Dumb brain said it wanted to share

Dumb brain won... Took it about five years, but it won. So here I am! I will now proceed to babble about Rockman.exe as I was always meant to XD What do you mean I am ten years late to the party?!

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There is 1 braincell between Lan and Mega and Mega is in charge of it but can and will throw it away if he sees fit

for example, a strange man in a strange country tells Lan and Lan alone to get in his car and Mega’s response is, “He seems nice”

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four-frame comic

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Ah, there it is

The trauma 😐

Nice memories for everyone involved 👍

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I finally decided to actually plan a scenario for the future part of Memory (and also because writing from Makoto's pov means I have to know what the ever loving hell is going on at Scilabs), so I had to think about why copyroids would be allowed and funded the way they are in the story. I do not like my options here.

I mean... Scilabs is part of the government (it's called "kagaku-sho" in Japanese, so the ministry of science, if I heard correctly). I trust any government about as much as my ability to find my keys when I'm late (though if it were my government, it would be the reason my keys are gone in the first place), so I can't exactly picture an altruistic reason behind funding copyroids. Don't get me wrong, I can list many reasons to fund them... But not one a government would pick—at least, not without having ulterior motives.

The scenario that comes to my mind would definitely explain why both navis and copyroids are gone 200 years later... One way or another. And besides, it's not like it wasn't already canon for the government to fund navi research for military use (*cough* Colonel *cough*). But that would happen after the end of Memory, so I guess I'm fine. I'll get the wonder team to be a little unhappy about this during Memory and focus on the Net police, that story isn't about war's misuse of otherwise lifesaving technologies (I guess it's more about being different? What am I doing???). There, problem solved!

(Or not)

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And here we are, offhandedly giving trauma to children to promote healthy growth. It's fine, makes them stronger 😎

I'm not sorry

Memory AU's Master post

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#JustLanHikariThings

a few of my favorite Lan things (gameverse)

General:

The way this kid gave 0 fucks about fighting off evil organizations that could KILL people. Even impulse control Megaman is just like, “Yeah Lan let’s show them who’s boss!”

His response to anyone doing bad things is essentially, “You’re a terrible person and I’m gonna stop you.” And then he stops them!

Literally oversleeping like every day despite Megaman literally yelling at him to wake up (king tbh)

Trespasses practically everywhere because his loved ones were put in harm’s way and anyone who messes with Lan Hikari’s loved ones will catch MEGA’S HANDS

Chaud in almost every BN game: Stay in your lane and let the Officials handle this

Lan: How about I don’t?

MMBN:

Literally decided to take on a crime syndicate without an official NetBattler license because fuck you it’s the right thing to do!

Fought off actual flames coming out of his oven with a squirt gun

Stole his dad’s government ID so he can have access to the water plant in order to confront said crime syndicate

He reformed Higsby just by telling him joining WWW for rare battlechips was dumb

Got freaking electrocuted trying to pull down a lever so Elecman would quit healing himself

After finding out his dead twin was really his Navi all along his first response is to apologize to Megaman for bossing him around for literal years

Mayl essentially tells him she has a crush on him and the poor oblivious boy is just absolutely DUMBFOUNDED

After Wiley told him that Lan’s grandpa beat him in a science contest so now he wants to kill everyone Lan basically called his shitty motive out and said Wiley’s loss wasn’t his family’s fault

MMBN2:

Practically failing a semester (or at most has a C average) except for Virus Busting (THIS KID BECOMES A SCIENTIST WHEN HE GROWS UP)

He wanted to research a different country and get a penpal from said country on the grounds that he wanted to eat their food (KING TBH)

Fought off a swarm of bees with a stick, a newspaper, and a lighter with 0 help from his friends

His first time overseas and he gets mugged….3 times

Keeps saying Mayl is “just a friend” but will have romantic dreams about her

Volunteered to captured a poisonous spider with 0 hesitation because he’s Lan Fucking Hikari

Freestyle rapped in order to get whiskey…yes really

Easily convinced his dad to let him go to a town with lethally high levels of radiation to take down a mafia because fuck you he’s Lan Hikari and this is the right thing to do

Managed to survive 100k radiation

Used the power of brotherly love to operate Megaman with his heart

MMBN3:

STOLE THE KEY TO BREAK INTO HIS SCHOOL (it was to make sure Dex didn’t fail his homework but still the AUDACITY)

Fucking Y E E T S his navi like a fucking POKEBALL at a man

He’s apparently good at calligraphy???

