#can't tell who's harder. him sonic or shadow

[ceemi]

rescuing their baby (ignore how weird their proportions n shit are my reference photo was so dark i couldn't really make out wtf they looked like 😔)

[jinxed-thylacine]

Genuinely every time I see people complain about how Sonic characters are characterized in the modern day I'm just like "okay and?"

Why is Amy mellowing out and focusing on things that aren't Sonic a bad thing

Why is Silver being nowhere near as aggressive as he was in 06 and the Rivals duology a bad thing

Why is Shadow not being hyperfocused on Maria (but still working to keep his promise to her mind you) a bad thing

Why is how Ian Flynn writes Sonic bad (and btw he essentially gets commissioned by Sega to write the games and comics. If Sega didn't like what he was doing they'd tell him and I know this because he's talked about it on Bumblekast and some of his interpretations of the characters do contradict stuff he's written)

There are probably others but I can't think of any off the top of my head. The only character I understand complaining about is Knuckles, and even then obviously he's going to be misinterpreted sometimes, that comes with the territory of him being gullible. And that's the thing, every writer who has worked on Sonic, currently works on Sonic, or will work on Sonic will have different interpretations of each character, and there's nothing wrong with that.

It ends up turning into a double-standard for fans vs the people working on the series (and it is worth noting there's significant overlap there, especially in America) where people love seeing different interpretations of Sonic characters from fans (and some of these interpretations are objectively inaccurate to the characters in official content; that doesn't make them wrong however) but if official content deviates even slightly from what people are used to seeing because the writers interpret the characters differently, it's treated like the official writers are committing a crime.

Writing is an art just as much as games are and everyone will interpret how characters have been written differently, including current writers' interpretations of past games. I might interpret Shadow's arc in the 2000s one way, while someone else might interpret it completely differently.

You can have intended readings of what you're writing, and most of the time the Sonic writers do extremely well getting that intended reading across, but that doesn't mean everyone reads it the exact same way. The easiest way to get my point across using Sonic specifically (in my opinion) is by using Team Chaotix. Is their dynamic a dad and his two sons, an older brother and his two younger brothers, or two dads and their son? I personally think their dynamic fits "a dad and his two sons" better, but none of the interpretations I presented are wrong.

I could not care less about how Sonic characters are officially written in games or the comics because everyone's going to have a different interpretation of the characters, and the writers have to work within Sega's guidelines for the characters. It will always be like this until Sega comes up with solid, strict guidelines for how characters should be written, which is harder than it sounds (and no, I don't count their mandates because obviously there are still different characterization interpretations)

TL;DR: Nobody's interpretations of Sonic characters are wrong, if you get so mad about an interpretation of a character you like that you resort to harassment just block people please

[mrxcreepypastamadness]

Since it's Pride Month, might as well show my official, yes "official" Sonic.EXE D-Side fembois! ^^

#1:

Melody.ZIP (Disguised)

Melody.ZIP

Zachariah, also known as Melody.ZIP, is a D-Side varient of the original Zachariah (which is not made yet). Zachariah resides in a pirated SegaSonic game that contained a virus that D-Side Boyfriend downloaded.

Aliases:

• Melody.ZIP

• .ZIP

Status: Alive

Species: Armadillo

Subspecies: Zip bomb

Gender: Male 🏳️‍🌈

Eye Color:

• Black (Disguised)

• Yellow (True Form)

Inspired by: Mighty.ZIP (created by DastardlyDeacon)

Appears in: Friday Night Funkin' D-Sides

Debut: Friday Night Funkin' D-Sides

Music:

• Try Harder (Too Slow D-Side)

• No Rest (You Can't Run D-Side)

• Soul Clash (Triple Trouble D-Side)

• Final Lap (Final Escape D-Side)

Trivia:

• To unlock his file, the player must type "MIGHTY" in the files.

• If the player types "SONIC" in the files, another riddle from Zachariah opens in the Notepad, telling the player that he is not Sonic.

• Melody.ZIP speaks in rhymes because it's funny, however he hates Mighty.ZIP's bad puns so much he had no problem kicking him in the dick.

• Melody.ZIP would kick Super Mario Anime Kart Peach for $20.

• Melody.ZIP currently resides in Icy Isle alongside Mighty.ZIP.

• Zachariah wouldn't get along well with the sassy, teasing JX, or his racing rival SMAK Peach either. However, the the story would show him making an effort to reconcile, per events of God Feast, their own Thankgiving tradition.

• Melody.ZIP ate his mic when transforming into his normal form.

• Melody.ZIP is an Omega, and likes Alpha men.

• Melody.ZIP can make Brioche Bread.

#2:

Tamaki Quinn

Tamaki Quinn is the main opponent of Endless, he is the D-Side version of Mikishi Sonnie.

Aliases:

• Dokeshi Tamaki

Status: Alive

Species: Armadillo

Gender: Male 🏳️‍🌈

Eye Color: Black

Music:

• Endless (D-Side)

Trivia:

• Dokeshi is a word in Japanese, which means harlequin, jester, or evil spirit. This mirrors Mikishi's name, which can be interpreted in Japanese as a "storyteller", "demon god", or "entertainer", albeit it is actually just a nickname for "The Adventures of Batman and Robin" for the Sega CD.

• If the player tries to go to the debug option and type in "Endless" to access the secret boss easter egg in The Adventures of Batman and Robin, you get a pop up from Tamaki saying, "Nice Try, The Jokes on You.", and when OK is clicked, it takes you back to the main menu.

• Tamaki Quinn is actually gay.

• Tamaki Quinn can be a secret supervillain in Gotham City.

#3:

Zelda

Zelda, also known as God ZZ, is the main opponent of Cycles, based on the character Lord XX. He is a demon whom SEGA summoned in the 1990s to assist them with game development. Eventually, he forced the company to abandon him, then he took the worlds he was forced to create and made them a bit more like his home. Although he seldom gets visitors in his current state, he's always eager to share his wonderful creations with any who cross his path.

Aliases:

• God ZZ

• ZZ (or ZeeZee)

Species: Demon

Subspecies:

• Armadillo (Normal)

• Shooting Star (Ristaria)

• Orbot (Vectorwoman)

• Human (Alexandra Kidd)

Gender: Transgender (He/She) ♂️♀️

Eye Color: Yellow

Music:

• CYCLES (D-Side)

Trivia:

• Zelda foreshadows his next form, with the faces of the next character peering through his mouth.

• In the final part of Cycles, Zelda's forms disappears when he is in the shadows.

• His forms changes depending on the character he forms, and what character corresponds to it.

• All of Zelda's forms have a "Z" shape somewhere on his person-Melody and Vectorwoman have it carved into their chests, Ristaria's is on his gloves, and Alexandra Kidd's is on the gem in his chest.

• He/She is originally intended for Zelda's non-Melody forms to hold mutilated versions would be that form's ally as well, but when Zelda realizes that Ristaria, Vectorwoman, and Alexandra Kidd didn't have any allies to speak of, they changed their plans to use the games' perspective final bosses instead.

• Zelda hates the government much more than you can expect.

• Zelda's favorite Seraph of the End character is Kuel Tepes.

Gallery:

Zelda (Ristaria)

Zelda (Vectorwoman)

Zelda (Alexandra Kidd)

(Might Redesign his 4th and last form.)

#4:

Sunny & Melodee

Sunny is the D-Side varient of the original Sunny in the primary opponent of Milk.

Melodee is the secondary opponent and playable character in Milk. He is based on Sunny & Jinx.

Species:

• HedgeHAWG (Sunny)

• Armadillydoo (Melodee)

Gender: Male (both) 🏳️‍🌈

Eye Color: Black (both)

Inspired by: LooneyDude

Fur Color: Purple and white (Sunny)

Debut: Sunny 2

Music: Milk (D-Side)

Trivia:

• Sunny's species isn't actually a hedgehog, he was believed to be but he is verified in his full name "Sunny The".

• Unlike Sunny's V2.5/3.0 sprites, D-Side Sunny opens his mouth in his sprites.

• Melodee was going to debut in Sunny the Game 2, a cancelled sequel to Sunny the Game.

