#not quite as nice as the angemon figure

[digimonloving]

We had a femTamer reaction to Patamon becoming a wholeass tax payer Angemon. How about a Male Tamer reacting to Gatomon becoming a whole ass she buys stock woman?

A male Tamer reacting to his Gatomon Digivolving into Angwomon for the first time

The first time he met Gatomon, he really figured that she was just an adorable cat. A cat that had some big ol claws on her gloved hands and could stand up and talk, but a cat nonetheless! She acted like a cat at times with how she'd nap all day or would cuddle up to him and nap on his lap on colder days. She let him pet her, but only so often.

It was a pretty simple time, really. He treated her how a cat should be treated. Toys, a cat scratching and climbing post, plenty of space so she could do her own thing. Gatomon didn't mind it, she actually kind of enjoyed having places to climb up and hide away in, as most cats do. Even Digimon cats have to enjoy a little bit of play - even if she was a Champion form and not a Rookie, she had her enjoyments.

Her Tamer never figured she'd change into a bigger form like most Digimon did, and she had no reason to. It was a nice quiet life, but of course all things nice come to an end soon enough when Digimon are involved. And Gatomon refused to sit back and let a Digimon attack them one night when they were simply trying to sleep.

He really did NOT expect his little talking, walking cat to Digivolve into a WHOLE ASS WOMAN. A WHOLE ANGEL. He was expecting maybe a bigger cat at MOST, not a human person with WINGS and holy powers. It's quite the shock as she handles the Digimon that dared try to hurt her Tamer. And he is absolutely speechless when she turns to him and asks if he's okay.

If she returns to her Gatomon form, he really isn't sure how to treat her now. Should he treat her any differently? Get her something more than silly cat toys and other things he knows cats like now that he knew she could turn into a near human-like Digimon? He's always made her special meals he figured cats would like, so maybe he'd start catering towards her Digivolved form? She loved the meals he made her, but he was just confused.

Her Tamer really doesn't know how to handle this. She LOOKS like a cat now, but she can turn into an angelic woman. What should he do differently? Petting her was awkward now, though he settled for headpats for her. It's... a lot to process for him, it takes a while and a lot of him worrying on if he's still doing everything right since he knows she can turn into something that looks SO human. HOW did that even work...? Digimon really were so strange...

[reversemoon255]

Figure-rise Standard Angemon

I have a chance to talk about Digimon Reboot again! No, not the series, but the model kit line. For those not in the know, Digimon Reboot is a defunct model kit line from 2010 that did restylized Digimon with a more mechanical design sense. It only had one release, Omegamon (which was later retooled into the first Omegamon in the Amplified line), but had a Dukemon showed off at trade shows (which I talked about in its review), and two other designs that never made it to physical: Devimon, and, you guessed it, Angemon. Now, this one is designed to look anime/art accurate, so it’s nothing close to the mechanized Angemon from Reboot, but it’s still a neat bit of trivia involving this Digimon and its history with model kits.

The Good: Apart from being essentially 1-to-1 with its official art, the build was also quite fun. It’s almost entirely asymmetrical, so apart from the wings, every piece is unique, making the build very non-repetitive. The tassel in particular is very cool, wrapping and connecting around the left arm and right leg, but having a dedicated detach point to improve articulation.

The Bad: While it does have some dedicated engineering to improve posability, it’s not the best. The arms and legs are ok, but the head and wings aren’t great, clashing with each other a lot, so it’s essentially stuck looking forward.

The Details: A lot of panel lining, even over areas I usually don’t, like on the mask and wings. I tried adding panel lining to the subtler muscle details, which added some shading in a few areas (it worked very well on the chest, but not others). I used silver to paint the leg zipper, ends of the Holy Rod, and bumps on the left leg. Specifically for the Heaven’s Knuckle, I painted the inside of the translucent orange hand gold, which created a very nice effect. I did use the stickers on the left hand, because white is hard to paint.

