Merriment 18 | Video

[mynameisallen]

[Allen had just finished training for the day. It wasn't like his usual workout as he was slowly working his way back to to that. He was still honestly tired after what happened even if he didn't do an awful lot beyond talking.

But to him talking can be just as exhausting and yet here he was with a smile on his face.]

Hello... So I don't normally talk on here much but I'm trying this new thing called... being open and it's been going well. Sort of.

[He has his moments.]

So I decided why don't we all try giving a fact or two about ourselves. They don't have to be super serious or anything. Just anything will do and we can talk.

I will go first with some facts:

One: Back home we had a situation where people became zombie like and so to deal with something... I hit on a male robot to get him to do it. It worked.
Two: I have a bone to pick with Cupid. They're an asshole and I don't like them.
Three: I've cheated pirates out of money. Like a lot of money.
And finally Four: I once stabbed myself with my own sword. I thought it wouldn't do anything... I was very very wrong.

[All rather odd facts about himself that he was comfortable with sharing. The smile till on his face.]

So whose going to be next if anyone.

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[dreamtamer]

There are pirates in your world?

[Because this was clearly the most important takeaway from that.]

Facts about myself? I don't know if I can think of anything as interesting as yours. [Takato thinks.]

1. My parents own a bakery in West Shinjuku, and we live in an apartment over the store.
2. Guilmon was a picture that I drew before he was real.

[blitzcheer]

...so Digimon are...you design them?

[ Wow, facts he never knew. ]

[dreamtamer]

Well, not normally. Digimon are... They were originally designed by humans, but then they were lost and they became the digimon they wanted to be.

But Guilmon is different. [Takato tries to figure out how to explain this.]When I drew him I didn't know digimon were real. He was like a dream of the digimon I wanted to meet.

And then he was born and we became partners.

[blitzcheer]

Weird! [ Or so's his first thought, but then- ] It wasn't one of those future-seeing dreams, you think? Maybe you got one of those!

[dreamtamer]

Well, I had one of those too? I dreamed about one of my friends the night before I met her for real.

But it wasn't like that for Guilmon. I found out later that it was the Digignomes. Mr. Mizuno said that they wanted to communicate with me, but because they talk in a different way, they granted my wish for him to be real. So they took my drawing and made him.

[He pauses thoughtfully.] Though he also said something about how maybe Guilmon was the one who dreamed me. Or maybe he dreamed himself and I just became aware of him.

[blitzcheer]

[ ................ ]

That guy sounds like he thinks too hard. [ About pointless questions!! ] Is he a -- Digignomes?

[dreamtamer]

"I don't think so? But when we met him I think he had been staying with them for a while. It was really strange. It was like he was there, but not in the same way we were there. And he talked about dreaming a lot."

[blitzcheer]

"...well, half the stuff I hear this days barely makes any sense, so that sounds about right. A half-there guy and people having future dreams."

Sure, why not!

"So, how did you and Guilmon meet? I remember Ken saying there was some kinda device..."

For doing something or other?

[dreamtamer]

"My digivice?" Takato disappears from the screen for a moment, and then returns to show off a strange white device about the size of his hand. It has a square screen set in the center, surrounded by a gold ring marked with strange angular writing. "This is mine! Its a little different from Ken's."

He pauses thoughtfully. "My card reader turned into this the day before I met Guilmon. But it was already connected to him. So when his egg emerged into the real world and it hatched, it told me where to go to find him. And we've been together ever since."

[blitzcheer]

Tidus peers a little closer into the screen out of bad habit, though moves back when, surprise, it doesn't help him see any clearer than he's going to get. A curious expression sticking on his face, even as Takato finishes explaining.

"Huh... so... are digivices card readers 'til they turn into that?" A nod to the screen. "And then they turn into a...handy dandy digimon-finding device."

[dreamtamer]

"Sometimes! All of my friends got theirs in different ways. For me it was when I found a blue card in my deck. We found out later that the blue cards were a a special algorithm that were meant to bring kids and digimon together."

[blitzcheer]

"Pretty weird, but... I guess that's what they call destiny? You guys get a card that gets you a digidevice, and then you meet a digimon!"

That's. Something.

"But not everyone in your world, or-- well, humans, right? You're all humans? --Not every human gets a digimon."

Has he got that right?

[dreamtamer]

"Well, most times its the other way around." A short laugh. "Guilmon and me... we met in a different way than the others. Most of the time the digivice shows up when you meet a digimon and you just know that you're partners."

That moment of knowing was really difficult to explain.

He shakes his head. "Only a few of us. Up until the Devas attacked and destroyed most of the city, most people didn't even believe they were real. I didn't know they were real until I met Guilmon."

[blitzcheer]

"Eesh, tough way to meet a new crowd." A city attack, that is. Why's it always gotta be so large scale. "Ken did say something like that though... that not a lot of people know about digimon. I guess because your worlds are...split? But then they can move around digitally..."

If he's remembering any of that right.

[dreamtamer]

"Up until then most people didn't realize anything was going on. But Vikaralamon... He was a pig the size a mountain! He started earthquakes just by walking around the city." Takato glances down, remembering. "Most of Shinjuku had to evacuate."

He stops to think about what Ken would have meant by that.

"In my world, the Digital World grew out of the network. Until the digimon came to the real world, I think only a few people in my world even knew it existed. It isn't easy to get there, and its even harder to get back. I think, in Ken's world it is easier to travel between them."

[blitzcheer]

"Makes sense, I guess..." Even if Tidus needs to think - and say it - slowly. "That's what teleporters are, right? The same kind of tech. So you using the same tech as the Digital World..."

...

"Uh... did someone 'make' the Digital World?"

[dreamtamer]

Takato looks confused.

"What teleporter? I don't know of any tech like that in the Digital World? Unless you mean the data streams?"

He shakes his head.

"The Digital World grew by itself. No one even knew it was there until the Digimon started coming to the Real World.."

[blitzcheer]

"Oh," right, he kind of got vague there, didn't he. "I mean that if data streams are like teleporters, then - if the Digital World's a digital world - then it makes sense the moment you guys get digital technology, they can make a link between the two worlds, right?"

He brings two fingers together, indicating two technologies coming together.

"But wow, I never knew digital worlds could exist... that's kinda cool. I wonder if they can just multiple...?"

In the digital code...universe?

[mynameisallen]

IN a world that I have gone to there was.

Not in my home world.

The first fact I'm interested is as someone who enjoys food. As for the second point. You created something and it came to life?

[dreamtamer]

"It was more like I was the designer. Like I created the blueprints for Guilmon."

Takato explains this proudly. Sometimes he couldn't help but stop and be so proud of how much Guilmon had grown since they'd met.

"But I found out later that the digignomes made Guilmon using my drawings."

[mynameisallen]

"That's honestly really impressive. Though I don't know what digignomes are."

[dreamtamer]

"Oh, they live in the Digital World, but they're not humans or digimon. They're something different." Takato smiles fondly. "They're really nice! But they can't communicate in the same way, so they talk to humans and digimon by granting wishes."

[mynameisallen]

"That's certainly a way to talk to someone. Though I don't understand it personally." Like how did people understand what it was meant for if it gets granted. Do people not realise? There were a good number of questions.

[dreamtamer]

"Neither do I, really. But I think that's okay too. Some things in the wprld don't need to be understood to be friends."

[mynameisallen]

"I guess it is okay to not have to understand everything. Just depends on the type of person to not abuse something." He knew he wasn't that type himself at least, but you never know.