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seasonsrpg2025-05-08 07:54 pm
sonic_wachowski) wrote in seasonsrpg2025-05-08 07:54 pm
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WHO: Sonic Wachowski and Chipp
WHAT: Ice Cream Meeting
WHEN: After IC Anon Confessions
WHERE: Ice cream shop in Blossomcrown
WARNINGS: Talk of loneliness and isolation probably.
The plan had been to get some advice on a problem Sonic had been having without having to out his damage to the people he was close to. Its not...its not like Sonic doesn't trust them or anything like that. Like gun to his head, Sonic would admit to his damage in a second to those people he's close to because its really not about trust.
Its because he doesn't like people being sad.
He doesn't like being sad.
He prefers to think of the happier things. The good things he had in his life now. He doesn't want to bring the people who make him happy down by talking about things no one can change now.
Its just sometimes those sad things catch up, one way or another.
Back home, Tom and Maddie were smart. They could put together the clues. The fact he hadn't seen Longclaw since he was a kid. Living in a cave. All the reports of the Blue Devil and weird, unsolved petty crimes.
They're not stupid, and they could put enough together to try and help some of his worst struggles without having to really...TALK about it. Not often anyway. Sometimes things would slip and they would talk, and he hated it. Hated seeing them sad. Hated seeing how hurt they were he had to suffer like that.
Because they cared and loved him and he understood that they didn't begrudge learning this about him, but it still wasn't something he enjoyed.
But if there was one thing he hated more than anything else, it was someone feeling resigned to loneliness.
There was nothing stronger. It was that same feeling of empathy that had made him forgive Shadow when his blinding rage cooled. It was what made him think he could connect with Knuckles. The same thing that made him reach out to Rinku and Evangeline in different ways.
Loneliness was terrible.
Feeling trapped in it was worse.
So even if it meant someone would be sad for him, it was worth it if he could help someone who had that same feeling.
So he ran to the ice cream shop. Thought about it for a bit, before getting praline and butter pecan. And then it was lemon sorbet and strawberry for him. Then he would wait at a table, starting to eat his.
Because hey, he's hungry.
WHAT: Ice Cream Meeting
WHEN: After IC Anon Confessions
WHERE: Ice cream shop in Blossomcrown
WARNINGS: Talk of loneliness and isolation probably.
The plan had been to get some advice on a problem Sonic had been having without having to out his damage to the people he was close to. Its not...its not like Sonic doesn't trust them or anything like that. Like gun to his head, Sonic would admit to his damage in a second to those people he's close to because its really not about trust.
Its because he doesn't like people being sad.
He doesn't like being sad.
He prefers to think of the happier things. The good things he had in his life now. He doesn't want to bring the people who make him happy down by talking about things no one can change now.
Its just sometimes those sad things catch up, one way or another.
Back home, Tom and Maddie were smart. They could put together the clues. The fact he hadn't seen Longclaw since he was a kid. Living in a cave. All the reports of the Blue Devil and weird, unsolved petty crimes.
They're not stupid, and they could put enough together to try and help some of his worst struggles without having to really...TALK about it. Not often anyway. Sometimes things would slip and they would talk, and he hated it. Hated seeing them sad. Hated seeing how hurt they were he had to suffer like that.
Because they cared and loved him and he understood that they didn't begrudge learning this about him, but it still wasn't something he enjoyed.
But if there was one thing he hated more than anything else, it was someone feeling resigned to loneliness.
There was nothing stronger. It was that same feeling of empathy that had made him forgive Shadow when his blinding rage cooled. It was what made him think he could connect with Knuckles. The same thing that made him reach out to Rinku and Evangeline in different ways.
Loneliness was terrible.
Feeling trapped in it was worse.
So even if it meant someone would be sad for him, it was worth it if he could help someone who had that same feeling.
So he ran to the ice cream shop. Thought about it for a bit, before getting praline and butter pecan. And then it was lemon sorbet and strawberry for him. Then he would wait at a table, starting to eat his.
Because hey, he's hungry.
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It's a soft one.]
