#angemon is everything to me

[steakrogers]

HOLY DIVER 🪽🪽

[bagerfluff]

Anything For You

Older Takaishi Takeru x Non-Binary Reader

Prompt - "I'd do anything for you"

“You idiot”, Takeru said.

You didn’t say anything back. You just watched as Takeru bandaged your wounded. You were sitting on the couch as Takeru kneeled in front of you.

Surrounded by medical supplies.

Takeru was right now wrapping up your chest. There were bruises and cuts all over it. “Why?” Takeru asked for the fourth time.

Again you didn’t say anything. The reason that you were bloody and bruised, covered in blood and bandages.

It happened about an hour ago.

A Digimon had come through a Digital Gate and you and Takeru were the only ones free that could take care of it.

You two had got the Digimon back though the gate, but not at the expense of some injuries.

Takeru was in the way of some fallen debris, so you pushed him out of the way.

Takeru had also gotten hurt because of Digimon's attack. That pissed you off, you couldn’t save him from that.

That’s how you got like this. It wasn’t so bad that you had to go to the hospital, but Takeru insisted on taking you back to his house to patch you up.

You wanted to follow the Digimon through the Digital Gate, you wanted to destroy it.

It had hurt Takeru, his right arm had bandages wrapped around the top of it.

There was even a little blood seeping through the bandage. You started at it as Takeru wrapped up your chest.

“You call me an idiot yet you're the one who didn’t move even though you knew stuff was falling on top of you”, you quipped back.

Takeru rolled his eyes and stood up. “You could have gotten really hurt”, Takeru said sternly.

You picked up your shirt and put it back on, groaning at the pain that shot through your arms.

You leaned back on Takeru’s couch, your Digimon jumping on your lap.

You hugged them close to your chest. “Why?” Takeru asked again, starting to pick up everything.

You didn’t say anything, just watched as Takeru picked everything up. You knew that answer to that question.

It was because you cared about Takeru. You loved Takeru, you’d do anything for Takeru.

He was your best friend and you loved him. You didn’t want him to get hurt.

You’ve seen him get hurt many times in the past, not again. You would rather you get hurt than Takeru, you hated seeing him in pain.

You saw how Takeru fell on the ground clutching his arm as Angemon and your Digimon lead the Digimon through the gate. After you made sure Takeru was alright you wanted to follow the Digimon.

You wanted to get on D/n's back, go into the Digiworld, and get rid of it.

But Takeru had stopped you, you were so close but he told you to stay, that everything was fine. No, everything wasn’t fine, Takeru was hurt.

Something had to pay.

You didn’t care what happened to you, as long as Takeru was fine. You thought all of this as you watched Takeru clean up.

“Cause”, you stood up, taking your Digimon with you. Takeru looked at you waiting for your answer.

“I’d do anything for you”, you told Takeru.

Takeru blinks at you a few times. “Really?” Takeru asked, turning his body at you.

You could tell that Takeru was skeptical. His eyes showed that he didn’t believe you.

You stared into Takeru’s eyes. You felt something come over you, just the way Takeru looked. His hat ditched on the table, so you could see his messy blonde hair.

His blue eyes bored into yours with curiosity and worry. You felt protectiveness wash over you.

You glanced at Takeru’s upper arm, blood stained bandages and burns under it.

Your heart told you something, but you didn’t know what. What you did now was, “yes”, you answered, not a lie in your voice.

You’d do anything for Takeru. “Then stop putting yourself in danger, I would have been fine, Patamon would have gotten to me”, Takeru said.

Patamon made a noise of agreement from the arm of the couch. You could tell that Takeru was really worried about you.

You could see that he really thought you could have been hurt worse, or died.

You placed your Digimon down on the couch, right next to Patamon. You nodded and walked closer to Takeru, pulling him into a hug. You knew that Takeru cared about you, you were his best friend.

You’ve known him since before he first went to the Digiworld. “Okay”, you said.

You’d listen to Takeru.

He asked you to stop so you would stop, but something told you, maybe your heart, that you’d do it again.

You still wanted to destroy that Digimon, they deserved it. Nobody hurts Takeru, not if you had anything to say about it.

“I have to go”, you picked D/n back up, “my parents are probably worried”, Takeru nodded

A smile on his face. It reminded you that you’d do anything for that smile.

“Okay, see you tomorrow”, Takeru said, Patamon on top of his head waving goodbye.

You left Takeru’s apartment, with no intention of going back home.

“Are you sure you want me to do this”, Your Digimon asked.

They were at the champion level, on top of the passed out Digimon. The same one that had come though the Digital Gate.

You had found the Digimon eating in the clear, ordering your Digimon to attack.

They did, quickly getting on the ground, passed out. You started at it, they didn’t even care.

They didn’t apologize, didn't show remorse for what they did. “Yes, destroy it”, you said.

No emotion in your voice. Your Digimon turned back to the Digimon and attacked.

You watched with a smile as they screamed and turned to pieces. Back to being a Digiegg.

Your Digimon dedigivolved and ran back to you. “Can we go home, I’m hungry”, they said while rubbing their eyes.

You smiled down at them, “sure, I’m hungry too”, you turned around and started walking. They were gone now, they would never hurt Takeru again.

Maybe they can tell their friends what happens when anyone dares mess with who you love. You knew that if anyone knew you did this they would yell at you.

So you made D/n promise to keep it a secret. They said they would at the promise of chocolate. That was fine.

You knew what you did was wrong, but you didn’t care. They deserved it, they hurt Takeru. They should know now, everyone should know.

You’d do anything for Takeru.

[aviculor]

Even though digivolution is free and all that, I always prefer a line to have as much cohesion as possible. It has always bugged the everloving shit out of me that Armadimon turns into not only an ankylosaurus as its dedicated Adult stage, but the worst-looking ankylosaurus ever that doesn't even fit in visually with other dinosaur digimon. Ankylomon just completely sucks. I hate everything about it. The entire Armadimon line is a complete mess. Then it goes from Ankylomon to Shakkoumon who breaks the whole design ethos that Paildramon and Silphymon established for jogress evolutions. And then it goes into Vikemon who retains nothing of what any previous form had going. I guess you could draw a line between Vikemon's maces and Ankylomon's tail, but the worst part is that Vikemon went on to be canonized as Gomamon's Ultimate stage. So what the fuck happens now, unless we're allowing dupes? The 02 movie would have been an amazing opportunity to give Armadimon, Hawkmon, V-mon, and Wormmon "real" lines. But based on the images and promos I've seen, that doesn't happen.

I went on a drunken tirade about this a while back where I conceptualized an entirely new line for Armadimon. IMO there needs to be more mammalian digimon that aren't armor stages. Something like a pangolin, a giant anteater, an aarvark, a mole... If Drimogemon had a slightly different design it would be perfect as an Armadimon evo. If Rhinomon and Elephantmon weren't armors, those would work too. But there's no need to overthink it, just make Armadimon bigger and bulkier like they did for Hawkmon and V-mon, just without randomly changing its entire biological Class. Make it a glyptodont. It could even retain the spiked mace tail. Also, food for thought: we have an AncientMegatheriummon but no Megatheriummon and a digimon based on a megatherium would also be a great fit for what I'm imagining. But picture this: Armadimon evolves into a Glyptodont, which jogresses with Angemon into a masked druid-like holy man wearing the glyptodon's shell as a mantle and carrying the glyptodon's tail as a weapon. And then it could become Vikemon, or Olegmon, or ClavisAngemon, or Mercurymon...take your pick, honestly.

Blizzarmon and Olegmon would fit well as a Perfect and Ultimate, but there's no good Adult to bridge Armadimon into them.

Cannondramon kind of has a flow from Armadimon and Ankylomon, but if you make it a line of dinosaurs, then Armadimon itself is the weakest link and that makes the whole idea fall apart.

[doctas-blog-of-stuff]

Digital Monster Color designs

I'm in a very boring uni class rn soo I'm gonna rank the Digital Monster Color designs.

Okay soo these are the categories in every version:

-Peak: what I think is the best design in the device.

-Love:my actual favorite design of the device.

-Honorable mentions(HM):3 of what I believe to be very good designs.

