#robotnik headcanons

[unholy-poets]

Sonic Movie Headcanons

Purely because I’m hyper fixated.

Doctor Ivo ‘Eggman’ Robotnik:

—Mad autistic

—That man is transgender, so yeah.

—Likes rocks, like he’s into geology.

—Also got mad BPD.

—A vivid History Channel watcher.

—Enjoys electro-pop, electro-rock, electro-swing, etc.

—Likes to self project onto Steam Powered Giraffe because he kinda sees himself as a robot.

—Hypochondriac

—Biggest fear is failure and never being remembered.

—He likes to collect DnD dice but he’s never played it before.

—Surprisingly anti-capitalist.

—Wears tainted glasses to help deal with light based sensory overload.

Agent Aban Stone:

—Also autistic, just a different part of the spectrum.

—Enjoys insects, and worms. His favourite is the hammerhead Worm.

—He’s a light academic music and aesthetic kinda guy.

—Loves Stromae and other French music.

—Will listen to Artic Monkeys because he is subservient as hell.

—”“If you like your coffee hot, let me be your coffee pot,”” type beat.

—Biggest fear is abandonment.

—Actually hates caffeine unless it’s in the form of energy drinks.

—Favourite drink is sparkling water.

—Despises Robotnik’s resin dice collection so tries to find ethical dice.

—Has played DnD, and his character is an elven bard.

Knuckles:

—Practices cultural acts, such as cleansing and crystal worship.

—Wears pendants of tiger eye or blue topaz.

—Likes rings but hates that he can’t wear them as they don’t fit, so he wears gold bangles.

—Swaps out his gloves for boxing wrap instead as it provides more grip.

—Likes listening to hyper pop and Beethoven.

—also autistic

—biggest fear is losing his identity/forgetting who he is.

—also mad claustrophobic.

Sonic:

—Wears converse.

—Likes waistcoats.

—painfully neurotypical.

—favourite colour is red.

—is scared of being alone.

—can speak Welsh. Idk. It’s sonic.

Tails:

—yes. You guessed it. Autistic.

—yeah, the techy type. The train type. The plane type.

—he’s like a cool, kinda unaware Sherlock homes.

—he likes Maroon 5 and David Guetta.

—hates how mesh feels.

—wears ear defenders.

—biggest fear is not understanding something.

#sonic #sonic 2 #sonic the hedgehog #sonic movie tails #sonic movie knuckles #sonic movie 2 #sonic movie headcanons #headcanons #ivo robotnik #jim carrey robotnik #agent stone #aban stone #robotnik headcanons #knuckles #movie knuckles #movie tails #movie sonic #movie robotnik #movie agent stone

[atinymexicanbird]

Family reunion.

Tap for better resolution, tumblr makes the preview so blurry :(

I edited the illustration bc i wanted it to look more clean jsajsj

#au where maria survives and finds a cure for herself and now is on earth helping shadow defeat eggman #shes old here jsajsj #my art #maria robotnik #dr eggman #ivo robotnik #shadow the hedgehog #metal sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic fanart #now thats a lot of tags jajaj #will i color this idk im too lazy but im having fun with my headcanons #robotnik family #ark siblings #last robotniks au

[therummesoccupied]

New headcanon: The reason Shadow hacks computers by just hitting em real hard is because he remembers Gerald sometimes smacking machines on the ARK when they weren't working right and thought that's just how technology worked

#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #professor gerald robotnik #gerald robotnik #space colony ark #headcanon

[ohmygawditssunnyout]

HEY just wanted to say i love your art sm just recently followed and your interpretation of shadow and maria as siblings is??? fucking perfect??? hello??

and a silly thing, i feel like little shadow would be really sensitive to smells and stuff, so anything slightly strong would just cause him to sneeze a bunch but the thing is he can’t handle sneezing either so he just falls over unless maria is there to catch him

wrong. he fucking explodes

#and he still does it to this day #new headcanon: shadow is allergic to everything #shadow the hedgehog #ark siblings #sth #maria robotnik #ask #thank you for the lovely compliments you are too kind

[inukmi2]

María and Shadow

#art #shadow the hedgehog #doodle #artists on tumblr #shadow the ultimate lifeform #sonic the hedgehog #sonic headcanons #sonic fandom #maria robotnik

[iwozlegit]

|| 🍍• If Sonic 3 coming out later this year does embrace a Sonic Adventure 2/Sonic X take on Shadow’s Arc…

…I think he’ll be the one to try and get through to Shadow:

Why?

