lil bit eel (ill) thinking abt a prime!rossum and shadow.
mainverse rossum would be introduced just before shadow goes to fight sonic, they'd be kinda playful with him and he just rebuffs them, and when he looks to go off to fight sonic theyre kinda like "you know. you two would probably get along if you actually listened to each other" and shadow brushes them off (him and sonic? friends? not even if the universe was ending)
new yolk rossum is my favvvvv forever forever. had this idea when the first season dropped. sonic spends his time being chased by some masked geeser working for the eggmans. sonic assumes theyre a robot but once he figures out its a hedgehog hes like "ohhh this must be this universes shadow. ill have to get around to redeeming him at some point." except. during one of their fights he knocks the top half of their mask off. and its rossum. nine gets annoyed at sonic bcs sonics refusing to fight them now ("rossum wouldn't hurt anybody ! something has to be wrong."). sonic finds out the eggmen are keeping them under their control by using a shock collar and hes pissed, but is thrown out before he can do anything abt it. i like the idea of this version of them being called 'major'
(the rest of them r silly tho .)
boscage is pansy. shes kinda . dopey. hides behind her friends a lot. doesnt seem to know whats going on. Extremely shy. doesnt really care abt the actual issue, just wants everyone to get along.
no place ross (starboard) is a suck upppp. they follow everything dread tells them to do, never had a single thought of their own. he seems really happy but hes actually just kinda scared. i think if shadow got to meet the counterparts this one would annoy him the most. for sonics part he just thinks its. weird. he doesnt like it.
ghost hill rossum is repeating the "you know. you two would probably get along if you actually listened to each other" line . shadow hears it and is Visibly Upset. and a lil angery
alpha grim rossum is just a robot. like the rest of them.
scene in my head that inspired this post is during the Big Climax Fight shadow gets knocked into major and the two of them are kinda out of the range of the fight for a sec. he glances at them before he turns back to the fight but they fuckin . growl at him and he turns around, annoyed at first but like...
as much as shadow is playing the whole 'these r just cruel reflections of our friends to taunt us. theyre not real.". .... he looks at them , and thats still his little sibling. and theyre so scared and hurt and you see his face drop as he reaches a hand out . and major flinches. bcs every time someones reached out to them it was to hurt them.
and shadow is like. hurt by this. but he steadies himself and continues reaching forwards. his hand touches the remaining half of their mask and he softly says "its alright, im not going to hurt you." as he removes it.
and major's face has all these scars, their fangs are overgrown and scary but theyre so curled in on themself and hiding behind their quill and small. they look up at shadow and they see something they recognise.
anyways prime shadows character arc is learns to be nice to his annoying little sister thats the post.