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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 3, 2021 4:12:59 GMT
Marigold looked uncomfortable with the way she was staring at the table and Zack told her she didn't have to. Why? What had happened to Marigold that was making her uncomfortable anyway? Then when Marigold had said she was abandoned in her first life and had starved to death both Blackjack and Harmony floated over to her once again before Harmony said "That's terrible that someone would do that to a digimon that likely couldn't talk yet. What kind of monster would willingly abandon a baby digimon? If they didn't want you they could of left you at the Village of Beginnings or with someone else willing to care for you." Harmony then went quiet understandably furious at what she heard as she was now shaking with rage at such a thought.
Blackjack, not wanting to bother Harmony, then said "If only we were born sometime sooner you might of had us to play with between foraging for food and learning what was edible. To be honest, Harmony and I left the Village of Beginnings when we could barely talk to we left when we were fresh digimon called Sakumon."
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Post by supesman on Dec 3, 2021 16:49:12 GMT
"Oh we know exactly who was responsible." Zack said, his chin in his hand getting a dark look in his eye that seemed more than a little wrong coming off of his normally joyful and friendly face.
"My...well, the woman who gave birth to me. She was a Flymon, set herself up as the tinpot dictator of a hive. They would go out, steal, devour, hunt whatever they could find and bring it back to her so she could suck the excess data out of them like a juice box." She said, describing the entire parasitic system that they had discovered and shivering at the sheer callousness and inhumanity of the thought. "When I was born she decided there wasn't enough to go around so she tossed my egg into the first group of tress she could find and just sorta left that as that." Marigold said, taking a deep, unsteady breath inward and shaking her head. She was not going to let that woman live inside of her if she could help it.
"She's not around anymore. She got a real clear message that she should take herself to the hills and never let it get back to us that she was doing stuff like that again." he said, dancing around the issue as his hand reached down toward the scar on his stomach. "Left us with something to remember her by though. Two somethings actually. The house that's now our shelter and this scar, sore losers, you know how it is."
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 4, 2021 1:46:12 GMT
Seeing how upset Marigold was looking Blackjack joined his twin and the two hugged Marigold before Blackjack said "Sounds like she was no one who deserved to be called a mother. Monster would of been more accurate. If she was a proper mother she wouldn't of abandoned you to die but would of found someone who could of cared for you even if she couldn't."
"That and causing so much pain for others when the forest near Rosewood is supposed to have plenty of sources of food to pick from. It's good she is no longer around to hurt others and that place seems to be going to a good cause." Harmony said while snuggling Marigold like she would snuggle her brother when he got upset.
"Guess that Flymon never learned no one likes sore losers. Glad you guys dealt with her though so the area around Rosewood is much safer to hunt and play in. My sister and I didn't know she was around but we found our way out of the Eastern Timberlands pretty early on so she could of been out there and we likely never knew."
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Post by supesman on Dec 4, 2021 22:54:43 GMT
"The digital world is a huge place. In fact one of the hardest things about the digital world for humans to wrap their heads around is just how big it really is. it's right up there with the absurd lack of logical progression in the place." he said, gesturing outward hoping to help Marigold perk up a little bit by changing the subject to something funny, which seemed to be working for the moment.
"Yea like the digital world might be infinitely large and that's assuming that the "Digital World" is just this one planet which is a big assumption because we know the Digital World has a moon and at least some expanse of outer space. Like...really think about it, if you were to pick a direction in the digital world and just start walking that way without stopping, how long would it take you to walk all the way back to the point where you started?" She said, levelling the intellectual puzzle at her young digimon peers like a school pupils sharing something from the lesson that had stuck with them, it seemed this is not the first time the two had mused on this.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 8, 2021 3:45:34 GMT
"Makes me wonder if the Digital World and the Human World are at all similar in size then since Harmony and I heard there are many similarities between the two worlds besides being connected to one another." Blackjack said looking eager for the conversation to shift in a happier direction. Sure discussing the Digital World's size was a deep conversation seeing how young he and Harmony were but the twins were always eager to learn things besides card games being just as curiosity driven as any other digimon or human by nature.
"Hmm good question, Marigold. Seeing as some species of digimon move faster than others, even over long distances, as well as the fact the sheer size of this world then the travel time would be hard to calculate. Since Blackjack and I use Trailmon to typically travel around great distances since we are small, it is possible Trailmon know routes to get about the Digital World quickly and that is likely how the train tracks were arranged." Harmony said contributing her opinion to the conversation as it had gone from depressing to a rather interesting topic indeed.
