#I'll gladly use that grey area and the creativity that can come with it to write *many* stories with different backstories for Silver haha

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I always figured that Silver got decoupled from time after the mess that was 06. If Sonic and Blaze remember the events to some extent, why wouldn't it have effects on everyone else? Everyone else that was there at the end was from the present, and since Silver shows up later I think it makes sense that slotting him into the revised timeline didn't work perfectly.

That also makes sense. It is rather strange that Silver appears in Rivals again, despite the fact that he, for all intents and purposes, should have been fully wiped from time after Solaris' flame got blown out. The history of the world is so different from that point onwards without the release of Iblis, it's highly unlikely that Silver got born again normally. For me, it thus does make sense that there is some kind of force at play that ensured he existed again in Rivals with exactly the same appearance and powers... but as for what that is and how it works, I have no clue. And we don't know anything about what his life in the future has been like: if he got born to parents and grew up into a fourteen-year-old, or if he just popped out of nowhere as said fourteen-year-old with no history to speak of, or any other possible scenario here. Since he and Eggman Nega seem to know each other, he must have existed in the new future for at least a little while, is the one thing I feel we can conclude with any certainty.

Then again, I doubt that Sega really put a lot of thought into Silver's impossible existence; Sonic '06's plot is already a massive paradox-riddled chaos to begin with, so the fact that Silver still exists after the whole course of history got changed is hardly even the biggest issue there, lol. Nor do I think Sega will really dive into it much sometime in the future, since there is simply no reason for them to do so. All this stuff happened more than fifteen years ago, and Silver's alleged role as the third main male hedgehog (because they named him Silver partly to ensure future games with his name would be near Sonic's) very quickly got shot down with how hated '06 and he were. Right now with the state of the franchise and the lack of (strong) focus on any character who isn't the main four plus Shadow and Eggman and maybe Metal Sonic, I doubt that Sega will ever suddenly begin giving all sorts of backstory information for Silver of all characters. He's not exactly the most popular character to be giving that attention to, I think. Regarding Silver's existence in Rivals and onwards, I myself like to think that Silver somehow got 'reincarnated' by divine intervention, and got born and grew up as the Silver we know (with his appearance, powers, and personality from '06) 'normally' in the future. Maybe that divine intervention took pity on him after everything that happened in '06 and therefore gave him a second shot at life, wherein he could protect the future successfully. But Silver's future, his time travel and its consequences, and his history are shrouded in mystery and confusion, and I figure there might not be any decent and logical clarity about it anytime soon. But then again, time travel always has such issues attached to it since it is paradoxical by nature, haha. And it does allow for many different ways to think about how the Silver from '06 could have ended up in Rivals and onwards!

#I'll gladly use that grey area and the creativity that can come with it to write *many* stories with different backstories for Silver haha #silver the hedgehog #sonic 06 #sonic rivals #I really wonder what could have been if Silver had been more liked and '06 less of a panned trainwreck #would he ever have gotten a game of his own like Shadow did? #I personally feel that a solo game wherein Silver is not linked to Sonic's high-speed gameplay could be quite fun #Silver's gameplay in '06 was disliked because Slow and Very Clunky so if it got refined and it wasn't linked to two much faster characters- #-perhaps people would like it better?