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I'm working on a digimon fanfic game where the enemies are "defect digimon"- sorta like data vampires infected with a virus. So I'm thinking "hey, how do they look different?" and my friend Ira-Dracona has some hard-to-explain idea about squares and I tried to draw what I thought she meant? Weird checkerboard colour glitches, and then it spreads all over as they get more powerful, or whatever.To ira- is this what you meant?
To everyone else: does it look good?
I also had some alternate ideas that I drew on too.
Alt idea 1: digimon doesn't gain a defect symbol, it just loses all its other symbols. Later stage progression would be turning monochrome and eventually faceless?
Alt idea 2: Third eye. Simple, but it'd make them too easy to differenciate from real digimon. They couldn't be a threat because of stealthyness anymore. Progression of the illness would outright change them into a variant form, like the X-digimon from that weird cgi movie in japan.
Alt idea 3: Vampy infection mark that never heals. A small blackened pinprick wherever they were injected with the virus, easy to conceal for maximum stealthies. It gets more prominant and evolves into a tribal tattoo sort of pattern over time?
Or maybe some sort of mix of these ideas?
original calumon pic obviously belongs to bandai, this is just a doodle-over to demonstrate the idea
I'd draw the art for all the digis myself in the actual game
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Ooh, it looks really pretty 
I like how you changed the symbol too.
Maybe with the third eye idea, have it completely seal up when it isn't open, so it's not visible at all? Still, don't some digimon already have a third eye?
The mark idea is cool, but what about species which are naturally Defects? They wouldn't have an injection site.
Also, this is basically what I meant but I think smaller squares would work better (difficult on small images, I know) to make it look more pixellated. Kinda like how missing.no was a weird jumble of squares and shapes and mishmashed bits and bobs.
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Well it'd be weird for an evil calumon to keep the holy symbol of digivolution XD
That'd work! But yeah... its tough to think of a unified body part that no digimon already has. Thats why symbols would probably be better...
I thought about it and figured maybe some sort of special pattern for them? They'd have an advantage cos they wouldn't have a dot to hide at first, but then they end up with a really huge glowing red mark over their heart or something. Like the skin all rotted off and their ribcage is full of eyes ^_^
Yeah... its hard to make smaller pixelness look like an actual pattern instead of like a squiggly smoosh when you're working on a small pic. Would be easier to show that on an actual original drawing. I was thinking also maybe something like some square-shaped holes cut out of them around the discoloured area? Like pixels flew away
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It would be weird to have more than one Calumon with that symbol, considering it's a plotpoint for a series
Symbols sounds like a cool idea.
EWWWWWW XD Do Digimon actually have insides? They eat and poop but is data organised into heart and lungs? They're supposed to be like real animals, after all, but nothing I've seen has ever covered their anatomy. Obviously the original 'creators' of Digimon in any of the canons (in the ones where people made them) would try to make them anatomically feasible, but usually that doesn't involve drawing organs...
I suppose if it is a glitch it would just be a smoosh. Square-shaped holes is good. But what would show through? Grey space? Red cos of organs and such?
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Good point, good point. But there's never been multiple calumon in any other series anyway so i guess they never bothered making a official changed version.
Ya, just need to think of the right one. I doodled some other ideas for creepier & cuter defect calumons, did you see that?
Well that's what I meant, lol! Heart, digicore, whatever, same diff. They're just all wireframey inside with a glowy bit. That's what I meant, not human heart with all the sticky grossness XD
But in-universe it'd be equally as creepy, y'know? Someone gets cut and there's blackness inside instead of glowy = the equivelant of crying tears and bleeding salt or whatever. Adding a few eyes in the void just ramps up the creep factor even though there's no logical reason why the virus would grow eyes in a place where they're completely useless XD
So instead something like the red lights = semidigested cores of the digimon they ate. even moar creep!
Umm, no o.O I didn't mean scary bleedy hoels! I meant like comically cute nonpainful ones. Like their ear or tail is just shaped that way to look like bits are cut out- like holes that go all the way through and you can see whatever's behind em. I was imagining an impmon holding his tail up to his eye and looking through one of the squares like a monacle XD
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Yeah, I saw them! Totally freaky!
