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• Fire Shall Not Claim Thee by TheModernMelpomene

  Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  01 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Rouge the Bat & Shadow the Hedgehog
  • Maria Robotnik & Shadow the Hedgehog
  • Shadow the Hedgehog & Silver the Hedgehog
  • Shadow the Hedgehog
  • Silver the Hedgehog
  • Blaze the Cat
  • Rouge the Bat
  • E-123 Omega (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Cream the Rabbit
  • Vanilla the Rabbit
  • Iblis (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • Mephiles the Dark (Sonic the Hedgehog)
  • All others mentioned
  • Post-Apocalypse
  • Game: Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
  • beta reader? in this economy?
  • Web Series: SnapCube's Real-Time Fandub
  • Mostly via references
  • Angst
  • Found Family
  • Developing Relationship
  • Aromantic Asexual Shadow the Hedgehog
  • Silver the Hedgehog Needs a Hug
  • Silver the Hedgehog Has Anxiety
  • Shadow the Hedgehog is Bad at Feelings
  • Protective Shadow the Hedgehog
  • Shadow the Hedgehog Has PTSD - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Mental Health Issues
  • Underage Drinking
  • Cannibalism
  • sort of. i'll explain in the notes when it appears
  • Hallucinations
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Blood and Injury
  • Murder

  Summary

  At the end of the world, centuries after Maria and Rouge and everyone he loved are gone, Shadow walks alone. He cares for only himself now, everyone only cares for themself. Well, until a tween stumbles into his life and makes another little hole in his heart.

  Or, what happened to Shadow before the world turned on him?

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  18,594

  Chapters:

  4/20

  Comments:

  7

  Kudos:

  25

  Bookmarks:

  7

  Hits:

  422