#tri.

Alrighty so first off, acknowledgement: I have never fully read the novels. I was only ever interested in what they had to say about the villians/the organization “theory” so I only really read the parts relating to all that. So if I’m missing something, I’m sorry

And yeah, I think you understood the timeline right Anon

Hikarigaoka incident happens, the Agents start gathering data from all the childen present at the accident site

At some point between the Incident and August 1st 1999, Apocalymon starts it with his nonsense and the Agents need human kids to help them out

Presumably because Team Taichi are still like, at the age of Almost Toddlers at this point, instead of sending them out to deal with Apocalymon, the Agents find new chosen via unknown methods to solve the Apocalymon Problem; thus we get Team Daigo

Problem solved, a few years pass

Whoops Apocalymon and the Dark Masters are at it again, but this time it’s not like Gennai specifically tries to seek help as by the time they realize what’s going on it’s already too late and whoops all the agents are dead ‘cept Gennai who is an old man now. Good thing they had been making Digimon for Team Taichi so all they really needed was ensure all the crests, Digivices and Digieggs were safe while Homeostasis/the Digital World itself waits for the time to get help and summon Team Taichi

Now this does create some questions about stuff like “how old are Daigo and Maki then?” (’cause they look like they’re the same age Taichi and co were when they had to deal with Apocalymon, but at most they would be 4 years older than Taichi and the rest if we had to force them into this timeline), but if anything I’m gonna pin this issue on tri. and its lore additions

Team Taichi inspired the entire concept of Chosen, but they weren’t suitable to be Chosen during the first crisis, so they only became Chosen for the second crisis

Personally, I was kind of under the impression that all the data, including that of the Digimon that had died in the Human World, would end up getting reset and restored to the DW after the Reboot, but, let’s go through all the possible scenarios:

(And, for the record, I can’t actually remember how the Reboot works so if I am misremembering then my apologies)

If Wizarmon’s data acts the same way all other Digimon’s data does:

A) Wizarmon has reborn in the DWB) Wizarmon’s data was restored to Witchelny (tri. did take some notes from the Novels so it is possible Wizarmon’s origins are canon)C) Digimon who die in the HW aren’t affected by the Reboot and remain as they are (which is dead, their data scattered across the HW)D) Digimon who die in the HW are affected by the Reboot in the sense that their data does get “reset”, but their data is still stuck in the HWE) Your suggestion; Wizarmon’s data just got erased instead of restored

But here is a question; does Wizarmon’s data act the same way other Digimon’s data does? If Wizarmon’s origin story is canon, this raises an extra alternative:

F) Wizarmon, because he isn’t “fully” a Digimon (or at least a Digimon of the Digital World that was being rebooted), doesn’t get affected by the Reboot and what remains of him is still in the HW

But we also have another question; is that apparition actually Wizarmon? Like, is that his full soul, or just some residual energy left behind? (Like to get an idea go watch an episode of Ghost Adventures and then ask yourself if our “knowledge” of ghosts could apply to (Witchelnian) Digimon, could Digimon “leave behind ghosts” the same way humans “do”?) Because this leaves us with the final(?) scenario:

G) Wizarmon isn’t there anymore, the visions we see of him are indeed, just visions, a ghost, residual energy left behind, and he can’t be brought back to life

If Meicoomon was the source of the infection, then how come half of the Digital World had been infected by the time tri. begins when Meicoomon was implied to have lived all her life in the Human World?

Did Meicoomon get kidnapped at some point and get dragged to the Digital World? If this happened, when did it happen, who did it, and how? How long was she gone? And how did Meicoomon not turn into Meicrackmon after being kidnapped and separated from Meiko?

Or, if Meicoomon could infect other Digimon all the way from another worlds, shouldn’t any/all Digimon within the Human World have been the first ones to get infected (meaning if Meiko and Meicoomon were already together while other Chosen were having the Zero Two-adventures, shouldn’t all of them been slowly getting infected then and there)?

It’s happened with this franchise before, in fact this very thing happened with Adventure and Zero Two; the epilouge that was originally planned for Adventure was left and spared for Zero Two’s ending because Toei realized that this cow could be milked more and forced the writers to adjust Adventure’s story and ending accordingly.

And my reason I’m wondering if this might’ve happened isn’t just because of Mystery Man’s “How about we mess with Demon next? :3c” comment at the end (tho it certainly supports the idea for now at least), but the unresolved content as well.

Regardless of how you feel about tri. and it’s writing, regardless of if it’s actually good or not, the fact is that the writers put a lot of thought into tri. They did their research, they did their best to fill some holes in Adventure’s lore, they did their best to understand the Chosen to write them accurately. Lots of love, care and understanding went into tri.’s writing.

So to me it sounds really unlikely the writers just straight up forgot about Alphamon entirely, that they had no intention of telling us what Mystery Man’s deal was, that Yggdrasil was brought into the story just to get brushed off like that in the end. Not to mention some of the quotes, comments and trailers about tri.’s plot that we got around/before Reunion

The ending to tri. felt rushed to me, almost like it was tacked on to it. Something about it doesn’t quite match the rest of the series.