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OOC Information:
Name: Yubi
Age: 22
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E-MAIL: yubishines@gmail.com

IC Information:
Name: Elec Man; designation "DLN-008"
Fandom: Megaman Classic
Timeline: After the end of Wily's first revolt, when the robot masters are repaired and reprogrammed.
Age: Unknown, probably only a few years old.

I have used a mixture of the Powered Up game and the first volume of the Megaman Megamix, since it's the latter that offers the most characterization of Elec Man. The two plots coincide since they're both retellings of Megaman 1 in their own way. Powered Up gives a better idea of each of the robot masters' speech patterns, while Megamix has a plot that isn't just "fight all these baddies in order and then the boss."


Appearance:
Elec Man looks like a tall, blue-eyed man with broad shoulders and unusually large hands and feet, but there the resemblance ends. He wears black, red, and yellow armor with visible joints, massive triangular boots, and a black helmet with a distinctive yellow mask. There is a lightning bolt on his chest plate and another bolt protruding from his helmet kinda like a unicorn. While he is a humanoid robot, his armor is essentially part of his body and irremovable, aside from his helmet.

Official art
Megamix design


Abilities:
As his name suggests, Elec Man can manipulate and generate electricity, from powering up machines to attacking enemies. His primary weapon is the Thunder Beam, which fires up to 500,000 volts of energy at a target. He's the fastest of the first game's robot masters (though he later gets outclassed by Quick Man), and he's been programmed with excellent judgment and analytical skills. Outside of combat, he was built to manage the output of a power plant, which would give him a working knowledge of nuclear technology and chemical engineering.

His weakness in Powered Up is to Oil Slider; the slick surfaces make Elec lose balance and turn his speed into a disadvantage. In Classic, his weakness was to Rolling Cutter, but really, anyone is weak to getting his chassis hacked open by a giant spinning blade.

Elec cannot indefinitely produce energy and either needs time to regenerate, or e-tanks (which are inaccessible in the facility).

In most media and fanon, the robot masters are portrayed as extremely humanlike, able to eat, drink, even bleed. I have decided not to go quite so far: Elec can perceive pain, cold, heat, fatigue, and so on, but hunger and thirst are beyond him.


Personality:
Elec Man is the best of the first generation of robot masters, and he knows it. He's arrogant, determined, and waxes overdramatic; if he recognizes that someone has him beat, he won't ever acknowledge it out loud. (It's obvious when he's sulking over being bested, since he'll be unusually quiet and aloof.) He's described as "twisted" and uncooperative. Even when he isn't under Wily's influence, he is absolutely the kind of person to stand over you and laugh in your face.

...but he won't kick you while you're down. Elec has a sense of honour; in Megamix he's impressed by Rock's determination and considers him to be a worthy opponent. (Some dialogue in Powered Up suggests he sees Fire Man the same way.) He has a strong sense of duty as well; it's likely that his directive to supervise the power plant overrode even Wily's commands.

He also spouts a lot of electrical puns, but this is a robot master thing and not to be held against him. He doesn't like being called Sparky, though. It's "too obvious." Rock gets to call him Elecky, mostly because Elec can't stop him from doing it.

The Megaman & Bass CD Data states that he dislikes rubber products and likes the guitar.

He is programmed with the Three Laws of Robotics, except for the brief time when he was under Wily's control, and does not quite have free will. He has humanoid behaviours and quirks, but his AI isn't quite as sophisticated as, say, the reploids in MMX. Imagine a very sophisticated, humanlike AI that's capable of original thought, but incapable of exceeding certain parameters.


