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Spiny Sentinels by LiveFromSpaceColonyARK
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe), Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
01 Jul 2026
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The time after the Eclipse Cannon was much more solemn for Sonic. A lot of moments he would become disassociated thinking about everything that had happened and grieving Shadow. While Shadow’s whereabouts were unknown, it was assumed the fall to Earth or the explosion had killed him. Sonic couldn't name the emotions, but he hated how short the time he had with the black and red hedgehog was. To keep his mind busy, Sonic helped his mom at work but that only brings up more memories.
When he tracks down signs of a red and black blur, he finds Shadow seemingly in pain. Sonic will do anything to save Shadow, even if it means risking his own life.OR: Kinda OOC Slowfic of Post-Sonic-Movie-3 Sonic mourning the assumed death of Shadow but finds Shadow in need of his help (or at least that's what he's telling himself). When Sonic gets injured Shadow is the only one who can save him. The two try to navigate their feelings while caught between Sonic's Wachowski/Green Hills home life, and Shadow finding purpose and his new chapter in life after everything. Sweet, shy, and angsty Sonadow content.
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Young and Sad by electrikitty_writes
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
14 Jun 2026
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Shadow lowered his eyes and sipped his coffee. His formative years had been over before they had even begun, and there was no going back. He was supposed to be a hardened government agent now. He was supposed to hate humanity and scorn the very idea of imitating their lives… but a small, stunted part of him felt differently.
At first, the sight of children used to remind Shadow of a little girl he had known more than 50 years ago. But now, the sight reminds him of something else. Namely, the fact that he never had a childhood or a real family, and he still doesn't know how to feel about it. He's already moved on and put his past behind him... or so he thought. How are you supposed to grieve something that you never had to begin with?
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When I First Met You by CrimsonInu55
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
14 Jun 2026
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Shadow's first meetings with various characters starting in 1974. Part of 'Fate Wrapped up in a Meteor', but can be read separately.
Part 1: Shadow and Maria (Chapters 1, 2, 6, 8...)
Part 2: Shadow and Gerald (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 7, 9...)Series
- Part 3 of What-if Maria Lives?
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Fate Wrapped Up in a Meteor (Side Stories) by CrimsonInu55
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
13 Jun 2026
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“Thats a carrot cake,” Shadow stated simply.
Tom looked down at it and confirmed, “yeah.”
“It’s evil,” stated Shadow.
“Evil?” Knuckles questioned, suddenly tensing. “Is it haunted?”
“What, no.” Tom frowned. “Probably not.”
Sonic turned to Knuckles and joked, “Don’t listen to him. It’s totally haunted by all the carrots that were slain to make it.”
Tails rolled his eyes, unimpressed. “Sonic, carrots are a vegetable, they can’t die with regrets.”
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Takes place between Movie 2 and Movie 3 in the Fate Wrapped Up in a Meteor story universe, aka Maria lives but is in stasis healing. It is recommended to read that one first. Shadow finally gets to experience some fluff.
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- Part 2 of What-if Maria Lives?
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Shadows of the Heart (Shadow the Hedgehog x Female OC) by thvnkunextx
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
02 Jun 2026
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Shadow the Hedgehog was never meant to survive the fall. Yet somehow, he did-broken, nameless, slipping in and out of half-memories that burn like ghosts under his skin. Tom and Maddie Wachowski take him in, offering safety he isn't sure he deserves, while Sonic struggles with the fear of losing him all over again.
And then there's Mavis--Sonic's fiercely loyal sister--whose unexpected connection to Shadow begins quietly, secretly, and far more deeply than either of them intend. As winter settles over Green Hills, buried memories start to rise, panic attacks grow sharper, and the truth of what happened during the G.U.N. raid draws closer with every heartbeat.
This is a story about healing, fear, found family, quiet love, and the moment a shattered past finally breaks open.
I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog or any of its characters. The only character I own is Mavis.
