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A WIP character sheet for ''Recap/DiaryOfAnAnalog'' by Creator/MF217. Tropes that apply for characters in the SeriesFic ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'' are ignored if they're canon characters and only OC characters have any of their ''Citadel of the Heart'' tropes mentioned here when necessary.
[[Characters/DiaryOfAnAnalogProtagonists Diary of an Analog Protagonists]]
[[Characters/DiaryOfAnAnalogAntagonists Diary of an Analog Antagonists]]
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! ''Citadel of the Heart'' holdovers
!! Emissary Lady Sigma
* AdaptationalVillainy: Her free will in this version allows her to act as she would normally had it not been for the major RestrainingBolt she has in canon.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her human form has very dark skin, golden eyes, but otherwise resembles a Russian woman more than anything else in terms of overall appearance. Her accent isn't from any noticeably obvious ethnicity, though, only the sound of a stereotypical noble if anything.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Her Ultimate Ouryuken move, capable of shattering virtually any form of armor or barrier like it was glass upon a direct hit. Kudos to also being treated as such in the video games.
* BrawnHilda: She looks no different from any other Alphamon in the ''Digimon'' franchise, but is classified as female. Her human form she assumes at times actually looks like a very dark skinned Russian woman.
* DualWielding: She uses the Ouryuken as two blades simultaneously, which to some may initially seem out of nowhere, but actually holds basis in ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld4'', in which Alphamon's strongest weapons were a dual set of the Ouryuken. Alphamon wasn't even the only Digimon to have their actual weaponry in said game amplified to dual wielding, either, as Imperialdramon FM and PM, as well as [=MetalGarurumon X=] had their weapons relegated to such as well.
* EqualOpportunityEvil:
** She doesn't discriminate amongst her own kind, contrary to what Duftmon would want you to think. [[spoiler:Hence why she hires [=BanchoLeomon=] so quickly in the aftermath of her first major appearance.]] In theory this could even apply to the main protagonists or other antagonists, so long as they know one simple thing in the process. If they choose to serve her, [[spoiler:their soul(s) become officially hers alone.]]
** She ''does'', however, allow Mega Level Digimon to outright keep their current form if they officially graduate to a member of the Royal Knights among her guards. This results in Digimon who, as a species-wide case of not normally being Royal Knights, to individuals of those species being considered Royal Knights in this incarnation. Usually when a new member takes the form of a Royal Knight, it's because they tend to not already have a Mega Level form for themselves as it stands once they're promoted. [[spoiler:Dynasmon had his form picked for him specifically because as a reborn Wizardmon, he was still a Champion Level and Lady Sigma naturally needed to ensure he'd be able to fill the role and gave him additional power with no strings attached.]]
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Lady Sigma's utterly unhinged, sociopathic tendencies on display here are '''exactly''' how she would act in ''Citadel of the Heart'' proper had she not had a RestrainingBolt applied to her in the main continuity.
* FantasticRacism: "A good [[MisanthropeSupreme Analog is a dead one!]]"
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The way she speaks in her introduction arc makes things out to be not even remotely so much as a nuisance to her even when she's being confronted, in which she's deliberately trying to piss someone off at times. She is basically using everyone around her as pieces to a larger puzzle, and is navigating the various pieces into their proper places to set up towards later events. [[spoiler:She even more or less actually intended to have [=WarGreymon=] strike her down considering she wanted to see if him doing so would cause his half of Omegamon to speak through him, which she succeeds in getting a reaction but not quite a clear answer that she was looking for.]]
* KnightTemplar: A title of a chapter refers to her as such, and it's an understatement, as she sees all humans as evil and is not above killing their sympathizers.
* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler:She actually '''survives this''', but midway through Chapter 7 she's reduced to this by [=WarGreymon=], which subsequently causes the Royal Knights overall to keep off of the [=DigiDestined=] while they prioritize healing Lady Sigma back to full health by salvaging her remains and beginning extensive repairs.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:Her return in Chapter 28 has her more than willing to work alongside the [=DigiDestined=] and also having her speak to them and give them precise commands on the details of her actions prior, in which they're more than willing to hear her out because if someone such as Lady Sigma is being chummy with the [=DigiDestined=] all of a sudden, it just goes to show just how much shit has hit the fan at this point.]]
* PutOnABus: Has been out of commission since Chapter 7.
* RestrainingBolt: Free will this time not withstanding, [[spoiler:she ''is'' however restrained from using the SummonMagic version of Digitalize of Soul, which is apparently so powerful that the WaveMotionGun version Soul Digitalization has no such restriction...]]
* SummonMagic: [[spoiler:Digitalize of Soul, the Japanese name of Soul Digitalization, is what refers to this version of the attack in this fic. Lady Sigma not only has to unleash all of it's power by voice command, but also has to unlock every restraint on her ability to use it, which is something she actually lacks the ability to do.]]
* UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming: [[spoiler:She indirectly blames Sora for the D-Brigade going after her, referring to her as a deserter of the [=DigiDestined=], and has no sympathy towards what had happened to half of Sora's relatives because of her attempt to retire from being a [=DigiDestined=] only for Sealsdramon to murder much of her relatives. Lady Sigma was speaking such things to deliberately provoke [=WarGreymon=] to get a specific response, and for all intents and purposes, [[GoneHorriblyRight she very much got her wish.]]]]
* WakeUpCallBoss: She is the first serious enemy the protegonists face, and she is a competent, callous foe who needs a temporary powerr-up to be beaten at all.
* WaveMotionGun: Soul Digitalization at "full power". [[spoiler:Turns out to be even more devastating but SummonMagic without '''''any''''' restraint placed on it.]]
!! Emissary Ouryumon
* AdaptationalJerkass: Ouryumon is '''very''' unpleasant in this incarnation, being a SmugSnake ''at best'' whenever he isn't an AxCrazy dickhead who wants to slaughter everyone in sight for the most trivial of reasons. Oh, and he's a complete suckup to Lady Sigma that he'll gladly throw everyone else under the bus for his own benefit to her as Her Sword.
* AdaptedOut: {{Inverted}}, considering many of Alphamon's appearances which include the Ouryuken Mode typically tend to forget that Ouryumon '''is''' the Ouryuken, and that Alphamon Ouryuken is actually a Combination of Alphamon and Ouryumon.
* AxCrazy: Immediately wants to declare genocide as his first option of retaliation against the [=DigiDestined=] after witnessing [=WarGreymon=] severely injure and destroy much of Lady Sigma's body in one attack. Dynasmon and [=BanchoLeomon=] forcefully talk him out of it, with [=BanchoLeomon=] giving him a DeathGlare because of how Ouryumon's attitude reminds him of the same type of mentality the D-Brigade have in this aspect.
* DirtyOldMan: Makes some rather blatantly perverted remarks in a rather casual manner to the female [=DigiDestined=] regardless of their actual age. Tends to get slapped silly by either them, their Digimon, or even his own subordinates for thinking that way. Heck not even the other female Royal Knights sans Sigma are safe from his perverse hormonal craziness, not that it does him any justice in making that clear to them.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Ouryumon's Asian Dragon design combined with referring to himself as "Lady Sigma's Sword", while definitely phallic in implication, only further emphasizes how blatantly a {{Jerkass}} Ouryumon is to everyone or thing that isn't Lady Sigma. Then there's his... Combination, with Lady Sigma into Alphamon Ouryuken, and how Lady Sigma rather lovingly caresses and obsesses over the Ouryuken in this form.
* VisualPun: The whole phallic remarks he makes and how Lady Sigma gushes over him when he's in the Ouryuken form? [[spoiler:He's a literal Dragon Dildo for her use alone.]]
!! Ambassador Lady Raiga
A female Omegamon who was like a lover to Lady Sigma, who mysteriously vanished one day and was never seen again. [[spoiler:Until one day being discovered in the Dark Area by Mirei's Mastemon, in which she reports back to Lady Sigma, sporting an entirely different form, from which even Flare and Tempest are also unrecognizable.]]
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: [[spoiler:Flare is a [=BlitzGreymon=], Tempest a [=CresGarurumon=], and Lady Raiga herself, as a direct consequence, an Omegamon Alter-S. Her original incarnation which first appeared in ''Truth and Ideals'' had the forms of [=WarGreymon=], [=MetalGarurumon=], and Omegamon respectively. The change was made to be able to tell the difference between ''Adventure'' Omegamon and Lady Raiga.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: [[spoiler:She was already leaning heavily into TheNeidermeyer in her original incarnation, but her sheer, unrivaled tenacity takes a whole new extreme with her AxCrazy, OmnicidalManiac tendencies.]]
* AdaptedOut: Apparently she ''does'' exist in this continuity, but bringing her up before Lady Sigma kind of causes her to... uncharacteristically explode with sorrowful rage.
* AmbiguousSituation: Whether or not Flare and Tempest still exist as separate individuals, as both of them are the composite Digimon who undergo a FusionDance to become Lady Raiga in the first place. Likewise, there's also the matter of whether or not Blackheart exists, as she's normally the result of Lady Raiga's current lack of existence, but so far nothing associated with the Black Digitron is noted in this AU yet.
* BrawnHilda: [[spoiler:Flare and her Combination with Tempest as Lady Raiga, even more so than their canon counterparts. [=BlitzGreymon=] and Omegamon Alter-S are both already heavier built than their counterparts [=WarGreymon=] and Omegamon are by default, and these two are no different just like always.]]
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Her absence in the plot is to ensure Lady Sigma actually has to find another Omegamon to do what she needs done instead. This is to prevent Lady Sigma from having an easy victory, since Lady Raiga would carry out the orders she's needed for without question.
* TheNeidermeyer: Something she already was to begin with, even in her original incarnation, as to why not only everyone in the room hated her, but why Flare and Tempest '''also''' hated her and the fact they become her when Combining together. [[spoiler:Both of them being much more ruthless and willing to Combine this time around leads to Raiga being an even worse OmnicidalManiac who everyone is flat out trying to terminate and refuse to alloy entry back into the Royal Knights, considering Raiga believes Lady Sigma's plan is brilliant in simplicity... if only she were the one in charge instead.]]
* OxymoronicBeing: [[spoiler:Is a Virus Attribute Digimon from the family of Virus Busters Digimon which are designed to slay Virus Attribute Digimon.]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:She finally appears, sporting an entirely different form from which she is not known for, with a Grey Cannon and Garuru Sword.]]
!! [[spoiler:Ambassador Kamiya Taichi]]
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Is based off of ''V-Tamer's'' Taichi and ''Digimon Re: Adventure'' Taichi, with the former influencing his partner Digimon, and the latter influencing his appearance in regards to having a jacket cape as opposed to an ordinary cape.]]
* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:He is based off of ''V-Tamer's'' Taichi, complete with an [=UlforceVeedramon Future Mode=] as his partner Digimon's strongest form. In terms of appearance, however, instead of a cape, he wears a jacket from his late father similar to how Gankoomon wears a jacket as though it were a cape. This is done to evoke the image of Taichi looking more like how he does in ''Digimon Re: Adventure'', who also has the jacket cape going for him.]]
* PragmaticAdaptation:
** [[spoiler:Simply to avoid confusion with the Tai of the main timeline, his surname is changed to Kamiya, which is the surname his anime counterpart had in the Dub, and unlike Tai, he doesn't have the shortened nickname of his given name Taichi.]]
** [[spoiler:Royal Knight [=UlforceVeedramon=] and Taichi's [=UlforceVeedramon=] diverge in their respective SuperMode. Royal Knight [=UlforceVeedramon=] becomes [=UlforceVeedramon X=], and Taichi's partner becomes [=UlforceVeedramon Future Mode=].]]
** [[spoiler:Speaking of [=UlforceVeedramon Future Mode=], in the world from which Taichi originates from, the level does indeed exist. When he travels to the world where ''Diary of an Analog'' otherwise takes place, this in and of itself poses... technical difficulties.]]
!! [[spoiler:Ambassador Kamiya Hikari]]
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Is she native to "A World without Hope" or is she from the same parallel universe as Kamiya Taichi?]]
* SealedGoodInACan: [[spoiler:She is rediscovered as still being alive, albeit sealed within a corrupted version of the [=DigiEgg of Light=], due to the Mysterious Man sealing her within it in an attempt to perform a hostage situation as one of several different backup plans.]]
! The Analogs and Siegedreimon
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[[caption-width-right:350:Siegedreimon, the mass produced Mega Level soldier of the Analogs.]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil:
** They have to choose to become villainous to be accepted into their ranks. They will flat out kill members of their own who even so much as entertain the idea of a HeelFaceTurn without even batting an eye.
** Doesn't apply to Siegedreimon, as Siegedreimon is more or less a HumongousMecha that happens to have a Digicore but otherwise is not a living entity. [[spoiler:The fact it's outright piloted by the Analogs proper only proves this.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Normally, the "Dreimon-suffix" is just an occasional part of an [=OC=] Digimon species' name that Creator/MF217 tends to use with no further meaning. However, it '''does''' have a meaning for once with Siegedreimon; [[spoiler:"drei" is German for "3", and Siegedreimon is explicitly revealed to be controlled by no less than 3 human pilots at a time.]]
* GasMaskMooks:
** They use this motif in particular to invoke horror in their adversaries, but otherwise it's just to showcase how utterly mundane and faceless the Analogs as a group are, as described under TheyLookLikeEveryoneElse below. Only with the GasMaskMooks attire do they have anything ''remotely'' resembling anything other than average or mundane in appearance alone.
** The GasMaskMooks motif isn't entirely for show either. Their numerous lairs are filled with poisonous air from which their gas masks are essential to survive in. They don't bother filtering the air to a cleaner state because they feel it bests outs anyone who is a spy among them, and prevents any normal intruders from being able to survive for too long even if they somehow remain undetected. This poisonous air '''also''' has the side-effect of disabling Digivolution of either Light or Dark varieties, as this atmosphere causes either party to experience nothing but fear and a drain in their overall willpower unless they have some sort of protection against it, which any Digimon the Analogs use as additional guards are injected a special serum to survive in their poisonous atmosphere for this purpose.
** Their foot soldier of choice, Siegedreimon, has such a mask as it's actual face, and is constantly exhaling a toxic gas as exhaust.
* HiddenDepths: They somehow created Siegedreimon to legitimately have the power of a Mega Level even before they had any ability to acquire specimens for them to study among natural Digimon.
* HomefieldAdvantage: The Siegedreimon function at their best within lairs inhabited by the Analogs, from which their usual MightyGlacier tendencies are swapped for vicious LightningBruiser tactics because unlike when out on the field when normally only a single Siegedreimon is deployed, the base of a given Analog has no less than 12 Siegedreimon active at a time, and plenty more readily available if needed. This is due to the fact that in these lairs, the Siegedreimon can act without need for direction [[spoiler:because they don't need a pilot like normal since they're already jacked into the master PC within the base itself.]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: They're exactly the kind of monstrous entities that Yggdrasil in every other series believes humankind to be almost entirely. Siegedreimon was not only invented by them, but also [[spoiler:is outright piloted by no less than three of them at a time.]]
* HumongousMecha: Siegedreimon is about the same size as Omegamon, but substantially bulkier in frame.
* TheJuggernaut: '''Siegedreimon'''. It's a Mega Level, mass produced soldier for the Analogs, and was last seen encountered by Omegamon in which it was blasted with Supreme Cannon and seemingly disappeared. Turns out all that happened to it was getting launched at the horizon and eventually it was recovered completely intact. So far, though, actual battle abilities are currently unknown, but the Analogs did indeed design Siegedreimon to be a defensive tank at the very least.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Considering their Siegedreimon inventions are heavily inspired by ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' in regards to their general appearance, that is just the tip of the iceberg, and trying to learn more about them reveals them to be quite a hatred driven, genocide intending lunatics.
* MightyGlacier: A plot point regarding their durable armor is that the more still in movement they are, the more the armor's durability remains intact as opposed to more fast paced movement, from which the armor's weak spots are more readily exposed. As a result, under normal situations, Siegedreimon employs TheSlowWalk in it's movements, and doesn't hasten the speed unless chasing down an intruder in a base of the Analogs, from which as it has the HomefieldAdvantage in said area actually patches up the weak spots by virtue of how many Siegedreimon are on the scene overall.
* NonElemental: Siegedreimon is listed as "Null" on [[https://www.deviantart.com/mf217/art/Siegedreimon-Diary-of-an-Analog-888818791 it's DeviantArt upload description.]]
* ShoutOut: To ''Franchise/KerberosSaga'', both InUniverse and Out, regarding how Siegedreimon's overall appearance looks, with the GasMaskMooks motif, the glowing red eyes, and the pitch black armor and heavy artillery they're packing at virtually all times. The InUniverse portion refers to how the ''Franchise/KerberosSaga'' exists InUniverse as a fictional media that is highly popular with the Analogs to the point they decided to model their own artificial Digimon after the iconic armor from which the ''Kerberos Saga'' is most famous for.
* TheyLookLikeEveryoneElse: Very, '''very''' few Analogs have any appearances that can be described as anything other than "completely mundane and average" in terms of what they look like outside of their GasMaskMooks motif. They could ''easily'' be anyone the protagonists or antagonists may know in-person, and they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between someone who is an Analog and someone who is otherwise an ordinary civilian.
* VilerNewVillain: At the beginning of ''Diary of an Analog'', even with the OriginalCharacter factions introduced, the first arc is otherwise the Digimon Emperor arc without too many differences emerging aside from characterization choices. The Analogs are not intended to physically appear in-person until after the defeat of the Digimon Emperor, but they do tend to at least remind the readers of their presence as ominous observers of the whole situation who are currently waiting for an opening like the brutal opportunists they are...
