Parents: Davis Motomiya and Noriko Motomiya (nee Kawada)
Crest: Diligence
Art by @/hapuriainen, from their Digital Character Creator on deviantart
Tamiko is the only child and trans daughter of Davis and Noriko Motomiya in my WIP, "Digimon Adventure 03: Inheritance".
Tamiko's one of the oldest kids of the next generation of Digidestined. Combine that with her natural optimistic deposition, her occasional fiestiness, her integrity, and her charisma, and what you have created is possibly the next resident, goggle-headed leader in the making. The only obstacle standing in the way of what should practically be her birthright, would be her rival, Inori Ichijouji, who's just as smart as her dad was and has managed to be the first in their group to digivolve her partner to the Champion level. While Tamiko and Veemon may not have managed to digivolve further, nor possess the same intelligence as Inori and Hyokomon, they make up for it in hard work. Tamiko grew up assisting her dad with his ramen cart and her mom with her daycare with no hesitation or complaints. She's not afraid of getting her hands dirty, or lending them to help the rest of the team, even if she's micromanaging, overreaching, and somewhat overbearing.
Tamiko's Veemon
Tamiko's partner Digimon is Veemon, just like her father. While Tamiko's Veemon is energetic and playful like most Veemon, she is also very responsible and pragmatic, often being the anchor to calm Tamiko down when she's in busy-bee mode.
My take/version of the families/ships in the Adventure 02 Epilogue for my WIP: Part 2
|Part 1|
Confused and looking for context? Click above to read this first part. But, no big deal if you don't.
I'll start with Takeru aka T.K...and Catherine:
To reiterate: DON'T KILL ME, DON'T KILL ME, DON'T KILL ME! Canonically speaking, Catherine is the only girl that T.K actively shows interest in. And T.K and Matt's grandfather already lives in Paris, so an opportunity for these two to get closer is plausible. I'd even headcanon that the friend that T.K was going to invite to Matt's gig in Tri was Catherine!
The two kept in touch as pen pals, with T.K taking a sudden interest in wanting to visit his wingman of a grandfather on holidays (Matt constantly teased him). Eventually the two got older, began dating, and T.K proposed right in front of the Palace of Versailles on Christmas Eve. She said yes.
With a dual citizenship in Japan and France, T.K became a successful novelist and author; who first documented his adventures in a biography then writing/creating another fictional series loosely based off of his friends. With his free time, he volunteers at the daycares and nurseries in the Digital World with Elecmon. Catherine, on the other hand, becomes a rather successful actress (there's an irl actress with her name, which is where I got the inspiration), rivaling Mimi's career and popularity (but there's nothing but respect and friendship between the two despite what the tabloids say). Both of the two would also be volunteer NDPB agents to hop in whenever needed.
The two have a son together named Kai, who's bilingual in Japanese and French.
Bonus, here's what I picture for the digivolution for Catherine's Floramon:
Floramon -> Kiwimon -> Blossomon -> Lotusmon
Kari and Hiroshi:
Again, DON'T KILL ME! As much as I ship Daikari and Takari, there's no evidence to suggest that she ended up with either of these two and I already have like three random parents for the Digidestined who aren't paired with an established character. Having Kari end up with one of the Dark Spore children will be great for story reasons I don't want to immediately spoil, but remember that Hideaki (their son) has the Crest of Redemption. 😉
I'd imagine these two got close when they were older, perhaps in highschool and continued dating while Kari was in college, and Hiroshi in vocational school to become a manga artist and author. The two married right before their graduations. Shortly after having Hideaki, the two got a divorce for a variety of different reasons (financial reasons, insecurities, minor disagreements that digivolved into mega problems down the line), with Kari taking full custody of Hideaki, while Hiroshi gets his son on weekends and occasional holidays.
