Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27749615-20160218020848/@comment-679780-20160219042417

Amy Rose is 12 and still has a fairy-tale belief on how romance work, oblivious to commitments made for a stable relationship and disregards how Sonic truely feels about it. Yes it's shallow of her, but she is 12.

Sonic is 15 and finds the idea of marriage much more daunting than the usual teenager would. He's not one to just stay home and be a family man, the whole world is his neighbourhood and does not want Amy telling him to get a job or stay at home or whatever. He's too free-spirited for that.

However both hedgehogs are at the age where romance is definately a thing. Sonic does regard Amy as a friend so it could be possible the two have genuine romantic interest for each other, but being teenagers it's just not that easy to just put that out there, for Sonic at least. Sonic does care for Amy, just would rather start off as friends. He is willing to date her because he's willing to commit to early stages of relationships, he just doesn't want to be rushed up to marriage. He's not that fast.

I believe Sega themselves ship SonAmy, but just want the two to be at odds with each other. and given Sonic will always be 15 and Amy will always be 12, that means it will always be a one-sided romance between the two, with acceptions now and again.

I think Sonic's ideal romantic relationship with Amy would be a girlfriend who wouldn't be a liability and most importantly let him be himself than the ideal knight she wants him to be. If Sonic and Amy get along well to the point of "moving in", well Sonic would perhaps prefer instead Amy "moves out" and joins him on his travels. But given Amy is not as fast as Sonic, would perhaps at least visit Amy more frequantly at her place.

If Amy stop chases Sonic to try and marry him and just chase Sonic just to keep up with him then maybe Sonic will feel more obligated to slow down just for her. She would be more successful with Sonic if she stop trying to force Sonic to marry and expect him to comply.