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May 20, 2020 |
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Commentary for May 20, 2020: Tashistan and Shanazar are both locations from Sonic’s expanded lore that I’ve adapted for Eon’s World. Tashistan was an Arabian Nights themed city in Sonic Underground, and Shanazar was actually an entire planet within a micro universe in Sonic the Comic, during what was probably one of the dullest periods of the book’s life, right towards its (honestly timely) end. But it started out promising, at least, with Sonic finding himself in what was also an Arabian Nights style setting, before travelling to other regions of Shanazar, which were completely different. But I digress, Shanazar is a nation in Eon’s World and Tashistan is its capital city. It’s located mostly in what is today the Sinai region of Egypt. Anyway, part of me really wants to explore the idea behind letting children of any age (to say nothing of pre-teens) go on dangerous adventures, but I won’t ever do that in any serious detail. It is what we call a narrative conceit. If you try to analyse something like this too much, it stops being fun and you end up having to answer questions like, “So do Sonic and Tails go to school?” Oh, wait, they totally did that in the Archie Sonic comic, didn’t they? And that was at the absolute nadir of its dork age too, I would say. It got better when they stopped trying to be hyper realistic like that and actually let the characters have fun adventures again. So I don’t intend to explore how Sonic, Tails, or any of these technical minors are educated. I can’t give a satisfying answer to that and it’s not important anyway, so don’t worry about it. Cream, on the other hand, is very much a child in the official fiction in a way that other characters aren’t (despite whatever their official ages are), which is why I think it’s not going to break the fiction to mention her going to school and to at least question the wisdom of her joining Amy and Tekno on this mission. But, as she rightly points out, at eight years old, she’s no younger than Tails was on her first adventure with Sonic. Credits: Additional Vanilla the Rabbit sprites originally by Danny Robson the Ice Fox; Rotor sprites originally by DarkBurraki and NinjaRaccoon. |
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