History Fanfic / DigimonRegenesis

%%* EvilOverlord: Era

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Era was once a [=DigiDestined=] in another version of reality.]] [[TheMultiverse It's complicated.]]

%%* FantasticRacism: It seems that Era has taken a page or two out of [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Kurata's]] book...

* {{Pirate}}: Kaizokumon.

* SmugSnake: Epidemon, to a T.

* SurpriseCreepy: [[spoiler:Genesimon]], particularly in its last form; after a relatively light-hearted fic, [[spoiler:a MadnessMantra screaming EldritchAbomination, forcibly fused with its creator]] serves as the final threat.
* [[TeamMom Team]] MamaBear: Lammon shows signs of it.
* TechnicalPacifist: Lammon and Toby both.

* TwoGirlsToATeam

* WideEyedIdealist: Toby.

* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: Pointedly averted with Delfinimon's higher forms.

* EvilOverlord: Era

** The monkey Digimon that helps Luke and Sampamon in [[WholeEpisodeFlashback chapter 23]] is named [[Disney/TheLionKing Rafik]]mon.

* MeaningfulName: In addition to being a ShoutOut to Disney/TheLionKing, the monkey Digimon that helps the seventh child in the flashback chapter 23 is named Rafikmon -- derived from ''rafiki'', meaning ''friend''.

* FantasticRacism: It seems that Era has taken a page or two out of [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Kurata's]] book...

* FauxAffablyEvil: Era.

* FiveManBand: Though a number share duties.
** TheHero: Simon, naturally -- hot-blooded and driven by his ideals
** TheLancer: Alternates between Andrea and Julian; Andrea butts heads with Simon, where Julian just thinks he's obnoxious and has no reservations about telling him so.
** TheBigGuy: Andrea, who runs into battle head-first and has the most powerful partner pound for pound.
** TheSmartGuy: Julian, the stoic strategist, shares duty with Faris, who's snarky and sarcastic but is revealed to be kind of a tech geek.
** TheChick: Emily, who's cheerful and happy -- if a bit ditzy -- with a subtle touch of iron, and Toby, who tries to keep the others from ''murdering one another''.
** TheSixthRanger: Lukas, not appearing until after the 20-chapter mark.

* GenkiGirl: Emily has shades thereof.

* GodEmperor: Era.

* TheGunslinger: Kamomon as Kaizokumon.
* TheHeart: Toby and Lammon get relegated to this role more than once.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Iguamon and his higher forms

* FantasticRacism: It seems that Era has taken a page or two out of [[Anime/DigimonSavers Kurata's]] book...

It was finished in October 2013, clocking in at over 300,000 words over 51 chapters. It can be found at its [[http://regen.digimonreset.com/ website]], on [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7480559/1/Digimon_re_GENESIS Fanfiction.net]], or [[http://digimonregenesis.deviantart.com/ a deviantArt group]] meant to house all the story and art.

** At one point, when it's revealed that [[spoiler:all of the human characters have at least tenuous connections to one city in the real world]], Julian remarks that it "feels like the premise for a kids' show"; in later chapters he makes a point of using the phrase "Saturday morning cartoon moral".

'''Faris:''' Duh.\\

'''Iguamon:''' I'd love to see you come up with a better way to connect areas.

* PhysicalGod: The Five Sovereigns, and to an extent, [[MasterComputer Yggdrasil]]. In the latter's case, Yggdrasil is implied to be alive but not sentient. It is the ultimate power, but only acts to carry the (unanimous) will of the five sovereigns.

* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:surprisingly, it's Reimon!]]

