From the very beginning, he felt aware of what it was. Since day one, he awoke after everything that happened with Maria. Waking from the pod that had finally opened, showing a girl standing there. Not human, nothing he’s seen before. A creature sat right in Shadow's stomach or even… it, it fits the definition of the person. One not human, one that had the same size and possibly taller than him. Not a hedgehog-like him, more fox… no, Nine tails more like. A mystical being said to be a god, old as time and wandering the realm of the living for fun, toying with its prey, controlling what it could, playing with its toys before it got bored of it, killing it in moments of boredom. He knew it, a gut feeling told him from the very beginning. It showed him around and told him about the planet he was on. It showed him the way of living, and then I vanished like that, only showing up after the whole Black Doom demonic alien stuff. Appearing like nothing happened, bringing him back from his feet. Hanging with him for a bit, toying with him, then leaving once more… again after again it appeared at the worst.

When he fell from the ark and onto the earth, he was still alive, it was watching from a tree branch with a grin, claiming to save him. Since then, it just appeared out of nowhere to mess with him, to toy him, occasionally giving him simple tasks to do… from the moment Shadow met it, he was very well aware, of the strings it had on him, the strings that sat wrapped around his neck and heart, keeping him stuck in a trap by it… a puppet, aware of its puppet master. Yet he did nothing about it, knowing that even if he dared, he’d be unsuccessful… but maybe because deep down, he still felt he owed it something for the consent saves and being there when he knew nothing… like now, no matter how annoying it was, he stuck with it. He may still be his normal self and try to push them away, but he was aware that it knew he never meant it.