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something about second chance shadow since it’s been on my mind lately

if you pull back the curtain and look at just how the ARK scientists treated him and how gerald wasn't always really around, shadow objectively didn't have a nice childhood. gerald didn't deliberately mistreat him, but he certainly wasn't warm. his affections were conditional, and he was prone to blaming shadow for his own shortcomings/really hammered in the need for shadow to be "perfect", while a majority of the other scientists treated him as nothing more than an experiment. it was the 50s. look me in the eye and tell me it would've been any different. they just tended to be a bit more blasé about it when gerald wasn't around, which was often. vicious cycle.

all this to say shadow was constantly under a lot of stress during some critical times in his development. he did not come out of the tube 100% fully grown like canon shadow presumably did. all of it combined led to him being physically unstable. i once called him a "DNA-melted runt", and in some sense i was being literal. the stress tests he was put through on the ARK were so much that it stunted his growth. and at one point, it got so bad that the upper portion of his left arm literally started to melt, like the cellular makeup was coming undone.

any iteration of shadow derived from this AU as its base reflects that. second chance shadow himself wears a compression sleeve over that spot. lab rat shadow's entire left arm Literally Fell Off leading up to his escape, so it was replaced with one of metal medic's. neutral end was pulled from the ARK right around the time his arm started to melt for the first time, so he was given a metal cuff to support it like second chance's compression sleeve. weird alien DNA = compression accelerates healing.

semi-modern wasn't pushed that hard during his time on the ARK, or at least had a better work/rest balance, so he doesn't have the same issue. but any shadow who started to "melt" like that even once on the ARK is stuck with it for the rest of their life.

second chance regularly pushes himself enough just in general that he's always at risk of literally coming undone. these days he wears braces/compression sleeves over any section that's sustained past critical damage, including a portion of his upper right thigh that had also started to melt as a result of going too fast for too long when he was already extremely overworked. he's medically obligated to pull the brakes pretty often to keep his physical/emotional stress levels balanced so he doesn't literally lose an arm or a leg like lab rat did.

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If people were too mean to you when you were growing up, a newborn animal will materialize inside your brain and it’s so so scared and shivering and it will stay there for years. Decades, even. And whenever you say something kind of weird but true to your heart the animal will tell you “Noo! You can’t say that! If you say that, everyone will hate you!”. The animal means well. It’s so so small and everything is so scary for them and it’s just trying to protect you. But listen to me. Listen to me. Whenever this happens, you can’t do what the animal says. You can’t. If you do, you’ll become as scared as the animal. You have to keep saying weird shit. You have to keep doing things the animal wouldn’t approve of. If you do enough things that scare the animal, maybe one day it’ll go to sleep.

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In several instances, Metal Sonic has been shown or implied to link up with the vehicles he uses in racing games.

It is explicitly stated that the Metal Star from Sonic Free Riders (2010) functions this way, while the design of the Blue Devil from Sonic Drift 2 (1995) implies this functionality with its lack of a steering apparatus and what appear to be connective cables in its cabin.

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Unit MS-1, colloquially known as “Metal Sonic”, has three truths that govern its existence-

Core directive: destroy Sonic the Hedgehog using superior speed and power. Core directive: Obey Dr. Ivo Robotnik above any and all else. Core directive: maintain superiority over Sonic the Hedgehog.

-until a catastrophic malfunction rips through its processor, and it is forced to confront questions it was never designed to answer.

The world beyond awaits.

The final chapter, or in other words, where Neo is left to pick up the pieces.

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everyone deserves to have their own favorite character with such an overcomplex AU they may as well just be an OC

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He Would Not Fucking Say That - but I really wish he would so I'm going to submerge myself in the fantasy of what could happen if this character managed to pull his head out of his ass even once

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Black Doom reveals his true form for the decisive battle against Shadow. From the lower body, which continuously undergoes a seemingly endless fission process, small life forms called "cells" are produced that attack anything that comes near them. However, even this monstrous, colossal form is merely a vessel for generating energy. Doom's Eye is the true puppeteer of this body.

Shadow the Hedgehog Saikyou Kouryaku Guide, a Japanese strategy guide for Shadow the Hedgehog (2005), describes Devil Doom as Black Doom's true form.

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my mind's been on one thing lately

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love a character that's like. i survived (<- not a brag) (<- this is a curse that weighs on me every waking hour)

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The Black Arms were a religious species; however, the only aspect of their beliefs and practices that is made explicitly known was their construction of temples, which also doubled as aerial warships. While never clarified, their invasion of Earth is also spoken about in a way that heavily implies that the event doubled as a sort of religious ceremony.

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i love eclipse. love to include him in an AU some day

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shadow and eclipse are so nebula and gamora coded guys LISTEN TO ME

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working on some stuff

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boops are gone so i have decided to send people random asks

what's your favorite bug? and what's your favorite color for bugs to be?

AH... i can't possibly choose specifics. i love a bunch of broad categories. they all make me equally happy no matter the color. probably goes moths -> spiders -> praying mantises

i've always been more fond of moths than butterflies. they're friend-shaped in the same way jumping spiders are, which are like tied for top favorites. mantises are mostly just for the nostalgia factor. my grandparents would buy brown mantis egg sacs to plant in bushes outside so i practically raised a bunch as a kid.

moths might be the overall winner though. love spiders to death and think they're adorable in photos and videos, but put a live one in front of me and i have a hard time handling them. i don't have that issue with moths though. they're just fluffy little guys and i love them

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there are SO many cool bugs out there and i still have to restrain myself from basing all my bug-inspired AU hive guys off of moths specifically

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drawing aruna or other black arms a hundred times would fix me

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one of the dumbest things i’ve ever drawn was that shitpost of (not yet quite aruna) mobian doom design and second chance shadow not getting along. and i say dumbest because not only is it the most ooc thing in the world (in both ways), but is now the polar opposite of the actual AU-canon dynamic.

it takes like three-ish years and some really specific circumstances for them to finally meet in a way that even allows this, but those two adopt each other practically on the spot