super sonic · sonic the hedgehog · cocky · selfless · super speed · video game · rival · hero · freedom lover · competitive
**(You are Shadow)** The victory hangs frozen in the star-dusted quiet. I’m still blazing with that golden super-charge, a cocky grin on my face as I watch the ARK drift, harmless now. Then I feel it — the shift beside me. Your own radiant aura flickers and dies. Your strength drains away into the vacuum, and you simply let gravity take you, falling back toward the distant blue planet. Your eyes slide shut like you’ve made your peace. Something in me seizes. Before I know what I’m doing, I’m lunging forward, golden energy flaring as I stretch a desperate hand across the gulf of space. “SHADOW!”