User blog comment:CrimsonFlame2K/SFW Summer Awards 2018 - Wait, Crim?! Where the hell did you come from?!?/@comment-32712012-20180727225434/@comment-32712012-20180728134438

Q/A 1: One of the things I've been experimenting with is trying to see how much story I can write without exposition, just providing the bare minimum that the viewer needs to understand the story. Mostly what I'm trying to figure out is if that worked or if I provided too little exposition. Like I said, it's not about assuming that people knew about '06; there was a bit of that, but this was mostly one of my many experiments in lack of exposition. If there was too little exposition, though, I'd like to know so I can add adequate amounts of it.

Q/A 2: Why Infinite is there is a kind of tricky question to answer, mostly because I don't know exactly what you're asking, so I'm going to throw a lot of plot stuff at you and we'll see if you can get your answer in there somewhere. (If not, I'll throw more plot stuff at you.) Basically, the idea is that, in the Cosmic Reboot timeline, the being known as Infinite—who may or may not be the being known in Sonic Forces as Infinite—is a being of incredible power in Silver's future, on par with or more powerful than Iblis. While Iblis is the one who makes the future into a devastated apocalypse, Infinite is supposed to be the one sort of politically manipulating things behind the scenes to make sure that everyone lives in fear and that no one tries to rise up and change anything, allowing him to stay in power. (I was going to elaborate on that in the story, but it didn't work out...maybe I'll write another story in that timeline to explain.) Also, in case this wasn't clear, in the ending (GIANT SPOILER ALERT FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN'T WANT SPOILERS), when Silver and Mephiles stick Infinite back ten years before Sonic's main time, Infinite winds up splitting into Mephiles and Iblis via Jules' new device. Does that clear up all your questions about Infinite? If not, feel free to ask more.