#besides ken and takeru

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[ID: Screenshots from the second eyecatch of Digimon Adventure Zero Two. Image 1: Wormmon leaps onto Ken's shoulder, Hikari crouches beside Tailmon, Takeru holds Patamon, and V-mon, Armadimon, and Hawkmon stand beside their human partners. Image 2: All the kids embrace their partners. Image 3: A close up of all the kids together holding their partners. End ID]

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@digimon02countdown Day 4 - The Digital World

One of my favourite things that was merely hinted at in Adventure, but fully established and expanded upon ever since 02, is the idea that there are several parallel worlds besides the real and the Digital World - and that there is an inherent connection between these worlds and the Chosen Children, their feelings and wishes.

There are several instances in the series that use this concept (and even the stageplay picked it up!), but if there are three characters who have understood this aspect and are proving the theory within the course of 02 to be somewhat true - it's Hikari, Ken and Takeru, in my opinion.

Ken and Hikari have a strong connection to the forces of darkness and light - in Hikari's case, it's also because she was initially chosen by Homeostasis itself, basically carrying a special life force within herself (= light) and is thus capable of functioning as a host...

In Ken's case, the wish to be "chosen", just like his own brother appeared to be, may have been responsible for him being drawn towards the world of the dark ocean - a world that Hikari probably also ended up in due to her empathetic nature and inherent connection to these worlds.

The main duty of the Chosen Children is to keep distortions at bay and maintain the balance of the worlds, preventing them from merging and creating absolute darkness - which is a tough task, considering that all these worlds still appear to be connected.

But the Chosen Children themselves are capable of summoning miracles - simply due to their deepest wishes and desires the Digital World (and other worlds) are able to read and respond to.

We can clearly see that proven by Hikari's wish to be saved by Takeru and Takeru's corresponding wish to save her from the world of darkness - his "hope" to bring "light" back, so to speak. (In my opinion, that is also why Koushirou was subconsciously able to get in touch with Taichi while he was in the real world - and why Taichi was capable of returning to the Digital World.) This experience is also what makes Hikari reassure Ken that, as long as somebody wants them back (= wishes for it), they will be able to leave the world of darkness again.

The potential behind this theory, the existence of countless parallel worlds and the matter of wish-fulfillment will hopefully be part of the 02 movie - because it's such an intriguing concept with so many possibilities.

[digitalgate02]

Friend and I were having a brainstorming hours ago about Rui and Meiko and i'd like to quote it:

(for reference, we were talking about the shitpost edit i made)

Friend: OH MY GOD MEIKO BEING THERE IS MAKING ME LOSE MY SHIT Me: Meiko is here because i had no patience to edit Pipimi for another character LMAO but Meiko probably would get along with Rui, FITE ME Friend: yeah LOL and yeah she would well, she's older than him so even if he's technically senpai as a Chosen, she's senpai in all other respects Me: Meiko and Rui do not have siblings so i can see Meiko enjoying having someone close to a "sibling" because idk why, she would both had too much BS in their lives they can relate to to some extent Friend: it would be hilarious if they met through the Chosen network without the others putting them together so Meiko tells Taichi and the others (whom she's still in frequent contact with) that she picked up this cute kouhai and Rui tells the 02 kids he's been talking to this nice girl lately and then one day when they figure it out it's like WAIT- Me: i mean, i dunno if the 02 kids know Meiko besides Takeru and Hikari and the older six meeting Rui… so it would be even funnier if they didn't know, but then Takeru and Hikari just connect the dots it's like the idea someone had of Ken and Wallace being sort of penpals but not realizing-- Friend: so basically Meiko, Rui, and Wallace end up being chatroom penpals completely outside the others noticing- Me: good, i'd see it happening LOL Friend: Iori: I know what they say about six degrees of separation, but this is… Me: Takeru and Hikari are like "oh my god… all of you…" basically Digimon Adventure Outsiders [/making a parody of that Kamen Rider spinoff of course] Friend: yes LOL

If i weren't focused on Re:Connect and other things i'd write this down, or make some silly comics of it.

Rui, Meiko and Wallace start their own group. The shenanigans of the movie-exclusive characters lol

[bagerfluff]

Right Where I Want To Be

Older Takaishi Takeru x Male Reader

Prompt - “You’re endearing when you're half asleep”

You looked over at Takeru.

He was leaning against a tree with a book in his lap. His face was intently looking at the book, not looking up no matter what.

Meanwhile you were playing with Daisuke.

Everyone had decided to go to the Digiworld since it was a school holiday. Miyako and Hikari were talking about something, and so was Lori and Ken, while you and Daisuke played with a soccer ball.

Takeru, on the other hand, was just sitting under a tree. He had sat there when you guys first got here, and it’s been about two hours since then.

You wanted to know what Takeru was doing over there, why wasn’t he relaxing? You knew Takeru had a lot of work to be done.

He was trying to get better at his writing skills while being on the basketball team.

You looked back at Daisuke, trapping the ball under your foot. “I’m going to check on Takeru”, you said.

Lightly kicking the ball back to Daisuke. “Come on”, Daisuke said, clearly saddened by the fact his play buddy was leaving.

“Ask Ken to play with you, he’s better than me”, you said to Daisuke, not looking back at him.

You heard Daisuke call Ken behind you but you didn’t listen to anything after that.

You walked over to Takeru, him not even looking up at you as you did. “Whatcha doing?” You asked once you were standing in front of Takeru.

Takeru looked up at you, “writing”, he answered. You turned around and sat next to Takeru, “really? You could do that later”, you said while glancing at the paper.

“Well I have to practice”, Takeru said simply. You shook your head and leaned back, placing your arms behind your head.

Takeru looked at you before glancing at the others. Lori had joined Hikari and Miyako while Ken and Daisuke kicked the soccer ball around.

“You could be hanging out with the others”, Takeru said out loud. “Eh, I would rather be with you”, you said simply.

Takeru snapped his head towards you, “really?” He asked, closing his notebook. You tilted your head over to him, a smile on your face.

“Yeah, I need to rest anyway, remind me to never play soccer with Daisuke ever again”, you said.

Takeru laughed and placed his stuff on the ground. Takeru scooted closer to you, “what even made you try to”, Takeru asked. You started talking about playing soccer with Daisuke and what made you do it.

“Sounds pretty bad, if you didn’t want to then why didn’t you come sit with me when we first came here?”

Takeru asked while you shook your head, “you looked like you needed to be alone for a bit, besides I thought it would be good exercise”, you explained.

You did all of this as you watched Ken and Daisuke run around with smiles on their faces. Takeru smiled, nodding along with your explanation.

Takeru leaned closer to you, resting his head on your shoulder.

You hummed and rested your head against Takeru’s. “Sleepy?”, you ask, making Takeru nod in confirmation.

Takeru closed his eyes, feeling sleepy with how relaxed he was. You smiled and brought a hand to his hair, absentmindedly playing with it.

Takeru yawned and cuddled closer into your side. You moved your hand down to Takeru’s waist and held him tighter.

“Were you telling the truth?” Takeru asked, half asleep. You hummed and lifted your head up to look at him.

“When you said you’d rather be with me doing nothing”, Takeru mumbled.

“I have fun when I’m with you, so yes. I would rather be with you doing nothing then doing anything with anyone”, you kept your voice low while talking.

Making sure that Takeru could fall asleep. Takeru smiled and pushed his head closer to your neck, nuzzling his nose against it.

“Hmmm, I like that”, Takeru said, though it was hard to hear since it was said into your neck.

You let out a little laugh, Takeru was cute when he was half-asleep. “You’re endearing when you're half asleep”, you said.

Takeru blushed and hummed against your neck. You looked at the others. Ken and Daisuke were laying on the ground laughing together.

Miyako and Lori were talking about something while Hikari and Tailmon talked. Everyone was doing their own thing, the thing that made them happy.

And you were doing what made you happy. You were with Takeru. You closed your eyes, leaning your head on Takeru’s.

You soon fell asleep, right where you wanted to be.

[beginningobserver]

TTRPG with 02 Kiddos ft Rui-kun

[AO3 Version]

• Canon compliant (KenMiya/Kenyako) + 02 group and Rui-kun (also includes DaiLui) • Comedy; Teen/Adult audiences.

Story: Takeru liked to read storybooks as a kid. He really enjoyed those stories from different places and cultures, myths and folktales. It’s not a surprise he was aiming to be a professional writer, and it was also working on his childhood memories alongside the digimon and the Chosen Children. It’s also not a big surprise that he would find fun in writing TTRPG sessions with friends -- yes, Hikari, Iori, Daisuke, Ken and Miyako. But this time he prepared something extra fun for their new friend, Rui.

-------------------//-------------------

The group of fearless warriors kept walking through the forest looking for the great evil who is trying to destroy their world and kingdom. In this group they had…

“Hey, Takeru quit narrating everything and hurry up! The kingdom won’t be saved if you keep doing monologues!!”

“Ah… But you see, I’m--”

“He’s right,” V-mon pouted, “Don’t you want to save the kingdom ruled by our king!?”

“Who was the king again…?” Patamon blinked.

“YOU FORGOT WHO’S OUR KING!?” Daisuke and V-mon gasped dramatically.

“... Did we mention a king before?”

“It’s Taichi-san,” Takeru explained, “Since he’s working in a Digital World-related department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs… Makes sense for him to be a king, right?”

“True,” Patamon nodded sagely.

“Y’ALL ARE WASTING OUR TIME!!” Daisuke interrupted them again, “Taichi-san will be mad if we don’t beat the great evil!”

“Huh, what’s ‘the great evil’ again?” Miyako popped in.

“The great evil, Ow the Edge. ”

“What?” Iori squinted his eyes, “I thought you would put Ichijouji-san as the enemy.”

“Excuse me…?” Ken looked at them, frowning, “My days of villainy have ended a long time ago, I don’t want to be the bad guy anymore.”

“Besides, I don’t want to date the villain!” Miyako pouted, “Unless you want an evil couple.”

“Here she goes, talking about her relationship status again,” Daisuke muttered in a growl. He hated the fact he’s still unable to confess his feelings for Hikari.

“What did you say, Dai-su-ke?” Miyako grabbed her guitar in hands, ready to smash it into Daisuke’s head.

“N-nothing??!” He babbled, wavering.

“I think we’re going off-topic,” Tailmon interrupted them, unamused.

“Who’s Ow the Edge, Takeru-san?”

“Ow the Edge…” Daisuke squinted, “Ain’t you making fun of Sh※d※w the H※dg※h※g, are ya!?”

“No, it’s definitely not related to Sh※d※w the H※dg※h※g. It’s just Ow the Edge.”

Daisuke’s brain couldn’t tell if Takeru was trolling them or being serious.

“Anyway, Ow the Edge is the evil guy and we’re going to beat him right now.”

“Wait a second,” They all looked at the seventh human there on the table, Rui.

“What is it, Rui-kun?” Hikari asked.

“I… I don’t understand why Takaishi-kun gave me this paper and told me to memorize it…”

“Oh I just made up something for you, to read. Don’t worry~”

Daisuke whispered to Rui, “When he says that, get ready for something terrible happening to your character. Trust me and Ken, we’re his favorite victims.”

Ken nodded in silence, agreeing with Daisuke. Rui was still not sure what that meant though….

“Where were we again?” Takeru said, then he cleaned his throat and proceeded with the story.

