#Uncontrolled Chaos

[writingtraumaforever]

Maria hugging Shadow every time he started to get upset or overwhelmed in Sonic X Shadow Generations is just a testament that physical touch and affection is one of his love languages and a comfort. But he’s so dang deprived of it because he doesn’t quite know how to initiate it and people are intimidated by him.

So here’s some Sonadow Headcanons based around this fact (bonus if you’re an Uncontrolled Chaos reader and imagine this in the form of Alternate Sonadow):

• The first time Shadow asks Sonic for a hug, he literally has no idea what to do with himself. But as soon as it hits him that this is something Shadow is more than okay with and even YEARNS for?? Sonic is all over it. Hugs and kisses all the time. Never stops. Touchy touchy, yes.

• Sonic isn’t a cuddler. Well. He is, but he moves too much in his sleep to stay cuddled. So to compromise this, he holds Shadow’s hand under the covers in their sleep, so they each know the other is there.

• Fun Fact: Tight embraces can help relieve panic attacks because they trigger the release of oxytocin, or the “love hormone”, while simultaneously lowering stress hormones and activating the parasympathetic nervous system responsible for relaxation. Tails tells Sonic this once. When Shadow gets overstimulated, Sonic makes it a point to comfort him by pulling him somewhere more quiet and dark and secluded so that his senses aren’t being overwhelmed and will hug him so tight that it’s all Shadow can think about until he’s calm again.

• They cuddle on the couch like. Every night. Shadow particularly likes it when his head is in Sonic’s lap and Sonic can absentmindedly rub through his quills and behind his ears. Sonic’s favorite is when he’s straddling Shadow’s lap, chest to chest, and his chin is resting on Shadow’s shoulder while Shadow rubs under his back quills.

• Shadow will seek comfort when in uncomfortable situations by hugging Sonic from behind or leaning against him while Sonic just continues doing whatever he’s doing. Sonic usually just reaches a hand up and scratches Shadow’s cheek or ear like it’s second nature to him. Their friends have learned to just ignore this.

• Shadow often finds words hard. Especially when they’re particularly more emotional and honest. So in moments of privacy where they can be more intimate, Shadow will take the point of his claw and ever so lightly trace the words he wishes he could say onto Sonic’s palm while they lay in bed together or lounge on the couch. Wherever they may be. Sonic finds this painfully endearing and also kinda fun to figure out what Shadow is spelling. It took him five times before he realized Shadow was spelling out ‘I love you’. This was, in fact, his first time expressing this, and Sonic just kissed his ear and pretended he had no idea while smiling like a big ole doofus.

• Shadow loves when Sonic brushes his quills. Or grooms him in general. He likes having Sonic lick his fur to get him all cleaned up and tidy and neat as hedgehogs do. And he, in turn, treasures when Sonic is still long enough to let Shadow pick the flowers and grass from his quills and lick his fur all clean too. Grooming is one of his favorite forms of intimacy and expressions of partnership.

• They have those bracelets that when you tap it, the other one’s vibrates to let them know they’re thinking about the other. It was Sonic’s idea when he saw an ad for them, figuring it would help in those times where they have to be apart for missions and stuff. Shadow literally was so starstruck over it and loved it from the get-go. He tapped his quite literally every ten minutes when he first got it just to let Sonic know he was constantly thinking of him. He had to stop this, though, when they had to change the batteries way too many times to count.. he’s now more controlled with how many times he taps it, and he will often send messages in Morse code. Sonic has no idea how to translate Morse code, but he Googles it every time and sends messages back if he can figure it out. This often leads to silly mistakes like ‘I miss yub.’ or ‘What are you weaking?’ but Shadow just finds that even more endearing that if they were correct, so it works out.

Bonus Platonic Headcanon:

• Rouge and Shadow holds hands. Like a lot. It’s rare they don’t hold hands in public settings. A lot of times, Shadow is holding Rouge’s hand more than Sonic’s even since Sonic tends to get a bit overstimulated by hand holding sometimes (makes him feel like he’s on a leash) and Rouge doesn’t mind at all.

[writingtraumaforever]

It’s giving Uncontrolled Chaos Chapter 24. 🥰

Older sketch

POV you napping near an angel

[what-have-i-unleashed]

one of the mtt is a serial arsonist and i can't decide who it is.

