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So, as you might have heard, Rockman Online is probably cancelled. It's not official, but let's face it, the writing has appeared to be on the wall for some time now.

This disappoints me for a few reasons. For one, much of my fun with Mega Man has been through role playing online with friends, and the chance to do that in an actual game sounded great to me. Of course, there is also the fact that it was only slated for Korea, but who knows? Things can change, things can happen.

The other reason was that I felt like I would be able to semi-canonize one of my first (and lamest) fan characters.

The idea for Sunfire came to me in a dream (and I don't often dream about games, so...), one which probably came after spending too much time looking at the rainbow of Rockman X model kits being advertised in the back of GameFan magazine.

So, I fleshed him out a little. At the time, MH characters were pretty scarce, and we weren't really privy to the whole "X is so special that no one can understand what makes him tick" bit just yet. So my idea was "X is so effective at not doing things like dying while popping wheelies on bikes (sorry, GBD), why don't we make more like him?"

Funny... that's more or less what Rockman Online would have done, too, with Zero and Duo added for good measure.

Well, that said, I couldn't wait and made this from the official art. Sadly, it looks like he'll never come to truly be any more than this.

As for the original iteration, I soon became disgusted with myself and tried to change him into something less derivative, and eventually scrapped him altogether. But I won't lie; the idea of Rockman Online made me happy to bring him back.

As for my next character? Well, besides a Transformer-sized Reploid version of Turbo man who could transport his teammates, I think my next original character was a guy who would eventually become well known as "Nytetrayn" in the world of 21XX...

Original Art © Capcom & NeoWiz - This version shown only to illustrate plans for an in-game character to be created in unreleased software.
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*shnoogums5060 Sep 24, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Seems to me that Capcom has decided to dump the entire Mega Man/Rockman franchise into the cesspit of doom here... or something, i dunno.
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~LBDNytetrayn Sep 24, 2012
In fairness, it sounds as though this one is more on NeoWiz's head-- Capcom merely licensed it out, as far as I know.
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*shnoogums5060 Sep 24, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
NeoWiz?
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~LBDNytetrayn Sep 25, 2012
The developers (and possibly would-be publishers) of the game.
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*shnoogums5060 Sep 25, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Hmm. Never heard of that company before (NeoWiz, to be exact).
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~LBDNytetrayn Oct 5, 2012
As far as I know, their products are exclusively Korean.
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*shnoogums5060 Oct 6, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Korean, eh? That figures as much.
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