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Sonic Adventure 2 my beloved ✨💙

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Some of my favorite pride headcanons 🥰🏳️‍🌈

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I love your service animal au, the art and the test posts surrounding it. There are things I can 100% relate to and things that find a bit different. (But considering that I have an actual dog and not a sentient highly intelligent alien lifeforms is different).

One I can relate to as a general service dog handler is how my dog's behaviour can be easily misconstrued, usually by the general public who simply don't know any better. I've had people call my dog naughty for doing the correct trained behaviour, been told that my dog loves me simply because he's preforming a trained behaviour (I'm sure he does love me but a behaviour he gets paid to do probably isn't the best indicator of said love) and whilst I usually I nod and smile however the mischaracterisation of my dog's behaviour by the general public always manages to irk me.

I definitely can relate to Maria to a degree it's really hard balance out your own needs ad a disabled person and your service animal's needs. Especially when there are conflicting needs.

Though there are some parts I do relate to with Maria, there's other parts I can't relate with at all. My relationship with my own service dog is different from that of normal animal ownership. He's not my baby (though I do call him one), not my crutch, nor is he just my companion. There are layers to our relationship, he's both my best friend and my colleague, my student (as hes self trained) and my companion. When you have a service dog, the relationship becomes a lot more complex than the dog being a family member, pet, companion etc, they're all that and more. However this is where ethics comes into play since my service animal is a dog and not a literal alien lifeform.

Continuing on I think I would really love to see the ways he's been trained to preform his role, did Maria train him herself, was he trained by someone else then given to Maria once his training is complete and how does this affect his relationship with Maria and his job? As well as the ethics side of it toom I would love to see this covered as this is a huge topic within the service dog community especially because many people often utilise aversion and coercion to get their dogs to work with them, is this a thing that shadow has essentially been groomed into doing by Gerald?

“I'm sure he does love me but a behaviour he gets paid to do probably isn't the best indicator of said love) and whilst I usually I nod and smile however the mischaracterisation of my dog's behaviour by the general public always manages to irk me.” Yes! This is a perfect way to describe how Maria feels, and how Shadow’s behaviors are heavily misunderstood.

Yes he does love her and care for her. But you’re not going to see it just by observing the way he acts as evidence. His many intimate behaviors with her are learned, trained behaviors and tasks with multiple layers and purposes that people don’t grasp if they don’t understand his job. He’s often considered “cute” by humans, which Maria cant blame them for, but she hates how they see him as an animal to cooed over and not his own person. And she can’t do anything to dissuade their views since she literally relies on him as a tool, contradicting her own beliefs in his personhood and autonomy. Very messy.

Shadow’s training was most definitely problematic at best at the hands of Gerald considering what he is. If it’s a debate concerning dogs, then it would be extremely problematic concerning people. Gerald is not perfect in this au, he certainly has conflicting beliefs about Mobians compared to his younger granddaughter, and should not be looked at for moral guidance.

If the ultimate lifeform needed to be a human being, Gerald would still intend Shadow’s use to be the same. But a Mobian is capable of abilities a human is not, smaller and has more potential, so that’s why he is what he is. The ethics of using an autonomous being as a service animal are unimportant to him, and so he was willing to use questionable tactics to train him as well. His granddaughter’s life was depending on Shadow’s effectiveness, as there were no backups.

Similar to how I answered the previous ask, Shadow and Maria aren’t quite able to validate or see each other’s feelings fully as they have their predestined relationship. Maria is his charge, and Shadow is hers to use however she needs for her health. Of course she tries to treat him like a person. Like a roommate, with his own room and belongings and bathroom and self care. The matter is Shadow not caring to have belongings, and he only takes care of himself because he needs to be in the best conditions always for Maria. She struggles to be on the same page as him, and he’s sometimes cold toward her attempts at being more like friends, particularly if her health isn’t doing well. When she’s doing okay is when he relaxes and is more open to fun and idle time.

Shadow has a distant respect for Gerald, but he certainly was groomed into the perfect tool by him, starting ever since he was a baby fresh from the capsule. He didn’t have any kind of childhood, just a long training period in which he measured his development not by birthdays, but by milestones of achievements and reactionary accuracy to Maria’s needs. He does in some ways view Gerald like “family” only because he would naturally mimic the kind of language Maria used for her grandfather. But primarily, he is his creator, his keeper, and the one he answers to. Shadow is rebellious towards societal expectations and views and strangers but not to Gerald.

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I love your service animal au, especially the kind of strained and extremely complex relationship between Maria and Shadow. Its prity simalar to my thoughts on them in cannon. I find it really hard to imagen them having a perfectly "healthy" or "normal" relationship if they continued to grow up together. The fact that shadow was literly made for Maria is... complicated, and I adore seeing someone make it complicated.

In a lot of ways I don't think cannon shadow is able to acknowledge that part of it. And having Maria survive AND putting shadow in even more of a service role is such a great way to explore the complexity of the situation they were both put in. I love it

Thank you so much!! Gahhhh I LOVE exploring their complex dynamic, expanding it way further than what we can do in canon. Shadow has complex feelings that he wouldn’t even acknowledge. Nothing matters but the work.

But Sonic combating his true purpose and challenging what Shadow thinks of as important would force him to look at his life from an outsider’s lens, which is difficult for someone who doesn’t care how others perceive him. But he has to learn to do so for himself. In a way, being shut off to his own feelings on the entire thing has also shut him off to how Maria feels. It’s not something he’s proud of once he realizes how cold he’s been most of the time in the name of duty, but she wouldn’t harbor resentment of him as a result. They are each other’s favorite person no matter what.

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Long time no see everyone 💙 gonna catch up on old comments and asks here in a bit.

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The men are back to play 🔵⚫️🦾

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Some adventure and classic inspired practice of the guys 🟠🔵✨

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Merry Christmas to all who celebrate 🎄✨

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There’s a boyish, aloof charm about Sonic that’s always contrasted nicely to Shadow’s ever so slight ‘daintiness’ and deadly energy. They really are the duo of all time✨

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Comments like this are extremely rude and unsolicited at all. I’m sorry people are leaving such weird accusatory remarks on your work, it’s clear you work really hard and the animation is lovely. Please keep doing your thing 🙏💕

(15 fps voice) i’m going to line-boil every frame

rahhhhhhghhg i would like to finish it but i must go to work now

they are like silly cats to me

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coming soon 2 a sonadow near u

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hi i saw ur service animal shadow while scrolling forever ago and brainrotted an entire fic. i didnt save or reblog the art at ALL and i thought i lost it but i found it again!!!!! and i have been thinking about him for ages. you got me out of a writing funk, and i just wanted to thank you <3

Oh gosh that means SO MUCH!! 🥺🙏 Thank you for telling me that, it’s so encouraging! If you ever post or want to link the fic I’d be elated to read it too, completely your choice!

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This meme on twitter was too Boz coded not to draw them 😝

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Did you guys know Beau carries he and Oz’s egg? 🥚💕

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Pink Pony Club: Shadow edition 💕