History:
Some time in the twenty-first century, there were two renowned robotics engineers: Dr. Thomas Light and Dr. Albert Wily. Though they studied and worked together, Wily became jealous of Light receiving more praise and awards than he did, and eventually they parted ways. Light would go on to build two assistant robots (one for housekeeping, one for lab work), and eight industrial robots or Robot Masters. (An initial prototype robot had a flaw in his power generator, but vanished before he could be repaired.) The Robot Masters were put to work based on their specializations: Ice Man into antarctic exploration, Bomb Man into demolitions, so on and so forth. Elec Man was placed in charge of a nuclear power plant, and life was good.

bzzzzztWRONG. At this point, Dr. Wily had finalized his plans for WORLD DOMINATION, to discredit Dr. Light and get back at the world for not giving him the accolades he clearly deserved. He secretly reprogrammed the Robot Masters, effectively brainwashing them into believing they were fighting against their inferior human oppressors and Wily would bring them into a new robot utopia.

As far as Elec Man was concerned, one day he simply went berserk, commanding the worker bots in the power plant to cause havoc and basically ruin everyone's day. He wrested control of the plant away from the human workers (not difficult, since he already had access to everything important) and turned it into a base of operations. All over the world, the other Robot Masters, his brothers, were doing the same.

It was all going so well until an odd blue robot called Rockman came on the scene, defeating each of the berserk robots in turn. It turned out the little lab assistant robot had convinced Dr. Light to give him armor and a gun.

NB: In Megamix, Rockman faces them in the recommended order in the classic first game, where Elec is the second boss. In Powered Up, the recommended order has Elec as the sixth. That said, it doesn't really matter, since you can just fight them in any sequence.

At some point, Rockman entered the power plant and defeated Elec, only to find that Elec had been monitoring the controls of the nuclear reactor. According the Elec, the reactor would soon explode and take out the surrounding area in a five-kilometer radius, and Rock should just save himself. Seeing that Rockman was determined to rescue the "worthless humans," Elec eventually gave him the location of the control room, where he might stop the impending explosion, saying, "I don't want to die either. I want to fight you one more time."

Rockman left, fighting through a gauntlet of the rest of the robot masters and the yellow devil, until he faced down Wily himself.

Here the plots of Powered Up and Megamix diverge: In Powered Up, Wily surrenders after his battle machine breaks down, and presumably is sent to jail where he'll inevitably escape and get revenge. In Megamix, he reveals the prototypes for the next generation of robot masters, who cover his escape from the power plant.

After Wily's defeat/escape, it was revealed that Dr. Light had followed Rock into the complex, restoring the defeated robot masters. While Rockman was preoccupied with Wily, the robot masters had gotten the reactor under control, connecting Elec Man to the central computer to stop the explosion in time. The day is saved!

And then in Megamix Vol. 2, the government decides that the robot masters are too dangerous to return to work, and have them slated for demolition. CRAP.

But before this happens, Elec Man finds himself in the facility. It is an exercise to the reader as to whether this is a good or bad development.


Roleplay Sample - Log:
Cables as thick as a man's wrist snaked around Elec, connected to sockets in his neck and back, giving him direct access to the reactor. On any other day, he wouldn't need to be hooked up like this, but the complex was still in uproar, and him only just back on his feet.

Fire Man was standing by the core and directing the rest of their brothers, keeping the reactor from overheating: buying them time. Elec almost wanted to tell them to quit it, he could do this in his sleep, but for some reason he kept quiet.

They had all been Wily's puppets -- played for idiots. There hadn't been anything he could do to fight against the control chip, him, the best of the best, until Dr. Light had restored his mind. An hour ago, he'd have wanted revenge on Wily for making him a fool, but an hour ago he was a maniac.

It was... humbling, and he didn't like it.

He stewed on this in silence as the timer ticked down and the reactor, ever so slowly, began to calm down.


Roleplay Sample - Journal:
[The robot master is lounging against the wall, head cocked, arms folded. He looks a bit like a super sentai hero, what with the armor and masked helmet. ]

This doesn't look like any storage area I've ever seen.

Hey, Fire Man, Cut Man, the rest of you mooks -- you here? Whatever this dump is, it's a revolting bore.

Let's find out who dares put a collar on a thunderstorm.


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