I wonder if a part of knew something was about to happen and started writing that absurd crossover as something akin to a coping mechanism.

Even if these are only fictional characters in a AU I molded, I not only gifted Tails with a loving mother, but with one that would never have to leave him. In making her an immortal of a breed form another existing work that can easily be meshed with something else I ensured that not only could she could always be there for him within the story’s confines, but that it made sense in context.

I made her strong, selfless, loving, and kind to a fault despite a sharp tongue and wicked sense of humor that breathed real life into her and made her anything but cold or fragile.

I don’t know if it was due to selfish self-projection, or selfless sympathy but I ensured I created this fiction for the character where he would never have to feel the pain I’m feeling now, never have to watch his own mother fade away.

But deeper than that, I re-enforced the concept of an afterlife and the idea that she had seen it so she wouldn’t have to fear death either way. Maybe this is a reflection of what i actually feel and me re-affirming my own faith?

In the end though there’s one last bit of depth that I only realized upon really thinking about everything, and that’s the fact I used to watch The Highlander TVshow with my own mother and so it’s somewhat of a connection between us.