The Crests are meant to be symbols of each Chosen Child’s main trait or characteristic, one that they needed to learn more about because they weren’t fully developed in that area, and one that would bring out all that was good in that specific Chosen, allowing them to do great things.
For quite some time I’ve sort of wondered what it was truly like when a Chosen’s Crest became corrupted and unusuable. I’ve seen many opinions on this, and it’s people’s thoughts on Takeru (especially in Zero Two) that caused my interest to peak in this subject, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there is no “one true way” a Crest could become corrupted.
The Crests demand balance, as showing too much of that trait is equally bad and corrupting as showing too little of the same trait. And the interesting part is that not only does this idea allow us to understand the Crests and their meanings better, but also why each Chosen had the partners they had. And we’ve seen both ways all of these Crests. Except for Hikari. And Takeru. too, sort of, we’ll get there eventually. To truly understand the Crests, we need to see them from all of the different angles, so let’s dive right in!
The way we see it, when humans go into the Digital World their atom-based bodies are converted into zeroes and ones, but we have no idea how exactly this happens or how it really works. I’m no scientist, but I’d assume that you can’t actually turn atoms into data, if anything we can observe atoms and gather data from them. So logically speaking, it would make more sense to say that when travelling from one world to another, their bodies are analyzed, decomposed and rebuilt with zeroes and ones in the blink of an eye, while the human’s conciousness/soul is transfered from one world to another (and the same happens but in reverse when travelling from the Digital World to the Human World).
We know that most living beings from other dimensions get turned into Digimon presumably permanently when travelling into the Digital World (Wizarmon didn’t revert back into a Magical Witch when he went to the Human World. The same probably applies to other other-worldly Digimon, both Witchelny Digimon and Nanimon, among others), but humans don’t. Humans, for whatever reason, always remain humans, even in the Digital World (with some exceptions, but even then the Digimon forms Takato and co as well as Takuya and co could take were all non-permanent forms, they always reverted back to humans (with the possible exception of the Flamon incident, maybe)).
It makes me wonder. Other sentient beings have to go through changes and become Digimon, so why are humans special in this? Well, maybe they aren’t? Digimon that lack attributes exist (main Baby Level Digimon), and there are Digimon that lack Levels entirely. The beings from other dimensions tend to be similar to Digimon in the sense that they can “evolve” the same way Digimon do- rapidly, in one go. They switch their entire appearances based on how they had been living up until that point, so it makes sense that these beings have to “switch the system” they had been living with so that they can continue to “grow” and “evolve” the way they used to. It makes sense these beings get Attributes and Levels to represent themselves, as this is a form of evolution too.
But humans are fundamentally different from this. Humans are basically ecosystems with bacteria and other stuff living on and inside of us. Humans don’t evolve with a flash of light, we’re always changing and growing, little by little. Our hair and nails grow longer, oxygen ages us as time passes, our bodies become older and more worn out, unable function like it used to. We age every second we simply exist, which makes us fundamentally different from those beings. So, when a human goes into the Digital World, it makes sense that humans don’t get converted into the same kind of Digimon others do. Humans get turned into Humons, a weird subgroup of Digimon with no attributes nor Levels, their only attacks being weak “Human Punch”, “Human Kick”, “Human Poop” and “Human Weapon Attack”. Nobody notices this though, because humans don’t immidiately know what/who they are and what they can do (these last two sentences were only semi-serious BTW).
But that isn’t really what I wanted to talk about. What I wanted to talk about is what kind of effects could this have on a person? Of course, canonically nothing, going into the Digital World does nothing to a person, but I’m talking about “what ifs” right now. An idea for an AU; what if being turned into data and back into atoms would stop you from aging permanently?
Digimon don’t change by their appearance as they age (well, usually, Frontier did give us a few “Elder” Digimon as well as that one Tsuchidarumon from Tamers, and Shoutmon did “age” a little between season two and three, but stick with me with this AU idea), evolving is more or less how Digimon show their age. If Humans get converted into Humons (Digimon with no levels nor attributes) when entering the Digital World, as Digimon they lack the ability to age visually, and they remain Humons even when returning into the Human World (without knowing it themselves)… Yeah, this could make for some interesting post-story AUs. AU where the Chosen Children and Tamers remain Children forever ʘ‿ʘ
(Assuming Digimon in the Human World are immune to oxygen)
every time hanna-barbera re-uses/tweaks that one animation of the smurfs running around in panic mode bc they had the budget of a peanut i lose my MIND
i’ve gathered 22 of these in the span of a year+. they have their own folder
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“they” (1 word) is shorter than “he or she” (3 words)
“they” is more inclusive than “he/she”
“themself” flows more naturally than “him or herself”
“they” is less clunky than “(s)he”
it’s time to replace the awkward “she or he”
“hey can you go ask they what does they want for dinner, and when is they coming over to watch movies with they?”
“Hey, can you go ask them what they want for dinner, and when they’re coming over to watch movies?”
Step one is learning how to talk like a human person.
Friendly reminder:
“I shouldn’t like to punish anyone, even if they’d done me wrong.” —George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“A person can’t help their birth.” —William Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)
“But to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
“Every Fool can do as they’re bid.” —Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738)
“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” —King James Bible, Matthew 18:35 (transl. 1611)
“God send every one their heart’s desire!” —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (~1600)
“Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.” —Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia (1580)
“If … a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayne…” —William Bonde, The Pylgrimage of Perfection (1526)
“And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, / They wol come up and offre a Goddés name” —Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale (~1380)
“þan hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiȝt houndes alle heie wodes, / til þei neyȝþed so neiȝh to nymphe þe soþe [Then hastily hied each person on horse and on foot / hunting with hounds all the high woods / ‘til they came so near, to tell the truth]” —William and the Werwolf (transl. ~1350-1375)
“Bath ware made sun and mon, / Aiþer wit þer ouen light [Both were made sun and moon / Either with their own light]” —Cursor Mundi (~1325)
We’ve been using they/them/their pronouns to indicate a person with unspecified gender for a long ass fucking time. The only reason it’s become a big issue lately is because it can be used as a semi-respectful term for trans and non-binary folks and we can’t have that can we
These fucks are literally trying to change our language to hurt trans/nb folks, and claiming that’s just the way its always been
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Singular “they” predates
Singular “you”
Fr my English teacher literally made us correct themselves into her or himself and I was like sir that isn’t even wrong??? Why is this “correction” necessary??? And then we proceeded to argue for the rest of the class, i don’t even like speaking up in class but it annoyed me so much I had to say something
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hold on there’s too many i can’t hold them all in my arms they’re falling