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Sonic.exe (Originally: Les Machinations Tortueuses de Blue Rapide de Couverture de Porc qui Incarne le Démiurge Foncé Comme mis en Avant par les Gnostiques et est Contenue Sur Le Disque Scintillant ) was written in 1683 by a French monk name Gui "Buddy" Moppensensen. At the time it was considered heretical for its very subtle satire on the Pope and for its suggestion that God might not be the glorious Almighty, but rather a demonic blue hedgepig, as the animals were then known.

"Buddy" was excommunicated and was set to be beheaded, but his execution was interrupted by the French Revolution. When the Bastille was raided and destroyed, Moppensensen escaped with a copy of his treatise. His life was still in danger from the Opus Dei, the church's secret assassins, but that didn't stop him from travelling Europe and spreading his work but aurally, writtenly and spiritually. This widespread embrace of such a heterodoxical document prompted Inquisition all across across the Continent.

Gui "Buddy" Moppensensen died in 1724 at the age of 51. The Church had finally caught up with him and he was hung by the neck until dead. The Church managed to supress most mentions of the the work for nearly three hundred years, but it still existed in obscure and scattered texts.

In 1990, Naoto Oshima, a scholar of 17th Century populist art and a designer working for Sega, was one of many tasked with coming up with a new mascot for the company. He remembered learning about the widespread popularity of Moppensensen's character and based his design of Sonic on the artist renditions of the time. Little of the original character's personality made it into the game and few, if any, made the connection.

Until 2012, when JC-the-Hyena, author of Sonic.exe and student of 17th Century Iconoclastic Literature, learned about the original Moppensensen work and realized it's connection to his favorite game series. Since no copies of the original remained, he decided to write his own version based on what little is known.