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Digimon: Nature of Digimon and Mind and Soul Prowess

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So this thread could mean something or be a total waste of time.

So Cal questioning the validity of Digimon Mind and Soul hax with his silly fallacies (Yeah that was a pot shot, Cal's used to it by now. ovo) as well as the ongoing confusion to how this works as well as well as the nature of Digimon is the cause of this thread.

There is also the question of, "How potent is their mind and soul hax and resistance?"...Something I cannot answer. To be blunt, the nature of Digimon...takes some explaining. This text Executor posted is extremely important.

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First a history lesson. We do not know the origin of Hyperdimensions and higher worlds, so I'll talk only about the Digital World and Real World.
Before the Real World existed, all that existed was Idea (The True Form of the World), Souls and Demiurge, the soulless being. Demiurge did not know who created him, because he was different, or even less knew the truth about souls or Idea. Then Demiurge created his own world, a world that would be the shadow of Idea. This World is the Real World.

In Idea the nature was chaotic until then, because the concepts that would determine the laws were not defined, the world contained the dualities that denied each other and therefore nothing was defined. In a moment, the will that controlled Idea decided which concepts would reign on Idea and from there the nature of Idea became more orderly.

The World would follow the concepts of life, positive feelings, evolution, and everything, which would be symbolized by the Light. Meanwhile, the concepts of death, non-evolution, negative feelings and nothingness were represented by the Darkness and separated from Idea by the Wall of Fire , the other side of the Wall of Fire would become the world of darkness, the Dark Area. To maintain the balance between Light and Darkness, an entity was created. The name of this entity is Homeostasis, the one who wants the universal equilibrium.

The inhabitants of Idea were Souls, and they followed the laws determined by the concepts that governed Idea, that is, they followed evolution. Souls faced each other, the winner would absorb all that the loser had, would reduce it to nothing and then after a long time the soul that always won could undergo a process known as evolution. The losing souls would be erased, but since they had the capacity for self-Regenerationn, they could come back to exist. Unless the laws of the world deny such ability.

Idea and the Physical World were separate places, between the two there was a barrier that was known as Dimensional Wall. It should not be possible to have a connection between the worlds, but sometimes the souls of Idea were recognized by the inhabitants of the physical world, the opposite also occurred.

The inhabitants of the Physical World were not sure what the inhabitants of Idea were, so legends were created to explain what they were. There were those who attributed souls to divine abilities, being an explanation for a manifestation of the gods. Others thought that souls were Youkais, and appeared in the physical world possessing objects after thousands of years. It is known that the notion of humans changed over time, and the interpretation of what souls were would also change.

In 1995 a soul eventually fell into the Physical World, it interacted with humans and something incredible happened, it evolved very quickly. The flow of time between the two worlds was different, and although it seemed to the Physical World that evolutions would occur in a few days or hours, it would take Idea thousands of years for a Soul to evolve. Another soul was sent to collect the previous soul and after that, the essence of the surrounding humans was gathered to discover the cause of it.

It was discovered that one of these children had a special essence, an attribution responsible for the acceleration of souls, the more the person developed the essence in question the more the soul would evolve. Other children were also analyzed as having these essences, they were named from personality elements such as courage, friendship, purity, love and others. The special child could not be qualified in the same way, it simply represented the very essence of life and evolution, so he had the Light as its essence.

In this way he could say that the psychological development of humans could accelerate evolution. This was interesting and responsible information for Homeostasis research on the interaction between humans and souls increase. In one of the universes of the Physical World, in the year of 1997 scientists rediscovered the souls.

In this way he could say that the psychological development of humans could accelerate evolution. This was interesting and responsible information for Homeostasis research on the interaction between humans and souls increase. In one of the universes of the Physical World, in the year of 1997 scientists rediscovered the souls. As you may have noticed, in every age of humanity souls are rediscovered and a nature is attributed to them, scientists thought that souls were computer viruses, responsible for problems in the functioning of the network. Such viruses were discovered as having the ability to develop, fight, and then evolve. After a while, it was decided to call the souls by the term of Digimon, Digital Monsters.

Yes, the Digimon are in their nature the souls that existed in Idea that ended up being rediscovered today and were attributed to them a digital nature. Thinking about the Digimon as data beings, living on the internet is just the interpretation of the actuality of what the Souls are.

As you noted, the Digimon are very sensitive to the positive feelings of humans, this is because the nature of the Digital World follows very much the concepts of feelings that are part of Evolution / Light. The development of feelings means the development of souls.

