Burnhog

"YOU ARE COMING IN HERE WITH ME, TOM." - **Burnhog.**

**Burnhog**, by VoxBunn, Is the undead spirit of a deranged serial killer who possessed a Sonic the Hedgehog 3 cartridge after dying, as well as the Sonic character in-game, in order to continue his killing spree from when he was alive. He is Thomas Caddel's arch-nemesis as well as his mother's murderer.

## Overview

Burnhog is the twisted spirit of the serial killer Trevor Maurice, who after meeting his end in a house during a police standoff, wound up possessing a Sonic The Hedgehog 3 cartridge. His soul would go on to overwrite the code of Sonic, giving himself a form. Wanting to continue his killings from when he was human, he gives the characters in-game sentience so he may kill them in different ways over and over.. For eternity.

## Appearance

Burnhog's charred form appears as a taller version of Sonic with completely grey fur and missing patches of skin, allowing for parts of his skeleton to be seen. His face is completely burned off, revealing his skull, and his quills are messy and generate fire. His faker form appears as near perfect copy of Sonic, but with blue arms and a large mouth with yellow teeth.

As a human, Trevor is a dark-skinned man with dark brown hair and stubble, a dark suit and a light shirt.

## Biography

Trevor Maurice never had the best life. As a child, he was always seen as a weird and messed up kid. His parents never treated him right, he hated them, he hated everyone. He wanted to make everyone hurt just as much as him, he wanted to kill people. The only comfort he found was in playing Sonic The Hedgehog 3 on his SEGA Genesis. He used Sonic as a therapy tool, leaving the game running as he vents his feelings to the fictional hedgehog. He’d occasionally play as Tails so he could purposely plunge him into spikes, he hated Tails and believed the characters were alive and could feel pain. As he grew, he only became more twisted. That was until he met Angela Hope, the only person who ever understood him and treated him right. She quickly became his best and only friend. Her presence had helped Trevor improve as a person and put his life together.

By the time he was in his twenties, Trevor had improved tremendously and had even gotten himself a job as a photographer. He had proposed to Angela, and the two were now living as a happily married couple and even had plans for having a kid. Things were finally looking good for Trevor, but he still had those murderous thoughts from when he was a kid, but learned to resist them and shake them off. That was until one fateful night, five years later. Trevor had received the phone call that his wife was involved in a horrific car accident. He ran as fast as he could to the scene, but it was too late. She was dead.

Trevor returned home a broken man, all of his dreams and happiness were crushed. He would never be the same. The urges of murder eventually got the best of him when he snapped and brutalized his boss Valentino. Trevor had nothing more to live for, so why not finally give in to the urge? Every weekend, he’d look for a new victim. He would always commit the crime quickly and efficiently, and he would never get caught. It had become routine for him. People would refer to this mysterious killer as ‘The Weekend Slasher”.

One night, Trevor would commit his final murder. He would break into the residence of Scarlet Caddel and her 6-year-old son Thomas Caddel. Trevor would kill her in cold blood and Tom would hide and call the police. Trevor, deciding that killing this kid would not be worth him getting caught, leaps out the window into the car and flees the scene. The police would track him down and arrive outside his house. In one final act to not get caught, he lights his house ablaze, killing him.

Trevor’s soul would find a new home inside his old SEGA Genesis, where he would go on to possess the Sonic character. Now in this strange new world, Trevor wanted to continue his killing spree from when he was human. He would give the other in-game characters sentience, so that he may torture them over and over, and feel satisfied by their screams of pain and pleas for mercy. This wasn’t hell for him, this was paradise.

10 years later, the burnt Genesis would find itself in the hands of Kyle Wren, the best friend of the now 16-year-old Thomas Caddel. Trevor would psychologically torment Kyle for weeks to get him to deliver the Genesis to Tom, so he may exact revenge on the person who was the entire reason he got caught in the first place. Kyle couldn't take it anymore and gave the Genesis to Tom. Unknowingly, Tom had just brought home a killer.

A killer that wants revenge.

## Potential

* **Ghost physiology**: After dying, Burnhog returned as a ghost to capture them.
	+ **Possession**: Burnhog can possess video game systems and physical cartridges in order to infiltrate the worlds built inside them. He can also possess in-game characters.
	+ **Pyrokinesis**: Burnhog is primarily a user of fire-based abilities, made apparent by his quills that eternally generate flames. Burnhog is capable of manipulating and controlling fire in any way he likes, including both fire around him and also inside him, as he can generate fire within his body
		- **Fire breathing**: Adding on to his ability to generate fire inside of him, Burnhog is also able to generate fire within his body and release it from his mouth.
	+ **Resurrection**: Burnhog can infinitely resurrect the souls of his victims trapped in the game, usually for the purpose of torturing them over and over again for no reason other than pure sadism.
	+ **Sentience manipulation**: Burnhog can manipulate the levels of sentience and varying degrees of pain that the characters in the video game have, and does it so he can take pleasure in torturing them.
	+ **Shapeshifting**: Burnhog can take various forms as a result of possessing Sonic. Most notably, he can change between his charred form, his faker form and another form that a perfect replica of Sonic.
	+ **Video game manipulation**: Burnhog appears to be within complete control of the game he inhabits and can manipulate it to endless degrees to suit his liking.
	+ **Strength**: While he cannot access his abilities in the real world, his charred form is still quite strong.
	+ **Murdering skills**: As a former serial killer, Burnhog was proficient in murdering people and was exceptionally talented in kidnapping his victims and picking them off one by one. He also murdered animals in his youth, likely applying his skills of murdering animals to murdering humans upon becoming a serial killer.

### Weaknesses

* **Power nullification**: Although Burnhog has complete control over the video game world, he is unable to do much in the real world as his powers are nullified. Additionally, he cannot stay in the real world for too long, else he will disintegrate into ash.

## Trivia

* He is extremely short tempered, and lashes out at the slightest inconvenience.
* He is very proud of the crimes he committed when he was human.
* Because of his cowardliness, Tails is Burnhog’s favorite to hunt.
* In this universe, SEGA has gone out of business, leaving Sonic as a forgotten brand.
* Whenever Burnhog breaks the boundaries and limitations of the game, he will enter a corrupted state, losing all color and beginning to bug out. He is in immense pain when in this state, but after 10 years he has grown numb to the pain.
* His Charred and Corrupt forms both only have one eye because Scarlet Caddel had cut open Trevor’s eye with a shard of glass before he murdered her, leaving him with a permanent scar, even in the afterlife.
* Burnhog is blind in his left eye, but the eye appears normal in both his regular form and the Deceiver form.
* Burnhog normally talks in a raspy, deep voice, whereas his faker form speaks in a similar voice to Sonic but deeper.
* Burnhog is asexual.
* Burnhog will never refer to himself as his old name of "Trevor", for he believes his former human self to be weak.
* While Burnhog has killed many people over the years, the only ones known are his boss Valentino, an arcade manager named Megan, Thomas Caddel's unnamed mother, and his own parents. He also has indirectly killed this game's copy of Sonic the Hedgehog ever since he possessed the game.
* In the world of Burnhog, SEGA had actually gone defunct, leading to the *Sonic* franchise falling into obscurity.
* Burnhog has essentially replaced Sonic's code with his soul, the exception being his appearance.