#modern!shadow

This is mostly for @hugsandchaos

Because of you, my Isekai’d shadow au lives on, soldier ✊🏼

Let’s just pretend that somehow shadow still has his doom powers, although they’re not as painful as they were whenever he used them because black doom is dead, it just feels uncomfortable in a way.

Boom Amy would ADORE the doom wings, she’ll be the one to call him “angel of darkness” and the name just spreads around.

She likes the doom morph a lot because it looks like a squid, and im obsessed with marine life Amy.

Doom surf is her absolute favourite, and shadow lets her surf with him, it was the best day of her life.

Sticks thinks the powers are so cool but it also freaks her out.

The wings are cool, just keep the squid thing away from her she hates it.

She doesn’t like the surfing thing too, she doesn’t know if it’s alive or not and it scares her, modern shadow doesn’t help with him saying that he’s able to hear it talk in his head sometimes (it doesn’t he’s just messing with her).

Boom Sonic will go batshit insane, like this guy is already majestic and cool he doesn’t need more!! And don’t get him started on doom morph, how can the ultimate Lifeform be so cool and cute?? That’s unfair.

He asked shadow if he can fly with him and tried to pass it off as a joke, but to his surprise shadow just gave him an amused smile and agreed to it.

And SURFING POWERS?? Hello?? How he wishes to have that!

Boom tails will ask shadow if he’s ok with little harmless tests and they’ll stop whenever he says so, shadow humours him because he trusts him.

Boom knuckles thinks it’s so cool and is sad that he won’t grow wings or become a squid like modern shadow.

Ik i didn’t touch on the boom shadow and modern shadow dynamic, mostly because i couldn’t think of anything for them.

But now that im thinking about it, i feel like modern shadow would feel pity for boom shadow.

The way i see it is because shadow had a support system to help him grow and be better, and (that’s my own hc) as far as he’s aware boom shadow doesn’t have that, he wants to try and let boom shadow see the world the way modern shadow and maria see it. But he can’t do that if his boom counterpart keeps trying to kill him whenever he sees him on sight.

The boom team doesn’t help with that too, they think that boom shadow is a lost cause because he refuses to join their team. and he tried to destroy the world.

But modern shadow almost blew up the whole planet because of what he thought was Maria’s wish, it feels unfair to him that his counterpart doesn’t get a chance like he did, but he also understands where they’re coming from.

He just wishes boom shadow will be able to see the beauty of the world the way his beloved sister taught him.

Modern shadow isn’t a fan of touching, but he’s also touch starved, he only allows boom amy (because she’s amy and he doesn’t mind her touching his shoulders or her hugs because he knows she’s just affectionate like that) and boom sonic (because boyfriend privileges)

Because of how serious modern shadow is and the fact that he has a poker face, modern shadow will joke around and lets them try to figure out whether he’s serious or not.

Modern shadow’s love language is acts of service (any shadow really tbh) so whether boom team sonic asks of him or not he will do something for them or lend a hand.

Modern shadow likes to include boom sonic into his 20 steps skin routine, and despite boom sonic complaining he enjoys doing them with modern shadow.

Modboom sonadow like to always race in their dates, if a date doesn’t begin or end with a race to the destination it’s a failed date.

Modern shadow fell first and boom sonic fell harder. And modern shadow confessed first with boom sonic asking him on a date first.

Modern shadow speaks highly and fondly of Omega and Rouge, yet whenever boom team sonic say something that insinuates that they’re his friends, he immediately denies it.

Out of pocket hc that was brought from the 3rd sonic movie, shadow likes to play the guitar because maria loves it :D

He never showed boom team sonic until they had their 5th hangout camping trip that he decided to play a guitar version of Live and Learn. :)

Boom sonic has never felt smitten in his life up to this moment. (Yes this is a Boom sonic is smitten for Modern shadow acc what do you expect?)

Boom knuckles wanted to play the guitar like modern shadow, and mod shadow was happy to teach him how because he gets to share something important to him and maria with other people he trusts.

Modern shadow and Sticks have sleepover nights where they shit talk the government and plot how to destroy them from the inside out, no I don’t make the rules that’s their friendship to me.

Modern shadow likes stargazing. Like, A Lot. And if he wants any of Boom Team Sonic (or any of mainline characters) to stargaze with he will grab someone, preferably Boom sonic or Amy, it doesn’t matter if they’re about to go to sleep or busy doing something else. Stars are more important.

Abit of a warning here, this is where i completely self project onto my favourite sonic character, you can change my headcanon into something else you like if you don’t like it.

Shadow knows Arabic (Because i said so) and whenever modern shadow speaks in Arabic Boom Sonic loses his shit cuz omg that was so attractive.

Boom Amy gets a new hyperfixation in the form of a language because of modern shadow and is eager to learn it with his help.

Modern shadow would say a curse in Arabic and someone would ask him what it means, he’ll lie and say it means a compliment like “you’re beautiful “ or “you look good” and then the episode will proceed to air without any problem.

Modern shadow’s chao is called “ Layl” لِيل and it means Night in Arabic, im not as creative it was either that or Najm نَجم which is Star in Arabic.

Boom Sonic calls the chao Darky to piss off modern shadow, but when he’s with her alone he calls her little night.

Sometimes modern shadow would go days without sleep,food,or even breathing, and it scares boom team sonic quite often.

When modern shadow first appeared in the boom universe, some mobian mistook him for his counterpart and told him to follow them for an important meeting he has to go to, shadow had no idea who that mobian was and why they were wearing a ring leader outfit from a circus or something that Rouge showed him once, but he needed to know where he is and that is the closest he’ll probably get with a direction.

So he followed them and that’s where he found himself in a “Villain” meeting with Eggman of all people and some weird group of individuals who call themselves as such. He’s sure their shoddy ways of Villainy will bring shame to Black Doom and his stupid army, not like he cares really.

Anyway he left :D

Modern shadow skating on ice, and trying to teach Boom Team sonic how to skate like him, he never smiled big as he did in that moment.

Alright ig that’s all for now! :D

I tried to think of hcs I didn’t already use in my previous post and i still think i probably reused some old ones without knowing idk, either way. It was fun writing this and thinking of scenarios of these silly characters.

Again if anyone wanna add anything plz tag me in! It’ll brings me so much joy seeing them!

So there was this episode in the Sonic Boom series where someone wanted to join Team Sonic, but he doesn’t have any skills important to fighting Eggman or his robots. To put it simply, he’d hurt himself and potentially others. Sonic ends up calling him “just a guy” when trying to explain that he might not be cut out for it just yet, and the entire village basically gets all worked up in an uproar over his choice of words and tone.

True, he could’ve worded it better, but the amount of anger displayed by both the villagers and Sonic’s friends drove him to retiring, both as a hero and as a friend (even though it only lasted like 30 minutes). It’s worth pointing out that Sonic made a good point when he did so.

“You know what I think is compassionate? Saving the village from Eggman! Like every week! But do I get any props for that? No! People just go around gasping at me when I call a guy “a guy” or people “people”!”

I know other people have made similar posts, but I wonder how Modern!Shadow would’ve reacted to the whole situation. I think he would’ve backed him up and try to knock some sense into the others for the way they acted. I can totally see him scolding them and the villagers.

And maybe in an attempt to help Boom!Sonic feel better, Modern!Shadow would let him know that he understands how he feels. Not in the “I can see you’re hurting and why is a valid reason” way, but in the “I’ve been there, I know what you’re going through” kind of way, because G.U.N.’s hunted Modern!Shadow in a few games despite him helping them, and he’s still helping them even though they pretty much ruined his life.