At the end of your chapters, I always imagine the cliffhanger music from the original episodes.

Did you invent Incamon? I can't find info on them.

This is my first time ever commenting on a fan fic, though it's also only my second time reading a fan fic. The story so far has consistently captivating. You maintain a lot of the magic and wonder of the original while raising the tension and terrors to a more visceral, ominous level. The way you wrote the kids fighting some of the original digimon team while under Ken's control was so painfully moving and poignant. Despite everything he did in the show, this version of Ken feels so much more clearly evil throughout, but your version of him coming to that haunting realization still really works.

I'll admit, some of your choices for certain characters (Yolei, Matt, and especially Mimi) didn't sit well with me for a while, but I think it's safe to say at this point that you really turned me around on that. I'm still wicked hopeful that Mimi will come around. I'm def interested in what comes next for Ken, well, for the entire cast really as I forget most of the stuff that happens in 02 besides some characters and the very end.

Great job!

p.s.- I always thought TK's hat in 02 was more of a bucket hat than a sailor's hat...

So, I first started reading this story years ago, when it was far from finished. My love of digimon had been rekindled, the first two series being the definitive shaper of my childhood. I had really only read a handful of fanfictions, and was not particularly impressed with it. However, my lifelong disappointment with TK and Kari not ending up together forced me to seek alternative content. And for the most part, I was not impressed.
When I began this story, I didn't have too high of hopes. The grammar and writing were far above average for fanfiction, but I noticed early on that you were taking a more dark and realistic tone. In my experience, that nearly always results in stories that lose the tone, themes and characterization of the original work. But I continued to read it, the unique circumstances and changes to the story keeping me invested. After all, ther were many problems with 02, and it was interesting to see you address them. And the regular occurrences from the show that became mysteries helped, too. I read all that was out at the time, which was maybe a little over half. I honestly doubted it would be completed, as already it was very long and there was still much to go. Just recently I fi ally came back to check on it.
This story was beautiful. You managed to make a thoughtful exploration of Digimon Adventure 02, exploring both the themes of the original work and Digimon in general. And dear God, the characters. Even as a kid, I had little to no attachment to the new kids. My emotional investment was entirely with the original Digidestined. The one exception was Ken. And yet, this story made me love Davis, Cody and Yolei while killing off Ken. They had real, painful character arcs, and seeing them put the lessons learned to use in the end was heartwarming. Within the story they weren't even real Digidestined, but at the end I can finally view them as shoulder to shoulder with the rest. The idea that these random kids with severe personality issues could change and become strong enough to do what they did is greater than anything explored in the original show. The characters of Oikawa and the first Digidestined was a unique exploration of growing up.
Thank you. I wish you luck in whatever you might do next.

No offense, but there's a 3 year gap as Digimon Adventure takes place in 1999 AD with 02 in 2002 AD.

Because the premise here is Digimon 02 but Darker much of what is different makes me feel like it will be cause for conflict and potential grief.

Strange change that the kids weren't told time in the Digiworld had synchronized with the human world by the time the path between the two words had closed and they had to return at the end of their first adventure.
Hope that isn't because the author forgot that's how the first series ended in canon, and instead is foreshadowing for something.

It annoys me that the story describes Armadillomon as "doubling in size" when Digivolving and Hawkmon "body expanded to twice it's size". It also described Gatomon as being half as strong with her ring damaged. Which is equally ridiculous, no, it's even more, Gatomon at full strength can take on multiple champion level Digimon on her own. Knocking down the giant monsters with ease. Half of that would be far from helpless!
Would have been better to just say increase in size and reduced strength. Better to be vague than outrageously incorrect in any given description.

Matt comes off as a Jerk immature prat.

Davis comes off as a secretly clever character, with how he instantly figured out the emperor had spies an/or cameras and that the Digimon wearing armor were Cody and Yolei partners.

Interesting decision in making four of the five choose children 7th graders. There is a difference between how hormonal are children at 7th grade vs 5th grade, but I would think most people wouldn't care about two years enough to make the switch over from their ages in Canon.

One quip I got was with the part that said Veemon grew twice his size as he evolved. If it had said he grew twice David's size it would have still been an undershot of his size increase.

Tho not sure the new three members are even choosen children in this story, with the way the digidevices ended up in the garbage rather than shooting towards each person it seems they were just in the right place at the right time, and if they happen to also be able to embody some of the virtues required to digievolve their digimons that is just a lucky coincidence.

