PengillyIs it normal to be obsessed with a character when you haven't properly read their source material yet?
Because I feel this with Surge the Tenrec. She's basically a combination of a bunch of things I find cool. Having her old life stolen from her, being lied to and brainwashed by authority figures, carving her own (presumably) ethically dubious path. Making her traumatic backstory everyone else's problem. Not to mention being partially cybernetic. Makes me think of some of my favorite Transformers' backstories. (e.g., Senator Shockwave, Whirl, Megatron, Shadow Striker...)
Her pointy teeth also remind me of Megatron's appearance in Transformers Prime teehee.
For all these reasons, I feel like even if they screwed up her writing I'd still love her haha. As a Sonic 06 fan, I'm certainly no stranger to liking even flawed source material for what it does well, and treating canon like a sandbox. In spite of this knowledge, I do wonder if it would seem foolish to an outside observer.
Started reading the Sonic IDW comics, in spite of my skepticism, literally just so I could read her story firsthand rather than having to keep relying on secondhand material like fanfic and fandom discussions. Don't want to rush reading the comics to know the context of her story though. I'm on Vol. 5 now.
Still, I do sometimes see people posting these gorgeous artworks, and admitting that they never read the source material in the description, so maybe it isn't something to feel too weird about.
Dangerous Safe Pictures
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Honeydew
Alany
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Timmy the Madfox