When you remember there is a total of 326 different possible routes in the Shadow the Hedgehog game, yeah, he WOULD be a time player and you can pry that headcanon from cold dead hands.

I thought about making him into super shadow to make him pale and whatnot but eeehhh he's killing the Knight of Time outfit like this. Instead of the turntables ofcourse he'd use the fucking Chaos Emeralds, are you surprised? Homeboy is chaos controlling all over the place.