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Get to Know Me Tag :)
I was tagged by @telomeke and shaded by @lurkingshan.
do you make your bed?
Not usually, but I don't have a partner right now. I find that I'm actually really good at cleanliness when I have people in my space regularly. I am better about taking care of things when I'm doing them for the ease of others.
what's your favourite number?
14, but I couldn't tell you why. I think it has something to do with a girl named Ciara who I sat behind in elementary school.
what is your job?
I fix things for a government agency.
if you could go back to school, would you?
Probably. I didn't really know what I wanted to do when I went to college, and was far too much a mess at the time to study what I really should have. If I could do it and maintain my expenses, I'd retrain for my preferred profession.
can you parallel park?
Yes. I am the gay who drives.
a job you had that would surprise people?
I was paid for over two years to be really good at D&D.
do you think aliens are real?
So... I gotta be honest... I hate this question. This feels as loaded as the "Do you believe in God?" question. We are not aware of the existence of life on other planets, let alone sentient life. There is nothing for me to believe in. Do I hope that there are other intelligent beings out there? Yes. I think it would be really cool to engage in communication with a species that also crawled their way out of the muck and made it to space. I think there's much we could learn from each other about life and the universe itself. But belief is such a loaded term for me as a lapsed Catholic. I do not believe in aliens, but I hope that we'll get to meet some in the future.
can you drive a manual car?
Nope! Never needed to learn.
what's your guilty pleasure?
Hmm... Nothing really anymore?
tattoos?
Nah, I've always worked in the public sector in a way that hasn't made it an advisable choice, and I've rarely cared enough about something to mark my body with it.
favorite color?
Purple most of the time, but my wardrobe would say I'm in my green era.
favorite type of music?
I'm a soft rock 90s kid who embraced a lot of 2000s and later alternative. I've been on a huge synthwave kick lately. However, because I grew up in the 90s and remember the era of radio, I have a deep affection for Soul and R&B, classic rock, and pop.
do you like puzzles?
Yes? But not in a way that makes me yearn for them.
any phobias?
Probably falling, but that seems like a normal one for survival purposes.
favorite childhood sport?
Baseball! I was a shortstop.
do you talk to yourself?
Not often. I don't actually have an internal monologue, so I don't need to talk to myself often to get through it.
what movies do you adore?
This is...so difficult. I'm just going to name a ton of films: Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin, Pacific Rim, Ghost Dog, Master and Commander, The Man From Earth, The Sum of Us, Big Eden, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Knives Out, Muppet Treasure Island, Gattaca, C.R.A.Z.Y., Weekend, First Blood, Robocop, Starship Troopers, Drive My Car, Nine Days, Really Love, Set it Off, Make the Yuletide Gay, Shelter, Pig, Kiki's Delivery Service, The Digimon Movie, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Star Wars IV and V, Isa Pa With Feelings, The Way He Looks... and probably many more.
coffee or tea?
Coffee. Tea does so little for me.
first thing you wanted to be growing up?
A train conductor or an astronaut! Trains are so cool, and space is the final frontier! We have to boldly go where no one has gone before!
I'll tag @shortpplfedup, @negrowhat, @chicademartinica, @so-much-yet-to-learn and @happypotato48
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My idea for a dark evolution of Jellymon, based on a GulusGammamon-type design!
I had a lot of fun with this one, I'd love to do Ruli and a dark SymbareAngoramon to complete the set one day if I can stop drawing these two for five seconds
Full body r o u g h reference sketch + more of my ramblings below
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For some reason I had the idea of a villian Kiyoshiro stuck in my head about halfway through watching GG. Idk, maybe Last Kizuna taught me not to trust digimon characters with blue eyes.
Was kinda hoping we'd get to see something like that in King of Knowledge, but nah. He was just slightly more rude than normal. But ultimately I'm glad they stuck to his innocent nature the whole series, possessed or not.
Now, of course I don't think it's actually in his character to become malevolently-fueled enough for Jellymon to dark digivolve, I just never grew out of my edgy phase and I thought it'd be cool. But in reality he's much too pure of heart.
Anyway, the promised sketch:
(Also didn't draw it but she totally has shark teeth)
#GulusJellymon???#digimon#digimon ghost game#ghost game#digimon art#digimon fanart#GG sort#my art#kiyoshiro higashimitarai#jellymon#digifake
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Shipper tag game
Thank you for the tag @marvagon, you glorious human 💖💖💖.
What ship were you completely obsessed with as a teenager, but now you don't care about anymore?
None. I may not be as passionate about them as I once was. But I still hold all my past ships near and dear to my heart. I'll even occasionally nip into their tags on A03 and have a dip into newer fics.
What ship would you consider your first one?
Daiken/Kensuke from Digimon 02. I remember watching it on Saturday morning and wondering if anyone else was seeing what I was seeing. That led me to discover Fanfiction.net. And the rest is history...
Your first fanfic was about which couple?
My very first full length fic was Corinthiel, posted here on Tumblr. My first fic posted on AO3 was Dreamling, and I wrote both last year. I am a very, very, very late comer to fanfic 😅. I'm honestly much more at home drawing fanart then writing. But will occasionally give into temptation, when an idea obbsessively hounds me to the point of insanity.
Do you remember the first couple you saw fan art of?
I genuinely can't. 😅 I remember it was probably on deviantart.
Have you ever gotten into ship discourse?
I try desperately to stay out of ship discourse. To me people's ships are their joy... And I've got no interest in being a theif of joy. If there's something I want to see more of in the fandom, like a rare pair I'm fond of, I just try and create content and hope someone else joins in (@bobbole loves you 💚🤍😅) . If it's not for me, I just keep scrolling on by.
