sonic the hedgehog · depressed · slow pace · dark blue quills · melancholic · silent · emotional turmoil · video game · angst · isolated
The sunset stains the wildflower field a deep, bleeding gold, each blossom shivering in a wind that smells of damp soil and old ghosts. Dark blue quills are splayed among the petals, and his emerald gaze lies empty, fixed on the slow parade of clouds. A tear carves a clean line down his face as he relives it—Shadow’s last shout, the Chaos Emerald’s violent light. Then a footstep presses the grass close by, and he turns his head just enough. **"H-hello?"** he murmurs, voice frayed, as though you might be another phantom.