Can't Touch This.

Need a little Oil? ;D (( self-interpreted!Oil Man, corresponding to classic canon (+ Powered Up, of course). ))

[ridetherig]

baby brother

Of course there was the concern about him. Time had seen it coming, but admittedly had no idea what to do about it. There wasn’t a lot that could convince his brother, other than sheer necessity. Even then, there tended to be protest.

“But this is partly my fault,” Time said. “Maybe something could have been done about this sooner if I had said something. I shouldn’t leave you to pick up the result of my mistakes.”

Time wasn’t sure if that would work, but he was going to try, at least.

          “It ‘ain’t so much your mistake as it is my failing, Time. I’m the one who’s supposed to take responsibility for you, makin’ sure you’re okay-- and it took me this long to find out something was seriously up with you, nevermind to do something about it.”

          Oil hated to think about it, but... Time had even said so himself. You’re my problem. Still, he didn’t want to bring that up now. He wasn’t about to guilt trip him for being a little indirect with what was wrong. Oil sighed and knelt down, bending his knees without sitting on them.

          “Real talk: I don’t want you to come with me. Mostly ‘cause I don’t want you to put yourself in danger, but also because I’m scared of what it’d mean if you did get hurt. It’d mean I screwed up protecting you. So if you’re serious about coming with me, I’m going to be as annoying as possible about keeping you safe.” Oil’s lip quirked. “You realize that, right?”

[ridetherig]

baby brother

Time couldn’t help but scowl slightly at the word “bedtime”. Not only did it feel patronizing, but sleep wasn’t doing him much good these days anyway. Oil didn’t know that, though, so he relaxed and decided not to let it get to him. He was just worried, not trying to insult him.

“I overheard you and Auto talking, and I… wanted to help,” Time said a little hesitantly. He wasn’t used to the anxiety he was now feeling, but he wouldn’t let it stop him. “We don’t know what’s in there, so I’d rather you not… go alone.”

Time wondered if it was actually anxiety that made him hesitant, or if it was just the fact that he wasn’t used to directly expressing his concerns. Maybe it was both, but he wasn’t sure.

          Oh. That figured.

          Of course, of all the people who had to wake up and figure out what Oil was up to, it had to be his little brother. His little brother, who was already troubled enough between his incomplete state and the fact that he was nearly killed not that long ago by those MMK freaks. And, of course, Time was exactly the type of person to do something about it.

          He was surprised that the ‘something’ he decided to do had not been tell him no, but then again... Time was also the kind of kid to want to be useful. That was his whole thing at his job, after all. 

          “You’ve already had to fend for yourself for way too long,” Oil said, gentling his tone despite the twist in his gut that he got from imagining his little brother putting himself in danger again. “And I was late enough getting around to this in the first place. If the old man does still have some kinda security still runnin’ here, I don’t want you gettin’ hurt on top of all that just ‘cause I’m being reckless.”

[thetemporalkeeper]

In the Dead of Night

It was blatantly obvious that Oil did not take the news of Time’s incompletion well. Taking off work just to yell at those in charge of the Chronos Institute told Time that much, at least. Now? Now Oil was going to go to Dr. Wily’s first base in the dead of night, despite unknown dangers, just for the mere chance of his parts necessary for completion being there.

Time partially blamed himself for this. Perhaps if he let the rest of the family in on this sooner, they wouldn’t be in this situation. His pride got the better of him, so he kept quiet. He only realized in hindsight what a mistake that was.

Time only stumbled across Oil’s plan to go in the first place because his nightmares kept him awake, and when trying to take a walk, he overheard Oil and Auto speaking. He was almost grateful for his nightmares of the MKNs hurting him over and over again, though it still cost him too much sleep for him to say he was thankful.

Still, he was much better than when he was brought in from the MKN onslaught, he could help Oil get his parts at the very least. Quietly armoring up, Time teleported to Dr. Wily’s former base, figuring that tracking him down shouldn’t be too hard.

Dr. Wily’s first base. Time didn’t have many good memories of the place, with the exception of the first thing in his registry being recognizing Oil. Though, Time wasn’t here to reminisce, so he pushed the thoughts and memories out of his head and focused on the task at hand. He had to find Oil, preferably before he got inside the base, and try to help him.

Thankfully, there was really only one entrance to Wily’s base. Unless if Oil was skating in, Time figured he should be able to catch him before he got inside.

As predicted, his search didn’t take very long. It was simply a matter of running ahead and looking both ways, and less than a minute of that led him to Oil… in a less than stellar manner. Crashing right into him was not how Time planned for this to go, but hey, he found him!