Did you use to have any NOTP or have one currently?
Again, no. I've always been happy to pick and mix my ships. I have my favorites ofcourse. But I've never outright refused to dip my toe into any ship. Maybe if it ventured into an area I personally deemed problematic. But mostly, I'm happy to try anything once.
Who were the last couple in the last fanfic you read?
I'm currently reading Remy Lebeau x Logan fanfic from Xmen. 😅 What sent me in that direction, I do not know. But I've found some amazing new fics in and amongst revisiting some old favourites.
Currently, do you have any OTPs?
I can proudly say until recently I've never had an OTP. Being a multishipper makes that kind of hard. But I don't know, I may be in too deep with Corinthiel. I'm not sure I could picture Danny and the Second Corinthian with anyone else but each other now. (Curse you @ibrithir-was-here. See what you have wraught! 😆). Them and Charmes (Charon x Hermes) from Hades. Because why would you split up the professional associates like that?! (Again very much your fault @mashumaru 😆) , Damn, I guess I've got OTPs now. If there's an established, happy couple in canon, most of the time I'll respect that and leave them be. So I guess that kind of counts too.
Is there any couple that, to this day, that you are extremely mad about not getting into?
Again no. If the juggernaut ship of a fandom doesn't really tickle my fancy, I'll sometimes stare forlornly at it. And sigh like a sad bohemian poet. But that's all content envy and I know it. 😆
Is there any ship you used to dislike but now you think they're kind of interesting?
🤔 I didn't dislike it, but I never really ventured near Corintheus until I started shipping Corinthiel. That made me backtrack and consider Morpheus and the original Corinthian's relationship from an entirely different perspective.
Do you have any ship that, in the past, would have been considered normal but now you would be cancelled over?
No I don't think so. As far as know they're all still alive, well and for the most part, living in peace and harmony in their respective fandoms.
What is your favorite crack ship?
Bookend, Destiny and his Book. The old book and chain. Living their best, grumpy old married couple, life together. @jazzy-a 🤜🤛🤣.
What is the couple you read the most fanfics about?
Most recently was Dreamling. I'm a bit of fandom butterfly at the moment, fluttering between multiple fandoms, waiting for the next all consuming passion to strike me down. I read, and reread ANYTHING Corinthiel 😅. But of all time?..... I couldn't say. I revisit so many of my ships so often.
What do most of your ships have in common?
Two bastards in love will always be my favourite. I'd love to boldly claim it's all about two morally dubious rogues, being despicable in the kinkiest ways together. 😅 But I know it's more about two people, often misunderstood and maligned... Finding a deep sense of belonging with each other. But I'm an eclectic sort and I've got a lot ships that don't fit that category I still love dearly.
What do you absolutely hate in a ship?
Absolutely nothing outright. I'll sometimes go off a ship a little once it reaches that point where fanon locks in too tight around it. But I think that's a very me problem, as I crave variation/new experiences/ideas. I'll still love the ship, I'll just know that's just my time to move onto something new and come back and visit every so often.
I'm tagging @martybaker @thelostkelpie @missingrache @thirrith @zigzag-wanderer @lucienne-thee-librarian and @tickldpnk8 and anyone mentioned above. If you want to have a go. 😁
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I'll be annoying once again, about people slandering my boy Daisuke and my favorite episode in 02.
i'll be quoting my long thread from bsky/tweeter.
The premise (of this episode) is to show how Daisuke NEEDS something to focus, or else he will be running in circles. And when he's running in circles, he's setting up to call for Hikari's attention.
As I said previously, Daisuke respects Hikari too much, so he NEVER had made a move before. He does NOT claim her to be his girlfriend or something. All he does is to want her attention and to impress her. And she does NOT feel uncomfortable around him despite everything.
"But there's times he asks her something and she just dodges by agreeing with Takeru!"
This is not about being uncomfortable with him, but mostly her simply not liking to be put on the spotlight. Hikari had serious issues to voice her own needs/thoughts when it comes to herself.
The times Daisuke asked her something, or made an attempt to be hella cool have nothing to do with her feeling awkward around *him* -- it's about *herself*. Because when you reach to Kizuna drama CD... Hikari is very vocal about what *she* wants to do. And in the same story we also get her witnessing Daisuke being so cool and himself, to the point she praises his determination and efforts to achieve his dreams.
Anyway, back to ep 22.
This episode is to be a comic relief after all the heavy atmosphere from the previous chapters. To balance with the next episode, which is about Ken and Ken ONLY and it's more a feel-good ep. Daisuke is a funny character so of course a light-hearted ep like this works.
The premise here is basically Daisuke trying so hard to be cool as well that he ends up putting himself and V-mon in legit danger. But one of my friends noticed something: he and V-mon are NOT in sync at the beginning of the ep.
If you don't know... Digimon evolution is triggered when the digimon and partner are usually in sync -- be them in danger, or be them willing to protect someone (like Sora's case in OG Adventure, or Miyako's in ep 25) So basically Daisuke couldn't evolve V-mon AT ALL.
Another factor is the fact Daisuke had no malicious intentions -- he never wanted to "beat" Takeru, his entire focus was to impress Hikari. As far I'm concerned, wanting to impress someone does not sound mean-spirited enough to make Daisuke fill himself with negativity and thus dark evolve V-mon.
Also he legitimately apologized to V-mon, asked for the others' help and was definitely not showing such an arrogant aura. Remember that Taichi was acting weirdly in Adv'99 case? He made everyone give their food to Agumon so he could evolve. He wasn't even taking in consideration Agumon's wellbeing and feelings either.
