When I was getting back into Archie Sonic via TKP I had a feeling Bunnie would be my new favorite because I like cyborg characters and I've always liked her design, and this quickly ended up being true. Bunnie's just the most fun member of the Freedom Fighters. She has this tragic backstory where she got half-roboticized, and part of her wishes she could go back to normal and worries about the possibility that she could endanger her friends, but she's also determined to use her newfound abilities to kick all kinds of ass and protect her friends. She has every reason to be a mess and instead she tries her hardest to be a ray of sunshine for the rest of the team. She's great. Also her having body dysmorphia is basically handing me a trans reading on a silver platter lmao

Rouge is also one of the most fun characters in the game cast, and I always want that potential to be realized more outside of the comics. She's this crafty femme fatale spy working for the government, but also she's a total kleptomaniac who just cannot stop stealing jewels whenever she sees them. She can't help herself. But everyone just has to turn a blind eye to this because she's so good at her job, being a master infiltrator and intel gatherer and also a highly skilled hand-to-hand fighter to boot. And also she, of all characters, has to serve as the angel on Shadow's shoulder, because compared to him and Omega somehow the grounded one is the serial jewel thief who keeps trying to steal the Master Emerald just because she thinks it's neat. She's so funny when she's allowed to be funny. Her dynamic with basically everyone is a lot of fun because she's such a tease and she's a little more morally unscrupulous and selfish compared to all the unambiguously heroic characters that make up much of the roster, but really she's a softy deep down, when you get to know her. (Now if only they'd give her a new voice actress...)

Now to not overanalyze the fact that my faves are the Hot Furry Girl With Big Boobs characters and what effect that may or may not have had on my psyche. That's just a bonus. I do genuinely like both of them as characters lol