MayLan

MayLan is the het ship between Lan and Mayl from the Mega Man fandom.

Canon
Lan and Mayl are childhood friends who met in ACDC Town. As revealed in Mega Man Battle Network 1, as well as in Mayl's date episode aired only in Japan, Mayl reveals to a schoolmate that she and Lan already knew each other since they were younger and therefore, they always hang out together. They are operators of their respective NetNavis MegaMan.EXE and Roll.EXE, respectively. Together with Dex, Yai and sometimes Chaud, they fight against cybercriminal organizations that try to take control of the entire Internet, such as World Three, Gospel and Nebula.

Videogames
Mega Man Battle Network Mayl is seen for the first time when she waits for Lan at the door of his house to go with him. There it is revealed that he is often late for school, so she always has to wait for him. At the end of class, a classmate suspects something between Lan and Mayl and asks Mayl why she always hangs out with Lan, to which Mayl replies that they were always friends since they were kids.

In the following classes, Higsby enters as a new math teacher, but in reality, he originally had the intentions of imposing World Three mass education to recruit students to this organization. Before jacking into the board, Mayl gives Lan the Roll.EXE Navi Chip for the first time before starting the operation. Lan manages to defeat Higsby and his NumberMan.EXE, saving everyone's classes.

A week later, on one of the walks to school, Lan and Mayl talk about the sudden water outage affecting all of ACDC Town. But upon arriving to class, Ms. Mari, the teacher, decides to cancel classes due to the lack of water in ACDC Town. Lan decides to go by himself to WaterWorks and SciLab to check the source of the water problem, while Mayl decides to go home by herself, but not before giving Lan her NetCode by mail, in case he didn't get it earlier.

A month after the water incident, MegaMan.EXE finishes fixing the home page of Lan's computer. Roll.EXE appears and delivers the invitation from Mayl, for Lan to go on an outing with her to buy a birthday present for Yai.

After Lan has his MegaMan.EXE send the invitation response, he leaves for the Metroline, only to find that he arrived first before Mayl. There, Mayl tells Lan to go ahead to DenTown to wait for her at one of the bus stops.

However, another World Three plan begins: Ms. Madd has her ColorMan.EXE virus hacked all the traffic lights so that they all have a green light, there are a lot of accidents and traffic jams. When Lan started to fix every traffic light, he learns that Mayl will arrive by bus, but does not stop because of the faulty traffic lights. When Lan finishes fixing all the traffic lights, he finally manages to stop the bus where Mayl is, but Ms. Madd uses her ColorMan.EXE to try to hack the bus in order to make it explode. However, Roll.EXE manages to stop ColorMan.EXE's plans for a short time and MegaMan.EXE fights and defeats ColorMan.EXE, deleting him out for good. Mayl exits the bus and thanks Lan for the help. Lan blushes due to Mayl getting too close to him, which makes MegaMan.EXE realize that there is something going on between Lan and Mayl, to which Roll.EXE giggles. Finally, Lan and Mayl manage to buy the gift for Yai.

Before facing MagicMan.EXE, Mayl operates Roll.EXE to make way for MegaMan.EXE. Close to facing Lord Wily, Mayl gives Lan the third and final version of Roll.EXE's Navi Chip in his own house, to climb up to the second floor in the dressing room. If Lan climbs upstairs Mayl will insist Lan to go outside. If Lan is at Mayl's house, pressing the L button will cause MegaMan.EXE to ask Lan if he looks strange being at a girl's house.

Mega Man Battle Network 2

Mayl invites Lan to MegaMan.EXE to explore the new city-shaped Internet and go to the central plaza. But when Lan takes too long, Mayl also invites Dex and his GutsMan.EXE. By the time MegaMan.EXE arrives, Roll.EXE and GutsMan.EXE are already there and together they leave MegaMan.EXE on its own. However, there is a competition in which all 3 Navis participate and MegaMan.EXE manages to beat them all. Sometime later, Glyde.EXE arrives to inform Lan and MegaMan.EXE that their operator Yai is taking too long in her bathroom in her luxurious home. Mayl decides to try to help Lan, but Lan advises her to stay out of the house, as Dex was trapped inside the house with the front door hacked to prevent them from leaving. Mayl at least helps Lan by sending via e-mail her Roll.EXE Navi Chip again.

Lan discovers that Yai was actually knocked unconscious in her bathtub due to the large amount of toxic gas in the place, caused by Arashi and his AirMan.EXE. When that Navi was deleted by MegaMan.EXE, Mayl helps Lan carry the unconscious Yai to her bed.

When Lan is about to board an airplain from ACDC town to Netopia, Mayl gives him her second version of Roll.EXE Navi Chip and a wireless device. A few weeks later, Lan meets a gentleman who delivers the final souvenir: a gold ring. According to him, it is a perfect gift for a special girl, pointing to Mayl, at the price of 1000 zennys. In case Lan decides to buy it, he can give it to Mayl when he returns from Netopia. In case Lan decides to buy it, he can give it to Mayl when he returns from Netopia. If this happens, Mayl gives Lan a Recov150 BattleChip.