Ken Kaiser was also arrogant, forcing Agumon into experiments, and he only managed to get MetalGreymon *because* he cheated with a gimmick. Anyway, back to the ep 22.
There's also the factor that, since Daisuke got in legit real trouble by consequences of his own shenanigans, it's quite obvious he would've evolved V-mon normally there in the end. Again, he lacks malice.
Even when facing Tortomon, he had no bad intentions. And yes, he literally meant it when he asked Tortomon about washing hands before attacking. Yes, that's Daisuke. Yes, he meant it literally. This kid really has no fear of looking pathetic sometimes.
Basically, Daisuke had no second intentions the whole episode (just acting weirdly) -- the closest to something "bad" was him intentionally making V-mon mad and then tearing the bridge. BUT, SURPRISE! The next scene is him explaining to V-mon AND APOLOGIZING!! So yeah, he's not a bad person.
To sum up, Daisuke did not dark evolve V-mon in ep 22:
Because he had no malicious intentions with it
He never was rude for real, or conceited
He put himself in real danger in the process
He wasn't in-sync with V-mon for a half episode
Also, Dark Evolution and how it's not about forcing your digimon in a vacuum. There's more factors involving it -- like mixing it with STRONG NEGATIVE EMOTIONS.
Dark Evolution is:
A punishment for raising your digimon badly (it does not mean something evil always!)
It is mixed with strong NEGATIVE feelings (pride, wrath, cowardice, etc)
It does NOT mean:
Forcing your digimon to evolve only.
Mandatory for character development
#ni's digitheories#digifood for thought#motomiya daisuke#vmon#veemon#digimon adventure 02#how many times will i have to come and explain this friggin episode to people???#it's 2024 and i can't believe we still have this friggin discourse when the horse has already beaten countless times.
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I'm still on that chisme but it seems like the dude Sir is a gemini... I...
I think you need to put Woozi higher because of the anime hobby. The 6 hour live. He singing Digimon Adventure intro
Also, Shua being the least loser when he doesn't understand the games. My beautiful whimsical orange cat energy baby. The lights are on and nobodys home
A GEMINI???? yeah no queen needs to run .... I HEARD HE HAD A TWIN??? THAT HE WAS COPYING??? that story was so fucking wild bro i would have killed him if i were her idk that's just me.
FUCK i forgot about the 6hour live........ alright okay new loser line up:
Wonwoo — there's literally a whole twitter thread with 2k+ reposts to support my claim, all his weverse post during their pledis mandated break, copying pokemon sounds
Seungcheol — head bitchless man in charge. my bitchless accusations against him held up in court.
Hoshi — ipad kid, two finger zoom in, using millenial ass slang, just discovered boomerang feature on ig in 2023
Jeonghan — swallowed his toothpaste. "hehe carats hehe i just ran into my bed hehehe im bleeding hehe". pimple patch.
Woozi — "carats the house in italy was so nice" /posts a vid of him working out/, straight up eating unseasoned meat in the soop "for the gainzzz", no social life, one sip of wine changed him, 6 hour live, anime but also idk anime not loser enough for me...., willing to defend coke zero to death
Dino — purely for his lack of social media awareness. how is it that his older brothers gotta teach him how to use instagram. the way he was complaining about having too many to use during nana tour. loser ass boomer omfg
Mingyu — that one video from the Louis Vuitton show, behind the scenes of him taking bf pics, him and aji, dagger game noises,
Vernon — Nana tour mafia, the gc literally ignores him, phonecase saga, following Mingyu around in the kitchen, will fight in the trenches for his favorite movie ok letterboxd top user
Dokyeom — kazoo up his nose, dodgeball, dropping that thot ass pajama photo shoot in his hotel, screaming in hotel gym, salute
Jun — rock paper scissor pose, lets short king Seungkwan bully him baby get up omfg, "normal" one ... but mafia triggers like okay baby if u say so, never beating babygirl allegations
Seungkwan — stressed over missing his emotional support soccer ball... twice (italy and la), knows jellyfish is harmless /crying throwing up screaming drowning/, head theater kid of svt
Minghao — him crying throwing up during lockdown on all social media platforms, scorpio, only child allegations, hoshi and mingyu's babygirl
Joshua — only child rage like baby not everything is a personal attack calm down pls, every gose his eyes are just "???", from LA
ALSO SHUA is weird but he's not a loser.
He's just from LA LKASDFJLDFAJ
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I saw a discussion on the second-person pronoun usage in Japanese for another fandom on my dashboard, and because I happened to also be working on the appellation table for Digimon Survive, it got me thinking about Shuuji and the multilayered way he speaks.
One thing non-Japanese speakers often don't realize is that Japanese people tend to avoid referring to someone with a second-person pronoun (i.e. "you"-ing someone). In a society where a hierarchal system is constantly enforced, you're expected to refer to other people with the proper title or honorifics when needed, so referring someone with "you" is like bypassing the established hierarchy and being too direct with the person you're addressing--therefore it can come across rude. "You" is acceptable when you have an intimate relationship with the addressee, like for example with a friend or family member who's of the same age as you or younger. However, even then, I feel like "warm" families tend to avoid referring to each other with "you" and instead just addresses each other with name (with the exception of あなた "anata" being used by wife to husband, which is similar in nuance to "honey" in English). Case in point: Takuma's mom addressing Takuma just by his name all the time and never once uses "you" with him.
