#thatd be a cool place to explore knuckles taking on their name

[aphantimes]

man im still so obsessed with the fact that it seems like knuckles either didn't originally have a name, or that he dropped it to carry the name of his ancestors

LIKE UGH. it's so sad. it's so unfair. knuckles' entire existence is so unfair. imagine having no name and having the only identity you have being the name of a dead group of people you never even got to meet? alternatively, dropping your own birth name to carry that name as your own because there's no one else around to do so?

i NEED. NNEEEEDD. canon media to acknowledge this in some way. it's mentioned once that he was named after his ancestors in an obscure character bio, and never brought up ever again as far as i know. i don't know japanese but from what i can tell the way it's worded implies that "knuckles" became his name? as in, it wasn't his name originally.

I NEED TO KNOW MORE. I NEED THIS TO BE EXPLORED.

#sorry i repeat myself so much lol #desperate for more people to play with this #auhghghghh #can you even IMAGINE #GOING YOUR ENTIRE CHILDHOOD. WITHOUT. A NAME????? #and ending up carrying the name of an entire group of people as their last descendant and representative #AUGHHGHGH #IT MAKES ME SO SAD IT'S SO UNFAIR #i hope movieverse adds the echidna clan being called the knuckles clan #thatd be a cool place to explore knuckles taking on their name #bc he grew up with them .. its unlikely that he was randomly named after the clan at birth imo. idk #but aahh he might have changed his name after they all died ..... #knuckles the echidna