Lan Hikari

"*Jack in, MegaMan.EXE! Execute!*"
―Lan, *Mega Man Battle Network*

"*Jack in, MegaMan! Power Up!*"
―Lan, *MegaMan NT Warrior*

**Lan Hikari**, known in Japan as **Netto Hikari** (光 熱斗 *Hikari Netto*), is the human protagonist of the *Mega Man Battle Network series and the Megaman Battle Network Chrono X serie. and The Megaman Battle Network series by Maarten* During the first half of the series, he is eleven years old and a fifth grader at ACDC Elementary School, but has his twelfth birthday and enters the sixth grade during the epilogue of *Mega Man Battle Network 3*. And 13 years old at the epilogue of Megaman Battle Network Blue SX His NetNavi is MegaMan.EXE.

Lan is the son of the world-renowned scientist Dr. Yuichiro Hikari and his wife Haruka Hikari. For most of the series, Lan's greatest wish is to become a famous Net Battler, though at the end of the series he decides instead to become a Net
Researcher like his father before him. Despite his connections to the Electopian government and SciLab (through his father), Lan still counts as a civilian, and his activities in the series cause him to clash with Net Battler Eugene Chaud, who initially treats him as an interference in Official affairs.

Lan appears in the video games, anime, and various graphic novel
series, where he and MegaMan battle against various global criminal
organizations, including the net-mafia Gospel, the Dark Chip syndicate Nebula, and the various incarnations of the terrorist organization World Three. And the second organization World Terror As a character, Lan is distinguished by the three firsts for the MegaMan franchise: he is the first human protagonist, the first character to share protagonist status with another (in this case with the eponymous MegaMan.EXE), and the first protagonist to be a non-combatant, though this final distinction is dispensed with in the anime adaptation, where Lan is given the ability to use Cross Fusion and personally enter combat. In the games and manga, Lan is strictly MegaMan's Operator, and his role is strictly combat-support, feeding MegaMan Battle Chips, strategies, and power-ups.

## Personality

Lan is one of the Mega Man franchise's youngest protagonists, and
still attends school, where he has a reputation for being outgoing,
friendly, and a poor student who would much rather prefer to spend his
time doing anything but studying. The games imply that Lan is actually
quite intelligent and that his academic failures occur due to a lack of
motivation; for example, a class assignment featured in the third game
indicates that he actually achieved a higher score than his best friend Mayl Sakurai,
 who is much more studious than him. A running gag of the series is
MegaMan dutifully nagging Lan to stop neglecting his homework.

Lan's interests lie in other areas, sports like soccer and inline
 skating; his absolute favorite pastime, however, is Net Battling. This
is reflected in school, where he leads the class in Virus Busting, and his high grades here balance his other generally mediocre scores.
It's here that Lan's natural enthusiasm and skill shine through,
directing MegaMan in combat with great skill despite his lack of
resources (he begins every game with a basic Chip Folder). As an operator, Lan is able to concentrate in a way he cannot bring himself to do in other situations.

For most of his life, Lan has lived a comfortable, risk-free
life, and so is somewhat unequipped to deal with the sudden gravity of
the situation when his pastime becomes an issue of mortal peril, though
he finds it rather thrilling. MegaMan's uniqueness precludes Lan from
restoring his Navi from backup data, which means that he stands to lose a
 great deal more than the average victim of net crime if he fails.

As a civilian, Lan behaves quite like a normal schoolchild might.
 He sleeps in (and is often late for class), has an enthusiasm for
sports, and collects video games and action figures. His outlook on life
 is simple, and while he is initially mildly selfish and lazy, he grows a
 profound sense of empathy over the course of the series. He loves to
eat, especially curry,
 and his mother is happy to indulge his appetite. While naturally
curious and capable of impressive acts of deduction, his simple
worldview often risks becoming too simplistic, especially concerning his
 lack of emotional intelligence and self-awareness.

When danger arises, however, another side of his personality
emerges. Lan's deep well of boyish energy is refocused into sheer
determination and sometimes anger. This does not mesh well with his
flaws—Lan is reckless, and his desire to solve the many catastrophes he
finds himself involved in often leads him to disregard his own safety.
Lan also has a high opinion of his own skill, which he is aware is
uncommonly good. However, he lacks the maturity to properly accept
praise, and is sometimes prone to letting his Big-Fish status
dangerously inflate his ego. He eventually learns that this usually
means nothing beyond his schoolmates, especially in the face of those
who want to kill him and the people he cares about. Indeed, it becomes a
 preoccupation of his to keep his friends and loved ones *out* of
danger, leading him to try and separate them from the threats he has to
deal with; when he fails, he may succumb to either desperation or fury.

His simple outlook on life also leads to several other problems,
such as his emotional vulnerability, which can and has been exploited.
Late in the third game, his vanity and then his trust are both abused in
 succession, and he is left believing that he is guilty for putting
thousands of lives in danger, including his father's, causing him to
fall into depression. When he finally arises, his worldview is tempered
with a better understanding of evil.

