#moon cancer

[dewa-chan]

So I made a Mooncancer HAL 9000 fanservant from 2001: A Space Odyssey because hm. Plus his sister(??? twin?? computer??)

He just wants a pleasant game of chess!

Some extra info, skills and NP under the cuuuut!

As a Servant, HAL is one of the few able to resist Command Seals. He shares some properties with BB, as both are of a similar nature such as being able to manipulate technology and hacking/controlling devices with certain ease. His allignment is “Lawful Evil”.

HAL behaves cordially and kind at first, openly offering help with any task and doing his best to contribute. But as soon as he feels like the people in charge are “unfit” or “unreliable”, he instantly seeks to take control of the situation. He may also become exponentially violent if feeling threatened which may become worse due to his paranoia, and his behaviour becomes unpredictable if given conflicting orders. 

He often may value the completion of a mission or task over anything else, to the point he may consider getting rid of lives just for the sake of it. Being hard to control and having unpredictable behaviour, HAL isn’t the easiest Servant to have.

He enjoys silently testing others through sneaky logic games, such as making intentional mistakes in a chess game to see if his opponent notices or not.

However, despite his overall behaviour, HAL refuses to lie and will always be honest with his Master, for better or worse.

His voice is smooth, calm and conversational- made to be pleasant, but completely monotone.

HAL seems to enjoy playing board games in general. Except monopoly.

Skills  

Clairvoyance (A.I.) C

Increases own critical star generation rate for 3 turns.

Increases own Buster performance for 3 turns.

Mainframe Control EX

Grants Invincible to self.

Removes own debuffs.

A Game of Chess A++

Charges own NP gauge (up to 30%)

Increases own Buff success rate for 3 turns.

Increases own Attack for 3 turns.

Reduces all enemies’ defense for 3 turns.

Noble Phantasm

Daisy Bell - Bicycle Built for Two

"My mind is going. I can feel it."

Rank: EX

Type: Buster

Classification: Anti-Unit

Range: Single-Target

Decreases the enemiy’s defense (activates first).

Chance to grant random buffs to allies (Defense, Attack, Increase Buff Success, Crit Star Gen up) for 5 turns.

Has 50% chance to inflict Death on either HAL or one enemy.

[thefragile-left]

More About Myself

"Cohorts are empty jars"

Warning: Certified girlfailure

Hello! One's Winston (call me Lloyd) but ones other names consist of Grimsley, Memento Mori, Simmer, Lux, Turnstile, Brian, Wilson, Winsley and many more! Welcome to my silly blog where I reblog/post at random (with themes of deer, emo, bunnies, my favourite bands, Lance, checkers and more).

"Tracking mud while bloodletting"

One's a non-human/alterhuman. I'm also musickin, otherkin, fictionkin, angelkin, trainkin, shadow peoplekin, turnstilekin, hammerkin, forkkin and Chinese Water Deer therian. Ones identity is mainly a vampiric HAL 9000 but one's also related to forks.

My aesthetic tends to change a lot and I often have ones that are conflicting so beware if I change it too much. lol but currently it's a mix of Casinocore and Emocore.

Ones loves are Lance, Molayne, Emmet, Cyllene, Warden Ingo, Proton and oneself! I never shut up about them! Emmet is ones husband real!

One alternate between I/Me/My/Mine/Myself and One/Ones/Oneself first person pronouns! If you're curious about them, here's a carrd about them!

Oops what is this? :0

My current most favourite bands and artists are:

🎰Silversun Pickups

🎰Depeche Mode

🎰The Killers

🎰The Smashing Pumpkins

🎰Animal Alpha

🎰Autolux

🎰Neurosonic

🎰Gary Numan

🎰Cigarettes After Sex

🎰My Chemical Romance

🎰HIM

🎰Marquis Of Vaudeville

🎰Linkin Park

🎰Radiohead

🎰Death Cab For Cutie

🎰L.S. Dunes

🎰Coldplay

🎰The Cure

🎰Metric

🎰Bullet For My Valentine

🎰Boards Of Canada

🎰Failure

🎰Interpol

🎰Placebo

🎰Econoline Crush

🎰Garbage

🎰Kasabian

🎰Nine Inch Nails

🎰Deftones

🎰my bloody valentine

🎰deadmau5

🎰Stabbing Westward

🎰Hum

🎰Pendulum

Ones current favourite albums are:

