*goes Heart Googly Eyes*

*goes heart googly eyes*

L-- forgot to post this

Well i dont have a lot to say about them--- theyre- there--- just gay little hedghogs and shadow dancing with Maria cuz theyre fucking amazing (also little baby shadow reading with Maria)

i love to delve into the ideas of this. he’s clueless! he’s like a child. i like to think rouge took him in, but she has work to do.. she’s out of the house often. omega has his own work, and he’s a robot- he doesn’t know the ins and outs of mobian’s life.

also i like to project trauma into the small man so, yk. but.

I think we as a fandom don’t talk enough about how much trauma Shadow would have had after landing on Earth. Losing Maria was already enough pain for a lifetime, but she wasn’t even the only loss. When the Ark was attacked, they stole everything from Shadow. Not just his “family” and only friend, but his home too. He’s never lived anywhere else and is homeless when he gets to Earth. He has nowhere to go, no one to stay with, no food, no bed, and no money.

He also loses safety. The Ark was a perfectly controlled environment where it was likely never too hot or too cold, and always with plenty of light available. Shadow has never known heat, rain, thunderstorms, snow, wind, or darkness. He has no idea how to navigate any of that because he’s never had to. He’s never seen a car or truck up close, never been in traffic before. No one ever taught him how to cross a street without getting hit. No one ever taught him to stay away from trees when lightning strikes or to take small steps when the ground is covered in ice.

Shadow has to navigate all the dangers of life on Earth for the first time and he has to do it all by himself because everyone he knows is either dead or in jail and it’s not like he can just google it. He has to do it right on the heels of the most traumatic experience he’s ever had, with no time to heal from it or even process it. He has to find his own food and water, find some kind of shelter or safe place, and he doesn’t know how.

Just picture it: a little hedgehog huddled up in a strange place. Lost, cold, confused, scared, hungry, thirsty, exhausted, traumatized, and so, SO lonely.

And all of that is BEFORE the military finds him and locks him up, likely with no explanation.

I imagine that this is where Shadow learns to fight. He would have no need to do so on the Ark other than maybe in a training/testing simulation. He doesn’t even fight the soldiers during the raid because he’d likely never fought anyone up to that point and it didn’t even occur to him. But now he has to learn if he wants to survive.

Is it any wonder he closes himself off and wants revenge?

digging out these lost songs... more like digging my heart from my chest

SCRUNKLY,, I LOVE SCRUNKLY TAILS

HELLO (TAILS) NINE NATION HOW R U FEELING????

yes i want to add more features to his design

Oops… accidentally promised (myself) that I’d write a depressing story about Agent Stone…

It’ll get done. Once I finish the chapters n works I already started / are on backlog.

If you’re interested, I have

half a chapter written of “What am I Supposed to Say?”

yet-to-start Galahad and Lancelot ‘fluff’ (from my retelling- a more accurate version of satbk)

now that!! (a depressing angst about Stone, and the second movie’s plot)

wanted to write a valentines story, but it’s late now. and i didn’t have any ideas.

NOW, if i wrote a story with some backstory of my versions of Shadow in the shatterverses… who’d read it?

I’ll probably be doodling him anyways, but.. written?

I have an idea for New Yoke already, but I’m struggling a bit with the Jungle and No Where… We’ll see though. More ideas to come.

[ he should have fangs. why does everyone else have them.. except him and rouge- the two who SHOULD HAVE THEM? SHES A BAT? GIVE HER FANGS?? Give my edgehog his teeth back >:7 ]