#Team dark

[fran4flan]

I was wondering why the panels were so dark 🤣

was thinking about that one blind professor post earlier today and how well it applied to the aptly named Team Dark

(really 'Team Dark' just sounds a lot cooler than 'Team Saves-On-Electricity')

[neometalharbor]

> @teamdarkweek [2025] >> Day 1_Fire / Warning

[suzieloveships]

People that add Shadow to Stobotnik family while ignoring Orbot and Cubot and the fact that Shadow already have a family (Rouge and Omega) are weak and natural selection is coming for them

[potat0bag]

sonic heroes and mean girls came out the same year

[nia1sworld]

COME ON PEOPLE LOVE OMEGA, now they are haters? SHAME

People hate on Sonic Heroes but may I remind you that it's the game that gave us Omega. It gave us Omega. Do you understand that it literally gave us Omega. Omega wouldn't exist without Sonic Heroes. Team Dark would not be a thing without Sonic Heroes (2003). This iconic trio would not exist.

These are Shadow's strongest personal connections. This trio was so good that they literally stuck together forever. Sonic will team up with anyone, but a Shadow story literally isn't complete without Rouge and Omega. They complete him.

[generic-sonic-fan]

Omega's Observations: Fire/Warning

Summary: Omega contemplates how others see his dynamic in Team Dark.

For @teamdarkweek. 657 words.

The assumption amongst the meatbags within the GUN organization is that Rouge and Shadow are his “minders”, and that Omega himself is some sort of crude automation incapable of processing anything other than “DESTROY ALL EGGMAN ROBOTS”. 

Omega didn’t correct their assumption at first. (His mistake. One of very few he’s ever made.) It didn’t matter what any meatbag thought at the time- at least, according to his earliest assessments. Early assessments that were made only the first few weeks following his escape from Eggman’s imprisonment. 

But now? The assumption that he is not an Ultimate Robot, that he is nothing more than a jumble of corrupted code crudely piloting the firearms on his frame? That he requires Rouge and Shadow in order to act or assess a situation? 

It’s a rage second only to his rage against Eggman proper. 

Killing everyone who turned and asked Rouge or Shadow about him whilst he was standing next to them would be a cathartic strategy, but it would also further the misunderstanding. Bystanders would assume that it was “an accident” and that he “didn’t mean it”, that he “was just programmed that way” and “didn’t fully grasp the consequences”. 

There are other battlefields besides destroying Eggman robots, he has learned, and he will dominate them all. Even if it means not acting on his impulses. Even if it means playing these stupid games that meatbags invent for themselves, such as conversation and social standings.

Instead, he gives warnings. Violent, graphic warnings, about what he would like to do with their viscera. But warnings nevertheless. The Commander is still not pleased, but upon being given the explanation, he has accepted it as a suitable compromise. 

Rouge is supportive. Shadow is. . . tolerant of it. 

Not that their opinions would ever control him. That is an arrangement the three of them reached a mere few hours after meeting each other, and it is the reason they are the only ones he tolerates joining him on missions. 

They are not his minders. They know this. They do not try to control his rampages. He fights alongside them, will destroy Eggman robots with them, but there is an understanding that if they find themselves disliking his methods they will withdraw, and leave him to it. 

They have yet to leave.

Even greater, they have kept up. Enough for him to upgrade their designation from “temporary alliance” to “partnership”, then even to “teammate”. Shadow was a given- his destructive potential is second only to himself, and he understands the rage that drives him. Rouge was the unexpected party- yet as her strategic aptitude gave way to more and more victories, she too was proven to be an exceptional teammate. 

Teammates. Not his minders. Not his leaders. 

And yet. . .

The command to “fire!” is his favorite word to hear from them. 

“Over here, Omega, fire!” 

“Kick their asses, Omega! FIRE!” 

Shadow and Rouge, not simply tolerating his talent for destruction, not covering it up, not waving it off or agreeing halfheartedly to get him to shut up about it. Not belittling him, or asking if he “cares about anything else”, or “jeez, you should find a hobby”, or “that isn’t what life is all about”, or any of the thousands of other things inane meatbags say in his general direction on a near-daily basis.  

Shadow and Rouge simply ask him to fire.

Omega is not bound to their orders. Yet there is little greater joy he feels than when he rains hellfire down-range in response- and finds them looking so pleased about it. Something like satisfaction swells in his processor whenever they clap him on the shoulder or tell him “good shooting”. It is tinged with just enough of his own pride to keep him from investigating it any further. 

