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Character Portrayal - Cream The Rabbit

Quick Note: I'm gonna try to follow a specific format now or each new page/rant I make. Honestly the only difference is I'll add a picture that represents my problem in the beginning of each page. yeah

Art by NENIKAT on Deviantart

Art by NENIKAT on Deviantart

Art by NENIKAT on Deviantart

Art by NENIKAT on Deviantart

Summary:
 "Cream The Rabbit - The sweet little bunny who gets to be the only kid here apparently"

Okay, well I've mentioned stuff I hate about Cream's characterization here and I want to add things to my argument. Though most likely, I could be wrong, since honestly I havent seen much people use Cream yet (this is both good and bad)

Cream is this young, sweet and adventurous bunny who made her debut in Sonic Advance 2 (which BTW is the first Sonic game I've ever played). I always love how kind Cream is, willing to befriend and help anybody she sees who needs it. She always acted like a coward at times, but she can easily drift to being courageous in moments. Basically her age doesn't define how she acts, as she's seen to want to come with Sonic and the gang, whenever her mom allowed her to.

Now for my problem. Since I already mentioned in My "Forgotten SEGA Characters" rant that Cream's age does seem to make people decide to avoid using her, since RPing with a child can actually be boring, and trying to figure out how to characterize her perfectly might be a stretch.

Most people who RPs here atcs in their teen years, as I already mentioned before. Every character here is basically a teen to an adult.

Sonic, Amy, Tails, Shadow, Silver etc. are all freaking #TeenYears. and honestly it pisses me off for some reason.

I just dont feel right about how all the other characters all accept dirty jokes, make smut out of them and RP as if they are all 18+ yet Cream stays the same. She's always 6 and shes never gonna change. Not that I want her to.

Comparing about how people use Tails Prower, which I will remind is 10 (the age people usually use) and/or 8 (Sonic Channel Age) BTW, it makes me feel bad for the sweet little bunny. I already mentioned so many times that Tails acts #PreTeens here. He is used as everyone's boyfriend, is part of the OC squad who makes a bunch or dirty jokes every now and then and is the sane one who tries to calm everyone down when a user makes SEGA characters do something crazy. He's basically treated as the same age as Sonic (which BTW I'll make a rant about him soon)

I have more to say about Tails, and Ill make a rant about him to but for now in summary, Tails gets to be treated equally to the other characters and is treated like a teen despite his age.

I'm not saying Cream should be treated the same, but there is more to her than "The one kid your squad has to protect"

I literally read this crack thing where everyone is like: (imma put an example to prove my point)

Someone: *makes a dirty joke*

Cream: *comes in the room*

Tails/Amy: OMG guys cover Cream's ears! She cant hear this *blushes*

LIKE WTH?! This is what I'm trying to say. YES, she is a kid and whatever the thing I didnt wrote up there was of course its something a 7 year old cant hear. But this isnt how it should be executed. Honestly I dont even know how, right now I cant explain because I'm typing, but someone should stop people from treating Cream as the baby who joined the squad.

Tails is 8 but I dont see people doing anything about him! YES, Cream is a kid and is really really fragile, BUT DONT MAKE HER THE RUNNING GAG OF THE JOKE! it seriously irritates me.

Again I also want to bring up the lack of recognition she has. I seriously barely see people use her, and I dont just google people who's name is CreamTheRabbit! I try to find regular RPers and try to see if they even know if Cream exists and not just Sonic Silver or Shadow. Sadly I found very little.

Cream is a regular SEGA Sonic character and deserves some recognition too. She is a huge part of the Sonic Team and Its such a shame that I literally only saw her name once for the whole day (and guess what, that was when I first typed Creams name XDD)

Cream has lots of potentials too guys! She can be funny and make a cute little joke every now and then, or can be used for character development by those times when she gives her intake on a situation. Cream might be a kid, but her words are honest and pure and is good enough to be a regular advice.

Also like wth guys did all of you guys forgot that CHEESE exist?! I mean everytime I did see Cream being mentioned in a book or two, I never saw Cheese! I only see him when I look at those Sonic Picture books who dont give credit to the artists

And when it comes to shipping, as much as I like the idea of Tailream, I never saw it as a reason for her not to be used. I mean I know its a pretty big ship and most users here do ship themselves with Tails, but Cream can be used as another character. Cream usually admires Tails like a big brother, and maybe someone can use this idea someday.

Well thats all I have to put for now. I might add or remove stuff, depending if I find anything else Cream-related to edit out. Right now this is all I can think of since my driving force for writing this is how Cream is treated like the only kid in the franchise, considering some characters are pretty young.

Here is my motivational image of the day:

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