Fanfic / Digimon Trinity

Digimon Trinity is a Digimon Fan Fic written by Crazyeight, best known for the Tamers Requiem series.

The fic is an alternate retelling of Digimon Tamers, depicting it as an actual sequel series to Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 rather than a Continuity Reboot.

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Digimon Trinity contains example of the following tropes:

• Aborted Arc: Whether intended or not, there clearly was a lot of intended plot threads, particularly surrounding Digimon Frontier that got curtailed. More specifically, Guilmon being a cornerstone to help with Lucemon's release, Cherubimon playing a role in fighting the other Celestials over Renamon being a spy for Apocalymon, and other matters that were trimmed once it was revealed that the Frontier series happened in the span of less than a real world day.
• Adaptation Expansion: Both IceDevimon and the Apocalymon/Mephistomon that serves as Big Bad for the Battle of Adventurers movie receive this, with the latter being revealed to be the same one from Digimon Adventure and is now the head of the Nightmare Soldiers with the former serving as his Dragon. Renamon and Impmon are also revealed to be former Nightmare Soldiers themselves, which further fleshes out the unexplained affinity they had for each other in Tamers.
  • The Vikaralamon incident's stakes are ballooned when the digimon that were seen just ominously hovering the dimension-torn sky in the TV show version of the episode end up actually bio-emerging making the battle even more destructive and necessitating as many Digidestined as possible to get involved in the fight.
  • Impmon is also revealed to be the amnesiac reincarnation of Demon Lord Beelzemon who was one of the major antagonists during the war the Digidestined fought 15 years go, and the murderer of Patamon.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Several foes, such as Makuramon and the D-Reaper, make their initial appearances much earlier than in canon, ramping up the anticipation of their official debuts for readers familiar with Tamers.
• Alternate Universe Fic: As stated above, this fic is an alternate retelling of Digimon Tamers, depicting it as a continuation of Adventure and 02, with Frontier and Data Squad characters being featured as well.
• Because Destiny Says So: Following the Battle of Adventurers movie, Rika briefly wonders if her friendship with Takato and Henry is genuine or if it's because of the "Trinity prophecy" mentioned by Tai.
• Becoming the Mask: Apocalymon and IceDevimon chose Renamon to become Rika's partner as a way of them using the bond between Digimon and Tamer to further strengthen the Nightmare Soldiers. They didn't anticipate Renamon actually starting to genuinely care about Rika.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Hoooh boy. First we have Takeru and Hypnos, who are being pressured by the Japanese government to find a way to stop Digimon from bio-emerging in the Real World, no matter the cost. Then there's the Nightmare Soldiers, who are hoping to cultivate the partnership between Rika and Renamon as the first of several Tamers chosen to serve the Forces of Darkness. Then we have Lucemon, who seeks to take the Digital Hazard from Guilmon and add it to his own to make himself stronger. And Zhuqiaomon and the Devas haven't even entered the picture yet.
• Brain Uploading: Tentomon's physical body was destroyed in the real world during the war, but his consciousness still existed in a similar manner to Wizardmon. Izzy somehow found a way to keep Tentomon's consciousness alive on the internet. It's mentioned that despite this, no one has figured out how to do the same for Wizardmon, who continues to haunt the Fuji TV station as an apparition.
• Canon Welding: With the story being a crossover retelling of Tamers, there are numerous examples of merging the Digimon canons together with impressive results:
  • Kari is the teacher of Takato's class, rather than Nami Asaji. This later gets subverted as the real Asaji shows up as a substitute teacher after Kari is fired as a result of instigating a Dark Digivolution in Gatomon during the battle against Indramon.
  • TK, now going by his true name Takeru, and Yolei have replaced Yamaki and Riley as agents of Hypnos.
  • The Zippo lighter that Yamaki carried around is now, in the hands of Takeru, explained to be a Tragic Keepsake of Takeru and Matt's father Hiroaki Ishida, who is now deceased.
  • Replacing Yamaki with TK is facilitated by capitalizing on the more uncomfortable aspects of TK's personality that were seen in 02 but not explored en-length, namely the trauma he harbors from losing Patamon, and his intense, maladaptive hatred of the powers of darkness.
  • Rather than Yamaki's singleminded attitude that all digimon are dangerous and must be destroyed, the justification for Takeru taking the same actions as him is that he's operating under a misguided belief that the Devas are agents of darkness spawned from the Dark Ocean, and therefore must be destroyed.
  • Sora and Matt are friends of Rika's family, due to Sora's fashion designer job and Rumiko's modeling.
  • The Digignomes turn out to be the remnants of Yukio Oikawa.
