I finally got a copy of the Sonic Encyclo-Speed-ia since it was on sale, and I was reading through the entries for the classic era games and came upon something interesting for "Tails Adventure" for the Game Gear, in that it takes place at a different point in Tails' history depending on which region you play it in, and neither of them really . . . work for me.
In the original Japanese version, "Tails Adventure" takes place before Tails meets Sonic in "Sonic 2." Tails is still living on Cocoa Island in "Tails Adventure", living a peaceful life until the Battle Kukku Army comes to ruin things. This makes little sense to me, for a couple reasons:
If Tails had a peaceful life on Cocoa Island where he wasn't ostracized and bullied for his two tails, why did he move to West Side Island where he was?
In "Tails Adventure", Tails builds hella bombs and weapons to fight against the Battle Kukku Army, all on his own. This seems incongruous with the Tails that Sonic meets in "Sonic 2," who gets bullied and tormented and doesn't have the courage or mechanical know-how to fight back. (I mean I guess you could say he just didn't want to blow his bullies up with the napalm bombs he builds in "Tails Adventure" but like . . . to do nothing? Really?? Doesn't make sense.)
On the other hand, the English version of "Tails Adventure" says that the game takes place after "Sonic 2", and that Tails is on vacation on Cocoa Island when all this goes down. Which, okay . . . but why's he on vacation by himself? Not that he and Sonic never do anything apart from each other, because we know that Tails gets his workshop in Mystic Ruins and has his own solo adventures in SA1 and SA2, but Tails was still pretty little at this point and it seems weird that he'd be like "k I'm going off to a random island bye" immediately after meeting and bonding with Sonic.
So to try and make it make sense, this is what I'm going with: Cocoa Island was the prototype for what Mystic Ruins would later become.
Basically, at some point after "Sonic 2" (and probably after "Sonic 3 & Knuckles" as well given that those adventures happen right after "Sonic 2"), Sonic and Tails mutually decide to take a little break somewhere peaceful, since Eggman isn't destroying things right at that very second. Cocoa Island is very peaceful and relaxed, it's pretty remote and therefore pretty safe, and they get a little house there where Tails can get to work building up his tinkering interest and skills. Plus, they can fix up the Tornado if she's in any disrepair after the recent adventures (which she probably is). At some point though, something comes up that Sonic feels, for whatever reason, is perhaps too dangerous for Tails. Maybe all the near misses with the Death Egg have gotten to him, maybe seeing Tails in a safe environment where he has a warm place to sleep and room to work on his gadgetry has made Sonic reconsider bringing a 5 or 6yo along on dangerous adventures, but Sonic decides that he'll go take care of whatever Eggman is destroying this time while Tails chills at home. Maybe he calls it a vacation for Tails. And Tails isn't happy about it, not at all, but Sonic's mind has been made up and he promises he will come back. Tails makes it clear he's going to hold Sonic to that promise.
So Sonic leaves, and that's when the Battle Kukku Army invades the island, and at first Tails is alarmed because he hasn't handled something like this on his own before! (Assuming here that Sky Patrol happens at some point after this.) But he can't just do nothing while the Battle Kukku Army destroys the island and hurts the animals, so he works on his gadgetry (as Sonic encouraged him to do), and uses his bombs and other weapons to drive the army back. All by himself. (And I know that you "find" these powerups around the island since the game is a Metroidvania, but like, please. This is Tails we're talking about. From a story standpoint, he totally made them.)
When Sonic gets back, the place is a mess. I mean, battles happened here, with lots of explosives. Tails has so many different bombs and weapons to show Sonic! Look at his napalm bombs, and his night scope, and proton torpedo and anti-air missiles and rocket boosters and, look, he even has a little remote robot that he calls Mecha Tails, and—!
Sonic comes to the conclusion that maybe leaving Tails in such a remote location was not as safe an idea as his 12 or 13yo brain thought it was. So he's like, OK, how about you leave at least the vast majority of that stuff here, and we'll, uh . . . come back for it later.
But doesn't Sonic want to see what it can do? And maybe they can modify it to help repair some of the damage to the island and—!
They'll come back to it later! Time to get in the Tornado, Tails!! Time to leave this behind and never think about it again!!!
So the next time Tails gets a workshop / they get a home, it's in Mystic Ruins, which is much closer to civilization and thus much less likely to throw Tails into impromptu guerilla warfare that's him vs. an invading army where he needs to build an arsenal to rival Eggman's to fight them off.
That's my headcanon for how that fits in, and I'm sticking to it.
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"they were never going to believe you," cassian said. "not the council. not today."
"i appreciate the support," she said. her voice was frigid. her hands balled into fists. she was surprised how little she wanted this fight.
"but i do," cassian said. "i believe you." (novelization 284-5)
i think people tend to overlook this exchange in favor of the iconic "welcome home" scene that happens quickly after but this brief conversation is so important. in the face of the council basically giving her a giant middle finger, she's anticipating him saying that she can't do the mission, that no one believes her, and expects him to fight her on this. but she doesn't want this fight –– despite betraying her on eadu (in her eyes), he'd still come back for her (and on jedha too), even though she's only known him for a few days at this point and the mission would have gone on with or without her.
and then he absolutely fucking knocks her off her feet by flipping that entirely and telling her that he believes her. (and she doesn't even believe him at first, hitting him with a "why?" after he says this.) this is what makes the mission to scarif happen. she doesn't need the council's belief, she needs cassian's. he was able to convince people to follow them to scarif when she hadn't ; i think people often overlook how cassian is so deeply representative of the rebellion and has that spark inside of him just like jyn does.
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