[ultimumvitae]

apropos to nothing really beyond me having maria on the brain, it's a tragedy that helen was so under-used in sonic x. besides the fact that it would have been cool for a little girl in a wheelchair to be a main character, she so blatantly looks like maria that i feel if they were going to give amy's role in reminding shadow of his real promise to anyone, it really, really should have been helen.

this isn't even an "i hate chris" post--i dislike him in the most neutral way possible--but narratively, there are so many beats that i think would have hit harder had helen been the mc instead. her parents love her, but they can't be with her as much as she would like because they're always working, similarly to chris. the difference here being that she also doesn't have a grandfather and full waitstaff to support her, and... well, it is a little harder to feel bad for chris when he's absurdly rich to boot. it's no moral failing of his, he's just a kid, but as a character other kids are supposed to relate to, he's just hard to connect with. helen, i think, who lives a more normal life in a normal house with normal, working class parents would have resonated with children far more.

also i admittedly just really love helen. her episode where sonic takes her to see the blue flowers is probably one of my all time favorites in any sonic media.

i love her. she's sweet, kind, tenacious, clever, loves lizards and bugs, clearly craves adventure, has the unexpected forethought to ask sonic not to pick the flowers so they can thrive and more people can enjoy them, and was so excited to tell her parents about her adventure to the island with sonic. helen deserved to have more adventures, and it's boggling to me that they only gave her one.

anyway this has been a helen propaganda post. we ♥ helen in this house.

(and just look at her. she's practically a little maria clone from looks to certain aspects of her personality. shadow would have adored her.)

[dogydayz]

so I came up with ANOTHER fucked up AU thingy where Eggman has to take care of one of his nephews for a bit and not even a day into the guy staying there he's already creating a fucked up clone of Shadow using modern tech to "improve" upon the old formula (turns out the guy basically worships Gerald like a fucking idol not even knowing who Gerald had been BEFORE he lost his marbles) and DID make this clone to be a weapon, for Eggman. Because he wants to impress Eggman.

So he lets this fucked up Shadow lookin fucker with alien DNA go in an attempt to get him to kill Sonic (oh by the way he also has wings and a big-ass tail, and no Chaos Energy control yet), but that fails and Sonic and Shadow are just.... baffled by him????

And later on Shadow fucking kills him, decapitates him, and buries him because he knows the guy will just regen and the alien shit will make his head reattach, so it just serves to stall for time to figure shit out.

More shit happens, he gets upgrades that allow for Chaos Control, and then the guy sees how Sonic and Shadow interact in battle and even just when talking (he was made to assume the two hated one another, even thinking he was doing Shadow a "favor" by trying to kill Sonic), and then becomes obsessed with the idea of "care" and "affection" and demands that the nephew, his creator, gives him the ability to feel those things (which he can actually ALREADY feel, he just is being gaslit by Eggman and the nephew into thinking he can't).

The nephew basically tells him "go kill Shadow and I'll do it", and he fucking DOES. he literally goes and fights him, then slices him and uses his Chaos Spear to jab and tear Shadow's head off the same way Shadow had done to him before. So he takes the head, feeling absolutely disgusted and awful with himself, teleports back to the place, and drops it for the nephew to see. Only, he's told by the guy that the whole "giving him emotions" thing cant actually happen, because the nephew doesnt know HOW to do that. So? The guy fucking kills him too out of pure rage and grief, because he never WANTED to kill Shadow, he was just so fucking desperate to have what "he had".

Meanwhile, Sonic ends up discovering the leftover headless corpse of Shadow and has a fucking breakdown and is absolutely traumatized by the sight, which is very much understandable. He runs back home to the others and cant even speak because he's so choked up, and it takes Rouge outright going out on a limb and asking "where the hell is Shadow?" for them to get a response outta him (the response being him only starting to cry harder). Rouge goes to try to find whatever Sonic saw, and Tails follows despite being told not to after alerting Knuckles and asking him for help. The two end up ALSO seeing the body, before heading back to the house where Rouge then proceeded to ALSO break down because. Yknow. Her best friend is fucking dead.

HOWEVER.

A few hours pass, things are still grim and... oddly quiet... Until they hear and frightened scream followed by frantic door knocks. Amy would end up letting Sticks in (yes Sticks exists here i love her too much) who starts rambling about some "horror creature from the forest here to take them to the grave" and that makes Knuckles, Tails, and Rouge curious enough to hurry out and follow her. Amy would also follow after making sure Sonic would be okay, however he would end up actually following solemnly purely due to his curiosity, and not wanting to be alone.

Well, what they find is a figure slowly limping and hobbling, holding onto it's horribly mangled, grotesque, and unrecognizable bloodied head, which throbbed and pulsated, strange spikes sticking out of it from different angles, and one singular red eye on the front.

So everyone is fucking mortified, but... Rouge and Tails immediately realize, holy fucking shit, is that SHADOW??? Because the "corpse" part, the body, was still bloodied like before, with the same tears on the neck, just... with a pulsating mass now growing from it.

Rouge decided to risk it and went to the... thing.... and wrapped her arms around it, and when he slowly returned the gesture, she realized.... oh god, what the fuck. it IS him.

And Sonic, who had finally made his way to the area they were in, peaked through the bushes and nearly fucking tackled the poor bastard in a hug while starting to sob once again.

But Shadow was weak as hell at this point, and... unable to speak, he had to desperately try to draw images of the Emeralds in the dirt to get them to know what he needed.

The Emeralds would, if he had access to all of them, be able to heal his head completely. So, he had to trust that they'd find the damn things.

They brought him back to the house and Knuckles and Rouge left to find the Emeralds.

Amy ended up seeing on a news station that SOMETHING was attacking Station Square, however, quite a far ways away, and of course being the idiot he is, now with a bit more pep to him, Sonic left to handle that (and also, he was both absolutely enraged over what the fucker had done, yet also... oddly curious about who the hell he truly was, despite that.)

He gets to the city and finds the Weapon tearing fissures through the earth with his energy before they get locked into combat, and the Weapon is shrieking and crying all the while as he yells his believed "purpose" at Sonic, that Eggman has promised him freedom if he were to put an end to the blue hedgehog, that he would get what he needed to live a proper life, that he'd never wanted to kill, that he killed his creator because he'd lied, that he just wanted to feel the things that everyone else could.

And they'd be interrupted in the middle of the fight by.... A slightly less mangled Shadow, who'd been given 3 Emeralds thus far and had enough ability to open a strange sort of maw and speak in broken, rough words.

He told the Weapon it was useless. The Weapon screamed that he should be dead.

"Just. Like. You... Ali...en....."

The Weapon told him he just wanted to live, just wanted to exist as something more.

"Been. There... Done..... That."

The Weapon barked back desperate words, pleads, while Shadow, to Sonic's bewilderment, was entirely calm.... Perhaps even.... Caring? Understanding?

Shadow pointed out the Weapon's tears, his voice... He told the other that he could already feel, that the Doctor was using him. He was lying to him. He told him that he didn't have to follow this path.

And after silence, the Weapon simply Chaos Controlled away.

Sonic and Shadow would return home, and Knuckles and Rouge would finally return with the last Emeralds needed for Shadow's head to properly be reformed.... Though how it had looked prior would remain in the back of everyone's minds. It was... Kinda horrifying lol.

And the Weapon? He'd be taken back and locked up by Eggman, who would end up repeating his Grandfather's steps and fuck up his memories before deciding to give him some mechanical "upgrades".

He would then simply name him "Razor," as a code name.

Alien DNA and blood still ran through his veins, and as such, he still held connection to Shadow, even with mechanical replacement limbs and weaponry at his disposal.

As such, with enough focus... Shadow came to the realization that... He might be able to....

"You are... Like me. I know your mind, I know what he did. He's a fool, repeating a process done so long ago, one so easily broken and reversed. I know what you're feeling... You're scared.

You're just as I had been... Yet... In a way, you're exactly what I'd feared I truly was. Yet I wasn't, and you are. A weapon, designed to hurt, yet you crave the bonds others share with one another, you plead for someone to help you, to give you the care and love you truly deserve, as another person living amongst them. Amongst us. You are me, and I am you, and yet, we are truly only ourselves.

What is.... Your name?"

And the Weapon didn't reply.

Razor. Razor. Razor.

The name echoed in his mind, and Shadow could hear it loud and clear... Yet...

He still awaited the name the Weapon would give. The name the Weapon would choose.

For himself.

[timewontwait]

☀️ that would be too easy. // shadow:

    It stings. Shadow remembered those events, remembered being trapped inside of one of Infinite's virtual reality prisons for an entire month-- not only did it take him out of the fight against Eggman, but... he hadn't been there to stop Sonic from being captured. It had been one of his most painful regrets in the last few years.

    The faux hog winces, his brow creasing as his teeth grit harder, and that determined expression of his falters. It seemed... painful for him to recall, as well. He looked pained, almost as if hearing Sonic say that was worse than the beating he'd taken.