Overall, the better of the two Figure-rise Standard Digimon I’ve built. An excellent asymmetrical build, with some very creative parts usage, and a very accurate final product.

[holyangemon]

the only Digimon related thing I care about today

[otakween]

Digimon Adventure (Blind Watch) - Episode 14

Wow, it literally took me this long to realize that it's called File Island because of computer files. I thought it was just a weird, Engrishy name and then they introduced Server Island and I was like "ohhhh..." Still kinda dumb, but at least they're sticking to the theme.

Digimon introduced: Whamon, Drimogemon

Notes:

-I don't really like the introduction to the random exposition grandpa. It seems way too convenient and video game-like. He said something about "kinda" being human, so I guess that's something we'll figure out later on. Just like the Digimon he has very selective knowledge for plot convenience.

-I like Koushiro's lil laptop backpack. I kinda want one.

-The gang argues for like two seconds about whether or not they should go to Server Island and then are immediately like "Eh whatever, let's go!" because Takeru says "Angemon would have wanted us to go!" How does Takeru know what Angemon would have wanted? He had about 2 minutes of screen time before exploding into feathers!

-A bunch of digimon from the first arc return to help the kids build a raft. This was a nice touch, but then the kids are like "this raft sucks" and it explodes 2 seconds later lol. So much for that.

-Takeru's egg hatches into an adorable, squishy Poyomon. So my prediction that the egg would hatch much later into the arc was wrong. I wonder how long Poyomon will stick around for. I guess baby Digimon don't have any fighting abilities, right?

-The animation of the waves at sea was really poorly done. I feel like you couldn't get away with animating half-assed water like that these days. There is some charm to the crappiness.

-Whamon was kinda terrifying. I've definitely had whale nightmares before. Why'd they have to make him all veiny and gross? Digimon are much better when they're smooth. Also, he has no eyes? Maybe he compensates with echolocation.

-I recognized Drimogemon from the PS1 game because I was researching it earlier. I much prefer his design to Whamon's. Simplistic with the potential to be cute.

-The new tag/crest thing screams "We wanted to sell more toys!" to me. It seems so arbitrary. "To evolve these creatures you need a weird pedometer looking device, then you need this hit clip key chain and all of it's little chips to go with it." I think it would be cooler if the tags attached to the digivice or maybe if the crests were inserted into the digivice. It feels weird to have a bunch of accessories. I feel like they never quite explained the first level of evolving with just the digivice either. They kind of showed Takeru's reacting to Patamon in a previous episode, so maybe we're just supposed to infer how it works.

[tumblunni]

ANYWAY! I’mma gonna talk about my playthru of Digimon World Next Order, to distract me from the fact i’m rapidly approaching the ending and have to wait to sate my JRPG tastes on Persona 5 afterwards...

* it is really really REALLY REALLY really REALLy great to finally be able to play a game in the DW series as a female character. Holy SHIT, man this is overdue! And it isnt handled awfully like in Cyber Sleuth where everyone constantly calls you male and the character design is really oversexualized and doing weirdass poses for everything. There’s still a lil bit of ‘cliche girly option traits’ but seriously she’s like the least stereotyped design we’ve had in the games since Dusk and Dawn! She gets to wear SHORTS and A HOODIE! A hoodie that has an inexplicable hole in the back for some reason, but whatever! xD Also I actually like her version of the Protagonist Hair better, even tho I think its lame they colour coded them in the ol cliche genderedness. Boy character just has one streak of coloured hair at the front, but girl has a spiralling streak on the end of her ponytail that looks like a punk poison sort of fashion~! And it leaks pixels when she runs, and has a really nice glow effect that kinda makes it draw patterns as you swing her model around. Makes me wanna run in circlesssss~ Her dubbed voice is a bit boring cliche anime love interest tho, a bit squeaky after you’ve been hearing it for hours. But the dude is Like Every Shonen Hero Voice Ever, so i think its meant to be intentionally generic for both of them. I could swear he’s voiced by a bad Tai impersonator! XD Also I’m just kinda thankful cos every other girl in the plot gets a REALLY squeaky unbearable english voice, thank god protagonist is spared...