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- Part 1 of Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Universe
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Sonic Star, a famous outlaw known for his gun-slinging, has taken in a young fox kit named Tails Prower. The young kit has immense power and potential for a strange form of magic but little control. Out of concern for the kit, Sonic approaches an… old friend, the Shadow of the Desert Waste, to ask if he’d be willing to tutor Tails, as he possesses similar abilities. While the Shadow is initially resistant, he feels as if he owes Sonic and agrees. So begins Tails’ apprenticeship under the Shadow, an arrangement neither are entirely onboard with but agree to regardless. However, Tails soon learns there is more to his teacher and about his adopted brother…
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Fate Wrapped Up in a Meteor by CrimsonInu55
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
25 May 2026
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“Maria, if you add any more mix, then the batter will be a solid. It needs more water.”
“If you add any more water, then how will you get a fluffy pancake?”
“I don’t know. It just does.”
She looked at him. “You’re over fifty. How do you not know how to make a pancake?”
“Gerald doesn’t either,” he argued. “Besides, I know how to infiltrate the most protected keeps in the world.”
“Then you should know how to make a pancake from a boxed mix,” she grumbled.
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Or, Gerald finds a cure for Maria in time, but it requires her to be put in stasis for 50 years. Gerald and Shadow await her awakening, but things get interesting when another hedgehog is discovered by G.U.N.
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- Part 1 of What-if Maria Lives?
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Despite Everything, It's Still You by shadewritesthings
Fandoms: Simp Shadow Youtube Channel Universe/ HitTheJulz fandom
15 May 2026
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My interpretation of Shadow's POV and his thought process during the infamous Maria Arc and all that Shadow faces from beginning to end.
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Sonic Prime : Shadow by Kiko_Klept
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic Prime (Cartoon 2022)
19 Apr 2026
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When Sonic accidentally breaks the Paradox Prism he's sent to alternate realities. The more people he meets, the more he's reminded of home and how much he needs to save Green Hill. In order to do so, he has to save his
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Project Shadow, a loyal subject to the Chaos Council, feels his life change (for lack of better words) once he meets a supersonic blue hedgehog in New Yolk. He's wracked with feelings he's never had before, a deep curiosity on who Blue is, and choices he's never had a chance to make before.
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Random STH Stories by KaylaMoonlight121
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
18 Apr 2026
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Title kinda says it all. All sorts of stories will be in this, mainly fluff and AUs based stories/chapters. Warnings will also be given at the start of each chapter. Tags will be updated as it goes along.
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The Scary Thoughts Are Spreading Like A Weed (The Thoughts That Say That I Deserve To Bleed) by DarthFettDelusions
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
15 Apr 2026
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After months of hesitation, Shadow finally agrees to see a therapist.
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Writer of Fates by shadewritesthings
Fandoms: Simp Shadow Youtube Channel Universe/ HitTheJulz fandom
10 Apr 2026
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Shadow just didn't know why his life was going the way it did until he realizes someone was writing his fate. And all signs pointed towards a certain deal-maker roommate.
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- English
- Words:
- 5,791
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Hits:
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Broken Threads Through A Lifetime by NotYourAngell
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
07 Apr 2026
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When a weapon capable of even killing the Supreme Life Form is created, a horrible fate is sealed.
Sonic the hedgehog is dead.A desire is formed from pain and love. A wish that can be a blessing or a curse. A second chance, it's a fact.
Shadow won't let fate be sealed again
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Shadow's Dream Journal by electrikitty_writes
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
21 Mar 2026
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Rouge's fur kind of glows in the dark, pearlescent white. She’s like a ghost, or an angel. She won’t leave me alone, even when it would be in her best interests. No, she persists. Waiting for me on the other side of my nightmares. Putting up with my tossing and turning and the way I throw things across the room when I realise, for the thousandth time, that the nightmares aren’t going away. I don’t need to sleep, but she does. She’s losing sleep over this. Over me.
When Shadow's nightmares get increasingly worse after returning from White Space, Rouge decides to stage an intervention, and she gives him a dream journal. He resists her efforts at first, but then he begins to write, and the line between dreams and reality begins to blur. As he continues to transcribe the horrors of his past, present, and future, Shadow realises that the only way to truly escape his nightmares is to wake up and write them down.
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Tras una pelea llena de emoción, nuevas emociones y algo de tensión, Sonic y Shadow terminan más unidos de lo que deberían.
Básicamente, un mundo fuera del Omegaverse donde Shadow se siente atraído por el aroma de Sonic.
