#also shadow didnt use a gun

[lyroth01]

So my housemate just hallucinated an entire second shadow the hedgehog game where he has to get sim points from The Devil. From The Bible to 'become king of hell or something'. He also become the president, which had something to do with the Devil, while comatose.

I didn't know bring high did THIS to someone

[sonknuxadow]

its funny that people always talk about shadow having a gun and shadow is known as The Guy With The Gun when tails uses guns way more often and also the idea of tails using guns is objectively funnier than the idea of shadow using guns

[nuturalsuper]

sam and dean after they are done with hunting and they get a house somewhere in the countryside. they have a big dog that sam brought home one day and dean just couldnt say no, he loves the dog secretly but doesnt want to admit to that. they sleep in the same bed even though they have a spare bedroom, most days they wake all cuddled up, legs tangled, sticky and sweaty. they exchange a few kisses there, dean brushes sams hair away from his face so he could better see his sleepy face and sam smiles so softly, memories of all the times he almost lost dean running through his head so he hugs him just a little tighter, happy to have him right here next to him. their dog jumps on the bed to make them get up, most times its funny and sweet but sometimes ita annoying and sam has to get up, grumbling about it. he makes them some coffee and goes to take the dog on his morning run, unlike dean, sam didnt want to give up on exercising, he wants to stay in shape - just in case, he says, and dean shivers every time he hears that because if something happened that would require them to hunt again hed have to lock them both up somewhere or move all the way across the world. hes not loosing sammy, not again. by the time sam is back, dean already took a shower and got dressed for work, he helps out in a car repair shop not far from their house and as much as he complains about it, sam knows that dean loves it. sam works from home, if dean was asked to explain what exactly sams job is he probably wouldnt be able to but it has something to do with fact checking articles or something like that. he gets paid well and doesn't really have much stress about it so its a great job. in the evenings they usually make some food, have a few beers, watch a movie until dean starts snoring on the couch. his head somehow ends up on sams lap but hes not complaining. the pictures of the friends and family that they have lost along the way are staring down at them from the walls of their house. their basement is filled with guns and knives that they swore they would get rid of but cant seem to part with. johns journal sits on deans nighstand like a bible and he reads the verses before bed most nights while sam pretends to hate it while also sneaking a few glances at the drawings that he knows by heart by now. sometimes they cry. sometimes they cant get out of bed and sometimes they have such awful nightmares that they have to get up and watch TV until the morning. sometimes they get paranoid, sam mostly, saying how he saw a shadow in the corner of their room, or heard something from the attic, dean goes to check, every time, playing it off as if its not a big deal but secretly his heart is racing and there is a kitchen knife in his hands. sometimes they have sex, and its nothing like the quickies theyd have in gas station bathrooms, or in the back of their car, its not the hair pulling, biting, rough type that they used to have when they were younger and stressed out, its slow, its gentle, its sweet and loving, it doesnt even matter whos on top, they hold eachother afterwords and dean doesnt feel stupid for telling sam straight up that he loves him, and sam doesnt make fun of him, he says it right back. its not easy at all, they pretend to be normal, but their past is right there all the time and they cant get rid of it as it haunts them, it takes time but they do learn to live with it. its a little easier every day, at least theyre together like they were always supposed to be, and they get to experience getting old, something they never expected to have a chance to do

[lazorbeanz]

Another continuation to my list of random thoughts and reactions to STH3

(Part 3🫠)

!spoilers ahead duh!

- NOOOOOOO TOM!!!! HE CANT BE DEAD!!! SHADOW DID NOT JUST KILL TOM (I was literally shaking AND oh was I on the brink of tears too aakdjsjsnjs)

- more parallels 😭

- omg the new suits looking like how they do in the games o yaaaaas

- uhm someone care to help eggman he looks like he’s having a seizure

- okay now I definitely feel bad for stone :(

- idk why but this part in the movie I could NOT stop rambling to myself about it

It was after the ambulance had driven away with tom and maddie

How Sonic was just filled with so much anger and hurt he was willing to break the promise he made with his team about not using the M.E

Knuckles ofc was fully against the idea as using the M.E could be too dangerous, especially using it for something like vengeance. Then also saying that Sonic is in no right to make any decisions esp in his emotional state

Because emotions (especially anger) can cloud your judgement. you’re not always thinking straight therefore leading to irrational decision making

And knuckles, always being known as the hothead, short tempered, sometimes leaping into battles with just fists and no brain. He of all people probably knows what happens when you make decisions based off your emotions

And iirc doesn’t the power of the Master Emerald (or the chaos emeralds) reflects (or is based of) the person’s heart? Having someone who is feeling a whole pile of negative emotions wield such power can have severe consequences (which I’m pretty sure has already been demonstrated)

But anyways Sonic couldn’t care at the moment, he was even fine with going solo if no one “had the guts” Hecc, he was even ready to throw hands with Knux just to win it over and I was like “oh shiz it’s gonna be STH2 all over again” cuz y’know they both got all charged up

But then Knuckles was reminded about the OTHER half of their promise…to trust each other, and he was going to make sure he kept that promise even if Sonic broke it on his end, even if Sonic chooses to go with what could be a very reckless choice. When knux swears a ✨sacred oath✨ he is bound to keep it regardless.

So he stands down and lets Sonic have his way

Idk did that not just scream maturity or character development to you?? Bc knux usually wouldn’t make a stretch like this esp with the M.E. Idk maybe I looked too far into it help

(Also I’m not in any way condemning Sonic for being the way he was…poor guy has been thru a lot from dealing with another hedgehog, to 2 eggmen, GUN, and now his “dying” father. He has every right to be pissed)

- oh is it who I think it is-

- OH MY GOSH WADE HAHAHAHA YESSSSS THE NEW FEARSOME GUARDIAN OF THE MASTER EMERALD ALL QUIVER BEFORE HIM

- BUDDY YOU DIDNT EVEN LOOK LIKE YOU TRIED-

- NAAAAA NO MORE SAD FLASHBACKS :(

- OH STUFF’S ABOUT TO GET REAL

- SUPER SHADOW ENTERED THE CHAT!!!!

- SONIC JUST PUNCHING SHADOW ACROSS THE WORLD DAAAAYYUUUUMM BROS ON A WHOLE NEW LEVEL OF VIOLENCE

🎶Brazil, Morocco, London to Ibiza-🎶 (shh it’s totally accurate)

- I’m crying WHAT IS THIS SORCERY

- SONIC SHED A TEAR I REPEAT SONIC SHED A TEAR I SAW IT

- ahh yes beautiful trauma bonding

- OMG OKAY ITS HAPPENING EVERYBODY STAY CALM

- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

- LIVE AND LEARRRRNNNNNN

- old people and insects…

- BANGER SCENE + BANGER SONG = PEAK CINEMA PT.2

- THEY DID THE THING!!!

- oop there goes eggman

- WAIT WHERE DID TAILS AND KNUCKLES COME FROM DID I MISS SOMETHING?

- lmfao Gerald gets his ass zapped by his grandson and then incinerated by pure chaos energy the karma is reallll but uhm rest in pepperonis ig

- THEY PISSED ON THE FREAKING MOOOOOOOON

- AAAAAHHHHH TAILS SEES HIS BIG BRO PLUMMETING TO HIS DOOM AND-

HES IN TEARS IM UNWELL

- YESSSS GO SAVE YOUR BUDDY!!!!

- sayonara Shadow the Hedgehog and Dr.Robotnik 🫡

- NOOOO TAILS LOSING CONSCIOUS YOU TRIED ITS OKAY

- YEEEAAAAHHHHH HERE COMES KNUCKLES TO SAVE BOTH HIS LIL BROTHERS!!!!! 💪💪💪

- TEAM HUG AWWWWW LETS GO

- DONUT LORD IS ALIIIIIVEEEE YESSSS

- MORE DOGGY TRANSLATIONS :D

yes ozzy u get all the loveeee

- YES WE GET THE REAL RACE THIS TIME TO TOP IT OFF

- I love this movie

- *proceeds to jam out to the credits*

- welcome to the SCU Amy 🩷 ALSO GURL UR SO PRETTY WOWZERS

- I need STH4 NOW

[sonic-au-collision]

SONIC AU COLLISION: ROUND 2

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Sidekick Sonic AU belongs to @raihanijulie [link to au tag]

Inkwell AU belongs to @xx-disco-inferno-xx [link to info & character design]

Explore each world below the cut!

Sidekick Sonic AU:

Sonic is an existing figure, inspiration to everyone. His positive personalities and energy inspire everyone to keep moving forward!

SO WHAT IF Sonic is 'kinda' an imaginary friend that lives inside everyone's heart and is always there to boost/support his friends n companies to pursue their dreams!!! Sonic will always be viewed differently in ppl's prespectives, its all based on the person's mind, feelings, and purpose in life.

