#mentioned ken ichijouji

[bagerfluff]

Takeru: What are you doing Daisuke?

Daisuke: *staring at ken* He's pretty

Takeru:

Takeru: And you're ugly, now let's get to work

[nightmareentertainment]

important friend

[beginningobserver]

Rui: Why did you give me this outfit?

Ken: I didn't want you spreading that stink through my base!!*

Rui: Why is it green?

Ken: Wormmon picked the color, NOT ME!!*

※ He's lying.

I've been thinking about this and how things would have been different if Ken had someone to relate to, like a friend or a random kid who could understand his struggles and what it's like to be emotionally neglected by your parents?

Tho Rui's case is WORSE than his, yeah. I think if there were no TV Network Restrictions, SekiP and the OG 02 staff would go totally hard and raw with this portrayal. Maybe this is why Rui seems pretty close to Ken's background, but 10x worse and with a different perspective?

(I really think Rui's family background/backstory is a SekiP thing, yeah. Pretty much the kind of thing she would do if there were no TV Network's intervention?)

[bacomon-art-blog]

[shihalyfie]

This might be something more of my personal interpretation, but sometimes i do wonder if anyone who wasn't directly involved with the Kaiser vs Chosen territory war game is aware of Ken being the former Digimon Kaiser, or not.

I mean, many people in the past had this assumption that Ken did not liked to talk about the Kaiser and to think the group (+ older six) would try to avoid the subject to not make Ken feel uncomfortable (i believe it's because of Miyako's line in ep 31, in which she accidentally started babbling about the Evil Ring they found and then apologizes because she "did make him remember of something he didn't want to" or something?)

But then you have MenAS drama CD, where Ken invokes that persona for a few moments in the track 4, and now the 02TB theater bonus audio drama #3, in which the Kaiser is namedropped -- showing that this is not the case and even Ken himself will simply mention it in the ways of "yeah i did bad things in the past and i admit it, but now i'm doing the right things" instead.

Well, my opinion is that not everyone is aware of it. Some people don't know. And some people could've been pretty much like how Iori was and there could be people who would just use it to blackmail Ken as well if they knew it. So i believe the group and Ken himself wouldn't like to let it be public knowledge. And for the digimon, i don't even know if the entire Digital World is aware as well, possibly because the Kaiser reveal in ep 8 and then 21 happened in isolated places, and the brainwash factor of the rings/spirals makes the digimon not remember those stuff? I dunno...

Anyway, what is your thoughts about it? Is the real identity of the Kaiser public knowledge or nah?

Personally, I don't think it ever became public knowledge. The Digital World residents would have only known him as the Digimon Kaiser, and although I'm sure a lot of Digimon could probably recognize him by face or voice or other means, I don't think the name Ichijouji Ken nor his civilian identity would mean anything to them in the first place (because it's only useful in a real-world setting). And on the flip side, the real world residents didn't know anything about the Digimon Kaiser at all, and by the time they would know, it would be long after everything had passed.

I imagine the kids would keep it a secret, if only because nothing good would come out of it being public knowledge. It would just attract unwanted hostility, open old wounds, and give people more reasons to be angry and upset at his presence, which would be a huge nail in his ability to actually help the communities he'd wronged. If some circumstance made it so that his identity would have to be revealed in order to prevent something worse happening, I'm sure Ken would have no problem taking responsibility, but otherwise, I think Daisuke (who's much more pragmatic) would stop him because it wouldn't actually help anything.

[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.

Boy, do I love to refer back to "Butterfly" and how it basically framed Taichi as the male main character and Sora as the female main character throughout. One might argue that this is a combination that has been occurring in quite a lot of anime - particularly kids and Shounen related - back in the 90s and early 2000s, so... Asking whether or not canon provides input on them is like asking if water is wet. They've known each other since elementary school, have been in the same class ever since (and will continue to be classmates until graduation) and even attended the same football club for a while. They start the series as "almost telepathically connected" football club duo (basically a novel quote right here), adventurous and hands-on plot drivers, the courageous leader and the tomboyish but caring voice of reason right by his side. You instantly get the impression that they are familiar and close with each other and it's a theme that continues throughout the entire first season; not only because they consistently jump into action and call out, care for and protect each other, but because they, their bond, their loyalty and development are basically responsible for the fact that the kids get through everything alive in the end.

Trying to describe the extent and depth of their relationship would probably end with me writing a whole novel, so I will try to keep this brief, because... You know them. Similarly to Taito, Koumi and Takari, Taiora has been a staple in the shipping scene ever since the conception of Digimon Adventure back in 1999 - and for good reason. As mentioned, there used to be - and still is - a trope to pair up the main boy and main girl with one another and this case is no exception, considering how well they play off of each other, supporting and saving each other time and time again. Digimon Adventure is a special series though - a series whose creators intended to break through tropes and stereotypes, turning those on the head whenever possible. So while Taichi's and Sora's bond may be so significant that the idea of them ending up together seems inherently plausible - this is not how their story ends.

The tomboy, who struggles with her sense of femininity and identity, cannot deal with her best friend gifting her a hairclip - and while they seem thoroughly devoted to and on each other's minds, they develop in different directions. There is a theme of miscommunication between them as they grow older, little quarrels here and there - but at the same time, there is still an incredible sense of mutual fondness and protectiveness that, despite a growing physical distance, never completely vanishes. "If you love someone, let them go", is a quote that may come to mind when you take a look at the screenshot above and are aware of its context. Whether that kind of love was romantic or platonic at this point? We may never know.

This is the story of two close long-term friends, who were not meant to be together - wrong time, wrong place.

... Which doesn't mean that there isn't a potential "right time", right...?

Whether I think why and how they’d work.

What I mentioned above seems to be somewhat cryptic and what I'm about to outline may or may not break canon to a certain degree, but HEAR ME OUT.

While this headcanon is, for now, nothing more than a headcanon, but I am a big supporter of @dutchforstrangers' interpretation of the epilogue, leading to the idea that Yamato and Sora might not remain together/married. This post is not meant to be Sorato slander in any way and I will not go into detail here as to why I think this is a valid headcanon - just know that there are a few subtext aspects in regards to their behavioural patterns and body languages that leave room for speculation. And that's all there is to it: SPECULATION!

The point I am trying to make here is, once again, that Taichi and Sora may not have been ready to be in a relationship early in life - because they first had to come to terms with themselves, their real dreams, aspirations and needs. They had to become comfortable with themselves (particularly after the loss of their Digimon partners) to bridge the (physical and emotional) distance that had festered between them through the years. Because if you think about it, due to their underlying insecurities, they both chose the same approach in their early twenties: Isolating themselves from the rest of their friend group. And I feel like they both have to come to the conclusion first that this is a state that could never bring them long-lasting happiness. They're both social beings that shrivel when they're left alone for too long. (They may also need the encouragement of their friends - particularly Mimi, Koushirou and Hikari - to get there though.)

So it may take a while, weeks, months, maybe even years, to reconcile, step by step. Rekindling their bond, making up their minds about their true passions and career paths, rediscovering old and finding new hobbies and similarities along the way; whether it's about their shared love for their friends, football, adventurous and sporty activities, probably therapy???, whatever it may be... Until they'd reunite with their partners and, with a gleeful but weary smile on their faces, realize that they just had to grow up to this point to eventually find each other as well.

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

In case the way I've been talking about them hasn't made it obvious yet - I do love Taiora a lot. While I hadn't started actively shipping Digimon characters until I started watching Tamers, I always had an incredible soft spot for them and up to this day, Taichi and Sora are my second favourite choice for each other. You could say that, in every possible universe in which Taich doesn't end up with Koushirou, he WOULD end up with Sora if I had anything to say. It's also no secret that Taikoura is my absolute favourite OT3 and I really think they COULD work out beautifully together. In the end, both romantic and platonic Taiora is absolutely beautiful to me - especially because it brought some very special, wonderful people into my life. Long story short: As long as their closeness persists in any way, shape or form, I'll be happy.

I also still maintain that the reboot timeline could potentially go there, but I will not get my hopes up... Yet.

[xeverlee]

infodump session: DIGIMON EDITION!

Have I ever mentioned how much I fucking LOVE Digimon??? It was the first ever anime i watched and it was love at first sight for me. ofc it would take me FOREVER to talk about everything so i’m just gonna focus on an obscure part of one of the universes!

Ryo Akiyama and MILLENNIUMON (Cyberdramon!) MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE DIGIMON GAMES BELOW THE CUT!

Millenniumon is the main antagonist of all of the Ryo games! All of the Ryo games (kind of) take place in the Adventure universe!

in fact, Ryo and Ken Ichijouji worked together in Tag Tamers to defeat Millenniumon, later at the end of the game, Millenniumon releases a Dark Seed that basically slowly turns Ken evil to the Digimon Emperor we see in 02.

Later in Brave Tamer (iirc) it’s revealed that Ryo and Millenniumon are partners. and then Monodramon (Ryo’s Not-Quite partner during Brave Tamer) and Millenniumon DNA Digivolve into Cyberdramon, and Ryo and Cyberdramon get sent to the Tamers universe. Hoo boy. (hopefully i got that all right since there’s very little info online and Brave Tamer isn’t translated to english..)

Ryo has basically spent 4 games fighting this super fuckin evil Digimon only to learn that they’re actually partners.

So the fact that Millenniumon is Ryo’s partner???

it HURTS

i’m gonna infodump more about this later bc it’s eepy time so FAREWELL

[digitalgate02]

Imagining the 02 group telling everything that happened between them to Rui and the poor boy is full of questions, especially how some of those don't seem to match like,

Ichijouji Ken seems to be a fine nice person?? But then Iori, Takeru, Hikari and Daisuke say he was the worst and Iori mentions he called Ken a DISGRACE FOR THE HUMANKIND?? And that Takeru punched him once?! And Ken laughs saying he really tried to murder all of those five, especially psychologically tortured Daisuke (who's supposed to be his BEST FRIEND so far??) and ??????????????

And then they mention that Ken has a strange data-thing in his neck?? And said thing was copied and implanted on other children!? And the digimon says those Dark Seeds can bloom into Spider Lilies on the top of the children's heads!?!?!?!?!?

And that a digimon possessed a very sad man and manipulated him to do awful cruel things such as kidnapping minors and implanting those digimon-data on their necks?? And this digimon was the same digimon who caused misfortune for Takeru, Hikari and Daisuke!???

And oh yeah, once everything was saved and on Valentine's Day Daisuke went nuts and tried to become evil in order to get chocolate from girls, but he failed at step one and had to be stopped by Ken!??????????

AND THOSE KIDS WERE INVOLVED IN THE ARMAGEMON INCIDENT!?????????????????????????????????????

So yeah, poor kiddo. But nice friends you got there now, Rui-kun.

[jennycinco-5]

Miraculous Writer : Who cares about “Bad Redemption “ and Inconsistency as long as Fans will pay attention on “Love Square” riiiiiight~

I know that lot of you will said “ You just too salty ! “ “ Oh ! This just Kids show ! “ “Ooooh~ This cartoon is about silly-teenage romance” “This cartoon is about  L O V E “ etc etc etc 

WHO CARES ! I already abandon the Canon!ML before the leaks comes out  everywhere

After I check all the leaks I would like to said “ WHAT THE FUCK “ and “ I’m glad finally I no longer care about this show ! “. Because I can see Season 5 is a HUGE MESS and beyond the redemption ! 

