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Sequel? Neurodivergent Symbol: Shadow Edition

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its so beautiful that there's kids who's first exposure to shadow is gonna be this epic awesome version they're cooking up for sxsh gens. boom shadow will always be famous to me but a consistent vision for his character....i never thought it would happen. go forth and prosper gen alpha emo kids

Thinking of doing a redraw of a scene for all three of the Shadow Dark Beginnings episodes as my October challenge. I'm already too far behind on inktober anyway

This one for the second episode?

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If the Shadow in SA2 was the original, it would explain why he was able to survive the fall back to earth at the end of the game. At the end of Shadow the Hedgehog (game) Eggman admitted to Shadow that he is the original as well. Which at the very least means he’s the original from all of the ones we see in Heroes and Shadow’s own game.

It’s not unheard of for other characters with similar strength to survive falling from space to a planet either, with Sonic doing it multiple times in Sonic X and it happening around the end of Sonic Colors. Probably some other games too that I’m forgetting rn

How long do you think Shadow was on earth when Maria sent him down in the escape pod before GUN captured him? There’s so much stuff abt Maria getting shot but I don’t see much discussion abt the immediate aftermath.. Being alone on an unfamiliar planet gotta be scary as fuck. Do we even know where the pod landed? Could’ve ended up in the ocean for all I know. If that were the case it’d make sense that he couldn’t hide from them

so the timeline and details between shadow getting launched from the ark and his reawakening on Prison Island are pretty vague and leave a lot up to interpretation.

timeline wise, it's unlikely that he was on earth for long before being found by GUN - my main reasoning for this is that pretty much every event regarding shadow's backstory is described as happening "50 years ago." the black comet's first arrival, shadow's creation, the GUN raid, and gerald's execution all seem to take place within the span of this same year. my personal interpretation is that shadow's escape pod was probably on earth for no more than a month before it was found by GUN.

it also seems unlikely that shadow was conscious after he crashed to earth - at least, it's not a period of time he ever mentions or seems to remember (which doesn't necessarily mean he wasn't awake, but personally i always thought he would've been unconscious during this period of time. that, or there's something larger going on here).

this period of time in shadow's backstory is incredibly vague, but its ambiguity is something i would argue is deliberate. one of the biggest questions raised in sonic adventure 2 is whether or not shadow is the "original" shadow or even the true ultimate lifeform. this question is brought up by rouge, who identifies the biolizard as the original ultimate lifeform (though she's technically incorrect because the biolizard was just a prototype to the ultimate lifeform). even though rouge is wrong, this question is incredibly important to shadow's character and comes up a few more times over the course of SA2.

so there's a very, very real possibility that the shadow in SA2 is not the original shadow/ultimate lifeform created on the ark 50 years ago. it's possible that the original shadow died after being launched from the ark, and that SA2 shadow is a clone of the original. it's also possible that the original ultimate lifeform wasn't "shadow" at all, and literally every single one of shadow's memories about this time were entirely fabricated by gerald. there's also extremely compelling evidence that this original ultimate lifeform was actually sonic. the hedgehog. just a lil game theory for you to chew on there (gets shot)

anyway so. my answer is that shadow was either just taking a month long nap after he was launched from the ark or that he was fucking dead

a gentle reminder that you’re not untalented, dumb or slow just because you’re learning. be patient with your progress. let yourself be a beginner.

This is absolutely gorgeous, but the first thing that came to mind was that one cat meme with the knives

Not to hate on either PC or console gaming but while I love the customizability and broadness of PC gaming, I hate how overly complicated everything has to be. Especially when it comes to ports. With console gaming it's just like you pop in the CD/card/whatever and it works while with PC, if you're unlucky you gotta go over ten thousand settings before you can even start with playing and half of the time controllers don't even work. I don't mind playing games with keyboard and mouse when it's meant for that, or the game is altered to work for that style but if it doesn't it always feels kinda clunky or at the very least it takes time before I can get properly used to it. I just wanna press play and get going, y'know? Maybe I'm too autistic for this, I dunno