I wanna take a moment to talk about Tailmon/Gatomon subspecies.
The classic three are the vaccine type Tailmon, the virus type BlackTailmon and the data type Mikemon.
I've talked more in-depth about Mikemon's history in a post before, but let's quickly review each of these guys' debuts.
Tailmon was introduced in Digital Monster Ver. S for the Sega Saturn in late 1998 and had its V-Pet, Card Game (Hyper Coloseum) and Anime debut shortly after in 1999. BlackTailmon was first seen in Hyper Coloseum's Starter Set Ver. 4 in 2000 and in Digimon World Digital Card Arena for the Playstation just later that year. Mikemon's debut followed in 2002 through the D-Scanner Toy and first appeared in Hyper Coloseum in the same year.
As of BT-12, with the addition of Mikemon, each of them is also represented in the current Digimon Card Game.
While these three are already 20 years old by now, there have also been more recent additions to the family.
I believe BlackTailmon Uver. being part of the family is pretty obvious. Meicoomon might seem a bit more far-fetched, but there's been evidence to suggest they're related.
Meicoomon has been featured along with the Tailmon family twice on the Digimon Web Twitter in celebration for 猫の日 neko no hi (cat day, 2/22). It is of note here that other cat themed Digimon were not included. It is also on the BT3 card of Tailmon, along with Mikemon.
Meicoomon's type has been stated as Unknown for the most part, but as Free in the Digital Monster Ver.20th. In that V-Pet, Nyaromon and Plotmon are used as pre-evolutions for Meicoomon. Recolors of these were shown as Meicoomon's pre-evolutions in the obscure Shabette Concier App Skin: "Mytserious DigiTama". This could suggest the unnamed Baby and Child Level of Meicoomon to be subspecies of Nyaromon and Plotmon with the same name.
[Recolors of the Bandai Artwork are fan made, from Wikimon]
Meicoomon's Digitama was also included as the final Digitama to hatch in the Digimon Adventure tri. promotional nade nade game. You can see that it is nearly identical to Tailmon's. The game even uses the same pattern, just flipped, but with darker color.
It is worth mentioning that the Digitama were displayed in black and white in the nade nade game. Tailmon's Digitama is the bottom right one on this screen.
Furthermore, Meicoomon's vaccine evolution's final stage, Rasielmon, has the trait "Throne" which previously has been exclusive to Ophanimon. (More on Angel Digimon here)
All this points to Meicoomon being intended to be a part of or closely related to the Tailmon family.
Just some dumb scenarios in my TWST X Digimon AU. Hope you enjoy!
Epel: *Holding Meicoomon* Rook, look what I-
Dobermon: *Rapid barking and growling*
Epel: WHAT IN TARNATION! ROOK GET YER DOG!
Rook: But he does not bite.
Meicoomon: YES HE DO!
[ Takes place during Fairy Gala ]
Löwemon: Thank you for the help Lilith, but I can’t help but feel... indecent like this.
Lilithmon: Löwemon, you just have your top armor off. Now stand still, these measurements are going to take themselves.
Ruggie: *opens door* Hey Leona, you here? Vil needs... you... uhm...
Lilithmon: ...
Löwemon: ...
Ruggie: ...
Ruggie: *rushed* You know what I’ll come back another time, pretty sure Leona’s not here anyway. Kay, kay, bye! *Runs away*
Löwemon: *sigh* How am I going to explain this?
Lilithmon: Worry later dear, now just hold still a little longer please.
[ Later at Ramshackle ]
Ruggie: YUU, YUU, you won’t believe this!
Yuu!Baal: ...?
Pistmon: Hey Uvee! It’s time to get to work!
Ortho and Ghostmon: Shh!
Pistmon: Huh? *Looks over*
* When Pistmon looks over he sees Idia sleeping in his chair and Black Tailmon Uver. sleeping on his lap*
Pistmon: Oh my god...
Ortho: While I am happy big brother has a friend now, I can’t really say it’s good for both of them to sleep in a chair.
Pistmon: *whisper* Hey Ghostmon, do you think we’ll be considered family if Idia becomes Uvee’s official tammer?
Ghostmon: *whisper* Dunno, but honestly wouldn’t mind it. That man needs ALOT of support.
[ Takes place during Magicam Monsters event ]
Fangmon: Hey Ruggie, look what I got.
Ruggie: What is it Fangmon?
Ruggie: ... Are those, wallets?
Fangmon: Yeah, they fell off when we scared them, there’s enough cash here to last us at least two months for lunch.
Ruggie: Fangmon, as much as that would help us we can’t steal the Magicam Monsters’ money.
Fangmon: But-
Ruggie: Now if they lost half of their money, there’s nothing we could do about except take it to the police. But if nobody claims it, we can get it in just a few weeks.
Fangmon: Ohhh, gotcha!
Mob Student 1: Should, should we do something?
Mob Student 2: Nah, damn Monsters deserve it.
Gaomon: Come on Deuce! Are you really going to be defeated that easily!?
Deuce: No!
Gaomon: Are you going to just lay there and give up!?
Deuce: No!!
Gaomon: *serious tone* Are we gonna make Mama proud?
Deuce: YES!!!
Gaomon: That’s the spirit! Now come one, we can push it for two more hours!
Ace: . . .
Ace: I know math is difficult but calm the f**k down.
We will be taking a week break for GM, as Chapter 2 will start on the 27th of February, but in the meantime, you can always send us asks (either in character or towards the comic workers Desk or Rei) in the meantime!