>>535433945
>Where is he getting the money to provide the basics for himself?
The games typically use Rings as currency whenever the scenario of Sonic purchasing food or whatever comes up in-game. The same rings Sonic finds in the levels.
Regardless, the entire point of Sonic is that he is a FREE SPIRIT. He embodies freedom, he is like the Air Nomads from Avatar the Last Airbender, he is completely detached from all worldly concerns like a monk from the far east. He does not have a job, he does not have a home, he does not have responsibilities, he does not have ANYTHING tying him down.
Sonic is not obligated to do ANYTHING, he lives life by his OWN rules and nobody else's. He doesn't care what anybody else thinks of him, or what the common sense of the world is. He does what HE wants WHENEVER he wants. And that... is ... COOL. That is what makes Sonic COOL, that's what makes Sonic our lead protagonist mascot of ultimate coolness, the paragon we should all strive to be like.
Sonic saves lives and fights evil because he just so happens to feel like doing it in the moment, out of his own personal feelings. Not because he "has to", but because he 'wants to". He's the best kind of hero, who absolutely doesn't see himself as one. He's no "hero" in his own eyes, he's not anything special at all. Sonic is "just a guy who loves adventure", in his own words. And yet the whole world considers him a world-renowned hero.
Sonic is COOL! The whole point is that Sonic is COOL! BECAUSE he is FREE! Why in the WORLD do you want to tear down that paragon of freedom and suggest that "living freely" is AT ALL a "bad thing"!? That he "SHOULD" have a job or a home or any of that stupid nonsense!? Trying to tie him down to any sense of realistic humanity?! That isn't Sonic! He's not like you or I, he is HIM.
He's like if a punk rocker went to Tibet and became a monk. Where teenage rebellion becomes true freedom, as weightless as the air itself.
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>>534428347
Sonic is an idealized paragon for the concept of Freedom, and living life your own way. He himself is simply a free spirited nomad who travels the world in search of adventure, but the story around Sonic is framing this freedom as the lesson you should learn and follow. Sonic is presented as "the coolest guy ever" with this freedom of his being the reason why.
As such, any scenario that tries to frame that freedom as "bad", or "wrong", is antithetical to the core narrative of Sonic. It's like trying to have a Spider-Man story where he completely abandons and lets go of his responsibilities and never struggle ever again and that being the status quo from then on, that shouldn't happen.
Sonic's personality is also so defined by being "cool" and being "free" that he is both cool and aloof without being too phased by anything, and so free-spirited that he's as detached from worldly concerns as a Tibetan monk. But, Sonic is impulsive, impatient, short-tempered, he's not detail-oriented, he's very rebellious, very fiercely independent, so averse to "commitment" and ANYTHING that impedes on his personal freedom that he acts weird around Amy, and doesn't follow any rules but his own. But, he's also very wise and street smart due to being a nomadic wanderer whose traveled the world and experienced all sorts of things it has to offer.
But in the end, a true Sonic story is never really about Sonic himself. It's about someone else, while Sonic serves as a metaphor for whatever the story's theme is. Like 06's story being about Elise, or the Storybook series following that framework with Shahra and Merlina. Black Knight itself focuses on how Sonic's presence and actions impacts and conflicts with the very nature of that world, represented by the Knights who are all thematically opposed to Sonic as Shadow, Knuckles and Blaze are already.
Sonic is "the cool guy" that Tails aspires to be, that Amy dreams of being with, and so on.
Sonic is an idealized paragon for the concept of Freedom, and living life your own way. He himself is simply a free spirited nomad who travels the world in search of adventure, but the story around Sonic is framing this freedom as the lesson you should learn and follow. Sonic is presented as "the coolest guy ever" with this freedom of his being the reason why.
As such, any scenario that tries to frame that freedom as "bad", or "wrong", is antithetical to the core narrative of Sonic. It's like trying to have a Spider-Man story where he completely abandons and lets go of his responsibilities and never struggle ever again and that being the status quo from then on, that shouldn't happen.
Sonic's personality is also so defined by being "cool" and being "free" that he is both cool and aloof without being too phased by anything, and so free-spirited that he's as detached from worldly concerns as a Tibetan monk. But, Sonic is impulsive, impatient, short-tempered, he's not detail-oriented, he's very rebellious, very fiercely independent, so averse to "commitment" and ANYTHING that impedes on his personal freedom that he acts weird around Amy, and doesn't follow any rules but his own. But, he's also very wise and street smart due to being a nomadic wanderer whose traveled the world and experienced all sorts of things it has to offer.
But in the end, a true Sonic story is never really about Sonic himself. It's about someone else, while Sonic serves as a metaphor for whatever the story's theme is. Like 06's story being about Elise, or the Storybook series following that framework with Shahra and Merlina. Black Knight itself focuses on how Sonic's presence and actions impacts and conflicts with the very nature of that world, represented by the Knights who are all thematically opposed to Sonic as Shadow, Knuckles and Blaze are already.
Sonic is "the cool guy" that Tails aspires to be, that Amy dreams of being with, and so on.