Aw, hun...
You don't get a soul that heavy [- pointing a metal claw at Spin Jockey -] from just fakin' your death.
You a smart one, though, bein' diplomatic 'bout it all where you can. 'Cause me, that's how I died.
I weren't bein' used as a tool or nothin'... I was a weapon. Aimed at the folks who kept gettin' away with hurtin' others.
And when the day came I got caught, y'know...
Governments don't like keepin' 'round folks who destroy, even if you had a good reason.
So... 's good that you takin' the good-hearted path. Real good.
You savin' folks, that way.
[He's trying very hard to sidestep the obvious, here - he doesn't want to say what all he's done outright and scare the poor kid.
But at the same time... what other crimes are there where the punishment is death?]
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[He squeaks.] Its your soul?! Should I be touching it?! [Immediate concern! He can't like...break it, can he?!]
[Oh.]
So used by another group until the government found you....?
[Also doing some MATH from those words.]
....the good path is more sustainable if I get it to work. If GUN could recognize us as people, it means other people can't replace them, and it means we could have allies against other groups. I can do a lot when it comes to a fight, but like....logistical stuff, or finding people, and anything that isn't just straight fight gets a lot harder.
Plus it'd be better for Earth if they're accepting of aliens before any like...groups find them, instead of one offs.
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Though it's more like a round of wheezes that ends with a coughing fit into his elbow, having to push his helmet up and everything.
But that helmet falls back over his head again, the biggest, dumbest grin spread across it as he reaches over and pats the back of Sonic's hand.]
Naw, naw - you fine, hun, 's all good! Not like you gonna hurt it any, and besides...
'S only the core o' my soul, anyhow. Not the whole thing!
[For the rest, though... he draws his hand back again, crossing his arms and leaning back in his chair.]
... Y'know. We got other Otherworlders kickin' 'round this place, they got the ability back in their world to go hoppin' into others.
Can't do it here, but... once everyone all done savin' Ellipsa or whatever, they plan to go hopping world to world, lookin' for their friends.
Which is to say... if ya meet anyone here you think could help you with that quest, then remember you might actually be able to have'em pop up in your world to help.
I'd offer, bein' that I am a logistics kinda fella... but I ain't made to play nice, neither.
Even in the land of the dead, my job's killin' folks. ... Well - my second job's killin' folks, anyhow.
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[His ears flick at the handpat, but he appreciates the gesture.] I don't know if core is supposed to be reassuring, but if you're sure it won't be hurt, then I'll just be careful.
[He is stronger than most, but he knows how to keep from just breaking stuff normally, so]
[SO]
[Probably fine if he says so.]
Oooooh.
That would...
Actually be super nice, because right now, I'm the diplomat, and its so hard. [There is a loud groan.] Knuckles likes to problem solve with his fists and he's weirdly both extremely paranoid, but extremely trusting at the same time? [Knuckles is threading the Weirdest Needle.] And Tails is super smart, but he's also not the best when people are upset with him, and honestly, I kind of don't want GUN to really realize how smart he actually is, because he isn't as strong as Knuckles and me, so GUN doesn't really view him as much of a threat or a thing to use, and the less they do, the better.
[If GUN messed with Tails, there would be some serious hell to pay.]
[Also its kind of reassuring, knowing GUN doesn't realize Tails can take apart their security system if he really wanted to. There's a difference between 'smart enough to fly a helicopter' and 'technologically smarter than basically anyone else on Earth save for people in the realm of Robotnik']
And I can't ask a human to be the diplomat because GUN has to recognize and respect us as people and if we let a human talk for us, they will continue to be dumb and annoying about their xenophobic control issues.
So, since I know humans, what we're avoiding, the hardest thing for GUN to contain since I just need a moment to get away, and I've been batting a thousand in when I choose to trust people, I have to be diplomat.
I do also have rings with me. I should talk to people for that alone. I dunno how well they can travel between dimensions, but they can go across the galaxy, that's gotta be helpful in a thing to study.
Land of the dead? So you're killing ghosts?