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Post by supesman on Dec 8, 2021 5:04:50 GMT
"The Trailmon are an interesting thing, I think." Zack said, leaning back in his chair, arms crossed over his chest, feet kicked up on the table in front of him. he looked up in the sky as he considered what he was about to say. "Imagine living an entire life on tracks I mean. They seem to be perfectly happy with the arrangement so I just kinda wonder what they...do? When they're not ferrying people around all the time."
"I've thought about that too like...how do they eat? what do they do together, like socially? How do they keep themselves from going crazy when they have to deal with so many people everyday? If I was that big and I had to deal with 80 hundred million people everyday I'd snap. I feel like I'm gonna snap dealing with like...3 people at a time." She said, pressing her legs to either side of her head and letting her eyes roll with a wild animalistic abandon, pantomiming going totally crazy. Zack simply rolling his eyes as the four of them continued to shoot the breeze as they would.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 8, 2021 5:21:50 GMT
"Maybe Trailmon socialize with each other at stations or over some radio system when the stop to rest. Harmony or I don't know for sure what they do off hours so maybe they can even travel off the tracks as well. With digimon and our various crazy powers, who knows for sure except for the Trailmon themselves. Some may seem grumpy but most of the ones Harmony and I have seen have been fairly nice for the most part." Blackjack said the card floating over him lazily flicking back and forth as he tried to figure those complex beings known as Trailmon out.
"Hmm, maybe they pack food for long trips using some of their breaks to stop and eat. Even if not all can leave the tracks making it hard to forage such an approach would make sense meaning they likely purchase food at stops while waiting for boarding time for passengers. You know, like through delivery services or something." Harmony said as it was the only theory that made the most sense to her.
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Post by supesman on Dec 8, 2021 19:14:47 GMT
"That's another way that my dad says makes Digimon really unique. Like, humans are all mostly the same, especially physically. They have the same two hands, two legs, two eyes, whatever." Marigold says, motioning with her limbs at her father who held up his hands or motioned to parts of his body so that he could fully demonstrate what she means. "But Digimon? Digimon can look like anything, no two kinds of digimon have the same total body plan and even what body plans we do have changes when we digivolve." She said, digivolving down to her Puroromon form in demonstration, taking a squeaking seat with her tiny body on the boards of the picnic table she had been sitting at.
"Like, take you and Marigold for example, Harmony. You've got two invisible hands and a card hovering around you. Margold has six limbs, none of them with hands, wings and a lack of most of the humanoid facial features. She doesn't have a nose, or ears or lips." He said, reaching down and poking Marigold's now tiny, round head, making her giggle when his fingertips made contact with her tiny body.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 9, 2021 0:58:12 GMT
"Yeah even two digimon of the same species can be very different from each other their data influencing more than just the attacks we use. Even twins can be very different from each other here as being the same or similar species isn't a guarantee. Sure humans look the same but genetically can't they still be very different? If that's the case then it means this is someway humans and digimon are still alike." Blackjack said as he and Harmony watched Marigold dedigivolved back into her in training form of Puroromon her little body squeaked as she sat at the picnic table.
"Well Blackjack and I have no nose either but we can still pick up smells. Sure we can't track like canine and feline digimon can but I think our sense of smell is more similar to a humans as I heard their sense of smell is pretty basic compared to other Human World creatures." Harmony said watching Zack poking Marigold causing her to giggle. "Seems like Marigold is as ticklish as my brother."
Blackjack rolled his eyes and asked "Harmony, why did you say that?"
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Post by supesman on Dec 9, 2021 22:09:24 GMT
"Honestly kiddos the biggest problem in the human world is getting people to recognize that they'll always have more in common than they have different. It'd solve most of the human world's problems really if people just got it into their heads that there's never enough dividing them to be worth fighting about." he said, making another broadly sweeping moral statement with a wistful look in his eyes. No matter how immature or goofy he seemed, the arch heroic schtick didn't seem to be any kind of act. When he said that sort of thing, he meant it and he seemed to think about it a lot for how eloquent he was when he talked.
"Digimon are more alike than different in all of the ways that count too. Suppose you could say that of any hypothetically sentient species when you get right down to it. All digimon, like all humans, just want to be happy, loved and safe at the end of the day. And also like humans most digimon do their best to be a good person where and when they can afford it." marigold said, softly correcting but not outright overturning her father's point.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 10, 2021 1:17:28 GMT
Apparently Harmony's earlier statement regarding Blackjack being ticklish was not noticed in the conversation at hand and that was fine with him. As long as he didn't bring it up himself it would likely soon be forgotten. "Wow, Zack. For someone who seems to be a bit of a goofball your words seem more like something Harmony would say. Maybe you are wiser than you admit to." Blackjack said with a bit of a mischievous smirk before he asked "Have you been hiding your true wisdom from us this whole time?" Blackjack's tone towards the superhero was a playful teasing tone that Harmony knew all too well from her twin brother but she also knew Blackjack meant no harm.
