u/Cultural-Giraffe1083

This is probably a stupid question but I randomly had the thought "wait, if megaman and protoman have civilian names, do the other masters also have civilian names?" Now ok, blues isn't actually protoman's civilian name, it's a fanon things, but my point still stands

Now this is a theory I had for a long-ish time and I wanted to share it with you guys because I thought it was interesting

So as you may know, blues, rock and roll are the first robot masters ever created being numbers 0,1 and 2 respectively, but as a kid who had very little knowledge of megaman, I assumed rock and roll (i didn't know about protoman at the time) but when I learnt that they were the first ones, I was confused, and tbh I'm pretty sure many others would be as well since you'd expect the young main character that's also a robot to be the most recently made one, and that's the case for stuff like mighty number 9 where beck is... well, mighty number 9

However, one day in a discord server I thought of this post's main premise, "the first three robot masters are children, because they were made as bases for future models". Now, what do i mean by this? Well, prepubecent children are basically the baseline for intelligence as many of the smartest animals on earth like corvids and octopuses are frequently compared to 3 year olds in terms of intelligence, and obviously, if I wanted to create a line of sapient robots, I'd likely start with children or highly intelligent animals as a basis, now I probably wouldn't start off with a 10 year old like how dr light did, but maybe I'm just a cheapskate, who knows? But if you're using the most basic level of intelligence for a human, then you can start thinking bigger and make more advanced models

And so he did, the original 6 from megaman 1 are created in order to do basic jobs like jumberjacking or building, and by this point it's become clear that light has a good enough grasp of how to replicate children that he started making more adult level robots, while you could say robots like cutman or iceman are likely still quite child level for the most part due to their higher voices or small stature, coupled with cutman's characterization in powered up, I'd still say light has mostly figured out how to make ai on the level of grown men and women by the time he made gutsman

Now this is a fun bonus theory, that bonus theory being that robot masters got more advanced over time

Now, we already mentioned the first 6, but what we didn't mention are the bots from megaman 9 as those are also made by light, well, as you can see, their jobs are much more technical, aka: weather control, space exploration, quality control in a tv factory to even saving people's lives. This is a massive leap from stuff like arctic exploration or working at a power plant, and I think that's the point, hell, even before megaman 9 you could see the masters get more technical like how Pharoah man was made for the purpose of cave exploration or how astro man was made to work at a planetarium, this rapid advancement would likely be the thing to culminate in light's final creation, X, and how he has free will

Anyways, i hope you liked my ramblings on this random idea I had, please comment your own ideas down below