#this one turned out less bitter than I'd like BUT there's still plenty of opportunities so!!!!!

[seaofolives]

🎭 #torokatober2024 day 19/31: earth 🎻

One look from Rashid exiting the main house is enough to tell Trowa what to expect. All week, Quatre had wanted nothing but to go to Earth this weekend. But.

In Quatre’s bedroom, the poor thing is still dressed sharply for a meeting, gazing longingly into what laid beyond his window. Something he must have rehearsed all-childhood-long. But when he notices Trowa, he puts on a smile. The Chief Representative of the Colonies has also been rehearsing this.

“Welcome home, Trowa.”

Well, Trowa knows a thing or two about rehearsals.

“I’m home,” he reads from his script, smiling in kind.

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[magnetiix]

I know youve got a canon Wily already, but how would you write the big man himself?

Send in an ask with the name of a Mega Man character that I don’t have as a muse, and I’ll try to talk about how I’d characterize them! Classic and MMX only! (Still accepting!)

((Ooooh! Wily, huh?))

((Well, you all haven't seen much of Lin's Wily because he's not as much a major muse for her, but honestly the way I'd portray him is very close to hers! At least in terms of how he is now, just a silly grumpy old man.

I see him as someone who grew bitter from being scorned and dismissed. He's stubborn, too. He holds grudges and refuses to let them go. He's a shameless, egotistical, self-centered old man.))

((But more importantly, I see him as someone who is genuinely and purely passionate for his work. He does have a set moral code, even if it's not what would coincide with society's expectations. I'm not quite sure what exactly would have caused him and Light to split, but I do believe it'd have something to do with Blues, or more specifically how Blues was treated. That's something I'd have to mull over myself.

...Yes, I do think the failsafes were what caused him to leave. I figure he'd have already been embittered because Light was quickly gaining more popularity than him, possibly due to his gentler personality, and the failsafes were just... a snapping point. I imagine he'd have learned of Light's decision to install some failsafes into Blues before it happened/they were developed, and maybe he tried to convince Light otherwise. But unfortunately, Light is equally as stubborn of a man. I imagine this'd left such a sour taste in Wily's mouth, as he'd have seen it as... a huge injustice to Blues. We know that Wily has always seen the Robot Masters as people capable of making their own decisions much more than Light does, who even forgets the reason they gave robots souls in the first place. So he left, not wanting to work with a man like that, and ultimately leaving Blues to his fate.

I also think he genuinely doesn't want to go out of his way to kill innocents? We can see that he's had, like, plenty of opportunity to kill Cossack, or Kalinka, or Roll, or even Light, but he never does. If that's what he wanted, he could have done so countless times. He's not a man who wants revenge, not to that extreme at least, but moreso... acknowledgement. And public humiliation for Light. It's an odd grey area, though, because there have absolutely been casualties from his Numbers' attacks, but I don't think his goal has ever been to kill. That's not exactly what he wants. With Rock, it's... complicated. But I believe that if Rock were to ever put down the mantle of 'Mega Man' and give up, he'd happily settle for that.

We can see that he is loyal where it counts, too. He's someone who's quick to run and save his own hide, but that's because he knows that Rock would never seriously harm the Wilybots. I really do think that it's so important to note that Wily would rather die fighting with his sons than save his own ass if the probability of their deaths was a high one.

Unfortunately, I also think that he's someone who falls victim to brain cancer, or some other form of brain damage/sickness, possibly as a result of his teleportation experiments. As the years progress, he definitely... becomes less himself. More violent, more erratic, more unstable. And I think this turn possibly starts making itself very known around the ninth or tenth war, though he still has his moments of clarity. And I'm sure the Wilybots noticed this change, as well. By the time Zero comes around, Wily is no longer the silly, brilliant old man they'd known and loved. I think he succumbs to his illness shortly before Zero is fully completed, and rather than being remembered as a man who fought for his recognition and robot equality, like he'd have ideally wanted long ago, he's remembered as a man who, in his final breath, was so consumed by his grudge that he tried to destroy the very world he'd been wanting to change. Everything else prior to that point is forgotten and lost in the wake of the cataclysmic war that DWN-Infinity sparks.

I think Wily is a man who loses everything.))