User blog comment:Guyviroth/Awesome rant. Ftw./@comment-3992531-20110703215234/@comment-1349273-20110703220437

This is how I see it; Canon characters who have no general or obvious crush, are free; that's my standard on the subject. An example would be in my fanon, Cream isn't taken; Tails has a crush on Cosmo in my fanon. To a more ambiguous extent, so is Rouge; Knuckles is paired with Shade and Shadow ia paired with a newly ressed Maria the Hedgehog. I guess in a way the status of characters and pairings can be argued.