#guardromon was a candidate for usopp too but with kabuto/his love of scary bugs/his time during the timeskip

[elecmon]

You know thinking about it, Shoutmon would make sense as Shanks’s parter if Gumdramon is Luffy’s

RIGHT IT JUST WORKS ON SO MANY LEVELS

Given current status of what his past is looking like I'd mildly want him to have either a dragon/holy/lion type, or one of those adjacent as an evolution to shoutmon (luckily he has so many possibilities)

But damn near everything falls into place with Gumdramon+Luffy as a starter

Hard related is I haven't had the chance to do any progress with these three/the rest

Got stuck with deciding on Robins mon, she'd absolutely have an ugly-cute-weird partner. My original candidates having been;

But a friend suggested Tapirmon in the potential candidates list, and I've been conflicted ever since