Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27441478-20160730084258/@comment-27441478-20160805120529

Myself 123 wrote: Perhaps other characters have displayed romantic love in other continuities, bit as far as the games are concerned, only a seldom few have. It's important to note that these continuities often have other teams behinds them, and although they fit the spirit of the series, they may not accurately represent the wishes of the creators or owners of these characters. That depends. Sonic and Co. including the entire franchise itself is not owned or created by any one single person but multitudes of people, so each universe or separate canon can hold up to its own merits. Who decides out of all the official staff members involved as to what should or should not be official or mainstream/taken into account? Almost none, I thinks its based democratically at Sega Inc or some other subsidary company because the franchise is created and maintained by multiple people from first party, third party and some rare free-lance sources. This isn't the simple days of Yuji Naka and Naoto Oshima or Shigiru Miyamoto taking on the world with their franchise all by themselves, hoho, no.

Canon or not, has Shadow been portrayed displaying emotions of romantic and not platonic love in any official video game? No? Strike 1. In any comic book including StC and Archie StH? No? No? Strike 2 and 3. in Sonic X? No? Strike 4. In Boom? No? Strike 5. Synthetic life form made of unidentifiable and likely incompaitble DNA with native Mobians or even humans? Strike 6. Out of all possible candidates, the odds are stacked against Shadow being a relative both theoretically and canonically based on evidence or lack of.

...Plus, there's the whole immortality thing. Its the immortality - reproduction thing which gets me. Why did Adam and Eve have any incentive to even eat the from the Tree of Knowledge of they are already immortal previously (e.i cannot starve, die of thirst etc.) so whats the point? Same with Shadow. Synthetic and artificially produced life form as a test subject, later weaponized, is immortal, cannot die, displays no feeling of reproduction requirement step 1: Romantic Love, DNA and genetic makeup possibly nontransferable to his origins and at the very far end of the spectrum as you put it "I don't think Shadow's interested in having a romantic relationship with anyone, as he's someone who's often focused on his own goals to consider anything recreational. " e.i no commitment(?).