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Buried Undergroud

IDK why i`m writing my "fanfic in form of series to watch while trying to fall asleep" also i´m sleep deprived, have to go back to college tomorrow and i don`t even speak english properly so this might be confusing as heck ("The book is on the table" english... who knows, knows)

Warnings: unetical experimentation (mention), violence, corpses. For sure OOC

Word count: 1.054

I can´t write to save my life, i have no idea how to continue this tbh (i do but not how to put it into words)

I hope it´s at least entertaining as i know it´s not great, may God bless you all whatever you´re passing thru ♡

The work to rebuild Fortuna seemed quite easy at first, the new part of the city was made with effort and brought with it a sense of community after all the "Sanctus incident", still, you can´t build Rome in a day nor can you reconstruct a whole city in a year. The, now called, Old Fortuna, still had some much needed repairs to do, not only mimicking the old architecture was a challenge by its own, but the astray demons left in the wreckage were quite tricky, nothing really dangerous, but they granted the scare when they were first spotted, as lower-tie demons they were no problem, but it raised questions about what could be underneath to justify it´s reapearance without the hell gate.

This could be a lazy day, Nero was streaving for one, the pressure of being left behind by, recently declared even though you don´t need to be agenius to notice they were related somehow, his "family". With Dante, and now Vergil, AWOL, some new kind of burden was placed in his shoulders. Yes, Trish and Lady were helping a lot at keeping Devil May Cry running as smoothly as they can with all the late bills, and sure, they were in bussiness much langer than he, heck, they knew Dante for longer and probably better, still, he couldn´t help it but feel as it was more of his problems than theirs, he couldn´t help but feel the need to keep helping in the, somewhat, family business, he still craved the recognition of the bond he was forbidden to truly let sink in and enjoy before being left behind.

Now, as this kind of worries did vanish at home, and with Kyrie keeping tabs on him, this was supposed to be a lazy day, they booked movies for later on (three to be exact as the boys couldn´t reach an agreement and he just gave up), Kyrie was planning on cooking something different, he was ready to just rot in their bed till it was impossible to pretend the day hasn´t started yet...

But when did peace was allowed?

Nero woke up to the sound of the phone buzzling him out of his comfy bed and straight into a grumpy mood. A great start to his day off it seems...

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As it turns out, it wasn´t a "demon alarm" per se, nor was it far, some constructors found what seemed to be an old laboratory, probably Agnu´s and the order work, and they simply needed someone to "verify and assure the safety" of the structure ("y´all simply scared, guys") so, they instantly called the-one-who-could-survive-stumbling-upon-a-demon-and-get-out-with-no-or-just-minor-injuries that lives nearby and wouldn´t just decline at their faces.

"Fucking great." he mumbled under his breath with a tired look in his face.

The entrance was partially covered by debris, it was quite close to the city square, hidden underneath the streets and, once, lived-in houses, said houses being a pain in his ass trying to go down the instable path without being pierced by some loose wood or rebar.

Reaching the bottom of the well Nero found himself in a stone path, quite different from what he saw at the laboratory years ago, this seemed older, didn´t seem like a clinical place, this looked more like a chamber or even a dungeon for that matter. Grabing a lantern, glad he did that to appease Kyrie when she brought up the fact that maybe rushing in without light just to get it over with wasn´t the best idea, he started to walk to the only path that wasn´t covered in rubble.

While going foward in the poorly lit corridor, and yes it was indeed a dungeon, he passed trough metal doors, heavy ones, the content varied, some seemed like storage rooms were anything valuable was very very expired by the smell of it.

"Really? Did something die over here or what?"

Others seemed like old experimentation rooms, some were clean to a fault, others were spookier with havoc writteng in all corners, broken armlets, seringes with unknown stuff dried inside, what seemed to be hospital stretchers just thrown away on the floor, some broken, some just dirty, heck, one room was dirty, a reddish-brown covering it. By the feeling he was getting here it was easier to find a ghost than a demon.

At the end of the path? Stairs.

"Fancy putting stairs to go deeper into the hell-hole." he scoffed.

Before he could take a step foward, an eerie feeling, a faint sensation making his hairs stand on end in antecipation...

And then, a sound.