* its a lil bit of funnyness tho that for some reason the skill list is the only place where the translators forgot about the protagonist options. Like.. a LOT of Tamer Skills are weirdly gendered when it would have taken five seconds to change that. Why does it have to be stuff like ‘Cooking Boy’ and ‘Cooking Man’ instead of basic and advanced cooking? Especially cos the other one in between is called Gourmet Cooking...

* I love forever that so many of the virus type recruitable digimon are sweethearts of hugs and joy. Now THAT reminds me of the original Digimon World! Seriously I am SO GLAD that Literally The Same Myotismon has a sidequest about rescuing his precious myobrella so he won’t faint in the sun. or like.. if its not the same Myotismon then MAN he would totally be a great ship with the other equally helpless one in the first game XD He has a nice new function as a townsperson, instead of just being ‘a manager’ in the colloseum and never even being a fight. (That annoyed me as a kid! He just stands there!) Now he runs the card gallery, cos you collect ‘antique cards’ in this game and he restores them with his painting skillz. its a nice lil in-joke cos they’re all the original first trading card artworks from waaaaay back in the first season! And Piedmon is in this one too, yay! He’s actually like the only morally dubious virus type AT ALL, he talks like a cliche mwahaha mad scientist even as he does nothing particularly evil. His sidequest is a funny thing of playing hide and seek and he sucks at it. While yelling hammily about being an evil genius! And then he has quite a useful function in the town, he does a random effect on you once per day with his evil science, and it could be good or it could be bad, but if its bad he actually pays you compensation money for it! EVEN THE EVIL GUY IS TOO KIND And OH MAN I am so happy and sad for Skullgreymon! A good guy skullgreymon was always one of my ideas for a DW fangame, im so happy it happened for real! In this game Skullgreymon is a fashion designer with low self confidence, and you recruit them by finding weregarurumon who’s their biggest fan and becomes their first friend. Its so sweet! They never actually interact once you recruit them both tho, cos they work at different parts of the town. But im still gonna assume they keep in touch! Its also a shame skullgreymon doesnt actually run a fashion shop, cos there actually WAS a fashion shop in Digimon World Redigitize aka the one damn game we’ll never see dubbed T_T Instead skullgreymon gets this kinda depressing role of just standing around outside the entertainment area saying ‘i wish i could work with children but they’re always scared of me’, and then if you bring a newly hatched digimon to see them then they gain bonus stats from being terrified somehow?? NOOO WHERE IS THE OPTION TO TEACH MY CHILDREN THAT SKULLY IS A FRIEND

