#appmon oc

Picking up literally the moment Season 1 ended: Yuujin is there. He says Haru’s name. Haru smiles. Smash cut to a scene where it is very quickly established that Yuujin knew enough to find the bookshop, recognize Haru and probably Offmon, plus a few other random fragments of his old life... AND THAT’S IT. Amnesia, baby!! The Appdrivers now have to solve the mystery of How The Hell Did Yuujin Come Back From The Dead (because obviously Yuujin doesn’t know. AND REI DOES NOT TRUST. ANY OF THIS.), while Yuujin has to relearn some of the finer points of being human, plus rebuild his relationships with Offmon and the rest of his friends.

But. BUT!!! HIS DEVOTION TO HARU IS CONSTANT AND UNCHANGING. It makes Haru really uncomfortable! Because his friend is back... and yet he isn’t. HE IS WORKING SO HARD TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED AND TO RESTORE YUUJIN’S MEMORIES but maybe it doesn’t ever happen??? And he just has to learn to live with that????

But Offmon is learning how to be brave and more emotionally resilient! He is still super shy and uncertain but helps out a lot! For Haru’s sake! For his Buddy’s sake!

Honestly 60% of amnesia!Yuujin would just be Data from Star Trek TNG, but it worked then and it can work for Appmon and just. HARUJIN! AND NOT-HARUJIN! AND CHARACTER GROWTH???

ALTERNATELY, an audio drama similar to the “Tegami” one from Adventure 02 (the one where Yamato does a lot of near-solitary reflection on the beach) where Yuujin remembers everything that happened during the Human Application Project, and it’s about his consciousness journeying up through the Dark Web to get back to the human world after being left in limbo. Along the way, he would start to deal with his grief and guilt at being Leviathan’s tool, but keeps Haru’s last words to him in mind, and he probably runs into a handful of helpful/unhelpful appmon until it ends with him getting his body back. HARUJIN! AND ANGST! AND HOPE! AND CHARACTER GROWTH!!!

I have seen this brought up elsewhere and I love it: Leviathan and Minerva come back, but reincarnated as low-level Appmon. They are adorable but also intrinsically don’t like each other and are all “wtf I used to be like that??” with respect to their former selves. BABY SNEK AND OWL. WHO APPLINK WITH THE MAIN APPMON AND RETURN TO THEIR FORMER NEARLY-OMNIPOTENT GLORY ON RARE OCCASIONS BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DO.

 Alternatively they are in their human forms from the manga and are girlfriends or something leave me alone

idk if the L-Virus is back, but apps still have to be rebelling and/or getting infected. Season 1 gave us the Twitter Appmon, and all I ask now is for there to be a Duolingo Appmon. INFECTED/EVIL DUO IS GIGANTIC AND PICKS A FIGHT WITH TINY MINERVA. THE BATTLE OF THE AI OWLS ENSUES. IT IS AWESOME.

Speaking of infected Appmon (and based around real algorithms-- *coughcough* the Tumblr Purge of 2017) we also have Censormon, the censoring app! He is both incredibly annoying and shockingly powerful for a standard-grade Appmon. Becomes Astora’s sworn enemy when he demonetizes some of Astora’s videos for no good reason. He is  completely out of control while infected and sees even the most minced swears or chaste public displays of affection as “immoral” and in need of bleeping and having black bars slapped across them. Can also pixelate himself so he’s harder to hit. Hijinks ensue. THIS IS PRIME CRACKTASTIC AUDIO DRAMA MATERIAL TOEI, FEEL FREE TO USE IT.

Still love the idea of Astora having a baby sister. He is tapped for babysitting duty pretty regularly and often ropes the other AppDrivers in as well. He, Musimon, and Eri are really good at making her smile and laugh, Haru reads her stories, Dokamon, Offmon, and Hackmon are all varying degrees of scared & clueless, but both Rei and Hajime excel at like... actual care of a living human being. Anyway, I should really come up with a name for her :O

AN EPISODE DEDICATED TO YUUJIN’S MOM!!!! and showing how she came to create/be in charge of the YJ project. Hot damn do I have headcanons for this AI researcher lady.

