#shut up mega

[megalopolus]

i want there to be a fyeahgwourtney/dailygwourtney type blog but i'm too employed and not on tumblr enough to run one

[vizziefizzie]

Zero may be good at combat, and he may have a high battle IQ, but he wasn't exactly calibrated for skating on the ice. Good thing he has his buddy to catch him when he falls!

[lum164]

something i actually thought about a while ago when i went to the pool

[siblingshuffle]

Sibling Shuffle: Suspicion

“What? Why on earth would Dr. Wily make a robot that fights robots that HE reprogrammed?”

“I’m not sure. …Maybe I should check on her, just to be safe— huh?”

“What? What is it?”

“The lab door - it’s locked from the inside!”

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Sorry again for the delay!

————— LORE:

So. I’m not sure if it’s really established if Bass was really that badly damaged from Shade Man or if he was playing it up, but Piano did sustain heavy damage. That being said, she always was more of a strategist than a battle-hungry fighter, so I can’t imagine that she didn’t see this as an opportunity to accomplish her goals with a minimal amount of conflict.

As for the Lights, Dr. Light was always very optimistic, but he had a strange feeling about his daughter’s new alleged ally. Not enough that he would refuse fixing her (he’s way too nice to do that) but definitely enough that Blues decided to look into who built her. That search wasn’t going very well… Until Dr. Light got a good look at Piano’s systems, and realized just how similar they were to Roll’s.

This was weird to him for several reasons:

Internal systems often look very different from Robot Master to Robot Master.

Roll is a first-generation Lightbot, making it strange for someone would copy her design - there have probably been many advancements in technology since her creation that would be more efficient, but Piano’s systems look almost the same as Roll’s.

Roll is a Helper robot/Child, making it weird that someone would copy her design to make a combat robot. While the public may know her as the heroic Super Fighting Robot, Roll wasn’t built with that in mind, hence her childlike design. Piano also has a childlike design, but she identified herself as a robot built for combat (making design choices like a child’s face and robot hair very strange).

So. Someone very likely copied Roll’s design. And that Someone knew how to do it and knew how to design a core strong enough to support a robot like Piano, and knew how to build weapons similar to Roll’s Mega Buster. And guess who fits that criteria and is a serial plagiarist?

——— This next section is just breaking down Blues’s List of People Who (Probably) Didn’t Build Piano (at least, the candidates he listed aloud.)

Cossack Robotics Laboratory: He looked into them first because Dr. Cossack did build a combat robot in the past (even if it was under duress). I decided to go with one of the few things I know about the Megamix/Gigamix continuity: the whole thing with Skull & Ring Man’s functions. I went with Skull Man being the only CossackBot made for combat, while Ring Man was made to be like a detective (though he hadn’t been activated as a detective - his first time waking up was with Wily’s programming installed). Unlike that version of Skull Man, though, Sibling Shuffle Skull Man was repurposed once Kalinka was safely un-kidnapped - now he’s like her bodyguard (just to be sure she is never re-kidnapped). (Credit for that last idea.)

Geoworks International: His investigation into Geoworks was probably the quickest lol. He kinda just called up Tempo and was basically like “Hey, you get any new sisters since Rhythm? No? Yeah, I didn’t think Dr. LaLinde built her anyway.” (He didn’t want to speak to Dr. LaLinde directly, so called his best friend instead lol)

The Military: The energy consumption of robots with independent thought was a bit high** for the US*** government to want any. They have plenty of Joes, instead. Sniper, Gunner, Hammer, Rider, Apache, Cannon… and those have been getting the job done well so far. If it ain’t broke, you know?

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Footnotes:

*The events of the 6th Game. I can’t imagine that with the sponsor of the tournament gone (for all intents and purposes) they would keep it going another year. And with Wily breaking out of jail & causing a ruckus so often, I assume even if making more fighting robots wasn’t illegal, it would be very much frowned upon/side-eyed nervously

**Blues himself serves as an example. Granted, Robot Master technology becomes more and more efficient as the timeline progresses, but even then I think the government would be… hesitant to implement technology that Dr. Wily consistently reprograms.

***This assumption is based on this map from Megaman 8, which implies Light Labs to be somewhere in America.

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I’ll try to get the next Minicomic out in a good amount of time. (Might answer questions / comments in the meantime? Idk)

[theletterwsartflap]

This is Dream Man, my forever tired, onesie wearing robot master. He's a sleep therapist, believe it or not.

