>>529024505
I've answered this before.
LITERALLY ANYTHING is better than the nothing he has right now. But I would personally make his goal to be "Becoming the coolest hero".
>>529024710
>The point of Sonic is to be free. Why is that a bad thing?
It's a bad thing because being free isn't always the solution to every problem in our world. It is in Sonic's world because that's the flawed, uninspiring narrative they wanna go with.
>but Shadow dedicates himself exclusively to carrying out a specific purpose to the point of not caring at all about anything else to coldly efficient degrees.
That can ALSO be explored. We can make it so the narrative punishes Shadow for having such a tunnel vision. And I'm sure you'd be okay with THAT, but not with Sonic being punished, since he's your self-insert and all that.

>>527876658
Nah, I'm the wind
>>527876760
"The ideology of convenience"
Ah, I was thinking about this being Sonic's flaw in my project and was wondering if it really fit. But now that I've spent some time here, I know that it does.
I'll write Sonic always picking the most convenient path, and suffering for it. You'll see.