Thinking about how at the end of the book, all of the numbers are eridian numbers INCLUDING THE CHAPTER NUMBER
IT EMPHASIZES GRACE HAS BEEN ON ERID WITH ROCKY SO LONG TO THE POINT GRACE FEELS MORE COMFORTABLE USING ERIDIAN NUMBERS THAN ENGLISH NUMBERS AND ITS ALL PERFECT GRAMMAR AND STRAIGHT UP NORMAL DIALOGUE NOW BECAUSE THEYRE 100% FLUENT IN EACHOTHERS LANGUAGES
GRACE PROBABLY FEELS MORE AT HOME ON ERID THAN HE EVER DID ON EARTH DESPITE THE LACK OF SUNLIGHT AND PLANTS BECAUSE HIS BEST FRIEND IS THERE
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There's just something about someone finally giving in and accepting that they're sick, long after everyone else has figured it out. Looking up at someone trying to take care of them, and weakly saying "I don't think I feel so good..."
This idea came to me when I was planning the sequel to my series. Because there are two immortal aliens in my AU squad who will live waaaaay past everyone else. And I do adore one certain time travelling hedgehog. And would like to give him a good childhood. :3 So this was made!! It's become a lot more than I first imagined it'd be when I first wrote this. It has multiple parts!
Introducing. Silver and his brother dads. <3 (Thank you @ xxtc-96xx for the wonderful art of this little family!)
Sonic universe setting: Movie universe.
Background: Black arms invasion happened and Eclipse was included as a vanguard and protector. Black arms were defeated but Eclipse was spared. He changed his form and stays with Shadow now as a hedgehog rather than a darkling.
Time period: About 200 years after canon.
Somewhat inspired by the fanfic "The Prodigy" on AO3. (Too lazy to get a link apologies.)
Part 2
Shadow wore a ragged cloak over his form, protecting his fur and quills from the sand particles swirling through the air. His brother, Eclipse, wore similar clothing. But that fool wouldn't stop complaining about it any moment he was presented with the opportunity...
"Ugh, this stupid-...! Great, ANOTHER tear! I told you we should've gotten new ones! It's getting into my QUILLS now too!"
"Stop complaining." Shadow huffed and glanced at the hedgehog walking beside him. "Focus on the trail instead."
"I'd be focusing BETTER if we spent our currency on clothes rather than some useless-... THING." Eclipse's nose wrinkled as he glared back at Shadow. "You already have your inhibitor things. Why would buy something you don't need?"
"The technology has changed as chaos users have become more common. It could give me insights on how to improve mine." Shadow explained, again, with a sigh. "You got something for yourself too."
"Yeah, a small sweet treat! Not something that would drain all of our savings! Now we have to go steal something again next time we want it, and you get SUPER grumpy over it when we do." Eclipse huffed and pulled his cloak closer to him as a gust of wind blew between them. Scattering sand through the air, over their feet and across the wide barren expanse behind them.
"If you wanted it so badly, we could've stolen it..." Eclipse continued, then veered off to their left to follow the trail properly. Shadow followed Eclipse close behind.
"If we had, we would've been chased off. Do I need to remind you of the dragon egg?" Shadow looked at Eclipse with his eyebrow raised in challenge.
Eclipse flinched and his face quickly turned a darker shade. More black due to the colour of blood that ran through his veins.
"H-Hey, I gave it back! Its not my fault they didn't stop chasing us."
"All trouble we get into when we're together is because of you." Shadow scoffed and shook his head.
"Yeah, well, you don't have to keep me around if I'm so troublesome..." Eclipse grumbled as he guided them towards a small section of rocks in the desert.
Shadow had thought about it. He had considered it multiple times through the years, weighed the pros and cons when travelling on his own. There had been periods when they split up, but the two of them always found each other again. Forever connected and forever bonded through the blood that they shared. Forever cursed to seek each other out for company...
It always boiled down to one critical thing. Poor company was better than none in the face of eternity. The many times Shadow had found others to protect, only to lose them to time... Eclipse was the one person he would never lose to time. And there was a sickening sense of comfort in that...
They were quiet as they approached the rock formation and they both started to glance around the space.
"The trail ends here. So there should be a passageway." Eclipse said as he started to inspect the walls closer. "How long have you been after these creatures?"
"Give or take three years." Shadow started to look over the walls as well to try and find some form of switch or latch.
Eclipse let out a soft scoff. "Oh, okay, so that's what you went away to do. And you didn't think that I could help you sense these chaos trails any sooner?"
