#(and there was no maverick virus just reploids who were sick of being treated like objects)

[bassdaily]

#when i made this post i had no clue but leading up to today i was starting to see ‘Forte Day’ thrown around and was curious about it

Don't worry this was not info that really disseminated to the US until very recently. I'd never heard of 4/10 being anything until after I started running this blog, and even then, didn't find an explanation for it until like… within the last year or so. (And I don't pretend to be a deep lore expert by any means but I definitely dug into this the first time I heard about it and came up with nada.)

#this is probably capcom knowing their fans at the time and solidifying the pun

Yeah that's exactly what I was thinking.

#i didn’t get into mega man until 2013 so there’s alot of things established before then i sometimes miss 😭

1. Nah… there's a lot things that were "established" long before Legends and Battle Network that are now completely irrelevant— amusing relics at best.

I genuinely love both versions of Rock, but the one that I grew up on was a hero who fought mindless robots, who was himself a cold unfeeling machine until he was magically turned human in a freak accident, who wasn't a little boy but a grown-ass mega MAN. Usually. Because he was also a character who was so wildly inconsistent that he could be anything, really. One of the reasons I loved Mandi Paugh's Mega Man: the Series fanfics so much was because she made such a great effort to bridge the gap between all these different portrayals.

Anyway. You didn't really miss anything. (Except Mandi's fics, which are still fun reads, especially the ones where Bass shows up.)

...and hopefully now everyone has some context for The Protomen's post-apocalyptic rock opera universe, because the "soldier of the Great Mining Wars" was their Mega Man too.

Specific to @bassforte behind the cut.

2. I mean fandom is not a competition. But also:

3. Girlfriend, 2013 was 11 years ago. You may not be at "holy crap I've been involved in this fandom longer than some y'all been on this Earth" yet but best believe it's coming. 😘

(I do love when a new movie/game/show/comic reaches a whole new audience and brings in a whole new generation of fans, and I really love it when it's a revival for older and dying fandoms. But yeah, 2013 means you got in before MM11 and that you stuck around well after most Archie comic & MM11 fans lost interest. That's nothin' to sneeze at.)

Hey, so uh, who was gonna tell me that Capcom made birthdays for the classic characters when making fake Battle and Chase licenses?