#General warning for Baalmon being very not well adjusted

[bananahoard]

Whats Baalmon like in your fic? You said hes Neos partner?

Short answer: He's Bad.

Also. Eeegh, I mean. I mainly use the term "partner" loosly. Yes, they technically live together, & yes they may sometimes very casually fuck, but I am unsure to even call them anything else since their relationship is toxic to the core.

Long answer: Generally, there's not anyone around him that really knows what the fuck is going on in his head, & it didn't used to be this way. I note that early on that his partner (in crime) Skullsatamon has noted a concerning change in him, both in how he acts & something deeper in his code that wasn't there years ago, noted as a metaphorical sickness in him now. He swings back & fourth between what appears to be a calm, well-adjusted, highly intelligent & respected Digimon to those not in-the-know… to then swinging heedlessly of harming both himself & others, the likes that would make even Neodevimon flinch later. He has issues with self-medicating & paranoia, & strongly contrasts with Skullsatamon, who also lives with him & still stays with him due to his growing concern over him. I'll note that it's seen as highly, highly unusual that a Skullsatamon would live like this with others that are not his 'own kind', & it seems he owes him some sort of obligation. Additionally, Baalmon was the type who was initially suicidal due events (inability to get back home) & this eventually lead to self-destructive tendencies, to violence after frustration, & then basically viewing everything as a nail at the worst. Skullsatamon helped with SOME of it when they met, but… years eat away things.

As to why Baalmon GOT this way. He isn't from this world in my writing, & is basically stranded in this world similar to the deeper lore with Wizardmon in canon being from Witchelny. Curiously, Baalmon in canon lore has no direct ties to Witchelney besides possibly evolving from Wizardmon, somehow. Anyway. Problem is, he's seen too much of the "other side" so to speak, with the digital network & human's influence on the early Digital World in this setting (we're talking like, EARLY early, the first folder networks, Docks & old lore that never made it into the anime, here). I'll note that in this, he is seen as Very Old & has unnaturally prolonged his lifespan even past the likes of an undead like Skullsatamon. His lust for the Truth & more data is what forced his evolution into this being of violence & obsession to begin with. He believes humans to be the divine, & later gets a personal vendetta against this perceived divine which he believes has hurt him directly. In general, he wants OUT after years of that suffering in the trash whalefall that is his new home network, & later where Neodevimon ends up. Due to a misunderstanding of information that he cannot fully analyze, Baalmon wants out of this place with with his memories intact, which is something he normally can't achieve if he were to die & be reborn naturally. It's implied that there is something wrong with the server they are stuck on, given it seems to be at the bottom of what appears to be a funnel in the network as a whole, & may be affecting Digitama. Where Devimon comes into this, is that, for an undisclosed LONG time, Baalmon has been tampering with his own memory data & has been searching for proof of the 'divine' from Digimon who may have a shred of that in their code from their births on other servers/folders, prior to them ending up in the whalefall. As to why he wants this, I won't explain further as of now. I'll just say "attack & dethrone (what he believes to be) god." It eventually ends with him sacrificing all of the data he's amassed over the years in order to destroy something…

As Neodevimon's 'partner', well, they somehow work well together, but it's because they both bring out the absolute worst in each other. There's later a sort of mutual respect that both can tear each other's throats out (Baalmon having shaped him into his attack dog by that point, after all), as nothing at that point had rivaled Baalmon's abilities in his respective territory where they live, & Baalmon is later 'into' the Barely Under His Control energy that Neodevimon later brings to his murder polycule. As to why Neodevimon is Like That, it's due to something later being returned to him that has been tarnished by Baalmon in a way. And it's not by any coincidence that Neodevimon is a species said to be controlled by something else in lore. Not to mention a square peg later being shoved back into a round hole very much has left him a bit unstable (his memory core being tampered with by Baalmon earlier on).