The group had the most loyal knight of the kingdom in the lead who wielded a glaive, a magician and a bard couple (the bard girl had an axe which was also her guitar, the magician boy a twin spear with the ability to turn enemies into allies when touched by its edges), a duo of archers wielding crossbows and a swordsman (the youngest of them!)

They were going into the Forbidden Forest and--

“One question,” Wormmon stopped the group, “Why is it forbidden?”

“You see, little familiar, the forest is forbidden because it’s off the kingdom’s domains.”

“So we would be violating by trespassing, am I correct?” Iori deadpanned.

“But we’re six people and six digimon,” Armadimon added, “To not be trespassing we should just let two people pass.”

“... Makes sense” Daisuke and V-mon mused.

“No, it makes no sense at all,” Ken sighed.

“Can you please let Takeru continue?” Tailmon stared at them.

“Ahem,” Takeru cleaned his throat again,

They were going into the Forbidden Forest and suddenly… It started raining. Then, the knight said…

“Alright, leave it to me, I’m a master of the lightning spells!”

“Is he really the right person for that?” Miyako whispered to Takeru, “Letting Daisuke play with fire is not a smart idea…”

“HEY, I have the Digimentals of Courage and Friendship!” Daisuke snapped, “It’s obvious I’d be experienced in fire and lightning magic!”

“True,” V-mon nodded, “It’s not like Daisuke had exploded things while cooking!”

“Yeah it’s not-- HEY!!” Daisuke stared at V-mon, angrily.

“I think I should use the power of my Digimental” Iori looked at his sword, “Why would we need The Digimental of Friendship if there’s no Lightnin--”

A strong lightning crashed into their direction, but the knight’s Lighdra-glaive’s spells protected the group.

“... Nevermind,” Iori blinked.

“Are you okay, Miyako-san?” Ken asked Miyako, who he was shielding with his own body.

“Y-yeah… I am, thank you Ichijouji-kun” she answered with a smile.

“Miyako-san…”

“Ichijouji-kun…”

They were going to kiss, but--

“STOP FLIRTING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RAIN!!” Daisuke shouted, “I’M NOT A WALKING UMBRELLA FOR THAT!!”

“But you’re protecting us from the lightning, not from the rain,” Hawkmon corrected him.

“It’s Iori who is protecting us from the rain” Tailmon gestured to the boy using the Submari-Sword to keep them dry.

“But we’re not like third wheels for their romance!” Daisuke pouted.

“We’re six digimon and six humans, so we would’ve been the third, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten wheels” V-mon said as he counted in his fingers.

“I don’t mean it literally!! ”

“Oh…”

“I don’t mind that,” Iori said, then he and the group kept walking in the rain, but the sword was generating a force field protecting them from the water.

“Fine, fine… But stop flirting while we’re working!” Daisuke growled, and then kept using his glaive to control the lightning away from them.

“But…” Rui interrupted them again,

“Was it, Rui?” V-mon asked this time.

“Wouldn't it be more effective if they could seek a place to stay and wait for the rain to stop?”

They looked at each other and then to Rui…

“Are you criticizing Takeru’s story?” Patamon stared at Rui.

“Uh…”

“ANYWAY!!” Takeru said quickly, before they could get into a fight.

The group kept going through the dense and eerie Forbidden Forest,

“Why is it raining here though?” Wormmon asked, still on Ken’s back.

“Because of a spell casted by Ow the Edge” Takeru explained, “Human beings are not allowed in his territory.”

“Well, we should be closer!” Daisuke seemed fired up, then he pointed at the lair in the horizon, “THERE IT IS, THE… THE…”

The Lair of the Great Evil -- The LOGE.

“The Loge?” Hikari tilted her head.

“Are we going to a theater then?” Miyako blinked.

“No, the LOGE, not loge” Takeru corrected them, “It's an abbreviation of the ‘Lair of the Great Evil’.”

“Shouldn’t it be ‘LOTGE’ then?” Ken asked, unfazed.

“Lodge?” Daisuke frowned.

“No, it’s LOGE, we shouldn’t count ‘the’ there!” Patamon snapped.

“Why would you name it with a HARD abbreviation like that!?” V-mon complained.

“Oh I like to see your reactions” Takeru smiled.

“WHAT!?”

While the knight, the magician and the aspiring writer who’s also an archer were in a heated discussion about the lair’s name and abbreviation…

“...”

The mysterious and nefarious Ow the Edge appeared in front of them!!

“...”

“...?” Rui looked at Takeru on the table, confused.

“Ahem, Rui-kun it’s your turn.”

“Huh…?”

“The paper I gave you, it’s your character” Takeru gestured to the paper in front of Rui on the table.

“O-oh…”

“Wait,” Daisuke squinted his eyes at Takeru again, “Don’t tell me you…”

Like, I said… The mysterious and nefarious Ow the Edge appeared in front of them!!

“Oh ho ho ho… I’m Ow the Edge, the villain of this game…” Rui was… reading the paper normally?!

“Ow the Edge is Rui-kun??” Miyako exclaimed in confusion.

“Well… I’m--”

“You’re not taking it seriously enough…” Takeru sighed.

“Not enough…?”

“No offense but you’re reading and not acting, dagya.”

“Uh…”

“Yeah, you have to put some feelings on it!!” Patamon added.

“Hey guys, we shouldn’t go too harsh on Rui” Daisuke argued, “He’s still learning how to play!”

“True, I hate doing this but… Takeru-kun, can I simply give him an example?” Ken asked, politely and gently.

“Sure, you’re like a pro!” Takeru chuckled.

“Are you plannin’ to…” Daisuke raised an eyebrow.

Ken cleaned his throat and then…

“Huhu…HAHAHAHAHA, I’m the Digimon Kaiser, the one who controls the power of the darkness! I will dominate the Digital World and make you all OBEY me. CHERISH me. And LOVE me. Say, you dare to face me? HAH! Pathetic human beings, I’M THE PERFECT CHOSEN ONE! And ONLY ME can come here and PLAY this game!”

“Yeah, he just got overboard again…” Daisuke shrugged.

“Is he okay?” Rui was petrified by that 180º flip while the rest of the group was shaking their heads.

“Yeah, he got a little rusty since it had been like, 10 years since he was some edgelord throwing tantrums in the Digital World…” V-mon shrugged.

“Oh, that’s why Takaishi-kun said ‘like a pro’ when he asked permission to give an example…”

“R-rusty…??” Wormmon and Ken said, intrigued.

“I guess you unlearned how to be an edgelord, Ken…” Tailmon commented, shaking her head.

“I’m rusty…” Ken repeated it, quite disappointedly…

“Didn’t the Kaiser say ‘insects’ all the time?” Patamon mused.

“And he also used a whip,” V-mon added.

“He still uses the whip,” Wormmon and Hawkmon said out of the blue.

“Huh?” the others blinked. Ken and Miyako blushed awkwardly though.

“Are you sure this is the right hour to Talk about--” Daisuke squinted his eyes once again, this time at Ken, Wormmon, Miyako and Hawkmon.

“OKAY RUI-KUN” Takeru interrupted them quickly,  “YOU GOT YOUR CLASS OF ACTING SO GO AND UNLEASH THE EVIL IN YOU!!”

“A-alright… I guess I can try again” Rui nodded.

Then, Ow the Edge appeared in front of them, laughing maniacally and stomping his cane-staff on the ground!

“...OHOHOHO! I’m Ow the Edge, the great evil of the world! You peasants are stepping on my yard and you will regret it.”

He looked at Takeru, “Is it better…?”

“Yeah, a little better 👌” Takeru smiled.

“I’m rusty…” Ken was still sulking in the corner.

The warriors wielded their weapons, ready for an imminent clash--

“Hold on, I don’t think it’s right to fight him,” Daisuke interrupted them all.

“? Why not?” Hawkmon asked, “Isn’t he the source of all evil?”

“No, I’m the great evil, not the source of all evil” Rui said, deadpanned.

“Isn’t that the same thing!?” Patamon babbled.

“No?”

“I mean we can’t fight Rui, he’s our friend!” Daisuke argued back, “I can’t believe you did that to him, Takeru!”

“Daisuke, you're taking it too seriously now” Takeru chuckled nervously.

“No, you were just--”

“Or are you afraid of fighting me, Daisuke-kun?” Rui said it in a very seductive way with a smug smile.

“I… I don’t want to fight you, that’s all” Daisuke blushed and turned his face.

“Ok, I think he really got the spirit, dagya” Armadimon commented with the others, perplexed.

“Why not? You fought Ichijouji-kun in the past, didn’t you?” he scoffed.

“Yeah, but Ken was not our friend back in time!” Daisuke snorted, “So no, cut it out. I refuse to fight you!!”

“I guess you don’t care about your pathetic kingdom then,” Rui shrugged, “I’m the great evil, will you let your people perish only to spare me?”

“I’ll save you too then!” Daisuke stomped his foot on the floor.

“Where did I see this scene before…” Tailmon mused.

“Uh… It was when you confronted Ken-chan, I guess” Wormmon replied.

“So, will you accept defeat, Daisuke-kun?”

“No, I won’t!” Daisuke snapped, cupping Rui’s face “I will come after you no matter what you say, no matter what Takeru makes you do! You’re MY friend and I refuse to fight you!!”

“... W-what??” Rui blushed.

“HOLD ON!!” Miyako shouted, and interrupted their game.

“Daisuke, what’s wrong with you?” She looked at Daisuke, seriously, “This is just a game, a harmless game, no one is going to fight for real here!!”

“But I.. I… * ahem * I was also acting, yeah… Uh… yeah,” he immediately took his hands off Rui’s face, babbling.

Though Rui was… also blushing awkwardly.

“I guess someone is not into Hikari anymo--” V-mon had Daisuke covering his mouth again.

“Uh, what?” Hikari blinked.

“DON’T LISTEN TO V-MON HE’S… HE’S TOO TIRED FROM THE GAME, SO UH… I LEFT MY RAMEN ON THE STOVE, BYE!!” and he left the table, carrying V-mon.

“... Did I do something wrong?” Rui frowned.

“No, you just managed to beat Daisuke-kun without fighting him,” Takeru said awkwardly, “Don’t take it seriously.”

“Oh… Okay…?”

With the knight and his familiar out of the battle, Ow the Edge smirks and turns into the rest of the group and says:

“One down, Five left.”

“HOW CRUEL!!” Hikari screams, “HE WAS WILLING TO HELP YOU!”

“... You can touch me, really. I’m untouchable.”

“What do you mean?” Iori raised an eyebrow.

“... I’m cursed, remember? Great evil… We need an excuse for Daisuke-kun’s absence, sorry.”

“Ooh…” Armadimon exclaimed, “That’s clever.”

“We shouldn’t touch him then!” Hawkmon nodded.

“Alright,” Takeru said with a serious gaze, “if Daisuke is not here, the second-in-command is Ken-kun so--”

“... I’m rusty.”

Everyone looked at Ken, who was still sulking like a kid in the corner.

“Ichijouji-kun?” Miyako blinked, “What’s wrong?”

“You guys said I’m rusty… I don’t like to be the Digimon Kaiser anymore, but it’s still part of me… I created him and now I’m… I’m unable to be him even for a simple TTRPG sample!!”

“Y-you’re upset that you can’t do the Digimon Kaiser anymore!?” the five babbled, intrigued.

“... 💧” Rui blinked, still not sure what was going on.

“I guess we accidentally beat Ken,” Patamon shook his head.

