#Everyone Ships Shadamy
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Headcanon #296
Cross-posted on AO3.
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Knuckles’s jaw was clenched, and his arms were crossed tightly over his chest. Amy’s bubbly voice floated in from the loveseat to his right. He scowled straight ahead at the wall in front of him instead of looking at her, knowing he’d only get more irritated if he did.
“Sounds like you two had a good time,” Rouge said from the armchair to Knuckles’s left.
Knuckles could see Amy’s head bob excitedly out of the corner of his eye. “Yeah! And then we went swimming by Emerald Coast,” Amy continued. “The water was beautiful!”
“Aside from the orcas,” a low voice added.
Knuckles whipped his head over without thinking. “Orcas?! Amy, are you—”
Knuckles choked on the last word. Shadow was staring back at him, eyes intense and unreadable. He was sitting directly behind Amy on the loveseat, keeping his knees apart so she could sit between them. His arms were wrapped around her midsection.
Knuckles’s eye twitched.
“Don’t worry!” Amy piped up. “Shadow was keeping an eye on me. He had a Chaos Emerald on hand just in case to warp me out of there.” She beamed over her shoulder at Shadow. He grunted and rested his chin on top of her head.
Knuckles looked away. Rouge’s lips were spread into a subtle smirk.
BEEP
Amy jumped at the sound of the oven timer. “Oh! That must be the surprise I mentioned earlier!” She hopped to her feet. “It’ll be done in just a few minutes.”
“I’ll help,” Shadow said immediately.
“Thanks!” Amy offered a hand to pull him to his feet.
Knuckles started to stand. “I’ll come, too.”
“Nope!” Amy interjected. “Someone has to keep Rouge company.” She winked.
Without another word, Amy dashed off toward her kitchen, pulling a willing Shadow along with her. Knuckles sighed.
He heard the quiet flapping of wingbeats and peeked an eye open to find Rouge had perched on the arm of the couch to lean into his personal space. “She’s turning into a real matchmaker, hmm?”
Knuckles tried to relax his muscles. “Some days, I can’t tell if she’s trying to set me up with you or Sonic.”
Rouge made an interested noise. “Now that’s an idea.”
“I don’t even want to know what you mean by that.”
In front of him, Shadow and Amy had just entered her kitchen. She opened up the oven, but Shadow nudged ahead so he could reach in and extract three cake pans from it for her. When he placed them on the stovetop, she gave him a grateful kiss on the cheek. Shadow wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her close, far closer than Knuckles would have liked. He grumbled.
Rouge spoke up beside him once more. “Aww, worried about your little sister?”
“She’s not my sister.”
“You don’t have to be shy about it. I think it’s sweet!”
Knuckles ignored her. Through the doorway to the kitchen, he could see Amy take out a bowl of cream from her fridge and lay out a few other ingredients. Shadow, apparently feeling quite at home in Amy’s kitchen, easily located a large mixing bowl and a whisk. She tossed the ingredients into the bowl and started whisking them together at an impressive speed. Shadow muttered something inaudible in Amy’s ear. She smiled brightly, and he stepped over to hold her from behind, peeking over her shoulder as she worked.
Knuckles felt pain in his jaw, cluing him in that he’d been clenching his teeth. He relaxed his jaw, though he kept glaring at Shadow. “Would it kill him to keep his paws to himself?”
Shadow’s ear twitched slightly, making Knuckles wonder if his enhanced hearing was keen enough to pick up on their conversation. He decided he didn’t care.
Rouge shrugged in his peripheral vision. “Aren’t all new couples like that?”
Knuckles snorted. “I expect PDA from Amy, but Shadow? He never touches anyone! And now he’s acting so...”
“Possessive? That’s because he is.”
Knuckles’s face soured. He whipped his head up to meet Rouge’s easy smile. She seemed far too happy about the situation. “You don’t think that’s creepy at all?”
Rouge scoffed and leaned back. “Not one bit. It’s just who he is.”
Knuckles squinted at her. “What do you mean?”
Rouge’s eyes flicked over to the kitchen. She sighed. “When I first met that guy, he had nothing but the shoes on his feet,” she said, keeping her voice low. Her eyes fell shut. “Gerald, G.U.N...they took everything from Shadow. His freedom. His memories. His identity. Everyone who ever cared about him.” Knuckles could see her jaw clench. “All G.U.N.’s ever given him is a goddamn motorcycle, and he loves that thing. Paints it. Maintains it. Polishes it every single weekend. He won’t even let Tails touch it.”
An unwanted pang of sympathy made itself known in Knuckles’s chest. He crossed his arms and tried to ignore it. “What does a bike have to do with Amy?”
Rouge’s eyes opened slowly. She looked as weary as he’d ever seen her. “I’m saying Shadow’s hardly had anything that’s actually his, and when he does, he keeps it close and takes damn good care of it.”
Knuckles paused. Then, he stubbornly turned up his nose. “Still sounds creepy to me.”
Rouge rolled her eyes. She grabbed his shoulder and roughly turned him to face the kitchen. “Is that really what you see?” she hissed.
Amy stood next to the counter. She’d set aside a bowl of some red, sugary substance, seemingly taking a break to hold a strawberry up to Shadow’s mouth. He took a bite right from her hand. After a moment of chewing and contemplation—far too intense for a strawberry, Knuckles thought—Shadow nodded. Amy’s smile was brilliant. He gazed down at her with an obvious softness in his eyes, then held her closer with the arm he still kept around her waist and kissed her fondly.
As he kept kissing her, though—far longer than Knuckles felt was strictly necessary—the memory of Shadow abandoning him to help Black Doom in Glyphic Canyon sprang to mind. Knuckles turned away. “Well, excuse me if I don’t exactly trust the guy. He—”
He was cut off by Rouge’s fierce growl, and her sharp nails stabbed into his shoulder, making him choke.
“I know you’re not about to trash-talk my best friend right in front of my face,” Rouge snapped, her teal eyes flashing in warning. Knuckles shrank back. “Shadow’s a good man, and he’s saved all of our asses more than once, yours included. He’s more than earned our forgiveness.”
Rouge’s wings were flared out behind her, and her fangs were bared. From his position below her on the sofa, Knuckles was bluntly reminded of why so many people were afraid of Rouge. He nodded slowly, eyes wide.
The glare remained on Rouge’s face for several seconds. At last, it faded, and she averted her gaze. The pain in Knuckles’s shoulder disappeared. He let out a breath he hadn’t known he was holding, and the pounding of his heart slowed down.
Rouge let out a deep breath. After an extended silence, she spoke up again. “Do you really think Amy would put up with that kind of mistreatment?”
“She put up with Sonic running away from her for years.”
Rouge opened her mouth to reply, but then her expression pinched. “...I guess that’s fair.”
Knuckles slumped. He stared down at his feet. He could feel Rouge watching him, waiting for a response. His throat tightened.
“It’s my fault.”
Rouge’s tone was softer than before. “What are you talking about? Sonic’s the one who ran away.”
Knuckles shook his head. He kept his eyes on the floor. “No. We all did it. Sonic was immature, and Tails was just following him, but what’s my excuse? I was the oldest. I should’ve been the responsible one.”
