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Player Information
Name: Takato
Timezone: GMT+10
Personal Journal: soulscandalous
Players Contact/AIM/MSN/YAHOO: milesforking @ AIM
Email Address: takato_metallium@hotmail.com
Former/Other Characters in the RP: Hayato Gokudera | Erika Karisawa | Lavi Bookman | Roxas | Soul Eater Evans | Joshua Kiryuu | Marie Mjolnir | Ken Ichijouji | Kim Diehl | Applejack
Character Information
Name: Shadow Igel (Igel means 'hedgehog' in German)
Canon Origin/Series: Sonic the Hedgehog
School Year: 5th
Gender: male
Age: 15
Out of school living location: Dresden, Germany
Blood status: Unknown, presumed at least halfblood
Personality:
EMO. But in all seriousness.
Alongside his rather dark demeanor, Shadow can also be smug, arrogant, self-absorbed and somewhat sarcastic. He's very competitive, often coming off as blunt and uncaring along with being soft-spoken and reserved. Even with a lack of trust towards others, Shadow sometimes teams up with people for the greater good rather and sometimes but not always to further his own goals and ambitions. He has rather high expectations of himself and takes failures rather hard. He's annoyed rather easily, more prone to being serious despite having his own brand of humor despite having little patience for silly behavior. Shadow has a strong sense of justice, despising evil above all else and being selfless in his actions.
Despite being all this, Shadow is not completely heartless. He does care about others, going so far as to putting himself between Rouge and Omega in canon when he's released from stasis in Eggman's laboratory. Shadow has a strong sense of self, possessing an equally strong will that makes him rarely gullible or easily manipulated by others. This is shown in canon when encountered with the possibility of being an android, he states that even if his memories are fake he's still Shadow. Shadow rarely smiles, perhaps not letting others see any happiness so he has no weakness, brushing off any sympathy or kindness, often telling them not to waste their time. It's possible that he prefers not to show emotion, preferring to be alone.
Maria's death was a hard impact on his personality. Prior to her death he was friendly and not much but perhaps a bit more sociable, at least in her presence. She truly made him the happiest and he cared deeply for her. It's possible he never opened up to anyone after her death in fear of losing another friend. It seems like he doesn't have a sense of humor or happiness, and he doesn't like others seeing him act in such a way. He rarely smiles, and when he does it's usually when he's being smug about something. In spite of this, he shows warm feelings towards his friends, even if he does reject other people.
Canon Background:
50 years before the start of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, Shadow was a genetic experiment born on the space station ARK. Originally developed as an experiment to cure a terminal disease his creator's granddaughter carried as a means to study immortality and use the fruits as an attempt to cure her. This girl, Maria Robotnik, would be the cause that would set everything in motion for Shadow as, despite being an experiment, he grew close to her. When the ARK was attacked by G.U.N., he attempted to escape with Maria, only for her to be shot and killed in front of him. Captured, Shadow was then shipped off to Earth and locked away on Prison Island.
Fast forward 50 years later, Shadow is released from Prison Island by Maria's cousin, Ivo Robotnik a.k.a Eggman, who was seeking his grandfather's greatest creation. Haunted by his inability to protect Maria from her death, Shadow agrees to help him in order to seek revenge on those responsible, seeing the doctor for the genius that he is and not the megalomaniac others perceive him to be. Headlining Eggman's forces, Shadow soon crosses paths with Sonic, who has been accused for the crimes he (Shadow) has committed. However, with fate twisting his arm (and a certain Amy Rose), he realized that Maria's wish was for him to save humanity rather than hate them, teaming up with Sonic in the end to stop Eggman. After defeating the Biolizard which had fused with the ARK, Shadow fell to the Earth and was presumed dead.
An uncertain amount of time later, Rouge discovers Shadow locked in a stasis tube in one of Eggman's bases, and unknowingly releases the robot E-123 Omega at the same time, who begins to attack the newly awakened Shadow. After intervention by Rouge, the three of them become Team Dark. During their time as a team, Shadow discovers he has amnesia and can't remember anything other than his name and brief images of Maria's death, finding out later that Eggman made dozens of Shadow androids and lives with the question as to whether or not he's just a robot after Metal Sonic is defeated.
It turns out that he's not a robot. Shadow is actually the dual creation of an alien being known as Black Doom and Professor Gerald. Gerald used Black Doom's blood and the DNA of an artificially processed hedgehog to create Shadow, on the promise that Shadow would deliver the Chaos Emeralds to Black Doom. He goes against this plan however, choosing instead to carve his own path and put the past behind him by destroying the Black Comet with the Eclipse Cannon and confronting Doom in Super form.
It's unknown when it happened, but Shadow becomes an agent of G.U.N - presumably Rouge has dragged him into this role. On a mission to recover the Scepter of Darkness, Shadow encounters Mephiles the Dark, the being trapped inside the Scepter before being sent through time shenanigans to the future, where he learns he will become the enemy of mankind due to their fear of him. Shadow will be sealed away by a reprogrammed Omega sometime during this. Since the events of the game are eventually reset, it's safe to say that this will not happen in his future, and it's left uncertain.
Background (AU!Canon; HP):
Growing up in the presence of his grandfather Gerald - a scientist working for the German government - due to the absence of his parents, Shadow lived a somewhat lonely childhood until his cousin Maria came to live with them. Ailed with an illness for which there was no cure, he kept her company. They would spend the days in Maria's room, playing make believe games of magic and faeries and he would read to her. She made him promise that should either of them find out magic exists then they should tell the other.
Unfortunately before Shadow received his Hogwarts letter on his eleventh birthday, Maria died peacefully in her sleep. Regretting that there was nothing he could have done to save her, Gerald buried himself in his work more than ever after her funeral, leaving the boy once again on his lonesome. A bit weary of his letter at first before being informed of things by a staff member, he afterwards vowed to be the best wizard he could be for Maria. He spent much of his first year keeping to himself, the pain of losing his cousin and surrogate sister still fresh, having come to believe that perhaps he was better off alone.
At least until he met a girl called Rouge and a strange boy named Omega in his third year. No matter how much he attempted to ignore her, Rouge would not relent on her pestering, but strangely enough it was a conversation with Omega that made him finally realize that actually no, he was not better off without them hanging around. It wasn't like he was better off with them around, but rather he could relax a little around them. Realizing that Maria wouldn't like it if he shut himself off from the world like their grandfather did, he let himself open up again. But just to them. Even now in his fifth year, Shadow still has a hard time trusting others, but Rouge and Omega are another story all together.