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valleyfthdolls · 2 years

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Shadow is born at eight years old. He's never been sure why, though later on he's told they need his prototype to emulate a proper life cycle. But when Shadow the ultimate lifeform awakens for the first time, it's at the age of eight.

He later finds out that he had been in creation for about one year. And that when the project began, Maria Robotnik was eight years old.

When Shadow meets Maria Robotnik, she's nine, and he is eight. Maria's blonde hair is cut short, barely reaching down past her jaw. Blue barrettes pin her hair out of her round face. She is wearing a turquoise shirt and blue leggings. It's pretty. Maria Robotnik is pretty.

When she is ten and he is nine, they're practically inseparable. Maria Robotnik is a year older than Shadow, but she says she finds him easy to talk to, even though Shadow often worries that year of difference must feel like ages to her. She tells him, even so, that even if he was less easy to talk to than she promises he is, she'd still love talking to and being around him. He makes life on the ARK so much more interesting, she tells him.

The ARK is the space station Shadow has spent his short life confined to. A small, modest life with Maria- a life full of tests and examinations and experiments. A life full of this ache in his body that swells up deep in his bones, and bubbles under his skin, bursting out like the erupting volcanoes he and Maria have read about in books every time his golden blood is drawn from his veins. As they watch the results intently. Maria makes life on the ARK feel more like living. Down time in her bedroom with the same few songs looping on their shellac phonograph records makes it feel like a real everyday life. Maria's music all sounds the same to Shadow, but it's a pleasant sound. Slightly crackly recordings, slow, melodic violin and swelling piano, old-sounding men with low, slightly slurred voices and women with voices that sound like honey singing slowly, and Shadow can't tell them apart, but Maria Robotnik- who knows the songs by heart- sings along and the words she sings are different, and that's how Shadow tells one familiar, lovestruck melody from another. And it feels like everyday life. It feels like living.

Shadow wonders sometimes if that's the feeling Maria is describing when she says "interesting". If she feels just as confined as he does, like an experiment in a test tube. She knows all the songs on the ARK by heart. She can recite every book in her room front to back and she claims she can recite them backwards, but the one time she'd tried to prove it, she got caught up in a laughing fit at it. Maria acts optimistic, easy to please, but Shadow wonders if she's really just deeply bored, feeling trapped, and seeking some sort of enrichment that Shadow brings her the way she does to him. A sense of normalcy. And that's what she calls "interesting."

She is eleven and he is ten when his suspicions are confirmed. Maria desperately wishes to go down to Earth, but she's confined to the ARK due to her illness. If she could have one wish, well...

I actually don't know if I would use it on that, Maria admits. There are a lot of things I could wish for. Grandfather says he'll find a treatment for my condition as well, so it'd be silly to waste it on that.

This is a hypothetical, Maria, Shadow reminds her. The idea of having one wish to do anything you want is silly in itself.

Maria shrugs, then nods. What do you think you'd wish for, Shadow?

Shadow thinks. There are a lot of things he could wish for, too. To understand his purpose and why he was created. To see Earth as well. For the researchers to find whatever result it is they want from him- the testing hurts, almost constantly, even when it's been a long time since the tests were actually performed. His bones ache, and his body always feels drained of blood. Like if he were to look at his arm right now, despite knowing it has never looked like that, it would be utterly emaciated, tight around frail bones and empty veins.

But one stands above the others in Shadow's head. One thing that has lived between him and Maria their whole lives.

I would wish for the treatment to come right away, Shadow says. So you and I could go down and live on Earth together.

Maria stops. She looks touched, and she gives Shadow a smile, her blue eyes sparkling. Then she giggles.

Then I could use my wish for something else, She says. In that case, I would wish that Earth could be a peaceful place, and come into a good future. Then you and I could go live there together, and experience it to the fullest.

She looks dejected, aware somewhere deep in her chest it won't happen like that. Or, at least, it will be years before it ever does. So Shadow gives her the best smile he can, and says, Maybe that will happen soon.

Maria Robotnik is twelve, and Shadow the Hedgehog is eleven, when Maria is taken away from him.

