Every story has a beginning. And most beginnings are defined through a fateful meeting or encounter. Wether those meetings are filled with confusion, fear, anger or a vague sense of recollection... these encounters are sure to start something wonderful.
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Day 13: A 02 episode, character, or moment that you identify with
OK, super insanely late to the party … but 02 means too much to me to simply ignore. I’ve normally stayed on the fringes of fandom, never really participating much but always enjoying the content and dank memes insights that other fans had to share. But these kids … 02 holds such a special place in my heart that I felt it wouldn’t be right to let it pass by without writing at least something. So I’ll be posting a small meta about today’s prompt, under the cut. I’d just like to have my one love letter to this disaster season on record, for posterity’s sake, in honour of a rare 02 appreciation event. And if anyone ever wants to talk about 02, or watch an episode together or something, just hit me up! I love all the kids, even if I do have a particular favourite (which can probably be guessed)!
I know that 02 isn’t a popular season in the overall fandom, and I can understand the arguments why (except the irrational hatred for Daisuke/Davis). But for whatever reason, I really latched on to this show and group of characters as a kid. I was going through a really difficult time family-wise at this point in my life, and seeing a show that placed such strong emphasis on healthy, supportive relationships and bonds meant a lot to me. More than that, it was the first time that I had seen an example of someone going through a lot of the same struggles that I was, as a child genius who had also conquered a parallel digital universe and enslaved its inhabitants , as a kid who also came from a deeply neglectful, perfectionistic, dysfunctional family and displayed a lot of the same unhealthy coping mechanisms to go along with it (hyper-productivity, identity erasure, self-isolation, distrust, family love/hate confusion … ). I couldn’t identify these connections at the time exactly, but just seeing another kid who was struggling with some pretty serious stuff on TV, just like me, was very comforting, even though it was sad. Ken was sad, and I was sad, and we were sad for sort of the same reasons, but Daisuke, Miyako, Hikari, Takeru, Iori and Wormmon reached out and loved him in their own way, and maybe I could find that kind of love, too.
The lifelong sequelae of being brought up with such a background has kept me coming back to this season as a comfort, especially during difficult periods. And each time I do, a little older and with a little more knowledge, I’m always impressed with the care in which this character was crafted from a psychological perspective, and how much his depiction rings true to my own experience and my readings on attachment theory and childhood trauma. Suffice to say that 02 has stayed with me for so long because of Ken’s story, and how important that was for me when I was eleven, and twelve, and twenty, and ... well, beyond. Digimon has always been bold about depicting difficult topics arising from childhood, and I happened to identify with Ken’s the most. I’m sure many people have similar stories and I’d like to read them too, so I hope Toei continues to milk this franchise for all it’s worth this Digimon enthusiasm continues for as long as we keep it alive!
Some Digimon this time, First is Fan-art of Domo-Sensei's Yoleimon on Deviantart (https://www.deviantart.com/domo-sensei/art/Yoleimon-568433278), Second is My take on a Soramon (adventure02 sora hence the school uniform)
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