User blog comment:BrutaLity/Shadouge/@comment-1829968-20100420093755

It's actually true @_@; But I'm sure this is like this for any fan pair. We're all hypocrites at some point.

This goes for me. However, for fan pairings such as ShadAmy, you HAVE to elaborate in your own personal view what you can get out of their canons, in order to justify the appeal for characters who talk so little, but had one significant background tie. But with characters such as Shadow and Rouge, who interact more...it kind of baffles me why so much fanon view is needed XD

At the same time, I find that, when I'm not talking to fans, listening to them, or hearing what they have to say, I can neutralize on this fan pair much better and have a clearer perception of what appeals about them, but it doesn't have a lot to do with their canons at all. I can't see them together and don't see any canon clarifications, but I GET why it would appeal to people. Yet when I come in contact with fans, I feel like they're mentioning AAAAALL the wrong details from start to finish. Every detail about all of these pairs can be neutralized and struck down against - Shadouge is definitely one of those, because the impressions given are strictly divided. This is really how I feel about ShadAmy too, though. When I'm not paying attention to how the fans portray them, I can understand it better. The fandom makes me sneer a little bit. Shadow and Amy Rose are my favorite characters as individuals, because I can dissect them and relate to them a great deal, so seeing them killed off when they're together irks me. (I'm a huge cartoonist/writer, and I love delving into things, so characterization and character development is a big thing to me XD; It helps me shape my own understanding of how my own future characters for my own originality when I publish my own series should be shaped).

...So it's almost like sharing views messes everything up XD;;;