Kari became an elementary school teacher at Odaiba Elementary School, where many of the next gen Digidestined attend, who is also a volunteer NDPB agent. Hiroshi was a struggling manga artist and author who recently caught his big break after his cult classic had become popular with talks of an anime adaptation in the works. He too is a NDPB volunteer agent, but he hardly ever jumps into action due to avoiding his former brother-in-law who's usually at the scene of the crime leading the charge.
Bonus, here's the digivolution line for Hiroshi's partner:
This was inspired by Karn EX's video of the foreign Digidestined's full digivolutions video. I liked the idea of the Dark Spore children having similar digivolutions to the OG Adventure cast that skew a bit darker, possibly being affected by the Dark Spores.
Davis and Noriko:
Yay, another pairing with a Dark Spore kid. Again, please don't kill me lmao.
This is another couple that officially befriended each other in high school. With Noriko having plans to start a daycare, while Davis dreamed of running a ramen cart, the two would first bond with one another in Home-EC classes. Given Noriko's past with the Digidestined, she'd be a bit hesitant to even befriend Davis, let alone consider him to be more than just friends.
Noriko and Davis would begin to date sometime during vocational school, and would later tie the knot half way into Noriko's study (7 years). While studying, she assisted Davis with his Ramen cart.
Nowadays, Noriko runs a daycare business within the NDPB, and like the other Digidestined and her husband, is a volunteer agent in case of emergencies. Davis's ramen carts have become rather popular both in the real world and the Digital world, so much so that he even has ramen food trucks.
They have one daughter together named Tamiko, who has no problem with helping either of her parents at the job if need be.
Bonus, here's Noriko's Punimon's evolution line:
Punimon -> Tsunomon -> Psychemon -> Gururumon -> WereGururumon (fanmade Digimon, same as WereGarurumon but yk)
Ken and Yolei:
After the events of Adventure 02/Tri, the duo stayed good friends among themselves and the rest of the Digidestined. Yolei assumed that her crush on Ken dissolved after discovering he was the Digital Emperor, and then later befriending him as he redeemed himself. Boy was she wrong.
Her high-school years was when her crush reawakened, and she'd spend it attempting to get over him through dates with others. She'd even get in a relationship or two, with people she assumed she liked, but none of them felt right. Meanwhile, Ken's feelings for Yolei had emerged consciously while watching Yolei getting these dates and suddenly feeling very jealous and protective and angry that none of them seemed to work out. Yolei's awkwardness and Ken's inexperience made for a very hard, will-they-or-won't-they romcom watch and eventually, Davis tagged himself in as a wingman for them both.
Eventually, they'd start dating shortly after Ken graduated from high-school then get married three years after. He'd spend a few years doing an independent study before deciding to become a private detective on his own, with Wormmon as his only partner. Yolei would continue to work part-time at her family's store and help run it occasionally, but would otherwise be a stay-at-home mom once they had kids. She, like most of the other Digidestined, would also be a volunteer NDPB agent when trouble strikes. Ken's cases tended to overlap with the NDPB, and he would also volunteer his help wherever danger lurked in the human or Digital World, his involvement with the NDPB was kept to a minimum. Ken's the only one out of the group who's cynical of some of the head honchos of the NDPB. He usually keeps this to himself, and often talks Yolei to death about it later at night.
They currently have three children named Inori, Renjiro, and Kotone.
Cody:
Being the youngest out of the group, Cody would find love within a classmate of his during his undergrad days in college. Hana, however, was the girl who made the first move.
Their relationship continued and flourished as Hana took on journalist internships while Cody continued with law school. He would later propose by arranging a flash mob during Hana's first day as a field reporter. And of course she said yes.
Hana now works as an anchorwoman on the local news, who isn't scared of finding a scoop herself and will throw herself in the middle of a Digimon brawl for coverage (to escort people to safety and warn the people). Cody became a criminal defense lawyer. They have one daughter together named Akira.
Hana's partner Digimon is Labramon, who then digivolves into Seasarmon then Caturamon.
