#HE TALKS SO FUCKING SLOWLY AND I CANT SKIP THE FUCKING DIALOGUE

[hircinesanters]

As a resident Cthulhu sexualizer I have to say I find Herma Mora to be incredibly UNfuckable and annoying😭

[x-useobwa-x]

༄ You’re my beginning and my end, that is all | Part 1

~ Request ~

< Part 2 >

Former Idol!Hoseok x Reader

PLEASE READ! This part contains description of attempted suicide and post traumatic behavior. If you are sensitive to these topics, please DO NOT read this!! I've put the „keep reading“ button to the very beginning as a precaution, because it really doesn't start well.

a/n: requested by @depressed-philosophers-daughter! Oh god I'm going to hell... THE. ANGST. IS. REAL. (also who noticed that the title is one of Hoseoks phrases of Outro: Tear translated into English? It was just so fitting, oh god, I had to!) Thank you so much, I loved this request! I don't even know how I feel?? Am I extremely fucking sad?? Am I happy?? Am I still alive?? Is this heaven or hell?? SHIT SHUT UP YOU TELL ME AKKSSLLS!!! But yeah!! I hope you're happy with it, thanks so much again for trusting me with your amazing idea and giving me lots of space to work with!!💓

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You stopped on the spot and your blood froze in your veins when you saw him, the man you loved, as he collapsed onto the floor, heavy breathing, panting, trying to hold onto dear life- except for the fact that he wasn’t.

Cameras, police, ambulance, all of it was surrounding him, as his life cascaded down in front of him.

This was the moment you knew your feeling was right. The cryptic, weird messages he sent you last night suddenly made so much sense on this beautiful Thursday morning. But this morning wasn’t beautiful. This morning was the beginning of the fall, for the both of you.

You didn’t realize when you started crying, it was only when you found your cheeks burning and irritated from the salty substance that’s been covering it whole. Your heart hurt, it hurt so much.

You watched as his body started to spasm, to twitch on the floor while his mouth was wide open gasping heavily for air and his eyes rolling back. Your legs gave in, you dropped to the floor and managed to catch yourself last second on your hands before your face would have met the cold asphalt. Your heart broke on the spot, to say it shattered into countless pieces was a great understatement. Your breathing increased by all the panic that flooded you whole, your head feeling light by the cause of oxygen overdosing. His body now came to rest and stopped any movement. This had your heart dropping to the lowest point possible. He didn’t just.. did he?

Noise cut through the air. The noise, in fact was you, crying out loud, screaming all kinds of ,no’ and ,please’ when you notice how Hoseoks head slowly turned to face your direction, eyes barely open. The second he realized you were watching, his face, muscles weak, turned into something that seemed like the expression of sadness, guilt and all those kinds in one. He didn’t want this, he didn’t want you to witness this. It was supposed to be the moment that freed him of everything, a happy moment, but right now, he was wishing that he had never done this. The last action of Hoseok was him, lifting his arm the tiniest bit, reaching out into your direction and you could swear you saw his mouth moving and a tear rolling down his face. Then he was gone.

The emergency doctors scooped him up on a stretcher and quickly brought him into the ambulance.

One of the doctors was talking with a police officer, and that was the second your body started to move on its own. You ran towards the mass of audience that was watching- mostly journalists that tried to catch the lowest moments of your boyfriends life on camera. You squeezed and pushed yourself through but got stopped by one of the police officers, holding you back as you struggle and kick around in attempt to free yourself to reach the ambulance.

„I’m afraid I can’t let you pass, miss.“ the officer said, trying to talk over your cries.

„No!! I have to get there, you... you don’t understand!! This is my boyfriend! He’s dying you have to let me through, PLEASE!!“ you begged and begged, but the officer showed no mercy.

The doors closed and the ambulance drove off, and now you were there, alone. The whole group of people around you was fading out and you couldn’t do anything but stare. Stare after the ambulance as it rushed through the streets, sirens blaring.

This was the last time you’ve ever seen him.

Sometime later, you heard that he actually survived, and was put into compulsory hospitalization.

And that was the last time you also heard anything about him.

 - 2 years later -

 You think about it a lot, actually, all the time. The pictures find its way into your mind with every chance they get and you barely can handle it.

You managed to go back to live a normal life after some time passed, sure, but you never nearly got over it. You see him, his silhouette, every here and there while you slender through places with many passengers, as if he’d be looking for you, too. You smell his cologne almost every time someone walks past you, as if he’d never left you in the first place, still always by your side, and these were probably the worst parts. At home, you find yourself talking whole dialogues with no one, because your mind plays its tricks on you, making him appear in front of your eyes, his voice echoing in your head as it answers to each and everything you say.