* Anyway, my main digimon are (still) Hershey and Zephyr, and I love them! I’m still working on hoping to eventually get the full terriermon and lopmon canon digivolution lines with them, wow its hard. But I adore them no matter what form they take at the moment! I ended up loving them so much that i never raised any other digimon ever. i just rename them the same name every time they reincarnate, and pick the same eggs! I’ve gotten close to unlocking every single variation of the bunno brothers evo lines!! But it IS getting really annoying that you have to type the name manually every time, why no option to just stick with the previous name? DW1 had that and it was on way worse hardware! Oh, and its funny that I started off calling them the bunny brothers cos thats what they were in adventure 02, but then after playing the game for ages I’ve settled on headcanoning hershey as female and zephyr as nonbinary. And also I started off with the cliche personalities of sassy rebel terriermon and stoic lopmon like in Tamers, but Hershey ended up being the rebel instead and Zephyr is like a shonen hero cinnamon roll! They’re both equally sassy and eccentric tho XD I’m not quite sure yet what would be their ‘canon’ final mega forms that I wanna keep them in for the final boss and stuff. But hershey’s made me regain my appreciation of Ladydevimon after I stopped liking her as soon as I grew old enough to understand that most of her fans only liked her for being ‘a stripper’ :P Like.. she’s a really damn good design even without the fanservice?? I like her way more than devimon, myotismon and etc, I wish she’d gotten to be a major villain! i mean it sucks that devimon got to be one when she’s literally his evolved form. (And yes I am happy that it continues to be canon that ladydevimon can digivolve from devimon and the same for angewomon and angemon. DIGIMON AINT RESTRAINED BY HUMAN GENDER ROLES YO) So yeah anyway, I kinda headcanon Hershey as a hypothetical less skimpy redesign of LadyDevimon? or like.. if she got her own unique Mega form that kept a similar design, rather than just being retconned into lilithmon and rosemon’s evo lines. I just don’t think the skimpyness fits with Hershey’s personality but the rest of the design just has such a cool piratey thiefy type look?? And she’s like THE BEST monster girl in the franchise, she’s the only one who really gets to be monstery looking, even if she’s still an hourglass figure sex object. i mean i always thought it was meant to be a subversion of that?? She has that giant monster claw hand and is really vicious and powerful in battle! All her animations in the game are her shredding things with it and doing the classic dracula rise-from-the-grave when she’s knocked out, and just... ITS REALLY BADASS!! I didnt know how cool a fight with her could be, cos she just got that stupid ass fanservice joke slap fight in the anime... ANYWAY Ladydevimon is good I appreciate her I like her even though she’s in the general genre of fanservice digimon that I dislike. She’s like the one single one I dont hate! (Tho I still wish we had more than like.. two un-fanservice female digimon in the entire damn series) Buuuut I dont think her design quite fits Hershey even though she’s the digivolution I keep using ingame. Maybe if I can find a different Mega that I prefer, and make up a fanmade digivolution line? or I could do a fanart variation of the digimon...

* ANYWAY I kinda ended up headcanoning Hershey as a former member of the broken apart pirate crew in Mod Cape. Cos like.. what if your digimon had backstories of what their life was like before they met you! like Gatomon in Adventure, they were chosen to be partners to a destined hero but had to wait so long they’d become disillusioned. Cos when you meet em at the start of the game they’re mega level and only get poofed back into eggs cos of machinedramon’s attack. WHAT LIFE DID YOU LEAD WITHOUT ME. I AM HERE TO PROTECT YOU NOW AAAAAAA!! So yeah it would be cool to headcanon Hershey as a former highway bandit type character who has trouble adjusting to living in a city surrounded by happy innocent people and hugs. I dont see her as grumpy tho.. like, she’s kind of a bombastic trickster archetype but she’s still super cynical and ‘I only care about myself, anything else gets you hurt’. I was thinking maybe if I designed a fanmade mega for her she could be like a magician pirate zombie demon??? Like.. yknow piedmon is a deck of cards clown guy with those four daggers? i actually got Piedmon as her digivolution when she was a Ladydevimon and I was thinking MAN it could be so cool if we had like a zany zombie digimon who attacks by stabbing a sword through her own back! Like ‘watch me saw a woman in half’ XD A design where she has a load of weapons stuck in her and uses them to fight with! like how mummymon is a mummy + soldier in a leg brace design, hypothetical zombiemon could be a zombie + actual tragic assassination victim. Plus a magician. Or a clown. And ladydevimon. And a pirate. LOOK I JUST HAVE A LOT OF MUTUALLY CONTRADICTORY HEADCANONS OKAY xD

