Mons, Computers, and Horrible, Horrible Puns (Digimon Fan Fic Ideas)

Not long after Tamers aired completely in the States, I came up with scenario where Juri was turned into J-Reaper. Obvious setup, but I put together a rough sequence of events and some scene snippets. Lost the file when the hard drive of the computer I had at the time crashed.

HELL FUCKING YES!! I'd read the shit out of that.

Though, I kind of feel bad for the Tamers and their parents.

Well, yeah. But if she's trapped in a different world and clearly can't get a new partner, then there's not too many ways she can meaningfully affect the plot until she learns magic. And having a character stuck as a damsel in distress for the second arc in a row doesn't sit well with people for obvious reasons. And while the D-Reaper didn't really infect her or anything in canon it plausibly could have without really changing anything, and it would go a ways towards making her not useless.

I would like to see the supernaturals response to seeing that the mundanes are for all intense and purposes bringing back the age of Gods, with all the stuff the digimon, tamers, digital world, ect... can do as the new form of magic. A new form that will only get better as time passes and it evolves rather then weaker, one that in many ways already rivals the best that the age of gods could do if not surpases it. I mean when it comes to high-tier digimon, the Hax is even better then the Nasuveres at it's best. The digimon even have noble phantasms.

I have said it time and time again. Barring the outliers like Gilgamesh and the Types Digimon is more broken than Nasuverse.

Clearly, the Digital World is the Supreme Reality Marble of the Internet, with significantly looser laws of physics and a weaker anti-paradox system than Gaia's.

No, I'm pretty sure that Digimon is more broken even with them, for example Alphamon, Milleniumon, Lucemon and others.

It's situational with them really. Types win out as being more broken as barring extenuation circumstances they literally can't die as they have no concept of "death" as it relates to Earth and the Digital World. Their firepower might not be on the level of the strongest Digimon, but that means little when they can outlast everything thrown at them by being immune to anything that would "kill" something else.

Gilgamesh is broken with his Noble Phantasms, especially EA. Sure it might not come close to Susanoomon in terms of raw power (destruction of a world is not as impressive as it's destruction and then rebirth) but it can still ruin anyone's day. Except Alphamon and his "my HAX is better than your HAX" ability to manipulate time so that he always wins.

Other Nasuverse heavy hitters like Zelrecht and Aoko have their own things going for them. While it might not beat out every Digimon on some their abilities can win out.

Everyone else barring protagonists like Shirou and Shiki are likely screwed though. Arcuied is probably alright as well. Everyone else (the majority of the Magus Association) does not have such hax as such things are incredibly rare and fly in the face of "reason and logic" as they know it.

On a smaller note, relating to a Nasuverse/Tamers cross, the Digi-Gnomes exist solely to grant the heartfelt wishes of under-18s (preferably under 15), something they can only do via creation or modification of digimon and digimon-human connections. Shirou Emiya wants to be a hero so badly it can literally break reality. Tamers nigh-universally end up as heroes of some sort or another.

Which 'mon would they end up giving him? Also, asssuming they do it for him a few years before the Grail War (though probably before the D-Reaper incident, we know from Impmon and his twins that they left tamers lying around all over that weren't necessarily related to or contacted by the cast), it'd probably affect how that goes rather much.

Archer's reaction would be hilarious, though.

Ehh... There's a certain point at which some of the more godly digimon become more than even an absolute tank can handle. As even that which is deathless may still be sealed away. That which cannot die may become forever a pet to the one who can beat it into the ground till it doesn't matter whether it died or not, incapacitation and a collar are the future. Though i can only really think of 2 who could possibly get that hax. Final forms for Millenimon and Lucemon. Two of the scariest 'digital gods'.