    "I'm sorry, I wasn't there...! I failed the entire planet, and you, but I refused to give up... I DIDN'T give up. Even as Infinite created violent mockeries of my visage to attack and force the people to submit... I still fought for the freedom of this world." Shadow's voice softens a moment as he brings a hand up, hesitating for a second or two before placing his palm to Sonic's cheek. It's awkward, it's not something he would do usually but... it's a soothing gesture from his own memories. It's something that helped ground him, in the past. Maybe... just maybe... it would help his friend.

    "When I'm not there, I'm always fighting to be there, Sonic! And I refuse to give up on you now! Just as you never gave up on me, all of those years ago! This is my promise, I'm going to save you from this!! Don't throw your light away!!"

A gutting question, but an honest one nonetheless. For once, that optimistic confidence Sonic always carried was gone, in it's place, a jaded and utterly exhausted hedgehog who's spent years of his life fighting for their freedom. There is no filter here, it's been tossed to the furthest reaches of his mind along with the rest of his rationale.

His face is burning to the touch, as if he were running a terrible fever. When the other hedgehog's hand comes into contact with his cheek, Sonic flinches. For no reason other this was the first time since transforming that he'd felt the touch of another ( he's been holding onto this form for what feels like weeks, now... ) Swirling red eyes move to glance down at the hybrid's hand momentarily, before flickering back to it's owner. He listens. Listens to Shadow's reasoning. But his heart just sinks further the more his comrade speaks. They always tried so hard, but it wasn't enough. It n̶e̶v̷e̷r̸ was enough. ...A grim look falls over the golden one's face.

" ...Shadow... "

His hand rises to gently grasp the other hedgehog's wrist. For a moment, his grip is lax. But then... it tightens.

        " ..Just stop. "

Faster than the eye could blink, the hybrid is swung around and tossed into a nearby mountain range, through trees and rock and shrubbery — a testament to how far away the nature enthusing hero's mind truly was. He's quick to reappear again in a blip of golden light, perched on a branch up high with shoulders slumped and smoke charring at his feet. " Ha.. "

He turns to look down at the other.

" ...Don't you see it, yet? Nothing gets done without me. This world... it can't SURVIVE without me, " Sonic hisses eerily, a painfully stubborn grin on his face. He continues, his tone almost patronizing. " You play your part, Shadow. You all fight for the same cause... But at the end of the day? ... It's me determining whether or not you all get to LIVE. You've seen it. You've ALL seen it. You really think you can 'save me' when you can't even save yourselves? "

And oh, he can just tell from the look on his rival's face that Shadow wants to protest. The golden hedgehog holds up a finger, wagging it sternly with a shake of his head.

" Just give it a rest, will ya'? I've already solved our problem. Now, none of you will have to worry anymore, " His hand drops with a sigh, and then he looks away.

" ...Why can't you just be glad? "

[kitsunefox1108]

ANOTHER UNIVERSE (PART 8)

And so, I'm writing fan fiction about Y/N, but I decided that it would be worth expanding his fame, and I tried to translate it into English. I'm not familiar enough with this language yet, but I hope that there won't be any serious mistakes. Have fun reading! ( it's just that my main language is Russian, so I apologize in advance )

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You gradually regained consciousness. You were in some kind of room, or rather a laboratory. The head ached, and there was a ringing in the ears. You tried to remember and understand the reasons for your presence here. You remembered the battle with Infinite and the fact that he took you. Now you have at least one answer to your question. "It's wonderful that you haven't been unconscious for more than two hours!" - Joyfully exclaimed a familiar hoarse voice. You turned your head and saw a smug Eggman. - "What do you want from me?…" - you croaked, realizing that your throat was dry and you really wanted water. But you can't move your whole body except your head. They tied you tightly to the table. - "All I want is your blood. And your friends who will come to save you!" - You didn't like that tone. Eggman didn't seem dumb and spineless to you, so he's clearly planning to do something to the others as well. Why do you value my blood so much? - you became interested. - "You are from another dimension, and were created with Shadow on the same colony! So why should I give up this opportunity? Since Shadow would be harder to catch, you'll be my test subject. I can use your blood to power my new robot projects that will run on your blood!" - Eggman started laughing, this situation was starting to strain you. You tried to quickly develop an escape plan, however, you had little chance, and there was a rather small field of view, which made it difficult to see the room for exits and things that could help you. The evil genius was doing something in his beaker, mixing strange drugs. You just assumed that he was going to introduce it either to you or to your new friends. You began to squirm and try to break the ropes, but as a result, you only rubbed your hands to calluses. -“Y/N, think, please, think… Maybe there is a technique here that I could somehow touch, and I could use it against Eggman?…” you mentally kicked yourself, looking for ideas, trying to consider everything as much as possible. You noticed a small robot that was standing not far from you. But he had to be touched, which was already a test. You regretted another 100,500 times that you were not able to control things with the help of the power of thought. Eggman finished mixing the drugs and drew the liquid into his syringe. He started walking towards you with a smirk. You started to panic. - "damn it, don't you dare do that, Sonic and Shadow and the others will save me!" - You screamed, trying to resist, and with all your might tried to break the ropes, as a result of which you pressed harder on your mazols. -"Hush, hush, little fox, you must be accommodating and good. You are no good for more." - Eggman drawled sweetly, covering your mouth with his hand, already preparing to inject the syringe into your shoulder. You bit his hand, but it wasn't hard enough for him to take his hand away and you would have won some time. Eggman only hissed, but he injected the drug, which caused moans of pain from your mouth, because your shoulder began to throb painfully. Before you knew it, your senses began to dull, you couldn't tell reality from glitches, your heart began to beat faster, adrenaline rose. You felt something very strange, like you were in a drunken stupor mixed with drugs. Somewhere your mind, deep inside you, tried to resist, but the potion was stronger. You still succumbed, and lay already calmly, trying not to close your eyes. The scientist laughed again, no less pleased than before with the result. - Wonderful. Now nothing will stop me from doing everything I need on you. Even your useless friends!

Sonic ran at full speed while Amy tried to catch up with him. - "Sonic, I'm… Khuh, tired!" - Amy breathlessly tried to speak and interact, trying to take her favorite by the hand, but he only replied: "Amy, we don't have time, we need to rescue her!"-The Pink Hedgehog groaned in displeasure, mentally cursing you for everything you did and did not do. She was already planning to fight you and slam you with her hammer after the battle with Infinite was over. To her surprise, the hero of the whole celebration appeared in front of two hedgehogs. - "My prey itself runs to look for its hunter." - the jackal said in a pathetic voice, making his signature pose, putting two fingers on the nose of the mask ( do you still understand what I mean? ) - "You!" - Sonic growled, pointing his finger at him. -" You will lose, Infinite! If you don't tell Y/N where you're going and what you did to her, you'll feel the power of me and Amy combined!" - "Don't make me laugh, blue hedgehog. You are naive, very naive. I'm too strong to be defeated by some of the typical roll-up moves. "- Infinite said in response, while a square began to form in his hand, which he planned to put into a hedgehog. - "Well, Amy… Come on!" - Two hedgehogs about 3 ran towards their enemy, jumping towards him.

[cutegirlmayra]

The world is ending (not exactly but things are bad). Before everything goes down, Amy wants Sonic to take here somewhere nice. He does. When sonic puts her down, she’s crying. She asks if she’s ever said that she loves him. He had always loved her but it hit him that this might be the last time she’ll be with him. They embrace as they slowly fall asleep.

Imma go ahead and combined this with another idea I had? Still what you want, but the 'ending of the world' has passed but they were fighting before (A bit in the future? So they're older) and if they don't make up soon,... it may be the last time they'll see each other! D: Oh no! lol

PROMPTS ARE ON SHUTDOWN, I literally looked through all my prompts to find a prompt that would match the idea I wanted to write, and yours hit the bill, my friend!

S(This is not my work, please support the Artist! @mangaanonymous)

Prompt:

it's a pretty bad situation...

Not only is Sonic undermining the danger, he's keeping it to himself, not wanting to worry his friends.

This was all happening during a few years after their famous adventures as kids, now being a little older, and the threats a little more... harder... to bear.

Showing his own worry for his friend's well-beings, Sonic refuses to confide in anyone besides Tails the true dangers that are headed their way, but Amy notices this clear avoidance and while Sonic is cheering on Knuckles and Tails in their part of the plan, she confronts him.

