This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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I Remember Where Home Is (It’s With You) by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic Prime (Cartoon 2022), Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
13 Oct 2024
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Sonic returns from his adventures defeating the End. Driven by loneliness, hunger, sleep-deprivation, and a desire to be clean, he goes to a house that he often considers home. Unfortunately, he isn’t sure if Shadow will still let him do that.
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Post-Sonic Prime and FrontiersNow with a part two!
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- Part 1 of The Moon and the ARK
- Part 1 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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The Blame Has Always Drifted From the Start by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
15 Oct 2024
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Shadow and Sonic have a conversation after the war while Shadow is trying to force Sonic to take a break.
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Post-Sonic: Forces with some flavoring of rewrite in the minor detailsNgl, possible rewrite of this entire fic. More info inside.
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- Part 2 of The Moon and the ARK
- Part 2 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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The Subtle Art of Forgetting Who You Are by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
19 Oct 2024
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Sonic the Hedgehog has many qualities attributed to him from his almost obnoxious confidence to his fierce loyalty to the people he cares about.
But all of that falls apart when the Cyber corruption starts taking his memories alongside making his body sicker. Can he save the day if he doesn’t remember what he’s saving it from? Who he’s saving it for?
What his name even is?
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Sonic: Frontiers (Final Horizon) AU that really amps up the memory loss aspect. Also, more friendship between Sonic and Sage because I like their dynamic
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- Self-harm Attempt (burning)
- Mentions of canon-typical violence (fighting the robots)Series
- Part 3 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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The Train Is Pulling Into the Station (please don’t go) by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
07 Nov 2024
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Sonic received a train ticket for a trip. He’s been planning everything out for this trip, but some of the odd decisions he’s been making— including planning something— are starting to worry the people around him.
But the horns keep blaring, signaling to Sonic to climb aboard.
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Post-Sonic Frontiers
TW: Suicide attempt, hallucinations, unreliable narrator
Minor Vanilla x Vector (barely a line)
Minor Sonadow (I tried not to—)
Part two and three now b/c of popular demandSeries
- Part 4 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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One Last Battle to Win the War by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
31 Oct 2024
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To get his final revenge, Infinite puts the Phantom Ruby inside Sonic. This warps the hedgehog’s perception until he’s fighting his friends without any hesitation— aiming to kill.
On the inside, Sonic fights against Infinite’s manipulation and the Phantom Ruby’s illusory influences.
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During Sonic Forces / Rewrite of Sonic Forces
Trigger Warnings: Death, Blood, Gore, Violence/FightingSomewhat inspired by Honkai Star Rail’s version 2.5 story, but you don’t need to know anything about that. I’m just yoinking the part where a red mcguffin turns someone evil
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- Part 5 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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The War Is Over (why are you still fighting?) by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
03 Nov 2024
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When Sonic returns to his sleeping quarters in the resistance’s base, an unexpected guest is waiting for him. This guest refuses to leave until Sonic starts explaining his recent behavior.
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Post-Sonic Forces with some flavorings of a rewrite
Trigger Warnings: Implied torture, Sonic’s reckless behavior is implied to be a self-harming thing
Maybe part 2? We’ll see how it goesSeries
- Part 6 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
- Part 3 of The Moon and the ARK
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Team Dark is forced to work with a mysterious person called the Phantom Rider by G.U.N. For reasons completely beyond his control, Shadow immediately starts competing with the masked Mobian.
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Nonspecific point on the timeline/AU where G.U.N. made the Phantom Rider suit, not Eggman
Trigger Warning: Violence (against robots)Series
- Part 7 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
- Part 4 of The Moon and the ARK
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You Don’t Need To Say I Love You (a mother always knows) by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
06 Nov 2024
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As Maddie is tucking her sons into bed for the night, she thinks about her journey to becoming a mother for them.
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Post-Sonic 2
Trigger Warnings: Minor allusions to Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles’ pastsSeries
- Part 8 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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The One Light That Continues to Burn by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
06 Nov 2024
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In an effort to prove that Sonic is still alive, Tails leaves the resistance. Unfortunately, he is surrounded by mercenaries he must fight off. Luckily, Shadow comes to his aid.
When the fight concludes, Tails inquires as to why Shadow would help him. Shadow’s response involves him remembering yet another person he failed to save.
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Songfic using “Fight, Little Wolf, Fight” and “We’ll be Fine” by Jorge Rivera-Herrans for Epic the Musical with Shadow as Athena, Tails as Telemachus, and Sonic as Odysseus
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During Sonic Forces with canon divergence and headcanons about how chaos energy works/can work
Trigger Warning: Violence, off-screen major character death (except not really because we know Sonic isn’t dead)Series
- Part 9 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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The Happiness We Want For Each Other by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
08 Nov 2024
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Sonic is left reeling from letting Shadow fall to Earth and die.
Shadow is somehow still alive, though. After working with him and a bat named Rouge to save the world yet again, Sonic accepts Shadow’s existence in the world.
And Shadow accepts Sonic’s presence in his life. He has to reconcile with what that means exactly when Rouge’s hints that Sonic’s feelings might run deeper than Shadow thought.
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Post Sonic 3 (movie) and also kinda post Sonic 4 if that movie is about the Black Arms invasion (not saying it will be. They might do 06 to bring Silver and Blaze in. Or they might bring in Metal Sonic. Who knows?)
Trigger Warning: Vaguely mentioned panic attack, grief/guilt over character(s) deathSeries
- Part 10 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
- Part 5 of The Moon and the ARK
- Part 1 of What We Do For Happiness
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The Truth Is That I’m Not Leaving You by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
10 Nov 2024
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Maddie and Tom are taking their sons on a short hike to go camping. While the excitable Sonic and Knuckles have run up ahead the trail with Tom, Maddie lags behind with a rather downtrodden Tails. Everything accumulates when Tails breaks down in tears and reveals what he thinks camping is.
