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This ask actually inspired me to write meta for the first time in a while! Thanks a lot, Anon!

So, a while back I read this book called The Five Love Languages. It’s about how  everyone expresses/experiences love in five main ways — words of affirmation, quality time, acts of service, receiving gifts, and physical touch — and how this affects interpersonal relationships, especially marriage. 

The book’s thesis is that everyone has a primary and secondary "love language”; for each of them there are multiple “dialects”, or different ways of manifesting love. In order to have a healthy relationship, you need to identify your and your partner’s language, so that you can give each other what you need (*).

Me being me, I immediately started to try and identify the love languages of each DA character, and predictably gave a lot of thought to Sora and Yamato’s. Based on my notes on this book, here are my headcanons about how Sora and Yamato express affection!

Well yeah, that’s why I responded to the first ask with “sorry, I don’t have an answer”.

I don’t know why you’ve sent me another two asks about the same topic. With this one — where you’ explaining to me why I can’t answer based on oddly specific personal information I’ve shared in the past — things are getting a little bit weird.

Again, I’m sorry, but I don’t understand what you’re asking here... is this a question or a request?

Would you like come up with a concept for a series you’d like to see? I’m not a fiction writer, and asking someone out of the blue to write something like this, based on such a vague promise is a bit too much :/

You clearly have some ideas about this topic. I think it would be a lot more interesting if you developed them and shared them with the rest of the world!

I hope this doesn’t come across as harsh, but I genuinely don’t know what gave you the impression this is something I’d normally do / would be capable of doing / am even interested in?

Based on my last rewatch (which was already A WHILE ago), I’m pretty sure the reason for the change is explained textually in one of the episodes as the clothes being a “manifestation of their wishes”, just like the Digimon Kaiser outfit was.

IIRC this also doesn’t affect Takeru and Hikari in the same way. Their digital world clothes are usually (though not always) the same clothes they wear on their daily life, before they even got their D3. There’s one episode when Hikari and Taichi go to the Digital World to see Qilongmon and she’s seen wearing her winter outfit.

Sadly ATM I can’t seem to find a proper stream / screen grabs to double check my previous answers, so the only way to be sure is to check the episodes yourself. 

02 is one of the series that would benefit the most from a proper Plot Masterpost, because SO MANY of the “unresolved mysteries” or “unexplained things” are actually addressed briefly but reasonably in one or two lines of dialogue. But because we don’t have a proper database of what happens in each episode, it’s difficult to locate these explanations whenever we need it.

(OFC, the meta reason for this is because 02 takes place from April to December, spanning several seasons of the year and diverse clothes changes for the main characters. Having their clothes magically change as they travel to the DW is a clever just a way of saving time in repetitive sequences like “traveling to the DW” and evolution scenes. In Adventure they didn’t have that problem because the poor kids wore the same outfit for the entire series.)

People change their minds all the time about things, and people themselves change overtime. I’d say its a pretty common experience to “regret” liking something. 

I haven't been keeping up with the show, so I don’t think I wanna comment a review for an episode I haven’t watched yet.

Though I have to say that skimming through it, the premise of the article (”Sora and Yamato should have switched crests in the original series”) strikes me as a deep misunderstanding of both the crests and the characters in 99!Adventure.

I have never seen such a thing, but admittedly I haven’t been around the fandom much lately.

Based on the information on screen, it takes place around 20th July:

(screengrab by The DigiLab).

I remember that concept art! I think it was probably just a variation of the cliché “Genius / Intelligent characters wear glasses”, which they eventually dropped. Don’t forget that the Crest of Knowledge IS a pair of glasses!

Based on recent interviews about the development of Adventure, the original plan was to have 5 or 7 protagonists, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Koushirou came first, and then they developed Jou as they expanded the cast. 

A combination of Koushirou and Jou’s personalities...? I wonder where that could lead us... 

JK. Obviously, Iori is far more than that. To begin with, he has a much stronger personality and is far more confident and assertive than both Koushirou and Jou.

Koushirou with Jou traits: He would be more of a star student (oddly enough, we rarely get any impression of how Koushirou does in school). Possibly more strict about rules. Less intuitive about his knowledge (focusing more on books and learning than on intuition or coming up with new theories). More emotionally volatile (Jou often panics and freaks out in the face of problems, and even lashes out sometimes. By contrast, being “emotionally cool” comes more naturally to Koushirou, which is why he’s great at dealing with stressful situations and is extremely level-headed and polite.) In short, essentially the same Koushirou, but stricter, more stressed, and worst at hiding his emotions. OK, so it’s basically Hermione.