!! David
* NothingIsScarier: No physical form is known to exist for him; just a gas mask being worn by a skull as his avatar, but even then that isn't really saying a whole lot when the Analogs, who otherwise ''do'' have physical forms, all have the GasMaskMooks motif going for them.
* HiddenDepths: Although he's just a Mook for the Analogs, he's clearly got a lot of credentials as to why the higher ups in the Analogs consider him to have a high prestige among them, to the point that they're willing to sacrifice their own assets to ensure David's work is not discovered or interfered with.
* LanguageBarrier: He speaks Japanese '''very poorly''' when he's first introduced, and actually speaks French. Apparently he has met Nancy's father, who is partially French, to be able to get a better chance at communicating with T.K. and his friends, with Nancy herself helping translate for him whenever she's present at the same time as him.
* TheyLookLikeEveryoneElse: While not outright made obvious, he actually attends Odaiba Elementary School along with the others. Nobody realizes he's an Analog because of the fact he perfectly blends in with every other student in the school. He's just so ''mundane'' that there's nothing worth noting about him, and even the way he speaks and what photographs exist of him don't make it any clear that he has a distinct identity among his kin. [[spoiler:Especially apparent when everyone initially thinks David is the BigBad among the Analogs, when in reality he's nothing more than a generic mook who simply is held in high regard by the ''actual'' higher ups of the Analogs.]]
!! [[spoiler:UD-?? SOLUNA]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:Believe it or not, she is the entire reason why ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'' does not follow the canon series they're based on as far as chain of events go, but the problem was that as a creation of Zaalim originally, she had a more malevolent reason for acting out, as she declared history as having been written by the winners. Here, in ''Diary of an Analog'', she holds no such belief as her creators were within a gray area of sorts, leading to Soluna herself being just as much of a gray area due to the naivety to her own mistakes she makes when she thinks herself to be better than her creators after she concludes she had no other choice by to ursurp them when she saw timeline shattering damages with their continued existence. She acted out of belief she was protecting the timeline from further harm, and when she awakens in the present, she is suffering from a lot of malfunctions due to nightmares of her creators haunting her and the actions she did to get her to this point.]]
* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: [[spoiler:She is possibly an even bigger threat than any of the canonical villains could've ever dreamed off, and entirely by accident at that. She's TheGhost to everyone else, and what little is known about her prior to her reawakening has left her TheSpook, considering some very small fragments of memories of the original timeline still exist deep within the minds of the main characters.]]
* [[spoiler:BigBad:]] [[spoiler:She is one of the major Big Bads of ''Diary of an Analog'', and was briefly considered to be ''the'' Big Bad until plans were altered to upgrade Daemon's role even further than it already was. A temporal anomaly, originally being created to eliminate any contradictions in the timeline, who had turned against her masters after a long and drawn out chain of events leading her to conclude she could not logically function as intended without eliminating her masters in the process, and thus decides to take on their role for them in their permanent absence, unaware thart she isn't immune to making the same mistakes they did...]]
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype:
** She is one towards Fixer Sues. [[spoiler:She was created to uphold the will of her creators by erasing any oxymorons in the timeline, past, present, or future, from interfering with how they wanted to foretell the story at hand with the universe. She was given new creators, alongside her original one, to overlook her business. She was functioning normally at first, doing next to nothing from interfering with the events leading to the creation of ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna'', despite the fact both of those stories posed a major oxymoron to her job by the time she's discovered in her chambers underground on Mars by Matt and Gabumon during the epilogue of ''02'', from which she was told to keep 100% canon. However, Soluna notices something; Gabumon should be dead, and she was never given an explantion as to how he shows up alive and well in the epilogue. Likewise, she learns from Matt and Gabumon that Biyomon and Agumon are also both alive and well, meaning something was wrong with her role to erase oxymorons, and she tries to rectify this on the spot by attempting to wipe Gabumon from exitence, but is stopped when Matt points out to her that if Soluna was doing her job of erasing errors from the timeline as she was meant to from the very start, that why didn't she act up during the events of ''tri.'', or heck, even ''earlier'' when the original canon ''02'' created many plotholes and unresolved arcs. Soluna, rewinding time back to the point of her creation, long before the events of the pilot, has a discussion with her creators about her purpose. She is meant to fix errors in the timeline, but she was also somehow meant to ''enforce other errors'' in the process despite them ''also'' being errors in the timeline. She realizes, now, that her own creators are the very oxymorons she was designed to eliminate. She does so, and rather than erase herself next, realizes that with her creators gone, the timeline's damages will still be intact, and now there's an oxymoron of who'll maintain the timeline in their absence. Soluna takes up the mantle herself, declaring herself a God from the Machine in regards to her origins to purge herself of oxymoronic traits that would prevent her from still existing, all the while taking the timeline in her own path as she has witnessed it to match much of what her creators intended, but leaving no mistakes this time around. Going dormant, she has no idea that when she awakens, an oxymoron of her own creation will be facing her in the eyes...]]
* FailedASpotCheck:
** [[spoiler:Soluna points this out to her creators regarding how Biyomon, Agumon, and Gabumon are erased from existence in the events of ''Last Evolution'', and somehow miraculously show up alive and well, and her creators make absolutely no attempts to explain how this still somehow works. This leads to the conclusion that, when initially refusing to follow the order to mold the timeline to her creator's liking, that the only logical solution was to erase her creators from existence, since they had become the very oxymorons that she was designed to erase in the first place. Soluna's continued existence is due to her becoming an Ultimorian Deity by invoking a literal DeusExMachina.]]
** [[spoiler:Soluna would realize far too late that ''she herself'' made an error when she awakens in the present and finds V-Tamers Taichi clear as day before her, who is not supposed to exist in this timeline she had sworn to protect.]]
* FixFic: [[spoiler:She considers usurping her creators and taking command of the timeline to repair it to be this, considering the '''immense''' amount of metaphors towards the creation of the anime series from which ''Diary of an Analog'' is based upon in regards to behind the scenes drama. Soluna eventually has to deal with the fact that even she herself is not immune to the errors of her creators.]]
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:A Digital Lifeform with a specific purpose going rogue along the lines of the D-Reaper or Vitium ''and'' being yet another DeconstructedCharacterArchetype of Mary Sue tropes cast as the Big Bad in regards to ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'' villains.]]
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:Soluna was programmed to flat out negate any oxymorons in the timeline by flat out erasing them from existence. Soluna was apparently supposed to gear the timeline towards the events of ''Last Evolution'' by it's creators, but Soluna pointed out a problem; the Digimon protagonists, who were ''blatantly erased'' in the events of said movie, show up alive and well in the ''02'' epilogue which is still considered canon. When Soluna's creators insisted she still carry out the order, she did so by erasing her own creators from existence so that she wouldn't have to obey the order anymore. Soluna maintained her own existence by flat out ascending into an Ultimorian Deity by becoming a very literal DeusExMachina.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:As one of the Unofficial Ultimorian Deities, she is this by absolute default under virtually any circumstance. Not only that, but she is the first outright confirmed Ultimorian presence within ''Diary of an Analog'' proper, with the status of even reoccurring AuthorAvatar Grandis being not revealed just yet.]]
!! Dorugoramon, the Ultimate Enemy of Destruction
* {{Expy}}: Of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' Bahamut.
* RedBaron: Has at least three titles; "Ultimate Enemy", the "Dragon", and "Destruction"
* ShoutOut: His original design already references ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' Bahamut, so his role in this story is that of another Bahamut. Specifically, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' Bahamut.
!! "Hiro"[=/=]"Mameo"
* AndTheAdventureContinues: He never stopped being a [=DigiDestined=] even after being married and caring for his equally mysterious wife and their unborn child, mainly because he's given contract work by the various governments around the work to infiltrate facilities heavily suspected to be littered with Analogs and annihilate them one by one.
* DimensionalTraveler: He does this on a frequent basis by using Network as a hub to travel to different versions of the Digital World, complete with being able to access different domains and [=URLs=] of specific Digital World locations unique to a certain type of address. While nobody knows where he's from, he claims that he exists within the same world as T.K. and co., just out of reach of where most of them are much of the time.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: While he tends to not share information regarding his adventures in the Digital World in the real world, he doesn't bother hiding it to those who already are within the Digital World, considering Hiro now works as an agent tracking down and annihilating Analog hotspots with his own partner Digimon.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Hiro's actual name is unknown, as he refuses to give this information to people he meets in the Digital World.
* SignatureMon: [=PrinceMamemon=].
!! "The Vampire Woman"
* FanDisservice: Her consistent targets are underage, and she clearly looks like a woman in her 40s. For some of her male victims, she has a tendency to take the form of their own mothers at times.
* FemmeFatale
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: 40s, technically, considering while not necessarily youthful ''nor'' elderly, her mature appearance is a major defining characteristic all of her guises share in common.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane:
** Nobody knows the nature behind her existence just yet; even with her appearing in the dreams of more than one character, she takes on a different form in said dreams, and sometimes for the same victim she's been known to take on multiple forms at a time.
** Most importantly, [[spoiler:is she and Lilithmon one in the same? Is she Lilithmon's own partner? Or is she just an illusion, a puppet, of sorts, conjured into existence by Lilithmon? Or, what if, she has no connection to Lilithmon at all, and any direct traits shared between the two are nothing but a coincidence? Perhaps maybe even an innocent woman experimented on by the Analogs to give the impression she's connected to Lilithmon, but nothing more? For that matter, does this woman even actually exist as an actual individual? Who knows, at least for now.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Sunlight weakness apparently is in effect if her track record of appearances are anything to go by. For context, she doesn't appear during the day at all, as all of her confirmed appearances are within dreams that occur from the character's end in the middle of the night. Even the other characters realize that they can take naps during the day and she'll never show up, not unless their naps persist into the night.
* ParentalIncest: {{Subverted}}, as she's not actually related to her victims, but she does transform into their own mothers every now and then as a means of luring them in.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Aside from being a woman in her 40s, she takes on numerous different guises as far as appearance is concerned, even to the point of disguising herself as a given character's own mother.
* TheVamp: She seduces the various characters she meets in their dreams, often with the attempt to feed off of them.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Considering the implication in that if she ''does'' exist, she's very much a sexual predator with how she functions against her clearly underage targets.
!! Codename: "ALL-FATHER"
[[spoiler:Tropes relating to Imperialdramon in the context of this fic.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:He displays disturbingly similar power to the likes of OlympusMons [=AncientGreymon=], perhaps even surpassing it outright in raw firepower. When [=WarGreymon=] tries to destroy him with the Dramon Destroyers, he winds up sent flying backwards after crashing into his hide as the Dramon Destroyers had shattered like glass moments prior.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:He can appear as a possible Dark Digivolution Mega for '''''everyone''''' who shares any of his Attributes with him, and since he's been inconsistently labeled as all five possible at any given point in myth...]]
* TheDreaded: [[spoiler:When his fossilized VNA is discovered, Ken is too quiet, too stunned in the realization of exactly what he had uncovered, and immediately attempts to destroy it.]]
* GameChanger: [[spoiler:Because of his Dark Digivolution from Raidramon, Digimon have free reign than ever before with accessing the Real World, techniques that originally only worked in the Digital World can now function in the real world, and from a single Positron Laser alone, there is a gigantic maelstrom surrounding Japan which threatens to swallow it hole, and from deep within doesn't appear to be any spot within that's from any world we know, as shown when Dagomon rises through it. The Celestial Digimon are now at full scale war with the Royal Knights, as the D-Brigade and BAN-TYO groups are picking the strongest side to fight for and often going up against former allies or even teaming with each other. Not only that, but the Demon Lords have been awoken from their eons of isolation, and they escape from the Dark Area with the gigantic hole in space-time that Imperialdramon created.]]
* GiantFlyer: [[spoiler:Roughly on par in size with Examon, making him the second largest Dragon Digimon by comparison.]]
* OlympusMons: [[spoiler:The Mythical Dragon, so heavily shrouded in rumor that many believe and pray that he never actually existed at all in any capacity. Even the historical records prefer to ignore his existence, since they label Machinedramon as the first Mega Level, whereas Imperialdramon would've by default been the single most oldest Mega Level in all of the timeline's lore, something which everyone studying Imperialdramon finds to be absolutely baffling as to how exactly such a disturbingly powerful Dragon Digimon had just disappeared with no explanation.]]
* PowersThatBe: [[spoiler:How it was believed to have existed in the present, until it was eventually learned that it can still manage to achieve a PhysicalGod form via Dark Digivolution hijacking of other Digimon.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: About the only thing that can be mentioned of it without hiding behind a spoiler tag is that it is a very ancient Digimon who is so barely understood by modern science regarding the nature of Digimon as we currently know it that multiple stories and legends outright contradict each other within themselves as to what Attribute, Element, or Family this Digimon hails from, assuming it even belongs to any of them or even all of them at once. It's nickname, the "ALL-FATHER", is enough to unsettle those who have researched anything in the matter over it's possible identity.
* WalkingSpoiler: It says something with how much of a spoiler this entity is when virtually every single detail is a massive giveaway towards it's true identity.
* WaveMotionGun: [[spoiler:Positron Laser, which drills a hole clean through Examon's chest and obliterates him like he were glass, and leaves a gargantuan hole between the Digital World and Real World.]]
* WildCard: [[spoiler:A lot of it's lore in the myths heavily contradict each other, since they portray Imperialdramon as being virtually of any of the given Attributes or none of them, and also subsequently using any and all combination of Dragon's Roar, Nature Spirits, Wind Guardians, Metal Empire, and Dark Area for which Families Imperialdramon allegedly originated from. To make matters worse, it's impossible to decipher what alignment he actually was, since there are mutually conflicting myths of him both simultaneously being a monstrous dragon forged of chaos and the ultimate salvation of the Digital World in the dark ages.]]
* WrongContextMagic: [[spoiler:Instead of DDNA, which is the Digimon's version of DNA as known from ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld3'', he instead possesses VNA, which is a concept first used by the author in ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'' to describe naturally occurring digital lifeforms from his original works. The mere fact he has VNA as opposed to DDNA is one of the first major methods on identifying ALL-FATHER from other Digimon specimens; while other Digital Lifeforms that aren't Digimon possess VNA, ALL-FATHER is the only Digimon to outright have it over DDNA. Even Kashou, who by the franchise's own logic would be a Digital Lifeform, has DDNA as opposed to VNA, since she is technicaly an actual Digimon due to her possessing a Digicore in all of her forms, ''including'' her base form.]]
!! [[spoiler:Mysterious Man]]
* AdaptationalKarma: [[spoiler:He got his wish for Diablomon and Daemon's Data, but he couldn't control the result of his own experiments. Whatever happened next left him heavily degraded in appearance suffering a never-ending VillainousBreakdown due to an extreme case of SanitySlippage.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:He got the data from Apocalymon, and later claimed Diablomon and Daemon's data as well. Whatever the fuck he did with those three's data, however, according to him, was not worth the cost.]]
* NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler:We don't see firsthand exactly what the ultimate result of his plan was, but it heavily degraded his body and left him suffering a perpetual VillainousBreakdown caused by extreme SanitySlippage.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Considering he may or may not be a CompositeCharacter with Ken this time around as opposed to being unrelated to each other like in canon.]]
!! [=AncientSphinxmon=]
* AnimalGenderBender: Löwemon, [=JaegerLöwemon=], and Raihimon all have the manes associated with male lions, despite all three of them in this case as well as [=AncientSphinxmon=] are female entities. The explanation mostly stems from the fact that, like examples prior such as Lady Sigma, Digimon do not adhere to the rules of gender as dictated by human world lifeforms. Alternatively, since Sphinxes are commonly depicted with manes regardless of their actual gender in mythology, one could say that Löwemon, [=JaegerLöwemon=], and Raihimon are more comparable to sphinxes than they are lions.
* GratuitousGerman: The names of her Human Spirit, Beast Spirit, and Fusion Spirit are all based on German words. Actually somewhat justified in that her human vessel she's reborn into, from which her Spirit forms first appear, is actually half German in heritage.
* {{Irony}}: She is the ancient ancestor of all demonic based Digimon, yet most of said Digimon have a DarkIsEvil motif going on with their overall appearance or abilities, or even behavior, whereas [=AncientSphinxmon=] is TheSacredDarkness and was an extreme case of DarkIsNotEvil.
* OurSphinxesAreDifferent: While [=AncientSphinxmon=] has the appearance of the Egyptian Sphinx by default, she is characterized as a female entity whose only real connection to the Egyptian Sphinx being her benevolence, with the female aspect of her character coming more from the Greek Sphinx.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Löwemon and [=JaegerLöwemon=] are named as such to effectively dissociate them from the Leomon-species, showcasing how borderline supernatural and ancient the Spirit Digimon are compared to ordinary Digimon that exist in modern times.
* TheSacredDarkness: Perhaps the biggest example of this trope in the entire ''Digimon'' franchise personified, as [=AncientSphinxmon=] is a benevolent entity of incredible power aligned with Darkness, even if the problematic irony are that her descendants comprise mostly of the demonic and stereotypical DarkIsEvil based Digimon.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: All of the other members of the Warrior Ten with the sole exception of [=AncientGreymon=] and [=AncientGarurumon=] were reincarnated into human vessels that contain DDNA of Digimon as opposed to ordinary human genetics.
