All right. Let’s get down to business.
Apparently there’s been some misinterpretation as to what’s going on and multiple people have said the same thing (or at least, according to this one person) so I’m going to lay it down thick on everyone.
No, Shadow was not encouraging or dismissing cheating.
I guess I didn’t write it that well, so let me elaborate: Shadow did not see what he was doing as cheating because of something that happened earlier on. You wouldn’t get this context if you haven’t been following the blog for long enough, but it’s been said time and time again that kissing, even on the lips, could be considered platonic — hell, even Sonic and Shadow themselves were saying their kisses at the time were platonic kisses, and that’s exactly how Shadow viewed the ones that he was giving to other people. Shadow doesn’t realize it, but he took this subconsciously, and as a result hasn’t seen the actual problem with kissing other people, and hasn’t seen how that could be viewed.
Now when Sonic questioned about it, he honestly answered that he didn’t like kissing people. He wasn’t kissing them for the sake of kissing them or starting a relationship; he was doing it to rile the other person up. Now the reason why he saw this as acceptable behavior is because other people did it to him already. He was not doing it because he found kissing Sonic unsatisfactory, or even because he wanted to go and kiss other people at all. It was because he was teasing them in what he saw was a friendly way because of how others reacted to them. It’s like taking an embarrassing photograph of your friend and then showing it to your other friend for the sake of getting them annoyed with you. He explained it, and also kissed Sonic two different ways in order to elaborate and prove that the intention wasn’t to cheat on him.
Even after that, though, he even said he would stop if it was still hurting Sonic. In other words, if it still appeared as cheating to Sonic and he really wanted to reserve the kissing just for the two of them, he would restrict it to them. This is not only accepting it could be viewed as cheating, but also admitting that it was wrong of him to assume that Sonic would see it the way he did, and that he would still be comfortable with that kind of platonic kissing with other people. He discouraged cheating, not encouraged it.
As for how Sonic reacted, he reacted in the way he did because of multiple people telling him how unhealthy their relationship was, and he took the blame on himself as for why it was unhealthy when in reality it was that way because of how they would overreact at things and get into petty fights about things that didn’t need to be fought about.
I’m sorry that I need to elaborate on this in the first place. It is not blame that I place on you, the reader. It is blame that I place on myself for not making it clear through the subtext of my posts. There are people I have spoken to who have interpreted this correctly, but these concerns were still brought up to me so I’m going to address them. I take full responsibility for it, and I’m going to be extra careful in the future for this to be interpreted the way I wanted it to be interpreted instead of perverted in such a way as a result of poor word-choice and timing.
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