Which just makes it all better really. I mean here magi are, ruthlessly and obsessivly trying to hold on to their shrinking and weakening power. Completly enrapchured by the glories of their past while looking down and belittleing mundane humanity and from their purspective all of a sudden mundane humanity makes digimon. Here is something that looks like magic, smells like magic, sounds tastes and feels like magic but is not magic. It's pure "mundane" technology that in as little as 20 years went from being sprites on a computer screen to matching and even surpassing the heights of the age of gods. Heck, you can sure as hell bet that the Second Magic is not a Sorcery anymore. They even have Noble Phantasms. Gallentmon has the Agis Shield and Gram in his normal form, And Balmung and Gunginr in his crimson mode. Not the old versions that gilgamesh has, but it wouldn't be the first time a noble phantasm got a new look with new powers. Gallentmons Gunginr can even match Ea in ability.

Crimson Light: This attack sends his enemy into complete oblivion by breaking the bonds of this and the digital world.

The see the looks on the faces of the Magi as they impotently watch as their power wanes and see that the mundane world is increasingly able to do things beyond their wildest dreams. To watch as more and more people become tamers, till eventually every human has a digimon partner, every human is part data and can biomerge with their partner and have power that could defeat even heroic spirits. To see their beliefs and entire lifestyle be rendured impotent and powerless, and eventually forgotten. I believe this video sums up my feelings:



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Put some spaces in to clean up the post.

Hmmm..... Jeri as an Eldritch Abomination-based combatant.....

There ought to be a Digimon-Themed "Shut Up And Take My Money" image.

There really ought to be.

Yeah i started a fic like that as well... Jeri was implanted with the last 'seed' of the D-Reaper. I didn't get far, but I'd planned to eventually have the digital world come into conflict with a the various 'spirit worlds' of man kind (it being a type of spirit world itself manifesting from mankinds most information intensive resource, the internet) and drawing the Main cast who can Matrix evolve into becoming essentially a new age of gods and goddesses... with Jeri and her new baby abomination which was symbiotically attached to her and essentially becoming a reborn version of the D-Reaper slowly becoming somewhere between a demon, a boogieman, a dark goddess, and the focal point of the Gods from the other spiritual realms quest to reclaim the stolen power which the digital world subsists on, stealing back their fire to renew themselves in the face of the information age.

I dropped it for a future remake.

No, I mean I came up with a setup where J-Reaper and Juri were one and the same.

Gaioumon seems tailor made for Shirou's fighting style. He uses curved blades an can combine them into a bow to fire arrows of light. And to top it off he is technically a member of the Greymon family, well known for being the "heroes" of the Digimon series.

Any other suggestions?

You do know that some of the Types were killeddestroyed by (in)sufficient aplication dakka in Notes, right? "Having no concept of death" is just Lolnasu speak for saying that they don't have life spans and/or simply aren't like the living things on earth. Their apparent immortality comes mostly from the Nasuverse's lack of overwhelming firepower (for wich we can thecnically blame Gaia).
Either way, that argument is rendered moot for the simple fact that Types wouldn't be appearing anytime soon since the Notes plot only comes around a thausand years after the events seen in the visual/ligth novels. Unless, of course, some idiot try to mess up with the fire-crystal-spider thingy sleeping somewhere in South America.
On a different note, how much about the mess with the D-Reaper was was seen by the normal people around the world?

Considering that the D-Reaper's attack was global, hitting multipal major cities around the world and being aired on every major news station over the course of mutliple weeks. There would be no way to cover it, or the existance of digimon and the digital world up. None in hell. And every one with anyform of acess to public information from the internet, TV, phones, radio, to even simple mail would have heard about it.

Because it offers a way that she could manage to survive down the centuries alongside the other the Tamers, without having to get overly complicated. I wasn't actually trying suggesting that she somehow becomes D-reaper Mk.I. Just that it might have altered her enough that the Belken Empire could turn her into a Unison Device or something similar.

...Apocalyptic? There's a pretty good possibility that the masquerade could come crashing down, or at least be severely damaged with the D-Reapers rampage, which could have some pretty interesting consequences. At very least none of powers (Digimon or Typemoon) are going to be happy when they discover the other.

