~ Digimon Beatbreak Ep. 9

Shademon used Kill Me!

~ Digimon Beatbreak Ep. 9

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• shademon/chiropmon - closed
• demidevimon/chiropmon - open
• ringleader wolvermon - open
• fluffy wolvermon - open

Shademon is finally accepted by Haruko. :“) The way it curls up to her, all it ever wanted was this.

Digimon Beatbreak was crazy good this week…

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Shademon and Haruko fuse, and the gang take the fight to the mirror world. I’m curious if blonde lady will be the series first major villain? She shows up once more after this to threaten Kyo, so she might be in some future eps.

His daughter and being a Cleaner was always just a means to an end for Sunny, and as soon as the opportunity came, he was planning to ditch her and Shademon both. (Also, cycle of abuse very much at play too, Sunny emotionally neglects and is cold and fake to his daughter, and Haruko’s abuse of Shademon reads more like a trauma response to her situation, her father insisting Digimon are just disposable tools, and that incident with her mother.)

Also, hoping Shademon was acting on his own volition there with inflicting mental trauma on Haruko’s shitty dad.

No wonder why Haruko’s freaked out a bit by Shademon, with it possessing her mother like that in an already traumatic moment for a child to be dealing with. (And being left in the “care” of an abusive parent.)

(But also, it genuinely wants to help her, it even curls up on Haruko to try and keep her warm.)

Some thoughts after episode 9 of Digimon Beatbreak:

• Haruko managed to completely unsettle Chiropmon with her remarks on how it’s his fault that Makoto was banished from the Egg and that he’s holding him back. Even though Makoto has repeatedly assured Chiropmon that he views him as his precious partner and doesn’t blame him at all for anything that’s happened to him since his spawning, it’s obvious now that Makoto’s words haven’t been enough to truly convince Chiropmon: he still blames himself for Makoto’s hardships, viewing himself as a burden to him.
• Speaking of holding back: In all of Glowing Dawn’s fights we’ve seen so far, Makoto and Chiropmon always settled for a more supportive role (locating their opponents, providing information about them, and restricting their movements with Chiropmon’s signature move ‘Paralysing Echo’), leaving the heavy lifting to Reina/Wolvermon and Tomoro/Gekkomon. However, Chiropmon seems to be perfectly capable of dealing real damage with his attack ‘Condensed Echo’. Yet, it took Haruko taking control of Chiropmon to reveal his offensive power. It makes me wonder if maybe Makoto (consciously or subconsciously) is holding back Chiropmon from using his full power. Or maybe Chiropmon is suppressing his full power for some reason (perhaps for Makoto’s sake?). Or maybe I’m reading too much into it, and Makoto and Chiropmon are simply more comfortable with playing a more supportive role during a fight. But I’m sure some undisclosed feelings are standing between them, and resolving those feelings will most likely lead to Chiropmon’s evolution in the next episode.
• The GoldNumemons’ attack Gold-Durian Rush really is the perfect metaphor for the Shangri-La Egg: it may appear all shiny and golden on the outside, but even if it’s painted golden, shit remains shit.
• I don’t really blame Haruko for rejecting the idea of Shademon being a reflection of herself. Shademon is a rather scary-looking shadow creature covered in creepy red eyes. What does a creature like this being your mirror reflection say about you? However, I think it’s not just a Digimon’s appearance that reflects their owner’s self, it’s also their personality and behaviour. And what is Shademon’s most noticeable personality trait so far? It craves Haruko’s affection…
• (Another point of interest is how sometimes the Digimon seem to reveal what their human truly feels - like whenever Pristimon or Gekkomon remark that Reina and Tomoro care about each other when those two tsundere are too proud to say it loud. Digimon in this setting really remind me of the deamons in His Dark Materials.)
• I wonder if the name of a Digimon’s attack also reveals something about their owner. The name of Shademon’s attack is literally ‘Kill Me’…  
• Fingers crossed for Haruko redemption.
• Don’t hate the child. Hate the abusive parent.

Feeling INCREDIBLY normal in the house tonight!!!

I’m thinking maybe a Dracumon for the rookie? But also a Lopmon could be fun to tie into the whole dark/light theme I’m going for here. Idk. I just had a vision and needed to share it. Now, Haruko character profile please digimon I need it 🤲

Already seen people be mean to this poor girl, I feel like it was made very clear that she’s being influenced by her shitty dad to act the way she is?

We see in Makoto’s flashback that they were at the very least friendly to each other, with Makoto calling out to her. Haruko also recognizes him and seems to care for him, wanting him to come back to the egg like she does and initially refusing to get Chiropmon because it belongs to Makoto

I mean, imagine being her, with whatever the flashback implies (she’s being leaded off school by someone who is probably her mother? And she has a sad expression with tears in her eyes), her scummy dad gets them kicked out of the egg leading to them presumably homeless or in a bad part of town with no mention of her mom and her dad is unable to get a good job. She gets a digimon, a shadowy creature and as we know normal people have no clue what digimon are or even the fact that they exist, it’s pretty easy to infer that it’s her dad that figures out that they can use Shademon’s ability to manipulate people and entices her with the fact that they can get into the egg this way.

She’s a young girl from a good neighborhood that society clambers to get to, treating it as a “utopia” and then gets kicked out of there with only her dad to lean on. That’s a lot to go through! It makes sense that she’s a bit bratty!

Also, imagine being told that digimon are reflections of the ones who made them, and imagine yours is a shadow that takes over people. I understand why she wouldn’t want to accept it. Especially with the way that Shademon just sits there and takes orders, letting Haruko call it a tool and slap it without complaint

She’s a product of her environment and this society. So far we’ve been told that getting into the Shangri-La Egg is what everyone strives for, and we see the lengths people will go to with the Mimicmon kid, who while he may not want to actually hurt anyone, he’s too blinded by the idea of a utopia to actually do anything other than sweep it under the rug. But now we’re being told that even the people inside the egg are striving to reach impossibly higher heights, driving Haruko’s dad to commit fraud

And that’s just what he is, isn’t he? A fraud. It’s Haruko who has the power, Shademon is her digimon. Shademon really does reflect Haruko, as she’s just a tool for her dad like Shademon is to her

Ouughhhh digimon ily…

I find it so funny that digimon made a black shadow digimon covered in red eyes… then nine years later did it again but slightly to the left. Like,

Shademon (left) came out in 2011 and Eyesmon came out in 2020. Digimon you’re so funny for this

AND they have literally NO connection to each other. They’re not listed as variants, and they’re both champions so they can’t evolve into each other. Why did you do this digimon? Bandai namco??