#black doom mentioned

[nstuffs14]

Bully Maguire but it's Dark Sonic instead

inspired by this sonic fancomic you guys should check out

[reunitedinterlude]

phil in dan's (black) merch (2024 / 2019 / 2018)

[weirdofish]

Nice apron, Shadow

It's not quite cold here yet (it's actually hot and sunny where I live right now), but I'll definitely make cream of mushroom soup once it is. I use this recipe, for anyone interested (though I make some substitutions for various reasons.)

Can you tell I love making fun of Black Doom?

[sonknuxadow]

i drew these while i was playing shth a few months ago and dont think i ever posted them . well theyre relevant now

[princessjadyn15]

ok I didn’t really want to make another post about Dark Beginnings since I’ve already made/rebloged a lot of posts related to it but I now feel like doing it since I recently saw someone make a dumb comment about it (they were probably saying it to get attention and rage bait or something but whatever I feel like this is an interesting analysis to do)

“its been 50 years, she's gone, get over it”

There’s just a lot wrong with this take

For 50 of those years he was in a stasis sleep. So to him Maria’s death and the trauma he went through when it happened was pretty recent, I don’t really know how much time has past between sonic adventure 2 and sonic x shadow generations but I’m gonna assume it’s been a couple years (one thing I do want to mention that I feel is a important point is that professor Gerald altered Shadow’s memories after Maria’s death, so that itself is already pretty traumatic considering Shadow probably trusted him during his time living on the ark)

he is going to the ark AKA the place where he experienced his trauma. Now this is kinda based on something someone else said but supposedly the last time he went to the Ark was in the Shadow the Hedgehog game, and he still kinda lost some of his memories. Now he is going back to ark Ark after pretty much recovering all his memories, even his painful ones

he is going up against Black Doom. The main reason he is going back to the ark is because he suspects that the black arms and Black Doom have returned, now I haven’t played the Shadow the Hedgehog game but from what I heard Black Doom was a very evil character, he took advantage of Shadow since he lost his memories and used him to get the chaos emeralds. Not only that but technically Black Doom is Shadow’s biological father since he was created using his DNA (Shadow has never actually called Black Doom father, at least as far as I know). And finally

PEOPLE 👏 EXPERIENCE 👏 TRAUMA 👏 DIFFERENTLY �� Now I’m going get slightly personal but as someone who has experienced something traumatic before (not as bad as Shadow’s and it’s different from what happened to him) just because you have moved on doesn’t mean the trauma is just gone, honestly as I was reading some analysis on the episode I for a moment actually thought about what I’ve been through and realized I kinda related to shadow in that moment (which is probably one of the reasons I cried), while I have moved on from what happened the trauma is still there and I may have moments where I remember it and feel sad about it, that’s kinda what was happening with Shadow, he was being reminded of the trauma on a big scale. The first episode was him have a “nightmare” of his trauma and now he has to go back to the ark and face Black Doom, and those visions of him thinking about the life he and Maria could of have, of course he is gonna have a small panic attack, I’ve even seen some people connect the scene with PTSD.

a bit of a bonus but I wanted to link this tweet that kinda inspired me to make this analysis in the first place. Some of the comments under the post are quite interesting and make a few good points

now I do want to point out that I’m still new to the Sonic fandom so it’s possible that some of things I’ve mentioned might of been incorrect or that I might of missed a few important parts, if that is the case I do apologize (I also apologize if there are any grammatical errors as well, I literally made this whole thing at like 9:30pm so I should be in bed lol)

[south-sea]

paint test of @motobug's guy, the guy ever

[hall0wedwyrm]

saying it now, before i forget:

If 'I Am All of Me' is NOT in Sonic 3... i am going to riot.

its SHADOWS SONG. and if they pull out some bs like 'All Hail Shadow' i will also be causing a fist fight.