* ShownTheirWork: Described as a female entity and appears in the present day in a female vessel, but is otherwise a benevolent entity overall. This is actually the result of a combination of both the Greek version and the Egyptian version of a Sphinx, with the former influencing the gender and pronouns describing [=AncientSphinxmon=], with the benevolent nature of the latter being how she was in life.
* WalkingSpoiler: Just the fact she's confirmed to still be alive or even a part of the fic is enough to raise red flags.
!! Chaosmon
[[spoiler:The "Emissary of Oblivion", according to their voice. Chaosmon seldom speaks, but when they do, madness usually entails from their complex dialect, even with the simple wording structure they speak with.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: His existence is flat out confirmed by how the author intends to take the directions in CharacterDevelopment for both Darkdramon and [=BanchoLeomon=]. If he didn't intend it, he would've had both character's rolls be filled by different Digimon altogether.
* FusionDance: Of Darkdramon and [=BanchoLeomon=]. By the time it finally happens, it's permanent, unlike with what's seen with Omegamon.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: The central entity has a mind of it's own, but each of it's arms have their original personalities intact albeit horrifyingly mangled. The central entity's own personality doesn't appear to directly resemble either that of Darkdramon's or [=BanchoLeomon's=] own.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Chaosmon's dialogue is uniquely formatted, with it appearing from the right instead of the left, and pressing enter every time a new sentence is spoken while speaking multiple lines. There ''is'' a pattern regarding how Chaosmon's text is formatted, and actually follows specific rules as to how it's formatted and when.
* WalkingSpoiler: Not so much an "if" he'll appear, so much as "when". [[spoiler:"When" winds up being Chapter 24, which sees the reveal of Murmuxmon's existence as he "helps" forge Chaosmon into existence, as his two Digicores were otherwise incapable of fusing on their own accord.]]
!! Papi
Allegedly Kashou's father. Emphasis on "allegedly" considering there's high evidence indicating he doesn't actually exist as he appears before Kashou proper. [[spoiler:He's the human form of Kashou's LiteralSplitPersonality, and the one that controls the Duskmon and Velgrmon Darkness Spirits.]]
* RedHerring: Invoked and Exploited. [[spoiler:Under normal situations, Kashou ''doesn't'' have a LiteralSplitPersonality with Duskmon and Velgrmon, but she needed to escape notice from Arachnemon and Mummymon regarding her even being a Digimon altogether and thus forcefully expunged Duskmon and Velgrmon from her body, creating Papi as an unnoteworthy German male adult in the process, and rendering herself physically ill for an entire week. After Arachnemon and Mummymom fuck off, she deletes Papi and merges back with Duskmon and Velgrmon. As a direct consequence of this, it suddenly appeared as though Kashou's father had indeed shown up in the form of Papi taking on the persona of being Kashou's biological father... and his absolutely unnoteworthy characteristics are the byproduct of being exactly what Kashou mentally pictured in her head regarding what her father was like in appearance. That said, he does inherit Duskmon's tendency to be a bit of a perverted creep.]]
!! [[spoiler:Lucemon]]
[[spoiler:The one who makes Dagomon dream dead silence, and whose image provokes nothing short of absolutely quiet horror from even the darkest depths of the Dark Ocean. Lucemon was the most powerful Archangel Digimon ever at one point in time, and there was a catch to this; he was forcefully De-Digivolved into two Digimon when a disagreement occurred in his mind. One half became Devimon, who would use his remaining power to conquer File Island, the other half would later be part of Goddramon's data which would in turn give rise to Patamon's [=DigiEgg=] in 1995. Lucemon's "Dragon", meanwhile, exists as a SoullessShell of an entity which has the inherent power of a Mega Level but otherwise cannot be properly detected on radar, with the only reassurance anyone has about it for now being that it lacks both the Gehenna and the Code Crests of Sins atop it's back.]]
[[spoiler:Lucemon partially stirred behind the scenes in the debut of [=ShadowSeraphimon=], and he's not looking too happy to see what has become of both halves of his original self. Whereas Patamon briefly had parts of Lucemon purged from him when meeting Jijimon, [=ShadowSeraphimon=] would reignite this side of him and try and forcefully override Patamon's Mega Level form to that of the Demon Lord Daemon, which Lucemon chose specifically to try and separate from Patamon's overall power and then bestow upon a revived Devimon for him to become his personal servant towards his inevitable rebirth. Lucemon would also play a part in corrupting Arachnemon into Dark Digivolving into Lilithmon, by preying on her insecurities about being able to fend for herself in the current Digital World after having done nothing to stop Arachnemon from being absolutely torn apart in numerous battles prior.]]
!! Monochromon > Triceramon > ???
* CompositeCharacter: The Monochromon from the first episode and the Triceramon seen significantly later on are the same entity here.
** DecompositeCharacter: The role of Flamedramon's first opponent goes to an otherwise unrelated Digimon, had it not been for the fact this seemingly random choice of Ultimate Level Digimon is a PaletteSwap of Monochromon. In this case, exactly 100 Vermilimon serve as Flamedramon's first opponents, whereas Monochromon is saved for a different fight.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:When the Digimon Emperor tries to unleash it a second time, it tries to Mega Digivolve, but atomizes it's own body in the process due to the sheer influx of power collapsing on an unstable frame.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: It's role in the story as one of the reoccurring minions of the Digimon Emperor quickly has everyone realize that the Digimon Emperor struggles with controlling Ultimate Level Digimon.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:We never find out what Mega Level form it takes because it's body destabilizes and atomizes itself before it can properly take on any recognizable form.]]
! Diablomon > Armageddemon
* AdaptationalAbomination: {{Understatement}} of the millennium when it comes to how Diablomon is handled in this AU, as it is made adamantly clear that it is directly because of Diablomon that the entirety of ''Diary of an Analog'' unfolds in the way it does to begin with. He triggered the emergence of Mega Levels en masse, he caught the attention of the whole globe with his stunt regarding the Peacekeeper ICBM, and he caused Tai and Matt so much emotional trauma that it actually made everyone else in their group no matter how involved they were already to feel like complete and utter shit because they were incapable of helping the two out in at least some capacity, with only Izzy not feeling like shit considering his improvising at the last minute is what saved everyone proper.
* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]AdaptationalBadass:
** Perhaps the biggest example of all of the past villains, to the point of being a complete and utter EldritchAbomination who can't be anything but a living force of nature.
** Directly Digivolves from Diablomon into Armageddemon as opposed to the latter being born from the fusion of millions of Kuramon.
* AuthorAppeal: {{Inverted}}: All of the AdaptationalVillainy and AdaptationalBadass he's receiving are all amplifying everything that the author fears about Diablomon the most above all of the antagonistic Digimon in the whole franchise, effectively turning Diablomon into even more of a living force of nature of an EldritchAbomination than he is normally.
* BodyHorror: His body stretches and moves in ways that are actually kind of standard issue for Diablomon considering his RubberBandMan anatomy, but taken up to eleven by showcasing various attributes of Diablomon which may or may not even apply, such as the ability to stretch his neck to absurd lengths, unhinge his jaws like a serpent, and manifest thousands upon thousands of many arms from the pores in his shoulders.
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Notice all of those spoiler covered tropes under Lopmon further above? Ya. The original Diablomon and Willis' Lopmon are the exact same entity in this AU.]]
* TheDreaded: He reminds Patamon '''brutally''' how much Patamon wasn't able to do anything against him and had to beg for help from [=MetalGarurumon=]. The Digimon Emperor and Devimon simply get the hell out before Diablomon can truly make his presence known.
* EldritchAbomination: His dosage of AdaptationalVillainy treats everything related to him as a CosmicHorrorStory.
* KnightOfCerebus: Personality being an afterthought aside, he's the catalyst for a lot of the scarred minds of the initial eight [=DigiDestined=], and his influence with his data dispersing and corrupting every known Digitama forever is felt even 2 years after his seemingly initial demise.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: He's a living force of nature with personality being kind of an afterthought for him. However, his status as being TheDreaded to literally everyone and his death causing the rise of a Mega Level population boom is what's giving everyone real trouble, especially since Devimon states in Jijimon's File City that '''''any and all''''' Digimon who have died can be reborn in Jijimon's own version of the Village of Beginnings. Even then, it's not clear whether or not Diablomon is actually present in the scene that highlights him.
* GlassCannon: Had he been a lot slower as Diablomon, the fight would've been over the moment Omegamon came to being, but Diablomon's sheer speed bought him time to try and stall. Once he was forcefully slowed down, the game was just about over upon his head being impaled by the Grey Sword not long afterwards.
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn:]] [[spoiler:Only in regards to his original incarnation, in which he sheds his Diablomon self and becomes reborn as Lopmon. His Diablomon data disperses from his Digicore altogether, but it won't be the last time we see Diablomon proper...]]
* MillenniumBug: Flat out stated to be the [=Y2K=] Bug itself, at least when referred to by those who aren't [=DigiDestined=] already.
* MonsterProgenitor: His data dispersing in the wake of his death at the hands of Omegamon polluted the Digitama genepool and caused every single Digitama ever created from that point onward to be able to achieve Mega Level as their birthright as opposed to just Champion Level. This even applies to Digimon who had long died before
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: He can sprout additional arms from the pores on his shoulders when opened, seemingly infinite amounts of arms as he's described as having beyond thousands of them emerge at once.
* OlympusMons: Broke the record from being born a Digitama and achieving Mega Level, caused a massive surge of Mega Level population boom, and later becomes the first confirmed Ultra Level as Armageddemon.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: His monstrous qualities and EldritchAbomination status are amplified up to eleven here, making him completely stick out like a sore thumb compared to the other antagonists who at least look like they would naturally ''exist'' in this type of world, whereas Diablomon is this ''thing'' that was never supposed to. [[spoiler:Becomes all of the more apparent when Diablomon still manages to exist as a separate entity long after the original specimen's data had reconfigured itself into Lopmon.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:It's connection to Willis and Lopmon by direct association gives away a massive twist utilized with the latter as a reborn Diablomon.]]
!! [=LoaderLiomon=] > [=BanchoLeomon=]
* AdaptationalVillainy: {{Averted}}; this is not the same Leomon from ''Adventure'' reborn. Said Leomon ''did'' get reborn, but is located elsewhere, and in a different form.
* TheDragon: Becomes this to Dynasmon once [[spoiler:Lady Sigma is rendered out of commission for a while beginning with Chapter 7.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:His uncharacteristic dialogue regarding Darkdramon's vulnerable Digicore implies that it's actually Chaosmon speaking through both of them, as opposed to [=BanchoLeomon=] himself.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Seems interested in using Darkdramon's Immortal Digicore for power, which would likewise cause him to become Chaosmon with him.]]
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He actually kind of ''over''estimates Gatomon's abilities as Angewomon, as he actually manages to use one of her feathers to digivolve to Mega Level and score a nasty wound to her side in the process. However, the power he now has him a bit high, and Angewomon has to calm him down by impaling him into the nearest wall with Celestial Arrow.
!! Duftmon[=/=]Duftmon Leopard Mode
* TwentyFourHourArmor: Noticeably she is the most prominent of the Royal Knight Digimon fic who averts this, by having a consistent under armor appearance. [[spoiler:Except said appearance in either form is... unsettling.]]
* FanDisservice: [[spoiler:When she's spotted bathing without any of her armor on, she looks like a humanoid lady, covered in subtle, leopard spot detailing and the tail associated with both of her forms present. Sounds sexy at first, but then you realize she's uncannily thin for even a humanoid to look, to the point it's speculated that without her armor, she'd literally shatter like glass upon being struck by something with even the tiniest amount of force applied.]]
* GlassCannon: Her moveset consists of vastly destructive magic she can barely even control herself, with her major drawback being her crippling, non-existent defensive abilities. She is perhaps easily the fastest of all of the Royal Knights, however, at least when in Leopard Mode.
* GoingCommando: Apparently, if the rumors among the Knightmon and other guards are anything to go by, Duftmon doesn't wear '''anything''' underneath her TwentyFourHourArmor she's associated with.
* OurSphinxesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Underneath her armor in Leopard Mode, meanwhile, is what basically amounts to what would normally be a real-life leopard... had it not been for the half and half mix of human and leopard facial features, and having multiple pairs of oddly human-like mammaries. As for her wings, they extend from her hips, exactly where they would be on her armored form.]]
* MustHaveCaffeine: She makes herself known after Lady Sigma's repairs are being started, and her first complaint? The coffee tastes too normal and isn't any at all weird like how Lady Sigma makes it.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: She lacks confidence in her own abilities, because if it wasn't for the armoring covering her, she'd look the skinniest of any of the Royal Knights, meaning she would look very weakly to others without her armor on.
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! ''Citadel of the Heart'' holdovers
!! Emissary Lady Sigma
* AdaptationalVillainy: Her free will in this version allows her to act as she would normally had it not been for the major RestrainingBolt she has in canon.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her human form has very dark skin, golden eyes, but otherwise resembles a Russian woman more than anything else in terms of overall appearance. Her accent isn't from any noticeably obvious ethnicity, though, only the sound of a stereotypical noble if anything.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Her Ultimate Ouryuken move, capable of shattering virtually any form of armor or barrier like it was glass upon a direct hit. Kudos to also being treated as such in the video games.
* BrawnHilda: She looks no different from any other Alphamon in the ''Digimon'' franchise, but is classified as female. Her human form she assumes at times actually looks like a very dark skinned Russian woman.
* DualWielding: She uses the Ouryuken as two blades simultaneously, which to some may initially seem out of nowhere, but actually holds basis in ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld4'', in which Alphamon's strongest weapons were a dual set of the Ouryuken. Alphamon wasn't even the only Digimon to have their actual weaponry in said game amplified to dual wielding, either, as Imperialdramon FM and PM, as well as [=MetalGarurumon X=] had their weapons relegated to such as well.
* EqualOpportunityEvil:
** She doesn't discriminate amongst her own kind, contrary to what Duftmon would want you to think. [[spoiler:Hence why she hires [=BanchoLeomon=] so quickly in the aftermath of her first major appearance.]] In theory this could even apply to the main protagonists or other antagonists, so long as they know one simple thing in the process. If they choose to serve her, [[spoiler:their soul(s) become officially hers alone.]]
** She ''does'', however, allow Mega Level Digimon to outright keep their current form if they officially graduate to a member of the Royal Knights among her guards. This results in Digimon who, as a species-wide case of not normally being Royal Knights, to individuals of those species being considered Royal Knights in this incarnation. Usually when a new member takes the form of a Royal Knight, it's because they tend to not already have a Mega Level form for themselves as it stands once they're promoted. [[spoiler:Dynasmon had his form picked for him specifically because as a reborn Wizardmon, he was still a Champion Level and Lady Sigma naturally needed to ensure he'd be able to fill the role and gave him additional power with no strings attached.]]
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Lady Sigma's utterly unhinged, sociopathic tendencies on display here are '''exactly''' how she would act in ''Citadel of the Heart'' proper had she not had a RestrainingBolt applied to her in the main continuity.
* FantasticRacism: "A good [[MisanthropeSupreme Analog is a dead one!]]"
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The way she speaks in her introduction arc makes things out to be not even remotely so much as a nuisance to her even when she's being confronted, in which she's deliberately trying to piss someone off at times. She is basically using everyone around her as pieces to a larger puzzle, and is navigating the various pieces into their proper places to set up towards later events. [[spoiler:She even more or less actually intended to have [=WarGreymon=] strike her down considering she wanted to see if him doing so would cause his half of Omegamon to speak through him, which she succeeds in getting a reaction but not quite a clear answer that she was looking for.]]
* KnightTemplar: A title of a chapter refers to her as such, and it's an understatement, as she sees all humans as evil and is not above killing their sympathizers.
* LudicrousGibs: [[spoiler:She actually '''survives this''', but midway through Chapter 7 she's reduced to this by [=WarGreymon=], which subsequently causes the Royal Knights overall to keep off of the [=DigiDestined=] while they prioritize healing Lady Sigma back to full health by salvaging her remains and beginning extensive repairs.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:Her return in Chapter 28 has her more than willing to work alongside the [=DigiDestined=] and also having her speak to them and give them precise commands on the details of her actions prior, in which they're more than willing to hear her out because if someone such as Lady Sigma is being chummy with the [=DigiDestined=] all of a sudden, it just goes to show just how much shit has hit the fan at this point.]]
* PutOnABus: Has been out of commission since Chapter 7.
* RestrainingBolt: Free will this time not withstanding, [[spoiler:she ''is'' however restrained from using the SummonMagic version of Digitalize of Soul, which is apparently so powerful that the WaveMotionGun version Soul Digitalization has no such restriction...]]
* SummonMagic: [[spoiler:Digitalize of Soul, the Japanese name of Soul Digitalization, is what refers to this version of the attack in this fic. Lady Sigma not only has to unleash all of it's power by voice command, but also has to unlock every restraint on her ability to use it, which is something she actually lacks the ability to do.]]
* UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming: [[spoiler:She indirectly blames Sora for the D-Brigade going after her, referring to her as a deserter of the [=DigiDestined=], and has no sympathy towards what had happened to half of Sora's relatives because of her attempt to retire from being a [=DigiDestined=] only for Sealsdramon to murder much of her relatives. Lady Sigma was speaking such things to deliberately provoke [=WarGreymon=] to get a specific response, and for all intents and purposes, [[GoneHorriblyRight she very much got her wish.]]]]
* WakeUpCallBoss: She is the first serious enemy the protegonists face, and she is a competent, callous foe who needs a temporary powerr-up to be beaten at all.
