Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening, Wonder!!
Hi Half-guy!! This is for the teamdarkweek ask game!
🎲 What's their favourite game to play?
I think Shadow and Rouge like card games, especially high deception ones: shadow has a natural pokerface so took to it extremely well. They gamble with the money in Rouge's purse, but occasionally escalate from coins to apliances, Chaos Emeralds, the Master Emerald and Omega.
Rouge has taught Omega how to trash talk and they riff this a lot. Omega has a natural ability for hitting on insecurities, but Rouge has frighteningly thick skin when it comes to Omega - she can take it on the chin only when it comes to him.
Omega and Shadow like competitive games, and can compete with any task they're given. Sent shopping? Finishing the list first. Baking a cake? This is my side, that's yours: no sabotage! I canned it now, but I had a fic planned for valentines day about them being Rouge's Maids of Honour at her Wedding ans absolutely gameifying/ competing to sort it the best, but I just don't like shipping Rouge enough to finish it.
All together? I reckon they genuinely would enjoy playing silly videogames together (Pippa funnel is what I've got in my head). I reckon Rouge would get them and make Shadow play, and Rouge and Omega heckle him. Contrary to what many people believe, I do not think Shadow is a natural at video games. I believe he has great reaction tines but makes really strange choices. I'm subbing to their twitch.
🧸 How do they show eachother they care?
I think Rouge is very tight lipped; she always complains about doing nice things for them or pretends that she's actually doing it for her own benefit. Despite being someone who expects a lot of others, she is an 'act of service' sort of person, and does a lot for the other too - more than they would actually ever notice.
Shadow likes his personal space, but he will stay by they're side if they're in a crisis. No matter how uncomfortable, unpleasant or unwinnable this is. He is a holding-hair-back friend through and through. Back to the wall, he's still there. Lashing out in pain telling him how much they hate him and he should leave them alone? Well. It's gonna be a tough night, because that did hurt. He's probably gonna stand outside the door as quietly as he can.
I think Omega is actually the best at kind words. He's more likely to say somwthing genuinely complimentary than the others, especially about what somebody is good at. This is especially meaningful when it's something they don't think they're good at, and they know he means it 100%
Sorry this took so long! I've been writing this in bits and bobs and getting interrupted!