Do you have any unshared writing? Are you working on anything original?
This is a really fun ask, thanks so much!
Unshared writing
Yep! About 80k cut from Growing Up with You. As much as I hate to admit it, there was originally a very... Cringe OC plot direction where Eimi and Galemon's connection slowly started working both ways, giving Eimi access to Galemon's mind and powers. I'm uh. I'm definitely glad I cut that. There's also a lot of very... Hm... By-the-books fanfic romance in it. And there's nothing wrong with that! But it was definitely "monkey see, monkey do" writing in my case, and that's not what I'm here to make.
There's also some sexy stuff based on dreams that I just. Cannot. Share. Never would I ever recover, embarrassment wise. There's a lot of poly and mermaids involved.
Also of course the upcoming content for ongoing fics! That will come out eventually, though.
Original writing
I have a lot of ideas, but I've never sat down and started working on them, except for my 80k novel from college. I admit that I just... I just can't imagine someone wanting to read what I wrote. Like, with the fanfics, I think my brain goes: There are digimon fans! So you have some folks reading. But original stuff? No way.
I'm also really wanting to finish my fics, and some of them are like. Five or six novels in length. So... It's taking a while!
Thanks so much for your interest and qs, love you!
I’m finally gonna do it! I’m gonna write my version of Digimon Adventure. It’s going to involve the aspects / world building that were stated in my headcanons posts, but a lot more! This is only the first chapter, which is the first part of episode one. I might be pretty slow doing updates, but I have the first 4 or so chapters done already. (Once University starts back up I’ll probably go into snail mode)
Chapter 1: Marching into a New World (Involuntarily)
“When on earth is this snow going to let up? It’s been like an hour…” Mimi sighed, wistfully staring out the window of the old shrine. The air was musty and there were far too many of them huddled in this tiny old building, waiting for the snow to pass. She twiddled her thumbs, leaning against the window sill. “I didn’t think to bring a jacket…”
“This was supposed to be summer camp, and yet here we are, in a blizzard.” Taichi grumbled, joining Mimi by the window, “Hopefully it’ll be over soon enough.”
“I sure hope so, I’ve got some explaining to do to the counselors as to why we thought it would be a good idea to go missing in action during a snowstorm! Granted, who would’ve thought it would start snowing, of all things.” Jyou spoke up from his place by the shrine’s Kami, an old stone figure in the back of the small room.
No one else spoke, quietly biding their time as the snow only got worse. Taichi grumbled something under his breath, avoiding Jyou’s eyes. After all, it had been his idea to go on a non-supervised nature walk, exploring the mountainside near the small camp. Their teachers had planned some boring board games- and who goes to a summer camp to play board games indoors when exploring was so much better? Naturally Sora accompanied him, and Mimi tagged along- she and Sora were in the same cabin, weren’t they? The little blonde boy- Takeru, if he remembered correctly, had gotten excited upon hearing the plan, and the older blonde refused to let him out of his sight. Taichi didn’t know Yamato all too well, as he had transferred into the other class mid-way through the year, but it was obvious the two were related. Takeru didn’t even go to their school. Koushirou followed along due to Mimi dragging him by the hand. Taichi could’ve sworn he saw a faint hint of blush on Koushirou’s cheeks- after all, Mimi was a girl! And a really pretty one at that. Jyou had tried to convince them not to go, or at least to tell a counselor where they were heading, but had ended up following them, and soon enough they were at the mountainside. He did remember to bring the emergency bag, so at least they had a couple of granola bars to snack on while they waited out the storm.