You’re on your way to work as your phone pops up a notification on your screen.

[09:47] Hoseok♥: Hey babe, I’ll be a bit late for dinner today, interview’s taking longer than expected. Cant wait to finally be with you again. I miss you.

Your heart skips a happy beat and you slide to unlock, so you can reply.

[09:49] You: Of course, that’s no problem! I miss you too, I’ll be waiting.♥

But your reply never went out. You were hallucinating once again, and you come to realize that, when you got the message of error, saying that the number can’t be contacted. Sadness creeping up your insides, you sigh, as you lock your phone again, putting it in your handbag so you won’t look for his messages again.

As you walk down the avenue to reach the cafe you currently work for, you see him again.

Everywhere.

He’s standing on the other side of the street, waving at you, he’s sitting on the bench on the sidewalk, scrolling through his phone listening to music, he’s strolling through the aisles of the store next to you, looking through this and that while you can watch him through the shop window.

Shaking your head, you pull out your headphones from your pocket and plug them into your phone, playing some music.

Actually, this is a bad idea, so you stop, only a minute in, if even. You were only listening to his songs anyways, and that’s the worst you could do right now, while your mind is playing you dirty as it does every so often.

You almost made it to work. There your mind will shut its damn mouth, and you can finally breathe for a moment before the choking reality will hit you in the face once again.

 „Y/n?“ There it was again. His sweet voice. You know it isn’t real. You know it. And that makes all the worse.

„Y/n... it’s you, isn’t it?“ Despite your knowledge of your fucked up mind, you still turn around to face the direction his voice is calling out to you this time.

As your eyes meet his, you only huff in response with a sad smile.

„Hello, I’ve seen you a lot today, love.“ you say without thinking twice. Expecting the usual -the image in front of you fading as soon as you answer- you watch closely for it to happen, as if you’d have found some twisted pleasure in the hurt.

The more your eyes widen at the fact that this time, he’s still there.

His expression is surprised and worried at the same time.

„You have?“

Now you don’t even know anymore yourself. This was a whole new level. At home, he’s interacting with you, but he never does outside. What is this supposed to be? Unless...

You know its stupid, incredibly stupid. But if you’ve ever had the slightest spark of hope inside of you, it’s this one, and you were about to take it, to take the leap, the one that could either change your life completely, or throw you into a much deeper hole than you already find yourself stuck in.

Carefully, hesitant, you bring your arm up, slowly and scared for whats going to happen, and you reach out ever so small, straightening your hand, aiming for his chest.

Closer, closer, only a little bit left and - it hit solid base.

Your eyes widen an unreal amount as your gaze wanders from where your hand rests, up to look into his face.

This can’t be. This can’t be real. How, why...?

„...Hoseok?“ you say, voice silent, shaky and almost breaking.

If this is going to turn out as some sort of mindfuck, you are sure you will follow in his footsteps this time. This would be that one bit too much to take. This will either make or break you.

His hand comes up, softly cupping yours.

„Long time no see, y/n.“ he says, smiling the smallest of smiles.

Your heart stops beating. At this point you might pass out. While you can’t process what’s happening right now, you’re just staring.

While your eyes are locked with his, tears form at an unreal pace, spilling over your lower lash line, your other hand covering your mouth. He’s real. This time, he’s really real. You are so overwhelmed by what’s happening right now, your mind is calculating with light speed, checking every detail of it, making really sure for one last time that you aren’t tripping right now.

„You look just like the last time I saw you.“ he says now, breaking the silence, as well as breaking eye contact to look down onto the floor. You swallow hard.

„The last time you saw me, was me being terrified and scared... crying while looking at you.“ you finally manage to say.

„Yes...“, he says quiet, „thats exactly what you look like right now.“, voice now barely more than a shaky whisper.

You realize that he’s right. Right now, you must probably look as if you’ve seen a ghost come back to life- in fact this is basically exactly what this is for you. After years and years of only seeing an unreal version of what he once was, this certainly feels delusive.

Your tears still trailing down your face as if they were to never stop, Hoseok does something that you’ve longed for for what felt like an eternity, something you’ve needed the most during all this time; he pulls you into his embrace. This feeling was ethereal. It gave you the immediate feeling of being safe, that nothing can hurt you ever again. His smell clouding your senses, the smell you til this day call home. The two of you remain like this for a while, he wouldn’t let you go before your tears stopped, he never did. It really takes you a great amount of time to calm yourself. But when you do, it only is a small sniff that you give off, and then you look up to him, still held captive in his arms.

