Eric

Eric (エリック) is a human resident of Apotos in Sonic Unleashed, and the husband of Anastasia. On the PS3/Xbox360 version of the game, he serves as translator for his wife, after she had lost her dentures and was left unable to talk, as believes himself to be in fine tune with his wife. He translates her talk poorly however, and often takes what she is actually saying completely out of contexts.

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''Anastasia's husband, an 80-year old man who's in absolutely no rush to hit 81. Eric believes himself to be very in tune with his wife, and helps interpret her murky mumblings, but something always seems to get lost in translation... ''

PS3/Xbox360
In his youth, Eric appeared as a shady character as he used to hang around on the shore with a grin on his face, while combing the beach for shells. One day however, Eric got bit by a crab and a young Anastasia came to his aid. Eric however, mistook this as a sign of affection from Anastasia's side and he fell in love with her. After that, he brought her beautiful shells every day and saying “''Marry me! I can’t go on if you won’t''” even though Anastasia was not interested in him. Eventually, Eric's constant pleas made Anastasia give up, and Eric married her, though Eric came to see his courtship from another view. Over the years however, the two of them came to have to have a happy marriage, and Anastasia came to truly love Eric.

When the Earth broke apart in Sonic Unleashed, the tremors from the shattering made Anastasia lose her dentures and Eric helped her look for them. When Sonic the Hedgehog and Chip came to Apotos, he explains his wife's condition to the due and translates her mumble as a greeting to Sonic and Chip. During nightfall, Eric later sees Tails pass through Apotos and passes this information on to Sonic.

As the planet began to come together again, Eric believes that they can better find his wife's dentures. Later when Eric hears that Chun-Nan's continent has been restored, he is thrilled to hear the news. As he then hears his wife following mumble, he translates it as if she wants to go visit Chun-Nan, and Eric happily complies.

As a result of his translation, Eric travels with Anastasia to Chun-Nan. When arriving there Eric is amazed by things such as the local waterfall, while he translate his wife's occasional mumble as if she is thrilled beyond words. There the two of them meet Sonic and Chip, where Eric talks with them about the scenic routes and the delicious local meat buns. All the while, he translates Anastasia's occasional mumble (which starts to sound displeased) as if she is agreeing with him all the way, such as she is loving the idea of going on the scenic routes and that she is a big fan of meat buns.

Eric later returned with Anastasia to Apotos. When Sonic and Chip then comes by, he tells them that he is glad that they made this trip, while he translate his wife's mumble as if she is liked the trip too. He then suddenly says he heard sonic asking how he and his wife met (though sonic did not say that) and start telling his version of his early romance, bit for bit. He tells Sonic and Chip that in his youth he was a shy yet debonair fella and stand-up guy, while his wife was shy, awkward and plain unlucky in love. He claims that he naturally “felt bad for this sad girl” and one day thought he would go lift up her spirit. He then proceeds to claim for that moment on he could not get rid of her as she had fallen for him hard. During his story he translates his wife's angry outburst as if she is agreeing with him.

Around the time Sonic defeats Dark Guardian, Eric and Anastasia manages to find her lost dentures, As soon as she regains her dentures however, Eric is schooled by Anastasia for his poor translations. Eric tries to make her calm down and to soften her up with cute noises, but to no avail.

Following his wife yelling at him, Eric is left doing penance and is pretty ashamed to do so in his age. At the same time he wonders if Anastasia is still mad at him. Eventually however, the two of them reconciled after Anastasia had cooled down, and Eric is relifed she is no longer mad.

PS2/Wii
Eric first appeared alongside Lambros when Sonic was asking around town for someone who knew Chip, as Chip was suffering from amnesia. Unfortunately, just like Lambros, Eric had never seen Chip before. During the following nightfall, he met Tails who asked a favor of him, which he accepted, and he received a Moon Tablet from Tails who told him to give it to a "blue hedgehog" if he saw him. Later that night, Eric found Sonic as Sonic the Werehog, and while he was different from Tails' description, Eric was sure it was him and gave Sonic the Moon Tablet.

Later on, Eric was talking to Sonic and Lambros about how the town used to be quite, but now was in turmoil due to the tremors created by the planet's shattering. Eric wanted however Sonic to feel welcome, and gives him Soundtrack 32 as a memento of him.