* WaveMotionGun: Soul Digitalization at "full power". [[spoiler:Turns out to be even more devastating but SummonMagic without '''''any''''' restraint placed on it.]]
!! Emissary Ouryumon
* AdaptationalJerkass: Ouryumon is '''very''' unpleasant in this incarnation, being a SmugSnake ''at best'' whenever he isn't an AxCrazy dickhead who wants to slaughter everyone in sight for the most trivial of reasons. Oh, and he's a complete suckup to Lady Sigma that he'll gladly throw everyone else under the bus for his own benefit to her as Her Sword.
* AdaptedOut: {{Inverted}}, considering many of Alphamon's appearances which include the Ouryuken Mode typically tend to forget that Ouryumon '''is''' the Ouryuken, and that Alphamon Ouryuken is actually a Combination of Alphamon and Ouryumon.
* AxCrazy: Immediately wants to declare genocide as his first option of retaliation against the [=DigiDestined=] after witnessing [=WarGreymon=] severely injure and destroy much of Lady Sigma's body in one attack. Dynasmon and [=BanchoLeomon=] forcefully talk him out of it, with [=BanchoLeomon=] giving him a DeathGlare because of how Ouryumon's attitude reminds him of the same type of mentality the D-Brigade have in this aspect.
* DirtyOldMan: Makes some rather blatantly perverted remarks in a rather casual manner to the female [=DigiDestined=] regardless of their actual age. Tends to get slapped silly by either them, their Digimon, or even his own subordinates for thinking that way. Heck not even the other female Royal Knights sans Sigma are safe from his perverse hormonal craziness, not that it does him any justice in making that clear to them.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Ouryumon's Asian Dragon design combined with referring to himself as "Lady Sigma's Sword", while definitely phallic in implication, only further emphasizes how blatantly a {{Jerkass}} Ouryumon is to everyone or thing that isn't Lady Sigma. Then there's his... Combination, with Lady Sigma into Alphamon Ouryuken, and how Lady Sigma rather lovingly caresses and obsesses over the Ouryuken in this form.
* VisualPun: The whole phallic remarks he makes and how Lady Sigma gushes over him when he's in the Ouryuken form? [[spoiler:He's a literal Dragon Dildo for her use alone.]]
!! Ambassador Lady Raiga
A female Omegamon who was like a lover to Lady Sigma, who mysteriously vanished one day and was never seen again. [[spoiler:Until one day being discovered in the Dark Area by Mirei's Mastemon, in which she reports back to Lady Sigma, sporting an entirely different form, from which even Flare and Tempest are also unrecognizable.]]
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: [[spoiler:Flare is a [=BlitzGreymon=], Tempest a [=CresGarurumon=], and Lady Raiga herself, as a direct consequence, an Omegamon Alter-S. Her original incarnation which first appeared in ''Truth and Ideals'' had the forms of [=WarGreymon=], [=MetalGarurumon=], and Omegamon respectively. The change was made to be able to tell the difference between ''Adventure'' Omegamon and Lady Raiga.]]
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: [[spoiler:She was already leaning heavily into TheNeidermeyer in her original incarnation, but her sheer, unrivaled tenacity takes a whole new extreme with her AxCrazy, OmnicidalManiac tendencies.]]
* AdaptedOut: Apparently she ''does'' exist in this continuity, but bringing her up before Lady Sigma kind of causes her to... uncharacteristically explode with sorrowful rage.
* AmbiguousSituation: Whether or not Flare and Tempest still exist as separate individuals, as both of them are the composite Digimon who undergo a FusionDance to become Lady Raiga in the first place. Likewise, there's also the matter of whether or not Blackheart exists, as she's normally the result of Lady Raiga's current lack of existence, but so far nothing associated with the Black Digitron is noted in this AU yet.
* BrawnHilda: [[spoiler:Flare and her Combination with Tempest as Lady Raiga, even more so than their canon counterparts. [=BlitzGreymon=] and Omegamon Alter-S are both already heavier built than their counterparts [=WarGreymon=] and Omegamon are by default, and these two are no different just like always.]]
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Her absence in the plot is to ensure Lady Sigma actually has to find another Omegamon to do what she needs done instead. This is to prevent Lady Sigma from having an easy victory, since Lady Raiga would carry out the orders she's needed for without question.
* TheNeidermeyer: Something she already was to begin with, even in her original incarnation, as to why not only everyone in the room hated her, but why Flare and Tempest '''also''' hated her and the fact they become her when Combining together. [[spoiler:Both of them being much more ruthless and willing to Combine this time around leads to Raiga being an even worse OmnicidalManiac who everyone is flat out trying to terminate and refuse to alloy entry back into the Royal Knights, considering Raiga believes Lady Sigma's plan is brilliant in simplicity... if only she were the one in charge instead.]]
* OxymoronicBeing: [[spoiler:Is a Virus Attribute Digimon from the family of Virus Busters Digimon which are designed to slay Virus Attribute Digimon.]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler:She finally appears, sporting an entirely different form from which she is not known for, with a Grey Cannon and Garuru Sword.]]
!! [[spoiler:Ambassador Kamiya Taichi]]
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Is based off of ''V-Tamer's'' Taichi and ''Digimon Re: Adventure'' Taichi, with the former influencing his partner Digimon, and the latter influencing his appearance in regards to having a jacket cape as opposed to an ordinary cape.]]
* {{Expy}}: [[spoiler:He is based off of ''V-Tamer's'' Taichi, complete with an [=UlforceVeedramon Future Mode=] as his partner Digimon's strongest form. In terms of appearance, however, instead of a cape, he wears a jacket from his late father similar to how Gankoomon wears a jacket as though it were a cape. This is done to evoke the image of Taichi looking more like how he does in ''Digimon Re: Adventure'', who also has the jacket cape going for him.]]
* PragmaticAdaptation:
** [[spoiler:Simply to avoid confusion with the Tai of the main timeline, his surname is changed to Kamiya, which is the surname his anime counterpart had in the Dub, and unlike Tai, he doesn't have the shortened nickname of his given name Taichi.]]
** [[spoiler:Royal Knight [=UlforceVeedramon=] and Taichi's [=UlforceVeedramon=] diverge in their respective SuperMode. Royal Knight [=UlforceVeedramon=] becomes [=UlforceVeedramon X=], and Taichi's partner becomes [=UlforceVeedramon Future Mode=].]]
** [[spoiler:Speaking of [=UlforceVeedramon Future Mode=], in the world from which Taichi originates from, the level does indeed exist. When he travels to the world where ''Diary of an Analog'' otherwise takes place, this in and of itself poses... technical difficulties.]]
!! [[spoiler:Ambassador Kamiya Hikari]]
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Is she native to "A World without Hope" or is she from the same parallel universe as Kamiya Taichi?]]
* SealedGoodInACan: [[spoiler:She is rediscovered as still being alive, albeit sealed within a corrupted version of the [=DigiEgg of Light=], due to the Mysterious Man sealing her within it in an attempt to perform a hostage situation as one of several different backup plans.]]
! The Analogs and Siegedreimon
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[[caption-width-right:350:Siegedreimon, the mass produced Mega Level soldier of the Analogs.]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil:
** They have to choose to become villainous to be accepted into their ranks. They will flat out kill members of their own who even so much as entertain the idea of a HeelFaceTurn without even batting an eye.
** Doesn't apply to Siegedreimon, as Siegedreimon is more or less a HumongousMecha that happens to have a Digicore but otherwise is not a living entity. [[spoiler:The fact it's outright piloted by the Analogs proper only proves this.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Normally, the "Dreimon-suffix" is just an occasional part of an [=OC=] Digimon species' name that Creator/MF217 tends to use with no further meaning. However, it '''does''' have a meaning for once with Siegedreimon; [[spoiler:"drei" is German for "3", and Siegedreimon is explicitly revealed to be controlled by no less than 3 human pilots at a time.]]
* GasMaskMooks:
** They use this motif in particular to invoke horror in their adversaries, but otherwise it's just to showcase how utterly mundane and faceless the Analogs as a group are, as described under TheyLookLikeEveryoneElse below. Only with the GasMaskMooks attire do they have anything ''remotely'' resembling anything other than average or mundane in appearance alone.
** The GasMaskMooks motif isn't entirely for show either. Their numerous lairs are filled with poisonous air from which their gas masks are essential to survive in. They don't bother filtering the air to a cleaner state because they feel it bests outs anyone who is a spy among them, and prevents any normal intruders from being able to survive for too long even if they somehow remain undetected. This poisonous air '''also''' has the side-effect of disabling Digivolution of either Light or Dark varieties, as this atmosphere causes either party to experience nothing but fear and a drain in their overall willpower unless they have some sort of protection against it, which any Digimon the Analogs use as additional guards are injected a special serum to survive in their poisonous atmosphere for this purpose.
** Their foot soldier of choice, Siegedreimon, has such a mask as it's actual face, and is constantly exhaling a toxic gas as exhaust.
* HiddenDepths: They somehow created Siegedreimon to legitimately have the power of a Mega Level even before they had any ability to acquire specimens for them to study among natural Digimon.
* HomefieldAdvantage: The Siegedreimon function at their best within lairs inhabited by the Analogs, from which their usual MightyGlacier tendencies are swapped for vicious LightningBruiser tactics because unlike when out on the field when normally only a single Siegedreimon is deployed, the base of a given Analog has no less than 12 Siegedreimon active at a time, and plenty more readily available if needed. This is due to the fact that in these lairs, the Siegedreimon can act without need for direction [[spoiler:because they don't need a pilot like normal since they're already jacked into the master PC within the base itself.]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: They're exactly the kind of monstrous entities that Yggdrasil in every other series believes humankind to be almost entirely. Siegedreimon was not only invented by them, but also [[spoiler:is outright piloted by no less than three of them at a time.]]
* HumongousMecha: Siegedreimon is about the same size as Omegamon, but substantially bulkier in frame.
* TheJuggernaut: '''Siegedreimon'''. It's a Mega Level, mass produced soldier for the Analogs, and was last seen encountered by Omegamon in which it was blasted with Supreme Cannon and seemingly disappeared. Turns out all that happened to it was getting launched at the horizon and eventually it was recovered completely intact. So far, though, actual battle abilities are currently unknown, but the Analogs did indeed design Siegedreimon to be a defensive tank at the very least.
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Considering their Siegedreimon inventions are heavily inspired by ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' in regards to their general appearance, that is just the tip of the iceberg, and trying to learn more about them reveals them to be quite a hatred driven, genocide intending lunatics.
* MightyGlacier: A plot point regarding their durable armor is that the more still in movement they are, the more the armor's durability remains intact as opposed to more fast paced movement, from which the armor's weak spots are more readily exposed. As a result, under normal situations, Siegedreimon employs TheSlowWalk in it's movements, and doesn't hasten the speed unless chasing down an intruder in a base of the Analogs, from which as it has the HomefieldAdvantage in said area actually patches up the weak spots by virtue of how many Siegedreimon are on the scene overall.
* NonElemental: Siegedreimon is listed as "Null" on [[https://www.deviantart.com/mf217/art/Siegedreimon-Diary-of-an-Analog-888818791 it's DeviantArt upload description.]]
* ShoutOut: To ''Franchise/KerberosSaga'', both InUniverse and Out, regarding how Siegedreimon's overall appearance looks, with the GasMaskMooks motif, the glowing red eyes, and the pitch black armor and heavy artillery they're packing at virtually all times. The InUniverse portion refers to how the ''Franchise/KerberosSaga'' exists InUniverse as a fictional media that is highly popular with the Analogs to the point they decided to model their own artificial Digimon after the iconic armor from which the ''Kerberos Saga'' is most famous for.
* TheyLookLikeEveryoneElse: Very, '''very''' few Analogs have any appearances that can be described as anything other than "completely mundane and average" in terms of what they look like outside of their GasMaskMooks motif. They could ''easily'' be anyone the protagonists or antagonists may know in-person, and they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between someone who is an Analog and someone who is otherwise an ordinary civilian.
* VilerNewVillain: At the beginning of ''Diary of an Analog'', even with the OriginalCharacter factions introduced, the first arc is otherwise the Digimon Emperor arc without too many differences emerging aside from characterization choices. The Analogs are not intended to physically appear in-person until after the defeat of the Digimon Emperor, but they do tend to at least remind the readers of their presence as ominous observers of the whole situation who are currently waiting for an opening like the brutal opportunists they are...
!! David
* NothingIsScarier: No physical form is known to exist for him; just a gas mask being worn by a skull as his avatar, but even then that isn't really saying a whole lot when the Analogs, who otherwise ''do'' have physical forms, all have the GasMaskMooks motif going for them.
* HiddenDepths: Although he's just a Mook for the Analogs, he's clearly got a lot of credentials as to why the higher ups in the Analogs consider him to have a high prestige among them, to the point that they're willing to sacrifice their own assets to ensure David's work is not discovered or interfered with.
* LanguageBarrier: He speaks Japanese '''very poorly''' when he's first introduced, and actually speaks French. Apparently he has met Nancy's father, who is partially French, to be able to get a better chance at communicating with T.K. and his friends, with Nancy herself helping translate for him whenever she's present at the same time as him.
* TheyLookLikeEveryoneElse: While not outright made obvious, he actually attends Odaiba Elementary School along with the others. Nobody realizes he's an Analog because of the fact he perfectly blends in with every other student in the school. He's just so ''mundane'' that there's nothing worth noting about him, and even the way he speaks and what photographs exist of him don't make it any clear that he has a distinct identity among his kin. [[spoiler:Especially apparent when everyone initially thinks David is the BigBad among the Analogs, when in reality he's nothing more than a generic mook who simply is held in high regard by the ''actual'' higher ups of the Analogs.]]
!! [[spoiler:UD-?? SOLUNA]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:Believe it or not, she is the entire reason why ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'' does not follow the canon series they're based on as far as chain of events go, but the problem was that as a creation of Zaalim originally, she had a more malevolent reason for acting out, as she declared history as having been written by the winners. Here, in ''Diary of an Analog'', she holds no such belief as her creators were within a gray area of sorts, leading to Soluna herself being just as much of a gray area due to the naivety to her own mistakes she makes when she thinks herself to be better than her creators after she concludes she had no other choice by to ursurp them when she saw timeline shattering damages with their continued existence. She acted out of belief she was protecting the timeline from further harm, and when she awakens in the present, she is suffering from a lot of malfunctions due to nightmares of her creators haunting her and the actions she did to get her to this point.]]
* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: [[spoiler:She is possibly an even bigger threat than any of the canonical villains could've ever dreamed off, and entirely by accident at that. She's TheGhost to everyone else, and what little is known about her prior to her reawakening has left her TheSpook, considering some very small fragments of memories of the original timeline still exist deep within the minds of the main characters.]]
* [[spoiler:BigBad:]] [[spoiler:She is one of the major Big Bads of ''Diary of an Analog'', and was briefly considered to be ''the'' Big Bad until plans were altered to upgrade Daemon's role even further than it already was. A temporal anomaly, originally being created to eliminate any contradictions in the timeline, who had turned against her masters after a long and drawn out chain of events leading her to conclude she could not logically function as intended without eliminating her masters in the process, and thus decides to take on their role for them in their permanent absence, unaware thart she isn't immune to making the same mistakes they did...]]
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype:
** She is one towards Fixer Sues. [[spoiler:She was created to uphold the will of her creators by erasing any oxymorons in the timeline, past, present, or future, from interfering with how they wanted to foretell the story at hand with the universe. She was given new creators, alongside her original one, to overlook her business. She was functioning normally at first, doing next to nothing from interfering with the events leading to the creation of ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna'', despite the fact both of those stories posed a major oxymoron to her job by the time she's discovered in her chambers underground on Mars by Matt and Gabumon during the epilogue of ''02'', from which she was told to keep 100% canon. However, Soluna notices something; Gabumon should be dead, and she was never given an explantion as to how he shows up alive and well in the epilogue. Likewise, she learns from Matt and Gabumon that Biyomon and Agumon are also both alive and well, meaning something was wrong with her role to erase oxymorons, and she tries to rectify this on the spot by attempting to wipe Gabumon from exitence, but is stopped when Matt points out to her that if Soluna was doing her job of erasing errors from the timeline as she was meant to from the very start, that why didn't she act up during the events of ''tri.'', or heck, even ''earlier'' when the original canon ''02'' created many plotholes and unresolved arcs. Soluna, rewinding time back to the point of her creation, long before the events of the pilot, has a discussion with her creators about her purpose. She is meant to fix errors in the timeline, but she was also somehow meant to ''enforce other errors'' in the process despite them ''also'' being errors in the timeline. She realizes, now, that her own creators are the very oxymorons she was designed to eliminate. She does so, and rather than erase herself next, realizes that with her creators gone, the timeline's damages will still be intact, and now there's an oxymoron of who'll maintain the timeline in their absence. Soluna takes up the mantle herself, declaring herself a God from the Machine in regards to her origins to purge herself of oxymoronic traits that would prevent her from still existing, all the while taking the timeline in her own path as she has witnessed it to match much of what her creators intended, but leaving no mistakes this time around. Going dormant, she has no idea that when she awakens, an oxymoron of her own creation will be facing her in the eyes...]]