Falls for the, “Hey look over there!” trick

Jumps from a 2nd story window into the ocean in order to reach a hospital’s basement because he’s Lan Fucking Hikari

Caught a condor to return to the zoo

Calls Megaman out for being reckless on obtaining the GigFreeze even though the entire list proves that this gremlin has no room to talk

Gets gunned down by a tank with a built in machine gun and just…side steps it so he can jack into it

FUCKING KICKED A STATUE OF WILY OFF A LEDGE I FUCKING STAN HIM

MMBN4:

Can’t enter an area because it’s not open to the public? TRIES TO HAVE HIS NAVI BLAST IT OPEN!

An employee from said area shows up? HAVE YOUR NAVI KICK HIS ASS THEN TAKE HIS ACCESS CODE

NetBattled a gang because his new punk friend needed help

Gets involved with a mafia….again…

GETS HIMSELF FUCKING KIDNAPPED LAN NEVER GO TO NETOPIA EVER AGAIN

Got goaded into putting his hand in some wall relic thing’s mouth (with a slight risk it’ll be bit off) in order to prove he wasn’t lying about being in a tournament

Had Mega take on a soccer (I’m sorry, “footbomb”) challenge because some rando trash talked them

Swore revenge on an actual military official because he punched Lan in the stomach

CONVINCED AN ACTUAL MILITARY BASE TO LET HIM–AN ACTUAL 12 YEAR OLD–TAKE ON AN ACTUAL MILITARY MISSION

Insulted a master chef by saying his mom’s curry was better

ACCEPTED A CURRY COOKING CHALLENGE EVEN THOUGH HE DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO MAKE CURRY

WON SAID CURRY COMPETITION BY USING LOVE AS A SECRET INGREDIENT

KNOCKED THE FUCKING MAYOR ASIDE WHEN HE GOT IN HIS WAY BECAUSE HE HAD TO STOP AN ECOTERRORISM PLAN AND THAT’S HOW LAN FUCKING HIKARI ROLLS

Had Megaman get some cyber beer and cyber jerky so they could learn how to break rocks…I wish I was making this up

Braved a blizzard and almost froze to death so he could stop some asshole from freezing the entire earth (and this ISN’T PART OF THE GAME’S ACTUAL VILLAIN’S PLOT! THE GUY WAS LITERALLY JUST BEING AN ASSHOLE BECAUSE HE WAS HOT!)

MMBN5:

Literally kept the fact he’s a part of the NetAvengers a secret from his mom and friends until almost the last minute, which wasn’t very hard apparently

Like deliberately disobeyed his mom about being safe because if you think Lan Fucking Hikari isn’t going to find a way to save his own dad you got another thing coming

Was initially refusing to listen to Dusk’s demands to show off his and Mega’s battle capabilities, but agreed after he was called a wimp

Called the actual family dog ugly fdjksfldjs

Took down 100 dummy samurais so he could bypass a castle’s security system

Unfortunately not a whole lot of other moments but that’s because Lan’s chaotic nature is challenged by his equally chaotic teammates:

#JustTeamProtomanThings

Chaud fakes an attack on SciLab so he can see if Lan has what it takes to be part of the NetAvengers (because saving the world 4 times just doesn’t really cut it I guess…)

Tesla literally almost killed 3 children because she was stressed and thought drilling in an abandoned mine would do the trick

Charlie decides to cause problems on purpose just to test Lan’s capabilities and CHAUD WAS IN ON IT

Charlie also took out Nebula’s evil server thing but decided to attack Lan and Mega anyway because he just really wanted a rematch I guess

Fyrefox almost got away with theft because he just REALLY wanted his fireworks business to thrive okay?

Jasmine said fuck your precautions I’m going to the Undernet and there’s nothing anyone can do about it!

She also continues to say fuck authority, and if Lan won’t have the balls to go after Nebula then she and Meddy will!

#JustTeamColonelThings

Baryl–like Chaud–fakes an attack on Scilab to test lan and the entire time Lan is just like WHO ARE YOU?

