BAS02 & Ashes
Rating: General
Words: 880+
Media: Sonic the Hedgehog, Shadow The Hedgehog (2005)
Characters: Shadow the Hedgehog, Maria Robotnik (Mentioned), Rouge the Bat (Mentioned), Sonic the Hedgehog (Mentioned), Black Doom (Mentioned)
Tags: Character Introspection, Second-Person POV, Experimental <- doesn't know what they're doing, Dark-Dark Route (Shadow the Hedgehog 2005), Conflicting Feelings, Guilt, Guy who is too far gone and maybe regrets it
Warnings: Canon-typical violence
Chapter: 1/1
Link to the original work
AO3 Summary/Except:
"Had Maria’s wish ever mattered to you? Or have you already fulfilled it that day you became one with the stars?"
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Very messy and very experimental. I've never written anything this short and unpolished in my life. ❤️
The cold, dry, air of the fortress blasts against your face, almost as if it was burning, until the air becomes still. It’s stale against the tip of your nose and you think that sensation should’ve pulled a familiar chord in your heart as it once would have.
It’s a feeling akin to nostalgia that strikes you, one that you shut down immediately, but for those fleeting moments they reek of a spacecraft so desolate it could be mistaken for a moon; one that the girl in your dreams might have charted, believing it to be a star during your nights side by side, warmth and gentle lavender-vanilla radiating off of her.
But you’ve never been able to reciprocate heat the way humans do, because you were merely a leech – you’ve never been a warm body yourself.
Factory lights flicker overhead, the click of machine guns reloading in the distance, and the desperation of human beings hangs thickly in the air.
It's such a familiar scene.
But…
The loneliness has already rotted you to your core, and those feelings don’t mean anything to you anymore. All that matters is seeing it through to the end.
After all, this is pure.
This is vengeance in its entirety.
Green catches your eye before you notice that it was a soldier’s gaze – murky fear and hostility blend together until they cannot be pulled apart. It’s almost an amusing sight, but the word pathetic comes easier. That look is so painfully human, and you once thought you knew what it meant to be human; but you'd thought wrong, because with each passing second the idea of humanity for an ultimate weapon slips away, pooling at your feet in the form of bullet shells and smoke that clings to your vision.
It’s too much trouble to get rid of him, so instead you rip your gaze away from the man first when it starts to burn; because it’s too much to take, because there’s no time to waste, and maybe because you’re almost reminded of the time someone had once tried to teach you to love humans despite their flaws. But a weapon shouldn't be capable of that to begin with. It’s a hindrance and a flaw in what is meant to be flawless; a bug in your programming – the only thing left for you to do is patch it. Destroy it.
A voice suddenly reaches your ear amidst all the chaos of battle, realizing that someone is yelling at you, scalding, desperate as you feel the wind from their wings.
(You think you know who she is, but you tune it out anyways.)
It's too late for second chances, too late for half-baked truths. Not when you're already so far gone beyond the point of return. You feel a laugh escaping over your dry tongue, wondering why Sonic and the others even bother trying anymore.
The bitterness coils in your gut like a venomous snake, wrapping around like a ribbon and squeezing until you’re a breath away from a pained groan. It’s not real, you remind yourself, deliriously half-laughing under your breath, until the serpent strikes, and you find yourself tripping on your own two left feet.
But there's no time to hesitate. Not when you're so close. Not when you're at the final frontier of humanity – a pathetic excuse for a shelter meant to give an inkling of hope to the last soldiers.
All it'll take is one shot to end it all. It has to be swift, though you're unsure if it should be painless. For whatever reason, bile nearly rises to your mouth with a choked hiccup at the thought of making those worthless humans suffer any longer than they already have.
As soon as that thought crosses your mind however, a heavy sigh leaves your lips as you skip to a stop in front of the last gun turret.
Yet another defect found in your system. What a pain.
(It can't be afforded.)
You have no goal but to be perfect, after all. Perfect carnage. Perfect destruction. Perfect revenge. That’s what you were made for, and you have a debt to repay with your life.
‘A life for a life’, as Black Doom had once said – but you still have yet to ask him what exactly he means.
It’s unknown whether everything will go out with a bang or a whimper; should everything bleed into nothingness until everything is still and stale, like the air on the ARK, and it still won’t matter.
Had Maria’s wish ever mattered to you? Or have you already fulfilled it that day you became one with the stars?
Was pretending to misremember her words and her feelings the easy way out? Or was it just the most sensible?
Sometimes your mind, or whatever is left of it, wanders - the little doubt you have left festers in the back in your brain like poison as you wonder if any of these thoughts are even your own, or if perhaps, Black Doom dug his claws into your spines at some point, like the puppet you were always meant to be.
But you are and always were a tool; regardless of whether these thoughts were your own or not, you are a means to an end. A means to humanity's end.
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i made a post asking if u guys would like my oc being a failed eva/trish thingy (would it be eva or trish i still dont know) and i think yall did and i did say if enough people liked it i would make a post going a bit more into it. yeah. something like that. anyway this is thay post
be warned this is one of the few times ive decided to write out oc lore n stuaff so it migjt be a little sloppy. a bit bad. im not a professional at this sort of thing. we ball
ok yap time
so the whole idea was that Liniyal (the dmc oc in question) was like. a proto trish i guess u could say???? that eventually escapes mallet island and tries to live a normal life. or as normal as she can all things considered
how she escapes i havent really figured out yet. i think during the collapse would make tje most sene but thats as far as that goes. i heard that trish and dante got there by boat so maybe she made her own little makeshift boat and skedaddled??? who knows. but she Gets Out
the only reason why mundus even keeps her long enough that she manages to escape is that he wanted to punish her failure (even if technically he was the one that failed) by keeping her locked up and showing her what she couldve been and what she couldve done when he finally creates the perfect one aka trish. its like when a parent says "you should/could be more like (person)" but way worse if that makes sense
so then dmc1 happens and all the while liniyal is like somewhere just kinda trapped and then mundus is defeated and shes able to be set free since his magic stuff was beung used to keep her locked up and since hes like gone? probably? it would kinda just disappear. you know??.????
