#jeri and calumon

[digimonarchive]

Juri/Jeri Katou's interaction with Culumon/Calumon is cute and hilarious

(Juri and Culumon are having a snack in the park. Juri watches the little Digimon catalyst munching on the bun happily. Then, she rummages into the paper bag for a bun.) Juri: I'll have one too. (But before she could have another bun, Culumon steps in and asks for more food.) Juri: One more? Culumon: One more, Culu! (Juri obliges and gives the paper bag full of buns to Culumon. Also, Juri takes one more bun for herself. She watches Culumon eating another bun and ponders.) Juri: Maybe...we...Culumon and me. (Juri moves closer to Culumon who is still eating the buns.) Juri: We get along! Culumon: We get along, Culu! Juri: Right? Culumon: Right, Culu! Juri: Culumon, I think you're my partner! (Culumon looks at Juri in confusion.) Culumon: Partner? Juri: That makes me your tamer, Culumon! (Culumon gets a shock and nearly faints. Juri is unimpressed with Culumon's reaction and stands there, looking annoyed.) Juri: Why do you fall over? It's kind of unpleasant. (Culumon bolts himself upright, looking more confused and scared.)

Digimon Tamers episode 21

[artistic-moth-man]

Jeri with liollmon and calumon!! I think it wouldve been adorable if she got to have calumon as a partner, but the season did require yknow

[heckcareoxytwit]

Juri Katou / Jeri, Kenta Kitagawa and the Digimon picspam

(Japanese and English dub names)

1st and 3rd pics = Juri Katou/Jeri (10 years old in original Japanese, 13 years old in English dub) in Digimon Tamers

2nd and 4th pics = Kenta Kitagawa (10 years old in original Japanese, 13 years old in English dub)

5th pic = Leomon and Juri

6th pic = Kenta and Marineangemon

7th pic = Leomon (default adult/champion level. Digimon partner of Juri until his death)

8th and 9th pics = Culumon/Calumon (unofficial partner/best friend of Juri since Leomon had died)

10th pic = Juri/Jeri and Culumon/Calumon (Although Culumon is friends with the Tamers and Digimon, he/they and Juri are friends)

11th pic = Marineangemon (ultimate/mega level. Digimon partner of Kenta)

[dante-heller]

Who the fuck are the rest of these people? There's 18 episodes left and there's one... Two... Three... Six tamers and six digimon unaccounted for.

[apocalymons]

Our DCG Divination Deck

Okay, I'm finally gonna stop putting it off and actually talk a bit about our Digimon card game (DCG) divination deck.

Under a read more, because it's gonna be long.

So, the theory behind our DCG div deck is based loosely on these two posts by @miracleeye and @mahouowo respectively. The former is specifically about Pokemon TCG divination, while the latter is a bit more broad.

This is gonna focus on the process we went through to build our DCG div deck. It's technically a WIP, but that's because we have to order a few specific singles that we don't have yet, and are liable to switch cards as new sets come in. I've split this into a few headings, but a full list might be a later project if folks are interested, even though we have a spreadsheet to keep track of things.

Card Selection

Selecting cards is really the most personal part for us. We're Digimonkin, and have a lot of members in our system which adds to the flexibility and personal aspect of card choice. On the most basic level, what we were looking for were cards to represent different members and their different stages, because they have close associations with specific experiences/journeys/emotions.

This creates an "arc" in a similar way to certain groups of cards in Tarot. The Major Arcana tells a story; Digimon lines do the same, because Digimon evolution is often closely tied with spiritual and emotional growth.

It's also worth noting that the way Digimon work on a fundamental level means that growth, despite this chart, is largely nonlinear. Some Digimon revert back to previous levels. Others don't always evolve the same way as they did before. Reincarnation is also involved in certain cases (anime, v-pets, and Digimon World style games included).

All that is to say that, while we included specific "lines" in our DCG div deck, some of those lines have multiple stage representatives in order to highlight the plasticity of growth. This deck also has duplicates of the same stage/Digimon in order to represent different aspects of life, even when on the surface that form is the same or similar (3 Beelzemon cards, 3 Apocalymon cards, 3 Impmon cards, for example).

Beyond that, other card selections also focus on elements related to our experiences. For example, we have a grouping for Jeri, which includes her tamer card, ADR Searcher, Blue Card, Leomon, and Calumon. This same grouping also bleeds into Tamers Impmon's grouping, of which we consider Blue Card and Calumon included, but also has Ai and Mako.

Selection in our case is also most down to what artwork resonates with us most in a symbolically relevant way. We recently switched out BT15 DemiDevimon with EX 8 DemiDevimon, for example. Parallel art is common in the card game as well, to the point we technically have two arts of one card in the same deck.

Part of this change is also down to what the cards do. The former focuses on supporting Myotismon (a Digimon unrelated to our system). The latter focuses on supporting Nightmare Soldiers, which is more in line with the way that stage feels to our headmate who identifies with it: a resignation to the lot others see in you as a servant of evil.

