My first character was less about darkness & despair and more about “generic gary stu that was basically the canon character but [i]black[/i] and had [i]fire powers[/i] and [i]guns[/i].” His name was Mike Speed Hedgehog. I even made him a cousin to Sonic and gave him an analogue of Tails for kicks. 

It was September 2001 and I was… 11.

It was [i]terrible.[/i]