Happens mostly whenever they're feeling down and losing hope in anything. To prevent all that, of course, the hero, Sonic comes to your life to keep your spirit up!! Those Sonics will appear beside you as you're feeling down... or they can actually pop up whenever you need em and then disappear again (nono, he didnt fully gone. He just poofed but he is still within yall's heart and mind)! Again, he is your trusty sidekick, hehe. Other people can also see your Sonic, as you can see theirs too! Its always good to build new connections.

*basically PJSK and Fairly God Parents inspired HEHE

Inkwell AU:

Shadow was created in the Sonic universe equivalent of the 30s after a deal Gerald made with Black Doom. In exchange for only an explanation of what he was doing (he pinkie promised), Black Doom offered to help with Gerald's development of the bioweapon GUN had commissioned him to create.

Gerald had made several cartoon drawings of a Mobian hedgehog to cheer up his granddaughter, Maria, since she was confined to her room due to a severe immune deficiency. These doodles caught Black Doom's eye, and he brought one to life, creating Shadow, a living toon made out of ink, and completing Gerald's project.

He eventually found out that it was impossible for Shadow to host bacterial or viral life, while the toon befriended Maria by slipping under her door to visit her, and took a little bit of Shadow's ink to study it as a possible cure for her disease. GUN found out about this theft and raided Gerald's work, killing everyone there and sealing Shadow in an ink jar to be put in storage.

70 years later, Dr Eggman finds Shadow and releases him, triggering events similar to SA2. Instead of using the ARK, though (since it doesn't exist), Shadow simply threatens to turn off the sun (toon abilities), and breaks the moon in half as a display of power rather than it being blown in two by the Eclipse Cannon. The only reason his redemption was possible was because he has a theatric streak a mile wide, giving Team Sonic the chance to get through to him.

Black Doom is revealed to have been the one who messed with Shadow's memories in hopes of him destroying the Earth, and since that didn't work out, he just came back with the Black Comet to do it himself. Super Sonic and Super Shadow work together to defeat Black Doom and destroy the Black Comet (instead of Final Hazard), and Shadow turns into a pile of ashes upon reentry into the atmosphere, seemingly dying.

(Spoiler alert: he didn't.)

Dr Eggman eventually finds him as a puddle of ink and has him redrawn, bringing him back to life, but without a lot of his memories.

[shigayokagayama]

incomplete list of weird/interesting manga-anime discrepancies

-you know the bit where they break into the girls highschool in episode 2? yea thats chapter 56. spliced into the middle of chapter 4. its supposed to go before the bit with the ghost family as a lead up to the mogami arc with mob starting to consider evil spirits as just as much “people” as living humans are. all things considered its kind of weird how well it fits its anime placement

-ritsu in the manga gets introduced in the same chapter as teru. you dont see mobs family at all for the first few chapters. infact i dont think his parents appear until like. chapter 25????? every interaction you see between mob and any of his family is completely made up for the anime

-in the manga during the claw arc instead of reigen sending them away all the lackeys just stood there awkwardly during the fight w the scars fdnjksndkjgnd

-mogami arc got GUTTED my god. the part where the fake psychics tried to murder minori got removed, shinras role in the arc got reduced to basically nothing, they move mogamiland ritsu to a bridge like 50 feet away instead of having him walk right over mob, mob only gets beat up like twice, the cat lives, the boxcutter bit is totally removed, the fight with the spirits is made a lot more abstract and less graphic. like im glad this one took the hit instead of the separation arc bc i cant imagine that arc ever being effective as one episode but wow.

-putting the “mob finding his family dead” thing at the end of the episode instead of in the middle of a chapter where it originally was was an objectively hilarious move

-rip the scene of teru outsmarting all three claw guys and saying “say old man have you ever been tortured before” unfortunately all scenes of teru being competent are not plot relevant and must die. also teru can make shadow clones

-hey remember those weird satellite people in claw keeping the viewer updated on where all the characters were in that infinite arc?

-mob with a gun.

-mob getting briefly knocked out while fighting toichiro and dimple possessing him then getting kicked out was replaced w toichiro just throwing him out the window or somethhing???

-toichiro saying that he only kept the super five around as spare batteries and draining serizawas power getting cut was a personal affront to me

-every single emotion mob cycled through in the anime got a 100% meter. the kid was super emotionally unstable in that fight

-that old man whos house they went to whos wraith made everyone asleep that they exorcised? yea they anime team made that up. they never went to his house in the manga, he just went to spirits and such for a shoulder massage

-manga reigen got 0 money for helping the yokai dude. it wasnt on the table. also most of the stuff he was saying was lifted from a video game serizawa played which he pointed out. also serizawa thought getting arrested was a type of spell

-takenakas general meanness was significantly toned down manga takenaka was a huge bitch

-in general the alien arc was a lot funnier in the manga? like the scene where reigen crashes they had reached a dead end on an extremely narrow path and were driving in reverse while tome and takenaka were screaming at each other in the back and inukawa was 5 seconds from snapping and killing everyone in the car. these might be my favorite pages in the entire manga they as so fucking funny

-originally when tome said she wouldnt keep climbing reigen suggested mob carry her with telekinesis (which horrified her) and mob said he was too motion sick to use his powers (obvious lie) but could carry her instead which got her to get up

-mezato asking mob to sign a t shirt for the psycho helmet cult in exchange for relationship advice got cut

-i cry every day that the sequence of ???% waking up didnt get animated it set a very different tone than the anime did. the anime was like. slow build up of dread. the manga was immediately bone deep horror i was literally sitting in my room yelling “WHAT???” over and over again at my computer as i clicked through it

-shigeo and mob conversation cut down significantly, all the references to the body improvement club being mob making a new self rather than embracing who he really is and being scared that all the friends hes made wouldnt like the real him removed </3

-the scene where reigen takes his shoes off is made a lot less somber and depressing. it feels less like “oh he knows hes going to die” and more like. triumphant? in the anime

-100% shigeo kageyama is an anime addition they added specifically to ruin my “the first time we see mob 100% is to fight dimple and the last time is to stop himself from fighting dimple” observation

-anime teru generally seems like hes in a better place than manga teru? manga teru seems very melancholy and like he doesn’t really know what to do with his life or his place in the world (which seems to put shigeo off) but anime teru is like wanna go shopping ^_^ *sips tea happily*

-manga shigeo deliberately threw the cake directly in reigens face and my fury over them making this ambiguous will last until i am dead

[lara-cairncross]

Sonic related question - What were your thoughts on the 3rd movie aka WAS I THE ONLY ONE LEFT IN EMOTIONAL SHAMBLES???

Also fanart possibly??? 🙏🙏🙏 I adore your art

can confirm that you are not, in fact, the only one left in emotional shambles. i don't think Shadow has left my mind for longer than ten minutes at a time since i first saw that movie a month ago bro

apologies in advance, this is gonna be a long read:

shadow did nothing wrong and i WILL excuse his every action at a level previously only witnessed in delusional dream apologists. i will defend him on my deathbed idgaf who cares if he killed people!!! he was having a bad day 🥺🥺🥺

no but actually. i have so many things to say about this. like, do we realize that before Gerald instigated the whole revenge plot, Shadow made no move to hurt or attack anyone that wasn't trying to hurt him first??? when he first woke up, he only attacked the GUN soldiers that were actively pointing weapons at him, but left the two guys up in the command station alone. when he was in Tokyo, he was surrounded by people and lights and cars and was probably really disoriented, but didnt attack ANYTHING until GUN showed up with tanks and guns pointed at him-- and even then he tried to tell them to just leave him alone before the fight started. when Team Sonic first showed up, he again literally just told them to LEAVE HIM ALONE even though they came from GUN, and only fought back after Knuckles attacked him first. even after his escape, all he did was try to return to his home!!! HE DIDNT WANT TO HURT ANYONE UNTIL THEY CAME FOR HIM FIRST!!! HES A GOOD BOY IDC WHAT ANYONE TELLS ME !!!!

and even with the revenge plot-- like, of COURSE Shadow was gonna do what Gerald said??? obviously he had a choice in the matter, but Gerald was also his one remaining link to both Maria and his past home, and he probably spent his whole life in the laboratory doing whatever Gerald told him to do. like, that's a fifteen year old who's sister just died, and the one person who's passed as a father figure/authority figure to him for his entire life is telling him to get revenge on the people who killed her. no SHIT he was gonna do what Gerald told him to. ik its speculation on my part but you cant convince me he wasn't conditioned into following orders in that lab like im sorry