  • Miki and Megumi and their PawnChessmon work for Ken at his Digimon detective agency.
  • Rika's Disappeared Dad is none other than Spencer Damon, making her half-siblings with Marcus and Kristy.
  • The Battle of Adventurer's plot is tied in with Adventure by making the Omnimon and Apocalymon from the film be the same as those from Adventure, along with explaining that the viral V-Pet was programmed with code similar to that of Diaboromon.
  • Davis once dated Rumiko.
  • Jeri's late mother was Keiko Kurata, one of the Dark Spore children from the end of 02.
  • Izzy's company invented the iC digivices from Savers.
  • The Digimon Sovereign's of Adventure - who also happens to be the digimon partners of the original Chosen Children - are also the Sovereign's of Tamers. One plot thread involves them wondering why one of them (Zhuquiaomon) seems to have become an antagonist.
  • It's hypothesized that Shibumi may be in a similar state of consciousness as Koichi Kimura was during Frontier.
  • Jeri's Leomon is the Adventure Leomon, reborn through the power of the dream dimension.
  • Ryo Akiyama, whose presence in Tamers was left mostly unexplained, is properly presented as an acquaintance and ally of the Adventure cast.
  • Various sectors of the digital world, including Gennai's original headquarters and the entirety of Frontier's digital world suddenly get deleted, signalling the oncoming progression of the D-Reaper's rampage.
  • There is extensive incorporation and discussion of concepts that exist in the greater Digimon franchise that are either barely touched on or absent from the anime, such as the Digital Hazard's presence on Guilmon's body and Calumon's forehead bearing the Zero Unit symbol. There is also brief mention that the 02 cast can swap digi-eggs for different armor evolutions. The fact that Renamon and Impmon are both species classified as Nightmare Soldiers in lore is also taken advantage of to give Tamers' Renamon and Impmon a pre-existing affiliation.
  • Aside from merging series canons, the fic brings in elements from the Japanese version of Digimon canon despite using the English dub as the main base, such as mentioning events from the Drama CD's and turning Tamers Japanese song themes into aspects of a new prophecy.
• The Conscience: With the revelation that Impmon is the amnesiac reconfigured Demon Lord Beelzemon who murdered and loaded Patamon during the war, Patamon's consciousness has started to periodically surface and at times seems to be trying to serve as this to the frustrated and rebellious Impmon.
• Cynicism Catalyst: The main reason for TK's current personality is because Patamon was digitally absorbed by Beelzemon during the Digital War.
• Cool Big Sis: Sora and Biyomon used to be this for Rika. She still tries to be this for all of the new kids nonetheless.
• Darker and Edgier: As an AU of a Digimon season that was already quite dark for its target audience, the fic takes away any pulled punches regarding more serious topics. Besides the bleak original backstory that turns the Adventure Digidestined into war-torn veterans, serious injuries and body counts also are explicitly shown to occur after some of the bigger battles. Additionally the psychological impact the battles are having on the children and the older Digidestined is explored more indepth.
• Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest: Tai, in the digital world, keeps on-and-off contact with Rei, a girl who is the digital clone of Sora that Datamon created back in Adventure. Rei has none of Sora's memories but all of her mannerisms, making Tai feel exceedingly guilty that he can't tamp down his attraction to her since it feels not only unfair to Rei, but also like he's betraying both Sora and Matt. It becomes clear later on that Rei has also become one to Meiko, as Tai still laments having to leave her to go to the Digital World, and she was the only one he tried to keep in contact with since he couldn't bring himself to say goodbye to her. When Rei mistakenly thinks Sora was his girlfriend, he corrects her and says it was Meiko, clarifying that Sora was his best friend.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: The Adventure cast are subject to this all over, via various methods. Functionally, it's so that the Tamers retain importance in a retelling of their own story. Examples include Takeru being intentionally obstructive to his former teammates ability to help the new kids. Several of the cast like Cody, Matt, and Joe are often elsewhere due to their jobs, and Mimi and later Yolei being pregnant also is limiting. Some of the battles also have been escalated in difficulty with additional enemies or stressful factors, giving the older generation other things to manage while the Tamers take care of the main Monster of the Week.
• Fallen Hero: TK is in the role of Yamaki. No more needs to be said.
• Famed In-Story: The original Digidestined have become as such by the time of the fic.
• Fantastic Racism: Some humans are shown to have this attitude towards Digimon. One man attacks Henry when he sees him with Terriermon, while others try to pelt Guilmon with rocks after Musyamon is defeated. And since Data Squad is part of this continuity, there's always the possibility of Akihiro Kurata showing up...
• Foreshadowing: It's mentioned early on that Ken is investigating reports of a rogue ice Digimon. Clearly this is meant to set up IceDevimon's later appearance.