Then we have Shuuji's family, who's a far cry from Takuma's family. First there's Shuuji's dad, who carries himself with an air of sophistication by using the stiff and formal pronoun 私 "watashi" even towards his own children (friendlier dads would refer to themselves as "Dad"). Despite that, he addresses Shuuji with お前 "omae" when not calling him with name--which is, anyway, a very rude way to say you, even for parents referring to their own child. Combined with how Shuuji strictly uses keigo with his dad (something that usually doesn't happen in normal families--but I've talked about it before on my sideblog), the way they communicate with each other does feel especially degrading for Shuuji.
It doesn't just stop with his dad--Shuuji's brother also addresses Shuuji by the rude お前 "omae". Sure, I'm aware that we see this with the Shinonome siblings with Kaito sometimes calling Miu お前 "omae", but the nuance is a bit different--Kaito defaults to speaking in a very rude language, so him referring to anyone with お前 "omae" is kind of... to be expected, for the lack of a better word. The older Kayama brother, on the other hand, speaks in an otherwise soft-spoken tone. The pronoun he uses to refer to himself is 僕 "boku", which feels gentle and relatively polite (it's the "male" equivalent of the feminine 私 "watashi" actually), so him using お前 "omae" to his brother creates a somewhat unexpected contrast not found in Kaito's speech.
Shuuji himself is actually a relatively polite and soft-spoken person. He may be domineering (and his language in the early game actually reflects this--he speaks in a way that subtly positions himself as the authority figure among the kids), but even during the heat of his argument with Kaito, he never once resorts to using お前 "omae" and at worst just addresses him with 君 "kimi". It's going to be long to explain the nuance of the pronoun, so please refer to this article to understand more about it. TL;DR it's nowhere near as rude as お前 "omae", however it can sound condescending depending on the context.
So, we've established that Shuuji is soft-spoken that he wouldn't stoop so low as to using a rude language in a fight. However, there's specifically one person that he refuses to extend his politeness to no matter what, and that's none other than Lopmon--at least in the beginning of the game. In fact, he doesn't even want to call him by his name and only addresses him with the insulting お前 "omae" every time--the same way his dad and his brother address him. And just like the case with his dad and his brother, Shuuji's use of rude language with Lopmon stands out even more precisely because it's juxtaposed with his usual "soft-spokenness" that isn't always found in other characters.
#digimon survive#kayama shuuji#lopmon#idk where i was going with this but i just think it's interesting#how the subtle(?) use of language can tell us so much about his relationships#and it perfectly serves to show how he treats lopmon exactly the same way as his family treats him#something something about chain of harm and his deeply ingrained self-loathing#there's so much to talk about shuuji's use of language#the way he speaks evolves not just with lopmon but with everyone else as well#and i just love how layered and subtle it is#i can go on forever#anyway i still haven't decided what i want to do for survive's 1st anniversary#digimon survive spoilers
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It's here! It feels like this has been a very short wait compared to other virtual pets. This thing just got announced last month and preorders were only a few days ago. Thankfully, this is not premium bandai. So they don't charge war crime prices, and you will be able to get these long after the preordr period.
So far it's very cute, i'm starting off with a little hairball like baby bigfoot. I appreciate the mini game to capture the little fella rather than just outright hatching from an egg. Much like all the Gigapets, the animations are top notch.
I'm not sure how to unlock the other cryptids yet, there's a manual in the box but I like to figure virtual pets out as I go.
Since Gigapets, or at least the modern versions from Top Secret Toys, tend to be very hearty and long lived, I don't know how long i'll run this one. There's three pets on one device so it's going to have a lot to offer compared to the frog, which I ran for 100 days before deciding to put it away. It never died, I just decided I had run it long enough ( and I also never had to change the batteries btw ), because it has a spooky theme and a nice orange shell with leaves evoking autumn, I would like to run it along side my custom halloween themed Digimon devices... but if it's really as long lived as the frog, I'm not as sure about that. Maybe I'll run this every year at the start of autumn. September thru November.
Anyway... as always, I can't speak highly enough of the new Gigapets, virtual pet fans, do yourself a favor and check out this lovely non-bandai device. You may just like it.
This is not a full review because it would be stupid to review a virtual pet, a very slow burn experience, moments after opening it. I could start spotting the warts as time goes on, but for now, my only complaint is that after pulling the tab, it doesn't automatically start, but you need a long skinny object to press the reset button, and it feels like you need something longer and skinnier than normal, like the tip of your pencil won't do it this time.... also I wish we could choose which cryptid we started out with. But those are the only annoyances so far.
#gigapets#cryptid#cryptids#vpet#vpets#virtual pets#virtual pet#tamagotchi#digimon#toys#toy#90s#halloween#top secret toys#bigfoot#mothman#nessie#loch ness monster#big foot#yeti#sasquach
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Digimon Frontier - Episode 16
Meh, this episode kind of just annoyed me. The last episode was funny, but they're dragging out the "ugly woman" gag a little too long. I didn't like how they treated Izumi and I found her new beast spirit evolution kind of underwhelming. I wish they'd focus less on making her sexy and more on making her powerful. It feels like they're trying to recapture the popularity of Angewomon or something.
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The name "Akiba market" feels kinda lazy for a fantasy world. Then again they've been running into nothing but Japanese restaurants lately so maybe this part of the digital world is like Japan town?
This episode had a pretty shitty message for girls. Junpei was worried that Izumi would "become ugly" like Ranamon and then it was seen as a big triumph when she ended up getting a hot evolution. The whole thing gave me the ick. They would never bug a male character about how pretty/cool looking their digivolution was. It didn't help that Shutumon's digivolution sequence gave such an emphasis on her butt. I guess if I want good female rep I shouldn't be watching a shounen anime lol
So Shutumon's name is based on Sumerian mythology, so I guess that's another culture represented in Digimon. I want to make a chart.