"Sonic... It may be easier for all of us if we just knew what we were up against..." She gestures to Tails and Knuckles, then turns pleadingly to Sonic, her fists close by herself as she shakes them in earnest to get Sonic's attention. "I know you just want to protect our faith in you... and we all believe in you! We really do! But... It's starting to seem like you're keeping things from us... What really is out there, Sonic?" She opens her hand out to him, passing the metaphorical 'talking stick' as it were, but Sonic just looks down at her hand...

His face is full of deep thought, before his eyebrows arch in return to her want of understanding, "Don't you trust me?" He asked, which seemed somewhat hard for him to state in that way... "I've never let you guys down before. If we all band together, I'm sure it won't matter what we're up against!" he gestured to Tails and Knuckles, then to Amy.

Amy's face scrunched up a moment, hurt by his clear rejection of her plea.

"...Uhh... I just think it's best... for morale's sake... that we just take it on as we always have." Sonic backed up a moment, noticing her expression, but formed his own fist and held it strongly up, as though to encourage her. His eyes searched her for the usual agreeance she had always shown in her youth... but... not this time.

His expression turned a bit saddened, a bit... confused.

Why wasn't she just trusting his word, like usual?

Amy lowered her head, "So... you won't tell any of us what's out there?"

Her hands dropped to her sides as Sonic looked to Tails, who shook his hands out like he wanted to stay out of this.

"...I told Tails... But-" he looked down when Amy's head shot up with anger clear across her face, making him flinch back and turn his back to her.

"You told Tails!?"

Knuckles looked to Tails, who shrugged, innocently showing his nerves at Sonic throwing the 'baton' to him in the conversation.

Sonic squinted his eyes shut, forming a tight line on his face before turning back around to Amy and gesturing his arms out again, "What!? What, Amy!? I can't tell my best friend that things are gonna be alright? Shadow and Silver already have their teams lined up and prepared," He angled his eyes and then pointed behind him as he spoke about the others readying their positions for the on-coming dangers. "I don't understand... why are you questioning me?" he shook his head in minor movements, leaning towards her in hopes she'd explain herself.

She just huffed, defeatedly, and turned to Tails, walking towards him. "Fine. If you won't tell us, then I'll just ask Tails myself."

"Keep him out of it!" Sonic reached to her and she stopped before his arm could intercede. He walked to the side of her, seeing that she's halted, and not pulling her back but just keeping his arm out to stop any further movement. "Amy, what's wrong with taking my word for it that we're all gonna make it out of here? You said you had faith in me, right? Would I really let anything happen to you? To them?" He gestured a bit aggressively to Tails and Knuckles, but that was only because he was trying to make a point.

"But then why aren't you saying anything?" Amy's voice turned desperate, turning her attention from Tails back to him, "If this is a losing cause... you wouldn't say it is, would you?" she worriedly confessed her fears as Sonic's quills jumped on end... slowly descending as he stepped back, clearly hurt from her abrupt words.

"S-...Sonic... I just... I want to know..." Amy, seeing how much that seemed to stab his heart, tried to step forward and reach for him, but he turned away from her and held a very 'closed-off' look to his face. His eyes were a bit intense to the ground, his mouth a masked frown as though he was returning to a neutrality.

"I'm heading off to check on the others. Be ready and prepare well... Tails, Knuckles... Take care of Amy." He took off, back towards Amy again, blocking out her emotional responses.

She made a few quickened steps after him before stopping... lingering one foot to the side and then the other... watching his blue blur disappear over the horizon...

Tails sighed, "He barely said much to me, too... But I know he's only doing it to keep us from being afraid." He stated aloud, then turned to Knuckles, "They're both kinda stubborn, though... huh?"

"Heh, hedgehogs." Knuckles shook his head, folding his arms, "That's the first time I ever saw Amy lose a fight to entreat Sonic... he's usually so... appeasing to her." Knuckles's mouth turned to one side, as though not sure how to take this. "Is this... their first real fight?"

Tails nervously laughed under his breath, "I-I... I don't know." He admitted, "But it is pretty rare for those two to not really get along... I mean, normally, their conversations end in Sonic being awkwardly embarrassed and Amy giggling at it. This... this is definitely new." He looked to see Amy slowly lowering her shoulders, her head coming down, and her hands coming up to embrace herself in a self-soothing gesture.

The two men stared...

"Who's in the wrong,... then?" Knuckles wondered, asking for Tails's opinion.

Tails shook his head, "Neither/or. They're both a bit at fault, but for different reasons... I think Sonic should have just had faith in us... instead of asking for more faith in himself and in our past victories... and Amy... I think Amy should have let it go like she usually does... she's so submissive but forceful when she wants something... I'm surprised she pushed this topic for so long after seeing Sonic... so rattled up like that." Tails explained his thoughts, as Knuckles patted his back, taking in a deep breath of air to then let it out.

"Sonic's naturally a hot-head, and we should only focus on things we can control... We can control this outcome to some extent... It would be easier if Sonic wasn't so tight-lipped about it, holding onto a strong face for us all... It's not exactly needed, is it?" Knuckles clearly was siding with the side of getting more information. "Aren't you curious why it takes so many of us to even make a shot at this thing?"

Tails looked down,... clearly, in silent agreement.

"I... I have to trust Sonic's instinct on this one..." He stated... a bit as though he was trying to stay out of an argument. He looked meekly up to Knuckles, "Don't you... Don't you think that's best, too? We know enough to have a crack at it... but not enough to lose hope." he held up a hand and then lightly formed it into a fist, trying to demonstrate his resolve, but Knuckles just shook his head and started to wander over to Amy.

"Gah... Amy..." He patted her back, as Tails sighed and flew over to, also placing his two hands on her other shoulder in the air, showing they were there for her.

"He's..." she took a few quick breaths in, quivering in her words, as though hyperventilating a bit in her withheld tears. "He's n-ne-nev-never been so-so-so upset with m-me before..." She struggled to get that sentence out... it was clear she was worried. "W-wha-what have I-I-I done." she softly put her hands to her face, "I-I can't... l-let him s-see-see me c-cry."

The two men looked to one another, then Tails came down as Knuckles embraced Amy from the side, and Tails the same.

"It's unfair. We agree with you." Knuckles stated, even though he knew Tails was more on Sonic's side. "But the fact remains... Sonic is being stubborn about telling us the whole of the situation. In a few minutes, we're about to confront it for the first time, with our own eyes..." He moved out of the embrace to look down to her, "We'll be okay." He comforted her, and rubbed the top of her head as Tails also tried to cheer her--and himself--up by jumping enthusiastically.

"Whatever it is, it hasn't faced us, yet!" he piped up, kicking up his legs, "Let's teach it that it never should have crossed our paths! Or our planet's!"

Knuckles returned his efforts for a smile with one of his own, then looked to Amy who peeked over her bent fingers and nodded, still looking quite in grief over the confrontation she had had with Sonic.

At the end of the fight, they were victorious, even if the chances were slim... Sonic was right. They defeated it, no matter the odds.

Still... if the odds were told, hearts could have been spared.

Amy watched as Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles celebrated their victory up on a hill... she held a fist close to her heart... hearing it pound inside her ears and feeling its rapid thumps of fear at seeing Sonic again after... after he must have felt betrayed from her lack of faith in his decisions...

She didn't want to say she was wrong, she didn't believe she was. She never lost her trust nor faith in Sonic... but she wanted to know, she was more than just curious, she felt that knowing may help quiet the fears instead of the unknown making them worse.

Was that selfish of her? No. She wouldn't say such a thing.

Still... the battle was won and over with... but...

She backed up, her breathing growing uncomfortable as her hands reached for her cheeks... they were flushed and discolored, and she... she opted to run away.

She wouldn't let Sonic see her tears... she couldn't!

Strangely enough, with her head down and charging through the trees, her vision blurred by the raining moisture in her eyes, she thought she saw Sonic sped up in front of her, arms folded, and halted as his head turned to her.

She covered her face and breathed through her mouth, shocked he would follow her. "S-So-Sonic? Why are you h-he-here?"

"...What's with all the blabbering?" the voice was deep and husky.

"Sh-Shadow?" She parted her hands as she squinted through her tears. Indeed, through the distorted vision of her blobby tears, was Shadow.

He looked her face over, then his eyelids lowered as though he was holding back some empathy for her. "Why aren't you celebrating with the others?" he plainly spoke out.

"... I... I don't know... if I belong there right now... or not." She rubbed her arm, turning away from him, trying to stop her hiccuping-like breathing that rapidly ascended like a ladder from her throat in spurts.

"...You're clearly upset."

