#yes I've made history at my school 😍

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Me when I remember I'm the first person in my school to ever have a ceramics project explode in the kiln:

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Can I ask about that Sonadow ballet au 🥺👉👈

😍 😍 Yes!! I've never rambled about an AU on tumblr before—I blabbed some stuff on my friend's discord ages ago but I've made changes since then~

So Shadow's the virtuoso of the world's biggest contemporary ballet company, meaning he's GOOD good. He can walk on his toes all day, leap higher than his height, chain like 24 pirouettes without a single quill out of line—basically his form and technique, all flawless. His peers hate him, want him and want to be him all at once.

But among masters there's a clear thing holding him back from going down in history as one of the greatest: emotional expression. He treats his craft like a science and not the art form it is. He's pretty much an angel made out of ice. (Whispers 'Robotnik family trauma subplot' so loud that I hurt my throat)

His instructor Ms Vanilla decides to push him with the company's new production, The Prince and the Pauper, reimagined as a fantastical romance. Thing is they need someone who's a perfect physical match for Shadow, to be the Pauper to his Prince.

Enter Sonic stage left, a delinquent who would just spend his days parkouring around and getting into trouble before Vanilla discovers him. It's unprecedented to drop a company outsider into a major role, but Sonic's clearly as much of an athletic genius as Shadow, just without the privilege of ballet training his whole life. Vanilla knows Sonic's a worthy partner—for Shadow though, it's hate at first sight lmaoo

He thinks Vanilla's lost her mind but is too well-trained to defy her openly, so he tries to intimidate Sonic into quitting by pushing him to the limit in every private practise session. It totally backfires—Sonic meets all of his challenges with relish and becomes skilful within weeks, and Shadow resents how impressed he is with this blue nobody.

The UST between them is off the charts and Sonic wants to get to know his partner, but Shadow's in denial. It doesn't matter that they spend 12 hours a day literally wrapped around each other and sweaty from exertion, they have to stay professional!

But when you do spend so much time with a stranger they can't be a stranger for long—Sonic hears about Shadow's tragic past where his sister Maria (who of course loved ballet) and father Gerald died, and Shadow's now trapped under the control of his evil trustee Ivo Robotnik. And Shadow learns how Sonic was a high school dropout, not by choice but because he was orphaned very young and had to find ways to support himself and his little brother Tails.

And they're helping each other by being a distraction to their life problems, but after they start to really care about the other, Sonic wants to free Shadow from Robotnik, and Shadow wants to set Sonic and his little family up with a good life.

If I do write this then I know how to end it, with a stellar opening night production of the ballet. And I got some ideas for angst and drama, but this post got long so I'll bench those for now :3