No More Innocence

Personality/behavior:

A master of psychological torture, Innocence is an incredibly cruel, sadistic and cold-blooded onryō that relishes in making and watching people suffer in various ways. Completely remorseless and borderline psychopathic, he especially takes pleasure in watching the parents of children worry and panic about their child's mental state as they become more addicted to the cartridge of sonic 2, and, in some cases, tormenting the parents by making them think they're at fault for their child's fate. His entire existence depends on the interactions of his targets through the apparatus of the bootleg game that he resides in. He is an entity who holds an air of death and lack of life around him and seems to be rather well at manipulating the environment around his targets to ensure that they provide the food that he needs.

Appearance:

No More Innocence is a tall figure which slightly resembles Sonic the Hedgehog, except his eyes are separated as normal eyeballs, and his entire body is permanently covered in pitch black shadows, with white highlights on his black quills behaving the same way, these don't act on changes with the environment’s lighting and will remain in the same exact spots. No More Innocence's lifeless expression only changes when his emotions are way too intense, contorting itself the more he loses composure (examples being genuine pleasure, laughter or frustration) he behaves calm and subtly. while he appears to be really cocky and over confident he keeps to himself a lot and communicates through text a lot of the time.

Biography:

Most of Innocence's past is shrouded in mystery, with the only things being known about him is that he's a spirit originating from Japan.

Innocence's earliest recorded appearance was shortly after the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Genesis in late-1992. Around a week after the game's release, numerous reports came flooding in about nameless Sega Genesis cartridges containing poor renditions of the game, only marketed as "The New Sonic The Hedgehog Experience". The reports surrounding the bootleg documented the symptoms that children in possession of the game were showing, such as nausea, headaches and decreasing eyesight, all while proclaiming to be fine despite the varying intensity of their symptoms. However, all reports surrounding the case went completely undiscovered and were only unearthed years later, with ten recorded cases overall and seemingly spreading to America.

Most law enforcement officials involved with the case in the following years would begin to suffer from other symptoms, including a lack of sleep and growing paranoia. Although new cases weren't popping up, parents would regularly make phone calls to the police, but the calls themselves would either be distorted and blocked by static noises or interrupted by a third voice, blocking communication between the caller and law enforcement.

Eventually, a police department in Scottsdale, Arizona would make steady progress with the case and finding the cause behind the symptoms due to witnessing the symptoms firsthand, as one of the officer's kids had been experiencing the symptoms that came with the bootleg game. As the public's interest in the case turned to the events happening in Scottsdale, other cases began to fade into obscurity and get ignored. Eventually, the Scottsdale police gave up on the case and stopped reporting on it, with it being speculated that it had to do with the lead investigator's child being hospitalized due to the symptoms from the game.

Although the cases faded into obscurity, they seemingly picked up again during the development of Sonic Adventure 2, with posters being hung up near SEGA buildings detailing a mysterious individual handing out bootleg copies and lying about their position in the company, with it being clarified by SEGA officials that this isn't a real person.