#(AND I REALLY LOVE THE IMPLICATION THAT TAICHI MAY BE SEEING THESE PICTURES IN THE CREDITS TOO)

[izzyizumi]

Title: REPEAT? Chapter Title: Destined Type: fanfic (ficlets/chaptered) Chapters: ??/?? Fandom: Digimon Adventures Rating: M/M / R16+ (Ch. 2, some implied elsewhere), PG-13(+) (overall) Characters/Pairing: Taichi x Koushiro (Taishiro[u]) Verse(s): Repeat verse [my fic verse + ... Adventure!Repeat-verse] [ note/SPOILER: it may not be the “main” Repeat-verse ] [ it may be a spinoff of that verse ] [ who even knows anymore ] Fic Summary: “Taichi wasn’t sure what he was expecting. …He just knew it wasn’t… this…” (or, Taishiro timeloops AU based on this amv and fic outline in half-written form?) Notes: advised to read the “main” portion of the initial fic first, as this basically spoils [MOST] of the “main story” (up to about Ch./Part 22!) Warnings: (for initial chapters) mentions of / implied character death, injuries, etc. (it gets better??) (for this part: a mix of medium-range angst and -- well, it’s Taishiro Day, so, Taishiro ...?!) Word Count: 750-ish (this part), 28,681 (entire fic total as of Ch./Part 39) Summary: A screen, turning on. Words, being written. A cursor, blinking. Never forget what you saw , that day.

  ... They're back in the [ “ classroom ” ? ] [ ... meeting room. ] [ it's not their really a classroom, after all. ] Koushiro is standing, a bit tense, ... hands, completely still, but -- clenched -- -- Taichi knows, K N O W S , -- what Koushiro is about to -- s a y -- ... Koushiro blurts it out, suddenly -- "Taichi-san," (“---!!!”) " we have to---- " ( "help them" ) ( " go " ) ( " s a v e " ) ( " ...them " ) "I KNOW," Taichi replies with a slight desperation, tense, himself, " I KNOW " "-- but, ho[w]----" Koushiro's blank laptop’s screen --- flickers --- on. Taichi and Koushiro both start, whirl around, glance at each other ---- --- run, together, to go stare at --- --- the screen ---- R E A D Y ?_ N/Y?_ _ _ _ -- the cursor -- flashes. Both of them, at the exact same time --- --- suck in breaths. Stare at each other --- --- back at the screen --- Sorry. I'm sorry it took me so long to contact you ( Taichi desperately thinks, ) ( " stop saying---!!!" ) Truthfully, I don't know if this at all is the right way " You must never interfere with time " after all There's a slight pause. Taichi risks a glance at --- --- Koushiro's eyes --- are a bit watery You could die we could die again endlessly eternally But, it's your choice The Digital World ---- --- it still exists but, it's, endlessly eternally, " Repeating " we may never be able to stop it I'm sorry. Taichi-san The other "Me" did everything he could your world was failing the enemies were winning so he " rewrote " the " code " in a last ditch effort to save everything it probably “ helped ” ... for now but even " I " can't stop this ( " it's ok " ) ( "stop" "saying" "sor----" ) ( "it's not your fault" ) ( "you [ b o t h ] did everything you could" ) ... Taichi and Koushiro's eyes ... remain, focused, ... on the screen, ... watery. I don't think " Homeostasis " is our enemy I believe " they " , too ... became corrupted along the way I think " we " ... realized that , too " Homeostasis " is not necessarily " good " , but they are also not " evil " , ... probably Instead, the true enemy, it's a much higher power you'll likely be fighting against " God " themself along with the very fabric of the Digital World's corrupted space-time ... I'm pretty certain part of this ordeal originates in a place called " The Dark Area " Koushiro's mouth is opening, in his surprise --- ( that look he gets when he's realized something ---- ) you may never be able to return I may not be able to contact you again So . . . The decision, it's yours R E A D Y ?_ N/Y?_ _ _ _ _ the text, it's flashing, not on the screen, ... but before them , Taichi and Koushiro slowly turn to stare at each other. [ " This wasn't ' our ' world to begin with, " ] [ " ... right ? " ] They aren't asking the question, but they both knew it , -- Koushiro, worrying ... his lip. Taichi -- breaths in breaths out "...Maybe this world did become---" " ' corrupted ' ? " " something like that---- " " but, Koushiro, " Taichi stands up, tall, gives his trademark beaming smile , ( Koushiro's almost gaping, in his awe ---- ) ( as he always is ) " Do we really have to trade it ? " ( " T h e m " ? ) Taichi's beaming --- --- eyes --- barely --- taking in --- the text " Because, " " I don't know about ' God ' or whoever, " " but, " " The Chosen Children , " ( " K o u s h i r o " ) ( " y o u " ) ( “ I---- ” )                             "   ---    WE          NEVER          LOSE    !!!   " Koushiro's mouth ... relaxes into a genuine smile ... if wobbly. " Yeah, " Koushiro breaths out " Taichi-san, " " as always , " " you're right " ... Taichi waves it off, grinning, " Koushiro " " the one who always guides us right is YOU " " ... remember ? " ... Koushiro's cheeks are red in response --- ... Taichi moves ... to ... put an arm ... around his shoulder. ... squeezes, gently, " you're basically my right-hand man, " " ... after all! " ... but, they know, ... they're running out of time ... they turn back to stare at it and --- True I don't know about " God " either To be truthful, I had too many unanswered questions but, Taichi - san? ( phrased, as if, slightly uncertain ) ( he should say it that way---- ) and, " the other me " whatever you decide for everything you've ever done for the worlds, for the Digimon, for us, Thank you                                                 [ " A r i g a t o u " ] ... it seems ... the connection ... fades out The text still flashes ... they clench their hands clasp their hands ... and ... grin ... smile, at each other, ... then, ... F A C E    F O R W A R D ------------------ " Y E S !!!!! " --- The world --- begins anew. --- continues to turn --- As it always does --- and always --- will Somewhere, S i m u l t a n e o u s l y , they smile ... and clasp their hands ... too C O M P L E T E ? _ N/Y?_ _N the screen ( with his image ) ( the image of ) (  the ones he          l o v e s   ) turns off.

