//-Hey guys! Rock’s been long overdue for a reboot, with how cluttered the last blog was. This is Viola, or Viopenguin; you might have known me on inlightsimage, my previous Mega Man blog. Or one of the half a dozen before it, but I’m so sorry if you knew me before inlightsimage.
//-I’ve rebooted, and if you’re interested in interaction with a classic Mega Man, you should give me a follow, and maybe spread the word if you feel so inclined? Maybe? Pleading emoji?
//-Hey guys! Rock’s been long overdue for a reboot, with how cluttered the last blog was. This is Viola, or Viopenguin; you might have known me on inlightsimage, my previous Mega Man blog. Or one of the half a dozen before it, but I’m so sorry if you knew me before inlightsimage.
//-I’ve rebooted, and if you’re interested in interaction with a classic Mega Man, you should give me a follow, and maybe spread the word if you feel so inclined? Maybe? Pleading emoji?
//-Obligatory hiatus post, which is probably assumed given the three months of inactivity, but hey! It’s worth making official, I guess.
//-There isn’t much to say, honestly; I’m just not feeling Rock rn. Haven’t been for a while. I refuse to shut the blog down, cause I know he’ll come back to me one day, and I love him and this blog too much (though I wonder if I should remake again...). Still, though, I’m having trouble easing back into Tumblr RP.
//-If you’re interested, though, I’m trying to use my Joker blog more at takecver! You should check it out. It’s cool.
//-As my schedule finally calms down and I get back into my writing groove, and I very luckily caught a callout post on the dash before my No Recommended extension on XKit blocks it out, I wanna leave a little note here just to be safe.
//-If, by some chance, you see me interacting with a Nasty, let me know. If there’s a post out there detailing their deeds, link me. I obviously trust my mutuals, but if they really are bad people, I wanna cut ties as soon as humanly possible. Especially cause, like, I’m generally absent a lot. I don’t live on the dash like I used to, so it’s very likely that I’ll miss a post or two as they make their rounds.
//-Also, after reading everything going on, I’m taking away my “no callout posts” rule. I still probably won’t be reblogging them myself unless they’re in my fandoms (like a bad MM or Smash person), but I’m not, like, avoiding them anymore. I’ve seen the light.
Rock held the E-Tank up for Cleo to see better. Sure enough, if she got a glimpse of what was contained within, it was a murky black substance. Even as a robot, it was a wonder he could ingest this stuff. Luckily, it was nothing but good for him, and would keep his systems running optimally.
“If you’re hungry, I could get you in touch with Roll! She’s a way better cook than I am, haha!”
//-So I wanna apologize again for my extended absence. I’ve actually been really busy lately! Very nearly have a new job, and college has been kicking my ass this semester. Any free time I have has gone pretty much exclusively to playing games.
//-That said, as per the usual, Discord is open to mutuals who wanna keep in touch! I’m always available there, and I’m equally as bad at talking to people on there!
//-ALRIGHT WHO’S READY FOR “VIO GETS WORKED UP OVER DUMB STUPID MEGA MAN NERD SHIT”
//-Alright, so at this point in my life, I’ve at least taste-tested every mainline entry in the Classic timeline of Mega Man games except the Legends series. Played Classic across the span of a few years, binged the X series when the Legacy Collections dropped, and did the same when the Zero/ZX Collections dropped as well. Each series has its own merit, except for the Zero series, which is Poopy Butt and I hate it but that’s a rant for another time.
//-Needless to say, I’ve also seen how the story plays out. From Light and Wily’s feud, to the Maverick Wars, the Elf Wars, and finally whatever the fuck Model W was doing in the ZX series. There’s a lot of story, and a lot of it is really good! I fell in love with the ZX series, for example, and I’d love to take up a character from it.
//-I have one huge, massive, INSANELY ANNOYING problem with it, though, and that’s that the Classic series is rarely EVER directly acknowledged in the timeline. What little there is is focused in the X series entirely, with Light appearing for X’s armor capsules + a flashback in Day of Sigma, and Wily showing up in a flashback in X4, an implied ghost in X5, and possibly as a robot in X2 (that one’s weird). Every reference to the Classic series after that is more so a cameo or a callback— the Masters in ZX Advent, for example, being named after Light, Wily, and Cossack, or Konro Man showing up on a comic cover also in ZX Advent. Even when Zero’s past is brought up in the Zero series, Wily isn’t directly acknowledged to my memory. Classic doesn’t matter. Hell, the X series barely mattered by then.
//-But you wanna know how many times Rock himself is acknowledged in the timeline after his presumed death? Across 10 X games, 4 Zero games, and 2 ZX games?
//-ZERO. NONE. NOT A SINGLE REFERENCE.
//-Even LIGHT doesn’t ever talk about him in the armor capsules. No “You’ve been forced to carry the torch that Rock left for you. I’m so sorry, X.” No “Previous hero Mega Man.” As far as the extended Classic timeline is concerned, Rock never even existed. The timeline effectively started when Light made X, and Wily Zero, not with the creation of Rock, or Blues before him, or the Double Gear before either of them.
//-It BUGS ME. I know I’m biased, since I love the Classic series means so much to me, but COME ON, MAN. MEGA MAN SAVED THE WORLD ON AT LEAST 11 DIFFERENT OCCASIONS, MANY MORE IF YOU COUNT SPIN-OFFS LIKE MEGA MAN & BASS AND THE GAMEBOY GAMES, AND HE DOESN’T EXIST? He fought aliens! Gamma! Himself! That’s gotta count for SOMETHING even in the future, doesn’t it?
//-This always bugged me so much. I know Reploids are the future and they extend from the X series to the ZX series while Robot Masters are isolated in the Classic series, but I wish their impact on robots with independent thought would be acknowledged. And I wish Rock saving everyone’s ass like 15 different times counted for something.
//-Maybe he should have left everyone’s ungrateful asses to die.
—If there was one thing Rock was good at, it was keeping busy. He had to back home, after all! Between helping Doctor Light, helping the Robot Masters, helping Roll... well, he didn’t know what to do with free time beyond finding something else to keep busy with. So he’d gotten into the groove of robotics, messing with some of the circuit boards in Rush’s back. If he could just overclock this one here, reroute some power to compensate there, then surely, the Super Adapter’s charged shot could—
CLANK!
The sound of stone hitting metal reverberated throughout the room, followed pretty closely by a yelp of pain from the Blue Bomber. Geez, his helmet wasn’t even there to soften the blow...
He spun around to try and find the source of said rock... no doubt being from the slingshot of a certain pink-haired mayor? But she looked so... not violent!