„Let’s go somewhere else, do you want to?“ he invites. You would love to. Every bit of what you are is screaming for this, on the contrary, there are screams for you to run as long as you can, as well. You are scared, so scared that those events would repeat, but the longing for him is so much stronger.

A second later, you realize that you have work, though, and that you most likely are late already, after you’ve been standing there with him for quite a while. Quickly, you debate with yourself whether you go to work or call in sick and cancel your shift, as if you wouldn’t already have made up your mind.

„Hoseok, I need to make a call, give me a second, okay?“

He sends a nod your way and you turn around to call in sick. Your absence for today is quickly approved -you’re their hardest working employee anyways, since you basically dive into work to distract yourself from thinking too much- and you turn back to the guy that’s patiently waiting for you.

„Where do you want to go?“ you ask carefully. You still cant quite believe that this is real, too long you’ve been dealing with hallucinating over him. Luckily, Hoseok seems to still know you as if he never left your side.

„You don’t really seem to be alright, which I can understand. Believe it or not, this is just as overwhelming for me as it is for you, but I also couldn’t be more happy if I’m honest. I remember you not liking public places when you’re not feeling good, so, do you want to head over to your place?“

Damn it, Hoseok. He causes your heart rate to speed up by the fact that he felt the exact same way and still is able to read you like an open book- one he’s already read once.

„That’d be great, yes.“ you answer and point into the direction behind you. „I still live in the same apartment.“ you add and he nods, starting to walk.

[raziella]

@two-confirmed-bachelors ,

it took me a while but here we go: Captive Prince

(forgive me, I skipped the ~300:s because I'm writing on my phone and I hate the keyboard)

1. What are things they both find funny?

The game.

2. If they could each describe each other in one sentence, what would it be?

Damen: he is the kindest and fairest man I know.

Laurent: he is the kindest and fairest man I know.

3. If they complimented each other, what would they say?

Damen: beautiful

Laurent: big animal

4. What would be is their ship name?

Lamen

5. What activities do they enjoy together?

Horseback riding

6. What is/are their love language(s)?

Akielon (because Laurent speaking Akielon gets Damen going like nothing else and because it reminds Laurent of no one else)

7. Write a ~300 word love scene for them. 

"I cant think when you kiss me."

"Then dont think."

8. What were their first impressions of each other?

Damen thinks: angel

Laurent thinks: murderer

9. Have they made each other cry?

Yes.

10. Write a ~300 ~100 word argument scene for them. 

"It wasn't your fault."

"You didn't know him like I did."

"I know you."

"Because we've fucked. You don't know me just because you've had your cock in me."

"Don't deflect."

"I'm just stating facts."

"I'm having a discussion about guilt and forgiveness."

"I'll never forgive him."

"I wasn't talking about him."

...

"Why must you always be so..."

"Persceptive?"

"Not the word I was going to use."

"I know. You were going to say something mean."

"You would deserve it."

"Maybe. Probably."

11. What causes them to fight?

Not discussing the trauma and Laurent lashing out.

12. Do they have differing political opinions?

No, they both like peace but are ready to go to war for whats right. The means however...

13. Name something they would never do for the other person. 

Let them die.

14. What would be a dealbreaker?

Not stopping/not saying when to stop.

15. What are traits they dislike in one another?

Damen hates that Laurent is an excellent liar.

Laurent hates that Damen is so forgiving.

16. If they broke up, what would be their opinions of each other?

Laurent would forever hold Damen in great regard. Damen would just be so sad and confused.

17. What senses (sights, smells, feelings, etc). remind them of each other?

Spices, fruit and the smell of hay reminds Damen of Laurent.

Salt water, sweat and blood remind Laurent of Damen.

18. What would be their love motto?

A kingdom or this.

19. If they could each write a single line in their marriage vows, what would they be?

To get what I wanted, I knew exactly how much I was willing to give up.

20. What is a promise they have made to each other?

To bring their kingdoms together.

21. How have they changed each other for the better/for the worse?

Laurent has opened up about his emotions.

Damen has learnt to be suspicious. jk, he's just as naïve as ever.

22. If their lives were what was originally intended at birth, would they have still fallen in love?

No, they likely would have met on a battlefield and killed one another.

23. Write a ~300 scene between them with no dialogue, only body language.

24. What is something they have each had to forgive the other for?

Torture.

Killing Auguste.

25. What moves do they know work on the other?

Damen: slowly.

Laurent: has to show his legs and Damen is down.

26. What are their favorite parts about physical affection/sex?

For Damen it's all about the touch and bringing pleasure to Laurent: he loves seeing Laurent surrender to pleasure.

Laurent loves being incapsulated by Damen, being completely surrounded and knowing he is safe, both from everything around them and from Damen himself.

27. Do they have any kinks/fetishes that they share?

Damen being blidfolded and Laurent riding him, Damen completely at his mercy.

28. Write a ~300 fantasy one of them has about the other. 

29. What are each of their signature foreplay moves?

Damen will let his hands trail across Laurent's shoulder and neck, place soft kisses on his hands and stare deeply into his eyes.

Laurent will give Damen a *look* and go to the bedroom with a blushing Damen trailing after.

30. Write a short exchange of dirty talk between them. 

"You are just big all over, aren't you, you big animal?"

Damen hums happily. "You like it?"

A silence.

"Yes."

31. What do they love to do after sex?

Clean up and lounge on their backs, gazing up at the stars.

32. Do they enjoy morning or night sex?

Morning sex when Laurent's hair is all tousled and his eyes are soft. Laurent is still loose from last night so he can just swing up and straddle Damen, easy as you please, and Damen will hold his hips and guide him gently with his large hands, basically lifting him up and down.

otp asks

For the Fluff:

1. What are things they both find funny? 2. If they could each describe each other in one sentence, what would it be? 3. If they complimented each other, what would they say? 4. What would be their ship name? 5. What activities do they enjoy together? 6. What is/are their love language(s)? 7. Write a ~300 word love scene for them.  8. What were their first impressions of each other?

For the Angst:

9. Have they made each other cry? 10. Write a ~300 word argument scene for them.  11. What causes them to fight? 12. Do they have differing political opinions? 13. Name something they would never do for the other person.  14. What would be a dealbreaker? 15. What are traits they dislike in one another? 16. If they broke up, what would be their opinions of each other?

For the Depth: 

17. What senses (sights, smells, feelings, etc). remind them of each other? 18. What would be their love motto? 19. If they could each write a single line in their marriage vows, what would they be? 20. What is a promise they have made to each other? 21. How have they changed each other for the better/for the worse? 22. If their lives were what was originally intended at birth, would they have still fallen in love? 23. Write a ~300 scene between them with no dialogue, only body language. 24. What is something they have each had to forgive the other for?

For the Dirty:

25. What moves do they know work on the other? 26. What are their favorite parts about physical affection/sex? 27. Do they have any kinks/fetishes that they share? 28. Write a ~300 fantasy one of them has about the other.  29. What are each of their signature foreplay moves? 30. Write a short exchange of dirty talk between them.  31. What do they love to do after sex? 32. Do they enjoy morning or night sex?

[tumblunni]

gettinG REALLY KINDA SALTY about digimon world next order u guys GOD GODDDDD its like the sequel we always wanted to digimon world... IN GAMEPLAY IN GAMEPLAY ONLY the plot is SO BAD its so bad in THE WORST WAY its a good game with a bad plto, so it frustrates me infinately more cos i WANT it to be good enough to live up to the rest of the game! and it has infinate spewing geysers of potential that went completely untapped cos of lazy bullshiT!

and its not like they had a lot to live up to or anything?? like.. the first digimon world practically DID NOT have a plot 90% of it was just free open gameplay with sassy dialogue yes but no real overarching narrative it had an excuse why the story started, and it had a very cathartic ending to it all. But it was all up to you to decide in what order our nameless protagonist did it all, who he met, how he won, what bits he might have missed entirely even! it was so fun cos it was a game where EVERY quest was a sidequest! the only real thing that would stay the same is that you needed to complete a certain amount of those sidequests to unlock the final boss quest, but which ones you pick is totes up to you. Except that there was an annoying bug in the PAL version that meant that one area had a random chance of being locked off thus the ending fight never spawns :P But even if i never actually finished the game I still had infinate enjoyment making my own story, yknow?

so the bad plot shenanigans in next order are annoying because they also made really foolish gameplay decisions to FORCE you to follow this main plot stuff is way less open, very very VERY commonly you can unlock a damn area, walk around in it, and every sidequest in it just refuses to start because you havent hit the right chapter milestone. and it gets to be increasingly stupid excuses too! most of the time the npc is just like ‘yeah i have a huge emergency but I DONT WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT’ *sits there panicking forever* How the fuck do they even know I’m ‘not worthy’ anyway, and why would it MATTER??? In DW1 if youre underlevelled for an area you just find out cos you fail the quest! you at least get to see what it is and KNOW what you have to work towards to be prepared next time! plus the plot is just a huge fuckin textdump of nonsense pseudo science that is never explained, its EVERYONE ELSE just doing stuff offscreen instead of letting you even see the potentially cool plot threads! and whenever anything has to happen they have some made-up excuse why everyone can just magically know what the villain is planning, due to this pseudoscience, and they HAVE to explain it EVERY TIME which just makes it far clearer that its a terrible plot hole??? and they waste all this time on this yet skip over vitally important stuff like ENTIRE CHARACTER ARCS and LETTING YOU ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE. All you ever fuckin do is be the one to defeat machinedramon cos everyone else is inexplicably weak and useless! oh and EVERY FUCKING BOSS IS MACHINEDRAMON AGAIN AND AGAIN goDDDDDDDDDD

anyway, The Awful Plot is that [insert made up magic excuse here] is turning everyone into Machinedramon clones with a virus and somehow this is bad because as well as digivolving to an arbitrary form they also turn evil for no reason and then its just YEARS AND YEARS of people explaining exactly how the virus must have been created and like five different contrived things we can do to slow it down and then after like FIFTY HOURS we finally get out first appearance of the fucking villain. as a silhouette. in the background. im at 90 hours now and i still dont even know his fucking name, or why the fuck he wants everyone to be machinedramon. but man it was vitally important to instead waste time explaining the ‘antivirus enforcer program’ and how it would totally be useful only to reveal it was taken out offscreen before the game even started and now it’s a villain. cos like we needed five more fake villain minions to delay this actual villain man’s appearance, UUUUUGH! none of them even talk! its just magic virus that makes you magically evil. and why did we need to explain the compelx metaphysics of an antivirus when ultimately you could have just said ‘its omegamon, he’s a big hero in this setting, he got turned evil and now we have to save him’. Why did we need a misdirect that this antivirus wasnt a person??? why did we need to go on a quest to find a guy who can make flower seeds and then plant the flower seeds in the most contrived way waiting 1 ingame day between each step, then somehow the plant is a clue that omegamon is evil SOMEHOW and then its still 30 hours til we fucking meet the guy... sorry, sorry, this probably makes about as little sense as it did to me. i just had to try and give an example of a particular main quets line that FUCKING PISSED ME OFF and i STILL dont know what any of it means so i cant even explain it to you! i got spoiled for the goddamn ending and i STILL dont know why there was an omegamon-predicting rafflesia that took one ingame month to get past...

BUT YEAH SORRY IM TRYING TO SUMMARIZE THIS

theres some mystery villain who’s turning everyone into machinedramon for no reason thats the plot and youre not really given a reason why this town needs you to recruit more digimon except somehow if you get [insert amount here] prosperity that’ll take enough time that jijimon will finish magically hacking [insert plot device here] to find the next location of [whatever the thing is]... i mean its vaguely mentioned once at the start that a machinedramon destroyed the town or something? so i guess maybe we can assume all the townsfolk actually died and we’re getting new ones/searching for their reincarnated selves or something. Man if that was ACTUALLY THE INTENTION and ACTUALLY EXPLAINED then it would have been pretty damn good! it’d add some interestingness to the sidequests if the digimon had to recover lost memories of being someone else in the city once. plenty of potential for interesting interactions if their new digiegg’d self is a wildly different form or something! Like that could have been a good setup for the one endearing fashion designer skullgreymon who’s super sad about looking so scary. Also seriously WHY DID SKULLGREYMON NOT GET TO OPEN A FASHION SHOP?? why did they remove that feature from reDigitize, this game is for a far more powerful console so it couldnt have been impossible to add in... (I still have no clue how they managed to pull off actual digimon customization on the first generation psp! WHY IS THIS THE ONLY UNDUBBED GAME) so yeah the original DW1 even had a more solid establishing plot here, even though it was 99% less text! ‘for some reason digimon are turning violent and losing their abiloty to speak, all my friends at this city slowly dissappeared into the wilderness, please solve this mystery and bring them back’. THAT WAS INTERESTING! That had an actual reason why recruiting shopkeepers equals plot progression, you were ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING, not just waiting for someone else to decode an ambiguously explained ‘frequency’ to point you at your next key item/FIGHTING THE SAME DAMN BOSS AGAIN :P

