[quote=@mattmanganon]
heavy emphasis on the kids relationship with their Digimon
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Is that a [b]kid's[/b] or [b]kids'[/b] relationship? :lol If you mean the relationship betwee Yuki and her digimon, that is pretty much unaffected - The digimon sealed in the totem still have full personality which rides shotgun in Yuki's brain all the time. They just don't have their own physical body.

If you inted for the focus to be the relationship between the entire group of kids and the group of digimon, then yeah, the only way for others to talk to Yuki's spirits would be for Yuki to play the middle man, or alternatively maybe she could temporarily give control to the spirit, in a sort of Tok'Ra way.

As far as the digi egg goes, I'm not quite certain how you intend to use it, so i can't make many suggestions. If it is in some sort of a power limiter function (e.g. until your relationship reaches certain level of maturity, you can't digivolve to ultimate etc.), it could influence which level of spirits Yuki can bond with.