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I love Digimon, I say as I sit here writing fic that contains absolutely no Digimon because I struggle with conceptualizing them and their interactions in stories. The guilt is real.

#Digimon #fanfiction

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We did it, digifools! お疲れ様でした!

#April Fools #boop #boop o meter

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My laptop charger came in but I don’t get to enjoy it because I’ve had to go to work.

I was also going to make a poll about which digimon adventue character would try and freak everyone out with a prank or telling just the most horrific scary story at camp and my initial thought was Matt would do it but then I remembered, actually it’s Tai. Tai would try to scare all the younger kids and Joe and Mimi and Matt would actually just be pissed about it.

also that digimon poll where we all universally agreed Joe would die first in the horror movie. I thought way too much about that after I saw it and made a whole fic scenario for it of who would die when and why. Will share later maybe.

#Digimon Adventure #Taichi Yagami #Yamato Ishida #Matt Ishida #Tai Kamiya

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Found a new prompt generator and thought I'd give it a whirl and see what it came up with for the boys. It's like it follows my blog or something.

(also, I ordered my new laptop charger and it'll be here today, hopefully)

#prompt generator #Daiken #Trans Guy Dai #Trans Davis #Digimon Adventure 02

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It is 5:00 AM and I am awake having thoughts about a Daikenyako fic where Yolei asks Ken out and Ken is surprised because he did not think she still had feelings for him after all this time and Davis and he are kind of in love but they haven’t talked about it even though they both know. Ken tells Yolei he needs to think about it and goes to Davis and is like “Yolei asked me out.” And Davis is immediately like “Wow so are you gonna go out with her?” trying to be a good friend.

At which point Ken is confused and surprised because t h e y b o t h k n o w and says something like “You want me to? You’d be okay with that?” at which point Davis thinks Ken means because Davis has feelings for Yolei and later Davis talks to Yolei who probably called to freak out about asking Ken out and how he hadn’t said yes or no yet and Davis tells her he thinks Ken was worried Davis would be upset. Yolei makes a joke about them being married and Ken needing Davis’ permission to see someone else. Davis tries to change the subject by making light of Ken’s worry about his feelings for Yolei by denying he has ever had any.*

Yolei confesses to having had feelings for Davis’ probably since MaloMyotismon days and then registers what Davis said and is immediately offended Davis doesn’t have even a little crush on her - how dare he? Yolei would be a great girlfriend!

This absolutely devolves into an argument about the merits of dating one another and Ken gets dragged into it and they all slowly realize they like each other and should date. OR in an extreme version this culminates in them going on literal dates to prove they would be great significant others to one another and Ken is just there like “Um?? So I guess we are all dating now?” after like the third or fourth time they all end up “hanging out” on his or Davis couch somehow having a date night.

*also this probably takes place in the version of reality in which Davis is Ace and spent waaaaaay too much time in his youth overcompensating and fixating on having feelings for Kari. I like to think maybe it was Yolei who helped him come to terms with it all and that is when Davis first developed feelings for her.

#Davis Motomiya #Ken Ichijouji #Yolei Inoue #Daikenyako #Daiken #Kenyako #Daiyako #Daisuke Motomiya #Miyako Inoue #Digific #Digimon Adventure 02

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Trying to write this lengthy small town thriller Daiken fic has really made me think about my own writing style. It really lends itself well to short, choppy, poetic prose and trying to write chapter after chapter of a long narrative driven fic is so hard.

A couple of random writing snippets from this fic:

In what would come to be considered Daisuke’s first real act of rebellion against the world’s plan for him, Daisuke emerged suddenly in a burst of blood and amniotic fluid at precisely 12:03 AM in the front room of an old, dingy ramen shop a good half an hour away from the nearest hospital. He was surrounded not by the familiar warmth of family and loved ones but by an irate ramen chef, a handful of panicked customers, and the smell of braised pork and steamed gyoza.

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Though the night air was still, the trees creaked and swayed ominously - their long, arm-like branches seeming to reach out of the darkness with gnarled bone-white fingers to grasp at Daisuke's exposed skin and loose fitting clothes as he moved deeper into the forest.