As much as I hate how BLEACH Ended due to how rushed the ending and the pairing, At least its still manage to be better and satisfying ! Despite no fans like Newest Gundam series (The Witch from Mercury) and claim to be a “full of yuri or silly school drama series in mecha”, G-WITCH still manage to be a good Gundam series and restrain its dark and heavy element . This why Suletta still acceptable as MC by many Gundam fans beside being adorable clumsy and ditzy girl instead of edgy girl

Miraculous ? Its a HUGE MESS and will never satisfying ! 

Why ?

It’s all about inconsistency and dumb ways to “redeem the character”. ML clearly has no idea what kind a theme about the show ! It’s about Shojo-esque cartoon ? No ! It’s about superhero ? No ! It’s about LOVEEEEE~ and Hardship of being teenager ? Turning Red handle it BETTER than this shit ! It’s about girls power ? The MC constantly being punch sack for writer with their un-funny comedy moment, Most of Male antagonist is paint as “Misunderstood person” and constantly give a “redemption” while female antagonist are paint as “Pure evil Bitch” who deserve no redemption.

I like to said THREE MALAYSIAN SUPERHERO CARTOON is better handle on female character in both Protagonist and Antagonist side while the show is still aimed for young boys rather than a so-called “girls power” cartoon like Miraculous

Of course ML writer cares nothing about this as long as Fans pay attention on Love-scareSquare Riiiiiggght~

Aside from inconsistency, the WORST part about ML is about poorly handle a character especially about Redemption. Its seems that from That Guy logic, Redemption means that you will full blown into a new leaf as a “super duper nice character” without any progression as long as they have “tragic backstory” so they can pity on them.

In reality, redemption of the character is need a progression and not all of them will be become a new leaf as a “super duper nice character” in instant way. They could become a anti-hero at their best or still restrain their arrogant  side and still have problem or struggle during their redemption quest such as many character would not forgive them or always remember their worst attitude before redemption happens 

Aside Zuko, there are lot of character have good redemption such as Ken Ichijouji, Peridot, Karone/Astronema and  Ashi. Special mention Anime (especially shoujo anime) have lot of character who good on handling on the antagonist or an arrogant character by give them a good depth or redemption than Miraculous

Miraculous see “redemption” and “character depth” nothing more than for “Please feel pity on them ! “ instead of to humanized the character itself especially in  Antagonist side. This is ANOTHER biggest problem in Miraculous :

Gabriel “redemption equal to death”  and Felix “Redemption for luv” are MEH and very insulting for other main antagonist who undergoes real redemption

I know that lots of pro will said “Its GLOOB Fault because they didn’t want Brazilian kids reminder about their parents in jail so they push poor astruc to change the ending~” to defend this shit. Being kIds show doesn’t mean who have an excuse about why your show is bad for handling the Big Bad of the show

So according to Leaks, Gabriel while dying is begs to Marinette to keep his secret from Adrien and is remembered as a hero and “good father” for Adrien despite of his emotional abuse and the isolation on him for 14 years and the terror that his spread on Paris for a shake of “My Wife and luvely Son UwU” . Meaning that he is free from any serious consequence of his action despite of his death.

Then we have Felix who according to Leaks suddenly simping on Kagami just because she is a Senti “just like him” and Kagami just accept him because he looks like her ex despite what already he done before to Marinette and Parisian in many previous episodes. No consequence or guilt of his previous action because Kagami defense him and the narrative paint him as “misunderstood baby~”.

That’s not a redemption ! That’s a Karma Houdini ! Neither Gabriel or Felix show a real remorse of their malice action and then Writer suddenly give them a “Redemption” because they want make Lila as big-bad since this is a “Girls Power” show which mean they need a female evil big-bad

If you want a give a Big-Bad a redemption either is resulting their death or being humiliated during their redemption quest to show how redemption is not an easy process and sometime they have struggle to do it.

You want to know where is a kids who is good on handling Big Bad Redemption 

Here Ken Ichijouji a.k.a Digimon Kaiser  a.k.a Ex-Big Bad of half season of Digimon Adventure 2

Initially a lonely prodigy boy who constantly being ignore by his parents due to their favoritism over his older brother. As Digimon Kaiser, he enslaved and corrupt many digimon, all because of his arrogance. After realizing that his bad deed is not a toys since he know Digimon are not mere a data but a living creature with emotion thanks to Wormmon sacrifice, he return back as Ken with full of guilt of his action as Digimon Kaiser. 

Despite he already forgiven by Daisuke and the other chosen children and is allow to improved himself as better person, some of Digimon still unable to accept his apology. See the gif above, he still unable to move on from the guilt even imagine himself being tortured to death by the other digimon. And this is comes from a 10-11 years old antagonist who used to have inferiority-complex with his older brother! Not a full grown man antagonist. And Digimon is a freaking kids show who not shy to show a children have a immense guilt about their action 

And Here we have Impmon/Beelzemon from Digimon Tamers 

A trouble maker digimon who always picking on human due to “not being respected by them” after see the toddler constantly argue to be his partner. He Become Beelzemon after being persuade by Caturamon and resulting on him become a power-hungry antagonist who would kill any digimon to strengthen his power

After killing Leomon in front of his poor partner (Juri Katou) and the other Tamers, he surprised and shaken to see instead of hate on him, Juri pitying on him and begged Dukemon to stop killing him due to feel guilt and didn’t want to see her allies losing someone anymore. Resutling on him feel guilt and ashamed. Despite his attempt to save Juri from D-REAPER, he always being brutally beaten by the villains. But is still his redemption being memorable by majority of fans

Digimon is a kids show just like Miraculous. But they are not shy to show any heavy or dark content to make the show become complex and those element actually give some character a meaning development

Here Miraculous give a heavy or dark content nothing more than fanservice and never meaningful for the show

Gabriel is NOT a “sympathetic gray antagonist” 

The show desperately try hard to make Gabriel as “Sympathetic” despite of what already he done toward his own Son and Parisian just because he being Hawkmoth “for sake of his family UwU~”

Sure there is nothing wrong to Humanized a villain . At least show it that the depth are genuine not a manipulation. Here they didn’t show how Gabriel truly bad about his action or his genuine attempted to be closer with Adrien because he truly love him not because of try to gain a control over his son. Most of Gabriel “kindness” toward Adrien are nothing but a manipulation

Disney has PLENTY a MC parents who portray as misunderstood. But I think Ming Lee from Turning Red to be mention of this section

Ming Lee is a realistically portray of “Tiger Parents” and lot of better than Tomoe Tsurugi who nothing more than a caricature of “Tiger Parents”. She is not a villain or Abusive mother of course, but her conflict with Mei is lot of interesting compare to Gabriel-Adrien. Although we can see her reason of her controlling behavior because of her mother, but the narrative didn’t desperate made fans to “feel sorry” about her like how ML do with Gabemoth and she still receive of consequence to pay a compensation of what already she done at SkyDome as Pandakaiju

Here in Miraculous, Gabriel didn’t receive of any serious consequences of his action as a villain or a abusive father because they didn’t want to “break Adrien little heart” and is hailed as hero and receive a statue

 Male jerks or antagonist are more redeemable than Female 

Aside from the Gabriel and Felix, a character like Alec, Rolland Dupain , the Ice Cream man, Mayor Bourgeois, even Jagged  Stone as “misunderstood character” who deserve to be “redeem” despite the horrid things they done to them such as mocking a interviewee in front of TV Show, a racist grandfather, creepy shipper who like to meddling teenagers love-live, a major enabler of spoiled brat and abandon his children for 16 years

Meanwhile 

A two spoiled brat teenager are are painted as “more monstrous than a grown-up man who is a abusive father and terrorist”, and two jerk mothers like Tomoe and Audrey as heartless bitch who don’t deserve to be humanized

Are you sure this show can be redeem ?

[windsweptinred]

I would like to get to know you better!

Thank you for the tag @marvagon coyly accepts that Desunity kiss 😚💖💖💖

1. 3 ships I really like right now: Just three? 🥺... I'll pull them from Sandman as it's the fandom I'm most active in here on tumblr. If I was pulling from all my fandom pairings I'd be here all day trying to narrow it down. 🙈

Corinthiel (The Corinthian x Daniel) They're my sun, moon and stars, always on my mind. The very peak of mount feralfan. My boys. 🤍💛

Desunity (Desire of the Endless x Unity Kinkaid) My darlings. My beloveds. I fell in love with this ship from the moment I first saw it and have been utterly devoted ever since.

Last ship.... Ooooo so torn. It's going to have to be ConstantDeath by a teeny tiny percentage. Joanne Constantine x Death of the Endless. I loved this ship so damn much when it was first suggested. But then it seemed to dissappear into the mists of time. Femslash weekend has brought it back in abundance though and I am screaming with joy.

Honourable mentions to the tender box of chocolates that is Callienne and Dreamling will always be my first sandman ship. You never forget your first. There's something about RoseGault I find intriguing too. Oh and must never forget Despoe!

2. First ever ship: Daiken/Kensuke.. Daisuke Motomiya and Ken Ichijouji from Digimon season 2. My OG sunbeam and soggy raincloud. I'll still wander back from time to time a read a fanfic or two.

3. Last song: Bushes of Love by Bad Lip Reading.... 'We've all got a chicken, duck, woman thing waiting for us.' Wise words I live by. 😎

4. Last movie: Werewolf by Night. I'll admit I'm suffering immensely from Superhero fatigue. But I adore Marvel's ventures into the supernatural. Werewolf by Night has become a staple halloween film for me. And I have rewatched Moonknight soooooo many times.

5. Currently reading: I think I've done an ask about what book I'm reading fairly recently. So instead, I'm on Adult fanfiction.net...remember that? Revisiting some of my favorite Book Sherlock Holmes x John Watson fanfics that never made the journey across to AO3.

6. Currently watching: The Fall of the House of Usher. It's not October for me without a Mike Flanagan series. And I'm giving True Detective a try. Gritty southern gothic x lovecraftian vibes.. It's perfection!

7. Currently eating: A vanilla custard slice... Tasty, indulgent and infamous for reducing grown ass adults to toddler levels of eating. 😆 It is not possible to consume these things genteelly. All part of their charm.

8. Currently craving: That feel of winter in the night, that slight smell of ice in the air. You know we've offically entered the dark half of the year then. We're truly in Autumn.

Tag nine people: (or so, no pressure!) @bobbole @rriavian @illumi-nati-png @jazzy-a @melrocks21 @bazzybelle @tickldpnk8 @mashumaru and @ibrithir-was-here

[amethyst-geek]

Possible full evolutions of the 02 epilogue kids

I posted links to the above videos as I am taking inspiration from them (among other Karn Ex videos).

