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Artificial "Intelligent" [Johan]
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Jul 4, 2018 18:44:53 GMT
Duffer frowned as he looked out the trailmon windows, the train pulling into the tropical city's station. He hated this place quite a bit; tourists year-round, everything cost more than in Terminus simply because it was styled like it was the summer, the weird old digimon who lived there, and ESPECIALLY the humidity which made him feel like he always going to vomit. "I don't really need swimming lessons AGAIN, do I?" The boy asked as he stepped out of the station, frowning as the digital sun flew high in the sky. "Of course you do." Behind him was his companion, best friend, and currently only family he knew of; Kotemon. "We need to make sure you haven't lost ANY of your athletic abilities, you'll never know when you need to swim, run, jump, crawl, or even dive."
"But you still won't let me play baseball?" The boy asked. "I told you, the only sports in the digital world aren't exactly suited for humans. Or, not survivable at least." Kotemon was annoyed by his complaints. "Now go see if that Jurassic Park swimsuit you insist on wearing actually fits or if we need to skip lunch to buy you more clothing." Duffer didn't even respond to this, the two going to one of the city's many beaches and the boy entering a changing room. Kotemon sighed and shook her head. "I don't see why you humans insist on changing clothes so often anyways. Just stop shedding skin-cells and hairs whenever you do anything and you'd never need to purchase body soap, deodorant, and shampoo." "It's not that simple, Mister 'wore out five pairs of jeans in 2 weeks'." |
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Post by Johan Walker on Jul 8, 2018 0:00:35 GMT
"Man, the Digital World is awesome," Johan sighed as he and his partner Dokamon got off the Trailmon. It had been a couple of days since his first venture into this strange world, but now he felt like he never wanted to leave.
"It's not that entirely different from your own world, Johan," Dokamon tells his partner.
"Oh yeah, I forgot that our world has flying fire birds, or talking dinosaurs, as well as slime creatures that throw sludge at you."
"...okay, maybe they AREN'T that similar."
"I can't believe that one piece of sludge landed right into your mou-"
"We will now end this conversation!" Dokamon yelled, a very bright red blush on his face which caused Johan to chuckle a little bit.
"It's rare to see you blushing like that, Dokamon... I'm gonna cherish this moment forever"
"No! You saw nothing. Forget this commute ever happened."
"Not gonna happen."
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Jul 10, 2018 18:21:24 GMT
Of course, Duffer didn't take too long to return, the suit was a snug fit but still perfectly suitable. He still wore his shirt, however. "Duffer, take off your shirt in the water." "N-no, I never take off my shirt." "Never?" "Not in public, or in front of people." "We're bonded by that digivice, by our souls, there's nothing you need to hide from me." "Then why don't you take off your helmet?" "That's different!" The Kotemon said, annoyed. "It's not a helmet, it's my head!" "Your head is cold and unwieldy. I'll only take off my shirt if you take off your helmet." "No." Kotemon said, grabbing the boy's shirt. "Hey, hey, get off!" "Take off the shirt, you need too eventually!" "The only people who'll see me shirtless will be the people who bore me and the people who'll bury me, now get off!" Duffer pushed his digimon away, leading it to stumble backwards and into a display, knocking it over and attracting all sorts of attention. "Duffer, you're being childish." "I am a child!" "You're 19!" "I'm 17 at heart." "You're 4 in the head, take off your shirt, you're causing a scene."
"...Fine." Duffer returned to the dressing room, Kotemon looking at the people pretending not to notice (or maybe they weren't noticing and just didn't care, but paranoia is an odd thing). Blushing (maybe, the helmet blocks it off), Kotemon retreats into the dressing room as well. Hopefully all that noise didn't attract someone who'd get a bad first impression from them. |
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Post by Johan Walker on Jul 10, 2018 21:23:35 GMT
Unfortunately for Kotemon, the people who were standing nearby DID notice the weird situation going on with him and the human. They started paying attention around the "take your shirt off" thing, and just stared in disbelief. "Goodness, they're more dysfunctional than we are," Dokamon commented. "I think that fencing Digimon should have listened to the human's requests," Johan comments, putting his hands behind his head. "There are people who swim with their shirts on all the time, myself included."