[irusanw4]

I’ve got new hms designs! I’ll post em once all their colors are sorted, but for now here’s this :)

[midnightshard06]

Chaos Uncontrolled Masterpost

Fic Series on AO3

Things in Approximate Timeline Order

"Chaos Uncontrolled" (fic on AO3)

Comic? page based on the original fic

"Karma" (fic on AO3)

5+1 things fic

"Sand is awful, actually" (fic on AO3)

Fan comic based on "Sand is awful, actually"

"Start Our Story Anew" (fic on AO3)

"Soothing touch"

"For Science?" (fic on AO3)

"Is That How You Greet Everyone?" (fic on AO3)

"A Day to Remember" (fic on AO3)

"Where it Began" (fic on AO3)

"Out of Control" (fic on AO3)

"A Step in the Right Direction" (fic on AO3)

"Breakdown" fic and art

"Encouraging someone to complete a goal"

"Wrong Hedgehog"

"Strangest thing I ever heard"

"No, we're not doing that"

"Let me remind you"

"No, I'm not ok"

"That's not the point"

"I'm With You" (WIP fic on AO3)

Nine-Tailed Travel Guide

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Random Art and Things

Old pinned post

Super and regular hedgehog Sonic

Super Ace week doodles

Art dump (mostly another AU but a couple are from this)

Dimensional Distruptance (AU crossover fic + art)

One year tumblr anniversary!

[instantpansies]

trina falsettos and sfth abigail are the same genre of character. to me. tired of all the happy men who rule the world for reallll

[sillysausag]

How does my school anticipate for me to spend the last 2 periods before going home, in drama, with the most annoying teacher, when I know chaos theory has premiered?

[thebirdqueen]

Gonna be so disappointed if part 3 doesn't play around with Vincent's 2 other limit breaks. (Death Gigas and Hellmasker) They have so much potential for Vincent story wise. I'm always sad to see many ignore them and just focusing on Galian Beast and Chaos....

[campbenji]

just watched the swrve video. need a few minutes to scream.

[nostalgic-soda]

Please please please share some deranged stories of things you did as a child because I absolutely love them. I’ll start. When I was nine, my mom took me to see breaking dawn part 2 in theaters and I got so excited by the final fight scene I was cheering and screaming and yelling for the characters to rip each other’s heads off to the point that my mom was genuinely disturbed. I also would tie up my monster high dolls and swing them around like weapons. I also once ran into a bar as a toddler and demanded a “sprite on the rocks”

[no-light-left-on]

your thoughts on Breanna? dunno want to know what you think :^)

this is gonna be kinda lukewarm I fear

How I feel about this character: rarely think about her but for the most part she makes me sad? the struggles she had, her past as a noblewoman roped into an arranged marriage, her running off with Delilah who was very obviously her whole world, losing her once because of Daud, and then Emily cuts her off from Delilah's powers and influence years later? all while Delilah left her behind in Karnaca? (for good reasons obviously but still, it must suck for her) she's incredibly tragic let me live in all my modern AUs where she's married to Delilah instead.

All the people I ship romantically with this characters: I think I answered that above lmao Breanna/Delilah are married but Delilah/Breanna/Billie is pretty neat too.

My non-romantic OTP for this character: I don't really have one? her relationship with Jindosh might be interesting, though. never thought of it much.

My unpopular opinion about this character: not sure if unpopular or not but I've seen several posts trying to write her as bi despite what we know and just... let her be a lesbian. please.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: generally wish there was more context to her. she helped Delilah found her coven but we don't get all that much more. kinda wish there was more to her in the Brigmore Witches DLC but I get that at the time it wouldn't have made sense.

[writingtraumaforever]

Here’s some interesting info for my Uncontrolled Chaos readers:

In SA2, Sonic tells Shadow that if he overdoes his Chaos Energy, he’ll disappear.

Not fall to earth and weaken.

Disappear.

And then at the end, Sonic gives Rouge one of Shadow’s inhibitor rings. These weren’t deemed inhibitor rings until Sonic ‘06, I’m pretty sure. And given all the dialogue that happens during the final boss battle of SA2, I think Shadow was originally meant to weaken every time he used chaos energy rather than what they ended up going with: which is that Shadow needs inhibitor rings to control all the energy and power in him.

In the game files of SA2, the inhibitor ring Sonic gives Rouge is simply known as ‘his bracelet’.

Sonic managed to grab Shadow’s bracelet just before he disappeared.

Some of you have caught onto this already in my fic.. but I thought I’d point it out and elaborate a bit more since it DOES come into play eventually. <3

[dasloddl]

found this uquiz : Which two Greek gods are your parents?