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Post-Sonic 2 movie (2022)
Trigger Warning: Referenced child abandonmentSeries
- Part 11 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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The Meditations of a Runner by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Comics), Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
12 Nov 2024
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Running is a good way to get yourself killed.
And maybe that statement is true, but Sonic would argue that it’s not.
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Post-Sonic Frontiers (mentions Forces, the Metal Virus arc, and whatever we’re calling the time he spends in Blaze’s dimension)
Trigger Warnings: Introspections on death, life, memory, personhoodSeries
- Part 12 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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I’ll Run The Risk of Being Intimate With My Brokenness by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Comics)
13 Nov 2024
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In the hours where night has yet to bleed into morning, Sonic and Shadow talk about their aversion to touch. But they embrace both the pain and pleasure together because beyond the aversion, there’s also a desperation.
Chapter 1 - Sonic’s PoV
Chapter 2 - Shadow’s PoV—
Post-Sonic Frontiers, Metal Virus arc
Trigger Warning: Touch aversion, self-harming tendenciesStory title from “Son” by Sleeping At Last
Chapter title(s) from “Touch” by Sleeping At LastSeries
- Part 13 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
- Part 6 of The Moon and the ARK
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The Wine Always Affects You In Beautiful Kind Ways by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
15 Nov 2024
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During an outdoor celebration, Shadow observes. Afterwards, a tipsy Sonic talks to him. Shadow loves him dearly.
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Post-Canon: nonspecific time period, but definitely when they’re 16-17 as opposed to 14-15
Trigger Warning: Underaged Drinking (Sonic’s a little tipsy)Based on the song “Good I’ll Do” by Zach Bryan
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- Part 14 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
- Part 7 of The Moon and the ARK
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Be It Helmet or Smile, You Hide It All by EmmaSmoke for Renegade Hero (Scarletarrow)
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Comics)
20 Feb 2025
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Sonic has been alone dealing with the aftermath of Starfall Islands for a few weeks. He isn’t doing too good, but he refuses to reach out to anyone about the problems he won’t even address himself.
Sonic gets an opportunity to further distance himself from these problems when GUN requests his help with a mission. Although it takes some convincing from the commander himself, Sonic joins…
… as the Phantom Rider. No one other than the commander knows who’s underneath the helmet. Not even Team Dark— who Sonic is assigned to work with on this case— knows.
As they solve the mission together, can Team Dark figure out who they’re working with? Can Sonic keep his identity hidden?
Can Sonic finally face his problems head on?
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Or, Sonic as Phantom Rider does a mission with Team Dark, shenanigans and angst ensue
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Post-Frontiers, Issue #74 of IDW comics (but no further than that)
Trigger Warnings: Self-harm, lack of self-care, vomiting, talk about suicidal intentions/tendencies, (more to be added)Series
- Part 15 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
- Part 8 of The Moon and the ARK
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No One Knows If They’re Doing It Right by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Comics)
20 Nov 2024
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Shadow has become an instructor to Surge. Kit isn’t allowed to train with them because he’s a child. Instead, he’s left at Sonic and Tails’ house. He hates it, obviously. He doesn’t like any part of it. Surge is the reason he’s there— the only one.
(She isn’t. He likes being there… sometimes)
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Post-IDW Comics (it’s at least after #74)
Trigger Warnings: Codependency, off-screen violence and not-descriptive observations about itSeries
- Part 16 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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Sit and Eat and Talk and Watch (and feel less alone together) by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
25 Nov 2024
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Instead of their usual race, Sonic has brought a picnic basket to make Shadow taste new food.
Although his desire was to be exiled from all people, Sonic always gets his way when he wants to spend time with Shadow, so the hybrid sits and eats and talks and watches.
And maybe, just maybe, realizes that it’s nicer not to be alone.
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Post-Sonic 3 (written before its release)
Trigger Warnings: None (surprisingly)Series
- Part 17 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
- Part 9 of The Moon and the ARK
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You Deserve The Happiness You Want For Others by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
26 Nov 2024
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Sonic’s existence alone makes Tails happy. This is without mentioning everything Sonic does to give him even more happiness. Tails just wants Sonic to be happy, too.
And for some reason, Sonic’s happiness is tied to Shadow.
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Post-Sonic 3
Trigger Warning: Mentions of Tails’ past, nightmares, dissociation (except Tails’ doesn’t know that’s what Sonic is doing, so he doesn’t call it that)
Part two of The Happiness We Want For Each Other (can be read as a standalone)Series
- Part 18 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
- Part 10 of The Moon and the ARK
- Part 2 of What We Do For Happiness
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If That Is Where You Find Happiness, Stay There by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
28 Nov 2024
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Maddie is going to be there for her sons no matter what. If she has to wait patiently for Sonic to begin the healing process after another person he cared about dies, she will.
If she has to deal with Sonic being in love with Shadow, there are worse fates than giving a pseudo-shovel talk to a former bio-weapon.
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Post-Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (written before the movie came out)
Trigger Warning: Nightmares, unhealthy coping mechanisms, grief, guilt, dissociationPart 3 of The Happiness We Want For Each Other (could probably be read as a standalone)
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- Part 19 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
- Part 11 of The Moon and the ARK
- Part 3 of What We Do For Happiness
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This Family Sticks Together by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
01 Dec 2024
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Tails’ attempt to sneak out the house and run away to protect his family is almost immediately thwarted by said family. They have their opinions about the youngest trading his life for theirs.
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Post-Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Trigger Warnings: Nothing in particular, Tails is sacrificing himself for his family but not technically his life. He has low self-worthSeries
- Part 20 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold