#bounty hunter Shadow

[cheetahsprints]

Prompt #13: Snow

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White, as far as the eye could see. Almost blinding, to anyone that lacked keen eyesight. Shadow wondered if the creature had a plan, or if it was just too stupid to know that a little snow wouldn’t stop Shadow’s pursuit. He was the Ultimate Hunter, after all. He cocked his gun and smirked to himself. He activated his air shoes and easily glided over the covered hills. Some of it melted a trail beneath him.

He slipped through trees. His ears twitched as he listened.

There was an unexpected yelp. Shadow ground his teeth. Had another hunter got to his target before him? Impossible, without cheating, for this prey was faster and trickier than any other Shadow had known.

Shadow would make the mysterious interloper pay.

He skated toward the sound at full speed. A clearing opened to a small iced over lake. Shadow scanned the area. It was empty and still, there was nothing of note except… except for a considerable hole in the lake. Based on when he heard the cry, he concluded that his prey had been under too long.

“Damnit… you have to be kidding me.”

He nestled his gun between low hanging branches and dove in. He could just barely make out the large, fluffy form of the werehog in the shimmering abyss. He grabbed the hog by the scruff and pushed his air shoes to their limit until he breached the surface. He dragged the werehog to the edge of the clearing and gathered some thin, dry branches. He lit a fire with his shoe exhaust.

Shadow rubbed his hands over the fire and wondered what on Earth he was even doing. He could’ve simply let the werehog drown and fetch him afterward. He was wanted dead or alive. Perhaps, it seemed like too cheap of a way to end the hunt.

He had been exhilarated by the chase this last year, admittedly. It had breathed more life into his hollow soul than he had felt in ages.

The sun peeked in, casting a beautiful rosy light across the clearing that reminded Shadow of why he sometimes liked this backwater planet.

The werehog had shrunk to his usual hedgehog form, and it was the first time Shadow had seen his more vulnerable state. Curse him, but it was more difficult to think of the scrawny blue thing as a bloodthirsty monster that he needed to neutralize. His eyes cracked open and landed on Shadow.

He yelled and scrambled backward until his back hit a tree trunk. Shadow continued expressionlessly basking in front of the flames. The hedgehog gasped for air noisily.

“Are you gonna - are you gonna kill me?!” The hedgehog broke off and wrapped his arms around himself, shivering violently.

“Get over here where it’s warm, moron.”

He actually crawled the distance like a shy kitten. Shadow rolled his eyes and pulled the other to his side to share body heat. The blue hedgehog’s muzzle flushed pink.

“Um… my name is Sonic. I can run fast, but not on ice. I can’t swim either.”

“You shouldn’t have sprinted off into the wintry hinterlands then, you fool,” Shadow admonished.

“Haha, well I’m not exactly in total control of my faculties in that form. Why didn’t you let me die?”

“No fun.”

Sonic laughed again. “It’s oddly comforting knowing you were enjoying this chase as much as I was. I’ve never had such a challenge before!”

“Neither have I,” Shadow confessed.

Sonic shuddered and curled further into him. His bare, peach-furred hand glided along Shadow’s belly and settled in the clump on his chest. Shadow hoped he wouldn’t feel the rate of his heartbeat.

Shadow added, “I’m not going to kill you when you’re defenseless and not in werehog form.”

“Hey, I’m not a weakling like this! Your loss. Don’t expect me to go easy on you next time I transform,” Sonic murmured, then gave his ear a lick. Shadow shivered for a reason that wasn’t related to the icy crystals clinging in his fur.

“I’m counting on that.”

“I can’t wait! But uh, can we get out of here, dude?”

“It’s Shadow.” He hauled Sonic over his shoulder, purring with satisfaction when he squeaked. “Let’s go.”

If they stayed together at a cabin in the wilderness, having snowball fights, hiking, playing games during blizzards, and curling up in front of the fire with cups of coffee and cocoa respectively, until the next full moon, well… it was just for them. The other hunters didn’t need to know.

