User blog comment:Smash The Echidna/A curious observation of mine/@comment-32712012-20171222081009/@comment-1942179-20171223082842

No, no it doesn't. Infinite's power is no secret. Even if you assume that nobody from the whole crowd that fled the scene stuck around upon his first appearance against Sonic, Tails was still a witness. And even then, Infinite was not very subtle at all; He was raising hell in the city too, telling people he would spare them if they ran screaming. How would anyone NOT know? Besides, we're starting the roleplay after the 6 month time-skip, not during. And nobody has been confirmed to be dead--just assumed. This really isn't much of a concern.

I don't quite know how to handle the canon characters at the moment, but I would like to have a claim on the villains--at least Eggman himself. His role is important to the flow of the story, so letting anyone control him sounds risky.