It Would Be Really Funny If Anyone That Tried To Mind Control Shadow Again Would Succeed But In A Way

It would be really funny if anyone that tried to mind control Shadow again would succeed but in a way that makes him do the exact opposite of what they said. Why? Because his brain can recognize it by now and Shadow’s stubborn as hell so the mind control would just make him do the reverse of commands. The ultimate counter to Starline, but not exactly useful either. For example, Starline mind controls him and says “go fight your friends” and he goes and fights everyone who’s not his friend which means Starline and probably Sonic

Imagine if after the events of 06 instead of there being a scene about resetting the timeline or whatever, there was just a scene of everyone recovering from the absolute MESS that was End of the World/Final Story, and in that scene, Silver gets to sit down and actually see a clear starry sky for the first time. Shadow shows him the constellations and such, practically infodumping about astronomy while Silver intently listens, amazed by the pretty sights.

I just like the idea of Shadow being the older brother for characters in need, its pretty neat. Shadow and Knuckles are very similar in the aspect that they keep obtaining brothers they didn't want.

I also think that Silver didn't get much of an opportunity in the game (gee it's like there was a specific reason the character may not have been fleshed out SEGA TIME CUTS) to be new to the past world and truly appreciate it. There's so many new things for him to experience like new foods, sights, diverse ecosystems, weird politics, heck even being cold for the first time. Boy was probably freezing going from the climate of "everything is on fire and the magma is still molten in some places" to "temperate wetland" pretty big temperature change.

Inspired by the image below

Image by Yui Karasuno

I love this piece so much though down to the color theory it's actually so great Maria looks like a real person with a personality and everything I love it.

Is this gonna be the Year of 3's for Sonic?

Sonic Prime Season 3

Sonic Movie 3

There's rumors about Sonic Adventure 3 (when are there not, but stillll)

I think the most accurate insight we can get to what Shadow was like back when he lived on the Ark can be seen in Sonic Heroes. In that game, he is quite literally a blank slate, knows nothing, remembers nothing, has no memories or biases yet. His personality in this game is very “fuck it, we ball” only showing any sort of autonomy when he’s protecting Rouge from the angry robot in the room. He kind of just lightly imitates the personalities of everyone around him like Rouge’s observing demeanor, Omega’s “ride-or-die let’s go break shit”, Sonic’s cockiness, etc. He’s not ever really angry in that game although he does get anxious and sad sometimes, especially when trying to learn more about himself. Shadow at his base is quiet, observant, and masks the traits of his friends. The angry “ultimate life form” vengeful characterization of him was a learned trait.

His ability to interpret the personalities and demeanors of others is heavily included in Shadow the Hedgehog (game) where his hatred toward others is learned by Black Doom, and his competitive edge is learned by Sonic.

TLDR Shadow was originally designed to not have much of a personality other than to care about others and want to be like them. All of his traits are learned either from others, or from his experiences. I just think that’s neat even if it is a very surface-level analysis

Hahaaa finished this with an hour left of Christmas lets goooo

Omega asked for a scarf because he thought Shadow looked cool in one

Nobody expected Shadow to have a secret, second scarf hidden beneath the first one

"Sorry I'm late guys, what did I mi-"

Idk what this is other than i liked the idea of Knuckles using Shadow's Chaos Blast as a live grenade. I don't think this has ever been done in canon which is a wasted opportunity. The spindashing hedgehogs are literally the perfect projectile

Gaslights you into thinking that weird ass robot thing is a Death Egg Robot and it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact I used zero references

Edit: I think there was actually an instance where Amy used her hammer and hit Shadow like a golf ball into a wizard, but I can't remember if he exploded or not