#tomoki

• Takuya as a football player means that he has finally learnt how to collaborate in a team, possibly retaining his role as a leader. He won’t decide on his own as he pleases any more, but he will always stay with others and work along with them. To be honest, I think there is more to Takuya than episode 20-21 and among them all his aspiration is the weakest, if you ask me, but it still makes sense. It will also fuel the fire in his veins and I like it.

• Kouji will dedicate his existence to travelling around the world. The bonus is that he’s actually opened to welcoming Kouichi as a travelling companion and maybe the others too, since he did choose Italy as his first destination, -so I guess Izumi has got something to do with it-. If in Digiworld he liked straying away from the group to find his own peace, now he has discovered the beauty and the warmth of human company.

• Tomoki is the youngest, so it’s not clear what he wants to do, but it’s clear he will orientate himself in the direction of his thrauma as a kid, so others won’t experience the same. I’m still a bit salty about the fact he forgave his abusers and became friends with them, but I’m a bit biased: when I was in middle school I was bullied as well and a professor told me I needed to stop cultivating hatred towards those people and I should forgive them (add: “Like Pope Francis, -bless him-, said”). I never managed to swallow those words, I still can’t so Tomoki forgiving Katsuharu and Teppei always made me stick my tongue out due to disgust. BUT IT’S OKAY! I get the message they wanted to send and, whatever, Tomoki wanting to start a campaign against bullies is wonderful.

• Similarly to Tomoki, Kouichi’s goal has got to do with his thrauma as well and seems to deepen its meaning. Let’s face it, having been near to death, (if not in its embrace), must have been such a freaking thrauma for him. I think he also did stay in the hospital for quite a bit of time after the surgery, so I don’t really think that experience hasn’t marked him, indeed, I refuse to. However I must say that, although they didn’t specify it, I wish he could end up in pediatrics or something related to kids (maybe also seriously-ill ones).

• As far as concerns Izumi, I had my biggest change of heart in the years and I’m a fan of these epiphanic moments of my life. I used to feel like Kouji robbed her, as Izumi is skilled in languages, could have become a flight attendant since she likes looking pretty, could have travelled like the wind she represents…Instead, nope, they turned her into a reader model and at the beginning I was very disappointed, because I felt like it was too shallow. Yet, in these years, in order to write fics, -lol-, I started getting informed about what a reader model actually is in Japan and I ended up liking it so much, also helped by the substance the 2022 stage reading gave to this choice. Izumi is basically an influencer and a model in the true sense of the term, because a reader model is a girl who promotes not only clothes, but life styles. Younger girls and peers look up at these figures in Japan and feel close to them because they often share a lot of their daily life, since they are free from the obstacles fashion models have got. In a nutshell, she…Has got power. She has got the aspiration one can work with the most because it’s not a matter of whom she aims to be, but it’s more like a matter that this part-time job embodies what she is able to do, her potential. She can communicate brilliantly, she can have an influence on others, she is likeable and now is a social butterfly surrounded by friends. Funny as it sounds, now I’m so in love with this path for hers😂.

• On Junpei… WELL, NO, I won’t dwell on Junpei, I’M SORRY. I have written essays about why it is so perfect for his emotional intelligence. ones as long as egyptian manuscripts. You are welcome to read them if you want to. What I just want to say to the most affectionate folks is that you all can’t think he will stick with opera singing and that will be it. Opera singers won’t become famous from day to night, they have got periods of their life in which they can’t even pay their taxes, no joke. So he will be a loser for a lot of years, if you also include he will also live through Covid👍🏻, and will have to apply for other jobs lol. So, again, a loser who will study for his whole life, will have to bust his big bum being overworked, will be poor for ages until he gets a stroke of luck and on top of everything he will be fucked in the head because every opera singer eventually *snaps*. Now that I’ve said these things, I’m still confident he will be passionate about his misery and my son will go very far.