Dusk also causes problems on purpose for the sake of testing Lan but he’s an assassin so that kinda makes sense for him

Ribitta goes to the Undernet because SHE NEEDS TO MAKE A KILLER NEWS STORY LAN THINK OF HER CAREER LAN

Goes to the Undernet again because dammit Lan if you won’t be a leader and avenge Colonel then SHE WILL

MMBN6:

Was prepared to fight off 5 security bots when they wouldn’t let him into his new school

Was willing to take on those same security bots who were burning the entire school down because this isn’t Lan Fucking Hikari’s first rodeo

Considered that an actual penguin could be a pelican…

Would have jumped into a pool full of jellyfish had impulse control Megaman not stopped him

Almost got fucking TAZED because he was yelling and touching a tree (IT MAKES SENSE IN CONTEXT….KINDA)

Sleeps in class when there are security cameras watching him (THIS KID BECOMES A SCIENTIST WHEN HE GROWS UP)

Tried to pull a Mary Poppins with an umbrella to jump down a tall ledge…the umbrella broke

Basically took an assassination class… (Gregor version)

Nearly threw hands with the mayor (he had it coming tho)

Took down a NetMafia…again (request post-game; but for real how does this keep happening to him???)

Put off leaving a building that was about to blow up because he was reforming the franchise’s long running villain

REFORMS THE FRANCHISE’S LONG RUNNING VILLAIN BY CONVINCING HIM THAT THERE REALLY WAS STILL GOOD IN HIM AND HE COULD BE A GOOD SCIENTIST AGAIN THIS ABSOLUTE PURE CHILD

Other:

Decides to investigate a bad vaccine after his dad tells him to stay put because sorry dad I’m Lan Fucking Hikari and this is the right thing to do! (Network Transmission)

Saved the Waterworks plant from Iceman (again) not just because it’s the right thing to do but because if he didn’t he would get any dinner that night (Network Transmission)

BEAT UP A GROWN ASS MAN (Battle Chip Challenge (his route))

Okay this kid does all this bullshit but the one thing that knocks him down is the fucking common cold (Battle Chip Challenge (Mayl’s route))

Lied about WWW stragglers being at the BattleChipGP to impress his #1 fan and when that proved to be true he tried playing it off that he knew all along before Megaman outs him (Battle Chip Challenge (Kai’s route))

Literally calls a powerful being from space an “Arm Navi” and when corrected he tells it to shut up (Operate Shooting Star)

Becomes a memetic badass 200 years into the future (Operate Shooting Star) including but hopefully not limited to things such as:

having an IQ of 300

Being efficient in every sport (soccer in particular)

Making goals in soccer against 11 players (presumably single-handedly)

has a signature move called a LanPunch and it’s never specified HOW THIS CAME ABOUT

Literally comes into Dex’s house uninvited with a strange boy from the future and jacks into a wall clock WITHOUT AN EXPLANATION TO DEX (Operate Shooting Star)

BEGAN THE PROCESS FOR HARNESSING THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP (Star Force Megaman 2)

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There it is! The LIST! I found it!

I had this pearl hidden in my screenshots folder and I so wanted to reblog it!

This boy is chaotic enough already in the anime, but in the game? He's not chaotic, he is chaos incarnate!

(If only I had the skill and patience to play the games... But alas, I deeply suck at this kind of games. Or anything where the main strategy isn't "hit it till it dies" without much of a plan)

[dunedragon]

Sometimes I like to phrase things in the worst way possible

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*Proceeds to think about how Meiru and Dekao could have gotten their navis and why they turned out like that*

*Finds sweet moments for Meiru*

*Brain proceeds to shove all the angst straight up at Dekao's face using a freaking backhoe. I was not ready. I am now a very sad little duck. And I'm also NOT ready for the amount of panels needed.*

No really, I don't know what I was expecting here but it's painful. Makes me go "oh my poor baby" at Dekao. I don't even like him! Or Gutsman, for that matter. But still. Poor babies.

I have to draw the story

I have to suffer

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I have the line art down!

Okay, fine... Not the last panel ☝️BUT the sketch is pretty detailed without a suprise background so I'll be done soon. And it's only 19 panels! (Not the 35 panels of "The boy in the mirror", dear me) So maybe I'll be done before I retire XD

And really, the one recognizable character is Gutsman. Who appears in panel 18. And only in panel 18. Well, too late to worry about that. Sorry baby Dekao.

But I may have a problem with the PET...

Tbh, I drew it once and then copy pasted it in every single pannel it appears in. With minor tweaks. I am loopholing my way into quality by abusing digital drawing. At the speed of a dying snail.

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Found this in my old files, might as well post it

It's a bit old, but this was supposed to be Maylu's parents' navis, Banner and Yuna. I supposed it's not hard to know who they're based on XD

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He was the missing one... not anymore! (Not true, I could do everyone else too).

