Two-Tailed Fox

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by XanderDWulfe

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Sonic: My Way

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On a roll here, (realized that could be a potential Sonic based pun) I'm just drawing these as they come to me, but who better to follow Sonic then his eternal "Player 2", Tails who... definitely got the biggest overhaul design wise, well it's a toss up between him as Rouge really. While I really have no issue with Tails' design he really does always fall into the "doesn't look at all like their species" category that, let's face it, literally every character in the series fits into, included Eggman! I mean Tails definitely looks way more like a fox then Sonic does a hedgehog but I dunno, I've always felt Tails looks more like a cat then a fox! Is it just me? It's probably just me, since I'm the one radically changing the designs of beloved characters.

I realize he looks more like an Animal Crossing character now, but I just wanted the two-tailed sidekick took more "foxy". I've always loved the Japanese depictions of foxes and given that Tails IS based off of the multi-tailed kitsune of Japanese folklore I figured it was pretty fitting to stylize him in that manner along with just a more general mechanic look to him, though sadly the opened jumpsuit does hide his big chubby butt but eh, other pictures in the future may show that. I don't know. I also realize this probably won't be taken too well, but I find it cute!

As for personality eh... I can't really say much that I would personally change? Tails is a pretty decent character as is. Possibly just being a little too engrossed in his own work and having very little in the way of anything nice and that isn't oil stained and is almost always shut in and introverted. The only other thing I could say is that I see him as starting out a Sonic fanboy and very much living in his shadow but slowly coming into his own and finding his identity outside of that which I know the games/comics/shows have already done but I mean that on a design level. Like I picture him at first mirroring Sonic's style, hair styled like his, shoes etc and then slowly growing out of that ironically due to Sonic's influence of always being true to one's self. Sort of a parallel to my take on Amy who never grows out of that and turns into a manic obsession.

Maybe I'll end up drawing out what I'm meaning? Not sure, this thing has really grown into a huge head canon with various design changes and stories that I just sort of took on a life of it's own which I never intended and honestly, when does thing thing stop being just an interesting take on Sonic characters and devolve into "Original Character: Do Not Steal?" or something so unique it may as well be it's own series and stop leeching off the name of another property? ...maybe I'm getting in too deep... but hey, if you guys are curious for more then just these base pictures, tell me. I might do more with these if I see there's enough interest in them.

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