Mun finally caught up on Archie comics.

[cueexplosion]

Yeah, I was pretty awesome, wasn't I?

Now, go get icons from that incident with Time Man and Oil Man.

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[corruptedsouls]

[Oh hey, it's one of those weird robot thingies from the game that made his Mun cry when it broke and stopped working.

Go figure.]

[cueexplosion]

[Usually, the way it goes with those games is they make the player cry, then break the cartridge in frustration.]

'Sup, guy?

[corruptedsouls]

[His Mun is a very strange person. He has come to learn this. At least the only alarm bells she's giving him is "Don't piss off the nice robot and he won't hurt you."]

...Hi. Mun says you're Bomb Man. Do you use bombs?

[...Yes, he is one of those kind of kids.]

[cueexplosion]

[Hey, his programming is totally Wily-free right now. He's not gonna hurt anybody.]

Yeah, I do. Wouldn't be a very fitting name if I didn't.

[corruptedsouls]

[Oh perfect! That's even better! Mun is overjoyed at this, you have no idea. You are one of her favorites! ...well, not THE favorite, but one of them!]

...Makes sense, but... sometimes people... have names that say... the opposite of what they are. Or... ones I've seen have...

[You've piqued his interest, though. Toby loves tinkering.]

[cueexplosion]

[He'd hurt bad guys, though, if it's a situation where not acting would cause more harm to humans than acting would. Yay for comics that bring the Three Laws into play well!

Also, yay for being on someone else's favorites list than mun's!]

Generally, where I come from, we Robot Masters have names that reflect our function. There are some exceptions, though...

[corruptedsouls]

[Tobias digs in his ears a little. Nothing against you, Bomb Man, his mun's fangirl squealing is just hurting his ears a little.]

...Um... like... Forte and Blues?

[He just sort of plucked those names out of his Mun's head. He actually has no idea who those people are, just that they're related to this guy.]

[cueexplosion]

[Alas, they're names he doesn't know quite yet in-canon...]

Can't say I know any 'bots with those names, unfortunately.

[Or probably fortunately, at least in Forte's case.]

[corruptedsouls]

[Yeah, Forte is kind of a jerk.]

Oh... what ones, then...?

[He likes you, Bomb Man! ....though that is partly due to knowing you're not a bad guy via Mun, but hey, whatever works, right?]

[cueexplosion]

Uhhh... Lessee. Rock, or Mega Man. Roll. Auto. Guts Man.

[corruptedsouls]

Oh, I think... I know them... From my Mun, anyway... She says Rock is very nice to people. I... wish I could meet him.

[There's a wistful tone to Tobias' voice.]

[cueexplosion]

[Awww, yeah. Time to feel proud about his bro.]

Rock's a pretty great 'bot to know, yeah. Maybe you'll see him around sometime, who knows?

[corruptedsouls]

You think so?

[Hopeful innocent child look is go!]

[cueexplosion]

Well, in a place like this, I wouldn't count it out. Y'never know who'll show up.

[scissorpuns]

Heh, my mun's not really playing me from the Archie comics but she DOES keep raving about them. I'm pretty cool in there too, but I sure do call our bro "mister" too much.

[cueexplosion]

Guess it's somethin' to help differentiate you from other versions of you?

[scissorpuns]

That's another way to look at it. At least the comic says I'm sharp, like I totally am. It's my mun who always calls me a half-wit. Shows what she knows!

[cueexplosion]

Well, there was that one really incompetent version of you that kept working with Wily...

[drillsforhands]

I think you said that wrong, you're never awesome Bombbutt.

[cueexplosion]

Figures that a guy with no hands can't grasp just how awesome I actually I am.

[drillsforhands]

Can't grasp something that doesn't exist, you know.

[upgradedtohero]

I think you were all awesome. That other me was really lucky to have come help him out.

[cueexplosion]

Well, like Guts Man said - he pulled our butts out of the fire once, so it was time we repaid the favor.