#Protective Shadow the Hedgehog

[izzydaninja]

Summary: "One moment, he’s on his own, debating on taking Rouge’s offer to join her and the others for Sonic’s birthday party, and then the next, the sky’s ripping open with some strange looking portal, and he’s being pulled in. Everything goes white, and when he comes to, he’s in a very familiar, long, metallic hallway."

*No stealing!* Thank you!

[taffydragondraws]

flap flap

[sparklingjay]

Protector, huh?

I guess he is:

[autisticsonic]

Your Fault.

guilt arc guilt arc GUILT ARC GUILT ARC

I know I may dream but I think Sonic should go through a depression/guilt arc, bc you know, he thinks he straight up killed everyone he loves + his whole world while at it. He’s a really neurodivergent kid, he can’t handle something of this magnitude.

Also the second panel happens after their  fight, I just wanted to get this finished quick. Anyway yeah they fought and the realization hit Sonic during it and he just froze, and Shadow decked him and probably kicked him to a new shatterspace

AU version where due to that guilt he begins to despise himself, and isolates from everyone, because he feels he’s a liability, and that anyone he comes close to will meet their doom because of him. EDIT: After reading some theories, I came up w an alt AU version! So if all the shatterspaces are in fact the prime world getting split into pieces, same going for the gang’s personalities and such, the change is that Sonic pushes through and reunites the shards, fixing his home world! But once done so, he disappears from sight, doing the whole isolation bit. The heaviest part of the guilt arc basically gets pushed back to until the prime world’s already fixed.

Of course he deals with a lot of quilt and depression in the meantime, but he learns to bottle up and hide his emotions. Prime!Sonic is very emotional, open and talkative, but in this AU, over the course of the series, he becomes more dubdued- again, hides emotions, talks less (tho not too much less, cuz boy’s gotta mask) and starts keeping to himself more. He’s doing the whole “talking about surface troubling stuff to appear open and honest, while in fact keeping all heavier trauma concealed underneath”. Keeps on a smile, but it begins to hurt.

[hasello]

protection squad

Because the way they all gently took care of Sonic, when he was weak, has A BIG grip on me. I know they’re from different dimensions, but even if it’s just symbolic: The way the people he protects on daily basis, who said plenty of times he inspires them, didn’t even hesitate to take care of him and save him… I am not normal about this.

[glitchedcosmos]

The switch between se2 ep1 “avoid the void” where shadow makes sonic eat dirt for 20 minutes and se3 ep1 “grim tidings”where shadow keeps sonic from dying for 20 minutes is so funny and so precious to me

[seraphhy]

come on, hold me to death

[whimsical-sonic]

you know what's really getting me with grim tidings is knowing that, to stabilize the prism, they need sonic's prismatic energy. even if they were able to to rebuild the prism in ghost hill like they had intended to, they would still need to extract that energy from sonic. i doubt there's a way of getting said energy that wouldn't, y'know, risk his life

shadow should know this. it's so obvious that, no matter what, the ending isn't really gonna change for sonic. you'd think that he'd take nine's side in this, stabilizing the shatterspaces is the most logical course of action before trying to figure out how to restore the prime universe

but he tried to save sonic anyways

[dreadpirateurania13]

In the trailer, when Sonic says “what did you do?”… despite the cut to Shadow saying “what I had to.” I don’t think Sonic is speaking to Shadow in that scene. I think he’s been lied to by the general/G.U.N. about WHY Shadow is on a rampage. When he figures it out he confronts (probably) the general who then tells him the line “but where you found family and friends, Sonic, Shadow found only pain and loss.”

[imrealfaker]

Shadow: Why do you have a black eye? Sonic: I got it on accident. Shadow: Who was it? Sonic: I'm not telling you. You'll find them and hurt them. Shadow: Then it wasn't an accident. Sonic: Okay, it wasn't. But I don't want a repeat of last time. You had the poor guy over a cliff. Shadow: The ocean would've broken his fall.

[sonicattos]

shadow and his proud mother

[000marie198]

Shadow halfheartedly grumbling under his breath as he carefully crouches on a branch with one hand sticked inside a thicket of leaves and branches and manages to finally cradle the tiny ball of blue quills & pull baby Sonic out of the thicket who uncurls and holds out his mittened paws towards Shadow's face with excited babbles and Shadow huffs, holding back an amused smile before carefully holding the child close and jumping down the tree to take the gremlin back to his fox brothers

[papayaturtles]

Some more out of context arts of my Eggman finds Tails au that's in my brain that I decided to title " Friend or Foe " >:3c

I can't wait to actually start working on the comic I have so many ideas bouncing in my brain OOOUUGHHHGH 💥💥💥💥💥💥

[other out of context arts]

[sparklingjay]

Did anyone notice how Shadow is holding Sonic with both hands here? That's so soft

[trail-to-the-artpocalypse]

sonadow kiddos au

[aqualotic]

I know the kids like soft Sonadow and that has its time and place but I need more of Shadow impulsively kissing Sonic with blood staining both their teeth after a viscious fight, after which they proceed to not talk about it for a wholeass decade.