Sorry for the cropped sweater, this is a design from 2 years ago and I still like it. And, I mean… Have you seen Roll-soul? He canonically has worn crop tops.

Just like Roll, it's easier to play dress up with him because he has no canon outfit and an almost monochromatic color palette. Except that... He's a boy. And I don't have teenage boys on hand to correctly assess one's relationship with clothes. What I do have, however, is the experience of suddenly having to feel clothes brushes past part of your body that they would normally never touch (perfectly normal seams scratching your underarms is NOT a pleasant feeling), the painful realization that years using velcro fasteners and zippers because you can't bend to tie your shoes can make your fingers strictly refuse to cooperate once you have to do it (despite remembering how to do it) and the strict inability to pair more than one color + black or white at a time until college. From this, I can infer a boy who never had to wear clothes for the past 10 years, doesn't want to stand out and has been color-coded for most of his life would:

Wear only comfy clothes that won't restrict movement and will be either soft enough to not scratch his skin or large enough to not touch it;

Not be a fashionista and stick to simple combination;

Not dress the same as his twin because now that would be standing out;

Play it safe and stick to the colors he is familiar with (or not stray too far from them);

Be more comfortable wearing his usual colors because not doing so may weird him out.

Now, why the green? Well… 1: it fits him, and 2: it makes more sense story-wise. While Roll has a little side-story of slowly dressing more like she wants and not like what she feels she has to look like (so, quite similar to her navi form) as to parallel her development of becoming her own person, Saito has the opposite storyline. Since his very existence is illegal and ethically dubious, he doesn't want to look like Rockman and, at first, stay away from blue clothes… Before realizing that absolutely no one outside of those who know him will connect the dots (especially after his numerous fuck-ups of showing up as Rockman but still wearing green). Once he feels safe, he reverts to wearing blue even though he still has some green pieces of clothing.

Colors that didn't make it to the final under the cut!

Yeah, yeah... The bandana (that is never used as such) is on the wrong wrist when he's sitting, but I forgot the canva was mirrored and only noticed after coloring.

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For some reasons known only to the deepest neurons in my brain (I mean, they have to exist right?) and possibly to my pens, my ability to draw poses is limited exclusively to 5 cm sketchs. On draft paper. Preferably at work.

Idk, anything bigger just doesn't work.

Unless 👆 It's magic inspiration time. Once in a blue moon. And my brain can somehow remember I can use the whole paper. But still, it's always going to be on a draft and then I have to transfer that onto nice paper (light pad enters the chat).

...

Yeah, usually I just make those bigger using medibang every single time and then use them as a skeleton to draw another more detailed sketch.

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Wait, you tell me they had this concept art for Anetta and they didn't go with it???

I feel SO betrayed

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I swear he doesn't have only hoodies, but it's easy to draw and I used up all my brain for the poses already...

And yes, I grew up watching Code Lyoko, Astro boy and Chobits (anyone remebers that? Anyone understood the ending??? Cause I sure didn't when I was 12), and it shows. It shows so soooo much.

In the Memory Au and as depicted in “Connected dots” and “I am a tool”, Rockman gets a copyroid (how dare the scenarists not give him one in the anime when he gets one in the game?). At first, it's a standard copyroid used for testing the new version Makoto made after the first version (finished and used by Zoroanoids) was thrown out the window. So, basically, it's a faceless doll that can take his appearance, be used by any navi and accommodates all kinds of frames thanks to the small dimensional core inside its chest.

Soon enough (i.e. in “I am a tool"), Makoto notices the main problem with this new version is its battery. In order for it to last, it has to be heavy. And if it's heavy, it ultimately gets in the way of having a functional copyroid. After all, it's all nice and fancy, but if you can't send your navi grocery shopping because the battery will die in a couple of hours, what's the point? Her solution to this problem was to reduce the strain on their dimensional core, so it meant making a copyroid already designed to look like the navi who'd use it. Now, for the same reasons Roll got a human design made during the testing phase, a navi walking the street is both pretty showy (they're not supposed to be here and draw the wrong kind of attention because copyroids are expensive, pretty much like winging an apple watch in 2015) and downright uncomfortable (human faced ones often trigger the uncanny valley effect because their features are too smooth). Hence why I re-invented persocoms doll copyroids end up being preferred.