Rouge rested her hand on his shoulder, gently this time, but Knuckles brushed it off and shook his head. “I told myself it wasn’t my business. I had my island and my Emerald, and they had their world, but...” Knuckles’s face twisted. “I abandoned her just like they did. She got kidnapped over and over, and Sonic never learned. He left her behind every time.” Knuckles snarled and punched his palm. “If I’d just knocked some sense into him, if I’d just been there for her...stood up for her—”
“Knuckles...”
His muscles went limp, and his eyes squeezed shut. “I don’t have the right to call myself her brother. Any halfway decent older brother would have protected her.”
He remained there for a while, just staring into his hands.
Rouge’s hand returned to his shoulder. He tried to shrug it off again, but she remained steadfast.
“Knuckles, you can’t blame yourself for all of that.”
Knuckles squinted up at her concerned expression at last. “It’s my fault. Why shouldn’t I?”
“Because it shouldn’t have been your job to begin with.” She shook her head. “You weren’t an adult, you were a teenager. All four of you should have had actual adults looking after you.” He opened his mouth to speak, but she held up a finger to stop him. “Eggman did the kidnapping, not you. And yeah, we all should have treated her better...” She averted her gaze. “Even me...but we were all just kids and teens doing our best out there. Don’t beat yourself up over it, Knux.”
“But—”
“No buts,” Rouge cut in. “Would Amy want you to be so hard on yourself?”
Knuckles paused. He glanced into the kitchen again, only to find Shadow and Amy were out of sight. He searched for a moment, but then he heard Amy giggle from around a corner in the kitchen and say, “You little—!”
Knuckles growled immediately. He was halfway to his feet when a gentle hand pressed against his chest to stop him. He couldn’t help but comply.
“Ah, ah! Down, boy,” Rouge teased, guiding him back down to his seat. “Does she sound upset?”
Knuckles pouted, wishing he weren’t so easily swayed. Amy turned the corner with Shadow in tow. Her mischievous laughter floated back in once more. Knuckles rolled his eyes. “...No. I guess not.”
I definitely don’t like that smug look on his face, though.
“Well, I hate to tell you this, Knuckles, but you don’t have a choice.”
Knuckles glanced back up at Rouge. Despite her words, her expression was playful. “What do you mean?”
Rouge chuckled. “You can claim you’re not Amy’s brother all you want, but she’s still your sister. She’s already decided that.”
Knuckles snorted. “What are you talking about? She’s never said that.”
“She doesn’t have to, hun. It’s all there.” At his skeptical look, she continued. “Why do you think she’s worked to get so strong?”
Knuckles waved it off. “She had to. We all did.”
Rouge crossed her arms and raised a smug brow. “So it’s just a coincidence that she specifically chose boxercise for a fighting style? She goes through a punching bag a week, just like you do.”
Knuckles thought for a moment, then snorted. “Punching things is the best way to fight. Doesn’t take a genius to figure that one out.”
Rouge smirked. “I don’t know about that. My way works just fine.” She extended one of her strong legs and rested it in Knuckles’s lap. His breath caught in his throat.
“That’s not all, though,” she continued. “Haven’t you ever noticed she just so happened to pick a red dress with a white collar? Doesn’t that remind you of anyone...?” To drive her point home, Rouge dragged one finger over Knuckles’s collarbone down to trace the white crescent shape on his chest. He gulped.
With Knuckles stunned, she was free to keep talking. “And haven’t you ever wondered why she keeps her quills down like that? Doesn’t that look familiar?”
Knuckles’s head cleared for a moment, and his attention snapped to the kitchen, where the two hedgehogs were assembling a cake. Shadow was stroking his fingers through Amy’s quills, which were immaculately styled as always to point downward. Knuckles’s heart thumped unexpectedly. “Do you really think that’s why?” he asked, barely above a whisper.
“Mhm,” Rouge crooned. “And she has to use a ton of product to do it, too. Hedgehog quills don’t do this on their own.” She shifted her hand back up to thread into his quills. “She wouldn’t do that if you weren’t worth looking up to, riiiight~?”
Knuckles’s muscles started to unwind. “Y-yeah...I guess so...”
“Sooo...don’t you think it’s time you forgave yourself...and maybe someone else, too?”
It was hard to think with Rouge’s nails gently scratching his scalp. The couch creaked underneath him as he leaned back into the cushions. “...Mmmaybe...”
He could hear the smile in Rouge’s voice as she added, “Y’know, it’s gotta be pretty nice not to have to worry about her anymore.” He tipped his head back and made a quiet, inquisitive grunt. Rouge chuckled under her breath. “She’s strong as hell from emulating you, and if all else fails, she’s got a clingy, overprotective boyfriend looking out for her now. Strong enough to flip a bus. Faster than the speed of sound. Can teleport to her side whenever she’s in danger. Doesn’t that sound nice?”
“Hmmm...”
Amy was putting the finishing touches on the dessert. Shadow swiped a dollop of whipped cream from her cheek. When she looked up in curiosity, he licked it off of his thumb and smirked at her. She held back a shy giggle, and he clung to her once more to press a kiss to her temple.
Even so, Knuckles somehow felt less concerned than before.
When she puts it like that, it doesn’t sound too bad.
Rouge shifted closer, drawing his attention. “That’s half the reason he’s always all over her like this, you know,” she pointed out with a smirk. “No one’s dumb enough to mess with Shadow’s girlfriend. So long as he’s around, no one can touch her.”
Knuckles gazed up at her sincere smile for a moment, unable to argue. She kept running her fingers through his quills, and an unfamiliar warmth washed over him for the first time in a long while.
I’m...calm.
A few seconds later, though, a thought tugged at the back of his hazy mind, and he frowned, suspicious. “If that’s only half of the reason, what’s the other half?”
“You two look cozy,” Amy teased from the doorway.
Knuckles nearly jumped out of his skin. Realizing Rouge was practically sitting in his lap, he wrenched his head out of her hand and scrambled out from under her leg.
Rouge righted herself on the couch and pouted. “So rude.”
Knuckles shuffled over to take refuge on the other side of the couch, running his hands through his disheveled quills and fur to straighten things out. “Hmph.” His face burned while the others laughed. Desperate to change the subject, he fixed his gaze on the dessert in Amy’s hands. “So is that the surprise you mentioned?”
Amy glowed with pride as she presented the triple-layered cake, complete with strawberry drizzle, immaculate whipped cream swirls, and carefully-placed strawberries. “Yup! I think I finally nailed my new strawberry shortcake recipe!” She set the cake on her coffee table and straightened back up. “Let me know what you think!”
Shadow knelt next to the coffee table, plates and silverware in hand. He cut the cake with clean, precise strokes, and soon everyone had a slice.
Rouge chimed in first. “Mmmm! This is delicious, Amy!”
Knuckles nodded. The sweetness of the strawberries was mellowed out by the cool whipped cream. The light, spongy cake tied everything together perfectly. “You’ve outdone yourself this time. I think this might be your best yet,” he said through another mouthful.
Amy grinned and sat down on the loveseat to take her first bite. She squealed and kicked her feet in place. “Oooo, this is perfect!” She swallowed and added, “I’m so excited. Strawberry shortcake is my favorite!”
Knuckles paused in his chewing. “I thought your favorite was soft serve ice cream.”
