#arkadimon

[roccoco-co]

Digimon requests from Ko-fi pt.2!

▶️You can get your own here!

[peach-artblog]

Prompt time! Redesign your least favorite digimon in a way that you'd like it!

I had a hard time finding a least favorite design there all good it's just I saw this one on the wiki and it was too weird and smooth for my liking!

[aquillis-main]

Sonic and Shadow petting the Digimon is so cute 🥰

I mean, it's canon that Sonic and Shadow don't mind petting Chao whenever they wished to - Sonic Adventure 2 gives us that option immediately when we're in the Chao Garden, after all. And what's Digimon but a more complicated Chao-raising system? I love the idea of Sonic constantly petting Veemon, even after it Digivolves into bigger, tougher guys - Magnamon, Sagittarimon, Flamedramon, LightDramon, Gargoylemon, Veedramon, AreoVeeDramon, UlforceVeedramon...

I also like the idea of Shadow having kinship with A Digimon that was similarly experimented on, and used as a force of destruction like Shadow was. I would think that, while wary with it at first, Arkadimon never bothers to attack without Shadow's permission, and Shadow gets a feel on how Arkadimon responds - and even outright 'speaks' to Shadow (Cause let's be real, it's more interesting if Shadow and Arkadimon had more of a mutual trust through actions rather than words, and also I feel it's more IC for Arkadimon to... not have the ability to talk at all) - through what it does and what actions it takes. I like the idea of Arkadimon being more neutral to everything and everyone, while Shadow himself has a high disregard for people in general.

... Also, the idea of Arkadimon purring like a crocodile has wedged itself into my head. Thanks, @randomthefox

[digimon--kaiser]

digimon au? Digimon au.

[meihouwangslittlecumslut]

[digimonirl]

Just saw an army of baby arkadimons running around. Not sure what they're doing, but it almost looks like they're playing catch

No matter the species, all kids just love to throw things at each other dgehebdbd

[digimonpolls]

Bracket 23/64

[hapticthing]

m1ku becoming a big ass arkadimon is my dream. please imagine a distant ievan polka and she flies in. also a couple of cantaras

[kideternity]

Really really funny that Justimon is like now one of my all time favourite digimon everrrr but I had a really lukewarm initial reaction to them that had to slowly change and evolve to the love I have now and even then despite all that I still think all of Justimon's major media appearances/the writing for them specifically so far are is like Mid/Mediocre LMFAOOOOOO

[digimon-smashorpass]

[kariachi]

It's always sad to be reminded that people who aren't into digimon see it as just 'cute animal becomes mech or big-tittied woman' because it gets so much weirder than that.

Like, yes we have a lot of mechas and a lot of big tits, but then you get shit like Arkadimon (Super Ultimate) and Sephirothmon.

The dub had to censor a fucker and now we have a dude that's just an orange.

There's a whole subsection of digimon that are technically digimon in costumes, except some of them actually are the costumes, and some are just in costumes of themselves (look at Etemon, we already know that's an outfit but try to tell me they don't look near exactly the same underneath).

We have a baby that is a chicken nugget that in it's more common line can become a three-eyed gremlin of death, and in actuality can become anything the fuck else. Anything the fuck else.

We've got a fucker that's just a collection of shadows and eyes who can turn into Dagon who can turn into ten-legged prehistoric goat.

Come, join us, you will find something you'll enjoy, with 1,469 of the fuckers, plus another ~141 Appmon, it's impossible not to.

[backus-naur]

Idea Journal: Digimon MMORPG

Wouldn't it be cool to have a Digimon online RPG that makes use of all the null canon Digital World lore (from the Digimon Reference Book and other sources related to the Virtual Pets, like the Folder Continent Report and Digimon Chronicle/Digimon Chronicle X)? This is my take on what it could look like.

Digimon Partners

You start the game by choosing one of the five factions from the original Pendulum (except Virus Busters), each of which gives you a different starter Digimon:

Nature Spirits: Elecmon > Leomon > GrappLeomon > SaberLeomon

Deep Savers: Betamon > Seadramon > MegaSeadramon > MetalSeadramon

Nightmare Soldiers: Candmon > Meramon > DeathMeramon > Boltmon

Wind Guardians: Mushmon > Woodmon > Jyureimon > Pinocchimon

Metal Empire: Hagurumon > Guardromon > Andromon > HiAndromon

Some boss Digimon also drop Digitama when defeated, which can be hatched into the Child form of that boss. Other Digitama can be acquired by completing specific quests.

