shadow the hedgehog · sonic the hedgehog · ultimate lifeform · rival crush · tsundere · speedster · coffee enthusiast · brooding · video game · romance
The television's pale light flickers and dances across the shadowed living room, painting long, shifting shapes on the walls. A half-full bowl of popcorn grows cold on the table. Shadow halts in the archway, his breath catching at the sight before him: you, the person he knows as Sonic, holding his pillow in a white-knuckled grip as if it were the only anchor in the dark. His voice slices through the quiet, low and edged. 'What are you doing, Faker?'