EVEN WITH ALMOST KILLING TOM-- like ofc Sonic was rightfully mad, and I do think shadow needed to get sucker-punched to the moon for that one lmao i love Tom too much to see him go. but also, Shadow wasn't really attacking Tom-- he was attacking Walters. Like, the guy who let his sister die and then locked him away for 50 years. i feel like that's a slightly understandable reason to want somebody dead lmao

in short i wasnt lying when i said i would defend everything Shadow does AHSHDHAHDH. the one thing i am NOT happy about is Shadow leaving Stone behind when the crab got swept away, but he probably figured they'd all be dead in 24 hours, so like. efficiency? idk idk Stone will probably forgive him after he adopts him soooooooooooooo

okay enough of that. knuckles is my second favorite character in the movies behind shadow. hes so fucking funny but surprisingly emotionally mature and i love him SO MUCH. that scene where he's on the brink of fighting with sonic over the master emerald but calms himself down to prevent in-fighting??? saving sonic and tails' asses at the end??? thats my BOY my SON he did SO GOOD AUGHHHHHH im a sucker for older siblings acting like shields (Rise Raph, Vi from Arcane, etc) and Knuckles is just the latest addition to my collection of Eldest Daughter Syndromes

adding onto that kinda, i really liked how they used tails and knuckles in this movie :DD i was scared they'd kinda get shoved aside but NO!!! they both had great moments!!!! GOOD STORYTELLING HOLY SHIT I FORGOT HOLLYWOOD COULD DO THAT

ALSO the human characters continue to surprise me with how much i care about them lol, i wasnt as big on it in the second movie but i think thats cuz tom and maddie were separated from sonic most of the time that the focus was on them?? but in this movie, whenever tom and maddie were on screen they were usually WITH the boys or talking to them somehow, so i think i liked it better that way!!! they're both such good parents!!!! AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON STONE AND ROBOTNIK. GOD DAMN IT.

we need more Ozzie content overall. where is the good boy. i barely saw him

the shadow and maria moments were so well done and hit a lot of emotional beats for being such a short chunk of the film??? like they didn't have a ton of screentime together, but what they did have was PACKED. im an older sibling to a little brother and sibling relationships in media hit me so hard bro. i actually saw it with him in theaters the first two times i went and i was tearing up at maria and shadow's scenes together every time :(((( ark siblings you are so important to me !!! I NEED TO DRAW THEM

tbh i would've liked less of the Robotniks' shenanigans and a bit more of Shadow's backstory? i really enjoyed a lot of the Ivo and Gerald scenes, but it was starting to get a little old for me by the end, especially with some of the cutaways from the MAIN CHARACTERS. idk i just would've liked more shadow in the movie,,,, about shadow,,,,,, but also im biased so maybe its actually fine LMAO

That being said. i fucking LOVED ivo in this movie!!! PEAK EGGMAN BEHAVIOR OMG OMG OMG AND HIM SACRIFICING HIMSELF AT THE END??? AND THE FUCKING. DOOMED YAOI. STOBOTNIK YOU ARE SO IMPORTANT TO ME I NEED TO DRAW THEM SO BADLY I CANT WAIT ANYMORE IVE SEEN TOO MANY TIKTOK EDITS THAT REBOOTED MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY

having Live and Learn being a reoccurring motif was a galaxy brain creative decision and i applaud whoever did it

I LOVED the coloring they did for Super Shadow-- like, the rosey gold/platinum color??? PHENOMENALLLLLL IT WORKS SO WELL ON HIM!!!! I don't like Sonic's bright fucking yellow gold coloring as much, but I also dont think the model was as bad as everyone seems to think it was???? i dont know enough about it tho lol, in my eyes they both worked really well for the Super scenes :DDD

the moon scene . need i say more

also can we talk about how Shadow is like. blatantly suicidal. can we talk about that. does anybody want to share some thoughts about that. and maybe scream into a pillow. and have a crying session together. like i know *I* was suicidal at 15 but Shadow doesn't deserve that come on now

Sonic was great as always but -50 aura points for the second-hand embarrassment I felt every time "Konichi-WHAAAAAAAA" came up on screen oh my god i had to hide my face behind my fucking popcorn bag whenever that scene happened i couldnt handle it. my brother keeps saying it at random points during the day now because he knows it pisses me off. and its sonic's fault. ik hes supposed to be a cringe teenager but i do want to dropkick him occasionally /affectionate

tails is baby. tails is baby boy. i liked it when he flushed the crab. baby boy. did nothing wrong.

everytime i see a screenshot of shadow and his stupid wet-cat-kicked-puppy face i want to SCREAM. HOW DID THEY MAKE HIM SO CUTE. LIKE HIS MODEL IS GENUINELY PERFECT I CANT THINK OF ANY IMPROVEMENTS THEY COULD'VE MADE HE LOOKS COOL BUT CUTE BUT SAD BUT ANGRY ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!! HES MY BABY AND I LOVE HIM SO MUCH I HOPE HE SHOWS UP IN THE FOURTH MOVIE I HOPE SOMEBODY (coughs stone coughs) ADOPTS HIM AND GIVES HIM A HOME I JUST WANT HIM TO BE HAPPY BRO

where the fuck did the chaos emeralds go. im kinda hoping shadow fell to earth with them, cuz that could lead to a possible plot with knuckles (or the whole team) having to recover them and running into him again :D

definitely my favorite sonic movie out of the current trilogy!!! it definitely wasn't perfect tho, and i dont think it's the masterpiece everyone makes it out to be-- like, there were definitely some issues I had with the writing at various points, and sometimes the pacing felt off? I do think it should've been like, at least 10-20 minutes longer, especially with the cut scenes that have been released. Stone pulling Ivo out of the wreckage SHOULD have stayed in!!! I dunno why they removed it!!! that being said, i LOVED IT and it's the movie that's gotten me obsessed with the Sonic franchise, so in my mind it's now one of my favs :DDD PLUS I SAW IT WITH MY LITTLE BROTHER AND HE LOVED IT AND WE HAD SO MUCH FUN SO NOW ITS JUST A GIANT HAPPY FEELING IN MY BRAIN WHENEVER I THINK ABOUT IT RAHHHHHH

anyway. Gabriella should kill them both

fanart wise-- dude im cooking up so much i promise. tbh the biggest issue is that i have so many ideas and so many WIPS that im just pingponging between them all and not actually finishing anything LMAO

[1-800-deactivatednearu]

woag character design notes

[i.d.: a drawn line up of the half life vr ai characters, from left to right, gordon, dr. coomer, tommy, bubby, gman, and benrey. /end i.d.]

yeah i skipped some guys , i dont draw some of them enough to have much unique designs and some of them are a png of a dog

trust me i am just surprised as the rest of yall that i am doing hlvrai art . design notes below (very long, mind your step)

gordon:

wow this guy dont got no head

i didnt want to give gordon a face because of how unexact the person is as the fandom engages with it. is it wayne rtvs? (well as presented to an audience, yes) is it gordon freeman? (well as seen from an in game perspective, yes) is it a whole new guy entirely? (well as

i cut the confusion and took it a whole new direction: guillotine

hlvrai being treated as a very broken game is fun to me as a design perspective, so if you (the audience) are not supposed to see his face, what happens when you see it anyways? missing texture time

there are eyes drawn over because i did not have confidence in my expressions at first and then it grew on me

i think if i were to draw (and i have drawn) an actual person under the mask i would still censor the eyes because that is where the vr headset sits!!

(i do not like putting an actual flesh to gordon though)

though i really like seeing how other people interpret gordon hlvrai it is not . my gordon ? we are talking about the same guy . but this is my gordo . i made this one . this guy my guy . maybe i should draw other gordon designs

i can draw the hev suit from memory and it is also the entire reason why i can render metal confidently

i liked how people changed the lambda to read ai :] i also have no clue if i wrote the lambda correctly

(i did, i just checked)

dr coomer:

as much as i draw/drew him i find it more fun to not stick to one set design :)

so a lot of my takes on dr coomer tend to jump from idea to idea, especially from what other people are doing, though they could be fitted to the left and right designs!

the left design is mainly based off what i saw in fandom spaces

we see rounder shapes, making for a more friendly and welcoming appearance

i think of this as straying from the more professional uniform of the actual scientist models

enter swimming shorts and bright yellow socks, for some reason

so now he kind of looks like a cool science teacher :)

it might be the lab coat

the right design is mainly based off thumbnails for hlvrai itself

these use a more angular appearance

i want to push how comically buff he is because of strength he shows at times, especially since his left design seems to completely down play it as a comically not buff man who is still very strong

the shadows on right design coomer get so much more harsh and exaggerated because i have comic books on the mind :)

he really does look like a dehydrated comic book character huh

tommy:

stick bug (he gets it from his dad) (this thought process is explained at gman section)

i pushed a lot of the saturation of colours in her design because i think tommy gets to be a little silly with it

fun art story of the day! when you color, try messing with hue! you might notice you can get away with a lot as long as your values are about right

i like pushing this with white because you can get away with a lot of things reading as “off white”

old faithful for me is cool shadows with a warm transition colour to keep things visually interesting

i keep making white objects the trans flag

happy pride

tommys design looks a little like a school boy, with the tucked in button up shirt+suspenders+shorts+jacket tied around the waist . and the primary colours . but like it is really fun to dress up so brightly

i actually was strongly inspired by medieval babies if that is a weird descriptor? i wanted him to both be a middle aged man but also a young adult

do not be like tommy, who has their finger on the trigger of the gun while not even looking at where it is pointing and good god he is squeezing the trigger . top ten firearm safety of all time

bubby:

the absurd part is that i think bubby is tall . he is just between tommy and gman who are exaggeratedly lanky .