Wouldn't Digimon powers fall under the same clause that creatures of gaia operate under while in the Digital World? Though the reaction of anyone who realizes that the Sovereigns seem to have hacked Gaia's reality marble at the end of the season, should be interesting...

I'd actually consider it somewhat debatable if everything can be completely be blamed on "mudane" technology. Especially given the things that happen later, and how we have at least one monster maker who is missing, that was supposedly quite involved with the digital worlds creation.

That seems pretty damn out of character. Most magi are unlikely to set on their asses, twiddling their thumbs while everyone else gains power. Fate/Extra pretty much shows that they're more then capable of adapting to the digital realm, and that compared to a normal human, magi are going to have some nasty advantages there. You're going to have various magi doing their best to get power or reach the root by becoming tamers, others that decide to target the digital worlds Achilles heel - the net. If something happens to it, the digital world is pretty screwed.

Also you do realize that if every human (or even several hundred) was capable of going mega/ultimate, that the world is likely to get destroyed absurdly quickly by all the power being thrown around?

Yeah. On the other hand, as non-Gaian creatures who, unlike the TYPES, don't have Gaia's permission to be there, they probably have to expend energy to remain stable. With the Tamers' digimon their connection to their partners probably helps anchor them in a manner similar to the Servant-Master relationship. With wild ones they'd have to supplement their prana energy - Servants can eat souls to restore prana because they're ghosts themselves and made out of soul-stuff any way, but digimon are digital so wild ones would need to... eat... data...

... Huh.

As Aarik said, the device was Takato's Digivice at the end of the season. Not that Takato necessarily had to be the first one summoned; in fact, for story purposes, it might be better for him not to be the first. Takato is in a special position as the leader of the Tamers in that, well, he's significantly more powerful then the others. Not normally of course, Dukemon's pretty equal to the others, but when he breaks out Crimson Mode he kind of goes through the roof.

From a story telling point of view, this does several things, solving problems and opening new ones. Quo Vadis is an extremely powerful weapon that means certain death for pretty much anyone in it's Master's way, but this has complications of its own; namely, anyone it's used against dies.

But let's think of the implications of this in a war scenario, such as the Unification War. It certainly makes Takato one of, if not the, most powerful beings during that war and every bit the equal of the Saint's Cradle tactically speaking. He's certainly a mighty rallying point for the 'rebel' cause, too. But what does that mean, there on the battlefield.

It means he's their greatest weapon. The first time he summons up Crimson Mode after the D-Reaper was probably a time of great need. Perhaps his army was out-numbered hilariously and his men dying. Defeat was inevitable--but then, in a flash of light, the enemy was gone. Every single one of them died and vanished in an instant.

But what happens the next time? Every time he uses his power, a battle is won. Every time, his men survive against all odds. The long it takes him to use Crimson Mode, the more men die, so naturally he pursues it, tries to figure out how to use it at will--and then what? When he can use it at any time?

What happens in the next battle, when defeat seems certain? He uses it of course, a thousands of his men survive. But then, wouldn't more have survived if he'd ended the battle before it had begun? So what happens next time? A crimson light falls from the skies before the battle commences and the army disappears like a mirage.

And then, that enemy fortress? Hundreds or thousands of his men would die taking it by force, whereas he could take it alone in a flash of light and a chorus of screams, so why doesn't he? Come morning, it bears the rebel flag without a single sword being drawn.

And that city? A house of their enemies on a world allied with the Saint Kings. Battling the city would kill tens of thousands and the world it was on would still fight--still kill--for the Saint Kings. A billion men could die at this worlds hands--and a flash of light and a show of ruthless strength could cow it into submission, make it recede from the war and no longer aid the Saint Kings. Is that too much to ask to save millions who would otherwise die? And so, when the dawn stains the skies crimson, it does so above a city, empty of life.