Areas

Folder Continent: The main hub of the game, split into different subregions for each faction, like in the Pendulum Z. Bosses: Royal Knights, including Omegamon (drops Agumon or Gabumon Digitama), UlforceVeedramon (drops Veemon Digitama), Dukemon (drops Guilmon Digitama), Sleipmon (drops Kudamon Digitama), Examon (drops Dracomon Digitama), JESmon (drops Hackmon Digitama)

Net Ocean: Underwater area, reached via the Deep Savers subregion. The deepest part is the Dark Web, which connects to the Dark Area. Boss: Leviamon

Kernel: Reached via the Virus Busters subregion, inhabited by angel Digimon that serve Yggdrasil. Bosses: Seraphimon (drops Patamon Digitama), Ophanimon (drops Plotmon Digitama), Cherubimon (drops Lopmon Digitama)

Dark Area: Underworld region inhabited by demon Digimon, reached via the Nightmare Soldiers subregion or the Dark Web. Boss: Anubimon

Cocytus: The deepest layer of the Dark Area, inhabited by the Seven Great Demon Lords. It connects to the Dark Areas of other Digital Worlds. Bosses: GranDracumon (drops Dracumon Digitama) and Seven Great Demon Lords, including Belphemon (drops Phascomon Digitama)

Iliad: Alternate Digital World governed by the Olympus XII. Bosses: Titamon and Olympus XII, including Apollomon (drops Coronamon Digitama) and Dianamon (drops Lunamon Digitama)

Dark Area (Iliad): Dark Area of the Iliad server. Boss: Plutomon

Witchelny: Alternate Digital World inhabited by magic-user Digimon like Wizarmon and Witchmon, and home to a magical academy. Boss: Hexeblaumon (drops Blucomon Digitama), Zephagamon (drops Pteromon Digitama)

Old Digital World: Old Digital World server before Yggdrasil released the X Program and abandoned it, inhabited by X-Antibody Digimon. Boss: Alphamon (drops Dorumon Digitama)

Ulud Terminal: Terminal of the new Digital World that represents the past, inhabited by dinosaur Digimon. Boss: Volcanicdramon (drops Vorvomon Digitama)

Skuld Terminal: Terminal of the new Digital World that represents the future, inhabited by machine Digimon. Boss: Metallicdramon (drops Jazamon Digitama)

Jogress

Two players with compatible Ultimate-level Digimon can temporarily Jogress them into a more powerful Digimon. Examples:

Examon = Breakdramon + Slayerdramon

GraceNovamon = Apollomon + Dianamon

Omegamon = MetalGarurumon + WarGreymon

Digital Hazards

Special events where all the players unite to fight a threat to the Digital World, also giving them the chance to get special Digitama. Examples:

Arkadimon Super Ultimate (drops Arkadimon Digitama)

Armagemon (drops Keramon Digitama)

Rasenmon Fury Mode (drops Herissmon Digitama)

[otakween]

Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 - Disc 8

Another mysterious appearance by a main character looking dude on the inner flap of this volume. He kinda looks like that Ryo guy from the Adventure 02 Ken flashbacks. Guess I'll find out...

Side note: apparently Arkadimon won 3rd place in the Japanese popularity poll? How!? He's literally the most boring digimon ever!

Ch. 46

-How are we on the final battle already if there's a whole other volume after this one? Either this isn't the final battle and they'll pull some "secret final boss" nonsense (it is the Digimon way) OR vol. 9 will just be like epilogue stuff. I'd prefer the latter

-In the scanlation I'm reading Taichi says "attacks won't work on Arkadimon, let's try direct attacks!" I kinda got what they were going for, but it's a bad translation, so I looked at the original Japanese. They use 必殺技 (hissatsuwaza) and 直接 (chokusetsu). So, special attacks don't work, but direct attacks do. Kinda like when you can't use magic on some enemies in games.