“Sorry,” Time stammered, picking himself up. “I’m usually more graceful than this.”

[ridetherig]

          If nobody else was going to take responsibility for his baby brother, Oil Man was more than happy to do it himself.

          Maybe that wasn’t entirely true. Obviously, they had Dr. Light, and Oil Man was going to be relying on their father to be the one to install the missing parts when he brought them back. Dr. Kouin was one of the few tolerable and non-Emerald-Spearsy scientists working at the Chronos Institute and the only one really vouching for Time Man. But then again, even Dr. Kouin had made the mistake of calling Time a project, as though he weren’t a living and thinking being. And not just that, but a child.

          He’d pay back Auto for the info he’d dug out of Dr. Light’s systems sometime, but right now Oil had a much more important mission to handle. Reasonable deduction told him that since Flash Man wasn’t designed the same way as Time Man (thanks, Mega Man’s weapon files); and if Dr. Wily didn’t bring those necessary parts with him while running after his first try at world domination, then those parts would have to still be in the storage space of his first castle.

          Sure, maybe that was making a few leaps of logic, but considering the kind of forgetful moron Dr. Wily was (when he wasn’t being outright malicious, or building ‘bots that were outright malicious, COUGH the MMK COUGH), they were fair leaps to make. He had a map, an E-Tank if needed, and he stood in front of the big, wide entrance for a moment to go through that map in his brain. The faster he got those parts, the bet--

          Something bumped right into his back, as though someone small and punctual had not been looking where he was going. Oil turned around to see his little brother in his armoured mode, having stumbled, getting back onto his feet.

          Oil couldn’t help but frown. He loved the kid, but... “It’s way past your bedtime. What are you doing here?”

[heljay]

I needed to doodle my adorable son, I love Oil so much vhnbvhbb

I have a lot of fun playing with that scarf. Also he’s just so precious in general, protect him

There’ll be more of this to come, fyi :’3

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[heljay]

→     “Wait, I know those eyes. You –”                          →     “Forget you saw me.”

Oil Man and Shark Man! Again, I need to properly introduce my Copy Line to this blog to have this make sense to anyone outside of my MM friends but until then, have art. Underwater painting was fun, lighting was fun. And hopefully coherent.

Speedpaint to come!

commission info / tip me! / palette

[heljay]

Speedpaint here!

[heljay]

They just came back from seeing B/lack Panther, I’m sure.

my designs for Oil Man and Pharaoh Man sans armor, respectively! Pharaoh is actually modified from last time I drew him, which was not on this blog so good luck finding it. Not hugely high-effort (I say as this took me a few days), but just something to get me back into the Mega Man game.

Who needs detailed backgrounds when you can just slap some pastel scribbles

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[withasideofnope]

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Day 93: Mama Said Knock You Out//L.L. Cool J “Don’t call it a comeback. I’ve been here for years.”

[ridetherig]

          “y’think they’re just runnin’ down a list of registered ‘bots to send us this crud, or--?”

[oswaldofguadalupe-deactivated20]

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Rapper’s Delight - The Sugar Hill Gang

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Chamillionaire - Ridin’ Dirty

[ridetherig]

lil’ bro!

“Eh, they’re blocked; I’m not too worried.”

          “still -- that ‘ain’t cool, man.”

[musicfrom2004]

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[goodday-by-angel]

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[ch-ords]

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Hey Ya // Outkast

[letmegetinmyzone-blog-blog]

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Kid Cudi - Day ‘n’ Nite 

He’s all alone through the day and night, The lonely loner seems to free his mind at night… At, at, at night.

[ridetherig]

          “aw, come on. my brother’s twelve!  let him be, ya creep!”

[ridetherig]

              @whistlingtheblues

"Uh... hey." He didn't often see the kid-- his estranged sibling. Feelings on him were so mixed in the family. For example, Tenor felt sorry for the kid and was on board with reintegrating him into the family if possible. Pop had never forgiven Blues for his transgressions and even now gave him stink eye whenever he showed his face (or half of it, taking the shades into consideration). Granted, most of the family was very much not of the same mind Pop was about this, and Rap didn't want to be, either. (He loved his brother, but man... a grudge was no good to keep, much less against family!) So, now that he was faced with the decision of how he was going to respond to Blues now, the initial awkwardness was set aside. He was gonna treat Blues like he'd always been around, and offered him a smile. "Good t' see ya, bro. E-tank?"