Idea collects human feelings and shows it to them, the nature of Idea is something perceived according to what the person wants to see. It is not possible for a Human to interact naturamente with souls, therefore the souls always appeared in forms that the humans could recognize. That's why the Digimon seem to be inspired by things from our world, the truth is that we see the Digimon so because it makes more sense for our minds to see them that way.

The Digimon are not the only things that are influenced by the development of feelings, the Idea itself is also configured as such. Idea collects thoughts and forms to them, with the current thoughts based on the internet, Idea presents itself as a Digital World. It should be noted that Idea has a unique composition, it is a Platonic world where Universals exist, Idea's own composition was something unique. Nowadays one thinks of Idea as being formed of Data, everything that composes this world is simply a set of information that is interpreted in a way. Matter, Mind, Energy, Soul, Time, etc .; everything is just Data.

We human beings can not accurately interpret the Souls, if we see them in their true form we would only see a bright sphere. (The same thing happens with other beings, like Eaters). The "Digicore" of which you refer is simply the true form of the Soul. The body that is seen is simply a shield, a type of shield to protect the real essence of the soul. When the body is destroyed, the soul immediately creates a new protection to try to protect itself until it is possible to reconstitute the body, which is why when a Digimon "dies" is left a Digiovo, in fact that is a protection that reverts the Soul until be possible to evolve again.

Humans in a sense HAVE Digicore, because Digicore is just a term used by humans to refer to the true essence of a being. Data is a current term to refer to a Universal Substance, which can be used for anything. So we use only the term "Digimon can affect Body, Soul and Mind" just because it is a simpler way of explaining this. The most correct explanation would be "Digimon are capable of affecting the basic and universal composition of everything that exists". That is, they are capable of affecting Data that is the source of the composition of what is known as mind, soul, matter, history, etc.

Everything in the Digital World can currently be explained as the ability to interact and manipulate Data, if everything is made up of Data then a really powerful being can manipulate everything on any scale (This is the level of beings like Yggdrasil). Humans see things separately, so they just physically interact with each other, emotions interact with emotions and things like that. For the Digimon and other beings of this nature, all this is only seen as a single thing: Data. So if everything is Data, everything can be affected by them (This was said directly in Hackers Memory).

The reason the Digimon have resistance to "soul, mind, etc." is because the body we see is actually a defense system that prevents direct interaction with the essence of the Digimon. To really affect a Digimon, it is necessary to destroy the body to then interact with the true form of it. But normally, the essence creates a defensive measure and creates a new defense to protect it, an egg-like structure. Otherwise, the essence is destroyed. If the essence is something Universal and is destroyed by someone who affects a Universal structure, then nothing else exists. Therefore a "Soul" (Note that when I speak of Soul referring to the Digimon, I just refer to their original nature, not just talking about "souls" as we normally speak) destroyed no longer exists, so it will end in Dark Area, which is a place where nothing exists that is where everything that is deleted goes.

Remember when I said that the Digital World fits the thinking of humans? That's why the Digimon often think like humans. If humans actually see the Digital World as a computer world, this feeling will affect the Digimon and many of them may believe it. And since everything is simply Data, then if the collective feeling of Humans ceases to believe in something, or decides to believe in something then the very nature of the Digital World adapts to it. That's why many Digimon, even knowing they challenge the logic of the human world, end up questioning their own existence based on the common sense of humans (And they often do this without even realizing they are doing so).

This goes far beyond mere physical change, again as everything in the Digital World is simply Data, so if thought determines that something is not possible, then everything is affected, including time itself. That's why when all humanity stopped believing in the future, the Digimon lost the source of accelerated evolution. (They could still evolve, but again it would take thousands of years for this to happen.) In this way the story itself has been altered, and if it is now believed that evolution does not exist, then the story is modified and then ... evolution really never existed. This is basically the entire Xros Wars plot.

So you should not see Digimon affecting Digicore as the reason for all this, that's just a simplification. Digimon are beings from a higher world made entirely of a universal substance, all we have in our physical world is actually a creation of Demiurge using that substance as the basis. Everything we have in our world is a part of the Data, the Digimon as fully digital beings are capable of completely affecting the Data. That is why Digimon can affect the mind, soul or body of humans, because the Digimon can reach every part of what makes up a human being.
Reading this is indeed important but for convenience, here's the TL;DR.