Un joyeux noël à tous 🎄🎁🫶✨️

In Episode 47, the Digidestined land on the Yellow Moon, courtesy to an attack from the freed Lucemon. There they meet the Baby Digimon and Digimon Eggs they had previously encountered, which had been under Swanmon's protection. And each of the Digidestined picks up a newly hatched Digimon, holding them in their arms. One day, I had the idea of making a list. Based on the Digimon they each picked up, what would each Digidestined's partner be if they had partners instead of Spirits?

I went according to what each Digimon would evolve in according to Wikimon, which contains all kinda official evolutions throughout all the different media (be it Pendulums, games, or whatever). At the same time, I tried to stick to each kid's theme where possible, like electricity for JP and wind for Zoe. Only ones that were impossible were Takuya and Tommy, since none of the Digimon they picked up had anything with ice or fire in their evolution trees.

Also, the Digivices would be the D3 from Adventure 02, cause I like the idea that these partners would also be able to Armor Digivolve - into armor Digimon we didn't see in anime yet as well (or at least not with the 02 kid's Digimon. We got Sagittarimon appearing shortly twice, but I'd loved to see Veemon actually evolve with the Digimental of Hope in an anime).

So, have fun, and if you have any ideas, don't hesitate to let me know with a comment. ;) Enjoy the list!

Takuya

Digivice color: Dark blue

Chibomon - Demiveemon - Veemon - Veedramon - Aero-Veedramon - UlforceVeedramon

It would have been quite tempting to put the evolution line of Davis's Veemon. However, Paildramon and Imperialdramon are Jogress Evolutions, and we don't know what Exveemon would evolve into without Stingmon. Luckily, we have a very cool alternative option in the line of Tai's (probably) Veemon from the V-Tamer manga. So I went with that. Speaking of Tai - it's interesting that they gave him Chibomon and not Botamon/Koromon. The Agumon line would have kept the fire theme. But honestly... I would love to see the Veedramon line in anime one day. Or why not animate V-Tamer?

Koji

Digivice color: Light blue

Poyomon - Tokomon - Patamon - Angemon - MagnaAngemon - Goddramon

What can I say, with him getting a Tokomon...? Of course I had to pick the Angemon line. I only switched up the Mega level, picking Goddramon instead of Seraphimon. For... multiple, sometimes obvious reasons.

Koichi

Digivice color: Dark purple

Poyomon - Tokomon - Tukaimon - BlackGatomon - LadyDevimon - Mastemon

Oooff... my favourite Frontier kid, and he was the hardest to do. I wanted to keep a dark aestetic, since he does have the Spirits of Darkness. And I wanted to do like a dark counterpart to Koji. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of dark colored angel or angel-like Digimon that aren't evil. I think there are even none of those. That's why I was reluctant to pick LadyDevimon, since she usually is an antagonist when she appears in the anime. Isn't the only good LadyDevimon the one from Cyber Sleuth? But I think this is the list I feel most content with from all the option that I checked out. And Mastemon is pretty cool-looking. n.n I also could have gone with a cat aestetic, since, well, AncientSphinxmon, Löwemon and KaiserLeomon, but that worked out pretty badly as well.

Zoe

Digivice color: Pink

Poromon - Hawkmon - Aquilamon - Sylphimon - Valkyriemon

Thank god they gave her Poromon. This made her list pretty easy. I mean, as holder of the Spirit of Winds, what better for her than a bird Digimon? Unfortunately we don't have a proper Ultra Level for Aquilamon, so I had to pick the Jogress Evolution Sylphimon. But I am not sad; it visually fits quite well with Aquilamon, and is also a perfect segway into Valkyriemon.

J.P.

Digivice color: Dark yellow

Motimon - Tentomon - Kabuterimon - Alturkabuterimon Blue - Herakleskabuterimon

Another veery easy pick. Tentomon line. Elektric bug. Need I say more? I only switched Izzy's red Alturkabuterimon its blue variant to pay tribute to the blue in Beetlemon's color pallet.

Tommy

Digivice color: Light yellow

Upamon - Armadillomon - Ankylomon - Shakkoumon - SlashAngemon