“Two down…?” and yet Rui is still confused about this entire game.

“I think I need a break” Ken sighed, and then he and Wormmon left the table.

“Ah, wait…!” Miyako called him, but then she turned to the rest of the group, “I will calm him down and we will be back! Let’s go, Hawkmon!”

“Right, Miyako-san!”

Then Miyako and Hawkmon went after Ken and Wormmon. Rui frowned, he was thinking maybe he was just really bad at playing tabletop games…

Takeru sighed, “Well, I guess it’s only the four of us now… And our digimon partners, of course.”

“If you… want to stop I’m okay with it” Rui was feeling very awkward right now.

“Are you guys still up to it?”

“I’m curious about how it will end,” Iori mused.

“I don’t mind continuing it…” Hikari added.

“They might come back, didn’t they say it?” Armadimon asked, looking at the entrance of the apartment.

“Hmm… We’re at Daisuke’s house, so it would be odd if he just left” Tailmon replied with a shrug.

“I wonder where he went…” Patamon said, looking at Takeru.

“...”

With the couple down, our brave group was reduced into three members and their familiars. The heavy atmosphere of the heated battle against Ow the Edge and our heroes intensified second by second.

“I guess you can’t beat me.”

Said the great evil with a shrug. His cocky attitude and malicious grin were making the last hope of the Kingdom weaver, but FEAR NOT! The good guys had a trump card in their hands.

“Trump card??” Rui, Hikari, Iori and the digimon exclaimed, confused.

“Oh trust me, being an amateur writer means I need to make the story a little exciting.”

“But what’s that trump card, dagya?”

“It’s a secret.”

“WHAT!?”

“What does it supposed to mean!?” Hikari and Iori exclaimed.

“So… To be sure,” Rui approached them, “What happens if I beat you three? Do I win?”

“Technically yes,” Iori explained, “But this is an ongoing game, we have sessions and turns, so you could say you would win a turn or session.”

“The others can come back, can’t they?” He was worried about Daisuke and Ken’s reactions to that game though…

“Yup,” Patamon nodded, “They’re not dead in this game, unless the Game Master kicks them off the game.”

“Oh… So I didn’t kill them in-game…” he sighed in relief.

“Yeah, but don’t worry about that!” Tailmon smiled, “Takeru will find a way to add them again once they’re back.”

“But what is that trump card, dagya??” Armadimon pouted.

“It’s…”

“It’s…?”

“...”

“...?”

The aspiring writer and archer then summoned… A jar of sugar.

“A JAR OF SUGAR!?” Hikari exclaimed.

“Isn’t Rui-san…” Iori looked at Rui.

“Uh… Am I supposed to… do some dramatic reaction at the fact he got a jar of sugar?”

“Wait, I thought you hated sweets,” Patamon blinked.

“Yes, I do.. So… Uh… * ahem *”

“NO, MY ONLY WEAKNESS…!! SUGAR!!” He dramatically knelt on the floor, using the cane as support, “I’M DYING… NOOOO!!”

“We haven't used it yet” Takeru looked at him, deadpanned.

“Oh… Ok.”

The aspiring writer and archer then showed the jar to Ow the Edge, and with a firm tone of voice he threatened:

“We will end your days of evil with the HolyAngemon Sugar Brand! UNLESS!!”

“Wait, are you sparing me too??”

“No, I’m proposing a deal!”

“Ah, I see… You want something in return…”

“We won’t use the sugar if you stop threatening the kingdom,” Iori explained.

“Hmm…”

“You will undo the evil deeds you caused to us,” Patamon added.

“What evil deeds…?” Rui then took the paper and started checking the text, “Uhh… Fine, fine.”

“And you will turn all the sweets you turned into dust back to normal, dagya!”

“Wait… Did I go this far before…? 💧”

“No, Armadimon is just doing an ad-lib right now,” Tailmon shrugged.

“I suppose it’s because you don’t like sweets,” Hikari added, “You would turn them into dust.”

“... I might not like sweets but I have no problem with them,” Rui shrugged, “It’s just… I don’t like it that much…”

“Oh… I’m sorry” Armadimon bowed his head awkwardly.

“It’s okay, no hard feelings.”

And then the warriors stopped the great evil and everyone lived happily after.

“So we--”

“AH CRAP, I REALLY OVERCOOKED IT!!” They heard Daisuke’s voice from the kitchen.

“Daisuke, are you okay--” Takeru said and he and the others ran to the kitchen.

“Noooooooo… MY RAMEN!!” he dramatically cried.

“He really left his ramen on the stove…” Patamon commented.

“You thought we were joking!?” V-mon snapped, “It was our dinner!! For the night of games!!”

“Oh… Oh no” Armadimon sniffed, “Our dinner…”

“It’s okay everyone!!” They heard Miyako’s voice from the entrance of the apartment, “Our girl Miyako and her boyfriend had brought some dinner for us all!!”

“Miyako and Ken saved our dinner, dagya!!” Armadimon chirped.

“Hmm… Yeah, maybe we can eat ramen another day” Daisuke smiled, "Alright folks! Let’s clean the table and eat!”

“Alright!!” They all said together.

[genork-the-fandork]

Coffee

Word Count: 640 Prompt: Seventh Beginning A/N: The final drabble. I never had them kiss, did I? Ah, well. I prefer the unspoken bonds when it comes to Digimon. And these two have one of my favorite bonds. Thank you, everyone, for reading my silly little drabbles. It's been a great event! @takariweek

"Digimon drinking coffee is… alarming," Hikari pointed out as she watched Patamon and Tailmon slurp down their drinks. She didn't often consume coffee herself, and she had a feeling most of Takeru's orders were for Patamon. It didn't seem to negatively affect the Digimon in the slightest, but she still worried. A part of her was always worried about them.

"As long as we don't give V-mon any, everything should be fine." Takeru's cheek was smooshed from where it rested on his hand. He looked content, and it made Hikari feel the same to see him that way. It had been quiet since their brothers had parted from their Digimon, and they'd made a semblance of a promise to enjoy every day with Patamon and Tailmon that they could. As always, Takeru had taken one of their many promises seriously.

Hikari rested back against the leather of the booth seat, her neck falling against the curve of it. Casting her eyes to the side, looking at her friend, she smiled. "Something's about to happen, huh?" She had been feeling it in her bones the last few days. Somehow, even before they knew for sure something was happening, that they would be called to save Japan or the world, they two had always sensed it. Maybe it had to do with how crucial Hope and Light had always been to the workings of the Digital World, or maybe they had always had a little bit of Homeostasis within them. Regardless, it had always seemed… rather psychic of them. It was something they couldn't tell their brothers, but at least they could share it with each other.

A thoughtful look passed over Takeru's face, and he met her gaze out of the corner of his eye. "I think so, yeah. Probably specific to the newbies." Not that they were "newbies" anymore. But Takeru had always thought of them as such, or at least referred to them that way. Sometimes it was like they two were their parents, even though Miyako and Ken were older than them and Daisuke was their age. Always looking after them, wise beyond their years. Maybe they'd both been born with some piece of the Digital World inside them.

"Let's hope it won't cause too much trouble," Hikari mused, turning back to look at Tailmon polishing off her drink.

"We always say that. It never works."

They laughed, and their Digimon looked up, their heads tilted in confusion at the sound. Takeru reached across the table to pet Patamon's head, and Hikari touched her own hand to Tailmon's claws. "We'll be okay. Whatever time we have left with them, we'll spend it wisely."

"We always have. Something to be said for the last two usually standing." Takeru grinned, and Hikari's face automatically mirrored the expression. Two halves of a whole, as they always seemed to be. There was something to be said for that. Although they were not usually ones to say it outright.

"Leave some fun for the others, hm? Wouldn't want Daisuke complaining that he didn't get to have his chance in the spotlight." Hikari bumped her shoulder into Takeru's, and the blond returned it.

"I suppose I can. Besides, when it all comes down to it, Daisuke will probably be the one to save us all." True to the parental role he'd taken on ever since meeting their friends, he smiled proudly. "He's come a long way."

"We all have. And it's just the start." Hikari held out her hand, and Takeru took it. Their fingers didn't even need a mental command to intertwine. Their lives may have just been starting, in some sense of the word, but theirs was a bond forged from years of trust. One that would never go away, no matter how much the Digital World tried to hammer it away.

[descendent-of-the-sixth-heaven]

*Selena has been informed that the rooms are ready and the resort staff are looking forward to welcoming them since they have booked the entire private beach for their party. After a few hours, all couples finally arrived*

Oh your room is just beside ours! This will be fun.

*Cherry is carrying Ken as she greets Selena while their husbands are carrying the luggage into the room*

Selena: this is perfect! I think we all will be close to each other during our vacation here.

Kenshin: it seems you have prepared everything here.

*Kenshin was holding takeru in on arm while also carrying their luggage into the room, showing just how strong he is*

[shihalyfie]

Hi! recently I read your post about differences you had spotted in the japanese fandom and you mentioned how some people said that tamers wasn't female audience friendly. I don't know if you know why?

(Also I love your blog btw)

Thank you so much! I hope I didn't give the wrong idea (I can't find the specific post but I'm hoping I didn't word it wrong) but it was just one comment I saw that made me think about it a lot; I don't think this is necessarily an opinion beyond just that person, it's just that when I saw it it really stuck out to me and made me really spend time pondering why someone would think that way.

To be more specific, the situation was that an Adventure fan who'd gotten back into it and 02 because of Kizuna brought up Tamers and said they were interested in it, and the commenter said that it was a good series (they were still recommending it, they weren't trying to dissuade!) but warned that it was "more obviously oriented towards a male audience" than the Adventure series (the exact word was 一層男向け).

So I think some specific context about this incident also helps to explain further; it's rather significant that it was said to be potentially less female audience friendly than Adventure-branded works, which were used as a comparison point because the explanation was originally for someone who had never seen anything else besides that. In this case, I think it's less so that Tamers is that female audience-unfriendly as much as the Adventure series is actually considered to be surprisingly female audience friendly for a shounen series of its kind; of course, it still is ultimately made and marketed more for young boys, but it ended up infamously getting a much larger female audience than you'd have expected. The girls having their feelings fleshed out in detail and not constantly having a red arrow on them as The Girls™ of the Group (I think you know what I mean by this) -- something really not very common in shounen anime from 1999-2001 (even now it's not that common) -- made them very relatable to the female audience. And on top of that, you had things like Yamato or Ken infamously being a lot of girls' first love.

And then, well, let's put it this way: it is generally understood that most adult anime fans who made gay fan comics and fanart at the time were female, and so naturally Taichi/Yamato and Takeru/Daisuke got very popular among this crowd. Note the reason why it's Takeru/Daisuke in particular: Ken didn't join the group as an ally or even have a particularly deep interaction with Daisuke (other than episode 8) until halfway into the series, but by that time there were already people enthusiastically churning out gay fanwork with Daisuke and Takeru before anything significant in the series had happened because they were ready for them to be the next Taichi and Yamato. (Obviously, you know how the series actually went, but hindsight is 20/20.) So you had doujinshi artists making and selling gay comics at events, and magazines like Animage and Animedia (generally considered to have a high female reader population) were flooded with subtext-filled gay fanart submissions.

Even now, you can see the subtle acknowledgment that they know Adventure has a ton of adult female fans, given tri. stuff being in the female audience-oriented magazine Otomedia, as well as the tri. stage play even existing at all. (Anime tie-in stage plays are very associated with female audiences, and in fact the actors for the Digimon one even pointed out they had an unusually gender-neutral audience compared to what they were used to.)

