Bushrat

Bushrat is a character created by the user breadryo! and he was created on 1/20/23.

## Bushrat

* Stable
* Unstable
* Absolute

## Physical description

### Height

3’2 (Stable), 6’2 (Unstable), ??? (Absolute)

## Overview

Bushrat is a fallen angel trapped in The Void who created a Sonic The Hedgehog game that doesn’t exist to take out his anger on whoever finds it by preying on their nostalgia and memories.

## Biography

Apocrypha was an angel who was created by God sometime during the Old Testament and lived in Heaven for many, many years. Eventually, he disappeared from the Heavens without a trace, disconnected from his reality and trapped in The Void, becoming fallen.

The Void was an empty, dark space in the middle of nothing that is misplaced in time and space. It expanded infinitely and had no exit, with nowhere to go. Apocrypha was stuck there for so much time that he began to theorize that God had purposely sent him into The Void for whatever reason, and grew a burning hatred for him.

With nothing to do, and nothing to take his anger out on, Apocrypha waited and waited for years, until he figured out that he could still view what was happening on Earth from The Void.

Eventually, he found out about Sonic The Hedgehog and the effects of nostalgia, feeling connected to Sonic due to the name of the console it was on: Genesis, the beginning of everything.

Apocrypha figured that he could manipulate the nostalgia people had for the game to take his anger out on something, also having an interest with the effects of nostalgia.

Apocrypha then took the name of Bushrat, a spin on “hedgehog” in order to separate himself from God and took the form of Sonic.

Bushrat created a fake Sonic game that had never existed, waiting for someone to find it by making contact with The Void. Whenever someone did, he would prey on their memories and nostalgia as they played. The game is held up by the players memory, and over time as they played, Bushrat would slowly feed on it and take their memories. Because of this, over the playthrough the game becomes more and more corrupted, including Bushrat himself. By the end of the game, Bushrat cannot be recognized by the player and he has taken so much of their memories that they forget how to breathe and die.

Any footage of the game, if somehow found, is horribly corrupted due to it not existing. Police attempted to investigate it, getting multiple calls from the families of players. However, of course, the game doesn't exist, so none of the cases were solved.

## Abilities/Weakness

### Abilities

* Bushrat can manipulate others memories and can make them forget these memories by corrupting/”feeding” on them.
* Bushrat is able to distort his own appearance, sometimes making himself completely incomprehensible to the viewer.
* Bushrat can cause multiple other side effects when his game is played. Notably hallucinations/auditory hallucinations, headaches, false memories, dizziness, delusions, and even psychosis due to the human eye not being able to fully comprehend angels.

### Weakness

* If a player is aware that Bushrat and his game isn’t real, they are able to disconnect themself from The Void.
* Bushrat can’t fully use the abilities most angels have due to The Voids effect.
* Bushrat has a better time connecting with players who have nostalgia for Sonic. If they don’t, it’ll be much harder for him to corrupt their memories.

## Trivia

* Bushrat has a lot of different inspirations. His biggest inspiration is the discomfort Ryo (the creator) feels when he looks at ai generated images, mostly images generated by DALL-E. The reason these images disturb him is because of how realistic, yet obviously wrong they look, giving off an “uncanny valley” sort of effect, especially with the human faces DALL-E tries generating. He took this idea of “things that feel familiar yet are obviously wrong” and applied it to the concept of faker type exes. The fallen angel aspect, which is inspired by many biblical + the “I AM GOD” image from the original Sonic.exe, was added later. His personality is also inspired by Rainer from Petscop.
* Bushrat has a lot of allusions to music by The Caretaker (who is known for creating Everywhere at the End of Time), not because of the memory loss aspect, but more so the vibes the songs give off. Multiple art of Bushrat is based around some of his songs, and sometimes the names of them are used as captions for art of him on Ryo's Twitter.
* Bushrats angel name, Apocrypha means “of doubtful authenticity” or “hidden away.” It is also named after biblical writings that are not part of the accepted canon of Scripture.
* Bushrat was originally an ophanim angel before taking the form of Sonic. This is also the form he takes in his Absolute form. His Absolute form is fully incomprehensible to the human eye and brain.
* Bushrat hates any exes who call themselves gods, feeling they are mocking him. This also goes for if you call him by his angel name.
* Bushrat's official voice actor is Ryo himself.
* Bushrat is able to speak Hebrew, as he is Jewish. He learned Japanese just so he could play the part as "Sonic" better and can also speak English, but rarely.
* Bushrat has BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) from being sent to The Void, which traumatized him.
* Bushrat is aroace. He isn't interested in the idea of romantic or sexual relationships as it makes him uncomfortable.

## Gallery

Bushrats full ref.Doodles of Bushrat based on the vibe of Libet Delay by The Caretaker. (Specifically the version from EATEOT Stage 3.)A showcase of how Bushrat's memory erasure effects his victims from the perspective of a religious cult who found the game.An official sprite of Bushrat.What the title screen of Bushrats game looks like.It's Peppa Pig Bushrat.