After Meicoomon's destruction, the DigiDestined believed the worst was over.
They were wrong.
With their wounds still open, a new conflict draws them back to the Digital World: Yggdrasill is creating copies of them from the memories extracted from their kidnapped friends, building an artificial network capable of replacing them.
As they face the threat of corrupted reflections, Yamato and Taichi must resolve the pending issues from their last adventure, heal old wounds, and decide what to do with their feelings when everything blows up in their faces... again.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
a million times this. “I don’t like these xyz fics” then don’t read them. THEY ARE NOT FOR YOU!!!!!!! no one forces you to read anything you don’t want to read. no one forces you to consume art you don’t enjoy. it’s so easy to click that mute or block button. instead of insulting fanfics or fan art for not fitting your personal liking, either choose something that does fit your personal liking, or write the fic you want to read yourself / draw the art you want to consume yourself.
fanfic writers and fan artists create as THEIR hobbies. they create for themselves and their own enjoyment. they don’t create for strangers’ approval
"why isn't there any fic about xyz?" my love, if you want something to exist, sometimes you will have to create them yourself. you can't wait for someone else to do it for you. only you know what you want best. write that self-indulgent fic. then keep writing more for your own enjoyment.
The Digimon Adventure "Original Story: 2 and a Half Year Break" Drama CD was released in Japan in April 2002 to build a narrative bridge between the end of Digimon Adventure and the start of Digimon Adventure 02.
Even though 02 had already finished airing its original run in Japan, this audio drama was released a year later to retroactively fill in the gaps.
Written and directed by Kakudou, it features the voices of Taichi, Joe, Sora, Koushiro, Mimi and Yamato across 6 individual tracks set between November 1999 and March 2002 (a month before the events of 02), detailing what the kids went through during those 2 and a half years apart from their digimon.
Chronologically, this is how things unfold in the Drama CD:
November 1999. Taichi hears the sound of Hikari's whistle in the house and looking for where it's coming from, he realizes it's not Hikari who went shopping with their mom, nor is it coming from his digivice, since he remembered Tailmon kept that whistle in the digital world. Taichi had put his digivice away in a drawer because keeping it out made him feel lonelier constantly reminding him that Agumon wasn't by his side anymore after they resolved the crisis in the digital world. For him, Agumon is the partner he has shared the longest continuous period of time with in his entire life. Even though only 3 days passed in the human world while they were in the digital world, the difference in the flow of time meant he lived with him for somewhere between 6 months and a full year, he isn't entirely sure so his absence after 3 months of separation when this Drama CD takes place, weighs on him.
Following the sound to his dad's turned on computer, he sees a blurry light identical to the digiegg that appeared at his house 4 years earlier (1995) when Hikari and he got their first digimon partner. Through the screen, he manages to see Agumon and Tailmon blowing the whistle. Even though the signal has interference and he can barely hear Agumon's voice, he sees him full of energy, mimicking soccer moves to show Taichi what he's up to over there. Those moves inspire Taichi to pick up soccer again, which he had completely abandoned after coming back from the digital world, driven by the determination not to fall behind or lose to Agumon, whom he considers his other self. The connection didn't last long and the gate to the digital world closed again. When Hikari gets home and finds out what happened, she gets furious with Taichi for not managing to keep the gate open until she arrived to see Tailmon.
May 2000. Joe talks on the phone with his middle brother Shin during Golden Week. Joe says he briefly entered the digital world because the gate opened. He mentions that Gomamon sent his regards to Shin and told him to take care of Joe. Regarding his future, Joe says he decided to study medicine on his own because in the digital world he saw many digimon suffer and die without him being able to do anything. He says there are no doctors in the digital world and that they need someone to heal them, which is why he always carries a first aid kit in his backpack in case the gate opens again, even considering whether he should study veterinary medicine as well to treat them properly. He also mentions that his brother Shuu quit medicine to go to Kyoto to study humanities with Sora's dad and mentions that Sora started middle school, wears skirts now and looks more feminine.
