Ouryumon's reference book profile said:
Ouryumon is an imaginary Digimon born from the "Daydream of a Digicore". It is a form that had even the Digicore's own creativity released through the Interface on its brow, and evolved.
ever since I first read this as a kid I never understood it. What does it mean it's imaginary? It clearly exist? And what makes an imaginary digimon different from a normal digimon enough to even mention it?
It is imaginary in the sense that it was an evolution generated purely from the "imagination" of the digicore, the same as as with DORUgoramon.
Note that in both lines it is stated that DORUguremon and Hisyaryumon already released the entirety of the data of the Dragon/Beast and Dragon/General. In both cases the Ultimate form does not represent a further release of data but a modification
to that data initiated by the core itself.
And this definite statement of "authorship" is something quite unique, since it does not rely on any external factors or outside information from the web like in many other profiles. That's probably part of the point as well; It is a kind of autonomous self-directed change that modern Digimon might simply not be able to achieve anymore since they lack the ability of self-reconfiguration of their core that the old-style interface grants the prototype Digimon.
Mmm so Ofanimon "spared" ChoHakkaimon from the Fallen Angel transformation where it's easy to recognize by their appearances to alert so having Puppet type made her appearance very unrecognizable so she wouldn't get too much attention in public...?
That doesn't really make sense. With heaven being as secluded and highly protected as it is it's unlikely that anyone would really know what is going on there. The deliberately garish pig outfit also looks more like an extension of the punishment and humiliation rather than identity protection
shame yggdrasil or whoever banishing ophanimon wasn't restrained and she ended up in falldown mode as a result. cho-hakkaimon got off lucky
Nothing states that Ofanimon Falldown mode already got banished in the first place.
But Digmon's entry only mentions that the Digimental of Knowledge has the power of "Earth" and nothing to do with insects. Thus I am left wondering which way to take the repeated references to Kunemon - did they stumble across the Digimental of Knowledge and it absorbed their data making all that who afterwards used it become insect types, or was it the other way around and because Kunemon is an insect that that when they flocked together the Digimental sensed that and revealed itself. Curiouser and curiouser...
I don't think there needs to be much of a stretch between the element and the Insect types. The Digimental has the Attribute of earth and what you find most commonly crawling on or in earth would be... insects.
I really have no idea what the kunemon outbreak blurbs are about. I guess I was previously interupting the Kunemon as being like locusts with these armor digimon coming in to control the outbreaks but I'm realizing the armors could also be interpreted as evolving from these caterpillars as Mothmon and Butterflamon are a moth and butterfly. I'm not sure why Honeybeemon or Flybeemon would be included in the outbreak story, though, as honeybees and dragonflies don't come from caterpillars.
I really feel like I need more context from the reference book to understand the reference
Mutant specimens (or evolutions, in this case) are more likely to be found in large swarms. Not because there's a higher percentage, but because of sheer quantity (though apparently large populations also tend to have higher mutation rates). If a mutation occurs in 1 in every 100 specimens; a swarm of 1,000 will probably have at least a couple mutants, while a group of only 10 might not have a single mutant. In the case of locusts/grasshoppers, swarming also results in actual differences in morphology and development.
Also, bees (i.e. Flymon, Honeybeemon) develop from larvae, which is what Kunemon is. Flybeemon is also a dragonfly-bee hybrid, not just a dragonfly (dragonflies also have a larval stage too).
I agree with the probability take. Since their profile doesn't state anything about them being rare and mythical I would assume that the majority of all armor evolutions using that Digimental will result "standard" knowledge evolutions like Digmon and Searchmon , with the chance of any others happening being extremely low.
The profiles are still vague about the connection between the outbreak and the evolutions, so they might either refer to Kunemon armor evolving en masse or other insect Digimon armor evolving more frequently in order to contain the outbreak. I kind of gravitate towards the second interpretation because of Kunemon's lack of canonical evolutions into any of them.
Either way the outbreak would have resulted in increased armor evolutions.
This. Kunemon was intended to be the Eevee of Insect Digimon. Something people forgot after Flymon.
When it comes to Kunemon being an "Eevee" of bugs, I'm not quite sure where that comes from? When I think of the Eevees of Digimon I think of Veemon or Pulsemon
Kunemon and Flymon were released only months apart, so I don't think that ever went anywhere if it was even a thing.
The whole idea seems kind of superfluous in a franchise where pretty much any monster evolves into innumerable others but I guess the closest Digimon ever came to that concept, elements and all, would be Aegiomon in Crusaders.