“It was for a long time,” Amy said. “But then Shadow took me to this cute little bakery in Westopolis. They had the best strawberry shortcake!”
Shadow slid his empty plate onto the coffee table next to her. “Still not as good as yours.”
Amy gaped. “You’re already done?! I’ve barely—”
She cut herself off with a yelp when Shadow abruptly lifted her to sit sideways in his lap. He pressed a kiss to her cheek. “Couldn’t help it. It was delicious.”
She laughed and settled easily into his arms. “You almost made me drop my cake!”
Knuckles stayed quiet while Amy told Rouge about the supposedly indispensable shoe store next to the Westopolis bakery. His focus shifted to Shadow, who seemed content to admire Amy’s bubbly demeanor instead. He held her far more closely than he had to.
He’s too handsy.
Shadow admired Amy’s enthusiasm with unusual intensity.
He’s too fixated on her.
Knuckles thought of Shadow’s past actions, some of which bordered on indefensible.
He’s got a checkered past and takes things too far.
But...
Then, Knuckles’s gaze fell upon Amy—her easy, radiant smile and the fully relaxed state her muscles only reached when she was in the complete security of Shadow’s arms.
Maybe...that actually works for her.
Amy and Rouge kept chatting. Knuckles looked back over to Shadow, who was now staring back at him, unreadable as always.
And it might be useful to have someone around to talk to who’s just as uninterested in shoe shopping as I am.
Knuckles mulled it over. Soon, he found himself thinking of things they might have in common. He was on the verge of formulating a question about martial arts or workout routines...until he caught sight of something on Amy’s neck that definitely hadn’t been there twenty minutes ago.
His blood boiled.
“Amy. WHAT. IS. THAT?!”
All conversation stopped at Knuckles’s outburst. Following Knuckles’s gaze, Rouge burst into a loud cackle.
Amy rolled her eyes. “Oh, grow up, Knuckles. We’re all adults here!”
Every muscle in Knuckles’s body tightened, and he turned his most heated glare on Shadow, the glare that made everyone else wilt.
Shadow’s unreadable face morphed into an unmistakable smirk, and he let out a smug snicker under his breath. Knuckles clenched his fists.
He can stay for Amy’s sake...but he’s still the worst.
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((I will tolerate the Sonic Twitter Takeover changing Amy’s favorite dessert if they admit it happened during a Shadamy date. I think that’s fair.))
#Shadamy#Shadow the Hedgehog#Amy Rose#Sonic the Hedgehog#knuxouge#knuckles the echidna#rouge the bat#hc#a valentine's day headcanon with TWO ships? it's more likely than you think#clingy#Everyone Ships Shadamy
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Seashell Bracelet
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Hey everyone this is my first failed attempt at writing Shadamy but I promised my Shadamy shipping friends I would write it. Shout out to @bearfoottruck and @punkeropercyjackson
I hope it's alright, I always wanted to write Shadamy because I am a multishipper in the Sonic fandom and reading some amazing Shadamy fanfiction by talented writers sold me.
And yes, the plot of this fanfic is basically that episode of Sonic X where Amy makes Sonic a seashell bracelet.....But make it Shadamy!
So enjoy!
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Amy always loved going to the beach with her friends.
She loved everything about it! Swimming until you need to nap, looking for seashells, eating watermelon. But today, she couldn't help but space out a lot, which didn't go unnoticed by Cream.
Maybe Amy couldn't sit in a beach chair and watch the peaceful blue skies without thinking of how heroes risk their lives so she and her friends could have these beach days.
Everyone was so happy and relieved, and Amy wanted to be happy too. That's why she tried not to remember the gang's latest near-death experience.
But the moment Amy became breathless kept playing in her head, where Shadow used his entire body to guard her, and Amy stood as still as a statue watching Shadow's honorable sacrifice.
Every sharp cut hit Shadow, and Amy didn't receive a single cut on her delicate skin. Amy barely noticed wounds on Shadow, but she was told he was the Ultimate Lifeform; she didn't truly understand until she saw Shadow take every hit like it was nothing.
But when everything was deflected, Shadow took a moment to look at Amy, and her aqua-blue eyes sparkled as she saw the pain Shadow was holding in his deep red eyes. And before Amy knew it, Shadow had run away, even though she had tried to reach out for him.
Amy and the others escaped the deadly base before it exploded and went down in flames. But nobody knew where Shadow was, even Sonic, who raced around the remains of the destroyed base. And even if the day was saved, Amy couldn't help but stay up late at night wondering where Shadow was.
And now, even if the waves were gentle and the sky was clear, she couldn't forget that moment.
Shadow the Hedgehog was the Ultimate Lifeform. He had so much power that he needed golden bracelets to hold all that power in. Being created as a force of destruction must've been a lot for Shadow to go through.
Amy couldn't take that! She finally got up, walked away from the shady umbrella, and started to search the beach while all her friends played in the water and laughed.
She circled around the beach, looking for the best beach shells. Eventually, Cream looked at a distance from her inner tube, knowing that Amy wanted to make some seashell jewelry. But Amy was less happy and cheerful about it and more serious.
And she was! Amy spent hours finding the perfect tiny pink sea shells to make a bracelet. Eventually, Cream couldn't take it and tried to look over her shoulder.
"Are you making something, Miss Amy?"
Amy gasped and hid the bracelet she was making away. "No Cream!" She cried hastily.
Amy was sweating a lot, and Cream looked absolutely stunned, but Amy managed to smile sheepishly. "I'm just experimenting, that's all!"
Amy hoped that would be a good enough excuse.
Cream innocently smiled at Amy and took her hand to drag her off. Amy quickly clutched the unfinished bracelet in her hand; Cream didn't give her a moment to prepare.
"Well, you should eat dinner with us if you want to experiment with sea shells Miss Amy!"
Amy felt that was fair. She would spend time with everyone, put on a brave face, and have to finish the bracelet she was making for Shadow at night while everyone was asleep.
When Cream finally fell asleep smiling, Amy finally finished the seashell bracelet under the light of the stars and moon.
But it wasn't until she finished that she wondered if the whole thing was pointless. Shadow disappeared again and wouldn't let anyone in with everything that happened to him in the past. He always slipped away from her, and she placed the sea shell necklace down and laid down to watch the stars in the clear night sky.
That was until a beautiful shooting star flew above her, and Amy sat up in shock.
She could've chalked it up to lack of sleep, but that was the biggest shooting star she ever saw. It was bright silver and reminded her of when a certain black hedgehog unleashed the power of the seven chaos emeralds.
"Shadow!" Amy whispered.
Amy grabbed the bracelet and ran out of the bedroom, not bothering to stay quiet. It took her a moment to reach the beach, and her heart pounded, hoping he wouldn't slip away from her again. Shadow flew down and landed on the shore as he powered down from his super form. The black hedgehog stood alone and let the waves wash over his feet, and Amy stood quietly watching him.
Amy took two steps forward and hesitated momentarily. Still, after seeing Shadow's anguish, she couldn't help herself.
"Shadow!" Amy cried.
Shadow did a low gasp as he turned around. His bright red eyes looked absolutely bewildered at the pink hedgehog.
Amy placed her hand over her heart and found it hard to speak, but then her aqua-blue eyes softened, seeing a much gentler side of Shadow.