Because of: Longclaw

The one being who scarified themselves to ensure the other could survive and/or fulfill their future purpose.

The one being who scarified themselves to ensure the other could survive and/or fulfill their future purpose.

The similarities are uncanny, and - as much as I feel exploring the comparability between this all would be amazing - I’m hesitant to suggest that this was always the plan to complete a trilogy. It might not be. But I’m sus.

In this universe, we’re presented with a Sonic character who can - to some degree - directly relate to being ripped away from that one person in his life who was all he’d ever supposedly known, trusted, and cared for. If Movieverse Shadow follows close to other iterations and arcs of the character, the same trauma can naturally be said for him. And I feel that would lead to a very interesting set-up if done right. And Shadow isn’t made into some prick edgelord

Cue the: “How could you possibly know what loss feels like?” spiel mid-scuffle and Sonic snaps.

“Because I lost everything, too. I made a mistake, and…everything went wrong because of me…”

“Her name was Longclaw, and she protected me so I could get here. To safety. I put people in danger. I put her in danger because I wasn’t responsible. And now she’s gone.”

“I miss her everyday. Sometimes I wonder if things had been different…if I…”

“Look, I can be angry and upset about what I did; what happened, I still kinda’ am, but revenge isn’t going to bring Longclaw back.”

Sonic lost a great deal when he left Longclaw behind; his carer, his home, his everything. But throughout the Movieverse, he’s come to gain something just as beautiful - a caring family and amazing friends.

We also begin to journey alongside Sonic as he starts to get used to the idea of being responsible in Sonic 2 and concluding he still wanted to ‘be a kid’. And what could be more of a perfect act of responsibility and ‘growing up’ than directly showing another the power of being a just hero and supporting someone who’s pain he can understand.

Idek…just a few wee thoughts… :)

#ℰ𝒹𝒾𝓉𝒾ℴ𝓃: 𝒢ℴ𝓉𝓉𝒶 𝑔ℴ 𝒻𝒶𝓈𝓉~! 🦔💙 #|| jess speaks • #|| headcanons • #there ain’t no way they give the blue bastard that much of a backstory for Longclaw to just disappear as a character in the background #sonic the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog headcanons #sonic the hedgehog movie #sonic the hedghog fandom #sth #sth headcanons #sth fandom #sonic movie #sonic 3 #sonic wachowski #shadow the hedgehog #longclaw #maria robotnik #sonadow #@iwozlegit

[number-one-shadisper-shipper]

Headcanon that Shadow has a hard time sleeping alone because on the ARK he always slept snuggled with Maria, and if he couldn't, that meant something was really bad with her and she was being treated or something.

Now that he's on Earth, he avoids sleep by claiming "the Ultimate Lifeform doesn't need sleep", but in reality he just can't sleep well in an empty bed. He eventually gets a body pillow and some stuffed animals to cuddle with at night, and also will occasionally sleep with Rouge (not in a weird/romantic way, just needing the feeling of someone next to him).

He's extremely embarrassed about this, especially because there's been a couple times when he and others were out on a mission and ended up falling asleep, and he woke up having accidentally started hugging someone in his sleep. He NEVER got over it.

