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[The feed turns on, showing Alexandria slumped over in bed with her arm still heavily bandaged, fussing with her D-Terminal.]

No, god damn it, I wanted audio, not video.

Come on, it's not that hard.

If you haven't noticed, I'm down one arm and you don't have hands. Fuck it, this will work.

[She sighs and leans back, and actually starts addressing the terminal.]

So, my partner here and I have been talking. It turns out when she's not busy throwing a tantrum, she's actually pretty smart herself, and I've been getting information about how Digimon work from her. Their life cycle is actually pretty fascinating.

According to her, there are seven main stages of their life. Egg, Baby, Baby II, Child, Adult, Perfect, Ultimate. She also mentioned some sort of "legendary Super-Ultimate" that she'll turn into one day. I'm pretty sure this is about as valid as the little boys on the playground who say they know kung-fu-

Shut the hell up, I'll definitely make it!

-But I thought it was worth mentioning, just in case. The process that makes them advance a stage is called "evolution" (even though it's just a fucking metamorphosis, I'd like to get my hands on whoever fucking named this shit) and seems to require vast amounts of energy. As far as I can tell, these Digimon naturally store the energy as they live, and reach the next stage after having lived and battled. After reaching a stage, they stay there without regressing; We've got, for example, that Lilymon lady, who's supposed to be a Perfect level.

Which brings me to the important point: It looks like, so far, all of these so-called "chosen" Digimon are of the Child level, spontaneous pointless changes aside-

I told you that wasn't my fault!You humans are the ones responsible for our evolution, you must have screwed up!

-Ahem. My partner pointed out that it seems no "chosen" Digimon is of a higher level than the Child level, causing me to think that the temporary evolutions we allow them drain them of the energy they store to progress naturally. In other words, our "help" is actually hindering and actively stunting the growth and maturity of our Digimon. Temporary strength in exchange for prolonged weakness. It's possible our presence is actually harmful to our partners.

Or, that's just the current theory, I don't have enough information to confirm one way or the other. But I think it's something worth considering and investigating. If anyone else has anything relevant to add, I'd like to hear it.

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Yeah... Maybe it's because I asked about the life cycle, since the terms I got actually sound more like stages of life than stages of a boxing career.

"Zalgo"?

Some people make boxing their life, so hey, it might still apply.

Yeah, Zalgo text. That terrible stuff people do when they want to make it look like their message is falling apart into horrible glitches and Lovecraftian horror.

My entire knowledge of computers is how to use my family's email account, you're going to have to work with me on some of this.

That is literally what I just did. There's really no better way to describe Zalgo text without the ability to just spam you with it.

Right.

What's Lovecraftian, then?

Where are you from?

England, circa 1990, but frankly that's pretty much meaningless because every other world I've heard of here is complete nonsense.

Oh boy. Do tell, I'm curious now.

Pass. I've explained it so many times already I'm getting sick of it.

Maybe you should get a tape recorder or something. Record yourself with it once, then you can just replay it any time someone asks about it.

Fucking tempting, but where do I even get one of those here?

Hardware store? Wal-Mart? There's gotta be some place that sells cheap toys like that.

Do those still work? I've got my mobile with me still, but it's been dead ever since I got here.

[ A mobile from 1990? Huh, interesting. ]

I was under the impression that native tech still works. Anything you bring fries on impact, though.

[Alternate histories are fun, aren't they?]

Makes sense enough, I suppose. Damn irritating, though.

You're telling me. I lost all my music when I got here. That's like fifteen thousand songs!

[ Not to mention her AI... ]

Good luck paying for all of those again.

Who said I paid for anything?

In that case, you don't really have much right to complain, do you?

My tech doesn't work. How am I supposed to get all of it back?

Pay for it.

Yeah, because digiTunes totally exists here even if I had the money.

It's not like CDs don't exist anymore.

They practically don't around where I'm from. Who's to say how available they are around here?

Sounds like it's time for you to go look.

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