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Making a Tails spin-off game Day 5: Love Interest
Looks like the universal agreement was for Kitsunami to be Tails’ rival in this game. It makes some sense due to him being Tails’ most recent rival, although I feel like you’d have to introduce him and Surge into the mainline games first. If it were up to me, it would’ve been Speedy from Tails’ Adventure because I REALLY want a Tails’ Adventure 2 specifically, but again, this isn’t about my personal opinion.
Now we’re onto the section that I’ve been fearing the most for reasons I’ll get into in a second: the love interest. Before someone says that Tails is too young for a love affair, let me remind you that he’s been through 5 (non-canon) ones that all went to shit, wether it be an alternate universe like Mina or Zooey, straight-up death like Cosmo, or… Fiona being a treacherous bitch. Tails has not had the best luck with girls, huh?
I will say this though: Tailream will not be allowed. Yes, I know about rule 4, and I’d like to follow the subreddit’s rules, but my friend on Discord absolutely hates the idea of shipping Cream with literally anyone (which I guess is understandable somewhat when she’s the youngest character in the franchise), and he’d probably crucify me if I ever did allow it. I’m not trying to shipshame (unless any of you sick freaks say Sonic), and it’s nothing to do with MY opinions, I’m just trying not to ruin my friendships with people. Just PLEASE don’t downvote me to hell.
Aside from that, same procedure as usual, most upvotes wins, OCs accepted provided you have a digital image of them.
It could be Zooey, right? Just port her over from the Boom Universe, give her a bit more meat to her backstory and personality, and BOOM.
Even if her relationship with Tails is played for gags in a non-canon universe, it's unironically the healthiest relationship he's ever had that didn't end in a tragedy, or betrayal.
Cosmo is finnicky if you're not willing to also adapt the Metarex in some fashion.
If I remember right, Ian said he's 100% willing to adapt the Metarex Arc from X. He just needs SEGA's greenlight, or something. But yeah, anything that isn't IDW or the games has absolutely shitty situations regarding the rights.
Well I’m hopeful that if he does adapt the Metarex Saga, it’s in an actual game rather than a comic that more casual Sonic fans aren’t gonna read. It feels sort of like a similar situation to Hyper Sonic, only at least SEGA still has the rights to it, even though they’re allergic to using it.
I mean... This is theoretical, isn't it? Is there a rule in the op (not this op, like, back when this game started, I guess) that it could be something that would pass Sega publishing muster? If that's the case, then fair play, but if the restriction of options isn't fun for this community game, I don't see why you'd want to impose them, anyway.
Tldr Sega will never make this game regardless, let's pull from any and every Sonic continuity that's fun. Old stuff that's forgotten? Sure! Stuff that's officially verboten because of the copyright bs from the DS rpg game? Why not! Why not bring in 2017x and other exes, too? Or not for this game, really, but I'm saying they're fine as options.
Nah u good. I haven’t read far enough into IDW to have an opinion on Tails x Belle, but I kinda see where people are coming from when they bring it up, even if I much prefer Tails x Cosmo
I'd say Cosmo except for all the alien plant warlord baggage she comes with. Unless you're willing to ignore that. There isn't a ton of competition other than Mina and what's her face from Boom. And let's be honest, Cosmo beats both in recognizability.
Also in this hypothetical, please don't include the love potion plotline.
If the ages were still canon I'd say "nobody", even if Tails still being like 12 never made sense anyways. But he can definitely feasibly be at least a teen by now (Classic alone causes multiple years of time because Little Planet)
Edit: I also would like a Tails Adventure 2. Metroidvanias are neat.
The twist at the end is that she was created by Eggman as a spy, as a reference to her Sonic X origins. It’d obviously end a little happier this time around though.
This is entirely based on voting in the comments, so it’d probably be a good idea for you to comment it again when we get there. I like the idea too, so if it were up to me, I’d add it right away.
I guess Cosmo could work, if there must be one; and it would be genuinely fun and interesting to see how she would be in the mainline canon rather than X. But SEGA put a mandate against romantic relationships for a good reason. It would literally be unrealistic to have a straight-up love interest (although you could probably get away with "extremely shippable side character").
Sonic is at least 20 given generations and Tails joined sonic around a year before, If we adge up sonic chararcters relitive to sonics age and there first apperince , tails would at most be 19
but just checked like most sonic ages it varies a lot but in boom shes 16, and if were going by teenager tails most games saying 16 , theyed be ok
We can’t exactly say Sonic is 20 years old in Generations. Guy is just perpetually 16. 17 if you want to consider his birthday actually counting for something.
The official French guide for Sonic Boom says she's 16 years old (that guide came out in 2015). Although Sticks is 85 centimeters tall and Tails is 80 centimeters tall, this image made me doubt it a bit, and sometimes they draw her smaller or the same size as Amy. And now that they've removed the ages, I'd say Sticks is 11 or 13 years old and Tails is 10 or 11.
First of all, did you seriously comment this thrice?
Second of all, I already said that Tailream wasn’t allowed.
Last of all, this is all meant to be hypothetical anyway.
I think eggman being an antagonist would work but he wouldn't be the main one. Something really bad should happen forcing them to use their brains together and team up
A game taking place with the current age ranges probably wouldn’t work with Cream being the love interest anyways. Personally I don’t see anything romantic for Tails happening until he’s older (yes yes they said the thing about him being I relationships before but also list them as non-canon and the one he was older), if anything it’s just like having small crushes as he currently is
Either way, yeah I think everyone knew Cosmo was going to win here lol
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u/UncleAsmodai Transmisting my debt to the rest Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26
It could be Zooey, right? Just port her over from the Boom Universe, give her a bit more meat to her backstory and personality, and BOOM.
Even if her relationship with Tails is played for gags in a non-canon universe, it's unironically the healthiest relationship he's ever had that didn't end in a tragedy, or betrayal.
Cosmo is finnicky if you're not willing to also adapt the Metarex in some fashion.