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asker: kam! https://kmkmkmkmkm.neocities.org/
"what if i turned my main into a mecha sonic askblog. just as a little joke. just for fun for like a week so i have an excuse to draw him a couple times in a noncommital low-stress environment"
i should have known i was cooked from the start.
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6/12/22
when i first answered this i was like maybe i shouldn't be too much of an asshole. and then i promptly ignored that because i love being an asshole and having mecha be an asshole. were this not filtered through robotic speech patterns of Formal Perceived Politeness:tm: it would just say "do you shower? cunt."
there's a lot of fun in characters like this with really specific speaking styles, in trying to figure how to translate basic statements into something they'd actually say. you'll see a lot of these.
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6/12/22
thank you dr. robotnik's ring racers for making my rival character for mecha be knuckles far more often than it was sonic. you're so correct for that actually. sonic has metal for a focus, mecha deals with the mater emerald so you know what. yeah mecha IS knux' problem. let's make it mutual.
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6/12/22
worlds clunker old man doesn't know what fun is, sleeps all the time.
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6/12/22
sure whatever
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6/12/22
i had a lot of fun drawing this one if u couldnt tell. this is also the #1 main thing i wanted to get to bring up. making him hate metal is the biggest executive decision i made about his character but i believe ive made my case well enough.
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6/12/22
theyre the worst brothers EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR it's like 90% metal just existing and mecha giving himself 500000 problems about it. HATES his scrunt ass. its like this
he massively cools off post-mortem of course though.
and continuing with the more proper canon dynamic, if they DID meet again after everything, they... still wouldn't get along, though the tables would be flipped on who hates and who is indifferent to who.
for the record i do think metal would beat his ass. but he'd have to be smart about it. if metal rushes in in a blind rage he's getting his little head popped off but if he keeps a level head then it's a pretty easy fight. mecha's still fast and powerful but he's held together with dreams and duct tape and that's very bad for a tank-build character.
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6/12/22
:')
i think people tend to see mecha as like defiant or rebellious or whatever and like... that's certainly true for smbz mecha where he basically just mows down anyone who stands against him, and to an extent it's also backed up in scrapnik where he is most certainly a schemer, but at the same time in scrapnik i think there's a pretty clear case to be made that devotion is one of his top 3 core emotions--second only to pride and sitting just above anger. "we were supposed to conquer the world _together_" is such strong wording. like that was something he really believed in, and he kept that ideal--of himself and eggman's vision and his status within such--with him well after winding up on scrapnik. it takes a lot of pride to think you're hot enough shit to be worth it to someone you admire even after getting as as torn up as he did-but it also takes just as much devotion and faith in them as well.
i have a lot of thoughts about mecha sonic as a knight archetype, but suffice it to summarize that while he plainly doesn't give a shit about anyone he deems 'unworthy', for those who do manage to earn his respect, his bond is unshaken even by death. i like to think that he didn't Really start to change until after his vision of eggman was broken when he realized the good doctor wasn't coming back for him... but fortunately for him, he just as quickly found something else to dedicate himself to. ego death is a fascinating thing for a killer robot.
also hey i don't get to talk about him much on here but i fucking love sigma btw. you must understand this.
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6/12/22
i wanted to dowload like internet explorer 4 for this one and record a gif off that but it was way too much effort to do anything like that for a simple askblog joke. instead i settled for using a text-only search. modern html gives him a headache ;'(
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6/12/22
a minor followup to his words for metal....
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6/12/22
why do i keep fucking getting asks about FOOD. what am i supposed to say to these!!!
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6/12/22
i dont even know if m.knux can talk but we take liberties here. if he does probably not much to mecha.s! i figure if regular knux already doesn't like sonic's yapping the "allegedly "even more serious"" mecha knuckles will REALLY not like mecha sonic's extravagant monologues. also i just wanted someone to counter his melodramatic nature.
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6/12/22
this was a fun one!!!! my specialty: pulling something nonsense out of left field and giving it just enough reasoning to make amusingly plausible. canon has no way of contradicting this so you can't say for sure it's wrong!!!! and i think it's fun for him to have to face someone he fucked over. mecha in general does not feel bad about any of the shit he did before, but this is a specific exception. not so fun to think about your own betrayal of an ally and stripping them of their purpose, now is it? florentine* doesn't really give a shit and has made as much clear to him, but it does still weigh on him a bit.
*yeah it's florentine. i didnt know most all the scrapniks had actual canon names when i made this, i'll update the image at some point probably.
