This might be the first time I bring up something on the forums that just has nothing to do with Arcane Odyssey in the slightest. Feels so wrong!
I was gonna put this onto the AO wiki, but I remembered that AO wiki posts don’t last two minutes.
The rules are, the survivor in this scoring system is the “player” whenever applicable. If there is no “player”, then the survivors are any in-universe characters at risk.
High survivability indicates that the survivor could easily walk away from the problem unscathed if they’d heard the story before, like you or me. “Without hindsight” is a scoring for a survivor that does not know the story of the character.
By the way, if this confuses anyone on the lore, just know that this is all a bunch of separate canons where 2011X is sometimes the only constant.
Feel free to debate.
2011X
Survivability: 8/10
Without hindsight: 4/10
The original guy from the thing, formerly known as Sonic.EXE himself. If you don’t know him, you don’t have any idea what I’m talking about.
The high survivability score comes from the fact that, in the Sonic.EXE creepypasta, the main character is given the game through a set of absurd circumstances involving a friend dying. Without knowing the story, if you were given an obviously cursed game by your friend, you may or may not play it. If you DO know the story, you might just be dumb enough to think you’d survive, hence the 8/10.
But honestly, do you even own a Sega console to play the game?
Overall, pretty dangerous guy, he had to kill someone to transport the game via dead friend, so he’s not a nonthreat.
Lord X
Survivability: 5/10
Without hindsight: 1/10
Lord X, a wise, aged 2011X. His scenario is a lot less survivable than 2011X because his game isn’t some obviously cursed Sega cartridge, rather a PC Port of an unspecified console Sonic game. If you’re into pirating games that are sold on market in a tad malicious way, you’d probably land on Sonic PC Port and find yourself doomed to die in an intentionally horrific way.
Xenophanes
Survivability: ?
I’m gonna be honest, I asked ChatGPT about this guy, and all I could get is the Friday Night Funkin Sonic.EXE mod. I don’t like Xenophanes anyways, so we’ll leave it there.
All-Father
Survivability: 5/10
Without hindsight: 7/10
In Sonic Saves Robloxia! (spoiler alert) All-Father is the primary antagonist, setting a puzzle for anyone who plays the game, and inciting players to search for it.
Sonic Saves Robloxia is his most popular appearance in a game, other than that, he’s the father of all “EXE” entities, and perhaps a reinterpretation of 2011X.
His inversed survivability score comes from the difficulty in encountering his section of the game. If you don’t get the answers to all the puzzles, you’re much less likely to reach the “dangerous” section of the game, thus knowing less about this can actually be more safe.
Rewrite
Survivability: ?
A sentient program of a bootleg Sonic game created to discretely mimic God from The Bible.
No scenario has been given where a player is put in peril by Rewrite, but it’s made clear by his Friday Night Funkin’ mod that he can affect the real world, and he’s merely sparing the player in the specific case. As such, he has no definitive survivability ranking.
2017X
Surviability: 8.5/10
Without hindsight: 4/10
I’m sorry to say that I don’t know anything about the “Sonic.2017” game that ChatGPT tells me about, (assuming it didn’t hallucinate this game), I know what 2017X is conceptually though.
2017X is this freaky ahh demon who believes that he is Sonic, and if you don’t play along, he’ll freak out and murder you.
This is a very simple concept; if you know what he wants, you survive easily. Even without context, it doesn’t sound like it’d be hard to figure out what he wants. If he’s any good at acting like Sonic, he’s most likely not gonna immediately flip the moment you express a single twitch of concern.
Do correct me if you know more trivia about this weirdo.
Genesis X
Survivability: 10/10
Without hindsight: 9.99/10
An overworked employee producing a Sonic game for the Virtual Boy dies from a heart condition while holding a prototype copy of the game, and he haunts it with a vengeance.
Nobody is ever playing on a Virtual Boy console, especially not with the specific haunted copy of an unreleased Sonic game.
There IS a character from the story who gets killed by Genesis X, but nobody here should be capable of ending up in her position.
Not to downplay the poor guy, but his story is more of a personal one.
End (from Green Mountain)
Survivability: ?
This guy has a very vague story, which even the most dedicated of theorists can’t figure out with the evidence currently presented.
Few things are certain. End seems to have a counterpart in a more realistic world, which the game Green Mountain is merely a metaphor for. At the end of the game, the one who kills End becomes him, and it seems that the real monster of Green Mountain is the guy who killed End.
How do you even score this guy?
Tails Doll
Survivability: 10/10
A weird doll character from Sonic R, made to look like the character Tails for an unknown purpose.
He’s more of a myth than anything. As of his latest official appearance in Sonic Superstars, he’s totally harmless.
EXE (aka Faker)
Survivability: ?
Disqualified for the same reason as Xenophanes, except this time I don’t actively dislike him.
Furnace & Starved
Survivability: 0.3/10
Without hindsight: 0/10
Furnace is a superheated murder machine created by a cannibalistic version of Dr. Eggman, called Starved Eggman. He replaces Metal Sonic in his continuity.
Furnace and Starved aren’t part of a specific game or film, rather a threat to in-universe characters, as Starved uses Furnace to melt off their skin and cook them alive.
Furnace is as fast as he is deadly, and the odds of you being alive if you meet these two are so low that I might as well not score them.
If you have anything to add, (or just straight up disagree with me), then you know what to do, so why am I typing this out? Well, I need a conclusion, don’t I? Just putting an evil guy at the bottom of the list isn’t good enough for my post.
it’s not even fair