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Normal people: Well written character and story analysis that deepens understanding of the material. Me: I wonder what sound Espio’s handgaurd’s would make if you tapped them…Some of his renders it looks hard and shiny, very solid. Others it looks a bit like leather… a firm but pliable texture. They texture his shoes and cuffs like leather too, but more obviously… usually. In his SHTH render, his shoes are very shiny and look plastic-y. Though that’s kind of an outlier, it’s very leather in the majority of renders. Well, his Heroes render it was plastic-y looking too… Hmmmm. HMM!!! On that note, I refuse to believe Sonic shoes are boots until they stop putting a sock texture on the top of his so-called boots. No way.

Espio has so much untapped sonic potential

He is, arguably, the single most “normal” teenager in sonic canon vice via like his day to day problems and priorities.

Like even in the og archie comics where shit was notriously crazy all the time especially for Knuckles and his friends, Espio’s role was like. the Guy Whose Friends Are All Always Going Through Some Shit But He Is Basically Fine.

Like he’s not the one who finds a kid dead from LSD overdose. That’s the 6 year old bee’s problem. Espio just like. Gets the group text about it.

Like of the “main” 20+ sonic characters you can easily put Espio in the top 3 for edgy designs. And like Espio’s worst problems all come from being 16 and having brothers who are 18 and 6 respectively.

Like darkest canonical interpretations just come down to

-dead former mentor figure (think like. tails if sonic died, but like years later)

-child living through and suffering under realistic financial strain (sad. Really weird vibe for a sonic character tbh. Still not really that comparable to like. Shadow.)

And like. This is the same series where reality sometimes canonically gets thanos snapped and everyone’s lives get reset and genocides get forgotten. You can dig some fucked up experiences for like basically every sonic characters vice via Archie Comics being insane

And like. Im pretty sure this has only ever been played straight? Like of course he’s edgy he looks edgy. Isn’t Charmy annoying?

Idk i just think the fact Espio canonically knows like. Knuckles and Sonic and Shadow is like unexplored comedy gold. He’s like the shitty poser teen who BUYS the shadow the hedgehog posters to feel cool.

He and Vector talk and act like peers on the same page 99% of the time but Vector romantically pursues women unambiguous old enough to firmly see Espio as a child. That is so fucking funny. You’re 16 and your friday night is fucking ruined because your best bro is going out with some adult woman who treats you like you are 12 and a BABY so now you’re stuck babysitting YOUR baby brother ALONE, if not also your bro’s girl’s kid. Meanwhile the group chat is blowing up because all your COOL friends just broke into Eggman’s lab and are making really funny tiktoks without you

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ESPIO THE CHAMELEON HAS TAKEN OVER MY BRAIN

I don’t think people understand how much I am losing my mind over this random sonic the hedgehog character. Like who even is this guy?

Yo this random side character who’s hardly in the games but is literally a purple ninja detective who just wants to pay rent and is so cringe fail in the best way like I literally love him.

It’s like that “stay in the box/get out of my skin” meme like please for once god let me live a normal life.

No but genuinely I don’t think you understand this is the only place I can talk about it and people just get it. Imagine where I’m coming from:

A friend of mine who has no clue about the sth fandom and only knows base characters. Sonic himself is cool but if that’s all they know about the fandom then I have my work cut out for me. I can’t even get to talking about the Espio yet because it’s gonna take me hours (over the span of literal months probably) to dive into the lore like Shadow, Robotnik, Amy Rose, Knuckles, etc etc. that it feels like years before I can even talk about the chaotix and one of my favorite characters ever!! Because it’s not like he’s apart of the main cast or huge lore bits ykwim?!?!

And I never even get to that point because I can never get past all the Shadow lore! People already think I’m insane and just tune me out!!

I’m literally gnawing at the cage that confines me please someone release me from this nightmare.

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i've been lightly considering making a discord server for writers in the sonic fandom to send/talk about their fics, aus, ocs, stuff like that. would anyone be interested in that? feel free to drop a comment

Love the idea that Shadow and Espio, respectively, are the peak of like "angsty broody nobody talk to me I'm haunted and anguished" and when Vanilla and Vector look at them they're just like "ah yes <3 my stupid idiot teenager <3" and they're right