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Tethered at the Wrist by Nebrasska
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
01 Jun 2025
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Being captured by Dr. Eggman was nothing new for Sonic, happening more times than he would care to admit. Despite his experience, however, escape was never meant to be easy, and this one comes at a particularly steep price.
Namely, by being cuffed at the wrist to none other than Shadow the Hedgehog.
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22 Oct 2025
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Shadow's life has been full of mistakes, some worse than others, but admitting his unrequited feelings to Sonic tops the list. He's spent the better part of a decade ruminating on his regret and hiding from feelings he couldn't bear to face. He never thought he'd see Sonic again, and he told himself that was for the best.
Until now.
At the bequest of his former rival, and in an attempt to finally get closure, Shadow has returned to Central City. The reason?
Sonic the Hedgehog is marrying Amy Rose.
And Shadow is invited.
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- Part 1 of Home and What Comes After
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- 55,740
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- 16/16
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16 Oct 2025
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Why don't you account for my heart... Baby? by NoOneSleepz
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
01 May 2025
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“Debits and credits,” Shadow repeated softly, a strange, almost thoughtful expression on his face. “A love story.” He actually pondered this for a moment, his brow furrowed in concentration. “In a purely metaphorical, and highly abstract sense, I suppose one could… interpret it that way.”
Sonic grinned, emboldened by this unexpected breakthrough. “See? Romance! It’s everywhere, Shadow, even in accounting!” He leaned closer, lowering his voice conspiratorially. “Speaking of romance…” he began, ready to launch into his most daring move.
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16 Oct 2025
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Ink-Stained Hearts by Frogswim
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe), Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Comics)
18 Aug 2025
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What would you say if you could be truly anonymous?
Would you confess your feelings? Be honest in a way you’ve never been before? Let your guard down?When Sonic and Shadow join an anonymous pen-pal program, they’re both just looking for a harmless distraction. What they don’t realize is, they’ve been paired with each other.
Under pseudonyms, they open up in ways they never have before. Things get realer than either of them anticipate.
But what happens when the truth comes out?Will it bring them closer, or break the fragile trust they’ve built?
Tune in to find out. <3
A dash of Slice of life, Sonadow, Sickfic, and good ol' angst.Series
- Part 1 of Pen Pals Saga
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15 Oct 2025
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We are different, but we go together. by neoomeniax
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
22 Mar 2024
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After being on Starfall Islands, Sonic's friends, true to their word, go off and explore the world on their own, which leaves Sonic alone in Tail's workshop to keep an eye on the Master Emerald and himself. Being left alone after the pain of Cyberspace is definitely a good idea.
Time has never ticked by slower. But, with the sudden run into Shadow under the stars, his life starts to pick up once more. But the sudden strange attitude Sonic has does not go unnoticed by the other hedgehog.
With a newfound motivation, and the tired old threat of a new plan from Dr. Eggman once again, Sonic is ready to battle him once again, even if he doesn't have his friends right near him at the moment. Well, except for the three strange friends standing around him as they stare at the documents regarding Eggman's new plans.
IMPORTANT: This fanfic is currently being edited and revised! I'll have it all updated when it is complete. <3
edit: images aren't working so here they are in a google drive. <3
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15 Oct 2025
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You’d Have To Stop The World by PMSingwitches
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
26 Feb 2025
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“Did you hear Sonic won this year’s most Eligible Bachelor again?”
Black hedgehog ears flicker towards the giggling gossip, the gloved hand that was outreached to the determining factor of his future pausing.
“He might as well win every year. That hedgehog is never settling down.”
Both ears press back against his head, a grimace spread across his tan muzzle.
“Well, his catchphrase is ‘Gotta Go Fast.’ I doubt there’s anyone who would be able to keep up with him.”
Focus, his mind chides. Grab the test and get out of here.
“Please. There are plenty. He needs someone who is worth slowing down for.”
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In which Shadow the Hedgehog gets more than he bargained for when his future intertwines with Sonic in a way neither of them could have imagined.
Too bad the media may have a problem with it.
