Prompt Post - Part Ten

[yj_anon]

I am REALLY, REALLY SORRY about taking so long, guys, and about not being around much recently. I've been busier than I have in a while, and it just kept slipping my mind between uni applications and volunteering and all sorts- for some reason I thought we were much further off a new post.

If there is anything I haven't responded to, as of now, I'm

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GOTHAM CITY | December 22, 16:11 EDT – 2 – END

[anonymous]

"I hate them," Wally heard himself say, as if from a great distance. He felt nothing. He felt nothing.

Leormon paused. "What? Hate what?"

"I hate digimon," Wally said, and suddenly it felt viciously good to say that, to voice that, the terrible thoughts that had been festering in the back of his mind since November. The words were all pouring out at once, finally, and he couldn't stop them now if he tried. "I hate digimon! I hate all of them! I hate being a tamer, I hate the League for letting us do this, making us do this, I hate the Devas and the Digital World and the D-Reaper and Batman and if I could go back in time right now and make it all disappear, just delete all of this, I fucking would!"

He finally broke off, breathing heavily. Leormon's eyes filled with tears.

"You - You don't mean that," the digimon said, trembling all over. "Wally, you don't mean that."

"I mean it!" Wally screamed. He realized, suddenly, that he was crying, and he didn't know when he had started or how to stop. "I mean it! I mean it! I meant every goddamn word!"

"N-No," Leormon sobbed, trying to paw at Wally's leg again. "You don't mean, you can't - digimon are a good thing. Wally - "

Something in Wally snapped. He didn't want to see Leormon anymore. In fact, he'd be happy if he never saw another digimon again in his life. He hated his uncle for ever helping to create them. He hated the League for ever getting involved with them. He hated himself for insisting on playing a part.

"Look!" Wally screamed at his partner, pointing out at the ruins of Gotham, the expanding D-Reaper. "Look at it, Leormon! Look at it! That thing - " he shouted, jerking his arm out toward the chaos, " - that thing has my best friend in it, and it's going to keep him there until he dies! I hate this! I hate all of this! I wish digimon had never existed at all!"

Leormon wailed and suddenly ran from him, disappearing out into the empty streets behind them. Wally watched him go, abruptly deflated. He would feel guilty about this, feel something about this, soon enough. But not now.

For now, Wally West didn't want to feel anything at all.

Re: GOTHAM CITY | December 22, 16:11 EDT – 2 – END

[yj_tracker]

Oh my god, the tamer universe, my favoriiiiite *A*

Poor Wally! And whoa D-reaper has Robin? As like a host like it did for Jeri? Or you mean Robin went inside to fight it? The later would kinda make more sense because I don't see Robin as someone who would be a host...it seems kinda more like Zatanna's ally now that I think of it. Of course, if it was the later, I would expect KF to be there to support Robin.

But squeeee, you just made plot bunnies attack me. Would you mind if I wrote another fic somewhat around these lines?

writer-anon

[anonymous]

glad you seem to like it so far. tamers was my favorite too.

robin's the host. it was actually a toss-up between him and artemis, but I like writing about artemis fighting with her digimon better, tee-hee.

(remember, in tamers, the d-reaper abducted juri because she was the easiest to lead away from the group, and it wanted to learn more about humans.)

(remember, robin's always going off to do his own thing without telling the others.)

theoretically, any human could function as a host (sorry, M'gann, Kaldur...Conner) with the same basic scenario playing out - juri's mental instability and extreme grief fueled the d-reaper with plenty of raw power and arguably convinced it that humans and digimon were too destructive to live, but then, it was programmed to destroy 'inefficient' data anyway. and all the tamers had plenty of memories of needless violence and fighting, just like all the YJ crew would.

the key factor in what makes a host useful to the plot d-reaper is just how much trauma can be drawn out from them to fuel its rampage, i.e. how powerful it's going to be. zatanna's gone through hard times recently, but from what I've seen so far I don't think she has quite as much sheer pain in her background that the d-reaper could use as most of the other YJ kids. (and if it makes you feel better, robin's a bit more...ah, 'proactive' than juri in his approach to being held captive. as much as anyone can be in that situation, at least.)

anyways. sorry about the tl;dr I AM WAY OVERTHINKING THIS and hell no I don't mind if you write your own fic. write all the fic. I can read digimon crossover fic for days, son, days