mighty confessions

I made this blog for anyone who wants to share their headcanons, theories, incorrect quotes, alternate universes or confessions about mighty no 9

Wait do I count anniversaries differently or is this a "there's no year zero" thing ? I tought it was the 10th ?

Depending on the state and who is concerned they are currency, food, waste, clay, flesh, weapons, medecine, tumors, bugs, parasites and maggots and butterflies and angels and demons and voices from no one and everyone and everything at once.

They belonged to a hundred things and people of all sizes and status and nature from everywhere and everytime since their creation, anything with them is garanteed to have seen countless iterations in a ship of Thesseus built from an endless flow of circulating lifeblood from all over the planet.

And even if they seem endless and everywhere, even if they can be repaired, recharged and recycled, they are made and unmade, they constantly are, there was a time before and there will be a time after, be it by obsolescence or destruction or peacefully forgotten knowledge.

Just like life.

I absolutely adore how such a weird abstract concept is made instinctively and effortlessly cool by the great wisdom of the 90's: PUT A ROBOT IN IT ! These thing are, in and out of universe, built by rule of cool, and there is a good reason for someone, in and out of it, to say "Hey isn't it weird that they're made as a reflection and aknowledgement of man's ever growing, cyclical, chaotic, self destructive, beautiful, supportive, all consuming, uncertain existence down to their very building blocks and elemental particles ?

Anyway imagine if when Beck gets a better complex control over his body from deconstructing, rapid-fire, slighty mind/time/space short and long scale he starts altering his density, retracting limbs or organs to dodge attacks or moving his core around or even outside his body.

I swear these things deserve to be a mascot no wonder they did a plushie.

Imagine having a perfectly normal conversation at work and you notice the new guy they sent to check the security by shrimp colors like a medical dog is staring with dead eyes because he just noticed the wall is alive, the wall is dying and the wall is crying for help because your recycling system didn't account for emergency temporary shutdowns.

Imagine if he took off some of his propeller blades to use as machetes or chackrams. (The circle blade things Axel has in kingdom hearts for those who don't know)

The bombs and bullets are fine but when he runs out or needs to get up close, crashing at max speed directly into someone could really use some work, especially when the guy your weapon beats specializes in big jumps and forcing foes into close quarters combat.

Then exploding.

The coliseum has official forums which have strict content controls. This is to avoid legal problems since these forums are visited by both kids and coliseum fighters. Besides the fact that most of the fans enter the forums to start conversations or ask questions about their favorite fighters, official souvenirs, confirm theory's or rumors, etc, it would become extremely frustrating if they were filled with spam.

Furthermore, allowing inappropriate content in the forums would drive away sponsors and investors}

Beck already has the gimmick of absorbing, analyzing and influencing xels on contact, so what if we took that to the logical extreme ?

To fully go on the opposite side: Zen mode : Beck spread a storm of xels from his body and health reserves that orbit in a large sphere around his core, anything touched by the xels is connected to Beck, activating a way weaker localized form of infection meant to pacify enemies, Beck's consciousness is spread out between the xels and targets, making the main body and core practically inactive and defenseless.

Beck in general could allow for some weird psychic-robot stuff, if that's the right word for it.

It's almost the same I was thinking, cuz I don't think that Beck can't be as aggressive and/or violent as Ray or as the rest of the mighty numbers

So imagine if he could put specific ores in his system to activate different effects, like magnetic metals, piezoelectric crystals, coal or magma for fire or just stuff himself with steel to get twice as heavy. Might overlap a bit with Beck's multiple form gimmick but could be a good one-off story where we get to see Mic be an earth robot more than a big muscle robot.

(screenshot from the video "Mighty No. 9 + DLC - All Bosses + Ending [No Damage]" by the youtube channel "Jaba Play")

Its never really clarified but I think that the whole finisher move is Beck blasting out his core, or at least parts or copies off it through a beam of xels to force it to assimilate into the system and run a antivirus or something like that before hopefully leaving (maybe they could stay as a way to give permanent updates but after that it would probably be better to manually fix the system and remove the xels in case the process is incomplete or if they start leaking in other parts).

Point is, it's done at the end of battle when the enemy because it at least indirectly exposes Beck's core (maybe also because internal code intrusion defenses are lowered when damaged to stay able to run away at minimum ?).

Maybe it could have a less extreme variant were holes connected to the core (maybe at the wrists, putting it in the same hole where energy attacks form and launch could damage the system or clog the pipe, and that's just making blood clot but I'm overthinking it) and the xels could heal or boost allies by identifying them and integrating into the body's, meanwhile they just take up space in targets they don't recognize to debuff them by slowing the system.

Also in my ramble about new dash+attack abilities for each form, I didn't do one for base Beck, so I thought of actually using that chibi proportionned head and visor into a headbutt, stops the dash immediatly but knocks back and stuns for more attacks. I think it would be funny to have a move that works with Beck's speed centered theme by building momentum before putting all of it in a single strike.

He does spring cleaning with a little duster every so often and whenever he has to move something you just hear grunting and a scream of victory followed by soft vaccuming, he could be laughing at the sky while bombarding a swarm of mecha dinosaurs and stop just to correct Beck's posture like a worried supportive dad.

He does take his job very seriously and knows it requires heavy moral and tactical responsabilities, it's just that said job is an absolute blast sometimes.