Things got... weird when the Kotemon started actually grabbing the human's shirt, causing both Johan and Dokamon to stare at them with "  ;" expressions plastered on their faces. When the human eventually went back into the dressing room, the Kotemon saw Johan and Dokamon stare at them with those expressions, giving a very good reason for the blush before he retreated into the dressing room. "...well that happened.""Indeed it did." |
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Jul 18, 2018 16:59:08 GMT
Duffer leaves through a back door, trying to avoid Kotemon and the crowd that had gathered to see their little argument. As he pushed past, he nudged Johan and Dokamon. He still has his shirt on, naturally. The crowd, mis-assuming the spectacle was finished, began to dispurse with the insistence of an annoyed (albeit attractive) lifeguard.
"Hey, uh... just stay quiet, kotemon is in one of his moods again..." Duffer said, trying to keep the two from spilling his location to the crowd and his partner. "I'm Duffer. Sorry you had to see that and ruin your vacation... I mean, you are on vacation right? Because this place is really pricy, even if you seem to get money for doing nothing around here." The boy honestly did hope it was just a visit, he was terrible with rich people, they usually served as villains or antagonists of some kind in his experience (said experiences all being from horror movies and comics, and not all of them ended with them being buried alive or filled with cockroaches, to his chagrin). He offered a hand to shake at the very least, trying his least awkward smile.
"So uh... what do you guys like?" He asked, trying to make this situation less awkward. He was not doing very good with that. Why was making friends so difficult for him? He made a mental note to discuss this with kotemon later, or try to find a cheap therapist preferably.
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Post by Johan Walker on Jul 18, 2018 23:44:33 GMT
"Anyways... come on, Dokamon, let's head to the beach," Johan says, thinking that this event was over. Nodding, Dokamon walked along with Johan to do what they had planned to do that day.
However, that was before they got interrupted by that same boy who was part of the shirt debate, who was now whispering to them and asking them to stay quiet. "You're hiding from your partner? Well, that kind of makes sense..." While the humans were talking, Dokamon snuck off to go tell Kotemon where his partner was.
"I'm Johan. It's very nice to meet you, Duffer. And nah, we ain't on vacation, Dokamon and I were just gonna head to the beach, possibly get a boat or something to see all kinds of aquatic Digimon!"
What do you guys like? That seemed like a very generic question... "Erm... well, I like observing Digimon! And I won't say no to a good cuppa something, like hot cocoa or a nice coffee."
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Aug 3, 2018 15:23:09 GMT
"In my experience," Duffer began, "Most aquatic digimon prefer to stay underwater. They sell scuba gear and uh... "chip upgrades" I think they're called that let you breath underwater. Actually, lemme write that down to buy for later, might be useful if someone tries to kill me... I might also be misremembering though." The boy looked at his new friend, confused. "Coffee? Dude, it's like, 90 out here. If this were a computer we'd- wait... Is this place in a computer or what? What makes it a "digital" world? Regardless, I don't want coffee. I'll just take a slushie. Let's see if we can find somewhere that serves both, I don't think they have convenience stores in the DW."
While Duffer pondered this, Kotemon exited the dressing room, looking upset. Well, as upset as a digimon can appear with their head blocked off by a helmet.
"He's such a child..." the armored digimon mumbled, looking around in the crowd. She ended up bumping into dokamon while trying to push through the crowds of taller creatures. "It wasn't until now I realized how much being short is annoying..." He said to himself. "Hey, hey, you seen my boy? He's kinda chubby, wearing Jurassic Park shorts? Caused that scene because he wouldn't man up and take off his shirt?" The Kotemon took out a picture of he and Duffer enjoying Ice Cream together. "That kid."
"...Didn't you have a digimon?" Duffer asked, looking around. "Little blue guy? Or was he someone else's?"
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Post by Johan Walker on Aug 15, 2018 20:09:48 GMT
Johan just blinked and nodded to what this older kid had to say, although to him, he seemed VERY socially awkward...
Then Duffer went off about how it's ninety degrees right now in the Digital World, before going off about whether or not the Digital World counts as being inside a computer, which Johan just smiled and nodded despite being kind of weirded out. "Um, okay... but yeah, a smoothie would be nice. And yeah, where did Dokamon go, anyways?"
Meanwhile, Dokamon was walking around looking for the Kotemon when the two ended up bumping into each other. Kotemon immediately asked him if he knew where his human was.
"Yeah, he's over there talking to my partner," Dokamon says, pointing towards the two... and taking note of the look on Johan's face. "...is there something wrong with yours, might I ask?"
