#digitalgate02

Djsgsj fanart for @digitalgate02 and their LegendHeroes AU

Daisuke being serious and taiki being his usual smart self lol

(I'm curious because, i don't remember seeing many headcanons about the non-Adv/02 kids when it comes to birthdays...)

Hmm, you know, I never thought about it until I got this ask! I don't have specific-date headcanons for the Original 12, just star signs, so I can take a similar stab at it for the movie characters based on vibes and some of my Very Specific Thoughts about them:

Wallace - Easy! Gemini (late May - late June). Mostly because of the twins thing. But also, in the US, school starts in late August/early September, with the age cutoff for entering a grade being about the same time, which would make him perpetually one of the youngest in his class. I'm projecting a bit based on what I remember from early elementary school, but since kids that age will tease you for just about anything, I think being "the youngest" among his peers would cause him to try to act more mature than he really is, and (maybe) provide some rationale for all that inappropriate flirting he does :) I'm putting that out there only because I headcanon the exact opposite to be true for...

Menoa - Virgo (late August - late September). Conversely, Menoa is perpetually the oldest in her school year, causing her to form the belief about herself early on (coupled with her ability to excel academically and start to skip grades), that she really is more mature than those in her age group (she's not).

Daigo and Maki - Based on this Wikipedia article, I like the idea of giving them birthdays to match the Holy Beast their digimon represent (White Tiger for Baihumon and Yellow Dragon for Fanglongmon. Even though we don't know that that's what Bakumon would have Mega-evolved into, that's my digivolution headcanon). That places Daigo's birthday in autumn and Maki's in midsummer (again, according to Wikipedia). Additionally, the White Tiger is associated with the Metal element, and as I know from Sailor Moon, Venus is the planet of gold/metal (kinsei), making Daigo fit very neatly as a Libra (late September - late October), a star sign ruled by Venus. The Yellow Dragon is associated with the element of Earth, which is a bit trickier, since there's no "Earth" sign in the summer (though, I suppose Virgo technically is) nor one on the zodiac with a ruling planet of Earth. The closest we have is the Moon as a ruling planet... so Maki's a Virgo or a Cancer depending on which path you want to follow. I do like going the opposite and making her born in winter though... Capricorn (late December - late January), makes the most sense to me; I actually like that quite well for her serious, goal-oriented personality.

And while we're at it, Meiko! For my-own-personal-crest-headcanon reasons, she also has to be a Libra. The scales = balance = Mei-mei (to me).

So for Survive, it's a bit of a complicated scenario. They do not allude to the word "Tamer" in the game, but that's also because the word "Tamer" is a meta term anyway -- we've already seen a lot of arguments about the word being unfitting for anything that involves the more equal relationship between a human and their Digimon partner, and the term itself is a bit of an artifact word from the period of the franchise before Adventure. (You know, back whey were even selling Digimon products with them in cages.) It doesn't even work for the series called Tamers, which itself only uses the word because of the premise of Digimon being an in-universe franchise. I'd argue it doesn't even work for V-Tamer! I think at this point everyone only uses the word "Tamer" as convenience because with so many different portrayals of different kinds of Digimon partnerships, you need some kind of unifying word, and it's only natural anything you pick will be incongruous with something in there.

So if you're talking about broad franchise things, comparing one thing to another, then yes, they are Tamers, but this is strictly a term used for pragmatic reasons more than anyone takes the word literally. They even allude to this in Cyber Sleuth when Nokia declares her team to be "Tamers" instead of "hackers" as proof that her team treats Digimon as equals, which makes no sense with the meaning of the word, but does make sense in terms of meta symbolism, because she's bringing Adventure's ideals to the CSHM setting. The card game also classifies Takuma, Aoi, and Minoru as Tamer Cards, but keep in mind that the Frontier kids are also Tamer Cards despite having nothing to "tame", and when Oikawa got a Tamer Card fans were congratulating him, not for becoming a "tamer", but for being given status equivalent to a Chosen Child like he always wanted. Daisuke and V-mon used the phrase "Digital Tamer" in 2-TOP, but character songs tend to be a bit outside-fourth-wall anyway. The Survive kids are "Tamers", but purely in a franchise meta sense. (Incidentally, it wouldn't be the first time this kind of necessary forcing has happened; Super Digica Taisen, from the Xros Wars era, classified Adventure through Savers kids as "Generals", despite this also not entirely making sense.)

