[The consequences would be quite bad regardless.]

Yer not a shadow. Yer a full person with the full range of emotion naturally. Shadows are generally very....base in how they exist. They know what they like and what they don't. They take on the things their owners hide. But they can bear it because unlike their owners, they can simply be those things without them getting over complicated.

It's why a lot can take the usual ignoring. Not always, but most do.

But ya take care of them?