#shadows house gerald

[corals-corner]

Also I just love that whenever Edward gets in trouble, Eileen and Gerald go with him. Those 3 are definitely married

These 3 are together and they shit talk literally everyone

Also I’m 90% sure Gerald is just there for the vibes. He’s literally the least problematic and hasn’t really done anything lmao

[ansatsu-sha]

Lord Grandfather's verdict / Shadows House S1E13

[sunnysunsins]

~Day 12~

Birdie in her comfy nest

[bernkastel11]

_On the day of Margaret's Incident:

Edward: I feel like something is happening

Gerald: It could be just a hunch

Aileen: Maybe you're just stressed

Edward: Yeah maybe you're right

*On the rooftops of the Adults' Building*

Roise: The view up here is spectacular!!!!

[lelsiemeyers]

sonic the hedgehog human/highschool au but eggman is still the villain because he won't let sonic date his son(it's shadow. his son is shadow)

[6starsart]

live polycule reaction to chapter 205

[dearlybelovedemilyko]

everytime edward, eileen and gerald show up i'm more convinced the three of them are married like "WE have been exiled"

[snowbirdbaby]

Interesting, now I'm wondering what Junko and Mukuro are like

[Spoilers for Shadows House Manga]

Interesting question, I don't have any concrete ideas for Mukuro but I do have a very juicy one for Junko

Junko is taking Christopher's place! She seems to care for people alot since she uses this to feel personal Despair, so I figured this could fit nicely into what Christopher does!

Also there's *gestures vaguely at Anthony* that

btw I have some of these designs finished already lol

[contrasting-realities]

Fear and Hunger x Shadows House

I'm just spitballing ideas here, please hang in with me.

Cahara enters the dungeons of fear and hunger first, he finds the girl and helps her out of the cage

He later finds Le'guard alive and takes him out of the dungeon, when Le'guard refuses, Cahara knocks him out since he won't be paid if the man doesn't come with him (or if he has significant evidence of his death, but he doesn't want to do that)

He also realized that the amnesia Le'guard claimed to have is fake because of his refusal to leave the dungeon

Cahara drags Le'guard back to Rondon's capital for his reward and gets enough money to get his lover/wife, Celeste, out of slavery.

Cahara questions Le'guard after he wakes up and somehow, Le'guard messes up and reveals that the girl, who has been with Cahara the entire time, was his child.

This pisses off Cahara since Le'guard leaving his daughter inside those dungeons makes him the worst definition of a deadbeat dad.

Cahara WANTS to let Le'guard back into the dungeons of fear and hunger, but word gets out that Le'guard escaped and that the mercenary was the one who freed him, high bounties are placed on both of their heads.

Cahara flees to protect his family and Le'guard follows him to avoid being thrown into a different prison (Rondon has since lost control of the dungeons of fear and hunger because of all the batshit insanity that has occurred there).

They flee to a small island off the coast which is governed by a different country and a noble house with no ties to Rondon, Soot Island ruled by the shadows house.

From here they immigrate and things seem to go back to normal, the girl is sent to school for the first time, Cahara goes back to being a mercenary, Le'guard plans out how to get back to the dungeon without being caught, and Celeste takes care of the girl while trying to encourage Le'guard to be an actual parent.

A bit later however, the girl (who Cahara named Helena in this au) is chosen during a selection and leaves to work in the shadows house.

Cahara is quite a bit upset at that but thinks she will be in good hands.

She becomes a 'living doll' of course and the name 'Helena' was given to her shadow master, who later on names the girl Hel (like the nordic god)

Helena and Hel were actually the original 'fifth pair' before Emilico frauded her way into the selection, which while confusing some of the adult shadows, didn't really change, Emilico and Kate's debut just had an extra member.

Yes, they passed the debut.

On Cahara's end, things start to get worse, the man begins to suffer from hallucinations of the dungeons he had escaped from, eventually he goes completely mad despite Celeste's attempts to save him

Things don't really pick up again until Edward (overseer of the shadows house's children wing for all the fear and hunger fans) preforms his obligation.

Low and behold, Cahara finally fully loses his shit and turns into a crow mauler (based on a fan theory around ending E of fear and hunger), Edward is the unlucky fucker who has to deal with this horse crap.

Le'guard also helps, saving Celeste and getting the creature out of public view so they can fight it.