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Sept 5, 2018 15:57:18 GMT
"No, he's just stupid. Unfortunately more than half of humans seemed to be diagnosed with it, pretty sad. The brain damage didn't help, certainly." Kotemon shook its head. "My name is Kotemon, I'm his teacher, handler, partner, and for the moment, guardian. Sorry about the scene earlier. He just refuses to take his shirt off unless he's in the shower, but moving on, let's follow them before they hurt themselves." Kotemon began walking briskly after the two humans, trying not to spook them.
Duffer shrugged. "I'm sure they're fine, it's a big city, when's the last time a major, destructive battle took place here? It's practically paradise... unless it's not tourist season." Duffer said. "Then I heard really, really bad things start happening." He sighed. "Sorry, I tend to ramble. Um. Let's get those slushies then." He headed into a convenience store, holding the door open for his new friend and approached the slushie machine, looking confused at the flavors up for offer.
"I've been living in the digital world for almost a year and I still don't get their choices in food." He said, reading through the list. "I mean, would you buy a "octopus berry" slushie? Or a "CSS Slammer"? Oh, and don't but the apple flavored stuff, apparently they're made of meat in this place." He said, finally settling for Tangy Orange and Lime Punch in the largest cup they had (well, the largest cup they had that a human could hold in one hand) and trying to think of the proper way to ask the boy to pay for all of this.
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Post by Johan Walker on Sept 5, 2018 20:34:59 GMT
"Mine is the exact opposite of stupid," Dokamon states, semi-boasting. "Back in a place in the Human World called 'America', I took a look at his report card. Nothing but the highest grades possible for everything. Plus he tinkers with technology in ways I could never even imagine." Although he still had a lot to learn about being social and making friends...
The part about Kotemon being the human's guardian threw him off a little bit. "A guardian? My human moved here to attend school, but at least he has a dorm with supervision. What happened to his own family?"
Back with the humans, Johan could relate to Duffer in the way that he was kind of awkward when he has to make conversation, although he never let it show. Anyways, he walked down to the slushie shop with Duffer and he too was confused by the flavor options.
"What on earth IS an octopus berry? And wait, why would apples have meat in them?! I... think I'll be safe and get the cherry size. And maybe I'll get one for Dokamon, too. I think he'd like the apple one. I think you should get one for your Digimon too."
Johan got his slushies in the same size Duffer got his. Wait...
"Dokamon had the money on him..."
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Sept 11, 2018 15:48:30 GMT
"Lucky you..." Kotemon looked annoyed until the topic of "America" cropped up. "Wait, wait, step back a second. America? The big human colony? Small world. My human comes from America, from the forests of "Mini-soda". Have you actually been there? Because the way he goes on about it you'd think it was Yggdrasil's promised land." Kotemon sighed. "Long story short my human came from "Minisoda" to study here in Japan with a volunteer family. When he came with me we were attacked, you probably don't know about the human mall that got attacked by digimon but we were there. We were trying to help other people when he was hit with a concrete slab."
"He was comatose for 2 years. The best digital medicine I could afford kept him alive while the human world assumed him dead and me the killer. We live in a small apartment now, barely scraping by on bits scrounged up from odd-jobs." Kotemon sighed. "I'm sorry, I probably should've held onto that a bit longer but... come on, let's go before they cross the wrong digimon."
Duffer shook his head. "I don't intend on finding out, it sounds disgusting. As for the apples, for some reason fruits and veggies are living creatures here while meat grows like plants. As for Kotemon, he doesn't eat that much. She doesn't eat that much... they... whatever it is. He refuses to tell me." Duffer looks annoyed as he grabs a moderate sized "CSS"-flavored drink. He stared at it for a moment. "So, you wanna figure out what CSS tastes like?"
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Post by Johan Walker on Sept 11, 2018 19:58:31 GMT
"Minnesota?!" Dokamon asked Kotemon, astonished. "My human is from Minnesota as well! A city called 'Mini-apple-us.' It truly is a small world! Johan is a part of the transfer student program, in 9th grade, he says... after his loved one died. He... does not like to talk about it."
The story Kotemon told Dokamon seemed such as sad, really... being in a coma for two years, a single Digimon doing whatever he could to keep him alive. And now they're living like the human equivalent of living paycheck to paycheck. "I am sorry you had to go through that..."
