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virusbustingPlayer: Daimon
Contact: yazooairspace @ AIM/Skype,
Age: 29
Current Characters: N/A
Character: Lan Hikari
Age: 13
Canon: Mega Man Battle Network
Canon Point: End of the 6th game, before the epilogue
Background: Here's a summary!
Personality: In simplest terms, Lan is a large ball of energy, enthusiasm, and cheerfulness bordering on obnoxious. His approach to life is very optimistic and relaxed but, assuring everyone that whatever needs to get done will get done somehow, no matter the method.
Unfortunately, 'relaxed' also means 'slightly lazy' and 'lacking motivation'. He's not inclined to do anything he doesn't have much of an interest in or that isn't interesting, such as homework or obligations that are particularly boring, and can be somewhat bratty when confronted about it. However, once he does express an interest in something, you're very hard-pressed to get his attention away from it. Netbattling and rollerblading are his most favorite things, and those take priority over aaall other things. This is especially true when it comes to things he isn't supposed to be in, or doing, or involved with.
Basically, if you give him the choice, he'll choose 'fun but not obligatory' over 'boring but must be done'. And will probably complain about the latter if not given the choice.
Along with lazy, Lan also gives the appearance of not being the most intelligent. Going back to the homework example, he leaves schoolwork to the last minute and often asks his classmates (especially Mayl) for help or to copy off of them. In the anime, he states that his favorite subjects are art, gym, and netbattling and his worst subject is math. However, it's implied that he's very capable of up to intermediate programming even at 11, as he can repair and modify Megaman's data very quickly, and in even later games it’s implied that he eventually follows in his father's scientific footsteps. Also in the anime, Lan is shown to be working on a prototype wireless version of the PET, getting it to operate successfully on the first try. The anime and games do have slightly different timelines, but Lan’s personality doesn’t change drastically between the two
In this same vein, he also tends towards painfully oblivious and painfully impulsive. Nuances of any sort go right over his head, he misses crucial details most others catch right away and when faced with a problem, he tends to go with the first solution that pops into his head with the information he has available. He usually trusts people quickly if they're good at acting trustworthy, unless he has a good reason not to. Even then, he'll only be inwardly skeptical until something happens to change his opinion. Romance is a foreign concept to him (on par with mathematics), to the point where the girl that has a crush on him pretty much has to state exactly that to get him to realize it.
Lan's also pretty easy to trick. Due to his lack of attention, he often doesn't notice signs that point out that he's heading for a trap or that something isn't quite right. One instance that also plays on his ability to trust people is when he accidentally ends up compromising SciLab's security by installing Hinoken's program. While he was skeptical of Hinoken at first, he didn't stay that way for very long due to an apparent lack of evidence that Hinoken hadn't changed and so he changed his mind. When WWW targeted the water plant, he wasn't necessarily tricked directly, but he did accidentally help the enemy's cause by mistakenly letting poisoned water be pumped into the city.
Still, he's optimistic. There's always a way out or a way in or a way to fix whatever's broken, no matter what the damage. He bounces back fairly quickly from most things, but he's not immune to bouts of depression or low feeling. He's also much more likely to try to cheer up those around him before himself, especially his friends, and reassure them everything'll be fine. As long as he can have a try at fixing it, that is. World might end? Nah, he's gonna go in and kick the ass of whatever is threatening it.
Lan's optimism and drive sometimes combine with a huge reckless streak and determination lead to extremely stupid things that somehow work. Go into the irradiated building to beat up the badguy? Sure. Run the program that has a chance of seriously injuring and/or killing you? Sure. Jump out a second-story window to get to the ground? Yep! Jump out of a moving helicopter and/or bus to go save your friend? Yep! It also gets him in trouble with the law a fair number of times, both online and offline, as he’s more than willing to circumvent or hack into secure areas to stop, fix, or retrieve something if he thinks no one else is doing anything.
The last two are actually not canon to the games, but given the chances, he would do them.