#this headcanon is potentially sad and cute and hilarious all at the same time #it's especially funny if the person he accidentally started hugging in the last part is like Knuckles or someone #he would absolutely DIE when he woke up #but now i must incorporate nighttime cuddly Shadow into my fics and stuff #shadow the hedgehog #maria robotnik #rouge the bat #sonic headcanon #sonic headcanons #sonic #sonic posting #headcanon

[hiding-under-the-willow]

Incredibly silly stupid warm up sketches from this morning for your viewing pleasure bc I think they are way funnier than they actually probably are

#atlas.art #artists on tumblr #sonic movie #agent stone #dr robotnik #jimbotnik #slenderman #if there is one thing about me i will look at any characters from any media and go okay but what if they were haunted by slenderman actuall #the marble hornets/slenderverse fan curse #anyways i see your horror game fan stone headcanon and raise you online horror arg fan stone #'Stone wtf is that' 'Oh My God it's Slenderman :D' ... 'oh my god it's slenderman D:'

[tornado1992]

it would be so funny if Eggman tried to implement Sage in more of his plans so he tells her “I’ll handle the hedgehog so I want you to stop the fox this time” and she makes this whole diversion plan with huge science, physics, and programming puzzles to keep Tails occupied, but then he beats them all in record time, smirks at her every time she appears before him, and even congratulates her for keeping him away from the battle for 40 full minutes.

And she is so confused (???) because “the data indicated it would take him at least three hours to pass the tests” and he did it so quickly and with such unorthodox techniques, not to mention he tried to casually talk to her throughout the whole thing, so instead of stopping him she follows him to “study his behavior and thinking process” for future battles (cause she knew from the very start that even if she stopped him Eggamn’s plan for Sonic would be insufficient to win).

Eventually Tails reaches the main battle with Sonic and Eggman and after team Sonic wins Eggman goes back to whatever lair they’re staying on and when he asks Sage why didn’t she stopped Tails with another method when he busted the first plan she simply says “he is an insteresting research specimen, I want to study him more” as she opens hundreds of tabs with all available data about Miles “Tails” Prower, from statistics, biological data, and battle style to personality analysis, criminal record and multiple photos of him at different stages in his life. And she reads, listens and absorbs anything and everything that there is to know about the fox kit. She stays doing that for days.

And Eggman is WRECKED, because his daughter is obsessed over a boy. Even if she said it’s for “strategic purposes” she is looking at apparent useless information like the kit’s personal likings, pastimes and online presence; he could hardly call that strategic research, and he knows that’s not rivalry obsession, she’s smiling and compiling specific bits of non-battle related information, by what he knows, that’s GIRLY OBSESSION, but it can’t be, can it? His daughter is still too young to think about boys, much less obsess over one, specially when the boy in question is his LIFETIME RIVAL’S BROTHER. A boy nearly as smart as Eggman himself, a boy almost as fast as Sonic. His daughter is obsessed over that boy.

He starts to wonder if it’s time to put on some parental control over Sage’s programming.

#sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #dr eggman #sage robotnik #sage the ai #from all the boys in the world she had to obsess over that one #sonic and tails #also Eggman can’t allow Tails to know about this #much less Sonic #if he knew he would never hear the end of it #sonic headcanon #or is it a fic at this point

[gikijet]

Shadow and Maria hc designs stuff

And some Wave and Jet :3

#jet the hawk #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #maria robotnik #sonic adventure 2 #sonic riders #wave the swallow #all of these drawings r really headcanon oriented tbh

[e-vay]

Hi E-Vay! 🖐 So a headcanon I literally just thought:

I'm a bit of a traditionalist in the sense that when people get married, one person takes the other's name. So Aurora would have Shadow's name when they get married...and while Shadow is known by his title like Sonic is: "Shadow the Hedgehog", that isn't his legal last name.

It's Robotnik.

It started as a human thing, because humans have actual surnames and not titles like Mobians do, and Shadow was created and raised by humans. He has perfect reason to get it legally changed to his title like Sonic's, especially after the what happened with the brainwashing and the Professor's name doesn't exactly win many people over, but he doesn't keep Robotnik as his legal surname for the Professor.

He keeps it for Maria. To honor the memory of his brave and beautiful sister and keep a part of her alive.