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[harbingersecho]

she should've been problematic at the club

[pearlsdiamondsandvodka]

honestly netflix just keep shooting themselves in the foot. they can’t keep making shows and then cancelling them. i don’t even wanna watch netflix original shows anymore because I don’t want to emotionally invest in a show netflix doesn’t give a shit about and will cancel immediately anyway. they never let any show have a proper story and a proper ending. why should we care about netflix when they don’t care about the audience nor the show creators

[means1974]

Shadow Warrior by @5healthMONO

[miamipaaaalms]

some dota 2 heroes as cats (and kobold as a lil rat)

i tried to do some natural coat colors but not repeating exciting breed and real coat colors

[itsalexwin]

Methinks it's time to just cancel our netflix subscriptions forever and let them keep cancelling our shows when making no money off of us y'all

[sticksthesecond]

holy shit every single time i see those lists of cancelled netflix shows, i can’t help but notice how queer they are. Shadow and Bone is just another in a long list - several of its main characters are queer, there’s even some on-screen gay relationships (rip wesper and tamadia, you deserved better!!)

but it’s not the only one. I am not okay with this? Great show, so much potential, but oh no! the main character's into girls! Ofc it didn’t get another season. everything sucks? another show with a major wlw relationship and queer characters that got cancelled

the society? 1899? i can just imagine how good they could’ve been if I they’d had more seasons to work with. but again, it had a couple of lgbtq characters, so i should know by now that it wasn’t going to happen.

obviously not every queer show gets cancelled, and it’s not necessarily just bc they are queer, but i can’t help but sense a pattern. at this point it’s just sad.

[depressed-sock]

For May the fourth I decided to upgrade my star wars girls lol

Bonus Dark Side Anna below

[knightscanfeeltoo]

When some Femboys think Bridget is a Traitor for just wanting to be a Girl...

(i am not funny...)

[gffa]