I got Poseidon & Eris

[ask-the-sexyman-squad]

hey bill, you ever feel worried for dt, this month is going way too fast and I've got a feeling the babies might come early 0_0

"PSHHH, NAH. I THINK THAT THEY'RE FINE! THEY'RE TAKING THIS PRETTY WELL, TOO, IF I SAY SO! NO NEED FOR PANICKING JUST YET! WE'RE NOT GONNA DIE! ...MAYBE!"

"...really."

"WHAT?! I SAID MAYBE!"

"For Christ's sake, Bill..."

"I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT IT!"

"I AM?????"

They're gonna be bickering like this for a hot minute...so sit back and enjoy the show. :)

[midnightshard06]

Nine-Tailed Travel Guide Pt. 1

Part one of the stuff I'm cooking up for the Nine-tailed travel guide event thing going on. Of course we're doing my og au, good old Chaos Uncontrolled! In this part? Nine encounters Super...

First(You're here) > Prev(N/A) > Next

Well so far so good. Nine looked around at the healthy looking foliage as he walked down a worn dirt path. This place seemed nice enough so far, but he was still waiting for the other shoe to drop. He’d try to be… optimistic for now though. At least all the greenery was nice, much different from what he was used to in New Yoke or the Grim. He was snapped back to the present by the sound of a shout and something solid hitting the ground. The voice didn’t seem familiar but he found himself rushing forward to see what it was anyway. 

He ducked behind a bush off the path, hoping to remain unseen for now. In front of him were three people, two of which he recognized. The Tails and Shadow of this universe. The third was a golden hedgehog with upturned quills. If Nine looked closely enough though the hedgehog had the same shoes that Sonics typically had, so maybe this was this universe’s Sonic.

“I think that’s a point to me.” The golden hedgehog grinned smugly, showing off sharp teeth.

“Super there’s no points here.” Tails sighed, adjusting some sort of device in his lap that Nine hadn’t noticed at first. “It’s training.”

The newly identified Super, so he wasn’t Sonic then, crossed his arms and sighed. “You’re no fun.”

By this point Shadow had pushed himself back to his feet and was brushing dirt off himself. “You need to stay focused if you’re going to make progress.” He gave Super a look that Nine couldn’t place. “You are… improving though.” The compliment almost looked like it physically pained Shadow to give.

“I can back that up too!” Tails jumped in excitedly, turning his device around so the screen could be seen. “I’ve been monitoring your chaos energy levels and you’ve been keeping them pretty steady. Even when you were actively using it.”

Nine looked at the screen in interest. It was hard to see from his position but there was a lot of information there. Based on what Tails was explaining it must all have to do with this… Super. As Nine tried to move a bit closer to see the screen better he made the mistake of stepping on and snapping a twig.

Immediately the golden hedgehog was turned around and facing him. Nine felt oddly terrified, though he had no idea why. Him finally noticing the odd red spiral eyes that Super had didn’t help. “You expecting company?” Super eyes darted to Shadow briefly.

Shadow shook his head, eyes now also focused in Nine’s direction. “No. Even if I was either we wouldn’t have noticed or it would have been obvious.”

With a nod Super was gone. Nine was instantly on alert, metal tails spreading out to form a loose shield around himself. Maybe it was a bad idea to turn his back to the other two but his biggest concern was the one he didn’t know the location of. Maybe he’d misjudged this universe, maybe these three were evil and he’d just caught them in an odd downtime, maybe- “Boo.” Nine whirled around at the sudden other voice. Faint, golden light glinted off his metal tails as he pointed them at the other. Super looked hostile at first but after a moment his expression changed into one of confusion. He glanced over to where Tails was and then back to Nine. “What?” He asked, confusion clear in his voice.

“Don’t come any closer.” Nine growled, metal tails shifting slightly to hopefully emphasize their potential danger. Super eyed them more in interest than fear. 

“Who the heck are you supposed to be?” Super’s body language was mostly reading as relaxed at the moment, but Nine knew better than to trust that. It was easy to tell that if Nine made one wrong move Super would be on him in an instant. He was treading on thin ice here and he had no idea where it was safe to step. Nor did he know what the consequence for misstepping was.

Maybe he should try to be honest? At least with his name. It was possible the trio he’d stumbled across were evil but… well he didn’t see much of a way out of this. He felt a lot like a mouse cornered by a cat right now, and the way Super was watching every twitch of his body didn’t help. “Nine.” He said evenly, watching Super just as intently.

