Miles Prower

I grew up on Sonic.

I watched the syndicated cartoon at sleepovers, and lost my shit when I heard it was on regular TV. I read the comics from Issue #26 until I was a freshman in college, and I drowned myself in Ken Penders’ lore about the Floating Island and Tails as the Chosen One.

Sonic fanfic was the first fanfic I ever read, even before the excellent Mega Man: The Series. I was reading OC Do Not Steal characters in Sonic fanfic before I was old enough to know how self-serving they were for the authors.

My favorite game for years was the Sonic 3 and Knuckles collection, and I always played as Knuckles because I couldn’t figure out that holding up and down moved the platforms in the Carnival Night zone. I never managed to get all the Chaos Emeralds in Sonic and Knuckles, but I could get them in my sleep in Sonic 3.

And it wasn’t until college that I got the “Miles Prower” = “Miles Per Hour” pun.