Anyone out there with shameful Sonic-related secrets?

[Badnik Mechanic]

Oh wow, what did you buy for £1,500, may I ask? =O

[Old dead account]

It got most ridiculous with the Save Sonic campaign. You remember that, right Gartocer?

[redhellc]

So I remembered a few things:

1-When a was younger when sonic adventure got out I used to play with my friend pretending to be sonic characters, i was normally tails, but one thing I remembered most was that he pretended to be sonic and shadow and i was suppose to not distinguish one from the other, the weird thing is that at that time I've never seen shadow and when I saw it for the first time and realized he was black i felt so stupid, because tails would never mistake sonic for shadow.

2-Some years later, i think when sonic heroes was released McDonalds were offering with the happy meal sonic related kind of game machines, I know that for more than a month a went to McDonlads every week to eat an happy meal, but i was not suppose to go to McDonlads more than one or two times a month,and i never told my mother,still i have that "collection" i made to this day.

3-I only have one sonic t-shirt, I wish iIhad more.

4-I have a habit of creating sonic fan stories, but I never share them.

5-Where I live I feel lonely, because I never knew anyone that likes sonic around here, so sometimes I end up talking to myself( I think I'm going crazy )

6-Probably more to come....

[Your Vest Friend]

Absolutely love Episode 52 it was the sweetest thing I've ever seen in the Sonic Franchise.

[Speederino]

I haven't said the word Sonic in front of my parents for 7 years, because I have a thing about saying names, for some totally bizarre reason I don't even know

I can kind of relate to that. I don't like talking about gaming or really any of my nerdier interests around my parents. It's not that I'm ashamed or anything, it's just that most of this stuff is completely obscure to them, so I'll have to explain what I'm talking about nearly every time I bring something up. It's just not worth it.

I have a secret obsession over Sonic having a disability, being ill, injured, etc. I used to spend countless hours searching for fanfics, pictures, and the likes.

This isn't quite what you're talking about, but I've always thought it would be cool to have a speedster super-hero whose secret identity has dead legs and has to use a wheelchair. I mean that's like the absolute last person you would ever suspect.

Edited June 12, 2011 by Speederino

[SonikkuJeneshisu89]

5-Where I live I feel lonely, because I never knew anyone that likes sonic around here, so sometimes I end up talking to myself( I think I'm going crazy

I know how you feel too because I never had any friends or knew anybody in school or in my town who love Sonic either at all or as much as me. I was often the center of ridicule for loving the blue hog too. Talking to yourself doesn't make you crazy at all, a lot of people do it.

[redhellc]

I know how you feel too because I never had any friends or knew anybody in school or in my town who love Sonic either at all or as much as me. I was often the center of ridicule for loving the blue hog too. Talking to yourself doesn't make you crazy at all, a lot of people do it.

Yeah i know but i really would like to have a friend that doesn't laugh every time I mention sonic. So to compensate a either talk to myself or start creating stories with sonic and the gang.

[Tobbii]

Okay, I may not be ashamed of it but I want to put something interesting into this.

When I was 10 years old I started up Sonic LARPing with a few of my classmates, we called ourselves Sonic Team and we spent pretty much all of our free time doing this. I played Sonic and any NPC needed and I remember my friends Oscar was Tails, Hampus was Knuckles and I do remember Jonathan playing someone at some times, think he might have played Metal Sonic. We were influenced by almost every Sonic thing out there, even Fleetway since Jonathan had those.

I don't remember any specific plotlines, but I do know that we had fun even though we were bullied and laughed at by others. Good times.

[Flyboy Fox]

Hah, LARPing is fun. In a similar vein, I do Sonic-themed online roleplay sometimes in dressing-room RPs on LiveJournal, or over IM. And my partner and I have over a dozen ball-jointed dolls who are all based on fictional characters. Many of them are human-form Sonic characters. And yes, we do play and act out stories with them :3

[redhellc]

Alright some more:

1-The first sonic game I bought was sonic advance 1 about 7 years ago and only last year i was able to complete it 100%.

2-I wish for a Shadow the hedgehog sequel.

3-I would like to see a Sonic 06 remastered.No glitch's, no weird plot holes(and no kiss) and with sonic unleashed gameplay.