WHERE IS HARU’S DAD?? still voting for him being a botanist who shuns most forms of technology and works in remote parts in the world; he wasn’t targeted by Leviathan bc his digital footprint is completely nonexistent, which is why Leviathan focused on Haru after he thought Denemon was dead. He and Haru write letters longhand and send each other book recommendations, and he shows up to visit his family briefly before heading off into the wilderness again LEAVE ME ALONE

Eri experiences some more of the pressures of being an idol and making some tough choices re: happiness/honor vs. popularity/influence. Her life is good, but she is busier than ever, and it’s starting to get to her... also, maybe bring back an idea that was kind of forgotten about in Season 1, with AI idols and Apptubers being a real and persistent threat to her and Astora’s careers, and are now evolving into click-hungry AIs with sentience and an eerily good understanding of how to promote themselves, just no bodies... Eri vs. Hatsune Miku??? IDK

They are still using the bookshop basement as headquarters, and as such Ai spends a lot of time being a surrogate big sister to Hajime. The two of them play pranks on the rest of the cast a LOT. Also we learn why the basement was sealed up and why Denemon set up shop there (he and Ai’s grandpa were close?)

AI GETS AN APPDRIVE!! HAJIME GETS AN APPDRIVE!!! EVERYONE GETS AN APPDRIVE!!!!

ESPECIALLY KNIGHT, OK?? KNIGHT HAS AN APPDRIVE AND THE APP HE DEVELOPED IN COLLEGE IS HIS BUDDY

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT

MAYBE THAT’S THE HOOK INTO THE PLOT ACTUALLY. Yuujin’s back w/o memories and everyone’s like “???? weird, but ok.” Minerva and Leviathan are back w/o memories and everyone’s like “???? weird, but ok.” A shadowy figure does a big dramatic Deus Ex Machina save of the main cast at one point and is like “We need to talk... about all these AI coming back from the dead” AND IT’S KNIGHT. WITH HIS OWN APPMON. WHO IS BACK FROM THE DEAD. CUE CLIFFHANGER.

IDK I AM V. SELF CONSCIOUS BEING THE WEIRDO ON THIS WEBSITE WHO WILL NOT SHUT UP ABOUT APPMON

BUT ALSO

I HATE NOT HAVING THE TIME/ABILITY TO WRITE/DRAW ALL OF THESE THINGS

PLEASE HELP ME OUT HERE TOEI MY CROPS ARE DYING

name lingomon [lingo] grade standard type social app language learning

attacks language barrier taps its headphones, creating a shield-like orb around itself. it can then hurl itself at opponents, the barrier providing an extra oomph to a tackle, or used defensively, it can deflect attacks. lingua franca forces its opponent to pick from multiple choice ‘popup windows’ to translate a phrase from one language to another– usually two that the opponent doesn’t know at all, like Basque and Mandarin Chinese. if they choose wrong, the 'popup window’ explodes, causing damage. (if they get it right, confetti appears out of nowhere, a party horn sounds, and the attack does nothing.)

about an appmon who speaks all languages, and wants to foster communication and understanding– but occasionally it babbles so quickly that nobody can understand it. the screen on its belly provides subtitles in its buddy’s native language, but even they can’t keep up sometimes.

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name volumon [volume] grade standard type system app master volume control

attacks volume up hits the red button on its left earphone to blast enemies with a super-loud noise. volume down hits the blue button on its right earphone to silence its enemy, preventing it from calling its attacks

about a lazy appmon who likes nothing more than listening to music. sometimes it fails to notice that it’s cranked its volume up super high and blasts those around it with a burst of noise with the speakers on its earphones.

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name groovemon [groove] grade super type entertainment app song finder

attacks sound surfer dives into a pocket dimension and 'swims’ at a foe at super-high speeds, with only its dorsal fin visible. it then pops back up and strikes its enemy with its claws. decibel break pumps up the volume and puts its hands on its headphones, which creates a crushing wave of sound.

about feel the volume! obey the groove! a laid-back appmon with the ability to find any song with just a few seconds of hearing it. furthermore, it can just as easily search for the owner of any voice it hears. the speakers in its hands resonate at a special frequency with its headphones, so they create ultra-destructive sound waves when they reverberate together.

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name encryptmon [encryption] grade super type tool app encrypted browser

attacks proxy mirror uses strange routing techniques to redirect an enemy's attack back at their allies. memory purge forces the appmon around it to temporarily forget about encryptmon's existence right as it fades out of sight, then reappears with a sneak attack.

about an encrypted browser appmon who is the master of going unseen. it can freely dive into the deep web from the surface web and slip between the cracks unnoticed. it leaves no trace wherever it goes, making its movements very hard to track.

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name jackermon [signal jacker] grade ultimate type tool app signal intrusion

attacks communication breakdown freezes enemies in their tracks with an immobilizing wave of static from its megaphone. signal reverb creates countless copies of itself all around the battlefield, attacking with the sheer brute force of numbers. broadcast hijack temporarily takes control of an enemy appmon. how long it holds depends on the willpower and power level of the target appmon.

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