~ CHOSEN CHILDREN ,                                                                 FACE FORWARD !!!

[icharchivist]

hello icha!! i finally got around to finishing the stranger haha,, by which i mean i just watched it today. was veryyyy excited for it as i really like the poster design for this one. anyways. this event starting w/ the sort of portrait format or whatever / that narration is like. god. threw me right back to autumn troupe. I kind of love that the storytelling format itself is so distinct for autumn! the moment I realized it was omi I started getting teary… like oh man oh man… omi…. And the connection with him taking photos! ahh!! now that I think about it… omi kind of seems a bit like early version tsumugi, huh? also I keep forgetting this man is a college student lol. suspension of disbelief I suppose. onto the play i think like. mankai should invest in a fainting courch for tsuzuru. i also went to watch the play and 1) im betting yuki had a hell of a time costume design wise like the vines on the body? such fun costuming wise and 2) the ethical implications of whatever this play has,,, fun fun. tsuzuru was clearly having some kind of thoughts. i love zeros design and am always up for a3 characters crossdressing bc 1) i think its fun and 2) the costume design. i also dearly wish this whole thing was animated bc I feel like it’d be o fun to see taichi act as zero. or at least I hope this event gets full voiced one day... moving on to the scene where omi adds soy sauce to the paella I know it’s just like haha homare funny so lets five him a lil bit but like everyone in autumn troupe making their comments on the paella and like homare just jumping in. homare autumn troupe besties. just thinking. also the way they just r like. no no no omi it’s fine if u made a mistake!! it’s ok! we like it (you) anyways <3 it’s got it’s own special taste. something something omi’s perfectly pleasant as he is now but even if he weren’t on his a-game and was dealing with all of the biker gang stuff they would love him just as hard. another thing that got me was omi telling banri that he’ll give him something sweet so juza will stop grinding his teeth in his sleep… guys… guys you’ll give him cavities…. mb omi is a college student after all lol.

