I know this is beating a dead horse at this point, but I just started thinking about this the other day and...
How many people that were previously enemies has Sonic ACTUALLY befriended?
Like my knowledge of some old games and the handhelds ain't great, but...
There was Knuckles, who I think is the only one in the classic era.
He never really befriended Gamma in SA1, just left him to Amy.
Also he didn't befriend Chaos, just beat the anger out of him.
The next one was Shadow in SA2, although they're still kinda rivals?
I don't think Rouge counts in SA2 since she wasn't really an enemy of Sonic specifically, even in Heroes it's really Sonic and Shadow that start the fight.
Gemerl is a robot who was reprogrammed to be friendly, I wouldn't count that as "befriending someone".
Him and Jet are rivals in every Riders game, this never changes.
Blaze in Rush is someone that fought him and they became friends, so it's clear cut, she counts.
Silver in '06 does as well.
Do we count Shade from Chronicles? I think she had a boss fight. I know very little about that game but it's not canon, right?
Merlina is kinda a grey area? Like they were friends, he stopped her evil plans and was still nice to her. I don't know if in context that meets the criteria.
On top of that I don't think the Knights of the Round Table count. Sonic is there to take the swords and they work together at the end. I don't think there's any hard feelings, but don't know if this counts as "friends".
Sage could be the next example, but she's still loyal to Eggman. I don't think what they briefly shared was friendship as much as Sage wanting to save Eggman.
I haven't played Superstars but Trip doesn't even have a bossfight, does she? I don't think she counts.
Not looking at the method, just purely if they became friends down the line. Out of all of those, there's 4 total (if you count Shadow, which I do) with 1 it's complicated and 1 non-canon. That's very few when you consider how large the game cast is.
An overwhelming majority of his friends weren't ever hostile with him to begin with, like the Chaotix, Amy, Tails, Cream, Emerl, Big, ect. There's plenty of other cast members that are still have him on their shit list, like Eggman, Infinite (if he's alive), Fang, Metal, Eggman Nega, the Deadly Six...
Now I'm starting to wonder where this idea of it being a frequent even came from.
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Saezuru Chapter Titles
Well, my archival obsession with the chapter covers continues. Here are all titles to date as of October 2023.
Legend, based on the illustration:
Yashiro - italics
Doumeki - bold font
Yashiro and Doumeki - blue font
[1] Defiant, or twisted, there's nothing else to do... but continue living.
[2] Unconsciously, love is born.
[3] Sentimental, irritating, suffocating.
[4] Quietly, secretly... passionately.
[5] Just staying by your side...
[6] So close, yet our hearts are afar.
[7] There are things I want to tell you, but I have no words to convey them...
[8] You don't know how important someone is to you until you're about to loose them...
[9] It's so cold, it gives people a lancinating kind of pain, yet, there is an unspeakable sense of comfort. (note: unusual color cover with Misumi and Yashiro's naked legs)
[10] Back then, when he was still a nobody...
[11] Those unseen wounds, hurting little by little.
[12] Something is about to change...
[13] Downtrodden, life continues -
[14] The past... begins to stir - (note: unusual color cover with a bird's pov and tiny unrecognizable figures)
[15] (no text)
[16] I want to protect... I want to be protected... this contradiction is - (note: unusual cover with story panel of Hirata on the ground and speech bubbles. One bubble could be read as continuation of the title : "[this contradiction is - ] ... pretty dangerous".)
[17] I don't want to vanish from your gaze. (note: unusual cover with story panel and speech bubbles. D: "You could say I'm no match for the force of this person." Y: "I don't want to vanish from your gaze".)
[18] Everyone goes on living with the weight of the past on their shoulders. (note: unusual Nanahara? cover)
[19] Even the smallest things can alter fate.
[20] Someone's hatred towards someone Someone's feelings towards someone - (note: unusual car chase cover)
[21] no cover
[22] The time for everything to change has come -
[23] Even though all I want is to love him it will only hurt him...
[24] I can't allow myself to be touched by those hands
[25] What is this The way this is Is not the way that I know (note: crazy double page cover that will get its own post)
[26] nothing
[27] When it's too late I always think... "Why..?"
[28] A past that can never be erased Memories that won't be forgotten
[29] The feelings that ensnare and the feelings that are real... In the end, will they be revealed as love, or...
[30] Little by little... Things start to go crazy.
