#i was like what is untraumatized maki doing here?

[deathandnonexistentialdread]

the way i took a double take

[flyonmylovee]

FRIDAY TRI-DAY

[I HAD PLANS to make a giant Tri predictions thread with tons of proof for my ideas and theories and then... school happened. Suddenly, it’s the day before [well, technically it’s today] that Tri 5 comes out and everything got away from me. Really. I just failed a reading quiz before plugging my payment information into crunchyroll and logging on to write this up. I had all summer. With that being said, I still want to briefly type some predictions up just for the satisfaction of being able to expand on this post should anything I have to say become relatively true. I swear I’ve thought all these out, don’t @ me. Tri spoilers (given PVs and the first 5 mins) below the cut:]

Before I get started, I wrote out more detailed thoughts on Shoushitsu here. A lot of my thoughts build off what I had to say there so... yeah. Alrighty, let’s do this.

I bet you all a million dollars that they’re not in the digital world- not the one they know, anyways. If you look closely at the beginning of Shoushitsu, right after the title screen, the film takes us through a weird dark dimension where you can see those strange floating planet-virus shapes if you squint hard enough. I don’t think they’re in the digital world. Unsure if these are technically the *same* partners. I just... I got the vibe while watching Shoushitsu that ...too many things were off. I can’t get deep about it right now. As something to back this up though, in one of the recent games, Meicoomon is featured searching for Meiko and she talks about different dimensions. 

With THAT being said...

I bet that finding out an entire version of *reality*- one with a cute, snuggly, untraumatized Tailmon freed from torturous memories of Vamdemon and Wizarmon- isn’t real would totally drive Hikari nuts. Shoushitsu made a point of showing us that Hikari likes this new reality, at least for her partner’s sake. It seemed like she was the only one seriously considering that this situation might be better than what they had before. Perhaps this is enough to push her over the edge? I have my doubts that it’s something to do with Taichi, although something may happen to him. I just don’t think he’s the trigger, as many of the PVs haven’t been reflective of actual order-of-events imo.

I think the original battle between Maki, Daigo et al and the dark masters was the digital world’s version of Ragnarok. I think Yggdrasil already reset the digital world. I think that Daigo’s partner, along with the 3 others were chosen to cross over into the new world while Maki’s partner wasn’t. Maki asks “why wasn’t he chosen”. I’m thinking something along the lines of Digital World-Iliad. It’d help explain why Alphamon, Jesmon, et al never bothered to show up in a crisis before. Perhaps there’s an alternate world. Perhaps that’s where Taichi and the other chosen have landed. Tbh, I’d cry if the digimon haven’t actually lost their memories but are actually just completely new digimon who the kids have accidentally tricked into believing they have long lost human partners. That’d be emotionally traumatizing, right? Anyways, if Ragnarok happened, I think there’s a good chance we’re dealing with the x-antibody here (with implications for alphamon, meicoomon, new evolutions??? Also, I think the digital letters on omegamons sword are different than they usually are??)

Additionally, if Taichi truly does disappear and go somewhere, I wonder if he makes it back to the digital world we know. I think that’d set us up perfectly for the 6th movie. Perhaps that’s where the 02 kids are, as well. Either that, or in the no-man’s land we keep seeing (seems to be the place where Maki + Daigo’s original battle was fought? Looks like the kids will end up there again, and I think that’s where the 02 kids went up against Alphamon?)

I could write some stuff about angels and archangels and seven demon lords here but I’m gonna hop skip over that for right now in the interest of time. 

ALTHOUGH, I’ll put forth an idea that Meicoomon came straight from the dark area. I think it’s interesting that Meicoomon has been depicted as appearing to Meiko from out of the forest, and conveniently, the Tri card set has a card called “From Within the Forest” with Meicoomon’s adorable yet untrustworthy face plastered on it. I can’t decide if Meicoomon just... walks out of the forest a lot and it’s as simple as that, or if it’s alluding to the evil forest in the dark area. I think it could make sense for Meicoomon to have originated there. I remember reading on some long lost wikiimon page that some digimon moved to the dark area after being driven to near extinction (HMM) and developed mutations in order to survive the violence.

I’m actually more inclined to say that Meicoomon was artificially created (by Meiko’s dad tbh). The Tri crew said that the similarities between Plotmon and Meicoomon are important, and there’s info out there telling us that Plotmon was a man-made digimon. This could make sense given the first 5 minutes we’ve seen of tri. I’m less sure about this but am totally willing to dive back into the lore if we don’t get an answer by the end of tomorrow.

Anyways, the final thing my theories hinge on are the artistic similarities between Tri and this. Those cards scream “Tri” to me. I really think a “crisis” already happened, but I suppose we’ll see.

To finish this off, I’d just like to point out that we have one movie left and we’ve seen p much every evolution we were expecting to. There has to be excitement left for the 6th film. First- I still stand by what I said in my linked post that Yamato hasn’t gone through a personal crisis yet. That could be movie 6, and it could end up tying everything back together, but it could definitely be messy. 

I’m also gonna throw one more hot take out there and say that I think we’re going to see everyone jogress evolve. Either that, or we’ll see mode changes or SOMETHING. Idk. Once again, the Tri card set has implications for Tentomon + Piyomon being on the field together. Same thing is said for Palmon and Gomamon. I highkey don’t really care if we see jogress evolutions- what I really want is that Sora/Koushiro team-up. 

...And I’m sure Toei would love to make that $$$$ of new merchandise. 

WELL. That’s it. It’s not everything I had, but it’s most of it, and it’s all I have time to write for now. I have more homework to do and I’m probably going to be up for hours. I’m so excited for the 5th movie. I can’t wait to watch it and read what you all think. Like I said, if ANY of this turns out to be relevant I’ll expand. If this entire post turns out to be a worthless stretch... I’m probably going to leave it here and never acknowledge it again. Have mercy on me and my ask box. And, uh, please continue to after this one final hot take:

*I don’t think Meicoomon is making it out of Tri alive* :X 

OOP I’m off. See you all on the other side [and by other side, I assume we are all aboutta “know the darkness” and go beyond].