anyways when i saw the actual costumes. appreciative of them, i like the lil circuit-esque detailing on banri’s outfit, and that sakyo and taichi (nine and zero) both share that like collar detail? its very symbolic and probably also literal but its a nice way to sort of signify their relation to each other visually! also sakyo just looks nice. seeing him without glasses is so great. whoever thought up the like two mole detail for him was doing gods work.

something that confused me was ryo mistaking juza for nachi for a split second? like. does juza… look similar to nachi? or was it just that ryo only heard juzas voice and made that mistake. if it’s appearance wise too. kumon nachi confirmed. I’m joking lol bc I feel like I would’ve heard at least something abt it in one of the like small conversation comments, plus that doesnt seem like itd fit summer troupes style and kumon is for sure the wrong age… but still.

i really like how for this event, the roles for taichi and omi were kinda reversed. and taichis just so like. idk. smiley. rly lifts ur spirits. its kind of nice how this event contrasts to that cg where taichi is crying on omi. I also think like. idk. considering the story of the stranger. wolf gives zero a sense of purpose and life and I think that zero helps wolf lose his apathy. it’s about “the stranger” and the ending makes him like… not a stranger, right? because he’s got a companion. in the same way, taichi brings omi out of his emotional isolation. the picture taking! also the stickers coming back… thats such a good setup! the found family of it all!!

when he was trying to work out zeros character as soon as taichi mentioned a sharp speaking style I KNEW it was Yuki… yuki would never be as honest as zero is though lol… to me i imagine she’s got a sort of juza internal monologue feel? anyways. the taichi yuki dynamic intrigues me. havent yet decided how I feel abt it but when I do… yes. sorry that I make literally no sense. I think it’s very obvious that yuki is my fav chara kind of? I’m just. hmmm it makes me think! I’ve been monologuing to myself abt the yuki and juza dynamic lately which, to my a3 knowledge so far, doesn’t exist, but its ok bc I’ll make it exist! uhhh anyways this event was very good i liked the pacing. i think it didnt drag too hard and it really properly honed in on just omi and taichi, which was quite nice. they really did a lot for just an event!

time to listen to the event song,,, ok so. ah. i rly enjoyed just for myself it was very much to my taste so. out of curiousity i was like ok lemme look up the composer / producer AND IT WAS YUYOYUPPE....... that guy is like!!!! one of my FAV producers ever!!!!!! i know him from like. his vocaloid days and god leia is still one of my fav songs to this day...! this knowledge gives me so much joy omg!!! like wow!! wowwww!!! like i knew yuyoyuppe was out there doing other stuff (i know he worked on a lot of babymetal music which is cool) but like idk. to suddenly encounter it like this. heheh.... its so nice! made me soooo happy. going to relisten to leia now haha

WAIT ONE MORE THING. i was like "haha let me look at other songs i remember liking a lot" which. for me was rakuen oasis and don't cry. anyways. rakuen oasis is ALSO by yuyoyuppe???? oh my god!!! oh my god... sigh. feel like im in heaven.

OH HI FRIEND!! so good to see you with an a3 update!! :D

godd yeah The Stranger started so strongly and the idea to still incorporate portraits in his story was really something to make us cry!

And linking Omi and Tsumugi like this is pretty interesting :O <hat is your reasoning exactly? :O

For the fainting couch for Tsuzuru LMAO and i'm letting you know there's a webcomics that addresses it in Act 2 (hough there's no spoilers aside from the fact Chikage is here)

Im glad you liked the costume and the play!!! yeah i love the designs and it is always a blast to see them this into it, and yeaaah Tsuzuru has thoughts huh. It'll get voiced sooner than later hopefully and there we'll see more in details :3c but also that's what made the seiyuu live so fun bc they perform the songs in play cosplay and replay a bit of the play everytime and it's *chief kiss*

HOMARE AUTUMN TROUPE SOLIDARITY YES. LOVING IT.