* FailedASpotCheck:
** [[spoiler:Soluna points this out to her creators regarding how Biyomon, Agumon, and Gabumon are erased from existence in the events of ''Last Evolution'', and somehow miraculously show up alive and well, and her creators make absolutely no attempts to explain how this still somehow works. This leads to the conclusion that, when initially refusing to follow the order to mold the timeline to her creator's liking, that the only logical solution was to erase her creators from existence, since they had become the very oxymorons that she was designed to erase in the first place. Soluna's continued existence is due to her becoming an Ultimorian Deity by invoking a literal DeusExMachina.]]
** [[spoiler:Soluna would realize far too late that ''she herself'' made an error when she awakens in the present and finds V-Tamers Taichi clear as day before her, who is not supposed to exist in this timeline she had sworn to protect.]]
* FixFic: [[spoiler:She considers usurping her creators and taking command of the timeline to repair it to be this, considering the '''immense''' amount of metaphors towards the creation of the anime series from which ''Diary of an Analog'' is based upon in regards to behind the scenes drama. Soluna eventually has to deal with the fact that even she herself is not immune to the errors of her creators.]]
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler:A Digital Lifeform with a specific purpose going rogue along the lines of the D-Reaper or Vitium ''and'' being yet another DeconstructedCharacterArchetype of Mary Sue tropes cast as the Big Bad in regards to ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'' villains.]]
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:Soluna was programmed to flat out negate any oxymorons in the timeline by flat out erasing them from existence. Soluna was apparently supposed to gear the timeline towards the events of ''Last Evolution'' by it's creators, but Soluna pointed out a problem; the Digimon protagonists, who were ''blatantly erased'' in the events of said movie, show up alive and well in the ''02'' epilogue which is still considered canon. When Soluna's creators insisted she still carry out the order, she did so by erasing her own creators from existence so that she wouldn't have to obey the order anymore. Soluna maintained her own existence by flat out ascending into an Ultimorian Deity by becoming a very literal DeusExMachina.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:As one of the Unofficial Ultimorian Deities, she is this by absolute default under virtually any circumstance. Not only that, but she is the first outright confirmed Ultimorian presence within ''Diary of an Analog'' proper, with the status of even reoccurring AuthorAvatar Grandis being not revealed just yet.]]
!! Dorugoramon, the Ultimate Enemy of Destruction
* {{Expy}}: Of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' Bahamut.
* RedBaron: Has at least three titles; "Ultimate Enemy", the "Dragon", and "Destruction"
* ShoutOut: His original design already references ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' Bahamut, so his role in this story is that of another Bahamut. Specifically, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' Bahamut.
!! "Hiro"[=/=]"Mameo"
* AndTheAdventureContinues: He never stopped being a [=DigiDestined=] even after being married and caring for his equally mysterious wife and their unborn child, mainly because he's given contract work by the various governments around the work to infiltrate facilities heavily suspected to be littered with Analogs and annihilate them one by one.
* DimensionalTraveler: He does this on a frequent basis by using Network as a hub to travel to different versions of the Digital World, complete with being able to access different domains and [=URLs=] of specific Digital World locations unique to a certain type of address. While nobody knows where he's from, he claims that he exists within the same world as T.K. and co., just out of reach of where most of them are much of the time.
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: While he tends to not share information regarding his adventures in the Digital World in the real world, he doesn't bother hiding it to those who already are within the Digital World, considering Hiro now works as an agent tracking down and annihilating Analog hotspots with his own partner Digimon.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Hiro's actual name is unknown, as he refuses to give this information to people he meets in the Digital World.
* SignatureMon: [=PrinceMamemon=].
!! "The Vampire Woman"
* FanDisservice: Her consistent targets are underage, and she clearly looks like a woman in her 40s. For some of her male victims, she has a tendency to take the form of their own mothers at times.
* FemmeFatale
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: 40s, technically, considering while not necessarily youthful ''nor'' elderly, her mature appearance is a major defining characteristic all of her guises share in common.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane:
** Nobody knows the nature behind her existence just yet; even with her appearing in the dreams of more than one character, she takes on a different form in said dreams, and sometimes for the same victim she's been known to take on multiple forms at a time.
** Most importantly, [[spoiler:is she and Lilithmon one in the same? Is she Lilithmon's own partner? Or is she just an illusion, a puppet, of sorts, conjured into existence by Lilithmon? Or, what if, she has no connection to Lilithmon at all, and any direct traits shared between the two are nothing but a coincidence? Perhaps maybe even an innocent woman experimented on by the Analogs to give the impression she's connected to Lilithmon, but nothing more? For that matter, does this woman even actually exist as an actual individual? Who knows, at least for now.]]
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Sunlight weakness apparently is in effect if her track record of appearances are anything to go by. For context, she doesn't appear during the day at all, as all of her confirmed appearances are within dreams that occur from the character's end in the middle of the night. Even the other characters realize that they can take naps during the day and she'll never show up, not unless their naps persist into the night.
* ParentalIncest: {{Subverted}}, as she's not actually related to her victims, but she does transform into their own mothers every now and then as a means of luring them in.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Aside from being a woman in her 40s, she takes on numerous different guises as far as appearance is concerned, even to the point of disguising herself as a given character's own mother.
* TheVamp: She seduces the various characters she meets in their dreams, often with the attempt to feed off of them.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Considering the implication in that if she ''does'' exist, she's very much a sexual predator with how she functions against her clearly underage targets.
!! Codename: "ALL-FATHER"
[[spoiler:Tropes relating to Imperialdramon in the context of this fic.]]
* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:He displays disturbingly similar power to the likes of OlympusMons [=AncientGreymon=], perhaps even surpassing it outright in raw firepower. When [=WarGreymon=] tries to destroy him with the Dramon Destroyers, he winds up sent flying backwards after crashing into his hide as the Dramon Destroyers had shattered like glass moments prior.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:He can appear as a possible Dark Digivolution Mega for '''''everyone''''' who shares any of his Attributes with him, and since he's been inconsistently labeled as all five possible at any given point in myth...]]
* TheDreaded: [[spoiler:When his fossilized VNA is discovered, Ken is too quiet, too stunned in the realization of exactly what he had uncovered, and immediately attempts to destroy it.]]
* GameChanger: [[spoiler:Because of his Dark Digivolution from Raidramon, Digimon have free reign than ever before with accessing the Real World, techniques that originally only worked in the Digital World can now function in the real world, and from a single Positron Laser alone, there is a gigantic maelstrom surrounding Japan which threatens to swallow it hole, and from deep within doesn't appear to be any spot within that's from any world we know, as shown when Dagomon rises through it. The Celestial Digimon are now at full scale war with the Royal Knights, as the D-Brigade and BAN-TYO groups are picking the strongest side to fight for and often going up against former allies or even teaming with each other. Not only that, but the Demon Lords have been awoken from their eons of isolation, and they escape from the Dark Area with the gigantic hole in space-time that Imperialdramon created.]]
* GiantFlyer: [[spoiler:Roughly on par in size with Examon, making him the second largest Dragon Digimon by comparison.]]
* OlympusMons: [[spoiler:The Mythical Dragon, so heavily shrouded in rumor that many believe and pray that he never actually existed at all in any capacity. Even the historical records prefer to ignore his existence, since they label Machinedramon as the first Mega Level, whereas Imperialdramon would've by default been the single most oldest Mega Level in all of the timeline's lore, something which everyone studying Imperialdramon finds to be absolutely baffling as to how exactly such a disturbingly powerful Dragon Digimon had just disappeared with no explanation.]]
* PowersThatBe: [[spoiler:How it was believed to have existed in the present, until it was eventually learned that it can still manage to achieve a PhysicalGod form via Dark Digivolution hijacking of other Digimon.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: About the only thing that can be mentioned of it without hiding behind a spoiler tag is that it is a very ancient Digimon who is so barely understood by modern science regarding the nature of Digimon as we currently know it that multiple stories and legends outright contradict each other within themselves as to what Attribute, Element, or Family this Digimon hails from, assuming it even belongs to any of them or even all of them at once. It's nickname, the "ALL-FATHER", is enough to unsettle those who have researched anything in the matter over it's possible identity.
* WalkingSpoiler: It says something with how much of a spoiler this entity is when virtually every single detail is a massive giveaway towards it's true identity.
* WaveMotionGun: [[spoiler:Positron Laser, which drills a hole clean through Examon's chest and obliterates him like he were glass, and leaves a gargantuan hole between the Digital World and Real World.]]
* WildCard: [[spoiler:A lot of it's lore in the myths heavily contradict each other, since they portray Imperialdramon as being virtually of any of the given Attributes or none of them, and also subsequently using any and all combination of Dragon's Roar, Nature Spirits, Wind Guardians, Metal Empire, and Dark Area for which Families Imperialdramon allegedly originated from. To make matters worse, it's impossible to decipher what alignment he actually was, since there are mutually conflicting myths of him both simultaneously being a monstrous dragon forged of chaos and the ultimate salvation of the Digital World in the dark ages.]]
* WrongContextMagic: [[spoiler:Instead of DDNA, which is the Digimon's version of DNA as known from ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld3'', he instead possesses VNA, which is a concept first used by the author in ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'' to describe naturally occurring digital lifeforms from his original works. The mere fact he has VNA as opposed to DDNA is one of the first major methods on identifying ALL-FATHER from other Digimon specimens; while other Digital Lifeforms that aren't Digimon possess VNA, ALL-FATHER is the only Digimon to outright have it over DDNA. Even Kashou, who by the franchise's own logic would be a Digital Lifeform, has DDNA as opposed to VNA, since she is technicaly an actual Digimon due to her possessing a Digicore in all of her forms, ''including'' her base form.]]
!! [[spoiler:Mysterious Man]]
* AdaptationalKarma: [[spoiler:He got his wish for Diablomon and Daemon's Data, but he couldn't control the result of his own experiments. Whatever happened next left him heavily degraded in appearance suffering a never-ending VillainousBreakdown due to an extreme case of SanitySlippage.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:He got the data from Apocalymon, and later claimed Diablomon and Daemon's data as well. Whatever the fuck he did with those three's data, however, according to him, was not worth the cost.]]
* NothingIsScarier: [[spoiler:We don't see firsthand exactly what the ultimate result of his plan was, but it heavily degraded his body and left him suffering a perpetual VillainousBreakdown caused by extreme SanitySlippage.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:Considering he may or may not be a CompositeCharacter with Ken this time around as opposed to being unrelated to each other like in canon.]]
!! [=AncientSphinxmon=]
* AnimalGenderBender: Löwemon, [=JaegerLöwemon=], and Raihimon all have the manes associated with male lions, despite all three of them in this case as well as [=AncientSphinxmon=] are female entities. The explanation mostly stems from the fact that, like examples prior such as Lady Sigma, Digimon do not adhere to the rules of gender as dictated by human world lifeforms. Alternatively, since Sphinxes are commonly depicted with manes regardless of their actual gender in mythology, one could say that Löwemon, [=JaegerLöwemon=], and Raihimon are more comparable to sphinxes than they are lions.
* GratuitousGerman: The names of her Human Spirit, Beast Spirit, and Fusion Spirit are all based on German words. Actually somewhat justified in that her human vessel she's reborn into, from which her Spirit forms first appear, is actually half German in heritage.
* {{Irony}}: She is the ancient ancestor of all demonic based Digimon, yet most of said Digimon have a DarkIsEvil motif going on with their overall appearance or abilities, or even behavior, whereas [=AncientSphinxmon=] is TheSacredDarkness and was an extreme case of DarkIsNotEvil.
* OurSphinxesAreDifferent: While [=AncientSphinxmon=] has the appearance of the Egyptian Sphinx by default, she is characterized as a female entity whose only real connection to the Egyptian Sphinx being her benevolence, with the female aspect of her character coming more from the Greek Sphinx.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Löwemon and [=JaegerLöwemon=] are named as such to effectively dissociate them from the Leomon-species, showcasing how borderline supernatural and ancient the Spirit Digimon are compared to ordinary Digimon that exist in modern times.
* TheSacredDarkness: Perhaps the biggest example of this trope in the entire ''Digimon'' franchise personified, as [=AncientSphinxmon=] is a benevolent entity of incredible power aligned with Darkness, even if the problematic irony are that her descendants comprise mostly of the demonic and stereotypical DarkIsEvil based Digimon.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: All of the other members of the Warrior Ten with the sole exception of [=AncientGreymon=] and [=AncientGarurumon=] were reincarnated into human vessels that contain DDNA of Digimon as opposed to ordinary human genetics.
* ShownTheirWork: Described as a female entity and appears in the present day in a female vessel, but is otherwise a benevolent entity overall. This is actually the result of a combination of both the Greek version and the Egyptian version of a Sphinx, with the former influencing the gender and pronouns describing [=AncientSphinxmon=], with the benevolent nature of the latter being how she was in life.
* WalkingSpoiler: Just the fact she's confirmed to still be alive or even a part of the fic is enough to raise red flags.
!! Chaosmon
[[spoiler:The "Emissary of Oblivion", according to their voice. Chaosmon seldom speaks, but when they do, madness usually entails from their complex dialect, even with the simple wording structure they speak with.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: His existence is flat out confirmed by how the author intends to take the directions in CharacterDevelopment for both Darkdramon and [=BanchoLeomon=]. If he didn't intend it, he would've had both character's rolls be filled by different Digimon altogether.
* FusionDance: Of Darkdramon and [=BanchoLeomon=]. By the time it finally happens, it's permanent, unlike with what's seen with Omegamon.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: The central entity has a mind of it's own, but each of it's arms have their original personalities intact albeit horrifyingly mangled. The central entity's own personality doesn't appear to directly resemble either that of Darkdramon's or [=BanchoLeomon's=] own.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Chaosmon's dialogue is uniquely formatted, with it appearing from the right instead of the left, and pressing enter every time a new sentence is spoken while speaking multiple lines. There ''is'' a pattern regarding how Chaosmon's text is formatted, and actually follows specific rules as to how it's formatted and when.
* WalkingSpoiler: Not so much an "if" he'll appear, so much as "when". [[spoiler:"When" winds up being Chapter 24, which sees the reveal of Murmuxmon's existence as he "helps" forge Chaosmon into existence, as his two Digicores were otherwise incapable of fusing on their own accord.]]
!! Papi
Allegedly Kashou's father. Emphasis on "allegedly" considering there's high evidence indicating he doesn't actually exist as he appears before Kashou proper. [[spoiler:He's the human form of Kashou's LiteralSplitPersonality, and the one that controls the Duskmon and Velgrmon Darkness Spirits.]]
* RedHerring: Invoked and Exploited. [[spoiler:Under normal situations, Kashou ''doesn't'' have a LiteralSplitPersonality with Duskmon and Velgrmon, but she needed to escape notice from Arachnemon and Mummymon regarding her even being a Digimon altogether and thus forcefully expunged Duskmon and Velgrmon from her body, creating Papi as an unnoteworthy German male adult in the process, and rendering herself physically ill for an entire week. After Arachnemon and Mummymom fuck off, she deletes Papi and merges back with Duskmon and Velgrmon. As a direct consequence of this, it suddenly appeared as though Kashou's father had indeed shown up in the form of Papi taking on the persona of being Kashou's biological father... and his absolutely unnoteworthy characteristics are the byproduct of being exactly what Kashou mentally pictured in her head regarding what her father was like in appearance. That said, he does inherit Duskmon's tendency to be a bit of a perverted creep.]]
!! [[spoiler:Lucemon]]
[[spoiler:The one who makes Dagomon dream dead silence, and whose image provokes nothing short of absolutely quiet horror from even the darkest depths of the Dark Ocean. Lucemon was the most powerful Archangel Digimon ever at one point in time, and there was a catch to this; he was forcefully De-Digivolved into two Digimon when a disagreement occurred in his mind. One half became Devimon, who would use his remaining power to conquer File Island, the other half would later be part of Goddramon's data which would in turn give rise to Patamon's [=DigiEgg=] in 1995. Lucemon's "Dragon", meanwhile, exists as a SoullessShell of an entity which has the inherent power of a Mega Level but otherwise cannot be properly detected on radar, with the only reassurance anyone has about it for now being that it lacks both the Gehenna and the Code Crests of Sins atop it's back.]]
[[spoiler:Lucemon partially stirred behind the scenes in the debut of [=ShadowSeraphimon=], and he's not looking too happy to see what has become of both halves of his original self. Whereas Patamon briefly had parts of Lucemon purged from him when meeting Jijimon, [=ShadowSeraphimon=] would reignite this side of him and try and forcefully override Patamon's Mega Level form to that of the Demon Lord Daemon, which Lucemon chose specifically to try and separate from Patamon's overall power and then bestow upon a revived Devimon for him to become his personal servant towards his inevitable rebirth. Lucemon would also play a part in corrupting Arachnemon into Dark Digivolving into Lilithmon, by preying on her insecurities about being able to fend for herself in the current Digital World after having done nothing to stop Arachnemon from being absolutely torn apart in numerous battles prior.]]
!! Monochromon > Triceramon > ???
* CompositeCharacter: The Monochromon from the first episode and the Triceramon seen significantly later on are the same entity here.
** DecompositeCharacter: The role of Flamedramon's first opponent goes to an otherwise unrelated Digimon, had it not been for the fact this seemingly random choice of Ultimate Level Digimon is a PaletteSwap of Monochromon. In this case, exactly 100 Vermilimon serve as Flamedramon's first opponents, whereas Monochromon is saved for a different fight.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:When the Digimon Emperor tries to unleash it a second time, it tries to Mega Digivolve, but atomizes it's own body in the process due to the sheer influx of power collapsing on an unstable frame.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: It's role in the story as one of the reoccurring minions of the Digimon Emperor quickly has everyone realize that the Digimon Emperor struggles with controlling Ultimate Level Digimon.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:We never find out what Mega Level form it takes because it's body destabilizes and atomizes itself before it can properly take on any recognizable form.]]