-Eghhhh:what I think is the worst design of the device, if I don't have one, it will be my least favorite.

Any other digimon outside of this categories is in a scale of Good to eeeehhh it's fine.

Okay, everything except HM will have some explanation, I will prioritize the '97 designs and this will be me in the order of best to worse device.

Ver.2

-Peak:Cres Garurumon,yeah I know what I said about 97, I explain it the overview. That aside, I usually prefer the gabus lines, and that artwork is just *chef kiss*. Sprite is meh, tho.

-Love:Gabumon , okay it's more about the "lost child energy" of the artwork more that the sprite, but I really love this little fella.

-HM:SkullGreymon, Angemon, Kabuterimon

-Eghhhh: Vademon, tbh I don't quite get Vademon as a design,just probably my least favorite evo of a mistake evo of any version. Vegimon and Ebemon are cool, tho.

Overview: The thing about the ver.2 devices is that I think is a very solid roster in general, so I find it very hard to pick favorites.Also it has very funny sprites tho, like those of Yukidarumon, Whamon, Vegiemon,and MetalMamemon.

Ver.4

-Peak:Megadramon, like just look at it, it's a dragon serpent with wings and cannons for arms.It's the definition of peak.Also sprite is very good.

-Love:BloomLordmon, I just really like this design,I think is a very good interpretation of "Plant knight" also the helmet that looks like a pirate hat is funny.

-HM:Digitamamon, Monochromon, Coelamon.

-Eghhhh:Nanimon, okay if Vademon was my least favorite evo of a mistake evo, this is my actual least favorite mistake evo. I know it's a tamagotchi, but maan that artwork is gross. Sprite is meh.

Overview:Another really solid roster, the only thing I don't like about it is nanimon, especially when you have to go through it to get a good design, Digitamamon. Also, Bandai's choice of making Genkoomon the digitamamon evo just baffles me.

Ver.1

-Peak:Metalgreymon, virus Metalgreymon is one of the best digimon designs in general,so I'm very glad it is in this device and not the vaccine version.

-Love:Tyranomon, hands down, Tyranomon is my favorite design of all time, like just look at him, he's just a jolly and friendly tyrannosaurus rex, it's the best.

-HM:Devimon,Betamon,BanchoMamemon.

-Eghhhh:tbh,I don't really have a digimon I don't like that much in this device,soo I'm going to say Omegamon Alter S. just beacuse I'm tired of Omegamonn, even tho Alter S. is one of the best Omegamon designs.

Overview: the Ver.1 is also really solid, but in my personal opinion has a problem in which that the adults are really "adjacent?",like Tyranomon, Greymon, Meramon, Airdramon and Devimon I feel they have like some relation to fire, even tho they aren't fire digimon half of them. Tyranomon and Greymon are actual fire dinosaurs, Meramon in straight up a fire man, Devimon is a devil soo is kinda connected, and Airdramon is dragon-like with those red wings,so it seems like is fire related.That aside, the childs, perfects and megas are really solid.

Ver.3

-Peak:Orgemon, the Ver.3 context is somewhat dire,soo I guess Orgemon is fine,I like the Orc + Oni design.

-Love:Drimogemon, okay I don't like it quite as much, but in the Ver.3 context is probably my favorite, even tho is probably because his face looks like a butt xD.

-HM:Centalmon, Giromon, Patamon

-Eghhhh:Chimariamon, look I get what's trying to do, I don't think the idea is executed as best as it could.

Overview:First of all, the lines are a mess. Not like in "this makes no sense as an evolution", a mess in the sense as to why there is an extra digimon out of nowhere.Second, this device is full of digimons I don't feel anything about them as a group.Like, Bokomon, Centalmon, Giromon, Andromon are fine in it's own, but not all in the same device.Also there's the digimon I don't care about at all, like Shellmon, Unimon, Kunemon, and so on.

Ver.5

-Peak:Mugendramon, tbh I think this is also one of the best digimon designs in general, but is held back for the things I'm going to explain in dept on the overview

-Love:Ex-Tyranomon, plushie Tyranomon, next. (Also Bandai you cowards, make an actual Tyranomon plushie).

-HM:Devidramon, Dark Tyranomon, Chaosdramon

-Eghhhh:Flymon, I had to pick one, I will go on detail in the overview.

Overview: Let's talk about the elephant in the room, this device has a serious case of awful sprites. Like,some of the designs are more of less good, but the sprites held them back. By example , for some reason, MetalTyranomon cables seem like veins, making it kinda creepy. Aaaand there are the weird ugly designs even in artwork, both Childs are whack; Cyclomon, Flymon, Tuskmon, Deltamon, Raremon are whack; Nanomon is meh. The tragedy of this version is that the perfect onwards stuff is fine-cool, but everything else is pretty bad.

All the sprites come from wikimon

[kichimiangra]

...Well now I gave to ask about Shalconimon. Tell me more?

Shalconimon was my childhood fan digimon. I had been a digimon fan since about when the toy town episode first aired in the usa and that was only because despite seeing the ad for "the show that is like Pokemon but they're DIGITAL MONSTER" I couldn't remember what channel it was suppossed to be airing on so I missed a good chunk of the initial airings of the first arc. I had immediately fell in love with the franchise and wondered "If I had a digimon, what one would it be?"

I didn't have internet at the time, but my grandparents did and I would try to find pictures of what other digimon existed that maybe weren't in the show when I would visit them, or if a classmate had the old cardgame I would ask if I could look at their cards so I could just know what digimon existed to be options for!

I was (and am) an indecisive child tho so I never could just point at one and say "Obviously THAT would be my digimon!' Unlike say, my older sister who took one look at he Pink Gabumon running around Gear Savanah in Digimon World and said "ah yes. Psychemon. There is my partner." (Though in modern times she's a big fan of Labramon)

It wasn't until the day that the finale to Adventure 02 aired, and right after it ended the trailer for Tamers aired; "I used to watch show show... I used to play the cardgame... I even made up my very own digimon! But now.... everything is real." (don't remember if that's how the trailer went) Just with the line " I made up my very own digimon, my dumb ass was like "Wait.... I can make up original fancharacters for things?????" And with that I went to work desigining my very own digimon!

I have always been a huge fan of dinosaurs and I always thought the dinosaur digimon where some of the coolest! The Triceratops were always my favorite (Though I like a LOT of dinos) and although Monochromon and Triceramon already existed I wanted my own Triceratops in my favorite color! (HOW DARE GAMMAMON bE like FIVE CERATOPSIANS IN A TRENCH COAT!!!!) I remember as a kid I could only draw him from the side as ya do, but no art from that era remains.

I remember me and my sister writing our own digital world adventures with our made up digimon and I can't remember really what they were about, but I think Shalconimon was intended to be... kinda an asshole? Like imagine instead of the usual Digimon/Tamer partnership where they almost immediately get along you had more like something from early Medabots where Ikki and Medabee were at each other's throats, or what if Hiro from Ghost Game had gotten Espimon as his partner from the start instead of Gammamon and Espimon just didn't like to listen? At the time with only Adventure and 02 out, and Tamers only having barely started airing the idea of that kind of partnership seemed novel and unique, and maybe inside my baby author brain, just maybe the idea of "Starting off on the wrong foot and having room to grow" sounded narratively satisfying?

About half a decade ago when I revisted him I redesigned him a bit. He was a little over designed from the beginning and decided to upgrade Shalconimon to a Champion Level digimon. Shalconimon was originally the rookie form. I don't remember giving him a Baby I, Champion, or Ultimate but he did have a stupidly conceived Mega that I now call PajamaAngemon because that is exactly what he looked like. Angemon in Pajamas... god why did I give him an angemon form that was so stupid? Anyway after his level promotion he ended up getting a new rookie who... doesn't have a 'mon' name? I just call it the Protocerakeet, because it looks like a fusion of a protoceratops and a Parakeet.

