Aw darn :/. But since you've had the vaccine there is a good chance that Covid won't be so bad for you, so there is that at least! I hope you feel better soon but do be cautious and get help from your local hospital if you need it!
A quiet exhale escaped Lumina's lips as she listened to Gotsumon talk. She paid careful attention to what he had to say and closely studied the expression on his rocky face. He seemed genuine and was clearly experienced in dealing with humans. Still, the fact that he was implying that they all agreed to come here and simply didn't remember doing so bugged her. If not for the fact that she remembered having a strange dream his explanation wouldn't sound so plausible and she would think that he was trying to gaslight them.
The light from her eyes dimmed slightly as they drifted to the side. Lumina took a minute to think about it. The details of that dream were coming back to her. The sound of the ocean that she heard in that dream made a lot more sense now, but almost nothing else did. In her dream she was in a tunnel and then a cavern. Basically, it did not look like this island at all. In that cavern she talked to a tall robed figure, someone she at first thought might have been Gotsumon. Although his voice kind of sounded like that person's he was way too short to fit the bill. Then there was the matter of those orbs. She had wanted one of those orbs for herself, but she didn't know which one to pick. The robed figure offered to help her with that. Admittedly she remembered that she was going to take that person's offer of assistance but she never got to officially accept or decline before she woke up.
Did her heart really answer for her? Her heart, the heart that she couldn't get a confident answer out of for anything years prior?
'Those orbs... are they the "self-discovery" and fulfillment that he's talking about? A way to fill the hole in my heart? Ridiculous. It's not that simple.' She sighed as she sat back up and cleared her mind of it's inner conflict. Her attention perked up slightly when she heard that small yellow and green digimon mention meeting the girl standing near him in a dream. She was pretty sure she didn't meet Ghostmon in her dream.
Lumina looked over at Ghostmon only to find the blue whispy digimon looking down at her folded hands. She looked sad and worried. Lumina's expression softened as she realized that Ghostmon must be thinking about the dark ocean. It made sense. That description of the dark ocean was mysterious and chilling. She wouldn't wish that kind of a fate on anyone. "Ah shoot..." She mumbled under her breath.
"I need to know that too." Lumina looked over at Akeno before quickly looking back at Gotsumon. "How are we supposed to contain an ocean or fog or whatever?"
The soft shifting noise of fabric settled as Lumina moved the hanging cloth that acted as her hut's door back into it's place. When she turned back around she saw not only Ghostmon waiting for her but also several small purple bird creatures staring at her. Lumina froze in fear. She could feel her blood run cold as these strange birds slowly but surely started to come closer. This was not a good scene. They were whispering ominous things about saviors and children. Not to mention that them edging closer to her was starting to make her feel claustrophobic. Her eyes darted over to Ghostmon who seemed completely fine with the situation. She was even giggling at the birds a little. That at least made the situation seem less dangerous, but not any less creepy. "Ghostmon what..."
Ghostmon gasped when she saw the fearful and stressed expression on Lumina's face. "Oh, Lumina, I'm sorry! This must be awfully surprising to you. Don't worry, these are Penguinmon. They're Digimon like me and they're the Digimon who live in this village." She smiled, thinking that would explain everything.
"Digimon? But what is a Digimon?"
"What? You don't know that either? Digimon are the creatures who live in the Digital World. Where we are now." A worried look came over Ghostmon's face. How could Lumina not even know that much? It's as though she wasn't told anything at all about coming to the Digital World. But that couldn't be. 'Maybe she's a bad listener? She doesn't look like that type but looks are deceiving!'
A deep gravelly voice made the weird bird things disperse. Lumina immediately started to look around for the source of that voice. It sounded almost familiar, but she didn't know why. Still, she was thankful to the voice's owner for making the birds back off. So when it beckoned her and the other humans to approach the fire she did so, though slowly and only after she saw Ghostmon's gentle confidence in the request. As she walked over she looked around at her fellow humans. Earlier she had briefly realized that there were other humans but was too distracted by the Penguinmon to worry about it right away. Now that she had a moment she noticed that they all seemed to be around her age and were accompanied by Digimon of their own. She would probably be able to assess them better once they were all by the fire. 'But why is there a group of us here? Just what is going on?' She thought with a frown as she trudged ahead.