"An octopus berry truly does sound disgusting, and it also sounds completely impossible," Johan comments, completely disgusted by just the very idea of it. "And Dokamon doesn't eat that much, either. But one... these are slushies. You drink them. And two, you should still at least ASK if he wants one. Or she... yeah, that can get kind of confusing."
Out of the corner of his eye, Johan spotted Dokamon along with a small, reptilian Digimon wearing fencing armor. "Hey, it's Dokamon... and I think that's your Kotemon! You guys want a slushie?"
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Oct 5, 2018 16:26:45 GMT
"He never said which city." Kotemon said, thinking aloud. "He does like the Minnesota Twins though... whoever they are. He showed me a picture and there's a whole lot more than 2 of them." Kotemon shook her head. "It's fine, we're still figuring things out. I'm just trying to get him back into shape."
"Dude, this is a dimension where the women are 9 feet tall and hamsters have wings in their heads. Why draw the line at weird food?" *Duffer accidentally sips the CSS slushie and coughs* "Oh my god! Joe, I think I'm bleeding." He says between gags, "Oh man, you try." He sets the CSS slushie down as kotemon approached.
"There you are boy, why do we go through this every time we tr- ...is something wrong?" Kotemon's tone shifted from annoyed to concerned as Duffer held his stomach.
"Did CSS mean glass and rom chips? Because it really tastes like that." The boy moaned.
Kotemon sighed and shook its head. "No Duffer, CSS means Computer Software Smoothie. You just drank a bunch of CDs and Fiberglass." The digimon let the boy lean against him. "What did I tell you about eating strange things?"
"Why would you drink broken glass?" Duffer asked, moaning.
"Because believe it or not, Digimon don't have silly things like "organs" or "cell systems" to worry about." Kotemon explained. "I knew something like this would happen, so I bought a few books on human health. As long as you don't have any ulcers you should be fine." Kotemon looked at Johan. "So, your partner has told me a lot about you... except your name."
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Post by Johan Walker on Oct 22, 2018 1:41:28 GMT
"I believe the Twins are a... sports team," Dokamon says, "although which sport they play has escaped my mind, sadly. I wish you and Duffer the best, Kotemon."
Johan thought Duffer DID have a point. This place had dogs that could grow into wolves, and lizards that breathed fire. Weird food was the least of it at this point. However, his mind immediately changed when Duffer took a sip of the CSS Smoothie and began gagging. That was when Dokamon and Kotemon came along, and the latter explained that CSS meant Computer Software Smoothie.
"Why in the world would you drink something like that?" Johan asked, completely disgusted. He then immediately turned to Kotemon, who was asking for his name. "Oh, my name is Johan Walker. It's a pleasure to meet you." He then looked at his own smoothie and decided:
Yeah, I'd rather NOT risk it.
"Do you want this smoothie too?" Johan asked Kotemon. "I'm not really in the mood for it right now."
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Post by Duffer & Kotemon on Nov 30, 2018 16:25:32 GMT
"Kotemon, Duffer's caretaker." The digimon bowed politely before shaking its head. "I believe a digimon should not be controlled by food, a controversial opinion, I know. As such, I try to control my food intake to the bare minimum." Kotemon picked up the CSS slushie and offered it to Dokamon. "Could you get rid of this before Duffer decides to try again?" She asked politely.
"Come on, man... girl... kotemon. Mistakes are a part of human nature, how would people know about the digital world if some idiot never jumped into the shibuya river?" Duffer stood up, shaking his head and picking pieces of glass from his tongue.
"I don't think that's how they discovered the digital world."
"Are you sure this won't cause long term damage?"
"Relax, as long as you don't get cut open none of your organs are actually there, it's a trick to reduce rendering here."
"Now I know you're screwing with us."
"Irregardless, I'm glad you made a new friend and learned a lesson about digital world food. Tell me about you, Johan. How did you come across this brave, new, digital world? You certainly seem smart enough to have avoided jumping into the Shibuya river like Duffer says."
"I wasn't talking about him, just in general..."
"Dokamon did nothing but sing your praises as we came to get you two, perhaps you'd like to be a student of mine? Or are you busy with the pitiful excuse of an educational system the human world seems to use... sorry, I tend to slip into condescension, I've been working on fixing that."
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;" expressions plastered on their faces. When the human eventually went back into the dressing room, the Kotemon saw Johan and Dokamon stare at them with those expressions, giving a very good reason for the blush before he retreated into the dressing room.