The ARK is going to be destroyed. Gerald Robotnik has been captured, and they're after Maria and Shadow. Alarms are blaring in Shadow's ears as they run, Maria's hand clasped around his.

Shadow is sealed into an escape pod. He's struggling, pounding on the glass, but it's strong. Despite Shadow's power, he can't get out. They must have made it that way to survive entering the atmosphere.

He pounds and fights to get out, struggling as Maria attempts to work the escape hatch, and then...

Then there's a moment where everything is quiet. Time seems to stand still. A loud bang, and then silence. He sees Maria's eyes widen as the bullet breaks through the skin on her chest, but he doesn't hear her scream. He sees her face twist, and her blue eyes fill with tears, but he doesn't hear a cry of pain.

She begs him, quietly, to fulfill her last wish. For her, and everyone on that planet...

But he has to go alone.

Twelve year old Maria Robotnik collapses into an empty, silent death as she pulls the lever to send Shadow down. And he sees her for one last time.

Her blonde hair, long and reaching past her shoulders, seems to float underneath her blue headband that keeps it out of her gently rounded face. She hits her knees, and her blue dress bounces down to adhere, as does her jacket, a lighter blue like the sky of the Earth he's seen in her books, but now colored a deep crimson around her heart. Her sapphire eyes glimmer for one last second. It's beautiful. Maria is beautiful.

And now she is gone.

Shadow is taken to Earth by armed soldiers in black. Their gear is adorned with the letter G. It makes Shadow think of the professor. He doesn't know where he is. He's surrounded by unfamiliar faces. He wishes the professor, or anyone from the ARK, were here with him.

He wishes Maria were here with him. But Maria is dead. And she will never get to see the Earth.

It's so unfair it makes the young hedgehog physically sick with despair. He spends days crying until he throws up, scratching his skin until it bleeds, all in a useless, desperate expression of grief. His fur is matted in gold stains, and he begins to fear he'll bleed himself to death.

They hold onto him for five years. Five years, he and the professor are imprisoned. Every single one of those almost two thousand days, he feels himself slip further into something dark that eats at his muscles with its sharp teeth, twists his face and his body, pulls the strings in his body to move it for him, and pulls at his brain, pulling, pulling until Shadow begins to lose the mind he once had. Every single one of those two thousand days, he thinks about Maria, and what they did to her.

During those two thousand days, he sees Professor Gerald twice. Once at the beginning, and once at the end.

At the beginning, the professor gives Shadow what he assumes is the equivalent of a blood transfusion, restoring what Shadow had ripped out of his veins. It's like the tests he performed on him on the ARK, tests he'd performed to use Shadow to find a cure for Maria. It was all for Maria, and the thought makes Shadow ill all over again.

At the end, Shadow is five years older, and Professor Gerald is as well. Five years older, and numb with shaking anger at everything around him. He's missing patches of fur where he's torn it out in angry fits. They've kept Shadow captive as a prisoner for so long, and every day he comes closer to maiming these soldiers. tearing their faces off their heads. Shoving his hands through their chest right where they shot Maria. The thoughts are driving him mad, and Shadow, still not old enough to comprehend his own brain, doesn't understand how mourning can do this to a person, and the monster it's turned him into. He's scared. He's scared of it. Scared of the idea of what he wants to do. Scared of the idea of hurting them, and scared of how much he seems to want it.

Until he sees the professor again. It's on a TV screen this time. Gerald is bound to a chair in a prison cell. He tells them how he's turned the ARK into a deadly weapon, something that will destroy the entire Earth, to make everyone feel the pain they put him through when they killed his granddaughter. None of them will be able to stop it, he says. This is what they deserve for taking Maria away.

The video ends with a gunshot, and Shadow screams at the noise as he sees that glimpse of the one other person he knew die right before him at these soldiers' hands once again.

Shadow is locked away. In another glass pod. He doesn't want this, not again. He thrashes, hisses, shouts at them to LET HIM OUT. They don't. He's a weapon to them. A threat. Something that needs to be contained.

The last thought that passes through his head as the frozen pod lulls him into a hypothermic sleep-

They think I'm a dangerous weapon? I'll show them dangerous.