Speaking of friends, Lan values his friends and friendship very much. All of his friends are equally important to him and he feels obligated to save each of them if they happen to be in trouble. In the last game of the series, he transfers to a new school where his classmates are mostly ambivalent (if curious) about him, but he doesn’t hesitate to try to protect them when the school’s security robots go haywire and attempt to to attack the class. Megaman is his closest friend--'brother' is more of a very close second--and a big enough part of Lan's life that he has a hard time imagining even a few hours, let alone life, without Megaman. He freaks out if he loses contact with the Navi, pleading with the security guard and very nearly crying when his PET is confiscated at the airport and frequently checking on Megaman in any situation that seems dangerous or potentially so. His parents get this treatment to a lesser extent, as they're adults and can (usually) take care of themselves, but Lan won't ever hesitate to help them with anything ever either.
Abilities: Physically, Lan’s not the most impressive. He’s a 12-year-old kid with no special augmentations, so he’s short and not very strong normally, though he’s in great physical shape. He’s an excellent rollerblader, enough at home on wheels to skate backwards with little effort, perform a near-perfect railgrind (it would’ve been perfect had he not nearly hit some people at the bottom of the rail), and skate up and along the side of a building.
And what he lacks in physical strength--at least upper-body strength--he seems to make up in durability and jumping ability. One instance in the games is when he decides to escape a hospital using a second-story window, falling down what turns out to be three stories onto a rocky beach and coming out hardly worse for wear. In other versions of the canon, he jumps out another second-story window with his rollerblades on, using a dumpster as a landing pad before the ground below and leaps a security fence twice his own height. It’s implied that second-story windows are a common exit for him. Earlier in the games, he manages to withstand several hundred times more radiation than the radiation vest he’s wearing is even supposed to withstand--he only passes out from the exposure, but doesn’t seem to have any ill effects from it later.
Given how technologically dependent and connected Lan’s world is, he’s very comfortable around computers and related tech. He’s capable of making basic repairs to Megaman if something happens to him, a challenge considering how complicated it is, and later learns how to modify and basically overclock him.
In all versions of canon, he’s implied to be a decent tactician and good at thinking on his feet. While he’s most comfortable operating his own Navi, he can do pretty well at operating others for short amounts of time. Part of this is because his ‘fighting’ style (with Megaman) is somewhat unconventional, taking risks that seem pointless and attacking in ways no one expects because sometimes life trolls you with, say, a ridiculous amount of minibombs or something.
The most interesting ability Lan has is ‘Synchronization’, usually just called Synchro. It’s a form of mental boding between a Navi and their human Operator, achievable by many through training or special equipment, that allows communication of thoughts and feelings between the two. However, Lan and Megaman are technically identical twins, so for them Synchro is sort of built-in and for better or worse, constantly active. This means that at any given time, the two of them are mentally and emotionally connected whether they want to be or not, though not necessarily at a high level of synchronization.
Alignment: Daimonia.
While Lan generally goes through a wide range of emotions on a daily basis, a lot of his major milestones in life deal with either grief or joy or closely related emotions, so that alignment fits him the best at the moment.
Other: The Megaman.exe player,
megabytes, and I collaborate on a lot of things, hence similarities in our apps.Samples:
General:Intro from Mask or Menace, November 2015 test drive comment
Part of a thread from the same game. It isn't quite an emotional sample, but it does show how the Synchro ability affects emotions.
Emotional: [Lan was terrible at hiding his emotions, plain and simple. Some people considered it a downside, and Lan considered them uptight and boring.
Therefore, he didn't even try to when he found out that his emotions could directly influence the area around him. Not that he tried to direct specific emotions at specific things, but he did try to pay a little more attention to what was happening when he felt a certain way. If he worried about something, the temperature would drop and darkness would gradually creep in and when he was happy, everything seemed brighter.
Small fireworks appeared when he got excited. So far they were more of a hindrance than a help, since at that moment, he wasn't really supposed to be poking the cavern he was in, and he swipes at a few that pop near his face, bright but soundless.]
Don't give me away, I don't want to get into trouble!
[Unfortunately, the effect was minimal, as the tiny explosions weren't sentient, and his hand simply passes through thin air. At least until a loud thud sounds somewhere further back in the cave and he jumps, abruptly transforming any existing explosions to snowflakes instead.]
Man, I shouldn't have come in here alone...
Questions: I was wondering if it'd be possible for Lan to have his PET with him (This blue thing), especially if the Megaman.exe apping gets in, because usually Megaman lives in the device. It's basically his world's equivalent of a smartphone. Most of the features would have to be disabled, like ability to access the internet and make phone calls, but I'd still like him to have it.
