Sonic.exe

* Sonic form
* Super form
* True form

* Tap-dancing, ego-tripping, insufferable phoney lookalike-overlord wannabe with a god complex (all by Sonic)
* Dad/Daddy (by his children)
* Hyphema Hedgehog
* Utter Jackass (both by J)
* Blood Bags (by Knuckles)
* Parasite (by Dr. Eggman)
* Painstakingly Oblivious Prick (by Herobrine)

### Date of birth

None (created approximately 5,000 years ago)

### Cause of death

Disintegrated by Super Sonic's energy beam (revived)

### Likes

* Being admired and worshipped
* Death metal, metalcore and rock music
* Over-exaggerating himself
* Governing with fear
* Loving his wife, Carimane
* Cracking dark and sadistic jokes
* Mutilating and eating flickies
* Playing video games
* Making ROM hacks
* Conquering lands
* Slaughtering people left, right and centre for fun
* Torturing people both psychologically and physically
* Mentally breaking his victims before killing them
* Playing "games" with his victims
* Tormenting Sonic and watching him fail
* Fear
* Watching his victims panic
* Savouring and prolonging his victims' suffering
* Dandelions
* Ridiculing and bullying others "lower" than him
* His plans succeeding
* Getting what he wants
* Sadistically "playing" with his puppets/servants
* Orchestrating attacks and wars on Mobius
* Training himself to become stronger
* Fried chicken
* Dancing
* Singing
* Non-expendable minions

### Dislikes

* Sonic's friends
* Being criticised
* Not getting what he wants
* Resistance and rebellion
* Sunlight
* Being interrupted
* Anti-Sonic.dll
* Country music
* Guns
* The lower class
* Being beaten and outsmarted
* His authority, decisions and/or intellect being questions
* Humans
* Mobians
* Boredom
* Waiting
* His wife and kids being insulted and/or disrespected
* Herobrine disagreeing with him
* Being mocked
* Free will
* Being seen as inferior
* "Weak" and "inferior" beings
* Tending to business-related affairs
* Child predators

### Goals

* Achieve ultimate power and godhood through any means necessary.
* Turn all living being in existence into his toys to play with for all eternity.
* Kill Anti-Sonic.dll and the entirety of the glimmers.
* Torment Sonic and mentally break him down before possessing him, killing his friends and enslaving them (all ongoing; failed numerous times).
* Form an organisation composed of killers and other entities to aid him in his goals (succeeded).
* Conquer the entire multiverse and turn it into his own personal playground for the fun of it (ongoing; failed numerous times).
* Kill Emperor X and destroy his universe (succeeded).

## Characteristics

### Height

* 3'9" (118 cm; Sonic vessels)
* 4'0" (121 cm; true form)

### Powers / Abilities

* Hedgehog physiology
* Crystalline physiology
* Nigh-immortality
* High-level intellect
* Creation
* Electricity empowerment
* Reality-warping
* Flight
* Teleportation
* Electrokinesis
* Ergokinesis
* Telekinesis
* Regeneration
* Superhuman speed
* Superhuman strength
* Near-limitless stamina
* Superhuman durability
* Stealth mastery
* Spin dash
* Soul manipulation
* Soul absorption
* Soul corruption
* Soul summoning
* Soul empowerment
* Filukinesis
* Tentacle manifestation
* Razor sharp claws and teeth
* Shapeshifting
* Crystallokinesis
* Technokinesis
* Vínteokinesis
* Portal creation
* Dimensional/universal travel
* Technological and hacking expertise
* Indominable will
* Master of manipulation
* Charisma
* Leadership
* Multilingualism
* Intimidation
* Dominion over the Black Sun
* Vast wealth and resources
* Pyrokinesis
* Fireball projection
* Fire immunity
* Magmakinesis
* Hydrokinesis
* Efiáltiskinesis
* Incredible acrobatics and reflexes
* Combat mastery
* Hand-to-hand combat skills
* Weapons proficiency
* Business acumen
* Expert hand-to-hand combatant
* Master tactician
* Cunning
* Illusion manipulation
* Umbrakinesis
* Symphokinesis
* Master of psychological and physical torture
* Harnessing chaos energy
	+ Super Sonic.exe transformation

**Shadow form powers**:* Darkness physiology
* Intangibility
* Possession
* Darkness teleportation

**Super form powers**:* Cosmically enhanced abilities
* Nigh-invulnerability
* Chaos energy manipulation
* Chaos powers
* Positive energy nullification
* Power bestowal
* Darkness empowerment
* Chaos energy empowerment
* Spatiokinesis
* Fragokinesis
* Forming his limbs into melee weapons

## Professional status

### Occupation

* Ruler and supreme leader of the Umbra Empire
* Warlord
* Master of the Seven Deadly Guardians of X
* Figurehead of the Cult of X
* Founder and CEO of EXE Enterprises
* Founder and owner of the Imperial Fortune and the Spectacle Stadium
* Co-founder and co-leader of the Phantom Reapers

## Relationships

### Family

Carimane (wife)
Darkly Voidborne (daughter)
Lexonard Voidborne (son)
Killian Voidborne (son)

### Allies

* Crysttails (best friend)
* Pinkamena Diane Pie
* Rainbow Factory Dash
* Lil Miss Rarity
* Herobrine (friendly rival)
* Israphel
* Fleetway Super Sonic

### Minions

	+ Xelnos (deceased)
* Seven Deadly Guardians of X (right-hand men)
	+ Gula
	+ Ira
	+ Invidia
	+ Luxuria
	+ Hubris
	+ Avarice
	+ Acedia
* Cult of X
* Soulwalkers
* Phantom Reapers
	+ Rogue (second-in-command)
	+ Jeff the Killer
	+ Ticci-Toby
	+ Eyeless Jack
	+ Bloody Painter
	+ BEN
	+ Nina the Killer
	+ Laughing Jack
	+ Clockwork
	+ Sally Williams
	+ Judge Angels
	+ Lazari
	+ Lulu
	+ Smile Dog
	+ Zero
	+ Puppeteer
	+ Suicide Sadie
	+ Nurse Ann
	+ Seed Eater
	+ The Rake
	+ Kagekao
	+ Dr. Smiley
	+ Ani

### Enemies

	+ Anti-Sonic.dll (arch-nemesis)
	+ Catel
* Team Sonic
	+ Sonic the Hedgehog (arch-nemesis)
	+ Miles "Tails" Prower (briefly brainwashed slave)
	+ Knuckles the Echidna (briefly brainwashed slave)
* Team Rose
	+ Amy Rose (briefly brainwashed slave)
	+ Cream the Rabbit (briefly brainwashed slave)
* Team Dark
	+ Shadow the Hedgehog
	+ Rouge the Bat
	+ E-123 Omega
* Team Chaotix
	+ Vector the Crocodile
	+ Espio the Chameleon
	+ Charmy the Bee
* Diamond Cutters
	+ Tangle the Lemur
	+ Whisper the Wolf
* Sally Acorn (briefly brainwashed slave)
* Eggman Empire
	+ Dr. Eggman (briefly brainwashed slave)
	+ Badniks
		- Metal Sonic
* Zalgo
* Slaves of the Candleholder
	+ Stripes
	+ Bleedingman
	+ Shadow Walker
	+ Evil
* J the Hedgehog
* The Dragonhearted
	+ Steve
	+ Alex
* Eclipse the Raven (former general)
* Nightshade the Stingray (former assassin)
* Umbra Empire (Universe-101) (dissolved)
	+ Emperor X (brief ally; deceased)

### Others

* Blackheart (acquaintance)
* Stronghold Seer (acquaintance)
* Underfire Union (acquaintances)
	+ yraniB
	+ GreenCube
	+ Green Steve
	+ Red Steve
	+ Blue Steve
	+ Silver Steve
	+ Zombie Boss
	+ Creeper Boss
* Professor Brine (former subordinate)
* Extortion (former subordinate)
* Herobrine (Universe-131) (former subordinate)
* Herobrine (Universe-112) (former subordinate)
* Fatal Error (former subordinate)
* Sonic.OMT (former subordinate)
* Brine (former subordinate)
* Alexbrine (acquaintance)
* Velocity the Speed Demon (brief acquaintance)

## Other

### Headcanon voice actor

* Tobin Bell
* Roger Craig Smith (Sonic disguise)

"*That's right, fox. Run as fast as your tails can carry you... while you still have a soul. Run, run, run. The fun has only just begun! Now... **let the games begin**. (darkly chuckles)*"
— Sonic.exe as he begins his chase of Tails.

"*Game over for you, Sonic. There is nothing left for you. I have ripped everything you've ever loved from your grasp: Your home, your friends, your *world*. (Sonic dashes at him) I will make you **bleed**. (stops Sonic and punches him in the face) I will make you **beg**. (kicks Sonic) I will make you **break!** (spindashes Sonic into a wall) Your life is in my hands, hedgehog. Your world belongs to me, as it should have since the day I came into mine! Look around you... (he grabs his head and forces him to look the corrupted Green Hill) This is MY WORLD! **MY** REALITY! You are but a mortal footnote (he'd throw Sonic's head down). What can you* possibly *do to stop me?! An arrogant, insignificant, **worthless**, **paltry**, **second-rate**, **inferior rat is NOTHING compared to me!!** (Sonic would roll over in pain) LOOK AT ME! THIS BODY YOU GAZE UPON IS BUT A MERE VESSEL TO HOUSE THE BEING I TRULY AM. I AM SO MUCH MORE THAN YOU! YOUR FRIENDS PLAYED MY GAMES AND LOST! I AM **BEYOND** YOU!; A PARAGON OF LIFE AND DEATH ITSELF, WHILE YOU ARE* NOTHING!! ***I**. **AM**.* **GOD!!!''***"*
— Sonic.exe taunting Sonic after beating him in a fight.

**Supreme Lord Xenophanes "X" Voidborne**, otherwise known as **Sonic.exe** or **Exe** for short, is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Herobrine) of the *Universal Rift* series.

He is an ancient, malevolent and powerful demon who rules a hellish dimension known as the Black Sun and its primary army, the Umbra Empire, as well as being the first member and leader of his species, the co-founder of the Phantom Reapers, the patriarch of the Voidborne family, the husband of Carimane and the father of Darkly, Lexonard and Killian Voidborne.

Thousands of years ago, X was a brutal conqueror who, alongside his army, laid waste to numerous civilisations and lands, slaughtering thousands in his quest to control Mobius and overrun it with his kind, as well as conquer the rest of the universe. Unfortunately for him, X would be imprisoned in his own dimension in the aftermath of a great war with his mortal nemesis, Avabris, and sealed away by having the strings connecting his realm with other dimensions cut, rendering him unable to cross over into the mortal realm for the next thousand years. When he was eventually released by a loyal follower he was in cahoots with by luring Sonic the Hedgehog into inadvertently repairing the connection between dimensions, X engaged in a fierce battle with the Blue Blur which left him beaten and humiliated. Swearing revenge, he assumed Sonic's likeness in a bitter rage and has since clashed with the hedgehog numerous times.

Even after being defeated time and time again by the very same hedgehog who humiliated him the first time, Sonic.exe's brutality, sadism and egotistical god complex have only magnified as the years progressed, developing an obsessive hatred towards Sonic and dedicating his life to mentally destroying Sonic by annihilating everything he holds dear before killing him and continuing his quest to rule all of existence as a god and enslave all living beings as his puppets. Noted for his insatiably power-hungry nature, love of carnage and bloodshed, flaming hot temper and childish sadism, Exe is by far one of Sonic's most evil and deadly enemies to date, viewing all the suffering he's inflicted as a game.

## Roles

Sonic.exe serves as the titular main antagonist of *Sonic: The Rise of X*, the main antagonist of *Sonic: Face Your Fears* and *Sonic: Beyond the Stars*, the overarching antagonist of *Sonic: Strike of the Abandoned*, a mentioned antagonist in *Dark Thoughts*, the unseen overarching antagonist of *Sonic: Power Grasp*, a protagonist in *Love From All Sides*, an unseen character in *The Creepy Files*, one of the two main antagonists (alongside Herobrine) of *Sonic and Minecraft: Chaos in the Multiverse*, the secondary antagonist of *Sonic Multimania*, one of the two unseen overarching antagonists (alongside Herobrine) of *Sonic: Infinite Collision* and a minor antagonist in *Sonic and Blaze: The Great Calamity*.

