"Sonic" (Sonic Legacy) (2024)

This article is about the variant of 2017 Sonic.exe present in Sonic Legacy. For the original incarnation, see 2017 X (Legacy).

"Sonic", or better known as 2017 Sonic.exe, is a take on the original 2017 Sonic.eXe reboot specific to the Friday Night Funkin’ mod, Sonic Legacy, similar to 2011 X's Sonic Legacy counterpart. He is treated as a replacement for the original 2017 Sonic.eXe. Initially created by JoeDoughBoi as a simple doodle, he is now owned by Raven, who also owns the 2017 canon as a whole.

The God

This entity, unlike his alternate counterpart in 2011, has descended farther into his delusion and fanaticism about the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, to the point that he firmly believes that he is Sonic the Hedgehog. In this gradual shift, his behaviors shifted gradually from a sad*stic god-like mentality, towards what could only be described as a deluded attempt of childish imitation of Sonic the Hedgehog, but much of the same tendency to commit violence still being present. What was once games that were life or death or now more meant to be playful towards the others, however playing with "Sonic" hasn't stopped the violence entirely, to the misfortune of his victims. His world itself has changed more as well, the focus going into the dark ages of the Sonic series, with more detailed environments, and with 2017's victims now perfectly made to play their parts. Despite insisting that he is Sonic, he still fails to recognize many of the core traits of Sonic, and is forced to go to extreme, and often manipulative means to try to maintain the view that he has engulfed his world into. Gaslighting and manipulation being seen as a common tactic to persist his delusions, as shown in his lyrics for the song "Subterfuge".

Appearance

Fraud Form

"Sonic" has much darker and shinier fur/skin, his arms are colored and has lack of shoes. His body also seems to be made of some form of Porcelain, which gives off a much shinier look.

Broken Face Form

His broken face form is quite grotesque in appearance, its form appears to be asymmetrical and is way bulkier than before, and its body has begun to crack, mostly in the face area. This is to represent the intense emotions "Sonic" goes through if the player doesn't believe in him.

The Tale

His story and overall nature are identical to that of the original 2017 X and the storyline, an entity who loves to play twisted games with those around him. However, it has a few slight changes due to "Sonic's" personality.

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Trivia

• It is reportedly even more obsessed with Sonic than 2011 X.
  • Unlike 2011 who is mostly fixated on the classic Genesis titles, 2017 is hyperfixated on the Dark Age of Sonic games, specifically the games released between 2003-2008.
  • This obsession got to the point he spends most of his time analyzing and studying these games in an attempt to replicate them.
• Due to "Sonic" having a huge obsession with Sonic, it ended up tricking itself into thinking he is the real Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • Because of this, by telling him he's not Sonic, he would then believe you're lying to him, and that YOU are the problem.
• The game shares graphics similar to Sonic ‘06.
• Sonic behaves very much akin to a child, really only being playful and sometimes just seeming deluded instead of malicious.
• Its body has the texture and solidity of a sort of dull ceramic, with circular eyeballs placed below its brow, has dull black-blue skin with grey on the chest and muzzle. It also has strange grooves placed on its feet, rather than digits.
• Sonic is not the only one with differences in his appearance. Multiple characters often have misshapen features, missing details or more dull portrayals.
• A variant of the 2017 rewrite is canon to Sonic's lore.
• Sonic's song in Sonic Legacy, Subterfuge, is based on the events of the original 2017 story.
  • Its lyrical adaptation, which was performed by Sturm and written by Raven herself, was made to be closer towards this adaptation of 2017 and the future official retake.
• If he were to meet the real Sonic the Hedgehog, he would quite potentially have a mental breakdown.
• Unlike his prior counterpart, 2017 seems to pay far greater attention to making his victims play the parts that they have been given. This is likely due to him seeing his victims as their favorite character, and in some twisted act of freedom, removing their souls is freeing them from their mortal prisons.
  • This also likely helps 2017 better indulge in his own self-delusion, as by brainwashing his victims into being their parts, he brainwashes them to see him more as Sonic.
• This take was originally meant to be Raven's retake of JC's 2017 X remake. However, due to more recent ideas, Raven's ideas have shifted while working on Sonic Legacy. As such, while this is the current take of 2017 X, Raven has stated that the final character will be different from how Sonic Legacy is portraying him. Until this updated release, likely not until after the creator's other projects are done as expressed by her vocally, this take will be considered the current version on the wiki.
  • Despite popular belief, this retake will be its own thing, not linked to any previous characters or the original 2017 story.
• The lore of this variant of “Sonic” is a mix between the original 2017X and the retake Raven plans to make, with the few details that separate both characters being directly taken from said retake.
• In a thread posted by Raven, she goes into the various references and details about the lyrical cover of Subterfuge.
  • The song itself calls back many times to the original 2017 story, specifically it's third chapter.
    • Various references come in here, varying from tame things such as the pizza that Tom had in the lines "Peppered envy, pain and horror", to direct or reformations of various lines that X said to Tom.
      • Example of these include, "What's wrong? you act as if you never saw a hedgehog before", "What's wrong Tom? Don't-cha recognize meeeeeeeee?", in fourth segment of lyrics, and "Wow, you're not very good at this game, are you?" at the line transition to the final segment of the song.
    • Additionally, one of the lines that 2017 sings is directly from one of the original lines that X said in the original creepypasta.
  • The choral section which comes in the middle point of the song, while being made originally before Silly Billy, the lyrical portion takes direct inspiration from it, as stated by Raven.
  • References of Sonic songs such as "What I'm Made Of" by Crush40, and "His World" are referenced in this song as well, mainly be using to push 2017's insistence that he is Sonic.
    • The latter is also a direct hint that the version of 2017's world is based off Sonic 06, having additional references to the fire twisters of Crisis City, and the hint towards Tom choosing Silver near the end of the song.
  • References of temperature are used as a metaphor towards 2017's feelings, as stated by Raven.
  • Notably the song is meant to span four events, 2017 alone, 2017 finding, and trying to convince Tails, to 2017 trying to convince the player, to 2017 in an intense state of emotion, triggering his broken face form, aggressively trying to convince the player to give up the mask and let him save them.

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