Other than that, however, he's a rather sweet creature who will often bestow upon the innocent simple and quaint little gifts made of flowers or possibly even feathers.

in one of my sonic forces rewrites, infinite is an AI created by eggman and tasked with creating a new, entirely virtual world. he initially doesn’t have a body, but once sonic is captured by the doctor and thrown into his world, he realizes that he wants more...

Yep! Thinker.exe’s Infinite is a sandbox environment called Deceiver, part of a security suite called Empire. Sandboxes essentially fool programs into running inside them so you can see if they’re malicious or not, and this one figured that its function fits with Infinite’s illusion/augmented reality power, so it’s taken to resembling him whenever it wants to interact with people. It’s a scarily good liar, able to fool anyone it talks to, and if it really wanted to, it could probably trap viruses and other forms of malware inside itself without them ever realizing it was doing so. It just doesn’t necessarily want to. It just wants to do whatever its user tells it to.