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It’s done......

I can’t believe that it’s finally over.

I’ve been writing MMX Fanfics for 11 Years!!

This Project saw it’s birth in the MMX9.com Community in 2011 and shifted to Tumblr in 2013 once that site went down. It survived the roller-coaster ride of collaborators joining and leaving with varied levels of interest and personal drama until I found myself riding Solo once again in 2014. This Blog was my 3rd and Final attempt at Revamping the Project in 2015 and not only did I catch up, but I saw it through to an absolute End.

I am so proud of myself for finishing what I started.

I’m going to miss X & Zero a lot. I’ve enjoyed creating all of my OCs; whether gathered from background characters in any of the games or coming completely from my own head.

Actualizing the events of each game has been an absolute pleasure. It’s made me understand and appreciate the lore way more, that's for sure. And I love the games all the more for it.

I’m sure I’ll write more entries in the future, but this one is just meant to be a quick celebration for everything I’ve accomplished. And to maybe explain why I bothered with all of this in the first place.

...Because it’s Mega Man X! It’s awesome!!!

No, but really... the quickest explanation is - MMX caught me by surprise as an 8 year old kid, when it came out. I’d played most of the Megaman games growing up and had a high appreciation for the format, but this was something different. This was special, brutal, dark and mature!

And with it, I matured more.

X2 wasn’t as well received for me. We rented it, but I wasn’t good. I never beat more than a few Mavericks. My brother might’ve made it to the X-Hunter Fortress, but we certainly never beat it.

X3...? Forget it. We couldn’t beat 1 boss...

But in 1997, X4 dropped and I OWNED that shit. Not literally, I rented it. Every weekend. But I just kept at it with X & Zero and easily got to Sigma on the Save File within the first weekend of having it. The rest of our times renting it, it was all about trying to beat it. ...maybe I did it with Zero as a kid, but I can’t be sure.

Then... I just dropped off. I was under a rock for X5 & X6.

The only way I knew about X7 was because my best friend’s little brother had a copy of it in his basement. But I never bothered with it.

Never knew about X8 when it was current...

But then, in 2006, the 1st MMX Collection came out! And Holy Fuck was it a Reunion! More like a Nostalgia-filled Revolution!! And THIS was where I became a Fanatic. From this point forward, I just couldn’t stop playing the games.

Replaying X1 was a pure Nostalgia Ride. Beating X2 for the first time was wonderful. I knew of the ending, but seeing it live was great. Beating X3 for the first time was such an accomplishment. X4 was another beautiful Nostalgia Ride. Truly beating it with both X & Zero was fantastic.

I couldn’t wait to learn of X5 and X6, but... they were so disappointing. X4, part 2 and 3 they were not.

I learned to get over it in future playthroughs. I got used to the cast, and respected X5 for being the Grand Culmination of everything Inafune had set up.

I began to appreciate X6 for being a true Epilogue Tale, despite all it’s rushed flaws in development and localization.

Getting a hold of good copies of the current PS2′s X7 & X8 were very difficult. But I made it happen.

All I have to say is that I was so glad I didn’t play X7 in 2003, when I noticed it in my best friend’s basement. I would’ve given up on the franchise altogether. Instead... I took the awkward 3D phase in stride, knowing that hopefully X8 is a significant improvement. Axl was alright.. The story was... meeh. But I did like that we were now thrust into the far future, after a long period of peace and rebuilding.

And X8, when I finally got a hold of that? Beautiful. Wonderous. Worth it. But FUCK is that Cliffhanger annoying.

...and That is exactly why I stopped at X6.

Despite the last 2 games being good in their own right, they don’t have a proper ending. While the first 6 games, when playing them over and over and over again, the story just made more and more sense, connecting the dots.

I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I couldn’t stop playing the games. It was getting bad. I was also watching a Hell of a lot of anime at the time.

Until one marked day in April of 2011, I asked the X9 Community if they would ever want to see an MMX Anime. And if so, what would it be like?

This was a HOT topic. So many people chimed in.

And before long, it inspired me to work on an Anime Episodic Format of the MMX Series.

Fuckin Herculian Task that was..! But I loved it, every step of the way.

It helped me channel this obsession and fanaticism for the series. It brought back my writing creativity that I’d been missing. And it got me to calm down about the series over time.

Retelling is no easy task. And I’m sure I’ve made some missteps along the way. But I really loved working on this the whole time and dishing it out to you, week after week, month after month, year after year...

Lore-wise, I eventually knew that everything I had set up would end at X6.

There’s the tiniest strand of Red being around to set up Red Alert in X7, but... he barely cameod in X4. And again, X8 is a Cliffhanger.

To write an X9... would be a True Fanfic in every sense of the Word. And not only has it been done hundreds of times before within the community, [probably better than I could] but... I’m just not interested in that part of the timeline as much.

Writing the Series out made me realize, my most favorite parts of the franchise are probably X1-X4. It’s what I knew the best.

X5 had disappointing presentation, but otherwise the story was solid. Realizing that most of my beloved OC’s would die was pretty epic and insane in it’s own right. Putting my own spin on Dynamo was a lot of fun. (I never really liked him. Not gonna lie.)

X6 is a fucking Nightmare..! Pun Intended, I suppose. But, it was always my End Goal. I really wanted to get to the Dystopian Landscape and write a broody, dark world that’s struggling to survive.

...only, once I got there... I found it to be really... boring.

I’d hate to say it, but every time X had to lay down and recover, it got tougher and tougher to keep it fresh. Especially since I didn’t want to get caught up in the filler of building up new OC’s and potential Red Shirts.

I think I handled it well though.

Before long, the Original Spark ignited, and I had a set of new OC’s with distinct personalities as a backing crew for X & Family.

And here’s the most poetic thing.

In the big picture, I was inspired by Berserk. Guts & Griffith being the closest of friends, but clashing into a Hellish Rivalry wrought with betrayal.

I knew I wanted to tackle some sort of theme like that, and ultimately tell the story that... Friendship Prevails.

But like Berserk, not only did I portray that theme, but also the Berserk 2016/2017 theme of New Beginnings. Without intending to ride on it’s coattails, there’s definitely a parallel of X finding trust and love in new teammates while Guts did the same.

But enough of the comparisons...

I could go on and on, and I’m sure I will again from time to time.

But for now, I’m really proud to have brought this to you.

I hope you’ve all enjoyed Any of the Seasons, let alone X6.

There will Not be a Season VII for the main reason stated above - it leads to a Cliffhanger. But also, that game is just awful...! Not to mention, with everything I’ve set up w/ the Guardians, it’d be very hard to write them in or out.

Speaking of which... there will Not be an MMZ Anime, so please. Don’t even think about it. If the Epilogue isn’t telling enough, I start to get very shaky when we get into the far-flung in-between Lore of the MMX & MMZ series.

I just can’t do it guys. I don’t get it. I’m not invested enough.

I played through all the MMZ games, and they’re cool. They have my respect. But certainly not the love that I have for the X Series.

I’d be churning out an awful product and it’d be chorish at best.

Lore-wise, what happens next is really cool and intriguing though. I definitely enjoy hearing all about what happens in “The Gap” as I like to call it. But at some point I get lost and I really can’t follow it.

A replay of the MMZ Series is probably due in the future. We’ll see how long that lasts... lol.

Anyway, that’s enough from me, for now.

A True Analysis of the 3rd Arc will follow soon.