Jou with Koushirou traits: He would be far more brainiac and curious (normally, Jou seems to be more interested in studying for grades than for the sake of knowledge itself). He would also be able to see “outside the box” more than normal Jou. Paradoxically, he’d he far more in control of his emotions and more strict. This Jou would probably also worry less about fitting in society and pleasing others, and would be more about seeking truth and focusing on his personal interests. In short, an even more serious Jou with a killer intellect. So... maybe a bit like Sherlock, or Mr Spock?

Er… I don’t write fanfiction?

I don’t know a lot about power levels, and it’s been a few years since I’ve watched these episodes, but I would say…

— Chimairamon was made a Perfect because it was the final Boss of the first half of the series. That is to say, the Chosen Children were still “only” at Armor/Adult level, so their enemy would have to be one level above that. He couldn’t be an Ultimate in 02 because that would make him too strong for that stage of the story.

— Chimairamon could be stronger than average due to the forces of Darkness or whatever. Still a Perfect, though.

— Magnamon was an Armor level (=Adult) that became more powerful due to a miracle (=Perfect) in order to defeat this enemy. Since Magnamon was the result of an Adventure Miracle (TM), it’s believable that he was a particularly strong Perfect. Wasn’t he also super-effective against Darkness, similar to Angemon? (I don’t remember.)  Still a Perfect, though.

In the Adventure universe, it’s established that within the same level, you can have widely different power levels and that digimon become stronger as they “battle” more. A good example of this is Angemon/HolyAngemon (stronger than the average Adult/Perfect against Dark types), or WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon being wiped the first time they meet the Dark Masters 

In short, even if Chimairamon is stronger than average, he’s still a Perfect level. Chimairamon could not be an Ultimate.

I’d never thought about this much, so my first impressions might be:

I haven’t found any valid source for this information, so I’m going to just call it a fan rumour. Moreover, there doesn’t seem to be any digimon that would be the equivalent of Love+Purity (Hawkmon) or Knowledge+Honesty (Armadimon).

It’s probably just a coincidence or — depending on when Sagittarimon was created — a very early idea / design that ended up been turned into something else. 

Officially, this digimon was always associated with the Digimental of Hope. And I don’t think any “double Digimental evolution” was considered a possibility by the time the first half of 02 was planned.

It is an interesting theory, though. What if Daisuke’s third Armor evolution had been Sagittarimon instead of Magnamon?

But.I can see why they didn’t do it. In 02, the Armor evolutions are directly connected to character development. Since Daisuke, Miyako and Iori had already proved they were worthy of their two respective Digimental/Crests, an evolution about “activating them both at the same time” would likely have felt redundant, thematically.

More armor evolutions would have been cool, but I do think it would have been difficult to justify, in-story, how the kids would have activated someone else’s Digimental.

In my opinion, the true pity is that we never got to see alternative Joggress evolutions — now that had storytelling potential... 

02 had the most interesting evolution dynamics by far!

Yeah, this was funny at first, but now it’s just sad.

I’m answering this, not to give anon the attention she so desperately craves, but really to use this as an example of how fandom can negatively affect a person’s mental health to the point when they become harmful to others.

This is a sad example that getting too deep into fandom can not only make people get genuinely angry over things like a fictional characters’ fictional birthday, but can even lead them to bully, harass, and insult others under the cowardice of anonymity — therefore turning fandom into a toxic environment for the person who receives hate and for everyone else as well.

I’ve seen so many people lately drift away from the Digimon fandom, and some who’ve told me they are scared to post their own HCs because they fear being bullied or insulted over their opinions. It’s not difficult to understand why, when there’s people like this going around.

I just want to say to anyone who is reading me and has experienced this kind of attitude before, that I love you and I’m here for you. 

Adventure-Hearts will always try to be a welcoming space for all kinds of opinions and try to promote kindness and respect within the Digimon fandom.

My DMs and askbox are and will continue to be open, for anyone who wants to have a chat.

Embarrassment must be a common feeling when you’re the kind of person who sends personal attacks to people over a cartoon.¯

No wonder you hide behind anon   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