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WOAH

i know most are already talking about the shadow vs emerl fight but can we talk about THIS SCENE?? this gave me fucking chills bro.

((god forbid a hedgehog to feel at least a bit of happiness for more than ten seconds😭))

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BABES BESTIES AND BABYGURLS WAKE UP THE SECOND EPISODES COMING TODAY GET YO ASS OFF OF THE BED WE GET TO SEE SHADOW AGAIN

hey y'all I watched the dark beginnings episode and I need to watch it 10 more times bc I am actually on my fucking knees

they mean everything to me.

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That life was taken away from me long ago

I need to focus on the mission at hand

Oh my gosh. I just finished watching the finale for Sonic x Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings with a huge bittersweet smile on my face! It was so beautiful! 🥹😊

The ending song in fact inspired me so much that I’m thinking about creating a fan art piece of comfort and promise, reaching out to those in need.

Post the Nightmare

Aurora Borealis!

SPOILERS FOR DARK BEGINNINGS

IM ACTUALLY GOING INSANE HOLY SHOOT

they didn’t even show Maria getting shot but that frame, just, holy cow

Honestly I feel tempted to show my family the first episode of Sonic x Shadow Dark Beginnings (even though they know nothing about Sonic the Hedgehog except for my younger brother) just to show how dark Shadow’s story is and to see their reactions

but then I also remember that my Dad promised that he would take me and probably the rest of the family to see the 3rd sonic movie

Either way I want to see the looks on their faces when Maria gets killed

Honestly I feel tempted to show my family the first episode of Sonic x Shadow Dark Beginnings ( even though they know nothing about Sonic the Hedgehog except for my younger brother) just to show how dark Shadow’s story is and to see their reactions

but then I also remember that my Dad promised that he would take me and probably the rest of the family to see the 3rd sonic movie

Either way I want to see the looks on their faces when Maria gets killed

dark beginnings episode 2 spoilers

oh great just ripping my heart out again Sega, thanks for that

spoilers for dark beginnings

I CANT I ACTUALLY CANT

His facial expression

Out of all the things to happen I didn’t expect this to happen

I’m actually in tears right now

I just love how after dark beginnings episode 3 everyone now doesn’t want Maria to get shot in the third movie

and it’s honestly so funny and poetic to me lol

ok I didn’t really want to make another post about Dark Beginnings since I’ve already made/rebloged a lot of posts related to it but I now feel like doing it since I recently saw someone make a dumb comment about it (they were probably saying it to get attention and rage bait or something but whatever I feel like this is an interesting analysis to do)

“its been 50 years, she's gone, get over it”

There’s just a lot wrong with this take

For 50 of those years he was in a stasis sleep. So to him Maria’s death and the trauma he went through when it happened was pretty recent, I don’t really know how much time has past between sonic adventure 2 and sonic x shadow generations but I’m gonna assume it’s been a couple years (one thing I do want to mention that I feel is a important point is that professor Gerald altered Shadow’s memories after Maria’s death, so that itself is already pretty traumatic considering Shadow probably trusted him during his time living on the ark)

he is going to the ark AKA the place where he experienced his trauma. Now this is kinda based on something someone else said but supposedly the last time he went to the Ark was in the Shadow the Hedgehog game, and he still kinda lost some of his memories. Now he is going back to ark Ark after pretty much recovering all his memories, even his painful ones

he is going up against Black Doom. The main reason he is going back to the ark is because he suspects that the black arms and Black Doom have returned, now I haven’t played the Shadow the Hedgehog game but from what I heard Black Doom was a very evil character, he took advantage of Shadow since he lost his memories and used him to get the chaos emeralds. Not only that but technically Black Doom is Shadow’s biological father since he was created using his DNA (Shadow has never actually called Black Doom father, at least as far as I know). And finally

PEOPLE 👏 EXPERIENCE 👏 TRAUMA 👏 DIFFERENTLY 👏 Now I’m going get slightly personal but as someone who has experienced something traumatic before (not as bad as Shadow’s and it’s different from what happened to him) just because you have moved on doesn’t mean the trauma is just gone, honestly as I was reading some analysis on the episode I for a moment actually thought about what I’ve been through and realized I kinda related to shadow in that moment (which is probably one of the reasons I cried), while I have moved on from what happened the trauma is still there and I may have moments where I remember it and feel sad about it, that’s kinda what was happening with Shadow, he was being reminded of the trauma on a big scale. The first episode was him have a “nightmare” of his trauma and now he has to go back to the ark and face Black Doom, and those visions of him thinking about the life he and Maria could of have, of course he is gonna have a small panic attack, I’ve even seen some people connect the scene with PTSD.

a bit of a bonus but I wanted to link this tweet that kinda inspired me to make this analysis in the first place. Some of the comments under the post are quite interesting and make a few good points

now I do want to point out that I’m still new to the Sonic fandom so it’s possible that some of things I’ve mentioned might of been incorrect or that I might of missed a few important parts, if that is the case I do apologize (I also apologize if there are any grammatical errors as well, I literally made this whole thing at like 9:30pm so I should be in bed lol)