telling. None of this gets made without their blessing, and lord knows how much they can micromanage shit and shoot down ideas over the most minor of details.

Like, yeah, Amy's fortune telling was probably conceived less as a sign that she Knows Magic and more as a pretty mundane hobby for a lovesick young Japanese girl to have. But you're gonna sit there and tell me that using Amy's tarot cards for more than that could only be the result of a cultural misunderstanding? That nobody in Japan uses tarot card theming and aesthetics (or the general idea of magical cards) for the cool factor? Stardust Crusaders? Persona? The Astrologian class in FFXIV? Cardcaptor Sakura?? Hello??? Do you think Capcom put Gambit in Marvel vs. Capcom ironically because they thought using magic to throw cards at people was stupid? There's tons of precedent for this! It's nothing like Knuckles throwing grapes at people, be for real.

Giving Amy a very magical girl-esque moveset also just makes a lot of sense. For decades her hammer attacks have literally made sparkly heart shapes appear around her. Leaning into both that and her tarot cards in her new moveset makes a lot of sense to me.

But, admittedly... I do think it's very odd that her hammer is treated as a secondary element here, rather than having her primarily use her hammer and adding the cards for extra flair. If hitting the attack button made her swing her hammer instead of throwing cards, I'm not sure we'd even be having this discussion right now.

But the tarot-cycle and Amy riding her hammer like a witch's broom are fucking SICK and I will not concede on this point

The thing is, this whole fortune card discourse is but a small piece of a bigger problem. Amy's been a character who needed some work for ages, but there's basically nothing you can do with her without pissing SOMEONE off.

Years of stories where Amy's crush was her primary motivator and Sonic went "Ew, cooties!" have lead many casual fans to believe that being Sonic's obsessive fangirl is Amy's entire personality. At best people might call her Sonic's Minnie Mouse. This isn't just a matter of Amy having haters within the fandom - venture outside of that bubble and you'll realize that this is how MOST video game playing people seem to see her to this day. I don't feel like this is a fair assessment of the character, but this idea didn't come from nowhere. No matter how much good deeply entrenched Sonic fans may see in their old dynamic where Amy perpetually chases Sonic, this is a very real problem that Sonic Team has to contend with for their leading girl. Of course all those games where the way-past-cool protagonist thought Amy was annoyingly clingy and tried to get away from her made people think less of her.

If new stories were to go back to emphasizing Amy's crush on Sonic a little more, they'd probably be taken as confirmation that Amy's just the girl with a crush on Sonic and that this is her entire personality. Conversely, when the crush is played down, you piss off the hardcore SonAmy fans who don't seem to understand that they're Charlie Brown and Sega is Lucy holding the football. You can't win.

And so here we are. In the absence of what was once her defining trait, now reduced to an occasional blush or wink in Sonic's direction, new stories are trying to mine Amy's past for additional material to work with. Having been a thing fans wanted to see for years, right now we're getting a lot of tarot, but we're also getting reminders of her compassionate nature and her desire to go out of her way to help the little guy. This is an ongoing process. I continue to hope that her bubbly, exuberant demeanor can shine more in future stories. Now, I also hope that the tarot stuff gets balanced out a little better with other traits of hers. But I don't want it to go away. I think it's fun.

This course correcting is far from exclusive to Amy. Knuckles is getting stories that remind us that he's a competent fighter, an experienced treasure hunter, and even a self-taught archaeologist after years of him being perceived as either the dumb one or just the guy who stands in front of the Master Emerald all day. And Tails has been getting some stories reminding folks that he's a capable hero in his own right and not just Sonic's timid kid sidekick.

But no supporting character will ever compete with the sheer number of new ideas Sega has tried with Sonic himself. Like Amy, his Frontiers moveset has also given him half a dozen new superpowers that he never had before, from the Cyloop to air-slicing projectile attacks to his own take on Shadow Clone Jutsu and beyond. He's also been a hoverboarder, a swordsman, a time traveler, an Olympic athlete, a racecar driver, cursed with a Flame of Judgment, imbued with alien power, a fucking Werehog with stretchy powers, and on and on and on.

If Sonic can do all that, Amy can try out using a tarot-cycle.

Anyway TL;DR the REAL problem with Amy's current characterization... is where the FUCK is Amy's bestie, Honey the Cat???????

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Aspec symbols

So I've been trying to gather a list of aspec symbols! Old and new, widely accepted, but also more obscure. Here's my list so far, including links and explanations (in italics) where possible. I've tried also to add in the specific labels that the symbols "belong to" where relevant/possible.

Arospec:

the color green (and anything green)

white aro ring which is worn on the middle finger of the left hand link

aro flag

archery (bow & arrow)

arrows of any type

frogs they are green (this is a more general queer symbol as well) link & link

yellow roses (& yellow flowers in general, seems to be more for alloplatonic aros, since yellow represents platonic love) link

sunflowers (aroallos) aroallo flag colors link

aardvarks link

anglerfish link

manticores link

rats link

nandays and caiques link

griffins link

phoenixs link

anatomical hearts distancing ourselves from the regular outlook on love, and/or love in general may be more for loveless and/or heartless aros

<2 link

succulents green

cacti green & many do not want romantic partners and can be seen as prickly, or want to be prickly

plants in general green!!

"no romo"

hummingbirds (aroallos) link

pineapples (aroallos) link

pizza & ice cream link

kiwis link

the emojis:🫀, 🏹, ↖️, ↗️, 🌻, 💚,🍍, 🍏, 💘 explanations: link

paper crowns references jughead jones from the archie comics link

Acespec:

dragons link

cake cake is better than sex link

garlic bread

the color purple

black ace ring which is worn on the middle finger of the right hand link

ace flag

space

pirates "Ace pirates aren’t interested in your booty" link

wolves

ghosts (demisexuals) link

axolotls

denim vests

cryptids

AVEN triangle

ace cards suits: spades-aroaces, Hearts-Alloromantics, Diamonds-deamisexuals, Clubs-grey-asexuls link

the emojis: 💜, ♠️

some of these are based off this post, and this master post

Aplspec:

the colors blue & yellow in the apl flag

apples (green apples can be geared toward apls that are also aros)

blue heart 💙

bees

iridescence

apl flag

blue roses link

Blue apl ring on the thumb link

based off of this post, explanations are there.

Aspec:

aliens & robots reclaiming stereotypes about dehumanization link

Artemis goddess in Greek mythology focused on her passion for hunting. Represents finding fulfilment in other aspects of life not only sex, romance, friendship, love, and so on. Also used a bow & arrow link and also my own interpretation from reading about her

Many thanks to @merely-a-caricature, @the-big-gayheart, @heartless-aro, @arosunflower, @saffigon, @crab-in-progress, @aroace-thoughts, @apl-aro-narc, @entropy-sea-system, @dateademisexualpersonwho, @legally-x, @askanaroace, @aroace-people-are-lgtbq, @the-amber-droid-dreams, @foolishfynnesse and @itsnotasecret20 I used their posts/reblogs/comments to compile many of these symbols (and I've linked the posts). If I've missed someone, I apologize, it isn't intentional!

Last edit: 23/2/2024

I also want to add, that this post doesn't include all aspec identities, such as agender, afamilial, asensual, and more. They are important parts of the community, but I'm only informed on some, so couldn't include them.

#aro #aromantic #arospec #ace #asexual #acespec #apl #aplatonic #aplspec #aspec #aro symbols #ace symbols #apl symbols #aspec symbols #queer symbols

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