#shadow x ghost

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Art by Rero {COMMS OPEN} (@Rero_nn) on X

Depicting Shadow X Ghost chapter 2 Act 3 during the fight at Twilight Mesa

Shadow landed, nearly fell again, and watched her slide through debris.

Then he rushed to the real girl. “Maria!”

She looked to him with those shocked and sad blue eyes. As he reached her, she glitched red and their hands passed through each other's.

He recoiled. Shadow looked at both hands, mouth agape, and saw as his friend struggled to stay corporeal. 

“S-Sh/Sha#sh—Sha—₴Ⱨ₳ĐØd—o///dow—”

The phantom Maria’s gaze grew unfocused and jittery.

Behind them, the Phantom Ruby burned its natural color brighter and darker in flickering pretending to be fire, and it was in metallic hands. 

“Metal!” Shadow shouted, watching Metal Sonic blast off with the Ruby. 

But he didn't get far. 

A rocket rocked the robot to the ground, crashing in a jet of dust. 

In the distance, standing atop the vault cave’s roof, E-123 Omega spun his hand, retracted the arm-bazooka for the chrome metal claws, and flexed his arms as he jumped to the plain.

Ghost got off her knees and turned to them, her hand against the bruised side of her head. She growled, “WHAT is happening now? Who are they?!”

Rouge slapped her forehead upon seeing Shadow and the two girls. “This ain't good…”

Metal twisted his body onto his feet, and stood zombie-armed against Omega and Rouge, back turned against Shadow and the Marias as if telling the other two Dark comrades that his eyes were the only black and red they needed to worry about.

Then the ground between each group broke in wide electric-blue fireballs that erupted away from Ghost who threw out her fist over her face. Skittering forked lightning crackled erratically around Ghost, concentrated in a chaotic static halo around her fist.

Metal Sonic fell back and fumbled the Phantom Ruby. Rouge saw it roll into a burst of smoke and settle in between Shadow and Ghost, and set out after it. Then Ghost swept out her arm again, throwing off a second wave of explosions, louder, more face-searing. Fire replaced the smoke.

Reluctantly, the other three backed off. Shadow threw his weight onto Maria, corporeal or not. 

“Shadow…!” said the specter. 

Ghost stood stretched in a wide feral stance, smothered in a high voltage aura, body twisted and arm swept out from where she had fired the energy blasts. “Enough of this! No more interruptions. My fight is with Gerald's specimen, not you wet rags!”

Her eyes found the phantom Maria first, then settled on the hedgehog who stood. 

Shadow threw his arm out in front of Maria— who lay on her side, looking up at him with those wonderful eyes— and said, “Stay behind me.”

Against the flames, he pulled his shoulders back and stood strong. 

Ghost did the same, her hair flowing in the wind under the spiraling storm. Red eyes against red eyes as blue eyes watched on.

Pure AMV fuel!

Linkin Park - What I've Done

Breaking Benjamin - Blow Me Away

Sick Puppies - You're Going Down

Skillet/Three Days Grace - Monster I Have Become

Three Days Grace - Never Too Late

Kidz Bop - In The End

Take your pick

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Ghost images drawn by poofinatorY2K and https://vgen.co/kazuu and myself in that order

But like unironically though, edginess is fun and I'm tired of pretending otherwise

See more of Shadow X Ghost here! https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/shadow-x-ghost-dark-maria-au.1320967/

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Originally AI slop, but I decided to trace it myself from the bottom up to fully unslop it, then add flourishes so it can be shared and essentially used for others' benefit.

This was way easier than it is for other characters because of the way she's designed.

Ghost, I deliberately designed while trying to invoke Akira Toriyama's lessons: "Keep it simple, stupid!"

She's Dark!Maria, and I've seen plenty of good takes on that concept. But I wanted to keep her design her as stripped back as possible without being generic. Most "Maria Lives!" or "Evil/Villain!Maria" tends to base her visually on either Shadow or Eggman, and both are valid, which is precisely why I wanted to try something a bit different here.

Ghost's shape-shifting "nightmare gown" cloak/bodysuit is meant to be vantablack.

I deliberately envisioned Ghost having a very simple design so as to make it easier for others to draw her, and vantablack is like a cheat code: just set all RGB and Hex values to 0, maybe add just a touch of dark gray for absolutely necessary details (fingers) and you're all set!

I thought it'd be neat to use considering I don't see many vantablack designs for characters. It's also fitting for a character called "Ghost" considering "Shadow" is already, you know.... taken.

It just feels fitting that a Dark!Maria AU would go for the darkest possible color.

Best part is: it's super duper edgy too!

Name "nightmare gown" comes from

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Art by https://x.com/vermeildx

Art by https://www.deviantart.com/salvamakoto

New silly edgy Sonic fanfic!

Shadow X Ghost

A Dark!Maria AU concept

With a suitably emo/edgy tagline:

He was always kept from the dark because of her light. Shadows are proof of the light. But a light with no shadows can burn out without noticing. And there are no shadows in darkness. Only ghosts.

Drawn by... myself, actually, though tracing an old reference I've kept for over a decade now.

Somehow I turned Maria Robotnik of all characters into an edgelord.

And how?

Through the power of vantablack!

There's a few good places to read it, such as:

Shadow X Ghost | (Dark!Maria AU)

He was always kept from the dark because of her light. Shadows are proof of the light. But a light with no shadows can burn out without noti

He was always kept from the dark because of her light. Shadows are proof of the light. But a light with no shadows can burn out without noti

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

He was always kept from the dark because of her light. Shadows are proof of the light. But a light with no shadows can burn out without noti

Take your pic! Probably I'll upload some of it here too.