#that's a pretty unique relationship

[bikefuckersoftheworldunite]

my period is in a few days and I already can feel the bi-monthly crash out concerning a rivalry from 20 years ago approaching <3

[age-of-moonknight]

“Shame,” Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu, (Vol. 2/2024), #6.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Domenico Carbone; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[incesthemes]

something i enjoy about wincest is that i can just take it for granted. like yeah those brothers are fucking, they've always been fucking, and they'll keep fucking until god himself cuts off their dicks

there's a lot of ships in the world that require subtext and imagination but samdean is definitely not one of them

[briony-tallis]

i did not care for josh/donna.

[scatterpatter]

So I’m new to megaman fandom and I’m not familiar with what you can and can’t ship can you tell me a bit about how the shipping works with the robot masters?

Anon this is a FASCINATING question and I'm actually super flattered you went to me for this- This is actually a really interesting question with a lot of nuance so like- I'm gonna give you the short answer with the widely accepted "you can't ship these", and under that I'll give a more detailed overview of how shipping tends to work and the nuances of robot relationships!

Disclaimer: I'm only going to talk about the Megaman Classic series. While I've dipped into the other Megaman series (like X, Battle Network, etc), I don't know enough about them to speak about them. Also! I only got into Megaman in 2023 so like- I of course can only speak for my OWN experience in fandom, I cannot speak for the fandom as a whole, and I don't have the fandom experience that someone who's been here much longer would have. Fandom evolves so I can only speak for what I've seen being in this fandom in the 2020s and whatever art/fics/etc I've found from years prior!

So the short answer is: Megaman Classic is full of mostly fictional robots. Ship whatever you want, don't let anyone tell you can/can't do. That being SAID, there are a few ships that are widely considered massive no-nos in the Megaman Classic fandom:

Mega/Rock x Roll, Mega/Rock x Proto/Blues, Roll x Proto/Blues, or any romantic variation of the three are widely considered no-nos due to most Classic media explicitly stating they're siblings, making those ships incestuous. ESPECIALLY Mega/Rock and Proto/Blues, I don't think there's a single Classic media that doesn't explicitly state they're brothers.

Dr. Light x any of Mega/Rock, Roll, and/or Proto/Blues is also considered a massive no due to Dr. Light being explicitly their father (or their father figure) in pretty much all Classic media as well, making it incestuous

Dr. Wily and/or Dr. Cossack x any of Mega/Rock, Roll, and or Proto/Blues is considered problematic too, but to a slightly lesser extent. It doesn't have the same incestuous undertones as the ships above, but considering Dr. Light is almost always considered their father, and Wily and Cossack are Light's colleagues... It'd be like having a relationship with your parent's best friend- not illegal, but widely considered creepy and weird.

You can ship any of these if you really want to, buuuut most people in the fandom will likely find you creepy and block you if you do, myself included.

As for any other ships- pretty much anything is on the table for what you can ship! Just employ the "don't be Fucking Weird" rule with it- I'll explain below in a bit more detail as to what the "don't be Fucking Weird" rule means but I think it's pretty self explanatory

ALRIGHT NUANCE OF ROBOT RELATIONSHIPS INFODUMP TIME

So the biggest thing about Megaman Classic is like. There are multiple different medias portraying the events of 20XX and they're all VASTLY different from each other. They will portray the robots with completely different relationships, ages, and personalities as each other.

I had QUITE the time early on in this fandom trying to figure out a consistent "age order" of the mm1 bots

(spoiler: There Is No Consistency)

A good example of this is: in Powered Up, Cutman is written as very child-like with a sibling-like relationship with most of the mm1 bots. In Ruby Spears, however, Cutman is written with an adult personality, and has no familial relationships with anyone.

So the question becomes: Alright, all of the DLN were created by Dr. Light. Does that make them siblings? Does that make any DLN x DLN incest? And the answer is- not really, no. Having the same parents and being raised from childhood in the same household is not the same as being a machine built by the same creator.

A good example showing this is that, while Powered Up implies a sibling-like relationship with the mm1 bots and Rock+Roll+Blues, the Archie Comics made Iceman a crush on Roll. Archie!Ice isn't incestuous, he just doesn't have a sibling relationship with Rock and Roll in that universe.

The Archie Comics will also have the Wily bots sometimes refer to themselves as "brothers". This could be interpreted as being sibling-like, or more of a "brothers in arms" relationship you might find in military squadrons.

Then you have, say, Fully Charged- where bots like Ice, Cut, Elec, etc aren't even built by the same guy. They're completely not related whatsoever.

So with how different each media is, and how there isn't a series-wide consensus on robot relationships (aside from the immediate Light Family) let alone robot ages, what is and isn't okay to ship?

And the answer is... well, that's going to be up to how the individual interprets their own events of Megaman Classic. And this is where we get into the "don't be Fucking Weird" rule.

For example: In my "AU" (I say AU, it's just my interp of how I portray the events of Classic), I use the term "linemate" a lot. A linemate is a fandom-coined term meaning relationship between a "line" of robot masters (DLN 003-OO8 aka the mm1 bots are the line of "Firsts", DWN 009-016 aka the mm2 bots are the "Seconds" line, etc) that isn't familial, but DOES connect the fact that being built together establishes their own relationship. The closest human equivalent to this would be, like, somewhere between roommates and a military squad: you're stuck with each other, and have to work together whether you like it or not.

