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D I G I M O N Adventure 02: The Beginning ~ J.P.N Version + Koushiro Izumi & (Bonus) Taichi & 02 Chosen

"...It's been really overwhelming for Koushiro-san." - Miyako, Near the start of the conversation, after they mention, "a whole week"

"...I d o u b t {Koushiro} even has TIME to s l e e p..." - Takeru, in a hushed/softer, semi-bemused tone

Bonus:

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Half a year has passed, my favourite people have finally watched the movie, it has been pirated - I can FINALLY WRITE META POSTS WITH PICTURE EVIDENCE, SO STAY TUNED.

This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

I just had a debate with myself over using the word mezzanine, wondering if I should describe it instead. Ultimately I decided the character would call it a mezzanine, and therefore readers could look up a new word if they didn't know.

It's how I learned words like myriad as a seven year old reading Lord of the Rings for the first time, why would I steal that experiance from someone else by simplifying language?

@taikouvember Day 6: Brave Knowledge & Curious Courage

I chose a more... Humourous take on this prompt. I seriously do believe that Taichi is a very strategically intelligent guy, whereas Koushirou possesses inherently brave tendencies.

... So nobody can tell me that Taichi wouldn't at least somewhat brag about all the knowledge he'd have gathered in order to become a highly regarded diplomat. Countless hours of committed research and dedicated studying... Yes, he would do his homework and, approximately 22 years after being asked for the first time, he'd be able to explain what a semiconductor does. Perfectly and confidently.

And Koushirou would be so impressed by it that he'd propose immediately. Hands down. (On a more serious note, while I do headcanon Taichi as more prone to be the cheesy romantic dork between them, I don't consider it unlikely for Koushirou to ask the most courageous question first.)

Okay, where do I even begin to describe what yesterday did to me? Following all the character descriptions that mentioned these two specifically to be “extremely” busy, I initally assumed that they’d be busy in university related stuff. Thanks to the trailer/other video material, I was proven wrong - and yet, I couldn’t have been more thrilled about it.

So what do we know? A giant digiegg appeared in the sky for approximately the twentieth time by now. And thanks to Takeru, we know that Koushirou has apparently been, once again, suffering from a severe lack of sleep, obviously being very invested in political affairs, explaining and managing the whole issue to the public. And it’s not only him - Taichi is there too, and, according to Hikari, being so stressed that he actively scolded her for calling him while he was busy. Quite the unusual behaviour for the Yagami brother, as Takeru also puts it himself…

Apart from the fact that I wish Toei would finally let these two get some deserved REST, the implications behind the set-up are pretty intriguing. We’ve been discussing whether or not it makes sense that Taichi (approximately 23/24 years old) is already involved in all the political stuff - since this is taking place in February 2012, just one and a half years after the events of Kizuna (Summer 2010), since he had, apparently, just finalized his thesis idea in Spring 2011 according to the end of the movie, but…

I think it makes sense to some degree - because this seems to be an emergency and they needed an excuse for him and Koushirou to not take up so much screentime during the movie again, soooo… Having Koushirou (approximately 22/23 years old) involved at this level is plausible, since he had been publicly invested in Chosen Children related stuff with the community, his company work, etc all the time. And heck… Knowing what direction Taichi was going towards to career-wise, he WOULD have taken him with him to settle things (while the other Chosen did the fighting part), even if Taichi was still in training. 

Because that’s what they are - partners in crime, always have been, always will be. Whether they stop missiles together, save the world(s) or take responsibility on a diplomatic level. And that’s EXACTLY what I wanted for them to happen, for us to actually see them working together due to their linked careers, because, it just makes so much sense.

Also their ties? I was very much delighted by the headcanon that Taichi’s tie is actually Koushirou’s, but the shade seems a bit more yellowish than the orange one Koushirou wore in Kizuna. (That aside, Taichi wearing a blue suit, still loyally rocking his associated colour so persistently, is amazing to me.) And Koushirou’s tie is a reddish-purplish shade, as far as I can tell - but that kind of purple doesn’t seem to be his signature colour. (I really wonder if there is anything but suits in his closet by now, but hey, it works for him.)

Instead, I believe that they represent Agumon and Tentomon respectively - and whether they’re both partnerless in this movie or not… It’d be a great homage. 

That is all just speculation on my behalf and I do assume that we won’t see any more of them in the movie aside from those 3 seconds, but I’m already happy with the (potential) framing. If I could ask for a happy end for the movie though, a scene like this would be very satisfying.

And they were work buddies…