"Y-y-yes." she wiped her tears, looking to him and then ducking her head again.

"...I suppose most people would ask why." He unparted his arms, walking up to her, "But... Sonic mentioned something... I think it has to do with what ever transpired between you two." He stopped in front of her as she looked up to him, hearing his story...

Sonic paced by Shadow, as Shadow--unwillingly--listened to his small rant.

"We're ready. We're gonna win over this thing, I just know it! Why can't they all see that..? Knuckles didn't complain, Tails understood, and Amy... She..." He suddenly paused to form a shaking fist to the side of him, which finally caught Shadow's bored attention, his eyes widened at the sudden release of unwanted, leaking emotion from Sonic and was suddenly... very intrigued.

He shook out his hand in a sweeping motion and then jerked it out, "It doesn't matter. She'll see when we win. We're all gonna do this together, Shadow! So you can't act half-fazed now!" he walked by Shadow abruptly, swiftly... as Shadow looked down from the corner of his eye... not wanting Sonic to realize what he had seen...

"I don't believe I've ever seen Sonic so visibly shaken up before... he only showed such signs of being emotional and disturbed when mentioning you." Shadow looked back to Amy, "And now, seeing how you're reacting to it..." He carefully observed Amy's hands as she had put them together, they were shaking fiercely in front of her too. "...Something tells me you both lack faith in making peace with the other." He turned his attentions back to her eyes, searching as they were, trying to find meaning to Shadow's story she couldn't quite place.

"...Has this happened before?" He suddenly asked.

"No." Amy's voice was somewhat mousey, her nerves taking over.

"...Haven't you both had disputes in the past?" Shadow seemed incredulous at her facts.

"I always just... let him do what he pleased. I don't want to be the one to always-..." she stopped, shaking her head. "N-no, that's not true. I do believe Sonic would want me to make amends... Thank you, Shadow."

"...I owe you a debt." Shadow took things seriously, walking up to her side to show some minimal action of support in her favor. "If it weren't for you... there wouldn't be a planet left to save." He admitted, smirking a moment to look forward again, chuckling lightly in a low tone. "I highly doubt that our victory would be complete unless you two made up." He looked back to Amy, "In service to you, and your words... I have to ask you something... personal." He gestured a hand to her, stepping back as she looked curiously up to him, wondering what it could possibly be.

Personal?

"You said to me... once, a very long time ago... that the people upon this planet's dreams were worth saving... what about your own? You're sacrificed so much on his behalf... so it appears to be." He was guessing, but he wasn't far off. He lowered the hand and looked behind her, just making sure they were alone... he wouldn't want to conjure the wrath of Sonic... especially if he teased him that he was butting too heavily into his 'love affairs'.

Shadow hating Sonic's teasing more than anyone... but irritability aside, this once 'little girl' still reminded him of another fond child... and he refused to go about his life not having repaid a debt. "I'm perplexed... why are you, through your actions, proving that some dreams are placed higher than others?"

His words cracked at her core, but she remained strong in her stance... just weak in her face.

"Shadow..." Her eyebrows arched back, her mouth pulling back into a frown.

"...It's not right... to place one dream above the other." flicked his hand out, walking by her. "Explain it to him... You shouldn't be the only one left in tears... at the end of every adventure..." He looked over his shoulder as he departed, "Or are hiding your tears really that worthwhile?"

His words may have been direct, but underlining them, was a real concern for her future...

She nodded in agreement, clapping her hands to her cheeks to try and snap her out of her dark spell.

"R-right! I got to make up with him! State myself... and my dreams... clearly." She nodded in resolve, about to come back to the hill and rush past Shadow when-

"Amy!" A portal opened and Silver floated out of it, looking to be in great alarm, "Have you spoken to Sonic yet? Are you two alright again?" The urgency in his voice made her falter, stepping back, her arm coming up to block his floating body from advancing any further as she leaned up to see him.

"W-wha-what?" She was confused by his sudden appearance. "Silver..? What's wrong? Isn't the future safe?" She asked then, as Silver lowered his flying form down and looked a bit unsure on how to answer that.

"Y-yes... but... not all futures." he looked... concerned. His eyes avoided her own, questioning ones. "I... Don't know how much I should say..."

"Say it." Amy's sorrowful crack in her voice made him look to her at once, unable to avoid the sadness from the situation anymore. "What happens to me and Sonic if I don't go back?"

"... I don't... know all the details, b-but..." He clearly didn't know why this was happening, but Amy wasn't going to fill in the details just yet. It might cause him to stop talking... and at least... he was talking.

He put his fingers' tips up by each other... nervously explaining... "If whatever happened to you two doesn't get resolved... then the future you two had coming will be... disrupted." He looked away, "It doesn't affect the whole of the future... you're right. But you've always been so kind to me... I feel almost like... I owe it to you... to try and bring back what was to come... because..." He lowered down to his feet, sighing as his fur on his chest seemed to rise and fall with his heavy breath. He turned his sights away from her, but narrowed his eyes in all seriousness, "I have to tell you... at least what I can. You two won't speak to each other again for many years to come... and... when you finally do... you've already missed... so much bliss you two could have had." He closed his eyes, harshly, as though finding that truly a tragedy.

"I came back because I care about individual futures just as much as the overall futures of people's lives... you helped me see that truth, Amy." he gestured out his hands towards her, facing her again as she seemed visibly processing that future... "You two seemed... hurt... by the past. I came here to try and help you two make amends."

She looked angrily up to him, "Amends? As in... I have to make the amends?!" she gestured to herself and then threw her arms down, "How does that make this right!?" she blurted out, turning away, "He can't just come to me? I have to go to him!?" She gestured behind her, then flattened her hand to her chest as her emotions were literally starting to suffocate her. "How... How selfish can he be!?" she ran off, as Shadow darted in and watched her go, skidding to a halt.

"Amy!" he called, then angrily stomped up to Silver, "What did you say to her!?"

"I-I-I was only trying to get her to make peace with Sonic!" he shook his arms out as Shadow gripped his fur and pulled him up.

"You have some nerve... She was about to do that very thing!" he grumbled out, then dropped Silver down as he started to walk towards Sonic. "Now it's up to be to use the forceful approach... If Amy won't come to Sonic... I'll have to ruffle him up into doing so..."

Silver rubbed his head, flying up after Shadow, "I didn't... realize that she'd be so upset... with it." He wondered then, "Was it me?"

"Why are you trying to help her? And clearly, you've only made her more emotionally avoidant." Shadow gestured a hand back to Silver. "We can't reason with her now... it's up to Sonic whether I can help preserve Amy's dream or not..."

"Amy's... dream?" Silver seemed confused, "Why are you helping her, Shadow?" He asked, before looking ahead to Sonic waving off Tails and Knuckles and dashing off. "I just... wanted their old future to come back." He admitted quietly, guilt now swarming in waves upon his face.

"Because a very long time ago... she fought for yours, and his, and everyone's dreams... but fails to secure her own." Shadow then clicked the toe of his foot to the ground as a flare from his spinning rollers on his feet whirled and he skated off, "It's high time Sonic paid for the dreams he's failed to save, as well... We may have won the battle, but-"

Silver flew up next to him, keeping the pace, "But hearts are sometimes more important then just saving lives." he looked to Shadow who nodded with a light 'hmph' and smile before it faded into a serious tone again.

The two looked forward and shot on after Sonic.

"W-wait-wait, hold on a Sonic-second." Sonic turned around after they had clearly caught up to him and explained things a bit to have him hold up his hands and now face them. "You two clearly don't know how things work between me and Amy." He seemed so confident... but Shadow could see through him right away.

"You're feigning your fears by acting cocky about it. Go on, tell us why you think Silver's future for you two won't have dire consequences for you and your friends, Sonic." he bit down on the last word, annoyed as he gestured back to Tails and Knuckles who had already left and then looked harshly back to Sonic,... as though ready to fight.

"Listen, it goes a little like this..." He looked around, then curved his speedy-self to bend down and pick up a flower before presenting it to them, "Observe. I present a flower, I give her the ol'Sonic charm," He winked with an infamous smirk as Silver tilted his head, confused, and looked to Shadow for answers who just remained frozen in rising fury at his nonchalant attitude. "and she's running back into my arms. Happens every time." Sonic flicked the flower to the side of his face and then turned to casually sniff it.

"Then why did Amy say this was the first time you two have ever left things unspoken?"

Sonic held in a snort of shock but it ended up coming out of his nose and as his eyes widened at seeing the flower burst into petals and now... look just pathetically sad in his hands.