[essektheylyss]

Honestly, it is so funny remembering that Annabeth Chase's literal, stated, canonical fatal flaw is hubris.

Rick Riordan was like, "This clever, neurodivergent preteen girl believes that she is smarter than the gods, and she will get the chance to prove herself right," and he was correct. 😌

[kairithemang0]

agent Curt was 100% obsessed with reptiles as a kid

like he wanted a dog but his real want was a fucking iguana. I will die on this hill. He has unlimited reptile facts and Owen thinks it’s cute when he talks about them because the second he found out he thought it was adorable and whenever there’s an awkward silence Owen goes “you wanna talk about snakes?” And Curt rushes over to him from wherever he is and begins rambling and by the end of it Owen is half asleep holding Curt and he’s STILL TALKING ABOUT REPTILES

Owen doesn’t retain the info, Curt doesn’t mind

[millennium-shitpost]

girl help my demons are playing a card that has a second ability i don't know about

[scatterpatter]

All the angst I've been writing made me sad so I WANTED TO DOODLE THEM BEING CUTE TO OFFSET THAT. LOOK AT MY IDIOTS.

[rileylastname]

i really hope they start selling the Lords in Black’s dolls. I think people would go crazy for a Nibbly doll. I would love to get my hands on a Wiggly or a Blinky

[brooksdavis]

SHUT UPPPPPPP AH WHAT DO YOU MEAN?? WHAT DO YOU MEAANNNN??? I GET THIS SONG WITH MY FAVE CINDERELLA AND CHARMING IM GONNA SCREAM!! IM GONNA YELL!

impOSSIBLE FUCKING THINGS HAPPEN EVERYDAYYYYY

[megalopolus]

i kinda wanna adapt my td analysis threads from twitter to here but i'd have to think about the best way to format it...

[vizziefizzie]

Zero B Fan doodles!!

[uhhhitsme]

16 curtwen because want to see how we both tackle the same prompt :]]]]]]]

"jesus christ, curt."

owen leans in towards the grimey mirror, pulling down the collar of the shirt he threw on when he woke up. in the periphery of his vision, he can see curt, leaning against the doorframe. he's got a terribly smug expression at the sight in the mirror, the kind that typically makes owen want to kiss him and kill him at the same time.

he tenderly tries to touch a particularly dark mark right at the crook of his neck---just high enough that an ordinary t-shirt can't hide it---and hisses. "why didn't you mention this earlier? we have to go out today!"

the bastard just laughs. laughs.

"it's not funny! we're going undercover, and this isn't exactly unnoticeable, you prick." owen closes his eyes and pinches the bridge of his nose in exasperation. he can still hear curt chuckling to himself. owen debates strangling him. because seriously, what on earth will anyone think when who's supposed to be an unremarkable longshoreman shows up to work looking like he's been mauled by a sex-crazed bear? this complicates the job, and instead of offering a helpful solution like a good partner he's laughing---

he feels an arm snake around his stomach and the curt's warm weight pressing against him, and suddenly---and embarassingly---the tension bleeds out of his body. curt drops his chin against owen's shoulder, eyes still bright.

"it could be worse," he says, and owen opens his mouth to argue when curt cuts him off. "you're just a dock worker, o. the most anyone's going to think is wow, he must have had a good night, and move on with their day."

...he has a point. curt seems to be able to tell that owen knows he has a point, because he smiles wider, and it's unfairly attractive. he's unfairly attractive.

"but---"

"it adds a sort of rakish charm, don't you think? you don't want to look too clean-cut, or you'll seem unexperienced." he presses his face against owen's neck, arms tightening around him. he can feel curt smirk against his skin. "besides, doll. i like how you look all marked up by me."

owen can feel his face warm unreasonably at that. he tries to summon up an argument, but his mind is still occupied by the word doll and how much he'd like to hear curt call him that again. bloody yanks and their ridiculous pet names. that shouldn't be as hot as it is.

"still," he says. it's more petulant than anything. curt leans up and presses a kiss against owen's cheek, and that's when owen mentally admits defeat. he sighs. "fuck you."

"you already---"

"oh, shut up."

[smytherines]

[f1zzlest1ckzz]

projecting my period pains onto this asshole