Sweet Sorrow
by Scribbler is a Sonic the Hedgehog oneshot.
The story is based off of Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and is a serious oneshot about Sonic and Elise's relationship, taking elements from the game and going into detail on them.
This fanfic provides examples of:
- Bloodless Carnage: Justified. Elise initially thinks that Sonic isn't dead because there's no blood. She associatess death with blood because she remembers finding her father in a pool of blood. However, the reason Sonic isn't bleeding is because the energy blast cauterized the wound.
- Dark Fic: Sweet Sorrow is more introspective than the original game. It also goes into more detail on Elise than Sonic 2006.
- The Hero Dies: Sonic's death scene is gone into depth.
- Interspecies Romance: There's a romance between Sonic, a Funny Animal hedgehog, and Elise, a human.
- Security Blanket: Elise mentions that she had a stuffed animal Greta that she carried around everywhere as a child. She avoided other kids but loved Greta, especially after her father died.
- Shout-Out: The title comes from a line from Romeo and Juliet.
