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[greatwork]

[So as the feed turns on, it won't show the person recording. Instead, it will pan over several rather detailed anatomical sketches of several Digimon- Gazimon and Tailmon, Greymon and Kimeramon, Devidramon and Damemon... It seems, after a while, like most of the Digimon inhabiting the city have been drawn here. Each of the sketches also has several notes attached, along the lines of 'strong bite' or 'heat ray from hands', or 'weak vision'.

Rather than turning the camera to show herself, Alex will just talk from off-screen]

So, since a certain fuckhead of a biologist dropped off the face of the Earth before he got me the information he was supposed to, I've been working on a project of my own. A Digimon encyclopedia of sorts, all known ones, their abilities and hopefully weaknesses if we know those, too. Spread the knowledge and give everyone a better chance to survive whatever bollocks shows up this time. Any information on Digimon capabilities would help, if you lot care to share it.

Though, I did notice something while I was doing these.

[She shuffles the papers around until several Digimon drawings are on top- Sakuyamon Miko Mode, Lilimon, Bastemon, Lotusmon, and Darcmon, specifically.]

I get that Digimon are apparently spawned from the data from the internet. That explains why most of them appear to have recognizable forms rather than being completely alien to us, I think, something like Gazimon could have been given form by data on canine form and behavior. There's also a bunch of cat-looking ones, and since most of human output is total shit, I think that explains the Damemon as well.

But why the hell are most of the humanoid Digimon I've seen so far all women, and on top of that, they all look like that? Tits and bikinis, the lot of them. Even Lilimon is an inch of skirt away from showing the world if Digimon get underwear data or not. Where, exactly, is this Digital World getting its data on humans from? Why the fuck is it so skewed right towards knockers the size of my head and wearing less than a street corner hooker? Is this place just getting its data on humans from adult sites, or have I just been extremely unfortunate in my encounters so far?

Comments

[heartdive]

I'm not talking about it like that.

It's like two forces. Light kind of is the better parts of a person while darkness is the negative. Everyone has light and darkness in them. Some people give into the darkness and others just stick to the light.

[greatwork]

... Okay, then, if you're talking about that, how can something be "swallowed by the darkness"? Is that a metaphor?

[heartdive]

Yeah and no.

A person's heart can be consumed and lost to darkness. Since each world has its own heart, it can also lose itself to darkness. The world will just... Disappear. Like it wasn't there in the first place.

[greatwork]

.... Nigredo.

[heartdive]

Huh?

[greatwork]

The first step in the great work, the black process. Putrefaction. The impurities within the substance are brought to the surface, cooked through to a uniform black matter. Some shitheads say it represents the shadows of the soul.

It sounds like you've applied that process to a whole damn world.

[heartdive]

I don't know about the rest of it, but shadows of the soul? Sounds about right to me.

[greatwork]

... And what about the rest? What happens after the first process?

[heartdive]

When a person loses their heart to darkness, two things happen. There's the empty body that's left over and then the manifestation of the darkness in their heart. The darkness that's left becomes a creature we call a Heartless.

They kind of just go from world to world, looking for more hearts.

Sometimes, though, the body that's left behind still has the willpower to move. All it has are memories without a heart. Nobodies don't act like Heartless, just kinda going here and there - but they don't feel anything either.

Well... Until a heart sort of grows back.

[greatwork]

... Okay, hold the fuck on a minute.

The heart becomes something called a Heartless and the body becomes something called a Nobody? Is everyone from your universe fucking stupid?

[heartdive]

Um. What?

[greatwork]

Obviously the rest of that is mind-bogglingly retarded, too, but I'll get to that in a minute. What's left of the heart, you said, becomes a creature called 'heartless'. Meanwhile, the body that can still move is called 'no body'.

I stand by my question.

[heartdive]

I don't really understand the question.

[greatwork]

You named a creature made of a heart "heartless", as in lacking a heart when it is, if I understood your babble correctly, lacking everything but this metaphorical 'heart'. Meanwhile, a body with no heart, is called 'no body', even though it is nothing but the body.

Why the fuck are they called that?

[heartdive]

They're called Heartless because they're without any sort of emotions. Nobodies are called what they are because technically they are nobody. They don't or shouldn't exist at all.

[greatwork]

Yeah, but...

... Oh, fuck it, even if I yell at you it won't change anything. Fine. I owe you an explanation about alchemy, yeah? What do you want to hear?

[heartdive]

Okay...

Um. How does it work, exactly?