* WorldTree: Yggdrasil

[[http://digenesis.webs.com/splash.htm Digimon re:GENESIS]] (Digimon re:GEN for short; simply Digimon Regenesis for those for whom the silly formatting is too much) is a Digimon fanfiction (go figure), focusing on (yet another) new interpretation and history of the Digital World, and a whole new set of kids and original Digimon. ... Still here? Okay. The setup runs as such:

It was finished in October 2013, clocking in at over 300,000 words over 51 chapters. It can be found at its [[http://digenesis.webs.com/splash.htm website]], on [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7480559/1/Digimon_re_GENESIS Fanfiction.net]], or [[http://digimonregenesis.deviantart.com/ a deviantArt group]] meant to house all the story and art.

[[http://digenesis.webs.com/splash.htm Digimon re:GENESIS]] (Digimon re:GEN for short; simply Digimon Regenesis for those for whom the silly formatting is too much) is a Digimon fanfiction (go figure), focusing on (yet another) new interpretation and history of the Digital World, and a whole new set of kids and original digimon. ... Still here? Okay. The setup runs as such:

A mysterious, otherworldly entity with the powers of a god, [[BigBad Era]], has been assailing the [[{{Cyberspace}} Digital World]] for the past hundred Digital years. Having appeared with no warning, he slowly overtook more than three quarters of the digital world under his control, turning Digimon against their brethren and corrupting huge portions of the world.

Ten years have passed in the real world since Era's sudden appearance in the Digital World. Reaching their last-ditch lines of defense, the five sovereigns of the Digital World have called upon the power of Yggdrasil, the core of the Digital World, to summon a handful children from the real world to help fight.
These kids are suddenly plucked out of his or her daily life and whisked away to the Digital World. There, they're [[BondCreatures partnered with a Digimon]], and each is granted a mysterious talisman that uses the power of their virtues to help them help their digimon fight. They quickly ally themselves with their digimon partners, and the digimons' mentor, the mysterious (and often questionably sane) [[EccentricMentor Deekamon]].

The problem, coming into the story, is this: there are supposed to be seven of them, but there are only six present. The seventh child, summoned separately from the rest, and his partner, looking for him, have gone missing-- but the group needs to function as a whole to stand a chance. Forced to set out on a mission to find their last teammates (and after that, Era), the story changes from a simple find-and-rescue mission to something much more world-shaking than they thought...

* ActionGirl: Andrea is the shining example-- one of her first actions in the Digital World is to run headlong into Deekamon, who the entire human group believed to be attacking them, and taking him out. Her willingness to run in against digimon, partner or no partner, is one of her more defining personality traits.
* AGodAmI: Era, in spades. In fact, it turns out that [[spoiler: this grew out of his mistaken belief that the Digital World he encountered as a child was his creation; when it turned out he wasn't, he... did not take it well.]]

* AmazingTechnicolourBattlefield: [[spoiler: The hollow of Yggdrasil]] isn't very technicolour, but it gets a bit more trippy once [[spoiler:it starts corrupting past the point of recognition over the course of the final battle]].

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Luke serving as the core for Forbidramon]] has absolutely no control; the body is instead controlled by a second consciousness, leaving him to feel and experience everything but being forced to go along with its will, not his own. Presumably the same is true for [[spoiler: Sampamon serving as Reimon's core, at first, but she manages to take at least some control back]].

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Luke, post-Forbidramon]]; he seems to have found some form of absolution as of chapter 32. It's also later revealed that this trope is what motivates [[spoiler: Deekamon's]] actions.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Julian towards Faris [[spoiler: and later, to a certain extent, towards Toby]]

** Well, more of a [[BishonenLine Bishoujou Line]], such as it is, for [[spoiler:Reimon, of all digimon-- whose gender is left completely ambiguous until she reaches [[http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc441/Digenesis/Sanmon.png Ultimate.]]]]
** Much, ''much'' later, [[spoiler: Genesimon]] crosses the line with its final form, at the end of chapter 49.

* BittersweetEnding: In true Digimon fashion. Era is defeated, the digital world is going to be rebuilt, the Sovereigns are being restored, and [[spoiler: the partner digimon have to die to restore Yggdrasil]].