Somewhere in the mid 2010's, I think it was around 2014 or 2015, I had been feeling bummed at the lack of digimon world vpet rpg style games to scratch a digimon world itch, considering World for the ps1 was getting on 15-20 years old and the newest game in that style was Re:Digitize that STILL to this day doesn't have an official English release. I didn't know Next 0rder was in the works, so it just felt like Vpet Rpgs were just... not being made and if they were not being ported over. There had been a rise in games in the indie scene creating spiritual successors to games that the dev had loved growing up but the mainstream and AAA scenes just don't develope anymore and so I had started thinking up two potential game ideas that where intended to have that vpet rpg feel. One was about Cryptids, but it evolved into something less vpet rpg-ish and into a more LoZMajora's Mask/ Stardew Valley calendar based resource time management game. The other was about some kids finding themselves isekai'd to NOT!File Island to help NOT!Jijimon return NOT!Digimon back to NOT!File City while stopping one of the only other humans on the island, NOT!Analogman. So the second one was more of a scratch the serial numbers off Digimon world Clone, replacing Digital Monsters with Monster's based on Extinct Species. The Protocerakeet lives there as that idea's mascot/NOT!Agumon.

[arcthebreeder]

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02/27/2024, 15:20 (GMT-5)

Tournament post again!

My battle was actually supposed to take place yesterday, however, due to some personal problems my opponent had, we had to delay it to today at 14:00. Thanks to this delay however, I only got to know my opponent's username, and not their Digimon, who I learned were Metallife Kuwagamon and Grademon just about 20 minutes before the battle.

The battle began with Grademon rapidly charging towards Helloogarmon, trying to slash him with his Souken Grandalpha, this attack being stopped by Helloogarmon's claws, and then being fully repelled by Stiffilmon, after Grademon took the initiative, Stiffilmon to charge against them too, being stopped by Metallife Kuwagamon and another sword-based move, the Emit Blade, this opponent is a fan of sword based moves after realizing this, I knew what I had to do. After asking for a little pause, I asked the judge if I could use the Vánagandr, he agreed since I had already stated in my application and proved that there's not a huge power gap between Helloogarmon and Soloogarmon, I got the authorization, so I asked Helloogarmon to slide evolve into Soloogarmon, and then the battle continued. With the two of my Digimon being able to fight hand to hand, and both using "swords", the fight was way more even, tho Grademon was still dominating, with its twin swords, ultimately making it a fight between him and both of my Digimon, leaving Metallife Kuwagamon as a support to make back up damage with the Homing Laser, constantly directing it to my Digimon's backs while Grademon attacked with the Cross Blade, however, something happened in the middle of the fight, while Grademon was attacking Soloogarmon, he started to lose control, trying to attack aggressively, this is due to the curse that is embedded into the Souken Grandalpha, that can make him lose control if it's not properly controlled during a fight, so we had to, yet again, try to stop a mad digimon during a tournament, but this time, it was Helloogarmon who stopped it, I asked Soloogarmon to change into Helloogarmon and use the Hati Embrace to immobilize Grademon, and then a referee used her Marin Angemon to calm Grademon down.

My opponent excused his Digimon's behavior, and was asked to change Grademon with another Digimon, but he refused, the admins threatened with kicking him out, since Grademon could've badly hurt my Digimon, but I asked the admins to let him finish the fight with Grademon, since I already have experience with this kind of incidents, they ultimately agreed under the condition that I'd have to take the responsibility along with my opponent if anything happened, we agreed, and the battle went on.

Grademon got into the battlefield again and the battle quickly heated again, Grademon targeted Soloogarmon who got back into his bipedal form after the opponent was controlled, and fought in a way that leads me to think that he sees Soloogarmon as a worthy adversary, meanwhile, Stiffilmon was avoiding Metallife Kuwagamon's Homing Lasers, and quickly attacking with the Vermillion Vortex, the battle more often than not, was an endurance test on both sides, who could bare more sword strikes and who could attack faster.

The struggle between the four Digimon ended up in two separate fights, so it was pretty hard to both follow and order what to do, but in the end Stiffilmon ended up winning against Metallife Kuwagamon due to the speed charge provided by the Giga Crimson Dive, and after Metallife got K.O'd, Stiffilmon got in the middle of the fight between Grademon and Soloogarmon, but was easily taken down by the mad Grademon, who tried to finish up Soloogar with the Grade Slash, that was rapidly responded with the impulse of the Skröll Rage, ultimately giving us the win.

The fight was pretty exciting! Tho I gotta admit that I got kinda overstimulated thanks to the division between digimon, however, I'm glad everything turned great in the end, tho I'm still worried about Grademon, so I decided that the best course of action would be helping it's Tamer, so I gave him a control program similar to that I have equipped on Helloogarmon, he'll have time to equip it himself, im sure. I actually have no idea when my next fight will be, but be sure I'll keep you updated about it!

ATT: ARC

[koushirouizumi]

Good News: I no longer have as much of the "hate" part of my Like-Hate relationship with 02!Takeru but I'm sometimes still tagging it that because it's funny to me (its also partly still the hats. Gd Adventure!+02!Takeru you and your HATS) Bad News {GOOD For Me}: You will still have to deal with my hyper-specific canon-based head-canons that are 100 percent based on Toei ~canon~ ~~lore~~ because Young Me's intent to write Adventure+02!Takeru & Patamon & {ANGEMON[s]} MY WAY and give my vision of Takeru everything Takeru SHOULD Get is reawakening

[asexual-angsty-writer]

Very Random AU about Digimon, because it's like Tumblr and YouTube want me to go re-watch everything after so long.

And all I have to offer is: Digi-Swap TK and Kari

Like, I wanna swap their digimon partners, mainly because I think I'd be funny and because of a very random revelation I have.

One thing I never got is how different Angemon and Angewomon were to their previous transformations - Like okay, I can accept them being angel like guardians to the two youngest but still.

Patamon had this cinnamon and more cutesy feel to him - or better yet, a more put together look while still being a bit shy; So to then see Angemon, who looks worn and ragged tbh - it was startling.

Same with Angewomon - even with the tears in her outfit, it felt too put together; Not all at all ally cat or even jaded, considering her whole story. She felt a lot more put together and lost all of that jaddedness for me.

My running headcanon is that these state kinda reflect their respective digidestines and thus - makes it so it reflects their current state of mind.

And thus, I say, switch their Digimons and see how it goes.

Like with TK - Angewomon could keep some of her previous facets; Her hair could be longer and this mimick a cats tail, she could have a gauntlet that looks like claws or boots that mimick retractable claws - let her wear a torn tunic, bandages on her arms/legs and worn Armour to reflect that jaded and older vibe she had. Dents in the helmet could make a cat hear shape - Her bow can plit and become twin tantos or twin Sai's.

With Kari - Angemon could look more like a Cleric - with a baby blue main theme color, a scepter with magic. Give this man a full blown tunic, give him tiny wings on his helmet to match his shoes - give him fluffier wings and let the wings on his head be semi-transparent to go for a halo look.

Besides, it'd be funny for 02 - because TK could have still bonded and become great friends with Patamon; While Kari is great friends with Gatomon - and they could work together as a full unit. Whether it be with one digimon or another, they'd be badass.

That and imagine the running gag that no one can tell who's who's child or digimon.

[otakween]

Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 - Disc 5

This volume is called "The legendary power of the digimental," so I guess we'll be getting an armor evolve? Also...what the heck is Taichi wearing on the cover. Looks kinda silly...

Ch. 29

-We get a Taichi-free chapter where it's Leomon's turn to shine! Of course he dies, because Leomon always dies lol. I felt bad for the baby digimon who lost their mentor :'c

Ch. 30

-Oh oops, I guess Leomon wasn't dead. Coulda fooled me! This time it was HolyAngemon/Seraphimon's time to shine. I thought it was interesting how HolyAngemon digivolved by removing his "seal." That's a new one.

-The "Super Ultimate" digivolution is confusing since "Ultimate" means something different in dub vs. sub of the anime. I guess they're going for the Japanese version where ultimate is usually the final digivolution.

-Seraphimon unleashes his attack!

(Does anyone else remember that show? I never watched it but it used to be on all the time lol).

Ch. 31

-They did the whole "this is my REAL body" thing with Venom Vamdemon. Still one of my least favorite digimon designs. It felt a little anti-climactic that Zero ended the whole thing in one blow, especially after Leomon and Holy Angemon struggled. Kinda sus power-levels there.