He threw his arms down and gave a teethy-frown and grown to Shadow. He stomped his foot for added, 'extra' effect. "You spoke to Amy already!? What gives any of you the right to intervene in my affairs?"

"Somehow... I knew you were going to say that." Shadow rolled his eyes, as Silver stepped forward.

"We know she means a lot to you, Sonic. We also know you're scared to confront her because you felt she didn't see you the way she used to anymore."

At being so exposed, Sonic's eyes kept darting to the side of his vision as though unable to keep steady eye-contact, nervous at their clear resolve to help him. "W-why do you suddenly care about me and my well-being so much? Or rather..." He raised an eyebrow, suddenly growing in confidence as he walked up to them, "My friends... for that matter." he pointed to them as Shadow and Silver looked visibly offended and startled by his accusation.

"It's not like that." Silver narrowed his eyebrows, "She wants to be with you, we're just worried about your future, Sonic!" Silver stood up for himself, making Shadow look over to him, impressed for a soft moment that he wouldn't try and excuse his actions towards him.

"Heh, the future is never set in stone." Sonic shrugged out, smiling as he tilted his head back, remaining as best he could to appear composed. "Amy's usually... pretty... decent at speaking her mind. I don't doubt she'll be looking for me to make up with her soon." He turned around and started to walk back, "Besides, I don't worry, I just-..." He looked up towards the sky... his voice suddenly shifting... "Run."

The breeze took his spirit far from this conversation... placing it at a crying friend's side...

"I've had enough of this." Shadow swung his arm and pushed Silver enough back to get out of his way, making him wobble a bit back but reach out as though to stop Shadow. "You're a coward... You're so afraid of getting hurt by her again... that you refuse to admit how sorry you really are to her."

Sonic frowned and looked over his shoulder, starting to get upset... visibly growing more frustrated at Shadow's persistence.

"Enough, Shadow." He spoke out, full of authority that Shadow wasn't used to hearing, which did make him pause but smirk as he noticed he had struck a nerve.

"Is that right? When is it enough, Hedgehog? You're afraid of self-sabotaging a relationship you failed to even build. If it weren't for Amy's continual sacrifices to be with you... would you even be able to keep her?"

"Amy's not someone's to keep!" Sonic seemed to explode, stepping forward with a swing of his arm, his knees bent, he was preparing to lash out...

Exactly what Shadow wanted... as he matched his stance... ready to duke it out.

Silver looked worriedly between the two, but stayed out of it. He hadn't realized... how much Shadow knew about the two.

Was he just... super observant?

Or had he been watching for years... Sonic's relationship with his friends?

"Amy chooses to stand by my side... I've never done anything to stop her." Sonic stood tall, showing a more profoundly mature side, shaking his head. "This doesn't concern you... either of you." He eyed Silver a moment, then turned back to Shadow, losing all of his cool-guy-swagger to reveal his actual, deeply upset but stubborn persona underneath it all. "Amy can do as she sees fit... I never encourage otherwise!" he swung out another arm, threw and fed-up with this extremely personal--to him--discussion. "And that's enough on that."

"Is it?" Shadow probed, as though having a spear to spoke at Sonic's raging emotions swirling in his heart. He stepped forward, unafraid, "You've never done anything in general besides, possibly, saving her life... if she's no one's to keep, then why so defensive about us?" He gestured to himself, then Silver. "For someone who holds his friend's trust in him so highly, why are you so stirred over the fact that one wouldn't follow you blindly like she used to?"

Sonic remained silent, but it was obvious Shadow had crawled his spiked hooks underneath his skin...

"If you really are so confident she'll concede and come running back to you again... then why are you so afraid to face her now?"

He then dipped his head forward, "Why are you running... from your own faith in your friends?"

Sonic bolted forward to swing a fist but Shadow jumped back, anticipating it.

Silver worriedly watched as they sped through the air, exchanging blow after blow.

'W-why is Shadow egging him on like this?' Silver wondered, ducking in and out from being in the middle of the speedy, black and blue bullets coming at him. 'It doesn't make sense... why enrage him further instead of calmly getting him to see Amy?' he backed away, 'Maybe it was wrong to try and interfere with their fates... If this is how it should go... then...' he couldn't help but think about the old future they had, side by side, remaining in that close friendship instead of Sonic being off doing daring-dos and Amy never bothering to chase him again...

When they did reconnect, it was based on duel-loneliness... they had pined for each other and couldn't resist the urge to reunite again...

Wait... that's it!

"S-Sonic!" Silver quickly jumped back in and floated above the spinning blurs that kept rocking into each other. 'Shadow's not just blindly fighting him! He's helping Sonic face his pent-up sorrow over what happened! He's wearing his stubbornness down to step aside and compromise for Amy!' He threw up his hands, "I'm going to bring Amy to the hill at sunset! You better be there!" he flew off, determined to succeed.

'I have faith in you, now,... Shadow.' he hurried to find her, seeing she was curled up with her knees tucked in by a cliffside.

He slowly approached, breaking from his speedy search for her and coming down to step towards her.

He could barely even speak when she spoke first.

"He's really not coming... is he?" Her voice was broken... her heart torn in two. She ducked her head between her two raised knees she was hugging. "I never thought... that after all these years... he wouldn't even try to-... he always tried to-... Silver." she turned towards him as he sat down and although his hands were up at first... he lightly lowered them to gently rub her back.

"When he was gone for so long before... He always made it a point... to pick a flower and bring it to me... He was always so nervous that I was mad at him, and always... every time... so glad when I was overjoyed to see him again... I would rush into his arms... and he'd just let me stay there... for however long I liked... Even when he tried to pull me away to show the flower, I would just dart back into his arms again..."

Silver looked up to the sky, seeing the sun beginning to set. 'Come on, Shadow... Let him be waiting for us.' he told himself, nervous if this would even reset their futures back or not...

"When you told me... that we never spoke again in the future... I could hardly believe you... in fact, I didn't believe you." She rubbed her nose across her glove. "Because... Because no matter how long we're apart... Sonic or I would always find each other again... Always..."

Silver's heart was tenderly chipping at each crack of her voice and every heartfelt word she uttered.

It was painful... hearing how much she had faith in Sonic... and seeing how Sonic tried to mask his own aching in front of him and Shadow...

"He... He's bad a communicating... isn't he?" Silver looked down to her, as she nodded her head with a smile on her face, sniffling.

"He opens his heart... but the words don't come out. Only... small actions... but that... that prove his love for us. His friends, I mean... and the world, even." She looked away as Silver got up, trying to offer his hands to her.

"Amy... I know this seems like I'm trying to get you to go to him... but I'm not." He sternly stated, "Instead, I'm asking you to--for once--let him meet you halfway..."

She looked so touched by that, her eyes shining in the setting sun...

The two waited on the hill, as Silver got nervous about every second ticking by, before Shadow walked up to the hill and looked behind him, Sonic following suit with his eyes to the ground... then looking up to Amy.

Amy turned around and shot herself up to her feet instantly, her natural instinct was to run to him but she stopped her kicking leg from advancing any further.

Her fist thrust itself to her heart, as though to hold herself back, as she looked to Silver for reassurance.

He nodded, smiling, so relieved...

And together... the two walked to the center... meeting halfway... and sat down as Shadow and Silver departed... not being seen for several years as Silver returned to the future, and Shadow... to himself.

The two awkwardly sat in front of each other... before Sonic finally looked up at the sunset, "...It's beautiful,... don't'cha think?" He gazed with an honest sense of wanting to make things right towards it.

That subtle gesture Amy had talked about...

His knee was raised up with an arm draped over it, and the other arm holding himself up.

He kept staring at that sunset... his hand... that was once holding himself up,... slowly relocating to her side.

She smiled, letting out some held-in air that brought so much tension through her body.

"It is." she softly stated, placing her own hand next to his... "It really, truly is."

She looked up to him, but noticed he was blocking his emotions again, just staring at the sunset as she, too, then looked over to it.

The sun setted as she waited for him to say something... he had started, which was the hardest part, to make conversation...

After forever of silence, and the sun coming down, his head dropped to and Amy embraced him, hearing a sorrowful sound escape him as she held his head.

"I won't let you see me cry," she stated, as Sonic's hand came up to loop around her back up to her shoulder, gripping her in a strength she knew meant he was scared to lose her.

Silver's words had affected him. Shadow's fight had made him realize how much he really did care about that future coming to pass and him just... letting it happen.

This was the ultimate fight.

This was the end of his world...

If he couldn't even speak up... to make amends with his friends.