October 2000. Sora sends a letter to her father for his birthday, telling him that last summer (August 2000) she reunited with Piyomon. She's happy to have helped her dad with his research on the connection between both worlds and also tells him that Piyomon can no longer evolve into Garudamon (her Perfect form) because they sacrificed that power / their crests, but that it doesn't matter since the digital world is at peace right now and there are no urgent battles requiring that level of strength. On top of that, Sora tells him her mom is teaching her how to play tennis and is a super strict coach, even tougher than when she teaches flower arrangement.
About the family, she tells him she asked her mom how they first met and reminds him of how they ran into each other in Kyoto while he was studying in Tokyo, and right after getting married and settling down in Tokyo, he was relocated to work at a university in Kyoto. Later, when her mom opened her flower shop office in Tokyo, they had to move from Hikarigaoka to Odaiba.
Sora connects all of this and says none of it was a coincidence. She believes that because of everything that happened, she was able to meet Piyomon. In the same way, she feels her parents' meeting wasn't accidental either and even Joe's brother quitting medicine to go to Kyoto to take classes with her dad must have some meaning.
She tells him that for her next school trip she'll be going to Kyoto and since they get a bit of free time, she wants to go see the place where her parents first met as well as experience Kyoto for herself since she's only ever seen it on tv.
(So... Joe mentioning that Sora looks more feminine, Sora telling her dad that meeting Joe's brother doesn't feel like a coincidence… Kakudou, what were you trying to tell us here? Was all this setup seriously just for that one episode in 02 in Kyoto with Sora's dad and Shuu?)
April 2001. Koushiro chats with Gennai and comments on how busy Gennai has been ever since he got younger. During the conversation, Gennai tells him that the number of his comrades has increased and Koushiro finds it weird that all these new comrades share the same face as Gennai. Koushiro mentions that he has grown a bit taller even if the 5th grade girls joining the computer club are taller than him he was named club captain and that he visited the cemetery for Ohigan to see his biological parents, feeling at peace with both his adoptive family and his birth parents. He also shares his realization about the term chosen children. They were chosen to fight and stop conflicts in the digital world, which is why they were given partner digimon before anyone else. He tells Gennai that if any new chosen children appear in Japan they want to help them right away and that he's surprised to learn that neither Gennai nor Qinglongmon and the rest of the Holy Beasts know where the chosen children originally come from when they enter the digital world. After saying goodbye, Koushiro reflects on how the number of chosen children doubles every year. He calculates there might be around 100 worldwide by now and wonders how the count grew from their original 8 in 1999 back to the Hikarigaoka incident in 1995.
September 2001. Mimi records a video mail from New York to tell the group how she's doing over there and starts off excited talking about her new school, her new friends and something an acquaintance of her dad told her about Native American totems and animal spirits. This lead Mimi to reflect that maybe digimon weren't born exclusively from computers but have always existed as guardian spirits or digital totems. In the middle of her recording distant explosions can be heard followed by silence. In the next section of the recording, Mimi explains that she and her parents are safe because they were far away but the sound of the collapsing buildings was extremely loud and the sky turned pitch black from the smoke of the Twin Towers attack. Seeing the disaster, she couldn't just stand by and ran out into the street to see how she could help. Even though she didn't have Palmon with her, among all the dust and chaos she found several other chosen children from the US helping in secret. The smaller digimon slipped through the cracks in the rubble to search for survivors while the kids and larger digimon moved heavy objects. Mimi showed them her digivice to overcome her language barrier since she couldn't speak english very well yet, letting them know that she was one of them. She helped carry the injured and treat their wounds until more adults arrived and they had to separate so the digimon wouldn't be discovered. That was the first time she saw other chosen children.
I found this arc remarkable. The calm with which she tells her story trying to comfort others while actively making herself useful during the emergency, shows huge growth on her part given how sensitive she is to other people's sorrow and injustice. It's a grounded touch on Digimon Adventure's part to weave such a real and tragic moment in human history into her character arc.