-They reveal that Neo needs to find a digimental to get Arkadimon to "super ultimate," which threw me off. I thought Arkadimon was a special, artificially created digimon that was special BECAUSE it could reach super ultimate. Now they're saying that any digimon can reach super ultimate via a digimental? Okaaaay...

-Hideto enters the scene with his Omegamon. Another digimon that feels weird to be partnered with a tamer. It also feels weird to demote these boss-level digimon to mid-bosses. Kinda makes them feel less impressive.

-Never heard the name "Hideto" before, but a quick Google suggests it's normal...sounds kinda weird to me.

Ch. 32

-So I uh...literally got spoiled about the siblings twist right before I read this chapter because I looked something up in the wiki and saw Rei's last name. D'oh! I guess it's not that shocking when we know next to nothing about her anyways...

-I found it kind of interesting how the gang question if they're on the right side or not since Omegamon is supposed to be "a force for justice." It's a little annoying that this franchise keeps flip-flopping on whether some digimon are just innately good or not. They also kind of implied that Omegamon being a vaccine digimon means he's good too...I just want some consistency.

Ch. 33

-So we get Hideto's backstory in the chapter. The fact that the first 2 Alias characters were all quirky and he's just some normal, cool guy tells me he'll be a little more fleshed out.

-They really thought "Warg" and "Melga" were good names for Digimon (I get that it's from WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon but still...I guess everything sounds better in Japanese).

-So Neo's main motivation for taking over the digital world is to cure his sister's paraplegia? Uhhh...pretty sure wheelchair bound people still live very fulfilling lives, so that's weak.

Ch. 34

-A very interesting explanation of how digimons' lifespans work. Essentially, digimon express themselves by rapidly overwriting their data and digimon that process these overwrites at a faster rate have the downside of have a shorter lifespan. They used the analogy of how overwriting DVDs/CDs can degrade them. The part that threw me off is that Hideto was like "that's right, Zero has a short lifespan, meaning he can't digivolve any further." I thought they meant short lifespan as-in, he'll die soon, not a digivolution limitation? (Do digimon die of old age in this universe?)

-I like that Hideto seems to have some compassion while battling and tries to get Taichi to give up. He's a nice contrast to Neo who's always in crazy villain mode.

This volume felt really short and like not too much happened, just a bunch of battles with some backstory peppered in. It seems like the whole Neo Saiba thing won't go on for 4 more volumes, so I wonder where the story will go after his defeat? Maybe Demon would be next? I honestly keep forgetting about him because he never shows up lol.

P.S. I still don't know what Taichi's wearing on the cover lol

[digimonloving]

Ok this is a personal irrational fear of mine that could be exploited with digimons: imagine a patamon that his female tamer treated as a pet in the sense of seen him as a little boy that you hug, you dress up and kiss and baby and you aren't afraid to walk around naked in front of because that is a pet right, no thought head empty boy right. Imagine patamon evolving into an angemon and then his tamer having a full on crisis cause that is a MAN, a TAXPAYER that has seen me NAKED MULTIPLE TIMES. Bonus points: angemon doesn't see the problem.

A female Tamer with a Patamon she treated more like a pet until he Digivolved into Angemon

It can be easy to look at little Patamon and think him just an adorable little pet. Just a fun little guy to have around. Nothing more, he is basically a flying guinea pig, and he's adorable! Of course, with that thought in mind, the Tamer didn't think much above him just... being a little guy who could speak and do things with ease that obviously other pets didn't do.

Patamon doesn't even mind the baby-ing, as a matter of fact, he highly enjoys it! He loves being dressed-up and hugged and kissed and everything his Tamer deals to him. He never questioned when she was nude, guessing it was just something humans did sometime. He never questioned it and quickly became desensitized to it all and acted as everything was fine.

A Rookie Level does eventually Digivolve, him mostly because he thought someone was trying to break into the house/apartment while they both were sitting together and he jumped into protective mode immediately. Much to the surprise of his Tamer, who now saw he was... a got damn ANGEL. A WHOLE ASS M A N. THAT IS A HUMAN(angel) PERSON.

Of course it's going to cause a crisis for her! He could do that the whole time, and she didn't know about it until NOW. She had been nAKED in-front of him! And now that he was... BIG and STRONG and HUMAN -- with wings but sTILL -- it was making mixed feelings appear no doubt about it.

Angemon, on the other hand, genuinely sees no issue as to why she's freaking out over it all. Mostly because he'd seen er naked so many times at this point that the thought doesn't strike much in him. Given, he is a little bit embarrassed now, mostly because of how she was acting now... But he still wasn't quite sure the whole problem.

Even if he turned back into Patamon, the poor Tamer is left with such a crisis in hand... Can she still go about the same way after figuring out her little baby could turn into a whole ass human person?? It was just weird now... She'd still baby Patamon, since he was just a little guy still, but perhaps... no more being able to walk around without clothes...

[bagerfluff]

The Past Always Comes Back

Older Takaishi Takeru x Non-Binary Reader

Prompt - Nightmares

Takeru stood up and paced around for a few minutes.

Just to sit back down after a few minutes. It was fine, everything was fine, you were fine.

You had forgotten something that you needed to make dinner so you ran out to get it.

Takeru doesn’t even remember what it was.

Just something that was really important, how you forgot it, Takeru doesn’t know. All he did know was that you were taking a pretty long time.

You were just going to the corner shop just a block away from the apartment.

You said it would only take five minutes. It has been ten minutes since you’ve left.

Takeru was nervous.

What if something happened? What if you were hurt? What if a Digimon had managed to come to the real world.

Your digimon was asleep on the couch, you wouldn’t be able to defend yourself.

What if you somehow traveled into the digital world? What if? “Takeru?” Patamon said.

Sitting next to Takeru, watching him panic with a look of concern on their face.

Takeru looked over at Patamon and picked them up. Sitting them in his lap and petting them.

Patamon smiled, closing their eyes and rubbing against Takeru’s hand.

Though after a few seconds Patamon opened their eyes and looked at Takeru.

“Are you okay?” Patamon asked. Takeru looked up, he was still petting Patamon.

Needing to do something with his hands, previously picking at his nails.

He knew you were fine, you probably just couldn’t find what you needed.

Maybe you had to go a few more blocks down to another shop. Yet he couldn’t shake the feeling of dread that pooled in his stomach and heart.

He was worried that something had happened and that he couldn’t do anything about it. It didn’t help that he’s felt like this since this morning.

Takeru looked back down and held Patamon close to his chest.

Patamon closed their eyes and grabbed onto Takeru’s shirt with his claws, snuggling into Takeru’s chest.

Takeru had a nightmare, nothing new, the nightmare wasn’t anything new either.

It was when Patamon digivolved to Angemon for the first time and defeated Devimon, sacrificing themselves in the process. Even though it’s been years it never went away.

The pain and sadness that flooded Takeru when he was young never really went away. The feeling like he couldn't do anything.

How he was helpless to help his own partner.

Though he was older, and able to process it more. He knew why Patamon did what they did, still.

The feeling, the memory of the scared little boy that Takeru was when he first went to the Digital World. That never left, it probably would never leave.

Ever since he woke up this morning he couldn’t shake the feeling of dread, that he was going to lose someone he loved and there was nothing he could do about it, and this time.

He might not get them back.

He couldn't let it happen again, he had to do something. He couldn't do nothing again, if you were hurt he needed to help.

He couldn't watch helplessly as someone he loved died.

“Keru?” Takeru looked up to see you standing behind the partly opened door.

Patamon jumped out of Takeru’s arms and started playing with your digimon.

“Y/n, your back”, Takeru said, standing up with a bright smile on his face.

“Yeah, sorry it took so long. I got caught up”, you said as you walked into the room and shut the door behind you.

“Is everything alright? You looked sad when I walked in, you were also caught up in your thoughts. Didn’t even hear me when I called I was home”, you said.

Walking close to Takeru till you were standing in front of him. Takeru looked away, face falling a little. “Yeah, you were just a little late”, Takeru said.

“I was five minutes late, what's wrong?” You said, arms now crossed over your chest.

Takeru sighed, he didn’t think lying would work. You knew him too well for that.

“I was scared”, Takeru said. Looking towards Patamon and your Digimon.

