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How'm I as hard to speak with as that weirdo who spams gore and rape fantasies of Maria over shipping? I truly don't think I'm being delusional and I don't appreciate being compared to the schizo. Shadouge is fine.
Shadow and Maria were friends, they were not dating. Their relationship has romantic undertones, but that's just one aspect of it, and the same applies to the sibling-like dynamic. Shadow's relationship with Maria is a complex mix of friendship, romance, and family.
I once posted that she's Shadow's "everything," and less than 24 hours later, Sonic Team repeated that basically word-for-word in the Staff Comments on their site. I believe I have it right, and that's how ST/SoJ thinks of it. A love that's a mix of dynamics, or a love so strong it transcends labels, purely unique to the two of them.
Is she his friend? Like a sister? Do they use romantic terms for them? Yes, yes, and yes.
If people are at a stage where they are dismissing statements made by multiple Sonic Team employees, I believe it’s reasonable to suggest that maybe they're the ones deluded by headcanon.

Correcting you when you post false information about Sonic is not forcing anything on you. The fact of the matter is that if you're unwilling to accept basic surface-level information about the Sonic franchise, people aren't going to want to engage with you on a site built specifically for autistic discussion about Japanese fiction. If you want to discuss your AU fanfiction where Sonic pays taxes and visits brothels, there are other places for that. But when you're in a thread specifically about the actual Sonic franchise, expect people to care about accuracy. That's just how informed discussion works.