“Nine huh…” Super frowned. “So what are you doing here Nine?” He folded his hands behind his back as he began to circle around. Nine turned to make sure Super was always in his line of sight. It felt… dangerous to let him out of his sight right now. Should he just say why he was here? Would that stop Super from doing… whatever it was he would do? Maybe though if Nine was quick enough he could run and just head to the next universe. An involuntary shudder ran down his spine as Super’s eyes narrowed. “No answer huh?” Super’s voice was just a bit sharper. Suddenly Super stopped, his expression softened, and it felt like all the tension in the air abruptly vanished. Nine was left reeling at the sudden lack of apparent danger and stumbled as he stopped moving. Now Super just looked away from him, frowning. Oddly his expression changed as if he was having some sort of conversation, but there were no words.

Nine kept his guard up, even if he felt relatively safe at the moment, as he watched Super eventually groan and look back at Nine. Instead of saying anything though gold quickly gave way to an all too familiar blue, and odd red spiral eyes faded back to normal green ones. Sonic stretched out and shook himself. “Sorry about him.” Sonic had an apologetic smile now. “He’s… still learning social stuff.” His ears perked up as he laughed briefly, Nine failed to see what was funny. “Hope he didn’t scare you too bad.” 

Before Nine could respond Tails and Shadow were there. Tails practically instantly locked eyes with Nine. It was weird to see a mirror of yourself sure, but the novelty had worn off for Nine a while ago. “Do you mind?” Nine asked impatiently, feeling more confident now that Super was… gone? He wasn’t sure how that worked exactly. At the very least the fear that had started clouding his mind earlier was gone now that Super was out of sight.

“Oh!” Tails rubbed the back of his head in clear embarrassment as he looked away. “Sorry.”

“So what’s going on here?” Shadow crossed his arms and cast a glance over the whole group.

“Well from what I could get from watching what was going on… and what Super is ranting about currently.” Sonic winced. “Nine here showed up, but something about him really set Super off. He’s… not making much sense right now actually. Something about weird energies or something.” He shrugged.

“I meant who he was and why he was here.” Shadow gestured at Nine.

Well Nine was pretty sure these guys weren’t out to get him at this point. “I’ve been… universe hopping.” He started. No need to give them the whole truth. If he told them he was looking for a place to stay they might try and convince him to stay here, which wasn’t happening. However he was curious about the whole… Super thing, so he probably would stay for a couple days just to satisfy his curiosity. He just hoped he didn’t have to encounter Super alone like that again. 

“So our universe is just the latest stop huh?” Sonic nodded. “Cool.”

“You don’t seem too surprised by this.” Nine tilted his head slightly. 

“Well I mean we have some experience with different worlds. Like the Sol dimension where Blaze comes from.” Sonic hummed. “Though I’m getting the feeling you don’t mean something like that.”

“Not quite.” Nine confirmed. 

Sonic shrugged. “Eh, weirder things have happened.”

“That’s really fascinating.” Tails hummed. “It’s amazing you were able to make something that allowed you to do that in the first place.”

“If we’re done here.” Shadow cleared his throat. “You two can take the other fox back with you.”

“Aw come on Shads. We’re not annoying you are we?” Sonic grinned.

“The only reason I tolerate you coming over so often at the moment is because I made the terrible decision of agreeing to train Super.” Shadow huffed. “This-” He gestured to Nine. “-lies well outside of that agreement.”

Sonic sighed, but nodded. “Right right. We’ll get out of your quills for now. As long as you’re ok with coming with us Nine?” He looked over at Nine.

Well he wouldn’t be able to figure out whatever was going on with Super without them, so as much as he would like to just head to the next universe he sighed and nodded. “That’s fine for now. Just don’t expect me to hang around too long.”

“No worries.” Sonic grinned. “We’ll give ya a place to stay as long as you’re here. Sound good?” He held out a hand.

Some part of Nine felt like sticking around would be a bad idea. That it would be far better to just reject the offer and leave. It would be easy, he was confident they wouldn’t stop him. It was hard to ignore the part of him that was just… curious though. Tentatively he took the offered hand. It was only a couple of days. What could go wrong?

[abysshearted]

FUCKING GROSS SOBBING

HE REALLY IS A BEAUTIFUL KHAENRI'AHN PRINCE,,,