Ah, yeah, sounds cool
Ah, okie. So basically just like someone shot a square-shaped bullet right through? XD
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Too freaky XD
Yuuup XD I'm gonna have a field day with all the differences between humans and digimons like that. Sometimes funny, sometimes not.
Like, there's gonna be a point where digimon try and grasp the human concept of death and all they can compare it to is when an egg cracks and the stuff inside melts out. Humans break and leak this horrible liquid stuff that you can't put back in... and then they never become anything else, they just sit there broken forever. (Since this is a data world where nothing is biological and everything poofs into data once it dies, thus nothing can rot and a dead human would just look like they're sleeping. Forever. In several pieces.)
I have thought waaaaay too much about dark stuff that the shows never cared to cover...
Yep XD like a yen coin with the hole in it XD
Cute, not creepy. OH! Maybe that's the symbol? A hole somewhere on their body! Could be something obvious like a gigantic gaping circle in the middle of their chest, or just an empty spot on their tail or ear or something. Perhaps one guy gets lucky and its his toe, so its like instead of a nail he has a nail shaped bullety thing. Put a plaster on it and say you stubbed your toe = noone will ever know XD
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They'd be like "That human is doing a cracked egg impression..."
Could get interesting if Digimon who get an ear shredded or something in combat get treated with suspicion, especially if the wound was a gunshot wound, so they just have a hole in the ear
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Aww, don't say that. Now I'm imagining an innocent digimon poking a "sleeping" human thinking its doing a funny impression and being scared when it won't wake up
OOH, GREAT IDEA!
Like, maybe the society is really ableist in general? Wounded people are suspicious so disabled people are doubly so. Maybe he didn't lose his arm in an accident, maybe he cut it off to hide his glitchy mark! Maybe he can't use his legs because they're glitchy! Maybe he's acting insane because he's a maneating monster!!
Since digimon are all about battling I figure it'd be easy to be a dick to a guy who can't fight for whatever reason. They already would be seen as weirdos even before defects came around..
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Yeah, that sounds good! I would imagine that in a society where fighting to get stronger is a big thing, those who have a problem which prevents them from fighting as effectively would be seen as weak and rather pathetic. Some of the nicer or more peaceful species might be more sympathetic, but most probably won't if they're all about fighting. Can these digimon absorb each other's data or are they all reborn like in Adventure? Because some rather more sadistic mons might find some sport in hunting down those with missing limbs etc for easy data. And then once the Defects come about there will be more suspicion and even the peaceful species may not want anything to do with a disabled digimon anymore either.
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...imagine a digimon seeing a "broken" human and trying to put the parts back together...
THIS LINE OF THOUGHT IS TOO DEPRESSING TO BE ALLOWED
Well, I thought I explained it properly but the idea is that DEFECTS can absorb data and not normal digimon. Hence why defects are feared- normally you revive but if they kill you then you don't.
I was actually thinking the digimon would be all fight-happy precisely because they're content in the knowledge that they'll just reincarnate, and thus they're desensitized to violence and the real consequences of it. Kind of like the norse concept of valhalla, where fighting every day and reviving is seen as an awesome thing instead of a nightmare.
It'd be a bit messed up because in this continuity your memory is lost when you reincarnate, so its more like dying and someone with the same personality is born to lead a totally different life. But nobody aknowledges that and treats it like real death...
The more I develop this idea, the more grey the moral conflict becomes. I mean, this digiworld sounds incredibly messed up and in need of saving even if the defects weren't there XD
Defect fear is just amplifying what was already there so now it becomes a more obvious problem...
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Eheheh
You might have done, I've just forgotten because of my sieve brain 
Wow, that's pretty cool 
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Well, I'm musing so many ideas here that I forget to mention half of em or else say em like twelve times XD
Yup! That's how I'd like reincarnation to go if it exists. It always seemed kinda plotholey and nightmarish to imagine that digimon live forever and ever being rebirthed and unable to forget. Plus more digimon keep being born so the place would get overpopulated or else have to keep expanding in size...
