dear this year, plz suck less than last year. love, me

[spinsandneedles]

WHO: Sonic and whoever feels like dealing with Sonic
WHERE: village thingy, Agrii ship
WHAT: Sonic doing what he does best, being blue and/or a pain in the ass
WHEN: winter vacation time????
WARNINGS: n/a



Noth-nanigans

Instigating snow based hijinks:
Naturally, when one is surrounded by snow and is also a menace, there has to be at least one snowball fight­. Especially with the uh, weird influx of children around. Kids are dumb, they love snowball fights! And like building snow forts and shit. Y'know, Snow Stuff!

Sonic's not gonna yeet snowballs at any unsuspecting children though, that would be rude. He Row runts and Agrii kids alike are invited nicely to engage in winter warfare because Sonic's nice that way, he'll be a pointy blue babysitter for a while.

Adults though, I'm sorry. Y'all are gettin' snowballed in the back of the skull by a bored hedgehog.

Except maybe Wesker. Sonic might think twice before pelting that one with snowballs.

Only twice though.

time for pent up homesickness

Admittedly Sonic's been doing more solo exploring than he has been actively engaging with the festivities. As such, he'd missed the initial gift giving, but it's fine. One fo the A.G.R.I.I. managed to track him down wherever he was outside and enforce GIFT upon him before heading off to find another giftless loser. It was kinda weird, of course Sonic was too curious not to open one of his gifts right there. 'Right there' being sitting on top of a cabin most likely, because he has no chill.

A photo of his friends from back home was probably the last thing he would have expected? Frankly, it catches him completely off guard. He sits in silence staring at it for kind of a long time, the initial surprise fading eventually and giving way to just being straight up bummed out. This might be the most miserable he's been or looked the whole time he's been here, even more so than when he got chewed up by that monster thing a few months back. Geez, has it already been that long? Really puts into perspective how long it's been since he's seen most of his buddies.

Or maybe he just feels miserable because his ass is freezing to this roof. Dude needs to learn to wear pants.

Agrii ship: he's just a little guy! Look at his widdle faaaace!

Of course Sonic was going to visit the Agrii ship, it would just be stupid not to try to learn as much as he could about their weird alien overlords. Unfortunately, apart from the map of the ship and being granted access to... maybe a lot more of the ship than he expected, he hasn't been able to learn much of anything. Mostly he'd been hoping to listen to them long enough to pick up their actual language, but no luck. He wasn't having an easier time understanding them pretty much at all. His progress on the language front has been pretty much completely halted, as was his progress on his secondary objective; Operation: Tell the Agrii to Stop Helping Because They're Just Making Everything Harder. They may just have to be abandoned all together, if only because Sonic can't seem to avoid the small groups of Agrii that keep cornering him to pet his little heaaaaaaad.

He doesn't want to hurt them, they're just big goobers, but he sure is going to try to wave down the first person he sees whether he knows them or not. How about an assist, bud? Do a hedgehog a favor??

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❄️ snowball yeeting ❄️

[ephemerios]

Hell yeah, snowball fights! She's suprised it took this long to get hit with one, but as soon as it does, and she feels some of the snow on her skin, she decides to dramatically faceplant on the ground as if she were hit with something solid rather than snow. Her plan here is she'll surprise whoever tossed it if they come closer with some snowballs in return. It's a great plan, obviously.

[spinsandneedles]

Oh shit, that wasn't the snowball with a rock in it, was it? He was saving that one for Eggman!

Haha just kidding that's definitely not a thing he was doing. On purpose. Look nobody can prove anything, he's too fast.

Okay there's no rock, but he is immediately worried that maybe he'd thrown the snowball too hard? He's by her side a second later, kicking up snow as he skids to a stop and leans over to check on her.

"Heeeey, Chrissy! Sorry about that! I really didn't think I'd pitched it that hard, are you okay??"

[ephemerios]

(To be fair, she would totally keep his secret of putting rocks in snowballs if he had stashed a few like that away.)

She rolls over with a smile — clearly fine — and tosses the secret snowball she'd made at him. It's Sonic, though, so it may or may not actually hit him because being fast is fun like that (she assumes). As for a verbal reply, though, that comes with an excited “Yep! I'm good!”