Tai's son- As mentioned in some fo my other posts, I would give Tai's son Koromon a line that eventually evolves into Marsmon. For the rookie form, I would go with Liollmon, Liamon would be a champion form, and Grapleomon would be the perfect form. As mentioned in one of my previous posts, The Apollomon line could also work for Tai's son, but I would prefer to have Coronamon/Apollomon be the partner of someone on the Savers's kids' team (should this hypothetical next gen anime focus on more than 1 continuity).

Davis's son- as discussed in the above video, the Veedramon route would be the best way to go.

Ken and Miakyo's daughter- I think Junomon would be a good mega for the Ichijouji daughter's Poromon. The rookie form could be just about any bird rookie (for now let's assume it's the original version of Falcomon). There are couple of possibilities for the champion and perfect form. One possibility is having the Ichijouji's daughter's Falcomon (?) evolve into Rinkmon, then Peacockmon as they both traditionally evolve from Hawkmon and the blue coloring (as well as Peacockmon being based on well, a Peacock) make them good picks for Junomon's pre-evolutions (though if this is not a crossover with the other animes, these should be Rapidmon-style variants). If they want Poromon's line to be more feminine-looking (or they don't want to use armor evolutions because, as I'll say again later in the post, the Adventure 99 universe is probably the one Digimon anime continuity where the armor evolutions can't be used as natural evolutions), Hudiemon could work and it's be a throwback to how Hudiemon's debut as a Wormon evolution.

Ken and Miyako's middle son- I kinda want to have the Ichijouji son's MInomon evolve into BanchouStingmon. If we we go that route, then Stingmon would be a logical champion form. And to keep this kid's partner's line from being too similar to his dad's, I will take a note form Karn Ex and have the rookie be Kunemon. Ad the for the perfect form, I'm torn between Jewelebeeman or taking another note from Karn and go with MetallifeKuwagamon.

Ken and Miyako's baby- as mentioned above, I would give the baby's Leafmon the Fanbeemon line.

Izzy's daughter- There are actually a few possibilities of the evolution line of Izzy's daughter's Motimon. As Karn Ex mentioned above, the Fanbeemon line is 1 possibility. But personally, I would prefer to use the Fanbeemon line for the Ichijouji baby's Leafmon or if the next gen story focuses on more than 1 continuity, Takoto and Juri's kid's partner, mainly because I would to stick Fanbeemon evolving from the adorable Puroromon. As mentioned in some of my previous posts, I think it would be cool to have Izzy's daughter to be partnered with Vulcanusmon. If we go that for Izzy's daughter's Motimon, I think Sangomon would be a good rookie form. As suggested above, Octomon is an ideal champion form for Vulcanusmon. As for the perfect form, Asuramon could work, but Asuramon would kinda be the odd one out in the evolution line, so a making a brand new Digimon for Sangomon's perfect form (perhaps one based on Eros/Cupid, though I guess Pidmon and Cupimon already got that covered) might be a better way to go. A third possibility is that they could give Izzy's daughter's Motimon a butterfly-themed line, and Hudiemon could be the champion form (if they don't use Hudiemon for one of the Ichijouji kids' lines).

Matt and Sora's daughter- As mentioned in some of my previous posts, I would love to give Matt and Sora's daughter's Yokomon Venusmon as the mega form. I also think this would be 1 of the lines that has some new Digimon. I was thinking that the rookie form could be based on a duck (perhaps called Duckmon or Ducklingmon). Then the champion form could be the pre-existing Swanmon in reference to the Ugly Ducking story. However, since Swanmon is an armor Digimon, and the Adventure 99 universe is probably the 1 Digimon continuity where they can't get away with making an armor Digimon a Digimon's default champion evolution. Thus, I'd only make Swanmon Duckmon's champion form if they either a) created a champion-level variant of Swanmon similar to how there's a perfect-level variant of Rapidmon or b) have Duckmon being able to naturally evolve into an armor Digimon serve as foreshadowing that Duckmon did not originate from the Adventure 99 universe (though I'd only want to go this route if the this hypothetical next gen anime is a crossover with the other Digimon Animes). Then for the perfect level, I was thinking they could introduce a new Digimon, perhaps one based on Odette from Swan Lake.

Matt and Sora's son- I'm actually pretty stumped as to what this kid's Tsunomon would digivolve into. I'd suggest Bearmon, but that was Daigo's partner as established in Tri, so and the writers for a Digimon next gen anime would only want to give the kids repeat partner Digimon if it's repeat of their parents' Digimon. But if the writers are willing to give Matt and Sora's son a Bearmon, then Grizzmon would be the obvious Champion form, and Pandamon would make cute choise for the perfect form. Strabimon could also work, though it might be weird for a Legendary Warrior-linked Digimon to be in the Adventure 99 universe, though as discussed in previous posts (and later in this post), I am not opposed to having the epilogue kids' partners originate from other universes.

Mimi's son- I previously proposed the possibility of this kid's Tanemon having Ceresmon as the Mega, but I'd rather use that for the partner of Yoshino's daughter should this next gen anime focus on the kids of the first 6 Anime as opposed to just focusing the epilogue kids. As Karn ex states above, BloomLordmon would make a great mega. As for the rookie, champion, and perfect levels, there are a lot of plant digimon to choose from, and I don't really have a preference. I kinda like the idea of Floramon as Mimi's son's Tanemon's rookie form, though that might work better as the rookie of Yoshino's daughter's partner (and even if this next gen anime isn't a crossover with Savers, Floramon is already the partner of Catherine, who I think has a good chance of being revealed the mother of TK's son, which would lead to her having a fair amount of screentime, so giving one of new heroes a Floramon as well might be confusing).

Cody's daughter- as mentioned in previous posts, I think Minervamon would make a good mega for Cody's daughter's Upamon. I imagine this would be a good line to debut some brand new Digimon, if only to give Upamon/Minervamon a less random-looking evolution line. For the perfect form, they could make a new Digimon based on Medusa. Not only is Medusa heavily associated with snakes like Minervamon, but there are at least 2 different versions of Medusa's origin story where Minerva/Athena was the one who transformed Medusa into what she is.

Kari's kid- I would have this kid's Salamon evolve into Darcmon, the Angewomon (because what else would the evolution for Darcmon be?) There are a few ways to go for the Mega form. As Karn Ex mentioned above, LovelyAngemon could be a good mega for Kari's kid's Salamon, and Venusmon would also work as an evolution for Angewomon. A third possibility is Ophanimon, especially if this hypothetical next gen anime is a crossover with the other Digimon Anime, including Frontier, and Kari's kid's Plotmon turns out to be the reincarnation of the same Ophanimon from Frontier who somehow got turned back into a Digiegg (again) and the Digiegg somehow wound up the Adventure 99 universe.

Tk's son- Originally, I was gonna have TK's kid Tokomon be a reincarnation of the Seraphimon from Frontier, but that would almost certainly lead to TK's son's Tokomon having an identical evolution line to TK's Patamon, which would be pretty boring (don't get me wrong, I like Patamon's evolution line, but I want keep the instances of next gen kids having a same evolution line as their parents to a minimum). Knightmon could work for the perfect level (yes this was inspired by one fo Karn Ex's swap videos) and the mega could be ClavisAngemon.

Jou's son- Karn Ex and I agree that Neptunemon would be a solid mega for Jou's kid's Digimon. For the perfect, I'd go with Divemon. I've also considered Dolphmon for the champion, but if the writers wanted to use a new Digimon instead, I would go the route of a Digimon based on the Hippocampus, as Neptune (or at least his Greek counterpart, Poseidon) is often associated with horses. Plus, giving a Jou's kid's Digimon an horse-themed evolution or 2 would make for a neat callback to how Gomamon's first digivolution to Ikkakumon was to fight a Unimon.

Edit: I just found out about ArkhaiAngemon, and that could also work as a perfect form for Kari's kid's Salamon. It might also work as a pre-evolution for Venusmon or Junomon is we don't use new Digimon for their respective perfect pre-evolutions.

[detectiveichijouji]

Case 33 - A Digi-Girls’ Battle

[AO3 version]

I’m always behind on everything. Hikari-chan can evolve Tailmon past Adult level without Jogress. She doesn’t need me…

The boys are always one step ahead of me too…

“School is starting soon… I don’t want to go to the third year!!” Daisuke shouted, whining. He was dramatically laying on the seat from the karaoke booth, “I’M NOT READY!!”

“Why are you making a fuss about it?” Ken complained, with a tired gaze, “We have more important problems than school grades.”

“You’re not worried at all!? This year we actually have to plan for AFTER high school!” Daisuke snapped, “IT’S! IT’S…!! COLLEGE!! THE FUTURE!! AND I’M STILL NOT SURE WHICH ONE I WANT TO ATTEND YET!!”

Tailmon commented with the others in the booth, “It’s strange seeing Daisuke, of all people, be concerned about his future.”

“True true,” they all replied with a nod.

“If I want to open my own ramen business I need to know what to do!! What if I skip college…?”

“You’re not planning to do that, are you?” Patamon asked.

“No, but… Uhh…”

“Daisuke-kun, you’re just starting the third year not becoming an adult…” Takeru tried to calm him down, with a pat on Daisuke’s head, “And most importantly, Ichijouji-kun is right about this not being a big deal right now.”

They all turned to Ken, who was also fussing with something else, except in silence.

“I know…” Daisuke frowned, “Ken is just…”

“... I’m thinking about how to end this already” Ken reiterated, “I can’t allow more people to be part of this game, or even… Let my stupid mistake as the Kaiser keep affecting other people and digimon.”

“You ok, Ken?” V-mon asked, frowning.

“Ken-chan is busy,” Wormmon replied quickly.

“Hey, you can share that burden with us” Miyako walked to Ken and put her hand on his, while he was holding the laptop’s mouse, “We’re here for you.”

“Miyako-san…” he blushed a bit when his eyes met hers.

“And we have Noel’s help too!” Daisuke added with a grin, “Noel can use his tricks and bang! Find them!

“... I don’t want to rely on him” Ken replied quickly, “Relying on a phantom thief…”

“Sometimes our allies come from unexpected places,” Takeru mused, “Like you”

“...”

“I agree,” Iori added, “And we can solve this main case quickly if we work together.”

“If Iori-kun says so…” Ken chuckled.

“I see someone smiling~” Daisuke teased him.

“Thanks, everyone” Ken’s tension has passed and he felt more relaxed on the seat.

They all giggled.

“With Dominimon’s help now we can beat stronger enemies!” V-mon looked at Armadimon and Patamon, “We wouldn’t need to worry about keeping Imperialdramon as our trump card.”

“V-mon,” Takeru interrupted him, “We need to keep Imperialdramon around, because they’re our strongest digimon evolution.”

“Huh, what do ya mean!?” Armadimon squinted his eyes, “Patamon and I are strong too, dagyaa!”

“Takeru-kun didn’t mean it as an insult,” Ken explained, “If you take a look closely at each Jogress evolution we have… Shakkoumon is our best defense, Imperialdramon is our best attacker, and Silphymon is our best support.”

“True,” Hikari agreed with a nod, and the others just watched Ken’s explanation in silence.

“So we should leave Dominimon to be our defense again,” Tailmon mused.

“...” But Miyako dropped her smile at that mention. She took her coat and Hawkmon, then walked to the entrance of the booth.

