#blackrussian

Please note this will be heavily influenced by @megamanrecut​ because that’s just how I roll and Russian’s done a great job of giving personality to the personality-less, so that’s just kind of filling the empty void where canon should be.

Okay, so

#1 Proto Man - kicks ass at bullet hell and shooter games. Doesn’t really play much anymore, but always willing to show off if someone else is playing. Also weirdly good at rhythm games, bizarrely. He’s naturally decent at just about any game, really, which pisses off anyone stupid enough to challenge him.

#2 Roll - Girl will kick your ass at any fighting game you could name, and do it with style. Has memorized the combos to every fatality in Mortal Kombat, and got a Flawless Victory against Akuma in Street Fighter. Also likes racing games and multiplayer shooters; basically anything competitive she’s down for. Has a soft spot for Metroid since she feels like Samus and her have a lot in common. Would play a game for days straight just to beat you at it.

#3 Ring Man (and ensemble) - boy is as basic as it gets. Plays pretty much any game you would find in the front display of a video game store, and nothing else. Claims to be great at video games but really that’s because he doesn’t play competitively, ever. Holds all the high scores in Super Punch Out because he won’t let anyone else play.

#4 Guts Man - Too complicated; couldn’t figure out controls. Likes to spectate, though, to Ring Man and the others’ dismay.

#5 Cut Man - MS Paint counts as a videogame, right?

#6 Rock - Boy is a strategy game prodigy. Once beat Fire Emblem Gaiden on lunatic difficulty with no deaths, and got zero street cred because neither Roll nor Doctor Light understand enough about Fire Emblem to see what insane level of bullshit that actually is. Has Genealogy of the Holy War preordered and marked the release date on his calendar so that he can count down the days. Once played Corpse Party on a dare, and shocked everyone when he cleared the whole game 100% and got all endings. In three days.

(This is as noncanon as noncanon gets but I don’t care I’m sticking to it) Lives a secret second gamer life where he’s lowkey obsessed with visual novels.  After the inevitable “am I a bad person for liking this game?” crisis, he wound up loving VNs. Claims to play eroge for the plot, and genuinely means it; gets easily flustered and embarrassed when people suggest otherwise. Used to go at a snail’s pace during ~those~ scenes because it was so embarrassing he could hardly stand to look at it to read the text, but now it doesn’t even faze him anymore, like a true veteran. Has gone down the list from Katawa Shoujo to Hatoful Boyfriend to Fate/Stay Night to DRAMAtical Murder, except for that weird part where he actually BUYS the games instead of downloading them online (seriously, who does that?).

#7 Doctor Light - Doesn’t play videogames much because it’s bad for character or whatever, but played Tetris a bit and enjoyed it. Occasionally Korobeiniki will come on the stereo when he’s working in the lab, and he always turns it up.

#8 Doctor Wily - Claims Bertie the Brain was a rip off of his game that he made himself, but otherwise doesn’t pay much attention to videogames, aside from one idea he had to take over the world by using an extremely addicting game that would suck the will out of weak-minded humans. Later ditched it because it was too far fetched, Cold Steel took its place within a week.

#9 Elec Man - If his programming would allow it he’d probably spend all his “work” time in one of those poker rooms online, but sadly it doesn’t. Has occasionally used the built in solitaire app on his work computer to kill time in between jobs though.