Sonic.MAL

## **Personality**

Sonic.MAL is but a depressed hollow shell from the emotional abuse he’s garnered from his creator. When Sonic was first turned sentient, he didn’t inherit his character’s personality, and was but a scared and innocent kid. Upon being forced to turn countless areas to ruin and turn their characters into his servants, he slowly became more sorrow and self-loathing to outright depressed. Sonic.MAL is accepting of friendship, but also has constant anxiety due to his torment, always fearing that his powers would just ruin everything like it did so many times before.

## **Appearance**

Sonic.MAL appears just like the character, a humanoid-ish hedgehog with conjoined eyes, a round body and shoes, but with one key difference: His colors are reversed. His blue fur has turned orange, his skin turned a dark blue, his gloves black, and his formerly red shoes a bright cyan. This also causes his eyes to become pitch black with white pupils.

## **Backstory**

Sonic.MAL is a sentient ROM hack of ***Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles*** made by an anonymous player out of boredom and a form of messed-up enjoyment. The player was getting bored one day so they decided to make a ROM hack of Sonic 3 & Knuckles, but, out of a disturbing sense of fun, they decided to go the extra mile and turn their ROM Hack into a beast. Or at least they thought they did.

The finished product was a Sonic with reversed colors that turned everything within an 5 miles radius of himself into a demented wasteland of the opposite color palette. However, something was missing, prompting them to download a virus into the character to both advance his powers and turn him sentient. The Sonic freaked out upon becoming sentient and, not know what else to do, decided to accept a deal made by the hacker: Sonic helps the hacker complete some “errands” and in return, Sonic earns a new friend for every completed run.

What Sonic didn’t know was that while he was completing errands, the world around him would slowly devolve into chaos and ruin the further he went, and his new “friends” were only mutilated slaves that catered to his every whim, regardless of if he wanted it. And it didn’t stop there. When Sonic and the hacker had completely destroyed the world of ***Sonic 3 & Knuckles***, Sonic inquired the hacker on the damage done to the area. He didn’t exactly get a good answer, and was shoved into a USB Stick to reform into ***Sonic CD***. The same happened there with Amy and Metal Sonic.

Eventually the two hit a road block: The next game the hacker wanted to test was the ***Sonic Adventure*** duo to see what would happen to Chaos and Team Dark(Shadow, Rouge and Omega), but because Sonic was predominantly both 2D and a pixel sprite, they decided to get their friend to make a model for the Sonic to use before downloading that into him. After corrupted the ***Sonic Adventure*** games, the hacker wanted to go a step further.

The next two games were ***Knuckles’ Chaotix*** and ***Tails’ Adventure***, both games where Sonic didn’t serve as the star(the former as a non-playable character, and the latter where Tails hadn’t met Sonic yet). In this instance, the goal was swapped to finding either Tails or the Chaotix Agency and corrupt them. At this point, Sonic was beginning to reconsider his deal with the hacker, and confronted them about it.

The hacker, not to fond of the character they gave life to wanting to take back his agreement, simply gave this statement “Do you think you have any power here?” and shoved Sonic into yet another game, this one being  ***Sonic Heroes***. Then the ***Sonic Advance*** trilogy, and then ***Shadow the Hedgehog***. At this point, Sonic began to see himself as less of a hero, nor a friend. Just a slave not unlike the multiple characters he was forced to make.

## **Powers & Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

* **Kósmoskinesis**

Sonic.MAL's main factor is how, as he travels within an area for long enough, the are becomes more decrepit and ruined the longer he stays within the vicinity. The destruction caused from this form cannot be undone.

* **Super Speed**

As he is still Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic.MAL possesses incredible speed and agility.

* **Partial Chromakinesis**

Sonic.MAL's presence causes everything within a 5-Mile radius to change to their opposite color, just like him. Similarly to his Kósmoskinesis, these changes cannot be undone once they start.

### **Weaknesses**

* **Depression**

Sonic.MAL's only true weakness is the burden that he carries as a "World Destroyer". While he is able to act independently, he lacks the courage and freedom that the original Sonic has, in addition to his own self-worth constantly being questioned.

Reversed Colors