I cannot be the only one a little bit sad that the Operator is gone after the twist. Because now I’m stuck with the two characters I had zero chemistry with.
I know everyone was hating on the Operator, but listen.. the Agent and the Operator had the most chemistry out of all the main characters, I was sad to see them gone after the twist, because Aegiomon is too busy simping for Inori and Inori is a flat cardboard cutout.
I was looking forward to that possible workplace budding romance 🤣 I don’t care if they’re the voice in my head!
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Why does she look like that. Who made her look like that?
Imagining when aegiomon finally gets to watch Agent Alpha with Inori and all he thinks about is making Kanan’s outfit sexier or whatever when he’s finally told to stop looping and messing up the world
Old art. Inspired by this official art by Kariki Hajime (right)
After Time Stranger I learned that there is such a thing as a rushed platonic/familial relationship, so hey its not just for romantic relationships and Aegiomon and Inori is exactly that, a rushed and half-baked relationship, their so-called “bond”…. I wonder if they only created Yuu to look like aegiomon because they know they don’t want or wouldn’t have the time to properly develop their relationship organically? I was okay with the slight retcon because it does connects Aegiomon (Zeus) and Chronomon (Cronus/Kronus? Father of Zeus), but him looking like Inori’s dead brother just seems to be used to established their “bond” they were marketed as such too.. but they just end up weirdly one sided and empty.
Now Aegiomon is just someone else’s dead brother, and it really doesn’t help that that someone is such a flat and terribly written character… like it is really really bad, especially for a main character…
At least Aegiomon’s loyalty to Inori is more natural and made sense. She saved and risked her life for him in the underground, (Side note: I do not understand why people claimed that he imprinted on her, when he spent the majority of the time running away from her and only stayed around when he wanted to protect her) and Inori promised her loyalty to him when he was at his lowest after getting rejected for being a monster.
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i like to think that jupitermon bonded heavily with the central town kids (apollomon, dianamon, marsmon) and whenever he gets off work he still wants to go hang out with them but junomon makes him have to fill in Leave Paperwork and sign it agreeing to give her his "Wide Plasment" in special "Punish Judge" time later and he just sighs, signs his name, and goes off to the digi arcade or something with his friends.
That’s cool. I personally can’t really see him bonding with them all that much just because they’re technically “the same age”. Aegio/jupitermon not having much of a bond with the other OXII members was one of my gripes with the Story overall, they come off more as co workers than friends. Unlike in Crusaders where you can tell that they have better and established connections to each other, but that’s en entirely different game..
I thought it would be nice if this version of Aegiomon/Jupitermon bonded with Vulcanusmon more because of his love of figures, but I remember he seems to be rather dismissive of them, which is pretty interesting given that the story likes to push how similar he is to Yuu but Aegiomon just shows utter indifference to what Yuu might like like Agent Alpha and action figures/toys, but maybe he’d be more of a casual fan.
the reason junomon wears is a mask is so that no one can see her make klay-tier facial expressions whenever aegiomon so much as looks at her (or when anything bad happens to his sistergf)
^the face of the most mentally stable digimon in illiad
Junomon and Vulcanusmon having this kind of Heath Ledger’s Joker-like slasher mouths 👀 this is very inspiring 👀
I heard the Switch version is out, so I’m gonna be a bit more careful with possible Time Stranger spoilers, although this in particular doesn’t exactly count as “spoilers” as these two have been around since 2013, but just in case.
MOTHERWIFE WIFEMOTHER
I will forever be dragging Time Stranger’s sloppy writing and execution to the mud but all the accidental “lore accurate” Greek myth and Digimon lore will forever be hilarious, can’t stop me from having fun with this aspect. This is what they get for ignoring the lore, they made their bed so they gotta lie in it.
To be clear, I don’t care/don’t mind if new creators ignored/disregard the lore as long as they back it up with good story/writing which Time Stranger did not achieve imo, my honeymoon phase with this game is over and good lord the writing is insultingly bad, the more I revisit it the worst it gets. I wonder if the story is better if you have zero knowledge in Digimon or the OXII as a group.
Edit: meh I’m posting this here too for context
..gotta love how no matter how hard you try to convince yourself that this version of Junomon is more like Jupitermon’s mother than his wife/lover , it still backfires especially if you’re already familiar with the OXII lore, maybe its easier for non/new digimon fans but this is like having characters be named Zeus and Hera and trying to convince yourself that the illicit affairs doesn’t exist in this version, its almost impossible.
The writers really scrambled with that one, can’t seem to decide on what they want so now she’s both mother and future lover, though if I say that it was completely intentional I’m probably giving them too much credit. I think maybe if you ignore that one sidequest with Minervamon, you can easily interpret this version of Junomon being more of a mother but fighting Junomon HM is in the main quest and the writers was just clutching to the whole “she’s possessed by cherubimon” bullcrap.