  • The "Digicore" is just a representation of the true essence of a Digimon, the "Soul". Digimon are actually "souls" that have been interpreted in various ways by mankind in the past have been called gods or youkais, are currently called the Digimon because they are visible through electronic devices.
  • The reason the Digimon affect "matter, soul, mind" is not because they hit "Digicore" but because Digimon are beings made of a universal composition, which is interpreted by the humans as being "Data."
  • Data is the basic source of everything, which means that everything is made of Data. Digimon are formed from Data, so they can affect Data. If everything is made up of data, they can affect everything.
Now of course I will need help determining if this does grant any type of potency for their mind and soul shenanigans. However, overall this is a thread that needed to be made for future reference.
 
Looks fair enough for me. It kind of works in a way where... To oversimplify, they have a really broad sort of info/data manip which encompasses even the capability to affect constructs such as minds and souls. So I never had a general problem with that.


The potency case is a bit more complicated. Shouldn't we scale that to their tier since they are said to punch each other even in "Soul" Forms and such? That would mean they are resisting Soul + Mind destroying attacks from people around their own tier to stand a chance and not get oneshotted. Plus there's the evolution factor so I would assume their resistances in that regard would always correspond to their tier unless that specific Digimon has a feat of their own that qualifies for higher?


Just a thought.
 
Pretty much what Fate said.

Although i'm not exactly sure how to determine potency when dealing with 3-D Digimons.

CS Alphamon obviously has 2-A/High 2-A mind hax using this criteria, but 3-C mind hax isn't really a thing, so judging potency is harder for lower tiers
 
@Fate

You make a good point. The Digimon who would have naturally higher potency would be Digimon who notably have mind and soul manipulating prowess as a means of attack. Digimon like Devimon, GranDracmon, Grimmon, Gatomon, etc.

Not sure how that would work though. Could you expand a little more?
 
Kaltias said:
Pretty much what Fate said.
Although i'm not exactly sure how to determine potency when dealing with 3-D Digimons.

CS Alphamon obviously has 2-A/High 2-A mind hax using this criteria, but 3-C mind hax isn't really a thing, so judging potency is harder for lower tiers
Yeah, that's where we hit a snag. Like how does this translate to battles. Like do we say Agunimon is resistant to High 6-B mind/soul hax? That can't really work considering how these abilities work.
 
@Dragon In regards to Soul and Mind resistance scaling to tier?

I meant that they should generally be able to endure attacks of that nature in a corresponding level to the one they are at, as by definition they are fighting while affecting or being affected in those fronts as well all the time (Soul and Mind).

Therefore a Digimon's resistances to mind and soul based powers would scale to the tier they are at/comparable to instead of being "null unless shown" as in this case fighting other Digimon and not being oneshotted means they are taking everything they throw at them in body, mind and soul.

Thus, if a Digimon is say, Tier 4, that means they endure fighting other Digimon whose skillsets in general can and WILL affect their minds and souls, but don't get oneshotted by it (which would be the case if they didn't have a resistance) as per the verse's mechanics.

Long story short: I feel like it would be safe to say that Level of Resistances in regards to Mind and Soul based powers are comparable to their tier.

Potency should be the same unless as I mentioned above, the digimon in question has shown feats that would warrant a higher scale than the tier they stand at.

Not sure if I worded it well enough, but that would be the gist of it as I see it.
 
If mind/soul resistance is another form of durability I could see an argument to scale resistances.

Like, a High 6-C Digimon resists mind hax that works on 5000 people.

Given that he should have weaker mind/soul defenses compared to a High 6-B, the High 6-B has the same resistance
 
In regards to the "3-C Mind Hax isn't a thing" (or the lower tiers in general) problem, we probably could still scale that to everyday stuff. Here's an example of how I'd see it working in threads:

Like say, if you have a 3-C character with Mind Hax but without any "numbers feat" to boot, the Digimon would be able to resist their power.

If said 3-C Mind User has on top of their hax, a feat of high numbers to go with it, then they would outclass the resistance unless the Digimon has also shown a feat of good enough resistance of their own.
 
@Kaltias Yeah, that's the point where it gets complicated since while based on the lore they resist soul and mind-based stuff on a daily basis, how we translate that to a scale in VS Threads is the thought.

Hence why I'm more just leaving it out here than claiming/disputing for anything I say here. (sk)
 
So then, the issue would be what would be considered a "high number" required to bypass your average 3-C Digimon?
 
@Dragon As I see it, yesh. They resist the average of their tier via "lol I see and do this everyday" as explained above, so I think what needs to be determined is how/what would qualify as being past that line.

...Which I have no idea.
 
I can definitely agree with Digimons being resistant to mind hax that works on few people at once (although that wouldn't really be tier based, in most series mind hax isn't tied to AP).