His army, they say, does not fight. It is but a victory march that follows behind it's lord, declaring his triumph across a dozen worlds. On many worlds, he is worshiped; a figure of awe, whom no enemy can stand against. They remember armies, broken in a night. The remember nations, laid low in a morning. They remember planets, sent scurrying in fear, all without a single soldier dying or a single battle fought.

Other worlds remembered that as well--and they hate him. They remember barren cities left like pox-marks across a dozen worlds, emptied of life and joy in an instant but standing untouched as a monument to his power. They remember their children dying and their husbands and wives, stolen from them before a cheering army. They hate him--and they fear him. And every time the Sun turns the sky red, they shake and they pray that the same does not happen to them.

But, beyond all that, beyond the awe and the fear and the worship, what about the boy? The baker's son who was kind and granted power without asking for it and made to rule and to lead without asking for it? He has the power to save his followers lives; does he have a choice but to use it? Even when a hundred die at his hand. And then a thousand. And then ten and a hundred and millions after that. He's not emotionless; no, he always wore his heart on his sleeve, crying when others were hurt, feeling their pain.

How does he feel when generals and advisers say strike fear in that world's heart? How does he feel when they say kill every tenth men, to subdue the rest peacefully. How does he feel when he's the one who cuts down men like they were grass.

More then anyone, Takato came out of the Unification wore stained in blood. The others killed, of course--hundreds, thousands, more. But he burnt a legacy of death and fear across entire worlds. In the ages that came after, what did history have to say about him--the greatest killer history had ever known? What did the worlds say after he made a city lifeless? And then, on another world, hundreds of praises were sung in his name for what he did. He fought to free people, but what did history remember?What did he leave behind but horrors and lakes of blood?

His friends knew what he was doing--what he had to do--was tearing him apart, but his actions turned the tides of hundreds of battles. His presence could rout and army. His attendance could make the rulers of worlds bow to demands. How could they tell him to stop? Worlds depended on him.

And what could they say, when he was the first to disappear into the Networks to sleep. Or to mourn or to rage or who can say what else?

And centuries later, when the awakened Tamer's seek their leader and find that his D-Arc isn't where it's supposed to be, what can they do but wonder? Was his Digivice stolen while they slept? Did he awaken and walk the worlds alone? Where is Takato?

Just another way to do it.

(Not ignoring the rest of you; just got wrapped up with this. I'll get to the other questions in a bit.)

sad and heartbreaking but very fitting I personaly think their should be conflicting legends or a recently discoverd journal but thats mostly my distaste for demonization though I dont get that fealing from your snip so much as its posible from the senario

Damn... that was amazing Ryuugi. I'm not sure if it was more epic then it was heartbreaking or more heartbreaking then it was epic. Still poor Takato. Your description reminds me somewhat of Emiya, broken by his ideals but unable to stop if it meant saving a life.

Also given that it sounds as if the Tamers fought all the way to the end of the Unification War, does this mean that some element of the 'rebel' Belken Empire(?) survived intact in this verse?

As i remember Wildones came in with Digital Fields which basicly assembled them from material in the area, formatting them into physical lifeforms rather than digital. Which from a Nasu perspective could be seen as them basicly assimilating themselves and formatting to Gaia's reality marble, essentially FORCING themselves to be seen as part of it by assembling themselves from pieces of it.

Where do you think Ryu came out of? He's been dimension hopping for a while. Poor bastard's gonna be searching for home for a long time.

Who says where ELSE he's gone... or will go to next?

You mean Shibumi? All he did was write the programe that causes digivoulution and make the D-Arks. Thats the thing about Season 3, there is actually no mysticism, no magic. It's all ones and zeros and programming and computer code. Takato actually has one of his existancal crisis when he learns this because it ment that Guilmon could be copied. The reason why Shibumi was missing was because he was in a coma from a car accident. The only thing I can think of that he did that might be magic was getting his mind into the digital world by hacking his medical equepment. But if you watch JesuOtokus review of the third season you learn that, that was actually a rewrite of the script so that not making any sense was understandable.