## Personality

Even before becoming the nightmarish entity plaguing mobians in the modern day, Xenophanes, or simply X, was already an extremely ruthless, vicious, merciless and cold-blooded tyrant who lead his army of demons to conquest, enabling, taking place in and orchestrating the slaughter of innocent mobians for his own amusement and possessing a consistent grin on his face throughout all the massacres he initiated without a shred of remorse or guilt. Utterly heartless and unforgiving, X commanded his army with an iron fist and left no survivors in the wake of his massacres, ordering his subordinates to go in for the kill and take whatever they wanted to bring back home. Even when going out with only a few of his subordinates or on his own, X attacked and ploughed through his victims with ruthless efficiency, making sure to savour in their suffering before swiftly ending their lives with gleeful satisfaction.

Even when forced into exile and imprisonment in his own dimension, X never gave up on his dream to become the strongest and spent the next few centuries training himself and ruling his dimension with a cruel disregard for the wellbeing of his kind, continuing to indoctrinate them into his army and train them into becoming savage killers and soldiers. While imprisoned, he became much more observant towards the outside world of Mobius, taking in the evolution of the planet as the centuries past and as life continued to flourish, finding the peaceful tranquillity and blooming of nature on the planet disgusting, making his eagerness to escape strengthen with each passing day. Due to lacking the ability to go out into the mortal world and kill to his heart's content and becoming more cruel towards his subjects, X seemed to have slightly mellowed out as he had more time to think to himself and ponder what he'd do after breaking out of his confinement and resuming his mission.

After his humiliating defeat at the hands of Sonic the Hedgehog, X spiralled into the pits of insanity, madness and rage, becoming consumed by his hateful desire to achieve revenge on Sonic for defeating him and stopping at nothing to destroy everything he kills about before mentally and physically breaking him. Upon his transformation into Sonic's ultimate foil and commencing on his first murderous spree in a millennia, X, now known under the name 'Sonic.exe', became an even more aggressive, bloodthirsty, barbaric, sadistic, demented, callous, brutal and truly malevolent demonic entity that murders, mutilates, tortures, maims and consumes others for the sole reason of sick pleasure and enjoyment, essentially being the metaphorical personification of pure evil. At his core, Exe is a brutal and vicious mass murderer that relishes in the many heinous crimes he's committed and feeling no remorse for anything he's done, viewing remorse as a weakness that keeps people restrained and chained to the shackles of morality. Even more so than his desire to kill, Exe is an advocate for spreading destruction, chaos and mayhem, desiring to take over and destroy everything he can because it's fun.

Unlike his allies and other associates who possess sympathetic qualities, tragic backstories or legitimate motivations that highlight their reasons for what they do, Exe is simply a cold-hearted and malicious monster who does what he does because he finds it fun and it makes him happy. Despite being a demon, Exe has a complete and even philosophically deep and detailed understanding of good, evil, right, wrong and morality, and even though his evil nature was amplified from the dark matter he absorbed upon his creation, he and all the other shade demons were already malevolent prior to absorbing it, proving that he has no moral agency problems. Exe admits that he's fully aware that he's evil and is capable of doing good, but actively chooses not to because he wants to be evil for the sole reason that it's fun and it's what he's known what to do since he was brought into the world. When Sonic talked to Exe during their first confrontation and believed he was just an evil counterpart, Exe outright laughed at his proposal of redemption.

Exe is little more than a self-serving, selfish and destructive sadist who derives genuine pleasure and enjoyment from the suffering and pain of others for his own amusement. Exe has always displayed sadistic tendencies even during his early years, ordering for his subordinates to kidnap mobians to be tortures, executed and fed upon. Exe always makes sure that even if his victims die quickly, he continues mutilating their bodies post-mortem for no reason other than because he can and he wants to. Exe especially enjoys inflicting psychological torture onto his victims by turning their dreams into nightmares displaying the souls of his thousands of victims. Exe also enjoys taunting his victims by writing them off as useless, nobodies and worthless to their faces to further break them down. During his many confrontations with specific enemies such as Tails, Knuckles and Dr. Eggman, he often taunts them with reminders of how he brainwashed and enslaved them, forcing them to fight Sonic against their will, intending on poking fun at whatever lingering trauma they may have from the incidents. He often is displeased whenever his victims put up a weak fight, but also dislikes when they don't appear visibly distressed and beg for their lives. In truth, Exe lives for the thrill of the hunt and enjoys stalking his victims whenever they run away from him and try to escape his clutches, hunting them down and savouring their fear. Often times when pursuing his victims, Exe will deliberately slow down even when confronting his victims, finding great pleasure and enjoyment when they fall to their feet and back away in intense fear as he slowly walks up to them with his ever-present, sickeningly wicked smile, morphing his body parts into appearing distorted and eldritch as he unhinges his jaw in preparation to devour them. Exe is so sadistic that it almost seems childish to a degree, as he has come to see the suffering, torture and killing of innocent people as a game and enjoys 'playing' with his victims whenever he can, referring to the slaves he captures as his 'toys' and treating them like puppets. Exe is also overly eccentric and enjoys being over-the-top with his sadism because he enjoys seeing how far he can go with trying to scare his victims despite how cheesy it may be, as it's just his sense of humour. Speaking of which, his sense of humour is incredibly dark and morbid, with many of his 'jokes' appearing less like actual dark jokes and more akin to making fun of and mocking people, such as his victims. Exe targets people indiscriminately and no one is able to avoid being the victim of his wrath, whether they be flickies, mobians, humans or pretty much anything that's alive.

While appearing mindless and animalistic at a first glance, Exe is, in actuality, an extremely intelligent, perceptive, quick-thinking and meticulous individual. Having been alive for thousands of years, Exe is extremely knowledgeable of the nature of his dimension and others that exist within the universe, having a keen knack for exploration and discovering new things about the universe that could potentially further his own goals. Exe is also knowledgeable about a lot of civilisations and cultures that are a part of his universe, having seen many civilisations come and go in the millennia he's been alive. Exe is also a skilled planner and tactician, always scheming and creating new plans with how to deal with his enemies, as well as being able to create a perfect synchronisation of emotional and logical thinking to advance his plans.

In addition to his intelligence, Exe is also a skilled master of manipulation, taking great pleasure is deceiving people for his own selfish gain. During the war against Emperor X, Exe took advantage of the heroes fighting his counterpart to rig the latter's own universe-destroying device to use on his universe, which he activated upon Emperor X's death and managed to keep hidden from everyone else, even the heroes despite not necessarily working with them. In addition to his deceptive prowess, Exe is also very charismatic, being able to charm and seduce people by appealing to the evil in their hearts. The Cult of X is a perfect example of individuals who have been swayed into serving Exe due to his charm, becoming fanatically loyal to the demon and serving his every whim without question due to either blind loyalty or genuine fear.

As the dictatorial leader of his entire species and an army to his name, Exe possesses incredible leadership abilities and has lead his army to dominate numerous lands and destroy civilisations. However, his leadership of his species doesn't mean he treats them well. Like most people around him, Exe sees his entire species as little more than collateral damage and pawns to be used in his game as foot soldiers. Ever since establishing his rule, Exe has turned the Black Sun into a totalitarian regime where adults are indoctrinated and forcefully drafted into Exe's army to serve on the front lines, being likened to kidnappings by taking shade demons away from their families. Exe possesses absolutely no care for his species and has no sympathy for any of his soldiers that die fighting his battles unless he's actually somewhat close to them, as is the case with the Seven Deadly Guardians of X. Anyone citizens of his kingdom who challenge or question his rule are met with assassinations disguised as mysterious deaths to silence them.

Subsequently, Exe possesses a strong desire to conquer as much land as he can and pretty much anything that can be conquered in the first place. Having already basically conquered his dimension, he sought to expand his rule to the rest of the universe and, later on, the entire multiverse to prove that he can and, as is the motivation for most of his heinous actions, for the fun of it, viewing existence as an empty playground waiting to be played with.

By far, Exe's second most notorious quality alongside his sadism is his absolutely enormous and dangerously fragile ego. Not only is Exe an extremely ancient entity, he's also one of the universe's most egotistical, possessing a completely self-absorbed, selfish, self-centred, grandiose and exaggerated view of him self and sense of self-worth. First and foremost, Exe possesses an intense god complex, believing himself to be worthy and deserving of achieving godhood simply because of his self-perceived superiority to other lifeforms, seemingly harbouring an obsession with his own image, capabilities and what he stands for, seeing himself as 'perfect'. Exe is vain, shallow and callous to an unfathomable degree and genuinely believes in his own superiority, locking himself in an isolated social bubble where only he resides. Exe has managed to completely convince himself that he is above everyone, every species and every form of life to the point of it appearing as an actual delusion. Whenever his beliefs, status of importance and/or claims of aspiring godhood are challenges or questioned, Exe will feel personally offended and often throw himself into at best, a passive aggressive state, and at worst, a violent rage. Exe also has a great love of being admired, worshipped and being the centre of attention, being unable to stand the spotlight being taken from him and demanding recognition for his heinous crimes. Leaning heavily into his immaturity, Exe lives in a child-like fantasy where, essentially, he is the best, the smartest, the most powerful, intelligent and influential, and everyone else is nothing compared to him because he says so and is unwilling to admit otherwise as it would shatter the delusion he's been entranced in for thousands of years. Exe also has a tendency to refuse to admit when he's wrong and arrogantly blames everyone around him for his own shortcomings and failures because of his ignorance and unwillingness to admit fault to anything. His ego is so off-the-walls intense that he possesses numerous items attributed to his greatness, such as self-portraits, statues and buildings designed after him to showcase to the denizens of his dimension. In addition to his arrogance, Exe is incredibly eccentric, exaggerative and flamboyant, presenting himself as a showman of sorts in order to gain peoples' attention. Exe is so arrogant that Sonic has outright called him more egotistical than Eggman.

Exe also displays a passionate hatred for humanity and mobiankind, mainly due to his superiority complex spawning from his inflated view of himself as superior to all lifeforms. While his hatred towards mobians and humans is straightforward, it's also somewhat complex, as while he despises them out of arrogance and pettiness, he also takes a great fascination in the two species due to how they thrive and operate, viewing them as mere items to destroy, rebuild and experiment with in any way he likes.

Most notably to those who have seen him in fighting action in the present day, Exe possesses an extremely passionate, yet insanely obsessive hatred for Sonic due to the hedgehog beating him in a fight, making it the first proper fight at Exe has ever lost, making him feel incredibly humiliated and weak from being beaten by a regular mortal. Ever since then, Exe has dedicated his life to becoming Sonic's ultimate antithesis, even discarding his true form in favour of possessing an artificial vessel resembling Sonic just to further serve as a dark counterpart to the Blue Blur, as well as a physical embodiment of everything the hedgehog stands again. Exe's hatred for Sonic is even worse than Eggman's, as even though the mad scientist is similarly obsessively hateful towards the Blue Blur, he also genuinely respects him as a worthy adversary and can put his differences aside with Sonic to work with him when he deems it necessary. Exe's hatred, on the other hand, has motivated him to do some truly despicable and horrible things, with his obsession with Sonic being incredibly strong and fuelling most of his actions. Just the mere mention of Sonic's name in a way that doesn't demean the hedgehog is enough to set Exe off. Exe wants to completely destroy Sonic both mentally and physically, desiring to psychologically torture him by enslaving the souls of his friends and mentally break him down before killing him, possessing his body and becoming the true 'anti-Sonic'. His confrontation with Sonic was also the beginning of a similar obsession he possessed for strength and becoming stronger and more powerful so that he'll never be beaten again. Motivated by nothing but pure pettiness, Exe has murdered and enslaved thousands, sought to destroy everything Sonic cares about, possess his body and erase his soul out of pure spite, disdain and animosity. Every single bad thing that Exe has done in the modern day following his release from imprisonment has been rooted in a deep-seated, pathologically obsessive and egotistically-driven, unhealthy hatred towards Sonic, all because of a petty grudge over being beaten in a fight by the Blue Blur that bruised his ego, subsequently throwing what can best be described as a violent tantrum over it.

