#sonic x shadow spoilers

[calam1typann3]

THIS SHIT IS HILARIOUS

[head---ache]

yea

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

you dont look at me like you used to.

[goldarsene]

I liked this little detail.

[galaxyvoided]

mephiles voice lines in sonic x shadow is makeing me go insane

"I will defeat you, then restore myself to the timeline"

“What? did you forget about me AGAIN?”

“no... i want.... to exist....!”

im gnawing at my fucking walls

[estellardreams]

THIS IS OUT, BY THE WAY.

WANNA READ GERALD'S JOURNAL? HERE YOU GO!

Spread the word!

[eldritchgriffin]

I was on the edge of my seat wondering if Shadow Generations was going to have a fishing minigame

damn it /lh

[ineedtotalkaboutshadamyrightnow]

[monotone-artist]

[id in alt]

click for better quality. yes yes yesss alien goop wings!! wing buddies!! (sorry omega)

i imagine it probably hurt like crazy when shadow first got the wings, but now they're just like. rlly cold and he can't actually feel anything in them. just a big ol mass that's attached themselves to his back.

[star-stages]

I can't wait for this game

[luvkirby4ever]

Absolutely massive lore drops from Shadow Generations

Gerald Robotnik had 2 sons (which we have a picture of!!) whom he loved very much. One of them had Gerald's love of archaeology, the other his love of robotics.

The archaeology son is the one who initially discovered Emerl.

Gerald had found Angel Island and the altar of the Master Emerald but left things alone because he wanted to be respectful to the land.

^This explains why the Eclipse Cannon's core has a structure shaped like the shrine in SA2.

SPEAKING OF SA2... you know those cameos of Big the Cat in (the Dreamcast version of) SA2? Yeah, those are canon. Apparently he loses Froggy a lot which causes him to go on a ton of adventures. He even tells Shadow that he saw him running past a few times on the ARK.

Gerald was absolutely adamant about his research being used to help people, not develop weapons. He seems to have been constantly clashing heads with GUN who would not fund his research (which was to try and cure Maria) unless he was making weapons.

^Because of this, any weapons he developed (or in Emerl's case, studied) had some sort of counterbalance that Gerald would add in order to make the weapon suck less (see following couple of points).

He hoped that the technology that he developed to make Artificial Chaos (AI that can be added to any body of water to shape it as needed) would be used to help save flood victims by scooping them up out of the debris.

While studying Emerl he established a link and noted that since Emerl wouldn't listen to anybody else that at least he wouldn't be used for evil. He also attempted to change Emerl's AI to become "free-willed and emotions-based."

He didn't want to develop the Eclipse Cannon so it was purposely made to be too destructive to be useful. He figured he'd also use it to deal with Black Doom.

Project Shadow was named as such because Gerald thought the goverment were idiots for trying to make him pursue something as impossible as immortality. He saw it "as intangible as a shadow" and described the project as impossible as "chasing a shadow."

But when Maria saw Shadow she said "shadows let you know which way the light is" and Gerald remarked that she turned his bitter naming convention into something hopeful and pure.

Speaking of Project Shadow... we have a picture of Maria holding the little baby Biolizard!

Gerald developed the Chaos Drives (those things that come out of GUN robots that you feed your Chao in SA2) to try and apply Chaos Emerald energy to living tissue without damaging it. He used them on the Biolizard.

Gerald reluctantly provided GUN Chaos Drives so that he could continue researching a cure for Maria.

Maria loved the Biolizard.

The Biolizard grew large because of the experiments... which its body couldn't support. Thus the life-support apparatus on its back, though it seemed to be in great physical pain. It was hidden away in the area you fight it in SA2.

^These failures are why Gerald struck up a deal with Black Doom. Without Doom's DNA Shadow would have gone the same way as the Biolizard.

Maria has a little sister!!!

Maria was born on Earth and sent to the ARK because the low-gravity environment makes her condition more manageable. Gerald's journal makes it sound like Maria's sister was born after she got up there but in-game Maria mentions how she misses her sister so maybe not?

@nagichi-boop (I hope it's okay to tag you) has a nice post talking about the excellent "invisible disability" representation. Both Gerald's journal and Maria discuss aspects of her disability, including Gerald's anger the over ARK researchers who talk about Maria behind her back.

Maria helped develop Shadow's air shoes and inhibitor rings, her insight valuable as these are framed as disability aids.

If Shadow takes off the inhibitor rings, he'd probably explode.

Maria and Shadow were taught by a lady teacher aboard the ARK. Shadow never turned in his homework.

The only thing Maria ever saw Shadow consume was coffee.

Maria met Big in the white space and instantly loved him. Big asked Maria and Gerald if they wanted to go fishing.

Omega is not powered by Animals, Chaos Drives, or any Emerald-based mechanism. He mentions something about absorbing environmental energy or something? The takeaway is that he's probably not destined to end up like most robots in the series (dead) because he doesn't have a power source that's going to screw him over.

E-123 "I don't have emotions" Omega was worried about Rogue and values Shadow and Rogue's friendship. Just don't call it friendship.

Maria being up on the ARK for so long was causing strain and division between Gerald and his sons. Gerald was desperate to cure Maria and get his family back.

Big has met Elise.

Commander Tower was the only other kid aboard the ARK.

Gerald gave Shadow some pre-set memories so that his awakening would go smoothly. Maria and him became friends instantly.

According to Maria, Shadow is more confident now than when she knew him.

Gerald called Shadow son. I'm not crying you are.

Both in the journal and in-game Gerald mentions how he is sorry for the trouble and weight that he has placed on Shadow (because of needing to strike a deal with Black Doom).

Emerl was handed over to GUN to try and buy more time for Maria's research. GUN reestablished a link by showing him an increasingly dangerous amount of weapons until Emerl started to freak out and destroy stuff. One of his rampages caused an automatic SOS ping to be sent out...

...It was that ping that summoned the soldiers who killed Maria.

[calam1typann3]

THE GLOWUP IS INSANE

[head---ache]

reading gerald's journal made my brain go brrrrr this is maria's little sister:)

[underratedgrapeju1ce]

sonic x shadow generations spoilers below the cut, but theyre minor

these shots.

as much as i rag on gerald, i cant deny this is gutwrenching to see. he knew making a deal with doom was playing with fire. he knew doom was dangerous. but maria wasnt supposed to.

maria wasnt supposed to know how far her grandfather would really go for her. gerald knows maria is afraid of doom. he's afraid too, of course he is—because now, doom has the upper hand. doom is using shadow as his champion, just as he said he would. and its all geralds fault.

so convinced he could outsmart doom and face no consequences, passing that burden to shadow instead. but here they all are anyway. and now his beloved granddaughter begins to see how deep this goes

also, doom speaking directly to maria is something i never thought id see in canon media. but he says to marias face that her grandfather made her friend look nonthreatening to hide what he really is. he called gerald a liar to marias face.

oh how quickly shadow uses himself to shield them too. gerald and shadow have such a strange, enigmatic relationship. sort of father, sort of son. creator and creation. manipulator and victim. but i think gerald in this game is at the point where he sees how much maria loves shadow, and has begun to care for him as well, in his own way.

just. god. i never thought id see gerald and doom see each other again. gerald cant even bring himself speak to him. maria does, shadow does. not gerald. probably because he knows any accusations he makes could be shut down with, "you're the one that accepted the deal."

what a fascinating bunch of characters.

[screamsilas]

i have not watched the sonic three movie. is there a scene where sonic and shadow kiss.

sonic 3 movie spoilers below...

no but they dap eachother up and thats pretty much kissing

[bedrapiratecat200]

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