>>527877637
>The best stories managed to make it work
The best stories had the MC sacrifice nothing, change nothing, learn nothing new, and win everything in the end?
Sounds like you just have shit taste, honestly.
>do you want Sonic to be more complex with his mindset or to at least find a point on why Sonic does what he do?
I cannot see a good story coming out of the way Sonic is structured. His very nature is fundamentally flawed because it is so intertwined with how the very world operates that I can't even see him as a character.
A real character both affects his surroundings and is affected by them. But Sonic only goes one way. He affects the world but is never affected by it. In summation, while other characters are PART of the world, Sonic IS the world itself. Sonic doesn't change his personality to adapt to current circumstances; the circumstances adapt so that Sonic's unchanging personality is always the correct answer.
It's not that he's a person who doesn't wanna change. That could be interesting, a flawed character who's stagnant. But Sonic is a person who CAN'T change. His stagnance is forced upon him by the meta rulings that surround him.
And sure, you need to have meta rulings to have a story, as creating a scenario where a character needs to change his viewpoint to find the right answer is a meta rule imposed by the writer. But only Gary Stus like Sonic are DEFINED by meta rulings. The scenarios will only be ones where Sonic's viewpoint is correct, which is both boring (because nothing new happens), and not inspirational (Because it can't be applied to the real world).
You don't like the idea of me deconstructing Sonic because you know what he'll be left as without the meta: A homeless, jobless, irresponsible, dreamless adrenaline addict.
>>527879961
Yeah, picking an inconvenient path is a pretty basic form of character development. People are drawn to the path that's most convenient, so doing the opposite is usually the virtuous move.
