so. epic gamers. you all may be wondering what on earth ryou and osamu are up to and what kind of universe they’re in that osamu has a partner.
well glad you asked, nobody at all, let us begin that trail of discussion right under this cut.
I’m assuming at this point that at least some of you have seen essie’s theory on how and why Osamu could’ve been a secondary partner to Milleniummon? Ya know, this one? [x]. If you haven’t, go read it! It’s good! If you haven’t and also you don’t want to, well first off, mean, but tl;dr: Milleniummon is a jogress which implies only one of his halves originally belonged to Ryou, and because Ken wasn’t intentionally made a chosen, that means the digivice that appeared in the Ichijouji household could’ve been Osamu’s. Connect the dots and you get a baseless but plausible headcanon that Osamu and Ryou were intended to own the two halves of Mille’s whole.
So you might be thinking, Iggy, your Osamu doesn’t have a digimon, how is this reconciled with your main verse? The answer is that it doesn’t really affect it. In the default verse, Osamu dissects the digivice and the Gennai Order decides that’s bad, so he’s blacklisted from digimon work and barred from entry to the digital world. This doesn’t mean that he couldn’t have had an assigned partner before that point. Just that they’d never meet.
The divergent point in the timeline that allows this new, fun, wildly negligent of canon AU to occur is simply that he does in fact go to the digital world as the Gennai Order intended. Obviously there was some kind of danger around this time that they felt a need to try and summon a child in the first place, but whatever it was mustn’t have been very worrisome in the end, considering they made no further efforts.
We’ve decided that this occurs within the same summer of 1999 wherein Adventure happens, but a bit earlier. Of course, in digital world time, this means years and years, and within the spaces that Osamu is absent, his partner grows to be the Mugendramon also seen in Adventure.
Mugendramon has already been a Dark Master in at least one iteration of self before this, seeing as the original chosen also fought him, so he’s got a pretty good idea of what he wants to do, and he sets up an evil base in the city shown during episode 48-49 of Adventure. Osamu doesn’t have the emotional energy to care about his partner’s crimes, what with his rigorous and spiritually taxing schedule forced onto him by his parents, and he mostly uses his digivice to take extended depression naps in the faster paced time of the digital world.
Osamu and Mugen aren’t the mushiest of partners, but they have a symbiotic relationship nonetheless. Osamu is an infinite battery for evolving digimon, Mugen provides a safe space and an ear to talk or cry into if necessary.
At some point, he starts bringing Ken along to have more playtime with him, Ken finds a little Minomon floating around the base and gives his Niichan some puppydog eyes as he begs to keep it.
Also they steal Ryou’s partner’s egg and kidnap him to play in the base.
Moving on, Adventure happens, Mugen is reformatted and loses his status, and worse still, time is reset to match the real world’s, so Osamu’s newly adopted coping mechanism is ripped away from him, and his depression hits an all time low as he can no longer rest or play with Kenny or enjoy life to any extent.
Then the accident happens around October.
The Anode/Cathode game doesn’t happen, because Milleniummon doesn’t exist as a villain and nothing in that game can exist in separation from him.
Tag Tamers does, the next summer, the day after Bokura No War Game, because the villains here can exist independently of Mille. There are changes, though. Osamu and Ryou aren’t separated into split worlds like Ken and Ryou are in canon because that was a Mille thing. They also never get to keep any of their recruits from dungeon to dungeon. As there is no overarching threat that’s going to kill everything forever, the digital world’s motive to aide their quest extends as far as the locals not wanting their villages to be ransacked, and said villagers abandon the boys as soon as they’ve served their purpose in that location. Also Osamu has to be carried around like a baby, lol. Ken gets relegated to his position as sentient pokedex at this point, too.
Additionally, since time is never thrown back out of sync with the real world by the events of Anode/Cathode, this game happens over the span of Real Months, so both of the boys are now missing children as well as being very stressed out about the time they’re losing.
Unfortunately for them, the Gennai Order thinks having the timelord jogress around to solve all their problems for them is just a bit too convenient to throw away. So they don’t get to go home like they’d been promised they could.
Ryou gets his usual amnesia/mutism bundle so that he only remembers how to be a good boy who follows orders, but since Osamu isn’t really instinctively predisposed to obedience, and his motives to fight are namely through loyalty to Mugen, helping his partner’s world not die, and to finish the war as quickly as possible so he can go home to his brother, other methods are used.
If memories can be erased, they can be disoriented. Osamu develops a very skewed sense of time passing, so that every time he asks when he can go home, they can just say “in a few more battles” each time and arouse no suspicion or defiance. Ken is blocked from messaging his brother and replaced with a bot that mimics him and convinces Osamu that Ken is still seven and happy and patiently waiting for him, while his real brother is desperately fighting for a way to get his family back.
aaaaaand that’s about covers it??? anyways all aboard the pain train babey!!
Jacks Goggles?
COMFORT OBJECT/GOOD FOR STIMMING (adhd).
he feels weird without them, he might even trick himself into thinking he’s got a headache if he’d not wearing them.
he likes the pressure, is typically light-sensitive, isn’t a fan of eye contact anyway, and likes to play with them.
He makes them himself. His first pair were just plastic, marker and some elastic, but his newer ones have an adjustable leather strap, and the goggle parts also double as transparent screens, which he can play four simultaneous images on, two on the inside, two outside. So he could make the swirls spin, change the color, or he could black out the inside, or make them fully transparent/opaque + play expressions on them like:
Of all his battles, his least favorites are ones where he cracks his goggles.
He’ll often use them for GPS or other things typically done with a phone.
He thinks the more useful he makes them, the more excuses he has to wear them.
Even when people think they’re weird
(or when even HE knows they kind of clash with his whole goth thing)
HE’S REALLY ATTACHED TO THEM OKAY.
EXTRA
- He’s liked goggles since wearing a pair while ice skating because it’s fucking BRIGHT in the ice rinks he skated at & his prescription glasses wouldn’t stay on his FACE.
- He has goggles that are also prescription, but they can’t do any cool screen tricks.
- Giving people his goggles is a big sign of trust. ( @lethargic-hunter )
- Goggles are sustained in almost every AU. Alien!Jack wears goggles, Post-Villany!Jack wears goggles, Apocalypse!Jack wears goggles, even Emperor!Jack doesn’t ditch his spectacles--
The only Jack that doesn’t wear goggles............ Is the Jack who actually listens to his parents, stops ‘’messing around’’, and works for them, eventually taking over the company-- because he has to look ‘professional’.
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TAGGING : ALL. @chase-eternally-young , @angxis , @boargored , @queenmiko , @darkcowbxy , @finderofdeath , @lethargic-hunter , @ofhydrangeas , Uh too lazy to tag more.
The Heavenly Virtue that is strongest in you is Diligence. You are known for
your work ethic and steadfastness in the face of problems. Each day you are
budgeting and planning to ward off laziness being unproductive. In the most
challenging times in your life, you have done the right thing even when there were no witnesses
to praise you.