Even without his frenzied, crazed and unhealthy obsession with Sonic, Exe is naturally a very bitter and angry entity filled to the brim with boiling fury and rage. He is often prone to throwing violent temper tantrums whenever he doesn't get his way and has even resorted to killing his underlings whenever he is immensely displeased or facing the prospect of failure. Exe's anger is powerful enough to shake entire surfaces of land and even though he can maintain a calm and composed demeanour, in truth, Exe is always internally seething.

At his core, Exe is little more than a spoiled, petulant, ill-tempered child with a god complex and too much power and authority. When faced with failure, instead of accepting it or digesting it in a healthy manner, Exe will often freak out completely and throw giant temper tantrums where he physically attacks anything he sees, destroys property and even harms people who happen to cross his path. Exe's childishness also extends to his sadism, as he likes to view everything he does as a game where he always comes out on top and thus, cannot stand being on the losing side, often raging at whoever beats him by calling them a 'cheater', which is deeply hypocritical considering the fact that Exe shows absolutely no mercy to his victims, manipulates others, lies and never makes any of his 'games' fair in the slightest because of his delusional, self-centred and egotistical desire to always be in control and win so he can feel superior, as that's all it amounts to in actuality. As such, Exe, as per usual, will never admit to being wrong as it'd shatter the echochamber he's locked himself inside of where he's the best, most important and superior person that exists who can never lose. In addition, Exe is a complete and utter coward at heart, choosing to flee when he realises he's being beaten as even facing the prospect of defeat would shatter his delusion of being invincible, showing that Exe is truly just a coward who is too engrained in his own delusion to grow a spine and actually face what he loves to manipulate most other than people; reality.

However, despite how utterly cruel, homicidal, tyrannical, hateful, vengeful, arrogant, egotistical and obsessive Exe is, surprisingly enough, he is capable of genuine affection, with the only people he truly loves being his family, composed of his wife, Carimane, and their three children, Darkly, Lexonard and Killian. It's no secret to anyone who knows Exe on a personal level that he is deeply in love with Carimane, having first met his wife when they first came into existence and watched as she climbed the ranks of his army. He fawns over her whenever she acts flirtatious or sweet around her and adores everything about her, feeling grateful at the fact that there are in fact entities in the universe that actually like him and aren't just followers (that he most likely has manipulated in the first place). Exe is also a very loving and doting father, always showing genuinely tender love and care to them and teaching his kids valuable life lessons that will help them when they grow up to take control of his empire in the future if he were to ever retire, strongly believing that they will uphold his legacy and grow up to do truly great things. Exe also has a fondness for his pet voidhog, Veed, finding him cute.

In addition to being able to feel genuine affection towards others in a loving way, Exe is also capable of forming genuine friendships and having respect for others. While he often boasts over them and feels like the most superior in the room, Exe does get along with his other Phantom Reapers leaders, Herobrine and Israphel. With the former, he possesses a friendly rivalry with the Ghost of Minecraftia, but still respects him and gets along with him. With the latter, Exe and Israphel happen to get along quite well, with Exe being one of the only people who can bring Israphel out of his work and to have a bit of fun. Exe also shares a strong friendship with Pinkamena Diane Pie and Rainbow Factory Dash. He greatly enjoys hanging out with the two due to the similarly disturbed and bloodthirsty nature, often conspiring on new ways to kill people that have never been done before and assisting each other with gathering torture devices. Exe is also good friends with Fleetway Super Sonic due to his insanely destructive nature and love of carnage. Most notably, the person Exe gets along with the most is Crysttails, an alternate universe incarnation of Tails. Although they initially got off to a rocky start due to Crysttails believing Exe to be Sonic, the two crystalline beings established a bond due to their shared hatred of Sonic. Since then, the two have grown an almost brotherly bond similar to that of Sonic and Tails and Exe has come to consider Crysttails to be his best friend.

Exe is also, shockingly enough, not without some decent qualities. While he will gladly kill children as he murders indiscriminately, he seems to draw the line at killing infants, although this is mainly due to not infants not being able to properly process fear and cannot comprehend him, and thus, it isn't due to him not being able to bring himself to kill something so defenceless of thinking of it as 'going too far'. He does, however, carry a very strong disdain for sexual abusers, especially child predators, to the point that if he is made aware of a predator nearby, he will drop everything he's doing and solely focus on disposing of the abuser, often violently murdering and sparing their victims out of pity.

## Appearance

In his vessel form, Sonic.exe appears as a carbon copy of Sonic with a few differentiating features. For instance, his fur is a darker, slightly more grey shade of blue, and his skin is slightly pale. The sclera of his eyes is completely black and he possesses red irises with white pupils. As a result of a flaw during the process of creating his artificial Sonic vessels, Exe's eyes are almost always leaking blood, although it seems to stick to his muzzle for the most part and hardly every drips on the floor. Underneath the blood below his eyes is a faint red rash accumulated from the blood staining his muzzle. Exe also possesses small, sharp claws and highly sharp teeth with a yellowish tint. Much like Sonic, he's also fitted with white gloves and red, folded boots with a white stripe and golden-yellow buckle, although the red of his boots is slightly darker. Exe's hands and feet are a very dark, nearly black shade of grey, being a product of Exe's possession of his artificial Sonic vessels. On his chest is a large X-shaped scar, stretching from the upper to lower skin of his torso.

When turning into his super form, Exe becomes a purely black entity, his quills point upwards and they trail off into a flaming black mist. The X on his chest is still visible and his sclera is completely red with tiny white pupils. His shoes are gone and his feet are more curved, lacking toes.

Exe's true form as Xenophanes/X is a mobian hedgehog-shaped shade demon with unkempt, upwards standing quills tipped with pink crystals known as 'umbranite', including his ears, eyebrows, knees, tails, shoulders and elbows. He is dark purple in colour with a lighter shade of purple curving around the lower halves of his arms and legs. His chest is marked with a red, X-shaped scar and he has grey stripes around his eyes. He retains his black, hollow sclera and glowing red eyes, sharp yellowish teeth and sharp claws.

In his shadow form, Exe appears as an amorphous black mass of darkness with only his head primarily visible, but can generate a vaguely hedgehog-looking body from his darkness that can stand upright and appear as a regular looking hedgehog.

For his true form's attire, Exe wears black gauntlet gloves that are jagged and shaped into triangles at his forearms with thin black rings around the wrists, red fingers, and four grey diamonds on the proximal area of his fingers, as well as black boots lasting from the middle and grey reaching from the middle to the toe, as well as grey cuffs around the ankle, a white streak down the middle and two small, white circles sitting on each side. Exe also wears a black cape with a purple interior.

## Powers and Abilities

### Default Powers

* **Crystalline/hedgehog/shade demon physiology**: Exe is a shade demon in the form of an anthropomorphic mobian hedgehog who possesses extraordinary powers, both of that of regular shade demons and the physiology of a mobian hedgehog. He also possesses crystalline aspects due to the umbranite crystals covering the body of his true form. Not only is Exe a naturally powerful entity, he is also the most powerful shade demon due to being the first that came into existence.
	+ **Electricity empowerment**: As a shade demon, Exe can become tap into electrical forces to become more powerful. Coming into contact with a charged-up power plug, powerful electrical devices or being hit by a bolt of lightning can increase his power, allowing him to temporarily become stronger, faster and more durable. However, in spite of possessing Sonic's speed, he is unable to enter an electrically-charged up state similar to Sonic when the latter is at full power, nor can he empower himself through Sonic's own speed due to their differing natures.
	+ **Nigh-immortality**: As a shade demon who has existed for approximately 5,000 years, Exe is an immortal being and cannot die through conventional means such as natural causes, diseases, outside elements and, due to being able to live forever, old age, having an infinite lifespan. Also, due to the nature of his species, Exe can survive without oxygen and doesn't need to eat or drink to survive, although he chooses to consume his victims just for fun, not requiring sustenance of any kind. Exe can only die through being killed, but even that is a challenge, with the only things that can take him down being items or beings of similar or higher power.
		- **Fire immunity**: Like the rest of his species, Exe can not only survive extremely hot temperatures, but also survive walking through fire and even swimming in molten hot lava, remaining completely physically unaffected and sustaining no damage whatsoever.
		- **Regeneration**: Exe can regenerate from pretty much any wound inflicted on him, whether it be from ranged or melee weapons. Even if Exe gets his limbs shot or sliced off, they can easily regenerate fully without issue in a matter of seconds. Exe's regenerative abilities are so strong that he's even able to regenerate his head, something that no other shade demon can do, although it takes slightly longer and is more painful, as well as leaving his body without motor functions until his head fully regenerates, although it doesn't kill him. His regenerative abilities apply to both his artificial Sonic vessels and his true form. However, the more Exe's body regenerates, the more time it takes each time it happens, often forcing him to abandon his current artificial Sonic vessel and possess a new one.
	+ **Flight**: Like all shade demons, Exe is able to levitate off the ground as a means of travelling, but unlike all other shade demons, Exe is also able to full-on fly, allowing him to effortlessly soar through the sky at varying speeds. Compared to Sonic, who can only run at high speeds, Exe prefers to glide and fly when travelling.