And yeah the scene itself was so cute TwT they all want to reassure Omi and be there for him it's so sweet :( but yeah i love how you say it all, Omiimi TwT

and dLKFJDFLKJFDFD Giving Juza cavities is the price to pay for sleep i guess??

yeah agreed on the costume they all look so cool! and nice catch on how those three seem linked like that with their costumes, Yuki (and the designers) does such a good job! and god yeah for Sakyo.. yeah. He has sucha good design dLKJFDF

aND DLKFJD yeah no Juza is supposed to look like Nachi physically, but mostly his face? like i think Nachi was had green hair? we see a sprite of him in a future story, and yeah, everything is in the eyebrows. so Kumon should be safe? Omi mentions he sees a lot of Nachi in Juza, and while it is mostly due to their passions i think, the fact they're also rough looking guy with a heart of gold must play a part as well. but yeah, he does look like Nachi a bit.

and i love your deeper analysis of the event yeah!!

I feel like Taichi is really an emotional core of the troupe in the sense that is, he tends to catch on what others are feelings easily. And he uses it in the early chapters to ease off the tensions and stuff, but he was being held back by knowing he was deceiving them. So now that he's more free, he can be more of himself. but yeah i also love the contrast with how Omi was the one to help Taichi through his breakdown and guilt, and now it's the other way around, it's Taichi helping him through it. and the parallelism between the play and their dynamic is spot on imo! well said!!

and god yeah the sticker things made me cry sO HARD, and the pictures! and everything!! sobs it's such a sweet found family i'm going to cry :(

And! i love what you say about Yuki, Taichi and Juza on this one. I love that Taichi keeps bringing it back to "that childhood friend" and it's always like. so obvious who it is for us rip. But it can make you wonder if Yuki was more honest as a kiddo when Taichi knew him, though now he's clearly not. I love the mention of how Zero is more like Juza's internal speech (which, if anything is another argument about why you should let Juza wear a dress, cOWARD)

but also your mention of the Yuki and Juza thing, while i can't think of them having a dynamic per se yet, but i actually wrote a post during my reread about how i was baffled at the fact they treated Muku the same way?? like both of them tried to push Muku away because they were scared of how people would react if they say pure, sweet Muku was associated to them. And i find it fascinating because i guess those two are pretty aware of how the world see them, and it used to stop them from fully allowing them to be themselves.

I also find it relevant with the fact Yuki says in his personal song that while all of this way people judge him weight on him, he rather be himself, and "I want to love myself". Meanwhile we have Juza who's also aware of the way people judge him and it weight on him, and he wants to change himself from this person he hates, this self loathing - and in a way, he can grow in a way to be "someone" he may not hate, even on stage. I feel like those two have quite a bit in common in this way of being rejected by their peers in some sort of way.

I really want them to share some stuff at some point because there's really a groundwork on it all :(

But i'm really glad you liked that event!! agreed on the pacing and i do love what it brings to the characters! it really fleshes them out and have them move forward a little and it's pretty sweet.

AND OMG THAT'S SO COOL FOR THE SONG!! i'm so glad you liked it, but that's incredible it turned out to be from one of your fav producer!!! ahah sometimes life is like that where you end up finding the stuff you loved back into new stuff! and the fact Rakuen Oasis was from him as well... that's so cool!!! just, so so cool!

im pretty sure he has more songs going forward so i hope you'll enjoy the ride even more!!

thank you once again for sharing your thoughts about a3 :3c it always makes me so happy to see them!!!

Thank youu <3 have a good day :3c

[homefronttmoved]

♫ / taichihaya c:

send me ♫ and I will make a 5-10 SONG PLAYLIST for our muses!   \   accepting.   @heartfated. 

