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SUPER SONIC!!!!!

The trailer has me going insane I swear,,,

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Ok last artfight post I prommy

Has anyone cared about this? Probably no. Will I post all of em till I’m done? Yes.

Anyways yea yea long post y’all know

Starting off with @/frogic ‘s OC! Imitated the ref background a little cuz it fits her :3

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This Christmas vampire belongs to @/Ghostly_bird !! The concept caught my eye it’s so neat!!

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Probably one of my best pieces this year! This OC belongs to @/Mud_ , hope you enjoyed it as much as I did drawing it

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This one is for @/BelzeRock !! He likes cats and books, so I had to deliver

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This goes to @/clothbroth !! I did it pretty quick and it came out good :D

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The one for @bobyea-doodles ! She likes art so she’s making something jej

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This lovely Sonic oc belong to @simpalert ! This revenge gave me a chance to draw Sonic characters again, missed that lol

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This one if for @/lindoolez !! Included her husbands color palette on the background a little. Loved the revenge they did for me aaa

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This revenge is for @kelpiehunterkai , hopefully I was able to make the pattern properly!!

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And this last minute one was for my dear friend @/selachiibii !! He witnessed me drawing it and rushing lmao

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And that’s it!!! Almost all of the attacks I did during ArtFight this year!! I’m missing 3, but those deserve a post of their own >;)

Big HUGE thanks to all who attacked me, I deeply treasure all of the drawings that I received this year.

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Been playing miitopia for the past who knows how long and my silly brain decided to make every character a Sonic character.

So I did the natural thing and drew shadow as I’ve made him in game, he’s silly lil cat :3

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Y’all know already artfight bla bla bla

Honestly?? I didn’t think I was gonna make so many of these but look at me go hell yea [dies]

It’s a long boy once again folks so lemme just

There

Starting off with this lovely oc that belongs to @/MarshimiiuOwO , went with bright colors on this one jej

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Next up, one for @fukuchi (kyuusaku)! Was very happy with this one from start to end :)

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This boy is for @/N3bulae !! Saw a cool pose and thought of this guy, muscles are hard but he worth it

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It’s Amy for @/batluvr17 !! She was so neat to draw

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This one is for @/StarScriblez , wanted to practice side profiles and this was the perfect opportunity

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Lata but not least (in this post, I still have too many to upload gUh) is this one for @/Tykaetek !! The mask and just concept gave me inspiration :]

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AND THATS ALL FOR NOW!! I outdid myself this year and I hope y’all can enjoy it :3

Loved every single revenge/attack that I received!! Genuinely made my day every time.

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Gay gay homosexual gay

This whole choreography is making me go a lil insane cuz DAM

Og image i redrew under the cut

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MORE ARTFIGHT STUFFFFS

I have not stopped going and I have made some more attacks!! V happy w them ja. Hoping I’m not spammy w tagging lol.

Oh and my dumb ass thought I had posted this a while ago but I didn’t lmao.

Lost of images so it’s a long post once again

Starting off with this piece for @/Liltrixie !! Liked the design lots :33

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This one’s for @/mittrei !! Saw this creachur at like at 1am and went to animate him on the spot.

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Love how the colors came out for this one!! The oc by @twisteddisaster caught my eye (Lmaoimsofunny)

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Got attacked by @bramblebush1 and retaliated!! The colorsss.

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This danganronpa oc belongs to @/jaspernotcasper_ !! He looks so silly and goofy lov him

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V proud of this piece I made for @raijintos (mimoheli)!! Metal is not my strong suit but I’m happy w how it looks.

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Ending off with this one for @/Senira !! I read the description and immediately pictured this! Buildings are hard

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Tis is it for now!!! I have more up my sleeve but I did slow down at the end. Going to make more soon!

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She made herself into shadow’s only safe heaven and protector, maybe because she knew what it was like to not have one.

god just. maria robotnik. youre a 13 year old girl and youre terminally ill and you know youre going to die and youre tired all the time and you just want to go home to earth (have you ever even been?) but suddenly you have this little baby brother and you love him but the doctors keep taking him away for tests and you dont get to see him all day and when he comes back hes scruffy and bruised and doesnt want to play or watch cartoons. but you love him so so much you make the decision to die at 13 years old to give him a chance to live. you put your baby brother in the escape pod and theres a soldier pointing a gun at you and you know youre going to die but its worth it if it means he can live. he's your baby brother and you love him so much that at 13 years old you choose to die so that he can live. just. maria robotnik.

