#Koushirou and his research buddies

[apiratefellinlovewithastar]

I just adore how they gave all the Digidestined their own subgroups??? Even when Taichi (my darling, dearest boy) stays at the forefront focus, all of the children have their spotlight moments!!!

[seventeenlovesthree]

Since I am still obsessed with the three-second-glimpse of my boys from that infamous movie trailer and since Covid might also do funny things with my brain anyway, I gave their role in the movie a little more thought. As I pointed out here before, they prooobably won’t get any more screentime than what we saw there, because they’re meant to do “political background duty” and being kept “as busy as possible”.

Also, while their role seems cheap and easy at first glance, it’s actually a nice call-back to 02 itself. 

Because when the group wanted to track down the base of the Digimon Kaiser, Taichi suggested going fake-camping to send the kids to the Digital World, while he, Koushirou and Yamato would provide guidance while remaining in the real world, staying up all night long.

It’s obviously not exactly the same here, especially since we don’t know exactly how the movie will progress - but Koushirou, as “leading researcher of all things Digimon” is very much implied to overwork himself once again, trying his best to deal with everything as good as he can, while the 02 group is likely to get involved in some fighting/world saving. 

Then, of course, there is Taichi - who seems to be so stressed with the whole issue that he even snaps at his own sister...

So we can assume that both of them are pretty much sleep-deprived, stressed, overworked, you name it... Plus, Taichi is assumably still at the beginning of his ambassador career, still in training, still new to all the diplomat stuff, whereas Koushirou has been dealing with research, communication duties and public relations since he was 12 - and has practically done nothing else ever since. So taking Kizuna’s course into consideration, Taichi may still be on his own personal journey for self-improvement, there may still be areas of insecurities he might be dealing with - especially in a situation like this, in which Koushirou is basically his senpai for once.

So him seeing Koushirou like this, he may even feel a little useless - so what’s better than using your increasingly improving diplomat powers and natural charm to reconnect and finally get your friend/work buddy/potential life partner (and yourself) to take some deserved rest for once? Joking about your kiddos saving the world and you two being like “dad and mom” again, just like during the old days... If they had been more awake, they probably would have argued more about the issue at hand, but let’s give them their break for now.