When Lumina and Ghostmon got to the seating area only two other human-digimon duos had gotten there before them. Or at least, Lumina assumed the creatures with them were digimon. There was a girl standing behind a couch with a porcupine looking creature actually sitting on the part of the couch in front of her and a boy sitting on the other side of the same couch with a small dinosaur standing nearby. Because she does not know them Lumina instinctively avoided sitting next to these people and creatures. Instead she chose to sit on a tall tree stump with one empty seat between her and the leftmost side of the occupied couch where the boy was sitting. After sitting down she folded her hands and stared straight head into the fire, waiting with a practiced patience.
Ghostmon floated quietly to the left side of Lumina and also waited patiently. At one point she did glance over at the other humans and digimon. A faint blush started across her face and she floated closer to Lumina's side, as though trying to use the slender human girl to block the others from seeing her. This attempt at concealing her image wasn't working very well but Lumina didn't seem bothered by Ghostmon's attempt either way.
However, she was somewhat bothered when the pile of rocks near the fire suddenly assembled it's self into some sort of rock creature and called it's self Gotsumon. "Excuse me?" Lumina softly blurted out after Gotsumon introduced himself. She then blinked when he commented on how young she and everyone else was. 'Those Penguinmon called all us humans kids, huh?' She looked down at her lap with a puzzled look. That's right, she is eighteen. But she hadn't felt like a kid in years. Technically, she wasn't anymore.
Meanwhile, Ghostmon was far more concerned about the conversation about kidnapping going on. She looked from the human girl to the human boy and then to Lumina. "Lumina...is that true?"
"Huh? Oh, yes I suppose so?" Lumina had been listening to the conversation this whole time, despite probably looking as though she was lost in her own thoughts instead for a moment there. "I never agreed to come here. I wasn't physically able to say anything at all before I was whisked away here. At first I thought I had gone insane." She winced at her own words and squeezed her eyes shut for a second. Now that she said that out loud she felt more scared than before. She was already plenty scared about this and had been fighting herself almost this entire time to stay calm and composed. "I still worry that I might be unstable and that this is some sort of hallucination. But if it's not then the next answer is that I've been kidnapped...right?" She opened her eyes again and gulped as a shiver went down her body. She still wanted to stay calm. Panicking here wouldn't do anything and she was about to get answers. Those answers could help her greatly.
"No..." Ghostmon put her hands up to her mouth and stared down at Lumina with a sympathetic and worried expression. She then spun around to face Gostumon again. "Gostumon... KingWhamon wouldn't kidnap humans, right? And not ones so young! R-right...?"
Moments before the little lights appeared in the air outside of her bedroom window Lumina was set on completing one task and one task only. That was to brush out her long, glossy blue hair. It was a tedious, though necessary bedtime routine of her's that her stylist taught her to do. She had to be careful not to force her brush through the hair because that could cause strands to break off. If she encountered any knots she was to undo them gently and only with her fingers. It was a huge pain in the butt but ultimately this routine was the key to her lovely locks more so than an expensive product was.
As she was finishing up she noticed something moving outside of her window. Immediately suspicious, since she was on the fourth floor of the apartment building, she grabbed her phone and slowly approached. She couldn't help but let out a small gasp at what she saw next. To her delight there was a group of what she was pretty sure were fireflies playing outside. Lumina's eyes lit up as she watched them. Their lights were beautiful against the dark color of the sky. They were free without a single worry in the world. She almost wished she could join them. What if she could simply turn into a beautiful light and lose herself in the night sky? What a simple and easy way to live that would be.
But the longer she stared at the lights the more she felt like she was forgetting something. A memory was lurking at the edge of her mind, trying it's hardest not to be forgotten...
She hated when this happened.
During the years she spent recovering from her, let's say "difficult" past, memories would often resurface like this. Most of the time they were memories of things that had happened to her during the dark years before she was able to start healing. Her therapist explained that her mind had purposefully locked those memories away because of the pain they caused her, but now that she was in a safe place she needed to learn to confront them. And confront them she did, successfully and at her own secure pace. Now these kinds of resurfacing memories were only rare occurrences. But once in a while a memory that resurfaced was not one of trauma but rather one that had simply been filed away so that she could focus on surviving life in general. In other words, not all memories were bad. A simple concept but it took her awhile to realize this.