Now, Rockman/Saito has his own little things going on:

Prototype doll

Since it was noticed during the first testing phase that Rock could basically adapt to anything (a stupid number of sensors for touch, having to actually estimate distance and sources of sounds instead of the cyberworld providing the information, etc…) without too much trouble and since he is one of Scilab's navis (and technically already a prototype himself), Makoto's team unanimously decided they wanted to have him as one of the tests navis. They wanted to keep Roll too, because she was also doing surprisingly well during the first phase and, even if her updates and maintenance are done at Scilab, she wasn't made there so this is yet another way of testing compatibility, but they lacked the time to do the paperwork to get an authorization (since Roll is the navi of a minor and not affiliated to Scilab, so it's a bit more touchy). So instead, they only managed to keep Rock since he is already in their files (confidential ones, sure, but they have the almighty Pr. Hikari's approval so they can go with it). 

While Rock does fairly well with all of this, he does get overstimulated because he is not used to process so many physical sensations, but he is still doing way better than the other navis they are testing the dolls with. Being a netsavior's navi, he is also the unwanted durability test so his doll is regularly updated (and fixed, too). Let's just say the team thought reprinting the synthetic skin when damaged would do the job, and he's the reason they are working on a collagen based skin that can heal itself for "heavily prone to damage navis" such as, yes, netsaviors'. It's not like he doesn't try to be careful but, well… He is Netto's twin. 

Switch feature

While not an official feature, this one was pushed by Yuu. His official explanation is that, just like netsaviors' navis' frames and emblems are altered to protect their anonymity (in order to protect the one of their netops) in the cyberworld, the same kind of protection should exist with the dolls. Because of this, he asked Makoto for a human-looking doll with the ability to switch its colors, even though dolls are required to be easy to distinguish from humans. Makoto, being here for the challenge and not to question whether this could be out of the realm of what she can legally do, pulled a solution out of a hat as if she hadn't tempered with the idea before. Hence the switch function, tested by Rockman and one other guy somewhere in the labs! 

The idea is quite simple: some pigments can change colors depending on stimuli, and a copyroid is powered by electricity, so you want pigments that will change colors because of an electrical stimulus. Electrochromic materials enter the chat, and you get what you want :)

Now, the switch needs electricity and only happens when low voltage is applied, otherwise the colors remain the same (it doesn't reverse back to a "base color" when there's no voltage, it remains the same). It's a redox reaction for the chem majors ;) The pigments don't emit light, so it's a good point too (this is NOT a screen). Now, as long as no outside stimulus triggers the reaction, it works pretty well. The switch is fast, but not instantaneous either. Think ten seconds max (hair takes a bit longer), so faster than your average plane window (or maybe mine sucked, who knows).

I won't go into the details of the multiple layers used in both eyes and hair to achieve this since it's not really relevant at this point. And also because I don't want to think too much about it.

Ear rings

Now, as mentioned earlier, dolls are legally required to be easy to distinguish from humans. So what would a father who just found a convenient way to get his eldest back in the real world do when there's one rule still forcing his son to pretend he is something else? Break the law under the guise of "testing"! I mean, should this man get caught, this is definitely not what he would be prosecuted for. I'm preeeeetty sure the part where he saved his son by transferring his very soul into the digital world, before spending years on making him look like a perfectly-normal-albeit-slightly-too-powerful-for his-own-good navi would take the cake. But, you know, Netto had to get it somewhere.

(There is not a single person in this family who would have a clear record if everything they did was known. Haruka is the tame one here, but she's still an accomplice. Now you'd think Netto would be the one who take the palm of thug life here, but Rock is the enabler about 70% of time, if not the initiator so it may be a tie)

Point is: Yuu made it so Saito can be perceived as a human so he does have ears when dolls usually have ear rings (or other identifiable features). Now, to at least pretend he complies with the law, Saito has removable ear rings that roughly work like headphones, noise cancelling feature, ambient noise and all (held to his head by the power of plot magnetism). When he doesn't have the physical rings on him, he can use his dimensional core but it's a temporary solution, since it drains the battery. Now, when the dimensional core is involved, he can keep the ear rings in position… But not when it's off. And when only held by magnets, let's just say it's better to avoid being hit by anything.

Also, since he has ears instead of ear rings, all the connectics that are supposed to be in there are just… not there. Which means his doll is completely wireless unless you know where to open the skin to access the ports hidden underneath. The drawback being that he cannot be plugged in from anything but his own PET without making it quite suspicious, since there's no port for cords.

