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Acnologia: WHY CAN’T YOU WORMS JUST LIE DOWN AND DIE WITH DIGNITY!?!

Natsu: WE’RE FAIRY TAIL! WE DON’T DO ANYTHING WITH DIGNITY!!!

Erza: NATSU!

Lucy: nono…. He has a point *points to a naked Gray*

Lan: Look I Love, trust and respect you. But we can’t have you spazzing out first thing if they happen to send out a ghost first.

….(shit… i don’t know what language runs.)

Ref: Uhh, not to interrupt your...argument? But have you decided what your plan is?

Lan: Come on, Mega, I'm the trainer here. Hang back and let the others do the rest. Then you can go and be my ace afterwards

Mega: *sigh* Fine, I can live with it. But the moment someone gets tired I'm going in

Did we make Yuichiro a pokemon professor? If so, what’s he a professor of?

He is

I don't have a set subject for him, but I like to think he studies their growth and history

Eventually the entire teams of both mayl and lan get sick of them dancing around each other and coordinate with each other to ensure they confess somehow.

This effort fails due to an unforseen circumstance.

More lore about Maylan in Pokeverse

So they travel together initially as 11/12 year olds but then afterwards the two want to explore other regions—Lan for battles and Mayl for contests

Lan of course wants to start in Kanto (I’m kinda fusing both universes so Electopia is its own region while the other Pokémon regions exist alongside it), but Mayl wants to start in Hoenn since Hoenn is where contests were really introduced

It’s sad but the two decide to part to achieve their respective dreams, occasionally running into each other every now and then

After a couple of years they officially decide to travel together again fully, and this is when they’re teens and hormones are raging so their dance is like the world’s most frustrating tango lmao

So of course all the Pokémon go full stop to get them completely together, I’m talking Kiss the Girl levels of extra

But eventually they do get together, probably after Lan wins some big tournament and he’s so excited he kisses her and she kisses back and it’s kinda awkward at first because was it the heat of the moment??? and at that point Mega is fed up and just like, “YOU LOVE EACH OTHER YOU IDIOTS!”

Damn that's smart

ProtoMan: “It’s an obvious an exploitable weakness in which case I can lure the enemy into predictable behaviors that are based on attempting to exploit my weakness.”

GeminiMan: I see… I never would’ve thought of that… it *is* a rather tempting target. How often do they attempt to go for the hair?

Protoman: Less often after they learn what happens when they try.

Roll teaches Remix the art of taming viruses. Because once remix learned it was possible and that Roll has a force of them under her command, he had to learn how so he could have the “doggies”. He kept begging for days on end.

Mega: Maybe you don’t have to teach him Roll Charm…

Roll: Why not? He seems really excited to learn

Mega: Roll he’s only doing it so he can pet more Spikies

Roll: Well those are his intentions now, but when he gets older it’ll be a good skill to have

Mega: …I’m still convinced it’ll just be about the Spikies

I HC that Yuichiro was just starting out in Sci-labs after graduating when Dr. Tadashi Hikari died. Like Lan’s relationship with him, his father was the world to him and he would take his death hard.

He shut down. He still managed to accomplish his tasks but Everything he did lacked his usual passion. His usual drive and out of the box way of approaching a problem. He was completely on auto pilot. His new co-workers would offer condolences and try their own way of cheering him up, but no matter what they did he was still this… empty shell.

(Whether the following was before they started dating or after i don’t know)

Haruka made sure he was never alone. Took it upon herself to watch over him. Comfort him. Never tried to take him out to cheer him up, or did anything special beyond making sure he was properly fed. She was just… there. When he talked she listened. When he cried, her heart broke seeing him in pain and she would gently remind him that he was not alone and that he was not without people who loved him.

(I have no idea where this came from, I was just trying to figure out how Haruka got with Yuichiro despite his obliviousness.)

aww that's sweet, though some timeline stuff is inaccurate

Tadashi definitely died after Yuichiro and Haruka married. Actually, considering he knew Lan and Hub, it's possible he died shortly after they were born. Whether he helped Hub turn into Megaman is up to interpretation because it's not really clear, but regardless his death definitely happened after Yuichiro established himself at SciLab

I do agree about him potentially shutting down though, but not really in a "shut down" way...

See, if Tadashi's death (along with the weight of him digitizing part of his being to hold off Alpha) and Hub's diagnosis with HBD happened in rapid succession, it's possible that Yuichiro was just SUCKER PUNCHED with tragedy after tragedy

He did mourn his father, and felt like he lost his best friend (because my personal hc is he got really close to his dad after his mother died when he was a child) but then one his babies starts getting sick...and sicker...until the doctors say his heart can't function anymore

But instead of shutting down from all the grief, Yuichiro acted

He couldn't do anything for his father, but he could somehow save his son

And that's the shut down I'm talking about--not a shut down as in he stopped functioning, but a shut down where he didn't think of anything else and just kept working because he had to make sure Hub's soul was saved. That must have taken so much time and dedication

I think Hub's death did put a strain on his and Haruka's marriage. Haruka had an idea of what Yuichiro was doing, but from an outside perspective he pretty much buried himself in his work and neglected her and their other son.

I think she did confront him and begged him to stop and come home. I think he lashed out and said he couldn't because he had to save him! He had to save his baby! And that's when she finds out the extent of his plan with his Navi project...

Eventually, with a lot of time and patience and Haruka coming to lab to bring his clothes and food (because gosh dang it Yuichiro you can't save Hub if you're half fucking dead!), the two have a more emotional heart to heart and they patch back together their relationship.

By then Megaman would be on his way to being functional so Yuichiro could make more time to spend with Lan. This is also when he brings Lan to the lab to look at his "future Navi"