WAKING UP, BREAKING OUT...
Hey! Welcome to Shadomega Stage, a website dedicated to Shadow the Hedgehog x E-123 Omega, mostly known as Shadomega/Omegadow! (Site's a work in progress, so don't expect it to look the best, or to be able to find anything right now!)
That's a ship?
Yes, and it makes me have a little laugh to myself every time I see people realize. Two members of Team Dark, one of the most popular teams from the Sonic series, and it's somehow a rarepair! (im going crazy)
So what's this for?
Simply put, this website is an archival effort. I have a hard time finding artwork and fanfiction that involves these two romantically, so I wanted to put together a place where other people could easily find everything (and I've done it once before already; I run the @omegadow blog over on Tumblr). It's easy for media online to become lost to time, especially fan content for a ship as underrated and a series as popular and old as this. I mourn whatever fan creations of these two are completely inaccesible to me today - because for a set of characters who debuted in an extremely popular video game franchise during the early 2000's, I know for sure there's more out there - but that's what this site is for, to keep whatever I can find safe!
What can I find on here, then?
Just about any artwork, fanfiction, and any other fanworks I can find involving Shadomega! I host the works here, but I will always credit the creator(s) and link back to the source (and an archived Wayback Machine version) whenever possible; I guess it's kinda like booru sites, except I'm just one guy running it on a Neocities without an actual tagging system.
My hard exception is sexually explicit content. As an adult I'm uncomfortable with sharing that type of content involving characters who have been canonically implied to be teenagers[1][2] for the majority of their histories prior to the age removals by Sonic Team, and no explicit confirmation of them being adults afterwards. There's also the fact that this is a publicly available website involving a franchise with an all-ages audience and is primarily targeted towards children. I am not obligated to nor will I host that kind of content here.
Why Shadow x Omega?
To make it short, Shadow and Omega have unique bond. Both of them are Robotnik creations, initially created as weapons who then break free from the shackles of their creators and find self-autonomy and personhood for themselves. They trust and respect each other as teammates and have a solid devotion to each other that nothing stands in the way of. I'd say for the Ulimate Lifeform and Ultimate Robot to find love in each other's embraces would be unsurprising.
...And as linked at the top, here's the Shadomega Stage Manifesto, where I make it long.