They were rough housing on the floor. It made Takeru smile, everything was fine now.

His loved ones weren’t putting themselves on the line almost everyday to save the world.

Yet, the feeling would never leave. “I was scared something happened, that you might have been hurt”, Takeru said, hands picking at his skin and feet moving back and forth.

You reached forward and grabbed Takeru’s hands and held them in yours.

“Well, I’m fine as you can see. But, where did this come from?” You asked, rubbing your thumbs over Takeru’s hands to comfort him.

“I had a nightmare. Back when Patamon defeated Devimon”, Takeru said.

That caught Patamon’s attention. Patamon stopped playing with your digimon and flew over to sit on Takeru’s head.

In an effort to comfort Takeru, and it worked. Takeru felt a little better but he was still a little scared. You let go of Takeru’s hands and pulled him into a hug.

“Why didn’t you tell me you had a nightmare?”

You asked, rubbing your hand up and down Takeru’s back. Takeru wrapped his arms around your neck and laid his head on your shoulder.

“I’ve had it so many times that I guess it didn’t click in my mind to tell you”, Takeru said.

You frowned, “well tell me, every time you have a nightmare tell me. Please?” You asked and Takeru nodded, “okay, I will”, Takeru said.

“Also, it’s okay”, you said. Takeru removed his head from your shoulder. Brows furrowed, “what’s okay?” Takeru asked.

“It’s okay that you were worried”, you said. You leaned forward and kissed Takeru’s forehead.

“Next time give me a call, and I’ll tell you all about the cool food I find and get distracted by”, you said.

Takeru laughed, “that’s why you were late?” Takeru asked with a smile, trying to hold back his laughter. “Yes, wait”, you let go of Takeru and ran out of the room.

Takeru laughed a bit till you came back holding a bag of chips. “Look at these”, you said before tossing them to Takeru. Takeru shook his head, “really?”

He asked, holding the bag up with his hand. “That’s not all”, you said before running back out. Takeru shook his head, guess you really were fine.

Takeru walked out of the bedroom to see you digging though a bag with a smile on your face. Takeru leaned against the counter with a smile.

You were right here, Takeru could see you and you were fine. Nothing happened to you.

Everything was fine, though next time. Takeru will take your advice, he’ll tell you about his nightmares.

Though, maybe he won’t give you a call so he could hear about the weird food you find. 

[aviculor]

I'm day drinking and watching a youtuber talk about digimon so I have thoughts. The armor evolutions. They needed to be a little more cohesive. Like, okay, why is Thunderbirmon not Hawkmon plus the digimental of friendship? Rinkmon is cool, but you would think that would be Patamon since it's a guy in a mask like Angemon is. I really liked the example Flamedramon and Raidramon and Holsmon set for an armor evolution being the base digimon "stretched out" and wearing the digimental as armor. Pegasmon is a great armor form for Patamon, maybe even the platonic ideal, but I like the concept of other armor evos for it being pseudo-Angemons the way Flamedramon is a Pseudo-XVeemon. And also the way Shadramon is a pseudo-Stingmon. Because while I think all of the armors should follow Veemon's formula, I also love the idea of Wormmon metamorphosing instead of its armors still being grubs.

Basically, the armors should have followed either of those two paths- the child stage beefed up or a loose imitation of the child's Adult stage. And in either case they must echo the original crest bearer's Adult digimon, because the digimentals should have cohesive themes. Thunderbirmon would have followed that to a T for Hawkmon + friendship. But the friendship armors are all over the damn place. Some are ice themed, some are electric themed, and some just have blades on them. It's a far cry from courage making dinosaurs and/or fire (mostly), knowledge making insects, and reliability making aquatic creatures. And the very notion of Gabumon armor evolving with the digimental of friendship- ITS OWN CREST- into Kenkimon- a fucking construction robot- doesn't even start to make sense. It angers me.

Also awful is Armadimon's....everything. I like Digmon and Submarimon, but there's not cohesion outside of those two. Those armor forms don't match Armadimon, they don't match Ankylomon, they're the most "out there" when it comes to the digimental's themes/referencing the 01 partners, and as a matter of fact I'm not that keen about Armadimon's natural evolutions either. Armadimon and Ankylomon are connected as animals with tough shells, but it's nowhere near as clean as Hawkmon evolving into a larger bird or Veemon evolving into a larger blue dragon or Wormmon evolving into an adult insect. Then Shakkoumon is a fusion of Angemon's holyness and Ankylomon's shell, I get that much, but it looks nothing like its constituents. Especially next to Paildramon and Silphymon. And because the jogresses are all the 02 partners got for Perfect stages, Ankylomon is orphaned once you take that away and no other Perfect stage looks appropriate for it. I mean, Aquilamon, XVeemon, and Stingmon can fit nicely outside of their intended lines, but Ankylomon just doesn't fit with anything else. Its weird design makes it stand out from other dinosaur digimon and I already don't like that the armadillo turns into a dinosaur, I certainly wouldn't want it to stay a dinosaur anyway. But even worse than Shakkoumon is Vikemon, who has nothing to do with any of its lower forms and doesn't even keep the shell idea. It's so out of place as an Ultimate form for Armadimon that they gave it to Gomamon's line after the fact. But what does that leave Armadimon with? Nothing. If it were up to me, I would remake Armadimon's entire family tree from scratch. Even more from scratch than I would remake the digimental evolution chart.

[analyzingadventure]

I’ve wanted to write about this for ages and Psi has kind of made relevant so

I always thought it was weird if we saw a Digimon die and then come back as the exact same species of Digimon.

(This isn’t specific to any series though I do use Adventure a lot in this discussion. May also contain spoilers for Psi)

Now admitedly there aren’t too many examples of this in the franchise (Patamon and Leomon being one of the few notable ones), but that is mainly because deaths are fairly rare, and even deaths we do see, it’s even rarer to see them come back (even when we know the mechanics of the world should make it totally possible)*. But nonetheless, it always felt weird to me when it did happen (or when us fans assume the Digimon would come back as the same species)

To properly explain why it feels weird to me, I first need to ramble about Digimon as “persons” and evolution as a whole

The thing that makes people who they are, are their memories. It’s their life experiences and their feelings of those experiences. It’s not where you’re born, the community you live in or the culture you’re raised in- of course these do affect who you are, but all they do is influence your life experiences and feelings about everything. They are incredbly imporant, and they play a factor in making you “you”, but those things aren’t “you”; “you” are your memories.    And an imporant note here, is that who you are changes as you grow older, as you gain more experiences, feelings and memories. That’s why the “10yo you” is different from the “20yo you” or "40yo you” (etc), and why you will continue to change, even if it was ever so slightly, as you get older. Hell, the “you” who started reading this essay minutes ago is already a different person from the “you” who is reading this sentence right now. “You” are everchanging, ever-evolving.

So what makes a Digimon “them”? Or, more specifically, what makes each Digimon the species they are?    Yes, this is a deeply related question for me, because we humans (I swear I’m not a robot) do express “who we are” outside, through our actions, our interests and how we appear to others, though not just what clothes we wear but also stuff like how we do our hair, tattoos, bodymods etc, not to mention things people don’t have control over from eye color, race, bodytype, height, all the way to disablities.

So if we as humans express so much (and so little) of “who we are” through how we appear, how would Digimon do it? How do Digimon express who they are?

It always just made sense to me if that was through evolution. That just as a Digimon experiences things, their evolutions will reflect the person they are, their feelings, memories, who they want to be.

Honestly this is one of the main reasons why I’ve always hated strict, Pokémon-like evolution lines (not even trees, just lines!!) in Digimon, the idea that these non-physical, A.I. data monsters can only appear a certain way through their lifespans based on whatever they were born as is just depressing to me. And while one might argue “it’s just how they are”, that rule only exists if you specifically go out of your way to write it in, otherwise there’s no reason for it to exist, but I’m getting super sidetracked ranting right now

Like just as an example of the kind of freedom I like to think Digimon could and should have, I want you to picture in your mind an Agumon.

