Mid-month event: Bonding Exercises

[tamerunion]

"The bond between Tamer and partner is the key." Those were the words Sunflowmon's predecessors had passed down in the records Nanomon had recovered. Obviously, it had been suited towards all sorts of situations, but for Sunflowmon, she knew she had to help and try to foster a strengthened bond between the Tamers and their partners. So many hadn't even evolved past Baby level, after all!

Her answer to try and help with this? Was to organize an obstacle course for the Tamers and their partners to get through. The rules would be simple: No one could pass the obstacle course without doing so alongside their partners. Aside from that? Anything aside from outright sabotaging other participants would be allowed.

The obstacle course would begin with a run through a small maze that had been set up on the training grounds of Tamer Union HQ. It would continue inside to the pool, where Tamers would have to find a way to cross without walking around it; there were ropes hanging from a bar that one could grab onto, temporary platforms that could be hopped across (but wait too long and they'd drop into the water), as well as the option of just swimming across... if you and your partner could both swim, that is.

From there, the trail would lead back outside to the other half of the training grounds, to a wall that both Tamers and partners would have to scale, followed by another track where one had to go over large logs... and then finally, to the biggest challenge of them all:

A stage where partner and Tamer would have to perform an act for a group of assembled Digimon. Any act would do, and it was fine of one ended up totally bombing onstage. But nevertheless, they would have to do something, and they'd have to do it together.

It was daunting, but in Sunflowmon's mind, doable. Anything to strengthen the connection between partner and Tamer!

Comments

[aetherweaver]

"Maybe. There's a lot of mysteries of this world waiting to be discovered." He grins and pats Kotemon again. "But that's really interesting. My world doesn't have Digimon at all. Just... a lot of monsters." The closest thing to 'digital monsters' they have... Omega probably counted, even if it was a robot.

[rosesoul]

Yoshino blinked, and then nodded. "Monsters, huh? What sort of monsters?"

"Hopefully good ones?" Lalamon offered.

[aetherweaver]

"Giant ones, little ones, all sorts of ones. Most of them... aren't very nice, unfortunately." He frowns and shakes his head.

"But some of the Beast Tribes are really nice once you get to know them."

[rosesoul]

"'Beast Tribes'?" Yoshino replied. "That's quite a name. They don't take exception to it, do they?"

[aetherweaver]

"Er..." Well...

"Some do. I wish there was a better term for them all together, but that's the one everyone uses. But there's a lot of differences between them, from the Amalj'aa to the Vath to the Kobolds..."

[rosesoul]

"...I see. Then that definitely sounds like something people should look into finding an alternative for."

[aetherweaver]

"Yeah, people are... starting to recognize them as equals to the other 'civilized' Spoken races, but it's a long process. It's only really just starting. So we're working on it." His tail lashes a little, betraying his discomfort with the whole situation.

"But we're making good progress - La Noscea is at peace with most of the Kobolds and the Sahagin for the first time in... ever." Now for the other city-states...

[rosesoul]

"Believe it or not, we can actually relate," Yoshino said. "It took us awhile to bring humans and Digimon together in our world...and we still have a lot to do, in fact."

"That's what I spent the last five years on," Lalamon said. "Trying to help Digimon understand and accept humans."

[aetherweaver]

"Oh? What sort of problems are there in your world with that? It seemed pretty easy for Digimon to accept people here..."

Even if he does get mistaken for a Digimon a lot of the time...

[rosesoul]

"Well, humans and Digimon were afraid of one another, to start with," Yoshino explained.

"You can thank one guy in particular for that," Lalamon groused.

Yoshino's expression turned serious. "Kurata..."

[aetherweaver]

"... I see. I guess I'm used to dealing with creatures that don't look like me." An advantage, at least.

But hm. "I take it this 'Kurata' is a repeating problem for you?"

[rosesoul]

"No, he's gone now," Yoshino said, sadly. "But he was behind pretty much everything that went badly for us."

[aetherweaver]

"I'm sorry. ... It didn't end well?" He's just taking a guess, based on her tone.

[rosesoul]

"Oh, he took himself out," Yoshino explained. "And tried to take the rest of us with him."

"Good riddance if you ask me," said Lalamon.

[aetherweaver]

"I see. That's... a shame. It's almost always better to try to get people to come around than to kill them, if you can help it."

... In most cases. He can think of a few where that doesn't work.

[rosesoul]

"Believe me, he was not the sort of person that would 'come around'," she answered. "And besides, like I said, his death was his own fault."

[aetherweaver]

"I'm sorry. It seems like a rough situation. I'm glad that it's passed now, though."