okay so this title is another red vox reference, literally to the same song as with the first story's title.
this reference is honestly sort of purposeless? like it relates to drop man crossing through the atmosphere on the way back up to space but its kinda only pointing out the symmetry of a story where drop goes back up and doesn't get injured.
i really wish i had finagled "yakub orbital elevator" into the story somewhere but i just couldn't think of a way to make it at all clever. so there it is. yakub orbital elevator.
the worldbuilding in this story is kinda just running off the observation that even peak mega man doesn't actually do a lot with its own worldstate. like we know corporations and society be existing but not much more than that. so im imagining theres like. aerospace shit going on. oh also this story exists to heavily downplay x8's story. like no shade to x8, it's a fine game, but i think on the whole it makes sense if it's a relatively minor event between eurasia and the elf wars. and uh yeah x7 either didnt happen or was a historical footnote. whatever relevance you want to imagine axl had, i sort of imagine that he got involved in way more meaningful shit later down the line.
by the way, i think i cooked with "orbital lattices".
regarding drop man, as much as he enjoys being a soldier, i think he deserves to not be a boot boy for all the bullshit happening in the x series and beyond. so this was how i reconciled that. you may notice that jade was there. are they lovers now? did he rizz jade up after the hospital way back in that second story? or are they just pals? that's something i want you to decide. pick whatever you like more. tell me all about it. thanks
the story very briefly alludes to a "Neo BosNYWash". that's a reference to a pet project of a friend's, though not a friend from the BNW sphere. all you need to know is that it revolves around the idea of boston, new york city, and washington d.c. all expanding and merging into one huge urban sprawl.
anyway, so blizzard wolfang is one of my all time favorite robot designs in all of mega man. it's such a shame he's locked in such a bad game. he's like the late 90's version of von lycaon from zzz- hot wolfman stuck in some utter garbage.
oh my god, i just looked it up and x6 was in 2001. it came out after 9/11 and less than a month after mgs2. what the fuck? that's a ps1 game. budget title moment. rockman and forte if it fucking sucked moment. i guess blizzard wolfang is the von lycaon of the global war on terror. wow.
anyway yeah blizzard wolfang was one of my all time favorite characters to write. in this story i basically ambiguated x6's story so hard that he's still alive and well. i loved him so much and had so many ideas for him oh my god. just my golden boy. his ass was not! going to get capped by that fucker alia. his ass was not! going to be indebted to some weirdo. his ass was going to be exceedingly my most normal and uneccentric character despite being a fuckhuge wolfman with floral patterns on his claws. like i need to emphasize that writing someone who was relatively chill (no pun intended) was actually gonna be pretty fresh territory for me. like tomato is super adhd bouncy, tanuki man is neurotic and weird, drop man is a workaholic, pirate man talks like the flying dutchman, terra was constantly choking on evil cock and then he got unceremoniously capped and it was really funny, et cetera. and i was just gonna have this regular guy having to deal with his weird sad world and being built for a specific dangerous job. goddddddd.
and then i had a huge fucking prolonged mental health moment. and then bnw ended. piss