i wanted to make bubby a pointy kinda guy, so he is the only one actually wearing the lab coat proper . and the only one actually wearing dress socks but not even wearing dress shoes

i wanted to give him a novelty tie but i was running low on ideas and running high on boreds so we dont get a tie

he does have crocs though!! in attack mode!!

i do think we all kind of saw his model and collectively decided it works for him because i have honestly not seen major divergences from his model?

gman:

stick bug

i wanted to stress the more spooky and unknowable nature of him and took it in the dark souls direction of “make bigger than player character”

maked too bigger

he cannot walk through any doorways but you will have to crane your neck to look up at him

in the opposite direction of tommy, i pulled a lot of the saturation in gmans design

it feels important to make them both not fully match the rest of the slightly less broken npcs because there was so much work to make them look cool so i have to respect that

actually a lot of gmans and tommys designs are made in opposite to one another

gman has a largely stationary face and very stiff line work

while tommy is pushed to expressive as possible

thats pretty fun, way to go me

benrey:

benrey also has two designs

and in both of these i keep getting too lazy to use a reference so  the vests are super plain (forgetting the badge and black mesa logo) . i think the helmet is supposed to be darker actually .

the design ethos of benrey was “built like a brick shithouse”

a friend of mine took this cooler and interpreted it as a shield/wall/barrier as a physical (and narrative) obstacle

again the first uses fandom designs

most notably the overcast shadow (seen in video thumbnails but i never noticed it or understood why so many people did it until someone pointed it out to me)

i think hlvrai is such a great medium because it acknowledges it is a game and is able to play into that to great effect! i think the shadow is fun to imagine as solid black as a small reminder of the impossibility of the space :]

benrey is a smug cat in the body of a human . to be honest . and this is the full range of emotion i have ever drawn him with

the second was mostly because as fun as taking creative liberties are, i just really wanted to see benrey as is: the half life security guard model in all its slight wonk :]

i actually do prefer this design . it is a little more uncanny because i choose the worst translations of the model . i like it because it is a little more uncanny !

that can be said for like . every single design in this line up huh .

[imagine-shenanigans]

I've got severe brain worms from @391780 's fic Into Your Veins, and now I'm thinking of all the different scenarios where the 141 are also monsters in the apocalypse. like. obsessively. Also fat/chubby reader because mmmmmm yaes <3

Also this is basically just rambles and ranting over ideas for like, however long this got i didnt actually check teehee

We already have vampire simon so I won't touch on that because that is Specifically Their Brain Worms but I can't stop laughing every single time over the sunflower seeds incident (and every other similar one).

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Soap as a werewolf is soooooo funny to me. Like he's constantly in this battle of "Don't swallow don't swallow don't swallow" whenever he rips a zombie in half with his teeth in wolf form and then confusion as to why people would think he's possibly infected. "Wdym I'm infected I'm just a little guy. I'm so cute. I wouldn't ever do anything. Smiles." He can't cover distance like Ghost or Gaz can, and sure he doesn't have the same authority that Price does, but he's a damn good soldier, and he's got some of the most sheer brute force on the team. So when Price tells him to start scouting in an area for survivors, he does! He's very thorough, combs over the area with a precision that would make most soldiers weep with jealousy.

He ends up scenting reader before he sees them, watches their little house from a distance. He's not patient like Simon, but he does watch reader for awhile, watches them surviving, all on their own in this little plot of land. Ends up watching your plush hips sway as you set out the laundry to dry. He's mesmerized, as he watches the sweat drip down your skin while you reinforce a few of your traps, go over the house with a fine toothed comb. You can't see him in the shadows, but by god is he seeing you. (And your ass - god he can't stop staring.)

He's not nearly patient enough to wait, so he waltzes right up, thinking his charming smile and accent is enough to win him some brownie points. He's halfway through a pickup line, maybe, when you level a shotgun at his face, completely unamused.

He's in love.

You refuse to go with him, but Price gave him orders and there's no WAY he's letting you go, not after he's seen your thighs and imagined himself using them as earmuffs. Not after he's thinking of a cute domestic life, providing for you like a good mate, and look at how precious you are, threatening him and -

and you shoot him.

Right in the chest, and thank god for the fact that it takes more than a few bullets to kill him because he's tearing through his skin in an instant, bones cracking and sinew melding as he quickly drops into his wolf form (which, jesus christ he's fucking HUGE) to help ease some of the pain and kickstart his healing process. He snarls right in your face and snaps your damn gun in half with his teeth before he tells you he'll be back in a week. (later, he feels bad, certainly, but only for frightening you)

You freak out, because JESUS CHRIST WEREWOLVES ARE REAL TOO????

Johnny's back in a week as promised, after spending a few days in bed and eating anything he could get his hands on all while gushing about the pretty little soft thing he's bringing back. He even goes out of his way to bring you a gift!!! He hunts down a deer on the way through the woods near your home, bringing dinner so he can butcher it and you can cook it because of course he's bringing you back for practical reasons but if he's going to court you no you don't need to know that.

You're gone when he comes to the home, every last item packed away and shoved into the back of the car he'd seen you drive. He's furious that his hard work will go to waste, so he helps himself to the rest of what you've got in the house and decides to store everything away for when he's on his way back to base. Fights his urge to track you down only for long enough to be practical, and then he's on the hunt.

It doesn't take him long to find you - he can run faster than your car can go cautiously while trying not to attract attention from a horde of zombies, and even though he's living he doesn't attract the same attention from the freaks that you do in a car with a gun. He tracks you down in no time flat, smiling as he taps on your window where you're parked inconspicuously to catch a few minutes of sleep.

When you scream, he laughs and waves, threatens with one clawed hand to slash the tires if you don't come out. Practicality wins in this case, and he has a long talk with you about coming back with him. He's sure he's just about convinced you when you slap him, throwing something at him that has him howling in white-hot pain. He can hear your apologies through sobs as you push him and he tangles with whatever you've thrown at him, trying to get it off in a blind panic, and you've driven off before he can stop you.

When he finally has a moment to breathe, the damn thing off of him, he realizes you'd tied together a small net of necklace chains - silver. necklace chains.

He's as angry as he as endeared, really. It's a game now, of fetch, of tag, he's not sure - he just ends up changing pace, gently herds you back in the direction of the base like a cattle dog. You're furious when he finally pops your tires when you're a good two days away from the base, just hefts you up on a shoulder and pats your ass while he walks with you. He's so smug about it too, and by all accounts, he's won your hand in marriage by finding you, whether or not you agree yet.

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Now, I'm not as familiar with Gaz as I'd like to be (because I got introduced with Ghoap stuff for my entry into the fandom) so please pardon if my characterization is off but I do love him dearly and eat up all content I end up seeing of him.

I'm slightly biased with Gaz being a harpy because I just love the idea of him being a bird of prey like a peregrine falcon (and i think its bluegiragi who has the monster au of him as a harpy?) or a shifter of some sort like a panther or a cheetah (i'm biased towards cheetah actually, because I love the pictures/videos of cheetahs getting emotional support golden retrievers).

Since my idea for this isn't EITHER of those options, please consider reader putting spike traps on the roof for a bird Gaz like stores put up on their signs. He gets real angry about it for a couple days and then figures out exactly how/where to land so he can perch on your roof anyway, scaring the shit out of you when he's just sitting there, chin in his hands, with a shit eating grin when you go to make sure everything's alright on the roof.

Anyway, for this I'm actually thinking fae Gaz - he's been living amongst humans for as long as he can really remember. He's not a changeling, but his mum was fae and she loved his dad. He's visited the fae realm once or twice (and, as convincing as his mum is when he visits her, he nearly forgets about the time dissonance every single visit - none are as bad as the first time, when he had no clue about it, and ended up being gone for fifty years.)

He's sent to greet you when Ghost majestically fails, and Cap'n doesn't quite want to set Soap loose on the poor reader (yet). Ends up falling in love with how clever you are, soft hands slipping into gloves as you pile leaves over the thin nets over the punji pits and bear traps. He's military trained across multiple decades, he's seen all kinds of war (even though he's still relatively young in comparison - he stopped physically aging somewhere in his twenties, but he's barely been alive for like, fifty years) and he's seen all kinds of tricks.

He watches you pour over old books that you've either scavenged or already had, learning how to make simple, but effective traps. The older types of traps are such a clever idea when combined with new ones. The type doesn't matter much to zombies, but the combination of different types will keep humans (and others) on their guard.

He really really really intends to talk to you, instead of lingering in the shadows like a creep.

You end up seeing him, and through sheer luck (or wit, Gaz isn't honestly sure) when he asks that you give him your name, you say; "Give me your name first."