ALSO ALSO why no analogman WHY NO ANALOGMAN how does this make ANY SENSE?? why is it even machinedramon in particular, if not for the fact it was analogman’s digimon in the first game??? thats just getting my hopes up for no damn reason! why didnt we get to see The Very Original Villain come back and get fully voiced dialogue and maybe some more development on who he is and what his backstory is or whatever his plot was minimal back then because it was a very low tech game, now we have NO EXCUSE for it :P its just ‘yeah his entire presence in the plot is that someone on the writing team was inspired by his postgame sidequest, i guess’ cos a ‘machinedramon virus’ did technically exist, but it was more like just an excuse for why the final boss battle was replayable for your enjoyment. a random digimon would turn into the final boss battle (sans analogman cos he’s Mysteriously Vanished And/Or Potentially Dead seriously that was SUCH A SEQUEL HOOK and they DIDNT TAKE IT) so like seriously they took ANALOGMAN’S ACTUAL VIRUS POSTGAME THING THAT HE MADE and yet no analogman! WHY! and also it fucking sucks to try and base a whole game’s plot on a single dialogueless sidequest that was just an excuse for battle replayability some guy just probably took 0.2 seconds to think ‘yeah maybe the computer the villain left behind does a virus thing to make the boss replayable’ and some fuckin bright spark decided to make an entire game about it IT DOES NOT WORK hell, a good writer could have made it work! if theyd expanded upon the vagueness and explained things! or gave motivations! or used it as a reason for analogman to retURN AND HAVE A FUCKING PLOT seriously WHY did they have to make this game be marketed as A DIRECT SEQUEL TO THE FIRST GAME they were just setting themselves up for failure yo every fucking thing in the game is 100% unrelated except someone else is doing analogman’s signature plan and the protagonist from DW1 makes an entirely pointless cameo just to remind you its supposed to be a sequel and is FAILING

OKAY OKAY SERIOUSLY LETS TALK ABOUT *HIM*

mameo mameo poor mameo you literally only existed to trick people into buying the game with a fake plot that doesnt exist it was marketed as if he’s the villain, and it got everyone curious about it, and then no he isnt he’s just mistaken for the villain once in his introduction as an excuse to drag out another pointless sidequest instead of progressing the plot then he just becomes a mostl;y voiceless useless npc who does more magic unexplained science to magically amke the plot do whatever the writers need it to do without needing to ACTUALLy have a REASON why it HAPPENS, gaAAHHHH he’s just magically a super hacker now, like how jijimon is magically a super hacker now, and blablabla jijimon for some reason couldnt track down the next place the villain would strike but mameo can the end end of mameo’s entire plot gone. oh, aside from a brief mention again that he’s developed a prototype antidote for the machinedramon virus and then it fails. which just exists to be an excuse for another plot to happen without (AGAIAN) any actual reason it happened, or any form of development or player participation. blablabla oh no one of the hero’s friends’s digimon got infected by the virus so now you get a boss battle against them, and they dont have to leave the plot or change or grow cos magic antidote thing turned them back. But it didnt REALLY work, she’ll just turn back into machinedramon in like 50 days or something blah blah. please feel sad for this character you barely know, who is facing no consequences for what they did, but we’re telling you they might maybe sometime in the future, but of course they never will because the plot doesnt actually have a time limit. Also please believe that mameo is useful! and its just ITS JUST SO FRUSTRATING!!! cos mameo is still THE BEST PART OF THE DAMN GAME! he’s the only character who seems to have any damn effort or emotion put into him, his english voiceactor really stands out in a cast of bored-sounding people. It feels like whoever voiced him was maybe actually a fan of the first game? And he gets to sound so cool and act so cool and look so cool and have really good sassy moments and then HAVE NO PRESENCE IN THE PLOT AT ALL! GAHHHHH!! why must you waste EVERYTHING???

ultimately the only real thing this game gave us was finally having a name for DW1 protagonist, and getting to know that he grows up to work with computers and gets to retain his ability to visit the digital world forever, and he still loves his partner [insert name of whatever you called it when you played] but EVEN THAT is fucking wasted!!! They say that Mameo’s original digimon from last time was somehow cursed to be stuck as a digiegg, as an excuse for not.. yknow.. having to canonize any particular partner choice and upset the fans. Even though the postgame cutscene in the first game already canonized Mamemon as his partner and you literally named him for it! (the excuse in-universe is that Mameo is a nickname and we still dont know what his canon name is. also he has a cute mamemon patch sewn on his beanie hat this time! that made my heart melt even as i was grumping about bad plotlines lol) Oh and this is also probably just an excuse for mameo being sidelined with no plot role, like he’s too powerful to let him actually fight or anything :P its making me mad cos im kinda imagining how this game would have worked so much better if mameo actually was the protagonist??? like, have him summoned back to face this new threat, and his powerful digimon is knocked back down to a digiegg and has to start over. i mean the actual protagonist ALREADY HAS THAT PLOT! you literally start as someone who’s EVEN STRONGER than mameo, you have an omegamon and then machinedramon kills it/them and you start over. And like.. if they decided to make a new hero cos they wanted male and female options, honestly just give me a female version of mameo and im fuckin fine. Pokemon Crystal retconned in a female option to a game that didnt have one before, and nobody complained! Oh and they dont even need to justify why mameo is clueless in this setting, cos its literally a different digital world anyway. Somehow. he fell through dimensions or something, they explain it very poorly. (WHAT A SURPRISE) actually, THAT is a huge wasted potential too! cos it means he never even gets to have a tearful reunion with jijimon and other npcs he met last time, instead every digimon that was in DW1 is just explained away as being a parallel universe equivelant that’s never met mameo. SeriouslY WHAT is up with this game and explaining ridiculous excuses to justify their pltoholes instead of just NOT WRITING THE PLOTHOLES??? i mean you could have just said this is like the digital world of the future. just like how mameo’s original adventure had him return to the human world and only one day had passed, maybe the amount of time it took him to grow up is the equivelant of centuries in the digital world? so Floatia could still be a new town, and everyone could be like descendants/reincarnations of the old npcs, and the digital world could have gained a bunch of new areas and etc. EASY EXPLANATION it wasnt necessary to make up a FUCKING HOUR LONG PLOTHOLE VERSION WITH METAVERSE SCIENCE

