recently learned that the IDW sonic the hedgehog tie-in comics have some pretty stringent licensing requirements, which includes a No Relationships moratorium. and not like, a functional Hets Only thing, just no relationships at all. even the Pink Girl Character from 1993 whose predominant character trait for thirty years has been obsession with the fucked up blue creature just doesn't address that anymore.
the closest they get is two comics-original girl characters, tangle and whisper, who met and had an early miniseries together and frequent emotional beats with each other and an actual printed page where the color layout puts an impressionist lesbian flag in the background of a panel where they are the only two characters, and the lead writer does a podcast where he clarifies stuff where he said "based on sega's restrictions they are best friends, get it"
and like, that's not good, that that has to happen. but it is pretty funny
