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>Ian: Honestly when I first started writing, Sonic was the hardest one to get behind because he was such a jerk. He was such an ego maniac. This is the jock, this is the guy who would make my time at school hard. I have to make this guy likeable. Ehhhh. What I eventually found with him was to break him away from how he had been written previously.

Ian fundamentally misunderstood the character

It's literally spelled out for you in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2

>What you see is what you get, a guy who loves adventure