Digimon V!

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Here are the maps for Digimon Tamers: Brave Tamer.

The main reason I got these was for the Crevasse of the Black Egg which has a different boss depending on how long you take to reach the boss room.

I have the pathway through most of these done, except for Takato's (which I may have forgotten the path I took >.>). I'll upload them later if anyone really wants them ♥

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Where do I put my random thoughts on this...

I've been thinking, for the last three days or so, how to structure Yamato's headcanon fic I've been working on (I still haven't completely settled on a title, either...) and ofc the Dark Ocean fic is part of it but seperate, so do I divide Yamato's life up in parts or put all I can actually shove together as one part? I think initially I wanted his childhood to act as a prologue--this is right up until he and Hiroaki move to Odaiba. I don't have a title or anything in mind, but a draft was written. However, this very pivotal part of Yamato's life is in it and needs a tiny rewrite to parallel Playing Games better, so... I mean, if you understood how my headcanon Yamato is literally having flashbacks the entire episode, you wouldn't blame him for being a prick the entire time. Then there's the next part, which would be Adventure, which IIRC my wife and I decided will be it's own thing. It's mostly canon-compliant but expands more on the kids and Digimon's thoughts thoughout? Remember me mentioning a lot of random one-off parts where Yamato and Jou are offscreen talking? For me, anyway, it's mostly for stuff like that. Ofc, there's the off screen 3 months they spend in the diner that is critical to the headcanon that we need to work on as well.

Sorry for this wall of text, I don't really wanna break up my stream of consciousness... I'll put the rest under a cut.

After Adventure is 02, the movies, and *most* of the drama CDs. We left one out for some... obvious reasons. Not just shipping reasons lol I promise. We are undecided on the rewrite for this (especially because IDK what I would fill it with. 02's characters are bland and they've been a struggle--I say this as a Daisuke fan that believes he needs no arc / has no arc).

The headcanon realistically starts around 1940 doesn't it? around 2004. This is where Yamato has a lot of things go downhill for him after an event digs up all his trauma he spent most of 02 burying. What follows is a year of him spiraling which is a very long series of relationships and foreshadowing until Takeru and Natsuko wake him the fuck up.

There's a time where Yamato is learning how to function again, finding goals, and hey, he might even finally date Jou when he's feeling better... Or not.

Then it kinda moves into his adult life and the kids and all of my wife's stuff that started this mess. Okay. I started this mess. My wife should have known I've been trying to have Yamato successfully kill himself since I was 12--that's on you, babe. It's literally what the first fanfiction I ever wrote was.

I guess I just wanted to splay this out. There's three or four distinct "chunks" of this man's life I have to figure out how to organize in a reader-friendly way. I don't know why I'm bothering when 90% of the fandom will not go anywhere near it once they read beneath the surface.

On the bright side, I helped my wife identify another parallel between Yamato and Jou we inadvertently made to tie them together and in retrospect (Grandma besties?) it's pretty funny how she took Kakudou's method for Sorato and made Joumato that much more interesting, but I don't want to dwell on shitty shipping wars. If you're here for canon you might wanna fuck off.

This headcanon is technically an AU that follows 90% of canon, but probably not how you want it. It also incooperates Digimon World/Card Battle/Next Order, the Digimon Pendulums (and with it the Dark Ocean and Demon Lords are resolved--we also introduce the opposing crests to 3 of the children), the anime, and the novel continuities.... it's a lot. Hell, even the ANIME mixes dub and sub lore (even moreso for my wife's part regarding the dub). Although I'm realizing just how influenced my Yamato is regarding Matt as a whole--but that can't be helped. If I told you I had like 90% of Reisz's line reads buried in my brain, you'd probably believe me and yeah. (Don't worry, some of Yuto's are buried too.)

I don't think this post had a point. I would hope it will intrigue people to check out our work with an open mind, but you'll have to wait on me. Until I can get Yamato's work done we don't have the framework concrete for every other child and the kids' kids. So...

[levidownes]

There's something intoxicating about trapping Yamato in an absolutely shit marraige and job. Also he smells like gasoline and motor oil. Then he finds Jou and friends in a bar after work and remembers it's gonna be ok... probably. Maybe <3 (From V! AU)

I did a shitty like 30 min comic for it cuz I was bored (I forgot Daisuke was there, Im sorry buddy I got you in there somehow lol)

Jou in a doctor's coat -> upgrade from scrubs on all fronts

Taichi is a little drunk and his cane is hard to see

Yamato keeps forgetting he had friends smh (he has the same look Shinji [Evangelion] does when he's praised lol)

I drew this in digital ink so it's messier than normal as I didn't want to erase too much...

