#OMWK Sequel

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....Guess who’s got two thumbs & was too busy scheduling an imaginary music festival (of sorts) and figuring out how to time fireworks to remember lunch?

Yeah, it me.

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Reason #3839 why I should not be trusted to Worldbuild responsibly

Or: Ooops, now I’m gonna have to think about Economy

So I’ve been pretty inspired for the OMWK sequel lately, and yesterday during one of my classes I got the idea to begin it with the 15th Anniversary picnic Sora mentions in chapter three of Once more, with kissing, which would have make the story span longer than anticipated (there’s a scene/thing I wanted to write about Yamato and Taichi being about a year in the relationship, but the  picnic, in OMWK, is scheduled for 2014, which is the proper anniversary year) but also affords a certain continuity between the two stories.

Fast forward about fifteen minutes (193 words) of writing and twenty-ish minutes of research on a small detail, and figure one happened...so, naturally, Yamato had to answer his granddad’s question, right? And I couldn’t just pick a random number.

Right

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Of course not. It’s me. I haven’t figured the trick to random worldbuilding yet.

What I ended up doing was searching the web for a rough estimate of the number of countries in the world around 1999 (ish) and finding results between 194 and 239 (I decided to use the midway point and pick 216 as my ‘official’ number).

Assuming that there is roughly one team per country and that each team is composed of 13 children (8 + 4 + 1), I had excel do the math and came up with a theoretical total of 2808 Digidestined (1).

Then, because I wanted to know roughly how these people and teams would be spread over the planet (partly so I’d know how many of them would get fucked by time-difference shenanigans) I went back to my prep file for The Immortal Cup and used the general repartition for world population I got off Wikipedia mumble-years ago.

For the record (in case the image doesn’t load or you can’t see it) those went:

Asia: 59,9%

Africa: 15,7%

Europe: 10,30%

South America & Carribeans: 8,6%

North America: 4,9% (2)

Oceania: 0,5%

I used these numbers to find out roughly how many Digidestined would live on each continent (3) before I divided these numbers by 13 and got rid of the decimals for ease, which gave me:

Asia: 129 teams

Africa: 34 teams

Europe: 22 teams

South America + Carribeans: 19 teams

North America: 11 teams (4)

Oceania: 1 team

Finally, because I needed round numbers (since you can’t really have 0.56804 of a person on a team) I multiplied those numbers by thirteen to know what values to use in the fic, which gave us:

Asia: 1 677 human Digidestined.

Africa: 442 human Digidestined.

South America + Carribeans: 247 human Digidestined.

North America: 143 human Digidestined.

Oceania: 13 Digidestined (5)

So, accounting for the digimon partners (and assuming Michael is the only one who got twin digimons because I’m not dealing with that mess) we now have a picnic with 5 617 attendants that have to be:

Fed

Settled somewhere to eat

Also get some kind of nap corner because some of them will be waking up in the middle of the night to get on Tokyo time

Possibly entertained

Literally just catered so they don’t end up running off in weird places

Which could be done with homemade means for the most part, except it would be a hell of a hassle for everyone to come with that much material for like, a day and a half (especially since we’re mostly talking about college-age people whose income may be limited, and whose access to family loans of material are not a guarantee).

The logical conclusion, from there, would be to have someone who is already in the Digiworld take care of the logistics (we’ve seen in Adventure that there are restaurants in the Digiworld, so we’ll just assume they’ll already know how to organize big-ish events and multiply that by ten. Or a hundred.) and pay them in BitCoins or something, which would probably boost the (from what we’ve seen) rather skeletal economy of the Digiworld.

TL;DR: I think Sora, Mimi, and whoever they recruit in organizing this even will single-handedly jumpstart the service industry in the Digiworld.

Also, I need to look into account of Convention organizers, just to get a better idea of the scales and costs.

(1) For my own sanity, the OMWK verse will not include the Original Five, if only so I don’t start tearing my hair out if they end up being confirmed as ‘the Original Five from Japan plus a bunch of other teams in the world’.

(2) I swear, every time I read/write that number I need to check if I didn’t get it wrong. It sounds so fucking small.

(3) If I’d wanted to keep with the ‘one team per country’ theme, I’d have looked up how many countries are in each continent, but considering this isn’t exactly going to be the whole of the fic and also that I do value my sanity, I decided to go for the easier method.

(4) Where there would only have been two if I’d stuck to the ‘one team per country’ rule but, again, self preservation.

(5) It occurs to me that this calculation system might is heavily flawed if it gives one team a whole continent to deal with and others a lot less. Oh well. We’ll survive this together. (Assuming I’m not just talking to myself here).

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Upcoming fic: OMWK sequel

Guess who spent an unreasonable amount of time on mappings again !

