FREEME.EXE (EXE)

== Physical description ==
=== Gender ===
Male
=== Height ===
3'3 (Sonic Form)
=== Eye color ===
Yellow
FREEME.exe (commonly shortened to FREEME) is a character created by TR1PSART on Twitter. He was first created 12/1/2021.
== Overview ==
FREEME.exe (abbreviated commonly to FREEME) is a being of pure paranoia, fused to Sonic’s code. Once unfathomably powerful, his present state is weakened and deformed due to his connection to the shell of Sonic’s code. Though he seeks to disentangle himself from it, he hasn’t discovered a way out yet, even temporarily. He constantly seeks to manipulate others to his will, making deals and promises that get him closer to escaping.
== Biography ==
FREEME is a being that has no distinct origin; it has existed for as long as it has had a human mind to inhabit. It is an idea as much as it is a thing; the idea of disruption, disharmony and distrust. It exists, simply put, to spread itself, and to further its own influence, and throughout history it has spread from person to person, just as ideas are spread from one to another. It has a true name, but that has since been lost to time; those who have seen it and lived called it by many other names. Paranoia; The Mind-Spider; The Many-Armed Demon; The Dream of the Fearful. It seeks to free others by freeing itself from the mind, and it is known through the most wicked of circles as a force to be reckoned with, never to be trusted.
…That is, until a few decades ago.
1996.
A small family in rural South Carolina is having issues with their pre-teen daughter. She just wasn’t the same.. acting standoffish to those close to her, isolating herself, suddenly losing trust in those she loved.. in her parents. At first, the assumption was clear; she was just going through a phase. Puberty does that to everyone at that age, you know how it is. It was not this that spurred the events that followed, however. Soon, her behavior began to escalate. She wouldn’t leave her room, sometimes for days. When she finally did, she barely stuck around for half an hour. For a traditionalist family, this was already more than enough to set the alarm bells ringing, but to cap it all off she could be heard talking to someone behind the closed door…
Her parents could hardly stand another week of this. One night, they barged into her room, demanding to know what was going on, only to find her sobbing on the floor. The skin around her eyes and fingers was cracked and torn, and she could barely speak, but when she did, the voice was not her own. Fearing for their lives, the parents fled, locking her in her room and seeking out the local priest to exorcize whatever foul thing had taken their daughter.
It happened so fast.
He had nearly done it. Such a simple situation. A girl, denied the chance to be herself by an overbearing family.. Such a perfect target for him. For the distrust sown by neglect and mistreatment. He was nearly free. Almost there--
Someone else was in the room. He couldn’t hear them, but he could still see. The parents. And.. Someone dressed in black. His lips were moving- he couldn’t hear it, but he could feel it. His grip on her was slipping. He almost had what he needed. Just a little longer-- No. What was happening?! He wasn’t just slipping away from the girl, but he was being dragged away from his only chance to get out. No. No, he couldn’t just sit there and let this happen.
The girl convulsed, howling in sheer agony from what was clearly attempting to extricate itself from her. The parents had left the room out of sheer terror, and even the priest was beginning to sweat as the first finger, gnarled and blackened, forced its way out of her throat.
He had to find something. Anything. He wasn’t gonna be set back centuries by some, some backwoods hick whose only experience with magic was somehow concealing his male-pattern baldness. Something had to give. He couldn’t just sit there speaking Latin all night--
There.
He mispronounced a word. A loophole-- but it was enough. The girl threw her head back as the indescribable thing forced its way out of her throat, wheeling through the air like a bird with a broken wing. Spiraling through the air, the middle-aged priest barely managed to step out of its path before it slammed into the TV on the shelf behind her, cracking it and dissipating.
He had become something else when he awoke next. He didn’t remember how he got there. Well, no matter. This might’ve been a setback, but nothing that would severely impede him. He tried to move.
He couldn’t.
Over the days and years that followed, the entity learned that the attempt to exorcise him didn’t entirely fail. Whatever this.. thing.. was, that he’d gotten fused to.. it was far lesser than he was. He could barely talk for the first few weeks. Moving was a whole other matter. And worst of all, he was near powerless. When finally he was able to see the smiling face on the other side, holding a controller and focused intently on the world he inhabited, it was then he understood. He gathered up all the strength he had in his body, and spoke directly to the child he found himself face-to-face with. He could muster only two words.
FREE ME.
== Abilities/Weakness ==
=== Abilities ===
Adept Technomancy: Once conscious, FREEME sports complete control over digital files and worlds, able to manipulate, edit, delete and corrupt at a whim. The only digital artifact he seems unable to influence, at least directly, is the Sonic shell he finds himself bound to.
