i love your pulse au! out of curiosity, had the z-team heard of robert/pulse before he started working at sdn? does he have some sort of wider notoriety outside of shroud's/the red rings circles? do any of those rumors affect how the rest of z-team view robert when he first joins? im so curious about robert's relationship(s) with the rest of the z-team
The only people who knows that he used to be Mechaman are of course Chase and Blazer, so keeping that aspect of him is still a secret. But beyond that, the general reputation that Pulse has amongst villains and heroes alike is that he's an anonymous advanced hacker that's more akin to a ghost. If he can get someone else to do something for him, or have something done remotely then he will. No one knew what he looked like or if he was even a singular person until his capture, so thats when his identity as some guy 'Robert' becomes known to the Z-Team. Most of his time working as a dispatcher has the Z-Team heckling him in similar fashion because of this so their treatment of him doesn't change much until he gains their trust and he in turn learns to actually rely on others.
Pulse as a villain/vigilante does invoke some measure of unease amongst the Red Ring since he specifically goes out of his way to target them and Shroud.
