✿ ☆ ( 丈 & ミミ ♥ Jou & Mimi )☆ ✿

Ok, I had a *really* fun time with this! I was gonna do something else with Mimi fretting about becoming a doctor, but then this came to me and I really dug it! I wanted to keep Joe and Mimi’s personalities as close to how they are as possible, but wanted to switch up their crests and their roles in the group (Mimi now the oldest, etc. etc.). I think this is definitely gonna be one of my favorite pieces for this year!

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“Are you sure you want to stay?”

“Of course. I’m not gonna leave you behind, Mimi.”

Silence for a brief moment, before the sound of sniffling managed to permeate the almost stifling lack of sound.

“Thank you.”

Her voice was quiet, barely above a whisper, and nearly soundless in the already silent jungle.

That had been a few hours ago now, and as the odd group of Mimi Tachikawa, Joe Kido, Palmon, Gomamon, and Ogremon sat inside of a tree to hide away from MetalEtemon, Mimi couldn’t help but wonder if she had made a mistake in letting Joe come along with her.

They were tired and outmatched. As soon as MetalEtemon found them, they’d be done for. And it wasn’t just her, but she dragged four others into this.

“Mimi?” Palmon asked as she walked over and sat down next to her partner, unable to help but frown as soon as she saw Mimi’s own. “Are you ok?”

Mimi was huddled up, hugging her legs, unable to even look at her partner in those moments.

“No,” she whispered, “I dragged all of them into this. All because I don’t want to fight.”

I really enjoyed writing this one! It felt a little shorter to me in terms of interactions between Mimi and Joe, and it sort of felt like I was doing stuff a little similarly between this and a few of the past days, but between adding in some fun stuff with some of the 02 kids, as well as the end, I’m pretty pleased with it! I hope you all enjoy!

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“Digi-Port open!”

In a bright flash of white, Davis Motomiya, Cody Hida, Ken Ichijoji, and Joe Kido had appeared in a small internet cafe to a few surprised patrons.

“I think you need a bit more oomph when you do it, Davis. It just isn’t the same as when Yolei says it,” Cody said. Davis groaned as the group of four made their way to the front of the cafe, Davis giving the man at the counter a high five as he passed.

“Thank you very much,” Ken said with a quick bow of his head, Joe and Cody following suit.

“Look, I can’t help it that I’m not as good as Yolei at this. She’s been doing this for like ten years! I’d definitely be as good as her if Id’ been doing it that long!”

Joe couldn’t help but chuckle at the antics of the three young adults, shaking his head.

“Aw, don’t tell me you’re laughing at me, too, Joe…” Davis sighed.

Jyoumi Month Prompt #16 - School

I had to do a Hogwarts AU! Mimi bugs her bf while he's studying lol, but I don't think Joe minds too much. I had way too much fun drawing all of the magical objects haha.

Oh god another late update and one where my idea feels a bit muddled when its put on (digital) paper. I love talking about/thinking about Mimi’s cooking show job in the 02 epilogue, so I wanted to do something with that! And plus the sub thing of Mimi’s mom making kimchi fried rice with whipped cream and strawberries (I think its sub I’m very tired so I could be wrong) is just too much fun and I can’t help but bring it up when I can. So I hope y’all enjoy!

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Mimi is starting her show/work as a culinary researcher and the like, and she asks for joe’s help as she starts to refine the first “out there” recipe she’s working on

For the fourth time in an hour, Mimi went through her stack of recipe cards, frowning to herself as she set each one aside.

No, no, no, no, no. They were all wrong. None of them were right. None of them had the perfect oomph to be the first dish featured on her show. She had dozens of recipes she’d come up over the years: ones that were classics that she’d refined in her own way, ones that were Satoe Tachikawa originals she had passed down to her daughter, and ones that Mimi had come up with since she had lived on her own.

