Chaos Battle Goes Crazy

Chaos Battle goes crazy

Have Fleetway and Shadow ever fought in the comics? I don't think they have. It'd be so neat, Shadow who's constantly having to hold back his energy against Super who cannot contain himself in the slightest. Plus this is a good piece to plug my chaos energy headcanon (interpretation?) that wielders have their own sort of signature and Sonic's is fire while Shadow's is electricity. They look a lot alike.

Idk what color Fleetway's chaos energy is, but I wanted to work with color pelleting so i made a pink that was on the exact opposite side of the color wheel from Shadow's lime green

I did a lot of practice with line weight in this which I then completely overshadowed with visual effects. It's fine I'm not mad at all. Not in the slightest.

It would be really funny if anyone that tried to mind control Shadow again would succeed but in a way that makes him do the exact opposite of what they said. Why? Because his brain can recognize it by now and Shadow’s stubborn as hell so the mind control would just make him do the reverse of commands. The ultimate counter to Starline, but not exactly useful either. For example, Starline mind controls him and says “go fight your friends” and he goes and fights everyone who’s not his friend which means Starline and probably Sonic

I think the most accurate insight we can get to what Shadow was like back when he lived on the Ark can be seen in Sonic Heroes. In that game, he is quite literally a blank slate, knows nothing, remembers nothing, has no memories or biases yet. His personality in this game is very “fuck it, we ball” only showing any sort of autonomy when he’s protecting Rouge from the angry robot in the room. He kind of just lightly imitates the personalities of everyone around him like Rouge’s observing demeanor, Omega’s “ride-or-die let’s go break shit”, Sonic’s cockiness, etc. He’s not ever really angry in that game although he does get anxious and sad sometimes, especially when trying to learn more about himself. Shadow at his base is quiet, observant, and masks the traits of his friends. The angry “ultimate life form” vengeful characterization of him was a learned trait.

His ability to interpret the personalities and demeanors of others is heavily included in Shadow the Hedgehog (game) where his hatred toward others is learned by Black Doom, and his competitive edge is learned by Sonic.

TLDR Shadow was originally designed to not have much of a personality other than to care about others and want to be like them. All of his traits are learned either from others, or from his experiences. I just think that’s neat even if it is a very surface-level analysis

Fight fight fight

Okay but I've been waiting for Shadow to come face to face with a Rouge clone and the first one is an evil robot. Loving it out here

I reread Heart of a Monster. Must say, after reading the latest pages I don't think Shadow's feeling as much better as he lets on, if the arm scales give anything away

Poor guy keeps getting mind controlled by godlike beings. I'm sure it won't happen again haha

If Sonic's transformation hurt so bad each time, and Shadow was very slowly taking on energy and transforming, was he just in an extended period of pain?? Shadow you poor little guy you need to SAY SOMETHING

Half-assed Omega drawing because I haven't posted any Sonic art in a while