A faint, meatly-like sound, a soft inhuman grumble. Whatever it was, seemed big and, thankfully, unaware of his presence.

With caution thrown out the window, the tiredness and anger he felt seeping os his bones the last months now surfaced, he was simply angry.

Angry by being disturbed at his day off.

Angry by being at this stupid glorified gothic basement.

Angry at whatever the heck was awaiting for him after this stupid staircase.

Angry at his uncle.

Angry at his deadbeat father.

Angry at himself for not being enough to keep them here.

He drawn Blue Rose out of it´s holster, ready to open a whole in the head of the demon below and, hopefully, release some steam.

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The first thing he noticed reaching down was that the area was big, it made sense to why there was stairs back there, the room was square shaped, massive, all reinforced with carved stone, he could smell the umidity, his flashlight doing almost nothing to allow him do fully see the area ahead, the place was still, eerily so, he went foward, in hopes of seeing what made the noise before it saw him.

And he went.

And went...

And went...

A drip of something oozed from above him.

It smelled metallic, even though he wanted to say it was blood something was off, looking up he saw.

It was a ball, a floating one made of assembled bodies in various states of conservation, a thin membrane with what seemed like blood vessels flowing and draining the life out of the people inside it, they weren´t awake, their bodies bent in painfull positions trying to keep them all in the space they had, the demon energy flowing from it.

i´m sleepy and yes, the demon is just legion from Castlevania cause i think it´s neat

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I wrote the post, and it simply vanished so im rewriting it cause i cant see it, so idk if this counts as span...

I remembered i have a take on Nero's mother yesterday, im not a realism artist, but i made this so i can have a reference and a way to make her closer to my style, more rambling under the cut...

So, let's go rewriting, her Name is Evangeline (Evie) and i have some things to say, i made a really poorly drawn Vergil and Nero so i could sort out the facial features i wanted on her

Here i marked "lips, hooded eyes, nose, squarer face" cause Vergil has somewhat more rounded features, ronder face, fuller lips, full eyebrows, larger forehead/chin in proportion with face placement and all that jazz, so i looked at Nero, he has a more square face, shorter forehead to chin ratio, his eyebrows are placed lower too and thinner lips, so i got this characteristics and put on her, the glaring difference is the bigger rounder eyes and softer features.

I did write a fic (that im hating a lot) but my writing sucks and its also in my pretty, my darling mother tongue that allows me to say "foi presuntado" and it makes sense, but i do want to make a eng version, but we have 2 main problems

1)my writing stinks

2)my english stinks

So yeah, if yall want i can use Google translate as my assistent or we deal with my broken english.

Btw Evangeline quite stood with me cause outside the whole "evie/eva" (that's quite bad paralel now that i think about it) its mostly cause she was a oc that i created with a dear friend of mine when i was still 15 and she was 16 and we named her and the other oc after the Princess and the frog (evangeline and charlotte).

Why She blonde? Nero EX hair color seems a light brown/dark blond for me, i just wanted to nod at it.

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I think he likes having his head on hers...

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Faith, trust, and pixie dust ✨

Peter Pan illustration! I took inspiration from the Disney version and 2003 live action, with some of my own ideas thrown in there as well :)

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....please, develop this, im curious

You know how hair can turn white from stress? A ruined future and constantly trying to avert ruined futures would be pretty stressful.

What if Silver wasn’t born white? What if he was born black and red? What if Silver wasn’t his original name?

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Né possível um negócio desse não (amei)

Ana Maria - Silent hill Version (Brazilian stuffed dumpling)

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Salash will save our lives❤️‍🩹

⬆️They just communicate in sign language, in case anyone didn't realize!!

I love those two too much. We definitely need more content with them. 😔

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I forgot the shipp name between Dante and Lady and my brain jusy whispered "Dady"in my ear and it sounded so wrong in so many levels

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I did NOT abandon my other AUs (the "Chaos of an Absolution" and the genshin oc ones) i just dont have time to draw what i want anymore so its kinda held down by that, anyway, i can write, i remembered my DMC ocs and i really wanna remake one of them, i did it when i was 14 to 15 years old (im 20 now) and i do enjoy them quite a lot.