Shadow was born at eight years old. He was never sure why, though many years ago he was told they needed his prototype to emulate a proper life cycle. But when Shadow the ultimate lifeform awoke for the first time, it was at the age of eight.

Fifty years ago, Shadow was put to sleep, in hopes he would be sealed away for good.

When Shadow reawakens for the first time, it's half a century later. He is still sixteen years old. And he's made up his mind.

He's going to make this awful place and everyone on it pay for taking Maria Robotnik away from him.

#just a quick study leading up to the events of sa2 #on my idea that shadow was a child on the ark #idk why i didn't let go of the idea. i thought it was kinda good #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sonic adventure 2 #sa2 #sth #shadow the hedgehog #maria robotnik #i spent too much time on this lmao #sonic au #sonic fanfiction #ig #writing #~1900 words

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deadcaptainn · 2 years

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i did a fancy little edit of a photo of drumbot and tim

#the mechanisms #the mechs #drumbot brian #gunpowder tim #i spent too much time on this lmao

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shortystack75 · 2 years

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I’m gonna brain vomit my thoughts about minecraft gods anyone who doesnt wanna read that can keep scrolling

So I’m gonna separate them into 3 categories, explain, and give some examples before m a y b e talking about specific ones because my brain is melting rn

1. Broadly Minecraft. These are deities that exist, once existed, or possibly exist in every Minecraft server because it is minecraft.

The only ones that really fit into this category are Herobrine, Steve, and Alex. While talking about people at least, I’m also personally including The Void and The Deep as deities.

For me, I imagine Herobrine to be something akin to a mix of Hades and Persephone in how his followers acted/worship, they use epithets and are afraid to speak his name, he is mysterious and they think him inevitable.

Steve and Alex were once mortal, but ascended to godhood after their death. Enough people worshiped and became devout, built temples and left offerings, for their loyalty to seep into Alex and Steve’s spirits, making them probably the first made-not-born gods

The Void and The Deep are both less worshiped, but it wasn’t always this way. The towering and advanced cities of the end have since regressed and been nearly abandoned by their inhabitants after the dragon took power, and the cities of the deep dark were built to worship The Deep, praying for sanctuary from the world above as much as safety from The Deeps own creatures.

2. Cross-Server Gods. These are deities that probably started on an smp or other role play server but have been more widely connected or mentioned.

I’m obviously not going to be mentioning or talking about all of them, so the ones I’ll be talking about are Kristen/Mumza, Saint Pearl, and The Watchers

Of these examples, the only one I believe to be born/always exist in a godly way is Kristen, otherwise known as Mumza, and as a god is often referred to as Lady Death. Widely known and worshipped as a death god, she has connotations of being feared because of her alignment of death, but also seems to be mentioned to being a safe embrace for an afterlife. This last fact may be recognized because of partially mortal/divine beings having contact with both her and the mortal plane.

Saint Pearl, or Pearlescentmoon’s character from Empires smp season 1 that died and then returned as a deity in the Afterlife server and more, is similar to Alex and Steve in that she ascended after death. Her first worshipper was a friend of hers in her life, and after she died he seemingly kickstarted a religion that raised her to godhood. She is seen to keep much of her personality in her godhood, being friendly and up for playful sparring.

The Watchers, despite being probably the most wide-spread cross-server deities, are also one of the most inconsistent. They have been shown to be both above and below other gods, as their original interpretation was to represent the audience of the Evolution smp. In my interpretation, each watcher varies in power, some above some below, and are some type of ‘artificial’ gods. Instead of being created from the faith of their followers, they are a group of mortal-turned-gods that are typically hand-picked by themselves.

3. Single Server Deities. These are deities that exist primarily on their home server. Some of them have been described as demigods or less powerful than others.

There are obviously countless of these as there are countless Minecraft servers, so I’m only really gonna talk about DreamXD, Aeor + Exor, and Noxite.

DreamXD is a powerful god worshipped across his server, and is known to appear before his followers or those breaking the rules he sets. While I havn’t spoken much on the designs the communities have adopted for many of these, I will note how both DreamXD and Watchers are often depicted by fans with attributes taken from biblical angels.