[SonikkuJeneshisu89]

Yeah i know but i really would like to have a friend that doesn't laugh every time I mention sonic. So to compensate a either talk to myself or start creating stories with sonic and the gang.

The only people I have to talk to about Sonic is online either on here, other forums, DeviantArt or on MSN with Sonic friends I met online. I wish I could talk to someone in real life about it or have a friend to play a Sonic game 2 player mode with. When I was little I used to try controlling 2 Sega Controllers at once for the Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 2 player modes. It sucked to say the least and was lonely but it was the only thing I could do besides controlling one person and winning the race anyway.

My biggest shame is the fact that I'm ashamed of being myself around people and being a geek who loves video games and Sonic. Like I said I was ridiculed a lot since I was young for liking Sonic among other things like Zelda or anything else remotely geeky. Even my family, my sister loved to tease the Hell out of me for being a geek always playing games and loving Sonic and it used to hurt my feelings a lot. So nowadays I can't even be myself unless alone because I feel embarrassed or think I'll be made fun of or treated poorly.

[Preston]

2-I wish for a Shadow the hedgehog sequel.

I would rather they make a Shadow game to retcon the first one. Shadow deserves a proper solo game, consarn it!

[redhellc]

The only people I have to talk to about Sonic is online either on here, other forums, DeviantArt or on MSN with Sonic friends I met online. I wish I could talk to someone in real life about it or have a friend to play a Sonic game 2 player mode with. When I was little I used to try controlling 2 Sega Controllers at once for the Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 2 player modes. It sucked to say the least and was lonely but it was the only thing I could do besides controlling one person and winning the race anyway.

My biggest shame is the fact that I'm ashamed of being myself around people and being a geek who loves video games and Sonic. Like I said I was ridiculed a lot since I was young for liking Sonic among other things like Zelda or anything else remotely geeky. Even my family, my sister loved to tease the Hell out of me for being a geek always playing games and loving Sonic and it used to hurt my feelings a lot. So nowadays I can't even be myself unless alone because I feel embarrassed or think I'll be made fun of or treated poorly.

Finally someone who understands me.

[Flyboy Fox]

I've never given a drat what people think about my fandoms. But to be honest, I've never encountered any hate... if anything, I've had plenty of compliments on my Sonic tees and letterman jacket. I've had people start humming/whistling Sonic tunes, had them ask me where I got my gear from, one guy even whipped out his phone and started playing Sonic music from it when he saw me. I wonder if it's a British thing to be more accepting of Sonic fandom, or if I've just been lucky. I can only recall one time ever than I got snickered at and looked at funny for wearing my Sonic jacket, but lots of times that either no one batted an eyelid or people actively approved ♥

Edit: It occurred to me that it might also be to do with age. Maybe if I were a kid or teen, I'd be mocked more... but as an adult (mid-twenties) I can get away with it because it's retro/nostalgic and that's seen as cool or at least acceptable?

[SonikkuJeneshisu89]

I've never given a drat what people think about my fandoms. But to be honest, I've never encountered any hate... if anything, I've had plenty of compliments on my Sonic tees and letterman jacket. I've had people start humming/whistling Sonic tunes, had them ask me where I got my gear from, one guy even whipped out his phone and started playing Sonic music from it when he saw me. I wonder if it's a British thing to be more accepting of Sonic fandom, or if I've just been lucky. I can only recall one time ever than I got snickered at and looked at funny for wearing my Sonic jacket, but lots of times that either no one batted an eyelid or people actively approved ♥

Edit: It occurred to me that it might also be to do with age. Maybe if I were a kid or teen, I'd be mocked more... but as an adult (mid-twenties) I can get away with it because it's retro/nostalgic and that's seen as cool or at least acceptable?

Well I'm 21 now but since I was a kid till this day there was ridicule from large amounts of people in School and from my own family. I'm pretty sensitive so it really hurt my feelings and effected me in more ways than one. I really commend all of you guys who can be so open and free to be yourselves and be proud of it and not embarrassed or ashamed I really wish I can be like that.

[redhellc]

Well here in Portugal sonic fans aren't taken serious. At least I'm a joke.

[batson]

as an adult (mid-twenties) I can get away with it because it's retro/nostalgic and that's seen as cool or at least acceptable?

