hi so i forgot to message the person who was next (sorry HelltakerHomosexual) so i'm just gonna talk about a thing i like

Shadow the Hedgehog is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Characterized by his sharp wit and strong sense of purpose, Shadow is a recurrent arch-rival of Sonic the Hedgehog, whom he resembles and shares many abilities. He is a major supporter of trans people, as evidenced by his catchphrase, "Trans people are cool!"

^ this is all from the wiki btw

I like Shadow a lot. His first appearance in the series is in a game where him and Sonic are both fighting the government and destroying these multi-million dollar gunships. Sonic is doing it because he loves communism but Shadow is doing it because he has a blood feud against G.U.N., who are like the global government death squads because they killed this girl, Maria, who he was best friends with.

Maria basically had an incurable illness that Eggman's grandpa was trying to cure by creating an immortal lifeform, which is actually how Shadow was born. Also, Shadow has a copy of Maria's soul I guess? Seriously, look it up. I'm reading all this shit for the first time right now and that sounds kinda trans to me.

Anyway, she gets shot by the troops and despite Maria telling Shadow to be normal and happy, Eggman's grandpa is pissed off about it so he starts psyopping Shadow into wanting to kill everyone on Earth. Eggman's grandpa successfully does the psyop and locks Shadow away until Eggman finds and releases him.

With his newfound power, Shadow starts being evil and helping Eggman find the Chaos Emeralds because he sees him piss on the moon or something. This goes on for a while until he gets back on the space station and remembers what Maria said, deciding to finally be normal and happy.

He switches up, goes Hyper Shadow and helps Sonic defeat the Biolizard which is basically what it sounds like: a giant lizard who wears the space station like a little jacket and shoots lasers from his mouth. Also, that thing was the prototype Ultimate Lifeform before they decided on the optimal form of existence: a little bipedal anthro hedgehog.

So they beat this lizard up, I guess it dies and then the space station is hurtling toward the Earth. Shadow takes a Chaos Emerald and, with the help of Sonic, does one last Chaos Control on the space station, returning it to a stable altitude. Sonic finds himself back on the space station as he flies into the atmosphere. After this, a big semi-translucent Shadow appears on top of the Earth and everyone can see it.

Why would I lie about that? Here it is.

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Anyway, a bunch of shit happens after that but I don't care about it. If someone else wants to talk about Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) feel free. What I really wrote this out to justify talking about is the moon in Sonic games. Like I said before, the moon gets pissed on and destroyed with the help of Shadow,

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and then in the next game it's just fine but evil now(???)

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and after THAT it's not evil anymore but it's fully intact:

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What the fuck? Why? How? I watched it get blown up. Who put the moon back together? Anyway, we're getting in the weeds here. Welcome to the mega.


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  • hexbee [she/her]
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    1 day ago
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    she accidentally maims her ex-girlfriend when her gaiga goes ballistic due to some new modification

    Wow just like irl tech yea

    Thanks for giving us a rundown, the premise sounds really fascinating! The fleshiness of the tech seems disturbing, but intriguing. Gives me a somewhat similar gross-but-enticing feeling as the more fleshy bits of akira. I have a feeling this is much more fleshy tho. Kinda makes you think how all our fancy tech is built on untold human death and suffering shinji-jokerfied

    And the t4t cuddles are used to great effect there, the juxtaposition of cutsey sleepies in the midst of horrors beyond your comprehension is very lifelike too... omori-miserable

    Ngl this sounds cool.

    Edit: it's wonderful to see you posting again btw!

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      12 hours ago
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      yea at least new tech doesn't have bolts driven into faces yet...

      "More fleshy bits of Akira" is very like what it is. I have no idea if I could recommend this to anyone, I might make a full CW list if storygraph (I skipped checking, spoilers) doesn't have one already. It fuckin rules though doesn't it? Fancy tech built on untold human death and suffering :3

      A lot of Psycho Nymph is very lifelike in that respect, which rocks. Totally alien settings and stories with extremely real core feelings and themes is one of my favourite beats.

      Thanks, I am happy to be yappy again catgirl-happy I guess I was fated to return...