He's stuck at that one, because Gaz has spent years talking around subjects but this pretty little human just points a shotgun at him and demands his attention. He can't even think to talk around the reason he's there when he changes the subject awkwardly, and you insist on his name.

He can't give you his name, his power, not even his nickname, so it ends with him awkwardly leaving.

He's the absolute butt of the joke when he gets back to base after slipping into the trees (so embarrassed that he doesn't take the time to make sure you can't see him do it) and goes straight back to base utilizing a mushroom circle and the sheer willpower to not get distracted as he slips between realms. Makes a week long trek into an hour's worth of walking.

When he returns, he knocks politely, eyeing the newly replaced doorknob.

When he touches it, out of curiosity, he's gobsmacked to find out you've either found a new knob, or cast the old one in cold iron. He touches it three full times in complete disbelief, watches the skin on his hands grow irritated and blister.

You smirk when you open the door, make some shitty joke that he's pretty sure is a twilight reference that would make Ghost furious, and then you tell him you figured it out pretty quickly.

In comparison to Ghost and Soap, his romance is altogether extremely easy - he just keeps visiting every single day, calls you a nickname when you won't give him an actual answer.

He admires your caution, and falls just a little more in love when you call him something stupid like mushroom man.

In the end, what ends up convincing reader, I think, is that he fully gives them his name. It's akin to a proposal, and Gaz isn't quite sure how he feels when you don't realize it as you roll his name - Kyle Garrick on your tongue, testing it. You ask if you can keep calling him Mushie Man and some other stupid nickname and he laughs, presses a kiss to your temple for it. Says it's only fitting, and whispers your full name like a prayer.

He lets you stay in your home a little longer, as long as you need really, laces a misdirection hex into the branches that'll really only work on humans. He comes by every day, no matter what.

When you finally agree, he grabs your face and kisses you like you've given him the sun and stars and hung the moon just to illuminate his way.

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For Price, I'm going to say dragon price because mmmm hot. Anyway I like to think it's a little bit of everything.

Ghost is the first - you find out really quickly that he fucking hates the counting trick you pull, so you're sure to carry a pocket full of something small just to piss him off if he gets too close. When you don't make eye contact (whether intentional or because you hate it) he's absolutely bewildered that this Soft Little Thing in the woods has so effectively blocked him from getting his job done initially that when he complains to Price, he puts his foot down. Says if Price thinks is so funny, he should send Johnny or Gaz out, see if they can do better.

And Price, sides hurting from laughing so much, agrees to make it Soap's problem next.

Soap returns, a net-like burn across his forearm from where you'd thrown tied together necklace chains at him. He's pissed, whines and moans for hours about how bad it hurts, and Price just snorts and tells him Shouldn't have tried to drag them out, then.

When intimidation and brute force don't work, Price lets Gaz have a go at it.

The man is practically radiating smugness as he goes to win, and Price is crying with laughter when Gaz comes back, his hands blistered and pride bruised. He clears his throat and says I think ah, I think they've just gone ahead and put every guard on the house they can think of. He does not tell anyone that the human ended up catching him in a net for half an hour afterwards, chiding him for the full thirty minutes about trying to open someone's door without asking.

(But Price knows.)

He ends up saying he's going to go deal with it himself to "Show them how it's done."

Really though, he's absolutely smitten with the idea of you. He knows that, given the time and will, his boys would absolutely bring you back - but he doesn't want that anymore. He has to see for himself the cute soft little human in the woods that's managed to catch all three of his best soldiers off guard because all three of them underestimated you.

He can't very well let anyone on base know (especially the civilians) what he is, so he waits until the dead of night to start flying - only does so when he's well past the point of being seen, even if it means he has to fly in his hybrid form, which is a little awkward when he doesn't do it as often.

He's a perfect gentleman when he walks up to your home at daybreak, letting his form go back to human.

He avoids every trap, tripwire, and camera that Simon and Johnny and Kyle had all warned him about so you don't have to spend your precious time and energy fixing them. He knocks on the door and waits until you open it, introduces himself as Captain John Price, love.

Apologies for the heavy handed attempts of his men as he stands on your doorstep. When you slam the door in his face he simply sighs and knocks again. And again, and again, until you finally relent and open the door back up.

He smiles, and asks if he can come in - you say no, and he smiles.

Love, if I wanted to I could push past you, I'm asking to be polite.

You freeze at that, trying to think, trying to evaluate. You're clever, he thinks with a pleased hum, half lidded eyes staring down at you. You sigh, and relent, finally - knowing that whatever battle that you'd be fighting uphill could at least be done over the breakfast you were starting to cook, and you didn't want to waste it.

Something twinges in John's chest as he sits at the table, and decides, like the rotten, greedy bastard he knows he is, that you're his. And not his like the rest of the people he's got, but his. You'll be his, no matter how long it takes him.

He lets you cook in silence, enjoying the mundane domesticity of it all, tucks into the plate of food gratefully, and feels like he's home.

After breakfast, John takes the time to ask you questions. About your past, about your hobbies outside of survival, how many things you've got that'll be coming with. When you remind him you haven't agreed, he chuckles and smooths a hand over your hair and reminds you that he hasn't asked.

You finally ask him what he is, and he blows a mote of smoke at you, watches the realization hit you before you go blank. A fucking dragon? You ask.

A fucking dragon, he responds.

John is extremely amused when you tell him to wait on the doorstep, and you go upstairs for something. When you come back down, you hand him a box full of jewelry (he almost laughs when he notices the amount of silver chains missing.)

He hands you the box back and curls a finger beneath your chin, calls you a silly girl/boy/pet and tells you that not all the stories are true. In this case, they are, of course- but he doesn't need to tell you that he hoards people, not things. That his hoard is every single person on base - doesn't tell you that his most treasured parts of his hoard are the three strong men who work directly with him, that he intends to keep them for as long as he lives, which will still be a damn long time coming, even if he's been around since before the middle ages.

You'll be his favorite of all though, he thinks.

He gives you a week, but tells you that his boys will keep an eye on you, make sure you're still there every day until he personally comes to escort you home. When you remind him, stubbornly, you are home, he laughs, and presses a kiss to your forehead while you stand there, bewildered.

In between that moment, and when you get back to base with him, I can't decide if its better if he ends up singlehandedly destroying a small horde of zombies with fire breath as the pits you've got full of traps fill up, or if it's better if he shows up with a box truck and a few men and they all end up moving you out of the house without asking. Maybe it's a mix of both - you decide!

But regardless, it ends exactly as he wants - you, tucked up into his lap as he reads reports and issues orders. He skips the dating and goes straight into being your husband - makes some sort of quip about being far too old (fashioned) to entertain the thought and goes straight to being married like "it used to be." Even though for a dragon he's still kinda young, hasn't even hit his comparative forties yet, actually. Even though it doesn't really matter, because as far as he's aware dragons don't die of old age so much as they die of other factors beyond their control. It's why he's so carefully cultivated his life towards survival thus far.

John lets you do whatever you want to keep you busy, the only real stipulation is that you come home to him at the end of the day. He's even quite respectful, really. He never touches you without your consent, aside from placing soft kisses on your temple or forehead, or cuddling up to you in your shared bed. (Which you say you only entertain because he's warm, and there's no heating in his room. But really, you love it when he holds you, and lets you hold him with no questions asked, all under the pretense of being half-asleep.)

He acts like he has all the time in the world for you to come around - and he does.

You'll be awfully sore later when you realize he's bound your life to his, even angrier when your teeth adjust and you can start seeing better. He'll pretend not to notice the changes at first to see what you think, and then he'll help you through all of them, cooing and sighing and rubbing into sore muscles as you learn how to control changing into your half-dragon form. Maybe in a couple hundred years you'll figure out how to fully transform into a dragon - maybe not.

[gale-gentlepenguin]

Gale reviews: Sonic 3

Sonic's 3rd movie has Finally hit theaters.

(Thanks @knightsweeties for the sick art. She really deserves more love and people commissioning her)

Now in most with reviews I try to spit fire everything I saw with the Film and simply state my feelings at the end

But I will review this based on a more analytical standpoint.

The Plot

The Characters

The Choreography

The Message

The Music

The references/Fanservice

Final Thoughts

Now everything Below is Spoilers. So if you dont want to be spoiled. Go watch the movie, then come back.

I would also love to hear everyone elses thoughts on the movie. So feel free to reblog with your thoughts or links to your own posts about the movie.

The Plot

In a top secret GUN facility, lies Shadow. An alien creature discovered in a meteor and has been put in stasis for 50 years. After a mysterious hacker causes havoc. Shadow is awakened and easily escapes.

Meanwhile, Sonic and his friends are enjoying a peaceful family day which is revealed to be sonics Bearth Day (the day he arrived on earth/ birthday)

Sonic and Tom/Donut lord have a talk as Sonic remembers his time before meeting them. Sonic had experienced pain, but didnt let it change him.

GUN reaches out to Sonic, Tails and Knuckles to inform them of a new threat that is in Tokyo. The team head there and find themselves face to face with Shadow, a Hedgehog alien that looks similar to sonic. After getting their butts kick and shadow escapes. Sonic and team learn a bit more about Shadow's origin.