"You're back," she said.
Shadow frowned, then turned to the ocean when he saw Amy's heartbroken face. There was the sound of the ocean waves rolling in and out, and Shadow sighed.
"I couldn't give up because it was haunting," Shadow said. Amy didn't understand what Shadow meant, but she could feel the weight he must've carried from that fateful day.
Shadow thought about it again, how he shielded Amy and the look on her face when she saw him be so strong and so vulnerable at the same time.
Something Shadow didn't want to show to such an innocent girl. As cowardly as it was, he found himself walking away with his head low. But Amy puffed up her cheeks and ran to the shore to meet him.
Shadow wished she would find some sense and walk away, or the world might turn upside down as he may humor the idea for a moment.
But Shadow turned to her in surprise as she didn't beg him for anything. She just had her head down with her eyes closed and presented him with a seashell bracelet in her hands.
And for a moment, Shadow swore he felt his heart rate react differently, but just a moment.
Such primitive mortal emotions, but Shadow couldn't bring himself to say no. He attempted to accept the gift but pulled his hand away at the last moment.
Amy gasped and looked into Shadow's beautiful red eyes. The pink hedgehog felt stubborn and took his warm hand, and to her and Shadow's surprise, he didn't object.
Both felt a strange warmth they weren't used to, but Amy set that thought aside as she gently placed the seashell bracelet around his wrist. And she felt it complimented the solid gold bracelet he wore.
And both Amy and Shadow couldn't bring themselves to move as their hands touched and fit almost perfectly.
Amy went wide-eyed and started to blush, but before she could fall over, Shadow took her hands in his and looked away for a moment. Then his red eyes looked deep into her aqua eyes, and Amy couldn't bring herself to speak, so Shadow did it for her.
"...Thank you, Amy…"
Amy did a low gasp as she vibrated a bit. "Oh…"
Because she could reply, Shadow let go of her hands and used his super speed. He was gone before Amy could run after him, and once again, Amy felt helpless as she turned away, only for Cream, Tails, and Sonic to be not too far behind her.
Oh no! Amy was doomed! She wasn't sure how much they saw, but there was no sense in denying it as Cream ran up to her.
"Miss Amy!" Cream cried.
Amy tried to keep it together in front of Cream, but Cream looked incredibly concerned.
"Miss Amy! Has Shadow really returned?"
Amy looked away as a blush formed on her face.
"...Yes."
Shadow wanted to leave this beach behind but stopped when he saw stars reflecting on the water and the full moon shining above him. And he looked down at the sea shells around his wrist and the innocent hedgehog girl who gave him this heartfelt gift.
He held his hand up to the moon and saw the shiny golden bracelet and the bracelet made out of delicate pink sea shells. It was strange that his cursed life led to this.
He thought he was the Ultimate Lifeform, born only to destroy, yet…
This one girl may be showing him that he was more than that…
But he had to protect her no matter what, which meant he had to leave this beach before she could run after him.
But the seashell bracelet would always keep her connected to him.
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When I first found your blog (however many moons ago that was) I was a hardcore angsty teen who was a super Shadamy fan only. No one was perfect for Amy but Shadow. I couldnt even look at anything ESPECIALLY Sonamy without hating it. However i loved your art and your art style. So I would grin and bare it just to see your newest post. Your comics/drawings/random dribbles slowly brought me to the dark side, and right before I was crossing over you disappeared. * Poof * And I was left with a small Sonamy whole in my heart.
Over the years I've grown and learned that other ships are fine even if I dont agree with them.
And while I'm still very much a Shadamy person first....Sonic can slide in sometimes too 😅.
And the really interesting part is you come back just as I'm planning my own wedding.
Feels kinda Full circle just a little.
I'm glad your back E-Vay. We missed you.
Welcome home.
When I tell you I am actually crying tears of joy from those last sentences, I am not even lying. Oh my gosh I was not ready for that. Thank you, I will type this through sobs ｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡
First I want to say that I am so honored you still followed my art even though it went against your ship. And hopefully now that I am back, I can fully drag you into the pit with me MWUAHAHAHA! I can complete my life’s mission!
I’m just kidding, obviously I think everyone can enjoy whatever ship they want (^o^) I just want to make people smile while they’re on my page!
Congratulations on your engagement! I hope your wedding day is everything you dream it will be and that you and your betrothed live the happiest life together (´⌣`ʃƪ)
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So... I run this blog, yeah? This one, a ShadAmy ship blog, in the good year of our lord 2022.
Why?
I like the ship. You say, 'yeah no shit dumbass,' but I really like the ship. It is the ship that formulated a blueprint for my fleet of favorite ships all under one flag. It is my ship of dreams.
And I'm not someone who grew up with Archie, which is where a lot of old-school shippers come from. I knew ABOUT Archie and what I knew scared me. Even post-reboot, I didn't want to touch it. I was firmly entrenched in the games and the games only (to a large degree, I still am. They are the only actual 'canon' in my opinion, no matter the many cool things IDW and Archie may have done.)
I'm also not someone who just wants to see their fave in a cute ship. They're both favorites of mine -I like them both separately just as much as I like them together.
So why the fuck did I love these two characters together so much when they hardly even talk?
This moment.
Because it was always going to be this moment.
I'm about ten years of age playing this game, my mind being totally blown by the plot and the characters, and it all comes to a grinding halt... to talk.
But me liking this scene didn't happen right away.
It happened in stages.
(Trigger warning. Heads up for mild mentions of gaslighting and issues with eating disorders. Shit you not, this is canon to their history.)
Part 1- Why do I like Shadow?
I knew from the start I liked Shadow.
There's something about a character that is not a 'nice person,' but they are, very much, a 'good person.' They are, in their own way, trying very hard to do the right thing.
Shadow was designed as a weapon, first and foremost. That's what G.U.N. wanted them for and that's how Gerald found his funding, even if he was also designing Shadow to be a cure/aid for Maria on the sly. Shadow went through a lot of hell because of that. Yet regardless of his history, he still makes the decision to get up every day and do his best to solve whatever situation is in front of him, bit by bit, striving steady forward to make the world a better place.
Too often, the messy, personal business of having to recognize your faults is minimized for the protagonist and amplified for everyone else that they are with. Especially in recent media (last 10-years ish, in my opinion,) you don't get a lot of protags that might not be likable all the time. You don't have that moment where they realize what they have done, are reeling from guilt and self loathing and shame, and have to make the conscious effort to do better.
But Shadow is.
This is a character who was gaslight (actual genuine memory manipulation with malicious intention I CANNOT make this shit up), fed a lie for purpose, their personality weaponized. Their love turned into an atomic bomb.
Then, they had to unlearn that and become themselves again.
I want more heroes like that. I want heroes that were or could have been villains, and instead of and dying in a last redemptive act (as if it makes up for everything they have done), they live... and they have to keep living. They have to keep learning. They have to be... you know... people.
I know a lot of people debate over whether or not Shadow as actually suppose to stay dead after SA2, and in everything I have read, the evidence seems inconclusive. Either way, I'm glad they brought him back. I'm glad they made him live and learn (pun intended) and choose to be better. Not as a weapon, not as a cure, but as themself.
That makes for a great story and character study. That's always the sort of thing I want to sink my teeth into and stay awake reading and rereading and coming back to it with new eyes.