[ID: two Digimon Card Game cards, both depicting DemiDevimon, an orb-shaped demon with bird-like talons and bat-like wings coming out of a leather hat. The first artwork, by Yamuretsu, shows DemiDevimon flying away from a group of agitated Digimon with a mischievous tongue peeking out of its smile. The second artwork, by Minato Sashima, shows DemiDevimon hanging from a tree branch, backlit by unnaturally purple-red moonlight.]

Also, we've included a few cards that aren't DCG cards. Specifically, we have an Apocalymon card from the old Digital Monster Card Game (we usually just refer to it as "Hyper Colo" tbh), and a Satellamon card from the Data Cardass Appli Monsters game.

The former is to represent an "archaic" feeling; something outdated, that has been processed but can ultimately not be purged from one's life. The latter is more down to the fact Satellamon is an Appmon, and we're only just now seeing those in the current DCG. (There's actually two Satellamon cards, and the one we don't have is the one we would prefer, but in a pinch, you take what you get.)

Information to Pay Attention To

In the Digimon Card Game, there are a few different card types as well, with information that puts them into groupings. The most basic card types are Digi-Eggs, Digimon, Tamers, and Option cards.

These may also be further grouped by card colors, which include red, blue, yellow, green, black, purple, and white (in the order of how they're sequenced in sets). Cards may have up to 3 colors.

These don't necessarily correspond to elemental divisions, but do often include them. I think this video does a better job explaining it than I could; divisions are much more about archetype than element, not just mechanically but also within the story structure of Digimon as a franchise.

If you're unfamiliar with Digimon, this also includes Digimon traits, such as Virus, Vaccine, Data, Free, and Unknown. Vi/Va/Da have a rock/paper/scissors relationship in other media, but very rarely interact with each other in the card game.

All Digimon also have stages, which represent levels of growth from In-Training (lv 2) to Mega (lv 6-7). In order, these are Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, and Mega. The terminology differs in Japanese, and elucidates the way you can also read these levels: Baby II, Child, Adult, Perfect, and Ultimate.

There are also other traits such as Field Types (Deep Savers, Nightmare Soldiers, Nature Spirits, etc.), protagonist groupings (Hero, Adventure, Liberators), type (Puppet, Dinosaur, Avian), and lore groupings (Seven Great Demon Lords, Three Angels, Four Great Dragons, Three Musketeers).

Appmon, which are only just getting introduced into the DCG, have similar stages (called "grades"), but 8 attributes. Appmon grades are Standard, Super, Ultimate, and God. Their attributes are in a larger circle than Vi/Va/Da, and are, in order of effectiveness on one another: Social, Navi, Tool, System, Game, Entertainment, and Life. Outside of this relationship is God attribute.

For people interested in using numbers for their readings, Digimon cards also have a lot of information in that regard. Digimon alone have play cost, evolution cost, Digimon level, DP, set/card number, and block number. More or less information is present on some cards.

The DCG also has all artists credited on the cards themselves, which has led us to notice some other groupings in our own readings.

Deck Size

In our case, we made our deck 50 cards large. This is the size that DCG decks are--- there is no variance, outside of egg decks, which are 0-5 eggs large.

Originally, the deck was 35 cards large, but we found this too small after experimentation, leading to unclear readings and ultimately encouraging us to tweak the count to its current number of 50.

Spreads

We've drafted up a few spreads inspired by the various Digimon card games. We've really only tested one of these spreads, as it functions well enough for our purposes without too much complication.

After a bit of messing around, we've found that our DCG div deck plays nice with a spread resembling the current card game. In order, we lay one card in the Raising Area, one card in the Battle Area, and one in Security. An additional clarifying card in each area sometimes helps.

The easiest way to explain it is that this spread represents Potential, State, and Protection:

Potential: something that can be nurtured, or is growing already.

State: elements regarding the current situation, physical or psychological.

Protection: elements that can be utilized to beneficial effect; what is keeping you safe.

We do our readings also on playmats with our own art.

Concluding Thoughts

So, I've told y'all about how our DCG div deck was constructed, but I haven't actually talked at all about the readings and how it treats us.

Generally, we try to do our readings at Digimon Locals, after we've done our matches for the tournament. The vibes are just there. Our cards are double sleeved in the official Bandai Beelzemon sleeves and some Dragon Shield outer sleeves. Anything more and we would literally be unable to hold it in our hands, let alone put it in a deck box.

Any time we do a reading, we also shuffle the same way we'd shuffle our for-play DCG decks--- a mix of pile shuffling and gingerly interlocking the cards in equal piles.

Here's a reading it gave us that's pretty straightforward, so it makes for a good example.

I've described this deck to friends as having the temperament of a high school gossip, but I also think one of our friend's descriptor of it as "roommate that steals your Dr. Pepper" is pretty accurate too. It doesn't really cut corners.

This reading in particular was so straightforward you could mistake it for a ruler, because it's a snapshot of a literal moment in Satty's and my exomemories--- these three cards are associated.

Specifically, Potential is in Satty, state is in Gallantmon, and Protection is in Blue Card. The exomemory this quite literally evokes is when Satty was killed by Gallantmon and death evolved (Blue Card represents evolution, "growth to overcome adversity" and wishes).

