Ooooooo! Do you think nine could use Shadow as a bargaining tool?
I know he’s there for the fight with all the shatterverse alternates, but say at one point in the fight Shadow is held hostage and Sonic is forced to make a choice let Nine hurt Shadow seriously or give up his prism energy to Nine!
Shadow is what’s really left of Ghost Hill apart from Sonic himself, Nine is aware of this he’s using it as a bargaining chip because if Sonic gives up the prism energy than there’s a chance all the alternates get to live but if not it’s goodbye everyone.
Idk I’m supposed to be asleep but my brain said hmmmm manipulative Nine…
I had some thoughts about this flying around and it definitely would be interesting to see (albeit a version of) Tails finally having an upper hand on Shadow, you know, if there's anyone to stand up for himself after years of mistreatment it's Nine, and the angst would be indeed delectable
But I find it also highly improbable the show would go in that direction because first, good luck trying to keep the Ultimate Lifeform tied to a chair as you monologue your evil plan /j (but then again, it was also highly improbable we were gonna get a version of Tails that is actively trying to kill Sonic without any mind control being involved, and yet, here we are) and also cuz God forbid Shadow has more screentime than first and last episode of a season
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being in the tf fandom and the tmnt gives me such whiplash
cause like, I'll be watching my shows, properly immersed, when all of a sudden-
...miko??
Ratchet??
RATCHET?????????????
Anyways all of this to say someone PLEASE make an animac of Ratchet with the rat king lines I would lose my actual shit
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After I write that new IDW Optimus meta, the next one is gonna be a post of "why I really hate that theory about Rodimus being a better Prime than Optimus and how it doesn't even match the themes of IDW OR canon fact about how the Matrix functions."
But the TLDR that I feel like encapsulates where a lot of this fanwank comes from, is that I feel like ppl don't properly appreciate that the context of Optimus and Rodimus' leaderships are extremely different.
Like, Rodimus only led a ship of about 200+ people. This means that the scale of his leadership responsibilities and the risks/consequences/stakes of his actions as leader were much smaller in scale. However, it also means that just because he only led one ship of people doesn't mean that his choices weren't important/weren't indicative of his personal character (that is to say, just bc it was only one ship doesn't mean that it had no meaning or significance at all).
On the other hand, Optimus led an entire freaking army over a 4 million year war that arose from political tensions that began even before he/most of the people in the war were born. That means that the consequences of his leadership had extremely far reaching consequences no matter what he did, which grants him a large degree of culpability/blame for his actions. HOWEVER, it must also be said that under the pressure of fighting an impossible war, just because OP wasn't able to "stop it sooner" doesn't mean that he was a morally bad/incompetent leader, because a whole galactic war is such a huge burden that one person can't possibly stop it or influence/control everything to make the most morally correct and peace-causing decisions.
TLDR can we please stop pitting Optimus and Rodimus against each other when the contexts of them being leaders was so vastly different (and they had such different leadership styles in general) that you can't really say "who's the better leader" without minimizing either of their accomplishments/magnifying their respective flaws.
Also, canonically speaking the Matrix can be wielded by anyone who's confident/at peace/self-righteous enough to believe they're worthy of it, which was shown not only by the ending of LL where a bunch of regular ass crewmates were able to use copies of the Matrix, but by the fact that the first Prime/ruler of Cybertron Nova Prime was a massive piece of shit who colonized people, yet was still a Matrix bearer who wielded the true/original Matrix.
And also Primus is literally Just Some Guy and not some omnipotent god who's an objective arbiter of morality that can point at a guy and go "YOU are the Specialest Boy Ever and are Divinely Mandated To Be A Good person"
So the entire premise of why ppl even make theories and debate about this is beyond me lol. In IDW1 the Matrix is more of a social/cultural symbol than it is an actual measurer of morality, which is in line with IDW1's consistent themes of challenging the inherent rightness of authority
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William has an older brother. Who he barely keeps in contact with. That he definitely has bad blood with. Who probably treated him like shit. Who is probably (definitely) better off then him. Everyday i realize i am more similar to william wisp than i realize wtf
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i earnestly mean no ill will to any shippers with this personal thinking post on my personal blog because i do believe their dynamic could and can be cute but good lord the way amy interacts with sonic in canon son/amy wise is just kind of the worst huh. i watched a son/amy moments compilation and the vast majority of it is amy being way too pushy and assumptive and invading sonic’s personal space while he is vocally and visibly deeply uncomfortable. sega you make my life so hard for no reason
in very recent years they seem to be trying to move amy’s characterization away from [gestures] all that by making amy’s crush on sonic a secret now…? which is kind of baffling? years and years and years of her being THE pushiest girl on earth and now suddenly her love of sonic is something no one can know about, at least in english originating media. what. since when. so weird
i think they have some cute moments together and make a really good team but personally i will just continue to rewrite the way amy and sonic interact in my mind to make them more loving and supportive friends. when framing classic sonic as being modern sonic’s childhood that means they’ve known each other for sooooo long. they’re besties to me
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Thinking about how isolated Tory was even inside of c.obra k.ai itself after the shift into Kreese and Silver’s leadership. With Hawk and Miguel leaving, she didn’t really have any friends until Robby joined. She had other “allies”, yes, but nothing beyond the surface level of dojo loyalty. And something that contributed a lot to her isolation was the change in ck as a whole. Before, it was comprised of a bunch of outcast kids trying to find some form of empowerment, and that’s what drew Tory there. That’s where she fit the best; she was also an outcast trying to find her own sense of worth and community. Somewhere she belonged. But then Kreese and Silver overhaul the whole damn thing and most of the outcasts are replaced with these privileged rich kids because of their athletic capabilities and willingness to conform to whatever their senseis want. It stops being about empowering those who need it and about the strength of an establishment.
And Tory didn’t fit in well with the new crowd. The first thing we see of her in s4? She is ALONE. Everyone else arrived together. She was by herself. They ignored her when they came in. Tory only matters to them when she approaches them, and even then, it’s in conflict. They represent the opposite of what she thought was great about ck and everything she didn’t want to become, yet there she was, and she was supposed to be one of them. Everyone on the outside thought she was one of them anyway, so what would it matter if she fought against the change? She wouldn’t be welcome outside of ck because of the things she’d done and the bridges she’d burned, but here she still had the choice to try and fit in. Do what her sensei tells her and conform, because that meant she could survive. It meant she had a chance. And yet, she never really could become one of them, could she? She couldn’t become another Kyler or even a Piper (who you can argue was just willfully ignorant instead of actively malicious like Kyler). There was never a moment in this new ck where Tory WASN’T torn between who she wanted to be and who she needed to be to survive in this environment. The only reason she wasn’t completely alone was because she had Robby (and later Kenny but only bc of that association with Robby tbh), and also Kreese, but there were plenty of times when it was questionable whether or not Kreese really had Tory’s back or if he was putting ck’s interests first.
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