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Also there is this sailing boat metaphor for Daisuke being AFAB/trans that I can't let go of and it's driving me insane because I think it could be really good but I can't get it quite right and everything is too poetic and it makes it kind of hard to write normal character interactions when my prose is like:

And then, two weeks before she was to be married, Misaki tipped the boat. No, that wasn’t quite right. It was Daisuke that tipped the boat - or rather, he chose to ram it full speed into unknown waters and was left to cling to the driftwood that remained when the boat Misaki had sailed in since the day she was born smashed, inevitably, violently, against the rocks.

#Digimon Adventure 02 #Daisuke Motomiya #Trans Davis #Trans guy Dai #Davis Motomiya #Digific

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PSA: I have an open policy on any headcanons/thoughts/plot ideas I post here.

Unless I say I’m actively writing it, feel free to take it for inspiration and run with it if you want. It would be nice, though, if you @ me with any works you create inspired by any of my posts though so I can enjoy them and share them with everyone else as well~

@impdotexe and anyone else who might be interested in using anything I post here for info, feel free (or don’t. No pressure).

#digimon adventure 02 #Fanfiction #Digific #my headcanons

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This was gonna be for @campdigimonth but I forgot to sign up before the deadline (the holidays were really stressful okay?) so here are some personal and creative goals for the year instead.

#digitaldavis #trans davis #Digimon Adventure 02 #digific #Wormmon #Veemon

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I really envy those people who write so much that they know exactly how long the fic they're writing needs to be to tell the story they want to tell and I'm really struggling not to hard outline every single thing that happens in the fic - I need to leave room for the fic to grow but my a-spec brain says I must have all the information first and it is bothering me that I don't.

And my friend tells me the fic can't just be one major plot point after another so now there are massive gaps in my completed outline due to chapters I inserted for "pacing" reasons that are going to end up just being filler focused on the lives of everyone in the fic which I'm sure everyone is going to just hate.

Davis and Ken might have to go on more than one date and I might have to give a couple of character's a "day in the life" chapter of their own. Admittedly, having a chapter from Tai or Cody or Kari's POV (or even Michael or Ken's) would be really interesting and would add to the overall plot but I wasn't planning on writing from multiple POVs when I imagined writing this fic.

#Digimon Adventure 02 #Fanfiction #digific #Daiken

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Does anyone have ideas on a last name suggestions for Willis or know if he has a canonical last name that maybe I just can't find? I want to include him in this fic I am writing and it's weird for him to not have a last name.

Also I've realized as I write this that my names in this fic are all over the place. I've been using certain character's Japanese names including Daisuke but I've been using other people's English names like Yolei and Cody. I'll have to fix this at some point either by picking one or being like "anyway everyone has American nicknames" like in the Manga.

#Digimon Adventure 02 #Willis #Wallace

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This fic I'm writing is Daisuke/Ken but Michael/Daisuke has become an unexpected plot point of the opening of this fic that I did not see coming but, honestly, it's better than what I was originally planning and I'm excited about how it might effect the plot in small ways.

#Digimon Adventure 02 #Daisuke Motomiya #Michael Barton #digific #Daiken #what is the Daisuke/Michael pairing called anyway

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How much of the fic I'm currently writing is it okay to talk about? I don't really know but I spent the last couple days doing a rough outline for it and I started a draft version today trying to feel out the vibes and I've realized it's not really grounded in any version of reality that makes sense but maybe that doesn't really matter because it's an AU anyway.

Right now it's kind of like Sanfransokyo in Big Hero 6 - it's theoretically set in a made-up small town in Japan as opposed to America but the town's local government operates more like it's small-town USA and I think I'm just gonna roll with it so now there's a Shinto Shrine and a Kannushi and various Japanese customs being referenced but there is also a Mayor and town Sheriff and maaaaaaaaybe someone (it's Mimi) runs / owns a western style diner.

Also, the first thing I said about this fic to myself was "right, Daisuke is the main character and maybe he's trans but that's not important" and then immediately wrote his being trans into the fic because I cannot help myself.