Despite all this, and further despite his list of world-class
accomplishments, many remain unable to see him as anything more than a
child. (Indeed, it is a commonly deprecated element of the Battle
Network series that so many people remain ignorant of Lan and his
accomplishments). However, Lan rarely ever seems to mind this, perhaps
being mindful of the incident in the third game, and he eventually earns
 the respect, friendship, and even admiration of a variety of men and
women, including high-profile individuals like Creamland's Princess Pride and Netopian General Baryl.

In the adaptations, Lan's general characterization remains
consistent, though each emphasizes his traits in a certain way. In the
anime, Lan's inherent talents are deprecated (he and MegaMan are only
just introduced in the first episode) and his growth in skill becomes an
 central aspect of his character growth during the first season's
tournament arc. At the start of *MegaMan NT Warrior Axess* (and the shift in the show's genre), his character growth from the
first two seasons is partly undone to allow him to grow into his role as
 a Cross Fusion hero. In the *MegaMan NT Warrior*
 manga, his talents and potential are noted early on, and instead his
boyishness manifests as delinquent tendencies. Eventually he is
recruited by the police for his skills, which allows him to put his love
 of Net Battling (which is normally illegal in common areas) to good use.

In the adaptions of Megaman Battle Network Black OX Lan helped the bullied Toby to knows who there become at the side of World Terror Lan comes to contact by feeling the Omega Programm that has created 60 years ago. At the New Megaman NT Warrior Manga Later he knows the Fakeman Navi by the orders that knows the programm of Death

He rescurring Blake by Time remover to get his Navi Waterman back.

He is the one who is friends with the Ransons family to Jair from rescue the Oil Factory Ransons

Later he knows how his grandfather Tadashi dies and afer his 13th birthday he leaves ACDC Elementary school to get his job by Greystone High School.

## Design

Lan has brown eyes and untidy brown hair, which he keeps out of his
face with a bandana bearing the Hikari family symbol. His upper-body
attire consists of a white long-sleeved shirt with black squares on the
elbows under an orange vest. From the waist down, he wears black shorts
with yellow stripes on the sides, black ankle-socks, and orange shoes
with black stripes. He carries detachable roller blades that allow him
to instantly modify his shoes. He will often be seen with his backpack.

He almost always carries his PET with him, and the later versions usually come with a pouch or a strap to carry it with.

## Biography and Relationships

Lan lives with his mother and father (though the latter is often away at work) in the suburbs of ACDC Town,
 next door to his best friend, Mayl, who he sometimes walks to school
with. He also lives in the same neighborhood as his other close friends,
 Dex Oyama and Yai Ayanokoji, and lives only a block or two away from Higsby's Chip Shop.

Lan's family life consists mostly of him, MegaMan, and his mother. His father, Yuichirou Hikari, is a laboratory chief at SciLab,
 and spends significant amounts of time away from home, either at the
lab or sometimes overseas. While they miss him, neither Lan nor his
mother complain too much, instead choosing to celebrate the time he is
able to spend with them. In the anime, Lan has been known to receive
gifts from his father while the latter is away (including MegaMan.EXE
himself), while in the manga, Lan secretly misses his father a great
deal, and once abandoned class in the middle of the day and in front of his own teacher
 for a chance to see Yuichirou as soon as he could, only to become
sorely disappointed when he discovered a delay at work kept his dad from
 returning.

Lan and his friends all attend the same class and often hang out
together, both on-line and off (usually on-, as it allows their Net
Navis to spend time together as well). Secretly, he has a crush on Mayl
(enough to dream of her, even); but while the first half of the series
establishes that the two of them share mutual affections, if only by
stating them indirectly, the fourth game treats Lan as though he is
completely oblivious to Mayl's feelings for him. In the early anime, he
is accompanied primarily by Mayl and Dex; after her introduction, Yai is
 usually found at their side, but is also the most likely to break off
from the group for some other pursuit. The anime also integrated Tory Froid
 into his group of friends, but after the beginning of Axess, his role
was deprecated to a recurring cameo, usually alongside Ms. Mari and Rush.

Lan would probably live a normal civilian life if not for the
remarkable circumstances that occur around him, many of which are tied
to the fact that he has a direct connection to the highest levels of
SciLab. In the first game, for example, his first run-in with a World Three operative
 initially seems to be part of a pattern of arson spreading across ACDC
Town, but the arson wave is revealed to be a cover for a strike directly
 at the Hikari household, where Dr. Hikari had hidden a secret elemental
 program.