Indeed, us twenty-something-year-old's can have just about any childish thing on our T-shirts or bedsheets or whatnot, as long as we seem to have a certain sense of "irony" about it. Childhood nostalgia is "cool" for our age. A teenager with a, say, Ninja Turtles-shirt on the other hand will probably be ridiculed by his pears regardless of how "ironic" he tries to present it. And now that i think about it, the same is definately true for grown up's around age 40 and up.

In other words, age 20 to around 30-35 is the shit.

Edited June 13, 2011 by batson

[Extryn]

- Though I played the classics once or twice as a very young kid, I didn't get into Sonic fandom until 2006

- Sonic '06 was the first Sonic game I actually "owned" in that sense for myself, and I saved up all $650 to buy an Xbox 360 just to play it

- I had an awful crush on Shadow when I was 12 years old

- Also when I was 12 years old, I discovered fanfiction and wrote terrible terrible stories where the cast got drunk and had (implied) sex all the time, including my own fancharacter who was a recolour of Knuckles but female and a demon and a vampire and could use magic

- I also find Sonic to be pretty darn attractive, mostly because I adore his personality

I had a Sonic plushie that I won from Dave and Busters or some arcade like that. Didn't last long, it was life-size and cheap and stuffed with Styrofoam beads. The thing fell apart really fast....Heh, not due to any actions of mine, of course. It just fell apart....literally!

I have a lifesize Sonic plush myself, which is at present lying next to me in my bed where he has remained for a year and a half now, who is also falling apart...though the honest most shameful things I have ever done to it are large amounts of hugs, cuddles, and more times crying into it than I can count (those things are seriously just fragile!). My SMALLER Sonic plush though I used to kiss goodnight by "kiss" I mean peck on the head, and heck, I was about 12 when I started that habit too. Oh, also, pretending my giant plush is real. Which leads me to...

- I also have elaborate daydreams every day of having adventures with Sonic, particularly before I sleep when I can spend hours awake doing this...I serialise them and an entire "story arc" can take months o__o

I tend to do it for the second one of my reasons... less to do with comfort or healing, and more to do with psychological exploration and testing the limits of characters' physical and metal endurance XD; I don't seem to feel guilty even though I love 'em all to death. But I have seen a lot of fic/art where comfort/healing is a big part of it. Myself, I tend to mostly not go after characters who would be cute or pathetic in their suffering (i.e. the Woobie), although sometimes they can be targeted... >_> But yeah, with me it's less hurt/comfort and more how-far-can-I push-this-character, mwahahaha >_>

Oh gosh, YEP I AM SO GUILTY OF THIS. I love Sonic fanfiction, I'll say it now, and have written plenty myself (though rarely post it). And there is nothing I like more than seeing my favourite characters (read: Sonic) tested to their limits - emotional, physical, I don't care, I love seeing the characters I care about defy the odds, overcome insurmountable challenge...again, less hurt/comfort for me, just how-far-can-they-be-pushed. It extends to fanart too, I like my characters suffering.

- Weird couplings? Well, I have ONE crack-shipping which is pretty darn weird and that's Eggman x Metal Sonic but there's a loong inside joke associated with it between me and my best friend. I suppose the weirdest pairing I'm guilty of actually shipping is selfcest, and I have a soft spot for Sonic/Knuckles after almost growing up on fanfics by the likes of Orin, also love sonamy....but nothing I am ashamed of.

- I am however ashamed to be one of those irrational Sally-haters, and also can't stand the Archie Sonic-comics, and RAEG about Archie-Sonic's personality...so yeah, Chronicles is in my rage-list, along with elements of Colours' Sonic.

- I adore Sonic X, but only in Japanese (makes all the difference for me). Back in '06 when I was discovering Sonic fandom for real, it was basically my main source of fandom related media

- I have a crush on Junichi Kanemaru and his heavenly voice, have downloaded just about every song he's ever sung, and Sakende Yaruze!.

- I've collected four Chaos Emeralds, and for a year of my life I slept, showered with, and carried one in my pocket at all times. I did spend an hour and a half with my friend at school trying to use Chaos Control. This period of obsession only ended when said Emerald chipped and I had to face up to the fact that it was therefore not real.

[Raxz]

- I am however ashamed to be one of those irrational Sally-haters, and also can't stand the Archie Sonic-comics, and RAEG about Archie-Sonic's personality...so yeah, Chronicles is in my rage-list, along with elements of Colours' Sonic.