Just a regular ol’ Agumon, living in the Digital World, minding their own business. This Agumon starts travelling for fun, enjoying seeing the world and whatever. During this time they realize they’re not really built for travelling and while their stamina increases as they go on and they get better at hiking, they still kind of wish they were more “built” for this type of activity so that they could enjoy their life more- And eventually they evolve into a Centarmon! Now they can move faster (etc) and enjoy their travelling life more, and they do just that! Life is great!     Until one day they come across the ocean, a beautiful, vast “world” of its own, but one... they can’t explore, at least not any longer than they can hold their breath. They still spend their time exploring what they can, near the beaches etc, until one day their wish to explore the ocean is fulfilled and they evolve into a MegaSeadramon! And now they have great access to the oceans!

Like this example is very extreme, but you get what I mean, with the idea that the evolutions reflect the type of person the Digimon is, what they enjoy and who they want to be. It’s the ever-evolving reflection of their heart that I love

**(Sidenote at the bottom)

And this is why I think it'd make sense if Digimon came back as a different species entirely.

Because while death may have reset their evolution stages back to zero, if the Digimon retains all their memories from their previous life, all their experiences, hopes, wishes and dreams, all of their feelings... Then why would all the growth the Digimon had gone through in their previous life be reset? Shouldn’t their new life continue their previous growth and take different forms to reflect any new paths the mon might take in this life?

Just to use the Agumon from above as an example, if this mon died after spending quite some time as a MegaSeadramon, loving being a sea serpent and living in the ocean, wouldn’t it make sense they came back as a Sangomon instead of an Agumon (and yeah I think the Baby forms could be different too, depending on what they were but I’m skipping these)? Now of course, if they were happy living in the ocean and just totally content there, it’d make total sense if they then evolved to Seadramon and finally back to MegaSeadramon, I’m not saying they can’t come back to where they started at. What I do think is that it’d be weird if this mon went through the same Agumon -> Centarmon -> MegaSeadramon lifespan all over again if they wanted to be a sea-dweller from the get-go.     And of course, as I alluded earlier; what if this Digimon, while living in the ocean as a Sangomon during their second life actually felt like they had seen what the ocean had to offer? What if they started hoping they could explore the skies? What if that wish helped them evolve to Airdramon instead, and they never go back to being a MegaSeadramon?    This is what I mean when I say the second life would be a continuation of their life and their growth, it shouldn’t reset those things.

Now of course, from a simple writing point of view, it’d be confusing if a Digimon we were previously familiar with died and came back as a totally different Digimon, and even more confusing for kids. It’s easier to keep it simple and leave the Digimon the same species as they were in their previous lives

Additionally, most of these characters that we’ve seen die have always been minor characters with limited to non-existant histories; characters like Leomon, Whamon, Scumon+Chuumon, Piccolomon etc, while they’re all really well characterized with distinct personalities, they don’t have histories, backstories, they’re not deep characters. And making this many minor characters with deep backstories for a kids show would be really hard to pull off when you have deadlines to meet and no budget. So showing “the growth” these Digimon have gone through is not really do-able, not with these characters at least.

The Digimon with the most potential here would be Orgamon (the best developed minor character in Adventure) but he never died, Nanomon for sure, and possibly Wizarmon (esp. since his data could be like mildly busted, due to not being a Digimon originally and then dying in the Human World; if anything I think it’d be fun if Wizarmon could “come back” but as a Bakemon or something)

And as far as Patamon goes in Adventure, I do think with him it’s fine he came back in the same Digimon forms.    Like my previous examples with “the Agumon”, this would be like natural evolution that happens over long, looong periods of time, years upon years no doubt, as the Digimon grows as a person. But the partner Digimon, they don’t really have the time to grow naturally, their evolutions aren’t really reflections of their growth. Rather, their evolutions are just powered up versions of who they are, with some reflection from their human partners. So with these partner Digimon (especially the Adventure-type “soul fragment” Digimon, less so with other series like especially Xros Wars), the evolutions being super linear does make sense and work just fine. And as an extention of that, these Digimon dying and coming back in the same species works out, like with Patamon in Adventure

Psi however, makes things a lot more interesting, because in Psi, the partner Digimon have backstories of their own.

Now for the most part, since the partners had lost their memories of their time fighting Mille as the Warriors, their growth being totally reset and them going through the same steps all over again does kinda make sense, it’s maybe a lil dull but that’s probably just my bias from being overly familiar with these characters.

But then there’s Patamon and Tailmon, two Digimon who retain their memories from their previous lives and the growth they’ve gone through. That growth, was own their own, from their own lives without any influence from any humans. But now, they have human partners, who influence them and their growth. And Psi has seemingly kind of spoiled the endgame for us, at least to some capacity?

We know in their previous lives Patamon and Tailmon were a Seraphimon and an Ofanimon, but based on the new key visual/poster, it seems Psi wants to use Goddramon and Holydramon as their final evolutions instead! And honestly, even if these evolutions didn’t come as a result of all the stuff I’ve rambled about in this post, it’ll still work for me for those reasons.

Additionally, while we know Patamon was only temporarily taking the form of Pegasmon because he lost his power and was literally unable to evolve to Angemon, for previously mentioned reasons if they had kept the Pegasmon evolution for the rest of the series it still would’ve worked for me, as it could’ve been seen as Pegasmon being a reflection of Takeru’s childlike innocence influencing Patamon’s evolutions

But yeah. I can’t remember if I had like a bottom line when I started writing this but it sure as hell is gone from my mind now, point is, I kinda wish Digimon’s evolution was seen slightly differently and written slightly differently, and explored more, especially through the Digimon who had previously died (who I would also like to see come back when the rules of the universe allow it instead of just ignoring the fact that they should be alive and well). And generally speaking I wish Digimon were written with more depth. Thank you for reading this incoherent mess

*Sidenote; arguably I think this could’ve applied to tri. as well, the Digimon who had their memories wiped completely could’ve totally evolved into different Digimon and maybe even should’ve

**Sidenote, this wouldn’t mean there’s NO limitations to what species a Digimon could evolve into; for example, just because you want to be a super powerful heroic Digimon like Omegamon it doesn’t mean you CAN evolve into Omegamon; if being valiant and heroic at heart were requirements to evolve to Omegamon, then unless you’re truly valiant and heroic at heart then you probably wouldn’t be able to evolve to Omegamon, if anything you might end up as Omekamon instead. Similarly if a certain species have other specific requirements, be it like Jogress requirements or Digimentals etc, then unless those requirements were met the evolution wouldn’t be possible     So what I’m getting at is that limitations/requirements could totally still exist (depending on the rules of the specific setting), but being “the right species” to go from A to B wouldn’t and shouldn’t be one, at least not in my heart, but I digress

[jippy-kandi]

Digimon Adventure: 2020 – Episode 20: The Seventh One Awakens (Review)

Thoughts on the twentieth episode of the Digimon Adventure reboot series.

I quite liked this episode. Probably because of my immense love for the Takaishida brothers. Can you tell from the screenshots? :P

I really liked how desperate Yamato was to save Takeru. It brought more realism to a show that otherwise dodges it. XD;

Velgrmon is a cool-looking digimon and a worthy opponent.

Megadramon totally didn’t appear just to get Leomon out of the way so that our heroes could shine, right? No way. :P

Someone should count how many times Yamato and Takeru said each other’s names this episode. It might be more times than Yuuko Yagami thought about her son the entire series! :P

MetalGreymon’s small, weak, damaged-looking wings allow him to fly? Who knew! Not me.

Toshiko Takenouchi in a blurred cameo! Her head looks ginormous, hahaha. It’s nice that she “chewed out” Sora for being missing for three days, but . . . that’s it? She just let her 11-year-old daughter go out again the very next day - after disappearing for three? I don’t know, reboot, that's . . . lame.

The whole “three days missing” thing is something the writers should have really thought more about. It’s just not realistic that their parents wouldn’t be calling the police and panicking like crazy over their disappearance - especially during a power outage/utter chaos. I give a lot of passes for kids’ shows, but the more it’s brought up, the more it just seems really silly.

Sora: “Koushirou-kun, were you OK?” Koushirou: “What? Well . . . My house is, um . . .” Well, I’m intrigued in his backstory! (Also, Sora’s face when she waits for Koushirou’s answer is SO CUTE. The warmth of this girl is amazing.)