In-game, the kids are not "Chosen Children" in the sense they were chosen to be heroes like Homeostasis picked the Adventure kids due to their virtues. However, Aoi comments in the Harmony ending that their role in being pioneers in Digimon-human relations makes them "chosen kids" (this isn't a localization slip-up; she uses the word "erabareta kodomo" instead of the actual term normally used for Chosen Children, "erabareshi kodomo"). Ironically, this isn't as far from Adventure as you'd think; Koushirou points out in Two-and-a-Half Year Break that having a Digimon partner isn't inherently special, and that the only thing that distinguishes a Chosen Child is that they were chosen to be the first to have Digimon so they could guide this important time of first contact. So actually, it wouldn't entirely be wrong to call the Survive kids Chosen Children...but I personally wouldn't use it for them, because Homeostasis and the Holy Beasts at least "chose" Adventure and 02's kids for the purpose they ended up carrying out, whereas the Master "chose" the Survive kids for them being the nearest available human sacrifices and they themselves ended up diverting that plan. It's kind of how like, yes, according to Leviathan in Appmon episode 49, the Appli Drivers are "Chosen Children" (the term erabareshi kodomo is used here), but that's in the sense it's revealed they were all pawns in Leviathan's plan from day one, so is that really a term you want to positively apply to them?

I've never published them anywhere, and it took a minute to find the file where I listed them out! I last looked at these in 2018, apparently, so some of my previous choices are a bit of a surprise to me.

I think I vaguely remember someone saying it's stated/hinted in canon that Miyako is a Gemini? I have no idea where that bit of info came from, but clearly I hadn't seen it when I came up with these (I did try to take into account Sora's birthday being in early March from Our War Game). I might shuffle a few of them around if I ever update this list, but I'm not planning on doing that today, so it is what it is! ^^;

I hope this is along the lines of what you had in mind! One Dai/Miya for @digitalgate02

(in my case i multiship him with a ton of characters... Lately more into TakeDai thanks to Shiha lol)

Ahhh, sorry it took so long for me to answer this!!

Oh, Ni. NI. Do you really want to open up the floodgates of shipping with me?? (bless you)

So, I developed the habit of just not talking about Digimon ships on the Internet many years ago, despite it being the primary thing that was fueling my creative output for a significant period of time (like… 2007-2014, probably??). But yeah, for most of my time on Tumblr, there was no way I was gonna talk directly about Digimon ships, because I’m always scared about the potential backlash such posts may receive (trying to get over that, though!). A few ships have breached brain-containment: Wallsuke and Taijyou, obviously, Taishiro and Nishihime maybe less-obviously (these days). But I feel more comfortable talking about those since they’re (mostly) rarepairs, the haters are minimal/nonexistent, fans of those pairs are chill and awesome, and I guess they just feel “safer” than some of the rest of the Adventure/02/tri/Kizuna shipping minefield XD

I would LOVE to make a chart like the one @reliablejoukido did showing my OTP thru NOTP feelings though! Back in 2012 I know I made a numerical matrix-type thingy for my preferences, but I never published it anywhere and I’m guessing they’ve changed a bit ^^; If I ever found time to make my own template in this day and age, I’d do it, but alas, time makes fools of us all! 🥲

All that is to say, I’m also a multishipper, and I absolutely have other Daisuke ships!! I have ended up on kind of a personal crusade to put more Wallsuke out in the world these past few years, which is why it kind of accidentally ended up being my primary Daisuke ship (oops). It doesn’t mean all those other ships are gone and forgotten, though!

I’m generally using REALLY OLD American English Fandom ship names in this post, only because that’s how I refer to them in my own head. Please don’t think too hard about the spelling/order/capitalization/punctuation of them, because I’m not! I assure you these designations don’t mean anything in this context other than “the relationship between these characters in some platonic or romantic way, explanation to follow.” TL;DR for everyone reading this: don’t be rude about shipping on this post, and don’t nitpick my terminology, please! I’m old, and so, so tired of fandom drama.

And now, without further ado, and in no particular order… DAISUKE SHIPS! ᕕ(ᐛ) ᕗ

"Rui is Edgy Wallace" "..." "Yeah this tracks"

Then I asked "If Rui is edgy Wallace, then what is it Menoa?"

And the answer was: "Sexy Menoa"

And this only shows that we didn't get only one Wallace-like character but TWO. We're reinventing Wallace now.

🤣

Honestly he’s so much trouble he needs to be periodically reinvented, so he doesn’t become too powerful. Good thing I’ll never get tired of that general storyline! ☺️☺️☺️

So i thought to show ya it, the CEO of Wallace

ggkjasdkjlas you're SO RIGHT he WOULD

Thank you for a) bringing this to my attention and b) THE TITLE???! I made myself a plaque.