Anyway the one im remaking is nero's mom and her name is Evangeline (Evie) cause me and my friend thought it was really funny cause ya know, Evie... Eva..., also cause the other oc is called Charlotte (Charlie) and both names are in disney's "Princess and the frog"...

Anyway if this has at least 2 likes and a roll of cheese im writing my ideas down about this oc (and probably will do her in the sims first cause IM TOO TIRED TO DRAW)

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listen i know that silver being shadow's kid was officially debunked but i invoke death of the author because what do you meaaaaan you made two characters based on a father and son and then turned those characters into stand-ins for another father and son

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Is there a way for me to share audio from my device in tumblr? One day i lost focus and i recreated a part of "His world" from sonic 06 by memory in a site called beepbox and i wanted to share,not quite polished and im not a musician, so i guess its a bit wonky too.

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Im also kinda shy, im not used to interactions this long but it has been so great to just delve into this. Nice to hear you're enjoying it as much as i ^^

Just cause i thought of some thinks that may add and/or help...

Not going to add at his origin just wanted to point out movie shadow's model has lighten-up gap in his inhibitors that resembles me a lot of silver's ones (not going to spoil just to be safe, but when he does a thing it do light up with energy). Just a funny thing ive found reading through the wiki cause i just do like doing that, aparently shadow has shown telekinesis before but i have to check it for myself before affirming.

I like to think that his cuffs are focusers, in this AU i do want to say that silver don't really fully capable inhibitors cause his chaos energy is weaker than shadow's so his body can handle it better and even use more at a time, he has less but by so he don't become overhelmed by it, its more efficient in other words, so just having a way for it to not blow in his face would be really helpful, and with GUN wanting something easier to control i think it fits.

Also, angst territory, as we don't know how hard it is to truly end shadow for once and for all, id say GUN was happy that if Silver ever went rogue, he would, of course be resistent and strong, but not as hard to end like shadow.

Idk how small silver was so, as im using movie shadow again cause his model is really well made, his rings have a joint were the two halves connect, i wanna say that Silver's do it too and that's why even when he grew up he just adjusted their size (don't fix if its not broken and your world is a litteral hellhole).

Shadow with separation anxiety YEEEEES!!! Anyway, i too see him fighting quite a lot as a caring person, i like him being in terms with Maria's death and not being really reliant in her to just function at all, but her influence makes me thing that some level of naivety and a child-like wonder make him a little compeled at helping, and silver is full of it, even in 06 when he finally sees a world not destroyed by the flames, i think a small bit about silver finally getting proper, home made food for the first time, so much angst potential and we don't even have to enter te alien stuff yet.

To season the angst, they interacting, even tho is akward, fills this feeling of this friendship already being doomed. Bear with me a little, shadow is not one to talk a lot, he's my one liner king, but he does just stay there menancingly, i think he would notice the moments that silver just acts with an almost childish excitement of being part of something, in wich he does not have in any other place, but everytime he looks and silver looks back its just kinda weird, they're not friends after all, both fear to connect with others, sometimes for the same, sometimes for different reasons.

Silver is not the calmest of the bunch, after the reveal he would either freak out like anyone would or he might be consumed by the power within. Anyway, it makes shadow act, be by conforting be by confronting.

I know the "green blood thing" and i just don't like the aesthetics of it lol it being black do be harder to see (and yeah, shadow with black blood has SO much potential, and Silver too cause its painfully on sight for him)

Silver being controlled by the hivemind could go so many ways its hard to decide, and i like eclipse too i miss some of my archie boys ( *cof* shard *cof*). To not tie this to anything maybe shard could be to silver what biolizard is to shadow? A first draft without all the needed materials, maybe made with stored remnants of the black comet, a full Black arm that could not be easily controlled and scaped, maybe he does have his archie origins, maybe he was the last of his kind that was spared cause shadow couldn't know that black doom had a backup plan. Idk, too much possibilities.

The other way is someone experimenting with it, maybe this time it could be eggman (i do not like GUN that much cause they're shady but is getting repetitive) he is experinenting and make a prototyoe to try and control shadow after his last fiasco, he knows that a controlled shadow could be usefull and maybe he would be easier to lure if he plays it right... just for it to not work with shadow, its too weak for someone who fought the leader and won, even his little scheme of a big fight to worn him out can't seem to work, nothing! So he discards it somewhere in the battlefield as sonic finds him and starts their weekly banter...

