Sarah HenderSon

> I remember that night. That night was unlike *any* other... It was to *die* for. I used to *loathe* that day, letting it destroy me from the inside out for thirty, **long** years. But, I *finally* got my revenge. You are all mine now, whether you like it or not. I **AM** your god now.
>
> Needlemouse in the Season 2 trailer.

**Sarah Henderson**, later known as **Needlemouse**, is the titular main antagonist of the analog horror web series *Needlem0use*.

## Lore

* Needlem0use is one of the rarer examples of a female Exe.
* For the most part, her mind is practically shattered so she isn’t able to think straight, often acting solely based on impulse.
* She CAN change forms to be different characters or sprites, but she finds the Sonic form comforting in a twisted way.
* In-universe, Sarah is never called “Needlem0use”. The beta game disc, however, is named such, which explains the namesake.
* Sarah was born on April 20th, between the years of 1940 to 1945.
* She is weightless.
* Sarah is a little dense and is prone to fall for a facade.
* She gets bored way too easily, so she is always seen toying with her world to see what else she can mess with and corrupt.
* In the original tapes, Sarah wasn’t a female at first. Instead, her gender was going to remain a mystery and left up to the viewer.
* In the original tapes, Needlem0use was going to have more of a symbiotic relationship with "Sonic". He would be the unwilling host and the Sarah was the entity haunting him. However, this was scrapped, and the tapes were remade with Needlem0use reworked.
* Sarah is Asian.
* She was originally planned to be paired with Luther in her former life, but this was scrapped.

## Personality

> What was left of Sarah died all those years back. Don't fall for her facade.
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> Martin warning Luther not to fall for Needlemouse's facade.

Aside from the occasional drunken ramblings where she was mean and harsh, Sarah was generally well-liked and appreciated for her bubbly, relaxed and carefree nature.

Upon her death, Sarah became an entity filled to the brim with nothing but rage and hatred for the people who caused her death and covered it up. She has been shown to be extremely aggressive and vengeful, being hellbent on wiping out her friends and making them suffer as she had, unwilling to let go of what happened regardless if they felt guilty or not.

Needlemouse is particularly sadistic, openly admitting to have only been toying with Martin just to scare him, and her goal of killing her friends would also extend to bringing them into her world where she could make them feel the pain of everlasting death as she has. Needlemouse is also highly intelligent and skilled at manipulating situations to her advantage, having pretended to want to reach out and reconcile with Luther initially. She is also not above threatening the lives of her enemies' loved ones to get what she wants.

However, Needlemouse is also quite arrogant. As the controller of her video game world, she sees herself as its god and believes she's entitled to do whatever she wants to its inhabitants because of how she was wronged in the past, which also shows how delusional she is, believing her murders of her former friends to be an act of justice and completely fair considering how they essentially took her from her family, despite also doing the same thing to them.

Despite her arrogance, Needlemouse' backstory and motivations are tragic, sympathetic and rooted in a long-running trauma that lasted for decades until she was finally able to unleash her rage, completely fed up and angry at the world for what transpired all those years ago. It appears that while she does want to torture her former friends, she also wants to trap them in her world so she won't be alone and face feel the feeling of death by herself. Even after her death, Needlemouse still genuinely loves her sister Lily and misses her dearly. Sarah's thirst for revenge has also left her rather conflicted, as after killing Kyle she stated she felt complete, but at the same time, she didn't feel complete at all, nor did she feel happy about what she had done.

## Biography

Not much is known about Sarah's life, but she was born around the late 1930's-to-mid 1940's. At some point she began attending college with three of her friends, Michael, Martin and Luther However, the group would often argue and fall out at times, as well as get drunk and argue at parties but lily no she's plays games.

At some point in 1963, Sarah and Lily were invited to a party and she went to Luther to recruit him as there'd be a lot of people she wouldn't be familiar with and wanted Luther to be there in case anything went wrong in the 1960's when that was generally frowned upon. Luther agreed to go and brought along Michael and Martin. However, during the party, the group got drunk and got into a physical altercation, resulting in someone accidentally killing Sarah by accident, likely by smashing some kind of object over her head. The group, in their panic, moved Sarah's body from the location and tossed it in a nearby lake, promising to never speak about the incident again and take the story to their graves. Eventually, Sarah was registered as a missing person, with flyers being plastered around town as her friends, family and sister looked for her.

Soon after dying, Sarah woke up in what appeared to be a black void, confused on where she was until all the memories of the previous night came flooding back. Although she felt betrayed by her friends not helping, she came to believe they would remember her, before eventually losing hope and believing they hated her. Declaring revenge against them, Sarah swore that if she couldn't go home, neither would they, and spent decades waiting in limbo for her to gain some form of access to the mortal realm once again.

At some point, the video game company SEGA constructed one of their buildings over the lake where Sarah's corpse was buried. Sarah was eventually able to find her way into the code and took on the form of the company's mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. Although she was one step closer to completing her plan, she was still tormented by memories of the night she was murdered, feeling how it felt to be killed over and over again.

*(to be continued...)*

## Appearances

* *NeedleM0use*
* *G0t Y0u*
* *n0way*
* *Teaser*
* *finAle*

Season 2* *SpeedDuo64 Presents: Genesis Sonic Comp Beta!!1!*
* *SpeedDuo64 Presents:*
* *Duo*
* *confrontation*|}

Quotes
Season 1
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Season 2
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Trivia* Michael and Martin claimed that Sarah would "walk all over them", implying that Sarah wasn't the nicest person or that this was something she did when they argued. It's also possible that they were lying, referring to when she was drunk or they were drunk themselves while saying it.
	+ However, Michael and Martin's statements seem to be contradicted by the flashbacks in Season 2, which shows that Sarah did genuinely care for Luther and wanted to look out for him.
* In the Season 1 finale, Sarah's name is accidentally written as "Susie" on her Fun Gang photograph.
* When talking about her family, Needlemouse mentioned someone named Lily, which caused some to believe that Lily was her sister
* Needlemouse is Sonic's original name.
* Sarah's human form is 5'7".
* Outside of the main canon, Needlemouse was shipped with S4lly.
* The series' creator, ShutUpJoseph, has confirmed that Sarah's last name is deliberately left out due to its irrelevance to the plot.
	+ Additionally, they reveal that Sarah was around 18-23 years old when she died.
* Sarah’s race is Asian.
* In a community post 1 month ago shutupjojo posted some binary which when translated says "What if Sarah Henderson wasn't the only one to lose her mind and gain a skewed perspective of her world?" Confirming Sarah's last name is Henderson which is also Lily's last name and Kyle's

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*Sarah'*, later known as **Needlemouse**, is the titular main antagonist of the analog horror web series *Needlem0use*.
She is a vengeful spirit who was accidentally murdered by her friends and had her death covered up for thirty years, during which she spent her time confined to the coding of Sega's games in complete agony. Filled with rage and bloodlust, she took the form of the company's mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog, and began hunting down her former friends so she can trap them in her eternal hell of suffering.

Appearance
Sarah has jet black hair, wears a purple and pink shirt, a pair of dark blue jeans with a belt, and what appears to be either socks or shoes.

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