Love is Friendship set on fire

Dedicated to these awesome characters from Digimon Adventure, Zero Two and Tri, Sora Takenouchi and Yamato Ishida and this amazing couple, Sorato.

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20 Years With You

So I have been working in this project for quite a while and it's finally time to announce it! To celebrate Sora and Yamato's 20th anniversary, I decide to tell their story! So every two weeks there will be a new chapter that covers a year until 2022. Please note that aside from canon events from the anime, movies and OVAs, everything else is purely headcanon, which means they aren't true and never happened. Links: FF.net | AO3

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Sorato Week 2024 - Day 4: Sky

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Title: Family Time Pairing: Sora/Yamato; Takeru/Kimi Characters: Sora Takenouchi; Yamato Ishida; Aiko Takenouchi Ishida; Kouji Takenouchi Ishida; Takeru Takaishi; Kimi Takaishi (OC) and Hiroaki Ishida Summary: Sora and Yamato get away for the weekend with their families.

Warning: Explicit content English Version | Brazilian Portuguese Version | Spanish Version

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Sorato Week 2024 - Day 3: Valentine's Day

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Title: Weekend Out Pairing: Sora/Yamato; Takeru/Kimi Characters: Sora Takenouchi; Yamato Ishida; Aiko Takenouchi Ishida; Kouji Takenouchi Ishida; Takeru Takaishi; Kimi Takaishi (OC). Summary: Sora and Yamato have a romantic weekend without the kids.

Warning: Explicit content English Version | Brazilian Portuguese Version | Spanish Version

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Sorato Week 2024 - Day 2: Costume

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Title: Mimi's Birthday Party Pairing: Sora/Yamato Characters: Sora Takenouchi; Yamato Ishida; Taichi Yagami; Mimi Tachikawa. Summary: Sora makes Yamato's costume for Mimi's birthday party and things heat up between them.

Warning: Explicit content English Version | Brazilian Portuguese Version | Spanish Version

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Digimon Adventure subtext analysis: The other family angle

Years ago, I had already tried to conduct an analysis on how Taichi, Hikari and Koushirou were set up in a way that displayed the importance of family within their bond [I, II, III]. The conclusion there was that, by closing his own family-related arc, Koushirou was capable of supporting Taichi and Hikari's (also indirectly family-related) struggles in the Dark Master's arc as well. In a very similar vain, it can be argued that Sora, Yamato and Takeru were set up similarly. The hypothesis here is that, by mirroring Sora's and Yamato's (and Takeru's) familial issues, they're capable of supporting each other in the final arc as well.

Let's see how these familial parallels and similarities play out:

While it can be argued that the majority of the characters keep their family-related trauma to themselves, in Sora's and Yamato's cases, it has the biggest effect on the group dynamic as a whole. Because while Taichi, for example, starts to get reckless in order NOT TO get reckless and protect everyone he loves, Sora's and Yamato's instinct is to pull away from everyone and everything to protect them, even if they may declare the opposite to be true. (Mind you, that is actually some kind of behaviour Taichi will adopt in Tri onwards as well, but that shall not be the point of this analysis.)

The most obvious parallel between them is that they have rather disruptive family lives. While Sora's parents aren't divorced, they're still not living together and her relationship to her mother is rather rocky, filled with misunderstandings based on expectations and different views on life. Yamato's and Takeru's parents are divorced and Yamato has a rather difficult time approaching his mother himself, telling her how he really feels about it all, etc. He tends to surround himself with an aura of coolness and aloofness, even though the viewer quickly learns that he is very emotional and is just trying to bottle it all up.

In the novels it is implied that Sora may have known that Yamato and Takeru were brothers from the very beginning - so her deflecting or not prying further into their lives at the start of the series, especially when Taichi and Koushirou are speculating about their relationship, makes sense. Because she understands that they need space.

And Yamato returns the favour later on, letting her cry it all out; when Sora is experiencing her outburst of emotions in her Crest episode, the viewer learns that she has been doing the same thing as Yamato: bottle it all up. In the same way, they are both prone to wanting to figure out how to deal with their "inner states" by themselves, they're both not particularly good at talking it all out - and so it shouldn't be surprising that they understand that aspect about the other and give each other time and space to breathe. It's not something everybody in the group understands, but it is a very distinctive parallel: Sora basically explains to them that she kept away from the group because she hadn't figured herself out yet. Thus, Sora explaining Takeru that Yamato needs time to do some soul-searching himself is a direct follow-up response here. She sensed Yamato's need to do this on his own and followed it up by the promise that Takeru would be safe in his absence.

Takeru is a good keyword at this point as well, because similarly to how Hikari was a focal point in the other analysis, he is the key factor that makes the family angle so apparent. Yamato may be the one to give Sora space - but Takeru is the one who tells Sora what she desperately needed to hear. He wants to keep the family together at all costs, he is fed up with separation scenes, so he doesn't want her to leave again, sees her as "family", wants her to know how valued and loved she is - and so, Sora is the one who reassures Takeru when Yamato is on the brink of leaving himself, believing that, eventually, everything will turn out fine. It may look like nothing more than repetitive behaviour at first - but it is a circle of learning and trust instead, to rekindle and have better family dynamics in the future.

