Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24074103-20131122113452/@comment-24074103-20131222043338

The element of wind really does seem to be Sonic's associated element. Yet so many people can't see that not all of Sonic's wind-like moves are generated by movement. The Sonic Wind move is clearly Aerokinetic, as Sonic does not move himself in any way, shape or form to generate wind by movement, which is the way he creates wind in many of his other wind-based moves. in the two storybook games, the Crest of Wind is also obviously Aerokinetic too, as it's graphical portrayal depicts wisps of air that mildly resemble a vortex being generated around Sonic's body, which massively increases speed. This power is only kept active with rings. In Sonic Advance 3, Sonic gets an air bubble if he's paired with Cream which prevents drowning. Possibly a result of Aerokinesis being shaped into a pocket of air for underwater travel. Cheese also gets a covering a blue energy that Cream throws in a straight horizontal trajectory if Cream was partnered with Sonic. The blue energy looks like the energy used in Sonic Wind.

In SONIC '06, his spirit outside of his comatose/dead body manifests itself as a ethereal blue gust of wind which Elise can sense.

So yeah, from these depictions of blatant Aerokinesis that are obvoiusly not being generated by movement, I'd say that Sonic is Aerokinetic to an extent.