My piece for @morningstarzine and my favourite painting this year! Loved drawing Ivory again <3
I had a vision
This is how it happened right
Stone being just as competent as Robotnik is so important to me. He took over the Mean Bean by himself, he's a badass on a motorcycle, he singlehandedly rescued Robotnik in the aftermath of sonic 2, he took down a bunch of badniks in a few seconds. Stone could easily be his own boss and do his own thing, or demand that Robotnik treat him more as an equal rather than a subordinate but he doesn't. He's completely fine with being a henchman and even takes pride in it. I think it just emphasizes how much he loves Robotnik. He doesn't need to stay with him because its the closest he'll get to power, he's skilled enough on his own to do villain stuff if he wanted, he needs to stay because he loves him and Robotnik needs him. this is all stuff we already knew but i think it'd be less powerful if Stone was the typical dumb henchman stereotype. he is just as deserving of power as Robotnik is but he chooses to take a step back, to let him have the spotlight, to let him feel safer in a position of power, to just help Robotnik achieve his goals and his dreams. im never getting over these two am i?
If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.
“Stone no likey Gerald Robotnik…” 😭⁉️
hi-
First time?
yeah we've all seen the "would you fall in love with me again" edits with stobotnik where stone is penelope loving robotnik unconditionally BUT have you considered. stone as odysseus and robotnik as penelope. wherein stone takes up robotnik's legacy under the presumption that he's died. he wears scraps of robotnik's uniforms, eyebags more pronounced. he works tirelessly and vindictively against those who've hurt robotnik all these years. and then robotnik is actually alive and comes back and sees stone has changed so much. would he love him still the same? (of course he would)
HC I've been dying to write:
Stone being assigned to Robotnik because he is MEAN. He is NO-NONSENSE. He is RUTHLESS and UNCOMPROMISING. He is the agent they call when they have a stubborn problem that needs fixing by any means necessary and he never disappoints.
Stone? Not even his government name! It's a nickname he earned by being a STONE COLD BADASS.
The US government tasks him with reining in their little rogue scientist nightmare, knowing if anyone can get a handle on Robotnik, it's him. They watch and wait.
Imagine their surprise when after a few months, their toughest agent is preparing lattes and making puppy eyes at their least favorite employee. He's not filling out his insider reports on Robotnik's behavior. He's refusing to share intel. He's coldly saying that he reports to the Doctor now.
Everything has backfired. They've lost their best man and gained a potentially deadly enemy in the process. Their own secret weapon is turned against them. Stone is now Robotnik's grinning, snarling lapdog.
I want to write that transformation SO. EFFING. BAD.
So many WIPs/HCs, so little time, truly!
black at it again at back mesa