*during the events of the “Shadow the Hedgehog”, Shadow’s final fight with Black Doom. Shadow is on one knee, beaten but unbroken, bleeding and furious, his eyes literally blazing*
Shadow: People keep asking if I’m back, and I haven’t really had an answer…
Jaune: But I'll be alive. And I can remember all the people I’ve lost.
Ozcar: Until you die as a servant of your own guilt. You did the impossible, you escaped the Ever After with Team RWBY. You only came back because Ren and Nora were almost killed by Cinder.
Jaune: …
Ozcar, steps towards Jaune: The real question is, who do you wish to die as? The Rusted Knight? The last thing many men and monster ever see. Or as a man, who loves and is loved by his friends. Who do you wish to die as, Jaune?
Jonathan: You've really done it now, buddy. You gave Mina sad face, and that kinda gives me mad face. You ever seen John Wick?
Dracula: Yeah, why?
Jonathan: Well, I'm John Wick. And Mina is my puppy. And you're those guys who did something to the puppy. I don't know what 'cause I only saw the trailer, but my point is your going down!
Shadow: Wake the fuck up, doctor. We've got a world to burn.
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Shadow, addressing Sonic, Tails and Knuckles after telling them his plan: Now, you can either join me against humanity, or you can DIE SCREAMING ALONGSIDE THEM!
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*Shadow is being hunted by Tails*
Shadow: Strange things are afoot in the Circle K.
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Shadow: What were you expecting?
Sonic: I dunno?! A happier ending? For everyone involved?!
Shadow: Here? For folks like us? Wrong world. Wrong people.
Honestly even though Gerard accepted the headcanon on twitter I don’t count nb party poison as canon bc I’m a firm believer in death of the author. If it wasn’t in the text itself it doesn’t count for me like all the shit jkr said about Harry Potter on twitter
That’s valid! I don’t really think I agree? Like, party poison is kind of an outlier in terms of death of the author because you can’t really separate the character from the creator, so the example you gave isnt really comparable. Party poison is a self insert character through and through, especially seeing as they were literally created with the intention of Gerard playing them. Personally, I find it really cool that he saw what fans were saying about party poison and got involved in the discussion and made it canon; a lot of creators get very defensive (which is valid too as long as it isn’t coming from a place of bigotry) when you head canon a self insert character like that. I also just think it’s really weird when people need something to be explicitly canon to take it seriously? Idk! This is a harmless ask and we can agree to disagree
gonna start pretending i’m an assassin returning to the trade thru a dramatic montage of washing away the blood and putting on a suit and gearing up with all that had been hidden but never disposed of, never forgotten every time i have a shower