My first fully colored animatic! Not sure if I'll do it again, but it is nice to see the final result like this. There are some areas I wish I could've slowed down on and let things breathe, but the song moves fast so I made do with what I got. Overall, it was good practice, as usual!

Anyway! Shadilver is a dynamic that I really think deserves more attention, because their few interactions are really interesting, and their respective roles create a lot of parallels that I would love to see expanded upon in canon. This animatic is basically just a re-imagination of their moments in '06, with a little bit of extra at the end.

Basically, at the end of '06 when the candle gets blown out and everyone is supposed to lose their memories because none of it actually happened, Shadow and Silver still feel that something's missing, and Silver is still in the present, not the future. As they explore Soleanna during the festival, they find each other again, and immediately feel the connection that they formed before. It's up to interpretation if they remember anything specific, I guess! I just love the idea of them finding solace in each other.

Fun fact: When I was first scripting this animatic, I was gonna try to make it about a fanfic I wrote about these two, but I found some of the lyrics fit too well with what canonically went down in '06 to pass up, so I got this instead! The whole idea started with the visual I got of Triple S when I heard golden 3X, and a lot of the lyrics ended up fitting Silver.

Thank you so much for watching (and reading)! Hopefully there'll be some more Shadilver in the future, both in games and in fan content! :D

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Song: Golden by Harry Styles

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