Sarah × Needlemouse

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Sarah Henderson, later known as Needlemouse (or more accurately, Needlemouse Sonic), is the titular main antagonist of the 2021 analog horror web series Needlem0use. ❓ A fanatically aggressive and vengeful spirit, Sarah was accidentally killed and had her death covered up by her close friends. After thirty years of continuously suffering in her own personal hell, Sarah slipped into madness and went on a murder spree, killing her ex-friends and trapping their souls in her digital prison to suffer alongside her, driving herself further into insanity in the process. ❓ Like most Sonic.exe incarnations, Needlemouse manifests as a corrupted sprite of Sonic the Hedgehog, often in horrifyingly supernatural ways. In Needlemouse's case, she appears with a more purple or pink hue to Sonic's usually blue fur, likely reflecting the color of Sarah's sweater, while Sonic's white gloves usually end up with a yellow or orange tone, and the peachy skin tone becomes much paler. Supernatural corruptions of the sprite include turning Sonic's eyes into larger, red irises in black sclerae, usually alongside a gaping pitch-black mouth, occasionally with visible bloody teeth. Also, despite her spirit evidently inhabiting the Classic era Sonic games on the Sega Genesis, her Sonic form is taller and lankier as per his Modern era design, as opposed to the shorter and stouter Classic design. Needlem0use's perpetual smile is also either a closed smirk or a gaping Duchene grin, obviously meant to be threatening as she is described as constantly angry, although the smiles could be glee at the prospect of torturing her former friends for killing her. ❓ Sarah, the true form of Needlemouse, often manifests as her human form, usually one resembling her from at the time of her death and lacking any supernatural changes, with the exception of red irises. Sarah is a 24-year-old young Asian woman of average height. She wears a purple sweater with a lighter-shade stripe running across the chest and upper arms and the hem of the sleeves, dark blue pants fastened with a brown belt with a yellow buckle, and white socks with dark spots around the toes and heels. Her raven-colored hair is long and wavy, and her skin tone is pale (although she had relatively tan skin when alive, becoming paler in death). Supernatural corruptions of her human form often include profuse bleeding from her eyes, mouth and forehead/scalp, and turning her skin pitch-black leaving only wide-blank eyes and teeth. She can also manifest a much more demonic and ghostly form, appearing more akin to a bloated, rotting corpse with decaying skin. ❓ Both Needlemouse/Sarah's forms are almost always seen with unnerving big smirks and blank stares, giving her a possessed or deranged expression. It's also been described these grins are meant to mask or express her immense undying hatred and anger of her former friends, as she keeps smiling widely even when lecturing them with an obvious hateful scathing inflection. She has another human form called Epitaph that has a big X on her shirt, pale white skin and with a creepy grin. ❓ After her death, upon realizing that her friends had covered up the circumstances surrounding it, Sarah descended into madness and obsessively vowed revenge. Consumed by animosity and hatred, she was driven insane, embarking on a killing spree thirty years later to exact her vengeance. Sarah's sole focus was to inflict endless suffering on her friends, trapping them in a virtual world where they would endure the torment she experienced for three decades. Her unrelenting rage led her to target Luther's son as an act of spite. Her anger was not only rooted in her own death but also in the impact it had on her family, particularly her girlfriend, Lily. She expressed this to Luther before killing him and dragging his soul into her digital realm, resenting that her friends had moved on and built families while her own family suffered. ❓ Sarah ruled her virtual world with an iron fist, developing a god complex. Initially viewing the game as a void to torture her friends, years of sadism further corrupted her already fragile psyche, making her mad with power, sadistic, callous, and psychotic. Despite having the power to move on to the afterlife, she chose to stay in the cursed game, reveling in the control and the torment she could inflict. Her arrogance, vanity, and egocentrism were apparent as she looked down on others, proclaiming them as mere inhabitants of "her world." ❓ Sarah was a massive control freak who governed with tyrannical authority. She viewed herself as the ultimate ruler, boasting about her dominion over the game's inhabitants. Her controlling nature was matched by her manipulative tendencies. She could easily create a facade of wanting to reconcile, emotionally manipulating her friends into believing she forgave them before revealing her true intentions and delivering a lethal blow. When she lost control, she would break down and practically throw tantrums. At one point, she even attempted to delete the souls within the game after failing to regain control, showing that she preferred her victims dead rather than free from her dominance.