[31] So many thoughts, So much anticipation, All blending together...
[32] There's something I've always wanted to know.
[33] I've never needed Anyone Or any thing
[34] nothing
[35] Endings and beginnings Beginnings and endings (note: could also be read "Beginnings and endings Endings and beginnings")
[36] nothing
[37] 4 years have passed... and time flew by in parallel lines
[38] Living under the same sky
[39] Finally, things are moving
[40] There is something in the memory that can't be erased.
[41] I never planned on meeting him again
[42] Feelings are aching
[43] Things that changed Things that haven't And some things that cannot be changed.
[44] Yashiro and Doumeki's On equal footing New relationship Begins! (note: strangest title, so different in style than all others)
[45] After being separated for 4 years, The thing Doumeki saw was...
[46] I thought I fully understood that guy...
[47] What is it you desire?
[48] Pretending as if nothing happened
[49] Even if our positions changed, The feelings are...
[50] Wanting to destroy everything (note: unusual cover, portrait of Yashiro with only Doumeki's gloved hand in the picture...)
[51] I didn't know. Was this what I wished for? (note: unusual cover showing only legs, assuming it's the both of them)
[52] nothing
[53] What I really wished for was...
[54] For us both, There are things we don't know
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your requested reminder to post knives going nuclear on zazie when you can :)
ok so im going to be reblogging this to the body horrors week later cause. uh. well. knives. quite literally goes nuclear?
all of these screenshots are from the overhaul project cause i haven't managed to catch the dark horse digital editions on sale yet, though i'll provide the dark horse translations where i can because i have physical copies, and the dark horse translations are imo clearer here.
there are ids in all the alt texts for the photos, it's why this took several days longer than i'd originally planned -finger guns- alt texts might look a little weird in the first set btw - tumblr started eating the photoset and i had to spend an extra half an hour fixing it -finger guns-
the pages are volume 11, pages 90-92, and 114-17, because a lot of the pages in between are leadup pages and also have the zazie control worm. thing.
pages 90-2 are the distant explosion (you can click on the first image and see it in the photo viewer, if for some reason it will not view in dashboard mode. But it does exist!)
(on page 90, dark horse is a lot more specific, with "the northeast sky is glowing" instead of "the whole sky is glowing". the other two boxes with text read "what is--?!" and "oh my..!" respectfully as if they were cut off mid sentence.)
so uh.
knives went uh.
literal "nuclear bomb exploded just above a town"
because he kind of did. Unlike a true nuclear bomb, he did not form a mushroom cloud, but the metaphor is still there. that is a nuclear metaphor
per pages 114-117 (pages are from left to right, read the pages right to left. sorry)
(legato's speech bubbles on page 114 in the dark horse edition read: Survival of the fittest is the law of nature. What is about to happen now is a just a logical extension of that. Be very afraid. You are in his presence. Did you not notice, Leader of the Sand Worms?
It reads very differently, imo, more like Zazie was caught up in their own plots and schemes to realize the control worm didn't work. Legato is also telling Zazie that Zazie should be afraid of Knives. Okay? Not asking if Zazie is afraid. Telling Zazie to be afraid. Like some sort of reverse "Be Not Afraid" from the bible.
Zazie's thought bubbles on page 115 are translated as "the dark hole is swallowing the poison" which reads more like knives made a black hole. given the visuals? that sounds more likely. Black holes, as a real life thing that we know about and have tried to study, are often referred to as swallowing things that pass too close. knives made a mini black hole to eat the poison from the sand worm venom. knives has consumed the dependent plants.)
the fact is, as a metatextual read, plants are nuclear reactors. independent plants are walking nuclear bombs. Nightow did this on purpose. We're meant to read them as something nuclear.
This is, as i was saying to @needle-noggins the other night when i was working on it in an attempt to get more of the alt texts written, a casual display of power. Knives is throwing a hissy fit! Knives is throwing a multi-megaton display of power because Zazie tried to take him over with the control worm. Page 91 had needle-noggins and i speechless because on the low end that tower of debris from the explosion is (if we did the very, very rough math right) THIRTY MILES TALL. Twice as tall as the tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons! or roughly five and a half times as tall as Mount Everest. On the outside, because we figured its anywhere from 25-30 times taller than the cloud cover, it could be up to thirty seven miles
Over halfway to space on earth.
like.
I know we love the independent plants and all. But Holy Shit. just.
holy shit
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