It's due to their strained relationships with their parents, their masks, their coping mechanisms that Sora and Yamato think they don't have what it takes to activate or even deserve their respective Crests. Love and Friendship - they don't know what it means for them personally. It's why they're so prone to being engulfed by darkness, why their dark caves are dangerous manifestations of their declining mental health, self-doubt and fears.

That is why the soul-searching is needed, repeatedly so. It's why they understand each other's need to be left alone - which is something we will see throughout the entirety of the Adventure series for both of them. But it's also why they need Takeru's softness and Taichi's persistence (as well as Jyou's support and Mimi's reassurance at different times) to get it back together again. They have to be reminded that they don't HAVE TO be alone in all this (even if they often choose to).

They know, deep down inside, that self-pity and giving in is not an option. They do ask themselves why they got into this situation, why they were chosen in the first place - but they also learn, through their experiences (and their respective bonds with and urge to support Taichi) that they're the ones who have the choice. To fight or to stay away - it's going to be their choice, again and again.

In the novels, the sight of Sora and Takeru together, right after he broke out of his own cave of darkness, even reminds Yamato of his mother, indicating that the entire journey is helping him to come to terms with slowly wanting to reconcile with her.

In general, Sora's role in the Dark Master's arc is mirrored by Koushirou's - they're support systems for the Yagami siblings (and Taichi and Yamato in combat), but Sora in particular is also often put together with the younger siblings, protecting them (enforcing her motherly role) or actually fighting alongside them (in more equal matters). In addition, she is acting as a bridge between the Takaishida brothers, especially in the final arc in which she is the one who throws Yamato's keychain at Takeru, thus helping him to overcome his own insecurities as well and eventually activating his Crest of Hope himself.

Long story short; Sora had already been on her way of reconciliation with her own mother and, after everything she went through, was able to reassure Yamato that he could go on to find his own path as she did hers before, believing that he could do it too. In return, Yamato had been put - and eventually also put himself - in the position to pull Sora out of her own state of darkness as well. Because he had been there himself, he was finally able to put things into words. Because, at this point in time, they're both incredibly similar - and may have gained what it takes to make up with their mothers.

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Sorato Week 2024 - Day 1: Dark

Title: Apart Pairing: Sora/Yamato Characters: Sora Takenouchi; Yamato Ishida; Takeru Takaishi; Taichi Yagami; Haruhiko Takenouchi Summary: Yamato and Sora face their fears and worries in two moments of their lives. English Version | Brazilian Portuguese Version | Spanish Version

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🐲2024🐲

new year, new pin.

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[sorato-fan]

So, I received an ask about Sorato week. Normally, there's another account who does it every year, but I haven't seen anything about it here so far.

Based on that, I want to know if people are interested in a Sorato week this year.

Would you like a Sorato week in 2023 and would you participate?

I want one and would participate

I want one, but wouldn't participate

I don't want one

Voting ended onMay 15, 2023

[sorato-fan]

The results were pretty tight, and I'm happy to announce there'll be a Sorato week this year!

Follow @soratoweek account, that's where I'll be hosting it. I should be announcing it very soon!

Thanks for voting!

[sorato-fan]

So, I received an ask about Sorato week. Normally, there's another account who does it every year, but I haven't seen anything about it here so far.

Based on that, I want to know if people are interested in a Sorato week this year.

Would you like a Sorato week in 2023 and would you participate?

I want one and would participate

I want one, but wouldn't participate

I don't want one

Voting ended onMay 15, 2023

[sorato-fan]

3 more days to vote! Please reblog it to reach more Sorato shippers

[sorato-fan]

So, I received an ask about Sorato week. Normally, there's another account who does it every year, but I haven't seen anything about it here so far.

Based on that, I want to know if people are interested in a Sorato week this year.

Would you like a Sorato week in 2023 and would you participate?

I want one and would participate

I want one, but wouldn't participate

I don't want one

Voting ended onMay 15, 2023

[sorato-fan]

So, I received an ask about Sorato week. Normally, there's another account who does it every year, but I haven't seen anything about it here so far.

Based on that, I want to know if people are interested in a Sorato week this year.

Would you like a Sorato week in 2023 and would you participate?

I want one and would participate

I want one, but wouldn't participate

I don't want one

Voting ended onMay 15, 2023

[sorato-fan]

Hey sorato week start this year?

Hey!

As far as I know, another account holds Sorato week and they usually do it in February. I haven't seen anything about it this year, so I don't know if there was one.

If there wasn't and people are interested, I can definitely think about one later this year.

Thanks for the ask :)

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Fingers crossed that Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning implies that Yamato and Sora are engaged or at least dating in 2012.

Please, Toei. Just give us a crumb. No more of this “It’s complicated!” bull. 🙏✨

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That's all we ask, but we'll gladly accept it if they give us more

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Digimon Adventure 02 - Takeru's family dinner fantasy

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Floured Up

Summary: What was supposed to be a simple cookie making turned into something steamy.

This is my contribution for the 20th anniversary of my babies! Read it on AO3 or FFN

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Sorato 19th Anniversary! Happy Sorato Day, everyone!

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2 decades! Twenty years! Happy anniversary, my babies! 💕 I headcanon Sora is telling Yamato she's expecting their second child today 💙❤