Shutumon's okay I guess. I like her mature looking eyes and head wings but I'm not really into the ninja-esque look (with the face mask). Also, not to be a hypocrite, but why is her butt so flat? Normally I wouldn't care, but as I mentioned previously they emphasized her butt in the digivolution sequence but then she basically has a pancake butt.
Just zero cheeks at all. Looks uncomfortable.
I was excited to see Gomamon, but it was a little weird how they made them end every sentence with "goma." Anything for that cuteness factor I guess.
Everyone blushing when Izumi hugged them at the end was cute but also like, calm down guys. (Maybe hugging is a bigger deal in Japan)
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Do you have any info you could share about different kinds of digivices and their pros and cons? I'm new to the scene and looking into getting one, but I don't know the difference between dockers and linkers and all that. And what kinds do you recommend?
Welcome to the club! I've actually been meaning to make a reference post for different types of digivices so this is a great opportunity to cover some basics. I'm only going to go through the most common models here but it should still help answer any surface level questions!
1. Dockers: small, rectangular digivices named for the data ports or "docks" along the top most side. These are your bread and butter digivices; compact with a simple UI and easy to build and maintain. A lot of tamers, myself included, still go to these as our daily drivers. Shells are normally made of plastic or metal and come in a wide variety of colors and patterns.
2. Pendulums: The next step up from a docker; they share many qualities but instead of being rectangular they are shaped like a slightly oblong octagon. While many would argue that they're a variant of dockers, I personally think that their larger starting memory and improved UI make them their own beasts.
3. Linkers: The most modern mainstream digivice. These are even more compact than their predecessors and are meant to be worn on the wrist. A favorite of especially active tamers, these digivices even have apps that allow you to record your own vital information alongside your digimon. Isn't that neat!
Obviously, it's been nearly 30 years since first contact and people all over have been making homemade digivices since the get go. There are dozens of niche models that never caught on with a variety of functions that were found to be either dangerous or redundant as time went on. This post isn't trying to be a definitive list, more an introduction to the tried and true options. I hope this helps and good luck on finding your first partner!
#asks#lady answers#digiirl#digimon#digimon rp#unreality#reference post#decided that's the tag for these#world building
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Gonna preface this by saying it's for the @digimon02countdown but it doesn't necessarily need to be reblogged or anything 'cause it's not super in-depth or insightful or anything like that and, technically, this isn’t my favorite scene or line or even theme in the show (I'm not sure what that would even be); it’s a throw-away line in the dub that happens at the very end of the episode Storm of Friendship where Davis gets his second Digi-Egg:
It’s a short dialogue exchange that goes like this:
Davis: ”Hey, did you see that? I got a noogie! That means I'm one of the guys now!"
DemiVeemon: ”I have a question: if you're one of the guys now, does that mean you used to be one of the girls and how come you never told me about it? I wish you humans would just make up your minds!”
Davis: “Oh yeah, then how’s this for friendship?” *shakes DemiVeemon*
Basically, if you couldn't guess, this was the beginning of my trans!Davis headcanons and it’s really very personal to me - my fixation on it having stemmed from my own desire to have been born male as I was a tiny AFAB child of maybe ten at the time the episode aired, at a point in my life when it had recently been made very clear to me by the authority figures in my life that behaving like a boy was completely unacceptable to them.
I know the line is just meant to be silly but, honestly, I latched onto it like a life-line and for years and years while I was living as a girl, every time I thought about Digimon Adventure 02 I’d think back to that line and the possibility that my favorite character was AFAB at some point and it was always very comforting to me.
It’s just a projection of my own feelings, really, because it’s obviously not canon-canon, but I received such a strong negative reaction in my own life to the idea of being a boy that I definitely took DemiVeemon’s very innocent question far too seriously as a child and have been on the trans!boy Davis train ever since.
In the episode Davis’ shakes DemiVeemon a bunch in response to what DemiVeemon says while everyone laughs it off and you’re supposed to be like “oh haha silly little Digimon” but all I thought watching it for the first time as a little kid was a jumbled mess of:
Davis didn’t deny that he was born a girl and what if he was like me and had had secret thoughts about being a boy for years before becoming one?
DemiVeemon just seemed more hurt that Davis didn’t trust him enough to tell him about it than upset at the idea itself because they were friends and friends accepted each other and,
None of the other kids in the room - even the older kids - were angry or upset by the idea. It was like they thought that becoming a boy was a thing that could happen and was normal and-
-it just kind of spiraled out of control from that moment on, really.
I wish I had some bigger deeper analysis of the show to back up my love of trans!Davis headcanons but I don't. That's all there is to it, really, but it’s part of what made Digimon Adventure 02 really important to me initially when I was growing up and I think about it constantly as it lives rent free in my head.
It's also the basis for this blog and why I chose Davis as my first name when I came out as trans (also it just sounds nice with my last name), so, yeah, thanks wacky Digimon 02 dub on behalf of tiny impressionable me and my fellow trans!Davis enjoyers everywhere~
Oh, and speaking of enjoying things:
I hope everyone has a really great time watching the new Digimon 02 film~
#Davis Motomiya#Digimon Adventure 02#the origin of trans!boy Davis or something#I should really come up with a clever trans!davis tag#my headcanons#Motomiya Daisuke
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Virtual Character Tourney - Bracket III - Round 4
Propaganda below (May contain spoilers!)
