this is one of the more straightforward titles. pretty self explanatory.
in case it's not clear, simon is not my character. he was played by the server owner. blue haired slow aging augmented FREAK and a pretty cool guy who doesn't afraid of anything. really cynical. love him. i always envisioned him doing the anime "push glasses up making the entire lenses glint all white" thingy. in fact i kinda specifically pictured him as looking a lot like the therapist from katana zero (a guy chiefly depicted doing that), but way pastier and with a blue color scheme. it was hard to get into the headspace for this one! but it just felt really necessary because, bluntly, i don't think basically most of the bullshit in mega man x and leading up to mega man zero would have happened if simon was still around. like he's flawed because he buys into the system in a libbish sort of way but also like. dude ages slowly. he can bare minimum make good on staying around for a really long time making sure shit doesn't get fucked.
in any case, the bit where he gets frozen because he has gigacancer from being next to a detonating sunstar is actually something the owner told me she had planned, so this story is just built off that. i'm really proud of tomato being like "hey wait cryo is sketchy as fuck". that thing about frozen subjects turning to goo and definitely being dead? that actually fucking happened, dude! look it up!
tomato is one of my faves. she actually started out in a side project, a medieval AU we ran where it was like, mavericks are fucked up mutated beasts, the world is a wasteland, the hunters are just human knights going out and fighting them in search of a fix. grimdark shit. tomato was just a stinky farmer girl that used a spear (easy to train) and cheap armor that was built off of a blacksmith's metal apron. like literally her name was "tomato potato" because she was a farmer and also because i suck ass at naming. which, being shit at naming was less of a problem in a mega man setting where most characters are robots named shit like [occupation/descriptor] [gender] (cut man, splash woman) or [descriptor] [fursona species] (blizzard wolfang, storm eagle) but it really reared its head when i wanted to do a human. lmao.
i wasn't able to think of a better name when i brought her over to the main BNW project. here, i am wallpapering over it by giving her a common french surname by marriage to some doubtlessly angelic enby.
by the way, please keep note of the "french" part. it *will* come the fuck up later. i'll talk about it more in later commentaries. hahahaha man if you're at all dialed in to mega man lore you will either think i'm really funny for it, think i'm a hackfraud for it, or think i'm cooking with it. really, all 3 are true. i am a funny hackfraud that is cooking.
proud of myself for stating that bradley's are still used in the bnw world. i think it is really really really fucking cool to mix the fantastical sci fi of mega man with real world technology.
so, uh, does simon ever get unfrozen? well, i certainly never depict it. he is only ever indirectly referenced going forward. but i'd like to think maybe he does. if only because i like him a whole lot. if he turned into cryo goo i would drink it for a laugh
oh yeah btw just to be clear our lore surrounding X and Zero is that they were out and about in the very ass end of the classic series. Zero as Infinity was hanging out with his family in Wily Tower but got sealed and moved offsite for A Bunch Of Reasons, but it wasn't supposed to take long for him to be dug up by the Hunters and recruited. X, meanwhile, was just straight up never sealed away. I allude to it later but in my mind, after Zero in the X era re-learns of his origins (something I think we would have done as early as X2, because we would have cooked with the whole "serges is wily" horseshit), he would have probably spent time with the remaining wily bots, e.g. in tanuki man's town. like i think that just makes sense.
...i worry a lot that people will/already do see me as trying to make my material overly relevant to the legendary events of the canon, but what am i supposed to do? run a faction that players of canon characters got involved in, and then just write it as not doing anything?
i guess that accidentally happened when I... had an extremely extended severe mental health crisis. I wasn't writing much of anything during that.
tanuki man's words to simon mirror my own disillusionment with real world politics. "this election is the most important of our lives", forever. fell for it again award. if the dems fucking run that transphobe freak nazi gavin newsom i will straight up vote for whatever hitlerite the republicans run because if the dems want to slit this tran's throat, she'll slit right the fuck back, yo. and that's on the GODHEAD.
sorry. i got mad because i remembered things about the real world. what were we talking about? mega man? yeah he's a cool guy i guess. really blue and shit.