Also extra bonus points if they somehow:

a. get Crush 40 to come back and cover it for the movie (they did the live tour thing and even covered it there so why wouldnt they do it again??)

b. get literally any emo or rock bad to cover it. My top and unrealistic pick is Fall Out Boy or MCR, but like I'll settle for them bringing back Kellin Quinn to do it. Please it would be really cool and also you guys did it 4 times for Frontiers please please PLEASE

i WILL NOT accept some dumbass rap song with some rapper ive never heard of. Thats not the vibe i think anyone wants. and its not Shadow's vibe, and this is the chance to get the younger audience into Shadow's character and story

that is all have a good day

[luv-again]

I should sleep !! I say, before I lay awake, over-analysing every tiny detail in shadow 05's cryptic castle mission for my next project

[michdoodles]

Love how creative the Sonic community is when it comes to AUs. Like you’ve got:

-Sonic is in a band with Silver and Shadow!

-Sonic runs a mafia while also being a single dad and a bisexual disaster!

-Sonic is the size of an actual hedgehog and is Tails’ legal guardian!

-Sonic is Ginormica from Monsters vs Aliens!

… and many more!

… and then there’s my AUs… like “this is the one where they get to raise families in general peace and quiet” general because sure eggman isn’t a problem anymore but then Scourge appears and “this is the one where select characters get the genderbending beam” and “oh, what if Gerald was pretty much a mad scientist before GUN killed Maria?” Yeah, my AUs are pretty plain compared to these

[sangre]

LOST MYTH OF TRUE LOVE → for tav/the emperor | listen i'd be the immediate forgiveness in eurydice / imagine being loved by me. based on my ao3 collection of the same title, here is a mix for my tav, catarina, and the passionate calamity going on in her relationship with the emperor.

[polux-aka-hyakunana]

The tragedy of having my hands full of work until at least next week and suddenly remembering how much I love and miss Lies of P while living my Geats fever because I need stalker!Riders injected on my veins to keep living

[shadow-von-vamp]

the sister was eclipse

[curator-on-ao3]

I’m not sure if this will make sense to anyone but me, but I think among my issues with the way Strange New Worlds has approached romance is that every relationship has similar beats: T’Pring and Spock, Chapel and Spock, Pike and Alora, Pike and Batel, even Adya and Z'ymira all feature half of the partnership in a lesser position:

T’Pring secondary to Spock’s service to Starfleet and trust in the crew

Chapel as doomed to be functionally forgotten as part of Spock’s esteemed place in the future (per Boimler)

Alora as morally less than Pike (he saves kids in the future, she kills them in the present)

Pike self-declaring himself to not “deserve” Batel (to whom he lies and withholds information)

Z’ymira choosing the forest over Adya (not even sending a raven unnervingly reminiscent of Pike calling Batel just to say hello positioned as a Big Deal when it should be the Bare Minimum).

Anyway, my guess is the writers think conflict is interesting? But, if they want to write romance in a utopian future (and they don’t have to, they really don’t), it sure would be nice to see mature people make sensible, mature choices in a spirit of equality.

[sonknuxadow]

this was in the new steam description for sxs generations . you dont understand ive wanted shadows black arms dna to be actually acknowledged and used for so long . ever since i had my brain chemistry permanently altered by learning about the full details of shadows backstory when i was in middle school ive been like Well where are his sick ass alien powers ??!?!?!?!?!?!?! and i used to read the shadow fall arc of sonic universe over and over again just for every scrap of that sort of content i could get. also its extra cool that they seem to be working shadows unique abilities into the gameplay because a lot of games before this dont really do that and just have shadow be a sonic reskin which i understand Why they would do that but you know. shadow the hedgehog (2005) enjoyers this is OUR FUCKING YEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cattyanon]

Info dump time!!!

Alrightly ya'll, I can no longer contain it... I must talk about my new/more informed Sonic x Shadow Generations version of my Black Arms Sonic AUs before having the art finished!!! This new version also features a version where Sonic gets rescued before he can undergo a full transformation!

So the moment I learned that Black Doom wanted to use Shadow's body as a new vessel I knew exactly why Sonic would be kidnapped: As a backup vessel on the slim off chance he fails to defeat Shadow. He'd always planned on having a backup but he wanted something stronger than the other Black Arms that was suitable for his power... and then he saw Shadow's fight against Sonic and the answer became clear. What better body to use as a backup vessel than one as powerful than the blue hedgehog? It even came with the additional perk of being a friend of Shadow's- and that meant he wouldn't kill him.