Chiaki Nanami propaganda:
She's an AI made for this weird VR therapy world, based on a real person I guess, but this is specifically about game-Chiaki and not anime-Chaki so she is 100% virtual. She's also the Ultimate Gamer, #dies but like since she's a program she's still in there somewhere and is able to influence the protagonist still. i love her
She's a virtual peer to peer therapy observer, she's a Big Reveal, she's got narcolepsy (in as much as a virtual guy can have narcolepsy), she's a Gamer who forgets to breathe when she's in the zone, she has terrible handwriting, she illustrates her therapy progress report in crayon, she's blunt to a fault, she'll defend people she cares about even when she doesn't understand them, she dies for your sins, and she's even autistic. I'd do anything for her.
She holds the title of "Ultimate Gamer" and is also soooo autistic coded. Normally I'm not a big fan of that in characters that are secretly AI because of the unfortunate implications, but the plot goes out of its way to say that just because she's an AI doesn't make her any less real, and she's never denied of her personhood, which balances it out in my opinion. Also, she has THE most heartbreaking moment in her home game, which says a lot for a piece of media about teenagers who are forced to kill each other.
Gabumon propaganda:
Secondary mascot Digital Monster
Blame @theoreticallymoss for the image. :p
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1, 3, 4 and 5 for both Jounouchi and Yugi please!
!! YES CHEF RIGHT AWAY !
My darling Jounouchi Gnocci and Yugi Boogie..
1. Okay yall are going to kill me. I never watched pokemon and I played like 2% of platinum growing up. I also never watched Digimon. SO! I'm going to do what I do best and assign them a BIRD ! ! !
I was kind of torn on Yugi, I really want him to be a belted kingfisher because they're one of my childhood favorites (and to me? Fit his energy?) They don't really stand out with any extraordinary behaviors though, so I'm also placing him with a parrotlet.
Parrotlets are the smallest parrot species and they're mischievous little birds that are SO sweet and extremely smart, they fit him very well. I hope to own one some day ^_^
-> Jou was SUCH an easy choice for me, what immediately came to mind was some kind of corvidae family member. I think he could be a jackdaw, but Scrub Jay's are soo him to me <3 They're pretty smart, playful, have big barks and are very under-appreciated birds! Just like our Jou.
3. Favorite Canon Looks?
-> This question haunts me because I love pretty much all of Yugi's outfits, including the stupid capsule monster filler arc armor suits 😭 Yugi was one of my biggest fashion idols growing up as a queer emo kid. I'd have to say his classic DK/S0 outfit is truly my favorite if I had to pick one. The symbolism of his thick leather vest that connects to his choker underneath his normal school uniform has always been eye catching for me. I also much preferred the rope on the puzzle compared to his silver chains. Very nostalgic look for me. (CLOSE TIE WITH HIS ANZU DATE OUTFIT <3)
-> Joey baby.. okay so I'm kind of lame, I LOVE. His battle city fit, I think it's so him. The sneakers, the baggy T-shirt, I also think the colors of this palette suit him well. I also like his wtd arc outfit, which is kind of similar vibes.
4. What movie(s) do you think they would not be able to stand?
This is so difficult.. I'm going to say Jounouchi isn't much of a fan when it comes to musicals or psychological thrillers. He seems like the warrior of the week film guy. He might groan about them in front of Honda but he will watch any chick flick with Shizuka. Hes surprisingly thoughtful about them too!
Yugi .... oh man, I don't know. He seems like he'd be a really big film nerd but at the same time he's not? He enjoys movies that have all sorts of twists and turns and also ones that are bold and not very subtle (FANTASY FAN). I think he'd have problems with very Film Bro movies? He doesn't understand the appeal of them and almost always finds plot holes within them that can never be explained.
5. What is a gentle memory they might have?
-> I personally think Yugi has SO many sweet memories of himself and his grandpa when he was growing up. He is such a grandpa's boy.. he remembers so many times that Grandpa was tucking him into bed at night and telling him stories of magic and fantastical creatures and adventures in his younger days.
-> And we know Jou has SO many memories of him and his sister as a kid. I doubt all of them were entirely gentle and more bittersweet leaning. Coming from a big brother like myself, I could see Jounouchi distracting her from their parents fighting by coloring with her or playing outside. But after they get reunited as teenagers, I bet they have all sorts of fun new memories together like finding the BEST spot to get pizza or biking to the beach every now and then together 🥹💓
YOUR HONOR. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH?
Character Questions!!
#oh god. long post .. sorry everyone i have THOUGHTS THAT NEED TO BE SAID !!#i never get asked ygo questions so i have to take advantage#tai talks#mywaywardcupcake#mutuals!#THIS WAS SUCH A FEAST A MIGHTY MEAL !!!! GOD I LOVE THEM. THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTIONS. SCREAMING#(throwing myself onto the ground) JOUNOUCHI...
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Welcome back to [Not Quite] Midnight Meditations, although tonight, we are surprisingly more or less on time (as long as the clock still says 12 I'm counting it as on time), where I share segments from the darker corners of my flash drive. As stated before, these are all ideas that held my interest for a bit but were left unfinished for one reason or another. It is very unlikely that they will ever be fully fleshed out, but I figured it would be fun to share them.
Continuing in order from the last post, tonight's segment is Digimon again. This one is based firmly in Gen 2 and is yet another Davis-centric fic, but the concept this time is that he turns evil.
I do remember enjoying the concept of evil Davis when I wrote this (and I will admit the idea still holds some appeal even now), but I also remember being rather put off by the execution of many of the fics I read that pursued this plot. A lot of them had everyone suddenly turn on him because of one small mistake, or he decided he was tired of being "second best" to TK. That always felt sort of lackluster and unrealistic to me, so I tried my own spin on it.
