Conclusions: in the case of Alexander, the boss weapons copied are more commonly different projectile configuration data for weapons which he already has (minus the boss form of Julien, which is just a base melee upgrade).
In the cases of Julien and Michael the boss weapons are actual *weapons* presumably reverse-engineered to exhibit some degree of power similar to that of any given boss (minus the boss form of Alexander, which is just a base ranged upgrade)
Helena is a lot more like Zero in that most of her weapons are really just extra special moves, only one or two of which actually has ‘weapon energy’.
Miles is another large division of his own, in that his adorable baby Codex of the Infinite Planes prefers to take a sample of boss energy and turn it into a flat-out support summon. He’s… weird. For the intro levels he’s pretty much a joke though, considering his main attack is a knife with a range of about seven pixels.
Color Coding Index, Volume 1:
As has been noted, the KMV doesn’t really do that whole ‘good-neutral-evil’ color coding thing. It’s pretty much a faction-based aspect, although IRIS and agents do tend towards white/extremely pale colors and as such is presumably the closest thing to an evil class there is.
Bureau/Central Administration: Blue/black/silver/white. The Bureau itself is pretty variegated because it’s really a Mauveshirt Army at this point rather than a Lawful Stupid Redshirt Army like the rest of the government seems to be (and for much of the timeline isn’t technically military, as such has no standard uniform). Near the end of myth-arc territory, the Administration apparently absorbs it again, thus leading to more standard colors. Despite some variations on him not even remaining a CA agent, pretty much any version of Alexander still uses their colors. Because really, he’s Alexander.
TCS/MRA: Black/silver/grey/white, generally speaking. Due to their lack of any standardized uniform most of the agents have a single color, or set of them, added on (Laura is monochrome+bright blue, for instance). Tobias seems to go in for white/black/gold, which is mostly just an odd variation. Wilhelmina van Helsing was largely red for some reason.
Trevelyans: Alexandra is silver, Morganna is purple, Adrian is blue, Darian is green (and monochromatic, as per above), Serena is blue/medium grey and Julien is red/dark grey.
Crescent Moon Division: Doesn’t generally have a recognizable uniform. Antinomy usually uses either her extremely ominous black/silver long coat or a very srs greenish suit; quite a few of the higher-ups are purple/grey.
Adler’s syndicate: Often black suits with red and white secondaries. Lydia is generally white/brown/red; Kyle takes after her. Their opposition is most commonly brown/blue/silver.
Notable Third Parties: Both Janelle and Lowen, for some reason, seem to go in for white/red/dark brown. Sterling and Mona are green/gold/white and red/gold, respectively. Helena and Xanatov are green/white/black, as is (mostly) the small army under a reasonable approximation of their command. Gale is mostly just black and white, with red and gold as accent colors.
Apart from that, most of the rest of the world just goes with whatever they want to wear that day.
Julian Trevelyan seems to be a good deal less mentally stable than Julien Trevelyan, considerably more bipolar and considerably less True Neutral-biased. He also seems to have shifted specialty from engineering to biology and, eventually, necroman–
<Julian: Necrology. Reanimation, if you must. Magic is for pansies; real wo-slash-men use Science.>
… necrological studies; he still isn’t really the Evil type, just a moral practicalist. Reuse, reduce, reanimate.
Most of his attacks/general skills lie in repurposing enemy ‘parts’ no longer being used.
Any and all attempts at time travel in the KMV have been rebuffed by it coming under what would normally be the Hyperspace is a Scary Place trope, as well as it being extremely difficult to come close to already. Considering the one mad scientist who made a serious try at it went further insane in a much less useful and more mad-from-the-revelation fashion and had to rely on a malfunctioning backup system to restore what was left of her sanity*, it’s not exactly going to be a common storyline concept anytime soon.
This does indeed retcon Apocynthion pretty badly, but considering that’s all after the point when I lost all ideas I don’t mind a bit…
[* Yes, this implies that Darian can become more insane than she already is--]
In KMVRPG, the battles against Julien, Serena and/or Darian all have different versions of the same rough melody/theme (or possibly each theme is just a third of a larger song, I’m not sure); “Reconstruction”, “Psycho Gear” and “Outer Heaven” versions respectively. Still no idea what the overall theme is called or what it sounds like, though… not like that stops me from rambling about it.
Also the amount of Bonus Bosses the KMVRPG appears to be having is pretty ridiculous. Almost half of the game seems to be bonus, probably in some sort of postcredits “hay walk around the world you saved for fun for a bit” way.
At this point it’s probably safer to just assume any given character in the KMV started out as a reference to something. Because basically everyone from both Sigeki and the Sphere has some sort of internal referential core, although a mostly ineffectual one. It’s only beyond that where things get more ‘whatever was in my head that day’…
best way to have fun with basic recording software??
record ordinary speaking -> reverse. instruct the same person to imitate the reverse recording as best as possible, then reverse the result of them doing so.
interesting results.