“Miyako?” Daisuke frowned, “Are you leaving right now?”

“Yeah, I promised to help at the store today… Sorry, I have to go now.”

Miyako leaves the booth with Hawkmon, and sighs. Back to the group, Hikari gets her coat and Tailmon. 

Daisuke panicked, “Hikari-chan you too?!”

“I have to talk with Taichi about something, sorry.”

And she left as well.

“... You didn’t leave because of your siblings, right Miyako-san?” Hawkmon asked her, being clutched (gently this time) in her arms.

“No, I… It’s hard,” she frowned, “Iori and Takeru-kun got Shakkoumon to evolve, and I’m not sure if… If Hikari-chan and I can evolve Silphymon too.”

“Oh…”

“And besides, Hikari-chan can evolve Tailmon without our help too, so… I guess we should focus on something else, right…?”

Hawkmon felt something was odd, Miyako didn’t like to feel she’s a burden to the others. She always wanted to be useful for everyone, and that’s why she’s still focusing on helping Koushiro with Chosen Children-related projects, like maintaining the network or helping to develop a new app to connect with the digivices and phones.

She hadn’t thought about what to do for herself yet. She was thinking about the others first. And with this, she didn’t find what stuff she wanted to do now that she had graduated from High School.

I don’ t think I’m needed anymore…

Miyako wandered aimlessly until she witnessed Lune and Lunamon nearby. Hawkmon raised an eyebrow when he and Miyako saw the girl trying to hide from something or someone.

“What are they doing, Hawkmon?” Miyako asked.

“I have no idea…”

“Hurry up, Étoile…!!” Lune whispered to herself, “You have to answer my calls…!!”

“They’re getting closer…!!”

“Oh shoot! Let’s go Lunamon,” Then she and Lunamon kept running away.

Moments later, Miyako and Hawkmon saw Soleil and Flaremon a little lost, as if they were searching for something. The girl considered going to ask him what he and Flaremon were looking for when he received a message from Koushiro.

[A fragment has been detected, it’s near your current location.]

“Maybe they’re looking for the shard…” Hawkmon mused.

“Makes sense now!!”

“Miyako-san!!” 

It was Hikari. But just as she was getting closer to Miyako and Hawkmon, Firamon and Soleil turned in their direction and attacked the girls. Hawkmon and Tailmon evolved immediately into Aquilamon and Angewomon, protecting them.

“W-what is your problem, you jerk!?” Miyako hissed.

“Wait, there’s something strange with them…!!” Angewomon blocked Flaremon’s fists with her bare hands.

“Huh?” Hikari frowned, and then her sixth sense felt something eerie coming from Soleil. She grabbed Miyako’s hand and dragged the girl with her, in silence.

Aquilamon then headbutted Flaremon, throwing him on the ground, and then the bird digimon attacked the ground, causing a thick cloud of dust to cover their strategic retreat.

“Why are we running away!?” Miyako asked, but Hikari was still guiding them all to a safer spot in the area. Once they stopped, Hikari took a breath before explaining her actions:

“I… I sensed something wrong with Soleil-kun.”

“What was it?”

“His mind was stolen.”

“Stolen?! H-how?!” 

“It doesn’t matter now, we need to contact the others,” Hikari said, while watching their digimon regrouping with them.

“Right…” Miyako replied in a nod, and the girls grabbed their phones.

It was when Miss Espimon sent them a message:

[Chosen Children, please help us! A human turned into a Rafflesimon and is going on a rampage… making… making every boy in town into her pawn!! Noel is a digimon,[] so he escaped, but… Soleil got caught and Flaremon is acting weirdly too!]

“What the…” Miyako squinted her eyes, disgruntled, “what is this, a S※per S※ntai plotline now!?”

“... All boys in town huh…” Hikari mused.

“Noel is not human, so he’s safe,” Hawkmon mused, “But I wonder what she means by Flaremon acting weirdly…”

“Maybe… Something else is controlling the digimon?” Miyako mused.

“... Dracumon” Tailmon clenched her fist.

“... We should warn the boys,” Hikari said with a serious tone. Her grip on the phone was firm, and then she started pressing the buttons on her phone, writing a message. 

Miyako nodded and dialed Ken’s phone number instead.

Lune was still trying to contact Noel, but no success. He didn’t answer her calls, and she was starting to believe he got hurt or even brainwashed as well. She spotted Daisuke and the boys came out of the karaoke bar, with the goggle boy looking completely upset with something…?

She approached them, for a second,

“Motomiya-kun, I need your help!! You can talk with Étoile right--”

But Lunamon got in front of her, with a serious gaze.

“Lunamon?”

“Don’t trust them!! They…” 

Then, Daisuke (?) tried to catch Lune and Lunamon, but the digimon headbutted him and the others who tried to catch her partner.

“They were caught too!!” Lune gasped.

“Let’s get outta here, Mizuki!!”

“A-alright!!” and then they ran away again.

They are chased by the boys, until a blue hand and a yellow paw grab them and drag the girls into an alley. When Lunamon was about to snap, Patamon covered her mouth.

“Huh? Weren’t you too brainwashed…?” Lune asked, confused.

“No,” Wormmon said in a whisper to the group of digimon and Lune, “Something happened to them when they were inside the booth.”

“Something?”

“Yeah” V-mon shrugged, “A dude entered the booth with a… weird scale-petal-or-something.”

“And then that thing spread to our partners, dagya.”

“Ken noticed them and kicked us and Iori out of the booth in time!!” Patamon added, “But Iori got caught later by a strange girl with a fake shard.”

“...Kayono…” Lune clenched her firsts, “Is there anyone else that did not get caught besides you four?”

“We didn’t hear any news from Miyako or Hikari, dagya” Armadimon replied, “Maybe…”

Lunamon bit Patamon’s paw, angrily, “Aaaaah I’m tired of playing hide and seek!!” 

“Aaa-aaah, my paw!!” Patamon cried, but not loudly to not catch attention from their human partners.

“Wait, we can deal with them” Lune glanced at the digimon, “But not Soleil, maybe if I get to work with Yagami-san and Inoue-san… ”

“What do you have in mind?” Wormmon asked, shyly.

“Ok, hear me out, Wormmon I need you to...”

The zombified-sorta 02 boys walked around, looking for Lune. Then, they spotted the girl at the entrance of the alley screaming: “MOTOMIYA-KUN AND BOYS, COME CATCH ME!! ~ ♡ ”

They ran into her direction, and she entered the alley… In which they were surprised by a sticky net falling upon them, dropped by their own digimon from the top of the building,

“MOON NIGHT BOMB!!” And then Lekismon dropped her sleeping bubble bombs on them.

They fell asleep and collapsed on the floor. Lekismon wiped her hands with a smug smile on her face.  

“Right, now let me check your pocket, Motomiya-kun” Lune took Daisuke’s phone from his hoodie’s pocket to check the phone list when she noticed a new message in the inbox, “Oh? Well, this saves me time to contact them…”

She sent a message to Hikari’s number, then she tossed the phone to V-mon, who caught it. Lune then turned to the digimon quartet “Keep an eye on your boys. I have to get back my partner-in-crime now.”

“Oh yeah,” Lekismon cracked her knuckles, “Time to save those dumbasses from some awful b--”

Lune left the alley, screaming from the distance to Lekismon, “What are you doing?? Let’s go, Lekismon!!”

“D-DON’T LEAVE WITHOUT ME!!” Lekismon hissed, but followed Lune anyway.

The digimon looked at each other and shrugged.

“I got a message from Daisuke-kun’s phone but… It’s not him” Hikari said, looking at Miyako.

“Huh?” The other three blinked.

“It’s from Lune-san…” She explained, “They all were caught. Except for their digimon…”

“This is no good…” Miyako frowned, “If this Rafflesimon is stronger… We only have Silphymon and Lekismon to fight them…”

“We… We will manage to solve it!” Hikari said, trying to calm down Miyako, “Besides, Lune-san might know something…”

“Yes, we should not lose our hopes yet!” Hawkmon added with a smile.

“Hmm… What did she say, Hikari?” Tailmon asked.

“The message says to meet her at the ferris wheel area. She got something to ask us to do.”

“Hmm…”

“Uh, sir” the eyepatched Impmon asked, glancing at the masked person, “Why are we letting that chick run amok? And why are you targeting that girl with a Lunamon?” he pouted, “Rafflesimon probably got that detective brat you’re soooooo interested in!!”

“... Because she’s connected to Arsenemon, that’s why. I have to make that dirty digimon to pay for ruining my plans.”

“Yours…? I thought they were ‘ours’ -- Me and Naito included!!”

“Ah, right right. ‘Our’ plans.”

He didn’t sound happy with that. But why…?

Meanwhile, Hikari and Miyako just met with Lune at the ferris wheel area. They were still trying to avoid being caught by Soleil and Flaremon, or cross paths with Rafflesimon.

“Lune-san!” Hikari exclaimed, she and Miyako plus their partner digimon ran in the girl’s direction, “What happened to Soleil-kun?”

“...” But Lune did not want to answer that, she immediately changed the subject, “Your friends were caught by… A friend of mine, Kayono.”

“A friend?” Miyako raised an eyebrow.

“Look, we were classmates in middle school. She liked to flirt with boys. She hit on someone I liked. We had a fight, and then we never talked after that ever again.”

“So… That explains why she’s targeting boys,” Hawkmon mused, “Rafflesimon can turn her enemies into servants by shedding her scales on them.”

“But why is she targeting you then?” Tailmon went straight to the point.

“...” Lune felt hesitant to answer that, “Your friends, Motomiya-kun and the others are fine. Lekismon put them to sleep and their digimon are watching them for us.”

“You’re hiding something here,” Tailmon squinted her eyes.

“I don’t need to tell you anything else!” she snapped, “Just… Just help me to beat her and get Soleil… Youta back.”

“We will, we need to save Daisuke-kun and the others too,” Hikari added with a serious gaze.

“We… We can do this” Miyako said, but deep down she was weak and insecure. Silphymon cannot evolve, can they? Would Jogress work if she is feeling bad like this??

Hikari-chan can do this alone, Tailmon can evolve further, without Aquilamon and me…

“Rafflesimon is a  final level digimon” Lekismon said, “We could get a chance if you distract her and let me use my bubble bombs on her.”

“... Ultimate level means we’re at disadvantage” Tailmon mused, “Silphymon and Angewomon are perfect level, and Lekismon is adult level… We would have to break the mind control and ask Daisuke and Ken to use Imperialdramon against her.”

“But if we can’t do that…” Miyako whispered, “It’s all game over for us…”

“We have to try!” Lekismon stomped her foot on the floor, like the bun she is, “This isn’t time for showing weakness!!”

“We couldn’t contact Étoile too” Lune sighed, “We will have to ask Miss Espimon to help us too.”

“Ken-san had direct contact with Noel-san though,” Hawkmon added, “But she sent a message to Hikari-san and Miyako-san to warn us about Rafflesimon.”

“Oh right!” Miyako then grabbed her phone, “If we get Arsenemon to help us, maybe we have a chance!” and she dialed the phone which Miss Espimon used to send the message.

She managed to call Miss Espimon but not Noel, sadly.