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6/12/22
its so cute how people think they can get him to do character development. these are my favorite kind of ask but also oh honey that's not happening until he gets his ass taken down about 20 notches
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6/12/22
[THERE IS NOTHING AROUND HERE ON WHICH I WISH TO DEMONSTRATE, THOUGH, AND I TRUST YOU DO NOT WANT A LIVE EXAMPLE…]
really happy i got to draw him with his fuckoff chest laser all open but otherwise not my strongest answer. was hoping to come up with something better than 'somtimes i kick people so hard they explode' but it wasn't happening. it really is hard to beat a fuckoff chest laser!
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6/12/22
this post is about how much i hate the sonic fanwiki. have you ever tried to browse that thing? it has this whole stupid gimmick where it like never uses the actual fucking game titles when talking about stuff that happened across the series; instead they make up these like completely arbitrary "incident"names to refer to the games by. instead of "during the events of sonic heroes" it's "during the neo metal sonic incident". shit like that. it's so stupid and infuriating. it's like completely inaccessible if you don't already know stuff about a given game!! the POINT of a WIKI is to make your information ACCESSIBLE!!!! stop obfuscating it in your dumbass coded terms!!!!what the fuck is "the newtrogic high zone incident"!!!! just call it knuckles' chaotix!!!!!! oh my god!!!! ive PLAYED knuckles chaotix and i don't know what you're talking about!!!! they get SO STUPID with the names too. sonic R is "the world grand prix" incident. HAVING RACES IS NOT AN INCIDENT. SHUT UP. one of them [i literally dont even remember the game] is "the death egg mk II incident" except there is no listed first death egg incident. sonic adventure is "the chaos incident", which. 'chaos incident' could refer to practically anything that happens in this series. it goes on and on.
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6/12/22
as i said, he's knuckles' problem. and knuckles is his
i really do think he had something interesting and unique going on with the master emerald there... that was some classic 90's weirdness that they've just sorta phased out in the time since. i get why they don't more actively involce the M.E. in stuff any more, but like.... i kinda wish they would. i think it's neat.
anyway i can't imagine his proclivity for schemeing was only ever a post-scapnik thing so i think he should have shitty little whiteboard about it. eggman said FINE if your ass wanna plot so bad but that's ALL youre getting.
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6/12/22
made myself emotional about his big stupid cape. like a fool.
ahhhh... you know how it goes. victories, if not on your own terms. achievements, if not the ones you thought you wanted. childhood dreams that never die--which not for nothing this is also my favorite one for getting to show eggman-era mecha as like "yeah hes hes the most arrogant and murderous jackass on the planet but hes also like 17" & therefore kind of a lame little nerd by default. he thinks capes are sooooooo coool. we were all stupid kids once but sometimes u get older and u still wanna paint your house purple. and sometimes u still want a cool cape.
i knoooowwww he loves his big stupid cape so much. look at the refsheets with his dumbass spines poking holes through the the hood. tell me he has not made a COMMITMENT to wearing that hood despite being built in a way that makes hoods incredibly inconvenient. look at nathalie fourdraine's christmas scrapnik art and tell me he isn't having so much fun being all decorated and swishing around in that Even Bigger And Stupider Cape & shawl w/ his friends. hes so funny for that. he's generally such a serious kinda character but on god he does also love some showmanship and flashiness. i too also love capes of course and mecha is basically the coolest ever but also hes still funny for that.
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6/12/22
hey man did it hurt? when you fell from sky sanctuary
ONE MIGHT SAY..... YEAH. A LOT.
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6/12/22
i dont know when knuckles' chaotix takes place relative to anything and youre not gonna tell me. as far as im concerned like all the classic era bots are all just chillin up in the death egg together until eggman tells them to go do shit.
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6/12/22
its like when ppl say guys have those large obnoxious pickup trucks to cover for having a tiny dick
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6/12/22
mecha can have a little ominous vice.... as a treat....
to be fair i don't think he'd actally do it. but boy he would be tempted
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6/12/22
literally the worst.
i like to think all the eggman bots have their own telepathic robot language ["communication signlas" or whatever] just most don't have the hardware to speak english. metal has his angry computer noises & those have been translated here as morse code, using a couple different sets of symbols, as i feel being mute or at least unintelligble is central to his character. mecha can still understand him, of course, but he knows the audience can't so he's doing his best to downplay+sublty retort metal's remarks. " i could run circles around him" and "he wouldn't land a hit on me", btw.
this also showcases a thing i'd had since literally the second ask and never put to use where his spines go more horizontal when he's agitated
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6/12/22
oh please. like you're any better with your own fuckass cape.
i did crowdsource this one but in my defense i think neo metal is stupid and i wanted to bully his hot topic ass