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"What's the opposite of chaos" = HARMONY.
Chaos Emerald guardians are REQUIRED to have the same heart, motivated by LOVE & PROTECTION. They demonstrate selfless devotion to their eternal cause: protect the Emerald(s) FOR THE SAKE OF THE PEOPLE & WORLD, not for any glory of their own, or even the gems themselves. Anything that volatile must be safeguarded out of heroic concern for the fate of any soul that encounters it. And it is ONLY a soul unmotivated by power or greed that CAN safeguard it.
The guardians also PROTECT THE CHAO, pure and innocent beings like children, who notably had ANGEL WINGS in the original game, and who now can be either "enlightened" by love OR corrupted by evil influence.
Chaos 0 was the ORIGINAL guardian and I swear he is the prototype for all his successors-- devoted, strong, silent, wise, warm and loving-- and somewhat naive, even, because of his guileless, trusting nature. I love him terribly, God knows. But he is absolutely just as much an angel as his fellow Chao... just as easily manipulated, too, for good or ill. Perfect Chaos is proof of both this fact, and Chaos's emotionally reactive heart. He may look stolid but he is absolutely canonically not. No Chao is. It is an absolute crime that the canon has not shown this side of him yet.
All it has shown is what happens when a heart like that breaks. That says enough, in its own right. But it's not the whole picture.
I mean look at Knuckles, he's endearingly pure in his own way (gotta love his ingenuousness) and that is VERY much a Chaos thing too. Tikal as well. They're all sweethearts, and they are all unshakably devoted to their charge.
I want to know so much about them all, about their history and present and future, about who they are, deeper than the games may tell... they all mean so much to me, since childhood, when I latched right on to that spiny red dude in Sonic 3. Then of course Sonic Adventure introduced me to my watery-blue guy and the rest is wedding bells, haha. Honestly I go way back with all the Angel Island folks, God bless 'em.
But I digress. Harmony is their job, in one way or another I'm sure-- balancing power with softness, terror with hope, solemnity with sweetness, etc. Wishes must be kept pure or else people suffer. Those who protect that power must be pure of heart themselves.
Chaos Emerald guardians are REQUIRED to have the same heart, motivated by LOVE & PROTECTION. They demonstrate selfless devotion to their eternal cause: protect the Emerald(s) FOR THE SAKE OF THE PEOPLE & WORLD, not for any glory of their own, or even the gems themselves. Anything that volatile must be safeguarded out of heroic concern for the fate of any soul that encounters it. And it is ONLY a soul unmotivated by power or greed that CAN safeguard it.
The guardians also PROTECT THE CHAO, pure and innocent beings like children, who notably had ANGEL WINGS in the original game, and who now can be either "enlightened" by love OR corrupted by evil influence.
Chaos 0 was the ORIGINAL guardian and I swear he is the prototype for all his successors-- devoted, strong, silent, wise, warm and loving-- and somewhat naive, even, because of his guileless, trusting nature. I love him terribly, God knows. But he is absolutely just as much an angel as his fellow Chao... just as easily manipulated, too, for good or ill. Perfect Chaos is proof of both this fact, and Chaos's emotionally reactive heart. He may look stolid but he is absolutely canonically not. No Chao is. It is an absolute crime that the canon has not shown this side of him yet.
All it has shown is what happens when a heart like that breaks. That says enough, in its own right. But it's not the whole picture.
I mean look at Knuckles, he's endearingly pure in his own way (gotta love his ingenuousness) and that is VERY much a Chaos thing too. Tikal as well. They're all sweethearts, and they are all unshakably devoted to their charge.
I want to know so much about them all, about their history and present and future, about who they are, deeper than the games may tell... they all mean so much to me, since childhood, when I latched right on to that spiny red dude in Sonic 3. Then of course Sonic Adventure introduced me to my watery-blue guy and the rest is wedding bells, haha. Honestly I go way back with all the Angel Island folks, God bless 'em.
But I digress. Harmony is their job, in one way or another I'm sure-- balancing power with softness, terror with hope, solemnity with sweetness, etc. Wishes must be kept pure or else people suffer. Those who protect that power must be pure of heart themselves.