"They didn't start kidnapping chaos users until recently. I thought you weren't interested in 'saving useless creatures who are too weak to help themselves'. I had no reason to bring you with me."
"Yeah, yeah." Eclipse conceded with a soft grumble, soon followed by a soft click and the sound of stone grinding against stone.
Shadow turned and saw Eclipse standing next to an open passageway with a wide grin on his face. Shadow rolled his eyes and shoved Eclipse aside by his face as he walked past.
The two of them walked down the steps together, carved out stone stairs being replaced by metal the further down they went. They didn't speak, didn't have to really. The space opened up into a wider hallway, seemingly abandoned. But his nose told otherwise... So he opened his mind connection with Eclipse to briefly convey that other people were here, something that made Eclipse nod as they silently went further inside.
Taking care of the kidnappers was easy. This being just a mid stop, no one had any weapons that had a devastating effect on either hedgehogs. If they had managed to hit them at all. The trouble they encountered appeared at the cells where the captives were held. There were sounds of distress, screams, young voices begging something to stop.
Eclipse held Shadow back before he stepped through the doorway leading to the cells. Then Shadow felt through Eclipse how the whole space was covered in one single chaos energy. So he focused too and yes, there was chaos energy covering everything. A powerful one... Was there a chaos user among the kidnappers after all?
They stepped inside with caution but quickly found their feet floating off the ground as the chaos energy in the air took hold of them with a cyan glow. As Shadow continued to listen to the shouts, he realised quickly that this wasn't coming from a kidnapper. This power wasn't from someone who had control over it.
It was one of the kids.
"Throw me." Shadow told Eclipse and held out his hand. Eclipse had been flailing in the air, but quickly focused at Shadow's command.
Eclipse grabbed his hand and threw him closer to the source, letting Shadow's form glide through the air.
Shadow spotted a kidnapper first and quickly teleported towards them to knock them out. The cyan chaos energy was still wrapped around him and it was clear it had tried to hold Shadow in place. Teleporting with this wrapped around him used more chaos energy than usual...
"M-Mister! Help!" One of the kids screamed, a small peacock with tears in their eyes. They were floating just like everyone else as they pointed their wing to somewhere deeper in their cell.
At the very back was the source. A small ball of cyan glowing energy, their form trembling as the other kids frantically tried to get them back to their senses.
Shadow teleported to the source of this power, his body burning slightly from the amount of chaos energy that they emitted. Despite this, Shadow reached out to touch them, trying to suppress the uncontrollable chaos energy with his own. A pair of eyes peeked out from the ball of fur, wide and terrified.
"It's alright. You're safe now." Shadow kept his voice even, using more of his chaos energy to gently suppress the child's. "Take a deep breath. You need to control yourself."
The child let out a soft whimper as they desperately held onto Shadow's hand in return. The cyan glow of the child's power started to fade slowly as Shadow gently coaxed them to calm down. And soon enough, Shadow dropped from the air and landed on his feet with the child in his arms.
They were small... and a hedgehog. He hadn't noticed the white quills on the child's head when they had been curled up in a ball. They seemed to have white fur but dirt and dust clung to it to make it more grey.
"Is anyone here dead?" Eclipse asked as he looked into the cell and saw the children picking themselves off the ground. "No? Too bad. Since we're being the good guys, these captors aren't dead. So you all need to move quickly, little creatures."
Shadow let out a heavy sigh through his nose. And this was one of the reasons he hadn't wanted Eclipse with him to save children... the little hedgehog continued to cling to Shadow as Eclipse broke apart the cell door and they led the children through the base. They had found transportation vehicles so they'd be using that to get the kids back to the city. Shadow and Eclipse sat at the front of the vehicle with the children sitting in the back, all huddled together and softly speaking to one another.
The little hedgehog still clung to Shadow and refused to let go when Shadow told them to join the other kids... so they were also in the front of the vehicle.
Shadow started to feel uncomfortable with how long this little hedgehog was holding onto him... shouldn't they let go by now? The little hedgehog who had clung to Shadow was picked up by Eclipse and his brother held the little hedgehog in the air with a wide grin.
"So that came from you! Hah! That power would be more useful if you had control of it. You're so weak~."
"They're a CHILD." Shadow protested for them as he smoothed out his fur. He could see the little hedgehog tremble in Eclipse's hold, but that was fine.