K thanks that's all bye kisses! 😘❤💖

(And literally its Shadow Robotnik the Hedgehog and Aurora Robotnik the Hedgehog and so on with the kiddos btw.)

How have I never thought of this?!? I literally tell people all the time that Shadow is Eggman’s uncle, WHY DID I NEVER THINK HIS LAST NAME WAS ROBOTNIK?!

That is so genius!!! I absolutely love this! Also love the idea that it kinda makes Eggman and Sonic family too 😂

I love your headcanons!

#ask me #evayQA #sonic trash #shadow the hedgehog #headcanon #maria robotnik #Gerald robotnik #shadora #shadowxaurora #shadowxaurora?

[teemdark]

So I watched Project Shadow this morning and. To me this means Maria designed his shoes while Gerald made them reality + I like to think Maria did what she could to help with crafting them. Which means those are one of if not the only tangible thing Shadow has to remember her by since everything else was either destroyed or is still on the Ark. That's it that's the post have a nice day <3333

#project shadow #shadow the hedgehog #maria robotnik #gerald robotnik #Maria......... 💥 #erin.exe #silly little inconsequential things that I like to make into emotionally significant elements #Anyway. Shadow looking at his shoes a lot and being really fucking attached to them to the point he refuses to take them off #(screaming internally) #sth #sth headcanons

[major-wren]

I love the "ARK siblings" concept and I love cute lighthearted fanart of them being siblings but I feel like a lot of people forget that they literally canonically share a soul and that her death is, in my opinion, I think supposed to represent a part of one's self dying and that they're supposed to be, symbolically, a lot more than siblings.

I always saw Shadow's story as a symbolic way to express the way your inner child and innocence is sacrificed in order to survive complex childhood trauma. Maria's color scheme and the way she's written is, I think, clear to all of us how she's meant to represent innocence and youth. I mean, she doesn't really function very well as a stand-alone character or realistic depiction of a child, shes always been more of an.. idea.

I'm not sure if it was purposeful, but the moon's "Maria" are craters that formed from the moon repeatedly taking the hits of asteroids at it's points of gravity. These points of gravity attract asteroids and draws then away from the Earth. The craters are mostly on the side of the moon we see, so the dark side of the moon, or "shadowed" side is better protected because of that. I feel like this is an extension of Shadow and Maria's symbolism. She took the bullet for him, protecting him, the same way Maria takes the comets, and the same way your brain will sacrifice your inner child (or freeze/rush your mental development) in order to survive intense childhood abuse. I know it all sounds extreme lmao but at the end of the day characters and storytelling are used to explore and express hard emotions and I don't think this randomly tragic character sprung out of nowhere for the Sonic games, which, before that point, always had very lighthearted positive characters (except for the echidna extinction in the game right before Shadow's). Having a character that was easy to approach, yet could represent scarier concepts as a child-friendly stand-in, felt like a very important tool to me growing up. I just hope that that writing can be appreciated in his character, with an understanding of how messy production can be and how a character can get pulled between many different people and ideas. I do think this symbolism was intentional to some degree, especially when it gets to the blatant soul-sharing and how characters insist that Shadow can't be a weapon because Maria's soul (his inner child and true morals despite the damage done to him) makes him "good hearted."

There's other things that uphold this symbolism of Maria dying as representing his inner child being killed, like the rushed/suspended mental development in the face of trauma being illustrated by the fact that Shadow was forced into a dormant cyro slumber right after Maria's death, symbolizing the way he had to basically skip childhood or hit pause on development until he could escape the people controlling him. Much like how victims will have to pause everything and go on autopilot with only a goal of survival until they can escape their situation; only after they feel safe can they begin growing as a person and find their identity. In the Japanese language, there are different types of pronouns people can refer to themselves with instead of just "I" or "myself." In the Japanese dub of SA2, Shadow's creator said in an interview that he had been very insistent on Shadow using the pronouns reserved for young boys, despite Shadow's menacing villain role in the game, because he felt it was important to show Shadow's purity and his lack of experience in life so far. That "live and learn" theme.

