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[The feed cuts on, showing one scruffy, somewhat scraggly, and slightly worn out Kratt. He's been working on the city every day and tonight, decided to sit around on the network afterwards.]

Hey Hiccup if you're around, maybe after all this is over with we can finally sit down and look at that notebook you've got? So far I've noticed a lot of Digimon are similar to all the creatures I studied back home, and I'd really like to see if that trend continues.

[He rubs his chin in thought- looks like a couple fingers have bandaids around them -and then looks back at the camera with a little gesture.]

And anyone who's had a partner digivolve, I'd like to know what their normal stage is and what they digivolved to? I'm just trying to figure out a couple things for myself regarding the process. [Let's face it, for a biologist like him the whole thing was a little nonsensical, but cool, and he wanted to see if he could figure it out.]

Thanks ahead of time, to anyone who replies! [And he reaches forward to cut the initial feed- wait it looks like that wrist is wrapped up in some kinda brace-?

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Sincerity. Apparently. It kinda looks like a cross...

[ She does, actually, have an inkling of understanding. However, it isn't some cut and dry thing like she figured it might be because anyone who knows her wouldn't quite call her truthful or forthcoming. But those aren't quite sincere, are they? Things are definitely getting interesting. ]

Wonder if that means we've got a new level to try for?

Huh, interesting... [He might want to see that sometime.]

A new digivolution level, right? It's been my understanding so far that a crest is needed to go above Champion, so yeah it sounds like it, if that's what you meant.

[ She'd be happy to show him. ]

Got it in one. Last time, when Thelma digivolved, it was kind of a hairy situation. Maybe now that we've got the hang of it, we won't need the life-or-death to get the kickstart up into Crest-level. A girl can hope, right?

It's certainly worth a try. [He thinks for a moment.] Though I wonder about that a bit... Why would a Crest be needed for something higher in the first place? What's special about a crystallization of your strongest trait that gives your partner access to a new form?

Definitely something more to look in to.

If you're going to ask that, you might as well ask why we need a digivice, too. Probably something to do with a power source, maybe the combination of them. Now it's something externalized so that the digimon can access it too.

Another good point. It looks almost like a symbiotic relationship, our Digimon get something out of us, and we in turn can get something out of them. For the Digimon, that looks like a way to get to their higher forms; or at least, for the first digivolutions I've been around for, the digivice lights up when we the partners are in need, the Digimon doing it for us. Whatever the digivices are, they seem dependent on the relationship between the person and their Digimon.

That's why they're called partners. We're working together on this... even if it looks pretty one-sided to the layman.

Yeah, but it's the deeper levels of that that I wanna know more about. I'd like to know everything about Digimon that I possibly can, up to and including how they interact with us and why what happens, happens.

We haven't even figured out that sort of thing about humans yet.

Don't I know it. [You can almost hear the eyeroll in his tone, with that laugh.] Still, that's where most of my focus around here is gonna go.

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