#(as of 2023/01/20: i made some edits to their bios since some details don't make sense)

[rkn001]

two of my mega man fcs! the former, patch woman, whose full design i just finalized after eight years of just having her head down, and the latter, pilot man, who i’ve drawn quite often on this blog but never explained what his deal was

(more info about them under the cut)

Patch Woman (DWN-419)

(they’re laughing over the one time mega man slipped his ass and fell into a pit of spikes)

Well-trained with handling private information, Patch Woman can somehow wiggle into everyone’s business underhand, intercept any life-threatening affairs with saccharine prevarications, and make deals with the baddies (or the goodies!) over the information she has collected. That’s her thing—being the “reconnaissance” girl.

Her weapon is a cutlass that can activate her main attack: Thunder Slash. One slash of her weapon can generate an electric field in the form of a wave, which not only stuns her opponents, but it also neutralizes any energy-based attack made towards her. (It’s a better version of the Mirror Buster but without the mirroring effect lmao)

Patch mostly lives her life in the seas—off radar, where no one can catch her. She’s a dedicated sailor in her own little ship, and finds the seas a freeing place beyond boundaries. The ocean is her oyster, and no one can take that away from her.

Patch does have a mysterious past that only Wily knows...and prefers not to touch it when asked. Not that even she would know what she was like before Wily came into her life—it’s that she doesn’t care, and she prefers that this part of her life would remain untouched. Patch knows that whatever this previous life was, is sensitive info that she would not bear to be responsible over protecting, for her own sake. Information is information, and she recognizes how much of a big deal it is, so she does what she can to protect that and ensure no one exploits her for that. (Unfortunately, whatever her previous life was bleeds into what she does now, but she does a good job of using her network to deflect the attention away from her.)

Patch is very thankful to Wily, for reawakening her, for giving her some freedom, for maintaining her privacy of her previous life and never providing the details about it (by her own discretion), and most of all, for kindly asking her what she wants to be in this second life. Part of the reason why her favorite activity in collecting old toys and refurbishing them is that it gives a gentle reminder of her own existence and becoming. She strongly believes in invention and reinvention of the self, and it angers her when robots are given an expiry date.

Although her fashion sense is sharp, Patch’s sense of interior design is downright dreadful. Nobody has ever entered her quarters, but rumors have circulated that there is one thing on her walls where, if anyone looks at it, it would deconstruct their sense of decoration. (She thinks it’s funny though—there’s nothing innocuous on her walls except for one lone #LiveLaughLove canvas board.)

Otherwise, not much else is known about Patch, and she keeps to herself for the most part. But if anyone catches the whiff that she has a crush on Splash Woman, she will rip and tear.

Oh, and she hates mayonnaise. Why anybody would think whisking egg yolks into some weird awful tasting condiment is beyond her.

Pilot Man (DLN-097)

(the tiny robos are new recruits in his airport and Pilot made all of them watch Top Gun together as an exercise in bonding)

This man will take on any aircraft and fly it—no matter the size or age of the model, whether it’s the Queen of the Skies, your favorite vintage Piper Cub, or even the barebones Wright Flyer. (Or whatever the Mega Man universe’s variants of aircraft are, I guess!)

Except...he can’t really freely fly anywhere and anytime, because he’s always busy transporting goods (and the occasional curious customer) everywhere and running his airport. It’s all for a debt to catch up, in the form of several installments made over the years to the government, that he needs to pay off. (That will be explained later.)

During his free time, he likes to revamp and build new models of planes (although he keeps that a secret). What else is there to do with the accumulated information of all the aircraft hydraulic systems that he knows? And, it’s a fun, light bonding activity for him and his robo-underlings, after working constantly for hours on end. :^)

His weapon is the Pigeon Missile. It’s a heat-seeking explosive projectile based off of the very thing he loathes. It’s not a very powerful weapon despite that it can cause some concerning damage; the sensors of the Pigeon Missile can be easily thwarted with some flares or lasers, and their precision in aiming isn’t solid.

It’s a little ridiculous, and maybe even a bit extreme, that he would absolutely hate birds to the point of having a weapon based on them...but it’s related to his debt.

The company that made him entrusted a lot of faith in his abilities after observing his performance as a working pilot for a month since his activation. Since he was doing extremely well, they thought it might be a good idea to overload him with more duties as an on-site air traffic control (ATC); the idea was that he can also help out stressed ATC people with handling their jobs, while flying. Dr. Light didn’t think this was a good idea, but they proceeded on with it anyways, and a month after modifying his programming to handle those additional duties, a frazzled and an almost burnt-out Pilot accidentally mishandled a bird strike incident that caused a lot of causalities in the process.

The plane that had bird-striked before colliding into another turned out to be one of his own, from which he was automating, which prodded the Mega Man universe’s version of the FAA and the government to open up an investigation on this incident. The company pinned the blame on Pilot, Dr. Light had no clue how to handle this, and it ended up with Pilot getting sucked into a class-action lawsuit from the victims’ families and having to owe a ridiculous sum of zenny; he ended up being reprogrammed (again) by the company to handle this situation by himself. The whole thing traumatized the young bot, who had to grow up quickly and learn about the workings of the wonderful world that is capitalism. The only thing that was lucky for him was Dr. Light and his reputation, who vouched for his existence and prevented his early retirement. And because of this, it causes him to be extremely demanding and careful about his job, perhaps to a fault.

The one thing that keeps him alive, both spiritually and physically, is flying, and because of this he’s still an upbeat and passionate bot.

(I should note that he does have two designs and I like them both, even though the second is more based on actual pilots haha)

ok lol that’s all!