So when you look at Tamers in comparison, it's not that it's necessarily giving a cold middle finger to its female audience as much as it's clearly got a lot fewer of the above factors and is more concerned about appealing to the main target of boys, hence the description "more obviously oriented towards a male audience". For instance, fundamentally speaking, Ruki was made to be a "strong" character because they wanted her to appeal to boys (presumably to include ones that wouldn't like "girly-girls"). Now, the good thing is that Ruki ended up becoming important representation for girls who also felt similarly out of place with being pigeonholed as "girls", and I'm not saying Adventure and 02 couldn't have also used some of that too, but keep in mind that the entire development of Ruki's state of mind in this respect has been credited to female writer Yoshimura Genki. I think it's very possible that, in the hands of a different writer, Ruki could have easily fallen into the trap of what I call the "Strong Female Character" Fallacy, which is when you make a female character who's good at violently beating things up but is portrayed more like an object to be cool and hot for the boys than she is a human being because they don't actually bother to pay any respect to her own feelings. (Unfortunately very common with male-oriented works.)

I'm getting off-track here, but my point is that while Adventure and 02 were fundamentally made for boys first, they did have a lot of elements that easily appealed to the female audience and seem to have been outright conscious of the female periphery demographic, perhaps unusually so for shounen anime at the time, whereas Tamers was much less conscious of that and focused more on elements that boys would like, such as plotlines about strength and less on more sentimental things (and there probably really could be something to be said about that kind of attitude's relationship with toxic masculinity, but I don't think we're ready for that conversation, nor do I think the final product went so far in that direction it has nothing sentimental going for it at all or anything).

That said, I can't emphasize enough that this was ultimately one fan's opinion on the Internet, and the reason I ended up resonating with it a bit is that I did at least notice that Adventure and 02 do seem to have a much higher ratio of female fans than Tamers does and thought it would be worth considering why (in fact, even Frontier has come off to me as having a larger ratio of female fans than I've noticed with Tamers). While this might be a bit provocative of a thing to say, I also do get the impression that most of my bad experiences with a certain type of Tamers fan that gets super condescending about its superiority over every other series also does seem to have a suspicious amount of overlap with a certain kind of toxic dudebro fan. However, and I'll put this in bold because it's important, I do not personally believe Tamers being more oriented towards a male audience inherently makes it unfriendly to a female audience. There are a lot of female Tamers fans, including people who are likely reading this post, and ones who found deep connection and meaning with many of the elements in Tamers, and in fact it's a fallacy to conclude that a girl or boy would necessarily like or dislike something (that would be exactly the kind of sentiment that Ruki was trying so hard to work against, after all). Digimon is a shounen series, but at the time Adventure through Frontier originally aired, they aired on the same day as magical girl anime Ojamajo Doremi, so there were a lot of girls (and boys!) who would watch both. Female audience-oriented, male audience-oriented, that's all subjective, and in fact it probably only really matters when it comes to toy sales and capitalism, but that ship's sailed a long time ago. And meanwhile, here I am, as a female fan who likes Tamers myself, so it certainly hasn't turned me off!

[detectiveichijouji]

Case 9 - Hikari has a secret admirer!?

[AO3 version!!]

Tailmon is a mature cat with lots of responsibilities, but she also could lose a few brain cells to please Hikari. At least she and Hikari are doing well now!! Since the day she was rescued from Vamdemon’s hands, life has turned into a pleasant adventure for her. Even with the deepest struggles and despair they had faced… Tailmon and Hikari had the help of their friends, and Taichi, to surpass all the sadness and misfortune in the world.

But… Today’s case… It’s a little complicated.

“... Ichijouji-kun… I need your help.”

Ken was looking at Hikari, who suddenly appeared at the end of his classes and in front of the entrance of his school. Wormmon looked at Ken, who glanced from Wormmon to Hikari in confusion.

“Yes? How can we help you?”

Oddly, Tailmon was not in her usual digimon level form -- she was devolved into Plotmon. This brought some suspicion to both Ken and Wormmon. Seriously, what’s going on there?

“I can’t talk here…” she used her free hand to grab Ken’s arm gently and drag him on a walk, “Can we go to your home, please?”

Ken blinked. What does THIS mean!? His curiosity just hit him badly that he decided to accept the idea. And while they were on the way to his apartment, he noticed Hikari looking behind, and around… Continuously. So… Maybe she has been stalked? -- Ken mused.

Once they arrived at the Ichijouji’s residence, he asked if she wanted something to drink, because he definitely noticed her being quite wary. Hikari accepted a warm tea cup, and then he prepared it for both of them.

“So… What’s wrong?” Ken finally had the moment to ask for the details.

“Someone… is stalking us,” Hikari said, a bit timidly and awkwardly.

“Ah I see” he sipped his tea, then made his next question “Do you know who is?”

“No. All I know is… They left a letter on our apartment’s doorstep”

“Hmm…” Wormmon mused, while Ken did it in silence, “Why do you need our help, Hikari-san?”

“I thought about going to the place they asked us to go and…”

“... And?” Ken and Wormmon repeated.

“... Tell them that I already have a boyfriend...”

“I see…” they said together.

“... And I’d like to ask if you could pretend to be my boyfriend in front of them.”

Ken and Wormmon spat their tea on each other’s faces.

“W-what!?” Ken babbled, “I don’t think this would work… I mean, I think you should’ve asked Takeru-kun or Daisuke for that--”

“Takeru-kun and Daisuke-kun wouldn’t look like the perfect match for this plan… Takeru-kun might be nice but he’s a little scary and I don’t want to have him threatening whoever is this secret admirer. And Daisuke-kun… W-well, he’s Daisuke-kun…!”

“He would end up messing this up” Plotmon explained, “Besides, he doesn’t seem the kind to intimidate someone.”

“Daisuke’s going to murder me…” Ken muttered.

“True, Ken-chan is boyfriend material” Wormmon nodded sagely.

“W-Wormmon!!” Ken blushed. Then, he asked: “Did you tell anyone else about this? Taichi-san? Miyako-san? Iori-kun?”

She and Plotmon shook their heads gently, but frowning. Hikari added: “No, because we didn’t know what to do… Until I had this idea from a TV show I was watching recently.”

“Then, how do you plan to make it work?” Ken and Wormmon said in unison. 

“We do this quickly and then we get away with this, without anyone knowing about this plan, ok?” Hikari replied with a timid smile.

Ken did not ask for this, and he hasn't cogitated about Iori as a fake boyfriend because Iori’s younger than Hikari. But deep down Ken knew this wouldn’t work well, but Hikari is so good at manipulating people that when he realized…

“Please, I… I trust you to discover who they are and intercept them”

“F-fine… But… I’d like to say one detail: I like someone else, and I hope we can keep this person away from this…”

“Oh okay! Let’s don’t do anything like that in public, only when we meet that secret admirer.”

… it was too late to go back.

Hikari met Daisuke and Takeru at class the next day, as usual. But Tailmon kept in Plotmon form, which wasn’t usual at all. Daisuke and Chibimon were the first ones to suspect of something wrong:

“Maybe Tailmon got sick!” It was Daisuke’s theory.

“Have you ever seen a digimon sick before?” Takeru asked, innocently.

“I’ve seen one sick! Chibimon got a cold once! He sneezed like a hedgehog!”

“H-hey!!” Chibimon protested.

“But it was a funny sneeze sound that I wish I had recorded for myself…”

“Maybe she’s not sick,” Patamon mused, “Digimon in this world tend to run their energies so fast to maintain higher forms…”

“Ah… That’s true,” Daisuke blinked. Chibimon agreed with a nod.

“Maybe we should ask Plotmon herself?” Takeru suggested, with a warm smile on his face.

“Tailmon devolved because she’s tired” Hikari interrupted them, “Because she got a little sick yesterday. So both are right.”

“Yes, I don’t recommend staying close, it might be contagious,” Plotmon added.

“C-contagious!?” Daisuke and Chibimon gasped.

“It’s just a cold, nothing to worry about,” Hikari giggled.

“No, it is” Plotmon disagreed, with a serious tone, “It might be too contagious so better you, Takeru and Patamon don’t get any closer. Hikari is fine because she’s infected too.”

“W-W-WHAT!? AND YOU WENT TO SCHOOL WHILE SICK!?” Daisuke panicked.

“Um… I-It’s not that bad…”

“HIKARI-CHAN PLEASE GO HOME, NOW! I’LL TELL THE TEACHERS! You can get my notebook for the lessons you miss, but please GO HOME NOW!”

“Plotmon… Forgot to say this is only with Chosen Children!”

“E-eh!?”

“Exactly!” Plotmon added, “Non-partnered humans and digimon cannot get infected. They’re safe. It only affects Chosen Children and partnered digimon.”

Takeru looked at Patamon for a moment and whispered to him: “Hikari-chan and Plotmon are acting weirdly today… That’s definitely a lie.”

“Yeah, but it’s working on Daisuke and Chibimon…” Patamon pointed at the other duo just… standing away from Hikari and Plotmon.

“... I forgot Daisuke-kun and Chibimon are the kind to believe in everything without hesitation…” Takeru sighed.

After class…

“I can’t believe Hikari-chan is sick and we can’t stay close to her!!” Daisuke sighed.

“... Daisuke-kun,” Takeru looked at him seriously, “Did you do something to Hikari-chan and Tailmon?”

“W-what? No! I didn’t!” Daisuke growled,  “Do ya think it’s my fault now!?”

“No… It felt like she was trying to keep both of us away from her…”

“Did you do something instead?” Chibimon asked, but innocently.

“Nope.” Patamon answered with a shrug.

“But why would she…” Daisuke seemed concerned, he was glancing at the street while he and Takeru were eating some burgers at a fast food store.

“Should we investigate it?” Chibimon asked the boys and Patamon.

“I don’t think it’s a good idea,” Takeru confessed, “It would be better if we wait until they can explain it to us.”

“Besides, stalking is a bad idea,” Patamon said, looking at Takeru, “Right, Takeru?”

“I don’t say stalking Hikari-chan…” Daisuke frowned, “I don’t want her or Tailmon to get hurt if they’re sick…”

“She’s not sick,” Takeru sighed, “More likely she’s hiding something from us.”

“Yeah… Hmm, do ya think she’s mad at us?”

“If we didn’t do anything wrong, that might not be the case,” Chibimon commented.

“Yeah!” Patamon agreed, “It might be for another reason.”

“Maybe we shouldn’t worry,” Takeru gave Daisuke a smile, “Hikari-chan and Tailmon might be fine, if anything bad happens she will call us five to help her.”

“Y-yeah, it’s not like she got a super secret right?” Daisuke chuckled, but then he saw Hikari on the other side of the street, “Ah, she’s there.”

“I guess she’s waiting for someone… Taichi-san, Miyako-san or another friend outside our group.”

“Yea-- HUH!?”

Daisuke gasped, and then he saw Ken with Hikari now.

“T-TAKERU!” he babbled, “S-SOMETHING IS… UH… WEIRD HERE.”

“Ichijouji-kun? Huh, I didn’t know she would meet him today…”

“But I thought Ken liked-- A-another person I’m not allowed to say because that’s private and if I let anyone else know he might hunt me down!”

“But I thought it was Daisuke who liked Hikari” Patamon and Chibimon said together.