  • Large sectors of the digital world, including the entire digital world of Frontier, suddenly get deleted, signaling that the D-Reaper is already on the warpath.
  • Bokomon comments that he noticed that recently, digimon seemed to cease digivolving naturally in the digital world, which is reference to the fact that Calumon, who is eventually revealed to be the living embodiment of the power of digivolution, no longer resides in the digital world.
• Great Offscreen War: There are repeated mentions of a war that has resulted in the protagonists of Adventure and 02 becoming Famed In-Story as great heroes. Whatever happened also caused TK to become the embittered head of Hypnos, and Tai and Agumon have been missing ever since. While the full events remain vague, several details of what happened have gradually appeared: Major antagonists during the war were the Seven Great Demon Lords, and the war was so extensive that it necessitated the creation of an army of artificial Human-Digimon partnerships to aid the Digidestined. At some point during the war Kari was kidnapped by the Dark Ocean and TK's eyes were injured, rendering them sensitive to light. Known casualties include TK and Matt's father Hiroaki Ishida, Patamon, who was killed and uploaded, and Tentomon, whose physical body was destroyed such that he now only exists on the internet.
• Happily Married: Ken and Yolei, despite the latter working for Takeru and Hypnos, which the former is heavily critical of.
• Heel–Face Turn: Etemon has apparently turned over a new leaf and has been working with Tai and Gennai in the years since the Digital War.
• Hero Antagonist: The Celestial Trio are this for Renamon, hoping to capture her in order to make her answer to her crimes as a member of the Nightmare Soldiers. It's this apparent disrespect to a Beast-type Digimon that completes Cherubimon's pre-series Face–Heel Turn.
• Hero Killer: If Impmon's dreams and Takeru's flashbacks are anything to go by, then the former is this for Patamon.
• Hero of Another Story: The events of Frontier still happen on their own, separate from the rest of the canon welded story, entirely offscreen and (thanks to the time dilation effect of the digital world) within the space of a single chapter. Afterwards, Takeru is shown going over personality profiles of the six Frontier heroes.
• Hero-Worshipper: As revealed in the first chapter, Takato admires and looks up to Kari and the other Digidestined.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: It's mentioned that the Royal Knights as enforcers for the digital world are a mess, what with Gallantmon not being born yet, Omnimon being a servant for the Digidestined "only coming at beck and call" and Crusadermon and Dynasmon falling to the dark side.
• Love Triangle: One appears to be developing between Kari, Davis, and Rumiko.
• The Medic: Joe serves as the main doctor for both digimon and their human partners.
• Mission Control: Izzy has been serving as this in whatever capacity he can. He's been relegated to only being a support role for the most part, not only because his company gives him the best resources to do so, but also because Tentomon, having lost his physical body, can no longer partake in battle.
• Morality Chain: Yolei is trying to be this for Takeru which is why she continues to work for him. The results so far have been mixed, at best. Izzy also begins to work with Takeru after he's recruited by the latter, for similar reasons.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Takeru has this moment after Vikaralamon destroys the city, for two reasons. One, he realizes that he had been operating under a completely wrong assumption that recent influx of hostile digimon were a product of the Dark Ocean, and that his experiments with the Yuggoth and Juggernaut programs may have actually been inciting the Digimon to attack the human world. Two, this assumption also caused him to program Juggernaut to affect all digimon, not just "Ones from the Dark Ocean", nearly resulting in him destroying every single digimon who had gotten involved in the fight, including those of his friends. On top of all that, he'd also confiscated both Davis and Ken's digivices, limiting Veemon and Wormmon's usefulness and possibly rendering the outcome of the battle much worse than if they'd been able to fight at full strength.
• Older Than They Look: Ryo Akiyama, who was originally either the same age or a few years older than the Adventure cast, has shown up having not aged a day since he last saw them as a teenager.
• Outgrowing the Childish Name: Takeru has abandoned his nickname of TK by the events of the fic, fitting his new Darker and Edgier personality; Davis muses at one point that Takeru is so different than the way he used to be as a child that his past and current selves may as well be two entirely different people. It doesn't stop Kari from addressing him as such when they meet in Interlude 3.
• Pet the Dog: Despite Takeru having Took a Level in Jerkass by the events of this fic, he does still have moments that show he cares about his former friends; for example, in chapter 57, when Joe and Gomamon show up in Shinjuku to help tend to a wounded Biyomon, he personally shows up in a limo to drive them there for their safety, wanting to avoid them running into any anti-Digimon activists.