* BondCreatures: The seven digimon, the Virtue Recievers; Regenesis returns to the idea of the digimon being created specifically to partner with their human partners as opposed to meeting by chance.

* CurbStompBattle: The first time Forbidramon shows up, the partner digimon don't stand a ''chance''. Likewise with Narakamon, and ''again'' much later with [[spoiler: Era's creation in chapter 45]].

* DenouementEpisode: [[spoiler: Era is defeated in Chapter 50; Chapter 51 is dedicated to the characters saying goodbye and tying up their emotional loose ends.]]

* EldritchAbomination: Whatever [[spoiler: Genesimon, the digimon that Era created from the Sovereign cores]] is, it's definitely an abomination.
* TheEndOrIsIt: In the epilogue, the series ends [[spoiler: with the Sovereigns choosing to fix the last thing they left broken, and revive the digimon]]. Maybe.
* EpiphanicPrison: Well, kind of. In chapter 49, following one of [[spoiler: Genesimon's]] attacks, the children find themselves in small pockets of stark white nowhere. However, [[spoiler:it's implied that they're pockets created by the Digimon, using their resonant power with Yggdrasil to protect themselves from an attack that would otherwise kill them, and thus are not really ''prisons'', though some of the kids hypothesize in-character that they are]]. Regardless, the kids don't seem able to leave and re-join the battle until they examine themselves, reflect on how far they've come, and realize that they can't give up yet.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In his first in-person appearance, Era [[spoiler:taunts Forbidramon, kills Reimon, and is able to freeze six Ultimate-level digimon in their tracks with the wave of a hand]].

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Era was once a digidestined in another version of reality.]] [[TheMultiverse It's complicated.]]

* FemaleMonsterSurprise: A number of large or scary digimon end up being female, most notably [[spoiler:[=SkullGreymon=] that Toby and Julian face down with in chapter eighteen]] and [[spoiler:Reimon and her higher forms, as revealed in chapter 20]].
* FinalBossNewDimension: The battles with [[spoiler:Genesimon]] all take place in [[spoiler:the hollow of Yggdrasil, a vast black void with a brilliant white world tree in the heart of it]]. Bonus points for [[spoiler: corrupting beyond the point of recognition]] over the course of the battle.

** TheHero: Simon, naturally-- hot-blooded and driven by his ideals

* TheFourGods: The five Sovereigns (including Huanglongmon) keep control over Yggdrasil, and their unanimous will is what drives it. Azulongmon appears sort-of in-person in chapter 28; it's likely that the others will, too. [[spoiler: Or, it would have been, except for the fact that only Zhuqiaomon had the chance to say so much as a word to the kids before Javermon and company come around]].

* FourIsDeath: Though WordOfGod is that it will never appear in-story, Reimon's Mega form, ''Shi''mon, was meant to invoke this-- hence its naming scheme.

* [[spoiler:FusionDance]]: How the Digimon reach Mega. [[spoiler: It's of the "power booster"/"more powerful version of A" sort; the humans serve as the power-up to warp their digimon to Mega level, though remain able to speak to the digimon and are aware of everything around them.]]

* GiantFlyer: Kamomon, in his Ultimate and Mega forms-- his Mega form is a freaking ''roc''.

* HeelFaceTurn: If Epidemon is telling the truth, [[spoiler: Deekamon, pre-series, and by extension his allies, Shamon and [=BlackWarGreymon=].]] (And as it turns out, [[spoiler:he ''was'' telling the truth.]])

* HiddenDepths: Deekamon-- though they take a while to surface.

* ImageSong: As stated above, there's a section of the site dedicated to the author's selection of songs assigned to characters to follow on the series' trend of massive amounts of image songs. [[note]]Each human and each digimon has a song, plus a duet between them. ... Plus a number of songs chosen for thematic reasons. ... Plus a song for the humans as a group, a song for the digimon as a group, and a song for the entire group. ... Plus a song for Era, a song for Deekamon, and a ''duet'' for Era and Deekamon.[[/note]]

* [[InstantAIJustAddWater Instant AI, Just Add Water]]: The details of how, in [[spoiler: Era's backstory, the Blue.exe program became the sapient Lazumon]] are unclear. Seeing as how it is Digimon, it's probably best to roll with it and blame it on [[TheChosenOne destiny]].