“H-hey!! It’s not like I have a crush on her or something!!”

Well, you’re definitely panicked here about this… -- Takeru thought, shrugging. It’s not a secret that Daisuke has a crush on Hikari, and everyone in that circle is pretty much aware of that, including Hikari herself. But Daisuke… He thinks he’s so good at hiding it to not notice the truth, that he’s too transparent when it comes to his crush on Hikari.

“Takeru.”

Oh no, will he…

“Let’s follow them!”

“Daisuke-kun I don’t think it’s a good idea--”

“Like goddamnit, I just wish they could have told us! We would understand! We wouldn’t do anything to separate them from each other! And it’s not like the-one-who-Ken-has-a-crush-and-I-can’t-tell-ya will be mad either…”

“Don’t you think you’re jumping to conclusions too fast?” Patamon blinked, his face was a legit 😐 right now.

“Miyako’s gonna be disappointed tho” Chibimon frowned, “Hikari got Ken before her.”

“B-before we start panicking about this…” Takeru tried to calm everyone down, “Maybe we should ask them directly. But not now. We have to respect their privacy.”

“Yeah, it doesn’t sound right,” Patamon said, and then ate a french fry, “Here, eat a crunchy french fry!!” He offered it to Chibimon.

“I think I just saw Daisuke-san, Chibimon, Takeru-san and Patamon at the burger shop,” Wormmon commented with the other three.

“As long as they didn’t see us, it will be okay,” Plotmon said calmly.

“But why are we meeting in an alley?” Ken frowned, “There’s something off…”

“It’s what’s said in the letter” Hikari said, “I knew it would be too risky so…”

“You could’ve asked Miyako-san’s help instead… She’s your jogress partner after all…”

“Yeah, but…”

“But?” Ken raised an eyebrow.

“... The reason Tailmon devolved was…”

“Hohoho, there you are my beloved Tailmon~”

Ken put himself in front of Hikari and Plotmon, with Wormmon on guard. The boy just screamed: “Who’s there!?”

“Huh??” the digimon, who looked like a Tailmon costume wore by a humanoid monster (a la Etemon) just popped from the shadows, “Who the heck are you? Where’s Tailmon!?”

“... Betsumon?” Wormmon tilted his head.

“So that’s the reason,” Ken looked at Hikari, “You got the letter talking about someone having a crush on Tailmon, then you knew you were being watched by Betsumon so you lied about the fake date plan and couldn’t put the other in danger. Am I right, Hikari-san?”

“What what what??” Betsumon growled, “you brought this punk with ya!? I asked one thing and you--”

“Miyako and Hawkmon also know,” Plotmon said, “But I can’t Jogress-evolve into Silphymon with Aquilamon. So it would be pointless.”

“Why?” Ken and Wormmon asked.

“Because I have THIS with me,” and then Betsumon showed one of those portable Dark Towers.

“Oh, that makes sense now…” Ken replied with an unpleasant voice tone. Oh of course it’s one of those portable Dark Towers. Again. Someday he will find who’s building those and make them never build one ever again.

“But how can we fight!?” Wormmon seemed concerned, and he glanced at the other three, “You should’ve called for Takeru-san or Daisuke-san’s help.”

Hikari then gave her D-Terminal, “Please, use this.”

“Digimental…?” Ken took it and then… “I got it…” he glanced at Wormmon, “Wormmon, ready?”

“Yeah!”

“What?” Betsumon raised an eyebrow, “Will ya pick a fight against me? I’m a perfect level digimon, you can’t--”

“Light Digimental Up!!”

Wormmon Armor-evolved with the Digimental of Light to a mythological beast, with traces of the Mayan’s Quetzalcoatl, the plumed and winged serpent: Coatlmon.

“Oh I guess you wanna fight someone bigger than you!” Betsumon laughed.

Apparently, Betsumon was smaller than Coatlmon. Ken, Hikari and Plotmon were just staring at him coldly, as if that opponent digimon was just a big joke. That wasn’t funny though…

“That’s my chance…!!” Betsumon’s eyes flashed like lights, and he took the advantage of his ‘Cold Gag’ technique to try to snatch Plotmon from Hikari’s hands.

But Ken shielded Hikari and Plotmon, giving time for Coatlmon to attack and then coil around Betsumon, forcing him drop the portable Dark Tower on the floor. Plotmon jumped from Hikari’s arms, caught the tiny tower and handed it to Ken, who tossed it to the ground and broke it with his foot.

“M-MY DARK TOWER!!” Betsumon cried, then used his paws to hit Coatlmon’s head like if he was hitting the boke of a manzai show -- his special technique: the Tsukkomi Punch !!

“Ouch!” Coatlmon devolved to Wormmon and set Betsumon free, falling in Ken’s arms… He was mentally drained and couldn’t keep his Armor form!!

“Hahaha, that was my best shot!” Betsumon laughed menacingly, “Now let me get my prize!”

“Not so fast,” Ken smirked, a legit Digimon Kaiser smirk. When Betsumon realized, Angewomon had fled in his direction.

“W-WHAT!?” Betsumon screamed, but he recognized that smirk, “Y-YOU’RE THAT… THAT GUY!! THE DIGIMON--”

And then, Angewomon knocked him down with a punch.

“-- KAIS--ACK!!” And then he was knocked out.

“It had been a while since I heard someone calling me by that name…” Ken sighed, then he looked at Hikari, “Case solved, now we should just send him back to the Digital World and you and Tailmon will be free from him.”

“Thank you, Ichijouji-kun but… Are you and Wormmon okay?”

Ken nodded his head, “Yeah, it just caught me off guard for a little… So those things are still in use…” he looked at the shattered Dark Tower on the floor.

“Ken open the gate,” Angewomon asked politely, with Betsumon on her shoulder like if she was carrying a sack of potatoes.

“A-ah, right…” Ken took his D-3 and pointed to a random space in the alley, “Digital Gate, open.”

The gate opened and Betsumon was dumped into it as if Angewomon was taking out the trash. And then, Ken closed the gate.

When they were leaving the alley, they saw a very very EMOTIONAL Daisuke with Chibimon on his head, dragging Takeru by his wrist (with Patamon on Takeru’s head) -- Ken gulped: They will have to explain a lot of this to those two now…

“KEN! YOU, YOU--!!”

“Daisuke I--”

“-- YOU SHOULD’VE SAID ME THAT YOU TWO WERE PLANNIN’ SOMETHING FOR MIYAKO’S BIRTHDAY ALREADY!!”

“Eh!?” Ken and Hikari blinked. Then Daisuke gestured to the store they stood in front of -- a store with stuff for parties.

“At first I thought you and Hikari-chan liked each other!” Daisuke babbled, dramatically of course “But Takeru and I found that too strange! And I know you like you-know-who so it would be bad if you were like that cheap prince named Wallace, the dude from America, y’know!”

Ken and Hikari looked at each other. Didn’t Daisuke see them leaving the alley, so maybe they could roll with it, right?

“But! But Hikari-chan is Miyako’s bestie, and you’re so tall and chill so it wouldn’t mind carrying a few boxes for her, right!?”

“Uh… Yeah!” Hikari nodded, “I called Ichijouji-kun to help me with the packages! But turns out we had to catch a digimon and send it back to the Digital World, so we did it without calling the others!”

Takeru had been shaken by Daisuke’s gestures (because Daisuke didn’t let go of his wrist) and he was completely exhausted from being dragged like that. Daisuke sighed relieved:

“Ok, I’m glad you two are fine… But what was that thing about not gettin’ close to Chosen Children and partnered digimon to not infect them with a flu?”

“H-huh?” Ken looked at her.

“Oh…!!” Hikari was sweating now, but kept calm, “I know you guys would spill the beans if I told you about Miyako’s birthday surprise party, so… I asked for Ichijouji-kun’s help instead.”

“I see… Well then, next time call Takeru and me! We can handle it! We’re strong too!!”

“Right! I will call you and Takeru-kun if we need help then.”

“Call me for wh--” then Daisuke just turned back, still dragging Takeru by his wrist “He-hey! Daisuke-kun--”

“... Should we tell them later?” Ken and Wormmon asked the other two.

“Yes, we should tell them later,” they replied.

“Now that he mentioned it… Isn’t Miyako’s birthday in May?” and then the boy raised an eyebrow, “We’re in August…”

“Considering it was Daisuke who made that assumption, better not remember him yet” Tailmon shrugged, Hikari giggled.

Suddenly, Hikari’s phone rang and she answered the call, it was Miyako: “Hikari-chan! I’m sorry I couldn’t help you with that sneaky creep digimon! But… Are you okay? Did it work?”

“Oh, it worked! You were right, Ichijouji-kun and I beat that Betsumon and… I think we will have to explain it to Takeru-kun and Daisuke-kun later…”

“Oh… Well, I’ll message them later. Are you with Ken-kun now?”

“Yes, he’s here! Do you want to talk to him?” and then she gave the phone to Ken, and he was… a little confused and tense?

“H-hello…?”

“Hello, it’s Miyako!” Miyako said with a happy voice tone, “A-ah, I’m sorry for that! I dumped this on you because of a school club activity… But it was our only option, the other two wouldn’t work for that job!!”

“W-wait, it was your idea??” Ken blinked.

“Hehe… Sorry~”

Of course it was actually Miyako’s plan. Hikari isn’t the kind to make risky plans… Or ask someone to pretend to be a boyfriend to shoo some stalker out. However, Miyako… Yeah, this explains why Hikari was so tense and nervous. But she was also watched by Betsumon, so…

“... N-next time please explain to me before sending Hikari-san. We almost made Daisuke freak out thinking we were secretly dating.”

“Of course he would put a nail in my perfect plan!” she growled, “But I will explain everything to everyone! Sorry and Thank you~♡”

She hung up. Ken silently gave the phone to Hikari again. Oh that day was… Too stressful, he might go home and crash in bed. He looked at Hikari, his brain kinda fried by whatever happened that day:

“Why did Miyako-san make a plan like this if Tailmon was the target?”

“Uh… We thought Betsumon was a partnered digimon… So we thought it was someone else and Betsumon.”

“That… That sounds right,” he remembered how both Daisuke and V-mon are though…

“We were hiding one more detail though” Tailmon began, explaining, “Someone tried to attack Hikari when she found the letter, and then I protected her. I ran after the suspect, but then I got hit by something and devolved into Plotmon.”

“You mean… Betsumon attacked you?” Wormmon commented.

“Yeah, and then… When I went to look for Tailmon…” Hikari continued from there, “Betsumon found me and asked to bring Tailmon. Hours later, she came home as Plotmon and told me what happened.”

“Hmm…” Ken mused, “That Betsumon was looking after something then…”

“But let’s not worry about it now” Hikari said quickly and awkwardly, “It might be just some love sick Betsumon, right?”

“No, it doesn’t seem to be the case…” Ken thought, “But I’ll keep an eye on our surroundings…”

If it was on purpose or just a digimon in love with Tailmon they don’t know. Whatever comes next is uncertain, so better not waste time thinking too hard about it…

[rockthistowninsideout]

Inspired by this post from @tangledupblue

First Kisses

Words: 1193 Pairings: Takari, Kenyako at the side Audience: General

Set around in 2005, but without any reference to tri.

