txt | catch-all: taichi.

Good morning!

[Cheerful as always? Even after yesterday, whew.]

Mhmm, isn't it amazing?! It's too bad it's so far away from the dorms. There aren't enough hours in the day.

[ma'am? but it's fine, it's fine.]

I don't know about that. It seems like more your scene than mine. You could always buy a sleeping bag from Luke and stay the night though.

[it's a joke but he's also not sure if she really would or not. whew.]

[...

He says this as a joke, but she looks like she's seriously considering it.]

Could I...? Oh, but what about a bathroom? And there's other people, too... Aw.

Ichinose-san...it wasn't a real suggestion. But maybe you can borrow some of the tools and stuff and bring them back to the dorm instead?

Right, right. I guess I could set up a workshop in our dorm. A small one, but better that than nothing.

We kind of have room. I'm sure it'd be fine? [he doesn't have much time to linger on that though, because soon ichinose is treated to a memory.]

[Oh.

Uh.

Huh.

There is so much to process here, but why not start with—]

Did that cat just turn into a woman?

[oh. bad. but he nods like this is the most normal thing in the world.]

Yeah. Angewomon. It's Tailmon's Perfect form. [...] Tailmon is my sister's digimon partner.

... I see. And this Tailmon, your sister was about to fight alongside it? Hmm... Sounds like you were in the middle of a very important battle. [She hums, thoughtfully.] One you intended to win by killing your opponent, but I guess your sister has a more gentle touch.

How did it end?

Yeah, we all have partners we fight alongside. Mine and Yamato's were already in battle, and Tailmon was ready to join the fight.

[...]

We, uh...we ended it. Ordinemon's gone.

Hmm... So you got your way. But I can't help but to notice, your sister called her by a different name. What in the world happened to get the lot of you to that point?

[....]

I'm...not really sure, actually. I guess she evolved at some point before we got back to the real world.

Ah, like Tailmon evolved into Angewomon. [She nods... Makes sense so far.] And I guess this is what you meant when you told me about the two worlds before?

[Very, very interesting. Ichinose looks like she might have another question or two — though she won't be able to share it before they're interrupted by another memory (until 14:58:13). Translate the narration to thoughts/feelings/motivations at the time. It's fine.]

[h...hello? like first of all he nods to both of her questions but he doesn't get to get much further before ichinose's own memory slams into him, and there's a moment he watches that and then gives her a curious and...sort of sympathetic look in the end.]

...did you ever get an answer to that question?

[Ah.

Ichinose's gaze slides away for a brief moment.]

Oh, yeah, that question...

[And then she crosses her arms, meeting his gaze again.]

I came to the conclusion that humans don't need hearts. Even here, all the evidence supports it.

[he raises an eyebrow.]

What evidence do you have? I don't think I'm following suddenly.

Are you blind to everyone's suffering?

Of course I'm not! [hello?] But I don't understand why that means people don't need hearts.

It's simple. The heart leave you open to all kinds of pain and suffering. Feelings of grief and betrayal are only possible because you have a heart. Why does humanity need something like that?

Because the heart also means humanity can feel all sorts of other things that are better. Love, for one thing. Hope. Excitement. Courage. There's always going to be bad but what about the good?

So, you say the pain is worth it because of whatever potential happiness you might feel. Is that right?

Yes. If you can't feel anything then...how do you have the motivation to do anything at all?

Your first fallacy was linking motivation to emotions.

It's exactly the opposite. What about all those people whose very existence is nothing but hell? The pain in their hearts weight them down, and keep them from living their lives. Not everyone gets to experience the "good," you know.

But if you think about it in reverse, isn't motivation an experience of the heart in the first place? If you can't feel anything, then how can you even know what the good actually is? It sounds more miserable to never know the difference because good and bad are the same.

Again, wrongly believing motivation and morality are matters of the heart. But I guess you wouldn't understand, anyway.

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