### Unique Powers

* **Creation**: Exe is capable of creating anything he thinks of with the snap of his fingers, but to a limited degree that isn't completely overpowered. During his first few decades alive, Exe mastered his creation magic to the point where he was able to conjure a giant castle with everything already inside of it, such as rooms, items, decorations, equipment, etc.. When Herobrine and Exe met and the former decided to move his long-destroyed mansion into the Dark Space, Exe effortlessly conjured a new room for himself and Carimane, as well as creating a torture room below the mansion containing many devices and weapons.
* **Crystallokinesis**: Exe can manipulate and conjure dark crystals as an offensive battle technique due to the crystalline physiology of his true form. He can generate crystals, expand them and sharpen them to impale his victims or other things, such as using them to break through solid objects like walls. During his first confrontation with Sonic, he generated a tall circle of umbranite crystals to trap him before the hedgehog spin dashed through them. While skilled in crystal manipulation, Exe is far better adjusted at manipulating and conjuring umbranite crystals due to them being part of his true form's body.
* **Efiáltiskinesis**: Exe can manipulate peoples' dreams by turning them into vivid and lifelike nightmares, often containing hallucinations of the screaming souls of his victims begging for release as they decay into crystal-covered, decaying corpses. Despite this, he cannot directly enter peoples' dreams himself to further torment them, although he believes the psychological pain inflicted just from the nightmares alone already does the job for him.
* **Electrokinesis**: . Exe can manipulate and generate varying levels of electricity due to his nature as a shade demon who can be empowered by electricity. Often times, Exe likes to generate electricity to use during torture sessions by routinely shocking his victims simply by poking them and watching them writhe in agony. Exe can also summon bolts of lightning that he routinely summons to power himself up when going into battle. However, Exe is unable to manipulate the electricity of others, such as the electricity generated by Sonic when at full power due to the nature of the speed powers being different; Sonic's being with him since he was born and being used for good, whereas Exe has only had his for a few years and is used for evil.
* **Ergokinesis**: Exe can manipulate and generate energy in varying capacities, using it primarily as an offensive battle technique. Exe can shape energy to his liking, such as shaping them into spheres to throw at his enemies or summoning large beams of energy to blast at his opponents. As the end was nearing during his second confrontation with Sonic while he was in his super form, Exe summoned thousands of energy spheres to launch at the golden hedgehog in a desperate attempt to kill him, as well as launching several large and powerful beams of energy when his energy spheres started depleting at the hedgehog's hands before being defeated. When he was first confronted by one of Crysttails' robots, it blasted an energy beam at the demon before he blocked and held it in place with his bare hands and fired the energy back at the titanic machine, destroying it effortlessly.
* **Hydrokinesis**: Exe can manipulate, generate and bend water to his whim. Whenever he battles Sonic and ends up in a watery environment, he prefers to try and ensnare Sonic in water given the hedgehog's hate of swimming. When he first attacked Green Hill and slaughtered the flickies living on the islands to fill the waters with their blood, he held his arm out and expanded the bloodied parts of the water to go forward and continue polluting the water.
* **Illusion manipulation**: Exe can conjure illusions which he uses to psychologically torment his victims for fun. When he confronted Knuckles for the first time, he generated several illusions of dark, shadowy versions of himself that appeared from all sides and gradually wore Knuckles down. Additionally, when he confronted Sonic later on and severely beat him, he tormenting him by summoning several illusions of his shadowy clones pointing and laughing at the Blue Blur as he lay on the ground, tired.
* **Magmakinesis**: Exe can summon and manipulate pure magma. When Sonic was brought into the Black Sun for the first time and fought X at the front of the latter's castle, the demon telekinetically threw magma at Sonic to try and incinerate him on the spot.
* **Portal creation**: Exe can create/summon portals out of thin air which he uses as a form of travel between different locations, such as long distance areas, dimensions and even universes. He can also generate portals of varying sizes.
* **Pyrokinesis**: Exe is able to generate and manipulate fire, serving as one of his favourite abilities due to how utterly destructive it is. Exe takes pleasure in burning down as much wildlife as possible and watching as his victims slowly, yet painfully burn to death while they scream in agony until all that's left are their charred remains. When he first attacked Mobius for the first time in 1,000 years and attacked Tails, he knocked him out and brought him to Angel Island, which was completely on fire similar to Sonic and Tails' first journey to the floating island due to the demon simply igniting the tip of his finger and touching a bush, letting the fire spread to the rest of the forest. During his later confrontation with Sonic, he gradually set fire to Green Hill to try and ensnare Sonic via falling trees. When he confronted Tails for the second time when the latter was ready to face his fear of the entity, Exe proceeded to surround him in a large circle of fire to try and invoke a response of panic and anxiety, intending on reminding him of his corruption on Angel Island previously.
	+ **Fireball projection**: Exe also has the ability to generate fireballs to use as a throwable projectile. During his second confrontation with Tails, he launched several powerful fireballs at the fox, with one of them hitting as Exe watched as Tails frantically put out the tiny fire that had started on one of his tails. During the end of his and Herobrine's multiversal takeover, Exe generated hundreds of fireballs to attack the heroes in a fit of rage, only to be met with them being deflected and launched back at him.
* **Reality-warping**: Exe can warp reality on varying scales and is his favourite ability due to the feeling of control it gives him. Within Mobius or other dimensions and universes, Exe can warp reality on a small scale. When in the Black Sun, however, Exe has a better grasp on his reality-bending abilities, being able to shape and move the very earth he stands on. When in a state of enragement, Exe has a tendency to widely distort reality around him, twisting the fabric of reality nearby him into becoming jumbled and chaotic.
* **Shapeshifting**: In his artificial Sonic bodies, Exe is capable of performing a wide array of shapeshifting abilities due to the unnatural nature of his cloned body combined with his own supernatural capabilities. Exe can stretch his mouth to unnatural lengths, open his mouth to reveal a seemingly endless black darkness, grow his body to giant heights, generate multiple extra, albeit smaller eyes, generate multiple arms and legs, and split his jaw into two near the edges of his mouth. Exe's favourite form to shapeshift into is a eldritch, spider-like form. Exe primarily uses his shapeshifting abilities to terrify people to derive pleasure from their fear. Other times, Exe will shapeshift into a near-perfect copy of Sonic for the purposes of deception, as was the case during his first confrontation with Tails. However, Exe's shapeshifting abilities appear to drain a lot of energy, preferring to only use them in circumstances where he feels as though it's necessary.
* **Soul manipulation**: One of Exe's most notable abilities is the power to manipulate the souls of the dead, specifically the souls of victims he has killed so he can corrupt them and turn them into his slaves, nicknamed "soulwalkers". Exe has a great level of control over the souls he claims, being able to manipulate them in various ways.
	+ **Filukinesis**: Exe can generate ghost-like strings from his fingertips and attach them to the souls of his victims to manipulate them in any way he desires. He can also summon individual strings and telekinetically manipulate them to pull on his soulwalkers.
	+ **Soul absorption**: Exe can absorb the souls of his victims, whether they be in a fresh state before being moulded into his slaves or have already become his servants. Absorbing the souls of his victims transforms them into energy and he is able to release them after he's done with them.
	+ **Soul corruption**: Exe can corrupt souls and transform them into soulwalkers; souls that serve as his servants he can play with for eternity. However, his corruption of the soulwalkers is able to be reversed by purification from good-hearted power, such as the power that comes from the Chaos Emeralds.
	+ **Soul empowerment**: Upon absorbing the souls of his victims, Exe can channel their soul energy to become stronger, giving him a temporary boost of power that surrounds his body with a blood red, misty glow.
	+ **Soul summoning**: Exe can summon the corrupted souls of his victims for varying purposes, being able to summon them to his position by either standard teleportation or by having them emerge from portals in the ground.
* **Superhuman durability**: While shade demons are a naturally durable species, Exe, as the first one to exist and the most powerful, is exceptionally durable to a supernatural degree, being able to take massive amounts of damage without as much as a scratch appearing on his body. Standard weapons inflict virtually zero harm on him and even weapons with more destructive properties only leave scratches and minor injuries that he can easily heal from. Standard punches from Knuckles are also not able to damage him enough, although when not being able to dodge Knuckles' fists, takes massive damage that actually does injure him substantially. Exe can also take quite a few hits from chaos-energy charged attacks. When going against Emperor X, Exe was able to withstand against his attacks and weapons due to them being of the same properties of those in his home universe, although stronger. However, while he is incredibly durable, Exe can still be hurt by beings of similar or higher power. During his first fight with Sonic, Exe lost due to Sonic both outsmarting him and using his speed powers to confuse and continuously beat on, spin dash into him, revving up and ploughing into Exe several times at super high speeds that the demon had never seen before until Exe grew exhausted and weak, before delivering a final, powerful electrically-charged kick to the face that sent him flying backwards and laying on the ground in defeat. Additionally, individuals charged by the powers of the Chaos Emeralds and other magical forces, while still having to put up a decent fight with Exe, are capable of wiping the floor with him in minutes. During Exe's first confrontation with Super Sonic, while he fought hard, only managed to damage Sonic once and was easily defeated within a matter of minutes. When he confronted Tails for the second time, the fox, near the end of their fight, swiped at the demon with his tails multiple times at alarming speeds, which managed to actually pierce Exe's flesh.
* **Superhuman speed**: Due to his deal with Velocity the Speed Demon, Exe has access to the same type of speed as Sonic's. As such, Exe can move at impossibly high speeds, easily being able to reach Mach 1 within seconds and the speed of sound in a matter of minutes. During his second confrontation with Sonic, he was able to keep up with the hedgehog's speed and even outran him at one point just to taunt him before attacking. With his speed, Exe can cross vast areas of lands within a minutes, run on water and lava, scale walls and ceilings, outpace lasers, break the sound barrier, effortlessly blast his way through almost anything that comes in his path and skilfully navigate sharp edges.
* **Superhuman strength**: As the first and strongest member of the shade demon species, Exe can be defined as a powerhouse, being insanely strong to a supernatural degree. With only a few swift punches and kicks, Exe can bring his opponents to an incredibly weakened state, allowing for him to finish them off easily. His aggressive and bloodthirsty nature adds to how strong he is, being able to tear through moral flesh easily and perform the same to inanimate objects such as concrete, metal and steel. When facing off against Dr. Eggman for the first time, Exe effortlessly annihilated every badnik that was sent towards him in less than a minute, tearing them apart in seconds and having enough time to go through all the robots whilst individually killing the flickies powering them by spin dashing over their bodies. Even tougher robots such as Metal Sonic stood no chance against Exe in the long run, as the robotic hedgehog was quickly bested and deactivated. Exe has a habit of picking up people and holding them by the neck to choke them out or break their necks regardless of size, as well as often throwing them at full force, which can launch them up to hundreds of feet away. During his second confrontation with Sonic, after pummelling him with supernatural attacks, he got down to Sonic's level and just started beating the hedgehog senseless, aggressively kicking and punching him over and over again. When Exe decided to face Emperor X's army head-on, he physically tore his way through the horde of enemies coming his way, ripping Emperor X's soldiers apart limb from limb, tearing their heads off and throwing them into the heads of other soldiers, knocking their's off from the sheer force the heads were travelling at on account of Exe's incredible throwing strength. Exe is even strong enough to go toe-to-toe with Super Sonic (although every time he does it ends in his swift defeat) and even Herobrine.
* **Symphokinesis**: Exe has a habit of generating and manipulating music, preferring to sometimes generate music in battles whenever he deems it fitting. When he does, a large, multi-coloured musical note will be summoned and slightly jump around to signify audio.
* **Technokinesis**: Exe has a very good grasp on technology and is skilled in manipulating it to his liking. Exe often likes to use technology to generate games where he can experiment with new methods of how to torture his victims, or manipulating Flash-based torture games to overwrite the victim with someone he dislikes, such as Sonic. Whenever he hacks his way into technology, he acts akin to a virus, using his powers to destroy and manipulate what's inside the digital world.
	+ **Vínteokinesis**: Exe can interact with video footage, although his abnormal and otherworldly properties result in video cameras and footage often becoming corrupted on account of his demonic presence.
* **Telekinesis**: Exe can move objects, people and other things using his mind alone, possessing a powerful form of telekinesis. Primarily, Exe uses it to launch things that are included in his ranged attacks, such as fireballs and energy spheres. Often times, Exe will use his telekinesis to pick up people and throw them against hard surfaces just to watch their bodies physically deteriorate as he laughs in sadistic enjoyment. During his second confrontation with Sonic, he lifted Sonic up in the air and telekinetically slammed him against the side of several platforms multiple times.
* **Teleportation**: Exe is capable of teleporting from place-to-place across with a limitless range. Often times, Exe will teleport around his victims several times in the span of less than seconds to confuse and disorientate them to mentally wear them down and just for fun. It's shown that Exe primarily uses teleportation in the case of hunting victims, preferring to simply run like the wind to travel ever since possessing Sonic's speed. When Exe teleports, he momentarily emits black smoke and a brief static-like sound to indicate a teleportation movement.
	+ **Dimensional/universal travel**: Exe is capable of travelling across dimensions and even parallel universes within the multiverse.
* **Tentacle manifestation**: Exe is able to generate tentacles from different areas of his body, primarily from either bursting his arm and generating tentacles from his arm socket, which are coloured the same as his arms, or by generating long, dark purple tentacles from his mouth after unhinging his jaw.
* **Umbrakinesis**: As a partial shadow entity, Exe can easily generate and manipulate darkness to his liking. Due to his sadistic nature, Exe primarily manipulates darkness with the purpose of scaring his victims, enjoying the thrill of making darkness creep from dark areas and expand/spread to the rest of the area he's haunting like a crawling disease.

### Shadow Powers

* **Darkness physiology**: In his shadow form, Exe is an entity entirely composed of smoky, shadowy darkness. Exe's shadow form is the form he takes when not inhabiting his true form or one of his artificial Sonic vessels.
	+ **Darkness teleportation**: Exe still retains his ability to teleport, but can only do so by either enveloping himself in darkness and disappearing or by entering darkness and appearing somewhere else. Whenever he uses darkness to teleport, a large, expanding circle of darkness will generate in the area he's about to come out from.
	+ **Intangibility**: Due to possessing a noncorporeal body, Exe can phase through solid matter, ignoring all physical effects in his way.
	+ **Possession**: In his shadow form, Exe has the ability to possess either empty vessels or living people. In the case of the latter, the vessel's soul is buried within the dark recesses of their mind as Exe takes centre stage in their body. When possessing his Sonic vessel, Exe causes his lower arms and legs to become a dark shade of grey as a result of his demonic influence. When it comes to living beings, Exe has to actively fight his way against his victims' willpower to take control of their body, with the process being extremely physically and mentally painful for them.

### Super Powers

In his super form after absorbing the negative chaos energy of the Chaos Emeralds, Exe commands infinite power and unlimited energy, and also gains incredible, near-unlimited cosmic/magical powers that not only grant him new powers, but greatly enhance his current powers and abilities.

