Hug!

[image id: Digital pastel-like drawing of Saki hugging Aoi by drawing her closer and leaning her chin on the crown of Aoi's head. Aoi has a stunned expression while her head lays on top of Saki's chest. Saki is beaming.]

rushed it a lil bit with the shirt, but I’m still proud of it nonetheless Happy b-day crescemon !

Well, even such a crazy way of thinking I've found lovable! So much, in fact, that my entire self had been bound and tied down –

[Image description: A digital illustration of Kimishima Saki from Digimon Survive, along with her digimon partner’s evolutions and various flowers. It is rendered to look like pencils with soft watercolor washes layered on top. In the center, Saki stands with her hands clasped behind her, laughing. To her left, Vegiemon grins and plays with a football. Clusters of snowdrops grow beside it. Above Vegiemon, Saki is posed upside down, smiling and forming a heart with her hands. To the left of her is a white lily, and pink and blue hydrangeas on her right. In the top center, Floramon smiles and waves her arm. To her left are white hydrangeas, and behind her head is a clipboard with its pages fluttering. In the top right, Saki looks at her phone and puffs her cheeks, frames by more white lilies. In the bottom right, Blossomon looks uncomfortable as one of her offshoots chatters loudly at her. White roses seem to grow from her vines.]

They should make a Wendigomon card in the TCG that deletes a tamer on the board when it's played by evolution as a reference to Survive

whats the point of not watching dennou coil 

ok so if u need any more reasons to watch dennou coil theres an episode where a virus spreads around town and everybody grows beards full of tiny sentient beings and the beards regard their owners as gods and yasako managed to advance her beard civilization to the point where it was capable of creating nuclear weapons and then. beard wars. beard apocalypse 

the rallying cry of people who have watched dennou coil: please watch dennou coil 

ok so if u need any more reasons to watch dennou coil theres an episode where a virus spreads around town and everybody grows beards full of tiny sentient beings and the beards regard their owners as gods and yasako managed to advance her beard civilization to the point where it was capable of creating nuclear weapons and then. beard wars. beard apocalypse 

Dennou coil has been on Netflix for 2 years apparently lol I didn't really realize until now... what was I into these past two years anyway. I'm starting to remember lol

My genuine and serious recommendation to Digimon fans is to watch Drifting Home and Dennou Coil

Oh good god Kaito is just Marlin from Finding Nemo

Keep thinking how immature Aoi gets in Wrathful, I'm so delighted lol Think about it this way: one of the important lessons Iori Hida 02 has to learn in order to grow up is to be able to contextualize his actions within the possibilities the circumstances offer so he can choose what causes less harm or is more fair beyond strict adherence to clear cut rules. His extremely black and white morality signals how childish he is (and this is fine because he's 9, I find very endearing how righteous he wants to be). Yet, in Wrathful, Aoi basically regresses to that kind of inflexible mentality. Every body must obey strictly (which she reads as well behaved), everyone must know their place and not act out of it, there must be no fighting nor conflict. She holds no nuance nor compassion for anyone that doesn't follow her rules to a tee.

Aoi even struggles with paralysis caused by her moralitiy crisis, too. While Iori's about lying and thust tailored to the fact he's 9, at the core of it is struggling to reconcile how acting in a way that is fair clashes with his view of what is correct behavior, which trips Aoi up, too. She gets a similar blockage where she feels incredibly torn if what she wants to do goes against social order. Thinking about how she also felt Shuuji was being unfair, so she likely wanted to do something more than just keeping her juniors in line... And in the end, can't even commit to preserving harmony that way because of her self-doubt about her own capacities as leader and troubled convictions. It feels very pointed that in part 6, Aoi is promising to actually get involved in mediating the group fights, coming at the tails of what happened with Shuuji.

Anyway, I love how we get that peek to her internal struggles in Wrathful. Like she correctly identifies as part of the issue that she can't step out of what she considers correct (and makes a lot of sense how much she likes flippant Saki lol), yet Wrathful has her doubling down. I love the irony.

I also really enjoy how different her spin on a scrupolous work ethic is to Iori's because their different social positions (Iori being the youngest vs Aoi always being responsible for others), their age and gender. Endlessly fascinating to me.

A look into the kaleioscope: Aoi in the Wrathful route.

In which I set out to talk about the wrathful route but ended up talking about everything I have seen of the game with a focus on Aoi.

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Shibuya Aoi...

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[Image id: Digital drawing of Agumon and Takuma drawn to look as if made in blue charcoal against a white canvas. Takuma is crouched on the right side if the canvas, looking dumbfounded and in awe as he tentatively reaches to touch Agumon's head. Agumon is sitting contently and docile on the left side of the screen, drawn in profile and facing Takuma and tilting his head to the side happily.]