Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27441478-20160730084258/@comment-27441478-20160802040355

Myself 123 wrote:

Isn't platonic love and romantic love the same emotion applied differently? If you can feel happiness differently and for different reasons, love would be no different.

No, I think there's a difference. Platonic love is the thing Shadow has for Maria as a close friend, relative or sister but not romantic love, at least romantic love from him was never displayed both in games, TV shows or comics. In Sonic Universe dark Mobius when the timeline gets effed up we see Shadow not only taking his place as king but also turning the image of Maria into goddess in stature and forcing others to 'worship' her. We knows he admires her very much but from the way we see it, definitely Platonic love and not romantic love.

He becomes devastated when he finds out Maria, the only and closest friend and relative he has kicks the bucket, again Platonic love, not romantic. Romantic love is the one which borders on but not exclusive to lust. Heres the deal:

Shadow & Maria: Platonic love; sister/brother, close friend/relative. His emotions have never been depicted him going further to romance with anyone, not even fellow Moians.

Sonic & Amy (well mostly from Amy): Romantic love. She drones on about being together forever, marriage some sh** like that.

No ability to sense romantic love = less likelihood of procreation abilities/most likely not designed for it.

Platonic love =/= Romantic love.

Myself 123 wrote:

Also, when did Sonic display romantic love in the games?

I think Sonic 06 with Elise(?) *Barfs* Maybe hinted a bit with Amy? (this I dont really know for sure, its difficult to discern his emotions to her as just platonic love disguised as romantic just to make fun/mock/tease her or the other way round, Amy is way obvious however).

Also Tails with Zoey in Boom, I remember. I know Tails definitely doesn't see her as a sister-like figure for sure, judging by the way him floating upwards after seeing her in that episode (prolly an erection joke as some people say?) we know for sure that's definitely romantic and not platonic. I wouldn't want to f*** my sister either, not that I have one.

We cans pin it a thousand different ways, but the eveidence, if enough, still stacks against Shadow being able to procreate and if he so happens to have the organs to do so (no evidence that he does just yet), then his synthetic/organic DNA would be so f*** up that we wont even know if it would be compatible with natural-born Mobians. My head hurts.