* **Chaos energy manipulation**: In his empowered super state, Super Exe can manipulate chaos energy on a whim, specifically negative chaos energy due to the evil in his heart, allowing him to tap into the powers residing in the Chaos Emeralds.
	+ **Chaos energy empowerment**: Through empowering himself from the negative energy of the Chaos Emeralds, Super Exe can become even stronger.
* **Chaos powers**: Super Exe can summon a barrage of chaos powers to use during battle. When he first used his super form against Sonic and Anti-Sonic.dll, he used chaos control when they ran up to face him, freezing time around them as he kicked the two hedgehogs hundreds of feet away within a split-second. During a later fight, he summoned several chaos spears to hurl at Super Sonic and deflected the ones the golden hedgehog sent at him.
* **Darkness empowerment**: Similar to how he gains power from negative chaos energy, Super Exe can harness pure darkness to empower himself further and become even stronger.
* **Fragokinesis**: Super Exe can generate explosions, destroying anything in his path. Just before Sonic transformed into his super state, Super Exe created several explosions around him, blowing up the ground and turning the ground into a circular platform.
* **Limb weaponization**: Super Exe can morph his limbs into melee weapons to use in combat. He's able to primarily shape his limbs into varying melee weapons such as swords, spears, axes, battle axes and scythes, using them to slash at his victims or tear holes in space-time.
* **Nigh-invulnerability**: As an entity empowered by the cosmic power of the Chaos Emeralds, Super Exe is near-invulnerable and invincible to all forms of regular attacks, with only beings of similar power able to deal damage to him.
* **Positive energy nullification**: Much like how Super Sonic can neutralise negative chaos energy, Super Exe can neutralise positive chaos energy to weaken his opponents.
* **Power bestowal**: Super Exe can bestow his chaos emerald powers to others around him, allowing them to also enter a super state.
* **Spatiokinesis**: Super Exe can manipulate space by tearing holes in space-time and create wormholes to suck in opponents and fling them to other places, similar to creating portals.

### Abilities

* **Authority**: As the ruler of an entire dimension that he has governed over for thousands of years, Exe possesses absolute authority over the Black Sun and no one, not even his lover, is able to compete in terms of rulership to him. He possesses supreme authority over everything and everyone in his dimension, having all city and town officials being on his payroll and keeping him updated with situations in his realm that could present a problem to him, such as rebellion. Exe's authority is so strong that most people dare to question it, and he's even able to get away with silencing those who protest against him and cover it up by controlling his dimension's news coverage.
	+ **Leadership**: In addition to the general authority he possesses, Exe is a masterful leader, being the head of an entire empire composed of loyal and devoted soldiers, generals, lieutenants and other military personnel, as well as directly being the master of several entities, such as his guardians, and an entire legion of undead souls at his disposal. In part to his frightening demeanour and sharp temper, Exe has complete control over his underlings and is easily able to keep them in line. Exe's unpredictable and erratic nature is also a contributing factor to his leadership, as he was able to establish control over his variants by acting flamboyant an eccentric, appealing to their desires.
* **Business acumen**: Very rarely, Exe is shown to be great at understanding business due to running his own company that manufactures weapons. For as much as he doesn't attend to his businesses, he possesses enough business knowledge to run his companies efficiently.
* **Charisma**: Having lived through centuries and perfected his manipulation prowess, Exe is remarkably charismatic and has an easy sway on most people who are unaware of the extent of his nature. His entire cult was formed by him charming numerous people by playing into their dark fantasies and delusions of being recruited for the purpose of creating a "better" world free of humanity's sins. Additionally, he played into the twisted desires of the members of the Phantom Reapers, swaying them into joining the organisation by tapping into their darker desires for murder and chaos.
* **Combat mastery**: As an immortal demon that's lived for thousands of years and lead an entire army of his own, Exe is a master of combat and trained in most forms since the inception of his very being. Combining his combat talents with his supernatural-level strength, Exe is a an utter powerhouse that doesn't go down easily and loves the thrill of fighting, not taking a preference between hand-to-hand and melee combat. The most notable event where his combat abilities were put to the test (as well as the one event he'd rather dedicate his life to forgetting entirely) was during his first ever confrontation with Sonic, where X utterly annihilated the Blue Blur in their first fight to the point where Sonic was actually struggling to hold his own against the demon, and only gained the upper hand once X insinuated he'd kill his friends and make them into his slaves, prompting Sonic to fight back with ferocious determination. Similarly, Exe put up an incredible fight against Sonic during their second encounter, mostly by channelling his newfound obsessive hatred for the blue hedgehog as he repeatedly kicked and punched him even while he was down.
* **Harnessing chaos energy**: Exe can harness the negative chaos energy from the Chaos Emeralds to empower himself, using it to induce a super transformation.
* **High-level intellect**: Without a doubt, Exe, as a dark lord governing over an entire dimension and its species with a legion of loyal, fanatical followers at his disposal on account of his manipulation, is an extraordinarily intelligent being. Throughout the course of his existence, Exe has conquered numerous lands using his excellent foresight and cunning prowess, staging attacks to claim victims and take out rival kingdoms and tribes that threaten his power or contain artefacts he seeks to get his hands on. Additionally, given his abilities as an entity that can travel across dimensions, Exe is incredibly knowledgeable of the nature of his universe. In spite of his high intellect, Exe is more prone to acting on impulse and giving in to the more immature aspects of his personality that put a damper on his competence and let his ego (unfortunately) shine through.
	+ **Master tactician**: In addition to his capacity for ruthless cunning, Exe is also a master of scheming, being someone who's always creating plans to try and stay ahead of his enemies. From his days as a small-time conqueror and his current days, Exe orchestrates attacks on towns and cities to eliminate potential threats and uses spies inside these locations to gain intel before making the decision to strike. His ruthlessness knows no bounds, making sure to leave no survivors of his wrath in order to tie up any potential lose ends. In fact, Exe's entire escape plan was meticulously devised by him by taking advantage of Sonic's altruism and desire to protect the ones he loves, pretending that Tails was kidnapped by Dr. Eggman as to lure the hedgehog to a broken portal and use his speed to reactivate the link between dimensions, setting X free.
* **Incredible acrobatics and reflexes**: While already a great fighter, Exe is an excellent acrobatic with swift reflexes to boot that help him in combat, granting him great dodging and manoeuvring skills. During his first confrontation with Sonic, Exe not only bombarded him with physical attacks, but also swiftly dodged the many attempts the Blue Blur made to strike back before pummelling him with a brutal series of punches and kicks to knock him off-balance. During their second confrontation in his "Sonic.exe" form, Exe, with the assistance of his newfound super speed, chased after Sonic and near-instantaneously copied the tactics the Blue Blur used to keep himself out of danger when running, such as swiftly manoeuvring around sharp turns and corners while blasting off with incredible speed.
* **Indominable will**: While willpower from others can serve as a hinderance to Exe, he himself possesses an iron will to prove himself superior and give him the motivation he needs to succeed in his goals of conquest and killing. First and foremost, every defeat at Sonic's hands only strengthens his will and gives him the drive to escape death time and time again so he can come back and finish what he started. His will is so strong that he would rather be locked in an endless cycle with Sonic than be defeated.
* **Intimidation**: By all definitions, Exe is an entity of terror who easily strikes fear into the hearts of others. It doesn't take much convincing from Exe to indoctrinate people into following his orders as a simply cold, icy, hate-filled stare is enough to bring his soon-to-be underlings crumbling to their knees in fear.
* **Master of manipulation**: Exe is a master manipulator by all means and is exceedingly skilled at deceiving others into doing his bidding. Exe is a menace when it comes to manipulating and using others, utilising his cunning mind into orchestrating scenarios designed to benefit him, such as his escape 1,000 years after his imprisonment by having one of his followers lure Sonic by taking advantage of his altruistic nature, animosity towards Eggman and friendship with Tails. While he does use charm and play into his followers' delusional beliefs to sway them into swearing their loyalty to him, he primarily relies on manipulation to tempt people into following his orders and believing the lies he spouts, playing into his cult's misanthropic delusions that he will make the universe a better place.
* **Master of psychological and physical torture**: As a extreme sadist, Exe has always been a fan of torturing others, either from using physical or psychological means. He greatly enjoys mentally breaking his victims and driving them into depression and insanity to derive pleasure from their suffering, as well as physically scarring and beating them to listen to their cries of mercy and further mentally break them down. In the aftermath of his second confrontation against Sonic and the undoing of his corruption, Tails would confide in Sonic that being a slave to Exe felt like he was trapped in his mind and forced to watch as his body attacked Sonic against his will as he in his mind was held up by marionette-like strings. Judging from Tails' account of events, Exe has emotionally and psychologically tortured his slaves for thousands of years without remorse by keeping them captive in their own minds as he forces their puppeteered bodies with their corrupted minds to do his dirty work and act as his toys to abuse whenever he gets bored.
* **Multilingualism**: Having lived for thousands of years and invaded many different lands, Exe is fluent in many different languages, although the exact amount is unknown, but it's known to be in the double digits.
* **Near-limitless stamina**: Due to being a supernatural entity who is unable to die, Exe's stamina is borderline infinite and he is unable to become exhausted as normal mortal beings do. Throughout the centuries, Exe has lead attacks on countless cities and towns and came out of them without as much as breaking a sweat. During his first fight with Anti-Sonic.dll in a thousand years, Exe was still able to go toe-to-toe with him for tens of minutes and fighting off hordes of glimmer soldiers that were bombarding him. In his fight with Emperor X, a much stronger variant of himself, he managed to keep himself from tiring even though his counterpart was beginning to. On the odd chance where Exe is engaged in a fight with someone on equal or higher power levels than he is, he can become tired eventually, leading to him retreating out of cowardice. During his first fight with Sonic, Exe had the upper hand before taunting Sonic with threats to kill his loved ones, initiating the Blue Blur to unleash as much of his speed powers as he could, easily overpowering Exe for minutes on-end and leaving him exhausted and humiliated, having never experienced that type of power against him before in his life.
* **Razor sharp claws and teeth**: Exe possesses natural weaponry in the form of his sharp claws and teeth, which can easily scratch at and pierce mortal flesh with relative ease.
* **Spin dash**: Due to inhibiting Sonic's trademark speed, Exe is capable of performing the spin dash technique, allowing him to roll into a ball and dash off at super speeds.
* **Stealth mastery**: Exe is surprisingly stealthy and able to sneak around open areas with ease, which would seem uncharacteristic due to being very open with his hostility and attacks towards others. During his first hunt on Mobius after being released from his imprisonment, he expertly tracked down Tails, Knuckles and Dr. Eggman before attacking and enslaving them, choosing to hide in the dark, shadowy corners of the areas they were currently in before striking. Specifically, when he hunted Eggman in Marble Zone, he blew out the torches to plunge the area into darkness and allow him to better slink around undetected before revealing himself.
* **Technological and hacking expertise**: Exe is remarkably skilled in hacking and operating technology, although he mostly uses his technological expertise to simply create ROM hacks of video games for his own amusement. Specifically, Exe is talented in computer programming.
* **Vast wealth and resources**: Exe is by far the wealthiest individual in his entire dimension, fittingly so due to being its ruler. He often spends his vast amount of money on betting when watching people fight to the death in the Spectacle Stadium. Other than that, Exe is known to not do much else with his money other than paying his servants.
* **Weapons proficiency**: Exe is a master in pretty much all forms of weaponry, having trained himself in using any and all new weapons created in his dimension that are produced by his company. Exe primarily uses a scythe as his weapon of choice and has shown to be highly skilled in using it.

### Equipment

* **Red rings**: Red rings are objects that Exe keeps an abundance of. Red rings are a type of ring that contain corruptive qualities. Whenever they are touched by a mortal being, they transform into a soulwalker, essentially reverting them to a soul that becomes bound to Exe's control. During his hunt of Tails, Knuckles and Dr. Eggman, Exe used red rings to transform them into soulwalkers instead of simply killing them.
* **Scythe**: During his centuries as a warlord and conqueror, Exe primarily used a scythe as his preferred weapon of choice, showing himself to be highly trained in utilising the weapon to effortlessly slash his through hordes of enemies.

