Here's some information about my first posted story. Anyway, here's part of my mindset and some info on the story.
This story was written 4/22/2007. It started off to try and be a happy story, but things changed as I continued writing. I had watched The World of Narue on the AZN channel and liked some ideas from it, specifically from two Saturdays before when Rin was sent to break up Narue and Kazu while pretending to be Kazu's little sister.
I decided a Megaman cast would be good for this, as I usually write Megaman.EXE or Naruto fanfics. Most of them are terrible, so I'm probably not going to be posting a lot of them. This was saved as my 23rd untitled Megaman story, which doesn't include my titled or discontinued story counts. I crossover Megaman characters like it was seen in this story, not to mention mix together the different Megaman.EXE plots (anime, mangas, and videogames).
Truthfully, this is my first fanfic with Lan as an android. I have fanfics where Lan was artificially born (like Kira in Gundam Seed) or adopted or some type of Scilabs experiment. None of those are completed and many have not turned out so great.
The original plan was to have a female android, either Ciel or Leviathan, pose as Lan's younger sister while looking for an android that had yet to return from his duties. The younger sister was then to slowly grow a relationship with Lan, and thus I would make a few incest jokes due to the android being "Lan's little sister." Before that, I had considered the android knowing Lan already and wanting to thrash the android they were looking for, by threw that idea out as I realized that would screw up the plot.
One problem I soon realized was that I had made too many fanfics with Lan scorned or overly ignored, thus making me unable to write a Lan with a personality similar to that of the original plots. I found myself lacking in the kind of Lan shown in the anime, manga, or game. I wrote too many stories with a lazy, uncaring Lan or an emotionally broken Lan. Another problem I have is that I don't know Leviathan's personality, so I made it up in this fic. As a note, all characters are OOC unless it is the character's creator that is making them do something. Anything that is not exactly like the original plot is an AU, even fics written in past, future, or in-between timelines since it is not something that came from the original plot and is fan-made.
Another problem I faced was my lack in writing romance. Put it simply, I don't know squat about romance. Just so you know, I also have no experience to draw from.
The changing appearance thing was something I ended up throwing out but was too lazy to remove. I have a few story where Lan's hair and eye color are white, so he uses colored contacts and hair dye. So, my explanation for this is that he has the ability but doesn't use it.
The not being in the Hikari family until later? Don't forget that Lan is an android and that these guys love doing mind revisions. Lan was placed in the Hikari family. However, an extra info piece for this fanfic is that, due to Hub having blue and green hair, so did Hub's parents which made the mind rewriting guys also work to change their appearance. Why did they forget to change that with Leviathan? Different staff.
Character death I try to avoid. Gives me a terrible feeling whenever I do that. It pains me every time I kill off a character. I seriously try to avoid using OCs. They're not my thing. Describing characters is very hard for me to do. I have an extremely limited vocabulary and don't have the patience to write down every little detail. I try to write what little Japanese I know so I can be sure I have it memorized.
Well, there may or may not be a sequel. I'm not sure yet. Most likely not be in fear of screwing everything up. I may make a separate rewrite of this (maybe with new ideas or ideas talked about in here), but don't hold your breath.