#Davis Motomiya #Daisuke Motomiya #Digimon Adventure 02 #digific

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Got inspired to write a fic and I’m trying to think of a career/job for Matt because Astronaut was a bold and absolutely bonkers yonkers canon career choice for him that doesn’t make any sense, honestly.

Does anyone have thoughts on a more realistic job for him?

#digimon adventure 02 #Matt Ishida #Yamato Ishida

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Trans!Davis/Daiken but it's one of those cliche soulmate AUs where you body swap with your soulmate after you first meet them only instead of body swapping you temporarily life swap for a day or two so Davis and Ken meet and then wake up the next morning living each other's lives.

Davis is the Emperor and has been taking over the Digital World as an escape from his life where he thinks his parents don't love him and he is responsible for his brother's death and has all this pressure and expectation to essentially replace his dead brother by being just as smart and perfect as he thinks Sam was.

Ken is Digi-Destined and partnered with Veemon and determined to stop Davis at all costs but also he's trans and has to deal with having unsupportive parents and an older sister who tries but ultimately wishes he could just be "normal" because that would be easier for everyone. Also he technically has the digi-egg of courage but activating it is based on feelings not thoughts/memories and Ken is just Ken so he isn't able to help Veemon Armor-Digivolve and this causes problems when he goes to the Digital World with the others to try to fight the Emperor.

Maybe the others work out that Ken has life swapped with someone but they have no idea who because their memories have been altered to make the illusion work and they have to wait for him to swap back. Davis and Ken retain their memories of the swapped day when they change back and have to deal with what they know even though no one else remembers what happened.

#Digimon Adventure 02 #Davis Motomiya #Ken Ichijouji #Daiken #digific #Trans Davis

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What is the equivalent force of good in Digimon Adventure/02 to MaloMyotismon though? Brain says Ophanimon but Ophanimon didn’t exist until later. Is it just Gennai / the voice that possessed Kari hmmm

#Digimon Adventure 02 #Digimon Adventure

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A little deeper context for this comparison is:

Leomon is Aslan - this myth of hope and goodness that the kids hear legends of from the moment they arrive in the Digital World and have to seek out for help.

Devimon is Jadis, the White Witch who has brought darkness to the land and also why it snows just before they get sucked into the digital world - hello, 100 years of winter reference.

Tai/Matt (and Joe to a very minor extent via being the oldest and, arguably most responsible) share the role of Peter.

Sora (and Mimi as, initially, her most vapid and shallow self) is Susan.

Kari is straight up just Lucy - the little sister who understands the digital world and has an otherworldly connection to it on a level that the others don't and is inherently good and kind of protected from the darkness and evil of the digital world.

And T.K. (and to some extent Izzy - who traps himself in a void dimension in exchange for knowledge) is Edmund - he doesn't outright betray anyone as far as I remember but he is often tempted (in fact there are multiple episodes where bad digimon try to get him to join them) and does things that cause problems for the others trying to gain some level of independence which ultimately ends up with him losing Patamon fighting Devimon which, in 02, puts him in a position to understand the powers of darkness and how dangerous they can be on a level that the others don't grasp.

Which kind of makes Ken Caspian in 02, swayed by the temptation for power into literally nearly freeing the White Witch AKA Devimon.

Sometimes I wake up at 5 AM and I remember that the original Digimon Adventure is based on C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia

and that helps to bridge the chasm that exists between the overall themes of Digimon Adventure - which is very much that a bunch of children go to a magical land and meet strange and magical creatures that they bond with and who help them grow as people, have to save said world and their own world and then ultimately have to grow up and return home to said world and say goodbye to their magical childhood friends as a part of 'growing up' and preparing for adulthood once they've learned what that world had to teach them -

and the themes of Digimon Adventure 02 which is very much Lucy and Edmund returning to Narnia with new kids who are all still young and capable of learning from a magical land full of magical creatures in a way that the older kids aren't as receptive too anymore since they returned home and fully embraced living in their own world.