### Weaknesses

* **Anger**: Exe is an entity fuelled by an eternally burning hatred for everyone he views as being below him. Primarily, his hatred is directed at Sonic due to the latter beating him in a fight and humiliating him. Exe's anger is a weapon he channels to empower himself and become more brutal in combat, laying waste to anyone who stands in his way. Exe's rage is ultimately a detriment to him and everyone around him, as not only do those around him bare the brunt of his frustration when things don't go his way, but Exe, who's already a tremendously emotional, immature and irrational individual, is prone to losing his cool entirely and completely giving in to his anger, causing him to make huge detrimental mistakes that cause his plans to go haywire and result in him losing. Exe essentially loses all sense when in a significantly enraged state, only focussing on the person he's attacking and trying desperately to kill them.
* **Arrogance**: Exe is by far one of the most egotistical and arrogant beings in the universe, with his ego, entitlement and megalomania surpassing even that of Dr. Eggman. Due to his status as a tyrant who's lived for centuries and never lost a fight since the day he was created (until he met Sonic, that is), Exe's ego has only continued to skyrocket as a result of his overconfidence in his abilities to win and topple others as if they're nothing. Exe is so self-absorbed and egocentric that he genuinely believes he can take on anyone he wants just because he can and that those who he battles and loses against are "cheating" as a result of his childish viewpoint. Because of this, Exe's ego often distorts his ability to think rationally, taking as much time as he chooses to gloat over his enemies and indulge in his sadistic patterns by toying with them while they're incapacitated, allowing them to gain the upper hand and take him out.
* **Positive chaos energy**: Due to his super form being powered by negative chaos energy, Super Exe can be countered by beings wielding and harnessing the positive chaos energy of the Chaos Emeralds. Because of positive chaos energy being more powerful than its negative counterpart, beings such as Super Sonic are more powerful than and capable of defeating Exe in his super form, as is what happened when Sonic and Exe in their super forms for the first time.
* **Positive willpower**: Similar to the power of positive chaos energy being a weakness for Exe in his super form, positive willpower is a weakness that can be utilised against Exe in his shadow form. Whenever Exe possesses someone, it puts them through excruciatingly agonising mental and physical pain until the possession process locks them in their own mind and gives the demon control over their body. To do this, Exe has to fight against the victim's willpower as he's in the process in possessing them. Unfortunately for him, individuals with strong, iron wills are able to fight off his possession and repel his influence. If Exe were to instantly try possessing them again, he would find it a lot harder due to his attempted victim's willpower strengthening and protecting their mind from his control.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Carimane

"*To think that even that monster can love is beyond me.*"
— Tails describing Exe and Carimane.

Carimane Dreadthorne is perhaps one of the only entities in all of existence that Exe shows genuine care and appreciation towards. Being the second shade demon to be created, Exe naturally formed a bond with the future warrior and she became his top assistant before moving on to joining his army and rising the ranks to becoming his second-in-command. As the millennia passed, the two grew to develop an extremely strong friendship despite her retaining a role below him. While Exe saw those beneath him as worthless and only existing to serve as his slaves, he showed his bias towards Carimane by hanging out with her, engaging in casual conversations and even taking part in laughing at the underprivileged civilians of his dimension. Around ten years before being released from his imprisonment, X and Carimane decided to get together and quickly married. Exe continuously showers Carimane with affection and melts with delight whenever he's in her presence, showing a more awkward side to him due to his wife being much more of a flirt. Some of the only reasons Exe bares his true form on rare occasions is to engage in intimate activities with Carimane.

The first and foremost aspect of their relationship is how they view inferior life. Exe and Carimane live by the philosophy that the strong will always trample over the weak and that that's the way the world should work. They are both intensely addicted to spreading terror and dismay, inciting chaos, destroying everything in their paths and engaging in copious amounts of mass murder on the regular. He even trusted her enough to go after the Calamity Stone.

Exe is also shown to be highly defensive and protective of Carimane. When he was made aware that Emperor X, his counterpart, had actually left his Carimane and their children to die in favour of gaining more power for himself, Exe snapped and immediately disregarded all his plans to team up with his counterpart, deciding that he needed to die as soon as possible and showcasing just how strong his love for his wife is that he'd go to such lengths to avenge a version of her that died due to his counterpart's megalomania.

#### Darkly Voidborne

"*She definitely inherited her dad's inability to accept losing. Good to see he also taught her to be delusional.*"
— Knuckles commenting on Exe and Darkly.

Darkly is Exe's eldest child and only daughter. Due to her being his firstborn child, she is the heir to the throne of the Black Sun and as such, he's always spending time with her to train her to be a worthy heir. Exe is impressed by Darkly's keen knack for learning and has a tendency to somewhat spoil her, which further feeds into her ego. Darkly also appears to have inherited Exe's inability to accept defeat, with Exe proudly proclaiming himself that he taught his daughter to never cower or run away from a fight. Exe has a lot of love, care and faith in Darkly and believes she'll grow up to become a fierce leader of their dimension.

#### Lexonard Voidborne

Lexonard is Exe's eldest son. Whenever the two interact, they normally delve into conversing about differing intellectual topics that interest the former and invite the latter's curiosity. Exe is amazed by Lexonard's intelligence despite his young age and has a lot of faith in him, ensuring that his education is good enough that he's able to reach the potential he deserves.

#### Killian Voidborne

Killian is Exe's youngest child. Exe has a fascination with observing Killian's bloodthirsty behaviour and approves of the his son's desire to become part of his army in order to engage in the slaughter of innocents, and because of Exe's own sadism, he greatly enjoys bonding with Killian and teaching him murder methods. Although he approves of his son's homicidal urges towards mortal life, he makes sure to keep him from harming and/or killing life in the Black Sun, including animals.

### Allies

#### Crysttails

"***Crysttails**: I know you just want us to be colleagues, but you don't know how much this means to me. For the first time in years... I feel **wanted**. You've given me that sense of belonging I've craved for so long. (tearfully hugs Exe) T- Thank you...
**Sonic.exe**: (sighs) Not used to being sappy but... (hugs him back) anything for you, kid. If you need me to root for ya, you don't even have to ask.*"
— Exe receiving a hug from Crysttails.

Crysttails is Exe's best friend whom he views as a younger brother. At first, the two crystalline beings got off to a rocky start due to the demonic fox mistaking Exe for his version of Sonic when the former stumbled into his universe. Upon realising that the person attacking him was a counterpart of Tails, Exe became intrigued and became even more curious when he found out that Crysttails was imbued with umbranite crystals and dark matter. Upon Crysttails realising that Exe wasn't Sonic, nor a version of him, he set aside his desire to attack and listened to the demon, who complimented his work and discovered the fox's similar hatred of Sonic. With this in mind, the two began to collaborate, with Exe distributing weapons made by company to assist Crysttails in his conquest, with the latter providing scientific assistance in Exe's projects.

The two crystalline entities are as thick as thieves and possess a strong, borderline brotherly bond similar to that of Sonic and Tails, with Exe viewing Crysttails as a younger brother of sorts and engaging in sibling-like banter. He views Crysttails as not only loyal and friendly, but dependable and reliable, always possessing a great amount of gratitude whenever the crystalline fox assists him in his scientific ventures. Exe places a lot of faith in Crysttails and trusts him with any task given, as well as trusting him to make great uses of the weapons he ships over from his universe. Crysttails' skills as an engineer, inventor and scientist have earned him Exe's utmost respect and admiration, as well as a bit of light-hearted jealousy. Exe trusts and values Crysttails so much that he puts him above even his own guardians, but still below Carimane, allowing him near-complete dominion over the Black Sun whenever Exe needs him to look over the dimension if he's available to do so.

The two are also known to bond over their unrelenting hatred towards their respective Sonics, both stemming from a place of revenge. Crysttails is also notably one of the only entities that Exe feels genuine sympathy towards for what he's been through, and has promised to give him the proper friendship he's longed for for so long.

#### Pinkamena Diane Pie

"*She's fun, she's carefree, she's chill, she bakes a hell of a meal* with some fleshy undertones *and she's got murder on her mind 24/7. She's the embodiment of a good time. As far as I'm concerned, she's already inducted.*"
— Exe commenting on Pinkamena during her induction into the Phantom Reapers.

Pinkamena Diane Pie is one of Exe's first proper friends, having first encountered the killer pony when she was brought into her induction into the Phantom Reapers. Exe took an immediate liking towards her sadistic attitude and hyperactive personality blending together. In his words, she was already inducted into the organisation as soon as he took a liking to her. Since their introduction, the two have forged a beautifully strong friendship, often taking part in torturing sessions together for sick amusement and laughing over increasingly dark and disturbing jokes that would horrify most others. Exe deeply cares about Pinkamena and always makes sure to check up on her wellbeing whenever she's feeling down. He also enjoys showing Pinkamena his historic achievements and the numerous lives and torture/murder devices/equipment he claimed while conquering, much to her admiration and awe.

#### Herobrine

"***Alexbrine**: Do you two ever see eye-to-eye?
**Both**: Rarely.*"
— Exe and Herobrine answering Alexbrine's question.

Herobrine is a close friend and friendlt rival towards Exe, having been branding by those around them as "best frenemies" due to their complex relationship. Exe first met Herobrine after the latter was defeated by Sonic and his friends. Upon seeing the angry, blocky human, Exe offered an alliance and offered to team up with him after watching him battle Sonic from afar, to which he accepted.

Since their first meeting, the sadistic duo have established a very friendly, albeit complicated relationship throughout the years. The two are extremely skilled at planning together, creating complex schemes to eliminate their respective threats in their universes, as well as establishing an entire plan to conquer the multiverse. They've been shown time and time again to bounce off each other very well due to their similar interests in spreading chaos and despair for little reason other than amusement, as well as ranting about their hatred for their archenemies.

Despite how much they get along with each other, the two have butted heads several times due to their similarly huge egos, as well as a mixture of that and clouded judgement distorting their visions. While both are particularly arrogant, Exe is far more insidious with how egotistical and self-absorbed he is, often prompting Herobrine to call him out to strike sense into him, much to no avail, which is slightly hypocritical due to the Ghost of Minecraftia's own arrogance. Exe often doesn't mind Herobrine calling him out as it serves as a source of amusement watching Herobrine get angry at him, although, true to how sensitive Exe is, he becomes irritable when Herobrine's points are aimed at Exe's character and manage to flair his temper. On rare occasions, their arguments will escalate into outright brawls, normally with Exe losing due to being more hot-headed, emotional and irrational compared to Herobrine's more stable approach for fighting.

Regardless of their differences, they are capable of settling them like reasonable adults (for the most part) and prefer to remain on good terms rather than be constantly fighting, as for all their disagreements, they do respect and somewhat care for each other.

#### Israphel

Israphel is one of Exe's closest friends, surprisingly more than Herobrine, preferring to hang out with Israphel in his spare time and having more fun with him during their meetings rather than planning with Herobrine. Exe greatly enjoys being in Israphel's presence, having befriended the ghostly scientist when he and Herobrine first got to know each other and took an instant liking to him due to his more laid-back nature compared to Herobrine's more stoic and demanding behaviour. Exe enjoys playing video and card games with Israphel, often beckoning him to join whenever he's not busy. He's fond of Israphel's sarcasm and wit, having even directly told Herobrine to his face that Israphel is more fun than he is.

#### Rainbow Factory Dash

"***Rainbow Factory Dash**: All of the failures help to fuel success.
**Sonic.exe**: In the bloody and visceral weather game of chess
**Rainbow Factory Dash**: And just because you've disappointed you'll pay the price
**Both**: Now accept your fate and die in the Pegasus Device!*"
— Exe and Rainbow Factory Dash singing the campire-esque "Pegasus Device" song.

Rainbow Factory Dash is another one of Exe's closest friends and, as he has done with other members of the Phantom Reapers, took a near-instant liking to the murderous pony. Since he doesn't exert any authority over what she does compared to Herobrine, he's far more friendly towards her and interacts with her much more akin to that of a true friend rather than an underling with a professional, albeit friendly relationship. The two are extremely close and often accompany each other on journeys across their worlds, as well as engaging in casual racing to test their speed and compete for fun. As is to be expected, the two also get along due to their shared view on life where the strong triumph over the weak and leave them behind in the dust to die or slowly wither away.

#### Fleetway Super Sonic

Fleetway Super Sonic is another one of Exe's friends who he took an instant liking to solely for his callous and destructive nature. Although he wasn't one of the variants of himself he recruited, Exe still decided it'd be worth it to invite Fleetway in his and Herobrine's multiversal takeover simply because he'd get amusement in watching Fleetway cause as much destruction as possible in spite of their primary objective being to get rid of Sonic, Steve and their allies. Despite their good relationship, Exe has on several occasions taken Fleetway for granted, as he treated him and the other variants as little more than underlings to exact orders upon, much to the golden hedgehog's displeasure as someone who hates caving to authority figures.

