Just a lil snail guy

Never heard of them

pack it up boys we've made a social blunder

let's run that again

one more time normal style

I'm going to become a statistic

further proof god is out to get me

it's because I tore my acl senior year

I couldn't do it for religious reasons

my ex took my talent in the divorce

DigiMonday - TYLOMON

(Armour Level/Free Attribute/Ocean Dragon Type)

Tylomon is an armour-level Digimon, which in terms of lore (tm) means it's the result of a child-level Digimon using an ancient tool called a Digimental (or "Digi-Egg" in some English media) to take on a powerful new form that it wouldn't naturally achieve. Design-wise, armour-level Digimon tend to incorporate the design of one of the 11 Digimentals (these funny little egg-shaped trinkets here) into their design in the form of a piece of inorganic-looking armour on an otherwise largely organic-looking creature design. In the case of Tylomon here, its helmet boasts the blue-and-white colours of the Digimental of Sincerity, which can also be seen on some other aquatic armour-level Digis like Depthmon and Mantaraymon.

The "Tylo" in Tylomon's name, combined with its finned, slender, scaley body, makes it clear that in addition to its eggy armour Tylomon is inspired by Tylosaurus, a genus of marine reptiles that lived towards the end of the Cretaceous period. Like their more famous cousins in the genus Mosasaurus, Tylosaurus species were squamates (part of the same group of reptiles that contains modern lizards and snakes,) and are though to have descended from semi-aquatic lizard-like ancestors that adapted to life in the sea, ultimately replacing the superficially-similar but only distantly-related pliosaurs which had been in decline throughout the cretaceous. Compared to other Mosasaurs Tylosaurus had an unusually long, hardened snout which has been speculated to have served as a sensory organ or, interestingly, a weapon used for ramming prey. Not unlike one might do with an armoured helmet? A helmet themed around a magic egg, perhaps??? Hmmm? That's probably a stretch, but if Monochromon can be themed around the extremely obscure Monoclonius then you never know! Given the sheer number of dinosaur-themed Digimon there must be some paleo-nerds working in Bandai-Namco's design team.

(A mounted Tylosaurus fossil, image source here.)

Like most armour-level Digimon Tylomon made its debut in 2000 in the D-Terminal VPet, a VPet toy made as a tie-in to the then-ongoing Digimon Adventure 02. Uniquely among Digimon (at least as far as I can find) the year of its debut is referenced in its design, with the number "2000" being visible on one of its little helmet spikes. Tylomon is also one of the few armour-level Digimon to get an X-Antibody variant (essentially a re-imagining of and existing Digimon, typically with a more "extreme" design not unlike Pokémon's Mega Evolutions.) Tylomon's official description boasts that its speed and power in the water makes it "the jet plane of the deep", and Tylomon X's design seems to take that idea and run with it by replacing the original Tylomon's armoured helmet with more sleek, angular structure resembling the nose of a jet plane. A mesozoic marine reptile fused with a high-speed plane makes for a pretty intense-looking creature even without the giant knives on its fins, back and snout (the latter blade potentially being a further reference to the theory that Tylosaurus' unusual snoot saw use in combat,) but I'd be lying if I said I didn't find it all rather stylish!

Why cosplay the magical girls when you can BE the magical girl!

@liminalitycarb fan art i worked on during stream! No, this wasnt the file that corrupted when I had to reset, thankfully.

Congratulations!

These facilities chew you up. They suck the life from you and grind your body to dust to extract every ounce of profit they can.

Of course, it is still incorrect, so how about I fix the error!

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