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Husband: I’m gonna write about Matt. If it contradicts something or takes place at the wrong time, oh well :D

Me: *30 hours deep into PhD thesis level research of Digimon theology* I hope this throwaway line I want to write can fit in the overarching canon…

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Digimon Tamers Brave Tamer | English | No Commentary

I finished translating a full playthrough of Digimon Tamers: Brave Tamer and I wanted to share it here.

This isn't translated in-game. What I did was play it through in Japanese and then, using a translated script, made text box images to overlay in a video editing program.

I am no a video editor, I'm barely a let's player, but I wanted to be able to have a series of Brave Tamer with the English subtitles. I wanted to be able to read along with the action like the other WonderSwan games that were translated.

The script I used came from here:

Remember Yesterday - Because tomorrow comes too soon

Please, give them thanks and support for translating this game ♥

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In celebration of Odaiba Memorial Day, I thought I would share a link to my play through of Digimon Adventure on PSP

Digimon Adventure PSP | English | No Commentary

Digimon Adventure PSP | English | No Commentary

I played this through back in April since that’s when me and my husband were picking up working on V! again. We wanted a refresher on the series and realized we’d never finished playing this when the original English patch came out.

This was so fun to play and it got me back into the Digimon games as their own series, going from this to the WonderSwan games featuring Ryo. I’m now mostly through Brave Tamer and I’ll soon be playing Digimon World for the PS1.

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Ahhh went down a rabbit hole of listening to some older music by one of my fav bands cuz I haven't listened to them in ages and like I only did that because I haven't drawn my OC related to said band for our Digimon AU yet and... Im desperately trying to decide which song lyrics to sprinkle into the art when I get a good composition done and I can't pick. Let me clarify, fav band has a lot of albums, but I'm talking about 5 songs that came out *the same year I was born* and it doesn't help that most of the lyrics are... nonsensical because we don't know what they are, because they are supposed to be nonsensical... I don't care either way. There's a charm to them.

I also wanna start listening to Veruca Salt's discography because Seether being in my top 3 bands and the name coming from one of their songs... I'm huge into alt rock / grunge, so...

I'm rambling. Sorry.

[levidownes]

Hahaha ultimately decided to use this song from Cold's self titled album (instead of Grundig)... Since I wanted to include the shirt my friends and I designed IRL in... erm... 2002? >__> Of course, I translated it (shittily) to Japanese cuz I like to imagine my OC would go out of his way to make merch for his band in every language or at least, for Yamato personally. I'm sure they had fun touring when they weren't both throwing things at Yutaka for being an ass. lol I didn't put a lot of thought into it and just went with like... what felt right to draw. This was my third composition for this, though. Only thing I focused on was how they would hold the mics. The OC is based on a later music video by the inspirational band and Yamato was just a pose I've wanted to draw...

In the AU, the OC ends up killing the mother of Jou's kid. I wonder if later, when Yamato and Jou live together, if they ever connect the dots. Of course, my OC would be dead by then...

I had a lot of fun working on this one...

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This was about Ouran High School Host Club but-

(Original post is here.)

[levidownes]

Because I got a brain worm about the autograph earlier... In our AU, it's kind of an inside joke that Mimi knows how Yamato and Jou feel but ultimately isn't in the position to help them, so when she asks Yamato when their on tour why he signs with the pentacle (star), he just says it reminds him of someone he likes. (As I said in my other post, Jou carries a pentacle in our AU.) MIMI KNOWS DON'T THINK YOU CAN FOOL HER SHE HAS YALL PEGGED BOYS

Also, ignore that Yamato looks pretty tired. He had his PTSD medication flushed by his jackass drummer and he's gd tired. Ironically, Mimi is the one to collapse from exhaustion. Maybe she hides it with make up, since that's more expected of her.

Also, guys, I need to draw Mimi with her hair up more. It's really cute.

[levidownes]

Im so glad my impulsive decision based on an adult fanfic to make my own version of Yutaka (canon name for a specific red headed Wolves member) paid off.

Hes a drummer (this is also actual canon).

Hes an asshole.

He hates Yamato (the lead singer and bass player).