Suddenly, Rafflesimon was informed about the whereabouts of Lune, from one of her brainwashed-servants. The vile girl switched forms, back to her human form -- neck length brown hair, deep pink eye color, and a few strands of her hair were tied with a crimson ribbon.

She was called by the same boy who was Daisuke’s friend (Matsuno Takato) and he whispered to her something: 

“Your former friend, Mizuki, was spotted at the ferris wheel.”

“Oh? This makes things easier for me now~ Good job, Matsuno-kun~”

The masked faux Kaiser came in, with Dracumon next to them.

“I don’t know what Mizuki had done for a gentleman like you to ask me a favor, but I want a date in return~”

“... Sorry, but I’m not interested in going on a date with you,” the other said, calmly, “And your trick cannot work on me.”

“Hmph, fine. I have Youta-kun already!”

“I’m only interested in one person and only one person: Ichijouji Ken-kun.”

“Alright, alright~ I will punish Mizuki for getting involved with the famous genius boy for you.”

“Geez, why is Noel-kun not answering!?” Miyako pouted, looking at Miss Espimon, “Is he brainwashed too and you’re avoiding telling us?!”

“No! He’s not!” Miss Espimon was there now, and she hissed at Miyako, “He… He suddenly stopped responding. That’s all.”

“I’m concerned…” Hikari frowned, looking at the girls and their digimon, “Why wouldn’t he answer us…?”

“It’s not something to worry about,” Tailmon said with a serious gaze at the girl, “at least not now.”

“Yeah, Tailmon is right,” Lune nodded, “We got more problems to deal with, we don’t need more things to care about here. Étoile can handle things by himself pretty well.”

“We need to attract Rafflesimon and distract her to put her to sleep and snatch the fake fragment from her, correct?” Hawkmon was recapping the plan, to be sure everyone understood it.

“Yeah!” Lunamon replied with a grin, “A good dose of my sleeping bubble-bombs can hit even a Final-level digimon for a few minutes, heheh!”

“I can’t believe we can’t get more help for this…” Miyako muttered to herself, she was a bit tense… Going against a strong digimon enemy with only a Jogress digimon, an Adult-level digimon and Miss Espimon sounded quite tricky.

She was about to suggest to Hikari ditch the Jogress and focus on using Holydramon, but Hikari herself put a hand on Miyako’s shoulder after noticing Miyako spacing out due to stress.

“We can’t use the Jogress if you’re trembling like that,” Hikari’s voice was soft and calming. It relieved her heart somehow. Her hand on Miyako’s shoulder felt warm.

“I always worked as Soleil’s support in battles and missions” Lune said, and although she looked serene outside, inside she was unstable like stormy weather, “I’m not a good fighter. But if we manage to break him out of this we could use his power to beat Rafflesimon.”

“We’re not powerful like Imperialdramon either,” Tailmon added, “But if we combine our forces we might make the difference.”

Make the difference…? -- Miyako thought, frowning -- Yeah, you say it so, but Silphymon cannot evolve… And if we’re fighting a Final-level digimon… We need Ken-kun and Daisuke’s help after all…

“I thought you girls were a little more tougher than those birdbrained dudes” Lunamon shrugged, “Mizuki, we’re in real trouble without Noel’s help after all.”

“W-what do you mean by that!?” Hawkmon snapped, and it was really really rare to see him do that, “Of course we’re strong enough for that! We just don’t go recklessly into battle like you’re implying here!”

“Geez, you’re implying we go recklessly wrecking things?! We got a nerd on our team, you know??”

“Why are you trying to pick a fight with us?” Tailmon stared at Lunamon with a murderous gaze. You don’t mess with Tailmon or her friends, including her jogress partner Hawkmon.

“I said--” Lune covered her partner’s mouth.

“ENOUGH!” Miyako shouted, making everyone look at her, “I don’t understand you at all! You ask our help and now you’re--”

“Lunamon does that when she’s nervous”, Lune explained. “It’s a bad habit. Sorry. Lunamon, please apologize now.”

She uncovered the digimon’s mouth, “Sorry, yeah… I’m concerned about us not being able to pass by Flaremon.”

“Huh…?”

“Like… he’s just standing in front of us right at the entrance.”

“W-WHAT!?”

“And you didn’t tell us this whole time!?” Miyako hissed. But she took her digivice and glanced at Hikari, “Hikari-chan!”

“Ok, Miyako-san!”

Hawkmon evolved into Aquilamon. Then, the digivices’ colors changed, becoming a matched pair and then released lights which formed the Jogress Holy Ring for its execution -- Aquilamon and Tailmon turned into light beams and waltzed in a helix shape. Once the lights hit the Jogress Ring, Silphymon emerged from its top.

“We have to stop him as well, Lunamon!” Lune said, grabbing her digivice.

“Righto!” Lunamon nodded.

Lunamon evolve to… Lekismon!!

Flaremon was still acting strangely, of course. Silphymon could deal with him as they’re a Perfect-level digimon too, and Lekismon would’ve been able to use her sleeping bubble-bombs on him. The lion-man digimon dashed into their direction, ready to capture the girls when Silphymon kicked him with one of their bird legs, forcing Flaremon to step back.

“No, you won’t!” Silphymon (Aquilamon side) said, seriously.

“Get out,” Soleil said, “This is about Master Kayono and Mizuki.”

“Huh??” Hikari and Miyako then turned to the other girl, who bit her lip.

“Soleil, wake up! She’s using you!!” then Luna snapped, “You’re better than this!”

“...”

“Now, Lekismon!!” Miss Espimon whispered to the bun digimon.

“Moon Night Bomb!!”

Lekismon threw a few of her hypnotic bubbles from her gloves at Soleil and Flaremon,  but the lion-man digimon destroyed them with lion-shaped energy waves concentrated from his flames -- the Crimson Beast King Wave technique.

“W-what!?” Lekismon gulped.

“Try again!” Hikari suggested, and glanced at Silphymon, “Help Lekismon, Silphymon!”

“Alright!” Silphymon said with their dual voice.

“You shouldn’t get in Master Kayono’s way…!”

Flaremon then used his purifying roar to stop Silphymon, and said technique was burning the opponent’s with its shockwaves. Oddly, Flaremon didn’t seem to be using it fully… But why?

“You can’t be serious, Youta!!” Miss Espimon snapped, “What’s wrong with you?! I thought you were helping us against the bad guys?!”

“I will do everything for--”

“ENOUGH!!” Lune shouted this time, “I won’t run away this time…!! If Kayono wants to hurt me, then better she do it by herself and not by using you against us!”

A woman’s laugh was heard, and then… The girl called Kayono appeared alongside the masked faux Kaiser.

“Oh it’s you. ” Miyako gritted her teeth, “Of course it’s you playing with innocent lives again…!!”

“Kayono!” Lune said with a confused face that the girl seemed normal, but she couldn’t spot anything like a shard in Kayono’s hand or attire, “Please get out of this…!!”

“She won’t hear you,” the fake Kaiser said, “The experiment had been a success. Now, after all the trouble you and your precious Arsenemon friend had caused to me…”

“I won’t let you hurt Youta, my friends or me!” Lune said, enraged. She was so sure about what to do now… She had to save Soleil at all costs.

“We need to take the fragment off Kayono-san so everyone get back to normal right?” Hikari smiled at Lune, “Then… Let’s go, Miyako-san, Lune-san.”

“Alright girls” Lune smirked, “Leave Soleil and Flaremon to Lekismon and me.”

“I bet you can’t find it,” the faux Kaiser shrugged.

“Say it once we obliterate you, faker!” Miyako clenched her fists.

Kayono hmphed, and then switched forms to Rafflesimon again.

“With a weak digimon like yours can you beat me??” Rafflesimon scoffed, “Pathetic you have been siding up with someone like Mizuki.”

“Oh shut up for a second!!” Miyako hissed, “Silphymon, time to snatch the shard from that annoying brat!”

“Espimon, can you detect where it is, please?” Hikari asked.

“Right!! Searching Mode… ON!!”

Miss Espimon’s eyes flashed and the light coming from them scanned Rafflesimon’s body. But the digi-cyborg flinched once discovering where the fragment was!!

“What’s wrong?” Miyako asked.

“It’s… inside her body…!! The fragment was inserted inside her body!!”

“WHAT?!”

“... She’s right,” Silphymon (Tailmon side) affirmed with a nod at Miyako, “My visor caught the signals coming inside that girl’s body.”

“B-but how can we get it now?!” Miyako panicked, “There’s no way we could… We could solve this by ourselves!!”

“Miyako-san!” Hikari glanced at the other girl, “Hang in there, please!”

“But…!!”

“Do anything with them,” the fake Kaiser said, then he turned back, “I will look for Ichijouji Ken, my worthy opponent.”

“!!!” Miyako’s eyes widened, she felt afraid of whoever that person wanted to do with Ken. If she couldn’t beat Rafflesimon… She would never save Ken, Iori, Daisuke and Takeru…!!

“Ah, I can bring him here” Rafflesimon smirked, “They’re part of my hivemind, I can--”

“TOP GUN!!”

A sphere of energy was shot from Silphymon’s hands (by Aquilamon side) and made the villainess turn her head to the small jogress digimon in front of her.

“How dare you!!”

Flaremon was already facing Lekismon in the background, with Miss Espimon’s assistance. His speed was somehow better than Lekismon, but the warrior bun refused to give up on it. She and Lune had to stop them!

“Soleil, snap out of it!!” Lune shouted, desperately and her voice quivering. 

But now the boy was not answering her anymore.

“Mot Bomb!!” “Tear Arrow!!”

Oddly, this had some effect on Flaremon. Lune whispered “It’s working??”

“We won’t let you touch one single finger on Ken-kun!” Miyako shouted, making Hikari blink.

“Tsc, you can’t beat me, I have an army. What can a single pathetic girl do against me?”

“Silphymon! Get her back to normal!”

“Alright!” Silphymon (Aquilamon’s side) replied, and nodded. Then, they went directly to attack Rafflesimon with a Dual Sonic technique -- crashing their speed into a shock wave in her direction.

That attack kinda made a scratch on the opponent, somehow.

“It’s working?!” Miyako gasped, “Then…!!”

“Ballet Gun!!” Rafflesimon fired her long sleeves against Silphymon, who dodged for a single moment from the rapid fire. Except she was smarter and was positioning the flower reflectors to ricochet the projectiles onto Silphymon and the girls.

“W-what!?” Silphymon said in unison. Then they got hit, “OOF!”

“Silphymon!” the girls screamed.

“Ugh…!!” But the jogress digimon refused to give in right now.

“How stubborn you are! But it won’t last!” Rafflesimon scoffed again, then aimed at the girls. She shot against Miyako and Hikari.

“Miyako-san!” “Hikari!” Silphymon gasped, the two sides of the composed digimon were in shock. Then Silphymon dashed into their partners, and tried to stop that shot with their bare hands.

Miyako was petrified, but Hikari shoved her to the ground. Hikari was definitely sure it would hit her, so she closed her eyes and hoped for a miracle. Miyako was still in shock, wishing desperately that she could do something. This was resonating deep down in Silphymon’s core.

