Mauro

is a human resident of Spagonia that appears in Sonic Unleashed. He is the son of Lucas, and is known as the biggest troublemaker in Spagonia. As little, Mauro lost his father when he disappeared at sea, and was left with no parents. As such, he plays pranks on others to get the attention he lacks in his life.

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''Spagonia's number one troublemaker, who subjects his primary target (that would be Denise) to every manner of prank and shenanigan imaginable. There does seem to be a motive behind Mauro's mayhem though.''

PS3/Xbox360
Mauro was born as the son to Lucas, a local sailor in Spagonia, and an unknown mother. According to Mauro, he has no mother at the time Sonic Unleashed occurred, which means he either lost touch with her or that she had died. While Mauro was very young however, Lucas disappeared in a work-related incident, and everyone believed that he had died, including Mauro.

Now no longer having a father or a mother, Mauro was left as an orphan, but Denise, a friend of Lucas, helped raising him. Without any of his parents however, Mauro never received any real parental love or attention, which always left him feeling incredibly lonely, a feeling that scared Mauro deeply.

As a result, Mauro began seeking out the means to fill out his lonely life. He then began playing all kinds of manners of pranks on the people in Spagonia, in order to get the attention he craved so very much and to forget his loneliness. Out of all Spagonia's inhabitants that he pranked, Denise became Mauro's primary target, and she was often the victim of his pranks.

As time passed, Mauro became very cocky and cynical, and was very proud of the pranks he made. He would always try to act tough, demand respect from others, and claim that he enjoyed being a "lone wolf". In truth however, this was all a facade that Mauro used in order to cover up his own sadness and loneliness.

When Sonic and Chip first arrived in Spagonia during Sonic Unleashed, the first thing Mauro did when seeing the duo was to remark that he had not seen them before, and instantly demanded respect from them. Later at night, when he saw Sonic as Sonic the Werehog, he was a bit taken back by his appearance, but nevertheless put on a (fake) brave facade and claimed that despite Sonic's appearance, he takes nothing from anybody, not even Denise. Later, when he hears rumors about the people in Spagonia changing personality at night, Mauro merely thinks that the old people are trying to imitating him, and that they are gullible.

Over the course of Sonic Unleashed, Mauro would often play pranks on Denise, such as stopping all clocks in her shop, putting mayonnaise in the shaving cream canisters, changing her price for a haircut and putting clue on the chairs, and when Sonic finds him, he told him to be a bud and forget that he saw him. When Sonic later tried to confront Mauro on his pranks and lifestyle, Mauro says out loud in defiance that he does not need somebody to lecture him, or anybody for that matter, while he is actually trying to cover up his own cravings for such things and possibly to convince himself of it.

As it turned out however, Mauro's father Lucas had survived the incident, but it had left him with amnesia and he had forgotten Mauro. During the game, Mauro met with Lucas when he came to Spagonia in order to look for work, but neither of them were able to remember each other. Once Mauro saw Lucas in his sailor clothes, he asked Lucas if he was a sailor. Lucas asked Mauro why he wanted to know, and Mauro remarks that his father was a sailor and explains how he disappeared. Lucas then says that he is sorry to hear that and remarks that he must miss him, but Mauro claims that he does not miss him at all. After the meeting with Lucas, Mauro told Sonic that he thought Lucas a pretty decent guy and that he thinks about becoming a sailor like him some day.

After Denise helped Lucas remembering Mauro, Mauro found himself confronted by Lucas who said that he was his father, and asks him if he truly was his dad. Once he confirms it, Mauro, now overflowing with both joy and confusion, tells his father that he had missed him so much and asked him where he had been all this time, before he breaks down in tears, finally letting his sadness and loneliness out to the surface and letting it go. As he cries, Mauro hears how his father promises that he will make it up to him and that nothing will keep them apart.

Mauro later watched on in horror with the rest of his town, as Dark Gaia began to cast the world into darkness, but rejoiced as the world returned to normal following Perfect Dark Gaia's defeat at the hands of Super Sonic and the Gaia Colossus.

PS2/Wii
Mauro never made any real appearance on the PS2/Wii version of Sonic Unleashed. He did however appear during the cutscenes, where he and the rest of Spagonia watched in horror, as Dark Gaia began to cast the world into darkness, but rejoiced as the world returned to normal following Perfect Dark Gaia's defeat at the hands of Super Sonic and the Gaia Colossus.