#Turuiemon

[cypreus-and-willow]

Virtue/Vice (2022)

The duality of Mon

Lines if anyone wants to colour it in. I dunno why I saved it like this.

something about your Digimon partner being the physical manifestation of your soul and uhhh breaking the cycle of abuse and uhhh healing from trauma and ummm-

You know what tho?? I loved doing the little bumps on Cherubimons head... like ALL Lopmon's evos have sharp horns and then there's Cherubimon.

You know what else?? Here's a thing I wrote on Lopmons horn placement... yep

[pipsketches]

Turuiemon redesign because it’s my preferred Lopmon champion buuuuttt it looks so out of place from the rest of the Lopmon line that I felt like trying to get something that would be closer

[bossarmadimon]

Tag team by marshtompKD and Takataka

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Turuiemon BT3-037

[sofascribbles]

recently started the truthful route

[stuckinthewrongworld]

Another beautiful commission from @adrianolimaart on Instagram of me with my original partner, Lopmon. Turuiemon is slowly growing on me, but I've always loved Antylamon! Cherubimon didn't feel like the best fit, so I changed the Mega to Dianamon. I've always had a connection to rabbits and the moon, so it just fit perfectly!

[wheat--wesley]

The rabbit family painted months ago.

To celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival.

（PS：中秋佳节=mid-autumn festival）

[brave-new-digital-world]

EVO. by いいなの@土曜日東6ヌ37b

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We talked about the Twin Digimon last week. This week, I wanna take a closer look at their (standard) evolution lines.

As you can see, they each have a "regular" and a "dark" evolution line. In Lopmon's case, the "dark" evolution line specifically has a corruption theme. This is, of course, because Lopmon and its entire "dark" line were designed for the movie Hurricane Touchdown, which had its corruption as the main plot point. As a result, Lopmon's lines are very different from each other, while Terriermon only gets simple classic recolors.

Possibly the most corrupted among them is Wendimon.

Wendimon first gets introduced in the movie, and it posesses a chilling presence throughout all of it. However, not just Hurricane Touchdown, but all iterations of Wendimon, across the franchise's media, depict it as somehow corrupted beyond reason, usually not even being able to talk in cohesive sentences.

I wanna take a short moment to talk about its name origin. I'll not delve into too much detail, as I'm sure there are more educated people on this topic, but Wendimon is named after an evil spirit from Anishinaabe cultures, which name you are not supposed to say, as to not draw the spirit to you. I just wanted to share, in case some of you weren't aware.

But, moving on

The "regular" adult levels Gargomon and Turuiemon. Comparing the two, I really like how Gargomon has a long-range armed combat theme and Turuiemon a close-range combat theme. Gargomon, as mentioned before, appeared in Hurricane Touchdown and appeared plenty in Tamers as Jian's partner. Turuiemon, unfortunately, didn't have any big appearances until recent years. It had its debut in December 2001 as a card in Hyper Coloseum, in a Tamers themed booster.

Next up are Lopmon's perfect Level evolutions, Antylamon and Antylamon (Deva). The original Antylamon from Hurricane Touchdown is a Virus type. For Tamers, they decided to have Antylamon as the Deva representing the Hare, and so a Data type variant was created. It had its debut in Hyper Coloseum, in a booster featuring all Deva, a month before first seen in the anime at the end of 2001. The biggest visual difference is the purple scarf of Antylamon (Deva), but it also has a crest, like all Deva, on its chestplate (more on that maybe at some point?). Video games predominantly feature Antylamon (Deva) over Antylamon (Virus).

Now, if you remember, Terriermon and Lopmon were specifically designed for the movie Hurricane Touchdown. With Terriermon first showing up in its child form and Lopmon in its adult form, Wendimon, Gargomon and Antylamon are each twins' first evolution we get to see them actually evolve into during the movie. Because of this, it's interesting to me that these two share a distinct symbol, Antylamon on its arms and Gargomon on its face.

Another evolution we get introduced to in the Hurricane Touchdown movie is Rapidmon (Armor). Most people are probably more familiar with the green Perfect level Rapidmon as we see it in Tamers. Looking at the Digimental of Fate, you can see the classic Armor Digimon - Digimental resemblance. Rapidmon's abdomen comes from the sphere part of the Digimental, the base below that resembles its boots, and the wing on top resembles the ear-wings. Because the Perfect level Rapidmon uses essentially the same design, the jump from Gargomon to Rapidmon seems a lot bigger than the one from Terriermon to Gargomon. On a little side note, the official Bandai artwork of Rapidmon (Perfect) has an open helmet, even though the anime uses a closed helmet like the Rapidmon (Armor). BlackRapidmon, despite being a recolor, has a closed helmet as well.

Lastly, a short look at Cherubimon (Virtue) and Cherubimon (Vice). Both of them, again, debuted in the movie Hurricane Touchdown, which influenced their design. We get to see the corrupted, mad Cherubimon (Vice) first and only briefly see it in its Cherubimon (Virtue) form.

I believe the simple but effective changes between their designs were in part to allow this nice transition at the end of the movie.

The Lopmon line, especially, gets used in a lot of media for the sake of corruption/dark evolution story lines. Most noteworthy, Cherubimon (Vice) is the (first) main villain in the Digimon Frontier Anime season.

[stellaravenger]

Gargomon and Turuiemon. Bunny Bros... or Bunny Brother and Sister.

[rimedown]

Lop-Turuiemon.

Day 1898.

[maudlin-malarkey]

Really falling in love with Digimon again. If I ever get sent to the Digimon world, I want Lopmon to be my partner, though Turuiemon is a bit crap! SO CUTE!

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Tamersona - Yuka and Lopmon ✨ commission to @ Christian (repost)

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