Takeru was smirking when he crossed the soccer field where Daisuke was training. Hikari, who was watching Daisuke from the railing that separated the field from the bleachers, saw him first. Her eyes went wide when she caught the mischief on his face and sighed. She didn’t know what Takeru was up to but she sure knew it was nothing good. Daisuke chipped the ball into the air but miscalculated the force and so the ball flew higher and further away than intended. Takeru, sensing the opportunity, dashed the last couple of metres, jumped fluidly into the air and caught the ball with ease.

Hikari rolled her eyes and muttered „show-off“. But she couldn’t help but blush when she saw Takeru’s shirt riding up his stomach to reveal a sliver of tanned skin.

Instead of throwing the ball back to Daisuke, Takeru carried it to him. Before he gave it back he first embraced Hikari who flushed even more but, apart from that, managed to hide her embarrassment. Then Takeru leant back on the railing. „So, Daisuke... Have you been kissed yet?“

Hikari’s eyes went wide and Daisuke turned as red as his hair. „How - how dare you ask that?!“ he spluttered after several seconds of silence. „That is none of your business!“

Takeru’s grin only grew bigger. „So you haven’t. I knew it! Well, here’s your chance to rectify that.“

Daisuke’s gaze flickered towards Hikari. He wasn’t nursing his crush on her anymore but if Takeru asked him to kiss her – and she was fine with that – he wouldn’t object, even in front of Takeru. Though judging by the look Takeru was giving him it was probably not with Hikari. „Why would I want to do that just now? Especially if you offered me the chance?“ A lightbulb went on in his mind. „Wait, does that mean you want me to kiss you?“

Takeru raised his eyebrows. „Of course not. Well, unless it’s you’re dearest wish. But I have already asked Miyako. And she has agreed.“

Hikari started giggling while Daisuke’s face fell entirely. She quickly composed herself though and smacked Takeru on the back of his head. „What were you thinking? And how did she agree to this? She’s over the moon with Ken, why would she want to kiss Daisuke?“ She quickly looked over to him and said „No offense. But I guess you get what I mean.“

He nodded as if in a daze. His younger self would have probably jumped for joy because it interpreted her „no offense“ as being not opposed in general to kiss him. But his present self was more confused than anything. The only reason Miyako would agree to that was… „There must be a catch, right?“, Daisuke asked.

Takeru shrugged. „Just a small one. I keep myself from telling Ken how she feels about him.“

„But that’s blackmail!“ Hikari exclaimed. She was torn between laughing and berating Takeru for his meddling.

„Besides, everybody knows that she likes Ken like that. That’s not a particularly strong argument to go into negotiations with“ Daisuke pointed out.

„Yeah, but that’s not what she thinks. She believes to be always utterly composed around him, a total enigma when it comes to her feelings. So she was absolutely surprised when she heard that I knew.“

„Well, I’m not gonna kiss her.“ Daisuke crossed his arms in front of his chest and pouted.

Knowing that he definitely had an ace up his sleeve, Hikari glanced to Takeru. Who, as expected, grinned roguishly. Then he looked up into the sky, finger tapping pensively at his chin. „Hmm, I wonder what Taichi would say if he knew that you were lusting after his darling sister all through first and second year of junior high. As far as he is concerned, Hikari isn’t allowed to date seriously until she’s 25. Aren’t you, Hikari?“

She snorted. „But only in his dreams.“ She inched closer towards him and smiled. Feeling brave, she said „Speaking of dating: We haven’t been to the cinema in quite a while. I think it’s time we go once again. The movie Junebug sounds really promising.“

„Now hang on a second!“ Daisuke interrupted, finally finding his voice again. „You can’t threaten me with Taichi’s eternal wrath and then casually flirt with each other over movies! Takeru, you cannot possibly do this to me. Please! What have I done to deserve this?“ Takeru and Hikari exchanged glances which prompted Daisuke to say „Wait, I don’t want to know. But I mean, as your leader I demand you to stop this tomfoolery right now!“

They looked at each other again, this time with arched eyebrows. „Daisuke, that’s not gonna help you here. Though I’m impressed that you know the word ‚tomfoolery‘“ Takeru teased.

Daisuke inhaled deeply, quietly fuming to himself, before his shoulders slumped. Takeru’s remark seemed to have been the last straw to break the camel’s back – or, in this case, Daisuke’s dignity. „Fine, I’ll do it.“

„No, you shouldn’t have to!“ Hikari interjected. „If your powers allow it then your first kiss should be something special.“

He tilted his head to the side. „Was yours special?“

Hikari smiled faintly and looked over to Takeru. „It was heartfelt, yeah.“

Daisuke sighed. „Still, I’ll do it. Not that I actually fear of being torn to shreds by Taichi’s ,mama bear' attitude.“ For noone to hear he mumbled „At least not completely“. Louder did he say „But, honestly, I don’t really care that much about my first kiss. I guess, with my limited grasp on romantical things, that the kisses you share with whomever you really love feel like first kisses all the time. So it’s fine that this first kiss goes to Miyako.“

„Apart from that not every first kiss is actually special or super romantic“ Takeru said, but after catching Hikari’s skeptical face he quickly added „I mean, I’m not speaking from experience here. Yamato told me – but don’t tell him I told you because then I’m a dead man. Anyway, I’m sure it’ll be great because Miyako had her first kiss from nobody else but the best.“

„From Mimi?“ Hikari asked incredulously.

Both boys’ heads whipped around as soon as she’d said that. „How do you know that?“ they asked simultaneously.

Hikari blushed furiously and stared down at the ground. „Can’t a girl be curious?“ she muttered before looking firmly up again. „Whatever. So, it’s decided then? You and Miyako are going to kiss?“

Daisuke shrugged. „There are no other options left. I know that which ever way I choose, I won’t live this down. Either Taichi’s at my throat or Takeru is sending me suggestive looks every day. And I’d rather have Takeru’s gloat than Taichi’s anger.“

„Sweet. I’m not giving you a date and time on where to do it but don’t take too long.“ Takeru clapped.

Daisuke rolled his eyes. „Don’t worry. I do what a man’s got to do.“ With that he picked up his soccer ball and waved the two of them goodbye.

Hikari looked at Takeru, shaking her head. „Why exactly were you so keen to get them to kiss?“

Takeru smiled winningly. „Just for fun.“

[ladyofthecastleproject]

The Knight and the Chosen Children

[AO3 version]

Summary:

Hikari catches Mimi talking with Lightnimon, and this causes a huge conflict between the kids and Mimi. With no other options, the group follow her to what they believe to be a trap. Then, the 02 Team and Mimi meet Lightnimon, who finally reveals a shocking secret.

[Note: It's 2008; There's more drama between Mimi and the kids but, well, it's the lightest of those drabbles. You know, for fun.]

The group, Mimi, Palmon and Gummymon were heading to the next area after saving more and more digimon from Ranamon’s troops. None of them heard about Frostmon anymore, but rumors were spread about some digimon seeing her and the terrifying Lightnimon together.

Ken hated to believe in rumors by experience, but Daisuke never sent him a message after their first reencounter in a while. He would send a message right now, but… Not a very intelligent idea if it could ruin Daisuke’s persona.

“So, where do you think they took Wallace-san?” Iori asked, the group had stopped to eat and find supriments like food and wood for bonfires “And where would Daisuke-san be right now?”

“Those are tough questions to answer,” Miyako frowned, “We’re looking for two people and only one we know something about.”

“You don’t think Daisuke-kun is dead, right Miyako-san?” Takeru asked her, “I agree with Ichijouji-kun, he wouldn’t let it happen…”

“Besides,” Tailmon said, “V-mon is with him so we shouldn’t worry about them. They must be fine. If something bad had happened to Daisuke, V-mon would be the first to come tell us.”

“Hmm…”

“What’s wrong Ken-kun?” Miyako looked at him, and then everyone in silence focused on the boy.

“I’ve met Lightnimon before.”

“You did!?” they all, except for Mimi and Palmon who weren’t present at the moment.

“He mentioned he knows where Daisuke is,” he explained, making everyone come closer to him but then he added “Though he said he couldn’t tell me that.”

“UGH, that digimon is getting on my nerves!” Miyako stood up and kicked a pebble away from them, “I’m so tired of that mean masked-mon! I want to smash him with my own hands--”

“If you do that, wouldn’t it be impossible to learn where Daisuke is?” Gummymon raised his ear, as if he was asking permission to talk.

“He’s right, Miyako-san” Hawkmon said, “We can’t hurt him.”

“I don’t like that guy. It’s not nice to threaten people like he did, dagya.”

“I’m curious about what he knows,” Iori mused, “If he’s on our side, why would he warn us about not getting in his way?”

“Maybe he’s just a bully” Patamon replied with a shrug, “Maybe--”

“Mimi-san did not return yet…” Hikari wasn’t totally into that conversation, so she was whispering that to herself. She got up and went after Mimi, with Tailmon following her with her concerns.

“Sigh, we didn’t get any success” Then, Hikari heard a familiar voice, following it until find…

“It’s okay, you’re doing all your best” … Mimi talking with Lightnimon. But he wasn’t attacking her!? “I’m sure we will manage a way to find Wallace and save him.”

“Yeah, about that…” Lightnimon was speaking very casually and was familiar to Hikari. However they didn’t notice her and Tailmon there hiding behind those trees, “We invaded their headquarters after I got the information from Frostmon, but… We couldn’t get him out of there.”

“Oh… I hope we can get a chance to take him away from those evil digimon…” Palmon commented, “Huh, I think there’s something watching us…?”

“Shoot-- I will meet you later, please inform the others to go to that place I told you.”

“Ok, we will.” Mimi nodded and Lightnimon vanished.

Mimi and Palmon then started to head back to the group, only to find Hikari and Tailmon in front of them. Both the girl and cat-like digimon were staring at Mimi, not very satisfied with what they heard.

“Hikari-chan?” Mimi gasped, “Why are you--”

“You’re working with him all this time!?”

“I-It’s not what you think!!” Palmon babbled.

“We heard you three talking about Wallace and to lead us to a place” Tailmon said seriously, “He’s planning to ambush us.”

“No, he’s not” Mimi stared back, “You don’t understand how he feels!”

“He attacked us, Mimi-san!”

“It wasn’t his intention! He… He wants to talk, just that.”

“Maybe we should go, if he knows where Daisuke is…” Tailmon mused, “But better we don’t let our guard down.”

“He won’t do any harm” Palmon frowned, “It’s not a trap, he really wants to talk with you.”

“How can we trust him?” Hikari pouted, “How can we trust you Mimi-san?”

And then Hikari & Tailmon left, running back to the group.

“Mimi, isn’t this…”

“I know, we need to calm them down or they will attack Lightni-kun.”

After both girls were back, there was a huge anticlimactic atmosphere caused by this. Ken, who was the other person to know about Lightnimon, couldn’t let things be like this… But he also had no idea what Daisuke was planning to do.

They decided to follow Mimi to the place she mentioned, miles away from the enemy’s territory.

If was a trap, or not, they didn’t know. But once they reached said place, they saw Lightnimon on the top of a tree, and once he saw them approaching, he went down.

 “Oh greetings, my beloved Chosen Children” he greeted them with a bow.

“What do you want!?” Miyako went straight to the point, impatiently “I don’t like you and I don’t want to hear you! But you forced Mimi-san to send us here so--”

“Whoa whoa, hold on your rage girl I won’t do anything!” he babbled, “I just wanted to tell you where Daisuke-kun is, or rather… Show where he is.”

“You will!?” Them, except Mimi, Palmon, Ken and Wormmon, exclaimed.