This memory she was trying to remember did not feel like a bad one. But what was it? Lumina narrowed her eyes in thought as she stared out her window. Didn't she have a dream about light or orbs or something?
Before she could recall completely her phone started ringing. She silently looked down at the screen. An unidentified number. But she had just recently moved into her apartment and was getting ready to start college. It was very possible that the number had something to do with either of those things, so she answered the call.
Lumina wasn't even able to get a "hello" out before the air around her started to crackle with electricity. She shivered and looked around fearfully as a fog started to somehow roll into her room. Soon all she could see was fog! What was going on here? And then it happened. The familiar noise of ocean waves. "Wait, that's it... I..." Lumina was blinded by light and when it finally faded so too did the memory of the dream she was almost able to recall...
When Lumina regained her senses she found herself in a small room face-to-face with a large floating mass of quivering flowers. There was something dark blue sticking out of the top of this flying flower pile too. From the way it moved she was certain the blue wispy thing at the top of the flowers was actually a flame, but that couldn't be right. Then suddenly the flowers started to talk in a soft, mature female voice.
"H-hello...! It's nice to meet you. My name is Ghostmon... uh...umm... I decorated the room as nicely as I could to make you comfortable. I hope you like it."
Lumina blinked slowly before looking around the room. It was true, the room was decorated with great care. There were flowers bordering the wall edges, soft straw bedding in the middle of the floor where she was standing and even some incense burning. The place looked and smelled nice. She looked back up at Ghostmon and addressed her as calmly as she could. "Ok... "Ghostmon". But where am I? And what's with all the flowers? They're pretty but there is no way you are an actual ball of flowers...I think."
The flower float shrunk back. "You didn't know? You're in the Digital World. I'm... I'm your partner. But you're right, I'm not made of flowers. Sorry, sorry! I didn't want to scare you right when you entered our world. So um... we have to work together so I guess I will take the flowers off... but remember I'm here to help you. I won't hurt you!" The Digimon sighed sadly as she started to take the flowers off of her body. This human had no idea how long it took for her to make herself this presentable, and yet she was right. Ghostmon was not a mass of flowers and they would have had to know that eventually.
Lumina stared wide-eyed as this dark blue ghost-flame-creature emerged from the flowers. She could feel adrenaline kick in. 'I need to run. I need to get out of here! If I don't I...' Though her body shook her eyes slowly drifted down to the flowers that Ghostmon had taken off. They were stacked neatly in a pile to the side. That was hardly aggressive or destructive behavior. Ghostmon's voice and demeanor also suggested a shy and gentle personality rather than anything harmful. 'If I don't run I... what? Maybe I'm blowing this out of proportion? She looks scary but she doesn't act it. Ghosts don't exist anyway.'
She took a deep breath to steady herself and then looked back up at Ghostmon who, at this point, was frowning worriedly at the human. "I..." At first she couldn't find the words and her voice wavered. Ghostmon flinched too when Lumina started talking, as though expecting something terrible to be said. Lumina tried again, this time with a calmer voice. "My name is Lumina."
Ghostmon perked up. This was going surprisingly well. "Hello Lumina! I'm happy to meet you... welcome. There are others waiting outside that would also like to meet you. When you're ready we should leave the hut and join them. If that's ok, I mean!"
"What?" Lumina squeaked. Last she checked she was wearing only a nightgown. She moved around to check herself out and that's when she noticed that, strangely enough, she was in her favorite outfit. She even had her black bow headband on. At no point in time going from her room to this hut could she have changed outfits and yet she must have. At least that meant she would be able to meet people comfortably.
'This is insane. I'VE gone insane. But what choice do I have now...?' She closed her eyes, stood up straight and stayed still for a few seconds while she gathered her nerves. Ghostmon crept forward but Lumina opened her eyes back up before she could get too close. "Fine. Let's go then, I guess."
"Y-yes. Ok! Let's...do that." Ghostmon turned and floated towards the door but instead of opening it she just phased right through.
Lumina paused mid-stride to comprehend what she just saw. "No..." She mumbled, shaking her head. "Ghosts don't exist." She reassured herself as she opened the door and headed outside.
D'aw Blucomon ;-;. Unfortunately Ghostmon probably would have been real caught off guard with Blucomon's desire to actually hug her. She likely hid her face in her hands, turned away and then became intangible so that poor Blucomon would fall right through her.