Ch. 47

-You see, ripping up Zero's wings and stabbing him through the chest has kind of lost all impact at this point. Not only is this a kid's manga so I know he'll be okay, but also we've already seen him recover from those specific injuries before.

-Gabo and Rei are cute together, I could see them as protagonist/partner in an alternate version of this story.

Ch. 48

-Wow, they're really going hard with this "rock bottom" moment. I know things will turn out okay, but if I was a dumb 8 year old who's never read anything like this before, I might be kinda shook

-Neo continues to be a flat character. You would think adding his sister to the story as a good guy would cause him to have some kind of inner conflict, but he's just evil for the sake of evil and his sister being around has had zero impact. Boooo

Ch. 49

-Not much happened in this chapter, they just explained how the Dot Matrix attack works and prepared to fight Neo's army. Zero is in the ICU and Taichi's basically catatonic. I feel like the level of despair being conveyed by Taichi is a little more than we ever saw in the anime. Manga always tends to be an edgier medium.

Ch. 50

-This whole time I've been calling him "Leomon," but he was actually Panyamon (the white reskin). Also, Dominimon is new...not as badass looking as Seraphimon

-The "all digimon give Zero strength" scene was a good opportunity to bring back some one-off background characters. Cute to see that some of them have digivolved too.

Ch. 51

-Okay, I'm not crazy for thinking it was Leomon because they literally call him "Leo" lol

-Kinda don't like how Zero and Taichi are the "chosen ones" and no one else can even scratch Arkadimon. It would be more interesting if they worked as real team where everyone balances each other out. I guess why they don't do solo MCs in the anime...

Omake - Hot Blooded!

-So I was right, we get a crossover with Ryo due to a Wonderswan promotion. It's nice to see a different MC design for once! He kind of reminds me of Lloyd Irving

-This was shorter and had a sillier tone than the other crossovers. It was kind of stupid that they defeated Demon's henchman via "hot bloodedness," but it was funny how equally matched Taichi and Ryo were in personality.

-I wish we could have seen more of -checks wiki- Monodramon. I really like his design. Very Spyro the Dragon.

I can't believe there's only one more volume left! I feel like I zoomed through this. As far as I can tell, Digimon really isn't known for its manga, so it's been interesting to see some of the neglected bits of the franchise. It's definitely a kids and super fans only kinda situation because neither the plot or characters are that deep or unique. I guess that makes a nice brain-off read though.

[aquillis-main]

Sonic and Shadow just... calmly petting Veemon and Arkadimon respectfully, not minding the two aren't exactly Chao for a brief moment, and both Digimon instantly are like 'I'm in heaven' when they get petted.

... yes, the Ultimate Arkadimon gets his pets too.

[windfighter]

Heading home

Prompt: Shortness of breath

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Everything was packed. It wasn’t much, a few notebooks, the laptop and a souvenir Yamato had forgotten once when he was visiting. Iceangel stared at it before putting it in the bag. They took a shaky breath.

”Everything okay?” Myotismon asked.

The digivice felt heavy in Iceangel’s pocket. They shrugged.

”We’re just… I need to call someone. Can we do that without messing it up? …I’m not making any promises.”

Myotismon put a hand on Iceangel’s shoulder and they looked at him. The color of their eyes swirled, changed between white and blue. Eventually they settled back on one blue and one white.

”You keeping steady?” Myotismon asked.

Iceangel nodded. They leaned against Myotismon.

”We don’t… share the same connections to these memories. It makes it harder.”

They smiled, gave him a hug and grabbed their phone.

”We’ll make the call, you prepare the explosives.”

”It’s hard when you’re life suddenly change like this”, Myotismon said.

It was supposed to be supportive. Iceangel mostly felt patronized. It wasn’t a sudden change, it had been coming for a while, they had been preparing for it, there wasn’t much for them in this world any longer. Not with Firedemon in the Shadow World and their digimon dead and their two friends having moved on with their lives. Arkadimon was waiting for them in the digital world and they already spent most of their time there anyway. Moving there was a natural next step.

