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INTRODUCTION POST!!!

HIIII!! I’m Yourrandomlocalsonicfan, but please call me lumen despite the username. I would’ve changed it but I have it as my watermark on basically everything so… I’m a Sonic artist, and a fan of the Archie comics! I don’t really know if I’ll be active as much on this account. But I do have another media where Im more active, I just don’t really post art on there as much, that’s all :3

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You know, I LOVE the nuance of the Eclipse plot lines. The writers do a really good job of presenting the Black Arms as an alien race with different ideals, rather than just being some big scary evil entities from the void. Black Death and Eclipse care. Not just about the race surviving, but they feel angry at the individual deaths of the Black Arms. They're not even all that 'aggressive' per say', they view other life forms in a very similar way that real life humans view livestock. Even after Shadow essentially made the entire species extinct, Eclipse still forgave Shadow in hopes he'd change sides. Even Black Death is not particularly pissed about the defiance. That shows an astounding amount of placidity considering how much Shadow and GUN play them up to be pure evil. Black Death seems, at the most, annoyed. They don't seem a very grudgeful species, at least not when compared with humans/mobians. Humans get far more pissed about lesser shit all the time.

The comic makes you almost hope that Team Dark doesn't win. It paints the conflict with the Black Arms as a fight for survival, rather than good vs evil.

The way Shadow is written is also so interesting. His anger towards the Black Arms is so fueled by his own self hatred. Part of him doesn't want to fight them, and then he feels guilty for that. Like he feels morally bad for having complex emotions towards fighting them. He thinks he has to have absolute distain for anything Black Arms related, to the point where it's fueling his self hatred. And then the self hatred is fueling his aggression towards them. It's unhealthy, and I could easily see it being a character arc if the comic had continued.

Just some fantastic writing all around.

Artfight’s just around the corner and I’m still struggling to get everything set up. It’s my first year doing it and I’m currently trying to upload images to my bio. But if you’re a Sonic artist and interested in attacking me or getting attacked, here’s my card! :]

Please know that I am still working on a few reference sheets(or at least a good enough reference) for ocs and that I will try publishing them all on my artfight page before July.

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Here’s an art piece I made for a video I uploaded on my TikTok recently to make up for some of my absence on here.