OHMIGOSH!!!!

OHMIGOSH!!!!

So I was going through some of my old plushies and I found this one I had for years and it had a dress that you could take off, and well I had an idea

Little thing I made to show how Dawn feels about some of the Rise Characters and how they feel about her for the @tmnt-ocxcanon-comp

hopefully none of these are out of character for them

also vote for Dawn here

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TMNT OCxCanon Comp Round 1

Learn more under the cut! Dawn @princessjadyn15 Best friends with Rise Leo They have a sibling dynamic. They sometimes tease each other

Dawn and Shadow Chao

Sorry it’s not that great, I’m still learning how to draw chao

The more and more I think about that final scene from Dark Beginnings, the more and more it's one of my favourite Shadow scenes. Of all time. It's not just "Omg he's imagining a future with Maria wah". I mean that helps, of course. But here's the thing.

We've seen Shadow as a lot of things. He was cocky but cool-headed in Adventure 2. A confused but ultimately well-meaning anti-hero in Shadow. The best character in 06 (like that was hard, admittedly). An absolute asshole in Boom. Vegeta in IDW. The best character in Prime (Nine sucks don't @ me).

But one thing I don't think we've ever seen Shadow as...is vulnerable.

This scene shows that. He'd never dare get this screwed up around others. But here, he's alone. Intrusive thoughts invade his mind. And for the first time in a decade, his expression...softens. His pupils unfocus and dart around. His eye(s) widen. He begins to hyperventilate, and he has to snap himself out of it.

This "lone wolf" mask finally slips, and we see the Shadow from the flashback in episode 2. We see the Shadow who was insecure about himself, who lost the only people in the universe that mattered to him. And despite killing Black Doom, despite reaffirming his true destiny, some wounds just don't heal. They leave scars. But he'd never show those scars to anyone else. We see a Shadow who, deep down, doesn't want to hurt like that again.

In this one scene, we don't just see Edgy Sonic Rival #2, or a knockoff super saiyian, or a design made to sell toys. We see a CHARACTER, flaws and all.

Man, everything about SxSG's marketing has been nothing but impeccable. It's not just that it's remembering things that happened in the 2000's. It's that the wounds from around that time are finally healing. Slowly, but the recovery has started. I can only hope the game itself can stick the landing. Please don't let all this good shit be for nothing...

LOOK THE FRAME I FOUND IN THE SONIC FRONTIERS DIVERGENCE ANIMATION

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