ALSO why dont we ever get to have any character exploration of like.. anyone?? why doesnt anyone get personality or scenes where you can actually get attatched to them and stuff. why are they just silent floating npcs that do NOTHING and then suddenly are revealed to have had a plot offscreen while you weren’t looking?? literally you are not even introduced to the two male and female friend characters they just.. come into existance in the plot you dont really get a scene of their personality or them getting to know you, or anything?? its just ‘oh i guess two other humans fell into the digital world’ then they sit around as silent npcs for 30 hours while you do everything without them then they just add some miscellaneous comments at the end of a main plot quest and oh i guess its been revealed that female character’s salamon digivolved into gatomon offscreen with no real emotional reason why it had to happen now, or any sign she was even training in the same way you are?? and then that just continues oh i guess she has an angewomon now and then you find out that offscreen her and angewomon were arguing about a problem that was never mentioned before offscreen you dont even SEE them arguing and its like you dont find out what its about no you just get a literal text that her and angewomon had a fight offscreen and angewomon ran away offscreen and hey can you go find her cos for some reason I CANT EVEN DO MY OWN DAMN PLOT then its just ‘oh no please worry that the character youve never even reallY MET has been struggling from a thing never mentioned before, and now she might die from a virus we never saw her get infected with’ and YOU have to defeat her beserk form and cure her and calm her down while her tamer just STANDS THERE and also btw she DIGIVOLVED INTO ANGEWOMON OFFSCREEN IN THE FIRST PLACE so its ‘hey please find my digimon who ran away’ and she’s A DIFFERENT DIGIMON when you find her! its THAT rushed! and then she digivolves again immediately afterwards because somehow being saved by SOMEONE COMPLETELY UNRELATED helped her bond enough with her tamer to become mega level and also the plot of her having the virus is just magically discarded instantly cos WHY NOT And after ALL this bullshit, what is it that they even argued about? it was just The Oldest Trope In The Book, a stupid misunderstanding caused by people not talking about something even though there is no reason why they wouldnt. Angewomon got upset that her tamer wanted to go home to the human world, thinking she’d done something wrong to cause it. And her tamer had just NEVER MENTIONED to anyone ever that she had twin sisters who’re suffering from sitcom disease or something and she’s worried they might not be okay without her. And like.. honestly why did there even NEED to be an excuse why she needed to go home? its natural for someone to miss home, it could have been solved much quicker in like one damn conversation yo. ‘hey i dont want to leave because i dont enjoy having a digimon, its because i have other friends back home too’ And honestly its kinda contrived how angewomon would even not understand that to begin with? this angewomon has a personality like a very young child too, which just makes it even more of a shame that we spend barely any time with her as her rookie form and pretty much never even LEARN that she’s like a little sis figure until this damn sidequest. this is the longest screentime these two ever had, and the first and only time theyre mentioned to have personalities and backstory! and its THEIR FINAL SCENE T_T and seriously it DOESNT EVEN MEAN ANYTHING to see her digivolve into a mega when none of these characters ever actually get to fight, or even exist in the plot theyre just stated to be having their own adventures offscreen. EVERYTHING OFFSCREEN! i mean GAHH the new gameplay even woulda justified this?? like, instead of having two digimon partners maybe you could bring along an assistant character to fight with you! or hell, maybe you could have both! if they can prove they can handle two playable characters onscreen at once then why not three? make everyone like social links that get stronger as you befriend them! and it;’d be a big help to developing your own digimon too, yo! like, these characters are at preset levels to you’re always gonna be able to be more powerful than them if you try. but it makes it less painful when your digimon reincarnates, you could partner up with a champion-level friend and they could help you train out in the field! hell, maybe add a feature of them being able to join in with the training gym too?? that’d be a better excuse for the daily bonuses than just... there’s daily bonuses. why does one particular training gym give better results on thursdays? maybe cos a certain character is there on that day and helps out!

