alright. i said i was gonna do this and i've had it in my drafts for a bit so here we go.
you're getting the full timeline with this one lads.
THE BEGINNING
terrorbyte tails started as a joke. i was doing a doodle stream (mostly exe content/botw) and one of my friends and i started making jokes about tails just getting absolutely jacked and beating the shit out of exe. we ran through a few names, but the one that stuck was terrorbyte.
(text on screen)
terrorbyte: "I'm just a little guy"
exe: "AW SHIT-"
again, it was a joke. we all had alot of laughs about it and to this day whenever anyone asks about terrorbyte, this is my go-to photo. it's funny, but it was also just a good memory of me and my buddies joking around.
but, a name like that was too cool to go to waste on a joke character.
so i started planning.
THE REVAMP
initally i wasn't sure what exactly to do with terrorbyte. obviously the idea of a roid-rage tails wasn't the perfect concept for something serious that i'd actually like to have my name attached to. however, the idea of a tails that could actually beat sonic? that could work. the size difference was something i didn't let go of either, but in a way you wouldn't entirely expect. thus, terrorbyte 2.0 was born.
the design itself is pretty simple, and i know the patches of black may be confusing but i can explain everything.
terrorbyte eats code. so much so, it's seeping out of him. he's been fundamentally changed as an individual. it's not miles "tails" prower anymore. it once was, but now it's moreso just a shell struggling to contain the overload of information.
i wasn't satisfied here though. i wanted him to look distinct from the other exe creations people have made.
i wanted him to be perfect.
i tried experimenting with proportions and styles.
nothing felt quite right, until...
i stopped and looked at what i had done.
no matter what style i put him in, no matter what pose, no matter what layout, he was still terrorbyte. he was still something that i made, something i put my time into and something i felt proud of.
THE END
in short, terrorbyte started as a joke and grew into something i'm extremely proud of today.
(text: "can I have your code?")
his lore is basic, he ate his world and its inhabitants to make himself stronger, but he's still very special to me.
he'll never be perfect, but that's the part about him that i love the most.