March 2002. Yamato talks with his dad at home while playing the bass getting surprised to learn that his dad used to play bass in a band when he was young. He gets his dad to promise to buy him his own bass with his work bonus so he doesn't have to keep using his. During their chat, they mention that rebuilding the Odaiba TV station took 2 and a half years and Yamato says that he talks to Takeru every now and then, who told him their mom is organizing the events of Odaiba and Hikarigaoka for a report while protecting the group's identities and that they'll soon be moving back to Odaiba into a new apartment. Then Yamato reflects on how strange it is that despite the whole world watching the events 3 years ago, no video records or evidence remained of what actually happened. He acknowledges that while there is still so much they don't understand, the lack of recorded proof is precisely what allows them to live in peace without being exposed to the public. While he plays, his dad is going through a mountain of old work tapes and puts on a werewolf horror movie "I Was a Teenage Werewolf", and seeing the monster on screen, his dad gets confused and asks Yamato if that's Gabumon. Yamato reminds his dad of the difference between Gabumon, Garurumon and WereGarurumon, and also tells him that the last time the gate to the digital world opened, Gabumon looked fine. Then Yamato gets more reflective about his past and his parents' divorce recalling that on the day of the separation, since neither his mom nor his dad could decide how to split the kids, he was the one who made the decision to stay with his dad so Takeru could stay with their mom. That's where his fixed mindset of fending for himself, making all decisions on his own so no one could use him for their convenience and keeping a distance from others to avoid making friends came from. But Yamato admits that closed off attitude made no sense because no one lives in this world alone and if he hadn't met Gabumon, he never would have realized that or understood that now he isn't alone anymore.
And just a month later in April 2002, the events of 02 begin. I think this Drama CD is an important piece of the story, and what I highlight the most is seeing how each of them misses their digimon partner and how despite the separation they keep moving forward inspired by everything they went through, longing for that reunion.
My favorite arc was Mimi's because of how realistic the context was, but I also liked Sora's and Yamato's because of how directly they connect to 02. We see Sora starting to play tennis with her mom and how both she and Joe were already aware that Sora's dad and Shuu end up together in Kyoto. We also learn that Takeru's mom is doing research on what happened in 1999 which brings them back to Odaiba and leads her to meet Oikawa in 02, and we get the reason why Yamato lives with his dad, his independent personality and why he pretended he was fine being on his own.
I don't know anything about AFK Journey but the Digimon Collab is making me laugh a little, them using the English Digimon logo but not using the Dub names for Taichi and Yamato 🤣
And then the description they used for Yamato are just sending me 😭🤣
Taichi first, for consistency's sake:
Taichi Yagami is a fifth grader with strong leadership and the drive to take action, and he holds the Crest of Courage. His partner is Agumon, an energetic Digimon.
Yamato:
Yamato Ishida is a level-headed, responsible fifth grader who holds the Crest of Friendship. His partner is Gabumon, a Digimon who cares deeply about his friends.
I am thinking at times a lot about how Taichi in the original Digimon Adventure was a good bit darker skinned than he was in later Digimon projects. And how it technically never was really a case of whitewashing, because what happened - apparently - is just that the original two seasons were still drawn on cells and cell coloration generally used warmer colors due to how the process was done. Which is why we see a lot more characters that are technically darker skinned in older anime. But... it still feels like fucking whitewashing never the less. Give my boy his brown skin back!
We've had a family/murder of crows visiting our garden for years now, and this season the chicks are soooo helpless! They just stand around expectantly with their mouths open as the mom crow eats. Which is what inspired this comic! :)
how did it become popularized that yamato would be aloof and hesitant to share his feelings while taichi would be forthcoming and open with his? did…did we not watch the same series?
It’s always fun when people mix up Yamato “Let Me Scream My Feelings Into Your Mouth” Ishida, the boy who starts like six different physical brawls because he’s a roaming vortex of furious emotion whose main outlet is his fists, with Taichi “I Evade Awkward Conversations With The Skill And Grace Of A Jungle Cat” Yagami, who once refused to talk about his emotions so badly that he needed a time-travelling vision quest to shake him out of it.
damn just realized both yagamis have the issue of trying to evade their emotions and both takaishidas would throw the first punch (or would at least first suggest it)
Just casually thinking about the time on Digimon when Tai and Kari's parents LEFT THEM HOME ALONE WHEN THEY WERE TODDLERS AND KARI WAS SICK WITH PNEUMONIA and then when Tai took her outside to play ball and she collapsed and had to go to the hospital they YELLED AT HIM AND SHAMED HIM LIKE IT WAS HIS FAULT.