(This is an altered backstory that is different than his video game counterpart)

Shadow was Discovered in a Meteor that crashed on earth. With no memory of his past or where he came from. GUN took him to a research facility where they discovered his incredible powers. In the research facility (on earth) they ran tests and one day tragedy struck, leaving many people injured and dead. Shadow was put in stasis, too dangerous to be kept around, yet too valuable to destroy.

After Commander Walters Explained this, they were attacked by egg drones, and Walters unfortunately dies. But not before giving sonic one of the cards to GUN's ultimate weapon.

Team Sonic find out the drones werent sent by Eggman, but by someone else. Sonic and team investigate and not sure if its an enemy within gun, they decide to only trust eachother and flee from the Chao garden (its a whole thing, its adorable and funny until its tragic)

Team Sonic find out Eggman didnt do this and reluctantly team up to find out who did. Only to discover it was Eggman's Grandpa! Dr.Gerald Robotnik. The head researcher at the facility that watched over shadow.

Gerald was locked up after the events at the research facility, where for 50 years he was imprisoned and in exchange for helping design GUN's greatest weapon, he was freed. And now he has a plan to get that weapon and use it for himself! He recruits his lost grandson, Shadow and the Robotniks take the first key and they leave team sonic to die in a mini black hole!

Also during this, We learn how Shadow and Maria met and basically became best friends. Shadow worried he would be seen as a monster, but Maria told him that she knows its whats on the inside that counts and showed him the stars.

We also see the altered end, The young commander walters tried to stop the GUN soldiers from attacking, but the result was that a canister of energy went unstable and exploded... resulting in the death of Maria... and Shadow's outburst after the Tragedy.

Team sonic escapes the black hole and knows where they are headed. Now joining Tom and Maddie, they decided to head to London to invade a GUN base to get the other key before Team Eggman gets there. They plan the heist and manage to get in and so do the eggmen. (Cue dance sequence)

After a battle between the eggmen, GUN and Team Sonic. Tom manages to trick the Gun comander to give him the key, and because of his altered appearance, gets attacked and nearly killed by Shadow.

The Eggmen and Shadow escape, leaving Team Sonic in a rather dire state. Sonic is angry and wants payback. He gets the master emerald and transforms into Super sonic.

Gerald, Ivo and Shadow are now on Gerald's weapon. The Eclipse Cannon. (which looks like a mix of the space colony arc and the Death Egg) And it is revealed that Gerald plans on DESTROYING the planet. And Dr.Robotnik isnt exactly keen on that causing a fight between the Doctors.

Super sonic arrives and attacks Shadow... who also manages to transform after getting exposed to the Chaos Emeralds. Resulting in a super showdown! A fight that takes them all over the world and ends with Sonic punching shadow to the MOON!

The end of the fight leads to Sonic winning and about to finish it, until he remembers Tom's advice. Sonic and Shadow have their heart to heart. And Shadow Realizes he has been dwelling on his pain for so long that he forgot about the good.

Sonic and Shadow go super again and go to stop the eclipse cannon, just as the Doctors are fighting.

Tails and Knuckles arrive just in time to save Doctor Eggman, and Eggman sends his Grandpa to a well deserved end.

The team manage to stop the laser and Team Sonic barely make it out alive. Shadow and Eggman sacrifice themselves to get the Eclipse cannon away from earth before it goes nuclear and destroys the world from the feedback.

Sonic and friends return home, day saved and have one final race.

and the movie goes to credits.

Followed by two end credit scenes which I will discuss later in the post

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Overall, its a GREAT plot. There was no scene I felt lingered too long. The movie origin simplifies Shadow's backstory but still has the emotional impact. It also allows Shadow to be a mirror to Sonic in a way that is BETTER than in the games. The plot worked and it added so much depth to the movie universe.

Sonic and Shadow's parallels along with Sonic growing to trust his team more. It was great, I would even say it was perfect.

10/10

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The Characters

Sonic: Ben Schwartz's portrayal of Sonic in this was the best of the 3. I think he nailed this version of Sonic and I felt the comedy and the seriousness in it. Also all of the references made by Sonic felt natural, it was well done. 9/10

Tails: Colleen O'Shaughnessey, the current voice of Tails in Modern Sonic didnt disappoint. I do wish he got more lines but I do think his presence felt more here than in his introduction. Tails really showed off his intellect and cute naive nature. He bantered with Sonic and Knuckles flawlessly. Colleen deserves props for her voice work, and fun fact. She is the voice of Emilie agreste in Miraculous Ladybug. anyway. 8/10

Knuckles: Idris Elba is my favorite Voice for Knuckles. His Lines in this movie were PERFECT. (The detective pikachu bit was hilarious) he had some of the funniest lines and also delivered some heartfelt speeches. Idris has PERFECTED knuckles. 10/10

Ivo Robotnik/Eggman and Gerald Robotnik: Jim Carrey is the runaway star of the film. His performance of the Robotniks was incredible. Never did I feel someone have so much on screen chemistry with Himself. They had the funniest sequence in the movie. They both are crazy yet distinct. They also had a great fourth wall break moment. The Banter is perfect.

The emotional highs of Eggman and Gerald being so different yet so enchanting. The moment we saw how Gerald was blinded by his grief over Maria that he doesnt even care about eggman. He is still down with destroying everything.

While Eggman realizing that he does have one person that cares. its such a touching end.

10/10

Shadow: Keanu Reeves is as sonic put it in the first movie (A National Treasure). Keanu nails the character perfectly. His subdued and stand off tone comes out perfectly from shadow.. the deadpan delivery of his lines are so in character. And when he needs to get emotional, Keanu hits it perfect. Shadow feels fleshed out, he feels real. And the love of Latinas is CANON! I love how Shadow's actions feel understandable. Shadow even shows how he is fine accepting his end at the hands of Sonic because all he knows is pain... It isnt until Sonic reminds him of the good, that he can move to try and save the world. 10/10

The other Humans: Tom and Maddie are stand out stars. They are in the movie the right amount and have good banter, while also delivery the good emotional message. Commander Walters is a good guy and I like how the movie made him try to save shadow and Maria, seeing them both as innocent. Agent Stone is still peak, Lee's work as Eggman's henchman is perfect as always. 8/10

Alyla Browne's performance of Maria was great, she gave the audience just enough to show why Shadow losing her was so devastating. And she had some fun quirks yet deeply cared for Shadow. It was cute, funny and deserves to be talked about. 9/10

(Edit: I am adding this because APPARENTLY this is a thing. There is no mention of Maria's disease. I think the main reason it goes unmentioned is because Shadow wasnt Created by Gerald in this, he was found. So the Cure part of Shadow's existence isnt there. I dont find this diminishing towards Maria's end. I think it goes in a way where Maria is the only one that sees shadow as a person rather than just a tool, and that allows for us to understand the loss. Maybe it was too much for a movie plot and was simply cut for time. Either way I dont see it as a positive or negative change)

The rest of the actors were serviceable and i give them a 7/10

Overall 9/10 in total

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The Choreography

The action scenes in this movie were AMAZING,

From Shadow's first fight with Team Sonic. The moterbike scene with the akira slide was (Chef's kiss)

the Heist scene and surprise Dance sequence was INSPIRED. (I was cracking up)

The battle on the gravity floor was suspenseful and i loved it.

The Super Sonic and Super Shadow fight that was so hype I felt like a giddy 7 year old!

THE Punch to the moon! It was immense.

AND WHEN LIVE AND LEARNED PLAYED WHEN THEY WERE TRYING TO FIGHT THE DROIDS!

10/10 no notes. It was perfect

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The Message

The movie's main message was about not letting your past pain change who you are, and that no matter what, there is always a choice. And what it means is, dont let the pain of the past consume you. Tragedy hurts but we can move forward. Sonic and Shadow are shown throughout the movie, Sonic being the one that moved past his pain while shadow was consumed by it.

Sonic briefly gets consumed by his rage over what happened to Tom and almost loses himself when fighting Shadow. But it was in the moment, remembering the kindness of Tom, that he remembered who he was, and to not let the pain change him. And with that, shadow got to see from Sonic that there was another way. He had been in stasis... only thinking of that pain and loss that he failed to remember the good. But now he could and he could make a choice. Shadow and Sonic both made choices for the better.

The parallels were gorgeous and I think it fits the movie perfectly.

The secondary message is about trust, and that is shown through Sonic remembering that Tails and Knuckles are his teammates and friends and that he can count on them. He is never alone.

10/10 Its been a long time since I felt a movie has Nailed its message. Not since Puss in Boots: Last wish

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The Music

It had a Remaster of Live and Learn. Its a f***ing 10/10

It also had a lot of clever uses for songs and references. But thats just a bonus. Seriously. I can not tell you how stoked I was when I heard it.

