there isnt anything special to this title. its just kinda meant to be tone poetry or like. jade venting i guess.
so uh. just in case you missed it. jade is green biker dude from mega man x2's intro.
that dude who dies basically immediately.
jade is a character that got done really dirty because the person that was supposed to be playing his dad was really bad about not finishing what she started lol and then she fucking dipped from the server. this is part of my way of making up for it (as was killing the dad in the invasion to begin with)
it really bites ass also that the project ended when it did, because i explicitly invented jade for the purpose of doing an x2 intro scene. was he going to die? maybe! it would depend! maybe he would have ended up injured like in this scene instead. the purpose of this scene is to attempt to tie together the bits of jade that existed into something cohesive. for that reason it made a whole lot of sense for x2's intro factory stage to actually be the wily tower. it honestly just fit so very well. desert environment, place where the survivors from x1 fled to, relevant to my take on the character. i think i cooked with that. the scene i alluded to where jade's dad was shot down by terra was already me trying to lay the groundwork for some symmetry. so this is just me cashing out on some angst i think i earned.
"ouh but molly the x2 intro factory is built into the side of a mountain or whatever" shut up i fucking earned this plus i can do whatever i want with this if you want something that conforms rigidly to the canon of the games just go play the games bruh
hoping the horror of "haunted by the mangled corpse of my dead dad" comes across well. it was partly inspired by the description of the corpse Jespar is haunted by visions of in the novel Dreams of the Dying by Nicolas Lietzau.
by the way, yes, if you look closely, i state the cold war happens. iirc bnw is a setting where the cold war happened but it took a turn where russia eventually joined up with the UN to save itself from economic collapse, effectively turning the UN into the global governing body. theres some other deviations (including, obviously, the proliferation of sentient robots and the wily wars and all that shit) but thats the really big piece of alternate history before the mega man bits really kick in.
oh damn haha i forgot i wrote in "the greener of the two", i think that's cute wordplay. "greener" because jade wears green armor but also "greener" because "green" is military slang for less experienced soldiers.
i really hope i did the angst well. i hope in "cashing it in" i executed it right. kinda drew on my own experiences of incoherently weeping and yapping into someones chest. like, it reads authentic to me, but will it read authentic to you?