! Diablomon > Armageddemon
* AdaptationalAbomination: {{Understatement}} of the millennium when it comes to how Diablomon is handled in this AU, as it is made adamantly clear that it is directly because of Diablomon that the entirety of ''Diary of an Analog'' unfolds in the way it does to begin with. He triggered the emergence of Mega Levels en masse, he caught the attention of the whole globe with his stunt regarding the Peacekeeper ICBM, and he caused Tai and Matt so much emotional trauma that it actually made everyone else in their group no matter how involved they were already to feel like complete and utter shit because they were incapable of helping the two out in at least some capacity, with only Izzy not feeling like shit considering his improvising at the last minute is what saved everyone proper.
* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]AdaptationalBadass:
** Perhaps the biggest example of all of the past villains, to the point of being a complete and utter EldritchAbomination who can't be anything but a living force of nature.
** Directly Digivolves from Diablomon into Armageddemon as opposed to the latter being born from the fusion of millions of Kuramon.
* AuthorAppeal: {{Inverted}}: All of the AdaptationalVillainy and AdaptationalBadass he's receiving are all amplifying everything that the author fears about Diablomon the most above all of the antagonistic Digimon in the whole franchise, effectively turning Diablomon into even more of a living force of nature of an EldritchAbomination than he is normally.
* BodyHorror: His body stretches and moves in ways that are actually kind of standard issue for Diablomon considering his RubberBandMan anatomy, but taken up to eleven by showcasing various attributes of Diablomon which may or may not even apply, such as the ability to stretch his neck to absurd lengths, unhinge his jaws like a serpent, and manifest thousands upon thousands of many arms from the pores in his shoulders.
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Notice all of those spoiler covered tropes under Lopmon further above? Ya. The original Diablomon and Willis' Lopmon are the exact same entity in this AU.]]
* TheDreaded: He reminds Patamon '''brutally''' how much Patamon wasn't able to do anything against him and had to beg for help from [=MetalGarurumon=]. The Digimon Emperor and Devimon simply get the hell out before Diablomon can truly make his presence known.
* EldritchAbomination: His dosage of AdaptationalVillainy treats everything related to him as a CosmicHorrorStory.
* KnightOfCerebus: Personality being an afterthought aside, he's the catalyst for a lot of the scarred minds of the initial eight [=DigiDestined=], and his influence with his data dispersing and corrupting every known Digitama forever is felt even 2 years after his seemingly initial demise.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: He's a living force of nature with personality being kind of an afterthought for him. However, his status as being TheDreaded to literally everyone and his death causing the rise of a Mega Level population boom is what's giving everyone real trouble, especially since Devimon states in Jijimon's File City that '''''any and all''''' Digimon who have died can be reborn in Jijimon's own version of the Village of Beginnings. Even then, it's not clear whether or not Diablomon is actually present in the scene that highlights him.
* GlassCannon: Had he been a lot slower as Diablomon, the fight would've been over the moment Omegamon came to being, but Diablomon's sheer speed bought him time to try and stall. Once he was forcefully slowed down, the game was just about over upon his head being impaled by the Grey Sword not long afterwards.
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn:]] [[spoiler:Only in regards to his original incarnation, in which he sheds his Diablomon self and becomes reborn as Lopmon. His Diablomon data disperses from his Digicore altogether, but it won't be the last time we see Diablomon proper...]]
* MillenniumBug: Flat out stated to be the [=Y2K=] Bug itself, at least when referred to by those who aren't [=DigiDestined=] already.
* MonsterProgenitor: His data dispersing in the wake of his death at the hands of Omegamon polluted the Digitama genepool and caused every single Digitama ever created from that point onward to be able to achieve Mega Level as their birthright as opposed to just Champion Level. This even applies to Digimon who had long died before
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: He can sprout additional arms from the pores on his shoulders when opened, seemingly infinite amounts of arms as he's described as having beyond thousands of them emerge at once.
* OlympusMons: Broke the record from being born a Digitama and achieving Mega Level, caused a massive surge of Mega Level population boom, and later becomes the first confirmed Ultra Level as Armageddemon.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: His monstrous qualities and EldritchAbomination status are amplified up to eleven here, making him completely stick out like a sore thumb compared to the other antagonists who at least look like they would naturally ''exist'' in this type of world, whereas Diablomon is this ''thing'' that was never supposed to. [[spoiler:Becomes all of the more apparent when Diablomon still manages to exist as a separate entity long after the original specimen's data had reconfigured itself into Lopmon.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:It's connection to Willis and Lopmon by direct association gives away a massive twist utilized with the latter as a reborn Diablomon.]]
!! [=LoaderLiomon=] > [=BanchoLeomon=]
* AdaptationalVillainy: {{Averted}}; this is not the same Leomon from ''Adventure'' reborn. Said Leomon ''did'' get reborn, but is located elsewhere, and in a different form.
* TheDragon: Becomes this to Dynasmon once [[spoiler:Lady Sigma is rendered out of commission for a while beginning with Chapter 7.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:His uncharacteristic dialogue regarding Darkdramon's vulnerable Digicore implies that it's actually Chaosmon speaking through both of them, as opposed to [=BanchoLeomon=] himself.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Seems interested in using Darkdramon's Immortal Digicore for power, which would likewise cause him to become Chaosmon with him.]]
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He actually kind of ''over''estimates Gatomon's abilities as Angewomon, as he actually manages to use one of her feathers to digivolve to Mega Level and score a nasty wound to her side in the process. However, the power he now has him a bit high, and Angewomon has to calm him down by impaling him into the nearest wall with Celestial Arrow.
!! Duftmon[=/=]Duftmon Leopard Mode
* TwentyFourHourArmor: Noticeably she is the most prominent of the Royal Knight Digimon fic who averts this, by having a consistent under armor appearance. [[spoiler:Except said appearance in either form is... unsettling.]]
* FanDisservice: [[spoiler:When she's spotted bathing without any of her armor on, she looks like a humanoid lady, covered in subtle, leopard spot detailing and the tail associated with both of her forms present. Sounds sexy at first, but then you realize she's uncannily thin for even a humanoid to look, to the point it's speculated that without her armor, she'd literally shatter like glass upon being struck by something with even the tiniest amount of force applied.]]
* GlassCannon: Her moveset consists of vastly destructive magic she can barely even control herself, with her major drawback being her crippling, non-existent defensive abilities. She is perhaps easily the fastest of all of the Royal Knights, however, at least when in Leopard Mode.
* GoingCommando: Apparently, if the rumors among the Knightmon and other guards are anything to go by, Duftmon doesn't wear '''anything''' underneath her TwentyFourHourArmor she's associated with.
* OurSphinxesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Underneath her armor in Leopard Mode, meanwhile, is what basically amounts to what would normally be a real-life leopard... had it not been for the half and half mix of human and leopard facial features, and having multiple pairs of oddly human-like mammaries. As for her wings, they extend from her hips, exactly where they would be on her armored form.]]
* MustHaveCaffeine: She makes herself known after Lady Sigma's repairs are being started, and her first complaint? The coffee tastes too normal and isn't any at all weird like how Lady Sigma makes it.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: She lacks confidence in her own abilities, because if it wasn't for the armoring covering her, she'd look the skinniest of any of the Royal Knights, meaning she would look very weakly to others without her armor on.
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The story takes place 3 years after the demise of Apocalymon which in turn saved the Digital World. His death was but the beginning of a chain reaction that would cause virtually every newborn Digimon to suddenly have massive ambition to Digivolve into Mega Level, no matter what consequences they would face while doing so. This in turn led to the sudden appearance of Diablomon, and the near annihilation of the human world. 1 year before the present day, Takaishi "T.K." Takeru and his partner Digimon known as Patamon have been extensively training to achieve Mega Level for themselves, so that he will no longer feel the need to rely on his older brother, Ishida "Matt" Yamato, and his partner Digimon Gabumon. Takeru begins his first day of 5th grade with little knowledge of the fact that he'll soon wind up being the leader of a new group of [=DigiDestined=], meaning his priority to achieve Mega Level with his partner has now become a life or death situation.
If Patamon continues to be incapable of achieving Mega Level, a mysterious foe threatens T.K. with complete and utter annihilation of everything he holds dear to himself and the entire world as a whole. T.K. first learns of this over the past few weeks from his first day of 5th grade, having dreamed of a figure known as the "Digimon Emperor" enslaving virtually every known Digimon to rule the Digital World with an iron fist. Little does his innocent minded partner know, T.K. is more than aware that these dreams he has been having are indeed real, and may or may not be already taking place.
The fic can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/24821419/chapters/60036154 here]].
! Tropes of Diary of an
[[Characters/DiaryOfAnAnalogAntagonists Diary of an Analog Antagonists]]
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[[folder:Special Cases/Other]]
! ''Citadel of
* AdaptationDeviation:
** Togemon in the
!! Emissary Lady Sigma
* AdaptationalVillainy: Her free will
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her human form has very dark skin, golden eyes, but otherwise resembles a Russian woman more than anything else in terms of overall appearance. Her accent isn't from any noticeably obvious ethnicity, though, only the sound of a stereotypical noble if anything.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Her
** With Ryo uncertain and Ken genuinely having gone dark without a Dark Spore, Lady Sigma is the one to recreate the Armor [=DigiEggs=].
** With the Crests having been destroyed outright by Apocalymon, they were not used to free the Sovereigns, nor was it even needed to as the mere defeat of
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication:
** The plot point of the Crests attributed to the 1999 [=DigiDestined=] being given up to free the Sovereigns in 2000 just after the Diablomon conflict never comes up in its original form, especially considering the 1999 kids are re-established here as having outgrown the need for the Crests to Digivolve beyond Champion as what happened in the FinalBattle of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. As a result, unlike canon ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', the 1999 [=DigiDestined=] have full access to any form of
* BrawnHilda: She looks no different from any other Alphamon in the ''Digimon'' franchise, but is classified as female. Her human form she assumes at times actually looks like a very dark skinned Russian woman.
* DualWielding: She uses the Ouryuken as two blades simultaneously, which to some may initially seem out of nowhere, but actually holds basis in ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld4'', in which Alphamon's strongest weapons were a dual set of the Ouryuken. Alphamon wasn't even the only Digimon to have their actual weaponry in said game amplified to dual wielding, either, as Imperialdramon FM and PM, as well as [=MetalGarurumon X=] had their weapons relegated to such as well.
* EqualOpportunityEvil:
** She doesn't discriminate amongst her own kind, contrary to what Duftmon would want you to think. [[spoiler:Hence why she hires [=BanchoLeomon=] so quickly in the aftermath of her first major appearance.]] In theory this could even apply
* AdaptationalBadass: As far as past characters in the context of ''02'' is concerned.
**
*** Not only that, but the reason she didn't get much of
** Angemon and [=MagnaAngemon=] are given a case of {{Invoked}} CharacterRerailment to reestablish themselves as being super powerful Digimon for their given level without suffering the immeasurable BadassDecay the later entries in the franchise had made them become. That being said, his Mega Level form
** Pegasusmon is a relatively more mundane example of this. He can simply be described as
** [[spoiler:Veemon was originally ''the'' Royal Knight Magnamon, but had his
* FantasticRacism: "A good [[MisanthropeSupreme Analog is a dead one!]]"
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The way she speaks in her introduction arc makes things out
** Magnamon and Rapidmon are comparable to
** Darkdramon, after having been a sort of ButtMonkey within ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'', '''''finally''''' is treated as the massive threat he's meant to
** The Sovereigns are given their LaterInstallmentWeirdness of being near completely untouchable PhysicalGod Digimon, which as a direct result, the Crests were in no way needed to free them as explained in canon, as the moment each of the Dark Masters were defeated in ''Adventure'', the associated Sovereign was freed as a direct result. This even counts for whichever one was sealed by Machinedramon even when you consider an early reveal of the fact he's NotQuiteDead.
*
** Sora and Mimi are given the curves that form naturally with puberty as opposed to being near completely lacking in curves in ''02'' proper. Yolei at one point actually
** Lillymon is noticeably curvier than she was in the original series, since in later media she is depicted as being such, with her curves more emphasized overall as opposed to her rather modestly curved ''Adventure'' incarnation. Of course, nobody notices it until the protagonists are going through
** {{Subverted}} with Angewomon in which
** Flat out averted with the OC female Digimon such as Lady Sigma, who look completely identical to
** Played for both horror and FanDisservice for [[spoiler:Duftmon]], who looks completely bizarre underneath her
* AdaptationalKarma: [[spoiler:The Mysterious Man of ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' had his plans with Diablomon and
*
*
* RestrainingBolt: Free will
*
** Lady Raiga does not appear to
* AntagonistTitle: The unknown Analog (human) who owns a currently unknown diary full of forbidden knowledge.
* AscendedFridgeHorror: "A World without Hope" turns the nasty implications of the ending of a fanfic featuring a crossover with ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' known as ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsFailure'', in which several characters are wiped from history via a CosmicRetcon that only
*
** [[spoiler:Devimon slain the
* WakeUpCallBoss: She is the first serious enemy the protegonists face, and she is a competent, callous foe who needs a temporary powerr-up to be beaten at all.
* WaveMotionGun: Soul Digitalization at "full power". [[spoiler:Turns out to be even more devastating but SummonMagic without '''''any''''' restraint placed on it.]]
!! Emissary Ouryumon
* AdaptationalJerkass: Ouryumon is '''very''' unpleasant in this incarnation, being a SmugSnake ''at best'' whenever he isn't an AxCrazy dickhead who wants
* AdaptedOut: {{Inverted}}, considering many of Alphamon's appearances which include the Ouryuken Mode typically tend to forget that Ouryumon '''is''' the Ouryuken, and that Alphamon Ouryuken is actually a Combination of Alphamon and Ouryumon.
* AxCrazy: Immediately wants to declare genocide as his first option of retaliation against the
* DirtyOldMan: Makes some rather blatantly perverted remarks in a rather casual manner
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Ouryumon's Asian Dragon design combined with referring to himself as "Lady Sigma's Sword", while definitely phallic in implication, only further emphasizes how blatantly a {{Jerkass}} Ouryumon is to everyone or thing that isn't Lady Sigma. Then there's his... Combination, with Lady Sigma into Alphamon Ouryuken,
* VisualPun: The whole phallic remarks he makes
!! Ambassador Lady Raiga
A female Omegamon who was like a lover to Lady Sigma, who mysteriously vanished one day and was never seen again. [[spoiler:Until one day being discovered in
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: [[spoiler:Flare is a [=BlitzGreymon=], Tempest a [=CresGarurumon=], and Lady Raiga herself,
*
* AmbiguousSituation: Whether or not Flare
* BrawnHilda: [[spoiler:Flare and her Combination with Tempest as Lady Raiga, even more so than their canon counterparts. [=BlitzGreymon=] and Omegamon Alter-S
*
* BroadStrokes:
** This fic's version of ''Our War Game'' is based off of the Japanese version, and even then, the context behind the infamous Tai and Sora side-plot is different. Certain events from the original ''Adventure'' series are meant to be taken at face value at some times, while being somewhat altered at others when they're given a slight retelling in this fic's context. Some of these retellings of events from ''Adventure'' actually
* TheNeidermeyer: Something she already was to begin with, even
* BunniesForCuteness: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ÅŒkunoshima ÅŒkunoshima]][[note]](an island nicknamed "Rabbit Island" because of the
*
** [[spoiler:"[[WhamEpisode A World without Hope]]" depicts a
*
!! [[spoiler:Ambassador Kamiya Taichi]]
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Is based off
*
** Devimon from
** [[spoiler:Dark Masters Machinedramon and Analogman's Machinedramon are the same individual Digimon here. Not only that, but for
*
** [[spoiler:Simply
* CurbStompCushion:
**
!! [[spoiler:Ambassador Kamiya Hikari]]
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Is she native to "A World without Hope" or is she from the same parallel universe as Kamiya Taichi?]]
* SealedGoodInACan: [[spoiler:She is rediscovered as still
! The Analogs and Siegedreimon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/siegedreimon_final.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Siegedreimon, the mass produced Mega Level soldier of the Analogs.]]
* AlwaysChaoticEvil:
** They have to choose to become villainous to be accepted into their ranks. They will flat out kill members of their own who even so much as entertain the idea of a HeelFaceTurn without even batting an eye.
** Doesn't apply to Siegedreimon, as Siegedreimon is more or less a HumongousMecha that happens to have a Digicore but otherwise is not a living entity. [[spoiler:The fact
** [[spoiler:Angewomon and [=LoaderLiomon/BanchoLeomon=] had a pretty close fight in Chapter 5. Had it not been for the
** The GasMaskMooks motif isn't entirely for show either. Their numerous lairs are filled with poisonous air from which their gas masks are essential to survive in. They don't bother filtering the air to a cleaner state because they feel it bests outs anyone who is a spy among them, and prevents any normal intruders from being able to survive for too long even if they somehow remain undetected. This poisonous air '''also''' has the side-effect of disabling Digivolution of either Light or Dark varieties, as this atmosphere causes either party to experience nothing but fear and a drain in their overall willpower unless they have some sort of protection
** Their foot soldier of choice, Siegedreimon, has such a mask as it's actual face,
* HiddenDepths: They somehow created Siegedreimon
* HomefieldAdvantage: The Siegedreimon function at their best within lairs inhabited by the Analogs, from
*
** [[spoiler:This depiction of
** [[spoiler:The Back Dimension is
* DemotedToExtra: Pegasusmon and Nefertimon wind up becoming more situational Armor Digivolutions for Patamon and Gatomon, as otherwise they simply default to [=MagnaAngemon=] and Angewomon so long as a Control Spire isn't preventing them from accessing said forms.