[spinsandneedles]

You know what, nah, she's earned smacking this dumb hedgehog in the face with a snowball. He brushes snow off his face and just sighs, accepting his snowy fate.

"Geez, you really had me going! I think I definitely deserved that."

[ephemerios]

She sits up so that she can stand up, and doesn't even bother brushing snow off of her when she does. “What fun is a snowball war if you can't mess with people some in it?” Not at all fun, that's what.

She pauses for a half second as she considers something though — “So, does this mean we should now team up and see who we can hit with snowballs?” Because she thinks it does.

Homesickness

[thelastechidna]

Knuckles also is a loner and was handed his gifts by a robot. Now he's just stunned by actually receiving the Master Emerald and a Chaos Emerald. They're clearly de-powered, but they're still here. Hopefully that weird bounty hunter from an alternate dimension won't want them in this state....

As he's standing and staring at the gifts, he suddenly hears a slight motion and looks up at the roof. Sonic does that all the time in his world too, so he's not really surprised. Still ...

"Isn't it too cold for that?"

[spinsandneedles]

Congratulations, Knuckles! You've managed to startle Sonic. He jumps slightly, fumbling the photo for a moment before snatching it out of the air and tucking it away into his jacket for safe keeping. Out of sight, out of mind, nothing to see here everything's fine. (it's not fine hahaha)

"Too cold for what, chillin'?" he says, still looking a bit flustered over being startled, but managing to do a good enough job of playing cool. So he thinks, anyway. "I'd think weather like this is perfect for chillin' in! Get it, cuz it's... it's absolutely freezing..."

That joke didn't land AT ALL, and now Sonic is acutely aware of how cold his ass is. Thanks, Knux.

[thelastechidna]

Knuckles sighs, not impressed. "You're a really bad actor. Even I can tell that. But yes, too cold for sitting on a roof in snow." He quirks an eyebrow. "I like being alone too, but at least I find other ways to do it."

[spinsandneedles]

In an effort to deflect (and because he's genuinely surprised), Sonic hops to his feet and points at Knuckles' absolutely ridiculous gifts??? Because he somehow only just now noticed what Knuckles had been staring at.

"Yo, forget literally all of that? Is that the freakin' Master Emerald!?"

DEFLECTING!!!! But also I mean come on, it's kind of a big deal.

HOMESICKNESS and maybe other shenanigans

[reneggadetinkerer]

Nothing about this was ideal. Stuck on some frigid world for heavens knew how long without access to his workshop where resources seemed even more scarce than back where they came from! He barely had enough time to nose about the ships and now he's expected to join in on these...eugh. Festivities.

He hated parties. He hated this. He hated being cold. What he wouldn't give for a cup of coffee right now while warming himself by the glow of a superconductor.

Eggman doesn't even notice Sonic on the roof. He's merely stomping around grumbling loudly to himself as old people tend to do while clapping himself around his rotund torso. The Agrii were at least kind enough to give him a knitted cap and scarf, the former of which has a knitted gear atop it while the scarf is a prominent, goldenrod.

"What is even the blasted point of this place? Why are we here? We shouldn't have to be forced into celebrating whatever it is they're celebrating! Someone needs to teach these Agrii about personal and cultural sensitivity!"

[spinsandneedles]

Frowning, the blue hedgehog looks up from his photo. Ah, there he is.

That motherfucker.

Here Sonic is missing his friends, and along comes Eggman to remind him of fate's cruel sense of humor. Trap a dude on an alien world with his mortal enemy, that's sure to be great for morale!

Eat shit, fate.

"I don't completely disagree, but you're just about the last person that should be complaining about sensitivity."

[reneggadetinkerer]

"GAH!"

Eggman whips around fast enough that he falls backwards into the snow. His head snaps back and forth, trying to zero in on Sonic's location before he finally looks up and sees the hedgehog perched up on a roof.

Angrily, he adjusts his glasses.

"What in blazes are you doing up there?! Do you always need to find some perch to survey from?! Get a proper Control Tower like the rest of us!"

[spinsandneedles]

"What? Sometimes I wanna feel tall."

