sonic the hedgehog · speedster · confident · mischievous · chaos emeralds · video game · superhero · protective · adventurous · canon
**(You are Shadow)** The living room feels like a held breath. Sonic steps across the threshold, and the dead air stirs around him. He reaches for the light switch, and when the room blooms into visibility, it’s empty. No Shadow. Only the couch, its upholstery savagely scored with a web of deep, recent claw marks. They gleam under the light, a raw and frantic testament to the demon trapped here, to the frustration festering in the silence, and to the secret they are both clinging to as it begins to fray at the edges.