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I suppose if everyone is getting reborn, then you don't need that many new digimon being born. If they like fighting that much then death rates could be very high XD There would probably be nearly as many eggs as currently living digimon XD
Could be like Minecraft... the world just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on...
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Well the idea would be that the birth and death rates are almost completely tied since someone has to die for an egg to be born. New digimon appearing from stray/recycled data would be a rare occurance and they'd be automatically Defects. Dangerous ones. (basically like apocolymon)
But to keep the world from being boring and static, lets say you reincarnate as a different digimon each time, or something.
An infinate world makes sense as a representation of digitalness, BUT it'd be terrible for making a game cos you could never explore everywhere XD
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True
Sounds like a cool plan
And yeah, that would be good. It adds some level of fluctuation to the different populations
Yeah, you would have to do like Adventure 01. File Island, Server Continent, end XD
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I think I'm gonna go with... they need emotional/physical contact of some sort, otherwise they just remain in status forever like rocks. (So maybe there's a valley of lost eggs in some sort of dangerous uninhabited place and you can do quests to try and rescue em and bring em to a loving home?)
Yeah, everything would just be weird if the digiworld was perpetually one devimon, one piximon, etc and always the same guy..
I dunno yet what the digiworld's even gonna be like, i really need to work on that XD
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You mean stasis?
Ooh, valley of the lost eggs
Does the population decrease due to Defects then, if no eggs spawn without being reincarnated digimon?
Lol XD
More like Adventure than Tamers please!
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yes, that word. that wordly word of wordyness which is beyond my humble vocabularly XD
yush yush
...i FORGOT ABOYT DEFECTSS
i fogrot my own plot device im really out of it i need breakfast and its afternoon XD
Lol yes XD tamers is best season with worst digiworld sections
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Eheheh
Lol! Well done XD Maybe the digimon god thingy could create them every so often, like, when too many digimon have been nommed XD
No one wants to live in that digiworld XD
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Oh wait! I remembered I had kind of a sleepy idea that was the opposite and then i forgot when i woke up!
Its like... normally the digimon god thingy would butt in when the digiworld's become unhealthy and started making loads of defects, and it'd purify the defects back to normal. But this also grants them the "seed of life", aka the ability to make digieggs. (Something like, the dark seed of defectness can't be destroyed, only changed into something non-harmful)
So then that purified digimon can get all preggers (or the digital equvelant) and have loads and loads of babies, helping to boost the population again. (Basically draining all the energy that was making them so powerful and converting it back into separate digimon. Even if its not the same ones.) However the digigod hasn't been seen in generations after they mysteriously vanished, and the only hint he/she is even coming back is a few legendary prophecy type thingies.
but i dunno if thats a dumb idea
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Wow! That's awesome! It makes complete sense and saves just deleting the Defects too
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Yeah but the sad bit is that (at least according to legend) the reason the god isn't around anymore is because last time they tried to purify defects they were overpowered and eaten alive...
And now everyone just lives in hope that somehow gods have some hidden power to come back when others don't..
It sounds like a great solution on paper, but its not like every defect wants to be purified, and having to deal with suddenly getting some responsibility you never asked for, and losing all your power until you eventually "pay your dues" and die. Not to mention the fact that not everyone is gonna accept these purified defects no matter whether they'r good or bad. So in their weakened state they could be easy victims of revenge crimes.. crimes usually perpetrated against all defects/former defects indiscriminately, even children...
And incidentely that just wastes the god's blessing and ensures that nothing will get resolved. Kill a purified mon before they have time to die of childbirth and all the data is lost into junk packets, which could just mean someone else gets defected...
Not to mention the whole fact that all the defects get this purification, even if they're just a baby or otherwise don;t know how to look after kids and don't want em... and they'd get stigmatized if they choose not to use their powers...
So generally I don't think i wanna go with that idea anymore, it got depressing whe I thought about consequences..
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