#vespamon

BT19-052 | Vespamon

Ultimate | Virus | Cyborg | Royal Base | LIBERATOR | X-Antibody

Uncommon | Green | Black

Manga | Digimon Liberator

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This is a bit related to the last Ask. I think it's very cool that they filled out the rest of the Royal Base species. I haven't actually looked at them yet because I didn't want Liberator spoilers.

That being said, "Vespamon" being a Digimon has kind of screwed with certain things related to my character of TigerVespamon. xD Obviously, I created TigerVespamon a long time ago (over ten years at this point), so I had no way of knowing they would ever touch the Royal Base again. There were very few humanoid insect Digimon at the time, so I didn't have very many options, and I kind of had to work around his confusing reference book profile (Were all Vespamons TigerVespamon? Were all TigerVespamons Vespamon? Is the codename thing just flavour rather than a representation of evolution? Are there multiple codenames? Can other Digimon still become TigerVespamon?) In the end, I just went with TigerVespamon because it was a form that worked for his character and personality, and I also tied the Royal Base-specificity of the form into the theme of identity that I made part of his character.

Obviously, now that "Vespamon" is an actual, different Digimon from TigerVespamon, that kinda changes things. I haven't looked at Vespamon's design yet, so I don't know if its design also fits his character. It very well might. If I were writing him for the first time today, there's a very real chance that I might make TigerVespamon's species a Vespamon instead. That said, now I'm kind of stuck in how I wrote him from the beginning, which creates kind of a lore error for as to why this orphan-turned-acolyte has a species that's exclusively for Royal Base-associated Vespamon. xD It also kind of messes with him recently asking to be referred to as "Vespamon" instead.