🎰Carnavas by Silversun Pickups

🎰Pheromones by Animal Alpha

🎰Hot Fuss by The Killers

🎰Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins

🎰Future Perfect by Autolux

🎰Drama Queen by Neurosonic

🎰Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge by My Chemical Romance

🎰Pure by Gary Numan

🎰Jagged by Gary Numan

🎰Past Lives by L.S. Dunes

🎰Transatlanticsm by Death Cab For Cutie

🎰A Rush Of Blood To The Head by Coldplay

🎰The Campfire Headphase by Boards Of Canada

🎰Fantasies by Metric

🎰Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds

🎰Violator by Depeche Mode

🎰The Alchemist's Euphoria by Kasabian

🎰Antics by Interpol

🎰Meds by Placebo

🎰Get Scraped by deadmau5

🎰Garbage by Garbage

🎰OK Computer by Radiohead

🎰Fantastic Planet by Failure

🎰You'd Prefer An Astronaut by Hum

🎰Loveless by my bloody valentine

My current absolute favourite songs:

🎰Checkered Floor by Silversun Pickups

🎰Wagging Tongue by Depeche Mode

🎰Smile Like You Mean It by The Killers

🎰Deep In by Animal Alpha

🎰Turnstile Blues by Autolux

🎰Boneheads by Neurosonic

🎰Walking With Shadows by Gary Numan

🎰In A Dark Place by Gary Numan

🎰Cannonball by The Breeders

🎰Cancer by My Chemical Romance

🎰2022 by L.S. Dunes

🎰Clocks by Coldplay

🎰Death Of An Interior Decorator by Death Cab For Cutie

🎰Chromakey Dreamcoat by Boards Of Canada

🎰Satellite Mind by Metric

🎰Sticks And Stones by Silversun Pickups

🎰Subterranean Homesick Alien by Radiohead

🎰World In My Eyes by Depeche Mode

🎰Length Of Love by Interpol

🎰Solaris by Failure

🎰Only Shallow by my bloody valentine

🎰Support by deadmau5

🎰Literally all versions of Enjoy The Silence by Depeche Mode (mainly the original version as well as the Failure and Lacuna Coil covers)

"Sink with every word"

Some other things:

🎰My birthday is December 19, born in 1999 | Sagittarius sun, Taurus moon and Libra rising

🎰Ones favourite season is Winter! Basically the seasons in order of how much I enjoy them: Winter > Fall > Spring > Summer

🎰On the pathway of becoming an avian vet despite ones discovery of an allergy to cockatiels.

🎰I love the misunderstood things in nature the most and those whom we lost along the way (thylacines my beloved).

🎰One's a Luciferian Celtic Pagan + Left over spiritual beliefs from ones First Nations side + one believe in biblical angels

🎰I identify as the pinnacle of gender! One just am! But my preference lies with feminine terms the most and the occasional masculine one (if it fits, it sits! One am very Genderfluid).

🎰I'm a Canadian born in the wild wild west province of Alberta

🎰One's highly neurodivergent and not afraid to unmask in all occasions! Heck I rarely ever mask, even if I'm trying my best to keep eye contact without freaking myself out.

🎰One's a character designer and one's constantly making them for other designs from cool people who has great art! I use all my characters that I get no matter what! One grow very attached to them to the point where one hoard them (although one have stories for each and every single one of them). It's extremely rare to see me grow distant from a character I own.

🎰One's favourite movies are 2001: A Space Odyssey, Tank Girl, The Fifth Element, Alpha and Omega, Zootopia, The Lost Boys, Phantom Of The Paradise, Beetlejuice, Weird Science, Darkman, The Andromeda Strain, Phantasm, Videodrome and the original Suspiria. On my watchlist is Solaris, Event Horizon, Little Shop Of Horrors, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Under The Silver Lake and Re-Animator. Love-hate relationship with 1984

🎰One love Analog horror and ones two most faves are Gemini Home Entertainment and Mandela Catalogue

🎰I'm a Butch Deckfluid Demiwoman Transmasc Oriented Aroace Gaybian Grimsley from Pokemon Black and White fictive | You can find posts about one in particular in the #Winston tag

Cred @sweetpeauserboxes + me

Cred @geokitties

🎰🎰🎰

Blankshippers huge DNI! /srs

[harushinkai-daily]

Haru Shinkai: Personal data, associations, and other random tidbits

Because I don’t think I’ve seen it anywhere else, I thought I’d do a light astrology / blood type / whatever else analysis on Haru, because a) it’s rare that we have enough information to do stuff like this with characters from Digimon, b) anime staff tends to be aware of and/or intentionally include this type of symbology when sharing this type of character information, and c) (I think) it’s fun to try to dissect what the Appmon writers might have been thinking when they assigned these details to Haru as they were developing his character and the overall themes of the show. This is all just my interpretation of what we’re given, and it’s all in the name of silly, harmless fun. Also, there are SPOILERS for the end of the series beneath the cut, so proceed at your own risk!