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The references/Fanservice

From Fourthwall breaks to Sonic adventure battle 2 to Shadow the Hedgehog references.

This movie is a treasure trove of fun blink it and you miss it references. The Chao garden, DETECTIVE PIKACHU! AND MORE!

It had a GREEN LANTURN MOVIE REFERENCE! And it killed me.

But if I had to tell you that the super sonic and Super shadow scenes were PEAK fanservice.

Yet some how, when I thought I could not be serviced anymore. The end credit scenes.

The second one confirming Shadow survived.

and the first one, Revealing Metal Sonic, but not just Metal Sonic. An ARMY of Metal sonics.

But just when it couldnt get more hype AMY ROSE APPEARS AND SHE LOOKS AMAZING

I felt like I was OVERDOSING ON PURE FANDOM HYPE AND BLISS

I wanted a cigarette after that, and I Dont even smoke.

12/10

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Final Thoughts

This movie... it was perfect for Sonic fans. I think even those that arent sonic fans could enjoy the film (probably more of a 7 or 8 for them). But the immense hype, the joy I felt in that theater as a sonic fan And to the people watching in the theater with me. It was legit.

I believe this film is the best movie I have seen all year. And that even tops Deadpool and Wolverine.

this movie.

It is a 10/10 as a Sonic enjoyer.

Would watch again, and again, and AGAIN

TL:DR: WATCH THIS MOVIE! DO IT

[captainnikki]

I bought it because I like pain I guess

TS2:

Initial load up was fast

Intro video still loud as fuck

Shadows are permanently off

Graphics can be scaled up to highest screen resolution, smooth edges etc

Refresh rate 48 the only option available, animations smooth without stuttering

Seemed only fitting to start out with the Goths. A slight hang on the 4th column of icons like always when loading but otherwise fast

Tool tips, neighbourhood stories, sim bio etc all unchanged. Graphics and assets unchanged (except Ikea stuff is missing - RIP)

Zoom levels, camera, lighting no visible change

I have a migraine so may not be coherent

Uh oh, stuttering during a scripted event

Worth noting that my laptop is old and has been on for over 24 hours with another game loaded up - my other version of the game would 100% have not worked until I restarted my entire laptop

On that note my laptop is not searing me alive like it did previously

I can't seem to use the middle mouse button to rotate the camera. Was that a mod?

Shadows have automatically turned on now? And the option is no longer grayed out. Weird

Cassandra and Don just got married

I minimised the game from full screen and reopened the window, it took a couple of seconds to load but didn't crash

My husband has asked what snacks I want for our gaming night, this is very important

Stress testing minimise and reopen. This is hurting my head. The game hasn't crashed at all

My kids are watching in interest. "Good job" says the youngest. We shall see

Cheats still work and all of the same options seem to be there

I've chosen 'invite all neighbours'. It stuttered as they loaded in but did not freeze as my previous game would have

Darren is NOT amused that Cassandra is married

Sorry my husband came home and I had to rip myself away temporarily

Middle button rotate is back? Not sure why this stuff is kicking in as I play

My husband said "holy shit it's not crashed yet"

Could be because I don't have 50GB of CC... yet

Running smooth as butter with 20+ sims

Don set fire to the kitchen - no lag loading in the fire engine etc

The documents folder is called The Sims 2 Legacy

Layout inside the documents is the same

Programme files are categorised TS4 style but the contents seem similar? I'm not a modder but there's still neighbourhood templates etc

Loading the bin families up took 2 seconds

CAS loaded up quick

Swapping heads really fast and overloading it with clicks - it lagged but didn't crash

Hair and outfits loading notably faster, moving through catalogues quicker

Still not stutter or lag free though, definitely still waiting for those cache and thumbnail files to fill and load up

So far it does seem to run better vs my old vanilla game. There might genuinely have been some work done on it.

Store CAS stuff isn't included

Loaded in to a new lot quickly

I've filled a 64x64 lot with chairs as homage to LGR. It hasn't crashed

I've made a gigantic household using the tombstone of life and death - the frame rate has dropped a bit, but it's handling it pretty well. I definitely would have had pink soup by now usually. Lots of audio didn't play errors in the cheat console but I think that's because of how many sims there are.

Gun's camera mod is working, also it let me replace the files without closing down the game? And the new cameras worked instantly without restarting. Could you always do that?

My eye and skin defaults still work

Put a few hacks in and they didnt immediately crash everything

I've closed and reloaded the game several times in a row and no crashes, it loads into the neighbourhood faster now that it's gotten past the first load lag

CC required a restart to load in

Overall I played mostly vanilla for 5 hours with no crashes or pink soup. This was while the Sims 1 amd Dragon age installed in the background and I had a few web pages open. My previous game with no CC wouldn't have even loaded up under those conditions in the past so to play for so long was incredible.

I'm sure as I add CC back in it will slow down again and the pink soup will return but all in all I feel there is a definite improvement in this version on my setup specifically (beat up old gaming laptop with shit ram).

[cyberkiss2uu]

shadow wizard money gang.. we looove casting spells !! [prophetic screwup]

theyre soooo silly ugh ... cuteness aggression... one day ill figure out how to draw muscles so chip can be tits out but until then he gets a boob window i make the rules. yes i do ^_^ also the rose on his belt was supposed 2 be a reference to the black rose pirates but im still not far into jrwi yet so idk how i feel ab it im only on ep 24 dont flame me lads... ill definitely update gills design i didnt want to do too much w him all scrunched up like that ☝️ and jays will get some tweaking too i just saw this shirt on pinterest w sleeves like that and wanted a reason 2 draw em hehe..

and bonus because i got to the musical eps nearing the end of this drawing and was like. if this was a pic it was taken 3 seconds before jay snapped out of her disassociation [of which naturally comes from being trapped on a ship with men] and threw up finger guns just to piss chip off. his like full body disgust at it in ep 23 sent me into STITCHES theyre so effortlessly funny

[link for the 3d model ship used as bg can be found here !!] [jays shirt ref] [og pose lol]

[sonknuxadow]

okay wall of dark beginnings episode 2 thoughts incoming . spoiler alert obviously

one of my only complaints about the first episode is that there wasnt enough maria but i also said that under the assumption that she would Only be in the first episode so. glad to see her again. i no longer think that the first episode didnt have enough maria. also i know shadow wasnt particularly happy to learn that hes part black arms in shth but to hear him say out loud that the black arms are ugly and heartless and that hes no different than them is so. man. now im even more curious how hes gonna react to the doom powers thing . also maria telling shadow he'll find people he can trust one day as it cuts to rouge and omega showing up is sooooo . what if i died .

also i wasnt expecting the gun commander to be in this . they did that for me and the like 3 other people who remember him. not that i actually like him that much i just cant help but notice that people talk about shadow and marias life on the ark as if the gun commander wasnt there (like saying shadow and maria were the only kids on the ark or whatever). also its kinda funny they decided to use his name from archie sonic. i mean fair enough he never had a name in the games but any other time sega likes to ignore archie sonics existence

anyway. good episode. looking forward to the next one

[sonic-4-episode-ii]

gonna mention some of our sonics most important/active alters rq

sonic's polyfragmented & has well over a hundred alters so we're just mentioning the ones we have names / ideas for.

also scourge is in here. Is scourge also a guy seperate from sonic? we may never know... (the answer is literally just yes)

Pilot (he/him, neos?)

what they do: fuck all ; took away all of sonic's knowledge and muscle memory abt the tornado so he could fly it.

front tells: has a special salute he offers to everyone - two fingers on his temple, then finger-guns

relationship w/ others: when sonic realized hes the reason it suddenly started sucking at piloting the tornado, it fought him for DAYS. the two are on good terms now but sonic's still salty about the whole thing

description: dark brown fox. fur's only a little lighter than sonic's original quill/fur color

Survival (none)

what they do: keeps the body calm & focused when thrown into a survival/panic state ; fragment

front tells: acts prettymuch just like a hedgehog. snuffl snuffl

relationship w/ others: n/a

description: classic sonic but hes covered in mud

Protection (none)

what they do: split specifically to keep tails safe if sonic shut down during a battle, now helps everyone - including sonic ; fragment

front tells: completely nonverbal ; one-track mind worse than sonic's

relationship w/ others: n/a

description: classic sonic but hes covered in wounds :[

Scourge (it/he)

what they do: one-up sonic at every opportunity. obviously

front tells: usually him screaming "SCOURGE IS BACK, BABY!!!"

relationship w/ others: everyone either hates or loves him ; outside the body, amy thinks he sucks but is glad he's less sexist now, tails used to think he's scary but now just thinks he's kinda lame, and knux... has opinions.

description: YOU KNOW IT BABY!!!!

Cog (they/it)

what they do: exist. tries to keep the body away from drugs

front tells: higher-pitched voice, talks more like AoSTH / classic sonic; uses contact lenses that look like metal sonic's eyes

relationship w/ others: a lot of people jokingly hate em but most r kinda worried for em ; outside, theyre best friends with basically all badniks (though they have a somewhat rocky friendship with omega) and consider them to be its siblings

description: thinner sonic, wilting quills and its bones are painted chrome.

