#Sonic's kicked-puppy expression in the last shot does still amuse me though XD

[descendant-of-truth]

Sonic looked so sad in this scene, you can really tell he feels horrible about hurting Tails's feelings and it's not an emotion we usually see from him

Ironically he looks more upset than Tails did, but it seems like Tails is the more subdued of the two in this version so it makes sense. It also makes for an interesting contrast with Nine, who expresses his negative feelings a lot more freely than Tails and wouldn't handle this situation with nearly the same amount of chill.

It's also nice that it helps establish that Sonic's problem isn't that he doesn't care enough or know how to own up to a mistake; it's that he tends to get tunnel vision in the moment and doesn't really listen to others well. Even here, he probably takes Tails at face value when he says things are fine when he was clearly upset two seconds earlier.

Not that I think Tails was lying exactly, but given how much emphasis is put on him "never getting that upset," I think it's safe to say it bothered him more than he's letting on.

I just really like how much even the first episode tells us about their dynamic, that there's no shortage of friendship here but sometimes Sonic can cause problems that Tails is too conflict-avoidant to deal with beyond an implied "I know you didn't mean it"

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic prime #sonic prime spoilers #miles tails prower #analysis #meta #This was supposed to be a joke post but it turned into an analysis whoops #Sonic's kicked-puppy expression in the last shot does still amuse me though XD