• Precision F-Strike: In chapter 55, when Rika, traumatized by the situation with IceDevimon and The Reveal that Renamon was working for the Nightmare Soldiers and planned to corrupt her to their cause, punches out Takato and then runs off, Sora, faced with this and a critically injured Biyomon, shouts "Damn it!"
• Prequel: For Digimon Frontier. Cherubimon is beginning to show signs of his corruption while Lucemon is making plans within his imprisonment to take Guilmon's Digital Hazard and add it to his own.
  • Due to the Year Inside, Hour Outside nature of the Digital World, the entire plot of Frontier ends up taking place within a single chapter of the adaptation of the Battle of Adventurers movie.
• Recruiting the Criminal: After being found out by Sora and Ken, Rika ends up in this position, deputized to help with defending the real world, but under stricter terms due to her past criminal work with Digimon.
• Setting Update: The exact year it is is left vague, but with the Adventure and 02 cast being adults by this point, the events of Tamers are taking place much later compared to its canon counterpart. The Monster Makers are also that much older than their canon counterparts, as they still created the first digimon in the 80's.
• Story-Breaker Power: Subverted. The older generation are still the more experienced battlers with greater powerups at their disposal. But due to them having scattered ranks and having a lot of other things on their plates, they often come into a battle after it's been going on for awhile already, or encounter some sort of snag that limits their ability to help, so they ultimately don't come off as overpowered. It's also explained that their powers have diminished as they've grown older, which makes it more difficult for their digimon to access their most powerful forms on a regular basis, so they simply don't have the same capacity to wipe the floor in fights as they used to.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: Averted in chapter 19; Mephistomon attacks Veemon while he's in the midst of digivolving to prevent him and Stingmon from DNA digivolving.
• Unrequited Love Lasts Forever:
  • Tai still hasn't fully gotten over Sora. Matt calls him out on this, wondering if it's at least one reason why Tai decided to vanish without contacting anyone for 15 years. Turns out he was only half right. He does have lingering feelings and was unintentionally filling the void with Rei, but they weren't for Sora, they were for Meiko.
  • Tai had been in a relationship with Meiko, but abruptly broke it off to go to the Digital World. While it hurt for both of them, they still tried to keep in contact, Tai asking Meiko not to tell the others. While Meiko tried to move on and accepted a marriage proposal from a man named Fujio, both she and Tai still love each other, and she laments that while Fujio is a good man, Tai is still the one she is in love with. Tai meanwhile regularly regrets leaving Meiko behind, and tries to put on a brave face for her after hearing about her engagement despite how much it hurts.
  • It's made clear on more than one occasion that even after all these years, Davis hasn't completely gotten over Kari.
    • Double Subverted, actually. It's not Kari Davis still has unrequited feelings for, but Rumiko Nonaka.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: According to Sora, Rika used to be a nice child who loved Digimon and would have no problems befriending someone like Takato.
• Vagueness Is Coming: Towards the climax of the Battle of Adventurers movie, Tai mentions a "Trinity prophecy" regarding Takato, Rika, and Henry towards them.
• Villain of Another Story:
  • Impmon is repeatedly hinted and eventually confirmed to be Beelzemon of the Seven Great Demon Lords, who apparently lost his memories upon rebirth. The Demon Lords, in turn, were major antagonists of the Great Offscreen War the Digidestined fought in which resulted in the destruction of Tentomon's physical body and Patamon's death.
  • Speaking of the Demon Lords, Lucemon shows up early on to try and steal the Digital Hazard from Guilmon before embarking on his canonical scheme, which, as mentioned elsewhere on this page occurs entirely offscreen in the span of a single chapter.
• What Have I Become?: Takeru steadily realizes that his actions are becoming increasingly destructive and unethical, eventually culminating in him lamenting that he's become far worse than Ken was as the Digimon Emperor.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Digimon are seen as living beings with the same rights as humans; thus, Rika and Renamon's killing Digimon and uploading their data makes them wanted criminals.
  • This turns out to be somewhat subverted. Most documentaries and scientific papers regarding Digimon here view them merely as primitive AI codes programmed to fight which were then unleashed onto the Internet. Only the Digidestined know better due to their personal experiences with the Digital World.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Yolei tells Ken she's going to give this to Takeru in the aftermath of Episode 7 after learning that Ken, Kari, Davis, and the Tamers were in the vicinity when Takeru used the Yuggoth program to destroyed the digital anomaly Lucemon had used to capture Guilmon, meaning that Takeru was uncomfortably close to killing all of them.
  • Yolei finally makes good on her promise after the disastrous Vikaralamon fight destroys the city, leaves Davis and Matt hospitalized, and nearly resulted in the destruction of their friends' digimon partners. She breaks his apartment door down to give him a piece of her mind.