Taichi looked around the small shrine, eying its inhabitants. Of the kids here, he knew Sora and Koushirou the best- the three of them were in their school’s co-ed soccer club, and they sometimes ate lunch together. Upon finding out that Koushirou was in his cabin, Taichi was hoping to play a bit of soccer with him, but unfortunately that hadn’t happened yet as Koushirou seemed to be glued to his laptop- just like he was now. Sora was sitting by Jyou, nodding off after munching on one of the stale granola bars. Yamato and Takeru sat along the other wall, both seemingly immersed in their own world, ignoring everybody else. Taichi couldn’t help but stare- there were very few people he knew that had blonde hair, let alone naturally. Their eyes were strange too- Takeru’s eyes were a soft, light blue that seemed a little too bright, but Yamato’s eyes downright scared him. They were deep and sapphire colored, but in a very eerie way. Maybe it was just the way he stared at people. Taichi recalled some classmates whispering about him possibly being a ghost, or some kind of spirit. Of course Taichi didn’t believe it, but still… it’d be cool to meet a ghost. Not that Yamato was a ghost, of course. Maybe he was European, but being a ghost would be much cooler. Mimi started talking again, Sora having gotten up to join them by the window. They talked for a couple minutes, and Taichi tried to ignore the quiet rambling, but then Mimi got a little louder, and two words stood out. “…Aurora Borealis?” He repeated, dumbfounded.
“…Yeah, look! It’s so pretty!…” Mimi quickly slipped her boots back on, and made her way out the door. The snow seemed to lessen a little, so surely being outside for a couple of minutes would be totally fine. Sora followed suit, and Takeru ran out after her, laughing about having a snowball fight. Yamato followed. Taichi perked up at the mention of a snowball fight, and soon he was corralling everybody else out of the shrine, dragging Koushirou by the arm.
“Hey!! Let me at least put my laptop up, geez!-… Holy moly…” Koushirou said, making his way out the door. He silently followed the others, head tilted up to the sky as he took in the bright lights.
Taichi was the last to leave the shrine, and quickly came to a stop by the other kids. Other than a snowball fight, if there really was an aurora borealis, it’d be cool to look at. “Wow, you guys are acting strange- HOLY CRAP, that’s weird!” Taichi followed the gazes of the other kids, instantly noticing the bright green streaks across the sky. He slipped his goggles over his eyes in order to block the thick flurry of snowflakes, watching the beautiful haze of color as it danced through the sky.
“That shouldn’t be there…” Yamato murmured.
“What, do you know the lights or something?” Taichi responded curiously. Yamato turned to look at him, deadpan expression on his face.
“It’s an aurora borealis. If you haven’t noticed, we’re a little too far south for that to be a normal occurrence.”
“Okay, geez, just asking…” Taichi mumbled, rubbing the back of his head. Everyone stayed quiet for a moment, taking in the strange beauty above them. It seemed to twitch, almost. It didn’t look natural…
“Hey, HEY GUYS!! Look at that!” Koushirou shouted, pointing upwards.
Taichi immediately looked to where Koushirou was pointing, noticing the one, two… seven bright lights in the sky. He heard a slight hissing sound, and they seemed to be getting bigger- wait. “DUCK!!” Taichi screamed, immediately hitting the ground, hands over his head. He heard the surprised gasps and yells of the others as they hit the ground, immediately followed by a high-pitched whooshing sound, then loud BOOMs and CRACKs as the lights hit the ground, cratering all around them. Dust and dirt flung into the air as light after the light struck the ground all around them. Mimi and Jyou were screaming, Koushirou curled protectively over his laptop case. But as soon as it had started, it was over.
Taichi looked up, sliding his goggles back up onto his forehead, and looked over the others, all huddled on the ground. Takeru peeked out from underneath Yamato, crying, the others slowly starting to sit up. Sora was the first to stand, cautiously making her way towards the crater right in front of her, peering into the bright light inside. The light- whatever it was- started floating. Then the one by Mimi started to float. Taichi looked at the crater next to him, watching with bewilderment as the light-thing rose into the air. He raised out a hand, slowly reaching out to touch it- he felt drawn to it, somehow.