Edward, his friends (Aileen and Gerald), and Le'guard fight this crow mauler but don't manage to kill it

Edward loses his eyes, Aileen, Le'guard, and Gerald break their bones and the crow mauler goes half-blind (it was Aileen's soot power which can mimic the flock of crows spell)

they flee and while everyone is brought to the 19th century's equivalent of a hospital, where Le'guard is recognized as a fugitive and is arrested.

When the patriarch of the shadows house, great grandfather, hears of the incident, he has Le'guard transferred into the adult's wing and locked up so he couldn't escape.

Great grandfather plans on using Le'guard as a political bargaining chip for Rondon.

Helena and Hel have just been doing their own thing up until now, while Hel is a scared and shy girl with a kind heart (the girl from fear and hunger), Helena is a bit different, as she seems to take after Le'guard in some ways, being called an aspiring Joan of arc (both are also mute).

Rum and Shirley were actually involved in moving Le'guard into the shadows house, Rum had more of a look out role, (Rum and Shirley are the pair that failed Kate's debut, Rum became a veiled doll who are the faceless servants of the shadows house and Shirley turned back into a morph and both are basically spies for Kate and her rebellion, sorry for the interruption, this is for the Funger fans).

Both wonder why a human is being held in the shadows house and Shirley goes to investigate, they manage to get the whole story so far out of Le'guard and Rum shares the info about a human being held inside the shadows house with Kate.

A few more letters back and forth and a deal is made, Kate will help Le'guard out of his cell and he will assist in her goal of destroying the shadows house, once that is done he will leave.

Rum and Shirley help smuggle him out and Le'guard 'disposes of' a veiled doll with a similar body type to him so he can take their place and hide (he did this because the shadows house deliberately disoriented and hid the entrance/exit from him, Rum only helped once he was already inside the shadows house), he also left behind a bunch of fake evidence to throw the shadows house off his tracks.

Helena is also part of the 'gathering of roses' (read: secret meetings that Kate does with her debut class), Le'guard acts as another spy and Helena eventually meets him somehow, leading to a lot of awkward conversations.

Back on the mainland, both D'arce and Ragnvaldr get the news of Le'guard's escape and bounty separately, they also hear of rumors that he moved to Soot Island so both travel there. (For different reasons, D'arce is a knight who worked under Le'guard and also his lover while Ragnvaldr's family was killed by his mercenary group and now he wants revenge)

Both arrive around the same time and are contracted to kill the wounded crow mauler that has since wandered off into the morph forest (the place morphs come from, who are the shadow's original form).

This is when D'arce and Ragnvaldr learn of the other's motivations and become enemies who reluctantly work together to kill Cahara's crow mauler, an adult shadow (shadow who has absorbed their living doll's face, what Edward and all shadows in the adult's wing are) name Thomas joins them, he was punished for breaking a rule of the shadows house by having his arm cut off and now Great grandfather wants him dead covertly since a bunch of adults still follow him.

They do kill the crow mauler this time, D'arce and Ragnvaldr turn on each other while Thomas decides to try and leave while he can, but tells the others of where Le'guard is now.

Both D'arce and Ragnvaldr are now trying to sneak into the shadows house to find and rescue/kill him before the other does.

Things that I am unsure of

What is Enki doing?

Does Helena try to butter up Le'guard?

Celeste and her unborn child.

The end of the arc with Le'guard and Kate

Helena might get her hands on a soul stone and if Edward dies she uses it on his corpse and gets his soot powers, which she uses to speak (in Edward's voice too)

Vinuskha's corpse being located in the chasm under the shadows house

Misc. Facts I do know

Edward now relies on echolocation after going blind

Helena's clothes have the symbol of the knights of the midnight sun on them

Candy was sent to the dungeons of fear and hunger as a teenager for criticizing a high ranking noble

[irregularmelody]

am I going to get flamed if I say I found Sonic Destruction funnier than any of the real time fandubs?

[ansatsu-sha]

Edward, Gerald & Aileen / Shadows House S1E12

[filisite]

The reader is the daughter of Ivo Rabotnik, who is a copy of Maria Rabotnik.

And here we go again?...

No one guessed or even suspected... That this madman even managed to have an affair, not to mention that he could have a child...

Well, he had no plans to start a family. But since it happened that way. He hid it pretty well, so that no one would hear about you.

Only when she grew up, his daughter was finally able to visit him and spend time with him. But instead of spending time with her, he was always busy with his plans. Creating new machines and improving them, never messing up his schedule. Which Stone personally took care of.

And after the blue hedgehog appeared, he forgot about you altogether, as you thought. Concentrating on destroying his sworn enemy. You talked about his work, which could end in a quarrel or punishment for the girl. For example, a ban on gadgets and freedom, that is, house arrest.

