Rewrite

**Sonic** (better known as **Rewrite**) is the main antagonist of the Friday Night Funkin' mod *Vs. Rewrite*. He is the result of several rewrites of the original Sonic.EXE, resulting in greater self-awareness, egocentrism (calling himself a God, and the player a nobody), and power, being able to possess the souls of other beings to use them as accessories or take their physical forms. He was created by SpringlessEcho.

## Overview

Rewite has an eccentric personality, he has a big ego and is very manipulative, being extremely clever. He pretends to not be as powerful as he is, and hides his true intentions from his victims usually luring them with something that they like or are special to them, trying to come off as welcoming & comforting, creating a false sensation of safeness. He's also a formidable liar, but can get very angry when things don't go the way he intended, even if he tries to hide it. He gets very unstable, and will try to come out on top somehow as fast as possible, still he doesn't experience emotions the way a regular being does, they act different on him and he can't fully comprehend them. He's also incapable of true love, and the only two things that matter to him are himself and his goals. The way he would act around other EXE's depends if they know about his powers and intentions, if they know nothing about him he would pretend to be just Sonic. If they know about his powers and that he isn't Sonic, he would act similar to Alastor from Hazbin Hotel, letting his posture speak for himself in a way that sells the image of a superior being. He could also pretend to care about them and be easily decievable, so it's easier to manipulate them.

## Appearance

Unlike most exes, Rewrite lacks the demonic red eyes or blood stains, and instead looks like an extremely happy version of Sonic. That said, he does have some noticeable differences. Rewrite is slightly taller and wears long socks and gloves which he puts those he has turned into red rings on.

## Biography

### Official Lore

In the 90's, an exploiter priest decided to create something to deceive people of the time, and get easy money on top of it. The priest of a popular church created a fake computer program that supposedly will allow people to communicate with Christ, the lack of information and the ease to manipulate a fake story at the time contributed to the idea being bought. Lots of copies of said program (which was false) were sold by the church, shortly afterwards, some accidents occurred reporting the death of people who supposedly were influenced by the software to take their own lives. The repercussion was loud, but the scarcity of evidence meant that it was not possible to arrest the priest immediately. So, an investigation began. Meanwhile, the priest decides to test the misleading program he commissioned, to somehow understand how that could be happening. After sending the first message, he was frighteningly answered by someone on the other side, which in a disturbing way started to talk about life and about how the priest used something sacred to manipulate people. When the priest questions the entity - "who are you?" It just answers "I am GOD." The priest is found dead shortly after the incident, "accidentally" set fire to his own house and his body. Copies of said software were confiscated by the authorities, but some remain circulating around to this day, one of those copies falls into the hand of a certain person, who is going to be the protagonist of the story. It's through their eyes that we will see the events of this rewrite, 138. That's the number of times the game has been replayed, and possibly the amount of victims the game has made to this point. The game now takes the shape of a 3D experience similar to a Sega Saturn game, where you play as Sonic who came back after defeating Dr. Robotnik once again, and is ready to reunite with your friends to play games and have a good time. It's like a party game, where you meet the characters in a 3D environment to play games from childhood, like: Tag, Hide n' Seek, etc. But, as you would expect, things start to go south when the player himself ends up killing Sonic's friends and the game seems to react to his actions bizarrely accurate. Sonic starts going more and more unstable as the game progresses, taking actions for the player, and inducing him to do things his way, lurking into the protagonist's mind with the intention to claim his soul. The red rings Rewrite wears in his body are the in-game representation of his victims' souls, he collects one after killing each of his friends (Tails, Knuckles and Robotnik). That’s how you advance in the game, but those 3 aren't the only souls trapped inside this thing. As mentioned, this is rewrite number 138. Every time the game is booted, it's a new torture session for the souls trapped in this hellish dimension. It can come in a variety of forms, and happen in many ways depending on who is playing, it doesn’t even have to be a Sonic game.

### FNF Lore

Nobody knows what happened, but due to how many times Sonic.exe was reworked, he reached a point where he was aware of the outside, becoming Rewrite. There, he takes control of the versions of himself from another FNF mod (plus Majin Sonic). There, he has the three of them battle boyfriend, even fusing Xenophanes and Majin Sonic together.

When Boyfriend bests them, Rewrite reveals himself and faces Boyfriend. However, this proves to be nothing more than him playing around as despite Boyfriend proving himself, Rewrite laughs and stomping his feet tries to break the invisible wall before walking up to Boyfriend and presumably killing him. It is there that he reveals Boyfriend was not his target, but the player themselves.

Despite this, the player continues to put up a fight to where Rewrite decides to let them go for the time being, leaving with "See you next time."

## Trivia

* Rewrite has the ability to change his eyes to their former appearance (before his multiple rewrites).
* His front facing idle is called "God" in the files, except in the game over which is separately made and called "rewritego".
* Rewrite's front facing poses, at least most of them, mimick Baphomet's pose.
	+ Baphomet is a deity occasionally purported to be a deity or a demon, portrayed as a synonym of Satan or a demon, a member of the hierarchy of Hell.
* Rewrite's front facing down pose references **Toei Sonic's pose**.
* His pixelated idle and poses reference his icons in Thriller Gen.
* Rewrite approves transgender rights.
* Curiously, the .txt file of Game Over has written the phrase: "morreu mamando", which translated from Brazilian Portuguese would be vulgarly "died sucking".
* Rewrite's singing voice is taken from the "ttsdemo" website, a "Terrible Text-to-Speech" website that Springless mentioned
	+ He primarily uses the "Choirboy I" voice.
	+ In more current tutorials, Springless uses FL Studio's speech synthesizer plugin.
* Rewrite's "name" is actually Sonic, since the original name of his story is Sonic.EXE Rewrite.
* Rewrite's design was made specifically to invoke the feeling of being watched.
	+ Parts of his design were inspired by the cover art for *Sonic 3D Blast*.
* A long running theory about the mod is that the three rings on Rewrite's limbs represent the souls of Sonic.EXE, Majin, and Lord X, explaining why he could transform into them during "Trinity". Springless has clarified that this is false, and the rings only represent the past three victims of Rewrite.
	+ Rewrite, knowing what people expect of an EXE mod, decided to use the original trio from Vs. Sonic.Exe to pique the player's interest.
* Rewrite is set to appear in the 2023 animated fan film, *Sonic Villains*.