Culture Shock!

by Jujus_island

Summary:

When you think of culture shock, you think of traveling or immigration. But Shadow's more than used to being the exception, and in his case... well... a lot has changed since the 1950s.. a lot.

[More info in notes lol, I put whoever interacts in the chapter summary]

Notes:

This is probably the most self-indulgent thing I will ever do (I promise) but this is basically just 50s!Shadow moments. I've had an ongoing fascination with mid-century America since middle school so this is one, big, glorified info dump on all the useless bullshit I've learned in my 'studies' so the moment I realized Shad would technically be from the 50s lemme tell you I went FERAL

There's not really a plot, think of it like spongebob lol, the episodes don't follow each other, they kind of happen at random and can all be read on their own but there's an overarching canon. And j a heads up, Sonic and Shadow will probably end up together bc it's me. Lmk if there's any character you want to see interact with Shadow and I'll try to incorporate it! Alsooo, this will not be beta read and probably won't be my best writing.

Chapter 1: Camera

Summary:

Team Dark bonding

Camera

As hyperbolic as it seemed, the more Shadow opened up the less sense he made sense. Today’s encounter that left her bewildered was when she approached him as he was enjoying a bowl of ice cream. He looked funny with chocolate stuck at the corner of his mouth as it had gone unnoticed. The bat concluded she could not let this moment escape her as she trotted up to him, phone in hand, ready to catch him guilty in the act.

Unforchanitly for her, his overly sensitive ears picked up on her presence almost immediately as he turned to face her, phone in hand, ready to capture him.

Her brain worked overtime trying to articulate the perfect excuse as to why she had her phone out in such an obvious position, she was already anticipating the verbal lashing she would receive from Shadow about ‘respect’ and ‘privacy’ after only recently receiving his trust. Only, he faced her, blinked, and returned to his treat. Huh.

She got right in his face, snapped the picture, his chocolate latent lips in full view, and still. No reaction, his face impossible to read. She justified it as he was having a ‘bad day’ and forgot about it as quickly as it happened.

Days later they were off to the store, clothing required, as it was in a largely humanized district. Shadow was already grumpy, seeing as he was being dragged to the store by his teammates. “Squeeze in! You guys are so cute!” Rouge cooed looking at her teammates.

Omega wanted to feel included, despite his size, so he settled on a fashionable little sunhat. Shadow, on the other hand, settled on a cuffed pair of Levi blue-bjeans, converse, and a red-striped button-up. “Hurry up!” He was not happy as he figured he looked like a ‘cube.’ He hoped to get his hands on some cooler clothing today.

“Ok,ok done.”

“What do you mean done, wheres the camera?” He groaned.

Rouge was perplexed, she had her smartphone right in her hand. Oh. That’s when it hit her like a ton of bricks, Shadow doesn’t know what an iPhone is. It was only a matter of days before she had a folder of Shadow’s most embarrassing moments, all captured in perfect view, ripe and ready for blackmail.