Anyhow I'm super excited and will try to post tonight. Tuesdays can be a mess because I work for a long time on these days and then I'm supposed to get to bed at a kind of early time. But I'm pretty excited so I'll probably swing it >w<.
Hello! I thought I should probably poke my head in and say hello to everyone, being a late entry and all. I heard about this roleplay from Digizel and after getting over my cold feet I jumped at the chance to join in. So it's nice to meet you guys and I can't wait to roleplay with you all^^.
*Age: 18 *Pronouns: She/Her *Occupation: Student (Just graduated high school and soon to enter college)
Appearance:
Lumina is a young woman with a thin physique and a reasonable height of 5’06’’. She has long light blue hair going down as far as her elbows that she keeps gathered back into two bunches. Her bangs have a slightly disheveled look that she styled on purpose in accordance to her fashion tastes. When it comes to facial expressions she is not very emotive, with the exception of her eyes. Though her mouth will only move into soft expressions in response to excitable events the lavender orbs that make up her eyes almost always give away her true feelings. During positive occasions they will subtly light up and sparkle, during negative times they will darken and waver.
Her favorite outfit consists of a green cold shoulder top with baggy long sleeves and a flowery pattern, an above the knee black ruffled skirt, semi-opaque tights, green flats with decorative golden buckles and a black headband with a big bow on the top. Sometimes she will wear a purple jeweled broach with this shirt. Needless to say she likes complex and stylish clothes but she prefers dresses and skirts to pants and shorts. Most of her outfits have her wearing black or sheer tights of some sort.
Digivolution/Form-Change Method(s)
Traditional/Partner Digivolution – Lumina and her partner digimon have to be united towards the goal at hand in order to have a successful evolution. Even if they are united too many negative emotions, especially but not limited to despair, could likely trigger a dark digivolution.
Personality:
+ Perceptive and good at judging situations. She usually does a good job of both thinking on her feet and knowing when things require deeper consideration.
+ Typically nonjudgmental of other people. At this point she knows better than that.
+ Takes pride in her appearance. Lumina likes to dress well and look good. She doesn’t ask for attention but also doesn’t mind if she turns heads.
~ Works well alone. She does this so well that she forgets how helpful other people can be. She doesn’t dislike people and she can work fine with them. She’s just so used to being alone that she flat out forgets about other people sometimes.
~ Quiet. Some people like this, some people don’t. It does help to make her a good listener.
- Greatly affected by stress. She simply hasn’t learned how to handle high levels of stress very well yet. If she is stressed enough she will become prone to making snap decisions, sometimes in a well-meaning attempt to avoid stagnation.
- Doesn’t like to talk about herself. At all. Not even a little bit. She will steer a conversation clear from herself.
- Blunt towards people she doesn’t like or towards people who do things she very much dislikes. Nobody is perfectly nonjudgmental and if anyone pushes her to this point they will learn how she truly feels in a hurry. She knows this can get her into trouble and usually she doesn’t care.
Dream(s):
Lumina’s biggest dream is to move forward with her life and to find her own path. To many this may seem like the bare minimum and something not even worthy of classifying as a dream. Everyone should be able to do at least that much, right? It turns out that not everyone is born knowing what they want to do with their life. As a survivor of child abuse moving forward is even more difficult of a concept for Lumina to completely grasp. It took years of help through counseling and other such forms for her to finally be able to start taking the first steps. She’s come a long way from where she used to be and mentally she is now in a much healthier place. Her resilience is impressive to say the least. But as she is about to enter the adult world Lumina finds herself unsure of which direction to go in. She’s using college as a fresh starting point and is hoping that the many opportunities it provides will allow her to find a passion and something to strive for. What she lacks in direction she makes up for in sheer willpower and determination to succeed.
Nightmare(s):
Her biggest fear is that, despite how far she’s come, she has no meaningful future. She worries that she won’t find anything in life that she wants to do and that she will live out the rest of her life unfulfilled. And if that happens what was the point of working so hard and surviving for so long to get where she is now?
Currently she does not believe any of the above will come to pass. Fear is usually irrational after all. But after everything she has been through, trying situations will always test her resilience against falling into despair. High levels of stress and despair combined will trigger actual nightmares in her when she otherwise wouldn’t have any. When she is having a hard enough time that she is having nightmares her momentum and confidence takes a hit until she recovers.