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Davis is kidnapped by Lady Sigma to prevent him from being partnered with a Digimon. Little does she know even with the precautions she took regarding Magnamon, that Magnamon as Veemon still manages to find Davis and assist him in escaping.]]
* DivineIntervention: Those who hold a Digivice have the ability to [[InvokedTrope Invoke]] this ability at virtually any given time; sometimes, the Digivices themselves will do this automatically. It is the will of the Gods that the Digivices exist where they cannot, and those Digimon that are ''especially'' prolific with divine origins are among the strongest Digimon known to exist. Demons and their heritage ''also'' count as DivineIntervention, due to being viewed as equals in strength compared to holy Digimon. [[spoiler:Which is precisely why the Digimon Emperor's Digivice still manages to pull off the same
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Played with.
** The heroes keep all of their abilities they had by the end of ''Adventure'' and most of them have gotten stronger about it. Everyone else can use Warp Digivolution as a means of skipping Champion, and [=MetalGreymon and WereGarurumon=] can now directly Digivolve into Mega Level. Most of them don't get knocked down as much when De-Digivolving, with Gatomon's example being so potent in this regard that she can last a super lengthy period of time as Angewomon assuming she doesn't need to fight. The trade off for the fact the protagonists are not hindered is simple...
** The antagonists are by no means underpowered by any stretch of the imagination. With former MonsterOfTheWeek encounters being situations involving Mega Level opponents, the Digimon Emperor being an opportunistic scumbag who wants to avoid detection from the Analogs while still doing his own thing, and the Royal Knights invading from another timeline under the mistake that they believe Tai and Matt's Omegamon is their own missing Omegamon unit. That, and as we see from developments of the revived Devimon, the Demon Lords are going to factor in because it's a ForegoneConclusion that Devimon winds up becoming Daemon himself, as opposed to Daemon being a separate character.
*** Speaking of the Digimon Emperor, he's suffering from the fact he's effectively a tiny fish in a massive ocean by the time his attempt to gain power begins. He's opportunistic because of the fact he starts off as the weakest faction initially, and he lacks much of the resources of the other factions. It takes getting lucky by discovering Machinedramon's regenerating body that leads to him making breakthrough after breakthrough by reverse engineering technology from Machinedramon's data.
* DubNameChange: The English Dub names are used for the majority of the time, but certain exceptions exist should the author have a personal preference for a given Japanese terminology for a given Digimon or related entity.
** Omnimon and Diaboromon are both referred to by their Japanese names of Omegamon and Diablomon respectively. Meanwhile, Vamdemon and his various forms use their Myotismon name from the Dub.
** Daemon is referred to as his Dub name used back in the ''02'' English Dub proper as opposed to his modern Dub name of "Creepymon". The latter name ''does'' wind up becoming a sort of in-joke among some of the characters, though.
** Tai and Kari's surname goes from Kamiya back to their original Japanese surname of Yagami. Notably, this is actually referenced in the fic proper, as anybody who knows Japanese spelling will realize that Kamiya is simply Yagami spelled backwards in Japanese, and thus when Cody asks to know if he's meeting Tai in the flesh, he accidentally refers to him as Kamiya Taichi, as opposed to Yagami Taichi.
** The Dub names for the main human cast are turned into nicknames, with their actual names being present but otherwise kept in the background. In the case of Davis, Cody, and Yolei, their individual nicknames resulted from a trip to America which led to them being given these names to refer to themselves which all three had taken a liking to.
** The Harmonious Ones are referred to as the Sovereigns here.
** Fusion, the process in which two Digimon combine to become a Digimon of the same Level, typically in reference to Digimon who are a FusionDance of a Mega Level and either an Ultimate or another Mega Level Digimon, are referred to as a process called "Combination".
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** T.K.'s rambling nature in his internal monologuing as the narrator tends to cause him to lose track of time, and actually demonstrates his desire to become a novelist when he grows up.
** Lady Sigma (Alphamon) holds no issue with attacking weaker opponents to get them to stand down if they refuse to get out of her way. Nor does she fear causing casualties of civilians to provoke those who tick her off. [[spoiler:In addition, she has no issue kidnapping Davis when an opportunity presents itself if merely to prevent him and his friends from becoming [=DigiDestined=].]]
** The 02 kids themselves:
*** Yolei establishes herself as a very social individual who is more open about her own PowerTrio's nicknames they got while in America, and is a bit of a case of TheHyena.
*** Iori, while given the nickname Cody, tends not to prefer being referred to as such. A calm, stoic individual lacking much emotion... [[BerserkButton until you actually piss him off.]]
*** Davis is a highly energetic individual who is a bit of a MotorMouth with a relatively short attention span in a majority of situations. He's a bit dense because of these facts, but he does genuinely know when to show his true NiceGuy attitude if his friends are facing emotional turmoil.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: T.K. being the narrator as opposed to Grandis is what cements this fic as being non-canon to the main story of ''Citadel of the Heart''. In addition, his narration is within the first person, and aside from a few extra scenes in most chapters, the story otherwise takes place entirely from his point of view.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: [[spoiler:Lady Sigma is an utterly nightmarish KnightTemplar at her absolute lowest whose only difference from her canon self in the main continuity of ''Citadel of the Heart'' is the fact that, unlike her canon self, this incarnation of Lady Sigma actually has free will.]]
* FacelessGoons: [[spoiler:Lady Sigma ''loves'' to hide amongst her own troops of Knightmon whenever she's in a temporarily powered down state. She actively played a role in chasing down Gatomon just outside of Odaiba Elementary School, but so far we've yet to learn exactly ''which'' of the over a dozen Knightmon on the scene is actually her.]]
* FallenAngel: Devimon explicitly has this bit from the bio for him across the whole franchise as part of his backstory. [[spoiler:This applies even in his reborn form as Daemon, due to still classifying as a fallen Seraphimon.]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Fight scenes in the fic are mostly canon typical violence, but whenever there's an opponent which is described as having an Immortal Digicore, the fights automatically are prone to being BloodierAndGorier than canon by virtue of just how much punishment these particular Digimon can withstand and live to tell about it, even managing to shrug off an otherwise FamilyUnfriendlyDeath several times over until the time they ultimately kick the bucket for real.
* FixFic: Creator/MF217's own take on a retelling of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', while also trying to be something more unique at the same time with some of the LaterInstallmentWeirdness being taken advantage of, such as the presence of the Royal Knights and a handful of X-Antibody Digimon.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When was [[VideoGame/DigimonWorld the first time]] the term Analog was used in ''Digimon'' media?
** The prologue accurately predicted events witnessed in [[spoiler:Chapter 10]] with the sole exception of two details off, those being [[spoiler:Gatomon's BigDamnHeroes moment, and the Digimon Emperor's KneelBeforeZod boast. Diablomon is also the very entity spoken of with many arms, not Apocalymon like what the prologue otherwise implied.]]
** Veemon opening the cell with Davis inside with relative ease due to apparently having the keys, but having no memory of who he is aside from his own name. [[spoiler:He was formerly Royal Knight Magnamon himself, but Lady Sigma saw him as a thorn in her side with her plan so she casually wiped his memory clean. However, she deliberately allowed him to keep access to the keys to the jail cells...]]
** It appears that Davis actually knows Veemon already despite seemingly having never met him before. [[spoiler:While Veemon doesn't remember it, Davis actually met Veemon in an online chatroom that Veemon had taken over briefly to try and interact with humans. This is also part of the entire reason Lady Sigma wiped his memories was because his willingness to associate with humans led to him immediately being declared a traitor working for the Analogs.]]
** [[spoiler:Turns out the apartment complex Lady Sigma had destroyed in Chapter 1 shows up completely intact when T.K. and Patamon get back from the Digital World, and that their inhabitants are outside, half naked, in an amnesiac state. This'll play an important factor in when Willis and Mimi make their debut in the fic, which they will have their own story of something similar happening to them.]]
** [[spoiler:Sealsdramon's malevolence compared to most of the other Post-Diablomon opponents makes more sense in hindsight when the entire D-Brigade was created by the Analogs as a second draft with playing God.]]
** In Chapter 14, [[spoiler:T.K. and Iori are in Scotland of what little remains of a now barren alternate timeline, and Iori can't seem to keep his eyes off of a photograph of what is implied to be Nessie. His future partner Digimon, Armadillomon, has the Mega Level form of Plesiomon.]]
** In Chapter 16, T.K.'s POV discusses the true nature of [=SkullGreymon=], and wonders that in any other circumstances, a Digimon normally considered a Dark Digivolution could instead fill in the shoes of what would be the natural Digivolution otherwise. [[spoiler:He unwittingly proves himself correct in Chapter 18, where [=MagnaAngemon=] Dark Digivolves into [=ShadowSeraphimon=] and he succeeds in putting down Darkdramon, because T.K. and [=ShadowSeraphimon=] decide to roll with it and not fight against this newfound form.]]
** When boasting about his murders as of late through consumed children, Darkdramon vomits up a bunch of their corpses in such a way that it bloats his throat a bit in doing so. From what T.K. and [=MagnaAngemon=] see, it was anywhere between 12-14 children, with unidentifiable bile in the midst of it. [[spoiler:Said unidentifiable bile is actually not from even more children, but is actually Darkdramon's own Digicore he vomited up just in case [=MagnaAngemon=] succeeded in shoving him through the Gate of Destiny. This also demonstrates why Darkdramon's movements are not as hectic as described elsewhere, as he's slightly weakened by this action.]]
*** Chapter 18's title, "Abaddon", is actually a meaningful reference to the Archangel Abaddon, which reflects the key fact that [[spoiler:this is the first appearance of [=ShadowSeraphimon=], a Dark Digivolution of [=MagnaAngemon=].]]
* FusionDance:
** Paildramon, Silphymon, and Shakkoumon do not appear in this fic as any form of Digivolution of Veemon, Wormmon, Hawkmon, or Armadillomon respectively, and Patamon and Gatomon have no connection to those four via a shared Digivolved form. [=WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon=] still maintain their ability to become Omegamon, but
* TheJuggernaut: '''Siegedreimon'''. It's
* HardLight: [[spoiler:Darkdramon's Prismatic Array is depicted as a glowing armor and weapon set that shines so bright that it leads to it's opponents having trouble keeping eye contact. Not only that, but it also renders the
* HolyBurnsEvil: This works ''both ways'', just like in a majority of the ''Digimon'' video games which tend to portray Light and Dark as having a mutual advantage over the other.
** In Chapter 4 specifically, sure, [[spoiler:Lucemon CM was
* HumansAreBastards: The term "Analog" here means an adult human who has made contact with the Digital World, no matter how good or bad it is, because they have always left some form of negative repercussion on the Digimon's side of things. Lady Sigma, as Alphamon of the Royal Knights, is slowly becoming fed up with the growing presence of humans in the Digital World, and believes a serious crisis is about to occur is she doesn't stop it.
* HumansAreCthulhu: How the Digimon have traditionally viewed humans in the past, and even to this day. Considering how many times a new Analog has showed up in Digimon history, there's definitely a lot of screwed up humans who want to make everything a living hell for all Digimon that exist.
* ItCanThink: [[spoiler:[=SkullGreymon=] under the effects of a Control Ring/Control Spiral develops clarity over his actions, allowing Agumon to actually partially break free from the negative emotions of the Control devices and speak coherently and with some of his original personality intact, with the only real difference has being a HairTriggerTemper that he and everyone else needs to be careful with. Wormmon is the first to realize this when Ken experiments on Agumon after capturing him, in which
* KidsAreCruel: [[spoiler:Some of the titular Analogs are
* KnightOfCerebus:
** Lady Sigma makes her debut at long last, and her appearance in the human world takes this trope to its logical extreme. She notably destroys a building with people inside.
** Ken becomes this [[spoiler:after having shed his identity of the Digimon Emperor and ''choosing'' to remain evil in the end of it. While he stays out of the faces of the protagonists from this point onward, and sometimes pulls an EnemyMine with him here and there, he maintains his cruel nature even if he's only a little toned down and has a better sense of self-restraint, and he basically works to make a new name for himself without the need to hide behind a fake persona. In fact, the only reason he helps the heroes? Somebody tries reviving the Digimon Emperor persona and Ken wants to destroy all traces of said persona to no longer be reminded of a phase of his life.]]
** Darkdramon, a murderous sadist who takes kids as hostages and even ''eats one in his debut''. He also [[spoiler:absorbs Sora's mom and blames her for leaving him, and shows no remorse whatsoever about his crimes.]]
* KnightTemplar: Lady Sigma as Alphamon in a nutshell. She believes all humans, whom she calls Analogs, are evil and must be cut down. The chapter that introduces her even lambshades this in the title.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness:
** Lady Sigma as Alphamon, both as an X-Antibody Digimon and as a member of the Royal Knights, in contrast to the ''Adventure'' continuity which had for years originally lacked either of these two elements altogether.
** The Four Great Dragons are added as part of Azulongmon's backstory, with Megidramon turning out to be
*
* MultiFormBalance: Each of the Novice [=DigiDestined=] have a battle form and a travel form with their
* MightyGlacier: A plot point regarding their durable armor is that the more still in movement they are, the more the armor's durability remains intact as opposed to more fast paced movement,
* MundaneUtility: Pegasusmon and Nefertimon are
* NarniaTime: The Digital World and the
*
** [[spoiler:Darkdramon's Prismatic Array shatters [=WarGreymon=]'s Dramon Destroyers like they're made of porcelain. Not only that, but the WolverineClaws he gets actually are specifically designed for close combat against Greymon-species.]]
** Gatomon tries her best to cut down a Knightmon, but she only shreds her own claws doing so.
* OCStandIn:
** Lady Sigma from ''Citadel of the Heart'' proper takes the place of the mysterious Alphamon from ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'', as while both characters are of the same species of Digimon, they are otherwise completely unrelated individuals whose roles would conflict with each other had they been the same character.
** In terms of completely new Digimon species, the first of which to be designed by Creator/MF217 specifically for ''Diary of an Analog'' is
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** [=MagnaAngemon=] rarely backs down from an opponent out of fear, at least nowadays he doesn't. Chapter 3 and 4, on the other hand, showcases [=MagnaAngemon=] doing just that, but at the very least overcoming it quick enough to deal with the situation.
** [[spoiler:The Analogs display severe cases of extreme cowardice if forced into a confrontation with Lady Sigma, as they practically scream bloody murder as Lady Sigma mows them down like they were nothing. Lady Sigma is the ''one'' Digimon they fear alone above all others, when normally they're a bit notorious as {{Fearless Fool}}s every other time...]]
*
** Alphamon as an individual of the
* TheyLookLikeEveryoneElse: Very, '''very''' few Analogs have any appearances that can be described as anything
* VilerNewVillain: At the beginning of ''Diary of an Analog'', even with the OriginalCharacter factions introduced, the first arc is otherwise the Digimon Emperor arc without too many differences emerging aside from characterization choices. The Analogs are not intended to physically appear in-person until after the defeat of the Digimon Emperor, but they do tend to at least remind the readers of their presence as ominous observers of the whole situation who are currently waiting for an opening like the brutal opportunists they are...
!! David
* NothingIsScarier: No physical form is known to exist for him; just a gas mask being worn by a skull as his avatar, but even then
* HiddenDepths: Although he's just a Mook for the Analogs, he's clearly got a lot of credentials as
* LanguageBarrier: He speaks Japanese '''very poorly''' when he's first introduced,
* TheyLookLikeEveryoneElse: While not outright made obvious, he actually attends Odaiba Elementary School along with the others. Nobody realizes he's an Analog because of the fact he perfectly blends in with every other student in the school. He's just so ''mundane'' that there's nothing worth noting about him,
!! [[spoiler:UD-?? SOLUNA]]
* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler:Believe it or not, she is the entire reason why ''Fanfic/CitadelOfTheHeart'' does not follow the canon series they're based
*
** Ouryumon is
* PragmaticAdaptation: Several in regards to
** The Dub names are used for the most part, but the original Japanese names of the human characters are still intact. Plus, as a minor note, Tai and Kari's surname in the
*** The Dub names that the human characters are referred to as most often are actually nicknames received through differing means by either other characters or various other factors.
*** The Dark Towers are referred to as either Dark Tower or Control Spire depending on the context, but otherwise refer to the exact same structure, and
*** Dark Rings and Dark Spirals are likewise called Control Rings and Control Spirals, because of
* RapidAging: A side-effect of the MillenniumBug in regards to the year 2000, which caused everyone to age an additional year than they logically
* {{Reconstruction}}: The Digivices and their tendency to pull DeusExMachina moments from the canon are depicted as being sacred, holy constructs built by the Gods to perform miraculous feats that only the Gods themselves would otherwise be able to perform. As a direct consequence, the Digivices' prior accomplishments are interpreted as face-value facts that they've always been capable of, leading to the explanation that they're the creations of divine entities with this exact intended
* RelatedInTheAdaptation:
** [[spoiler:As for the original Diablomon itself? Willis actually ''was'' involved in it's creation, but Yggdrasil is the one who loaded a bunch of software left unfinished by Willis when his PC was updating while the [=Y2K=] Bug effected it's systems. When the original Diablomon is reborn, he first absorbs Dark energy, before allowing himself to be restrained by Light energy, before absorbing that and purifying himself into '''Lopmon'''.]]