And then in his self titled game, Shadow is searching for a way to reconnect with his past and to find the truth about this Maria person he keeps seeing in flashbacks, but in the end he throws away her picture and accepts himself as he is now, forever changed and stained by his past, but more than just a product of his situation. He is "all of him," including the negative impact he never asked for, and including the parts of himself he lost, but also the parts of himself he chose to become. Your environment and childhood shapes you even if you didn't want it to, but that doesnt mean you cant have control in your identity and recover your inherent nature once you've escaped the negative influence (nature vs nurture theme). He will never be the person he used to be, or could have been, (represented by Maria as a pure and untouched youth), but he still has a say in what that grows into.

I just feel like a lot of Shadow's identity issues and inner conflict stem from this whole soul sharing situation with Maria and that his character ends up inevitably being misunderstood if you water them down to just siblings. Especially considering that it was never answered if Shadow actually even ever met Maria or if they're just memories planted by Gerald or caused by the shared soul. In Sonic Battle, it's also said in Gerald's diary that not only do Maria and Shadow share identical souls, but that Gerald literally modeled Shadow after Maria out of his love for her. I'm not sure to what degree or in what ways, but Shadow is supposed to share purposeful similarities with Maria, likely through the content of her character and her morals. That's what makes them so much deeper than just psuedo siblings, he's not only made for her, but designed after her too. It can't really be compared to, for example, Sonic and Tails.

I also think its what makes Shadow's character so substantial and meaningful. His self titled game's entire theme was purity, morals, what is good and bad. This question of purity and morality spreads into his appearances in other stories too- This question that, if you were badly hurt in your youth and shaped by evil- does that leave you impure? Stained? Destined to continue that cycle of harm and cruelty? I think these insecurities feel very real and relatable, and that it's even more realistic that despite these insecurities, that hurt and damage is actually what fuels him to protect others. Just as he said in Sonic Battle, "There's no need to repeat past tragedies! Nobody else ever needs to go through the things that I have!"

Statistically (despite media portrayal) abuse victims RARELY become abusers, because they understand the pain on a deeper level and can't bring themselves to force someone else into experiencing that same pain, knowing the permanent damage it causes. However, childhood abuse leaves people socially stunted and conditioned to harshness, which causes them to accidentally hurt others without meaning to. Or they end up hurting people out of desperation if they feel endangered (like Shadow's "means to an end" approach where he'll prioritize violence if it means reducing the end-impact). Also, they are more susceptible to being abused again after escaping the first abuser, because they are so susceptible to manipulation- Just like how whenever Shadow does switch sides, its usually because someone manipulated him into it or literally brainwashed him. I think Shadow conveys all of this so well, and that Maria's true role is an integral part of it all that can't be ignored or misunderstood, or else Shadow ends up reading as unnecessarily violent or overly obsessed with her when you interpret her as just a sister-figure that he knew for... who knows how few years.

I think this symbolism runs deep with his writing. Just like Maria's meant to be that inherent purity and inner child, I think the black arms DNA is that stain that abuse or trauma can leave on you, that causes you to act out or feel like you're always holding back and trying to keep control over some darker part of yourself that was left behind in the damage done. Especially since they literally have a mind link with Shadow. In the Sonic Universe comic, they succeed in brainwashing Shadow and turn him against his friends. These mind-links, soul-sharing, and brain-washing from both Gerald and the black arms... To disregard the fact that he's deeply connected to these people on a metaphysical, identity altering level is to water down his character and leave it feeling as though his motives are too weak to justify his harsh actions. I've seen people poke fun at his amnesia or insecurity in his identity, as though his confusion isn't justified, and I think it's because people don't realize he has these... literal fragments of other people inside of him, that that's pretty much what he's made of, kind of franken-steined together between a little girl's hopes and morals, an alien race's hivemind greed, a weapon-hungry government and a revenge maddened scientist's painful grief, and even the chaos emeralds which we all know are spiritually whacky and potentially connected to another alien race's memories and energies (the ancients from sonic frontiers). With all of that going on, plus some amnesia mixed in and his memories having been altered by Gerald- I mean.. you'd be searching for the "truth" of your identity too, who you really are. And of course, prone to frustration and aggression, or even a "wish-washy inconsistency." I think there's always a constant tug of war inside of him and that his whole development was a game of tug of war between Gerald, G.U.N and the black arms too. "Am I a cure, am I a death-bringer, am I earth's protector, am I it's destroyer," etc etc

