"Yasushi Yamaguchi, originally the main artist and zone designer for Sega's Sonic Team, designed Tails for an internal competition for a sidekick to the speedy hedgehog. The character was meant to hold a "deep admiration for Sonic." His entry won, but Sonic Team decided to change his character's name from "Miles" to "Tails".
As far as I've been able to track down, the whole "originally a girl" thing is a "game of telephone"-style misunderstanding of "In various locales, like Spain, the translation team screwed up in the manuals for the early Sonic games and called Tails a girl but then got it right in later releases."
Gloop: eh most of the MU pictures suck, whoevers getting there request done are a bunch of tails faggots. Hes in more pictures than anyone for the last two years.
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"Yasushi Yamaguchi, originally the main artist and zone designer for Sega's Sonic Team, designed Tails for an internal competition for a sidekick to the speedy hedgehog. The character was meant to hold a "deep admiration for Sonic." His entry won, but Sonic Team decided to change his character's name from "Miles" to "Tails".
Miles sounds like a male name to me.
As far as I've been able to track down, the whole "originally a girl" thing is a "game of telephone"-style misunderstanding of "In various locales, like Spain, the translation team screwed up in the manuals for the early Sonic games and called Tails a girl but then got it right in later releases."