#anyway the lore is insane for this au. off the charts levels of wildin

[shadowiie]

You know how horror stories have sometimes dark interpretations of fairy tales in the stories? well that could be the Maria lives / Shadow puppet Au. sorry asked a weird question for the AU but your response to the question was as wonderful as i thought. Also before i forget to ask, did sonic know about Shadow before his brainwashing or did Maria had to fill him on that? and what was sonic first meeting with shadow in this AU if there was one?

ohh i guess. Puppet Shadow au really spiraled into its own thing lmao while its def got "dark and gritty remake of sonic the hedgehog" vibes to it once you dig deeper its got its own balance of comedic and dark, similar to the actual games!

the lineup of characters, for example, is useful for both great funney and also big sad. Like, Maria flips from grieving yet determined individual to chaotic mad scientist/older sister vibes at the drop of a hat, and the rest of the cast has similar stuff to them as well

they act as one big chaotic family but each have their own sadness because of how the world has become, plus the ghibli-esque environmentalist themes of industrialism vs. nature is something thats developed the more i work on this au

AND NO Shadow was taco bell bonged at around the same time Maria died in Prime universe so Maria had to fill Sonic in on that

I have.... no ideas for Sonic's first meeting with Shadow in this au (though i imagine its a warped version of their first meeting in SA2) tbh. but in this au Sonic's relationship with Shadow is basically that one scene in Sonic Colors where he's talking to a broken robot

"Sonic spouts one sided banter to a brick wall" thats it thats the dynamic

He's got a bit of a harsher edge to his nicknames and banter in this au tho since Shadow hasn't proved himself to be capable of doing good yet. He calls Shads a "Science Fair Project" after all

in fact most of the cast call Shadow by his full title "Project Shadow". Maria and Sonic are the only exceptions, and Sonic only because of the nicknames he gives