But no matter which ones they were, they just didn’t seem right. It was a big deal to get this show, and the first episode was going to be an even bigger deal. It would chart the entire trajectory for how her new career could pan out. Normally she wasn’t one to get so stressed— that was her husband’s job— but between the way her fingers were tapping and her leg was bouncing, it was clear that she was on edge.

Despite typing away and focused on his laptop, Joe could still hear the tapping against the wood table, and Joe slowly looked past the laptop to see her shuffling through her recipes.

“What’s wrong?” he asked with a frown, closing the laptop slowly.

“None of these recipes are any good!” she groaned, dropping the cards on the tables and unable to stop herself from frowning.

Ok so I know this doesn’t *exactly* line up with stuff in Last Evolution Kizuna but oh well! I just wanted some cute shit about Mimi coming back to Japan after so much time in New York and after  the pain I put myself through writing yesterday’s prompt I had to go max light and fluffy. I hope y’all enjoy!

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Odaiba was as beautiful as ever, and coming back after being back in New York for a few years proved it.

Sure, she loved New York, what with the fashion, the cuisine, and the vibrant energy it emanated daily had been something Mimi Tachikawa had resonated with from the minute she stepped outside of the airport. She loved Japan with all her heart, but New York occupied just as much space once her and her parents managed to settle in their new apartment. The only downsides, of course, were that her friends weren’t there with her and she couldn’t show Palmon around.

But coming back to Japan and the neighborhoods she grew up in? There was that warm feeling of nostalgia, of all the times— good and bad— that had occurred. Hell, even the outfit she had chosen for the day evoked that same sense of familiarity and nostalgia for “the old days”. A baby pink sun hat, red dress with a fringe at the hem, and her most comfortable pair of boots. She had a busy day ahead and definitely didn’t want to be dealing with the foot pain later. No, she wanted everything today to go smoothly and perfectly. There were big expectations for today and she was intent on making sure nothing went out of place.

I thought of this one because I love pain and suffering and emotions. How does the lore work? How does this even get set up? I don’t know! All I know is that I get to write that sweet sweet OTP angst and also that I want to write more of this because I haven’t written nearly enough OTP pain like this in a while. I hope y’all enjoy! Its kind of a mess and I literally just finished it, but it’s here so enjoy!

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As soon as Joe had checked his voicemail after getting out of cram school, he had dropped everything and was on his way to meet with his friend.

“Joe, something’s happened with Mimi in the Digital World. We’re having an emergency meeting at the park near Odaiba Elementary School to talk about it. Get here ASAP.”

As soon as he had heard the first words Izzy said, all thoughts of anything else had left Joe’s mind completely, instead gripping onto his bag with white knuckles, running as fast as he could.

Even if she had moved away, even if he was no longer her camp counselor, Joe still had some sort of innate need to protect her. He had back in the Digital World during their initial journeys there, and she was one of his best friends. That hadn’t changed even when she moved, even though it had definitely pained him a lot for the first weeks and still did even now when he thought about her.

But what could have happened? And how could Mimi have gotten there? His mind was racing, he was feeling a bit dizzy, but he was determined to get there as fast as possible. Even though his legs and lungs were burning, he wasn’t going to stop.

Ok this is coming in pretty late BUT we made it with day 4! After hearing the Tri version of Butter-fly with the entire cast, its been my headcanon that Joe just has one of the best voices of the whole Adventure crew, so I figured he’d be the one to be the secret karaoke star. I looked up enka ballads for this and had to include one of my favorite songs of all time, so I hope you all enjoy the musical choices and this day’s oneshot!

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The first thing Joe realized as he came to was how much his head was pounding.

The next was how blurry everything felt— though that was fixed upon the realization that he had only barely pulled his face away from his pillow and his glasses weren’t on.

And the last was that there was a certain point from last night that was incredibly foggy.

Hell, not just foggy, but he could barely recall most of it.