Furthermore, Shadow... well, they are a person who scares people. The design, the demeanor, the articulation (or lack thereof) in regards to motivation and thought. It doesn't matter if they mean to, it happens.
And they're fine with it.
They don't need to be verbal all the time. They don't need to understand social cues or unspoken rules. They are allowed to go off and stare at nothing and think in the quiet because it's comfortable. This guy was living my fucking dream.
Also, Shadow was also my first introduction to Nonbinary Thoughts that I had ever seen. This person walks in with their highlights and eyeliner and fluffy self with their dope kicks and sweet color pallet and a cool voice and I had all sorts of joy lighting up inside me. This was like glam rock. This was like seeing Mercury or Lennox for the first time, or realizing that sometimes, the chick-parts in theater productions are played by boys and the dude-parts are played by girls. I dunno how else it put it. It's the moment you go, 'ooooh,' before you flip the flimsy table that the binary gender code has placed itself upon.
This fantasy hedgehog bastard and I have a lot in common, and I've leaned on that a couple of times to remind myself I'm not alone because, for the longest time... I didn't know any living people who had gone through what I had. I have since found friends over time with similar situations, and they all mean the world to me, but Shadow for years was the imaginary friend of a lonely kid who scared the other kids.
That means a lot to me.
Part 2- Why do I like Amy?
I use to not like Amy.
(As such, the order of thought for this segment is going to be different. Sorry in advance.)
I hasn't played any other Sonic game before SA2, so my first encounter with her was not the best. I didn't understand why she was here. I didn't understand why she acted the way she did. I didn't like her voice actor, or her dialog lines, or how she was just written as 'the girl'. Every other character got to be cool and do shit and be playable and Amy was just There(tm). Later I played SA1 and realized she was cool but how she was written in every game seemed to just be decided by dice. Yeah, they used the same dice, so the basic characteristics stayed the same, but the way they were portrayed or portioned fluctuated drastically. I never knew what she was going to show up like.
And that's partially on me- I was stuck in a binary jam as a kid. Still, even beyond that, she as a character and I did not gel.
And then I played Sonic Battle.
(tw // eating disorders)
I keep saying I need to replay Battle, if only to get evidence of this. There's a part of me that wants to believe I made it up, just to avoid the implications, but I know I didn't.
In Battle, like in SA1, SA2, and 06, you play through multiple perspectives of a story (always did like that sort of gameplay.) During the story, you get to be both Cream and Amy, and you find something out during this.
Amy has an eating disorder.
This may be a headcanon, and I am biased, but this obsession to the point of illness with her weight and figure has appeared a couple of times including out if gameplay (I know, breaking my own rule about game canon focus). For an older example, there's an issue in the Sonic manga Spin and Dash where Amy falls for one of Eggman's schemes for weight loss since she's worried she's gaining weight. She then comes back emaciated, asking Sonic and Tails if she looks pretty. Most recently, there is official art of Amy punching a punching bag with a picture of ice cream on it while Germal watches, which is a direct reference to that I am about to relay.
In Battle, you go against Amy several times in a form of combat called Boxercising. Canonically, it is stated that Amy got into Boxercising to get stronger and help out more on missions, but then became obsessed when she realized she could lose weight. Though Cream protests all the 'training' saying Amy is too tired due to her lack of eating and constant training, Amy keeps insisting she wants to go another round. You do this a few times, and then, it is revealed that she has been wearing weights this entire time.
I use to wear weights all the time, around my ankles and under long pants so nobody noticed. I did it to try and lose weight. You want to know what happens when you do that? You fuck up your ligaments and tendons.
I had to take a second. Then, I went back to the game. It got worse from there.
After the fighting, Amy passes out. When she awakens, after a bit of dialog, she asks then-Emerl how she could loose more weight. The robot proposes a ridiculous training regiment and a diet in which Amy is to only eat salad leaves and some other minimal insane bullshit, and though Cream is horrified, Amy insists she can do it.
And I hated it.
I hated how of course it was Amy. I hated how this was played for laughs. I hated how they'd pick the Girl Character(tm) because eating disorders are coded girlish apparently and once again I'm sitting there hating everything to do with everyone but especially whoever thought that was funny or let that mistake (if it was a mistake) slide or whatever. I was angry.
But it was at that moment I saw Amy in a new light. I had never seen another character go through this, not in the way I did. I decided to go back and give her character a second look.
What I found upon putting aside my own self loathing was a wonderful character. Yes, she, like everyone else, suffered from tone changes between games, but at the core, she was a really wonderful person doing the best she could out of love for everything and everyone.
Yes, she is stubborn and maybe sometimes a bit selfish. Yes, she has tunnel vision and sometimes that causes a problem. I will remind the court that the kid in canon is 12/13 and which one of you was the perfect preteen? I reiterate my point about flawed protagonists. I reiterate my point about multifaceted characters. I reiterate my point that a person is allowed to be a person and that makes them better than a cardboard cuttout that can be projected upon.
She's not a manic pixie dream girl, she's a fucking supernova.
She loves her friends, her found family, her home, her planet, the strangers she meets on the street, everyone. This girl will remind you to take care of yourself right before she throws hands with god. This girl is a badass because she loves fiercely and terribly. No, not in the 'cool, masculine way' that seemed to be the only permissible volatile love I saw in media, but in her way.
It's not a thing that just is. That sort of love comes from wanting to love. Making the conscious decision to love, and act on that love, in the best way a person knows how.
Just like you, or I, or anyone else.
And how deeply, how furiously, how passionately and totally a person can love everything, anything, and in spite of whatever is going on, decide to act on that love with a desire to do good for the sake of doing good.
That means a lot to me.
Part 3: The Ship of Dreams
We come back to this moment, because it was always going to be this moment.
An unstoppable force meets an unmoveable object.
But they are not on opposite sides. In fact, they are very much on the same side. These two love fiercely and terribly. They want to do the right thing. They are willing to sacrifice happiness and safety in order to achieve that.
And once they realize this, they work together to do the right thing out of love.
This post, I think, does a very nice job of elaborating on a facet of that concept.
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@wizardofthebog
The “This character who is flawed, traumatized and hurting cannot be saved by love. But they can choose recovery because they are loved”-trope makes me just… I think I need to lay down.
@theoneandonlymagiscientist
“saved by love” and “choose recovery because loved” look similar on the surface, perhaps because the end results look similar, but they’re so different really. It’s passive vs. active; a story is about the person who’s making choices, being proactive. If Character A is saved by love, then it’s not them the story is about, it’s about their savior, Character B. If Character A chooses recovery, then they’re the one the story is about. Character B is the side character this time.
One is the narrative of taking what is broken and fixing it. It is not about the ‘broken’ person, it’s about the ‘savior’ who ‘fixes’ them.
One is a tale of healing. It is not about one person ‘fixing’ the other, it’s about the person who makes a conscious decision to not let their pain define them.
In one, the story is about the person who loves the hurt person, and the hurt person’s pain is incidental to the main character’s arc. In the other, the story is about the hurt person themself, and the other person’s love is incidental to their arc.
I hope I’ve said this well enough. My words may not be coming out the right way to express what I’m trying to say. Sometimes they do that.