Dimensional core

Since he is a netsavior's navi, Rockman is authorized to intervene both in the cyberworld and physical world. Hoping to protect the ones who can crossfuse by not having to send them to fight for their life (since, you know, most of them are children… and also because they have, like, maybe 3 of them), the netpolice asked for an alternative. Hence, all netsavior's copyroids are equipped with a dimensional core. The common ones owned by the netpolice are just normal copyroids, not dolls, but since Rockman has a doll… The core had to be put in there (and also because Yuichiro does what he wants and Makoto is the next gen of Scilab's chaotic scientist, it's a wonder they get funding instead of fines). Now, while that does sound nice to keep the netop safe, there is one major problem: due to what happened with the zoroanoids, copyroids are linked to the internet only through their own PET. Which cannot be too far to communicate with the navi. So the operator has to be in a 10 to 20 m/30 - 60 ft radius to actually send battle chips. Perfectly unprotected by any kind of armor made of materialized data.

Oh! And if the copyroid gets destroyed when too far from the PET? The navi can't log out and gets deleted too. Nice, right?

So, combined with the battery issue and limited range when using the copyroids internal dimensional core, the potential for replacement is quite limited - and that's without taking into account how much navis suck at fighting using real world physics.

5 senses

Navis are meant to be virtual helpers, assistants. So what would be the perfect kind of use for them in the physical world? Personal care assistants! Point is, in the mmbn world, there doesn't seem to be that many children. I mean… Out of the two, only Netto counts as a living child (sorry). Meiru, Yaito and Enzan are single children. Toru too, I think. Dekao has Chisao, but he may be the only one with a sibling (not true, Shuko has 2 brothers). Basically, Japan's demography seems to be similar to what it was in the early 2000 - aging population and all. In such a world, there are often not enough people to take care of the elderly who can end up quite isolated… Except that, with navis around, this would be a great opportunity to have enough home helpers people can afford (I refuse to consider the capitalist assholes who would have come up with a subscription-based model for navis!). Except care assistants may need to cook, among other things… So, in order to make that possible, Makoto did include sensors for taste and smell in her new copyroids prototypes.Now, there's one tiny itty bitty problem: she can't get navis to make use of them. For reasons she is still investigating, navis fail to interpret the signals sent by those sensors. Now she used the same kind of technology that is used to help people who lost some of their senses because of medical conditions, so something adapted primarily to the human brain and not to actual AI. Because of this, navis internal processes cannot do anything with the information sent by the sensors. Except one. For a reason she can't explain, Rock's copyroid's CPU shows signs of processing something and Makoto will make him admit he knows what a smell feels like. She will. Even if Meijin has to drag her away from her lab at least 3 times a week so she doesn't feed herself exclusively with instant noodles.

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I am trying to get Rock's "character sheet" (copyroid sheet?) done, I swear! But, um... She doesn't want to move her fluffy little butt from my keyboard. And she's purring hard. Because she's on her human desk when it's late, instead of in the living room with the door to the bedroom closed.

I may or may not need access to the keys for shortcuts, but oh well 🙃

Aaaaaand she's trying to eat the blue-tack ball. Again.

Myo, please. Get yourself half a brain cell. For survival's sake. And maybe for my sake too.

[dunedragon]

But what if both Lan and Hub go feral? Their dad will probably go insane trying to damage control

They're pretty good at distracting themselves, Gregar and Falzar being mortal enemies and all...

[dunedragon]

How did lans family and friends first react to his bird form? We know hub freaked out but what about their dad and mom? How are you gonna explain that one of your sons is now part cybeast and it comes out ready to throw hands with anyone doing something bad

Oh boy another weird world threatening thing for the family, I'm sure they are used to it by now.

[sminny-wew]

@dunedragon was joking about customizable copybots, said customization getting Hub's age wrong, and Lan being an opportunistic little shit about it, so I decided to draw it :3

[dunedragon]

That last suggestion inspired me to draw this continuation LOL

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*Proceeds to think about how Meiru and Dekao could have gotten their navis and why they turned out like that*

*Finds sweet moments for Meiru*

*Brain proceeds to shove all the angst straight up at Dekao's face using a freaking backhoe. I was not ready. I am now a very sad little duck. And I'm also NOT ready for the amount of panels needed.*

No really, I don't know what I was expecting here but it's painful. Makes me go "oh my poor baby" at Dekao. I don't even like him! Or Gutsman, for that matter. But still. Poor babies.

I have to draw the story

I have to suffer