001.   always i’ll care  /  jeremy zucker. 

okay i’m going to preface this playlist with  THIS SONG.  it’s for that short period of them not talking,  where taichi is just trying to distance himself from chihaya and everything that reminds him of her.  i feel like the lyrics just mirror every single one of those moments while also mirroring those slivers of hope given to us through symbolisms that they will eventually find their way back to each other regardless. 

002.   alright  /  keshi. 

this is the song for their tag and it makes me want to cry every single time.  i feel like this is what chihaya’s side is like after taichi’s confession.  the lyrics just giving us the whole chihaya thinking about them before everything that went down.  her being sad and obviously shattered at the situation before coming to terms with it eventually.  and lastly her being just...  hopeful that he’ll come back to her?   ( with or without you i waited my whole life  /  i can wait a little longer )   and just...  yeah this pretty much sums up the chihaya side of that whole angst arc. 

003.   dreaming alone   /   against the current. 

oh god...  PINING...  THE MUTUAL PINING IS REAL IN THIS ONE.  ignoring the implication that there is someone else in the picture in the song’s context   ( or not,  we both know arata’s a factor here HFKJDHFJDKF ).  this just feels like the mutual pining post confession but also prior to the confession ?   like  is it me that you see when you fall asleep  /  cause you know it’s you  /  i dream about every night   tell me that is not the epitome of their mutual pining.  and the last line????  it will always be you and me  /  so why do we keep dreaming alone ?   THEY’RE ENDGAME. 

004.   why do i still   /   nieman. 

ONE OF MY FAVORITES.  the mutual pining is real in this one too?   but also it dwells more on the friendship and the  fear  of losing that if one makes a wrong step.  it literally says:  i can’t reveal how i really feel  /  cause i’m scared of ruining what we’ve built  taichi’s hesitance to tell chihaya anything ?  while being  LOUD  about it through his actions ?  yep...  this song just...  perfectly mirrors all of that.  and this is taking into account that they have built an empire together with the mizusawa high karuta club...   that’s like a LOT at stake.  i feel like this song just captures a lot of that fear and hesitance. 

005.   tell her you love her  /  echosmith. 

TAICHI THIS IS FOR YOU :DDDD  but mostly for pre-confession taichi.  i don’t think i need to explain this further tbh,  the title speaks for itself. 

006.   lite   /   loop. 

the way this song is so poetic never fails to get me EVERY SINGLE TIME.  taichihaya being each other’s pillars of support is something that i feel like is mirrored in this song ?  especially taichihaya after their short separation after junior high.  i just know that chihaya’s life is completely  BLEAK  without taichi.  the way chihaya dealt with playing karuta alone while searching for people who would share the same interests with her wholeheartedly?  and while chihaya may be  extremely  oblivious regarding social situations in general,  i just know that she feels a little lonely knowing that her friends couldn’t quite take who she is wholly.  everyone she’s met all kind of found the karuta loving part of her weird and that makes her sad and then BAM taichi comes back into her life and suddenly everything is okay again.  because he’s there and suddenly the world is back on its axis. 

007.   a little braver   /   new empire. 

this song made me cry so many times,  ngl.  but the way i see it...  this is sort of an ode for when they finally get together?  when they finally find themselves in the end  —  with chihaya finally being able to stand on her own two feet especially with karuta without being dependent on taichi’s close support   ( she has to come to terms that taichi supporting her from afar while finding himself amongst the mess that is everything post-confession arc is possible and that just because there’s a time where he’s not beside her,  it doesn’t mean that he hates her  or  that he’s stopped being her friend entirely ),  and taichi finally being able to love karuta in a way that’s not centered on chihaya as well as finding something else that motivates and inspires him that is not chihaya or his feelings for her.  because you know...  when all of this happens...  they’re both a little braver and more mature than they have been and they’re ready to start over again.