He and Mimi had gone out with their friends to a karaoke bar, he had nursed one beer for a while before Tai and Mimi finally convinced him to go for a second, and then…

His head throbbed in pain and he groaned loudly, one hand immediately going to grip his forehead and the other doing its best to try and push him to sit up. Joe grit his teeth, barely managing the feat, and immediately leaned back into the wall. He sucked in a few deep breaths, offering Mimi a weak smile and wave when she walked in, holding a glass of water.

“Didn’t know you were the type to rage so hard,” she said teasingly, unable to hold back the type of smug smile she usually held when she felt like she one-upped her boyfriend.

Here’s day #3! I was thinking pretty hard of what I could do for reliability for Mimi that would also involve Joe, so I figured what better than one of the things that stresses Joe out the most: school. Had a lot of fun with this one, so I hope y’all enjoy!

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“How… How did you forget to send that, Joe?”

Yolei’s disbelief left the young man’s head in his hands, quietly groaning. He was sat down at his desk, a manila envelope laid in front of him. Yolei stood next to him, arms folded, a deep frown on her face.

“Seriously, you’ve been talking about these applications for years, how did you forget to send this transcript off?”

“I don’t know…” he groaned.

“Well, ok, we can still figure this out!” Yolei said, clapping her hands together, hoping to try and encourage Joe even just a little bit, because seeing him now…

“…When do you need to get this in by? Could we just drop it off at a post office? Maybe ship it faster?” she suggested.

Joe was silent for a moment, then mumbled something Yolei couldn’t hear.

“What was that?” she asked, bending down a bit and cupping a hand over her ear.

“Today.”

For sake of completion, I finally added my contributions for the JyoumiChallenge in November to Ao3. 

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Ok we’re here and we’re starting! Big thanks to @jyoumifeels for putting this together and for letting me help with some of the prompts! I’m going to try my hardest to get all 30 down like last year, one a day, each day!

Gotta give all my love and creative energy to my favorite Digimon ship this month, and there’s gonna be plenty of stuff I have in mind, so I hope y’all are looking forward to it! We’re starting with something fun!

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“I appreciate the help, Mimi, but don’t you think this a bit… childish?”

Joe stared at Mimi with a furrowed brow as she opened up yet another small bag of jelly beans and poured it on the table they sat at. There had to be at least three bags worth there now, and as various students passed by, each had a more confused expression than the last.

“Hmm?” Mimi tilted her head curiously as she looked at him with big eyes, batting her eyelashes as if nothing was amiss.

“All the jelly beans. I mean…” he trailed off, before leaning forward, “Everyone is looking.”

“And?” she asked, mouth turning to a frown as she pouted her lower lip.

“Well, uh…”

The first prompt that I thought of for this challenge! Last year had Purity/Honesty, so I thought what better way to go than the dub Crests for the two of them? And I wanted to keep up a little something like I did last year, with the crux of the story for Mimi’s crest centering around Joe and vice-versa.

And I will say, as much as I love Mimi, that look she had in Adventure 02 Episode 25? Definitely not a vibe, perm Mimi is my least favorite Mimi in a sea of amazing looks she’s kept with her throughout the years. So I thought I would play around with that in regards to Joe who I can only imagine is constantly and utterly awestruck by Mimi’s fashion capabilities. Hope y’all enjoy!

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It had been a few weeks since the two of them were able to actually hold a full-on conversation, and as usual, the brief conversations they were able to have via text messages or on the D-Terminals never managed to live up to hearing her voice. So the fact that a Digi-Port had managed to open up in New York and Joe didn’t have to worry about any of his school work was one of those incredibly rare times where things seemed to work out for the best for him.

With the Digimon Emperor no longer a thing, either, actually meeting up in the Digital World was far safer than it had been before, so there was no way either of them wouldn’t jump at the chance, especially not when Mimi felt like setting up a picnic at a nice overlook.

“Ok, I bought the onigiri… got her favorite soda…” he mumbled to himself as he looked through his bag, “And I got a few bags of those snacks she likes… I think we’re set…”