“No, don’t touch that!” Jyou barked, but it didn’t register. The light was calling to him, it seemed, telling him to touch it, to reach out and hold it. So he did. He stood up and grasped it in his hand, expecting it to be very hot, after all it had just come crashing down from the sky, but as the light settled in his hands, it dimmed- leaving a small, square-ish device behind. It hummed softly, thrumming with a strange, alien pulse. It tugged slightly against his fingers, as if saying ‘up.’ The others quickly followed suit, taking the floating light into their own hands, each rewarded with a device, strangely warm, strangely thrumming.
“What on earth…” Taichi mumbled, watching the little device with fascination. He could faintly hear the other kids talking, but then he heard it- a strange, rumbling sound that seemed to echo into his very being. He looked up quickly, immediately met with what looked to be a giant wave, opening up into a great black void. He didn’t have time to scream as the wave came crashing down over them.
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My take/version of the families/ships in the Adventure 02 Epilogue for my WIP: Part 1
Digimon was one of the many shows of my childhood. Despite the fact that none of my ships were "canon" in the epilogue (RIP Taiora, Takari, Daikari, Koumi, hell maybe Jyouora or Jyoumi), I still didn't mind it. My main issues were with many of the professions (mostly with the female characters, who all had ideal, stereotypical, feminine jobs).
Anyway, here's how I have the families play out for my WIP. Under the cut are the Adventure 01 kids (minus TK and Kari).
|Part 2|
Tai and Meiko:
Okay, so don't kill me, but I thought/think they were/could be cute. There's potential here, and since Taiora didn't happen, why couldn't they? The stares and nods in the beginning of Tri were cute! Hot-heated leader x shy, new girl could learn a lot from one another. They both have a tendency to blame themselves for things out of their control, they both had their Digimon partners digivolve uncontrollably (on multiple occasions). Tri left crumbs for these two, they just weren't aware that the crumbs were stale lmao.
Tai would go pro in soccer, retire, and eventually become a Digiworld field agent for the National Data Processing Bureau; transporting back and forth and responding to Digimon related emergencies both in the Digiworld and the human world. He'd eventually move up and become a Special Agent in Charge in the Digiworld Enforcement division.
Meiko works at the Digital Center for Virus Control and Prevention as the Executive Assistant Director, to ensure other Digimon don't become infected like Meicoomon.
They have one son together, named Makoto.
Sora and Matt:
Again, don't kill me, but even as a Taiora shipper, Sorato could make sense.
Fashion design for Sora was definitely...a choice. I'm all for Sora becoming more in tuned with her femininity, just not at the cause of her actual character and interests. So instead, I'd have her go pro in Tennis. Afterwards, she'd help her mother run the flower shop. She would also be a volunteer agent for the NDPB, stepping in for emergencies when needed.
Matt manages to stick with a band and finds relative success, partly due to being one of the OG Digidestined. Afterwards, the band retires and Matt goes solo for a bit, he even releases a pop-rock collab with Mimi. He eventually throws in the towel and launches his own music label and opens a listening bar with live music from his own acts. He occasionally performs there if he's feeling nostalgic. Like his wife, he too is a volunteer agent for the NDPB.
Despite their stubbornness, which made their marriage a bit rockier than most, the two are still happily married with two kids; a daughter named Mizuki and a son named Shinji.
Izzy and Mimi:
Now, unlike the other two, these two would get together somewhat unconventionally (and angsty).
Initially, Mimi would marry Michael while Izzy married another woman. Mimi would be an idol, a worldwide celebrity with many ventures in the entertainment industry (a book biography on the events of Digimon Adventure from her POV, a cooking show where she invites celebrities, an occasional voice actress, performed in quite a few live theatre productions, owns a fashion line, etc.)! An actor and singer well known in both worlds, both in America and Japan, on top of being one of the Original 12 Digidestined who is a volunteer agent whenever an emergency strikes. She even became an ambassador, to meditate between the Digital World and the human world seeing as she was the one to rally allies toward the end of Adventure. Michael, being the son of a famous action star already, would eventually get tired of all the attention it came with being her husband (not to mention how busy her hectic schedule is). This would lead to Mimi and Michael bickering, which would lead to resentment, which would then lead to divorce.