Going beyond linemates, in my AU I have that any relationships beyond linemates are up to the individual pair/group to decide what they want their relationship to be. So my mm1 bots decided their relationships with each other are familial, while the mm2 bots are more like coworkers, etc.

So, my Fire and Elec consider each other brothers, so it would be Fucking Weird if I shipped my Fire and Elec after establishing that, since it'd be basically incest. Now, another artist can come along and say "Hey, my Fire and Elec aren't siblings, and I ship them", and that's perfectly fine! I may even reblog FireElec art because it's not MY Fire and Elec! It all comes down to how you portray them. I think this venn diagram explains my thoughts on it pretty well:

The same goes for robot ages. Rock/Megaman is especially weird because like... some canon media will portray him like a child, but others will make him much older, so it rides that line on what's considered Fucking Weird or not. For this, I say just follow how you interpret the characters. Like, I've seen people ship Megaman x Quickman before, and that's usually fine. Just employ the "Don't be Fucking Weird rule"- if you ship Mega and Quick and you portray them as roughly the same age, that's perfectly fine. If your Mega is a child and your Quick is an adult though, that's Fucking Weird- don't be Fucking Weird.

The robots are portrayed VASTLY differently across the different Classic medias, so there's no "this is okay and this isn't" for most ships. It's going to depend on how you interpret Classic and how you wish to present your own takes on the characters!

I hope this makes sense. I'm arospec and ace and so I love looking at shipping through an analytical lens a lot, and Megaman Classic is fascinating for that kind of stuff. Aside from the Light Family, there are very few types of relationships that are consistent across most medias, so it really comes down to your own interpretation of that kind of thing.

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

Wearing The Lion

greek mythology / Heracles retelling

follows Heracles, a child of Zeus, and Hera, who hates him because he’s born of her husbands’ infidelity

but he grows up worshiping and thanking her, until she grows tired of it and sends a fury to end him - which kills his sons instead

in order to find out which god made him kill his family, he’s sent on quests to kill monsters - but ends up befriending them instead

monster friendship & found family

arc from netgalley, out june 17

[cleromancy]

sexiest and funniest thing roy harper ever did was look at dick grayson and go i could fix him

[anal0g-andr0id]

yall remember that post thats like "2012 avengers fandom wanted so badly for the team to be friends and theyre barely even coworkers." that <- flaw right there is exactly what i think makes xmen media so good. even when its bad. cause at least they all live in a big house together and hang out and have interesting interpersonal dynamics and shit. like we always wanted <3

[bassguitarinablackt-shirt]

awful news: local aromantic who hates soulmate aus has an awesome idea for a soulmate au

[starbuck]

the term “triangles” is so good.

like. i LOVE a throuple, but sometimes a triangular dynamic isn’t necessarily romantic, or equally romantic on all sides, but is still very much a Collective Relationship and worth discussing as one.

so it’s a Triangle, to me.

[howtobeamagicalgirl]

I can't really recommend Fields of Mistria to people yet bc it's early access and most people I know prefer to wait until the full game has come out, but it's like.... all I'm doing these days. I come home from work and play Fields of Mistria for 4 hours. This is like.... the perfect beautiful farm sim I've waited for my whole life.

[orphiicheartd]

Honestly I will NEVER get over how fucken PERFECT Rook as a partner for Vil is like BR U H

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

Unbury The Bones + Boneless

urban fantasy mystery novella series

a grumpy vampire with the uncontrollable ability to see people’s skeletons who helps people out with magical problems

they’re assigned a werewolf partner, and they investigate a mysterious magical attack, while the werewolf really wants to be friends with them, if they’ll just let down some of their barriers

nonbinary aromantic MC

[seedlessmuffins]

this reads like a painting

ney's caption and vinis comment omg

[shieldsurf]

out of the big 4 het/canon fairy tail pairings jerza is by Far the worst imo like. he needs to leave her alone i'm so serious and the fact that mashima wrote in a 7 year age gap for no reason is Not helping... erzas ass is NINETEEN the first time jellal makes an open pass at her i don't care that they used to be the same age it is fucking weird. gruvia is a close second though because while yes we objectify men here sir and i live to serve women juvia's creepiness is really just too much like at a certain point it starts to feel really gross and the fact that gray seems to fall for her by the end of the anime/manga just reeks of coercion. not even bringing up how genuinely awful juvia's character writing is she gets like 5 minutes of being interesting before getting instantly reduced to a creepy stan who completely revolves around gray and has less depth than the average bossfight of the week. i guess its equality that erza and mirajane are some of the best characters in this story (which is admittedly a low bar considering half of their personality is being subjected to the most voyeuristic shots possible) so mashima had to balance it out by making juvia one of the worst

[wollfling]

It's crazy how I havent posted in months when I used to use this site daily. I've been pretty bad but doing the best I can. I had so much happen in the last few months and I'm trying to find my footing. I'm back in the city, which I've missed. Ttrpgs are keeping me mentally afloat and I'm obsessing over my characters, having ocs with friends is wonderful. Trying to work on a big project also, but I think it will be slow going. I'm trying to respark joy in the things I used to do.