It was just… They’d close the door to the human world. They wouldn’t be able to return. They would never be able to see Kouji and Yamato again. The part of them that had spent their whole life in the Shadow World and the digital world didn’t care, but the part that had lived most of their life in the human world? It was a little harder for that part. Iceangel let out a sigh.

”We’ll be fine. I just want to say good bye.”

Myotismon nodded. He grabbed the bag and put it next to the portal, before heading outside. Iceangel’s hand shook as they dialed Yamato’s number. They had already said goodbye to Kouji and after this… They would be free to leave.

Yamato answered almost immediately. Iceangel’s knees felt weak and they sank down to the floor.

”Hey”, Yamato said.

He sounded a bit distracted. Iceangel didn’t blame him.

”Hey”, they said. ”How’s life?”

”Busy.”

Yamato’s voice was so soft. Iceangel missed the time when they would hear it every day.

”I’ve gotten married”, Yamato continued.

Iceangel perked up. That was exciting news.

”Congrats! To Taichi?” they teased.

Yamato snorted.

”To Sora. We had a kid last month.”

”I honestly would never have put you down as someone who’d settle down and start a family”, Iceangel admitted. ”Are you happy?”

Yamato was quiet for a while. Iceangel’s breath hitched and their eyes felt wet.

”I am”, Yamato answered eventually. ”Lots of things have fallen in place. And you?”

Iceangel mulled it over. They weren’t unhappy at least.

”We think you could call it happy”, they answered. ”It’s not like everything has fallen into place or so but… We’re making ourself a place instead.”

They would. They would take their mother’s role in the digital world. A watcher, someone whose job was to make sure the world was in balance and to call upon the chosen children if they were ever needed.

Yamato moved on the other end of the line. Iceangel listened as he picked something up, talked with someone and then sat down. Iceangel was still on the floor. They pulled their knees to their chest and leaned against them.

”We’re moving”, they said. ”To the digiworld.”

Yamato hmmed.

”I… think I saw that coming.”

There was a sadness in his voice all of a sudden. They had known each other for so long, since they were both eleven. Iceangel’s breath hitched again and tears ran down their cheeks. They couldn’t quite breath. Black wings sprouted from their back and wrapped around them, hid them from the world.

”I’m going to miss you”, Windy said.

His eyes were blue. He pulled a hand across them to get the tears away. Yamato took a shaky breath on the other end.

”You know where to find me”, he said.

An attempt to ease the pain. Windy knew it all too well, could imagine the smile on Yamato’s lips as he said it.

”I do”, Windy answered with a smile.

They fell quiet. Iceangel merged with Windy’s conciousness again and they listened to the sounds of Yamato shifting on the other end. Did he hear the way they couldn’t quite breathe? Iceangel tried to get control of themselves again.

”When are you moving?” Yamato asked after a couple of minutes.

”As soon as we hang up. Myotismon is setting up the explosives and then all trace of us will be gone.”

”You’re blowing up the house?”

There was a lot of memories in the house, but without Iceangel there it was just an empty shell that no one would come to. They nodded.

”It’s better that way”, they said. ”No traces left, no way for anyone to follow us. Nothing that would lead anyone investigating to you or Kouji.”

”Yeah, okay. I can see what you’re thinking.”

Yamato let out a sigh. Iceangel could tell he was close to tears as well.

”Hey”, they said. ”You know where to find us.”

”I do”, Yamato laughed. ”I’ll see you someday. Good luck with life.”

”Yeah”, Iceangel couldn’t get air into their lungs. ”You too. See you around.”

They ended the call, stood up. Myotismon was waiting by the portal and Iceangel put the phone on the couch table. They wouldn’t need it where they were going. They grabbed the bag and Myotismon’s hand.

”Ready to go home?” they asked.

”Ready to go home”, Myotismon answered and they walked through the portal.

[arkadiaasks]

Where'd the name "Arkadia" come from, if you don't mind answering?

Arkadimon from Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01

It comes from an older spelling of Arcadia, a region of Greece associated with the concept of paradise.

I was like 15 when I came up with it, and I think it rules.

The Neo part before you ask comes from Neo Saiba/Saiba Neo, the manga's chief villain, and Arkadimon's tamer.