And there are no control towers here so eat it. It was probably meant to sound like a joke, but doesn't quite land as such? He just sounds annoyed and kind of exhausted as he tucks the photo away into his jacket. Nothing to see here.

Agrii ship

[newmemorywhodis]

Link's hero senses are tingling: someone is in need of rescue.

He doesn't draw his sword - he doesn't want to hurt the Agrii - but he does pull out his shield, and pushing himself in front of Sonic in a defensive position.

If the Agrii want to pet Sonic's little head, they're going to have to get through Link first.

[spinsandneedles]

Most of the Agrii seem to get the hint and start to break off. As for Sonic, he scoots right on up next to Link and ducks behind the shield.

"Hey, man! I feel like I haven't seen you in ages! Thanks, by the way."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link glances towards Sonic.

"Or about five or six years," Link says, breezy and casual. However long it had been for Sonic, for Link it was longer. Much longer.

Have you noticed that Link's looking a bit older than he used to, Sonic? And then there's his right arm, which is looking very weird.

[spinsandneedles]

Now that the Argii are clearing off, Sonic takes a moment to actually look up at Link... more up than he's used to. He squints, tilts his head, something's definitely different.

Five or six years? "What are you talking about? It couldn't have been more than a few weeks-- Dude, what'd you do to your arm?"

Of course he's poking it.

[agrii]

Oh a favor will be done to a He Row. This comes in the form of another Agrii coming over, looking very put upon. Ga Re starts talking rapidly in the Agrii language, which interestingly enough didn't seem to translate. She shoos the other Agrii away and turns to Sonic.

"Forgive? He Rows very pop yule are. He Row San Ick not like other He Rows. Make more pop yule are."

[spinsandneedles]

Oh he definitely notices that he has no idea what she's saying... and honestly it take him a second to put the weird broken English together, too. He's just a smidge frazzled, give him a second.

"Pop yule--oh, popular! Yeah, I kinda picked up on that. It's no problem, I was just worried they were gonna hurt themselves on my quills. I'm uh, real sharp."

[agrii]

Real sharp. Yes, she smiles and nods.

"Have seen. Roll and cut. Very sharp. Make Agrii think much."

But she offers him a bow of her head. This is polite, yes?

"Am Ga Re."

[spinsandneedles]

Aw, she's super nice! Kinda makes Sonic feel bad for coming up here to complain... Almost.

"Ah, I think I've heard about you! Nice to meet you!" He's pretty sure he's heard of her, anyway? From Tommy? That would track. He'd at least seen her in some kinda hologram form... before the volcano? That sounds correctish A lot's happened since then. So much happens all the time, Ga Re.

Anyway, Sonic holds his hand out in the maybe/maybe not universal hand shake greeting sort of way. We'll see how this goes.

did someone say hijinks

[thepurpleone]

There's some mild disappointment in the fact that the blue person he'd caught sight of is in fact, not his brother. Still, it's quite clear this one isn't human either! Another mutant? He's only ever seen his brothers and his dad. Blue spikey creature is new!

This calls for investigation.

Donnie however is not very good at being inconspicuous, even if he is trying very hard not to be noticed. He peers around the corner of one of the heavily decorated houses, still disappointed that they're not made of real sweets- he'd tried to nibble on one earlier. Slightly shorter than Sonic (for a change), he's got a dark blue puffy jacket on over black snow pants and boots, still mildly upset that he could not find anything for him, because blue is his brother's color but he had to wear something if he wanted to go outside in the cold.

Re: did someone say hijinks

[spinsandneedles]

Sonic had definitely noticed that someone had been trailing him for a while. He'd kind of ignored it for a little bit, but eventually the feeling that he was being watched piqued his curiosity to the point that he couldn't help to glance over his shoulder.

He's staring right at Donnie, squinting as though trying to decide if his eyes are playing tricks on him.

[thepurpleone]

"!!"

Donnie gasps as they make eye contact, quickly ducking back behind the wall. Nothing weird here, nope!!

[spinsandneedles]

Huh well okay weird???

Well obviously the only way to counter this is to counter-sneak. Sneaking to Sonic means GO FAST, naturally, so he sprints up the side of the cabin that his mystery stalker is ducking behind and peeks down at him from the roof.