Satty evolved into me (Glut), which compounds just how funny this reading was to look at because of our interpretation of Gluttony (the sin) as being about dissatisfaction (ie: wanting; wishing without ever getting what you want).

The deck itself kind of just looked at who was holding it and said "ah, okay, so this is you?" 9 days before I properly split into the system.

It also likes giving us some cards repeated in certain positions, which are specifically cards representing to us confidence in the self (in creative endeavors) which. Really funny considering we're nervous about applying to grad school for creative writing.

Anyways, all this is to say, testing is always required with this shit, but also, if you make your deck personal, it will go for the jugular without hesitation.

-Gluttony

[ao3feed-renaruki]

Tamers Transformed

by HybridChaos

in a universe slightly above and to the left of the Tamers universe we all know things are changed forever when the Tamers and Digimon discover something new about their connections

Words: 12087, Chapters: 5/12, Language: English

Fandoms: Digimon Tamers

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Multi

Characters: Guilmon (Tamers), Renamon (Tamers), Terriermon (Tamers), Lopmon (Tamers), Leomon (Tamers), Impmon (Tamers), Kokuwamon (Digimon), Monodramon (Tamers), Matsuda Takato | Takato Matsuki, Makino Ruki | Rika Nonaka, Lee Jianliang | Henry Wong, Ai (Tamers), Makoto | Mako (Tamers), Shiota Hirokazu | Kazu Shioda, Kitagawa Kenta, Alice McCoy, Culumon | Calumon (Tamers), Dobermon (Tamers)

Relationships: Guilmon/Matsuda Takato | Takato Matsuki, Makino Ruki | Rika Nonaka/Renamon, Lee Jianliang | Henry Wong & Terriermon, Katou Juri | Jeri Katou/Leomon, Ai & Impmon & Makoto | Mako (Tamers), Akiyama Ryou | Ryo Akiyama & Cyberdramon, Dobermon/Alice McCoy, Kitagawa Kenta/Penguinmon, Kazu Shioda/Kokuwamon

Additional Tags: Transformation, Digivolution (Digimon), Sex, Fluff and Smut, Originally Posted Elsewhere, Gender Identity, Alternate Universe, Drama & Romance, Interspecies Sex, The Author Regrets Nothing, Horny Teenagers, Male - Freeform, female - Freeform, Null - Freeform, Furry Characters, Robots, Male/Male, male/female - Freeform, male/null, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, gender shift

Read it on AO3

[twilightangelsworks]

Here is one fanart I did of my favorite season of Digimon.  I know this is a weird mash up, but the moment I heard Anna’s song “The Next Right Thing” I thought how well it fit with Jeri’s arc from Tamers, so I decided to draw her in a dress resembling Anna’s. Jeri kind of reminds me of Anna in a few ways, mostly how they are sweet and kind of oddballs. I did add Calumon to this because I thought it looked better with him.

[digimonarchive]

Culumon/Calumon and friends in episode 5 picspam

Also appearing in the picspam: Takato Matsuda, Guilmon, Hirokazu Shioda/Kazu, Lee Shaochung/Suzie Wong, Juri Katou/Jeri, Li Jianliang/Lee Jenrya/Henry Wong and Terriermon

Digimon Tamers episode 5

[twilightangel004]

I know this is a weird mash up, but the moment I heard Anna's song "The Next Right Thing" I thought how well it fit with Jeri's arc from Tamers, so I decided to draw her in a dress resembling Anna's. Jeri kind of reminds me of Anna in a few ways, mostly how they are sweet and kind of oddballs. I did add Calumon to this because I thought it looked better with him.

[dante-heller]

Terry: "So this is gonna protect us right?"

Reka: "That's the plan."

Protect them from what?

From what?

FROM WHAT!

I'm hyperventilating from the sheer stupidity of this show acting like it has any fucking stakes anymore.

[fuzzychildchopshop]

T A N O S H I I by moremindmel0dy

[buddygrouse]

happy anniversary to my favorite digimon series, catching the ending of tamers on jetix as a kid permanently rewired my brain

[peonyroseart]

[jadeazora]

Ah, yes. This scene. This fucking scene. He finally breaks thru the kernel, and is begging for her to come and let him save her, and then she’s too scared/traumatized to move. (Completely understandable, but still.) I’ve heard in the Tamers manga, she does go to take his hand, but I don’t really know where to find it :\

And then he’s brutally cut down while borderline cry-yelling that he NEEDS to save her, and that scream, and argh, the only relief here is that he actually survives this. Rest of the scene under cut.

[digimontamerlayne]

And I’m dealing with mine by deciding to make a Digimon Tamers Alignment.

[digimonarchive]

Ruki Makino/Rika Nonaka and Kyubimon picspam

Also appearing in the picspam: Harpymon, Cyberdramon, Ryo Akiyama, Hirokazu Shioda/Kazu, Kenta Kitagawa, Culumon/Calumon, Juri Katou/Jeri, Growlmon, Gargomon, Takato Matsuda and Li Jianliang/Lee Jenrya/Henry Wong

Digimon Tamers episodes 6, 7, 12, 15, 28, 30, 34, 35, 41, 42 and 44