Returning from Netopia to ACDC Town by plane, Lan has a deep sleep. He was dreaming that Lan would be reunited with his friends, where Mayl comes very close to him worriedly, to the point that Yai sees them as lovebirds, to which Mayl says he will never ever let Lan go away again and there is an implied hug between the two. Upon awakening from this dream, Lan sleepwalked deliriously saying "Oh, Mayl, I'm your captain speak... huh?" MegaMan.EXE laughs making him remember that he was talking romantic things about Mayl in his dream. "Mayl! Oh, Mayl! I can't wait to tell everyone!" With an implied blush, Lan gets angry, not wanting to admit that he said these things.

A few weeks later, Lan is informed about a radiation. On arrival at the site, Dex, Yai and Mayl were already there. Lan calls them Dummies, especially Mayl, to which she says that Eugene Chaud would never say such things to a lady, implying that Mayl might be setting her sights on Chaud.

When Lan wanted to connect to Gospel's computer to have MegaMan.EXE locate the organism of the same name, Mayl said he would put all her heart into Lan.

A few months later, Lan arrives late at the camp, where Chaud had already arrived earlier where Mayl was, to whom he gave his knife to her to cut the food. At that point, MegaMan.EXE says "Women. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em, right?"

Mega Man Battle Network 3

A few years after defeating Gospel, Lan is asked by Mayl if the next day he would help her install a Bubble Wash Machine she ordered for washing dishes. The next morning, Ms. Mari also went to Mayl's house to see the machine. According to her, this machine can be connected to the Internet to be operated away from home, but it hasn't arrived yet. Suddenly, Higsby comes to ask for what Mayl owes him: she had to work part-time to pay for a BattleChip, so Mayl offers to have Lan work in her place. Mayl then serves tea to Lan and everyone. Upon returning from work, Lan realizes that Mayl was trapped in a hard soap bubble. Upon returning from work, Lan realizes that Mayl was trapped in a hard soap bubble. Lan discovers that the bubble machine was actually a trap set by BubbleMan.EXE, who worked for World Three. After defeating him with the help of MegaMan.EXE, BubbleMan.EXE escapes. At least Lan manages to save Mayl from being trapped in the bubbles for eternity.

Some time later, Lan is absent from school for three days because her father, Dr. Yuichiro Hikari, was seriously injured, which worries Mayl. Lan once again manages to enter the World Three base, where he defeats Alpha. However, Alpha's power takes MegaMan.EXE with him, causing the two being deleted. Upon returning victorious, Mayl once again becomes quite concerned about Lan.

Mega Man Battle Network 4

At some point, Lan manages to recover MegaMan.EXE after it was deleted following World Three's second defeat. ACDC Town has changed quite a bit and Lan goes with his dad to DenTown. Surprisingly, he meets Mayl, who was shopping with Yai.

In the ShadeMan.EXE incident, ShadeMan.EXE kidnaps Roll.EXE, prompting MegaMan.EXE to come to the rescue. After tough sound problems, ShadeMan.EXE is defeated and chased by ProtoMan.EXE. Mayl, at home, thanks Lan for rescuing Roll.EXE. If Lan searches one of Mayl's furniture in her house, he finds Mayl's diary, which contains secrets that should not be read, so Lan does not touch them. This is confirmed when one of the Mr. Progs tells MegaMan.EXE on Mayl's computer that she has written about Lan, although he confirms that it is top secret.

A few days later, something great happens in the Town Area. There is an event where any Navi who deletes 3 strong viruses will win the FreePass to Castillo. Roll.EXE and MegaMan.EXE are attending the event. MegaMan.EXE wins the event and receives these passes, which Lan later delivers to Mayl. However, right after delivering, an alarm went off at Lan's house, so he went to attend to it, leaving Mayl at home. Some time later, while he was with his mom Haruka Hikari, Lan at home receives a call from a girl, who turns out to be Mayl. She asked Lan that they would go for a walk together to Castillo Park, to which Lan initially does not accept, but his mom Haruka asks him to go with her anyway, since this would be their "first date", just as it happened with Haruka and Yuichiro, Lan's dad.

Lan and Mayl arrived at the park and started having fun in it like on a date. First they bought ice cream, then they went on the roller coaster. Lan and Mayl arrived at the park and started having fun in it like on a date. First they bought ice cream, then they went on the Roller Coaster, passing through the "Artificial Jungle". But ShadeMan.EXE begins another of his diabolical plans, causing mini bats to chase Mayl into a castle. Lan manages to defeat and erase ShadeMan.EXE for the time being.

