Why do some of the people posting Sonic Channel fanart comments (particularly the shippers and anti-shippers) not understand that it's the staff comment that's significant? What the artist's comment says is largely irrelevant, it's what the actual people working for Sonic Team say about the art that matters.

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You're really overreliant on explicitness to the point where you're conflating analysis with fanfiction. Your post feels more like a knee jerk reaction to your immediate feeling to reject the position of the "enemy" in your "war" by any means necessary. Sonic doesn't always have to say when he's attracted to someone, that's reductive, and he doesn't have to say it for us to know it if you pay attention to him. Emotional connection and admiration can be non-verbal, especially with more serious, complex characters like Blaze. He shows it in what he does, and how he does it. Your false binary idea that either it's flirtation like with Lumina/Elise, or it's nothing doesn't just dismiss the subtlety in their dynamic, it ignores the possibility of more subtle dynamics in fiction, unless they're spelled out to you explicitly by the author, which kinda defeats the point. A lot of storytelling mediums rely on "show, don’t tell", and Sonic games are no exception, they typically lean toward symbolic interaction rather than heavy exposition. And that interpretable artistic intent is just as important as written canon.