Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-3486065-20140912204032/@comment-4775004-20140927141445

Revival of characters should only be done if the character wants or needs to come back, and I'd like to propose that it can be done in a few ways.

Firstly, the Chaos Emeralds. As demonstrated in Sonic canon (but only once), the Chaos Emeralds can be used to revive the dead. I'd like to say doing this only works once per character however so it isn't asspulled to revive multiple times.

Secondly, the character escapes, or is rescued from Avalon/Limbo/Hades. How this would work is up for debate but it would be incredibly difficult to pull off, the upside being it could be done multiple times.

Thirdly, a healer could give some of their life force to bring the character back, but this would put tremendous strain on the healer, being dangerous to use, so it would not always work.

I also agree with James on characters reanimating others but there would have to be downsides to it as well.