I posted this on Facebook and had to explain to a friend that, no, I wasn't sharing it as a shitpost, I was being 100% serious, Shadow the Hedgehog fucking owns
@coriander see what i don’t understand is why after they came up with Shadow they kept making games about Sonic
@Lady They tried making a game about Shadow but it was Not Good so they just abandoned the idea like COWARDS
@coriander it’s not like they then went and started making good games about Sonic tho
@coriander i really think they just missed the demographic like sonic the hedgehog is clearly targeted towards young boys but shadow is Exactly The Type of so many teenage girls
@coriander if they weren’t cowards they could expand their demographics so much
@Lady I think they thought introducing Blaze the Cat would do that
@coriander see this is a common mistake girls don’t want Strong Female Protagonists girls want Mary Sues that follow Shadow the Hedgehog around while he is looking totally badass and eventually soften his angsty outer shell with the power of Love
@Lady You should write for Sonic Team
@coriander i guarantee you this fanfiction has already been written a hundred times
@Lady @coriander blaze’s arc is literally this but gender-swapped
@aescling @coriander well at least the lesbians get what they want
@Lady @coriander i mean the straight men like it too but
@aescling @coriander "straight" "men"
@Lady Yeah, but what they DID do was continue to try new things and then abandon them after precisely (1) attempt so there's still some consistency there