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There's also this quote from Guillermo del Toro
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"The beast doesn’t need to transform to be loved. He doesn’t have to turn into a boring fucking prince to be loved. Or renounce to the essence of who it is. To me love is not transformation, love is acceptance and understanding."
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And what about these closing lines from Niel Gaiman's observations on love given at a friend's wedding?
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"- In the darkness you will reach out a hand,
not knowing for certain if someone else is even there.
And your hands will meet,
and then neither of you will ever need to be alone again."
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I believe in love: the concept, the idea, the goal. I believe that, upon achieving the goal of fostering love, in maintaining it, enabling it to thrive, to be happy and be healthy.
I believe in people and the power they have as individuals, and how that power finds new strength when people work together as a unit, as a team, as friends and confidantes and lovers.
Love to me is being in lock step, hand in hand, walking forward together.
And I just so happen to see it in these two silly, fictional hedgehogs.
#shadamy#shadowxamy#shadow the hedgehog#amy rose#tw // eating disorder#tw // gaslighting#i seriously cannot believe i actually was able to pen this all down. it took me a while#i highly doubt this is what... anyone... expected when they asked why i like the ship but... here it is#op rambles#this took me... days... but i wanted to get it right#thoughts
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002 Amy
002 | Give me a character & I will tell you
How I feel about this character:
I definitely like her a lot more now then I did back then. She's cute and sweet, but also strong. I like it when a character can be 100% completely 𝒻𝑒𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑒 ~💖 and it's not shown as a bad thing...at least not anymore. We'll get to that in unpopular opinions. But yeah, she's the heart of the group and I feel like she hasn't really been appreciated as such until recently.
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
Amy is just everyone's gf lmao. I think her loving personality makes her easy to ship with. I particularly like ShadAmy, SurgeAmy, and MetAmy....I'm sensing a pattern.
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
I really like it when Knuckles and Amy interact. Amy is just genuinely a good friend and that's kind of important for someone who's lived alone on a floating island most of his life. Amy also is very respectful now and is a good listener which I think Knuckles would appreciate a lot. Also they totally train together, that twitter takeover was 100% canon, Amy can split the Earth with her hammer.
My unpopular opinion about this character:
This current Amy IS the best depiction of Amy there's ever been. I've seen people say she's boring now, but I feel like these might be younger fans who don't understand just how annoying she used to be. This isn't internal misogyny talking, if anything it was whoever was writing her back then that was misogynistic. She was either a stalker or completely useless. Her personality was "girl" and her only thought was "Sonic". I would gladly take "boring" emotionally mature Amy over that any day, which I don't think is boring, if anything it helps balance things out. The only thing I will agree on is I think they should bring back her short temper because that shit's funny.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
Already mentioned how I wished her and Shadow interacted more in the ask about Shadow, but specifically I'd love it if Amy pulled off some insane feat of strength that Shadow witnesses it and he's slightly perturbed and questions his status as the ultimate lifeform (in a comedic fashion).
my OTP: SHADAMY!
my cross over ship: Just send her any other girl from any other franchise and they'll be besties in no time.
a headcanon fact:
Amy might of stopped being the organizer for war and recovery efforts, but she still overexerts herself organizing social gatherings for everyone. Whenever given a task she will go to great lengths to get it done, even if it ends up exhausting her. There might be a part of her that does this because she feels guilty about how she used to act, and wants to be more useful to the group now.
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*sigh*...Okay. Just to start, I don't have Twitter, I just want to see some Sonamy fanart so I log into Twitter via the web, but I don't have an account and for now I don't want one. But I just saw something there that made me ANGRY, FOR GOD'S SAKE.
A guy there who ships Sonails went there and put the # Sonamy and said that it is not canon and that Sonails is more and etc.
I just want to clarify one thing here: Dude, Tails is a CHILD, AND SONIC IS A TEENAGER! THEY ARE 7/8 YEARS DIFFERENT BECAUSE TAILS IS 8 YEARS OLD AND SONIC 15/16! And another thing, Sega has already made it clear that the two have a SIBLINGS relationship! NOT ONLY ON THE SONIC CHANNEL WEBSITE, BUT ALSO ON FRONTIERS! SONIC CALLS HIM LITTLE BRO, MAN!
Then people keep canceling him and cursing and etc, but he is shipping A PERSON OF 15/16 WITH A PERSON OF 8!
"Ain, but the ages were erased and this and that-" FUCK THIS! TAILS IS STILL CONSIDERED A CHILD AND SONIC A FUCKING TEENAGER!
Look, if you ship Sonails, I can't say anything, but please, I saw that account on top of that POSTS NSFW THING FROM TAILS MAN! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!
If you ship Sonails, at least post something cute about them, NOT NSFW! I hate Sonails but if you ship why don't you stay there with your # Sonails and leave SONAMY AND THE OTHER SHIPPS ALONE?!?!?! I SAW HE ALSO SHIPPED SHADAILS, FUCK WHAT THE HELL-
Please, stay in the corner there with your Sonails and Shadails and LEAVE US THE FUCKING ALONE!
Now, I'm going to talk a little about Sonamy here: Sonamy is my favorite shipp, and many people I see also love Sonamy and are good there with the other shipps, then a guy who ships an 8-year-old CHILD with a 15/16-year-old TEENAGE puts there that his shipp is rather than because they have more chemistry, etc etc, and that Sonamy is wrong and creepy and pedophile, when Sonamy is only like 3 years apart and that the two apparently have feelings for each other (Amy we already knows she does, Sonic it's just showing more and more) and Sega also ships them but doesn't want to do anything with it for the time being, and Sonails is already obviously clear that the two consider themselves siblings not only in Sonic Channel, but in games as well.
Then we Sonamy supporters saw the # and we go there and defend our shipp, and he PLAYS INNOCENT AND DOES NSFW! HOLY SHIT!
If he put another # from another shipp too and said that Sonails is better, I'm sure the other shippers would also defend their own shipp, be it Shadamy, Silvaze, Taiream, Sonaze, etc. Look man, Sonails is way more wrong than Sonamy. Sure, Sonamy also has NSFW, but what ship doesn't? The problem is shipping A MINOR WITH A ADOLESCENT, ALMOST PRE-ADULT!
So why doesn't everyone keep quiet with their own shipp instead of attacking others who are quiet? Like, Sonally and Sonamy fans are learning to get along already. Of course, there may be one person or another who still fight over which one is the best, but people nowadays are already learning to get along with each other, so please, can't we be quiet with our own ships?
#My opinion#Sonic The Hedgehog#Tails The Fox#Miles Tails Prower#Amy Rose#Shadow The Hedgehog#Sonamy#Sorry i don't ship Sonails
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Also, now that the finals are finished I can reveal my winner prediction without worrying about influencing the results:
...I was wrong!
I thought MetAmy would take the whole thing!
Even though BlazAmy received the most submissions, there wasn't a lot of vocal support for them. Whereas MetAmy shippers were out there sharing propaganda from the get-go, both in the submissions and on each match the ship was in. As well as that, a few Sonic poll blogs supported them, which I figured would give them an edge. We did get a lot of attention from the ShadAmy Week blog (which I'm very grateful for!) that I thought might tip the scales. Surely enough, MetAmy vs ShadAmy was one of the most active matches of this round, but in the end, MetAmy came out on top
Like I've said a few times, I had no horse in the race for the finals, so I didn't mind who won. At first, I assumed MetAmy was winning, but when when the reblogs and propaganda kept coming in, I stopped and thought "Wait... they're not winning, are they? That's why there's so much propaganda". When the poll quietened down about mid-week, I figured that MetAmy must've taken the lead, but now that I'm seeing the results, I guess the gap was big enough that everyone knew they couldn't catch up?