“Yeah, I will” he nodded, then he grabbed his helmet, “So, the answer is… He’s her--”

But the helmet didn’t come off. Miyako, Takeru, Iori, Hikari and their digimon tilted their heads.

“Darn it, not now!!” He was now acting kinda familiar to them “Stupid helmet, I can’t take it off!”

“What is he doing, dagya?”

“I guess he wasn’t that dangerous...” Patamon blinked.

V-mon got out of the trees, Mimi and Palmon went to help him in silence. Everything was getting much more confusing as before.

“I will pull it, ok?” “Why don’t you use the digivice for this?” “And ruin my cool entrance?!” “Ok Palmon let’s do this” “Ok, Mimi!”

“What…”

Ken’s impatience was growing and he was very unamused right now. Wormmon as well, as the digimon was shaking his head in disapproval.

“What’s going on here?” Hikari asked.

“Ok! One, Two, Three--!!” and then Mimi, Palmon and V-mon managed to remove that stupid helmet from his head. They all fell on the ground, but even more confused noises were heard from the group.

“He’s here!” and with this, helmetless Lightnimon stood back in front of the group.

“Daisuke (-kun/-san)!?”

“Was it really needed, Daisuke?” Ken gave him a serious glare, gritting his teeth.

“No but… I thought it would’ve been a great idea--”

“YOU,” Miyako shouted and pointed at him, “YOU WERE PLAYING DEAD ALL THIS TIME?! HOW DARE YOU?!”

“There’s a reason we couldn’t tell you before” Gummymon flew and landed on Daisuke’s head, “He told us.”

“Huh?” Wormmon exclaimed.

“I didn’t die, but it was too close to it” Daisuke began, now that they had setted up their camp in that area, “I don’t know how I escaped but… I did. I was sure they would go hunt me again, so I had this idea of pretending to be a digimon.”

“Then once we were done with some discussion, we found Mimi and Gummymon lying unconscious on the forest” V-mon added, “We woke them up and they explained that Wallace got kidnapped by a bunny digimon”

“We met that digimon before” Daisuke explained, “She’s Lekismon and an emissary of the big bad, the one who tried to personally eliminate me.”

“In other words… You were playing the spy role for us?” Armadimon asked.

“Yeah... kinda,” V-mon chuckled nervously.

“I’m not a great actor nor a spy, so it was hard to keep things going” Daisuke shrugged, and then looked at them, “V-mon had to hide most of the time, And I had to speak differently and less than my usual. And anytime I slipped… It was too risky.”

“But Wallace knew it was us, though he was quite brainwashed by the enemies. He couldn’t come with us” V-mon sighed, then “I’m sorry Gummymon.”

“It’s okay, at least we know where he is now”

“About that… Maybe we should consider… planning something about it” Daisuke said with a serious tone, “The enemy’s headquarters is full of soldiers. We couldn’t get anything else and Wallace might be controlled again if we don’t hurry.”

“I see,” Ken mused, “So this whole reveal to us is to discuss a way to invade this place and save Gummymon’s partner…”

“Yeah and that it’s sad to do things alone”

“What will happen to Lightnimon now?” Hikari asked, concerned.

“Daisuke and him can’t appear in the same place sadly… But if he disappears and I appear, it will be suspicious.”

“So you will keep doing this?” Palmon frowned.

“I hate to make you guys sad but yeah… I have no other option.”

“Isn't it risky now that we had this meeting?” Iori mused, “We know you’re him and this makes our reactions totally different from before.”

“I know, but I can’t hold it for much longer! If I kept attacking y’all it would hurt more.”

“You have no idea what to do now?” Tailmon asked.

“I think we can help with this,” Hawkmon said and looked at the others, “If we work together we can help Daisuke-san to keep the enemy away from Lightnimon.”

“But how?” Palmon asked.

“Hey, what if…” Takeru whispered to them.

“That’s brilliant Takeru!” Daisuke grinned, “I wouldn’t expect anything else from you!”

“To make it work we all need to keep this as a secret” Ken added, “So please, don’t lose your composure.”

“Right!!” they all said together.

[digimoninteractions]

Digimon World Tour (02x40)

[ID: Screenshots from Digimon Adventure Zero Two episode 40 showing: (1) A shot looking down at Patamon, Takeru, Taichi, and Agumon. (2) Koushirou, Hikari, Tentomon, and Hikari on the top level of a bus. (3) Iori, Jou, and their digimon looking at the sydney opera house. (4) Them looking at each other. (5) Hawkmon, Piyomon, Miyako, and Sora sitting on a brick fence looking at the Saint Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. (6) Miyako looking at her D-Terminal as Sora sits beside her, trying to keep warm. (7) Them looking at each other. (8) Yamato and Ken standing together, looking opposite directions. (9) Ken holding Wormmon as he, Yamato, and Gabumon all head towards a helicopter. End ID]

[seventeenlovesthree]

Digi Dynamic Shipping Game

Send me two names among the following 12 and I’ll write a short analysis post about them:

Taichi Yagami | Yamato Ishida | Sora Takenouchi | Koushirou Izumi | Mimi Tachikawa | Jyou Kidou | Takeru Takaishi | Hikari Yagami | Daisuke Motomiya | Miyako Inoue | Iori Hida | Ken Ichijouji

Whether canon provides input on them or not.

As I try my best to get myself out of writing/art block, I thought about one of the many relationship analysis posts that are still at the back of my queue - and thus we may start with our genius bug boys, shall we?

As I had already outlined before, their relationship may not be the most fleshed out compared to other older/younger Chosen Children pairs - but this wonderful moment in particular is, in my opinion, still enough for us to speculate on how their bond may develop. It's Senpai!Koushirou at his very best, taking the still very distraught Ken under his wing, reassuring and comforting him in his own ways - because these two have way more in common than just being smart boys with bug Digimon partners.

While their set-ups are being focused on in very different ways, their arcs are both defined by trying to be more casual, natural with the people close to them due to identity-and-family-related trauma. While Koushirou buried himself in his laptop and knowledge gathering to avoid thinking about himself and his potential whereabouts for being adopted, struggling with social interactions, Ken was dragged into the world of the dark ocean after the death of his brother, getting corrupted in the process and committing horrifying actions, thus feeling unworthy of being redeemed and befriended for a long, long time. One might argue that, if it wasn't for two certain goggle boys reaching their hands out to them, they may have never found the courage to become confident in their abilities, using their intellect for the good and the sake of their friends and families, letting their natural kindness shine through eventually...

And in the same vein, I feel like Koushirou, by the time of 02, had to become the person he is there first to be able to reach out to Ken himself, so Ken could move on to reach out to the others as well. Even if he may not have been consciously aware of it, he (besides Yamato, Takeru and Hikari) was probably among the people who could relate to Ken the most - and thus, treated him with kindness.

Unfortunately, we never really see them interact directly after that again, even though Koushirou did try his best to integrate Ken into the team despite everything he had done. So long story short - we at least know there is a peaceful, trusting and kind foundation between them.

Whether I think why and how they’d work.

In case you haven't noticed how I talked about them above, I would absolutely love for these two to be closer with each other. My assumption is that the creators of Digimon tried to avoid putting them together too blatantly, because they may be way too powerful in figuring out everything on their own. I also don't believe that there would be any kind of competitive spirit between these two - in fact, Ken has quite the tendency to play himself down and canonically confirms that "if Koushirou-san can't figure this out, how are we supposed to?", implying that he is also still looking up greatly to his senpai. I think they could be quite knowledge bombs due to their natural curiosity in different fields, with Koushirou being more accustomed to the technical and theoretical side of things, whereas Ken may have more knowledge outside of that. They're both the voices of reasons in their respective groups - and may also need a little time-out every now and then to settle down, enjoy some quiet time by themselves (and with each other) after being exposed to the shenanigans their friends come up with.

This may be more of a dub-only thing, but - I could actually imagine them having fun at quiz nights and despite being the smartest people in the room, would always be the least competitive about it (especially when Miyako and Daisuke are with them), because they could just talk about their gathered findings for hours without end. Nobody else could follow their train of thought at this point, but that's okay, because they just enjoy theorizing together.

Whether I’d prefer them as platonic or romantic ship.

Overall, I think they would work better on a platonic basis, mainly because they're both people who need other people with outgoing energy levels as complementary forces to pull them out of their shells as romantic partners. But again, I believe they could be amazing friends to each other, a safe haven so to speak.

[digitalgate02]

02 Team | 02組 (2008 version)

The most known group of children besides their seniors Taichi, Yamato, Sora, Mimi, Koushiro and Jou. They keep focused on fighting whoever tries to mess with both the Digital World and the human world. But lately they just decided to form a more effective group specialized in digimon cases around Tokyo – Probably because someone was having too much free time after school and watching a ton of detective series on TV.

It’s not like it would be a bad idea, right?

Thus the first (?) Chosen Children’s Digimon Cases Unit was born.

Separated posts: Daisuke-Hikari-Takeru • Ken • Miyako • Iori

[glassesandpassion]

☯ + any scene of 02 ep 31 🤭

Send me ‘☯ + a scene from my characters canon’ and I will drabble it from my character’s POV.

“The fog is getting thicker.”

Thicker indeed, to the point Miyako couldn’t see the figures walking right in front of her. Their shapes, color, sizes, those were very much clear to her still, but their thoughts, intentions? As obscure as the forest itself.

Weren’t they friends? Wasn’t Hikari her friend? Ken had an excuse, he’d never allowed himself to be a part of the group despite her and Daisuke’s efforts, but Hikari? Hikari was there from the beginning! She chose to keep Miyako from their little cryptic, depressing chat.

And Miyako tried her best to snap them out of their gloom: she suggested singing songs, playing games, and even made a fool out of herself - but it was fine, as long as it made them laugh! But it was all ignored. The fog was so thick that apparently separated them into two different worlds. She was at that forest while they enjoyed their little Dark Ocean Club of theirs.

Good for Hikari, found a new best friend besides Takeru, hasn't she? As beautiful and gentle as she was, Miyako bet.

Meanwhile, Miyako played the clown behind them. Hikari could’ve spared her the trouble by not acting so eager to team up with her moments ago.

Even Hikari couldn’t resist making fun of someone as ridiculous as her, could she?

[bokura-no-digital-world]

Ken Week 2023 - Day 3: Sports

Days: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Title: Sporty Boy Characters: Ken Ichijouji, Daisuke Motomiya, Takeru Takaishi, Hikari Yagami and Yamato Ishida. Summary: How Ken got into soccer and grew tired of it later on, wanting to try new sports.

Cross-posted on AO3 and FFN

Ken couldn’t stop staring at the beautiful soccer ball one of the students of his school was holding. He really wanted to play, but he was a new student and too shy to ask. So he simply sighed and went to his locker.

The following days weren’t that different, until one day Ken was intently watching the soccer team from Tamachi Elementary School practice for a competition among classes. He was so lost observing them that he didn’t even see the coach stopping beside him. “Too mesmerizing, huh?” It was only then that the boy returned to his senses. He blushed rather heavily and avoided eye contact with him. “Most of the boys out there had this exact same reaction.” He placed his hand on Ken’s shoulder and squeezed it lightly. “Why don’t you try to get into the team? You might earn a spot.” “I don’t know.” The boy replied in such a low tone the coach could barely hear it. “I’d probably suck at it anyway.” “Who knows? Maybe you won’t be as bad as you think. Come on.” The coach encouraged him to go for it. The seven-year old boy was convinced. It would be just a test anyway. He shook his head and followed the man towards the field.

