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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 weāve seen his hair across various comics, and while āManga / Comic & Cartoons Canonā is not āOfficial Game Canonā¢ā ...weirdly enough itās been consistent, especially compared to, yāknow, Blues. (Blues, who 100% had a game canon hairstyle from his debut in MM3.)
Classic Rockās hairstyle is drawn really uniformly. Sometimes itās black, sometimes itās brown, sometimes itās desaturated navy blue, but itās always a dark color and even with radically different art styles his hair still has the same basic, well, shape.
The same goes for Bass! Arigaās sketch isnāt 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 itās colored in, his hair is dark. (The sketch is just not colored in. It could be light, it could be dark. Thereās also a sketch of Blues on the same page... his hair isnāt colored in either.)
The Rockman & Forte manga ran from April 1998 to January 1999. From what I can gather, the āBurning 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.
Itās entirely possible that Kouji Izuki came up with something for the gameās 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 couldāve gone with whatever unique design they wanted, and they didnāt. I think itās possible that the artists and writers producing licensed franchise spin-offs might have had access to unreleased āseries 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 āhey maybe we should lay down some guidelines on how these characters are depictedā?
(Quick comparison of how helmet failure is shown for both characters in Archie comics. Rockās hair is disheveled from the fight, yet still the right style and color.)
#mega man#mega man bass#rockman forte#rockman#bass#text post#analysis#musings#jixie rambles#hairstyles#(I think they also know what blues' REAL eye color is)#(maybe it is red I just... have trouble taking xdive's word for it)#(even in a demi-canon context)#(ANYHOW)#(there's my argument for dark hair)#(in the interest of fairness I will reblog the argument for blond hair)#(which is pretty good actually but also relies on canon adjacent material)#(thank you for coming for my TED talk)
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I had.
Thoughts.
Pressure infection au. But itās gas based.
Iām thinking something like the sirens from mlp (donāt 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!ā¼ļøā¼ļøā¼ļø
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 ābig 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 āoh 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! Sheās sticking to Roseās side for the most part.)
Nebulon (no lungs. Theyāve slinked back into the void mass controlled hallways. Doors have been blocked off.)
The Non Accountables.
Jix (hasnāt 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 thatās blocked by water on all sides is safe. But the water isnāt. The gas canāt travel through the water, but it can get into it.
Most of Roseās cafĆ©s. The over concentration of oxygen doesnāt allow for the gas to get in. Itās still dangerous to stay for a long period of time for normal breathers.
( @trepans-apprentice @faefrosting @birbisanon @corb1n +anyone youād think would like this stupid idea.)
#RAMBLE#BIG RAMBLE!#au ideas#infection au#??? kinda#more like#effection au#haha.#get it?#roblox pressure#pressure#sebastian solace#pressure oc#ocs PLURRAL#pressure ocs
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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 Iāve yet to see anyone use the real (and gorgeous!) style of twin braids:
(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 Iām trying to say is please draw Bass with braids? More braids less zany anime hair.
#mega man bass#bass#hairstyles#text post#(kinda?)#musings#jixie rambles#(not remotely canon but still fantastic I think)#(but you know what I mean?)#(when they try to make his hair look like his helmet)#(when no one does that for any other robot masters)
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March wrap up
Me and my hairspiracy theories...
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\_(ć)_/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! Itās cute! And I never want to discourage anyoneās preferences. I just donāt think itās 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?
- Iām 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 doesnāt always stick to canon designs. Lookinā at you, Blues. On the other handā¦ itās 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.
- FWIW, my personal preference and headcanon is purple hair, which is not and never will be game canon. These days Iāve 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 Iām concerned NetNavis donāt have hair or anything under their āhelmetsā, the infamous AutoNavi included.
- Fun stats! Hereās 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
āMulticolorā 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!
#mega man#meta#text post#(kinda)#jixie rambles#hairstyles#(if rockman-chan shows us forte hair that lines up with my theory)#(I'm absolutely going to use that as evidence)#(and if they show us forte hair that's contrary to my theory)#(I'm going to point out how their designs for roll and blues stray from canon)#(that's just how it gotta be)
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#when i made this post i had no clue but leading up to today i was starting to see āForte 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 didnāt get into mega man until 2013 so thereās alot of things established before then i sometimes miss š
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. š
(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?
#meta#analysis#jixie rambles#long post#2nd round#(one thing I will give retro localized megs is that the x series made WAAAAAAY more sense)#(when none of the o.g. classic robot masters were truly sapient or sentient)#(and there was no maverick virus just reploids who were sick of being treated like objects)#(fun fact!)#(that wacky scholastic news ''worlds of power'' book was my first exposure to anything outside of the actual NES games)#(since it was not licensed it's essentially published fanfic so)#(it was probably also technically the first fanfic I ever read š¤)#(...goddamn I'm really dating myself here)
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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
#meta#jixie rambles#delete later#(love it when bass creacher)#(when he's just a fuzzy lil guy)#(or a scaly lil guy for that matter)#(terrifying monster is good too)#(welcome to ''jixie post all her random thoughts and long analysis text posts collecting dust in drafts'' challenge 2k24)#(I was thinking the weekend is a good time to spew nonsense)
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@chronicdelusionistāĀ 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.
āMega Man X1 Internal Design Document Posted at 30th Anniversary Eventā at Protodudeās 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:
Thereās a few things about this I find pretty interesting, like the fact thereās a dashed line between Mega Man and X (a secondary connection) ā but a solid line (a direct connection) going from Proto Man ->Ā āReferenceā -> Zero Project. This suggests, to me at least, that while X may have been inspired by Rock they donāt share any actual programming or schematics. Blues and Zero, on the other hand... might? And āReferenceā implies that even in the development stages of MMX1, they knew Wily didnāt 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 āEvil Robotsā, lol sorry guys.)
The other thing Iād read was... I think... crap, Iām sorry, I canāt remember. If it comes to me and I find it Iāll update this. Assuming I didnāt imagine it, lmao. But I think it was a breakdown of the game timeline?
Basically, in The Power Fighters Dr. Wily saysĀ āI studied Megaman hoping to create a similar robotā and then accidentally developed Bassinium. So he admits yeah Bass is intentionally an edgy recolor š and he was trying to duplicate Mega Man. But when exactly did he study Rock? Know who he did study... and rip off of...? Rockās prototype, Blues.
Wily goes on to say heās 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. Iām 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 donāt think itās a stretch. (Also Bass and Zero are overpowered while Proto Man is, ah, not known for his strength. So. I donāt think itās likely he was copying hardware schematics.)
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My OTP is Bass/Fighting Everyone To Prove Heās The Strongest
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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 thereās a shameful lack of fanart of Bass interacting with Pittoo and other edgy recolors (Shadow, Dark Meta Knight, etc).
#mega man#smash ultimate#bass/forte#dark pit#kid icarus#bass#pittoo#proto man#text post#musings#jixie rambles#(I get that Pittoo is just a pallet swap and therefore an easy addition but that doesn't explain why Proto Man isn't on the roster)
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TFW large group pics of Classic characters anachronistically include X & Zero, but Bass is missing...
#mega man#bass forte#megaman bass#bass#text post#musings#jixie rambles#(I think people are just afraid of drawing that helmet)#(include bass in group pics you cowards)
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Youād be surprised how much art on my spreadsheet is described as āBass pointing cannon at viewerā.
...on second thought, you probably wouldnāt be surprised at all.Ā o(ļæ½ļæ½ļæ½ā½ā¦)o
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