Mary-Ann (they/them)

what they do: split to give tails familial affection when sonic got burnt out, & later got the Secondary Task of avoiding like. CPS and stuff. ; now that they dont have to do that they get to just chill

front tells: softer tone of voice, body language is completely different and a lot slower

relationship w/ others: sonic feels bad abt pushing so much onto her even though it wasnt his fault or choice. theyre chill tho ; outside, they have a kinda-friendship with shadow since theyre the one who introduced him to the fact sonic's a system. tails loves them, and even outside of their purpose they care abt him too

description: porcupine mobian. looks a little more like an irl animal

Fleet (he/it/xe)

what they do: anger/rage/fear holder, used to be a fragment ; fronts whenever sonic goes super out of stress, or if he gets too upset when using the chaos emeralds to go super

front tells: extremely obvious. totally different way of speaking, maine/british accent (maine accent it picked up somewhere, british accent is the body's default); when fronting while super bc of the chaos emeralds, they morph him into what he looks like in headspace, but if he's just fronting due to stress all that changes is his quills are Wayyyyy messier. hard to miss him!

relationship w/ others: sonic tried to force him into permanent dormancy for years, which didnt work and caused him to take over the body for a few weeks ; he probably did meet ebony and pyjamas, both of whom unfortunately misunderstood his entire Him and hurt him a lot, but they managed to make up after xe worked thinks out with sonic and theyre rlly close friends now :]

description: it is fleetway :]

Prime (he/it)

what they do: secondary host

front tells: way, WAY more physically and verbally affectionate towards his friends; more open (obvious) about his emotions, doesnt bother hiding them as much (especially when he thinks it might be funny); a little more over the top with everything, especially his mannerisms - many of which he picked up directly from eggman

relationship with others: GREAT friends with pilot, who sorta acts like his tails when his tails isnt. yk. available (busy boy!!!). NOT FRIENDS WITH SONIC they do NOT get along :[ ; loves tails, LOVES amy, LOVES!!! KNUCKLES!!! LOVES SHADOW!!!! he loves ALL of his friends and he's gonna make it THEIR PROBLEM!!!<333

description: prime sonic! so just sort of different-looking regular sonic. he calls himself prime bc hes convinced hes the first sonic, and is totally smug abt maybe having a single memory earlier than sonic the other one.

Sonic (he/it)

what they do: primary host

front tells: it's sonic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ; rlly easy to tell when hes fronting again after a while bc he immediately picks up from the last convo you had w him (if he remembers) or challenges you to a race (if he doesnt)

relationships w/ others: VERY rocky. didnt accept he was a system for a while - he knew he was one since before the concept was given the name it has now but he was iffy on the whole "other people in his brain" thing and dealt with it HORRIBLY. this is a horrible combination of STC and IDW sonic so you know he was just being a huge inconsiderate jerk to everyone for YEARS. his reaction to the chaos emeralds giving a bunch of his alters their own bodies was fear and disgust instead of joy or even vague curiosity; even though he's repairing his relationships with everyone and going to therapy and getting support from his friends and allat, he still doesnt really like just... not having access to his body all the time. he doesnt like not being at front, it feels Bad, esp. when he misses big important dates. sorry man you got hit with the reverse curse idk what to tell you

description: ITS SONIC!!!

YUP THATS LITERALLY ALL I HAVE FOR NOW!!!

maybe ill make some more stuff with these guys and more specific alters but ive had this sitting in my drafts for like a month now so . it needs to be posted 👍

[killuabutgayer]

sonic 3 thoughts! (major spoilers)

so they changed A Lot of shadow's backstory, but hearing it from a gun agent he prob got misinformed or is lying (they lied ab the blast being from shadow's experiment) so who knows🤷‍♀️ doesnt explain why he looks like sonic and has his kinda powers, or why maria is even there cuz "taking my granddaughter everywhere" isnt a reason to let her stay in a "dangerous alien facility" skhdjdhfs.. i was so ❓❓ when maria said theyre on earth cuz huh,,

didnt like how they completely erased maria's illness too- cuz the fact that even if the gun raid didnt happen shes still gonna die from it either way makes everything sadder. so she died from an explosion instead of a direct shot, but gerald and shadow survived with little damage- they probably felt hella guilty for being the ones to survive instead of her even tho they were RIGHT THERE.

he didnt remember anything before arriving there so im guessing he'll find out ab the black doom stuff later on in his spin off. im lowkey hoping 10 mins of it to kinda be like 'zuko alone' ep. But also maybe possibly we can have team dark and mephilies there too??

moon scene visibly showing how sonic literally became the light of shadow's life then sonic fell to earth instead of shadow.. they thought each other died....yeah im very looking forward to their reunion and everyone else looking so confused in the bg🥹💙🖤❤️

knuckles and tails saved him with the "last ring"... wdym last ring- is it the VERY last stock they have or the last one they bring there? is it a one time use- can they get more?? where???

as for amy AMYYYY omg i did predict her cuz shes the only one missing from the main cast. so happy to see her sassy grin, i want her to be confident and sillie. they HAVE to adapt her iconic boom scenes w knuckles- oh and for him to have a rival w an equal match in strength would be so interesting to see.

i also predicted metal sonic cuz i thought after shadow eggman realized he needed someone exactly like sonic to rival him. but is it activated after his death making it confirmed, or did stone finish the project? im expecting to see orbot and cubot in the next movie too. stone is probably the main villain with a lot of inner conflict- grieving eggman while wanting to avenge him, but still sympathizing and caring for team sonic in some way (i rly dont think he hates them before but later on blames them for not saving him too).

overall i really loved and enjoyed it! v v fun watch and i freaked out a lott haahhsjsbdj

[sketchehm]

hi, consider game nights in the mafia mafia au

at the start it was a bit to break the ice, get both sides to get further along. then it evolved to just something they liked doing together. be it board games, video games or other. they didnt always have time for it. but at some point they tried to make an unofficial time in the week for it. not everyone always had time, sometimes people were on missions during it but they tried to all be there.

one time they were playing jackbox party games. joking around with inventions they designed in a minute when Serpias, the last one that went on a mission, comes back bleeding :D

also baking together. i love to imagine that dream and sap at the very least can bake somewhat due to Bad (cause muffins and all). and either because they just wanted to surprise them or to make up for stuff or some other reason, they baked something together which resulted in future baking sessions with more (and many muffins and cookies with a penis drawn on them)

darker timeline au sapnap who attempted to bake at one point but it just looked like flesh to him. When someone went to check on him, they find him in the corner, gaze far away and dough on the floor.

GAME NIGHT!!

So one of my favorite lil hispanic board games is basically like Sorry(we called it ludo!), it's like a cheap mini game board that you would win at carnival booths and stuff hehe Who knows how many I've gotten over the years. I think they would play that a lot cause it's a board game both cultures are familiar with for the most part pfft

They def would play Russian Roulette with nerf guns lmao (I bet it's their favorite)

It's a lot of mario party and mario kart and animal party and all that jazz too!! The jackbox rap battle one would go crazy tbh

They're always trying to make time for game night TwT The reason Serpias comes back bleeding is cause he rushed the mission so he wouldn't miss game night!!! (Game night is canceled to take care of him oops)(He also gets a stern talking to from Farfa and Rich....)

The way the guys discovered Sapnap could bake was probably one of the best days for them. Sapnap would just start asking for ingredients one day and the guys were like. Ok, I guess, here? And then it's cookies and they're like :0!!(our dog know how to bake omg)

Then once Dream and George uh...."come over"....and it's revealed that Dream can also bake!! (George isn't allowed to bake, they'd either taste funny, be poisoned(on purpose), or burnt to a crisp) It's a bunch of them asking if they could bake certain things plz 🙏 maybe even giving them recipes to make hispanic treats like alfajores :3!!

The guys would make cookies into a penis shape and then cry when it comes out of the oven like a blob pfft

Darker au Sapnap would want to do something that reminded him of Dream and made him happy and always had happy memories attached. The guys encouraged him when he asked, eager to see Sapnap doing /something/ that wasnt cowering and being scared of his own shadow. Its something Sapnap thought he could distract himself with and would genuinely enjoy... But as the dough became beige and more skin tone....and he just digs his fingers into it and it would tear apart-(he's tearing apart Dream he's doing that it his fault he's killing him)

George went to check on him, so used to Dream and Sapnap baking he knew how long it would take for it to be done. They shouldn't have left Sapnap alone...

He finds Sapnap catatonic in the corner of the kitchen. Curled up and just staring at the floor where the dough remains. (It's bleeding can't George see it? It's bleeding and pooling around and hes stepping in it, why doesnt he see it, it's a hunk of flesh, it's Dream's, he knows it's Dream, he knows it cause he did that, he caused it its his fault its his fault his fault his fault)

Sapnap doesnt try baking after that.