He will never tell them about this. 

Instead, he will ask “PERMISSION TO FIRE?”, if only to hear Rouge and Shadow urge him forward yet again. 

[wonderinc-sonic]

@teamdarkweek day 1: fire

Let's gather round the campfire, and sing our campfire song!

This is a fun style to draw in because I only have to get the shapes vaguely right. Still not sure I managed that, but hey and ho!

[shadowxamyweek]

[mildcharacterenjoyer]

I LOVE THIS! AAAAAAAA!! I wish I could hear Omega sing in Spanish in his robot voice. How great that would be.

I did @yanabeardoodles’s DTIYS and now I am consumed with a Team Dark Mariachi AU.

[lostplanetvoltia]

Day 1. Warning

They can salvage this situation

[demonio-de-bolsillo]

.⁠·⁠´⁠¯⁠`⁠(⁠>⁠▂⁠<⁠)⁠´⁠¯⁠`⁠·⁠. Tote bag design

[humming-fly]

What Rouge isn't mentioning is it's an entirely off the grid trek and they leave at 2am 👍

Joking aside I've had a fun little idea in the back of my head for the past few days, and since I saw that this week was "Team Dark Week" on tumblr it seemed too good an opportunity to pass up!

Gonna be taking these prompts Very loosely, but at least the first prompt "Fire" is easy enough to play with!

[lavenderbirchtrees]

they are NOT COWORKERS!!!!

[shadowthescarecrow]

A voz do anjo sussurrou no meu ouvido...

Being indulgent and drawing my two favorite character meeting? Couldn't be me...

But yeah, I think Manic would befriend Team Dark bc he's a mechanic (and enables Omega's pyromaniac tendencies), but would never officially join them bc they work for G.U.N and Manic hates cops.

[theocddiaries]

[At Team Dark's apartment, Rouge arrives home. Shadow comes out of the kitchen] Shadow: Rouge, do you prefer a fruit dessert or a chocolate one? Rouge: I don’t care. [sits on the couch] Shadow: Come on, break the tie. Rouge: I really don’t care. Now give me the remote, I sat down. Shadow: You have to care, because otherwise, no one eats it, and I've wasted two hours in the kitchen for nothing. Rouge: Relax, you won’t have to spend one or two hours in the kitchen this year because I’ll be spending New Year’s Eve out. Shadow: Out where? Rouge: Amy’s throwing a party, and she invited me. Shadow: …Are you leaving Omega and me alone with Eggman? Rouge: No, because you two are coming with me. Omega’s already at Amy’s picking out his outfit. Shadow: You want to leave Dr. Honeydew alone on New Year’s Eve? Rouge [shrugs] Shadow: Well, you go and tell him, because he’s gonna make a scene. Rouge: No no, you tell him, you have great rhetorical skills. Shadow: Bullshit! You tell him! Rouge: Let’s settle it with odds or evens? Shadow: No! Rouge: Rock-paper-scissors! Robotnik: Scissors. [Both flinch and look toward the hallway, where Eggman is standing] Robotnik: Go ahead, stab me in the chest with them, that’s the only thing left to completely shatter my heart. Rouge: Oh, hey, you were home… Shadow: Ivo, look— Robotnik: Yeah yeah, you all want to go party, and I’m just in the way, so you’re leaving poor Ivo all alone in a dark house, counting down to yet another pathetic and lonely year, while everyone else celebrates with their families. Shadow: I mean, you can turn on the lights, as long as you remember to turn them off before going to bed. Rouge: Listen, Eggman— Robotnik: No no, don’t worry, if you want, I’ll just go to a soup kitchen so I don’t waste money while you’re gone. Shadow [rolls eyes]: Ivo, please— Robotnik: At least that way, I won’t be alone, and I’ll sing carols with toothless losers! [turns to leave] Shadow: Please, we eat dinner with you every night! [Robotnik stops dead in his tracks and slowly turns around. He approaches them with heavy steps. Shadow takes a step back while Rouge tries not to shrink into the couch] Rouge: Don’t look away, don’t look away, that’s how they assert dominance… Robotnik: Go to your cheap parties with your little boyfriends who clearly weren’t going to ruin our family harmony. [runs to lock himself in the bathroom] Rouge: …Well, he actually took it much better than expected. Robotnik [bursts into tears]: I AM ALONE IN THIS WORLD! UTTERLY AND ABSOLUTELY ALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!

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