Anonymous asked: What made you decide to change Mega, Proto, and Roll's facial structure from a rounded shape to a more solid set? Was it an overall readjustment to make them consistant and easy to tell they're related? Or was it something else, like an overall style change?

I wish I had a thoughtful answer for this, but the truth is I suck at drawing characters in RS style! 

(I don’t have any old sketchbooks handy for evidence, so the above is the best I can do). But apart from my, um, ‘skill deficiencies,’ the reason behind the style change is also to work on drawing a more ‘western’ style drawing, as much of my figure drawing background is in drawing anime/manga characters. 

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I’ve always admired Disney art, and while I don’t want to duplicate it, I use it as a reference for drawing RS art (I have a folder on my desktop of collected Glen Keane sketches that I like to rifle through). 

I also really like how the Gotham girls are drawn in Batman: TAS. So I guess it’s more me coming into my own style, but I’m still learning and practicing to get better. :)  If Mega Man, Proto Man, and Roll all look like siblings then I am proud, but that may have less to do with intention than lack of diverse characters designs on my part. ^^;

Another point to make is the official Ruby-Spears designs look youthful, and I wanted to make it clear that Proto Man, Mega Man, and Roll are at the mental maturity (and appearance) of humans in their late teens/early 20s, or that strange cocktail of immaturity, budding independence, and a dash of willfulness that characters experience while coming into their own and choosing the course they’d like to set for the rest of their life (in theory). I also draw all the characters to have more realistic proportions (as discussed in this post) which is another major style change.

I polled my readers awhile back what color eyes they think the forever unmasked Ruby-Spears Proto Man had, so now I’m back with a poll asking about his hair color. :)

This is an opinion poll for general curiosity and silly fun. The results are not related to nor will effect the quality or content of Mega Man Recut.

Anonymous asked: Why would Roll want a blaster? her arm is more versatile o.o

If by blaster you mean plasma cannon, I don’t recall saying anything about that, and technically she’s already has a few blasters: an oven containing petrified potatoes (???), projectile saws, um…a ‘ball blaster,’ the vacuum cleaner attachment, in its way… and not to mention her super toaster with the power to shoot…super toast?

I was thinking more along the lines of adding grappling hooks and Tasers, and super special awesome stuff (including a weapon-weapon) I won’t divulge yet (I already gave her some nifty gadgets like Dino Tar; sky’s the limit in ficiton) That’s sorta the natural progression of things—the hero starts with what’s readily available to her, but gradually upgrades to stronger and better weapons as she grows in her quest (which she does in the cartoon as well, she made adjustments to her utility arm in Episode 1 and built the earthquake sensor herself, so it’s canon for her to make upgrades). I dunno, I just think the utility arm could have some more appealing attachments than a shop vac. Though I suppose that’s nothing to sneeze at, that’s Dust Man’s power too!

But for the sake of debate, while your vanilla plasma cannon isn’t anything to skip and jump about, isn’t a weapon copy system rather versatile? Especially with all the ways Mega Man used his in the cartoon. It’s also an ability she would have had in the classic series if she had been a power fighter instead of a kindnappee, but who knows (I can’t verify if she has this power in Powered Up, I am not very familiar with that game).

I guess this kinda leads back into ‘what weapon is more preferable,’ which is going to repeat territory in the previous ask… guess the only way to find out is to organize a deadliest warrior episode.

Anyway I don’t think it’s really possible to get a definitive answer for what Roll really wants because I don’t think it’s possible to get into the head of a cartoon character based off a video game character of a series that was cancelled twenty years ago. XD Or do you mean Recut? What can I say, she’s an innovative and ambitious gal.

Anonymous asked: going by just the show, do you think RS-Roll could defeat RS-Protoman in a fight

My gut reaction is ‘Yeah, no problem.’ But maybe you want more of an analysis then that, no?

Roll and Proto Man have never fought together in the cartoons, the closest we have is her getting captured (see The Big Shake, The Mega Man in The Moon, and Bro Bots) without her so much as lifting a nail file in self defense. (Maybe Proto Man discreetly disarmed her before he snatches? Who knows)

But if we assume an equal fight on equal footing (and that Proto Man won’t cheaply disarm her like his brother does with Robot Masters), then it comes down to his brains against her brains, his might against her might, plasma cannon vs utility arm.

And as fighting goes, Roll’s no shrinking violet. She’s beaten up several Robot Masters—Cut Man, Guts Man, Bright Man, Hard Man, Top Man, Elec Man, Fire Man, Quick Man, plus anyone I’m forgetting.

…though I don’t know if crushing someone’s titanium skull in with a marble statue counts as a ‘fair’ fight. I suppose it depends on whether you consider Roll to be handicapped or whatever.

As far as weapons, it’s impossible to know the entire contents of Roll’s utility arm because the show never appeared to give it a limit. She’s sort of like Inspector Gadget with an arsenal of super-charged shit. She has a vacuum which can suck up weapons and rebound them at the attacker, a toaster blaster so powerful than it knocks her on her butt, projectile saws, a garbage disposal that can rip apart regular sized Robot Masters, and not to mention several slicing and bludgeoning weapons like axes and hockey sticks. Actually, the weapons she uses to fight bad guys are kinda sick, when you think about it. Getting fatally blasted through the chest by a plasma cannon?—that’s a somewhat honorable way to lose a duel. But getting a stone-grinding cake mixer to the face? Holy shit, that’s some hardcore guerrilla warfare tactics there! And Roll has nooooooo problem with defiling bodies.

(To be fair, everyone is pretty brutal to each other in the cartoon. It’s one of those things where animators can be as violent as they want and it still squeak by with a G rating because the characters are robots.)

So the utility arm should be able to hold its own against a plasma cannon in terms of lethalness. On the other hand, she’s also unarmored, and one plasma blast could do her in. But since Proto Man’s blaster has about a 1/8 chance of hitting his intended target, Roll has a pretty good chance of closing in for the fatality anyway. 

As for Proto Man? Well…let me say it this way, Proto Man’s fighting records don’t live up to his charmingly snarky personality and rad looks. (Sorry Proto Man! It’s all part of the cosmic joke related to being Blues/Proto Man!)

If we went strictly by the cartoons, they wouldn’t fight at all and Roll gets captured. If we inferred from between the lines of the cartoon, well, they’re both prone to cheating so it depends on who gets the jump on who first. But in a fair fight? I dunno, the laws of physics are so loosely defined in the RS-world, they could be evenly matched, with a favor towards Roll since she tends to win more of her battles than he does. Especially if it’s an ‘My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my brother, prepare to die!’ situation where she wants it more.

Well, since I can’t answer this definitively, I have asked an ‘ask Roll’ blog and an Protoman RP blog what they think, and, if they so choose to respond, maybe we’ll get an answer there, though I’m willing to bet all my memory chips that these robots aren’t going to agree with one another on the outcome of their battle. ;)