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I’ve spoken to Helena about adding her in but haven’t spoken about it publically, so here’s what I’ve presented to Helena.

First, the characters from Pachislot Rockman Ability that are able to be added to our universe are: Dr. Emilia Right, Trancy, and Coin Woman (maybe).

Dr. Emilia Right, in the pachislot, is the daughter of Dr. Right (Light) and is credited with his achievements, and earns Dr. Wily’s jealousy instead of him as a result. She also created Rock, and that’s possibly all she created. Roll and Trancy are sisters who were likely built by Dr. Wily.

What I have proposed to Helena is that we drop the direct blood relation and have Emilia Right be her own roboticist, though if we wish to keep some family relation with Thomas Light, she can be a niece or a cousin or something along those lines. The big thing, however, is her last name should be Right instead of Light, to differentiate her from Dr. Light if only a little, and so her robot masters get to have the serial number DRN (Doctor Right Number) and not DLN (Doctor Light Number).

If the similarity is disliked, we can give her a whole new surname instead.

Trancy, who again was Roll’s sister and a creation of Dr. Wily in the game, should be created by Dr. Emilia Right as her lab assistant (as almosy everyone has one) and first robot master, and be DRN-000 or DRN-001, as well as her daughter.

Coin Woman is less easy to work with because, honestly, aside from Rock Roll and Trancy, all the robot masters are based on pachislot mechanics, so Coin Woman is based on coins that you insert to play the game. I’m not sure how to work with that. I’ve considered her being a Kupier droid like Shadow Man who also survived, but I’m not sure.

I believe I thought of the idea of Coin Woman being a Kupier droid like Shadow Man due to their extremely similar motifs, and since Shadow Man’s ninja motif is in part because he is a Kupier droid, I thought the same could be applied to Coin. It also spares me needing to come up with an industrial purpose for her, since she is instead an escort for Ra Moon who failed.

Also, there was some really, really juicy drama potential with her and Shadow, in that she would have awakened a while after the death of Ra Moon and have absolutely no idea what to do with herself when she has failed her purpose and is extremely lost, and Shadow himself is still struggling with having a very weak purpose and trying to live his life outside of what he was created for and find his own path, so he understands very deeply what she is going through and wants to help her. It’s juicy drama but also let’s us explore Shadow’s growing care for other people and stepping out of his bounds of just being a servant, whether to Ra Moon or to Dr. Wily.

However, instead of having her be lost without a purpose and kind of following Shadow Man’s story it’d be kind of fun to have them kind of oppose each other. Where Shadow seemed happy to be included with the DWNs, Coin could out right reject being seen as ‘lowly’ as a ‘primitive earth robot’ and would never serve a human. She could try to get Shadow to leave Wily and they could find their own purpose together without being told what to do, and Shadow could see how lonely she is and think she’d be happier if she accepted the Wilybots.

So it’d be a kind of tug of war over “I’m trying to save you from your self imposed problems” kind of thing between them.

I’ve spoken to Helena about adding her in but haven’t spoken about it publically, so here’s what I’ve presented to Helena.

First, the characters from Pachislot Rockman Ability that are able to be added to our universe are: Dr. Emilia Right, Trancy, and Coin Woman (maybe).

Dr. Emilia Right, in the pachislot, is the daughter of Dr. Right (Light) and is credited with his achievements, and earns Dr. Wily’s jealousy instead of him as a result. She also created Rock, and that’s possibly all she created. Roll and Trancy are sisters who were likely built by Dr. Wily.

What I have proposed to Helena is that we drop the direct blood relation and have Emilia Right be her own roboticist, though if we wish to keep some family relation with Thomas Light, she can be a niece or a cousin or something along those lines. The big thing, however, is her last name should be Right instead of Light, to differentiate her from Dr. Light if only a little, and so her robot masters get to have the serial number DRN (Doctor Right Number) and not DLN (Doctor Light Number).

If the similarity is disliked, we can give her a whole new surname instead.

Trancy, who again was Roll’s sister and a creation of Dr. Wily in the game, should be created by Dr. Emilia Right as her lab assistant (as almosy everyone has one) and first robot master, and be DRN-000 or DRN-001, as well as her daughter.

Coin Woman is less easy to work with because, honestly, aside from Rock Roll and Trancy, all the robot masters are based on pachislot mechanics, so Coin Woman is based on coins that you insert to play the game. I’m not sure how to work with that. I’ve considered her being a Kupier droid like Shadow Man who also survived, but I’m not sure.