I’m trying to figure out what the festival area would look like. Not all Chosen persons will attend of course (between the people/digimon who died, the people who wanted to come but couldn’t, and the people who didn’t want to, I brought down the number of attendants to about 3-4 thousands instead of the originally planned ~6k) but this still feels kinda light to keep that many people busy. Not to mention I haven’t figured out what the booths in the marketplace would be for (at least a quarter is food stalls because the sit-in banquet is only on the evening) but aside from that it keeps feeling a little lacking ?

I mean, I know it’s just a fanfiction but I’d like for it to make some amount of sense so...thoughts ?

(I’m thinking maybe I should put the main events like the concert and marketplace further at the back/further apart to get the crowd to spread out instead of milling in the middle. Also that infirmary in the middle of the marketplace feels a little odd but then again food stalls=fire hazards so maybe it isn’t such a bad idea).

Anyway, this is what I have so far. If anyone wants to bounce ideas with me, I’d appreciate that because I think better that way anyway xD

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This just in: describing Logos that don’t exist is freaking hard.

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Did I just create a French digidestined for the sole purpose of having a Hyokomon nicknamed Calimero in the OMWK sequel?

You bet I did.

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Making myself emotional at work by writing an emotional speech for Yamato: check.

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TFW You have a cool fic idea but research demonstrates it wouldn’t legally be possible in Japan...well, to tweaking I go, I guess xD

(I mean. I could also make the world even more modified and state that digimons-ihnabited Japan allows same-sex unions but I don’t really feel that qualified to change japanese laws willy nilly, and anyway it’s not like life as a LGBTQ+ person doesn’t have its hassles elsewhere)

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Riiiiiiiight. Now I remember why I was wary of writing Yamato's relationship with his parents.

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I could be working on my TOG big bang story but instead this seized my brain:

So the thing is, it wasn’t really supposed to be a secret. Yamato never really meant to go stealth, it’s just… well, he kind of figured himself out pretty early--at five, maybe seven? Early enough that he’s not even sure Takeru remembers him before, at any rate--more importantly, early enough that Papy Michel’s money and puberty blockers meant he never had to grow breasts, let alone get them removed. From then on, what did it matter the sort of junk he had? Jack shit, is what. And it’s nobody’s concern either, so really he had no reason to go announcing it to anybody except the few and far between people he had sex with. It’s an accident, that’s all.

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jokessho

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“@jokessho Yes, the game stalls are in the fun fair section in the...”

haha, yeah, know how that is! There's so much background stuff going on with fics that don't matter to the reader, but it gives us as writers a peace of mind. Apart from the games, I can't think of any additions. There will be queues and mingling and people will probably be gathered to watch any ongoing shows on the stage, so it seems, to me, enough to keep 3-4k ppl busy. Maybe :/ But I'm no master planner of huge events

Exactly! And this is the kind of things I stress over rather than actual plot xD

(although it also helps me for descriptions so there’s that)

Yeah, I assume since this is going to be a Digidestined-only event they’ll have a lot of things to talk about and chit chat (possibly argue about too because I’m assuming sme people may still have things to say about the Reboot) so I suppose that could be enough ? I’m no master planner either tbh, so I’ll have to go with my guts and your validation :P

(And now I half want to write some random passerby witnessing a first meeting between two Chosen Children and the following conversation that sounds like it’s all code except if you know the context it’s basic stuff (not unlike fandom in that respect, lbr))

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THE NEW DIGIMON MOVIE IS OUT AND NANO STARTS TOMORROW WHY CAN'T MY PASSIONS AND PROJECTS BE CHRONOLOGICALLY COMPATIBLE XD

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@jokessho Yes, the game stalls are in the fun fair section in the bottom right corner! I still don't know how much of it Yamato will see (the fic is in his pov) but but at least I know they'll exist even if I don't write about them xD

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I don’t suppose anyone would be willing to reread OMWK to tell me if I’ve said anything about when exactly Digimon partners became a commonplace thing? I know I used to have a date set for it in my data file but it’s lost and I don’t want to have inconsistencies between the two fics.

And of course it’s not the kind of infor I can conveniently Ctrl+F for xD

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Downside of starting the OMWK sequel with a proposal: it kind of feels like I’m writing the climax of the story, not its starting point xD

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Yeeep, the OMWK sequel’s main plot has officially gone from ‘but what happens to them after they get together’ to ‘but what does go on in Yamato’s head?’

Which is a subtle but important distinction that may or may not triple the length of the fic.

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I've been looking up/thinking about french digidestineds for the OMWK sequel lately and I am never going to be over the fact that the only named one among them is named Catherine Deneuve.