He lifted his head, sniffing back the held-in remorse of the emotionally strenuous moment on himself, as he finally spoke out.

"Future's left unseen." he stated, and Amy nodded, sitting back down beside him and letting him go.

"Y-yeah." she rubbed her eyes but Sonic's hand that loosened around her swung back around to lightly use his pointer finger to hold her chin in place, and lightly rubbed his thumb across the soft dip of her lowereyes.

"...I never meant to hurt you." His voice was faint, but she knew it was because this was hard for him to do.

"Neither did I." Amy responded, her eyes closed as she continued to let out small sobs.

"... I want... you to continue believing in me." His voice was trailing off, as though he was losing some strength in remaining this openly emotional.

"I know." she once again answered simply for him, wanting so desperately to hear him speak more. "I'm still mad at you." she took his hand and placed her mouth in it, holding it there as she kept her eyes closed... not sure if he wanted her to see his face or not, and definitely certain he might be freaked out a bit at her action, not wanting to see anything that would upset her on his countenance.

"I'm mad, too... but not at you. Not like that." he admitted, returning somewhat to his usual tone of voice. "I just didn't want you thinking... I could fail you."

"...You can't do that... did you really think you could?" She smiled and he could feel her lips turn up... even underneath his glove.

"...Did I... disappoint you?" she asked, burying trembling eyelids into his hand now... terrified of what he may say.

"... I failed you, Amy." He moved his hand and placed it on her head as she released it and lowered her own to her lap.

"I thought that by keeping the odds away from you... you wouldn't worry about us. About anyone succeeding... but we ended up hurting each other instead." he removed his hand and went back to the now darkened space where the sun once was over the horizon. The wind blew against his quills... and softly, he sighed out... ready to say his last bit of peace.

"... I can't keep you beside me... that's always been your choice... Amy." He looked away, as though afraid to see her expression this time. "But... It's my choice... whether to ask you... to."

Amy's heart practically leaped up in joy.

"Amy... I..." Sonic's ears dipped down as he turned his head slowly back to her, his eyes showing more vulnerability than she had ever seen from him in his life, almost mimicking that of when he thought Dark Gaia might end the world along with his new friend, Chip, before she suddenly giggled into her hands and spread them out to tackle him to the ground, embracing him with a hearty laugh.

"Of course I'll stay by your side, Sonic!" she cheered, her tears now flowing in joy. "I've waited so long... so long for you to say that, Sonic... WHAHAHA!!!" she burst into uncontrollable tears as Sonic awkwardly squirmed under her, but soon just smiled and gave up, holding her as he closed his eyes... enjoying the moment.

"Never fight with me again, Sonic The Hedgehog!"

"...I make no promises..."

"W-what was that?" She peeked open an eye, wondering why he would say something so heartbreaking after all they've been trying to do.

He just kept his kind smile, and then looked up to her with as much quiet joy in the arch of his eyes as he could allow through.

"Because... I want to learn how to communicate with you... and I... don't want to keep anything from you... not ever again."

Silver sat in the futuristic hill with his hands up to hold his head right, admiring the view of two older, elder hedgehogs... a faded pink and a faint blue... holding one another in their arms... watching the sunset...

                                                together.

(Not exactly according to prompt... but I hope it’s still in the spirit of what you were looking for :) I feel this is just much more canon-themed though, XD Even though that ending WAS COMPLETELY FANFICTION I still wanted to try for a future/older Modern Sonamy vibe XD)

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Suntang and Shadow/Sonic for the ship ask meme? 🤔

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please send me a ship and I will tell you

I only choose Reborn!suntang because I like that couple more than sonadow (and for obvious reasons).

who’s the cuddler: Although it seems incredible, Wukong is much more hugging than Sanzang. The monk only grew up showing verbal affection in a few cases but almost never with romantic intentions towards other men. Wukong, who has lived without rules from human society or deities, is not afraid to show affection by hugging his master + Monkeys in general are very hugging.

who makes the bed: Sanzang is more orderly with all his belongings. Wukong is not so much unless the young monk teaches him or orders him to do so.

who wakes up first: Wukong, but it's mainly because he always wants to stay alert to everything.

who has the weird taste in music: Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the type of music in the era where Journey to the West takes place, but I'm pretty sure Wukong would easily get bored with the instruments.

who is more protective: It's obviously Wukong! He will always be there to stand in front of anyone who dares to harm his master and beloved boyfriend. Of course, Sanzang will also be there to protect his beloved.

who sings in the shower: I don't imagine singing loud and exaggerated, but Sanzang, in his moments of seeking calm and relaxation, recites or hums songs.

who cries during movies: Sanzang is very emotional that sometimes he cries silently. Wukong just falls asleep or gets distracted easily.

who spends the most while out shopping: Hm I can't imagine Reborn! Wukong being a shopaholic, Sanzang isn't either but he would go shopping for his trip.

who kisses more roughly: Wukong hasn't kissed many people in his life and neither has Sanzang. Both would be having a long hour practicing their kiss, only to notice that it is in fact Wukong who kisses harder and with some roughness.

who is more dominate: Wukong is more dominant in personality, but Sanzang has more dominance in him as his master.

my rating of the ship from 1-10: 6/10! Canonically speaking, the couple deserves more screen time and more work, since we only know about their relationship from Wukong's words and the short time they have spent. But his concept and everything we saw I like too much.

[bloodontheredrose]

My Brutally Honest Opinion on the new BTS album...

*Please note this is just a personal opinion.

I decided to post it because I wanna see if there are armys out there with the same opinions or it might be just me, having this kind of feelings about the 7 album.

* It took me a while to process it so here it is.

I honestly believe "Persona" had more potential to get a Grammy than this one. That's why is depressing Persona never got a nomination. I'm gonna explain it.

My biggest problem with this album is the boring, empty, blunt production when the boys wrote some of the best lyrics and songs of their careers.

SHADOW: is one of my favorite tracks. Nothing much to say about it. It's Yoongi. Dark, real and raw. It also sampled a past song, so the production it's automatically a success.

BLACK SWAN: I loved the concept. It took some time for the song to grow on me. Powerful lyrics but something was wrong with the melody. The first times I listened to it, I couldn't remember it. I couldn't recall the chorus. I personally think that when a song doesn't leave a trace in your mind the first time you hear it, it's not a powerful song. Because it's forgettable.

FILTER: It perfectly describes Jimin. A Libra King. Jimin the people pleaser. The song is fun, it makes you move but I heard it before. Nothing deep. Nothing original about it. It's a mix of Ed Sheeran, Camila Cabello... drunk latino vibe. Another song that grew on me with time.

MY TIME: I was convinced this song was dedicated to JK's secret hookup with all that " I can't call ya", " I can't touch ya" in English. It's a sex song until you read the lyrics. Weirdly, it bored the hell out of me the first time I heard it to the point I wanted to skip it. It gave me The Weeknd vibes and despite the meaningful, sad message it failed to make me feel emotional. Up until, like I said, I read the translation.

LOUDER THAN BOMBS: The moment at least 10 people tweeted, including Troye Sivan, that they worked on it...my expectations went crazy high. It delivered. It caught me from the first second but it was not as good as I expected it to be. Way too short and it would've been easy to make it longer by giving V and Jin a proper number of lines. Just saying.

ON: is the biggest disappointment on this album for me. Specifically because it's the lead single. I loved the lyrics, I loved the concept but once again, just like JK's solo, I couldn't connect with it. It was as forgettable as Black Swan and it took 2 days for me to remember the chorus. A failure if I were to compare it with their past singles like " Fake Love" " Idol" etc. A thing that makes you forget the vibe of the song the first time you hear it, it's actually Jk's beautiful bridge. Somehow it breaks the vibe of the song and I think they could've easily avoid it to make the song more catchy.

UGH!: The rap line always gets it right. And they did. It's the best song on the album because the song delivered both lyrically and sonically...

Zero O'clock: I expected a Truth Untold when I heard it's the vocal line doing it. It didn't happen. It bored me the first time I heard it and it grew on me the second time I listened to it and looked up the lyrics.

INNER CHILD: It made me cry the first time I heard it and I cried harder the moment I read the lyrics. It's the only solo on the album that actually delivers. It's personal, it's emotional, it's Tae...

FRIENDS: A private, fun song. It perfectly describes them. I felt like an intruder while reading the lyrics in English but I disliked the sound the first time I heard it. Not my type and I think it's harder for people who don't know V or Jimin to connect with it.

