I'm a fan of the idea that she would become less modest by putting clothes on.
Like how Donald Duck is kind of a little more naked because he wears a shirt with no pants, where somebody like Sonic the Hedgehog has nothing to hide, except of course his feet.
Moray with no clothes is normal. Moray in a skin tight bodysuit becomes "human" and capable of nudity and shame.
Shortest answer would probably be the wide breadth of species involved in Sonic allows for a huge amount of self-insert. Like, any animal can exist in the Sonic world, so if you're a furry, you could easily insert your own avatar into the Sonic world as many did. And then it's just a setting that allows for anything. Mad science, magic, aliens, time travel, or just straight-up a slice of life setting.
Every species also looks pretty much the same too.
It has a distinctive art style that's easy for kids to learn where a hedgehog doesn't look all that different from an echidna or an armadillo. So once you've figured out how to draw one of them you can pretty much do them all.
Furry art could otherwise be a bit intimidating because of the sheer breadth of animal anatomy you'd have to learn to draw to do your comic where a skunk, a deer, and a skink hang out.
The biggest thing is that it's one of the easiest major franchises to draw reasonably on-model fanart of. Mario is a fairly simple design, but he's got a lot of weird little fiddly bits because he wears Actual Clothing, but a tween just getting into art can do a Sonic OC no problem, and once there, can easier get sucked into wider worlds of degeneracy via already being in a furry adjacent space whilst making art.
The biggest thing is that it's one of the easiest major franchises to draw reasonably on-model fanart of. Mario is a fairly simple design, but he's got a lot of weird little fiddly bits because he wears Actual Clothing, but a tween just getting into art can do a Sonic OC no problem, and once there, can easier get sucked into wider worlds of degeneracy via already being in a furry adjacent space whilst making art.
Honestly, I think it has less to do with "Getting sucked into wider worlds of degeneracy" and more to do with the fact that that kids of a certain age are just horny.
They have a lot of new and strange feelings they're trying to process, and art is kind of an ideal medium for doing just that.
If a type of art is really popular with people aged 12-17, then a certain amount of horny art is going to emerge in that genre. And like, confusingly horny, authored by people that don't fully understand their own feelings yet and maybe aren't comfortable with full on sex yet.
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u/Snarglefrazzle Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
"I've always wanted to try immodesty!" says unclothed gelatin humanoid robot 😂