The narrative of 02 is very much that Tai and the others are no longer innocent and are kind of jaded from their real world problems and because of that they lack the belief/faith necessary to connect with the digital world in the same way as they once did (their digivices won't even open a gate for them at first) but Davis and the others can because they're young enough to believe in the power and magic of the digital world and their bonds with their digimon.

But then even when the new kids experience the same hardships and real world problems that Tai and the others have (Ken already has, of course, and is using the digital world to completely escape reality and T.K. obviously lost patamon when he was little and Kari struggles with depression during 02 several times especially when she has to accept that there is a senseless war they have to fight and people/digimon are going to die for no reason) they're able to adapt to it differently, accepting that the real world can be difficult and painful and unfair but instead of embracing having to grow up and leave behind the things and people they cared about as children in order to function in the real world, they forge stronger bonds with each other and their digimon, refusing to let go of the magic that existed when they were kids and essentially carry that magic and their beliefs in one another and their partner digimon into the future, creating an idyllic world where everyone is eventually able to access the same magical connection they have with that other world and forge the same lasting bonds they did.

I hated the epilogue of 02 as a kid but remembering that Adventure and 02 are secular Narnia helps when I think of the implications of what the end of 02 means and it's overall takeaway compared to the original Adventure. Also, I've not seen it but I'm told Kizuna continued the theme of the original Adventure in that the older kids grow up and lose connection with their digimon and the new movie goes hard at the overall message of 02 and I just think the continued divide in themes between Adventure and 02 is both really neat and also quite difficult to swallow sometimes.

#Digimon Adventure #Digimon Adventure 02 #Tai Kamiya #Kari Kamiya #T.K. Takaishi #Izzy Izumi #Matt Ishida #Sora Takenouchi #Mimi Tachikawa #Devimon #Leomon #Ken Ichijouji

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Sometimes I wake up at 5 AM and I remember that the original Digimon Adventure is based on C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia

and that helps to bridge the chasm that exists between the overall themes of Digimon Adventure - which is very much that a bunch of children go to a magical land and meet strange and magical creatures that they bond with and who help them grow as people, have to save said world and their own world and then ultimately have to grow up and return home to said world and say goodbye to their magical childhood friends as a part of 'growing up' and preparing for adulthood once they've learned what that world had to teach them -

and the themes of Digimon Adventure 02 which is very much Lucy and Edmund returning to Narnia with new kids who are all still young and capable of learning from a magical land full of magical creatures in a way that the older kids aren't as receptive too anymore since they returned home and fully embraced living in their own world.

The narrative of 02 is very much that Tai and the others are no longer innocent and are kind of jaded from their real world problems and because of that they lack the belief/faith necessary to connect with the digital world in the same way as they once did (their digivices won't even open a gate for them at first) but Davis and the others can because they're young enough to believe in the power and magic of the digital world and their bonds with their digimon.

But then even when the new kids experience the same hardships and real world problems that Tai and the others have (Ken already has, of course, and is using the digital world to completely escape reality and T.K. obviously lost patamon when he was little and Kari struggles with depression during 02 several times especially when she has to accept that there is a senseless war they have to fight and people/digimon are going to die for no reason) they're able to adapt to it differently, accepting that the real world can be difficult and painful and unfair but instead of embracing having to grow up and leave behind the things and people they cared about as children in order to function in the real world, they forge stronger bonds with each other and their digimon, refusing to let go of the magic that existed when they were kids and essentially carry that magic and their beliefs in one another and their partner digimon into the future, creating an idyllic world where everyone is eventually able to access the same magical connection they have with that other world and forge the same lasting bonds they did.

I hated the epilogue of 02 as a kid but remembering that Adventure and 02 are secular Narnia helps when I think of the implications of what the end of 02 means and it's overall takeaway compared to the original Adventure. Also, I've not seen it but I'm told Kizuna continued the theme of the original Adventure in that the older kids grow up and lose connection with their digimon and the new movie goes hard at the overall message of 02 and I just think the continued divide in themes between Adventure and 02 is both really neat and also quite difficult to swallow sometimes.

#Digimon Adventure 02 #Digimon Adventure #why am I awake and thinking about this anyway #The Chronicles of Narnia