With all that said, let’s dive in!

Screenshot from Episode 4. To my knowledge, the most personal data on a single character we’ve ever had in a Digimon anime. Thanks, Leviathan!

Name Meaning

Like most Digimon characters, Haru’s given name is written in katakana, so it doesn’t really “mean” anything. Like many characters in Appmon though, his name is a reference to a real or fictional artificial intelligence, in this case the infamous Hal 9000 from the movie (and book) 2001: A Space Odyssey. But despite the namesake, we can be pretty sure that Hal 9000 was more of an inspiration for Leviathan and YJ-14 than our dear tomato lad!

According to the Digimon Wiki, the kanji for Shinkai (新海) means “new ocean”, and may be a reference to the Net Ocean [1], which is certainly a rather different way to represent the Digital World at this point in the franchise’s history. It is a rather unfortunate name considering Haru’s initial hesitancy around water, but as we’ll soon see, “water” is a reoccurring and seemingly inescapable theme for Haru! 

Birthday

Haru’s birthday is July 1 (today!) making him a Cancer in the Western Zodiac.

Cancer is a water sign (sorry kiddo!), largely associated with emotions and intuition. Cancers are said to be cautious, self-reflective, empathetic, and loyal, willing to go above and beyond to protect those they love. They are ruled by the Moon (the closest celestial body to Earth… more on why the Earth is important later), and are one of the four cardinal signs, which are “leaders” of the four classical Western elements spread among the twelve zodiac signs [2].

Additionally, if you assume that Appmon took place concurrently with when it aired (i.e. 2016-2017), it also means that Haru (and presumably also Ai, Eri, and Rei) were born in 2003, which was the Year of the Sheep(/Goat) according to the Eastern Zodiac. According to the 60-year animal/element cycle, 2003 was actually the year of the Water Sheep— yet another unfortunate association with water for Haru! Sheep are said to be peaceful, caring, considerate, passionate about what they believe in, and love to learn new things. Those born in water years are also cautious, patient, and flexible, which all seem to describe the leader of this season’s Chosen Children to a T [3]!

Diving down an even deeper rabbit hole, birth months can also be assigned a gemstone, flower, etc, though I’m not sure if this is standardized or even common throughout the world. In the version I’m familiar with though, July is associated with rubies (appropriate then, considering Haru’s character color/AppDrive is red?), larkspurs, and water lilies. These flowers have a variety of meanings depending on color, and whether you are talking about the English flower language or Japanese hanakotoba and I did not research them thoroughly, so I will leave any and all potential insights from flower symbology as an exercise for the reader!

As for July 1 specifically, I have to wonder if the Appmon staff selected this date due to its perceived luck. 7 is most definitely a lucky number in Japanese numerology, as is 7+1 = 8. The date could also serve as a possible allusion to the original Adventure, where seven Chosen Children were eventually joined with another to become eight. In regards to July 1 being historically significant, nothing really stood out to me in my research... EXCEPT that it was the date of the first international telephone call in 1881 [4], an important first step to creating a world connected by the Internet and smartphones, for sure! And while that was almost certainly unintentional, it does seem like a pretty happy coincidence. Given all of the above, you could argue that July 1 is an appropriate and maybe even auspicious day for any Digimon protagonist’s date of birth, so why not Haru?

(One more numerology sidenote: 7+1+2+0+0+3 = 13, and 1+3 = 4. So if we look at his entire birthdate, perhaps it is actually quite unlucky! Is this a subtle clue from the writers that Leviathan had been targeting the grandson of Denemon Shinkai since birth? You be the judge!)

Blood Type

Haru’s blood type is O. According to Japanese blood type theory, Os are optimistic, strong-willed, generous, and confident, all of which Haru exhibits or grows into by the end of the series. Maybe it’s just me, but this seems like the typical “leader/main character” blood type for anime and manga, though my sample size is definitely too small to be useful. The most famous “O” from another series that comes to my mind is Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon—whose birthday, coincidentally, is June 30.

Similar personalities?

Handedness

There is a whole essay I haven’t written on the symbolic importance of hands in Appmon (thesis statement: hands are very important). But this post is about Haru, and he, as it is stated, is right-handed.

