#again not sonadow but yk

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Pt 1

Classic Sonic and Tails are just built like that. No discrimination.

I apologize for my janky freaking hand writing too.

[son1c]

i don’t tag every instance of sonic and shadow interacting in my art with #sonadow because i don’t think it’s necessary... or even accurate. not every action has to have romantic intent... so while i do still ship them, i want to make it clear that i’m more interested in exploring their relationship In General.

acts of compassion, such as sonic saving bermuda from a horrible fate on board dread’s ship, or bermuda comforting sonic with his song while he’s freaking out about being underwater, aren’t a means to an end irt a romantic relationship. they’re more so pieces of characterization or marks of growth for the individual characters themselves.

like, sonic saves bermuda because he’s a hero and can’t stand to see him suffer, even if it means going against a friend (knuckles/dread). and bermuda sings to sonic because he’s (very slowly) learning how to care again, after a horrible tragedy made him shutter his heart. of course it’s fine to ignore me and interpret it romantically anyway, but my intent is a bit more nuanced... yk?

i hope this makes sense cuz i’ve spent a while trying to figure out how to articulate it, and found it to be difficult...

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HI SAME ANON CUZ. THOUGHTS GO DRR but! yk that got me thinking like. WE DO GIVE SM ATTENTION TO DETERMINED and look good reason hes sonadow in a nutshell /J

howver im thinking of more ways the other sonics could have breakdowns, and do correct me if any of this is like not in character bc i love to ehar abt ur au!

ok first kindness – i think he would like have a goal for him to go to everybody weekly to ask if they need anything for him to help with (usually daily actually) and when he doesnt reach that "goal" he might think of himself as like less of a good friend bc he isnt helping enough which could SO turn into overworking and just!! BREAKDANCE OR BREAKDOWN WOO

chill i think would just do not as much as the others, opting o always lay down and just be calm n. chill! and maybe cux of that sometimes he thinks that he isnt as useful as the others sometimes but i jus think hes probably the least most mentally ill cuz hes like "no time for sadness when you swagness" (thats probly his motto)

energetic would deffo think hes too annoying to all of them but like!! he has too much energy!! he has to burn it off soMEHOW so theyre just like "no another time not now" and its like hes just!! he probably starts getting kidna sad but like he has other friends to play with, right?

determine is a bomb abt to EXPLODE and like!! he has pure anxiety, he always needs to know shadows and also his friends locations and they have to tell him or else he just starts panicking and cant function until he sees them again. also with how he blames himself for everything, probably has a tendency to apologize all the time so theyre confused cuz hed be with vanilla, cream, n amy and hed accidentally knock somethin over and go "im so sorry I shouldn't have done that why did i do that i should leave" and shadow probably has to calm him down the most

competitive is 2000% existing because he says he "needs to be better than everybody else" when its just "i want to prove to myself im good enough" when he cant, he doesnt know if he is bc like!! only shadow can race against him and they always tie and he probably ends up pushing himself So Hard that shadow has to just make a competition out of getting rest or else competition dead straight won't sleep until hes perfected this, gotten better at that, made sure he didnt lose any skill on something, or etc bc he still wants to prove to not just himzelf but to everybody hes good enough so they can confide in him!!

ok thats all (IDK IF I FORGOT OTHERS IM JUST. THINKING ALSO WATCHING TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES SO IM LIKE. GRATUITOUS COOL VIOLENCE OR WRITING. HECK YKNOW)

ANKAZOANZIQDNSOFNSKX YES!!! THESE ARE MY BOYS!!!! NO CORRECTION TO BE MADE THESE ARE T H E M !!!!!

Also, I usually draw them with the same other characters a lot, like I usually draw Competitive with Knuckles, and Knuckles at first just goes along, fights Competitive and everyone happy, but then it's like weeell he kind of has a very important emerald to look after, and everytime Competitive looses he wants a rematch and it just gets tiring. But like, Competitive feels the need to prove that he is strong and capable! So they get stuck on his loop.

Then there's Energetic and Amy, he kind of just shows up, looking to burn some energy, and at first she just lets him, but she isn't really pleased with having him running around in her house, he starts bumping into things and breaking some other, and even if he is sorry he just can't stop moving! Amy then starts trying to get him to stop, or to just get him out of the house but she also feels a little guilty because she knows he doesn't do it on purpose.

There's also Determined and Shadow, we all know Determined follows him around and tries to protect him all the time, but it starts to intervene with Shadow's life as well. Rouge is kind of annoyed by it, and it causes trouble at GUN, and Shadow's an introvert, so being followed around isn't really his favorite thing. I just imagine Shadow just walking while Determined is not only behind him, but looking around, suddenly making Shadow stop if he hears anything weird, or sees anyone suspicious, but it's actually nothing. Shadow would try to get him to leave him alone, but Determined always has the 'what if's.

Finally there's Chill, Kind and Tails. Tails is very busy, trying to find a solution for this five Sonics thing, but it's a little hard with two out of five always distracting him. I imagine Kind offering to help, at first Tails let him, but something goes wrong and he's like 'haha never again' and then Kind is just left to stand behind Tails, waiting to be given a task, while Chill isn't actually helping at all, he's using all the space just laying around, if Tails ever needs him he's okay with helping??? But he doesn't really put all his effort in, so in the end it's as if he did nothing. It's not that he doesn't want to help, but like, why ask him? Kind is already there and eager to help.

I also like to think about interactions between the Sonics! Because some of them are kind of opposites, like Kind and Competitive, or Chill and Energetic (or Chill and Determined), so it's fun to imagine things like Competitive going around showing everyone how strong and fast he is, and Kind's just like 'well you're not being very nice' and Competitive doesn't really know how to react???? Or Determined being all worried over something, and desperately trying to fix it, and Chill just being like 'dude chill, you're exaggerating way too much' So that's interesting too, even more considering it's quite literally just Sonic talking to himself:)

[sonysakura]

9, 18, and 23 for the fic ask!!

9. What's a scene you wrote this year that you're particularly proud of?

I tried, I really tried! But my first thought again was Happy Endings Are Just Stories Unfinished, tho it's a scene I re-wrote. It's the first part of Ch 1. Because it's action and I don't know how to write action, so the original beginning was less than a page long, rushed and underwhelming. Probably the new beginning still could be written better but I'm proud of what I've done!

Another one would be the whole of On Timer because I'm just pretty proud of the way I've weaved Soulmate AU into the final cutscene of SA2... without really changing anything 😃

18. Do you have a fic that you wish received more attention?

Well, that would be On Timer I guess at the time I've just posted it. It had very little attention in the beginning, and I figured it "flopped". Now it doesn't look like this anymore but I still remember, yk?

The one that I still wish would receive a bit more attention is Struggle against despair. Like, yeah, I get it, it's tiny and doesn't have a Sonadow tag. But I feel like I just need a bit more encouragement to spin a whole plot out of that thing. Tho since I started writing Happy Endings... I wouldn't have time for another WIP anyway...

23. What fic did you enjoy writing the most?

Not cool of me to reference something unfinished and unpublished, AND written in another language but it's a gen fic under the working title Seven. Every time I sit down to write it it's usually only a paragraph or a few lines but they fucking flow, man. It is an almost-novelisation of Sonic the Hedgehog 8-bit Game Gear game but with a twist. It's currently 1.2K words in Russian (so would be longer in English), and I have no idea if I'm going to translate after I finish.