so yada yada she escapes and arrives to main land and the immediate first thing she wants to do is remove or cover anything that reminds her of what she is. basically starting a new life or at least trying to
its like a V situation where she has to go around stealing stuff and hunting demons 4 food (since i think he does that in vov) at first she probably has the mosy horrendous fashion taste but for like 95% of her life she WAS naked so u cant blame her too much. she does get better eventually i hopr
ive yet to decide whether or not i want to give her a buddy who like helps her w everythinf because while i do think it would be nice idk if id want to make it a canon character and if not that would mean id have to make up a whole new character and i just Dont Know how to go about that. maybe i can jusg say there was some guy and you can put your own interpetations on em if u wanted
also still thinkimg about when she would actually appear in "canon" either during dmc4 or dmc5. not sure when in dmc4 but for 5 i thought about maybe her firsy appearence would be in the far background when nero is fightinf (checks notes) artemis kinda like how in the one dmc4 cutscene you can see dante just chilling while neros kicking ass
and then her like meeting appearence if that also makes sense would be when V or nero come across a later boss (still on surface or when v is in the queen empusa area) and she gets like whacked so one of em decides they gotta like help??? and soon enough she'll be bavk on her feet and syart fighting alongside em and be like a companion. dont know where to go after that though
i 100% do think that if she were to ever meet trish it would be AWKWARD. even if trish wouldnt know her (another thing i havent decided on. that comes up a lot in here) she would know trish and just feel all weird aroun her because. You Know
and i think? thats all i can think off the top of my head????? it is fsirly late when im writing this so idk i might be too tired to remember anything else that would be important
i hope this isnt a let down like i said im not very good this sort of thing. at some point i think im gonna make a ref that has liniyal, trish, and eva to likr compare them and see how liniyal was considered a failure. and thrn also her weapon and yada yada
if anyone has any suggestions or questions or corrections u wanna make feel free to reblog or senf me an ask i am open to Everything
okauy. goodnight
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i remember this one time in 7th grade i was friends with a girl. amd she liked to go up to the boys in my class and ask if i was pretty. then when they said no she’d laugh and say “ dw youre pretty “ like?? anyways i saw her today at state and i just reminded me of that. i find it funny now but damn. anyways there was a situation where she went up to a kid there and she askes him if i was pretty and he was like “ i dont want to say yes cause then people will think i like you “ ans i the time i was kimda like “ oh he thinks im ugly” but even thinkimg about it now im like “ did he think i was pretty and just didnt say so or what. but in the end he was like “ yea youre cute “ so i took that. but til this day i domt understand why she liked to do that. especially with me. maybe because she knew i wasnt going to say anythinf to her or tell her to stop but yk. i hope she changed. idk . shes a psychology major. i remember seeing her at orientation in the psychology group.
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i used to HATE this song now i just dislike it a little 🔥 its improvement. okau sorry for puttimg sojgs on your ask thing jj <3 love you so very much and omg its almost new years here im graduating high school next year 😔😔 im not a kid anymore YUH i also love candy the song not the food cause real candy SUCKS HORRIBLE !!! lee jongsuk and iu are gonna be a power couple. i also got assignments even tho its school breal LIKE ?? STUPID SCHOOL. i didmt eat yesterday and i havent ate today haha. i love puttimg full stops in thr wrong. spot its so. weird. also limitless is 127's BEST title track anyone who disagrees fught. me. jj did you know before downloading wattpad i watched sidemen so everytime i talked to you i kept thinkimg of you being ksi but weaker 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 jj is weak ksi ahahah. OKAY BYE I LOVE YOU HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR
U ARE SO RIGHT ABOUY LIMITLESS YEP. The sidemen hello u r so strange anyways i love u happy new year make sure to eat!!!!
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im back!! a few things i want to say:
firstly, HAVE YOU SEEN CHANGBIN HOLY FUCKVING SHIT
secondly, and most importantly, thank you.
very belated because i checked late, but i reached a huge milestone. somehow went overboard, too. without keeping this long and without disclosing numbers (im good at math, i just have terrible impostor syndrome), i just want to say that there are so many of you. from the bottom of my heart, thank you. the word “grateful” barely encompasses the amount of gratitude i have for you all. <3
honestly i havent been doing okay mentally and emotionally for so long. im not gonna air out my personal struggles to the internet, ill just simply say that its been bad. thankfully though, i was granted the chance to take an academic break and seek professional help so LETS FUCKING GOOOOO hopefully this will give me more time to properly fix myself and be more active on here :D
that being said, i tried to make something special for both the milestone and for coming back; i just mapped out two series ideas. theyre gonna be fully written but i havent gone past the outlines yet LMFAO one is a lighthearted romcom, the other is a mafia darkfic. both involve threeways and, of course, are dom!reader hehe. ill make a poll soon on which series to start first!
for now, expect a lot of new fics, new fanart, drabbles, and doodles. jisung and seungmin hard thoughts are long overdue and i have a couple of surprise fics, drawings, and aus coming up, dropping alongside the ones ive teased ^_~
also im seeing nct dream in concert omfg chenle is meeting me soon
thanks for sticking by!! and thank you guys for EVERYTHING have the nicest day you all
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