I’m not sure why Koushirou felt the need for them to move when other people were around? Tentomon could easily be someone’s Avatar on the internet. Did Toei forget this is 2020? lol

So Tentomon and the others are in the Network, along with some other evil digimon. Interesting.

WereGarurumon riding - and then surfing - on MetalGreymon’s missile was both cool and silly at the same time, haha.

The highlight of the episode for me: Everything Takaishida. Yamato reaching out for Takeru and, just, every single shot of these brothers. Yes, I barely know Takeru, but I could feel Yamato’s desperation for him and it worked for me. LOOK AT TAKERU’S TINY HAND REACHING FOR YAMATO’S LARGER ONE. <3

Although, when Yamato finally pulled Takeru out, I did think he might’ve flung him too far, LOL. (Yamato benches, bro.) But then Takeru fell into his big brother’s loving arms and OMFG THIS MOMENT WAS SO PRECIOUS, IF YOU FELT NOTHING YOU ARE COMPLETELY DEAD INSIDE BELLA. Possibly my favourite moment of the entire reboot so far. <3

When they were falling from the sky they were basically playing catch with each other and I lol’ed.

In this episode we learned that Takeru’s vocabulary only consists of “onii-chan” and “stop it!”.

OH MY, TAKERU WISHED FOR A WHOLE ANGEL. :D A good-looking one, too. But Angemon’s voice does not suit him, lol. Looks like a prince, croaks like a frog. Dude went from a 10 to a 4 real fast. XD;

Angemon gave his power to WereGarurumon and MetalGreymon to defeat Velgrmon - and then died? This angel is super weak, Takeru, get a refund. :P

YOU HAD ONE JOB, TAKERU, ONE JOB - CATCH THE DAMN DIGI-EGG! orz

The fact that Takeru just met Angemon makes his “death” less impactful than in the OG. But that’s OK, it’s not like kids watching the show know that. So it worked fine . . . for now. I guess Takeru won’t have this trauma hanging over him like in 02 where they suddenly pulled it out in an attempt to give his character depth. :P

Overall, I liked this episode.

I think the Angemon plot could’ve been done better (it seems like in an effort to subvert OG expectations, they neutered themselves), but we’ll see where they end up taking it. I thought for sure Devimon vs. Angemon would go down . . . but now that Angemon is in the process of being “reborn”, I doubt he’d be reborn a second time after defeating Devimon.

Then again, the reboot has definitely repeated things before *cough* Omegamon *cough* so I guess Angemon could die again! :P

[imaginedigimon]

u got any lgbtq+ hcs for any of the main 12 adventure and 02 kids?

🤔 Hmm...

Now Anon, I’m warning you: I’m probably not going to give you what you want for this. But I’m going to try.

I REALLY HOPE I DON’T FUCK THIS UP, FRIENDS *stressing out a bit I will not lie*

LGBTQ+ Headcanons for 01 + 02 Gang

Tai [Taichi]

Doesn’t know the meaning of the word “straight” except in terms of line segments in math (but even then, he’s a little lost)

He probably saw the pride flag for the first time when he was 14 and because it reminded him of the Crests thought, “I CAN GET BEHIND THAT”

When he learned the real meaning of pride and the LGBTQ+ community, he was even more ecstatic

Has definitely beaten up some homophobes before

And transphobes

He’s beaten up a lot of people in general

Realized after a while that he’s pansexual himself and started painting his face with the pan flag everyday

Will not deny that he has a thing for Matt and Sora at the same time and is happy if they’re happy but would really like to kiss them both pls

Matt [Yamato]

He most certainly questioned his own gender for a while, though he can’t pinpoint when it started

Gabumon told him it didn’t matter what he identified as, they’d always be partners anyway, so that really helped him a lot

It also helped that Tai was willing to beat people’s asses for him

Has also beaten up some homophobes and transphobes (Tai has been the one to drag him away from some fights)

Wears pins of all the pride flags at all times because fuck you haters

Also would like to kiss Tai, just like once or twice or a million times

Identifies as bisexual most likely

Sora

Doesn’t mention it a lot, but Mimi was probably her first kiss (by accident...OR WAS IT?)

She was the type of person who, because she grew up in a very hetero-normative world, wasn’t sure what it meant to like a girl

Probably asked Tai when she was 15 and still thinking about Mimi’s hair and lips when he explained to her that it was perfectly normal

She never forgot that conversation

Has continuously questioned her identity and orientation throughout the years, though only Biyomon has been privy to this struggle

Finally settled on saying she’s queer because she’s not much for labels (especially when she’s in a constant state of questioning)

Definitely asked Mimi to kiss her again just so it wouldn’t be an accident

Izzy [Koshiro]

Always a kid before his time, knew how to explain all aspects of pride to everyone else before they even knew what the LGBTQ+ community was

Has PowerPoints to make things clearer

Around age 17 or 18, he started asking that everyone use he/him or they/them pronouns, and this hasn’t changed since

Everyone said “a’ight” because they love him no matter what

Has always had some kind of romantic feelings for just about everyone in the group, but nothing beyond that

This poor sweetie pie cried the night he realized he was asexual and called Joe, who said in the most intense voice he’d ever heard, “You think that matters to us? We love you, Izzy, and don’t you ever forget that”

Has decided Joe is the coolest guy ever

Started some social media account where it’s nothing but pictures of Tai with various pride symbols painted on his face and it’s blown up

Mimi

Unlike Sora, she didn’t think much about the kiss

She had already accepted that she liked girls by that point

Definitely had a crush on Yolei too, though she played it cool

YOU CANNOT TELL ME SHE DIDN’T CONSIDER MEIKO HER TRUE LOVE

Teases Izzy a lot because she has a bit of a crush on him too, though this confused her because she thought she liked girls

The day she learned the term homoflexible she thought she was dreaming

But she wasn’t

Still, Sora and Yolei and Meiko are her girls and she loves them very dearly

Has the same enthusiasm as Tai and paints the various flags on her face as well (became part of that social media account Izzy started)

You can catch her and Tai at a pride parade screaming at the top of their lungs

Joe [Jou/Jyou]

I’ll admit, he’s probably the token straight? But he’s also one of those guys who’s not afraid to tell Matt he looks handsome today

Has needed to ask Izzy a lot of questions because he’s like me and wants to know and not offend anyone because he’s ignorant or doesn’t know something

Had a moment similar to me where he wondered if he really was straight

Decided he still was, but would support anyone and everyone because that’s just the guy he is

You know how he becomes a doctor? He most CERTAINLY helps with transitioning whenever he can because he’s a GOOD. DOCTOR.

Doesn’t beat up haters, but gives them a death glare that’s just as effective

Wore around a rainbow doctor’s coat because he COULD and no one tried to stop him because they knew he’d quit on the spot

Takeru [T.K.]

Been the guy to say “respect LGBTQ+ rights or die by my sword” or something like that

Lowkey had a crush on Angemon and Angewomon simulanteously and could NOT for the life of him explain why that was

Never told either of them this though

Or Kari

Definitely didn’t tell Kari

Okay yes, Tai is his big brother, but he definitely had a crush on the guy for about 2 weeks before he met Kari and everything changed

Hasn’t told either of them this

Like Sora, has only said he identifies as queer - he’d like to figure it out/delve deeper but is too busy flirting with everyone to care

Brings 5 different dates to his brother’s concerts at the same time and they all have to vie for his attention - it’s usually whoever says the most positive things about his brother

Has done at least 6 drag shows so far and let me tell you - KILLS IT every time

Kari is his forever girl but keeps winking at Ken just to make him blush

Kari [Hikari]

Also had a crush on Angewomon like how could she NOT

Also had crushes on Matt, Izzy, Mimi, and Sora (but not Joe for some reason)

When she realized her feelings for T.K. she got really really nervous (because of all his dates, you see)

Was also confused because she was pretty confused about her range of crushes over the years

Tai came out as pan to her first and she realized that sounded a lot like her

She’s a pan baby and she’s proud of it (and thanks her brother for supporting her)

Gave a rainbow pin to T.K. for his birthday and in return he kissed her

They go to ALL the pride events and nothing can stop them

Occasionally uses they/them pronouns on days she’s questioning

Davis [Daisuke]

Tai was his first love and you cannot change my mind about this

Meeting Kari was like meeting a Tai Who Would Notice Him and that was pretty rad

But he also likes her because of her, too

The world kinda stopped when he met Ken, though

Like damn, look at those soccer skills

I’m gonna be real, I think Davis is soccersexual (or footballsexual for non-Muricans)

Them soccer players be really hot though

Always has questions about the community, but never retains the answers

The PowerPoints, unfortunately, do not help

Eventually gave up and said, “I’M A DUMBASS BUT I SUPPORT YOU ALL”

They tried to tell him he should at least know what he’s talking about

(We’re still working on that)

Wears rainbow shirts with rainbow pants and it’s very atrocious but very appreciated

He is gay. He sometimes does crimes. We accept him anyway.