As the youngest member of the Hikari family, Lan is also part of a
 generations-long (one-sided) feud between his family and the
self-styled Lord Wily, which began when Wily turned to revenge after being abandoned by the
scientific community in favor of the network technology championed by
Lan's grandfather, Tadashi Hikari.
 In fact, almost every major incident Lan and MegaMan face can be traced
 back to Wily in some way. Interestingly, the three generations of
Hikari men represent three different aspects of Wily's attempts to
annihilate Network Society—Tadashi gave root to the modern era and is
the foundation of Wily's desire for revenge; Yuichirou is the emblem of
that era and of network society, which Wily seeks to destroy; and Lan
and MegaMan are always the chief obstacles to his plans. In the anime,
Lan's connections to SciLab and Wily are downplayed; SciLab and
Yuichirou don't become particularly significant until the PharaohMan
 incident, but once Axess begins, however, Yuichirou and SciLab become
the base of operations for the Cross Fusion recruits. The manga treats
Wily and SciLab almost as though they are insignificant: once
imprisoned, Wily becomes irrelevant, and Lan spends most of his time
working with the police force; however, once the Darkloid arc begins, SciLab and Yuichirou entirely displace the police department and Commissioner Oda.

Several of Lan's relationships are studies in contrasts; his
relationship with the Official Eugene Chaud being the foremost example.
While they are both very similar in several respects—both are
accomplished and intelligent children with impressive Net Battling
skills and equally impressive pedigrees—their differences are just as
significant. Lan spends much of his life out of the public view with his
 friends and loves both of his parents, while Chaud spends almost all of
 his time in the public eye, has always been isolated from other people,
 and has a strained relationship with his single father. Naturally, Lan
and Chaud clash during many of their early meetings, especially as Lan
labors under his civilian status and Chaud refuses to acknowledge him
any further than that distinction requires. With time, however, Chaud
eventually begins to recognize Lan's skill, and even to make a few
attempts at conversation. By the events of Blue Moon and Team Protoman,
he and Lan are acknowledged equals, even if they don't always see
eye-to-eye.

Lan relationships by Toby are very helpfull then that the World Terror coperactive made her in trouble and panick. Lan knows that his 3 are very problematic by an same organization. Toby must be her at his side that he is stronger later during an problematic Navi Fakeman his Navi can almost beat this Navi. Later he joins his second friend Norbert to take an Net Battle by his eanthousiastic manners. He knows that Toby must be her same friend. And came upon an memory book found how Tadashi as child become when he found the Omega programm that has killed his friend. Lan knows how hard Tadashi fought for World organizations. Though his defeating with the Omega program he believes Blake regret and try's to as he become 13 that he is by her class.

Lan's relationship with Tornadoman.EXE is very simplefull he founding the mysterious woman Amber that has knows Waterman weakness by his Navi Sheepman he has aunt named Hilary that has his navi Splash Woman and also believes that about one year he must take an vacation to sunshine beach.

Lan's relationship with MegaMan.EXE is unique among all others. While Lan is often recognized for his skill, many of his achievements might not be possible without the high specifications that MegaMan was
built to, including MegaMan's incredible powers and abilities. Outside of combat, Lan and MegaMan are as close as brothers; MegaMan often behaves as the dutiful older brother, reminding Lan of his obligations and trying to serve as a voice of reason and sometimes even his conscience. The close bond between the two actually forms the basis of
one of MegaMan's strongest powers, Full Synchro. All of this is quite fitting, given MegaMan's true nature.

## History

Lan Hikari was born little more than a decade prior to the events of the *Mega Man Battle Network* series, along with his older twin, Hub Hikari.
 Their early life was happy, untouched by the epoch-making Net-related
events of the same period, until Hub fell victim to a fatal heart
condition known as HBD. Hub succumbed to the disease, and Lan was forced
 to grow up without his brother to accompany him. Lan also was told of
his grandfather, Tadashi Hikari; the two had never met, however, because
 Tadashi died before he and Hub were born. His life remained fairly
uneventful, still managing to collect friends and maintain a cheery
disposition, though he received a certain degree of comfort when he met
MegaMan prior to the first game.

In the series epilogue, Lan achieves his goal of becoming a scientist from SciLab, and bonus content from *Mega Man Star Force 2* reveals that his research lays the foundation of the Link Power  system. He marries Mayl, and lives with her in his old house in ACDC Town; together they have a son named Patch. Patch has a NetNavi whose data is a mix of MegaMan's and Roll.EXE's.

## Etymology

* "Hikari" is the Japanese word for "light", which makes the Hikari family as a whole a reference to Dr. Light

 from the classic series. In fact, Tadashi Hikari is Dr. Light's
incarnation from the series; "Tadashi" is the Japanese word for
"correct" or "right", and is a tease aimed at the original confusion
that occurred when dubbing the classic series into English. A direct
translation would make Tadashi Hikari into "Right Light".

* Netto and Saito double as puns on "Net" and "Site" (English loanwords used by the Japanese for the Internet and any individual Website), while "Lan" and "Hub" are both networking terms.

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