(i may or may not have been like really intrestes in the language of flowers/floriography and sonic has been one of my special intrest so ykw that means...i have to put the 2 together and project onto the characters )
sonic is like really into floriography and bc he was always out he had to learn alot about plants and stuff he loves plants and nature in general but florigraphy is what made his brain go brrrr (projectingggg...)
shadow knew alot of it from when maria would talk about it back on the ark maria was super interested in floriography and plants and that passed onto shadow and thats one of his core memories and its now his comfort..subject?...idk but yeah he has the language of flowers books the exact ones maria used to read to him
shadow and sonic both infodump about the language of flowers together sonic usually stumbling over his words and getting something wrong from how fast he was talking and shadow correcting him as soon as he dose
thats how they bonded it was something like "ooo look at that its a ___ did you know that ___" and shadow pops in "actually ____ are _____ and that's actully ____ i get those 2 get confused alot aswell" after shadow said that sonic insisted that they were soulmates /hj
Just until I get the announcement in proper order, I'll be working more on @aestheticsoftheinternet because, yes, I do have a stimboard/moodboard account! Yippee!