If Yamato says something about how the band works, defends himself about his PTSD or life choices... Yutaka will be there to call him an attention seeker and a liar. Goes to thier music too, like I said. Yutaka thinks Yamato is a narcissist which obviously should be flipped around.

Bass and drums are supposed to work together. Bass is about making a unifying piece that ties everything else together.

Everything Ive read about drummers makes them out to be jerks, especially to their bassist and its so fucking funny.

Like this gem:

Im sure obligatory Not All Drummers but... come on.

Also gonna have Yamato yell for Yutaka to go fuck himself with his drumsticks because of a very funny adult reddit thread I also read.

Yutaka has every piercing imaginable all at once too. Idk where that came from but I just kept adding them. By the time theyre 40 Yutaka looks like a jewelry store explosion. Like those bad mugshots you see on FB and shit.

In fact I had Yamato and Sora fight about Yamato's gay ass loop earring that he got (left ear--same as myself of course) ; with the rest of the band also getting a piercing each to celebrate their first album to go gold and like I guess Yutaka started and never stopped lmao

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Lmao done

[levidownes]

Im so glad my impulsive decision based on an adult fanfic to make my own version of Yutaka (canon name for a specific red headed Wolves member) paid off.

Hes a drummer (this is also actual canon).

Hes an asshole.

He hates Yamato (the lead singer and bass player).

If Yamato says something about how the band works, defends himself about his PTSD or life choices... Yutaka will be there to call him an attention seeker and a liar. Goes to thier music too, like I said. Yutaka thinks Yamato is a narcissist which obviously should be flipped around.

Bass and drums are supposed to work together. Bass is about making a unifying piece that ties everything else together.

Everything Ive read about drummers makes them out to be jerks, especially to their bassist and its so fucking funny.

Like this gem:

Im sure obligatory Not All Drummers but... come on.

Also gonna have Yamato yell for Yutaka to go fuck himself with his drumsticks because of a very funny adult reddit thread I also read.

Yutaka has every piercing imaginable all at once too. Idk where that came from but I just kept adding them. By the time theyre 40 Yutaka looks like a jewelry store explosion. Like those bad mugshots you see on FB and shit.

In fact I had Yamato and Sora fight about Yamato's gay ass loop earring that he got (left ear--same as myself of course) ; with the rest of the band also getting a piercing each to celebrate their first album to go gold and like I guess Yutaka started and never stopped lmao

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Digimon Anode Tamer Maps

Everyone seemed to appreciate my Adventure PSP maps, so I decided to go ahead and do the same for Anode Tamer.

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Closer detail shots of the Anode Tamer map

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Digimon Anode Tamer Maps

Everyone seemed to appreciate my Adventure PSP maps, so I decided to go ahead and do the same for Anode Tamer.

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Some art

I actually have like 10x this amount of art, but these were the better ones (or the SFW ones) The funny thing about the image with Mimi is I drew most of it to 10 Years' cover of Losing My Religion lmao (its just like, a bouncy drawing for me) and the bottom right one was to Chevelle's 'Jars'. We have fun here

Here's some from today, first from one of my fics where Ken and Yamato are literally like about to die before fishfrog Hikari and Beezlemon come to save them lol I didn't feel like looking up a reference for Ken... and then just Yamato singing cuz its one of my fav things to draw, obviously--I couldn't get it to look exactly how I wanted even after I spent like 2 hours on it... Oh well

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Wife and I were talking a week ago about how we write our (same) characters different and its like.. bizarre? Not that I expect it to be exactly the same but the little things are so funny. Hiroaki being the main discussion--I write hin closer to a 90s sitcom father (does his best and gives advice but really doesnt know what to do when it all crumbles). @katvara writes him closer to the stoic man who doesnt express emotion, like the ex military pop.

Idk if this was cuz I only had TV for a father (except 1 week a year... where I was promptly ignored by my father) and hers are closer to IRL dad stuff or what.

For Yamato, she writes him more mellow and sad (?) In turn, having related to this character for, IDK, 25 years, I make him self loathing and angry. His canon inability to show tears only pops up in his 40s after therapy... otherwise he rarely shows his sorrow in front of anyone. He just gets angry because he doesnt wanna be judged for his emotions. Canonically he puts others before himself which is what made his year long spiral really fun to write because he is just being selfish because hes made mistakes caused by his trauma that he cant accept. He doesnt wanna let anyone down so he just pushes people away before he can.

Ah crap I rambled too much.

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Damn you Pandora opening my eyes to new music lol

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Oh my god, this AU is older than my marriage 😭