It wasn't long before your father fell into depression. You were more than happy when Sonic and his friends suggested teaming up. There was hope that your father would change for the better.

When you had to split into pairs so everyone could enter each room, you were paired with an echidna who kept telling herself there was nothing to be afraid of.

Shadow stopped breathing, noticing her in the distance. A painfully familiar silhouette of that very Maria. He was like a hypnotist, staring at the girl. But after looking closely, he realized that you are not her, he was disappointed in his stupid thoughts about this, and with difficulty, with pain in his chest, he took a breath.

When everyone was tied up, you were tied up alone and sat against the wall. Meanwhile, the anthropomorphic friends sat together. Except Stone.

Shadow kept his frowning gaze fixed on you, examining every wrinkle and mole on your face.

Your father returned with some old man who called himself your father's grandfather, meaning your great-grandfather. Your brain was ready to explode.

It wasn't fair to abandon new friends, you refused to do it.

Gerald looked at you in shock, seeing his dead granddaughter in you again. He knew, of course, that he had another granddaughter, but to be so similar...

For a second, his heart trembled. But the theme in his soul was stronger. So he threw away all the feelings in his heart of ice.

Shadow couldn't help but see Maria in you again, his heart sank painfully. But his stone face didn't betray his emotions at all. Right now, revenge for Maria's death was a priority.

But was it worth it?... Closing his eyes and remembering all the happy events with Maria before her death, until her last breath and heartbeat.

[bernkastel11]

Aileen: Why do you like Lady Roise?

Edward: She actually wanted me to do something that is in my ability: Playing music

Edward: It's so nice for a superior to actually acknowledge my true talent for once

Edward: Wait a minute!!!! FORGET THAT!!!!

Gerald: Oh he's broke when it comes to her alright

Aileen: Agree

*Meanwhile*

Dorothy: What do you even see in this Edward guy anyway?

Roise: He's good at playing music

Roise: We're indeed well,very lacking of that and it's not like we can just easily bring in a famous musician from the outside

Roise: There aren't many of us who are talented in music. They at best can play but not at Edward's level

Roise: So it's good to keep an outstanding talent sometimes,we don't really know when we will get another one again

Dorothy: I suppose it's true, I mean we don't have much good shadow musicians and well human musicians are out of the question as of right now

Dorothy: Nice catch you got there!!

Roise: I know, let's hope he doesn't disappoint us

[swrwlfs]

whatever you do don’t think about how shadow longs for the family that sonic has. how he saw how sonic reacted to almost losing tom and saw himself in that, how sonic gets to keep tom, but he doesn’t get to keep maria, or even gerald, who despite his flaws, was still his family. don’t think about shadow longing for just one friend, thinking that even though sonic forgave him that they can’t just be friends. don’t think about shadow alone in the world for weeks, months, years, just like sonic was, because he thinks he’s unloveable. don’t think about him teleporting to sonic’s house and watching through the window during one of their movie nights, fighting off the cold and pretending he’s there with them, even if just for a second. whatever you do just don’t think about the fact that right now, shadow is alone out there, wanting what sonic has, and sonic is with his family, missing a piece, something that he can’t name.

[greatdenimbeast]

Diamond Castle au- introducing, Shadow, Muse of History, Astrology and Astronomy

Once a mortal in ancient Greece, moulded from clay by an inventor and brought to life by the blood of a god, he spent his years caring for his ill sister, Maria. Doing his best to assist his creator in finding a cure. Since the blood of god ran through his veins and, seeing that his existence was a miracle in of itself, it stood to reason that he could be the miracle that helped save her

Cuz he was quite literally born yesterday, his sister loved to tell him stories about historic events, tales of gods and heroes to teach him about the world and how it cane to be. She was a damn good storyteller too, always leaving Shadow craving for more.

His favourites were the ones related to the stars, the constellations, so much so that Gerald noticed and taught him how to properly chart them

Maria wasn’t allowed to leave the house, her grandfather fearing that the elements would be too much for her and that often made her sunny demeanour dull and, looking to cheer her up, he did his best to find ways to brighten her mood until found one that worked

He entertained his bed-ridden sister with tales of history, of old dead heroes, of gods, of prophecies, things that he had picked up from local traders and travellers when he was out running errands for Gerald.

Maria was enthralled by them, hanging off of his every word

“The island of Crete truly holds such a monster?”

“It’s travellers gossip, but who’s to truly say.”