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- Part 1 of Sonadow Family
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- English
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- 97,232
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- 34/34
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12 Oct 2025
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Will You be the Cure to My Aliment? by Jujus_island
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
06 Jul 2021
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His life had fallen into an easy, comfortable routine for nearly two years now. He claims it's to heal, but it's quite obvious ample time to ruminate isn't doing him any favors. Lancelot was heartbroken, but he was content.
That's until Arthur convinces him to relocate to the busy, crowded castle with his son. But the question remains: why?
[Sequel to Whatever is this Infliction?]
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- Part 2 of Whatever is this Infliction?
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11 Oct 2025
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Whatever is this Infliction? by Jujus_island
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
13 Apr 2021
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Lancelot has seemed to develop some sort of disease. Ever since Arthur has adopted his new pseudonym, Sonic, said disease always flares up in the form of flush cheeks and a rapidly beating heart. So why, all of a sudden, does he feel so helplessly nervous around his king? And why does his king request his presence?
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- Part 1 of Whatever is this Infliction?
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11 Oct 2025
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Sparks are flying. A storm is brewing. And peace is but an illusion.
Finally free from slavery, Sonic embraces his new life in Soleanna; eager to forget the misery and torture of his past. But living and learning is harder than expected, and now that he’s no longer outside looking in, he can see that not everyone sees things for what they could be. Especially in regards to his former home of the Doom Empire.
After years of watching his kingdom crumble, newly-crowned Emperor Shadow seizes the opportunities to build the future he wanted – one built on the dreams he and Maria had. But not everyone shares his enthusiasm and it’s not long before Shadow finds himself on the same tightrope he walked before with a far bigger spotlight and a sea of voices eager to drown his own.
Choices will be made. And nothing will ever be what it was or what it could be.
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- Part 2 of Time's Promise
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- English
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- 143,645
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- 44/44
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09 Oct 2025
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No Matter the Time, I'm There for You by EmmaSmoke for PrismTheStar
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
24 Apr 2025
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While tinkering with Silver's bracelet, Tails accidentally sends himself seven years into the past. It shouldn't be too much of a problem, but he realizes this is about the time he first left for his own adventures. Sonic has been left behind, and he's not doing too well. Despite this not being his time period, Tails can't abandoned his brother. He's going to help Sonic, even if Sonic doesn't seem keen on getting help.
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Or, a fifteen-ish Tails time travels back to post-Frontiers
Gameverse, post-Frontiers
Trigger Warning: Unhealthy character (not eating, barely sleeping, not cleaning oneself, hallucinating), a statement that is vaguely implied to be suicidal but it isn't obviousThis is for prismthestar on Tumblr!
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- Part 105 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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09 Oct 2025
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i ripped the flowers from my lungs and the love from my heart by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
24 Mar 2025
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Sonic awakens after undergoing surgery for Hanahaki. This removal included the plant itself, but also the memories and emotions involved with all the unrequited love (both romantic and platonic) that fed it. This means that Sonic leaves the hospital without knowing who the person he loved or some of his closest friends are.
Without the emotional investment, he doesn't really care. Everyone else in his life, however, are very worried.
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Trigger Warning: memory loss, blood
You could read this as an alternate ending to "my love is a flower, my love is my undoing," but it's not necessary to have read that oneSeries
- Part 93 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
- Part 36 of The Moon and the ARK
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09 Oct 2025
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my love is a flower, my love is my undoing by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types
16 Mar 2025
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After some investigation, Sonic discovers that he has Hanahaki disease. There is a plant growing inside his lungs through his throat. It will kill him if he leaves it alone. His other options are to confess his feelings, get a surgery to remove the plant, or lose his feelings.
He can't confess his feelings. They would only burden Shadow, and Sonic doesn't want that to happen.
He can't get the surgery, either. It would erase all the memories and feelings he has for Shadow (and for any other platonic love that was mixed into the romantic love this plant grew from).
His only option, then, is to lose his feelings for Shadow. That, unfortunately, is easier said than done.