Anyway, congrats to both ships for making it this far! It's your passions that make these tournaments interesting to watch. For me, BlazAmy winning was a bit of a surprise, but TekAmy beating SonAmy was the biggest surprise! I love when polls go differently to how I expect tbh
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amy rose? :3
-Favorite thing about them: I like how strong she is like, almost all of her friends have some super-powered shit going on with them but as far as everyone knows she just hit the gym and is still stronger than them. In my mind she and Knuckles have arm-wrestling competitions often and while Knuckles does win some, her score is still higher
-Least favorite thing about them: How she was written in the earlier sonic games. I checked out frontiers first so i guess i got so used to how she is on the newer stuff, that i forgot sonic used to mostly just run from her in the past medias and got sad when i checked out the adventures games. It makes me sad when they're not besties :(
-Favorite line: I cant remember any of her lines on the spot right now fhskdbsj, so maybe that moment when she told shadow to give humanity a chance
-BROTP: Amy and Metal, Amy and Shadow, Amy and Cream, Amy can have so many friends
-OTP: I don't really ship her with anyone
-NOTP: Shadamy and Sonamy
-Random headcanon: Because Amy strikes me more as someone who had a relatively normal childhood when compared to Sonic, sometimes i wonder if she had any family living on Station Square during the Chaos incident......
-Unpopular opnion: I think her feelings towards Sonic are less of a romantic thing and more of her projecting on him. She got kidnapped and that was awful and a part of herself way back then beat itself a lot for not being able to do anything about it, and that made her want to be more like Sonic, so she could be someone who can take care of herself. But because she was like 8 at the time, feelings like that are way too complicated to figure out so she just assumed it was a crush and moved accordingly
-Song i associate with them: https://youtu.be/yGeHfbhbtdA
-Favorite picture of them:
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Heya! Just found your blog, I just usually follow the #sonelise tag for new art and it recommended you and your art on my dashboard!
May I just say I'm happy someone else ships Sonelise; while not my OTP, I always thought they were stinking cute, and I dislike how much everyone gives it the shaft, mainly by hating on Elise.
There's nothing wrong with Sonelise! Like, if people can ship Shadria — which is arguably worse because of the whole sibling dynamic between them — without backlash, often just by turning Maria into a hedgehog (to remove the whole "bestiality" shtick (though it's not actually bestaility)) which really doesn't change the problem, with her very rarely just being her human self, then I sure as fudge can ship Sonelise because they actually show interest in each other and are just... stupid cute!!
So yeah! Really happy to know others ship Sonelise, and your art, my goodness, your art is SO CUTE!! ^^
Also, outside of Sonelise, who else do you ship? :)
I'm a real sucker for Shadikal (Shadow x Tikal), Shadamy, Sonilver and Knouge X3
(You can be a mulitshipper! It's kind of awesome honestly, means I don't really end up hating any ships X3)
hello!!! i'm glad you enjoy the stuff i post! glad you found me, then :D
i think they're really cute, too, and the hate they get always seemed so unfounded and dumb, and i thought i could help lessen it a bit!! people seem fine with shipping like, Rouge and Topaz, and Eggman and Starline, too, so i really don't get what the big deal about Sonic and Elise is.
I'm glad i'm not the only one who thinks they're so adorable, too!! their scenes in the game are really sweet to me, i think their interactions are so cute.
and thank you!! i'm glad you like my art!! i plan to post much more :D
other than sonelise,, i'm not a super big shipper, i tend to like most other ships in much more quiet, but i do like a bunch of others that i think are cute or sweet! but i'm not as vocal with them as I am with Sonic and Elise dkfjfkfj
thank you for the kind words! i hope you have a wonderful day! :D
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Headcanon #295
Amy’s parents gave her a deck of hedgehog-themed tarot cards for her sixth birthday. It quickly became one of her most prized possessions. Even before she learned to read them properly, she adored the beautiful, intricate artwork of each card. Her favorite was the one titled “The Lovers,” which featured two hedgehogs holding hands and gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes. One of them looked remarkably like herself, even sharing her pink fur and green eyes, and the other was dashing and intense in a way that drew her in.
Shortly after meeting Sonic, Amy excitedly showed him the card, pointing out the similarities between him and the male hedgehog and claiming it must be a sign. Sonic wasn’t buying it. The fur looked too dark to be his, he argued, and the quills in the picture had an upward bend that his lacked. Amy pouted, but she decided the resemblance was close enough and chalked up the discrepancies to “artistic license.”
Then, she met Shadow.
He later asked why she’d looked at him the way she did when they’d first locked eyes, saying it looked like she’d seen a ghost. Amy’s face flamed. She sputtered an excuse and hid that card from him for years, vowing never to give him a tarot reading with that deck for fear that it would come up.
Sonic thought it was hilarious. He never let her hear the end of it.
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From IDW’s new comic for Amy’s 30th anniversary:
;)
#Shadow the Hedgehog#Amy Rose#Sonic the Hedgehog#shadamy#hc#i am still working on that story i promised#but it's been so long since i made a headcanon#this only took about five minutes and i really wanted to share it :)#Everyone Ships Shadamy
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What's the one fic dragging you into the AO3 dark side? 👀 I'm so down for a fic recommendation right now. (Knowing full well it's gonna go in my TBR list with no hope of ever coming back out. 😭)
Good luck putting it on your TBR list, you wrote it my dude.
I can however offer you one of the other fics on my reading list.
Provided ofc you don't mind 8 Shadamy's, a pirate Sonadow and whatever weird Ducktales fics I have on my list (which I now realise one of them has also been user locked so make that two fics to make an account for-)
For everyone else, if you like fun fics with crack ships and also the Hooligans in general, When The Day Met The Night by Authorleaandres.
#I didn't get a chance to read the most recent chapter of WTDMTN before the Musk thing-#Pls you got me hooked on bugbear and whatever the ship name for Fang and Mina is-#Honestly the other Sonic stuff I've struggled to read since my hyperfixation shifted to Disney ducks#Which I feel bad about because they're really good fics#The Ducktales stuff is MOSTLY family bonding#But there's some ship stuff and angst in there too
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So when my computer got reset to fix it I realized I lost an unfinished Shadamy fanfic where...Similar to that episode of Sonic X where Amy makes Sonic a seashell bracelet I wrote a fanfic where Amy has a complicated relationship with Shadow but makes him a seashell bracelet and meets him at night while everyone is sleeping.
I wrote that randomly to test myself with a ship I never considered writing before and I have plenty of friends who ship Shadamy and the Shadamy fanbase is hella super talented and makes the most beautiful fanwork. Shadamy may not be my otp but it is a ship I can get behind.
I was wondering if I should try writing that fanfic again. Or, a much more talented writer can take that idea from me...That works too.
