Some might recall that awhile back I drew my own take on Rouge the Bat- https://inkbunny.net/s/1654735 -which quickly, yet unintentionally resulted in my drawing Amy Rose - https://inkbunny.net/s/1663872 - in a similar vain. Well I suppose you could say I opened Pandora's Box because it got me more and more interested in how I would personally depict the rest of the Sonic cast and if I was going to do this potentially cringey task, there's no better place to start then with the's series' namesake himself, Sonic the Hedgehog!
This project actually started back last year and took me forever to finalize. I'm still not sure if I'm 100% happy with it, but I settled with an approximate 90% happiness rating, so it'll do. (I can always just draw it again until it looks right in my eyes) I think my biggest issue comes in the fact that I wanted to put more clothing on him, but the more and more I thought on it, a character who's super power is speed and effectively uses his body as a weapon due to it being covered in quills MIGHT not benefit from wearing too much, if only because anything on his torso probably wouldn't last very long! So I had to opt out of some ideas.
All-in-all I personally see Sonic as one of those "not the hero we want, but the one we got" sort of characters. Sure, his heart's generally in the right place but his head's up his own ass. A guy who started out kind of humble, maybe even an awkward, out of shape nerd but after quashing the intentions of a certain egg-shaped villain and getting more in shape, fame got to his head and he quickly turned more into a frat boy, dude-bro, douche bag who thinks he's way cooler then he really is. He's also the one responsible for granting nearly half the cast their nicknames, I mean do you REALLY think someone named their kid "Sonic" or "Knuckles" or "Big"!? I mean we know for a fact that Tails' real name is Miles and we have other characters like Amy with real names, so why in the world are we to believe names like "Silver" or "Blaze" are real? As to what all their real names are..? I don't know and I probably won't explore it, but I can assume in the case of Sonic it's something really dumb sounding that he doesn't want anyone to know.
As is fairly obvious, I also see Sonic as being fairly similar to Kamina from Gurren Lagann (hence the shades) in that, while he may be a swaggering idiot, he has an uncanny ability to lead and inspire others if only through his sheer, undying tenacity and consistently denying truth and substituting his own which inexplicably works. This MAY be further points to him being a literal incarnation of chaos, but we won't go into that! In the end, Sonic CAN be a total badass just... rarely in the way he intends to be and really, doesn't that just define the series as a whole?
Assuming anyone read this, as I've sort of started a chain reaction here and intend on eventually drawing more Sonic characters in my style feel free to leave a comment suggesting who you'd like to see next. You might give me ideas for ones I never intended to draw!
This is true, yes but after him we had Amy whose name is completely normal and serves no pun as well as Tikal which while not a real name, isn't as silly as simply being named after a body part or specific trait. We also have other characters in game like the Robotniks who all have full names and while that may be able to be explained away as their humans and the animals have typically different sounding names (it still doesn't omit Miles and Amy) but if we look at the comics/SatAM series, we have animal characters with real names like Sally, Antoine or even Sonic's own uncle, Chuck. While I don't ever consider those canons, it does point to the fact that real names exist in any incarnation of this universe and I can't really accept "Sonic" or "Knuckles" as real names... and regardless, this is my head canon and I'll do with it as I want XD
This is true, yes but after him we had Amy whose name is completely normal and serves no pun as well