He wasn’t as good of a storyteller as she was but he did keep record of every story he could, and Maria loved it so that was all that mattered

As Maria got worse, Shadow started praying and giving offerings to the god Asclepius and the god Apollo, he doubted they would come to his aid but if there was a chance they could help he wanted to be sure.

But it was getting harder to cure her, some of the medicinal herbs they needed grew far off and the merchants that brought them to the markets to sell them kept marking up the prices out of greed. So Shadow, who had been blessed with inhuman speed, was sent off to pick the herbs himself, allowing him the opportunity to venture and see more of the world and bring back more stories, even making a few of his own, slaying a few monsters on the the way

The soldiers for the nearby king didn’t make it easier, tormenting the people for laughs, outright stealing, sometimes outright killing people when they refused to cave to their demands. Gerald was always being pulled away from his work for a cure to craft machines and statues for the king, the only reason the soldiers were unable to harm him or Maria when he refused was because of Shadow being there to protect them.

This became an issue when the king decided that he wanted Shadow

Soldiers stormed the house and workshop, taking the inventor prisoner, dragging him away to the castle and as Shadow tries to get Maria to safety she pushes him out of the way of blade and gets stabbed through her stomach

Shadow blacks out.

When he comes back, his hands are covered in blood, the bodies of dead soldiers litter the floor, his ears are ringing.

The only other breathing Shadow could hear besides his own was the shaky, laboured breaths of his older sister

He rushed to her side and examined her, the wound was deep, too deep. He tried his beat to clean up the blood but he could barely see what he was doing past his own tears. As he did he prayed, to his other father, to Apollo, to any god that would listen, to please save his sister, to not let her die

Then Maria’s hand squeezing his stopped him

“Sh…Shadow… o-one more story…”

“Maria please, please, i have to treat this, I won’t let you die, i won’t let you, i can’t let you die!”

“One…one m-more… please?”

“…okay… okay, one more story.”

So he shakily told her a story, about the fabled diamond castle, the birthplace of music, home to the museum of music. He struggled to remember parts of the story but Maria shakily helped him fill in the blanks

Then as the story concluded, Apollo made his presence known and applauded the two on how exemplary their storytelling was. It turns out Shadow has gained Apollo’s attention for a while, ever since he started praying to him and he had an offer for him

He wanted him to be his muse, an inspiration, a god. Initially Shadow wanted to refuse until Maria winced and coughed in his arms, then he got an idea

“…Lord Apollo I will accept this honour on one condition, that you heal my sister of her wounds and her ailment so that she may live as freely as she wishes.”

Apollo accepted these terms and gave Shadow, ambrosia (the food of the gods). It burned away his mortality and left him a god

And Apollo fulfilled his part of the deal, healing his sister, and did Shadow one better by turning Maria immortal so that she may be Shadow’s attendant to assist him in his duties before whisking them both off to the diamond castle

50 years later Shadow meets the next muse

[dearlybelovedemilyko]

on the "reverse unification" theory

oddly enough, if we ever get a reveal that one of the adult characters is a product of "reverse unification" (the living doll survived unification while the shadow died, a popular fan theory), i feel like it will NOT be anthony

if that were to be revealed, i feel like they would have shown it right after he killed maggie, but they didn't, so if they go with this twist now, post chapter 164, it would be too obvious. it's something we'd expect of anthony now. my point is: sure, at this point, reverse unification does sound like something he would do, but just because he would doesn't mean he did (maybe he tried but didn't manage, maybe christopher killed himself to escape this fate, who knows)

however, there are other candidates. firstly, we have edward, eileen and gerald, whose outfits are oddly reminiscent of different living doll uniforms, and who regurlarly call each other by their supposedly deceased living dolls' names as nicknames. besides, in edward's first scene he does introduce himself as "a special living doll who lives in the great grandfather's building". we currently interpret this as a lie, but could also be foreshadowing

secondly, thomas comments on how quickly lewis learned how to emote after becoming an adult, since shadows usually leave their facial expressions to their living dolls as children and struggle with that post invitation. (also, anthony refers to lewis as his "first pupil". if we imagine his situation is similar to maggie's, it would be easier for anthony to manipulate a freshly unbrainwashed living doll into reverse unification and take credit for saving his life than to recruit a unified shadow, even if he used christopher's name)

even if the evidence i pointed out turns out to have absolutely nothing to do with the reverse unification theory, it's still there, and i don't think it's for no reason. so i felt the need to point it out even if it turns out to be buildup for something else entirely