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bassdaily Ā· 2 years ago
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There is no Official Capcom Game Canonā„¢ hair for Bass. No unused design sketches or character art that has been released. Nothing even from canon-adjacent licensed games.
But I wonder if it might exist? Because weā€™ve seen his hair across various comics, and while ā€˜Manga / Comic & Cartoons Canonā€™ is not ā€˜Official Game Canonā„¢ā€™ ...weirdly enough itā€™s been consistent, especially compared to, yā€™know, Blues. (Blues, who 100% had a game canon hairstyle from his debut in MM3.)
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Classic Rockā€™s hairstyle is drawn really uniformly. Sometimes itā€™s black, sometimes itā€™s brown, sometimes itā€™s desaturated navy blue, but itā€™s always a dark color and even with radically different art styles his hair still has the same basic, well, shape.
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The same goes for Bass! Arigaā€™s sketch isnā€™t even canon for Gigamix, and we only see some hair poking out of his broken helmet in Archie comics. But like Rock, the style is consistent, and both times itā€™s colored in, his hair is dark. (The sketch is just not colored in. It could be light, it could be dark. Thereā€™s also a sketch of Blues on the same page... his hair isnā€™t colored in either.)
The Rockman & Forte manga ran from April 1998 to January 1999. From what I can gather, the ā€œBurning Shotā€ short is from 1998.
Rockman Gigamix was published in 2009. The sketch Hitoshi Ariga drew of helmetless Forte was at FanExpo Canada, August 2010.
Archie's Worlds Collide crossover ran from April to August 2013.
Itā€™s entirely possible that Kouji Izuki came up with something for the gameā€™s manga adaption, and when asked about it on the spot Ariga drew from that, and then Archie comics kept what was previously done by the manga artists. Especially given how Archie loved to pack in references to other Mega Man ļæ½ļæ½verses.
Conversely, any one of them couldā€™ve gone with whatever unique design they wanted, and they didnā€™t. I think itā€™s possible that the artists and writers producing licensed franchise spin-offs might have had access to unreleased ā€œseries bibleā€ material that we the public will never get to see because Capcom has totally forgotten this character exists in the first place. So the real question is: after Novas Aventuras, did Capcom have the wherewithal to go ā€œhey maybe we should lay down some guidelines on how these characters are depictedā€?
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(Quick comparison of how helmet failure is shown for both characters in Archie comics. Rockā€™s hair is disheveled from the fight, yet still the right style and color.)
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oc-ask-bloges Ā· 2 months ago
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I had.
Thoughts.
Pressure infection au. But itā€™s gas based.
Iā€™m thinking something like the sirens from mlp (donā€™t ask why) not like something that affects you physically beyond likeā€¦ eye color or smth.
More mental. Making who ever breathes it uncontrollably aggressive.
RAMBLE ALERT RAMBLE ALERT!ā€¼ļøā€¼ļøā€¼ļø
So unless you had a gas mask on before the outbreak (for whatever reason, maybe like Allo from @creator-of-creativious) or use some type of filtered breathing like gills (external or filter gills like an Axolotl.) you would be effected.
Sebastian would be basically a ā€œbig badā€ with his size and power. And the fact he has GUNS.
So saying that:
The ocs that would be aggressive:
Jixy (hiding away in some back room, probably heavily injured.)
Dani (small n feisty, more prone to bloodlust as well.)
Elena (justice god. Aka ā€œoh no.ā€)
Lori (she has no lungs, is not effected, but it more aggressive for sake of survival.)
Ocs who are not aggressive:
Rose (@drowning-thistle. Has lungs, but the vines in her lungs pump a constant flow of fresh oxygen. Her head would be a big foggy though, causing some of her actions to be a bit brash. (Still a sweet heart, but still dangerous considering the VINES are effected. Her infection is sped up.).)
Navi (poor thing is completely harmless and helpless wether effected or not! Sheā€™s sticking to Roseā€™s side for the most part.)
Nebulon (no lungs. Theyā€™ve slinked back into the void mass controlled hallways. Doors have been blocked off.)
