STONE, THANK YOU

Some more Hero Factory headcanons (Bulk edition)

- He’s the tallest member of the team - After being pinned under the girders during the fight with Corroder, his legs had to be remade. He is the only one that knows this. - Bulk likes to read whenever he can - He and Stringer tend to swap weapons during training - Bulk tends to put himself between a villain and a rookie, often acting as a shield. - All of his armor has more chips/scratching/dents than the rest of the Alpha 1 team's armor

5 (possibly) underrated things I always remember about Sonic Boom:

1. Amy is the only member of Team Sonic that can cook, and when everyone else tried, it was purple-ish slop

2. Meh Burgers are vegan, and are made of shredded newspaper and library paste. Sonic is also the only one paying full price.

3. Orbit and Cubot willingly eat marshmallows, despite knowing that it’ll mess with their circuitry

4. Sonic canonically owns glasses, but never wears them (and whether they’re real or fake is up to interpretation).

5. Eggman wasn’t a doctor, and the entirety of Hedgehog Village had a musical number to spread the word.

BIG, THANK YOU FOR SAYING IT

Big the Cat Therapist

Doodle is a result of a convo I had with a friend btw. We both headcanon that Big always knows what to say and that’s why Shadow likes him 😌.

“You don’t have to be The Ultimate Lifeform all the time. Sometimes you can just be Shadow”

DRAGON LANCELOT AND ARTHUR! DRAGON LANCELOT AND ARTHUR! DRAGON LANCELOT AND ARTHUR! DRAGON LANCELOT AND ARTHUR! DRAGON-

Quick magma doodle

THIS IS AWESOME!

keanu reeves is shadow??

I CAN see Neo as the sassy aunt...

Omg a big happy family :0

Shadow is Rouge's n1 fan (and hater, currently)

+ Sonic is here literally just to be a little prick

This took so long @_@

No, I'm not crying! You are!

I don't think Robotnik ever saw Stone's affection as genuine. He's used to people only valuing him if he's useful. His own bosses call him a freak, yet they put up with him because of his "perfect operation record". He isn't even shocked when he learns the goverment erased him, he expected it and had a contingency plan ready.

He keeps calling Stone a sycophant and a barnacle, because why else would someone stay with him if not to gain something? Clearly, Stone is just a suck-up wanting to ride his coattails. And Ivo is fine with that! He gets his ego stroked and in return Stone gets a slice of the world-domination pie. Mutually beneficial!

This symbiotic relationship gives Ivo a sense of control and ensures that Stone won't abandon him like everyone else. It also keeps him detached: of course Stone waited months or him to return from space, that's his job. His admiration is inevitable, and meaningless.

Ivo develops a genuine, irrational attachment to Stone, one he's able to rationalize as just being transactional. Those emotional walls shield him from the fear of abandonment that comes with caring for another person.

Except...even after Robotnik becomes a liability, Stone stays. There's no benefit, no plans of ruling humanity, not even a paycheck. Yet despite everything, Ivo tries to keep the old boss/employee dynamic going. He can't fathom the idea that someone would stay for anything other than convenience.

Then Gerald shows up, and for the first time Ivo allows himself to put down those walls. As an orphan he had built up this idealized image of family that he thought he could never have. People will use you then toss you aside when convenient, but family? Family is different. Family will always be there for you and love you no matter what. Family won't abandon you.

And suddently Stone's grovelling is no longer necessary. Why would he need someone who just pretends to like him when he now has all the unconditional love he's always longed for? That's obviously why Stone got so jealous, it couldn't have been real concern, he was just afraid of losing his comfy position as the lapdog of humanity's new king. Between a sycophant and family, the choice felt obvious.

And, of course, Gerald turns out to be just like everyone else in Ivo's life: just another person trying to get something from him. The second he stopped being useful, he was tossed aside.

His image of family is once again shattered, but those emotional walls are already down. Now that Ivo experienced that betrayal he was so afraid of, now that he's about to die, he's finally able to be honest with himself.

Looking down on Earth, he realizes there had only ever been one person on that blue marble who actually cared. Someone who had always been there, even when there was nothing to gain. Stone had never abandoned him.

But he had abandoned Stone. He tossed him aside, just like Gerald did to him. Now that he's able to understand how Stone felt, this is his last chance to make things right.

In his final moments, with nothing to fear, Robotnik puts down his emotional walls and opens up as best as he can. Stone had done so much for him, asked for nothing in return, and now it was his turn to do the same. Ivo helped save the world, not for recognition or convenience, but simply out of love.

Stone had always been a sycophant to him, yes, but he had also been a friend. A sycofriend.

Two Husbands and their bridemaids🤭

A break from my usual Sonic-related content:

Hero Factory Headcanons (Stormer addition)

- Stormer is the shortest member of Alpha Team 1

- He is also the oldest member of the team

- He prefers ranged combat

- Stormer dislikes being touched, and hates having his Core scanned (sorry, Quadal)

- Despite his use of ice weaponry and white/blue color scheme, he prefers warmer climates

- Before Furno’s creation, he was one of the most agile Heroes created

- Bulk and Stringer have had to drag him back to HFICU (Hero Factory’s ICU) before.

- He remembers the Assembly/Creation Days (aka the birthdays) of the Alpha 1 Team.

- Stormer has a very short temper. Zib usually reminds him to keep it together

- He dislikes using vehicles, but will use them if he has to