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sonic and shadow who dont see each other as people, for lack of better word

in my mind, they arent. but not in a dehumanizing way, in fact, calling them people is dehumanizing them in my mind

they arent people, theyre concepts, and in the way i see them, theyre gods.

sonic is freedom embodied. he doesnt let anything stop him, hes the wind in your hair and the creativity flowing through you, hes the fight that never gives up even when it gets tough snd hes who will be at your side, pulling you up when youve fallen down. hes the determination, hes what tells you to never give up.

shadow is the rest, a strong force, something that looks like they should be fighting, but theyre a healer. theyre the feeling of a distant but close relationship, one that words cant describe, they see when it gets tough and they tell you to take a break, when youve hit your limit theyll push you back down. when the fight is over theyre the one to make sure youre still there. hes the patience, hes what tells you you got out.

and thats how they see each other.

others see them as physical things, you can see sonics trail of blue behind him, the remains of the badniks, they can see the rage of shadow, the carnage he leaves behind him

but thats not who they are, they were never meant to be physical things

and i would even go as far as to say thats canon. we know sonic is the wind, hes been associated with it for how long? and shadow wasnt meant to be a person, he was made as a concept, to be a fighter, to be a healer

like.

im not screaming in the void

yall get me right

they arent physical beings, theyre concepts that are each one side of a coin, and that coin is a fight

sonic is telling you to never give up and shadow it telling you to not push your limit

and the only people that see each other as what they truly are, as the concepts the represent and the the gods theyre envisioned as, are each other

because they understand each other

in ways no one else every will

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i love making shadows body actively work against him

like.

mostly because in my mind, the black arms are invasive, and maybe when he was younger and more ‘fresh out of the tube’, he didnt actually have that much black arms dna, just enough to make sure he was decently stable, but over time that dna started taking over more and more of his body, and so it got harder and harder to actually function, because the black arms dna wasnt just spreading, it was taking over the rest of his dna, breaking it down so it could fit there, but since thats. yaknow. his dna. it fucked him up, which could also be part of the reason he needs his mobility aids, the aid shoes and inhibitor rings

maybe when he was younger he had more weight and fat on him, he could run without worrying about pain, he could use chaos energy without it backfiring, but as the black arms dna spread more and more, he stopped being able to digest most food, causing him to loose weight, his bones started being changed causing him to be in pain when running or even walking normally, and with more black arms dna gave him more chaos dna, which caused using chaos energy to be much more threatening

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genuinely i have not stopped thinking about the movies changing shadows origin

like. at first glance, its a small change. he went from: artificially made in a lab and experimented on, to: found in a meteor and brought to a lab to be experimented on, but the reason its such a big change is because of why he was created, im not gonna go into too much detail because we know why he was created, but like.

he was made as a cure and a weapon. he was made to be the answer to everything. he was made as sciences greatest achievement. he was made to be the ultimate lifeform.

and that last point is what i wanna talk about right now

in the games, shadow ‘catchphrase’ is ‘I Am The Ultimate Lifeform’, we all know it, we all love it

and in mostly canon game lore, sonic is the strongest character. in an all out 1v1, hed be the victor (though i do wonder how hed fight against shadows doom powers, but thats not what we’re here for). and, shadow himself, says that sonic is the ultimate lifeform at the end of sa2

but in the movies thats not canon. in the movies, shadow has never once even uttered the words ‘ultimate lifeform’ not about himself, not about sonic, not even in general. the only person to address shadow as the ultimate lifeform is walters, and that happens once. and considering shadow wasnt made in a lab, he was crashed in from a meteor instead, we dont know how strong he is. this is also only proven further by him being able to teleport withiut a chaos emerald, which he cant do in the games

and if movie shadow has all the abilities game shadow does, but hes able to use them without a chaos emerald, and if we include his doom powers…

i just think its really interesting that movie shadow might be a lot more powerful than game shadow and movie sonic, and just

JHEFBCJHEFVBEFJHBVF

THEY CHANGED ONE THING ABOUT SHADOWS PAST AND SUDDENLY NOTHING ABOUT HIM IS THE SAME

i will never not be losign my mind over this, thank you for coming to my ted talk

(ALSO I DIDNT EVEN MENTION SHADOW PUNCHING THE CHAOS EMERALDS OUT OF SONIC)