He goes off before he could see Silver just staring blanky in the direction he trew the prototype, wich ends with him not being able to stop the heavy hit coming. Everything goes black for a second before he recovered enough (the enemy is the robot he crumpled, maybe)

As they were fighting robots and i see silver as kinda of hardstrong, he just says the black thing in his head is grease if anyone asked (not shadow to, my boy knows this well enough).

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Reading the fic im just WOW

WOW

W O W

If you need any help writing it and filling things, and if you want ofc, we can talk more about it? Im not good at making coherent things but i can help if you need ^^ and i did love the concept and writing this with you S2

People talking about what if Shadow was Silver’s dad y’know but NOT ONCE have I seen anyone say that if that’s true, then Silver has black arms blood

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I had to open my notes so now sh¡t got serious! First of all i want to apologize for my broken english, i can read it really well but when it comes to forming sentences my mind just slips off sometimes.

Second: i LOVE rambling and reading others rambling, make me feel part of something and i really like adding to others ideas and all, glad you liked it ^^

Im feeling better and i don't know how to add more but i really enjoy this concept so lets dive into it again!

The lab thing also makes more sense in a way that i don't see shadow being a deadbeat parent, not in the present, less so in the future with a more mature shadow and even if they trapped him or whatever, he would fight till his last breath if he knew there was someone depending on him. Knowing that its following the 2006 line ill still say that silver is a second attempt at recreating project Shadow, by GUN it adds the sour taste, by some illegal company it adds some mistery about how they got the information and why they want it, also adds to why they never went after him, maybe GUN discovered this stole data and whiped out the illegal lab just like they did in the ark or it just got destroyed with everything in the future.

Just cause i think its cool, for some reason when reading about the subspecies my brain went "Ah Yes, the concil" and i can't stop calling them that. Going by the logic here, it could also explain the more "eel-like" appearence in the drawing, there's no need to be bulkier, they're slender so it's easier to scape danger situations without making a fuss. The orca in the doom surf could come out of necessity, they're kinda agressive, as this subspecies being weaker, it could be a mean of protection, as, at least silver, is a target while doom surfing (i also wanna add that while shadow surfs, silver could dive, he doesn't needs to surf but dive is a good abilitie for him not only lore but gameplay wise cause it differenciates, it also creates the situation of him not being afraid to swin cause he knows he can do that, he simply thinks its linked to some power he still can't truly reach when he wants, just when he needs).

The control part actually adds to my first reblog of this when he can be an enemy cause of the control, it also can be used for some good angst in a way that he wouldn't know why he can't resist, and after all, he has a good heart so why is his head full of this bloodlust?

Socially its just funny to think about him staring at people subconsciently thinking his words made trough (he just weirded someone out, they called the Police once)

I think past shadow would want to keep his distance not only because he's weirded out, but depending on what shadow we're talking about, i assume he would be afraid of caring this deeply, specially cause he don't even know silver well, he doesn't want to grow attached and even not wanting to be friends or have anything with silver, he still cares and it scares him, he's still (living and) learning how to properly care about his friends, Rouge and Omega, and with them it was more natural, he is taking his time and all, with silver is all too confusing.

The sonic bit i imagine Shadow seeing a chance and taking it or maybe it was sonic making a joke that made it click, like a "how did you know he meant that? Do the "ultimate lifeform" (imagine the fingers quoting and he imitating shadow) have telepathy now or you're just hanging a lot with ames and got addicted to that card stuff or whatever?" If shadow took a chance i imagine him just brushing something off and going "the kid had a plan, he explained it"

"...He didn't explain sh-"

As silver is more related to shadow then just being B.A. and all, maybe the link is different, more personal, maybe in a normal situation with just other B.A. He would hear the call, simple and clean, but with silver he has the urge to act, he doesn't know yet but some part of him already sees silver as family and has a different bond.

It does not help Shadow that Silver is in fact younger and naturally people tend to give more attention to the younger people close in danger situations and they work well together, the chance is they would be paired up to fight anyway, but got separated while fighting.