#### Lil Miss Rarity

Lil Miss Rarity is a close companion of Exe's, with the pair getting along well and bonding over their sadistic nature, with Exe even gifting her mobians to experiment with torturing them and spicing up her livestreams, much to the excitement and pleasure of her viewers. Compared to people such as Herobrine and Israphel, who are prone to expressing outright disturbance in regards to how Lil Miss Rarity gets her "kicks" of torturing people for sexual gratification, Exe is far more tolerable of her activities and respects it, mainly due to the pair's shared love of torturing innocent people for hardly any reason other than sadism and for Lil Miss Rarity not going over the line into outright assault.

#### Umbra Empire

The Umbra Empire is the personal army of Exe he's ruled over since it was established thousands of years ago. Since the beginning, Exe has commanded the empire and his citizens with an iron fist, and upon learning how to construct portals to other dimensions, specifically Mobius, weaponised his citizens and indoctrinated them into his army to pillage, steal, kill and torture innocent mobians for fun, as well as using them as a food source. He ruthlessly commands his army with efficiency and precision, but also with an uncaring disposition towards their lives, being all the more willing to sacrifice the lives of his soldiers if it gets him a step further to completing his plans or achieving even the simplest of victories. Exe is known to indoctrinate and force his own citizens into joining his military, ripping them from their families and threatening the lives of his soldiers' families if they try to quit.

Despite his cruelty and commanding, borderline drill-sergeant-like behaviour towards his army's members, he will allow for soldiers to quit if he feels as though they deserve to, but even then, he will still re-recruit them if he requires their services again.

#### Cult of X

Compared to his empire/army, Exe views his cult as far more foolish and bumbling with idiocy, mainly due to their members relying on Exe's charisma and manipulation to maintain his orders rather than simply following without question like his army. Exe takes his cult for fools, and rightfully so. His cult is filled with people who are deeply dissatisfied with the current state of the world and view Exe as a saviour who will bring salvation and order. Exe likes his cult, but only as extra minion fodder and for serving as a source of entertainment, finding great enjoyment in making them believe he's the hero and plans on killing them all when his plan to conquer the universe is complete.

#### Phantom Reapers

Exe often gets up close and personal with the Phantom Reapers whenever he can, although he primarily spends time in his own dimension than in Dark Space. Unlike Herobrine and Israphel, who treat its members with respect and dignity and are even able to hold full, friendly conversations, Exe has zero respect for the Phantom Reapers and simply sees them as sentient killing machines to command to spread terror and death. Not even the younger members of the group are spared from his mockery and punchlines, as he frequently delegates Sally Williams' needs to Herobrine, Israphel or another member instead of dealing with them himself, as aside from his own spawn, he dislikes pretty much all children in the same vain as he does most life. He only member Exe "likes" is Eyeless Jack, but only because he can flaunt the fact that he is the superior of one the world's most infamous serial killer.

### Enemies

#### Anti-Sonic.dll

"***Sonic.exe**: Ugh! After a millennia of waiting behind dimensional bars you **still** insist on being just no fun! Why don't we have a rematch? A game for old time's sake, hm? I'd like to refresh the scoreboard.
**Anti-Sonic.dll**: How bitterly ironic insinuating I've never changed considering you still possess the mentality of a spoiled child as you've always done, viewing the lives of others as a sick form of entertainment. But if you insist... (he'd conjure a scythe in his hands) Let's dance, **demon**.*"
— Exe and Anti-Sonic.dll

Anti-Sonic.dll is an ancient entity who serves as one of Exe's most hated adversaries since back when they were both known as Avabris and X respectively, having clashed numerous times thousands of years ago prior to the demon's imprisonment. In the past, X took an immediate disliking towards the glimmering hedgehog due to his altruistic ideals and the hope he brought to the rest of Mobius, sharing his knowledge with his residents and embarking on a mission to spread a new age of peace amidst all the chaos happening in the world. Upon having one of his scouting groups killed by Avabris and his soldiers, X made it his sworn mission to eliminate both Avabris and the entirety of the glimmer race, declaring war against the sparkling hedgehog. X reviles the ideals and morals Avabris upholds, viewing his nemesis as a naïve, simple-minded fool. Even when offered a truce by Avabris to stop the endless cycle of conflict they had been thrusted into, X mocked the offer to the glimmering hedgehog's face, showing him to be completely irredeemable.

In the present day, Exe, while still hating Anti-Sonic.dll's guts, looks down on the glimmering hedgehog as more of a stale, tiresome bore who doesn't engage in fun anymore due to losing interest in their "games" following Exe's imprisonment, causing him to settle down in his dimension, continue spreading peace and not have to worry about Exe anymore. Exe was particularly excited to get back to antagonising and starting conflicts with Dll once he took his focus off Sonic, which only proved in Dll's eyes that his nemesis had only become worse and even more depraved. Exe's disdain for Dll persists so strongly that he was willing to threaten to drop Dll's own child to her death just to spite him and use her as a bargaining tool. Upon fighting Dll for the first time in a millennium, Exe felt empowered and excited, having been itching for a fight for centuries and was thrilled at the chance to engage in a rematch with his old nemesis.

#### Sonic the Hedgehog

"*I wanted you to **cower** before me. For me to rip everything you love away from you, I chose not to do it in my original form, but to do it... **as** you. We're bound together, you and I. Our games will* **never** *end. I will play with you and your friends for eternity, forcing you to watch as the distorted souls of your allies dance like puppets attached to my strings until your psyche finally splits apart, nice and open for me to infest with my essence. I will puppeteer your body like a marionette and bring ruin to your world just to show every living thing that I can. Doesn't that sound like **fun?***"
— Exe expressing his hateful obsession towards Sonic.

By far, the person who has impacted Exe's life the most is Sonic the Hedgehog, who is, without a shadow of a doubt, Exe's most hated adversary. During the last years of his imprisonment, Exe took a keen interest in the Blue Blur for his speed and fame. In his scheme to break out from his dimension, X devised a plan alongside one of his loyal followers to take advantage of Sonic's kindness and care for his loved ones to lure him into a trap that would repair the strings connecting his dimension with others, which succeeded to a T and brought the speedy hedgehog face-to-face with the demon. While X remained confident and cocky as ever during their fight, the moment he threatened to murder Sonic's loved ones is when the tides of battle changed to waver in Sonic's favour, allowing the hedgehog to gain the advantage, unleash his full speed power on X and defeat him. This would become well known to the Black Sun's residents as the first defeat X had ever suffered, which would quickly shape the maniacal, yet mostly composed tyrant into a full-blown insane, vengeful maniac.

The realisation that he had not only been defeated, but beaten in a fight for the first time in his existence shook X to his core, shattering his pride and leaving him confused, humiliated and enraged that he had been beaten by a mere mortal after all the training he had put himself through for thousands of years, realising to his horror that he was shaking and afraid due to Sonic's sheer power despite being a mortal, leaving him completely and utterly livid beyond belief as he threw an incredibly violent tantrum. Following his defeat, Exe has since dedicated the rest of his life to killing all of Sonic's loved ones before killing him and possessing his body to out of spite, openly discarding his true form in favour of possessing artificial clones of Sonic's body to cruelly mock the hedgehog by taking the form of him to serve as a dark reflection and the opposite of everything Sonic stands for out of hatred. While he remained composed and confident during his hunt for Sonic's friends, by the time he reached the Blue Blur himself, Exe could only barely hide his seething fury as he struck Sonic time and time again, holding him up and allowing him to reflect on the world he failed to protect while propping himself up as superior. While other villains have expressed a similarly burning hatred for Sonic, Exe's transcends even that of Dr. Eggman's disdain for the hedgehog, wanting to completely break him mentally before killing him himself and possessing his body to further ravage the world. After being killed for the first time by Sonic in his super form, Exe's obsessive hatred for the hedgehog only skyrocketed to astronomical heights that cannot even begin to be described, with every subsequent defeat at Sonic's hands sending Exe spiralling further and further into insanity, utterly destroying his psyche and leading to the demon even going as far as to put himself in dangerous, even life-threatening situations just to kill Sonic. Even his own allies consider his hatred for Sonic to be disturbing, especially considering everything involving his hatred for Sonic started over a petty grudge for being beaten in a fight.

Adding to his petty, spiteful obsession with Sonic, Exe takes immeasurable pleasure and satisfaction in toying with Sonic for no reason other than to mess with him. Exe's obsession is so ridiculously petty, spiteful and absurd that it appears as though Exe has a pathological need to make all of Sonic's suffering revolve around him, desiring to make him experience the most physical and mental pain he's ever felt compared to all his past adventures simply to outdo the harm that has been dished out onto him before, as well as surpass all of the threats he's ever faced, including Eggman, to cement himself as Sonic's one and only antithesis. Exe will gladly show Sonic the brainwashed husks of his friends and weaponize them just to screw with and hurt him, laughing all the while. If he isn't going after Sonic directly, he chooses to mess with his loved ones and target them either physically or emotionally just to spite the hedgehog further because he knows it'll cause him emotional turmoil. He was particularly delighted by the fact that Tails had been traumatised because he knew it would take a heavy toll on not only his mental health, but also Sonic's due to the two being best friends and sharing a brotherly bond, showing that while he does delight in causing pain towards others, it always comes back to his pathological, obsessive, spiteful, petty, childish hatred for the hedgehog who beat him. While Exe ultimately desires to kill Sonic and possess his body, he secretly hopes that he and Sonic will continue to fight for as long as possible just to continue prolonging the suffering he'll inflict on him for fun.

#### Miles "Tails" Prower

"***INSECT.***"
— Exe glaring at Tails.

Exe knew about Tails prior to meeting him due to having his follower Xelnos gather intel on Sonic in order to lure him to the Black Sun, using Tails to take advantage of Sonic's care for others to get him to come to him. After shedding his true form, Exe targeted Tails and disguised himself as Sonic to gain his trust, shedding his façade and revealing his true nature when Tails approached him. When he took Tails to the burning Angel Island, he revelled in the terror he caused the fox as he chased him down and took pleasure in watching his misery as he cried before being forcibly corrupted. Of all the Soulwalkers he had captured during his returning murder spree to Mobius, Tails proved to be his favourite, using him as a weapon to psychologically toy with Sonic.

Following the undoing of his corruption, Exe's presence still lingered within Tails' mind and left him severely traumatised. When confronted with this fact by Tails himself when the two-tailed fox confronted Exe himself, the demon simply laughed in his face and degraded him during their fight, calling him weak, worthless and pathetic, trying to guilt-trip him by calling his reliance and relationship with Sonic an emotional crutch and proof of his true cowardly nature. Exe would end up surprised at Tails' rejection of these gaslighting attempts and would end up beaten, with the fox ending up triumphant after finally conquering his fear of his best friend's demonic doppelganger. Following their personal duel, Exe has gone for Tails' throat numerous times as a last-ditch resort to try and hurt Sonic, focussing all his attention on the Blue Blur and using his friends' lives as bargaining tool or just to provoke him for fun. Exe's disdain for Tails is profound and obvious, and the demon ultimately sees him as little more than an insignificant insect waiting to be crushed underfoot.

#### Knuckles the Echidna

"*The blood of your ancestors stain the hands of my kind. **I look forward to making you extinct**.*"
— Exe threatening Knuckles.

During Exe's first encounter with Knuckles, the demon used illusions to mentally torture the echidna and wear him down, all while laughing and mocking him. In the present, Exe views Knuckles as only being good with his fists and not with his brain, which aggravates the echidna and often leads to Exe getting shown up by Knuckles. Despite his dislike for the echidna, Exe is weary of his power and acknowledges just how immensely strong he is. Exe primarily enjoys toying with Knuckles as homage to their first scuffle, but instead of using illusions to torment him, instead currently relies on mocking him and his lineage, as Exe had been responsible for slaughtering many echidna warriors thousands of years ago and was one of the reasons why the Knuckles Clan went after the Master and Chaos Emeralds to protect themselves.

#### Amy Rose

"***That wasn't you! It wasn't you!**. (tearfully) It was... I- It w- was... evil...*"
— Amy breaking down in tears while hugging Sonic after having her corruption undone.