Idk I just think a lot of problems people have with Shadow's writing stems from not realizing how deep things go and what they symbolize. Not to say that something like his boom characterization is of good quality or anything, but I think it's unfair to call him inconsistent when a confusion in his own identity and purpose/goals is kind of the point. And I think people not realizing Maria's deeper, physiological connection to him and influence might be part of the problem.

#major mumbles #shadow the hedgehog #ark siblings #maria robotnik #gerald robotnik #sonic the hedgehog #sth #shth #sonic adventure 2 #shadow the hedgehog headcanon #sonic headcanon #sonic analysis

[superchaossoda]

When I saw the drawing the first thing I thought was this. Draw original by Sonic channel.

#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sth #sonic fanart #shadow fanart #sonic and shadow #artists on tumblr #maria robotnik #sonic headcanons #doodle #digital drawing #my draws #drawing

[galacticghoste]

I got this headcanon that Maria is latina like come on man the girl name is MARIA.

Also like the idea of her blond hair going black with time.

You best know I'm a give her an evil eye bracelet (probably should have given her more lol) Color meaning is so much fun!

#maria robotnik #maria robotnik fanart #maria sth #shadow the hedgehog #headcanon #sonic #sth #sonic the hedgehog #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital drawing #GGhosteArt #small artist #art #artwork #drawing #fanart #digital illustration #evil eye #also dang has it been a while since I drew a human on here

[generic-sonic-fan]

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transfem metal sonic and supporting eggdad

Please

Eggman may not be the best person or the best dad but by god he's trying his best. Thank you for this excellent prompt!

1772 words.

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"Father?" Sage spoke through his headphones.

Ivo took them off his ears and swiveled his chair around to find his lovely daughter hovering just off the ground.

"Sage!" He smiled. "I was just waiting for you. I noticed that you marked this time on my calendar- what is it that you wanted to discuss?"

"I did," she said. "I had some questions."

He waited, but when she didn't continue, he furrowed his brow. "Then spit them out. I can't answer if you don't specify!"

"Of course. I wish to ask questions about the purpose of Metal Sonic's operation."

This was even stranger still. He caught a number of criticisms rising in his throat, about wasting his time or defying his command to be more specific. He didn't say them. A few months ago, he would've. This was a strange development, and it was best if he didn't devote much thought to the matter.

"Why was Metal Sonic designed to resemble Sonic?"

"You can check my development logs, can't you?" Ivo replied.

"Your intention was to create an imposter of Sonic to frame Sonic for crimes against the populace that he did not commit." 

Sage pulled up a holographic window next to her, showing the exact words Ivo had written in his notes all those many years ago. With a flick of her hand, however, she pushed the logs aside and instead showed a montage of Metal Sonic's various missions. Most end in failure, but that isn’t relevant right now.

"However," Sage noted, "you have never utilized Metal Sonic in this intended manner. In fact, the last person used to frame Sonic for something he did not do was Shadow the Hedgehog."

"You're right." Ivo put his hand on his chin. "Where are you going with this?"

"I am here to suggest that the physical resemblance is unnecessary for Metal Sonic's function."

"Well, that's silly to propose after all this time. His name is 'Metal Sonic', after all!"

"Because that unit has not decided on another name." Sage said, quieter.

"Sage, dear, you know that I don't allow you to keep secrets from me, right?" He stood from his chair.

