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FANDOM: Digimon Adventure 01/02/Tri
RATING: General Audiences.
WORDCOUNT: 720 words
PAIRING(S): This is honestly mostly gen
CHARACTER(S): Taichi Kamiya & Yamato Ishida.
GENRE: Is this real life, or is it just a crack story?
TRIGGER WARNING(S): -
SUMMARY: This is simultaneously the worst and best secret Yamato ever revealed to Taichi.
NOTE: Once again, time constraints and real life (aka : lack of sleep) have prevented me from producing the fic I wished I could have written. Alas, it’s almost 6pm and my queue posts at 6:30, so have this ficlet as a placeholder for when I’m actually able to come back on the concept and do something more consistent with it. Also I’m moving this weekend so cross your fingers that I’ll manage to write something decent for the fusion fic :P

DIGIOTPWEEK 2017: [Day 1: Coffeeshop AU] [Day 2: Fantasy AU] [Day 3: Profession AU] [Day 4: Mythology AU] [Day 5: Zombies AU]
[Read on AO3]

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FANDOM: Digimon Adventure 01/02/Tri
RATING: General Audiences.
WORDCOUNT: 5 758 words
PAIRING(S): Pre-Taiyama
CHARACTER(S): Taichi Kamiya & Yamato Ishida, with cameos from Sora Takenouchi, Takeru Takashi and Michel Takashi.
GENRE: Will you just stop it?
TRIGGER WARNING(S): Some l light references to depression and Yamato staying in a psychiatric hospital for a while.
SUMMARY: 
From: Yamato
To: Sora
’got 2^nd degree burns from a head in a fire ball last night’

Or: Yamato didn’t really think spirits from his childhood stories were real, but if he had he certainly wouldn’t have expected to meet one in the French countryside.
NOTE: I would have gone further into the comedic potential of kechibi spirits, but I figured this story was already long enough as it was, and I didn’t want to fall into disrespect (since I only did realy cursory research) so here we go.

DIGIOTPWEEK 2017: [Day 1: Coffeeshop AU] [Day 2: Fantasy AU] [Day 3: Profession AU]
[Read on AO3]

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FANDOM: Digimon Adventure 01/02/Tri
RATING: General Audiences.
WORDCOUNT: 4 660 words
PAIRING(S): Taiyama
CHARACTER(S):Taichi Kamiya, Yamato Ishida, and a small cameo from baby!Garurumon.
GENRE: Scratch disk.
TRIGGER WARNING(S): Vague-ish references to the fact that Taichi lives under a dictature.
SUMMARY: They’ve been meeting in secret for fifteen years. The night Taichi discovers there’s a way to end that turns out a lot less happy than he would have imagined.
NOTE: This fic is approximately 3k words longer than I ever intended it to be, and also probably calls for a lot more worldbuilding, but I’ve been working on it unreasonably long so let’s call i done here. RIP me.
 

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FANDOM: Digimon Adventure 01/02/Tri
RATING: Mature.
WORDCOUNT: 10 032
PAIRING(S): Endgame Taito, though the fic is primarily Taichi-centric. Side pairings include Takeru/Hikari and discussion of past Sorato.
CHARACTER(S): Taichi Kamiya, Yamato Ishida, Hikari Kamiya, Takeru Takashi, Daisuke Motomiya, Agumon, Veemon, Gabumon, Sora Takenoushi, and mention of the rest of the gang.
GENRE: Misapplied matchmaking. Also future!fic.
TRIGGER WARNING(S): Depression and discussion thereof, including one briefly mentioned suicide attempt in chapter two.
SUMMARY: In which Taichi has questionable ways to handle his issues, everyone tries to be nice, and Yamato yells at him a lot. Same old, same old, except for the part where they end up kissing.

OMWK ON TUMBLR: [Chapter I]
OMWK ON AO3: [Read Here]

Tbh I’m still with Yamato on that thing with Tai tbh (tho he puts it in a super dickish way)

I get that Tai doesn’t want to inadvertantly hurt people by having Agumon fight but otoh standing around is not going to help, and ultimately the Digidestined are still the best equipped to deal with the infection bc even if they lack resources (and this is where the government comes in) they have years worth of knowledge and experience

You know, I was thinking about Digimon Adventure Tri and how I really hope it’ll be good and that it will lead to some new Yamato centric fic and I realized… I was only about 11-12 when I watched this show the first time around. It was my fandom before I knew how to fandom, and Taito was my ship before I knew how to ship, and Yamato was pretty much my very first obsession over a character ever.
I remember loving that he was so sad and believed so little in himself without knowing why–I remember he felt more real to me, more accessible, and I honestly never wanted him to be with any of the girls on the show. (Taito was kind of the only option I saw at the time, but even when straying from it, I never really wanted to imagine Yamato as straight, tho I didn’t think of it in these terms at the time)
And basically, looking back on it I realize Tiny Me didn’t so much fall in love with this character as found herself in him.

The truth of the matter is that I’m more excited for a chance at getting more of this character than I’m excited for Digimon in itself because Yamato was so so so important to me and he resonated so deeply, and I can handle this series being bad, I really can, but if Toei ruins him for me I’ll be so fucking angry I’m not sure I’ll find the words to express it.

Matt was the reason I didn’t feel quite so desperate when I came home from school after a day of dealing with classmates I disliked profoundly. He was the reason I felt a little less bad about being sad without reason, and he taught me to value friends and what they bring you and really just… Yamato “Matt” Ishida was such a formative character for me, and he’s still so important to me because to this day I still have moments where I stop and picture what he’d do to deal with such and such situation and it still helps–my headcanon of him grows up with me and he still helps me and that’s just… Idk I guess I never really realized how important a character he was to me until now, but even without that, if I have to pinpoint one element of my fannish life that’s stayed with me through the year, it would be him.