If it needs to be quantified in numbers (and it kinda does) I don't have many ideas except the thing that I explained above
 
Mind resistance of people stronger than Grimmon > Grimmon

Thus Ophanimon's resistance > Grimmon

Grimmon mindhaxed Ophanimon

So Ophanimon's mind resistance > Ophanimon

See, perfect scaling ovo
 
Well Grimmon Mind-Hax comes from ChronomonDM so the scaling should come from him and not Grimmon.

Also how would this work for digimon with their cores exposed like the skeletal Digimons?
 
We may be on to something guys. Ovo

But in all seriousness...We need to find a good gauge for each Evolutionary stage...Like we know each level of Digimon has a higher resistance than the previous...but by how much is hard...
 
Someone who likes to read said:
Well Grimmon Mind-Hax comes from ChronomonDM so the scaling should come from him and not Grimmon.
Also how would this work for digimon with their cores exposed like the skeletal Digimons?
Skeletal Digimon are directly noted to have this weakness. So they likely lack such a resistance in the first place.
 
I don't have a problem without them lacking resistance when their core is targeted.

What I' talking about is what the dura of the core is does it scale to their body ( for example does skullmammon core have better dura than the one of skullgreymon?) this would be something to consider if can you interact with them physically.

Or maybe the use of Soul / Mind hax is needed to target them because in the end they are the soul of a Digimon?
 
So, if someone manages to breach a Digimon's equivalent of skin or punched a hole in one, would they be able to mind/soul hax them without having to worry about the resistance? And what did you guys figure out the potency of their offense rather than their defense/resistance?
 
Do you have to completely break the shell or can you just breach it?

Also, severely off topic, but come to my wall on the thread Kal left for me and read the insanely long thing I posted and tell me what you think ovo.
 
Speaking of skeletal Digimon

Can we take a break to question the fact that Mammothmon becoming basically wireframe makes it far stronger?.....Digimon logic..
 
The real cal howard said:
Do you have to completely break the shell or can you just breach it?

Also, severely off topic, but come to my wall on the thread Kal left for me and read the insanely long thing I posted and tell me what you think ovo.
I can't type without Internet, give me time ovo
 
Kaltias said:
Mind resistance of people stronger than Grimmon > Grimmon
Thus Ophanimon's resistance > Grimmon

Grimmon mindhaxed Ophanimon

So Ophanimon's mind resistance > Ophanimon

See, perfect scaling ovo
About Grimmon. This came from the Chrono Core so it does not normally scale to the character, remember that even in its original form Grimmon could not control Ofanimon's mind with ease, and when he was able to do so, he ended up wasting all the power of the Chrono DSR. According to Grimmon, it was for him to have regained enough power to rewrite the entire Digital World, but he could no longer do so because he spent all the power he had saved to use in Ofanimon, GhaosDukemon and the other characters. So technically it's consistent with them being Tier 2, needing a power that would be used to rewrite the Digital World to have their choirs affected.

Dragonmasterxyz said:
Speaking of skeletal Digimon

Can we take a break to question the fact that Mammothmon becoming basically wireframe makes it far stronger?.....Digimon logic..
It is because in these cases all Digicore is directed only at raw power, in the Skeletal Digimon they abandon all emotional side and focus only on getting raw power to fulfill their deeper goals (Skull Greymon wants to fight a lot, so he keeps fighting to destroy his opponents cruelly even after only remaining bones. Skull Mammon has the function of fighting Digimon Virus, so he abdicated of all the feelings to remain strong even after death to destroy Virus Digimon).

Someone who likes to read said:
I don't have a problem without them lacking resistance when their core is targeted.

What I' talking about is what the dura of the core is does it scale to their body ( for example does skullmammon core have better dura than the one of skullgreymon?) this would be something to consider if can you interact with them physically.

Or maybe the use of Soul / Mind hax is needed to target them because in the end they are the soul of a Digimon?
That's pretty hard to say for sure, because we do not see much interaction between the Digicores. The Digicors are "souls", but not exactly composed of "soul" (Did that make sense?). Calling her soul is just a way of explaining what they are, Digicores are made of Data, a composite material that is the basis of all things. So we do not know exactly how the interaction of just physical matter with data works, since every time a human physically interacted with a Digicore (as in Digimon Xros Wars or Digimon World Re: Digitize Decode) was when the human had become Data only.

Anyway, something we can certainly use this is with the Realized forms of the Digimon, where the physical body are just pseudo-proteins that follow the flow of the Digimon's true form.