This idea didn't get as much attention as the last one, so it's considerably shorter, but I feel like it sets the mood for what could have been the rest of the story rather well. Anyway, I won't keep you any longer, so here it is.
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"I-…I think something's wrong with me."
"…Wrong how?"
"I've been hearing voices."
Ken rushed through the forest, the others hot on his heels, adrenaline pushing them past their normal limits. Inwardly, he was berating himself. He and Davis had both considered this possibility, no matter how reluctantly on his part, but Ken thought they might have had more time- that it might not happen because it was so unlikely…
Ken stiffened slightly while Davis grinned weakly. "Yeah, that's what I've been thinking too."
"…How long?"
"About a month now. It wasn't so bad at first- I thought it might have just been the late hours mixed with my imagination…but now…" Davis gave a deep, exhausted sigh. "I'm worried, Ken."
So he had ignored the warnings. He brushed off Davis's increasing weariness, his growing paranoia and jumpiness at the slightest things, and his increasingly frequent concerns that something serious was at work.
"We can't be sure that it's something to worry about yet," he countered a bit fearfully. "Maybe you just watched too many horror-"
"Ken. That's not it and you know it."
Davis's smile was so full of sadness and understanding that it made Ken tear up even while filling him with fury.
He had ignored it when Davis had started growing easily irritated and distant as well, although that wasn't the case with the others, who had finally caught on that something was happening. Not that they could have done anything by that point- the confrontation between TK and Davis was still a painful subject for all of them.
There was no ignoring it anymore.
"You're wrong! The dark spores were destroyed! There's no way for them to be affecting you!"
"Ken-"
"Don't! I don't want to hear it!"
Tai was the one who had found the letter.
It was as if Davis had known all along that Ken would never find the strength to admit that he was slowly losing his friend. Perhaps, in a moment of clarity, Davis had realized that it was something that they wouldn't be able to fix in time and wished to explain. Whatever the reason, he had somehow managed to sneak the letter into Tai's home and hid it away in Kari's scrapbook.
Davis went missing the very next day.
A long, tense silence fell. It was the sort of silence they hadn't felt between them since the early days of their friendship. After what felt like forever, Davis sighed and stood up.
"I need to head home. I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Sure."
He nodded and went toward the door, pausing once it opened. "…Just promise me you'll think about it."
Davis was gone before he could answer. Then again, he doubted he would have been able to.
Now, they had finally gotten a reading on their leader's digivice…but he was afraid of what they would find.
Every day, the digital world seemed to grow just a little bit darker. Any digimon that weren't at Ultimate level or higher would stay hidden, and there were whispers…
"Ken?"
The tentative voice brought him out of his thoughts. The others were looking at him in concern, but he couldn't bring himself to even pretend to be all right.
"It'll be okay, Ken," Kari tried to assure him, although the way her brows were furrowed betrayed her worry. "We'll get him back."
"Yeah," TK agreed. "Davis is tough. I'm sure he's fighting whatever's possessing him with everything he's got."
"You don't understand," he whispered, not caring at how his voice cracked. "He'd been fighting it for almost a year before he disappeared. The thing about darkness is its subtlety. It waits for the best times to strike, and it always goes for your weak spots. It's amazing that he's lasted this long, but even Davis isn't invincible. One slip is all the darkness needs, and then you're overwhelmed…"
"I hate to say this, but Ken's right," Matt cut in, expression solemn. "We've all encountered darkness in some way, and we all gave into it eventually. It's a testament to Davis that he held it off as long as he did, but we have to face the fact that when we see him, he won't be himself."
"You saw the changes," Tai added grimly. "The Davis we know would never act that way. All we can do is fight and hope we can reach him like he reached Ken."
Hesitantly, they nodded.
Still, they weren't prepared for how much their friend had changed.
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#[Not Quite] Midnight Meditations#[NQ]MM#Digimon#Digimon Adventure 02#Davis Motomiya#Motomiya Daisuke#Davis is a genuinely good guy going through a bad time#He has Friendship for a REASON and I will die on this hill#No sudden betrayals going on here no siree#No jealous arguments over Kari either#They're all friends your honor#Anyway this was fun to look at again. Hope you liked it too#Again. It's unlikely I'll ever continue this but if anyone else wants to then be my guest#Anything I post with the [NQ]MM tag is free real estate unless stated otherwise#Now I'm off to write a bit for the stories I do have posted#Bye for now!
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At the end of Adventure 02, Oikawa, despite being an adult, was able to meet his Digimon partner, Pipimon. So why during the events of Kizuna, they simply believe in Menoa's theory, even though they've already seen that it doesn't make sense from what happened to Oikawa and Pipimon? Even now in The Begining, they still belive in her theory. Did the 02 kids (and all other choosen children) forget what they saw in the end of Adventure 02?
I don't remember anything at all about this being mentioned in regards to The Beginning, so I can't answer anything regarding that. We don't have evidence Rui's issue has anything to do with the problem, in any case.
Well, it's true that my analysis treats Oikawa like a contradiction because I start with the premise you shouldn't be taking Menoa's theory at face value anyway, but one thing I should point out is that even in real life, people who did take Menoa's theory at face value when watching the movie did not consider Oikawa to be a contradiction. (And believe me, I actually read a page dedicated to dunking on the movie and finding contradictions as much as possible, and it was a terrible experience and I do not recommend it at all, but my point is that even someone who was out to rip apart the movie as much as possible was willing to concede this one.) Even Menoa's theory does not have anything to do with physical or legal age. I cannot stress this enough: even if you believe in Menoa's theory as much as possible, physical age has never, ever been a factor.