MOON: I honestly think Jin is underrated so I expected more from his solo. It's a beautiful song he dedicated to the armys but I really wanted him to take off the insecure, " I'm world wide handsome" mask. I know he's more than that and I wish that will come out also in his songs. Wished he would've went as deep and personal as Kookie and Tae did honestly.

RESPECT: It gave me nice vibes. Like driving in a car with the sun in front of you. It brought back old memories. It's a chill song. Though... Despite belonging to two of the best writers and producers in the group it doesn't say much lyrically. All you hear for half of the song is Yoongi's sexy Daegu dialect " What is respect, dude?"

WE ARE BULLETPROOF: THE ETERNAL: It disappointed me at first because after all the previous slower, ballade songs I wanted this one to go higher like the first bulletproof did and maybe be the next Dionysus. It didn't happen. It's more the Mykrokosmos of the new album and I accept it since it shows how BTS changed, closing an emotional circle. It's the song that gave me goosebumps reading the translation because it reminded me they're about to go to military service and in the future retire. So it hit hard. It felt like this song was screaming "this is the last album you get as 7" right in my face. I can't quite listen to it without this thought coming up. Even tho it might not be true. It's excruciating.

EGO: When it came out as a trailer after Shadow I didn't quite enjoy it. I wanted Hobi to go in a different, darker direction. But it completes the album and is the perfect song with its vibe to close it.

ON feat. SIA:

*insert "what was the reason" gif*

I don't wanna say they robbed Sia because maybe the guys told her what she was supposed to sing and she sang it the way she sang it. It was horrible af. It sounded awful. The more I hear it, the more it annoys me. She tried too hard to sound like them or get into their vibe. Which makes me think she has no idea who they are. She sounds like a twelve year old who recorded herself singing the chorus over the original song. I didn't even recognize her voice at first. I remember the team at the conference before the release how they were rambling about Sia bringing different colors to the song and the song being different from the original. Uhhhh... Where? It sounds exactly the same and at times you don't even notice her. This colab was wasted, Sia's voice was wasted and it wouldn't have been that hard to give her a proper verse. Whatever...

In all honesty I think the album, despite its emotional baggage, is too weak to go to the Grammys. It's an album dedicated to the armys. It's already hard to understand the guys in Korean. If you are not a fan and the songs don't catch you at the first listen, if they don't tell you much despite the language is 100 times harder to reach these other people. I thought Persona was that kind of album. I remember how I felt when I heard " Singularity", " Pied Piper" " The Truth Untold" for the first time. No songs on the new album delivered that kind of feeling for me. It might be just me so...

I just wanna say I am thankful for BTS and their music but it's ok to have conversations about things we don't like I guess.

IF YOU DISAGREE PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL.

I 💜 YOU!

[ebachan]

Crossing destinies – Chapter 5 – Silver darkness (2/10)

Original AU: @gaysilver

Inspired by: @sonicrobots

Genre: Action, adventure, fantasy

Rating: T (14+), middle+ violence (maybe light swearing)

Story:

Shadow is a priest living peacefully in a middle sized town. But lately, he is noticing dark aura is surrounding its citizens, causing them to behave aggressively. As he is investigating the cause of this, he encounters Sonic – a mischievous boy being outside at such late hour. Before he can accompany him to a safer place, he notices a sinister aura. There is a demon nearby, so he makes a totally believable excuse and rushes there. There he meets small demonic creature – Eclipse feasting on his prey. The clash is inevitable and no one knows how it ends… especially when certain hedgehog makes a bigger mess. After this night, nothing will be ever the same.

It made him angry… furious. “You… danged creature!!” He formed new lances above Shadow and this time he pierced him as Shadow was hardly paying any attention to his surroundings. It forced him to release the grip, backing down and making taking the lances out his first priority. Silver had time to catch a breath and gaining some distance. “He is just like a wild animal. He isn’t thinking, he only acts upon an instinct.” That was good, if not, he would be in big trouble. “I have to finish this now!!”

He concentrated all his energy in one ball. Shadow got rid of the last lance in his body, not minding his body was turned into a pin cushion. He turned toward Silver, noticing something big was about to approach him.

“Begone!!” Silver shouted, firing the ball at the demon. The ball itself was small, but it was packed with pure condensed energy.

Shadow roared, with his claws covered by green flame, he slashed the ball. The energy inside was shattered, exploding upon coming in contact with Shadow. Silver held a wavering shield, protecting himself from the shock wave. The space around them shook. The demon was hidden behind clouds of the dust.

“I have got--!!” He was suddenly pinned to the wall. He looked at Shadow, who was in front of him like the tallest of mountains that came at him like the roughest of waves. He was an incarnation of the toughest of terrors and the darkest days of the humankind in one. Silver felt scared, but he refused to give in.

He grabbed the demonic arm with psionic power. He was tired, but he still fought back. Unfortunately, his aura was decaying under demon's pressure. He could feel his neck being a bit by bit pressed by the clawed hand. With all he had left, he focused on pushing his foe back, but he didn't move an inch. 'How powerful is he?'

[Silver & Gold's house]

Gold jerked on her bed. She was covered in sweat. “S… Silver!” She felt darkness approaching her partner. She spurted from her room, bursting into Silver's one. It was empty. “No… No… Where is he?!”

She quickly put over her pajama bathrobe and dashed out. ]Silver![ she called him with her mind, but he hasn't answered. 'Don't tell me he is…'

[The catacombs]

Silver felt Gold inside of his head, but he was too far from her to hear the words clearly. Young demon exterminator pushed even harder. 'How can I die here?!'

Shadow's eyes shined and his claws become covered by thin layer of green flames. It pierced Silver's defense effortlessly. Silver was taken aback, pinned to the wall deeper with his neck in the demon's hand. He looked into his eyes. 'Was he not using the full extent of his power?' Shadow slowly tighten the grip, robbing Silver of air.

Silver felt his consciousness was slipping away. Shadow lifted his other hand, ready to strike when a light appeared from the side. The demon roared, backing away. Silver fell to the ground, coughing. “That's… that cross…” It was floating in the air, emitting a soft light. Shadow hit the wall, having no place to withdraw. The cross flew towards him. Shadow slashed it only hurting his hand. He dived roll to escape it, but it followed him. He ran away.

Silver wobbly stood up, chasing after him in incredibly slow pace. He heard the demon's roar fading. “I can't… let it run away…” He reached the exit. The demon was long gone.

“Mmmm…” he muffled, before letting out his own roar.

[Eclipse's location]

He slashed back with his tail, not waiting for anything and dashing. He ran on the ground for a quite long time before he was grabbed. “No, let me go! Spare me!!”

“Will you shut up, pipsqueak!!” shouted woman voice.

Eclipse lightly turned his head back. It wasn't Shadow, it was… “Crestia-sis?” he mumbled.

“Who you expected? Geez, man up.” She tossed him at the ground.

Eclipse backed down bit more. His older sister was a more than half head taller. Her body was bulkier, sporting more muscular form. She had pair of ram horns, mace tail, more red scales and she had the most but thinner quills from all demons he has ever seen. She was known for short temper and great pleasure in fighting. Eclipse was gasping for an air slowly calming down.

“What's with you?” she barked. “You act like you saw a monster!”

“I… actually did.”

“Come again?” It sure is weird for a demon to be afraid… of a monster, since they are the worst monsters after all. She started to laugh. “Oh, pipsqueak, did your own shadow startle you? Don't worry, your big sis will take care of it.” She patted his head in overly cute manner.

He hated how she is always making a fun of him. She turned around. He hurriedly grabbed her arm. “No, don't go!”

“Wha?” she freed her arm. “Geez, you weakling!”

“He will kill you!!”

At first, she thought he was just scared for some stupid reason, but the terror in his eyes wasn't faked neither came from a trivial matter.

“I can take anyone!” She showed him clenched fist.

“Not this one,” he tried to drag her away. “He is terrifying! He will kill you! He ripped my wing like nothing!!”

Crestia grabbed Eclipse, turning him around. She carefully examined his back. He was telling the truth. His wing was recently ripped. The scars could still be seen. Her blood was boiling. Anything concerning wings could piss her off to a whole new level. The reason – she had none and for that, she was often ridiculed by others… until she shut them up with her fists. She let him go.

 “Wait here,” she cracked her joints. “Gotta break face.”

Eclipse hugged her waist. “I'll give you my gathered energy!! Just leave this place with me!! That black priest is too scary!!”

She stopped. Not believing her ears. The negative energy is super important for demons, for one to offer it to other… is unimaginable. She half-way turned back and then she noticed someone.