The Non Accountables.
Jix (hasnā€™t come up from the bottom of the ocean.)
Rain (trying their best to find an escape route from the outside. Horribly worried for Sebastian. (Gay.))
Safe houses.
Any space thatā€™s blocked by water on all sides is safe. But the water isnā€™t. The gas canā€™t travel through the water, but it can get into it.
Most of Roseā€™s cafĆ©s. The over concentration of oxygen doesnā€™t allow for the gas to get in. Itā€™s still dangerous to stay for a long period of time for normal breathers.
( @trepans-apprentice @faefrosting @birbisanon @corb1n +anyone youā€™d think would like this stupid idea.)
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bassdaily Ā· 2 years ago
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IDK why, but sometimes artists try to give Bass a crazy hairstyle that imitates his silly helmet. In my opinion it never works. Which is a shame because Iā€™ve yet to see anyone use the real (and gorgeous!) style of twin braids:
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(Left: two cornrows or lead-in braids. Source: Reddit. Right: dutch or french braided pigtails. Source: Instagram.)
...which manages to echo the lines of his helmet while looking great. Anyhow I guess what Iā€™m trying to say is please draw Bass with braids? More braids less zany anime hair.
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bassdaily Ā· 2 years ago
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March wrap up
Me and my hairspiracy theories...
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I had a few other thoughts, but wanted to keep my initial write up a little more focused.
- Bluesā€™ radical hairstyle change. Capcom did that in MM8. ĀÆ\_(惄)_/ĀÆ Most adaptions went with his original MM3 hair and Archie comics went with the MM8 pompadour, both are technically game canon.
- As far as the Wilys all having the same hair color. This is a great headcanon! Itā€™s cute! And I never want to discourage anyoneā€™s preferences. I just donā€™t think itā€™s good evidence for actual canon. Aside from the fact that Zero and Bass as brothers is really a fanon thing... the Light siblings have different hair colors?
- Iā€™m dying to see if the Rockman-chan manga will give us Forte hair. They already teased it by showing him take his helmet off. (ā€¦only to put on a far sillier helmet.)
That said, Rockman-chan doesnā€™t always stick to canon designs. Lookinā€™ at you, Blues. On the other handā€¦ itā€™s like the only media that really gets that Forte is supposed to be an edgy recolor DeviantArt OC do not steal, and would be around the same age and build as Rock.
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- FWIW, my personal preference and headcanon is purple hair, which is not and never will be game canon. These days Iā€™ve come to accept the short manga style, but for a very long time I was a very strong proponent of medium shoulder length hair.
- As far as Iā€™m concerned NetNavis donā€™t have hair or anything under their ā€œhelmetsā€, the infamous AutoNavi included.
- Fun stats! Hereā€™s a breakdown of haircolors/styles reblogged here as of the end of March:
team raven locks black: 76 Ā  +team chestnut waves brunet: 4 team flaxen mane blond: 64 Ā  +team ginger redhead: 1 team awesome hair purple: 27 team snowy tresses white/silver: 24 multicolor: 13 unknown: 45
short hair: 186 medium hair: 28 long hair: 27 mohawk/undercut: 16 curly: 14 braids/dreads: 4 bald: 5
ā€œMulticolorā€ needed to be evenly split (ie: 50/50), anything less was counted as the dominant color. Purple skews high due to moderator bias, white skews low on account of a large portion of white-haired Bass is ship art, which I try to limit, so idk what to say man. That is a form of moderator bias as well, I suppose.
Not counted: text posts, 2nd round reblogs, anything in the hairnalysis posts.
- Poll results!
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bassdaily Ā· 6 months ago
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#when i made this post i had no clue but leading up to today i was starting to see ā€˜Forte Dayā€™ 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 likeā€¦ 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 didnā€™t get into mega man until 2013 so thereā€™s alot of things established before then i sometimes miss šŸ˜­
1. Nahļæ½ļæ½ļæ½ there's a lot things that were "established" long before Legends and Battle Network that are now completely irrelevantā€” 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. šŸ˜˜
(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?