All the while, Izzy and his unnamed wife, who he had met in college, would be happily married until her untimely death in a car accident. Umeko was only three years old. For a while, Izzy buried himself in his work as the new head of the Digital World Cybersecurity division at the NDPB, as well as being a scientist and researcher at the Digital Center for Virus Control and Prevention, being a television Digital Consultant, and giving an occasional lectures at universities. Mimi, in the midst of her divorce, would reach out to an overworked Izzy. While Izzy denied it, Mimi would offer a helping hand or just an ear for him to vent to. Izzy's cold and distant shell eventually cracked, and the two bonded over their tumultuous marriages and busy work schedules. The two officially started dating two years prior to the events of the Epilogue, and remarried when Umeko (Izzy's biological daughter, who he calls Mech for short) was 8 and Akihiko (Mimi and Michael's biological son) was 9, a year prior to the beginning of the WIP.
Both Umeko and Akihiko were fine with their parents remarrying, and accepted each other as siblings seeing as they were friends prior. Mimi and Michael are now civil (as are Michael and Izzy) and Akihiko and Michael speak almost every day. Occasionally, he visits his dad in America during the holidays.
Joe:
Joe's pretty easy. He married the girlfriend he was dating in Digimon Adventure Tri, the bike girl from the Digimon Adventure 02 movie. He and Chieko (the name I'm giving her) both become family doctors, while Joe also becomes one of the first human doctors with Digimon patients.
So, your DF sequel has those four kids in Episodes 40 & 41. Which Spirits will each one get and why? Where are Takuya, Koji, Zoe, JP, and Koichi in all this?
First ask, woo!
When deciding what spirits went to what kids, my main deciding factor was color palettes.
Lmao, it sounds silly but look:
Each of our protagonists' color palettes reflect the spirit they're assigned to (though a first time viewer who looks at this picture could guess that Koji, J.P, or maybe Zoe were associated with water due to the blues in their ensemble).
With that in mind, Chiaki gets the Spirit of Water and Teppei gets the Spirit of Earth.
And if we're going to follow that rule strictly, then that would mean Katsuharu gets the Spirit of Wood and Teruo gets the Spirit Steel, since Katsuharu's color palette has more hues of brown than Teruo's...
HOWEVER
Given that we know the most about Katsuharu, and the fact that he's a leader, a bit self-aggrandizing, and a former bully, his personality parallels Mercurymon, who manipulated others into getting his desires fulfilled, acted on his own accord, is the most notorious, and although he wasn't the leader of the Corrupted Spirits, he was arguably the most capable.
So instead, I wanted to give Katsuharu the Spirit of Steel and Teruo the Spirit of Wood.
But at the same time, it'd be interesting to give the Spirit of Steel to Teruo, a character we know little about. It's tempting, if I change it last minute, no I didn't lmao.
The premise might need a bit of reworking, but initially, the six Digidestined had received messages on their cell phones telling them to meet at the Shibuya Station four years later after the events of Frontier. However, for reasons, Tommy doesn't make it and the others wait for as long as they can before heading off.
A year passes and Takuya, Koji, Zoe, J.P, and Koichi are still missing. Tommy not only is worried, but suspicious. Time didn't pass during the first visit to the Digital World, so why now? What's even more strange is that other unidentifiable creatures seem to be teleporting in and out all over the world, as if they're fading out like a hologram. So when he receives a second message calling him to the Shibuya Station, he doesn't hesitate.
Long story short, he and the gang find out later that their spirits have been corrupted by the new big bad. Sort of like the popular Swap AUs I see floating around, however, this time they've got Tommy leading the charge (and a double agent who might be used to a certain darkness and might have had an aversion to it).