Only in the Red Sun version, Lan has a chance to face Mayl in the Eagle tournament, only after winning the Den Battle tournament. Roll.EXE tries to use her best techniques that he has used in defeating all the other opponents, but ends up losing to MegaMan.EXE. Mayl does not want to reveal to Lan why she so suddenly decided to become a stronger NetBattler like him, as she considers it a secret.

Mega Man Battle Network 5

At his father's request, Lan invites Mayl and all his friends to see Dr. Yuichiro Hikari's SciLab. However, a new evil cybercriminal organization called Nebula Gray starts making new plans: they infected all SciLab computers with viruses and put sleeping gas to make everyone sleep. Dr. Regal, the leader of Nebula Grey, takes advantage of the situation to kidnap Dr. Yuichiro Hikari with the help of his subordinates and steal all the PETs from all of Lan's friends.

Three days later, Lan wakes up in his own bed and begins to join one of the teams depending on the version: Protoman/Colonel. Mayl can do almost nothing about it because she lost her PET.

Mega Man Battle Network 6

Years after Nebula Grey's ultimate defeat, Dr. Yuichiro Hikari decides to move with his son Lan to Cyber City, which worries Mayl. She wished they could both have their high school graduation together, but she can't stop their impending move.

Since then, Mayl has managed to contact Lan whenever she can. She even did not hesitate to visit his new home in Cyber City. However, Lord Wily and his World Three were already coming up with new plans: to destroy both the Internet and the entire world with the help of two Cybeasts, Falzar and Gregar. However, after thwarting a myriad of plans, Lan meets a human who is actually a NetNavi, named Iris. Lord Wily planned to use her to bring in the Cybeasts via Copybots, mannequin machines designed to make the Navis able to walk around the real world, a technology originally exclusive to Cyber City.

Lan eventually manages to defeat one of the Cybeasts with the help of Baryl and his Colonel.EXE, depending on the version, causing World Three's last base to begin to destroy itself. Lan and Baryl reluctantly treat Lord Wily to make him do good. he tried to commit suicide, since he revealed that he was the one who did all the crimes because they did not want to know him as the best scientist of all, but he was convinced that the best way to pay for all the crimes is to help people to repair all the damage caused. At this, Mayl and her friends arrive and take Lan away before the explosion reaches them.

Due to the destruction, Lan and her dad decide to leave Cyber ​​City and return to ACDC Town. While Lan has dreams of becoming a SciLab doctor like her father, Mayl has no particular goal. However, 20 years later, it is revealed that Lan has married Mayl and they are currently living together with their new son named Patch. He in turn has his own NetNavi called MegaManJr.EXE, made with the best data from MegaMan.EXE and Roll.EXE

Mega Man Star Force series

Lan and Mayl make an indirect cameo in Mega Man Star Force 2 when a Battle Network game is inserted in the w-gate slot of the Nintendo DS, which will unlock a bonus sidequest that will send Geo Stelar and Omega-Xis around the world collecting Lan's diary entries, which refer to events following the series epilogue in the sixth game. In one of Lan's diaries, he mentioned his bond with MegaMan, and how it has granted them an "almost miraculous power" that helped them pull through hard times. Lan puts forth his research on this power at SciLab and calls it the "Link Hypothesis". He believes that bonds contain an incredible power and that it will benefit the world. Lan also holds true to the belief that future generations will be able to use it to create an even brighter future for all. This is a reference to Geo making good use of this power to its full potential, which is known as Link Power in Mega Man Star Force 2. In another of his diaries, Lan mentions his family that he has formed with Mayl and the creation procedure of MegaManJr.EXE

Fanon
Throughout the Mega Man Battle Network era, MayLan was one of the most popular ships in the entire Mega Man series. It is characterized by being the only ship of the entire Mega Man franchise that became canon. It's popularity was already beginning among all the Battle Network fans because Mayl is Lan's childhood friend, she is his best friend and she is the one he interacts with the most in all the games.

Interestingly, this ship is reciprocally related to MegaRoll.EXE, since they operate their respective NetNavis MegaMan.EXE and Roll.EXE. In its time, some believed that MayLan was not going to become canon due to Lan's oblivious of love. MegaRoll.EXE was even believed to be better in quite a few ways, as even though they are computer programs, MegaMan.EXE and Roll.EXE have mutual feelings for each other, unlike Lan. When they finally found out that Lan married Mayl, the ship became even more popular, becoming one of the most prominent ships in the Mega Man franchise, beating even rival ships like LanPride (Lan x Princess Pride), LanMine (Lan x Jasmine), ShukoLan (Lan x Shuko Kido) and MaylChaud (Mayl x Chaud).

Curiously, it is one of the only two canon ships, since none of the other Mega Man protagonists have a lover nor did they have a chance to have one.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Lan/Mayl tag on FanFiction.net
 * Lan/Mayl tag on FanFiction.net