[T.K. asked him if he wanted to go to a drag show, he said “okay?” and really really loved it now he goes all the time]

Yolei [Miyako]

Mimi is hot, Ken is hot, Kari is hot, Matt’s kinda hot, everyone’s hot

She’s never been able to fully accept this because how is everyone so hot

Mimi was her first love, and Ken was her first boyfriend

She never forgot the firsts

Attracted to any and everyone it seems

She likes to call herself a frying pan and it makes everyone facepalm a little bit

Constantly dresses in the colors on the pan flag because she looks GOOD in them and it’s a way to remind everyone not to mess with her or her community

Tries to pretend she doesn’t know Mimi and Tai when she’s at a pride event and they’re out here acting like fools

But she also loves how unerringly supportive they are

Cody [Iori]

He was the first one everyone came out to, like for some reason he’s that guy

Literally the first person to offer you support

One day he told everyone he was transgender, and while they were surprised, they also didn’t react the way he was expecting

They actually hugged him immediately and said, “But don’t worry we love love love you” and Tai started painting the trans flag on Cody’s face until Cody said, “Guys please fuck off for a sec”

When he becomes a lawyer, he becomes the type of lawyer to defend anyone who was arrested on basis of race/identity/orientation/gender like the boss he is

Suspects he might be ace but hasn’t really delved into it much

He’s too busy scolding Davis for doing dumb things

Ken

Can everyone stop being hot for a sec? -direct quote from Ken himself

He’s in love with all the 02 kids and he’s accepted this

Yolei somehow stole his heart, but T.K.’s winks send it aflutter

He wants them both to stop (but they won’t)

Was completely unaware that Davis also liked him (even though it was really obvious?)

He identifies as bi and, like Izzy, uses they/them pronouns interchangeably with he/him

One of the good detectives on the force. Will bust your ass if you say any offensive slurs about anyone. [Has gotten suspended a few times for doing this BUT IT WAS FUCKING WORTH IT.]

Always the one on duty when Davis gets arrested for his crimes and it’s hecka exhausting

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Uhm... did I do good? I’ll admit, I was a little nervous since I myself am straight and cisgender (or cishet, as I’ve learned is the term)  😥  😥

Anon, I really do hope I did a good job!

And if I didn’t you can roast me in the flames of Meramon Hell

[o-w-quinlan]

Digimon Adventure 2020, episode 20 reaction (and over-analysis)

This week, Takeru says “Onii-chan” 8 times and Yamato says “Takeru” 23 times. Also, the best episode in the series so far.

Let’s start with the small scene with Sora and Koushiro. When we see Koushiro, he’s trying to contact Taichi again, which shows how close he’s gotten to the other boy. He’s not looking for their partner digimon as he had promised he would, though. Maybe he’s unsure about his ability to do so without Taichi’s constant reassurance? He did only say he would after Taichi told him he trusted in his abilities. Anyway, Sora soon appears, carrying two drinks for herself and Koushiro. She’s also the one Mimi and Jou contact to tell her they’ll be late. Not surprising, since Sora quickly developed a bond with every member of the group except Koushiro, while Koushiro only really developed one with Taichi.

Then Sora brings up her mother’s reaction, and the contrast between the two deepens even further. For while Sora can freely speak about how her mother reacted when she came back home (reasonably for an adult, though it’s still weird that she’d let Sora leave the house the very next day), Koushiro can only really talk generally about the situation (”oh, it’s a normal reaction”) but is deeply uncomfortable about his own family situation. Generally speaking this short scene deepened what we already knew about both of them and introduced new possibilities for Koushiro.

And then the Digimon contact them, and we are introduced to what’ll most likely be their role in the following episodes. Calamaramon is leading a group of Algomon in eating data from the human world, which none of the characters know yet but can feel the effects, be it because of the problems in the connections after the black-out, or because everything is in chaos in the world of the internet.

There you have it, 3 paragraphs on the shortest scene in the episode. Can you tell it was great?

Anyway, back to the main plot, the episode starts with some further shots of Takeru in the tank, and he looks deeply unhealthy due to the lighting, the shadows making him seem as if he was famished. The reunion is interrupted by the Corrupted Beast Spirit of Darkness, Velgrmon, who Leomon recognizes even before seeing due to feeling his attack. Velgrmon steals Takeru and utterly destroys Valvemon, which Leomon and the others barely escape. The group tries to follow their new enemy when a Megadramon appears. It’s interesting that it seems to consider Leomon a more important target than the 2 Children, since when the lion digimon tried to lure it away from them, it looks at the kids for half a second before following.

Taichi and Yamato follow Velgrmon, and WereGarurumon proves himself as the (second) MVP in the episode. Be it figuring out how to catch up to Velgrmon, shielding Yamato from the feather attacks, catching the brothers after they fall or reminding them all after rescuing Takeru that they must still defeat Velgrmon, he always knows what must be done and doesn’t hesitate for a second to do it. The only exception to this is when he offer Yamato help in getting Takeru out of the miasma sphere and the boy refuses. It makes me wonder if there’ll be some sort of conflict between the two later.

As far as the brothers go, Yamato has never, ever, looked cooler than here. Running alongside MetalGreymon’s metal claw, resisting the obvious pain from the miasma sphere to rescue his brother, immediately trying to shield him from the fall once Velgrmon attacks. There’s no place for nuance in their situation during this episode, but it completely succeeds in portraying him as desperate and afraid, a great climax to his character so far, the cold and logical boy who is doing this all to prevent the possibility of his brother getting hurt, suddenly confronted with something beyond his worst nightmares. As for Takeru... he’s mostly there for Yamato’s characterization rather than his own, which is uniformly “sad little boy” at all points of the episode except for one. Which one? The moment he turns to face Velgrmon after being abducted for a second time, and instead of fear (which he’s still clearly feeling) he’s overcome by anger. Doesn’t make this a good introduction to his character (I hope we get that next week), nor does it make up for every single one of his lines before that being just “Onii-chan”, but at least it’s something.

Then there’s, of course, Angemon’s appearence, and it’s great. Not because of some tragedy from Takeru losing his partner, no, we don’t know either of them nearly enough for that. It’s great because the entire series has built up the Holy Digimon as massively important allies that they must rescue, and Angemon here completely justifies all of those efforts. He exudes power, more so than any other digimon so far except perhaps Omegamon, but he’s also warm and inviting, the clear signs of his imprisonment and torture only making him seem more noble, the miracle being not the defeat of their enemy but rather their wounds being healed and suddenly gaining the power to win themselves (and their attack purifies the miasma around Velgrmon before killing him). He lives up to any expectation the series had built up to the Big Good Digimon, and then he dies. The moment his digitama appears is also very well executed, with Agumon and Gabumon explaining what this mean, how the life of a digimon is, and approaching Takeru to see the egg more clearly, as if in reverence.

We end on a cliffhanger of SkullKnightmon stealing the egg and Devimon saying that this unplanned event will be beneficial for them. After several episodes of cliffhangers, this isn’t among the better ones, but it’s still intriguing enough to mull over for a week.

Other notes:

Leomon is an extremely powerful Adult to be able to defeat a Perfect, even with help.

The Takenouchi family is still very traditional, apparently.

Gomamon makes sure to reassure Palmon in a very paternal fashion.

This is the best episode in the series so far, beating even episode 6 and 12. While I’m scared that the preview next week means we’ll get WarGreymon (which would ruin the series’ pacing yet again), I’m willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.