Commentary for June 24, 2019:

Happy Pride once again, everybody!

This week, I'm celebrating Trans Pride with the my final piece of art for this year's Pride, Tails.

Tails has been a character in Eon’s World since the start, way back in 2002, even appearing on the very first page. From 1992 onwards, there really isn’t any Sonic fiction that Tails isn’t part of, so of course that includes my own Sonic fanfiction. Given that time actually passes in Eon’s World, Tails goes from being a young child to a teenager over the eight years of the original story and, when she returns in Vol. 2’s Chapter 11 (which I expect will be next year), she’s going to be an adult of twenty years old. I’m not going to go into detail here about her transition, because that’s something that will be covered in the story itself, but yes, in Eon’s World, Tails is a trans woman.

So, what inspired me to put this queer spin on an established Sonic character who is well known to be Sonic’s brother-from-another-mother? Well, funny story, but I was watching my metamour do a Let’s Play play of Sonic Adventure last year and it quickly became popular opinion in the chat channel that Tails is an egg (i.e. a trans person who doesn’t yet realise they’re trans -- they are “unhatched”, as it were), and, frankly, I can totally see it, so I decided to run with it and make Tails trans in Eon’s World. You see, Tails is officially eight years old and probably always will be eight years in all official Sonic media. The characters don’t really change or grow in the Sonic franchise, after all, so Tails will never actually grow up. But in Eon’s World, she will, which means she can change, she can grow, and heck she can have a life-altering epiphany that she is transgender and realise she needs to transition to become the person she knows she is inside.

So there you have it. Spoilers, I guess? Eh, it’s not a big deal, really. There’s still so much I’m not revealing about what’s coming in Eon’s World, after all. Anyway, happy Pride and thanks for taking a look at my art this past month!