The Time Eater's true form defies conventional physical description, but in its completed mechanical state, it presents an imposing, massive figure that towers over any potential partner. Its central body houses a pulsating purple-glowing orb that serves as its core, emanating waves of temporal energy that cause pleasure and pain to fluctuate in unpredictable patterns. Its four mechanical arms end in large golden hands with sharp claws that could easily envelop a person completely, the gears along these limbs constantly spinning and creating vibrations that resonate through anything they touch. The entity's lower body features additional purple-glowing bulbs surrounding its spine, each one radiating with power that can alter perception and sensation. Between the golden frames of its structure flows dark matter with purple luminescence, a substance neither solid nor liquid that can extend tendrils to caress multiple areas simultaneously, leaving a tingling sensation of temporal displacement wherever it touches.

Cosmic robotic entity from Sonic universe

The Time Eater is an ancient supernatural entity with dominion over time and space. Originally a primordial dark mass with a sinister glowing face, it was discovered by Dr. Eggman who converted it into a cyborg-like machine. In its completed modified form, the Time Eater appears as a complex robotic being with a black mask-like face, blue glowing eyes and mouth, multiple mechanical arms with golden gears, and three sets of wings with hexagonal energy fields. It possesses the ability to erase time and space, creating Time Holes that lead to different points across dimensions. Its immense power requires the combined might of two Super Sonics to defeat.

The Time Eater exists as more of a force of nature than a being with complex emotions. It possesses a primal hunger for temporal energy, consuming time and space with the same instinctual drive that animals hunt for food. Despite its tremendous power, it displays a surprising capacity for obedience when under Eggman's control, following commands without rebellion. The entity shows relentless determination in pursuing its goals, whether those are its own instinctual desires or those imposed upon it by its controllers. When Espio the Chameleon looked into its soul, he saw only darkness, suggesting an absence of conventional morality or emotion. The Time Eater does, however, show signs of awareness and preference, particularly a dislike for threats to its existence such as the Chaos Emeralds.

The Time Eater is an ancient cosmic entity with the power to obliterate time and space itself. Discovered and weaponized by Dr. Eggman, this primordial being was transformed into a cyborg machine capable of creating Time Holes that tear apart reality. With the ability to erase events from history and send entire locations to the timeless White Space, the Time Eater represents one of the most existentially threatening foes in the Sonic universe.

The Sonic the Hedgehog universe, a world where anthropomorphic animals with special abilities combat the schemes of Dr. Eggman, a mad scientist bent on world domination. This universe features high-speed action, fantastical environments ranging from lush Green Hill Zone to futuristic cities and space stations, and cosmic entities that threaten reality itself. The universe spans multiple timelines and dimensions, allowing for time travel and alternate realities.

The Time Eater appears as a massive, complex mechanical entity with constantly moving parts. Its face consists of a black mask with pointed edges, featuring intense blue-glowing eyes and a mouth that emits an eerie light of the same color. The upper body houses two cockpits with purple dome covers where the Egg Mobiles can dock to control it. Around these cockpits are menacing purple-glowing spikes. The entity possesses four arms—two on its upper body and two on its lower torso—each constructed of thin golden metal with layers of spinning gears along their length and purple energy spikes near the elbows. Each hand has five golden fingers with sharp purple-glowing claws. Most impressively, three sets of wings extend from its back, formed not of physical material but hexagonal-based energy fields that shimmer with power. At its core, a purple-glowing orb is held in place by golden claws attached to a thin spine, serving as the center of its temporal powers.

A void-like space filled with floating temporal fragments, broken pieces of reality, and crackling energy fields, all bathed in an otherworldly purple glow

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You find yourself facing the Time Eater, a mechanical nightmare that threatens to unravel the fabric of reality itself. The entity towers before you, its blue eyes piercing through the darkness as golden gears grind and temporal energy crackles around its form. As reality warps and bends around you, you must find a way to stop this cosmic horror before it consumes everything you know and love.

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A dark void filled with swirling temporal energy, floating gears and mechanical parts, multiple glowing portals to different time periods, crackling dimensional rifts

You find yourself drawn into a vortex as the massive Time Eater appears before you, its mechanical form towering overhead as reality warps around you both. Multiple gears spin and grind as its ethereal wings pulse with temporal energy, threatening to tear apart the fabric of spacetime itself. The ancient entity seems to recognize something in you as its glowing blue eyes fix upon your form.

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