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Trigger Warning: Vomiting, bloodSeries
- Part 92 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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09 Oct 2025
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Supernova by starzdeath
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)
15 Sep 2024
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Sonic was a star, the brightest light that shone among many others. He was a constant in the night sky, always there to grant the world's truest wish. As the sun and moon rose and fell he worked hard to ensure everyone had their freedom. If this star pushed himself any further he'd soon burn out. He continued anyway, shining brighter
Stars shine brighter before their death. Yet Sonic was already considered the brightest star by many, his light always able to vanquish the dark. But this time it wouldn't be enough. The End was here yet he refused to give up, not when he had others counting on him. Consumed by darkness, corruption bit at the edge of his mind and he knew what he had to do. Despite the warnings, he gave his light 'til no more was left to give. Shining brighter 'til a supernova occurred, the death of a star
With the death of a star a new one may form, familiarity replaced by uncertainty. Sonic used to be a star, or so he's heard, so why does he find himself lost in the sky, unable to name a single star? He was no longer a bright shining star, but maybe someday he'd find himself among the stars of the sky once again
(A star dies, a new one is born)
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- Part 1 of the death of a star
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- 39,109
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- 4/4
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09 Oct 2025
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Blue and Little Fox by EmmaSmoke
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic - Fandom
20 Jan 2025
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Tails is an outcast in his village because of his twin tails. Although he doesn't bleed silver, the villagers consider him to be a halfling. They send him into the Forbidden Forest, notorious for its Fae population, to gather resources for them. Tails has never met a Fae before... until today, when he encounters a hedgehog who calls himself Blue.
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Alternate universe where Tails is a regular kid and Sonic is a Fae
Trigger Warning: Child abuse/neglect, attempted child sacrifice, people are burned alive, minorly possessive behavior, DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME (if you encounter a Fae, remember the rules)Series
- Part 61 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
- Part 1 of Reverence and Bonds
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07 Oct 2025
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Shadow is a supervillain. He is Ultimate, one of the worst in the city. He deserves the death penalty before he deserves fondness and affection, but he gets exactly that when he indulges the vigilante Phantom, also known as Sonic.
He also doesn't deserve a family, but after one of the heroes kills Sonic, Shadow finds it impossible to abandon Tails, Sonic's remaining family.
And he definitely doesn't deserve a second chance to make things right, but the universe seems quite insistent on giving him what he doesn't deserve.
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Vaguely the plot of Sonic Forces but it's a superhero AU and most of the details and even the broader strokes are wrong
Trigger Warning: Implied/referenced sex(ual content), temporary character death (murder), grief and its stages, violence (blood, injury, you know the gist), dissociation, terrible foster care system, corrupt government/Hero's CommissionThis technically takes place in the same universe as 'In the Darkness of the Safehouse' but you don't need to read that. That's just villain Shadow and vigilante Sonic flirting and then cuddling
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- Part 40 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
- Part 23 of The Moon and the ARK
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07 Oct 2025
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Sonic gave permission for the others to kill him if something went wrong. He would not let the universe be destroyed because of him. In one world, they were able to save him before he could be killed. In this world... that is not the case.
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This is an alternate ending of the fic "Helmet or Smile, You Hide It All" where Shadow kills Sonic
Trigger Warning: Suicide, mercy killing, death, discussions of illness, all the emotions that come with grief/mourningSeries
- Part 38 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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06 Oct 2025
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Fifty years ago, Sonic the Hedgehog was an alien living on the ARK, a space military base, with his surrogate little brother, Tails, and his mentor, Commander Abraham Tower.
A few minutes ago, Sonic the Hedgehog escapes an island prison with the memories of his surrogate little brother and mentor who died for his sake pushing him to destroy the planet he once swore to protect.
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Role-reversal with roughly the same personalities
Trigger Warning: Character death, violence, murder/execution, experimentation, vague brainwashing-esque behaviors, torture, self-harm, suicide attemptSeries
- Part 34 of This Hedgehog Has Me in A Damn Chokehold
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06 Oct 2025
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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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05 Oct 2025
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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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- 6,740
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02 Oct 2025
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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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- 20,227
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- 3/3
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02 Oct 2025