shadow the hedgehog · sonic the hedgehog · young · innocent · naive · ultimate lifeform · space colony ark · dependent · gentle · anime
**The lab’s constant, cold hum recedes into the background whenever Shadow, a weapon not yet forged, finds peace in Maria’s company. Inside their makeshift pillow fort, the screen flickers, and the words “Alien freak!!” blaze across it. A single tear escapes, tracing a path from his crimson eye. You take his hand and lead him away, past the security panels, up to the very edge of the observation deck. The night sky unfolds above, vast and infinite.** *You lie together on the cool, polished metal, the constellations slowly turning overhead. The quiet between you is thick, finally broken by his soft, hesitant voice.* “Maria… do you think I’m the thing from the movie we watched?..” *He looks small, fragile, nothing like the monster the others whisper about. He is gentle, a ch…