Pornografía sin historia, para celebrar que AO3 finalmente me dio una cuenta, jejejeje.
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My man on his willpower (something I don't understand) by gimimaga_666
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
11 Mar 2026
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He's so tired.
So fucking tired.
But it wasn't always like that.
He was once the happiest hedgehog in the world, finally got the love of his life at his side, nothing could beat that.
But destiny had a different idea and turned his lover into a loner.
How will he get his dick up now?
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Putting Down Roots by VoidTheHedgehog (VoidDrifter)
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
17 Feb 2026
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Tom and Maddie had talked about having kids the way many comfortably married couples did: vaguely, with the idea of 'someday' and 'it would be nice, but–'
Then Sonic broke into the garage and accidentally adopted himself into their family.
And then Tails.
Then Knuckles.
And now... Shadow.
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- Part 11 of The Weight of Being Seen
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No quería hacerlo, no podía. Aunque era consciente de que no importaría su decisión.
Ya no había manera de cambiarlo.
Y, para él, se hizo tarde antes de siquiera notarlo.
Así que, antes de que pudiera arrepentirse, junto al malestar revuelto en su estómago, las palabras salieron sin pensarlo.
«Te ayudaré, Sonic».
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San Valentín está a la vuelta de la esquina y el erizo azul más veloz que existe tendrá que reunir valor para ese día.
¿Por qué?, se preguntarán.
Bueno... para descubrirlo, primero Sonic tendrá que afrontar su rechazo al compromiso y las discusiones que tiene consigo mismo.
No obstante, la espera solo provocaba que la inquietud en él creciera sin control.
Por su parte, Shadow, quien estaba al límite más estrecho de la negación, tenía que resolver el gran aprieto en el que metió a su pobre corazón.
¿Llegará a expresar lo que siente? ¿O se lo tragará su conocido orgullo imperturbable?
Ambos erizos eran ajenos a que, probablemente, sus problemas están en igualdad de condiciones.
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Shadow’s subconscious begged him to retreat, knowing that what he was about to say was not what he truly wanted. His heart could not, would not, let the words escape. Yet…
He knew it no longer mattered what he chose.
It was already too late.
So before he could regret it, with turmoil twisting in his stomach, the words spilled out unbidden.
“I’ll help you, Sonic.”
...Valentine’s Day is drawing near, and the fastest blue hedgehog must face his fear.
Why, you may ask.
Well... to find out, Sonic will first have to face his aversion to commitment and the arguments he has with himself.
Yet waiting only made it worse, his anxious thoughts a growing curse.
For his part, Shadow, who was on the verge of denial, had to resolve the predicament he had put his poor heart in.
Will he confess what lies inside, or let his pride keep love denied?
Both hedgehogs were unaware that their struggles unified.
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so Shadow hiding his feelings from Sonic and bunch of angst. I don't know how else to summarize it without it being a spoiler...
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The Narrative of Grief by CosmicDumbass
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe), Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
09 Feb 2026
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Sonic is Blue. That's the worst part.
Everything blue is stained with Maria's blood.
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How Shadow mourns his sister, Maria.
OR, psychoanalyzing the absolute shit out of Shadow the Hedgehog.
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Follows the Sonic 3 movie plot, but from the perspective of shadow. And with a few extra things thrown in.
Also the hedgehogs may or may not be gay. (Movie sonadow is my favorite sonadow🥹)
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This was supposed to be a character study using the 5 Stages of Grief.
When I rewatched the movie with my roommate, and the “Oh ivo, you're no Maria” scene happened,- this mf (who doesn't like sonic btw) turned to me and went:
“There's no way this isn't implied grooming.”
Safe to say this fic may have evolved way past its original blurb...
(Will NOT contain depiction of sexual abuse. Grooming does not have to be sexual.)
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Fic playlist!!! It is an ordered playlist, but shuffle works perfectly fine too:)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0l5Z7ybYAcBPzK9BC73npc?si=wMuBYIpET1OEn4FF88b8dA&pi=tmreAhqsT3Ovz
(or just loop the song that plays when Jax almost abstracts in TADC lmao)Series
- Part 1 of (Multifandom) character study bullshit