>>1018802
Goth Amy is disturbing. A character that is normally so cheerful becoming dour makes her a whole different character. The alternative is that some fucked up thing happened that turned her into an emo. But frankly, that would be very silly for this character. It's almost always a very silly idea to do. One time the Archie comics did it with Antoine, where he had already grown from being a coward into being a confident warrior, but then after a timeskip, we find Antoine is now a dark and edgy dude who left his wife to go brood by himself.
Turns out it was because he got kidnapped and his evil doppelganger from the backwards universe stole his identity. Or in Marvel there was this character called Speedball who was a funny guy with bouncy powers, then in the mid-2000s he accidentally killed a bunch of kids, so he put on a suit that stabbed him with spikes at all times, and started calling himself "Penance." Or there's this one Transformers story set in the future of G1/Beast Wars/Beast Machines where it turns out that after G1, Daniel Witwicky got killed in battle, and Arcee became so depressed that she went back to Cybertron to brood in a cave for 300 years, and also she became a spider to escape Megatron II in Beast Machines (like Nightscream did), which means she could have helped in Beast Machines the whole time, but didn't because she was too depressed over her shota boyfriend dying 300 years ago.
I guess an example that sort of worked is Robin. In the '80s he became an edgy young adult and changed his name to Nightwing, so they replaced him with a new Robin, but he was also edgy, because it was the '80s and things were edgy now. Then Robin II died, for ultimate edge. And people really didn't like any of this, so Nightwing grew out of his edgy phase and became cheerful again, and Robin II got replaced with Robin III, who wasn't edgy. But then almost 20 years later they brought Robin II back to life and he became the edgy Punisher ripoff, Red Hood. But people kind of like that. So I guess it's sort of an example of making a character edgy sort of working. But it's a very complicated and convoluted example.
Amy Rose has good reason to become emo, though. In the comics she had to sit there and watch Sonic cuck her with Sally for 20 years. She should have snapped. But she didn't. Because that would be fucking stupid on a meta level.
>>1018804
Yeah I know about the tarot card thing. Ironically, now people think that it's some weird quirk Amy had, but when the game was made, Japanese girls were just into tarot cards, to a degree that it was seen as just a normal thing young girls were into. The point was that Amy was just a normal young girl. Still, clearly there has been a degree of character development, even if unintentional, just because of course she would have even more reason for liking Sonic after he saved her in Sonic CD.
And yeah, I also think it would be better to just stick with the original dynamic. I just said that at this point it would be better to just act like they have been dating for a long time because now it's been a long time that Amy hasn't been chasing after Sonic, and this would be a reasonable way to explain that, and I feel it ruins the characters less than having it so Amy just doesn't have romantic interest anymore. Plus, there have been two games and an anime where it was implied that they did start dating, so that serves as an excuse. Since the original dynamic is already gone, this would just be my autistic excuse for explaining it.
Also, even in Sonic X, where I'm pretty sure they are supposed to be an "official couple" in Season 3, it isn't actually important, because Sonic still acts the same, meaning he doesn't fucking acknowledge it. But Amy does seem to chill out a bit, and since she has chilled out in recent entries, then that excuse would justify it well.