If we were to make a comparison, I think it would make sense to see the Digimon as souls that create bodies, and to reach souls would first destroy the physical body, but it does not work well because both Body and Soul are made only of data, being the Body only a protective barrier that protects the Soul from external influence.

To be sincere, it is a little complicated to say that beings like Humans could touch the Digimon considering their normal forms, after all remember that the reason for Souls is a mystery to humans, it is because Humans can not interact with them and the The only knowledge they have of souls is a result of the effect of souls in the world distorting the sense of world they have. (Today the world is almost entirely computer-based, so distortions are seen as computer failures.)

I believe we could just as easily apply the idea of Digimon Tamers and consider the body separate from the soul and then we could ensure interaction with the physical body, but not with the true form.

I was thinking of putting two keys to the Digimon. One for the "Realized Forms" that are actually Pseudo-prothenes clustered around the true form of a Digimon. And of course, one representing the true form of a Digimon with all about Composite Composition, multiple interactions and things like that. I think I can make a list by saying what would be the biggest differences between the two.
 
When Digimon are so complicated that no one knows how to rate and scale their powers...
 
Ok... Here we go.

Digimon True Form:

  • "Souls" composed of Data, the basic substance of all that exists;
  • The "Souls" are called "Digicore" and are the true essence of the Digimon, the Digicore operates in a way that is responsible for the emotions, thoughts, power, nature, specie, appearance and everything else that make up the Digimon;
  • Since Digicore is the true form of a Digimon, destroying it means destroying the Digimon and so the Digimon are covered by a body, called the Wireframe, and this body protects the Digicore from external influences;
  • To reach Digicore you have to destroy Wireframe and attack Digicore before it protects itself by creating Digitama, or a Digimon may have a natural power to bypass defensive barriers and directly affect Digicore;
  • If a Digicore is absorbed, then everything that makes up this Digimon becomes part of the Digimon absorbed. In case the Digicore is destroyed, that is, it is erased, the deleted data will stop in the Dark Area where they can return to existence naturally, or by influence of great powers like Anubimon and Valkyrimon. In these cases the souls return to the Digital World create a new Digitama and can use this to be reborn;
  • Digimon and Humans can not interact normally, mainly because the Digimon exist on a completely different plane of existence. All Humans can see are the distortions caused by the Digimon in the Real World, they can affect humans' day to day in simpler or more complex ways;
  • Regardless of humans being unable to interact normally with the Digimon, Digimon can interact with humans through various forms of mental manipulation, which is responsible for humans acting differently than they should (Like a Vegiemon who manipulated a human who was in the real world and used it to commit crimes);
  • If a Digimon manifests for a long time in the Real World, the distortion caused by it can become very large and this could end up destroying the world. Because of that for a Digimon to stay in the Real World you have to resort to some things;
  • One of the options is that the destruction of the Real World, seriously. In the case of Digital Shift the very nature of what is known as the Physical World is destroyed making room for the nature of the Digital World, which makes everything in the Physical World now part of the Digital World. In this case the Digimon can remain in the Real World because the Real World ... is no longer exactly the "Real World" but a type of digital subspace.
The other option is what we have generate the other key: Realized Digimon

  • In this case the distortions caused by the manifestation of the Digimon end up grouping a certain amount of pseudo proteins around. The pseudo proteins group around the true form of the Digimon and when the process stabilizes, it ends up creating a body made only of these pseudo proteins;
  • In this way the interaction is carried out between the physical beings and the body of pseudo proteins that covers the true form of the digimon. When the body is destroyed all that remains is the true form of the Digimon, if it is not destroyed the Digimon may end up creating a new body or simply returning to the Digital World. Digimon can absorb the true form of the Digimon that had the physical body destroyed and thus exterminate its existence.
These are basically the two "types" of bodies we have for the Digimon. It is easier to work with the second (mainly because it is more common, since manifestation bodies appear to be common in some fictions), while the former is more complex and unique.
 
From what I've gathered, Digimon like Titamon, Devimon, Pteramon, Jesmon X. etc are able to target the Digicore directly due to their notable skills.

The Digital Shifts for reference are those phenomena shown in the Cyber Sleuth Dualogy when parts of the real world bacome very digital and usually only disappear when the one who caused the shift is defeated. It's not just Digimon, but entities like the Eaters do the same. I don't even need to mention the climax of Cyber Sleuth. This change is something that can happen instantly.

Realized Digimon are more the norm...for the Anime.. Each time we see a Digimon in the real world in the various anime, they are in a realized state, except for Tamers and when Lucemon came to the Real World in Frontier.
 
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