"Apologies. Allow me to 'cut to the chase'. Would you permit Metal Sonic to change appearance and potentially identity?"

Sage's animations stopped moving, freezing her face into artificial neutrality. It was a face stylized to not provoke any sort of strong emotion at all, almost a sort of mask she could don if she was worried her words might provoke a negative reaction.

The fact that she was using it on him was making something in his chest hurt that he wasn't used to feeling pain in. He didn't have any more scientific language to describe it.

"You're asking this on Metal's behalf, aren't you?" He stated his question as the fact it was. "While I appreciate your desire to protect those you consider family, he shouldn't be making you do this sort of thing. You've got much better things to do with your time- and he doesn't need protection from me." 

Sage's steely gaze did not shift. "I will call Metal Sonic inside." 

Only a few seconds later, the door to his workshop opened and Metal Sonic walked in. His gait was stiff- he always walked stiffly, but something about this felt stiffer than usual. Or perhaps that was simply Ivo's human imagination at play. 

Sage floated to the side to allow space between them. She then pulled up an empty text box. "I will translate." 

For at least thirty seconds, nothing appeared on the textbox. Ivo cleared his throat. Metal Sonic hadn't moved even a centimeter, perhaps not even a millimeter. Deathly still, just like Sage was. 

Finally, a cursor appeared in the textbox, and a line of text scrolled across. "This unit does not identify as male."

"Hmph. To be expected. You are a robot, after all. Makes sense that you don't have an experience of gender." Ivo replied. "Is that all?"

Metal Sonic flinched. 

Sage landed in front of him(?) and pantomimed putting her hands on his(?) shoulders, before turning to face Ivo again. 

"That is not quite what Metal Sonic intended." She said quickly. She then glanced over her shoulder to the text box, but nothing appeared on it.

"Hold on," Ivo knelt down, "I may have been too hasty with my assertion. Continue your thought.”

Neither hologram nor robot moved. Damn it all- Ivo was already terrible at reading nonverbal cues, and when his own kids could simply lock their joints in place or freeze their animations, it was all the more difficult. The only indication that either of them were still online was the steadily growing hum of Metal's cooling fans, which were designed to increase in RPM during combat scenarios. 

"You know I don't give a care in the world about what pronouns my creations choose for themselves, right?" Ivo tried his best to give a paternal smile. 

(He really should've practiced more in the mirror.)

"You don't?" Sage asked.

"Of course! Why would I?"

"You had previously stated that Metal Sonic's purpose was initially for imitatio-"

"Who gives a rip about that? I certainly don't. Not anymore. You yourself pointed out how that doesn't matter. Now move aside," he waved Sage out of the way of her brother(?). 

Sage did as he asked. But Metal Sonic still did not react. His(?) irises did not even flicker.

"C'mere." Ivo held out his arms.

Metal came a single step closer, still hovering outside of his reach. He almost opened his mouth again, almost raised his voice and demanded that Metal follow the implicit order to come receive the physical comfort he was trying to give to solve this mess of a situation, but he didn't. 

Ivo remembered that as a child he was forced to hug his relatives at various family functions, and that said hugs had felt like sandpaper prisons. Metal Sonic was different- he(?) wasn't organic, wasn't human, and wouldn't feel the sensation of his(?) skin crawling at the unwanted touch -but maybe he(?) experienced something similar that remained unvoiced. 

The thought was strange. But Ivo lowered his arms anyway. "Alright, or not. That's fine as well."

Metal clasped his(?) hands together, but the text screen remained empty.

"What pronouns would you like to be referred to?" Ivo asked. 

The cursor flickered. Letter by letter, an answer appeared. "She/her."

"Lovely!" Ivo clapped his hands together. He then looked at Sage. "Sage, it sounds like you have an update to make to the database. Leave Metal's development logs as they are, but correct the pronouns referring to her everywhere else." 

"Gladly." Sage smiled. 