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IM NOT DEAD I PROMMY

I just have life stuff happening. I’m doing artfight tho so HERES SOME PEOPLES I’VE ATTACKED SO FAR!!1!1 posted these on other socials,, hoping I’m not spamming anyone.

Also, long post ahead cuz picturs.

First on went to @vv3spa !! The design caught my eye so fast shhsjdjd

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This one’s for @/AcidKeyLime :DD lov creepy ocs sm

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This one is my best work so far!! Goes to @/dreaminqluna and their sweet space oc!!

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First gif I made for artfight!! Made for @/shadyhhg and their cute gay cats.

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Lov the colors this oc has aaa. For @/jersksh !! This goat looks so soft,,

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This guy goes to @/princecrow !! Haven’t drawn these sorts of patters since I drew kokichi and GOD are they satisfying (also the hands ashhsshdh)

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Last but not least (in this post lmao) is this silly piece for both @sophiiedraws and @/Flishy_fix respectively! Listen, I saw a fellow Colombian out there in the wild, wanted to draw my friend (who is also Colombian), I just had to.

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Oh and a bonus for flishy!!! I saw the bush last minute and just had to draw em!!

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And that’s it!! Got some more artfight attacks (and the rest of the month as well) so expect more posts for now!! Will try to keep this acc more active

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Hmsmmdnfmcc evil sonic???

I messed around with a random brush and got this man.

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I feel like some of us grew to be fond of Maria because of how often we see her as a representation of Shadow’s “better times” so to speak. So we draw/write those two being friends and whatnot as a way to see Shadow happy. And then came the question, if Shadow liked her so much, there must be a reason right? We know so little of her and yet we see how she has wormed her way into people’s heart so deeply that they will destroy everything from the pain of loosing her.

So we theorize how her personality was like, how she interacted with people, how much of the Robotnik flare she may have inherited, etc. Then we grow attached to those interpretations because her being more than just a martyr means she could have a chance. But she doesn’t, because we know before we’ve ever seen her that she’s dead.

So then we make AUs and possible what ifs on how she would’ve survived, on how she could be brought back. We make her the future we know she deserved, try to give her the life she would’ve wanted. We make worlds where she can have fun and interact with the rest of the cast, who would’ve loved her as much as shadow does, and explore the world just like she dreamed.

But the cannon is always there, no matter how much we create, the reality is that we just don’t know how she was truly like. All we have is the idolized/manipulated perception of her, so we will probably never know who she was. She most likely was never meant to be more than just a catalyst for everything that happened in the narrative.

Which, for me, is where this feeling of grief stems from. We care for a character that is doomed by the narrative, not only in her fate but also in the fact that she will never be more than a fuzzy memory. Unlike dead characters like cosmo, who have a story before their death, Maria barely has anything before the ARK raid. Even then, it’s always centered around other characters. She wasn’t meant to be a character, but some of the fandom yearned to make her one anyway.

We don’t mourn her loss, we grieve the fact that we will never get to meet her in the first place.

there’s something i’ve noticed in some people (myself included) in the sonic community where the relationship they have with maria always has this particular sense of grief about it

like we see certain types of art of her and we all kind of collectively lose our minds because it Hurts. but it’s a different kind of hurt with her than it is for characters we’ve lost in other media. it’s this kind of visceral kneejerk reaction as if we’re the ones who should be grieving her, either with or on shadow’s behalf.

maybe it’s just me, but i can’t really name another character who causes that kind of feeling? sure i’ve had other characters’ deaths absolutely destroy me before too, but with maria it really is different in a way that’s hard to describe. is it because her and shadow’s story is so much older than most others in recent memory, so it’s had time to really take root and become personal? is it because something about it strikes a particular kind of subconscious nerve that media rarely manages to pull off?

the grief isn’t really the world-stopping sharp pain of a fresh loss like it is in those cases, it’s more like a really old scar that hurts on rainy days or twinges when you move a funny way and reminds you it’s there. it’s always going to be there. it’s grief that ran its course without us, so the worst of it has already passed. we know it happened but we weren’t there for the injury or the stitches or the recovery. we’re just left kind of looking at this scar left over and wondering

we know maria but we don’t know her at all. she loved shadow, and she loved the earth so she would have loved us, and we love her, but it’s like the love of waking up from a dream of another life entirely and mourning the loss of all you had in it.

maybe that’s what it feels like to shadow. maybe that’s why we feel this way too