It was when… her digivice and Miyako’s threw beams of light on Silphymon. And thus… 

Something unexpected happened.

Silphymon, ultimate-evolve!! Valkyrimon!

A beam of light surrounded Silphymon and then other two lights in red and pink danced in the shape of a helix as the digimon jumped into the red Jogress ring. From there, a gorgeous androgynous-looked like figure with a golden bird flying around them -- Valkyrimon -- came out of it.

Valkyrimon threw an unerring arrow at the projectile, destroying it, before it could reach Hikari. The girls looked in front of them, at their majestic jogress.

“Silphymon… evolved…” Miyako was in awe, while Hikari was speechless.

“Huh… You’re definitely different now, got a growth spurt?”

Valkyrimon paid their blabbering opponent no mind.

“I can get the fragment out of her body,” Valkyrimon (Tailmon’s side) said, “But might be a little trickish.”

“Can you?” Hikari asked.

“I’d love to see you try then!” Rafflesimon laughed, “Ballet Gun!!”

The next set of projectiles were fired against the gallant warrior, who did not move until the next instance. Valkyrimon smirked then dodged the projectiles while they fired more arrows against those, destroying them before they reached the reflectors or the others. Meanwhile, Lekismon and Miss Espimon kept using all the brute force they had to exhaust Flaremon and make him devolve.

It seemed like their strategy was working. And Lune kept noticing something happening with Flaremon -- he was restraining his attacks. The attacks used by him were getting weaker and weaker. Was he resisting… whoever was controlling him?

“Impossible!!” Rafflesimon gasped, trembling in fear

“We will end this right now!!” Valkyrimon (Aquilamon side) shouted, and then wielded their sword.

“Wait, don’t tell me they'll--” Miyako blurted out, eyes widened once she realized what this could mean.

“FENRIR SWORD!!” 

Valkyrimon dashed into the speed of light and slashed Rafflesimon in an instant. Kayono felt something inside shattering, and thus the cold as if she had gotten ill. The evolution has done and she returned to her original form, a single human being.

Is she dead? 

Everyone glanced at the fallen girl being caught by the radiant warrior, gently.

“W-what did you… do…?” Kayono used her last strength to talk.

“You gotta be kidding me!!” Miyako snapped, while Hikari was just in shock and her hands covering her mouth.

Soleil suddenly felt dizzy, and he walked until Lune, falling in her arms. The spell was undone, but at what cost?

“GAH, YOU KILLED THE HUMAN!” Lekismon and Miss Espimon panicked.

“It’s okay,” Valkyrimon turned to the others, and with Tailmon’s voice, they said, “We know what we’re doing.”

“W-what do you mean!?” Lune babbled, also terrified by that move.

Valkyrimon then started to glow, their hand was put over the girl’s chest. Slowly, the wounds and cold pale skin started to get more vivid again, pinkish and warm. Kayono then opened her eyes, confused about what had just happened.

“W-what… How…” Miyako exclaimed.

“I see…!!” Miss Espimon said, stroking her chinless face, “Valkyrimon can resurrect the fallen with their powers. So they killed the human for a few seconds in order to destroy the fake shard inside their body! Huhu, that was a gamble!”

“That’s a relief…!” Hikari smiled, then her muscles relaxed after that tension caused by the fight and by Valkyrimon’s risky strategy to beat the case.

“Ugh… My head…” Soleil opened his eyes, slowly. He didn’t realize he was still in Lune’s arms though… But the moment he noticed it… she embraced him in a hug, “W-what??”

“Don’t dare to do something that stupid again!” she said, hugging him tightly. But her voice tone was threatening though. Hikari looked at them and was quite confused by that behavior.

“Uh, guys…” Lekismon interrupted them, pointing out to Flaremon, who was still acting weirdly.

“...!!”

Flaremon tried to attack them, only to get Valkyrimon stop him at the speed of light, and kicked him away from the others.

“Flaremon… He got possessed…!” Soleil said, staring at his partner. The girls and Valkyrimon looked at the beast man digimon.

“Possessed!?” Miyako repeated, “Like… the same time Daisuke was used as a vessel for a creepy digimon?”

“Hmm… So you’ve noticed it.”  Flaremon said, with a strange voice instead, “Seems like the Kaiser-guy failed… Again.”

“Huh, so you’re affiliated to that jerk too!” Miyako clenched her fist.

“Seriously, if you want someone to make a job for you… Do it yourself.”

Flaremon (?) was about to attack when…

“UN DEUX TROIS!”

Arsenemon appeared and used a shield field around the kids and their digimon to separate them from Flaremon (?).

“Ah, here you are… Arsenemon.”

“Excusez-moi, but I did not come alone,” he snapped his fingers and suddenly HolyAgemon emerged from a portal.

“HOLY DISINFECTION!!” The surprise-attack from the angel digimon hit Flaremon, who expelled the digimon possessing him out of his body. Flaremon reverted back to Sunmon due to exhaustion though.

It was the same digimon who had attacked Daisuke once.

“IT’S THAT GUY AGAIN!?” Miyako exclaimed. Hikari only gasped in silence.

“Kh… Hahaha… You have the guts, Arsenemon” the digimon vanished like dust, but their voice echoed, “We will meet again!!”

“W-where have you been!?” Lekismon snapped, her pout should tell she was mad with him.

“I was doing a little more research on our opponents, pardon mademoiselle.”

“Who’s that digimon, Arsenemon?” Valkyrimon (Aquilamon side) asked.

“Our biggest concern, mis Digisauveurs. I suspect they might be behind those attacks and using humans for that mischief.”

“Hmmm…”

“HolyAngemon is here but…” Hikari turned to the flamboyant phantom thief, “Where’s Takeru-kun and the others?”

“I left them in a safer place, considering the faux Kaiser was looking for monsieur Ichijouji.”

“Alright,” Miyako said, “share the information with us all. Let’s meet in that safer place you mentioned.”

Meanwhile they talked, Soleil took the weakened Sunmon from the floor and smiled at him, “I thought I’d have to lose you again…”

Hikari heard him, and went over, “Are you okay, Soleil-kun?” In the background, Valkyrimon jogress reverted into Tailmon and Hawkmon.

“Yeah, sort of” he answered, softly and differently from his usual snarky remarks.

“You seem like this wasn’t the first time it happened,” Tailmon approached, “Could you explain?”

“... Right, I’ll do it. We will do it,” he replied, looking at Arsenemon and Lune.

[nightmareentertainment]

ken's whole story is built in [insecurity and loneliness] that funnels into [anger] which turns into [GRIEF guilt and even more anger] which makes him the prime suspect to be used but also makes him , like , fundamentally mentally weak , leads him down an even LONELIER path, leads him towards cruelty , and the turning point in his story is actually like. he describes it, verbally, as realizing in his moment of healing that his parents loved him. like going through life feeling completely abandoned by a better-than-you brother who was also suffering under their parents' negligence towards their kids' emotional stability, feeling abandoned by your parents, and then that brother dies and you are still left standing in his shadow, its just even bigger now, its full of grief, and youre full of grief, and you dont know what to do other than to just stare empty-eyed at his closed casket

and all you thought before was i hate you, i want you to dissapear and now you want to take it all back, because did i do this? did i wish this into existence? this isnt what i wanted. this isnt what i meant.i was nine years old and angry and sad and alone but i never wanted you to dissapear. not for real.and now your room is just your room, and you get an email, and someone wants to help you :-). except no he fuckign doesnt he just gives you a place to relinquish all that anger, and it builds, and youre still alone but youre convincing yourself now you have control over that. you step into your brothers shoes. youre better than him now. youre finally how tall he was when he died. your parents seem so happy to have their boy back. they dont realize they never got him; they just lost the kid they had left. you are a husk made from guilt and grief and you fill it with anger until its exploding from every part of you. you no longer know who you are, but the news decides youre ken ichijouji, boy genius and soccer star! so you go with that. eventually you find your way to your escape. a new world. and you get to decide who you are in this game; you get to pick your destiny, you get all the control. theres no consequences for not smiling at the camera, here. and youre alone, and the world is weak, and theres something itching in your mind; something telling you what to build and how to build it, and you never know your control isnt actually your own. you never get to know. you play the game how you want to. its your world. its not your parents, its not your brothers, its yours, this is yours and you are going to fucking rule it!!!!!

ken is very much like , hurt-people-hurt-people but the thing is that, in the real world hes trying very very hard to be NORMAL and NICE and GOOD even while hes bubbling with rage and hatred and wants to be left alone, he smiles for all the cameras everyone is putting in his face, taking his anger out in secret and only when nobody is watching, because hes aware of consequences but in the digital world there is no consequences. its a game, after all! then there's other players and at first it's kinda fun, having an enemy in your game, but then theyre not playing fair, then theyre in your way, its getting annoying, and its not fun anymore. and the worse you feel online, the worse you feel offline, and hes pissed, and everyone wants everything from him, and one day he throws it all down and decides fuck this and ken ichijouji runs away. the ichijouji family loses their second and final son. (this is their turning point, too. they realize maybe osamu was never happy, before he died. maybe they pushed ken into the same box. they bury their faces in their hands and just pray they havent completely lost their chance to try)

ken- the kaiser- is having a really Really Bad Fucking Time. hes not even having fun anymore he just wants to be in control of something, he wants the chance to be a winner, and theres other players and theyre in the way. and then. well, shit. and then they win. Doesn't that suck? It’s the first time you’ve failed at something in years. i like him. i like the digimon kaiser. thats just a little kid hes up playing games in this bitch. its shown he actually really, really loved and admired his brother, and i feel like this and his persona as the kaiser are involved. he literally resembles so much of his brother even in his persona as someone who rules the world isnt it crazy how you resemble your prodigy brother no matter where you go or what you do because without him there youre the only one who could possibly fill the space. ken is nobody, but everyone loved osamu. why not be osamu? even if you dont realize it!!!

thats all a big part in why he claims he doesnt know himself after it all goes down this kid has no clue who he is. only wormmon does. quite literally only wormmon knows who he is. who he was before it all went to shit. who he was while it happened. only wormmon was ever there for him. and he treated wormmon like shit, for so long. how do you ever forgive yourself for that? wormmon tells him he's kind. he really is. under all that anger and guilt and never ending sadness, hes kind and hes just lonely. and so ken turns his life around. IT MEANS SO MUCH TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOBODYGETS IT NOBODY UNDERSTANDS HIM LIKEI DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HE HAS NEVER KNOWN ANYTHING BUT THE FACT THAT HE WILL ALWAYS EXIST IN HIS BROTHERS SHADOW SO HE GROWS INTO HIS BROTHERS SHADOW AND ITS ONLY WHEN HES TORN DOWN TO NOTHING, INTO A GUILT-SOAKED MESS , DOES HE STEP OUT OF IT. KINDNESS IS THE ONLY WAY OUT. HE SPENDS HIS TIME TRYING TO MAKE UP FOR WHAT HE DID AND HE ONLY HEALS ONCE HE REALIZES HIS PARENTS AND WORMMON LOVE HIM, ONCE HE HAS FRIENDS ALWAYS READY TO BE THERE, ONCE HE LEARNS TO, AT THE VERY END, BE KIND TO HIMSELF TOO, AND FACE OSAMU AND FORGIVE HIMSELF

[beginningobserver]

Ni attempts to insert Rui-Ukko in 02 TV Series: the post.