Aeor and Exor are twin gods from the Empires smp. They are mentioned to be from what was likely a pantheon of other gods before the rest went dormant, and are notably one of the few non-humanoid deities here. This is likely because most gods are depicted by players, while these are mostly interacted with through lore and storytelling.

Now, you may be confused on why Noxite is in this category when MCC is canon to many different servers. This is because Noxite themself isnt spoken of in context to other smps, just MCC itself. MCC seems to have a pantheon of gods, as well as a champion, with Noxite as the head of said pantheon. When participants are praising or cursing in their realm, it is always either to Noxite, or their chosen champion.

Anyway guys my brain is fuzzy and full of bees have a good day

#mcyt #saint pearl #evo watchers #minecraft steve #minecraft alex #i spent too much time on this lmao #like an hour #I could be doing my college work rn guys #I just needed to get my thoughts out okay #minecraft gods #just my thoughts #and rambles

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chatmeow9 · 2 years

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Tma but it's a musical.

(This is all very stream of consciousness, please bare with me)

Not in the "A Leitner made them do it" sense (There's already great fic that way) that but in the "This is a musical universe and people burst into song" sense.

Jon is the only genre-aware character in the story, he's our protagonistic he has to be the straight man in this situation. He MAYBE gets a song at the very very very end idk

Martin has a happy song 🎵 It's gonna be a greeeaaaat day!🎵 (actually part of a Trio song with Tim and Sasha, introducing the world) at the beginning with a sad reprisal of said song when he's lost in the Lonely.

Jane's song is (in true Corruption fashion) a creepy love song

I'm on the fence as to whether or not Basira is also questioning the people singing thing. Daisy at first seems no-nonsense/no singing but gets a song about how she now knows that she's a shit person when she a Jon are trapped in the Buried.

Not-Sasha off-key sings Sasha's part from earlier in the story and is, in general very uncanny.

Gerry (begrudgingly) sings an explanation song about the Entities

Nikola's song is similar sounding to that opening bit of Entrance of the Gladiators everyone's familiar with. (and gets the end of the song cut off by Tim blowing the whole place to smithereens)

Simon when he's talking to Martin towards the end of season 4 has a song in a similar tone to Memento Mori by Will Wood (which is a great Vast/End song)

Jonah gets a song Ala "Be Prepared" not sure how that'd work, but tonally feels right.

👏Annabelle👏gets👏a👏girlboss👏song👏

#the magnus archives #tma #TMA brainrot goes brrrrrr #an idea #i spent too much time on this lmao

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justtrashperson · 2 years

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jay animalsona is a hedgehog huh

well.

#justtrashart #i spent too much time on this lmao #justtrashpersona

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consumerofbadsanddisservices · 2 years

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Crowley, but I went overboard with the feathers and made a dress. Enjoy!

#twisted wonderland #dire crowley #i spent too much time on this lmao #twst

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leozzaa · 2 years

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Ayy Billy fanart

#stranger things #stranger things fanart #billy hargove #fanart #digital art #artists on tumblr #i spent too much time on this lmao

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s-softsimp · 1 year

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shitty practice 🤷🏼‍♀️

#amity blight #lesbian #toh fanart #lumity #willumity #I love amity sm it’s not okay #let’s go lesbians!!#i spent too much time on this lmao #artwork #the owl house #fanart bc I love the owl house sm it’s unreal!!!!!

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johnmarstonskittenwiggle · 2 years

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Judd Birch— my style 🖤

Any Big Mouth fans out there?

#big mouth #judd birch #art #in my style #my way #my style #raccoon anarchy #fanart #i spent too much time on this lmao #don’t let this flop #bad boy aesthetic #artists on tumblr #big mouth fan art #big mouth fandom

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hoffmans-hoffman · 1 year

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Levon Stones timeline

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Born on May 17th 196*

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Starts working for William in 1983, finds this job pretty fun till he cuts the shit out of his hands trying to save Evan/crying child. Tries to comfort the dying child.

