These Two Again

im writing this fic right now btw

its taking awhile because im trying to make it mean something and be a worthwhile read. but it is in the works

idk if you’ve drawn this yet, but shadow coming out to Sonic as Trans Fem, I’m curious on how shadow would think Sonic would act

i've highkey been rolling a fic idea around in my head for this for mooooonths

since sonic is trans himself, i think he'd be delighted to see his partner coming into her own and finding an identity that she connects with better than her previous one. at the end of the day, she's still shadow.

in fact, i think sonic might have even seen this coming. there have always been little signs that she's been an egg. which, again, i may detail more in that fic im plotting.

but yeah! in a nutshell; sonic saw it coming, was delighted. pretty sure sonic overuses the word 'wife' a lot these days now because he's so proud

"i love my wife" "my wife can do that!" "have you met my wife?" "wife wife wifeee"

a painting i did of the ender dragon when i wasn't feeling well

heights :]

shadow is she/her!

i drew this in late 2023 in honor of the really cool fanwork "project shadow" by joao santiago. him and his team did an incredible job bringing this story to life in a meaningful, impactful way and i hope his career goes places.

i really liked the scene with shadow looking up at the rain while his expression softens. i thought it was beautiful. i interpreted it as the planet crying for/with him about his loss as well as shadow bittersweetly appreciating the rain and how it feels on his fur - knowing full well that maria would have loved to feel it too.

The other 'dimensions' didn't exist until Sonic shattered the prism and refracted "light" to create the illusion of other dimensions. The alternate versions of his friends were more like concepts than static, everpresent beings with a past of their own.

You can think of them as though they're the light refracted off of and distorted from the images of his friends.

Sonic, being the one to break the prism, was not exposed to this refraction in the same way as he was at the epicenter and therefor no light made any illusions based off of him. He did however become a paradoxical fallacy and existed in a sort of… Schrödinger's Box state?

Shadow, doing a no-clip chaos control at the very moment the prism broke, avoided this event all together.

At least, that's how I understand it? I feel like the other dimensions went away once the prism was put back together. There was a lot of imagery of refraction/prisms (layers of colour) spreading out upon shattering, so I'd imagine if each layer of colour represents a paradox dimension/alter, then putting it back together would squish everything down again.

That might also be why Green Hill Zone broke since its components were spread out rather than layered all at once like they're supposed to be?

Btw I was thinking about Sonic Prime

Does Sonic have alternate versions of himself like his friends do? If so where the hell was he? Did he get like replaced by original Sonic? What about Shadow? (he's always a no-show so this isn't too important)

Maybe i'm just stupid or I zoned out I have no clue. Don't tell me it's just some meta projection of his mind that's so lame and lazy

the fluffies

oh i guess i forgot to post this ?? umm im scared to draw humans right now so i tried drawing mizu as a shiba inu/husky mix instead.

i think i might have held off on posting this since i wanted to do two other drawings to add to this post, didn't, and then just forgot all together like the worthless animal that i am

BUT YEAH THOUGH. mizu... but puppy.

honestly i feel like even if you did ask mizu, i don't i think even SHE/HE/THEY would know how to answer. there has never been a singular point in her life where she's been able to decide for herself what she is. masculinity is a performance, femininity is her secret. she can't perform femininity well so when she IS a girl she's quite tomboy. masculinity seems to come to her by default as it's all she's ever been.

i feel like mizu would be the type to be rather unconcerned with her own gender or pronouns. kind of like apathetic nonbinary-ness, if this makes sense. but then again, this is me projecting as well since i too identify with this as an exhausted nonbinary person constantly getting gendered by other people when i really don't have one at all.

for me, i'm just me. and i'd imagine for mizu, mizu is just mizu. mizu's gender is mizu.

i think that kind of representation in the form of identity being an affliction is in itself very good and it is definitely something i think all of us, queer or otherwise, can relate to to at least some extent.

Alright here's another take on Mizu's gender:

The thing about Mizu is that characters in the show and people in real life project either "man" or "woman," "boy" or "girl" onto them, and Mizu more or less goes along with what they say, but I didn't notice a single moment where they outright communicated "I'm a woman" or "I'm a man." And I'm guilty too, I'm projecting "nonbinary" onto them!

But the thing is nobody has bothered to ask thus far, which is no doubt period accurate. But we're supposed to be more aware and open about gender than these fictional characters. I'm not saying there is a correct interpretation—because nothing has been confirmed, and regardless of what is or isn't confirmed it is to a degree* still up to the individual really—but it does irk me a bit to see so many people assuming and projecting, is all.

*By "to a degree" I mean there's what is or isn't confirmed, which will probably be that they're a woman; and then there's the undeniable validity of what individuals might see in them. Do you see them as a woman being forced to choose between a life of gendered mistreatment and a life of relative freedom, and choosing freedom? Very cool! But don't use what you see, however valid that is, to dictate what others see in Mizu. Same goes for all the other interpretations.

Bottom line is, if Mizu is confirmed to be a woman, which again would be most likely, that doesn't mean what trans people see in them isn't valid. If anything it becomes even more valid, because we will have been denied representation once again because of the politics of our time.

knuckles as a human .....??

this was a fun exercise because tbh i prefer anthros... but stepping out of my comfort zone to draw a human again for the first time in like a year was neat. trying to think about how i regard his features when i draw him as an echidnabear thing and how to translate that onto a human body was interesting

i wanted him to look older, gentle, yet very capable and experienced. basically my dream man. pff

ermmm. sorry i havent been very active lately. i have some owed art i still need to work on and the holidays kicked my ass a little