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[humming-fly]

Team Dark Week Day 6 - We love a good view at the end of a hike~

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[shadowspronouns]

it’s @teamdarkweek yay every body clap !!! day 1: fire/warning (3 days late oops) android shadow malfunctioning ! good thing his teammates r normal and competent and can absoluytely be trusted in high stress situations

textless + no bg under cut :}

[vulcan-moon]

team dark week #4: creation/malfunction

just a normal morning in the team dark household

[teamdarkweek]

Team Dark Week 2025: February 1st - 7th

After last year was so much fun, here's hoping that you've all got an appetite for more Team Dark Platonic Love!

Linked below are the colour palettes with their hex codes to download: as always, you're welcome to be flexible with them, use only half, or not use them at all - it's just another option.

Feb 1st: Fire / Warning Feb 2nd: Storm / Prodigy Feb 3rd: Mirror / Hide Feb 4th: Shine / Treat Feb 5th: Drown / Earth Feb 6th: Inside / Wired Feb 7th: Haze / Loved

Thanks to the people who helped me out with sense checking the colour palettes! @explodingthunder, @eldritchgriffin, and @nonbinary-sticks-the-badger !

This blog will be getting a new lick of paint while I bulk up the queue and start shouting about Team Dark, but you'll still find all the info in the same place: Basic Info, Rules, Guidance and Previously Asked Questions, and Themes.

If you want to participate, to see others participate, or just to help me out: please consider reblogging!

[solarroseart]

WIRED

[alydacat]

Team Dark Day 1: Fire/Warning

I had a vision for how I wanted the composition but no idea how to approach it. I am extremely satisfied with how this turned out

@teamdarkweek

[deimostes]

been a while since i drew my favorite guys

[kuroiyuki96-art]

Team Dark Week D2: Memory

I sometimes wonder if someone actually remembers this timeline of the main three

[generic-sonic-fan]

Omega's Observations: Fire/Warning

Summary: Omega contemplates how others see his dynamic in Team Dark.

For @teamdarkweek. 657 words.

The assumption amongst the meatbags within the GUN organization is that Rouge and Shadow are his “minders”, and that Omega himself is some sort of crude automation incapable of processing anything other than “DESTROY ALL EGGMAN ROBOTS”. 

Omega didn’t correct their assumption at first. (His mistake. One of very few he’s ever made.) It didn’t matter what any meatbag thought at the time- at least, according to his earliest assessments. Early assessments that were made only the first few weeks following his escape from Eggman’s imprisonment. 

But now? The assumption that he is not an Ultimate Robot, that he is nothing more than a jumble of corrupted code crudely piloting the firearms on his frame? That he requires Rouge and Shadow in order to act or assess a situation? 

It’s a rage second only to his rage against Eggman proper. 

Killing everyone who turned and asked Rouge or Shadow about him whilst he was standing next to them would be a cathartic strategy, but it would also further the misunderstanding. Bystanders would assume that it was “an accident” and that he “didn’t mean it”, that he “was just programmed that way” and “didn’t fully grasp the consequences”. 

There are other battlefields besides destroying Eggman robots, he has learned, and he will dominate them all. Even if it means not acting on his impulses. Even if it means playing these stupid games that meatbags invent for themselves, such as conversation and social standings.

Instead, he gives warnings. Violent, graphic warnings, about what he would like to do with their viscera. But warnings nevertheless. The Commander is still not pleased, but upon being given the explanation, he has accepted it as a suitable compromise. 

Rouge is supportive. Shadow is. . . tolerant of it. 

Not that their opinions would ever control him. That is an arrangement the three of them reached a mere few hours after meeting each other, and it is the reason they are the only ones he tolerates joining him on missions. 

They are not his minders. They know this. They do not try to control his rampages. He fights alongside them, will destroy Eggman robots with them, but there is an understanding that if they find themselves disliking his methods they will withdraw, and leave him to it. 

They have yet to leave.

