Such a long time not using tumblr, so make a chance to upload something.
So based from Iron Leaguer’s Fighter Crescent Shot, I made a stack of Paper Theater for it.
Although my cut work wasn’t very well, it was still very worth and fun to make it out!
Hope one day I can do the official ones!
I am thoroughly in the Iron Leaguer weeds now which means I'm already cooking up headcanons and fanon.
Namely the burning question: how is babby leauger formed. More info under the cut since it can get a wee bit long!
I know the obvious answer is "they're robots, they come off an assembly line fully grown and ready for sports, duh" but also while I'm 90% sure this was merely a throwaway line or Topjoy merely being a bit cheeky it was what kickstarted this train of thought. Also a lot of really adorable fanart I've seen on my lurkings on tumblr.
So I've come to propose a bit of a headcanon that yes, some leaguers start of small but get upgraded over a period of time.
I imagine in the IL universe, robotics and the like have advanced enough that robots have a lot of human emotions, personalities, etc. And yes it's pretty simple and often easier to just build a fully upgraded adult leauger ready to go and download a bunch of sports knowledge onto their harddrive brain and off they go, but without proper training it often results in games that are, well, stiff and robotic for lack of a better word.
The key to fixing the stiff robotics? You start small and let your leauger learn and develop skills and their own style. Basically like a giant metal baby you have to upgrade every year or so to accommodate for changes, often acquiring parts for the sport they wish to pursue over time. Human athletes had to hone their skills over years if not decades of practice, so this process is meant to replicate that sense of humanity in terms of development to feel a bit more human.
Also most babby leaugers' are built to be about half the average adult size, think medabot sized. Basically giant metal toddlers.
Anyways, the robotics version of a pediatrician for scale (he is lacking in upper body strength).