* KilledOffForReal: The fate of [[spoiler:digimon whose digicores are destroyed; Dobermon is one such example.]]

* KnightOfCerebus: The first seven chapters are a fairly standard "go around, each digimon reaches its next form" procession. And then Forbidramon shows up, curbstomps the team into the dirt, and holds his ground against seven Ultimate-levels-- in fact, he's not defeated until [[spoiler: Era himself]] to put a stop to the battle and [[KnightOfCerebus make things even worse]].

--> '''Faris:''' You know, every movie I've ever seen says that going in there will get me killed.
--> '''Delfinmon:''' Still going in, [[VerbalTic yeom]]?
--> '''Faris:''' Duh.

--> '''Rajamon:''' I'm getting tired of caves.
--> '''Iguamon:''' I'd love to see you come up with a better way to connect areas.
--> '''Rajamon:''' [[BetterThanABareBulb Just feels like some architect of the digital world was getting lazy, y'know?]]

* TheLifestream: Yggdrasil, the world tree at the core of the Digital World, is the location from which all data is born and to which all data goes. [[spoiler:Except for digimon who have their digicores destroyed.]]

* MeaningfulName: In addition to being a ShoutOut to Disney/TheLionKing, the monkey digimon that helps the seventh child in the flashback chapter 23 is named Rafikmon-- derived from ''rafiki'', meaning ''friend''.
** In a slightly more sinister sense, it turns out that Era's true name is [[spoiler: Joshua, which is derived from the same name [[AGodAmI from which "Jesus" is derived]]. Oops.]] This gets even more blatant when one realizes that, though never mentioned in-text, [[AllThereInTheManual profile text]] reveals that [[spoiler:the names of the various forms of Genesimon, the digimon he creates,]] are named after books of the Bible.

** Much later, and much more explicit, this is the effect of several of [[spoiler: Genesimon]]'s attacks.

* NeverBareHeaded: Simon never takes his hat off-- [[OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness except when he does]], [[spoiler: right before he and Egakumon reach Mega in chapter 35]], and again later [[spoiler: ten chapters later, and it seems to be for good]].
* NonHumanSidekick: While very few characters are human, Reimon is as good as this for the human-esque Forbidramon. Even compared to the other digimon it acts very strangely, rarely speaks, and behaves almost as Forbidramon's pet [[spoiler:and once it reaches Champion level, steed]].

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Deekamon. Eccentric and skittish, and constantly contradicting himself, has been all but ''confirmed'' to know more than he says (to the point of contradicting himself about "not knowing things" within five minutes of two statements). Oh, yeah, and [[spoiler: he's a ''Mega'', and Era considers him a remarkable threat]]. And did we mention that late in the game, it's revealed that [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceTurn he used to be one of Era's most powerful soldiers]]]]?
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler: Genesimon, the digimon created by Era, passes through a total of four forms, though only three are fought]]. It even crosses the BishonenLine.
* PantheraAwesome: Rajamon-- a tiger, a [[PlayingWithFire fire-wielder]], pound-for-pound probably the strongest of the partner digimon, and courageous to a fault.

* PowerMakesYourHairGrow [[PowerGivesYouWings and Gives you Wings]]: Forbidramon grows a deal of shaggy blond hair and tattered black wings after entering Chaos Mode, [[spoiler: by way of absorbing a Virtue Talisman]].

* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler: surprisingly, it's Reimon!]]
* SaveBothWorlds: It's heavily implied by Wisemon in chapter 8 that [[spoiler:Era intends to use the power of Yggdrasil to cross over to the real world, mobilizing the digimon under his control as an army]]. Eventually the details of this prediction get muddied up by the truth, but more telling is that [[spoiler: it's not ''both'' worlds, it's [[TheMultiverse several]]]].

** The monkey digimon that helps Luke and Sampamon in [[WholeEpisodeFlashback chapter 23]] is named [[Disney/TheLionKing Rafik]]mon.
** At the end of Chapter 40, after half of the team has been tasked to deal with a Machinedramon off-camera, after the fact, [[spoiler: [=BlackWarGreymon=]]] remarks that he "[[Anime/DigimonAdventure (sliced it) like an onion]]".

* [[TeamMom Team]] [[MamaBear Mama Bear]]: Lammon shows signs of it.

* TrueCompanions: The partner digimon, from the start; eventually enough, their human partners follow suit.
* UndyingLoyalty: All of the digimon, but Kamomon in particular; his and Emily's Virtue is Dedication. While qualifies for the virtue by never giving up, Kamomon displays it by means of undying loyalty and dedication to his partner (sometimes to reckless ends)-- when asked by [[spoiler:Sanmon]] if he would follow her even if he believed she was wrong, he replied that he would.

* VillainExitStageRight: [[spoiler: Era pulls this]] at the end of chapter 49.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Forbidramon slips into one at the end of chapter 21, not taking it well when Sanmon turns on him]], and [[spoiler: Era does not take it well when Genesimon's third form appears to be defeated.]] When it gets much worse for the heroes after that, it leads to the trope above.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Era, apparently-- he has a multitude of willing servants (WordOfGod is that for every one ally the heroes find, there are twenty Agents lurking around) and has three-fourths of the Digital World under his direct control. He must be doing something right.
* WalkingSpoiler: There's a reason [[spoiler: Genesimon]]'s name is spoiler-tagged out every time it appears on this page.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to WordOfGod, Delfinimon was originally going to be a male parrot digimon named [[http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc441/Digenesis/Loromon.png Loromon]], and an eighth team-member was planned with an [[AnIcePerson ice-powered]] [[http://spikykitsune.deviantart.com/art/Digimon-OC-Tumbilimon-Line-271580856 monkey]] partner, Tumbilimon. Neither of these ever got past the planning stages, but Loromon and one of Tumbilimon's higher forms have as of present made appearances.

* YearInsideHourOutside: Not quite so much as the time dilation used in Anime/DigimonAdventure, but the Digital World has an exchange rate of one unit of Earth time = 10 units of Digital time. [[spoiler: Meaning the kids have been completely missing, from Real World perspective, for at least a few days.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: How [[spoiler:Forbidramon and Reimon]] meet their end, and later, [[spoiler:Magoriamon]] follows suit at the hands of Epidemon.

* [[spoiler:TheEndOrIsIt]]: In the epilogue, the series ends [[spoiler: with the Sovereigns choosing to fix the last thing they left broken, and revive the digimon]]. Maybe.

* GenreSavvy: Forbidramon seems to be perfectly aware he's the villain almost every time he shows up, and ''really'' delights in making snide comments about typical hero behavior.

** The second-to-last chapter is titled [[EarthboundZero No Crying Until The End]].

** UsefulNotes/AztecMythology: Quetzacoatimon, [[TheSixthRanger Sampamon's]] Mega form. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Self-explanatory]].

** HinduMythology: [=ImperialBaghamon=], Rajamon's Mega form, has a few less-than-subtle Shiva-as-Nataraja references, mainly in his having four arms. And an attack technique actually called ''Nataraja''.

* ScottishEnglish: Implied by some of Kamomon-as-Kaizokumon's speech patterns. It waits to be seen if the trend continues into his higher forms. [[spoiler:It does.]]

* BigBadassBirdOfPrey: Kamomon, in his Ultimate and Mega forms-- his Mega form is a freaking ''roc''.