EXray

EXray is a character created by https://twitter.com/SoySpance097 on July 7th, 2022. He is a version of Ray that was created by an internet hacker who sold online bootlegs of Sonic games to people with EXray on them, in hopes that they would learn their lession and stop pirating video games. Even though it's an odd premice, EXray proves to be a decent measure in stopping pirates.

### Affiliation

Facsimile (guardian)Sonic CAN’T (best friend)

## Appearances

### Debut

Twitter Post

**Biography:**

Masako Suiki was an employee at Sega enterprises who moved to America after being moved from the branch in Asia to the branch in the U.S.

Masako worked day and night at Sega, trying to help the release of Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces. However, he soon overworked himself to the point of extreme sickness, only to continue to work to finish the games by deadline. He was devasted when he found out that there were thousands of unpaid copies of Sonic games that he had nearly killed himself over, being played by people who didn't have to suffer for the game.

Angered by this, Masako started coding a character into existence that resembled a Sonic character- Ray the Flying Squirrel. Masako coded this variant that he'd dubbed EXray into a thumb drive, where he then downloaded the info of the bug onto a few different Sonic games, one of which being Sonic Mania Plus, where it would fall into the hands of a young child that has only ever been mentioned as Player.

Player obtained one of these hacked copies of Sonic Mania Plus, assuming it was pirated by an online friend of his (which was actually Masako pretending to be a teenager). The Player then began the copy, going straight to the encore mode so as to play as one of the two characters unique to this version of Sonic Mania- Ray and Mighty. However, the Player found that he could only pick Ray, as when he tried to pick Mighty, an error code appeared on-screen.

So, picking Ray, he began to play as the flying squirrel, finding himself unable to switch to the character of Sonic the Hedgehog. Eventually, though, Player reached a pit of spikes and several platforms, which he attempted to glide over. However, Ray's wings ripped mid-flight and he fell into the spikes, prompting an image of an impaled Ray to appear on screen. Player tried turning off the game, but was unable to.

Ray soon appeared in a black void. His sprite was worried, and the camera was slowly zooming in on his worried face. Eventually, EXray's mutilated face appears behind Ray, breaking his neck.

Text appeared on-screen, telling the Player, "These are the actions of your consequences."

EXray then appeared in-full on the screen, with demonic screaming (pressumably Ray's) in the background, where red text would pop up, followed with screen shaking, saying that "Death is not release, we cannot be saved from your poor desicions."

After that, the Player unplugged the console and threw it out the window, thinking that the game was cursed. However, logging back onto his computer, he messaged his friend, with Masako responding, "Next time, don't pirate someone's hard work."

Realzing that this was simply a scam, Player deletes his account on some unnamed website (Was never mentioned in the story), and then the story ends.

**Trivia:**

* EXray is somewhat sentient, and experiences intense emotional pain. He sometimes attempts to make players close the game while something is loading in an attempt to delete himself, and perhaps end his constant state of pain.
* EXray is protected by Facsimile. They met one another in one of the hacked copies of Sonic Mania, and brings him sweet foods and bandages in hopes that they will relieve some of EXray's suffering.
* Masako created EXray specifically, because Ray was his favorite character in the Sonic Mania game.
* EXray loves sweet foods. He specifically loves funnel cakes. No one knows why.
* Masako does not know that EXray is somewhat alive.
* EXray sometimes want to meet his creator, and ask to be deleted so that his pain will stop.
* EXray can infect your PC as well, and he does have a virus form, which will prompt Error Code 403 to appear (meaning that it's a forbidden file).
* EXray sometimes tries to interact with the Mighty of his world, but since they are not sentient, each time EXray tries, he is sorely disappointed.
* Canontically aroace.
* His favorite song is Diamond Dust Zone Act 1, which was a song he heard from files on someone’s PC.
* He loathes the Player, as one of the people who got the pirated copies wished for him to die alone and suffer.
* He and Sonic CAN’T are both best friends because of their mutual dislike for the Player.

**Abilities:**

* His mangled appearance can really spook you.
* Has a virus form that can spread through your PC, gaming console, etc. He rarely ever does that, though, unless someone intentionally kills him in-game.
* Can speak to players through on-screen text.
* His single, blue eye, accompanied by its white box, can morph into various things and messages.

**Weaknesses:**

* Always in emotional pain and is usually distracted by that.
* Not very intelligent.
* Can be blocked by firewalls, anti-virus software, and VPNs.
* Can be glitched out or completely destroyed if his loading sequence is interrupted (this happens if a player turns off or restarts their game when picking between Ray or Mighty in the Encore Mode).
* Spikes.

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