- I adore Sonic X, but only in Japanese (makes all the difference for me). Back in '06 when I was discovering Sonic fandom for real, it was basically my main source of fandom related media.

I completely agree except that Sally isn't an ENTIRELY horrible character, just..

To add a thing to my "list:"

-I'll admit I kinda hate Sally and Silver for the sole purpose that they kind of cockblock/vaginablock other characters. I REALLY hate Silveraze and Sonally. Besides that they're perfectly good characters, just get them the fuck out of the way of my Sonamy/Sonaze/Blazenobody. (If we end up with Sonamy, I want Blaze to stay single. There aren't really any characters besides Sonic that are suitable mates for her, imo. But then there's the problem that she's the princess, thus she'll have to take a prince eventually, right? Hopefully they just make a Rush 3 and introduce a new male character in it or something, that's the second best thing they could do besides just making Sonaze canon.)

[Mr. Awesomest]

My reaction to half the thread admitting to fapping to Sonic porn/supporting Sonic couples.

... Heretics.

Edited June 14, 2011 by Mr.Awesomest

[SchemingMinor]

There I'm going to say it:

I can't stand Sonic.

Call it a love/hate relationship, but sometimes he really, REALLY gets on my nerves - and I'm being nice here.

Ironic too, since I used to like him as a child.

[Vertekins]

- and also can't stand the Archie Sonic-comics, and RAEG about Archie-Sonic's personality...so yeah, Chronicles is in my rage-list, along with elements of Colours' Sonic.

You're not alone there I too absolutely hate Archie Sonic's personality, what they've mutilated him into; A whorish big mouth with incompetence in the extreme. I also extremely dislike Chronicles' Sonic because of the immensity of the OOC'ness pertaining to his snarky dialogue choices. To me, the dialogue in Chronicles is almost like script you'd see in fanfiction done by an author who has a blatant disregard for both subtlety in the depiction of emotional states of characters and a fixation on turning Sonic into an asshole.

As for Colours Sonic, well, he's been hit by the Flanderization bat. His character was just exaggerated and pimped-out for purpose of lame comedy. It's a far cry from the Sonic depicted in the Storybook games, who was characterized so well that he was funny without being annoying and obnoxious.

[King Frosty]

.......I thought the Death Egg was the Final Boss when I was a kid.....>w>.....<w<....*runs in shame*

Edited June 14, 2011 by eddy6247

[Glenn]

.......I thought the Death Egg was the Final Boss when I was a kid.....>w>.....<w<....*runs in shame*

I thought that, too.

[Extryn]

You're not alone there I too absolutely hate Archie Sonic's personality, what they've mutilated him into; A whorish big mouth with incompetence in the extreme. I also extremely dislike Chronicles' Sonic because of the immensity of the OOC'ness pertaining to his snarky dialogue choices. To me, the dialogue in Chronicles is almost like script you'd see in fanfiction done by an author who has a blatant disregard for both subtlety in the depiction of emotional states of characters and a fixation on turning Sonic into an asshole.

As for Colours Sonic, well, he's been hit by the Flanderization bat. His character was just exaggerated and pimped-out for purpose of lame comedy. It's a far cry from the Sonic depicted in the Storybook games, who was characterized so well that he was funny without being annoying and obnoxious.

Totally, 100% agreed! I remember working my way through the Archie comics, a few years ago now, and it was about the time that Sonic was flirting with about three separate girls at once including Tails' crush I decided he was an asshole who was not the same Sonic I liked in the games. This kind of extends to SatAM and AoStH but I can accept that at least the latter is light-hearted and so the OOC-ness doesn't bother me - they're excused, anyhow, from how much they had to extrapolate character from the source material. I don't give current Archie, Chronicles or Colours that liberty. I don't think Sonic has to be a jerk or a whore just to be snarky, or have attitude. He can be quick and witty regardless; SatSR and SBK were definitely some of his crowning characterisation moments I think. Colours-Sonic did the snark better...but way, way too obnoxious. +rep to you for putting it way better than I ever would be able to.

There goes the next secret!

- I never finished Chronicles, I just couldn't stand some of the characterisation, and in an RPG that was something really important to me. Also didn't like the blatant Archie rip-offs.