It's not too hard to obtain him. He definitely puts up a fight but the surprise attack, the sheer number of Black Arms summoned, and a little paralyzing gas is all it takes to win the fight. Tails is left alone upon the completion of the objective. They didn't have time to deal with him if they wanted to prepare Sonic as a vessel in time for Black Doom's fight against Shadow.

They knock him out, put him in a weird alien pod on the Black comet, and inject him with Black Doom's blood (and some extra Black Arms DNA in general) since it was implied that Shadow having his blood would eventually allow him to take over his body. Sonic's body mutates while he's asleep and eventually his body is deemed worthy.

Then, once Shadow inevitably defeats Black Doom, he leaves him with an ominous message and wills his conscious into Sonic. And Sonic, asleep and mind having numbed down, is unable to resist. It's not long before he confronts Shadow a second time, finding him in the middle of reassuring a very panicked Tails.

A fight naturally ensues, both mobians horrified by the confirmation that Black Doom was possessing Sonic, and eventually they manage to restrain him- though I haven't got the exact details down about how they do it. What I do know however is that once they restrain him they figure the best possible chance they have at saving Sonic is to destroy the Time Eater so that Black Doom is forced back into his own time. It works, Sonic wakes up in control of himself, but naturally there's consequences. He's freaked out about the changes to his body (though Tails is working on a way to fix it as best as he can) and there's unforeseen consequences.

After having his mind numbed, his mental state is... unwell. Words are harder to string together, his memories are fuzzy- though not completely gone, and he quickly finds out that he can't eat normal food, which eventually reaches a head where in a hunger fueled daze he kills and eats someone.

I'm not entirely sure how things go from there (I'll have to think on it more) but uh... I think we can all agree it's not good...

[thefirstknife]

In the euphoria of all new lore this season, I forgot to mention something in regards to Xivu Arath and was reminded by Byf's video (cool video btw, very chilling and explains just how fucked we are by Xivu being involved).

It doesn't help that Ishtar still doesn't have the lore tabs linkable so I am relying on my screenshots, but it's something I noticed immediately as I read them because I've talked about it before: Xivu's association with a "terrace." My addition to this post from back in March about this.

Basically, whenever Xivu is mentioned and specifically her possible place of residence (perhaps her throne world), there are a few things that always pop up: a terrace, emerald, blades.

Byf also caught this and mentioned the most prominent examples from Season of the Lost, but there were mentions before. The first one to mention it was Osiris in Immolant, but lore youtubers are allergic to Immolant I think, so:

Osiris peers into the Hive protrusion. Metallic flecks shimmer, and he sees a long and empty road. Meandering. He wishes to plant a great banner over it, so that all may see. A beacon, alight with Phoenix flame. Looming in the nascent flamelight hangs the terrace of blades. The terrace dominates the road; its precipice at his throat.

This is really important as far as mentions go, not only for being the first, but also because this is what Osiris sees when he peers into the cryptolith for the first time. It's very likely that he just sees directly into Xivu's domain and this she uses this to stimulate him to tithe her by going to war.

And another mention is in Hunt, which is then repeated in Lost (and is the one that Byf focuses on). I listed all of them in the post I linked so I won't do the full quotes again. Here is the most important bit, first from Hunt:

grand terrace of onyx Swords, hilted in emerald flame and overlooking darkened systems A lone figure stood on the terrace aside two empty thrones.

And from Lost:

grand terrace of onyx swords and emerald flame reigning over a red harbor. A lone figure stood on the terrace aside two empty thrones.

And now, in Seraph, we got more. From Disparity pulse rifle:

From their hulls spew runes of black fire that meet between the ships and ignite into the projection of a bladed terrace, casting House Salvation's new home in shadow.

And Tripwire Canary bow:

My queen... Wizards conjure the Black Terrace. Xivu Arath's voice bends the Plane.

The fact that "Black Terrace" is capitalised is really cool since this is no longer just a description, but a title or official name for something related to Xivu, possibly a place she resides in.

I want to see this so badly. It's such an ominous description of a place we can hardly imagine and I am looking forward to Xivu appearing and for us to see this. It's such a cool motif that has been repeated for over 2 years consistently, like they're making sure it gets drilled into our minds for Xivu's inevitable appearance.