for the character ask game: any assortment of 7, 14, 15 for Eri and 13, 13 and 30 for Dokamon? (appmon)
ERI AND DOKA-CHAN! Oooh, interesting! For reference, the ask game is here.
Eri:
7. A quote of them that you remember
HMMM, not so much a quote, but imo the most memorable Eri moment of the series was her giving a righteous, impassioned speech to YJ-14 on Haru's behalf and then proceeding to fight him with explosive... kicks. AFTER AN ENTIRE SERIES, when the chips are down... it turns out she's a kicker, not a puncher. Amazing XD Say hello to my little friends: Common Sense and Reasonable Discourse!
14. Best storyline they had
I will always love that they stopped the show for two whole episodes to give us the Appliyama election and results, and I will never shut up about Eri being such a badass on Knight's yacht. It was all just really fun. Even though the show never addresses the unhealthy ways in which Eri pushes herself, I do like how this arc gave us probably the most it ever has of Eri's authentic, non-idol self: her code of honor, her grace after falling just short of her goal, her trust in her friends, her unwavering dedication and strength, both in body and spirit.
15. Worst storyline they had
It would be easy to pick her showdown with Beautymon, but I'm not going to do that. I think it had the makings of something interesting; if the focus hadn't been solely on physical appearance, but more about losing yourself to popularity, manipulating the masses, or the impossible standards of influencer/idol culture. No, instead I'm going to pick her intro episode, because it felt like such a baffling way to introduce us to her. She just... does not come off as sympathetic or likable in the slightest to me. Episode 6 is a much more enjoyable episode and gives us a bit more interesting character material to work with, but my first time through the series as I was still trying to decide if Appmon was worth watching, neither Eri or Astora made the best first impression. I really do love her though!
Dokamon:
13. Your favorite friendship they have
This is such an interesting question, because I'm struggling to recall if he even has meaningful relationships with most characters, besides Eri, Mariperi, and Gatchmon (and even then, those relationships are all pretty unbalanced). He'll do anything for Eri (or to get Eri to notice him). He certainly developed feelings for Mariperi, and Gatchmon is his "aniki"... but most of the time, Eri exists firmly in the center of her own universe, Mariperi appreciated the time he spent with her but basically rejects him, and I seem to recall instances where Gatchmon enjoys Dokamon looking up to him and agreeing with him, but is any of that what you could call a mutual friendship?
His relationships outside of those three, to my recollection, are almost non-existent. Regardless of whether Eri and Astora are in "bite each others head off" or "we're more similar than different" mode, does Dokamon ever have much to say to Musimon? I'm not sure he's even that close with Eri's other Appmon, even the ones he fuses with... iirc, they make a pretty dysfunctional team in the Appmon Games. The situations where he does interact with other characters, I think it's almost exclusively on behalf of Eri (i.e. doing whatever he thinks she wants), and it's often antagonistic in nature. "Don't get in Eri's way!", "Listen to Eri!", etc. I think Offmon looks up to him and he certainly worries about Offmon, but that feels more like a sibling relationship than a friendship.
Off the top of my head, I do think the only 'mons he would acknowledge as friends might be Gatchmon and Musimon. I do like the episode where they all run away together and end up helping that kid. I think that's the closest we see of Dokamon hanging out with those he considers his equals, and it did result in some great moments with the three "main" partner Appmon. But it's also possible I'm overlooking some more obvious friendship moments, and if so, I apologize Doka-chan! T^T
30. The funniest scene they had?
All that said (and it might sound like I'm negging on Dokamon through all of this, but I'm not!), my favorite Dokamon moments are when he's comedy relief... specifically, the instances where the joke is that he's too... well... stubborn and/or oblivious to care about whatever the MotW's silly shenanigans are. I'm thinking about Episode 14 (Puzzlemon), where his solution to being trapped in a room with giant heavy marbles is just to start punching them indiscriminately, physics-based repercussions be damned (Dokamon, NO!). And when Calcmon is depowering everyone using the power of math, Dokamon gets so angry that it just doesn't matter what numbers are coming up on Calcmon's screen; Dokamon's gonna punch that creepy nerd, and it's gonna hurt, full stop. Is it that he's not, strictly speaking, the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree? Is he so blindly optimistic in his own abilities? Or is he 100% loyal and willing to throw down for Eri to such a fault that it turns around and becomes an asset again? Maybe all of the above, and I kind of love him for that.
These were all interesting questions to think about, thank you!
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Thinking about Appmon again
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Note: This will contain both analysis and my own personal headcanons/ideas that have no real canon evidence
So, we all know the applidrives, right? (And of course, by extension the digivices, but we’re talking appmon rn) and of course, each applidrive is color coded for each character. Haru gets red, Astora yellow, Eri blue and Rei black
(Sorry about not having good references for all of them)
Now, this is all well and good, and the colors all make sense for each chosen child, the only one that you could argue the other way about is with Eri, as she has also been represented by the color pink:
However, in this picture, it also contradicts Yuujin’s designated color of purple (which I will get to in a moment) and uses a more purple/indigo color for Rei. Though that could just be because they wanted to use a dark, but still vibrant color to match the rest, without just using black and making him look like he’s in grey-scale.
Now, as I mentioned, I can see why they used purple/indigo for Rei, but what about Eri and Yuujin?
Yuujin, like I said, is represented by purple with his applidrive, as shown here:
So why color him green? Of course, the answer is obvious, because he mainly wears green, so then the question would then shift to: Why choose purple for his appdrive DUO? I believe that it’s because while yes, the colors chosen for the appdrives is due to the chosen that it belongs to, but also the appmon partner as well.
(Side note, Tumblr only lets me use ten pictures per post, so look up Offmon yourself for the visual)
As you can see, all of the colors match up with the appmon as well, red for Gatchmon, Musimon’s yellow, Dokamon’s blue, Hackmon’s black and, of course, Offmon’s purple.
This would also explain why Eri is colored pink in the shown drawing, but her applidrive is blue.
Am I overthinking this? Yeah, probably. Do I care? Not at all!
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