ElixirBlue said:
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I hadn't considered that the billionth ring aura and the "constant inconsistency" could be the same thing. And if I'm being perfectly honest, I still don't.
Mogul's assertation that reality warped to allow Sonic to defeat him is technically correct, however, it's not that reality changed to have Sonic win it changed to have Mogul lose. The Ancient Walkers cursed Mogul's emerald so that all his plans would fail, this is in no way a result of Sonic's aura.
It feels more like Eggman is making excuses for his failures rather than plot manipulation being an actual aspect of the ring aura. The fact Eggman has previously defeated Sonic works against his theory. While Eggman is a genius, he was insane when he developed this theory, and it was the thing that allowed him to regain his sanity. The way I see it, this idea is what keeps him from going crazy due to failure, the way he calms down after reminding himself that "chaos is a constant" implies that it's almost a sort of coping mechanism. However, I'm not on the up and up on post-genesis-wave events sound I could be wrong about this.
Sonic having a positive aura is (as far as I'm aware) only mentioned while he's Super Sonic. To me, this implies that this also is not the ring aura, but a result of Sonic using positive chaos energy to transform. It's also worth noting that breaking Finitevus' hex was entirely Locke's doing, Sonic played no part in it. The most that could be argued is his positive aura helped weaken Enerjak enough for Knuckles to...reject him, or whatever, once he regained sanity.
The fact Scourge was able to use the Master Emerald without Finitevus' knowing to charge a warp ring shows that the ring aura was not responsible for Sonic being able to access the emerald's power. Locke is obviously blocked from using it and while he speculates others are too, Finitevus never confirms this and is only perplexed that Sonic is able to use it without any ill effects rather than that he is able to use it at all.
Honestly, the only powers the billionth ring aura seems to grant naturally is preserving Sonic humanity and restoring said humanity but only with additional power. Overall, it's nothing to write home about.
As a side note, the hex didn't prevent Archimedes' telepathy from working, it warped Knuckles' mind to the point that telepathy wouldn't help.
Edit:
I made a more in-depth thread on this."
That just made it sound even worse.