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What implications are you taking about? (With the Dark Necrobat and Zero post)?

(Link to the thread in question for context) Alright, so first things first: One thing about Necrobat calling Zero his brother is that there are are several implications that can be drawn from it. He could be speaking in the context that they are both technically mavericks (or that they were mavericks at one point, in Zero's case), or that they both have a connection to the Maverick Virus. There's also the possibility that he's talking about how they both have served under Sigma, only to be abandoned by him in some regard (for Dark Necrobat's, it was when Sigma ditched him for three years, despite being his creator. As for Zero, it would be when Sigma betrayed the Hunters and started his rebellion against the Hunters). However, the conclusion I was referring to is something quite different. As @absolutely-normal-about-x pointed out, Dark Necrobat was created by Sigma, thus making Sigma his father in that context. However, in a way, he also "created" Zero: he took that violent maverick who single-handedly killed an entire unit's worth of Hunters and gave him the opportunity to go beyond both his programming and the virus that was put into him. He gave him the chance to use his fighting prowess for good, rather than senseless bloodshed. The fact is, without Sigma, there is a good chance Zero would not be the person he is when he meets Dark Necrobat. He built him up, shaped him. And doesn't that sound an awful lot like something a father would do?

So to me, it sounds entirely plausible that when Necrobat calls Zero "brother", he means it in a literal sense: he's saying that both he and Zero share a father in Sigma. Now here's the thing about that: that is terrifying. Let's think about it for a second. The concept of a father's sins affecting the generations to come is something that is everywhere in the Mega Man franchise:

Dr. Light and Dr. Wily can't seem to resolve their differences (partially because Light doesn't know how to cut the latter out of his life, and partially because Wily is a petty old man who has apparently decided to hold animosity against Light until the day he dies), and now Rock is doomed to fight Wily's robots until he either dies or gives up - and the case of the latter, he ends up becoming Quint.

Bass was built so that Wily could show up Light by making a better Super Fighting Robot, while also serving the function of taking out Mega Man. But he can't "be the strongest" or "destroy Mega Man", simply because Rock is, and likely always will be, better than him in some aspect that allows him to keep on beating Bass. Which means Bass is set to spend his life chasing an unattainable goal.

And speaking of Wily having jacked up kids, let's circle back to Zero: the guy was built to kill X as soon as he climbed out the cradle. But Wily made Zero too violent to him to handle, and was forced to seal him up. So Zero ends up missing out on an entire century. And you know how the Maverick Virus started with Wily putting it into him? It doesn't go away. No matter how many mavericks are taken out, no matter how many attempts are made at eradicating the virus, it just keeps coming back. Eventually, it gets to the point where Zero seals himself up so that his body can be studied in the hopes of some sort of cure being found. But if there's anything the Mega Man Zero series has taught us, it's that even that wasn't enough - Zero's sacrifice starts the domino effect that leads to the Elf Wars and the rest of that series. And the only way for him to fix everything is for him to die alongside Dr. Weil of all people.

But wouldn't you know it, that's not enough either! The world goes through more suffering in the ZX series once biometals come on the scene. And that can be traced back to the existence of reploids, which - oh, well would you look at that! We've come right back to Light and Wily!

And going back to the Zero series for a second, we've got Omega and Weil. Good grief. You've got the false messiah and the false god he props up. The tool and the man who wields it. Not exactly the healthiest dynamics to draw from, to say the least.

Not even alternate timelines are safe from this concept. The Navi Projects in Mega Man Battle Network had consequences for everybody involved and then some. And Mega Man Legends doesn't escape this, either: everything changes forever for Volnutt after he gets tangled up with the Elysians.

But, just to make sure we don't stray too far: this applies to Dark Necrobat and Sigma, as well. Sigma, the start of almost every major Maverick War in the series. And Dark Necrobat, the son who became a maverick despite being abandoned. The apple certainly didn't fall far from the tree.

Long story short, to say that someone is somebody else's "father" in the Mega Man franchise doesn't simply mean "that's the source of half their genes" or "the progenitor". No, it means "This is the source of everything about this person, both good and - especially, even - bad." But then that begs the question. Does Dark Necrobat have a point when he implies that Sigma is Zero's father? Or does Zero have a chance of defying the precedent set and rising above all of this? If the fact that Sigma remains a thorn in the Hunters' side for almost every X game ("Command Mission" being the exception) is anything to go off of, then the answer is that Zero's well past the point of screwed. But if we throw X5's bad ending in...

...it becomes even more clear.

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🌟 Dark Necrobat (RMX5)

I joined Megaman X Character Art Collab and I'm glad to get a chance to draw Dark Necrobat!

He's one of my favorite characters in RMX!

Thank you for the cool collab! 🌟 Please feel free to check everyone's artwork! Bluesky | Newground ---------

Though I hardly draw RockmanX fanart, I do love many characters there.

I got a chance to play and watch my elder bro play only X4-6 which is available on PlayStation 1!

RockmanX games are quite hard for me so I enjoyed watching my bro play them instead. 😂

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I think Necrobat should get a redemption arc. Even if it might be hard because people know who he was created by.

I don't think it's impossible. Despite being created as a Maverick, at the end of the day, he is still a Reploid, which means he has free will. I don't know if it was ever confirmed if he was infected by the Sigma Virus, but if he wasn't it's a possibility. I think being forgotten for so long can brew enough resentment that it could shift him towards the other side, but I also think he would need some convincing. Uprooting everything you know is an incredibly difficult undertaking and I think it would require a lot of effort from Necrobat's end to not only prove himself, but also prove to himself there is a life outside of being Sigma's Maverick.

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And some of the more.... not so innocent ones. Why am I always drawn to fire based bosses?

Shield Sheldon was included simply because the last post reached an image limit, so here he is. Not saying he's evil. Actually, none of the X6 Mavericks were truly evil much like X3's. But it has been years since I played it. I just remember most of the conversations X had with them were... pretty civil for the most part. Many of them feel like they have no choice but to fight, like people backed into a wall with nothing to lose.

The X series is pretty depressing when you start to think about it.