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BT18-071 | ShadowSeraphimon ACE

Mega | Virus | Seraph | Angel

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.]

APRIL 19: Favorite episode/moment

Episode 22 - As previously stated [Here] The episode where Takuya returns home as Flamon is my all time favorite. I actually just re-watched it the other night (Japanese Version) and my gods Junko Takeuchi sell it. Not to discredit Michael Reisz he does a fabulous job here too, but her panicked cries and terrorized voice overs sound so genuine. 

To recap, I love this entire episode front to back and it narratively accomplishes a Time travel/loop/dilation Very well and they can be super tricky to write- I know I’ve tried.

Random side note- BOTH of the VA’s for Takuya in English and Japanese nearly blew out their voices with all the yelling/screaming/growly voice work. So much so that Dave Wittenberg took over the voice for EmperorGreymon because Michael refused (also did the movie) and Junko begged to have Kouji’s VA voice Susanoomon. Voice Actors deserve better.

Bonus side note- Miss Junko also provides the voice for Naruto.