I am Hated

I think now is time to pose a very serious question: When someone is "angsting" (or perhaps wangsting), should we pity them on default?

When you look at Sonic Rose's situation, yes you would feel bad for him at first: His father is dead, his mother seems apathetic (very far from the truth, actually...but she stopped one of his suicide attempts by shooting him in the leg), and he's got a thousand enemies, most of them very dangerous. And about a thousand problems on top of that.

But you have to look a little more closely at him. Sonic Rose is arrogant, far more than is healthy for a 16-year-old. He's always dragging that huge bag of pride behind him (which has been kicked several times by various people). Not to mention scheming, somehow avoids learning from some major mistakes, once threatened self-harm to get his way (getting people to listem to him...natch), cares very little about the human race (and who can blame him?), and the like. Most psychologists would see this as the result of little to no social contact and/or his mother, an ex-soldier and pretty much where he got all his personality traits from, almost all bad. And these aren't little things like snottiness. These are VERY BAD traits.

Most of the hate inflicted on Sonic is, ultimately, his own damn fault. He's started fights. His arrogance blinds his judgement, getting him defeated much earlier than he not been so. In an effort to avoid hurting his friends, he stays away from them--a noble effort, but has more consequences attached than you might think. He's basically an asshole. An asshole with some noble ambitions beneath all the layers of crap and dirt, but still. He's really not that fit to lead the Neo Freedom Fighters--that's something his sister Amy or Shadow might be better handling.

His only redeeming qualities would be his concern for his friends, even if it's almost never expressed (especially not to Knuckles or Rouge), and he really does want to help the world...but still, all this loathing, he brought upon himself. Sucks to be you.


I think this stems from the fact that I hate being yelled at or reprimanded for any reason...Nothing crushes your self confidence and psyche like too many angry teachers.

Sonic the Hedgehog/Rose (C) SEGA [and the VA switch was Sega of AMERICA'S fault, not Japan's.]
Art (C) me

[Side Note: I replayed Megaman Anniversary Collection today. Naturally, I was reminded of just how bad I suck. Good times...]