I also don't know about B.A. biology but alongside my headcanon that they are produced, not conceived, hence the unique nature of the bond of the hedgehogs, i also headcanon that their blood is a darker Red, almost black even when fresh, so if silver got hurt shadow just got a nod to what he already felt...

The blood trail is dark as night but with a unmistakable Red tint to it.

Not that far, Silver just laying with a pained expression, but in his eyes its like he knew he would come, even so when he appeared the younger one looked surprised.

"S-shadow? How did you..."

"I heard it"

And now Silver is the one who got questions

If we keep this well have a full A fic just needing edition lol

People talking about what if Shadow was Silver’s dad y’know but NOT ONCE have I seen anyone say that if that’s true, then Silver has black arms blood

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This one in particular gave me ideas, im sleep deprived and my wisdom teeth hurts so much i feel it in my eyes, so its perfect for writing lez go.

Him looking different could be an accident depending on wich take you wanna go for his origins, if he was lab created for, idk, GUN getting quirk and wanting something that could counter shadow but obey them, just for this little silver thing that looks useless and physically weaker to appear, they discard the project cause they made it in the molds of the ultimate lifeform and not only it seems weaker it also do not look like him at all so it do look like a failure.

If you go with the biodadow, albinism is a thing and its just cute in general cause i think its funny if silver being this really strong character (he can FLY USING HIS MIND and we dont talk about it enough) just getting sunburned cause he forgot sunscream.

Not trapped into any specific thing (lab, bio, just spawned) it also could just be like a mutation in general that its not commonly found between the blackarms that make them physically weaker but mentally stronger (yeah like rpg stats my boy but them in wisdom and called a day). This ine can tap into the prophecy territory like, these mutated blackarms were attack and distroyed cause their mind wouldn't bend to the hive call and they were so strong they were challenging their leader ignoring the call and even assuming control of others, that's why they were exterminated and every B.A. with the mutation were quickly terminated, but as they don't exist in silver's time, and anyway he got this alien DNA, his chaos signature and his DNA just worked together for him to get this mutation.

Now, im going to get this last bit and tie it along with him constantly having the white noise AND why shadow just don't interact much with him in cannon, lets dive into it and i really need painkillers now.

So, as i said before, he has an unique mind and control over the call, the concept for some reason remembered me of the force in star wars, whatever, so, as his mind is stronger he can just always be in tune, but as most of his futures are apocalyptic and idk from wich he came, he just don't know what he's doing, he feels like he should hear something, sometimes he even gets this feeling someone is reaching out (in the hypotesis of shadow being trapped like in 06 or something like that). The white noise is there cause he can't turn it out, he can turn it down, but its always in the back of his mind.

When he travels back in time, shadow is not a fan of being too close to him and always seems annoyed when he tries to be polite (i like my silver with edge so i like when he's salty like the 14 year old teenager boy that he is). Shadow's actually feeling some connection, he doesn't like it one bit cause it feels like its gnawling in his brain and he can't point out why, silver came from the future and all but he doesn't seem to know him so why does he feels that way? It clicks when, someday, the gang is called and everyone is there to help, even the future boy, shadow's there fighting when he feels something is wrong, a sharp feeling in the back of his head, soom followed by a familiar voice ecoing inside his head, the words clear...

"HELP ME!"

People talking about what if Shadow was Silver’s dad y’know but NOT ONCE have I seen anyone say that if that’s true, then Silver has black arms blood

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Chronos Silver!

Stars don't crash, they burn.

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Finally, the "first form" of our fallen hero! After he finally gaters all time stones not even his focusers can handle that much power, they break, and who knows what he's capable of...

I wanted the next post to be another comic, but this one got big (11 pages more or less) ive done more before as i work as comissioned artist BUT for a tumblr AU its quite a lot... but i do like the dialogue pretty much so stay tuned!

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ME FR (i do love metal, he my top favs, but i crave silver and shadow interactions since S06)

Friend 1: I was hoping Metal Sonic would appear! That post-credits scene was awesome!

Friend 2: I was worried Amy wouldn’t be in this one, and I’m so happy that she got a cool action scene!

Me, who wanted Silver to be canon in the movies more than anything: The characters were. Really fun, yeah. It’s great that everyone got what they wanted