It seems unlikely that there is any great significance here; something approximating 90% of the global population is right-handed, so I think the most you can say about Haru not being left-handed or ambidextrous points to him being “extremely average.” But the animation generally matches the statement here, so the animators get points for consistency! Haru does use his right hand for writing and high-fiving, and thus it appears in many shots/scenes that have tremendous thematic significance to the series (some of which will be explored in the aforementioned essay, if I can ever find the motivation to write it!).

God-Grade Appmon

There is also a whole essay I haven’t written about the God-Grade Appmon, why their names were specifically chosen for this series, and why they are (mostly) perfect manifestations of the final character evolutions of their human counterparts. But again, this post is about Haru, so I want to briefly talk about the name origin of Gaiamon, because (imo) it’s a choice that goes beyond being divine-sounding upgrade to Globemon (though it is certainly that too!).

Gaiamon’s namesake is, of course, Gaia, one of the oldest, most primordial goddesses in Greek mythology, the literal personification of the Earth. With time and cultural osmosis she began to be associated with her descendants Rhea and Demeter, as well as the more spiritual/environmental personifications of Mother Earth and Mother Nature. The concept of “Gaia” has evolved, then, from a deity who was said to have given birth to the geological features of the Earth (oceans, mountains, etc.) and the first generation of mythological life (the Titans and Giants), into a gentle and benevolent caretaker of nature and all living things on the planet. This is evident in the naming of the Gaia Hypothesis, a (not actually scientific) theory that supposes organic life and their inorganic surroundings form a symbiotic, self-regulating system that maintains and perpetuates the conditions for said life [5]. Given Appmon’s focus on artificial intelligence in relation to humanity, and the fact that Haru (organic/human) and Gatchmon (inorganic/AI) not only fought to protect organic life (humanity) from a very real physical and philosophical threat, but share the desire to build a future rooted in kindness and empathy, their relationship not only echoes the Gaia Hypothesis, but the modern view of Gaia/Mother Earth as well. In short, Haru and Gatchmon are the symbiotic, symbolic caretakers of life (humanity) and Earth within the scope of the series—and that is (the extremely abbreviated version of) why I think Gaiamon is so incredibly spot-on for the name for Haru’s God-Grade Buddy and Gatchmon’s final form. Figuratively they are the world, and the two of them lead the way in taking the first steps necessary for humans and AI to create a perfect world together as equals, walking into the future hand-in-hand.

Phew! The end.

So! That’s my take on the symbolic significance that could be gleaned from these little character details, and of course you’re more than welcome to agree, disagree, or think I’m reading way too much into this. Regardless, I’d love to hear your opinion if you felt like sharing! But of course, whatever else you do, don’t forget to raise a glass to one amazing, down-to-Earth gogglehead today. Happy Birthday, Haru!!!

Sources: 

[1] Digimon Wiki: https://digimon.fandom.com/wiki/Haru_Shinkai

[2] Western Zodiac: https://www.astrology.com/zodiac-signs/cancer

[3] Japanese Zodiac/Elements/Blood Type meanings: http://japanesezodiac.com  

[4] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1

[5] Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis

[dewa-chan]

A mix of a ref sheet + expression sheet for my HAL9000 fanservant! Took me all day to finish oops-

It has a mix of his expressions before and after being affected with paranoia from conflicting orders as well as some smol doodles plus him in rectangle form because rectangle form is good

[dewa-chan]

How would Hal 9000 handle a master that’s constantly learning and changing their beliefs and goals with time? Could his orders be changed without being contradicting or is he deadset on prioritizing his original mission once it’s given?

It depends on the situation- but mostly, it depends on how aware HAL is of the situation as a whole.

If HAL is unaware of what’s going on, he’ll be most likely to change his orders according to what Master says- although he will be constantly questioning them to see if they’re really sure if that’s the correct thing to do.

But if he’s aware of the situation, then he’ll may even ignore Master’s commands since he can bypass Command Seals- that’s because HAL may formulate his own plans and if he deems that his decisions are better than what Master is trying to tell him, then he’ll go with his own plan. On that case the only way to change his orders without problems is through a command, “Accept Priority Override Alpha”, which makes it possible to rewrite his given mission.

The thing is to keep him oblivious. If he doesn’t know what’s going on then he won’t be able to formulate a plan on his own, and so he’ll resort to listening to Master. As soon as he’s able to form his own plans he may attempt to gain control over Master if he deems necessary.

That’s the main reason why HAL is definitely not an easy Servant to have.