No but you don’t understand. Sonic and Shadow are going to clash so hard in season 2 of Prime and it’s going to be so intense because both of them will be right. Or at least, neither of them will be entirely wrong.
Sonic is going to view Shadow’s willingness to destroy the other shatterverses and the characters in them for the sake of restoring Green Hill as him being cruel and apathetic to other peoples’ suffering, that he doesn’t care enough about them to try and find a better way. That just like before, he’s willing to blow up the moon, the earth, and everyone in it as long as he can have what he wants. He sees Shadow’s way as selfish and destructive and uncaring, similar to Eggman.
Shadow hasn’t spent any time with these other characters and therefore has no reason to feel any attachment to them. He’s also experienced way too much trauma in his backstory to ever have Sonic’s level of optimism about the way the world works. He can’t have the belief that “obviously everything will work out because it has to” because if that were the case, Maria would still be here, wouldn’t she? Shadow is going to view Sonic’s willingness to throw away their home and everyone in it for the sake of saving these “copies” as Sonic prioritizing moral purity over what really matters. In his mind, Sonic is more concerned with not having to get his hands dirty and avoiding the reality of the situation than he is about doing what needs to be done. He sees Sonic’s hesitancy as childish denial and wishful thinking, of wanting to believe in a fairy tale ending that can never happen and refusing to grow up and take responsibility. Maybe he’s even subconsciously a little jealous of that childlike optimism that can only come from not having experienced trauma before.
I’m so excited for Sonic Prime I cannot even tell you. It’s gonna be great.
HAAAAANK! DON’T PREORDER STARFIELD! YOU KNOW IT’S GONNA BE FULL OF BUGS ON DAY ONE! HANK YOU KNOW THEY CAN’T FILL 1000 PLANETS WITH CONTENT IT’S ALL GONNA BE GENERIC MISSIONS! HAAAAAAANK!!!!!!