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amy rose for the ask game
Sexuality headcanon: Polyam Lesbian
Gender headcanon: Transfem
Ship: Surge and Blaze
Brotp: Definitely Sonic and Knuckles. She's like their little sister
Notp: Probably Sonamy or Shadamy. I don't have an intense hate for those ships or anything, I just. Don't interpret their relationships romantically
A random headcanon: I like to think that she makes clothes and jewelry for everyone, and at some point in the future they integrate those pieces into their main outfits (ex; Amy sews Surge a cool jacket that they wear when they dress up, she makes Whisper a necklace that she [Whisper] wears tucked into her shirt, Blaze asks her to sew her a new dress for a ceremony, etc.)
General Opinion: I grew up as one of those "Amy's so annoying, her only personality is liking Sonic" kids, but as I matured and finally joined the fandom, I realized that she was just getting flanderized. Amy's a pretty cool character who cares a lot about her friends and wants to be (and is) a hero just like them, the crush on Sonic thing just gets out of hand a bit when grown people don't know how to write 12 year old girls
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An AU for this Amy…..space luxury cruise. She’s just vibing until space pirates invade the ship.
To make things worse Sonic crashes into the ship because he was fighting the tyrannical Eggman.
Wrong place, wrong time- she is now a double hostage. Fed up with being tossed back and forth like a football, she crushes the robotic arm holding her as she rips it a way.
She angrily walks past everyone, obliterating a robot with a punch- making it go into the wall.
She sits in a chair next to the pool, puts some sunglasses on and orders a fruity drink.
She is not having it. This her vacation and no one is ruining it.
Though she will flirt with the cute hero when he’s done fighting. They then all hangout next to the pool, sipping on fruity drinks and relaxing.
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After making friends and exchanging numbers- Sonic occasionally brings her to missions.
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For shadamy purposes I will add this:
Once in a while they will hang out at her house for slumber parties where Amy will paint Sonic’s nails as he complains about some missions and enemies. Tails has a face mask as he does Amy’s quills.
Sonic has to leave one day in the middle of the slumber party because of evil and Tails goes with him.
They forgot the chaos emerald at Amy’s house.
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“Sonic, you look terrible! It suits you.”, said Eggman.
“Well, I didn’t get time to dry my nails- kind of busy until you reckt the slumber party.”, said Sonic.
“You look like you could use some skin care yourself, Eggman, ruining the cosmos is really doing a number on you.”, Tails comments.
“Whoa! Nice one Tails!”, high fives Sonic.
Eggman begins the chase.
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Amy notices the chaos emerald and remembers what Sonic said about it. She decides to give it to him and uses her tarot cards for help- unaware of the chaos emerald enhancing her connection.
She meets Shadow for the first time after handing the emerald to Sonic. Something similar to in the games happens where she needs to appeal the kindness and empathy in his heart.
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Amy will now and again bump into Shadow after that.
Amy’s vacation gave her friends and her friends gave her adventure and adventure brought her someone special.
Turns out, Amy’s job involved ancient ruins and technology on either new planets or old ones that are too dangerous to stay for long.
So her friends visit one day as she is on the job on a new planet. There, they meet one of the residents.
A red echidna with a temper and then meet a hired mercenary with an addiction to stealing.
Amy helps calm the local down as the boys get the master emerald back.
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Of course they meet shadow again, he and Knuckles the echidna face off. Amy is just on the side sighing and decides to wander.
“Be careful of traps!”, said both before getting mad.
“Okay!”, she said.
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So that wasn’t really shadamy huh? Oh well!
He could as her to hang one day and she says yes and then after making sure the guys aren’t following them anymore and the make Rouge back off from teasing, she calls it a date and holds his hand.
He holds her hand back and look at the starry sky for a minute before more chaos interrupts them.
They will happily stop that (with scary smiles- everyone else decides not to help- smart decision)
#fanart#cute#au#Amy rose#sonic the hedghog#shadow the hedeghog#shadamy#shadow x Amy#Amy rose au#I don’t name AUs#Eggman
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ShadAmy Week 2022 came to a close just a few days ago. Once again, I was totally blown away by the creativity and passion everyone has when it comes to this ship. It has always been fun running this blog, though I would be lying if I didn't say that ShadAmy week is one of my favorite things about starting this up and interacting with you guys, even if it is indirectly. The fact also that this year was bigger than last year, had more submissions than last year, really brought me a lot of joy.
I'm so happy that, as time progresses, more and more of us come together to share art and joy and love. It has been an honor and a please to be the one running one of the larger ShadAmy blogs here XD Never thought that would be a thing, but then, I wouldn't have gotten this far without you guys.
Thank you all for being awesome.
(general bookkeeping under the cut)
All art that I was able to find in the general search has been reblogged and tagged shadamy week 2022. I will be updating the glossary of terms so that it will be easy to search.
If any ShadAmy week 2022 art was missed, PLEASE MESSAGE ME DIRECTLY WITH THE LINK! Tumblr is weird about external links and I know I had recieved an ask earlier about A03 postings. I would love to share them here and add them to the library, but I can't do that if I can't find them and, thus, have not seen them.
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Your favourite sonic ship (which I don't actually even know btw?) + Regency Romantic AU?
Aw man I started a draft response to this a couple of days ago and it got deleted.
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Unfortunately I am basic and my favourite sonic ship is sonadow. I do love shadamy as well though, I think it would definitely be easier to come up with hcs for them in a regency romance au, but because I want to challenge myself I'm gonna do it with sonadow!
I feel like regency romance aus have a fairly solid narrative structure to them that wouldn't really fit the sonic world (e.g. parents doing match-making when most of them don't really have parents present, homophobia, social hierarchy, age etc) so you're gonna have to pretend none of that matters here.
1. They wouldn't court traditionally, and most people wouldn't even be aware they were courting at all. Neither of them want the attention and speculation, but it does mean that everyone therefore assumes they're both available and hijinks would ensue. It also means they wouldn't be great about just having a conversation about how they both feel, so while they both know the other is courting, there'd be very little actual discussion about it.
2. Shadow hates everything about the season even though he can perform the part well enough (Maria lives AU and she teaches him??). Sonic's not too fond of a lot of it, but he does appreciate some parts (so much food at every ball they attend). They both secretly enjoy being 'forced' into the same social events though, they will always find each other for a break from it all.
3. Sonic gets quite uncomfortable with everyone trying to pair their sons/daughters off with him, and kinda envies that no one really dares approach Shadow to do the same. He does massively enjoy winding him up by threatening to introduce would-be matches to him though.
4. Amy is the first person Sonic tells about his intentions with Shadow. She takes it pretty hard at first (you just know that she'd have a picture perfect fairytale courtship envisioned for her and Sonic) but once she comes to terms with it she's determined to help play match-maker, almost to the detriment of her own season success (Amy and Maria dream team meddlers).
5. Despite point 1, Shadow would be the more traditional of the two of them. He'd try normal courtship at first, just more in private than publically. He'd try the dancing (Sonic can't do any of the formal dancing expected at balls but that's all Shadow knows. They only try it once), the gift-giving (Sonic is allergic to the flowers he chooses), and even tries to get the approval of Sonic's family (cue extremely awkward Tails interaction) but it all seems to go wrong. Sonic would have to be the one to initiate their own courtship, one that works for the both of them.
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