Well I will say I respectfully disagree with your opinion for reasons I'll give in my own review. However all previous gushing was entirely my fault. I've endeavoured to remove it, but I am not Daneel Rush and he should not recieve the unwarrented blame of being a self promoter. It was merely the result of a genuine fan, still learning the ropes of how to write a works page.
Though I am curious how you can determine if Takato or Chaos are Self Inserts since we've never really seen much of the authors actual charactarisation or personality. Except perhaps that he's a Deadpan Snarker, and by that logic you could suggest that every character (since the story is basically a World Of Snark) is a Self Insert.
Also, I must correct one thing that is blatantly false:
"Also see his works involving incest between children portrayed as romance to aspire to."
If you're referring to the whole Takato / Takako thing from GOSPEL and Gardens of Babylon then I feel I must dispute that comment. While it is true that Takako has an incestuous crush on her brother. It has never at any point been depicted as "Romance to aspire to." rather, it's treated as yet another example of how utterly insane Takako is. All the characters, Takato included, find her obsession deeply disturbing and it is never presented in a positive light.
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Utterly horrible.
This series is called "Tamers Forever," and it's quite funny because this is to Digimon what Batman Forever was to Batman. That is to say, characters are derailed, Takato is turned into a massive Marty Stu, and canon is ripped asunder for the point of the author playing favorites.
It's not a good fanfiction, to be honest.
You see all the gushing on the other trope pages? Yeah, that's because it was probably all written by the writer of the series. Chaos is as much of a Villain Sue as Takato is a Marty Stu (the "Omnivice"? Really?), and he too is a boring, flat character. These two characters are given all sorts of "awesome" scenes, one-liners, and the like, and it all comes off as the author trying but failing horribly to make badass characters. You know how Duke Nukem's characterization was just sad and pathetic in Duke Nukem Forever? Think like that, and you've got the characterization here in one. The fact that he has his own self-insert to discuss the chapters afterward is redundant, because "Takato" (who is definitely NOT the same boy from Tamers) and Chaos are essentially two more self-inserts.
Oh, and did I mention the massive focus on the love lives of children? No? Well, it's been done to death in Digimon fanfic, and it's just as disgusting here as everywhere else, and as poorly-written. Daneel Rush is a hack writer, and this fanfic is an example of that. Also see his works involving incest between children portrayed as romance to aspire to, and marvel in the fact that people find this writing to be of quality.
The only "forever" about this series is that it's going to forever stay in my mind as how not to write a Digimon fanfiction, and I hope it can serve as that to you too (should you subject yourself to the hell of reading it).