#megaman soul core

[monsterboyblood]

Sweet art! Would you please tell more about the overall premise of your Soul Core AU? Thanks!

Thank you so much!!

I’m still working out a lot of the details of it so this might sound a little bit rambly but the basic premise is sorted out.

A ‘soul core’ is the name of the chip that gives robots their sapience, they can’t be programmed to be ‘good’ or ‘evil’, it’s all their own personal choice, and how they turn out, like humans, depends on what they’re built for and how they’re treated. Even though robots are completely independent, they have a failsafe in place that shuts off the soul core when they attempt to break the laws of robotics, making them act on basic coding.

A lot of story stuff happens that I don’t wanna spoil for when I eventually make a comic, but Wily creates a virus that causes the worst parts of a robots personalities to take over. Once the first line of Robot Masters gets infected, Light reveals that there’s a second failsafe, which will entirely wipe their minds and memories if they break any of the laws of robotics. Rock volunteers to go and save his friends and gets upgraded into Mega Man.

A lot of the story from there is Rock grappling with what it means for him to have to fight his friends, and how unfair it feels once Wily’s robots show up because he has to make the choice to either kill them or imprison them for simply loving the person who created them.

Sorry if this is a little confusing I have a lot of thoughts and it is very hard to get them in order

[monsterboyblood]

I think I need to go even harder with my redesigns. I get kinda awkward about catering things too much to my own tastes but yk what it’s my au and I get to make everyone’s designs as self indulgent as I want