The biggest issue:

None of the gameboy games (except the Stardroids) are listed and we do have the majority of them as canon to our timeline. We need to rework their plots and character usage but we do intend to keep them. I will try to help with placement later.

Major:

Isabelle is no longer canon, as that was Chii’s OC and we will not take that from her, though of course the concept of “Kalinka’s mom, Mikhail’s wife” remains. The new OC I have made to fit this role is Mila Andreievna Volkov, maiden name subject to change, a medical doctor who had her own role to play in the development of robotics. More specifically, she and Mikhail played a role in the development of recreating human feelings such as a heart “sinking” or elation from happiness or rage from anger at injustice and so on and so forth. Them meeting in college remains, though actually Mila and Mikhail are older than Dr. Light and Dr. Wily (and yet Dr. Cossack looks younger than them).

I’ll expand on her more later, right now I am focusing on the timeline.

Helena and I were going with MM: Powered Up being canon for our timeline, rather than going with Archie’s timeline where Ian decided to introduce Time and Oil in a separate arc. If you have other ideas or suggestions however, we would love to hear them.

I am especially fascinated by the idea you have where Swing/Copy Roll’s debut is made in what is effectively the “Time Keeps on Slipping” arc, which needs review anyway.

It mostly needs review because while its removal is understandable, it’s also the introduction to Agent Stern and Agent Krantz, and explains Dr. Wily’s escape. It could be repurposed to be a similar event but a different one.

Forte (Bass), Piano, and Treble’s creation is done after MM6, as far as I understand Helena’s intentions. I know it’s canon they were made just before the tournament, but Helena has had other ideas in that regard. I will leave that to her, but given the importance of these characters I file this under “major.”

We honestly are still not sure what we’re doing with the aliens in general, particularly the Stardroids. I genuinely wonder why they’re a part of this series every time I think about them.

Piano does need to be rewritten into every single plot Forte is in, it won’t really be easy but it’s what she deserves.

Quint is still on hold because that stuff is tragic, but so far Challenger From The Future is a potential plot point we have that may attempt to resolve his problems. We just haven’t touched it yet.

Constellation Droids and Rockman Strategy in general is still on hold, but Fan is available to be played if anyone wants her. However the Constellation Droids are independent of Ra Moon.

I hate almost everything about MM9 and this is no one’s fault but I refuse to touch it at present, I’m just noting that now. I need an entire separate conversation for MM9 alone.

I have no comment on the Ruby Spears episodes other than I am glad you took the time to include them. I’ll do more looking later to see if it fits in the timeline but I’m pretty sure it does, and Helena would know that better than me.

Minor/Nitpicky:

Pharaoh Man’s creation is probably closer to Rock and Roll’s creation.

Fascinated by the idea of the ninth line all being created in the same year, I like the idea of just getting it all out of the way.

Dr. LaLinde and the LMNs live in the Philippines, not America. I think.

Ring Woman is created before the robotics convention, she simply did not attend it.

Actually the DCNs minus Skull were made a while before MM4.

Skull, however, Suffers.

Not really a nitpick or a problem but Waltz yelling at Blues about working for Dr. Wily? Sounds like old friend drama I can’t wait to hear more.

Beat is technically created just before MM5 and is explicitly created for Rock.

Whether or not Mikhail creates another pet robot bird though is up for debate.

“A robot calling himself the robot Queen” King genderbend confirmed and he’s a he/him lesbian. (/joke)

1. I completely forgot about the gameboy games. They were not on the the Wiki timeline I was using to help make this one, so they just slipped my mind. I’d be happy to help figure out where they go.

2. I’m sorry that I didn’t make it clear but yes Time and Oil are meant to be in the MM1 part of the timeline. I was thinking that  Time Keeps on Slipping arc  to be altered so that it’s Copy Roll/possible all the Copybots that break Wily out and kidnap Roll instead of Oil and Time.

3. I’m a little confused on how Piano, Bass, Treble are made after MM6 is Wily’s in jail until MM7 unless he made them really quick right after being broken out.

4. Yes  Dr. LaLinde and the LMNs do live in the Philippines  but it appeared that both they and the Cossacks stayed in Mega City for some time after the ARTS convention so Waltz just went there to meet back up with her old friend while she and her family were in the same place.

5. I’m a little confused about your comments on Queen/King I thought King was on the list of gender bents but was that not the case?