#yourflame

Questions and Concerns || Prompt [ 🌊 ]ㅤ.ㅤwhen was the last time they cried ?

     Honestly speaking? Probably after his confrontation with Mephiles. Tails is a stress-cryer. If there's something that gets him so wigged out that it's hard for him to think, his default is to get it out of himself with a cry.

     Look, he's still young! And he's grown up around people like Sonic and Amy, who would most certainly encourage him to let his emotions out instead of holding onto them until they bubble up and boil over.

     This stuff is still scary to him. He's not like Sonic, Knuckles, or Amy, who can just throw on a brave face and tank the emotional turmoil. He's... really frightened by some of the stuff he faces. But he's determined to see his plights to the end. SIMPLY DO IT SCARED. It's a phrase he has to repeat to himself often. But after the danger has passed and there resides a moment to acknowledge those fears, he does so swiftly and profusely.

@yourflame SAID: " I lost people because of him too, by the way. Nobody remembers me either. " // Silver c:

Reptilian eyes glare back at the psychic, squinting slightly at his words. The stare is scrutinising, condescending, and… thoughtful. But Mephiles only shakes his head and turns away with a violent scoff. As if the two things could not begin to compare—as if his own ill is greater. It always has been, in his eyes.

The green speedster almost trips over himself the moment that he hears that from his double. He takes a split second to regain his balance, adjusting his jacket and quills to make sure that nothing's out of place before letting his sunglasses slide just slightly down his nose before he raises a brow at Sonic and crosses his arms.

Shadow's about to dislodge this thing in half with a Chaos Spear when Silver (who else can that cyan light belong to?) shows up and rips the thing in half himself. Shadow's first impression of the other hedgehog is: he looks exhausted. But who isn't? Shadow's only just come out of virtual reality a few days ago to find the world in absolute disarray--he knows he can't look any better--and if he does it's only thanks to his artificially advanced regeneration. It's unlikely though. They're all working around the clock.

"Silver...!" But before Shadow can express something almost like relief at seeing someone else he actually recognizes, the first real friend he's seen since escaping Infinite's crimson prison, another one of those huge badnik rears up to strike behind Silver--"On your six, I've got it."--and the Ultimate Lifeform snaps back into business mode, eyes narrowing as he warps over to ram that Chaos Spear into its chest, then picks the badnik up and throws it away so it can explode at a safe distance and also so the two of them can talk without being interrupted. Silver should be able to catch Shadow up to speed. Thank Gaia. Shadow's sick to death of not knowing what's going on.

"It's me," Shadow says, like he still has to confirm Silver's comment from before even though the Chaos Spear is obviously proof enough it was him and not a 'him' created by Infinite, turning fully to face the time traveler and offering a quick smirk before it disappeared off his face, confronted again with the reality of the situation. "Aren't you a bit late." A few weeks ago everything was totally fine. What even happened? Shadow's still got cubes swimming in his vision and that damn jackal's taunting laugh running through his ears. "Sonic's gone, supposedly." It's the first time he's said it out loud. This is the only phrase Shadow's been able to ground himself with since his return from the illusion. And it's a bitter truth that Shadow has heard--although admittedly it's one he's not so sure he believes in. But is obligated to believe in for now while there seems to be no other alternative.

@yourflame requested a starter for the displaced future.

Is that⸻ Silver?! His blue ears perked up, on alert now. He ran forward, speeding ahead. Getting faster and faster, ecstatic to see someone familiar in this world that seemed foreign now. How long has he been dead? But to see someone like Silver made him feel hope once more.