He effortlessly earned a spot in the team and quickly became one of the stars of the team. That lead to him being one of the most popular students at Tamachi Elementary School, though it made him uncomfortable cause he never meant to be popular in school.

****

Three years later and he was still the main player of the soccer team. But not only he was a star on it, he also excelled in all school subjects and other sports. In other words, he was one of a kind. All the attention he received deep down meant nothing to him, as he thought everyone else was in a lower level than him. He didn’t know exactly when it started, but it felt good. He was a genius without having to study or work hard. It was perfect.

However, he could notice his soccer team mates went quiet as soon as he walked into the field to start practicing and couldn’t stop looking at him. Ken realized right away they were afraid of him and a smile appeared on his lips. That meant he was respected among them. He’d often be one of the first boys to be picked for a team, when he was not the one to form his own.

He became a quieter and more closed-off person since Osamu died, but it had gotten worse since he began to go to the Digital World more often and his digivice turned black. He didn’t mind the color at all; in fact he loved black. The Digital World became his escape place and it was only a matter of weeks – maybe days – for him to think the Digimon were characters of a video game and started torturing them and turned them into slaves. Wormmon would often tell him to stop and Ken always yelled at him for that, when he didn’t whip him. He couldn’t believe out of all Digimon, he ended up with the worst one as his partner. Nothing or anyone was going to stand on his way and ruin his plans to conquer the Digital World.

****

Ken was sure he was shaking more by each step he took, so he purposely let himself walk behind Daisuke. The last thing he wanted was for his best friend to feel bad for him; he was feeling it for both of them already. “Here we are.” The goggle boy turned to him with a grin, which quickly faded away when he looked at his friend. “What’s wrong?” “I think this is a bad idea.” “What are you talking about, Ken?” Daisuke couldn’t believe what he had heard. “You were doing so good when it was just the two of us.” “Yeah… but it was just the two of us.” The blue haired boy looked away. A month had gone by since BelialVamdemon was defeated and the Digital World saved once again. Ken wasn’t sure if he actually enjoyed playing soccer or it was something he was led to believe when he was brainwashed by Archnemon and Oikawa. He wasn’t going to say anything to anyone, but he should have known Daisuke would notice something was off and push him to say it. Then he got out of his way to help his DNA digievolution partner to find the sparkle that were in his eyes whenever he played soccer. He didn’t doubt for a second it was gone; it was just hidden. “I don’t think I can do this.” “Come on.” Daisuke touched his shoulder. “I believe you. We can even be on the same team, if that makes you feel better. I’ll talk to the boys, I’m sure they will understand the situation.” “Daisuke.” “I have no doubt you can do this. It’s clear to me how much you love soccer. It’s not something that happened only because you were the Kaiser. You started playing before that.” “That’s true, but the dark seed was already in my body.” Suddenly Daisuke grabbed him by the hand and dragged him towards the field. “Come on.”

Ken went to his bag to put his soccer ball away after the match. There was a large grin on his face as he realized things weren’t as bad as he thought they would. It didn’t take long for Daisuke and his usual cheerfulness to join him. “That was a good match.” “It really was.” The blue haired boy sat down and took a long sip of his water. “We make a hell of a good duo, don’t you think?” “Absolutely!” Daisuke said excitedly. “No one can stop us.” Ken couldn’t help but laugh. “That’s right. Thanks for believing me and pushing me to go for it. If I wasn’t for you, I’d probably have turned around and gone home.” “See, that’s why you needed me to be with you today. You didn’t turn around and actually had a lot of fun.” “True that.” He nodded. “It’s all thanks to you.” “Now you believe you actually love it and it’s not just something you did because of the Kaiser?” “I do.” He stood up and put his bag over his shoulder. “I will definitely play again.” “That’s the spirit!” Daisuke put his arm over his shoulders and they walked away. “By the way, do you want to sleep over tonight?” “Won’t your parents mind it?” “Absolutely not! They love you.” “In that case, let’s go.”

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“You’re so talented at it, you make it seem so easy. It comes so naturally to you.” “All these years of practicing must count for something.” Takeru said when he landed on the floor after jumping to throw the ball into the basket. “It’s not difficult though.” “You’re joking, right?” Ken asked shocked as he watched his friend walk to the ball and picking it up. “Not completely though.” The blonde threw the ball at him. “The concept for basketball is pretty simple.” “I know, but I just can’t get it into the basket.” The boy looked at it and then to the basket across him. “I guess I’m just not tall enough for this game.” “There are short people playing basketball. In fact, there are short players on NBA.” “Really? I thought there was a minimum height or something.” “No.” Takeru couldn’t help but laugh. “There’s no such thing. Everyone is welcome to play, no matter how tall or short. I’m curious about something though.” “What is it?” “Why did you decide to learn to play basketball?” “Oh, I wanted to try a different sport, I suppose. Soccer can get pretty boring after a while.” “How long have you been playing it?” “For about seven years, maybe.” “That’s half of your life.” “Exactly. Hence why it got bored. Not to mention that’s all Daisuke wants to play and he drags me along every single time.” Takeru laughed again. “So typical of Daisuke to do this.” “Tell me about it. You were lucky you already knew him and chose a different sport.” “Yeah, I didn’t want to take my chances.” “On a serious note, why did you choose basketball?” “Honestly, everything happened so fast I barely had time to process. I was playing alone one day while I waited for my brother to finish practicing with his band. The basketball coach had walked in to get something and saw me playing. He thought I was very talented and thought I should try to make it to the team. And I didn’t have a club yet, so… here I am.” “That’s a great story. Do you want to pursue it professionally?” “No.” Takeru shook his head. “I want to be a writer.” “Really? That’s so cool! A novel writer?” “Maybe in the future. There’s just thing I’m planning, but it’s a secret.” “Got it. “I’m sorry.” “That’s alright.” Takeru stood up and started bouncing the ball. “So do you still wanna play or what?” “Alright.” Ken followed him suit and got in a defense position. “You should know I’m not taking it easy on you because you’re learning.” “I wasn’t expecting you to.” He replied in the same playful tone, but failed to keep his friend from scoring a two-point ball. “See, this is why I shouldn’t play basketball.” “Don’t say that, it’s only your first time playing. You’ll get better at it within time.” “Sure, if you don’t mind wasting years with that.” “Come on.” Takeru threw the ball at him. “It’s your time to score.” “Okay, here I go.”

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“Isn’t it too slippery?” Hikari asked unsure as she watched the skating rink in front of her. “It seems to be polished.” “I’m sure it’s fine.” Ken walked into the rink first and almost fell down. Normally she would have laughed about it, but that only made her more terrified. “I’m so not getting in there.” “Come on, Hikari, it’s not that bad at all.” He approached her and leaned over the rail that separated both sides. “See? I can already stand up.” “Who guarantees you won’t fall down again? You’re holding onto this rail.” “See?” He released his hands from it and skated backwards, holding his hands in front of his chest with their palms facing her. “Can you tell him to stop trying to give me a heart attack?” Hikari begged Takeru when he stopped beside her to put on his own rollerblades. “I could, but I actually agree with him.” He replied with a smirk and quickly stood up. It didn’t take him long to be seemingly floating on the rink. “Come on!” “You two and your habit of wanting to try out every sport out there.” Hikari pretended to be annoyed, but laughed. “You’re lucky Taichi isn’t here.” The blonde said. “It would be way worse.” “Ugh, don’t remind me.” She walked to the gate that led to the rink. “Okay, here I go.” As she started to skate carefully around the rink, she thought it wasn’t as hard as she thought. That was, until Ken scared her from behind. “What the hell were you doing?” She shouted when she turned around after she screamed so loud everyone else looked at them. “Don’t ever do that again!” “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” He grabbed her shoulders and turned her around, immediately holding her hand. “We could have just gone bowling instead, but no one listened to me.” “Skating is so much more fun though.” “When you know how to.” “It’s not a problem at all. We can teach you.” “Okay, I guess.” “I gotta say this place is really cool, Ken.” Takeru joined them after skating around the rink for a while. “I love this disco vibe… the neon colors and the music are amazing. I didn’t know you liked these kind of things.” “Not exactly. I mean, it’s a cool place, but the music isn’t exactly my type. I figured you’d enjoy it.” “I have to admit it’s really a nice place.” Hikari stated. “Okay, there’s something I need to say.” “What is it?” “I actually know how to skate.” “What?” Ken asked shocked. “So was this all acting?” “Yeah, I’m sorry. I wanted to know if you’d be a good teacher.” “You knew about this?” Ken turned to Takeru. “She’s one of the best ones I’ve seen. She bribed me not to tell you, by the way.” “What the hell?” She jokingly punched him in the arm. “You said you weren’t going to say it!” “I’m sorry, it slipped.” “Well…” She skated away from them and then turned around, stretching her arms and smiling. “Who’s up for a small competition?”

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The sun was starting to raise and it was a little after 6 a.m. that Tuesday morning. Most people were getting up at that time, and some were already out. That was Ken’s case. He had recently started jogging very early in the morning, as part of his preparation to be a detective. Being agile wasn’t a requirement for the job, but he thought it would be better to be safe than sorry. He’d usually do it on his own, but that day he had run into one of his fellow Chosen Children. “Yamato?” He called his name when he was near enough. “I didn’t know you were into jogging.” “Ken, hi.” Yamato looked over his shoulder when he got near. “Yeah, astronauts have to be in really good shape, so… I thought this would go well with gym and everything.” “I see.” “What about you, though? It will sound ironic, but isn’t it too early for you to be out here running?” “It does sound ironic.” Ken couldn’t help but laugh. “My reasons are pretty much the same as yours. I mean, it’s not something obliged for us, but I thought it’d come in handy. Besides, turns out I actually enjoyed running so early in the morning and watching the sunrise, or sort of.” “I know what you mean. Hikari didn’t want to come with you?” “I actually didn’t invite her. She’s so busy with college and all, I didn’t want to bother her with this.” “That’s sweet of you, but I’m sure she’d love to join you.” “I know she would. I’m just not brave enough to invite her because of what I’ve just said.” Ken took a deep breath and drank some of his water. “What about Sora though? I heard she likes seeing the sunrise sometimes.” “Yes, she does.” Yamato smiled. “Sometimes she comes with me, but today she wasn’t able to. She has a fashion show coming soon and wants to get everything started soon, in case something happens in the meantime and there’s time enough to fix it.” “It’s good to be safe.” “That’s true.” He also drank a sip of his water. “So I just thought of something.” “What is it?” “I think today wasn’t a coincidence. I think we were meant to run into each other, so I was thinking if you’d like to go jogging with me.” “What? Are you serious?” “Absolutely! It’s much better than jogging alone. Besides, we’d keep each other company and that would allow us to get close. But if you don’t want to, it’s perfectly fine.” “No, no, I’d love to. I mean, if you don’t mind getting bored with me.” “I think it won’t happen at all. I can’t wait for it actually, I think we have a lot in common.” “Really?” “Oh yes. More than you think.” “Alright then. I’m looking forward to it already.” “You know, we can start right now if you want to.” “Let’s go for it then. You should know, I’m very fast. I need to be home by 7 to get ready for college and see Hikari before I leave.” “Sure. I can’t stay much longer as well. Sora will be upset if I don’t take her obentou to college. So let’s go.” Yamato took off, closely followed by Ken.