THEY ABANDONED A BABY WITH PNEUMONIA WITH A TODDLER AND THEN BLAMED THE TODDLER FOR THE INEVITABLE RESULT OF THEIR NEGLECT.
YES I AM A THIRTY-SOMETHING YEAR OLD MAN GETTING ANGRY ABOUT DIGIMON -- BECAUSE THAT WAS SOME SERIOUS BULLSHIT.
I am still so fucking unwell over this episode but the worst part of it is that most likely Kari wasn't a baby and Tai wasn't a toddler when it happened. And there's years of parentification before this.
In the prequel film. Tai is 7 and Kari is 4. He's already caring for her when her parents aren't around. And cooking. On the stove.
I headcanon that the My Sister's Keeper flashback is one year after the movie. While we can't be certain- and art style does play a role- there's a notable difference in how they're built. A lot less baby fat. It could reasonably even be two years after.
Also his smile ten seconds before disaster kills me. Poor baby. Who's been taking care of Kari basically since he could walk and she was born. And unlike the other characters and their trauma, it's never fully resolved.
There is a cultural/time period related reason for this but @alpaca-clouds knows more than I do on that. I've been around this bush before with alpaca but I can't recall the exact post at the moment.
I'm just here to say that it's not only a headcanon; in the episode, Taichi says that the incident happened when he was in second grade, and since in August '99 he's in fifth, that must have been in '96, so it really was about a year after what happened in Hikarigaoka.
And also to drop the links to Alpaca's posts talking about Taichi's & company parentification:
💬 4 🔁 60 ❤️ 131 · Taichi, Yamato, Parentification and Japan's Lost Decade · Okay. You might have noticed, I am recently talking about Japa
💬 0 🔁 2 ❤️ 11 · An Addendum to the Taichi-Yamato Blog (this one) · Because I have seen people go: "No they totally not parentified."
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Continuing with the AUs — The Second Prince & His New Hubby
(Though these two are from a different Edo-like AU than the last one)
I imagine their context going something like this:
After Daisuke traveled to another land to escort his sister princess Jun for her arranged marriage, he found himself outside the golden cage of the palace for the first time in his life. So he immediately thought to himself, "Let's take the long way home!", put that down in a letter to his big bro, and off he went on his merry way across the empire. Only coming back to the family home to shout: "Surprise! I found myself a bride! Isn't he perfect?"
Happy belated Odaiba Memorial Day once again, y'all!
It's been literal months since I picked up a pen, so this is by no means polished, but the idea has been haunting me ever since finishing my poorly translated version of "Digimon Adventure 13+".
I've rambled various times about how much I love the set-up of Koushirou's little lab squad, consisting of Miyako, Menoa, himself, and the semi-regular appearance of Taichi (and occasionally Ken). I'm very much in love with the headcanon that Menoa decided to support and fund Koushirou's lab in this universe to thank him for what his other self did for her in the Kizuna verse. So it seems only natural to me that Koushirou would try to figure out how the multiverses work, how Menoa's universe is connected to their own - and how it was even possible for bonds to break there in the first place. From what I've read/seen, 13+!Koushirou is not exactly self-conscious, but he does contemplate the achievements of his other self and his own lack of filter.
Taichi, on the other hand, is an even more interesting case - I also tried to summarize his nature as a logical continuation of a post-02 universe in which the events of Tri and Kizuna never took place. Part of me really wants to dive deeper into comparing their different progressions - and I cannot ignore the idea that 13+!Taichi might have a bone to pick with Kizuna!Taichi (mainly but not exclusively for having been so careless about Agumon). He definitely seems more prone to mask his feelings with a charming attitude...
Taichi and Koushirou being together in this universe is absolute wish-fulfilment of course, but I adore the nudges towards them still being 100% committed and supportive of each other - and Menoa being part of their team (as Koushirou's right-hand-woman and Taichi's language and potential drinking buddy) is just too good.