Cleaned up this old sketch of Aegiochusmon and Inori I posted on twitter. Originally it looks like one of those corny wedding photos (unintentional, I wanted fluff), but now it looks like he’s feeling her lmao
Anyway, I Like/Hate how Inori’s personality is literally taken from Aegiomon’s Reference Book page. She is literally created for him.
What I like is that I can definitely see future digimon installments doing this more often (with the preexisting Digimons, not the new ones) since a lot of the older digimon are decades old and its nice if they’re taken out of their dusty shelves once in a while. They’re essentially the human characters’ “soul partner” its a convenient way to create the human characters and match them with their digimon partners’ biography.
What I hate is the implications that Aegiomon got its personality from bland ass Inori, that’s giving her way too much fucking credit for a character who doesn’t do much, especially since Aegiomon is a decade old character who recently got his spotlight after being stuck in mobile game hell for years lol but luckily I don’t think the story was implying that.
I still think about all the the wasted character and plot potentials from TS
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I have to say the story’s twist gotta be the saddest and hilarious thing to come out of Digimon Story, its so out of pocket that I kinda like/hate /respect it.
Warning big Time Stranger Spoilers below
Short complaint about the twist:
Having the Agent’s true identity being Aegiomon, or an extension/modified version of the same Aegiomon we follow throughout the game is simultaneously sad and hilarious, because a lot of the players i’ve seen just did not give a shit about Inori. The last streamer I’ve watched flat out forgot about her existence 😭 😂
I know not everyone shares the same feeling of indifference towards the main characters but even within the game itself the Agent doesn’t seem to react all that much to the them (the two characters they supposedly cared so much about) disappearing. “I’m worried about my friends” this sounds a lot like someone who just lost their friends at the mall or just has some minor inconvenience and not losing them because they just disappeared from the universe.
Its a stark contrast to how Aegiomon feels about Inori, Aegiomon who is willing to destroy the world and kill himself just so nothing bad can happen to Inori.
Its also a huge contrast to how the MC was in CS and HM. The MC in those games had inner thoughts and monologues that showcased how they feel in certain moments and scenes, whereas the Agent in TS does not, and I’m not counting the Operator as the Agent’s “inner thoughts” and even if I tried they felt too separated from them to be their inner thoughts.
(its also my hc that the agent’s personality is like an amalgamation of my own take on them and how they are drawn in the official art and all the funny vtuber/streamers I’ve watched playing this game, which.. sadly the majority of them did not give a crap about Inori and the accidental result is kinda sad and funny to think about..)
Edit: I’ve been pondering about this and I just remembered what the Operator said during the twist reveal:
“Inori’s little brother was a big fan of a certain character. He often liked to pretend he was that character… Your appearance, your memories… they were created in part from the memories of Inori’s little brother.” -Operator
Suddenly Agent Yuki being a blank, self-insert MC with very a generic action hero personality that lacks depth, made a lot of sense, because essentially they are how a little kid (Inori’s little brother) perceives them or at least how he remembers them. Or if its from Aegiomon’s recollection of the show/character, which he did not even bother to remember the name of the anime even after Inori said the title.
so.. of course, them basically being a self-insert MC made sense because Inori’s little brother likes to pretend to be that character and Aegiomon tried taking her brother place by also fulfilling Yuu’s wish to literally modifying himself to become Agent Alpha (Agent Yuki)
It also brought up an interesting question, does a digimon know the concept of play-pretend? Did Aegiomon took Yuu’s play time too literal? I’m guessing probably not.
Anyway, in the end both Yuu/Agent Yuki saved Aegiomon twice if you look back at it.
I have so many gripes with Time Strangers’ writing and character wise, especially compare to CS and HM, but I love all the endless (and accidental) Aegiomon is Zeus jokes
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Dialogues from the game, except Aegiomonchusmon was Aegiomon.
I’m kind of curious what kind of Partner/Tamer Inori is for Aegiomon, I always assumed she’s a “digidestine” type partner, which means her emotions and well-being are linked to Aegiomon, its how Elecmon evolved to Aegiomon (like Digimon Survive type partnership). “I want to become stronger, so i can protect Coo” this is what Inori wished to be, so Elecmon evolved to a strong protector, it’s exactly what Aegiomon becomes after that, meaning, he’s probably Inori’s inner reflection, he’s everything Inori wished to be? at that moment at least.
Then comes the scene where we have Aegiomon evolving to Aegiochusmon, which from how I interpret it comes from Aegiomon’s need to protect Inori and not from Inori having her moment of strength (think crest activation from the Adventure anime) so I’m guessing she’s more like his Tamer, meaning she isn’t emotionally tied to Aegiomon the same way the partners from Adventure/02 and Survive are? this is an interesting topic. Anyway, its embarrassing how weirdly invested I am in this, something something Digimon and Carl Jung or whatever idk
