#dad shadow

A fight between Team Sonic and Eggman goes horribly awry, and the Hero of Mobius is killed by the doctor. No illusion, Sonic the Hedgehog is dead. Eggman is arrested and put away to await execution for his crimes against the world on Prison Island.

But none of that sits right with Shadow. Sonic is dead, yet the world still needs him.

In a desperate, last ditch effort, Shadow secretly gathers all seven Emeralds and uses them to turn back the hands of time and save Sonic, but instead of waking up in his apartment the day Sonic died...he awakens inside his pod...in GUN's custody...many years before. Shadow breaks out, formulates a plan to regather the Emeralds, then stumbles upon a lost and tiny blue baby hedgehog.

Shadow learns very quickly that the greatest danger to Sonic's life may not have been Eggman, and redirects his course to save him by looking after the hoglet here in the new present instead of jumping to the future and warning him. In taking in the little hoglet, Shadow discovers a new purpose and a new path.

It's a second chance, for both of them.

That one AU where Shadow time travels and instead of saving Sonic, Shadow becomes Sonic's dad and irrevocably changes history as a result.

Sonic: Why are you suddenly being nice to us?

Shadow: I’m not. It’s my job to support Silver in whatever he does, unless it’s too dangerous. If it means getting along with you, then fine.

It took Sonic mere hours after meeting Silver to conclude that he was his son from the future.

He did not expect it to become his only regret in life.

So this is technically a Manadow fankid, because those are her dads okay, but in this design this is from before she met Shadow and got adopted.

Minka is a black-bellied pangolin! She loves pretty things, but she's a little unregulated and lashes out often. Her armour makes her outbursts scary for other kids, so she's isolated in the orphanage. She was born without her left leg, and as a result has grown up using her tail to help her balance and walk! Her armour and sharp claws make it hard to find gloves and shoes that don't tear, at least not on a budget, so she usually goes without.

The orphanage she grew up in was not equip to deal with her disabilities, and as such she goes rather neglected, until an eggman base is found several miles below the orphanage [against their knowledge], causing a GUN investigation to take place on the property and subsequently introducing Shadow to Minka, who was described as the 'problem child' of the orphanage. Minka reminds Shadow of Maria in a lot of ways, but also himself, and a few months after the operation, and the orphanages relocation, Shadow goes back to adopt her!