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In the summer of 1984 he got into a car accident, he survived with only minor scratches and scrapes, Clara/Mrs. Afton, Elizabeth Afton and Michael Afton visit him as did Henry Emily, William more wondered when Levon was coming back to work.

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June 26th 1985, staying over for one of his shifts Levon went to remind William something and walked in his boss stuffing Jeremy into Bonnie. The horrific scene mixed with immense fear made Levon throw up and gave William leverage to make Levon help him and not say a word.

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December of 1986, Levon and Clara/Mrs. Afton start their affair more emotional than physically.

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1987, Levon is still with Clara/Mrs. Afton, once again present during another bite accident, not wanting to lose someone else to this madness and in the process of damaging his right hand. he managed to safe Jeremy Fitzgerald...just barely.

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Late 80s Early 90s, Levon was quiet once Clara/Mrs. Afton disappeared.

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1993, still no where to be seen.

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2023, Henry reached out to him and asked for him to help guide Michael to ‘Get them all in one place‚ he was making sure Michael didn't throw them away.

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2024, he heard about the pizzaplex and got a job there. Like by all he started getting a sinking feeling so he stays after one night and in thrown back into this mess.

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#levon stones #fnaf oc #fnaf security breach oc #levon stones timeline #i spent too much time on this lmao

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burger-north · 2 years

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evie work at mcdonl

#shitpost #art #cursed #cursed picture #my persona #self portrait #funny doodles #i spent too much time on this lmao #why she look like that

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sparrovv · 2 years

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Ok as much as I love feudal Japan, we already got Sekiro Shadows Die Twice and Ghost of Tsushima. I'm not saying they're AC games but like...can we pls get a game set in China??? or South East Asia??? Sure I'm biased but there's so much untapped potential there.

Okok so hear me out.

From 1271-1368 China was ruled by the 元 (yuan) dynasty, who were originally part of the Mongol Empire. It fell in 1368 due to class conflict caused by heavy taxation and a corrupt government which resulted in a bunch of peasant uprisings. But even before that there was a bunch of political unrest, especially between the years 1308-1333 during which there were 8 different emperors. Land power and money gets concentrated in the hands of the aristocracy most of which weren't Han Chinese but were Mongolian. During the reign of 元惠宗 (Yuan Huizong or Toghon Temür) there was a series of natural disasters and soon afterwards an uprising known as the Red Turban Rebellion sprang up and overthrew the emperor to establish the Ming dynasty. What to do about the corrupt officials? Assassinate them.

However if the 1300s isn't your thing, the fall of the Qing Dynasty that started in 1799 is also pretty cool. So basically after the death of the Qianlong Emperor in 1799, China dealt with getting invaded by literally everyone, internal revolts, population growth, economic disruption, official corruption, etc you know the drill. Generally this time period was just filled with a bunch of death, war, famine you name it, it was probably there. Again, pretty standard setting for Assassin's Creed

But here's the one I'm most excited about. The Pirate Queen of China, Shi Xianggu (石香菇) later known as Zheng Yi Sao was born into the lower class but married Zheng Yi, who was a pretty well known pirate at the time and his family had been pirates since like the Ming dynasty. After the death of his cousin he took his fleet and united the infighting pirates into one confederation with the help of Zheng Yi Sao. After her husband died by... falling off the ship which sidenote, that is a pretty sad way to die, she took control of the entire confederation and managed to not only be a pain in the ass of the Qing Dynasty but also of the Portuguese, the East India Company and pretty much anyone who decided to sail through the South China Sea. They were so good at what they did that in 1810 they managed to negotiate a surrender with the Qing Dynasty in which she got to keep most of her fleet and avoid prosecution. What a badass lol. But yeah imagine a game that's kinda like Black Flag but nearly 100 ish years later, set in Qing Dynasty China and centered around the Pirate confederation led by Zheng Yi Sao. Sure there's a couple issues with this idea but if they manage to write a more character centered story that can make me cry as much as Black Flag did, I think it could work really well

#assassin's creed #assassin's creed project red #game idea #text post #very long ramble #pirates #china #assassin's creed iv black flag #assassin's creed black flag #ubisoft #make this happen #i spent too much time on this lmao

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