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>Going off of Bumblekast, Sage will look down on Belle or see her as an abomination

"I have been considering something."
"Though I have learned one can 'respect' an opponent without necessarily enjoying their presence, I lacked firsthand experience of Father's animosity-laden relationship with Sonic the Hedgehog. Until I met you."
"Belle the Tinkerer. So much like myself: the product of circumstance. You represent a data point of what I could be if I were willing to renounce the Eggman Empire. To renounce Father."
"...That alone disgusts me."
"But among our interactions - your pleas for me to reconsider my allegiances, your constant comparisons to renegade Badnik units, and leveraging of our nature as 'sisters' - there was one thing that stood out: your nostalgic waxings of the Mr. Tinker fugue state."
"You described him as a humble soul. Someone with no ambition beyond a peaceful village life. Such a person has no practical use for rapid algorithmic assessment. No use for mass data storage & refinement. No use for global command."
"Whether I would be accepted is irrelevant. Mr. Tinker...I would be useless to him..."
"You want that person back. For yourself."
"...I won't let you."
"I won't let you steal my father."

>I have been considering something.
[RIP]
>Though I have learned the meaning of "respecting" an opponent without necessarily enjoying their presence, I lacked first-hand experience of Father's complicated relationship with Sonic the Hedgehog. Until I met you.
[CRACK]
>Our interactions - your pleas for me to reconsider my allegiances, your constant comparisons to renegade Badnik units, and leveraging of our nature as "sisters". That was the key, I think.
>Belle the Tinkerer. So much like myself: the product of extraordinary circumstance. You represent a data point of what I could be if I were willing to renounce the Eggman Empire. To renounce Father.
>...thank you.
>For teaching me what it means to hate someone.
[GRRRRIND]
[CRUSH]
[spark, spark]

OH NONONONO