For the FrontierFest: A Digimon Frontier 20th Anniversary Celebration
Had some stuff going on yesterday so this one’s a twofer
Prompt for April 12: Favorite Villain
THIS MOTHERFUCKER. This conniving, egotistical, power-hungry bastard. Other than Lucemon and maybe Crusadermon, there’s no other multi-episode villain that takes nearly as much sick joy in being the absolute worst. What puts Mercurymon ahead of Lucemon for me, and the rest of the crowd the gang faces really, is that even though he has an enormous amount of pride, it never stops him from considering the very real possibility that he could fail - it’s why he’s so desperate for power in the first place. He acknowledges the growing strength of the kids outright and tries to deal with it accordingly, which WORKS for a while. He has absolutely zero qualms about betraying ANYBODY, even those who could squash him with no trouble at all. Duskmon was scary in his relentlessness, but Mercurymon has that AND the creativity to match. Also?
This was terrifying. Duskmon always had an air of “This could have been avoided” even if it wasn’t necessarily true, but what the fuck do you do about this? Turns out the answer is cheat ‘cuz that’s the only reason Takuya’s still here and not in the LITERAL FUCKING COFFIN BACK THERE. That thing bumping down the stairs fuck anyone else up ‘cuz it sure did me!
The fact that this guy has a Shakespearean accent in the dub is both hilarious and extremely fitting.
Prompt for April 13: Favorite Minor Character (Human) [sibling, parent, other kid in the Digital World, etc.]
Yuriko Kanbara, for a line that lives in my head rent-free: “Getting an ugly tie is NOT the Cuban Missile Crisis!”