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bassdaily Ā· 6 months ago
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Me: Okay between "Rollass" Week and "BassBlues" Week I've got "Dr. Cossack Big Dad Energy" Week then after "BassBlues" Week I really should get around to do a "Ruby Spears" follow up but "Yandere Mega Man" Week would be fun especially before "BassRock" Weekā€”
Also me: shut it all down 'monster mash' week part 2 now
Me: Um?
Also me: WANNA SEE SOME CREACHERS
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bassdaily Ā· 3 years ago
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@chronicdelusionistā€‹Ā Yeee..nnn...sss...oooo...? I remember reading two different things about this topic, and for the life of me, can only find the first one.
ā€œMega Man X1 Internal Design Document Posted at 30th Anniversary Eventā€ at Protodudeā€™s Rockman-Corner.
This piece is an official character relationship chart which [...]Ā was written between Mega Man 5 and X1's development in 1993. [...] according to this document, Dr. Wily used Proto Man as a reference when creating Zero (bear in mind Bass did not exist at this point).
Screenshot of the relevant portion:
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Thereā€™s a few things about this I find pretty interesting, like the fact thereā€™s a dashed line between Mega Man and X (a secondary connection) ā€” but a solid line (a direct connection) going from Proto Man ->Ā ā€œReferenceā€ -> Zero Project. This suggests, to me at least, that while X may have been inspired by Rock they donā€™t share any actual programming or schematics. Blues and Zero, on the other hand... might? And ā€œReferenceā€ implies that even in the development stages of MMX1, they knew Wily didnā€™t just copy Bluesā€™ programming or schematics and immediately turn around and start working on Zero. He used what he stole/learned on other [to be determined] projects, refined it, and later used that to build Zero.
(Also the other Robot Masters, bosses, minor baddies are all just grouped together as ā€œEvil Robotsā€, lol sorry guys.)
The other thing Iā€™d read was... I think... crap, Iā€™m sorry, I canā€™t remember. If it comes to me and I find it Iā€™ll update this. Assuming I didnā€™t imagine it, lmao. But I think it was a breakdown of the game timeline?
Basically, in The Power Fighters Dr. Wily saysĀ ā€œI studied Megaman hoping to create a similar robotā€ and then accidentally developed Bassinium. So he admits yeah Bass is intentionally an edgy recolor šŸ˜‚ and he was trying to duplicate Mega Man. But when exactly did he study Rock? Know who he did study... and rip off of...? Rockā€™s prototype, Blues.
Wily goes on to say heā€™s used what he learned from creating Bass to build Zero. Coincidentally we have ancillary info that Wily used copied material from Proto Man to eventually build Zero. Iā€™m making a leap that it was on the software end, but given that Blues, Bass, and Zero all have a strong independent/rebellious streak, I donā€™t think itā€™s a stretch. (Also Bass and Zero are overpowered while Proto Man is, ah, not known for his strength. So. I donā€™t think itā€™s likely he was copying hardware schematics.)
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bassdaily Ā· 4 years ago
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My OTP is Bass/Fighting Everyone To Prove Heā€™s The Strongest
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bassdaily Ā· 4 years ago
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Pittooā€” who was in one (1) Kid Icarus gameā€” is on the Super Smash Bros roster, while Bass and Proto Man are relegated to cameos. Which was still more than they got from Capcom in MM11.Ā Bass has been a playable character in more Mega Man games than there are Kid Icarus games period.
Anyhow. All this to say thereā€™s a shameful lack of fanart of Bass interacting with Pittoo and other edgy recolors (Shadow, Dark Meta Knight, etc).
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bassdaily Ā· 4 years ago
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TFW large group pics of Classic characters anachronistically include X & Zero, but Bass is missing...
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bassdaily Ā· 4 years ago
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Youā€™d be surprised how much art on my spreadsheet is described as ā€œBass pointing cannon at viewerā€.
...on second thought, you probably wouldnā€™t be surprised at all.Ā  o(ļæ½ļæ½ļæ½ā–½ā‰¦)o
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