⚠This is a ROUGH draft and may change later. ALSO, IT MIGHT HAVE CANON REFERENCES TO THE MOVIE ELEMENTS, SO I DON'T RECOMMEND READING IT WITHOUT WATCHING 02TB FIRST!

Ok, so the idea here is... to put Rui-kun and Ukkomon in 02. I've tried to pick a route here, and it might change later.

Will be under [read more/keep reading] so you can avoid spoilers even if i tag it with the spoilers tag.

[CW: murder mention + body horror]

So far, I've drawn not one but TWO routes for this AU - one where nothing bad happens to Rui (or, if it does, it's the usual Adv/02 level of child trauma, not something that goes "over the kids' timeslot filters" like this movie does) and he gets to explore the Digital World with Ukkomon alongside the 02 group...

... And one where maybe the "eye thing" happens during the 02 events. Now if it is the same as in the canon and the movie or not, I have no idea yet. But I am still amusing myself with this one comic where the Kaiser is testing his evil rings on Rui because he has a digi-eye and... Yeah, check out the doodle for yourselves. 

Since I like both ideas I might mix them in one interquel plotline.

So Rui is the first Chosen Child, but this term hadn't been coined by the time of his encounter with Ukkomon. And Ukkomon helped Rui to get a better life, despite not having miraculous powers to grant wishes like he told Rui. Ukkomon’s tactic was just using Liar Dream on Rui’s mom and dad, to make them at least nicer to Rui.The part of the dad being in a deathbed status is also… uh, not here, but he’s still sick.

Ukkomon protected Rui from bullies as well, by using his mind-hijacking powers to drive them away. Despite both being bad at communicating with others, they do manage to get along. Rui still hates the same things as the canon, but more likely that he does not find them interesting (plus, the part of hating cake/sweets is about OVERLY sweet things and he prefers not-too-sweet stuff, or not-too-sweet fruits) yet he doesn’t seem to get courage to say them because he never had been listened by his own family. At this point, Ukkomon is not well aware of the difference between being legitimately happy and being just a bubbly kid. So… Ukkomon starts getting desperate trying to protect Rui’s smile from everything and going nuts (aka, “i can’t let him get sad or miserable!!” sort of thing, yes it’s basically what happened in canon too) and just… manipulating people with his mind-hijacking eye-stare technique.

Rui lives in Hikarigaoka, but going to the Digital World like everyone else, somehow his digivice – being the first model in the world – manages to get the access to the Digital Gate and he goes there to cool off and have fun with the digimon. It’s when he heard about this new menace called Digimon Kaiser. His digi-friends started to beg him and Ukkomon to help, but Rui says he can’t do much because Ukkomon cannot evolve and he’s afraid of fighting. Ukkomon also is clueless about how to evolve, he only knows more kids with digimon were appearing. Then, Ukkomon suggests trying to find those kids and ask them to help their digimon friends. Funny enough, the 02 kids + older six were already doing that.

In one of the offscreen attacks of the Kaiser’s army, Rui’s right eye gets hurt and Ukkomon starts panicking because this means Rui will be sad and upset so he just sacrifices his own right eye and slaps it in the boy’s face. Of course Rui hates that and snaps at him. Ukkomon feels it was all his fault and just disappears (actually, he kept around but invisible and without letting Rui know his presence). In the human world, Rui’s parents have absolutely no idea WHERE he is, so they start suddenly “caring” about him, tho they don’t go ask for help on TV or anything, they just stick with the police. The 02 kids are aware of a kid named Ohwada Rui going missing, but they think it’s nothing related to the Digital World or Ichijouji Ken/Digimon Kaiser.

Rui was having a hard time stuck in the Digital World though. He was alone, but he had the help of the local digimon refugees and survivors. This time he covered his digi-eye with an eye-patch so as not to attract the attention of the others. Somehow, the Kaiser hears about a human with a digimon eye and thinks it’s some skilled hacker “in-game” and sends his servants to search for Rui.

It was when, a few days before the Evil Spiral being made that he gets to spot the 02 kids looking for a digimon named “Agumon”. He never saw those kids– Wait a minute, he does remember seeing a boy with a Goku-like hair and a tiny girl with light brown short hair when he was a kid… Maybe they know him? (The answer is: not in person, Taichi and Hikari had passed by Rui while they lived in Hikarigaoka and until they moved to Odaiba, but none of them know each other)

Rui goes after those kids a few weeks later (around the episode Chimeramon project is almost finished), but he’s caught by the Digimon Kaiser, who was suspiciously aware of his “Digimon Eye”?! Ken just starts asking him real tough questions, thinking that kid is smart and a prodigy like him, but… Rui is just a simpleton. No offense, he’s not a genius or anything, he’s just an ordinary boy with a digimon eye and a digivice. Wormmon is scared about what that could mean, and Rui is not sure how to explain that the eye was slapped in his face against his will and that suddenly he got into a fight with his digimon and then Ukkomon just vanished and left him.

Since Rui had disappeared way before Ken decided to ditch the human world and live in the DW, he heard of a kid missing but he didn’t expect that the boy with a digimon eye from the rumors was Rui. He doesn’t feel like doing anything with Rui though, so he just throws Rui in the dungeon and focuses on the other kids. Rui has no idea if he could do something, and he feels like Ukkomon had just abandoned him and blames him for being hunted like an animal thanks to that eye.

Ken does hear Rui thru the speakers mentioning “something something if I had followed my mom’s orders I wouldn’t have been in trouble now” and he feels… empathetic for that kid? Is that possible? Ken doesn’t let Rui leave, but mysteriously his time inside his cell gets a little more… comfortable? He got a new pair of clean clothes and he’s receiving some decent meals now…? How??

One day Wormmon was feeling jealous of Ken getting some emotional attachment to that prisoner that he does the same thing he had done with Agumon: He opens the cell discreetly while Ken is not around looking at the cameras and lets Rui escape.

The 02 team and the Kaiser showdown happens normally, and Rui just appears in front of the 02 kids between the ep 22 and 24 events. The group catches him by accident because he was wearing a cape and hoodie to not call for peeps' attention and then Takeru immediately remembers seeing a kid who had disappeared mysteriously in the newspapers, way before Ken went insane.

Rui is not aware about that, but he feels like he cannot leave now because of that. The kids wonder what he means by that and he shows them the Digi-eye in his face. It makes them confused and question if he’s indeed human, but he tries to explain (this time) what happened, and that he got captured by the Digimon Kaiser for days and maybe months. The group is in doubt, but Daisuke tells them he trusts Rui. Hikari asks where’s Rui’s partner now and Rui pouts upset: We had a fight and he just vanished. The 02 group decide they should just help Rui to find Ukkomon, but Rui thinks Ukkomon might not want to talk to him anymore and then says Ukkomon was doing things he didn’t want to and didn’t like at all. Iori asks why he didn’t tell Ukkomon that, and Rui shuts in.

The 02 group’s digimon find that strange, because a digimon partner wouldn’t run away like that, right? Daisuke even mentions that Wormmon did not leave Ken’s side and even helped them to beat Chimeramon in order to rescue Ken from himself. The group agree, Ukkomon might still be around. Rui wonders how.

They had to stick along with the kid for a while, at least after school activities. The group ask Agumon and Gabumon to take a look at Rui for them (Rui is not happy with that idea but he has no options left) and then the digimon duo try to keep the boy comfortable. He’s NOT happy though.

Agumon asks what’s wrong and he just sulks, refuses to talk with Agumon or even Gabumon. Piyomon, Palmon, Gomamon and Tentomon come in and try to help the other two digimon to deal with that kid. Rui just keeps hating more and more being there and he wants to go home, but he knows that eye would make people claim he’s a FREAK and maybe things would be even worse now. Sadly, the older six’s digipartners are clueless and don’t feel like they can solve it. And Rui started to just blame the digimon in gen for his misfortune, making the six critters sad. He then just realizes he messed this up with them, and quickly tries to apologize. He tells them that Ukkomon really didn’t know him that well, and didn’t even know what he liked or wanted. Gabumon then says “Are you sure about that?” out of the blue.

Once Rui fell asleep, the six digimon noticed something hiding behind the trees and found Ukkomon, who was invisible this whole time (somehow) and kept protecting Rui in the shadows, though he was still upset with the boy’s statements and behavior. Piyomon asks why did he “leave” Rui behind and Ukkomon vents that he was getting frustrated about what to keep Rui happy and smiling. The other mons look at each other and then back to Ukkomon, who continues “He really needs me but he snapped when I tried to help him before'', making Gomamon comment that “giving your own eye to a human is not going to help him at all” and everyone agree. Ukkomon is unable to understand WHY this is wrong, and they had to say “If Rui slapped his own eye on Ukkomon out of the blue, to help him out, would he like that?” and Ukkomon took a while to give an answer. And the digimon didn’t want to think about a scenario where Rui is literally destroying himself either. But now Rui is mad and he’s having a tough time with that big eye in his face. Ukkomon feels ashamed for going off the rails. Palmon suggests that he go talk with Rui, but… Ukkomon also is bad at communicating so he just shuts in just like Rui.

The digimon reported it to Daisuke and co., and they just think those two need to be in the same room in order to deal with it themselves… But Daisuke refuses to turn his back on Rui and Ukkomon, so he just goes to talk with the boy.

Daisuke asks Rui why he didn’t tell Ukkomon that he didn’t like some things Ukkomon was doing and Rui just feels like he’s getting scolded by his mom. Daisuke continues, “You have to tell what’s bothering you or else nobody will get your feelings right,” and Rui just argues back “If I told Ukkomon he wasn’t helping me at all he would lose his reason to exist.”

The digimon and the kids are confused: Does Rui think the digimon are just servant familiars? Something similar to Ken believing the DW and the digimon were a game?

Rui explains that Ukkomon came to him to make his wishes come true, but his partner had no idea what he likes or needs, so he kept quiet accepting everything like he was used to – His mother was the one to decide his favorite things, and if he said something otherwise she would claim he’s an ungrateful kid. So not even he knows what he needs or what he likes.

Daisuke sighs and then tells Rui that Ukkomon did all of those things because Ukkomon likes him, and doesn’t know how to help him. V-mon sneaks into the convo and asks Rui “Do you know what Ukkomon likes and what he hates anyway?” and it makes Rui just realize something he and Ukkomon were not communicating. Yes he had been watching things by distance and those kids and their digimon had a better understanding of each others’ personalities, likes and dislikes, traits and flaws…Something he and Ukkomon's partnership had been lacking all along.