"Yeah yeah." Eclipse huffed with a roll of his eyes and let the hedgehog sit on his lap instead of Shadows. "Why are you clinging to my brother, huh? You're not in danger any more so you shouldn't be that scared."
The little hedgehog looked between Shadow and Eclipse, then gently grabbed hold of Eclipse's chest fur like they'd been grabbing Shadows.
"I don't... wanna go floaty again..."
Eclipse let out a scoff and tilted his head at the little hedgehog. "So little control. Pathetic." Eclipse held out his hand towards Shadow and shared a brief picture of the inhibitor rings Shadow recently purchased.
Huh. So Eclipse could actually be considerate? That's a surprise. Shadow dug through his quills to bring forth the new inhibitor rings and handed them to Eclipse. And these rings were then fastened on the child's way too small arms. So Eclipse unlatched them and put them on the child's ankles instead.
"These are my brothers. They help out with suppressing chaos energy. So from now on, you're ours until you can go around without them."
Shadow looked at Eclipse with a soft growl. "They're a child with parents."
"Don't pretend like this thing is wanted by anyone." Eclipse scoffed at Shadow, ignoring how the child was looking up at him with wide eyes. "With this volatile energy? I wouldn't be surprised if it has killed by accident. You get to keep a little pet project that you enjoy to have from time to time and I get to see what kind of destruction this thing can cause!"
Eclipse's grin was wide at the thought and held out the little hedgehog in front of Shadow's face. "It caused even US to float! This thing can destroy anything with the right training."
"They're not a weapon, Eclipse." Shadow hissed at his brother, then focused on the little hedgehog held in front of him.
They seemed confused. Scared. And more than anything, hopeful as they stared at Shadow with big eyes. Now that they weren't using their powers, Shadow could see that their eyes were yellow...
It made Shadow briefly remiss over a similar shade in a young girl's hair...
"Do you have a name?" Shadow asked them. They couldn't be more than 3 to 4 years old... and with the way the child's eyes watered, Eclipse might be right. This might be a child who had no one... That could be why they were so desperate to cling to Shadow.
"S-S... Silver..." The child's eyes filled with more tears as they sniffed. "Y-You-... You wanna keep me...?"
Shadow looked towards Eclipse. Only to see a wide victorious grin in return. Shadow let out a low groan and focused on the desert ahead of them.
"You're ours now!" Eclipse said loudly as he let the little hedgehog settle on his lap again. The cackle he let out was distinctively 'evil' but little Silver didn't seem to mind. "I can't WAIT to see the destruction you can create... what kind of things you can do, things you could CRUSH."
"Settle down. They're still a child." Shadow reminded Eclipse, again, only for his brother to scoff.
"It's already powerful enough to do it. It just needs to learn how to control it."
Shadow let out a soft sigh, but didn't refute it. And so, Silver became theirs.
They trained and raised Silver. Sometimes together, sometimes separately. With Silver sometimes sticking more to Shadow and sometimes more to Eclipse. A young boy with a determination like few Shadow had seen before. Someone who grew up to be kind yet had a clear violence streak. Someone who grew up to look out for those weaker than himself, fiercely loyal to those he trusted and ready to crush anything in his path with violent efficiency if needed. Shadow and Eclipse continued to forget Silver needed to eat multiple meals a day, but he still grew up to be strong and healthy.
That was their Silver. Their... son for a lack of better words.
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i feel like a lot of people need to hear this lately but. you gotta stop taking numbers so seriously on the internet
take it from someone who went through that shit first hand. when i was on twitter, the numbers culture there utterly consumed me. it came to a point where no matter what kind of attention i got, it was never enough—because it never compared to “that one time.” i became an asshole who was constantly asking people to retweet, to share, to comment, because i was always chasing the same high from times where my work “blew up.”
it genuinely makes me sad to see so many people falling into the same trap i did. it’s okay to enjoy feedback on something you worked hard on—i’m not saying it isn’t. what you have to be careful of, though, is perceiving low numbers as failure.
just because a piece gets low notes, doesn’t mean your work is bad. it also doesn’t mean people don’t care, or that they aren’t doing enough to help you share your work around. sometimes the algorithm just fucks you over. sometimes the time of day is wrong. sometimes the subject matter is just too niche to catch people’s attention.
i guess what i’m trying to say is give yourself some grace. try and pull yourself free of the mentality of always needing more than you have. your worth is not in the numbers you get, nor are your abilities. this kind of mindset fucked me up for years, and i just hope that some of what i’m saying helps people
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