Harmony smiled at the words that came from father and daughter before she said "It does seem humans and digimon want that sense of balance in their lives even when there are a small portion that try to actively ruin the lives of others. I'm glad with humans and digimon that seems to be a minority of both worlds' populations."
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Post by supesman on Dec 10, 2021 16:26:26 GMT
"I suppose the wisest thing I can say in relation to that, Blackjack is simply that the only wisdom one may ever hold is that he has no wisdom at all." he said, humbly turning away from the compliment but with an appreciative smile on his face. He reached out and give Blackjack a little poke on the lower part of his body, silently testing just how true to her words his sister was when saying that the little ball digimon had a ticklish streak. While the two boys fooled around and laughed at one another, Harmony and Marigold seemed to be engaged in an actually fruitful conversation.
"What more can anyone want than just to be happy, I guess? I mean, people lie to themselves about why they want it or what it's going to take to get there but everyone thinks that they're the hero, that's the scary part, right?" Marigold asked, only glancing slightly to her father as he became more and more bold at prodding and tickling Blackjack as Blackjack "encouraged" him by laughing at his antics.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 11, 2021 1:24:18 GMT
"True enough." Blackjack said before the yellow and white Cardmon felt Zack his little body and he released a brief snort of laughter before the street smart gambler floated away from Zack's fingers moving behind the human. If he was now going to target him for being ticklish than he figured he would find out if Zack was the same. Turn about being fair play after all. Reaching out with his invisible hands he began tickling Zack starting at the human's rib cage and moving around to find the most effective spot he could. Unfortunately for Zack, Blackjack could be just as relentless as his twin sister.
"Everyone would be so much happier if they could just be honest with themselves. Some people thinking their the hero is indeed scary especially when their plans aren't that heroic. Though Blackjack and I never claimed to be hero types as we just want to go about our business while being strong enough to protect ourselves from being absorbed by other 'heroes of their stories' as it were." Harmony said peeking briefly at Zack and Blackjack watching her brother as he made his move. "Let's hope for your dad's sake he isn't ticklish like my brother."
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Post by supesman on Dec 11, 2021 18:42:04 GMT
"I suppose "hero" is the wrong word in that particular case. it means a very specific and prominent thing that a lot of people would feel weird accepting for themselves. I suppose what I'm actually getting at is that most people think they're more broadly "the good guy" in their own lives. We take such leaps to justify ourselves and we'd never do something we intentionally know is "wrong" with no reasoning. So people with totally skewed morality can end up thinking they've been right all along as they wave away all the pain they've caused and the people they've hurt." Marigold said, correcting herself in relation to Harmony's point, turning her head and smiling softly at Zack and Blackjack messing with one another.
Zack was indeed ticklish, his hands reaching up and behind himself to try and swat at the spherical digimon that was buzzing around tormenting him so with those invisible fingers digging into the meat and musculature of his ribs. blackjack's hands traced across his lower abdomen and eventually pressed against one of the spindly limbs of his stinger scar.
"AH-!" Zack yelped, twitching and flinching in a way that made him fall out of his chair in an awkward heap. "Ow...nnn...ow..." he said, wincing as he pulled himself back to his feet.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 12, 2021 4:21:12 GMT
Harmony shuddered at the thought of someone with a skewed morality hurting others thinking what they were doing was right but, unfortunately, though she and Blackjack were very young they knew very well there were those that were that way human and digimon alike. "The thought of either human or digimon like that is most unsettling no matter how true such words are. Blackjack and I are just trying to peacefully exist and mean no harm to anyone even if we don't always agree with authority figures. Don't misunderstand me though, Marigold, while my brother and I aren't hero types like you and your father we will stand up for the greater good if needed."
Meanwhile Blackjack was laughing as he discovered how ticklish Zack was as his invisible ghostly fingers moved across Zack's flesh while the human tried to stop him by swatting at him but the small wily digimon used his small stature to his advantage while zipping around. When his fingers tickled Zack's scar though the human yelped startling Blackjack and even caught Harmony's attention. After Zack got back up Blackjack floated in front of him before he asked "Zack, are you okay? I didn't hurt you did I? If I did I didn't mean to." Blackjack's face once filled with playful glee was now filled with guilt. He didn't mean for his playing to get out of hand.
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