* I don’t really have as much development ideas for Zephyr yet, aside from that they’re Hershey’s more cheerful and positive sibling. But I see them as also being kinda creepy and battle-hungry and stuff? Like.. both these twins are total virus types, clown type, typical final villain type of acrobatic doom! And both are good guys deep down. But Zephyr is a more cinnamon roll type of good and Hershey is grumpy unwillingly dragged into goodness. And like.. Zephyr is a bit dotty and only accidentally creepy, not really understanding how to socialize properly. And probably they would be like ‘NO BIG SISTER, STEALING IS BAD’ *currently stabbing a guy* I think maybe my headcanon for Zeph might be that they were for some reason left completely alone while waiting for the protagonist? Hershey at least found some companionship with the pirates, even if she became super bitter after the team broke up. I think Zeph maybe started off as a wild forest mon that’d even forgotten how to speak, until by pure chance they bumped into their long lost twin sister and then met the protagonist. So like an innocent angel who’s all new to the city and excited about everything, but also kinda fighty and dangerous because of the same stuff that makes them innocent. I dunno, I might make them an angewomon or ophanimon to match with Hershey? Tho I wanted to make them both good guy virus types, it could be an equally interesting contrast to have a vicious battle-obsessed angel who’s the absolute opposite of softspoken fancyness! And I also kinda associate them with the colour green even though I ended up picking a grey themed digivolution for Hershey instead. But all of Terriermon’s natural digivolutions are all machiney and don’t suit this personality as much... I dunno, maybe I could make up another headcanon/variant type thing? Cos after all lopmon’s line gets two champion level forms and two megas but terriermon only has two recolours for the same ultimate level. Maybe even it out, lol! Or like, I’m thinking like.. what if Terriermon had a mega that suited Henry more? i was reading someone’s review where they said it was weird that pacifistic Henry got a giant robot specializing in attack while Rika got the humanoid pacifist digimon. And yeah, that IS totally weird! And it got me imagining what if Terriermon got a humanoid digivolution that was like a martial artist?? or maybe like a speedy superhero lookin armour thing! Like just a more humanoid rapidmon! or I dunno maybe if puppetmon is in this game then zephyr could be puppetmon. I miss puppetmon. puppetmon never got to be in ANY games except dusk and dawn! I WANNA SEE A 3D PUPPETMON YO!!

* Man I just spent this entire post rambling my headcanons for silent protagonist characters instead of actually talking about the game... aaaa...

[digimonloving]

How do Angemon and Devimon react to hearing their shared admitting a certain... Interest in the both of them? After all, they are currently resting together in the same comfortable, cozy cave away from danger, and she would not mind getting a closer look at both of them...

Angemon and Devimon reacting to their shared fem Tamer admitting an... interest in the two of them

It comes as a bit of a shock to Angemon, who immediately flusters at such words from their Tamer. His face slightly red as he tries to figure out what to say in such a situation. Devimon is a bit shocked as well but is quick to get over it as he moves close to their Tamer and smirks as he asks if that's true.

Devimon slowly crawls close to their Tamer, a devious look in his eye as he makes sure he's reading her right. So she was interested in them both, hm? Well, Devimon had no issues with such things... He'd be up for sharing if Angemon wanted, though he would like to keep her to himself as well. But he'll be nice and share. Angemon tries to protest against the other with mentioning that this cave isn't quite the place for this.

This is a nice and cozy cave, Devimon doubts any Digimon is going to come in as deep as they did to escape danger, pulling his Tamer close to him by one of her arms, her back against his chest as he rests his chin on the junction between her shoulder and neck. He glances to Angemon and simply smirks at him, showing his sharp teeth.

Angemon is still flustered, trying to find more words as he stutters and slightly fumbles as he realizes what Devimon is trying to insinuate with just the glance he was giving the angelic Digimon and a few choice words.

Angemon didn't expect it to escalate so quickly. There was no way he was going to let Devimon take their Tamer for himself if she was truly interested in the both of them, so he swallows the lump in his throat as he moves to gently cup his Tamer's face with his hands, so tender compared to the slight roughness from Devimon.

If their Tamer wants a closer look at the two of them, Angemon will grant her wish. Though he still isn't sure about sharing with Devimon... they both had different views on such things, that he knew... but regardless, perhaps they'd work something out.