When Exe first met Amy Rose, he used his shapeshifting abilities to pose as Sonic and lure her into a trap where he could corrupt her into becoming his brainwashed slave. Exe took great joy in misleading Amy, making her believe she was going to go on a date with Sonic before revealing his true colours and corrupting her. Exe took great joy in deceiving Amy, finding it immeasurably pleasurable to take advantage of her genuine love for Sonic and use it to lure her to her untimely doom. He finds her predictability and infatuation with Sonic to be particularly fun to take advantage of in order to exert control over her and make her follow his lead while disguised.

Ever since Amy grew up and became more independent and less reliant on Sonic, however, Exe has grown to outright despise her due to not finding her fun to manipulate anymore with his Sonic disguise. Furthermore, Sonic and Amy blossoming a loving relationship has further ruined Exe's desires to try and trick Amy with his Sonic façade, now preferring to just try and kill her directly.

#### Dr. Eggman

"***Dr. Eggman**: Normally, I'd take any chance to open fire on that blue buffoon and his new shiny friend, and blast them into oblivion. However, I find setting my sights on you to be particularly alluring (all his badniks would aim at Exe's direction). For as much as I detest the thought of your existence, you have my congratulations. In all my years, I have never seen someone- No, pardon me... some* thing *as vile as you. For someone who prides themselves on their rulership, you know nothing about respecting and honouring your enemies!
**Sonic.exe**: Honour is what the weak use as a meek tactic to shield themselves from the wrath of those deserving of living by claiming the high ground. I will bathe this world in the blood of those beneath me... including **you**.
**Dr. Eggman**: An interesting vision for sure. Though, I'm afraid you won't be alive to make it happen. Metal! (Metal Sonic would fly from behind the Death Egg Robot and land in front of it facing Exe) My ultimate weapon, give that parasite all you've got and don't hold back. **Show him what you're made of!***"
— Exe and Eggman confronting each other.

During his first meeting with Eggman, Exe managed to corrupt him using a red ring and briefly enslaved him before his corruption was undone. Throughout his pursuit of Eggman, he mocked and belittled the mad doctor for his "futile" attempts to destroy Sonic, with Exe proclaiming to be "God" when Eggman asked just what he was.

Exe possesses a strong hatred of Eggman despite his constant mockery of the scientist, viewing him as inferior in spite of his seemingly unparalleled genius. He continuously diminishes Eggman's inventions by reducing them to "toys" and crushing every badnik that's thrown in his way. Exe especially dislikes Eggman due to the doctor actually working alongside Sonic whenever Exe possesses a big enough threat that warrants Eggman's arrival, seeing his teaming up with his arch-nemesis as pathetic and cementing the view Exe has in his head of Eggman being a joke of a villain who cannot be taken seriously. It's implied that Exe harbours a tremendous amount of jealousy towards Eggman due to his bigger inventions, such as his pilotable battle mechs, compared to the mere weapons Exe orchestrates the development of.

#### Sally Acorn

Sally Acorn is an enemy of Exe that he contains nothing but hatred for. While Exe obviously holds zero respect towards any of his foes, he especially doesn't respect Sally due to her unrelenting resolve to protect everyone by leading her Freedom Fighters. He dislikes her so much that he doesn't even compliment her skill in battle, something which he can at least do sarcastically. His hatred of her mainly comes from their differing views on leadership. Sally is a headstrong leader who governs her troops with respect and cordiality, whereas Exe believes that the best way to lead is to govern with fear and rule by inflicting cruelty onto others. When he briefly captured Sally and made her into a soulwalker, he ironically had her lead Sonic's other brainwashed friends.

#### J the Hedgehog

"*Do you think those shadow demons experience headaches? I think I just gave him the first one in his life.*"
— Jacob talking about Exe.

Exe fought J the Hedgehog during his and Herobrine's multiversal takeover. J was one of the many heroes that was recruited to help stop him. As the two fought, Exe found himself becoming increasingly agitated with J's constant trash-talking, snarky nature and sarcasm. Despite the short time they spent brawling each other, Exe very quickly grew to find the green hedgehog to be even more annoying and stubborn than Sonic. J's sarcasm became so infuriatingly maddening that he outright yelled at him to shut up while swinging fists and launching fireballs at him wildly, only provoking the green hedgehog more. J acknowledged after the fight that if shade demons were able to feel headaches like mortals, that he had probably just given Exe the first one in his life, further proclaiming that he'd love to clash with the demon again one day.

#### Cream the Rabbit

Cream the Rabbit is one of Exe's brief victims/slaves, having lured her to her demise after getting her dizzy from running to fast and forcing her to hold a red ring. Cream is a prime example of how far Exe's depravity will stoop, as he has absolutely no qualms against corrupting a young child into becoming his brainwashed slave for his amusement and forcing her to fight against Sonic to spite him. Worst, due to his nature as a meticulous manipulator, Exe was able to gain the trust of Cream by shapeshifting into Sonic and luring her into a false sense of security. Exe admits that manipulating Cream before corrupting her gave him a "beautiful" rush of power and control, likely due to having never manipulated someone in such a way before and feeling satisfied by it, before nonchalantly commenting on Cream as "pathetic".

#### Eclipse the Raven

Eclipse the Raven used to be one of Exe's top generals in his army, as well as taking orders from her superior for other tasks such as assassinations. Exe was livid when he heard of Eclipse's betrayal and sent out scavengers to hunt her down. While they don't seem to have encountered each other in the present day, Eclipse mentioned that she's aware of her having a target on her back as put there by Exe himself, something which Exe confirms when he debatably mentioned that he should've sent Nightshade after a "former soldier" instead of Sonic with contempt in his eyes. Exe's hatred of Eclipse is further strengthened by the fact that she is the number one most wanted in his entire dimension for her treason against him and his army.

#### Nightshade the Stingray

Nightshade the Stingray is a mercenary that Exe briefly hired during his first bout with Anti-Sonic.dll in a thousand years. While she was initially hesitant, she was forced into working for him when Exe kidnapped and threatened to execute her brother, Elliot the Stingray. Exe saw her as little more than a pawn and, as he revealed to her after she had seemingly completed her mission to kill the hedgehog, never planned on releasing her brother, only planting the idea in her head as to give her hope that he could then rip away from her just for a laugh, outright stating that he'd like to see just how tough she was while she watched him execute his brother.

Exe was infuriated when Nightshade fought back against him alongside Sonic and Anti-Sonic.dll and she has remained on his hit-list ever since. When he fought against Jacob, he taunted the green hedgehog by asking if Nightshade would miss him after Exe had killed him, showing that he still held a bitter and petty grudge against her.

#### Emperor X

Emperor X is an alternate variant of Exe and by far one of his most vilest. Initially, upon seeing how he had conquered his universe in its entirety, Exe sought to establish an alliance with the Emperor and conquer the rest of the multiverse alongside him, looking on in awe at the empire he had established and the numerous universes he had conquered during his reign. However, Exe was constantly bugged by the lack of raw power Exe possessed, instead relying primarily on his army to do the work for him, which Exe perceived as odd. During their encounters with Sonic and his friends, Exe grew increasingly frustrated with his lack of foresight, seeing him as a lazy ruler too reliant on his slaves. Eventually, Emperor X revealed to Exe that in a bid to claim more power, it resulted in the deaths of his wife and children, but appeared to show no remorse for it and was just thankful he got the power source. Hearing this, Exe was completely and utterly disgusted by his variant's callous and uncaring nature, immediately attacking and betraying him before fleeing.

Exe would return for the final battle going solo and after Emperor X was banished back to his universe, activated the Existence Nullifier, the same device Extortion and Professor Brine had built during their multiversal takeover and that he had stolen after infiltrating the former's universe, using it to destroy the universes Emperor X had conquered as well as the Emperor's home universe, killing him.

### Other

#### Slender Man

Slender Man is an affiliate of Exe's, being the "benefactor" of the Phantom Reapers who supplies them benefits such as giving them access to new members in exchange for gaining power from the death and fear they spread. Unlike Herobrine and Israphel, Exe shows absolutely no respect towards Slender Man and will even act sarcastic and arrogant in the Faceless King's presence to try and get a rise out of him, although he always fails due to Slender Man's perpetually emotionless attitude. While not showing any respect or care towards Slender Man, Exe doesn't outright hate the dark suited entity and is only indifferent to him, viewing him as simply an accessory to depend on every once in a while.

#### Blackheart

Blackheart and Exe rarely interact, only coming into contact whenever she accompanies Fleetway, her partner, to meet with the demon. While Exe doesn't interact a whole lot with her, he does admire and respect just how crazy and destructive she is, congratulating her on nearly wiping out all life on Marnovu with the Power of the Stars. The respect is said to be mutual.

#### His and Herobrine's variants

Exe briefly has duel-control over a group variants of himself and Herobrine from across the multiverse. Unlike Herobrine, who has bias towards some members, Exe solely treated them like pawns, including Alexbrine, who Herobrine has shown to respect and be genuine friends with. Every variant is one that Exe had no respect for other than their ability to brute force their way through their enemies and serve as cannon fodder. When they all ended up defeated and trapped in a void-like area, he immediately resorted to arguing with his variants, taking most of his anger out on Extortion for his betrayal as Herobrine looked on in annoyance.

## Trivia

* Sonic.exe's favourite song is "Where Evil Grows" by The Poppy Family.
* Exe identifies as non-binary because he simply doesn't care for his gender or gender identity and chooses not to be tethered to one or the other.
* Exe's net worth is around $249 billion, with his primary company, EXE Enterprises, having a net worth of around £630 billion.
* Exe can only corrupt the souls of dead people and absorb the souls of victims of his corruption.
* If his clone body is destroyed, Exe will be thrust out of it in his shadow form. If Exe himself dies alongside the clone body, he can be revived via a summoning/ritual circle, which will revive him in another cloned Sonic body.
	+ His shadow form is also his weakest form.
* Exe's artificially enhanced super speed is a nod to the same technique used by the character **Zoom** from the DC superhero TV show *The Flash*.
* Although he was never "born" per say, Exe (and by extension most of the shade demons from the past) were created on August 9th and he considers the date to be his birthday.
* It's a common joke to those outside the Black Sun to poke fun at Exe's teeth for being slightly yellow and looking decayed. In actuality, all shade demons' teeth appear yellow naturally and aren't a result of tooth decay. Exe detests these jokes at his expense.
* The amount of blood Exe leaks from his eyes due to the nature of his artificial Sonic bodies has created a faint rash under his eyes.
* Exe's favourite food is fried chicken.
* While Exe often calls himself a god and aspires to become one, he knows it isn't actually one and is just a demon, mainly saying it to instil fear and to mess with people.
* Exe enjoys making fun of religion because of his self-perceived superiority, which is ironic given that he himself is the figurehead of a religious cult dedicated to him.
* It's speculated, although unconfirmed by those around him that Exe might have a form of sadistic personality disorder.
* Exe often levitates when in the presence of individuals taller than him, both so he can meet them at eye-level and to feel a sense of superiority.
* Exe is a terrible cook and both hates and doesn't have the time to learn how to cook.
	+ In addition, the food that Exe can produce is apparently awful, with Ira describing a bowl of Swedish meatballs cooked by the demon as tasting like "battery acid mixed with liquid metal". Another one of his servants described a plate of spaghetti Exe made as tasting like "solidified magma".
* Exe is interested in potentially owning a wither as a pet, much to the chagrin of Herobrine.
* For as much as he loves mocking others, Exe greatly dislikes being the butt of jokes, showing that he is deeply hypocritical and childishly sensitive deep down.
* Although he can create money from thin air, Exe likes having the Imperial Fortune as an easy way to generate income to profit of gambling addicts.
* When he's bored and in need of something to do, Exe enjoys killing and eating flickies.
* Most shade demons look up to and respect Exe out of fear, whereas others violently oppose him indoctrinating them into his army to fight for him. To deal with these critics, Exe chooses to have them killed in order to silence them.
* Exe enjoys making fun of and cracking morbid jokes about orphans on Mother and Father's Days.
* Exe has executed many servants and even civilians for mentioning Sonic's name in his presence in a manner that annoys/angers him.
* Exe often makes strange hand gestures when talking to exaggerate and highlight what he's speaking about, as well as often twitching/flexing his fingers slightly as if to grab something. These gestures and movements are engrained into Exe's character, highlighting his eccentric, flamboyant and deranged nature.
* His favourite movie is *Hush*.
* Exe is excellent in performing growling vocals.