*
** She is one towards Fixer Sues. [[spoiler:She was created to uphold
* RookieRedRanger: Both T.K. and Davis qualify. T.K. may be a veteran, but with Control Spires littering the Digital World, he can't evolve Patamon into Champion Level or higher straight away. However, with Davis, he's a complete novice in all of this, but due to the discovery of Armor Digivolution, he's the only one capable of doing anything about the Control Spires as Armor Digimon have an immunity to the Control Spires.
* SerialEscalation: Before Diablomon came to be, very few Digimon ever wanted to
* ShoutOut:
** Lady Sigma gets her
* SoLastSeason: This time, there's an actual explanation behind why Armor Digivolution is phased out as
*
*
* SuperEmpowering: [[spoiler:In the climax of the
*
* ATasteOfPower: At the very end of Chapter 4, [[spoiler:Patamon is temporarily given the power to access Mega Level far earlier than he would've by the current [[OlympusMons Celestial Digimon
*
!! Dorugoramon,
* {{Expy}}: Of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' Bahamut.
* RedBaron: Has at least three titles; "Ultimate Enemy", the "Dragon", and "Destruction"
* ShoutOut: His original design already references ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' Bahamut, so his role in this story is that of another Bahamut. Specifically, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' Bahamut.
!! "Hiro"[=/=]"Mameo"
* AndTheAdventureContinues: He never stopped being a
* DimensionalTraveler: He does this on a frequent basis by using Network as a hub to travel to different versions of the Digital World, complete with being able to access different domains and [=URLs=] of specific Digital World locations unique to a certain type of address. While nobody knows where he's from, he claims that he exists within
* KidHeroAllGrownUp: While he tends
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Hiro's actual name is unknown, as he refuses to give this information to people he meets in the Digital World.
* SignatureMon: [=PrinceMamemon=].
!! "The Vampire Woman"
* FanDisservice: Her consistent targets are underage, and she clearly looks like a woman in her 40s. For some of her male victims, she has a tendency to take the form of their own mothers at times.
* FemmeFatale
* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: 40s, technically, considering while not necessarily youthful ''nor'' elderly, her mature appearance is a major defining characteristic all of her guises share in common.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane:
** Nobody knows the nature behind her existence just yet; even with her appearing in the dreams of more than one character, she takes on a different form in said dreams, and sometimes for the same victim she's been known to take on multiple forms at a time.
** Most importantly, [[spoiler:is she and Lilithmon one in the same? Is she Lilithmon's own partner? Or is she just an illusion, a puppet, of sorts, conjured into existence by Lilithmon? Or, what if, she has no connection to Lilithmon at all, and any direct traits shared between the two are nothing but a coincidence? Perhaps maybe even an innocent woman experimented on by the Analogs to give the impression she's connected to Lilithmon, but nothing more? For that matter, does this woman even actually exist as an actual individual? Who knows, at least for now.
* ParentalIncest: {{Subverted}}, as she's not actually related to her victims, but she does transform into their own mothers every now and then as
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Aside from being a woman in her 40s, she takes on numerous different guises as far as appearance is concerned, even to the point of disguising herself as a given character's own mother.
* TheVamp: She seduces the various characters she meets in their dreams, often with the attempt to feed off of them.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Considering the implication in that if she ''does'' exist, she's very much a sexual predator with how she functions against her clearly underage targets.
!! Codename: "ALL-FATHER"
[[spoiler:Tropes relating to Imperialdramon in the context
* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler:He displays disturbingly
*
* TookALevelInBadass: One that doubles as a
* TookALevelInCynic: T.K. is still distraught about his parent's divorce, and is currently scheming to try and have them be together again. Matt had basically accepted the fact he believes their mom and dad won't ever get back together, but T.K. still holds onto that hope that they can make amends.
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: {{Averted}}: Greymon didn't learn his lesson about this from ''Our War Game'', apparently, and Garurumon didn't appear to know about this bit, as both he and Greymon wind up getting hit directly with Soul Digitalization from Lady Sigma and being reverted back to Rookie Level.
* TruerToTheText: All of the Digimon have their abilities lifted directly from their Reference Book bios, and either are reinterpreted to their most logical extremes or at least otherwise acknowledge various elements about their compositions that don't add up within the realm of the original ''Adventure'' continuity, such as the entire plot bit regarding the X-Program and [[spoiler:Project Ark]].
* UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode: Chapter 19, "Black Roses". [[spoiler:It's extremely simple in it's elegancy, being a chat room discussing a bounty for Sora over the course of a year... and a Commandramon turned Sealsdramon who is more than willing to take up this offer. In other words, '''''[[KickTheDog what]]''''' exactly [[AxCrazy Sealsdramon]] did will be shown in all
-->[[spoiler:[[https://i.imgur.com/S3LxOTz.jpg "WE KNOW"]]]]
*
** The Analogs as a group, considering they're adult humans who don't sugarcoat the fact they see Digimon as nothing more than tools or things to experiment with at their leisure, and have done very, ''very'' heinous acts against Digimon as a whole to the point their continued actions is
*
*
** Chapter 4. [[spoiler:T.K. learns about an old hermit whose power is so vast that he can practically make himself not exist to virtually anyone else in the Digital World unless he wants to be found by any given individual, Angemon is revealed to have
* WalkingSpoiler: It says something with how much of a spoiler this entity
* WaveMotionGun: [[spoiler:Positron Laser,
*
** The first major twist the
*** Also from Chapter 5; [[spoiler:[=BanchoLeomon=]]] has a hole in it's chest by the end of it and survives to tell about it. Unlike the above, a few of the characters are baffled by this revelation. [[spoiler:Cue Ouryumon's entry onto the scene to proceed to showcase intrigue in [=BanchoLeomon=] as to investigate ''why'' this is the
!! [[spoiler:Mysterious Man]]
* AdaptationalKarma: [[spoiler:He got his wish for Diablomon and Daemon's Data, but he couldn't control
** Chapter 12: [[spoiler:Ken infiltrates the locked off core of Mt. Infinity and
!! [=AncientSphinxmon=]
* AnimalGenderBender: Löwemon, [=JaegerLöwemon=], and Raihimon all have the manes associated with male lions, despite all three of them in this case as well as [=AncientSphinxmon=] are female entities. The explanation mostly stems from the fact that, like examples prior such as Lady Sigma, Digimon do not adhere to the rules of gender as dictated by human world lifeforms. Alternatively, since Sphinxes are commonly depicted with manes regardless of their actual gender in mythology, one could say that Löwemon, [=JaegerLöwemon=], and Raihimon are more comparable to sphinxes than they are lions.
* GratuitousGerman: The names of her Human Spirit, Beast Spirit, and Fusion Spirit are all based on German words. Actually somewhat justified in that her human vessel she's reborn into, from which her Spirit forms first appear, is actually half German in heritage.
* {{Irony}}: She is the ancient ancestor of all demonic based Digimon, yet most of said Digimon have a DarkIsEvil motif going on with their overall appearance or abilities, or even behavior, whereas [=AncientSphinxmon=] is TheSacredDarkness and was an extreme case of DarkIsNotEvil.
* OurSphinxesAreDifferent: While [=AncientSphinxmon=] has the appearance of the Egyptian Sphinx by default, she is characterized as a female entity whose only real connection to the Egyptian Sphinx being her benevolence, with the female aspect of her character coming more from the Greek Sphinx.
* PragmaticAdaptation: Löwemon and [=JaegerLöwemon=] are named as such to effectively dissociate them from the Leomon-species, showcasing how borderline supernatural and ancient the Spirit Digimon are compared to ordinary Digimon that exist in modern times.
* TheSacredDarkness: Perhaps the biggest example of this trope in the entire ''Digimon'' franchise personified, as [=AncientSphinxmon=] is a benevolent entity of incredible power aligned with Darkness, even if the problematic irony are that her descendants comprise mostly of the demonic and stereotypical DarkIsEvil based Digimon.
* SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan: All of the other members of the Warrior Ten with the sole exception of [=AncientGreymon=] and [=AncientGarurumon=] were reincarnated into human vessels that contain DDNA of Digimon as opposed to ordinary human genetics.
* ShownTheirWork: Described as a female entity and appears in the present day in a female vessel, but is otherwise a benevolent entity overall. This is actually the result of a combination of both the Greek version and the Egyptian version of a Sphinx, with the former influencing the gender and pronouns describing [=AncientSphinxmon=], with the benevolent nature of the latter being how she was in life.
* WalkingSpoiler: Just the fact she's confirmed to still be alive or even a part of the fic is enough to raise red flags.
!! Chaosmon
[[spoiler:The "Emissary of Oblivion", according to their voice. Chaosmon seldom speaks, but when they do, madness usually entails from their complex dialect, even with the simple wording structure they speak with.]]
* ForegoneConclusion: His existence is flat out confirmed by how the author intends to take the directions in CharacterDevelopment for both Darkdramon and [=BanchoLeomon=]. If he didn't intend it, he would've had both character's rolls be filled by different Digimon altogether.
* FusionDance: Of Darkdramon and [=BanchoLeomon=]. By the time it finally happens, it's permanent, unlike with what's seen with Omegamon.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: The central entity has a mind of it's own, but each of it's arms have their original personalities intact albeit horrifyingly mangled. The central entity's own personality doesn't appear to directly resemble either that of Darkdramon's or [=BanchoLeomon's=] own.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Chaosmon's dialogue is uniquely formatted, with it appearing from the right instead of the left, and pressing enter every time a new sentence is spoken while speaking multiple lines. There ''is'' a pattern regarding how Chaosmon's text is formatted, and actually follows specific rules as to how it's formatted and when.
* WalkingSpoiler: Not so much an "if" he'll appear, so much as "when". [[spoiler:"When" winds up being
!! Papi
Allegedly Kashou's father. Emphasis on "allegedly" considering there's high evidence indicating he doesn't actually exist as he appears before Kashou proper. [[spoiler:He's the human form of Kashou's LiteralSplitPersonality,
** Chapter 27: [[spoiler:Gennai is back, and
* RedHerring: Invoked and Exploited. [[spoiler:Under normal situations, Kashou ''doesn't'' have a LiteralSplitPersonality
!! [[spoiler:Lucemon]]
[[spoiler:The one who makes Dagomon dream dead silence, and whose image provokes nothing short of absolutely quiet horror from even the darkest depths of the Dark Ocean. Lucemon was the most powerful Archangel Digimon ever at one point in time, and there was a catch to this; he was forcefully De-Digivolved into two Digimon when a disagreement occurred in his mind. One half became Devimon, who would use his remaining power to conquer File Island, the other half would later be part of Goddramon's data which would in turn give rise to Patamon's [=DigiEgg=] in 1995. Lucemon's "Dragon", meanwhile, exists as a SoullessShell of an entity which has the inherent power of a Mega Level but otherwise cannot be properly detected on radar, with the only reassurance anyone has about it for now being that it lacks both the Gehenna and the Code Crests of Sins atop it's back.]]
[[spoiler:Lucemon partially stirred behind the scenes in the debut of [=ShadowSeraphimon=], and he's not looking too happy to see what has become of both halves of his original self. Whereas Patamon briefly had parts of Lucemon purged from him when meeting Jijimon, [=ShadowSeraphimon=] would reignite this side of him and try and forcefully override Patamon's Mega Level form to that of the Demon Lord Daemon, which Lucemon chose specifically to try and separate from Patamon's overall power and then bestow upon a revived Devimon for him to become his personal servant towards his inevitable rebirth. Lucemon would also play a part in corrupting Arachnemon into Dark Digivolving into Lilithmon, by preying on her insecurities about being able to fend for herself in the current Digital World after having done nothing to stop Arachnemon from being absolutely torn apart in numerous battles prior.]]
!! Monochromon > Triceramon > ???
* CompositeCharacter: The Monochromon from the first episode and the Triceramon seen significantly later on are the same entity here.
** DecompositeCharacter: The role of Flamedramon's first opponent goes to an otherwise unrelated Digimon, had it not been for the fact this seemingly random choice of Ultimate Level Digimon is a PaletteSwap of Monochromon. In this case, exactly 100 Vermilimon serve as Flamedramon's first opponents, whereas Monochromon is saved for a different fight.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:When the Digimon Emperor tries to unleash it a second time, it tries to Mega Digivolve, but atomizes it's own body in the process due to the sheer influx of power collapsing on an unstable frame.
*
** An X-Antibody Digimon
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:We never find out what
! Diablomon > Armageddemon
* AdaptationalAbomination: {{Understatement}} of
* AdaptationalVillainy[=/=]AdaptationalBadass:
** Perhaps the biggest example of all of the past villains, to the point of being a complete
** Directly Digivolves from Diablomon
* AuthorAppeal: {{Inverted}}: All of the AdaptationalVillainy and AdaptationalBadass he's receiving are all amplifying everything that the author fears about Diablomon the most above all of the antagonistic Digimon in the whole franchise, effectively turning Diablomon into even more of a living force of nature of an EldritchAbomination than he
** [[spoiler:Stingmon is
* BodyHorror: His body stretches and moves in ways that are
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:Notice all of those spoiler covered tropes under Lopmon further above? Ya. The original Diablomon and Willis' Lopmon are the exact same entity
* EldritchAbomination: His dosage of AdaptationalVillainy treats everything related to him as a CosmicHorrorStory.
* KnightOfCerebus: Personality being an afterthought aside, he's the catalyst for a lot of the scarred minds of the initial eight [=DigiDestined=], and his influence with his data dispersing and corrupting every known Digitama forever is felt even 2 years after his seemingly initial demise.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: He's a living force of nature with personality being kind of an afterthought for him. However, his status as being TheDreaded to literally everyone and his death causing the rise of a Mega Level population boom is what's giving everyone real trouble, especially since Devimon states
* GlassCannon: Had he been a lot slower as Diablomon, the fight would've been over the moment Omegamon came
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn:]] [[spoiler:Only in regards to his original incarnation, in which he sheds his Diablomon self and becomes reborn as Lopmon. His Diablomon data disperses from his Digicore altogether, but it won't
* MonsterProgenitor: His data dispersing in the wake of his death at the hands of Omegamon polluted the Digitama genepool and caused every single Digitama ever created from
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: He can sprout additional arms from the pores on his shoulders when opened, seemingly infinite amounts of arms as he's described as
* OlympusMons: Broke the record from being born a Digitama and achieving Mega Level, caused a massive surge of Mega Level population boom, and later becomes the first confirmed Ultra Level as Armageddemon.
* VileVillainSaccharineShow: His monstrous qualities and EldritchAbomination status are amplified up to eleven here, making
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:It's connection to Willis and Lopmon by direct association gives away a massive twist utilized with the latter as a reborn Diablomon.]]
!! [=LoaderLiomon=] > [=BanchoLeomon=]
* AdaptationalVillainy: {{Averted}}; this is not the same Leomon from ''Adventure'' reborn. Said Leomon ''did'' get reborn, but is located elsewhere, and in a different form.
* TheDragon: Becomes this to Dynasmon once [[spoiler:Lady Sigma is rendered out of commission for a while beginning with Chapter 7.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:His uncharacteristic dialogue regarding Darkdramon's vulnerable Digicore implies that it's actually Chaosmon speaking through both of them, as opposed to [=BanchoLeomon=] himself.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:Seems interested in using Darkdramon's Immortal Digicore for power, which would likewise cause him to become Chaosmon with him.]]
* UnderestimatingBadassery: He actually kind of ''over''estimates Gatomon's abilities as Angewomon, as he actually manages to use one of her feathers to digivolve to Mega Level and score a nasty wound to her side in the process. However, the power he now has him a bit high, and Angewomon has to calm him down by impaling him into the nearest wall with Celestial Arrow.
!! Duftmon[=/=]Duftmon Leopard Mode
* TwentyFourHourArmor: Noticeably she is the most prominent of the Royal Knight Digimon fic who averts this, by having a consistent under armor appearance. [[spoiler:Except said appearance in either
* FanDisservice: [[spoiler:When she's spotted bathing
* GlassCannon: Her moveset consists of vastly destructive magic she can barely even control herself, with her major drawback being her crippling, non-existent defensive abilities. She is perhaps easily the fastest of all of the Royal Knights, however, at least when in Leopard Mode.
* GoingCommando: Apparently, if the rumors among the Knightmon and other guards are anything to go by, Duftmon doesn't wear '''anything''' underneath her TwentyFourHourArmor she's associated with.
* OurSphinxesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Underneath her armor in Leopard Mode, meanwhile, is what basically amounts to what would normally be a real-life leopard... had it not been for the half and half mix of human and leopard facial features, and having multiple pairs of oddly human-like mammaries. As for her wings, they extend
* MustHaveCaffeine: She makes herself known after Lady Sigma's repairs are being started, and her first complaint? The coffee tastes too normal and isn't any at all weird like how Lady Sigma makes it.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: She lacks confidence in her own abilities, because if it wasn't for the armoring covering her, she'd look the skinniest of any of the Royal Knights, meaning she would look very weakly to others without her armor on.
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* TheRedBaron: Has at least three titles; "Ultimate Enemy", the "Dragon", and "Destruction"
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* TheRedBaron: RedBaron: Has at least three titles; "Ultimate Enemy", the "Dragon", and "Destruction"