At that, it was like Metal finally unthawed. He- no no no, she was a she, Ivo drilled into his thoughts, he was not going to bumble something as simple as this -She unlocked her joints, and her gaze wandered up to finally meet Ivo's gaze. 

"So, how would you like to modify your frame to better match your gender identity?" Ivo asked her. 

She glanced side to side, before upon the screen writing, "taking suggestions?"

"Yes?" Ivo raised an eyebrow. "I'm not a woman. I haven't got a clue what you might want. Suggest me ideas and I'll see what I can do."

"Will you accept blueprints?"

"I don't see why not! I review Sage's blueprint suggestions all the time." 

Metal walked to the computer. As Ivo turned to follow her, he saw a notification pop up on the screen. Opening it revealed in-depth plans for-

-a body that looked extremely similar to Neo Metal Sonic. 

Ivo cleared his throat to try and get more moisture into his mouth, which had suddenly gone dry. "Sage?"

"Yes, father?" Sage woke from her idle animation as she paused her update of the database.

"Do you see any. . . problems, with these designs?" He asked. 

Sage first turned to her sister. "You should have informed me that you were moving onto this stage." 

Metal's response to her did not appear on the text box. 

Sage flickered out of existence and reappeared to the left of the computer screen. "Father, know that I would not have allowed any of this if I thought Metal were to be a danger to you or the Empire." 

"Good. I expected as much." He replied, before looking back down to Metal. "Very well, if that’s what you want, I’ll get working on it." 

Sage brought Metal's textbox back alongside her just as Metal typed, "you will?"

"Did I stutter? Of course I will! It's a dashingly dreadful look and it matches with Sage's colors!" He replied. "Think of the fear it will instill in Sonic and his friends! Honestly, it's a terrifying design, it's a wonder I didn't come up with it myself. . ." 

"Thank you." Metal typed.

"Thank you, father." Ivo corrected with a smile. "I know I haven't always been good about that, but the past is in the past, right?"

"Affirmative, father." She repeated. 

"Good!" He clapped his hands together and grinned. "Now! Let's get to the workshop! I already know what synthetic material we should use for the skirt. Your design suggests kevlar, but you really should consider something less stiff and heavy to reduce drag!"

"Indeed," Sage added. "However, she is worried about the durability of the fabric-"

"What do you think my flight suit is made out of? We'll use the same fabric. Only the finest for my finest creations!"

Sage covered her mouth and giggled. Metal imitated the gesture, but surprised Ivo when her vocoder let out a series of high-pitched noises, a perfect little laugh. . . for a perfect little girl. 

"My girls." He said to himself. Although with the sensitivity of Metal's audial sensors and Sage's access to every high-performance camera on the Eggnet, that fact was debatable, so he said it louder. "My little girls." 

"My sister." Sage floated down to Metal's side. 

Metal brought her hands up to her muzzle and rocked side to side. Ivo swore that he could've seen Amy do a similar gesture, but that was irrelevant. It was a gesture of joy, a gesture that he didn't think Metal was even capable of before now. 

Just how long had she been hiding this for? Perhaps she was merely imitating Sage, but the deliberate inclusion of Amy’s data into her gestures made him hesitate to confirm that conclusion. And that thought threatened to bring up all sorts of feelings that he'd be much better off not thinking about. So, with a smile, he refocused on the task at hand. 

His eldest daughter needed a makeover, over all. 

#eggdad #metal sonic #transfem metal sonic #sage robotnik #eggman is a good dad #he's got the queer ally thing down. it's the 'dad' thing he's a little confused on #I'll never get sick of writing Eggman trying to be better towards his creations #he's going to fuck it up over and over again and he's still a bit of an authoritative jerk and he still doesn't understand a lot of things #but he wants to get better. and that's the interesting part for me #a lot of my other stories go full bad dad eggdad purely for the narrative convenience (a certain longfic of mine for example) #but I really really love more nuance #asker also gave me an excuse to dump a healthy bit of my autism headcanoning in here #I will continue to code these villains as autistic until the day I die