Ukkomon was hearing that convo, still invisible for them all. A little pouty because he was still hurt by Rui’s actions.  However, the eye made Rui notice Ukkomon was nearby and he called for his digimon. Ukkomon felt no reason to keep hiding and just popped in front of them, still missing his eye. Rui then speaks with his heart for the first time and asks Ukkomon to let them start from zero, and to learn more about each other. Ukkomon agrees, and asks what Rui wishes for and the boy answers he doesn’t need anything else. And Ukkomon in return said he didn’t know how to help Rui and assumed that the boy’s smile meant Rui was happy so he tried to prevent anything bad from happening in order to keep Rui happy and smiling even if it meant to do some… wrong things. The group ask “Which ‘wrong things’??” and Ukkomon reveals he can control people’s minds and had been using it on people. He feared that Rui would hate him, but… Rui was only disappointed that this meant nobody liked him for real.

Ukkomon doesn’t agree with that statement, and thinks there’s people who care and like Rui for real. And then mentioned the digimon they met and the older six’s digimon, also Daisuke and the others right there. Rui takes a moment to agree with that, and then he asks Ukkomon if he could get his eye back. Daisuke asks why Ukkomon gave his eye to Rui before, and Ukkomon says Rui got hurt in the middle of a digimon attack. Miyako suggests them to take Rui to the hospital after Ukkomon “returned” Rui’s injured eye (= he just removed the digi-eye just like magic and the real eye, hidden by the other one, just reappeared in Rui’s face)

The kids and their digimon go back to the human world and then Rui asks to be taken to his relatives instead. Everyone asks why and he says that they are the only ones able to talk with his parents at the moment. Ukkomon offers to use his power on Rui’s parents again, but Rui himself tells Ukkomon to not. He can handle this, he will ask his cousin and her parents to help him out. No one, not even Mr. Ishida argued with him, since they thought it could be a delicate subject that maybe having one or two peeps who care about Rui enough could help there.

Rui gets to talk with his relatives and explain everything to them (with the help of the 02 kids, Taichi, Koushiro and Mr. Ishida, of course, after Rui and Ukkomon explained to them hours ago) and they didn’t know how to break the news that… Rui’s parents had died while he went missing. Rui was in shock, just like all the others who came to give him support, and now they all plus Rui’s relatives were there to help him to deal with the loss. Ukkomon wonders if it was his fault, but he does not tell anyone, and he continues to bottle it up. He wasn’t around to make sure they would be fine… Right? His power wouldn’t be that strong to KILL humans, R I G H T ? !

Rui and Ukkomon get to meet Ken and Wormmon again on ep 39 events. But before that, he and Ukkomon spend their own time trying to get to know each other and find a way to use Ukkomon’s powers for good and not for selfish purposes. Since Ukkomon cannot evolve, they thought it would be better to not get involved with the digimon battles happening around (and again) – Though this made him emotionally exhausted: Why are the digimon trying to attack this world…? Why are they fighting those kids and their partners? Ukkomon himself doesn’t know either, but he believes they could get the answers from his higher-ups.

Rui wonders what kind of higher-ups would Ukkomon have, he just remembers Ukkomon briefly mentioning them before. Ukkomon then suggests going to the DW and looking for Homeostasis’ agents and talking to them. Rui doesn’t know what those agents look like, or why someone would be named ‘Homeostasis’ to begin with. Ukkomon doesn’t know how to answer those questions so he reinforces the idea of going to look for them.

Once they’re on their mission, Rui asks Ukkomon: “Wait, if you’re connected to something greater, couldn’t you simply contact them and call for help?” Ukkomon blinks those big green eyes and admits he didn’t think about that before. Rui glances at him, unamused by that answer.

The truth is, Ukkomon doesn’t know how to call for his higher-ups. But Rui just got a dumb idea of… pressing a few buttons on his digivice. Ukkomon feels this would be hilarious if they could summon someone like that…

And then they casually pass by Gennai, who was heading back from his encounter with Qinglongmon. Yup. Ukkomon and Rui look at each other for a moment, and ask if they did that or not. Ukkomon points out that that ‘human-like’ lifeform is one of Homeostasis’ agents. Rui notices he’s carrying an orb. They follow Gennai but SUDDENLY that ‘person’ disappeared?!

Ukkomon wonders where that agent has gone and Rui thinks maybe they should go home and try another time… Until they spot a long silver haired woman in a dress and purple shades with a tall man in a blue uniform. Ukkomon can definitely sense that woman and man are not… humans at all, and then he and Rui decide to follow them, returning to the human world. 

Huh?! Why were those digimon– Hey, they’re in Tamachi now?? And there’s a digimon running amok. He notices a boy with a familiar digimon before trying to get people out of there and protect themselves, but the Dark Tower prevents Wormmon from evolving and Ken is not very happy with that at all. The wild Triceramon running around and causing havoc hits a traffic pole and it comes into Ken’s direction, BUT! Ukkomon and Rui appear, and Ukkomon uses his tentacles coming from his fingers to catch the pole before it hits Ken. Wormmon immediately recognizes Rui, and Ken’s a little awkward around that kid. Wormmon sees Ukkomon and also recognizes those eyes, but Ukkomon and Rui had no time to explain, nor Ken and Wormmon have time to hear a long story right now. Ken asks Rui to simply escort the people around the area for them, and the other just agrees but says he’s worried about Ken and Wormmon, who just tell him they will be fine.

Rui and Ukkomon then leave the area, searching for anyone else in the middle of Triceramon’s rampage. A few hours later, he and Ukkomon witness a strong and powerful aura coming from the beam hitting something in the area he and Ukkomon were with Ken before, and then they witness Imperialdramon dragon mode for the first time in their lives. 

A few days passed and then Rui did not hear about Daisuke or Ken or the digimon for a while. But he and Ukkomon try contacting the alleged “higher-ups’ Ukkomon talked about. This time they manage to get in touch with Gennai personally and start asking some questions. As usual, not even Gennai or the Holy Beasts know why digimon partnerships are happening, or why the evil digimon are attacking the human world. Rui comments this was pointless, and then he believes it was all his fault because of that wish he made in 1996 on his birthday, Feb 29. Gennai says it’s unlikely to be because of him and that he was just the first of them.

Ukkomon comments about hearing someone saying “something something you’re the first attempt with this experiment” and Rui snaps “So am I a guinea pig for the digi-gods?!” Gennai stares at Ukkomon, and sighs. He explains that it might not mean something in a heartless sense, that the human and digimon partnerships started because of a peculiar encounter of a Koromon and a pair of human siblings prior to 1996. Then, Gennai asks him if he had witnessed a digimon before meeting Ukkomon and Rui takes a moment to think. He then mentions seeing a giant orange dinosaur and a big parrot fighting when he was 3 years old, but he thought it was just a crazy dream he had after watching something before falling asleep. Gennai then reveals that it wasn’t a dream, and that Rui had been chosen as the first to form a bond with a digimon because of it. And that Rui has been observed to be in the need of someone to love and protect him.

He realizes that… Ukkomon did save him from the bad parenting life he was living. He was just a BABY and couldn't even accidentally wet his pants or bed sheets like other kids his age, or reject stuff his mom wanted him to like and claimed to be “his favorite”. Ukkomon agrees, but still feels that using that technique on Rui’s parents might be the reason they had died. Rui tries to tell him it wasn’t his fault, it couldn’t be true, RIGHT?? Ukkomon begs for Rui’s pardon, but the boy still does not get it at all. Gennai then tells Ukkomon to leave it as it is, for better or for worse. Rui also did not get that either.

After talking with Gennai, Rui returns home with Ukkomon and then the news on TV is about a few children disappearing out of nowhere, just like him. He then learns that Ken also went missing before, and mused if it was around the time Ken was the Kaiser. Again, he couldn’t do anything so he only hoped for the best.

It was only when the truck headed to Hikarigaoka that he decided to do something. But he and Ukkomon just witnessed the Jogress digimon sealing Daemon in the Dark Ocean. The police were nearby taking care of the kidnapped kids and the now abandoned truck, so he couldn’t approach that area at all. The only 02 group member Rui and Ukkomon meet is Takeru, who was looking for a safe spot to evolve Patamon into Pegasusmon and head home. Rui asks Takeru what happened and if the kidnapped kids were related to something about the digimon attacks recently and he explains a brief version of the current events. Ukkomon wonders why someone would kidnap children like that.

They later learn, from Daisuke, that the kidnapped children now have digimon data inside their bodies. And then Rui is assigned to keep an eye on one of them who might be from the area where he and his relatives live. With Ukkomon’s unique abilities like sneaking into places or being invisible, Rui could help them to keep watching the dark seed kids, even if he doesn’t understand what’s happening that much.

But he couldn't do much, and in the end his efforts were in vain because of what happened on New Year's Eve. Rui wanted to do more, and he in fact did go to the Digital World for that final battle, and helped them out like the rest of the Chosen Children around the world. But that whole action might have caused a MASS PANIC in the human world because children are disappearing en masse for a few hours?!

BelialVamdemon is beaten, everyone returns home. Fin.

So far this is all I got for it, and idk how to do the post-series stuff (movies and drama CDs) or the Epilogue part so I’ll just stop here for now. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed my dummy Hacker’s Memory-esque idea (or Lion King 1 ½ lol) and I might draw more stuff with this whole setting. (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

[dragonandtiger]

Dreaming To Reality: Oneiromancy Chapter Twenty Eight - 02

“Curry~!” Momoe said, easily deflecting the attempt at diverting the topic as her smile remained unwavering. “So, anything exciting happen today~?”

Miyako schooled her expression as she braced herself for the interrogation. “School, club meetings, hanging out with friends. You know, the usual.”

“Of course, of course~!” Momoe agreed as she nodded, giggling. “Clubs are so important~! Socializing, meeting new and interesting people…”

“It’s a lot more than just socializing,” Miyako said stiffly. “It’s about building camaraderie, team spirit, and enrichment, not to mention it looks good on transcripts.” She immediately made her way towards the stairs, trying to appear as casual as possible and not like she was actively fleeing. “Anyway, I have a lot of homework, so-”

“Hey, Mi-ya-ko~?” Momoe called, her voice a cloying song of a siren that promised to bring the rocks to the ship if the purple haired girl tried to sail away from her.

Miyako flinched before she braced herself. She didn’t know what to expect, but her well-developed younger sibling instincts told her that she wouldn’t like it.

Momoe tilted her head to the side as she positively beamed.

“What’s a Digimon?”

Miyako stiffened as her eyes widened, her lips puckering as if she had just swallowed a bug. She gaped at her oh-so-smug sister for several long moments before she finally found her voice, which cracked high. “What?”

Momoe’s expression was like that of a cat playing with its food, far too smug with herself. “A little bird told me all about your little Digimon club… and how Ken Ichijouji was a member, too.”

“Wha…” Miyako sputtered for a moment before her brain caught up with the horror she was suddenly confronted with. “Who told you that?”

Momoe couldn’t possibly have looked any more smug if she tried as she let out a little giggle. “Oh, someone. I have my sources.”

Miyako stared at her sister for a long moment before a groan escaped her and she slid her hand up underneath her glasses to rub at her eyes. “Okay, so what did they tell you?”

“That you have a little Digimon club with Ken Ichijouji, and you were a looooooot friendlier with him than you ever mentioned before,” Momoe said before she giggled and covered her mouth. “I can’t help but wonder why you decided to hide this club from Mom and Dad, hmmm~?” She then got a mischievous glint in her eyes. “Does Iori know~?”

[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.