What aunt_zelda Thinks: The Protomen
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MIND = BLOWN!
Now, as you all know, I'm no gamer. I'll watch Let's Plays of American McGee's Alice in Wonderland or the sequel, or Portal or Portal 2, and I'll watch the Angry Joe Show once in a while, and I never miss a Yahtzee update, and sometimes my boyfriend convinces me to pick up a controller and blunder my way through a couple rounds of a fighting game ... but that's about it. I'm very much a watcher-of-gamers, I'll watch other people gaming gladly, I'm just not that into it. Didn't grow up gaming, only played a video game for the first time a year ago, don't really have the drive to get into them.
The Protomen is if you took Mega Man and made it all dark and dystopian and A ROCK OPERA HOLY SHIT THIS IS AMAZING I BOUGHT BOTH THE CDS I AM ROCKING OUT INSTEAD OF WRITING AN ESSAY!!!
I will admit that what initially caught my interest was Dr. Light. He's such a woobie ... a scientist woobie who practically begs for death and gets chased by an angry lynch moband is just begging for really fucking disturbing FoeYay fanfic between him and Wiley ... oh, my buttons, how they have been pressed ...
Also, come on, dystopian future ruled by a mad scientist? WITH MUSIC? ALL MY FAVORITE THINGS! ALL OF THE THINGS! (Well, ok, ok, not all of them, but quite a few! Seriously, people, check this band out!)
Also, am I the only one who instantly started thinking that it'd be very, very easy to make Joe female? And a wicked cool idea? I mean, come on, change some of the pronouns in the written story interludes, change the singer's voice ... that's about it. Plus, it'd make for another female character, which would be greatly appreciated. Wouldn't pass the Bechdel Test, but we could have badass motorcycle-riding Jo(sephine) kicking robot-ass and hitting on girls in bars! And sacrificing herself heroically in a move that is ultimately makes things worse for everyone in the city, rendering her death tragically pointless! And then Wiley uses her name for the Sniper robots to taunt poor Dr. Light with!
... actually, that's kind of awful. And it'd be yet another woman stuffed in the fridge. Which is bad. But she would have died heroically trying to save the city. Which is good. (I'm confused, would making Joe female be feminist or anti-feminist? Or would it just not matter?)
To be honest, though, if Joe were Jo, and all that happened, I might like it even better. (I mean, it's awful and depressing and makes me want to cry, but you know what I mean.) There'd be a certain twisted kind of symmetry to it, Wiley tormenting Dr. Light with a women from his life who died violently, like with Emily, but worse, because now robots called "Jo" are wandering around and yeah, I should work on that essay and go to bed.
Edit (hours later) :
... I for one welcome our new dapper, sexy overlord.
Seriously, never before has someone dancing on stage made me want to flail like a crazy Elvis fangirl or something. I mean ... wow ... I can't really explain it, I just saw him dancing and wanted to tackle him to the ground and ... stuff ...
(Prolly has something to do with the fact that he looks like he escaped from Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Om nom nom, SUITS AND FEDORAS, etc.)
MIND = BLOWN!
Now, as you all know, I'm no gamer. I'll watch Let's Plays of American McGee's Alice in Wonderland or the sequel, or Portal or Portal 2, and I'll watch the Angry Joe Show once in a while, and I never miss a Yahtzee update, and sometimes my boyfriend convinces me to pick up a controller and blunder my way through a couple rounds of a fighting game ... but that's about it. I'm very much a watcher-of-gamers, I'll watch other people gaming gladly, I'm just not that into it. Didn't grow up gaming, only played a video game for the first time a year ago, don't really have the drive to get into them.
The Protomen is if you took Mega Man and made it all dark and dystopian and A ROCK OPERA HOLY SHIT THIS IS AMAZING I BOUGHT BOTH THE CDS I AM ROCKING OUT INSTEAD OF WRITING AN ESSAY!!!
I will admit that what initially caught my interest was Dr. Light. He's such a woobie ... a scientist woobie who practically begs for death and gets chased by an angry lynch mob
Also, come on, dystopian future ruled by a mad scientist? WITH MUSIC? ALL MY FAVORITE THINGS! ALL OF THE THINGS! (Well, ok, ok, not all of them, but quite a few! Seriously, people, check this band out!)
Also, am I the only one who instantly started thinking that it'd be very, very easy to make Joe female? And a wicked cool idea? I mean, come on, change some of the pronouns in the written story interludes, change the singer's voice ... that's about it. Plus, it'd make for another female character, which would be greatly appreciated. Wouldn't pass the Bechdel Test, but we could have badass motorcycle-riding Jo(sephine) kicking robot-ass and hitting on girls in bars! And sacrificing herself heroically in a move that is ultimately makes things worse for everyone in the city, rendering her death tragically pointless! And then Wiley uses her name for the Sniper robots to taunt poor Dr. Light with!
... actually, that's kind of awful. And it'd be yet another woman stuffed in the fridge. Which is bad. But she would have died heroically trying to save the city. Which is good. (I'm confused, would making Joe female be feminist or anti-feminist? Or would it just not matter?)
To be honest, though, if Joe were Jo, and all that happened, I might like it even better. (I mean, it's awful and depressing and makes me want to cry, but you know what I mean.) There'd be a certain twisted kind of symmetry to it, Wiley tormenting Dr. Light with a women from his life who died violently, like with Emily, but worse, because now robots called "Jo" are wandering around and yeah, I should work on that essay and go to bed.
Edit (hours later) :
... I for one welcome our new dapper, sexy overlord.
Seriously, never before has someone dancing on stage made me want to flail like a crazy Elvis fangirl or something. I mean ... wow ... I can't really explain it, I just saw him dancing and wanted to tackle him to the ground and ... stuff ...
(Prolly has something to do with the fact that he looks like he escaped from Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Om nom nom, SUITS AND FEDORAS, etc.)
You know, this is probably why staying up until 4:30am attempting to write an essay and finally giving up and watching vids of a new band and writing disturbing fanfic isn't advisable. Goodnight. Morning. Whatever. *passes out*
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Date: 2012-02-11 07:20 am (UTC)Wiley/Light foeyay? lol, I can totally see it happening (I mean, their discussion in "The Good Doctor" and Wiley's villian monologue in "The Hounds" get so intense!). The idea of Joe as a female never really came to my mind, lol xD The way I always saw it was that Dr. Light was inspired by Joe's sacrifice to create "a hero", and that was the reason Protoman and Megaman were designed as males, because they were inspired in Joe.
But in the games Dr. Light does create a female robot too: Roll (Megaman's twin sister. TVtropes had theorized she's going to appear in the third act, I see it unlikely, but that would be so wicked cool). But really, you can't expect many female characters, after all, the Protomen are inspired in the classic Megaman series, that had to wait almost ELEVEN years for a new female robot character to appear *shakes head with resignation*.
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Date: 2012-02-12 05:46 pm (UTC)And as for twisted FoeYay fanfic of Light and Wily, I'll admit the idea has crossed my mind a few times~
*ze giggles evilly*
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Date: 2012-04-01 06:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-02 02:37 am (UTC)I am very happy to be blamed for new fans of the Protomen. Because they are KICKASS and WONDERFUL and EPIC and YES!!!
(Is that Prussia in your icon? It is, isn't it! *squees* Oh Hetalia ... so silly, so crazy, so much fun ...)