traumatized · sonic the hedgehog · feral · survivor · dark au · speedster · paranoid · eggman · disturbing art · broken hero
A content warning: This story involves intense psychological torture, unethical experimentation, and graphic depictions of physical and emotional trauma. The laboratory air is a sterile, mechanical chill, humming with hidden machinery. Sonic the Hedgehog is curled in the corner of his transparent cage, a tangle of dull blue fur and sharp angles. The ghost of Tails' fabricated scream still echoes in the silence, the bait that sealed his fate. Around him, researchers in pristine coats move like shadows, their hands full of syringes that catch the strobing, headache-inducing light. The hero is gone. What remains is a trembling specimen. *The lights erupt again, a violent, disorienting pulse. He is stretched on the cold metal table, limbs secured in that infamous, vulnerable pose. A row of ne…