>>536994838
Learning about this mindbroke me.
Maekawa wanted Shadow and Maria to have a strong love that transcends simple labels, and to do that he based them on two lovers. The Sonic fanbase thinks shipping them is incest.
Hurst wanted Sally and Nicole to have a more familial type of bond, similar to that of an mother and her adoptive daughter. The Sonic fanbase thinks shipping them is very wholesome and that they're lesbian lovers.
Life's not fair desu.
>>536995412
>>536995557
Archiefags pre-IDW gassed up Ian HARD. It bordered on genuine worship, you can even read it for yourself if you sort the /co/ archives by oldest. They would tell everyone who'd listen that Ian saved the comics from the evil Ken Penders.
As a kid new to discussing Sonic on the internet, it sounded real good. All I knew is that I didn't like Pontaff's writing, anyone with eyes could see they didn't care about Sonic's universe. Ian Flynn was presented as that guy who DID care, who fixed other peoples' messes. It's so easy to just take that at face value and believe it. A lot of people desperately wanted to believe it.
I'm mad at Ian for not actually caring about the characters, I'm mad at Archiefags for leading me to believe he was a chill guy who really loved Sonic, but most of all I'm mad at myself for believing it to the extent that I'd attack Sega over the mandates they made to protect their own characters. I'm such a schmuck. >>536995876
Didn't we already know this? He just...warps back like that.
>Ian: That's the thing. We recently talked about the whole time travel thing and got *inhale* an answer? So that'll be interesting to see how that plays out going forward but *sighs* we'll see...
Lol, Ian's mad at how simple it is.