and anyway where was i OH YEAH WHY IS THERE NOT AN ACTUAL CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT PLOT FOR MAMEO IN PARTICULAR he at least got an establishing scene and some cool dialogue, so im more invested in him than the other empty presences in this plot! like, we could have examined his actual emotions about his childhood digimon partner being stuck essentially in a coma with no idea if he’ll ever see them again. a guy hugging the digiegg of his poor dead mamemon is something you’d think they’d give SOME attention to! but he just talks about it so casually as if we should all already know, and then its NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN. It literally IS just an excuse to keep mameo from being able to fight alongside you! more plots! you could have an actual friendship sidequest of him being like your mentor, passing down the torch to the next generation of heroes. we could explore the plot of an adult digimon tamer more! what is it like, is it ever difficult? What is his day to day life even like? its implied that he’s able to go to the digital world at will like the 02 protagonists, so can his mamemon come to the human world too? did he have to take it to school and hide it in his bag like davis and co? did he basically live The Better Written Version Of That Season??? Did his parents ever find out? Does his mamemon still run on digimon world rules, like is the gameplay actually meant to be canon in-universe? does the protagonist digimon only live 10-20 days while everyone else gets to have a good ‘ol long life? has it been sad for mameo that his best friend keeps dying and reviving like 12 times a year, and never remembers him? i really hope thats not how it works, seriously. itd make for a good sad plot tho... And seriously why couldnt this have been the same jijimon in the same town and they get to meet again and we get nostalgic heartwarmingness???

oh and the other ‘friend’ character is even worse, seriously he does absolutely nothing except complain about how upset he is that other people dare to be better than him wah wah but a girl digivolved before me wah he started off looking like a normal cute nerd guy but then he deliberately infects his growlmon with the virus to try and become stronger, and he seems to get off scott free for it?? cos the plot is so vague and undeveloped it rushes through his realizing he’s wrong and it just seems so un-genuine. and we dont even get to see him meeting his digimon again and apologising once he gets reincarnated! its just you see him die horribly cos his tamer infected him with a fucking death virus out of ego that he’s so perfect and so strong he could handle the power. and then you just.. see him again and he’s a baby jyarimon and its all fine. you just see jyarimon following this tamer’s silent npc model around and its like DID YOU EVEN APOLOGISE AT ALL?? apparantly his digimon never even got mad at him or anything about it! it makes me feel so damn sad for the poor guy, i mean he spent so long trying to tell his tamer he’s not useless for not being stronger than the otehrs,a nd blaming himself for not being able to digivolve, and yet STILL tamer guy chose to ignore him and force him to virus-digivolve while he was begging not to! And we dont get to see the consequences for this! we get to see him learn his goddamn canned lesson of the day but we dont get to see him apologise and yukimura the guilmon just reincarnates and goes right back to being a silent mindlessly obedient npc who never complains when he’s mistreated :( and its so fucking stupid cos the plot even started off promising, it started off seeming like the problem was just ‘i’m not strong enough to protect people like you are, protagonist’. but its so badly written it felt like it derailed into him just being egotistical?? and whining about being blessed with this magical monster pal who isnt THE BEST magical monster pal so why even fucking bother. and the game acts like he’s justified cos he has ~a boring school life~. He has no problems at all but he’s just AVERAGE and not THE BEST, and oh gosh that terrible terrible fate has just worn down on him and made him have no self confidence. except yknow for all the scenes where he’s screaming ‘IM THE BEST, I DESERVE THIS’ throughout this fucking stupid plot... its like i can see what he was supposed to be, but they really failed??? i think i would have liked what he was SUPPOSEd to be... also it sucks that yukimura’s evil digivolution is inexplicably skullgreymon instead of megidomon (i think thats the name?) Yknow, the one guilmon actually turned into in tamers and it only had a one episode appearance but it was really scary cool! man it never gets to reappear in the games, no wonder i keep forgetting its name :P

aaaaargh and i just listened to the final battle music on the soundtrack and i havent got that far yet but i just know its NOT GONNA BE AS GOOD AS THIS SONG DESERVES im getting so much feels imagining what if the final boss actually WAS analogman from the first game, and if the supporting characters ACTUALLY HAD CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT and they could fight alongside you to defeat him once and for all! and what if this game’s status as the direct sequel to DW1 wasnt just a fucking baldfaced lie. seriously why didnt they just remove this nonsense plot and let it be its own original thing, if they werent gonna actually put effort into making the cameos actually decent.... MAMEO YOU DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER AAAAA