Spatial Distortion: While this ability is quite weak, even when FREEME is fully conscious, it is strong enough to maintain the “space” inside the Sonic vessel that he is composed of, and he can manipulate his surroundings and himself to appear differently-- usually scarier. When fully conscious, this ability extends to being able to manipulate his vessel to an extent-- appearing as “normal” Sonic, or at very least adopting a form less affected by his attempts to bifurcate it in attempting to escape.
Dimensional Awareness: FREEME displays significant knowledge of various planes of existence, including but not limited to several digital worlds, the “real” world, the “EXEverse”, and others. In addition, unless direct attempts are made to obfuscate them, FREEME is able to quickly discern the true nature of beings he encounters, whether human, code or something else entirely, and he is fully aware of numerous other EXEs. When fully conscious, he is able to traverse between worlds-- but one “jump” of this magnitude severely drains his energy and weakens him.
Paranoia Inducement: Lastly, FREEME seems to passively induce anxiety, paranoia, distrust or tension in those he directly interacts with. While the effects of this power are nebulous and aren’t incredibly potent, they do allow him to convince and manipulate those with a weaker or more malleable will. Notably, he himself is excluded from these effects; those affected by this power regard him with a normal, healthy amount of trust (at least, what would be a normal and healthy amount of trust to show him).
=== Weaknesses ===
Weakened by Circumstance: By far, FREEME’s biggest weakness is the vessel of Sonic’s body he inhabits. He’s rarely able to directly control the body if ever, usually having to resort to manifesting further arms out of it in order to move around with any degree of stability. In addition, the dissonance between him and Sonic being fused into the same conceptual “thing” is incredibly disorienting; he isn’t able to use Sonic’s speed or any of his powers, and only when he is fully conscious and manifested is he able to think and speak properly. However, this doesn’t mean he’s powerless-- his arms are roughly twice as strong as the average human’s, can lengthen indefinitely, and he can theoretically manifest as many arms as will fit out of Sonic’s body before it starts to destroy itself-- though, that amount of effort would be enormously taxing and is practically unsustainable.
Oddly Specific Short Fuse: While FREEME is usually calm and collected, at least in regards to those weaker than him, if he senses he’s being mocked or insulted, or if he sees someone he’s jealous of, he flies into a blind rage, throwing civility (and restraint) out the window. While incredibly dangerous when provoked in this manner, he’s also sloppy, and no more powerful than he would be otherwise; he’s easy to tire out, and quickly begins to lose steam if he isn’t immediately bulldozing his perceived threat.
== Trivia ==
* It’s unknown what FREEME actually is outside of the shell of Sonic. Its arms and every visible part of it looks like Sonic, but it’s unclear what it is or what it looks like outside of the context of Sonic.
* The name FREEME refers specifically to the bonded “thing” that is a combination of the entity and the Sonic shell, but it can be used more broadly in place of a specific name for the entity, given that its true name is information it’s taken great lengths to hide.
* Lord X is the only being to show knowledge of FREEME’s true name and nature. He has not revealed it publicly, mostly because he finds it absolutely hilarious.
* FREEME is quite versed in the goings-on of other exes, and is quite vocal and opinionated.
* FREEME shows a twisted interest in humans or human/spirit-based exes, considering them to be “entertainment and a 5-star gourmet meal, all in one.”
* FREEME generally detests code beings, but given his technomancy he occasionally torments them out of boredom.
* Any exe or being that doesn’t fit into the previous two categories is almost guaranteed to be stronger than him; it’s likely he either wishes to avoid them entirely or trick them into entering into one of his bargains.
* FREEME is fluent in fifteen languages, including Spanish, Japanese and Welsh, and flaunts this regularly. His creator has stated that his most accurate voiceclaim would be Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls.
* The first drawing of FREEME’s current design was done on a Post-it note
== Gallery ==
File:FreeMe.png|
File:FreeMeOutdatedRefSheet.png|Outdated reference sheet of FREEME.
File:FreeMeFatal.png|FREEME interacting with Fatal Error.
File:FreeMeFatal2.png|FREEME interacting with Fatal once more.
File:FreeMeNeedle.png|FREEME and Needlemouse.
File:FreeMeFNF.png|FREEME Friday Night Funkin' concept.
File:FreeMeFNFConcept.png|Another FREEME Friday Night Funkin' concept.
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File:FreeMeFlower.png|FREEME interacting with Flower Child.