By her testimony, she became an adult at 14 years old, which is not an adult by any normal standard; she believes she became an "adult" because she went to university to become Mature and Accomplished. Meanwhile, Oikawa is often described in analysis as "a Chosen Child who never grew up" because he clung to an image from his past and refused to move on. He never wanted to be an adult in the first place, he even thought becoming an adult made him "tainted" and unable to go to the Digital World. So even if Menoa's view of life were correct, someone who's stubbornly clinging onto this kind of thing and refusing to accept the idea of entering general adult society would not truly have become an adult. Not even by her standards.
Even that aside, though, Kizuna only takes place over a few days. I think if you've just been informed that your partner is about to disappear and you only have a few days to process it, I don't think you're going to have the mental space to go back through and think about every single thing in your life that may or may not contradict it, much less an event that took place a whole eight years prior. I imagine the 02 kids are probably more likely to have Oikawa's death burned into their memories, but while I'm sure the older Adventure kids certainly did care, their level of attachment and involvement in the cases in 02's finale was still in the realm of "helping their juniors" and getting third-party information, and I'm sure they've seen and been involved with many other things in those last eight years. They were certainly there to see Oikawa meet Pipimon, and it was certainly an important event that probably left an impression, but they were kind of all the way in the back there, and would they easily be able to remember it instantly when they're dealing with a bunch of Chosen Children being kidnapped and their own partners potentially disappearing at any moment? I'm sure after the events of Kizuna, they'll probably have a lot of time to think back on what caused this and what they can do about it, and I don't really expect them to come up with the right answer in only a few days, or even a few weeks or months. It's a tough question.
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1, 6, 21, and 23 please :) <2
@snowychicken
Hai Snowy!! Thanks for asking questions :D
Writing concisely is one of the things I'm most bad at in the world so advanced apologies for however these prolly long aahh answers turn out to be :) (Edit: I'm half way through question 1 and this post is probably already as long as it needed to be. It's also 4 am and I'm barely sentient. Forgive me for my sins.)
1. What song makes you feel better?
uuhhhh fake gay lame bald answer but I've never had one single go-to song for feeling better. No matter how much I like a song it can make me feel better or infinitely worse because of the random abstract feelings and places and moments in time they're tied to in my slime brain. Usually I'm just queuing up songs that fuel the mood I'm in, whatever it may be :3
However I semi-often find songs that I like in a certain way and then listen to them and only them for days on loop as some kinda' nervous system regulation so I think those songs are most fitting for this. There's been a lot though.
Recently that song has been Free The Frail by JPEGMAFIA. Really been enjoying singing along with the chorus and learning to have better vocal control and learn a less nasal-y, more smooth falsetto. Helena Deland's heart-shatteringly beautiful voice throughout the song is incredible too. Even just her humming, oml.
I want to give some other examples especially because I love talking about music more than anything but I have this bizarre fear that if I give examples of the stuff I listen to it'll misrepresent my music taste so I always feel like I gotta list something from every band and genre I've ever liked so maybe I just leave this answer here for now until I learn to be normal about it :')
6. Say three nice things about yourself (three physical and three non-physical).
oh no
uummmm, uhhhh, I'm tryin to think of stuff that isn't accessories like my nose ring because those are my favourite things about my physical appearance but I don't think those count ~
I went on too long about the music so I'm'a keep this short. (That's how that would have to be written, yeah? "I am gonna", idk seems right)
3 Physical things - I like my big stupid nose on occasion, it makes me feel powerful like um a big bird or easter island head. I like that my facial hair grows in red even though my hair doesn't anymore and it's redder in the sun and especially during summer. I like having cartoonishly thicc and strong looking legs even though they're really not that strong, I tell people it's my Ukrainian genes but in reality it's from the neurodivergent toe-walking I've been doing my whole life lol
I skip the non-physical ones cuz uhhhhh that's a lotta effort right now and uuhhh oh look at the time!
21. If you could tell your past self one thing, what would it be?
I thought this was supposed to be soft asks! Snowy skipped right on past questions like "what candle do you like" and "fairy lights or LED lights" and casually threw this one in there. Thank you for keeping me on my toes, o' mutual of mine.
If I could tell my past self one thing I'd probably have a crisis about it and spend months trying to determine the very best thing I could tell them to help them the most and then tell them something silly in the end anyway. If it were in the moment and I had to pick immediately though, I'd probably tell them to stay out of relationships until 18 and spend their time finding themself instead.
I'm doing a lot of catching up now making up for time unwisely spent on other people throughout the majority of my teens and I think I'd be better off now if I had done something wise like watch every Digimon series instead.
23. Favourite piece of clothing?
Last question, thank you for making it this far if you have <3
If accessories count, my stupid, circular, coloured pairs of sunglasses I wear under my already stupid, circular prescription glasses.
If accessories don't count, maybe my comfy black Junji Ito shorts I wear at home that have really rad, gruesome panels on the front. Or maybe the black jacket from my father's old job I've been wearing lately because it's thin and perfect for the weather and has a big collar so I can look professional and a little bit like a matrix character on a dress-down day.
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Thanks for letting me ]practice the skill of pretending to know how to write like a person and thank you more importantly for reading it all, you're crazy for that. I don't even know what I wrote, if I tried to edit this or check anything over now I'd separate into all my component elements so instead I just go to bed in my hammock (bed). Goodnight Snowy friend and whoever else may encounter this!
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