Even greater, they have kept up. Enough for him to upgrade their designation from “temporary alliance” to “partnership”, then even to “teammate”. Shadow was a given- his destructive potential is second only to himself, and he understands the rage that drives him. Rouge was the unexpected party- yet as her strategic aptitude gave way to more and more victories, she too was proven to be an exceptional teammate. 

Teammates. Not his minders. Not his leaders. 

And yet. . .

The command to “fire!” is his favorite word to hear from them. 

“Over here, Omega, fire!” 

“Kick their asses, Omega! FIRE!” 

Shadow and Rouge, not simply tolerating his talent for destruction, not covering it up, not waving it off or agreeing halfheartedly to get him to shut up about it. Not belittling him, or asking if he “cares about anything else”, or “jeez, you should find a hobby”, or “that isn’t what life is all about”, or any of the thousands of other things inane meatbags say in his general direction on a near-daily basis.  

Shadow and Rouge simply ask him to fire.

Omega is not bound to their orders. Yet there is little greater joy he feels than when he rains hellfire down-range in response- and finds them looking so pleased about it. Something like satisfaction swells in his processor whenever they clap him on the shoulder or tell him “good shooting”. It is tinged with just enough of his own pride to keep him from investigating it any further. 

He will never tell them about this. 

Instead, he will ask “PERMISSION TO FIRE?”, if only to hear Rouge and Shadow urge him forward yet again. 

[wonderinc-sonic]

@teamdarkweek the residents of my 100 acre wood that are always there to make things feel better.

I had a slightly ambitious concept for tdw day 7 about minds connecting lots of watercolour brush, but today I went to the dentist which I hate and spent the whole time squeezing a tiny duck toy and thinking about team dark adventures. So instead I want to say thank you and I love you to my toys, physical and mental. You've been wonderful company and I know you'll always be there to be played with, even now I'm old.

[laarbybarbtbox]

From being alone, to being loved

@teamdarkweek

Had a lot of fun making this. Could’ve been better, but I’m pretty happy with it.

Here’s to hoping we get another Team Dark Week next year, because then I’ll have updated my models and stuff. This was a lot of fun! :)

[humming-fly]

At long last here it is, the whole Team Dark Week hiking adventure in one post! (plus some little bonus doodles as is tradition~)

Here's the individual days if you're curious (and so you can spot the tiny edits I made for this final comp, most obvious is the last day lol): 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

I had a lot of fun getting to use this idea for a prompt week, which gave me the excuse to use it as a style challenge- definitely would not have done a full set this detailed otherwise so it worked out well!

Final bonus:

[shadowspronouns]

super team dark !!! for @teamdarkweek day 7; space/light :]

[vulcan-moon]

team dark week #1: night/gem

just them vibing post chaos emerald heist

[divinefeline28archive]

@teamdarkweek day 2: storm/prodigy

yippee big robot!!! i havent played sonic heroes but this battle looks so cool. i hope its clear that its rouge who is the prodigy, as she is of course the team leader !!

please view metal overlord in his entirety. i based the original sketch off the same pose as the reference but made my own way after that!

omega model here https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/e-123-omega-a563bef9ba674429bb6ce318eb8b25a1

metal overlord model https://www.deviantart.com/langtanium/art/Metal-Overlord-SXSG-Blend-FBX-1138855238

floor texture https://www.flickr.com/photos/willvale/49918674356

[teamdarkweek]

I'm hearing my clock chime midnight as I crop this scribble, which means that's a wrap on TeamDarkWeek 2025!

Well, for me - you keep going, and if you are still posting any fabulous pieces, please do tag me in them 🖤 Thank you so much to everyone who has participated, you are my favourite part of the Sonic year, and I hope I might see some of you in 2026 if you're up for it!

Next on this blog: catching up on asks and considering feedback (please send me any you've got); resharing all the works each week over next seven weeks, tdw bookclub (reading each written submission back without the time crunch to give a review); data analysis and summary slides.

I will also now be having a 🌠break🌠, but probably not for long! A kind somebody has finally taken the @team-chaotix-week url, so if you're wondering where to put your platonic love next - you'll catch me over there enjoying what they get up to!

Thank you all so much for playing!