This is the most bare-bones recap you could do of “What the fuck is Crimson Dawn?” and it still takes up a page and a half of comics!  It doesn’t even mention Maul’s name!  To be fair, the people recounting this don’t know Maul’s name, so this works narratively, but what gets me is that I really do enjoy how Star Wars is structured, especially with how it’s this giant cascade of dominoes. Think about how complicated all of this is! - Maul is given to Sidious by Mother Talzin, he’s raised as a Sith apprentice - Maul is defeated by Obi-Wan Kenobi, becoming obsessed with revenge on him while living on a garbage planet as a half-Zabrak, half-spider person - Mother Talzin creates a new Sith apprentice for Dooku after Sidious forced him to kill Ventress (not that that worked and now Ventress wants revenge, so she went to Mother Talzin), which is eventually a wash. - Savage goes back to Mother Talzin and she sends him on a quest to bring back her son Maul, where she cures Maul’s madness and gives him more Zabrak-style legs, and they go try to kill Obi-Wan and fail at it again. - They float around in a dead ship until rescued by Death Watch, whom they ally with to create a Shadow Collective, in a bid to appear as villains for Mandalore to fight, so Death Watch can swoop in as heroes and win the people’s support to depose Duchess Satine Kryze. - Basically, two Force-sensitives (and honestly Maul could have probably done it himself) were enough to force the Pykes and Black Sun to agree to work with them, even though neither group wanted to. - They also tried to force the Hutts to join, but they refused, so Maul killed Oruba the Hutt (the only one in person at the meeting instead of on holo) and then go to Tatooine to kill Jabba, who decides, okay, he’ll join the Shadow Collective after all. - The plan on Mandalore is put in place, the Shadow Collective attacks Mandalore, Death Watch looks like heroes, Pre Vizsla is the puppet master of the Prime Minister they install, Death Watch tries to betray Maul and Savage, but they’re like, dipshit, we’re Sith Lords and fight their way to Pre’s throne room.  Maul challenges him to a fight, Maul wins, Bo-Katan Kryze (who was part of Death Watch up to this point) refuses to let a non-Mandalorian rule Mandalore (since Maul has taken up the Darksaber that Pre had and leads Death Watch and thus Mandalore now) and leaves. - Sheev Palpatine/Darth Sidious decides Maul’s become enough of a thorn in his side to deal with this, goes to Mandalore, kills Savage, puts Maul in prison and dusts off his hands like no big deal. - Maul is rescued by members of Death Watch and the puppet prime minister who are loyal to him, wins back the Darksaber, returns to Mandalore, sets up another trap to try to lure Obi-Wan there, gets Ahsoka instead (along with a whole lot of Republic troops, because Bo-Katan asked for a Republic intervention, by way of having Ahsoka ask for it), they battle it out and are relatively evenly matched, but he eventually loses.  This is the Siege of Mandalore, which puts the Republic there riiiiiiight as the Republic is turning into the Empire. - So everything goes pear-shaped in the galaxy, as the Jedi genocide is enacted, chaos erupts everywhere.  When the clones attack Ahsoka because of Order 66, she frees Maul to cause chaos and he destroys the core of the engines, forcing the ship down, but he himself escapes. - Maul regroups again and takes over Crimson Dawn, but uses Dryden Vos as a figurehead.  Vos has an assistant named Qi’ra, who is the first love of Han Solo, and when he crashes back into her life, things go pear-shaped again, resulting in a big adventure that ends with Dryden Vos’ death and Qi’ra stepping up to take his place as Maul’s new figurehead. - Qi’ra learns much about the Sith from Maul and, after his death, she takes over Crimson Dawn for real and begins to plot how to take down the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, aka Emperor Palpatine. As much ridiculous bullshit as Star Wars often is, I love that they genuinely have a galaxy that is connected together, that one plot ripples out in these surprisingly massive waves.  You don’t get to any one point on this timeline without the other points happening first, just like you don’t get to the OT without the events of the prequels happening first, you don’t get the Empire without the Republic and the Separatists both. In many ways, Star Wars is separated into periods of time, the films still largely define different eras, but there is a throughline with so much of it, the political timeline spans decades in this universe, you can follow the trail all the way back to The Phantom Menace and even earlier.  Yeah, Star Wars is often silly bullshit, but I appreciate the dedication to showing that ramifications happen when major political and criminal upheavals happen!

[void-botanist]

Ten favorite shows tag game

Thanks @vacantgodling for the tag!

Rules: post gifs of your ten favourite shows without naming them, then tag ten people.

I immediately forgot every show I liked but I figured it out. In no particular order:

I'll tag @jezifster, @kk7-rbs, @sarahlizziewrites, @sam-glade, @kahvilahuhut,

@outpost51, @writernopal, @writinglittlebeasts, @daisywalletchains, and @sunset-a-story plus anyone else who wants to join in!

[haliaiii]

Oc posting 5: Juno

[comicwaren]

This week on Marvel Comics (4th October 2023):

Black Panther Vol. 9 #005

Captain Marvel: Dark Tempest #004

Doctor Strange Vol. 6 #008

Fantastic Four Vol. 7 #012

G.O.D.S. #001 (NEW!)

Ghost Rider Annual Vol. 3 #001 (One-shot)

Immortal X-Men #016

Red Goblin #009

Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #039

Star Wars: Darth Vader #039

Star Wars: The High Republic - Shadows of Starlight #001 (NEW!)

Strange Academy: Amazing Spider-Man #001 (One-shot)

X-Force Vol. 6 #045

X-Men Vol. 6 #027

[maidot]

I was inspired ;;;

[cloneloverrrrr]

New fic coming soon 🫶🏻

This wassss going to be just a one shot but the story in my head I figured needed at least 3 chapters so here we go 💁🏻‍♀️

[theshieldbladelegacy]