I found this story from tvtropes and decided to try it out. I grew up with Digimon Adventure and 02, so to see this take on it was like a breath of fresh air. Using the English names as nicknames/online names of the Japanese names is the perfect way to honor both the dub and the original anime. The entire storyline also explains out some of the oddities of the original anime. I just really enjoyed this fic!

One of the digimon story that has a great story

For some reason it hadn't occurred to me that you'd aged up Iori from 8/9 to 10/11. He doesn't quite come off as an eleven year old I'm afraid, particularly with how short you still describe him as.

Got a question. I"m doing a re-read of your story (or a complete read I suppose, as I'd never gotten around to finishing this when you completed it a few years ago) and I noticed something in this chapter that seemed different from a previous read. I seemed to remember Gargomon hitting Hikari in the face rather than spitting at her. Am I miss remembering or did you change this part?

I find the idea of Mimi giving Yolei fashion advice to be so realistic that it just makes too much sense, I like it. I also like the transformation with ExVeemon after Ken was saying he had no friends. I think it captures how a lot of introverts really feel about their life on some moments

It is a little bit sad to know how Cody acts at the start of this chapter given how he feels at the end of the story when the twist of chapter 49 happens. I do think it is a good dynamic to have T.K., the rival of Davis, be the one who actually starts to support Davis first on the Ken theory

I guess I forgot where I found this fict. And I never thought that I could read the whole and full stories with 1.030.030 words (I need more than a week to finish, though)... Heck, I'm barely done with 130.000ish!
But, this is worth it.
I laughed and cried every now and then, and more importantly, I'm feeling grateful for this story to let me out from my issue. So, thank you for giving your all for this story. You may make this for 10 years and people only read this for view days or so... but believe me, your story made people a day.

Again, thank you and good luck, and hope you don't stop writing.

Ok, this will be a little long so I hope you can bear it.
My first impulse was to make an ass long review about all the observations and love and moments and feelings I had with this story, but if you don't mind I'll start at the beginning.
As far as I can read in both your story and profile, you, as well as me and many others felt the lack of many things in the story of 02, missed chances, so many things that could be exploited and used and made awesome. But they didn't deliver.
So, even as I tend to delve into fanfictions (and quite a lot) it's rare for me to find something that not only catches my attention, but ensares it, traps it, makes it so impossible to not be hanging that just closing the tab and cavilating and creating in my mind is enough to close a circle. So congrats, you did that.
You caught me as a goddamned insatisfied teen when you were more or less 5 chapters in. And damn if you didn't catch me. In my inconsistency in reading as in so many other things in life, I can say I wasn't a loyal reader. Until I was.
Even now, I can say it took me ages to be up to date. And it's because you made me fall into one of the most frsutrating habits I can have. Loing something so much I don't want it to end so I procastinate constantly. Life and situations made me put it on the backburner, but his is one of those stories that's ALWAYS there. ike "oh I wich I could read something good on Digimon" and here I come back, always surprised that despite the pauses you didn't abandon.
And I mean, years could pass and you didn't quit.
And then came tri, and yeah, I watched it, I longed but it, I apprecieated some things and will be eternally ofended that they (AGAIN) had the chance to do some justice to so many things and well...that train is gone.
But, (and this is the important BUT) woe is me. I find that YOU beautiful human being decided to finish what to me has been what 02 could have been (should have, even). Because there were so many uncultivated seeds and you delivered. Holy damn everything, DID you deliver.
Nothing is perfect and I know making everyone 100% happy is mposible, and I might have my opinions, but on the whole, looking at this long (LONG REALLY LONG) complete, awesome work I am just awed, inspired and above everything grateful. Because my inner insatisfied teen who craved for justice and a good story and the use of so many details for these characters I grew up with, and in whom I saw so many things, finally got some closure. And for good or for bad, found it yes, on a screen, but surpisingly enough, not necessarily on an animated format as one would expect, not where I thought it might have come, but here in these long pages and sea of words you created.
So thank you, because even if you leave the fandom and want nothing more to do with it, you will always (at least as far as I'm concerned) be the one who left something lasting, unique and ever lasting for it and for me.
And jut so you know, just like you were happy to finish it before Tri concluded, I was estatic to be able to read the end (THIS end) before that as well.
So yeah, thanks again. And hopefully, if you aren't all bothered and done with it, you'll bear another long ass rant more focused on the story itself, instead of the whole impact these ten years of stoyt, of your story, had on a life.