‘I don’t understand…’ Lumina was walking slowly through what seemed like a tunnel. She couldn’t be sure about that part though. The ground was rough under her shoes and the walls felt rocky when she touched them with her hands. A tunnel seemed like the most probable case but she had no idea how she had gotten here. The only thing she knew was that she needed to get out. To that end she started walking and soon found herself traveling ever so slowly toward a literal light at the end of this tunnel. In the direction of that light she could hear strange whooshing noises. They echoed off the walls the closer she got. It sounded like the ocean. Did this cave let out onto a beach?
No such luck. When Lumina finally walked out of the tunnel it was only into what appeared to be a natural cavern. The light was coming from several lit torches along the walls. She could still hear the ocean but had no idea where the sound was coming from. There was no ocean in here. The only thing in here was was a large circular stone tube in the middle of the chamber… and a tall figure in a black hooded robe standing next to it.
That figure was imposing, but Lumina supposed they were the only other person in here. She would have to talk to them to have any chance of getting out of here. So she walked over to the person in the robe.
“Hello?” Lumina waited for a response but none came. This person next to her did not even move. A chill went up Lumina’s spine. ’They’re not dead… are they?’ She opened her mouth to say something else but before she actually did she noticed that this person was looking down into the tub. Lumina followed their gaze. This tube, now in front of her, was so tall that it came up to her waist. It was filled with clear water and in the water, sitting on the bottom of the tub, were multiple small orbs. Each orb glowed with a beautiful and vivid color.
After a moment of observation Lumina was compelled to grab one of the orbs. She felt like she had to but she wasn’t sure which one she wanted to grab first. As she tried to decide on this she noticed some movement in the tub. Before her eyes many creatures spontaneously appeared within the tub. Small sharks, eels, deep ocean fish with large fangs… if it was a scary ocean creature that could hurt people it was in there. Lumina recoiled in shock, fearfully holding her right hand with her left. It was her right hand that she was going to emerge in the tub’s water only a minute before.
“You’re supposed to choose one of those orbs.” The robbed figure next to her finally addressed her. They spoke in a low, gravely voice. “Each orb represents a life fulfilled. Everyone is supposed to have one but people can lose their way before they get one. It happens a lot.” Lumina turned slowly to the figure, speechless. This person still would not turn to her. She could not see their face, hands or any of their other features. They were human-shaped and that’s all she knew. “Would you like to know which one suits you best? What you’re supposed to do?”
Lumina opened her mouth again to respond but before she could everything suddenly went dark.
“Ah!” Lumina wakes with a start in her own bed. Trembling slightly she looks around and tries to remember where she lives. Right, this is her apartment. It’s the middle of the night. She didn’t have a nightmare but she didn’t have a good dream either. It was only a dream in general. Strange as dreams tend to be.
She slumped back down and stared up at her ceiling. ’I don’t have time for my dreams to haunt me. The semester starts in less than two weeks.' With a huff Lumina bundled herself up in her blankets and tried to get back to sleep.
Ghostmon started out as a Botamon. She hatched some time ago in a location often frequented by ghost and dark digimon. True to her destined nature she enjoyed the graveyard area nearby and when she digivolved into Ghostmon she made this graveyard her home. Unfortunately for her she wasn’t the only digimon to live there. A small group of Bakemon, who had been living there long before she had, took notice of her. They absolutely abhorred her kind and gentle nature. She had no desire to kill or even hurt any other digimon. On the contrary anytime a digimon who clearly didn’t belong in the graveyard wandered in she would escort them out, either visibly or invisibly depending on how scared they were, before any of the Bakemon could get to them. She had spared so many digimon from the Bakemon that the reputation of the graveyard changed from terrifying and dangerous to merely terrifying. Ghostmon may have looked similar to Bakemon, but the Bakemon group decided that she did not belong.
On one cold dark night all the Bakemon in the graveyard got together and drove her out. Ghostmon did not put up any resistance and instead fled from them as quickly as she could. Looking back on it Ghostmon wondered if she should have put up a fight. But she really wasn’t one for fighting and besides, how could she ever hope to beat a group of digimon at a higher evolution stage than her? The whole time she helped digimon out of the graveyard she knew what she was doing. She had hoped that by otherwise keeping to herself the Bakemon would decide she wasn’t worth dealing with but she was wrong. In the end she only had herself to blame.
Ghostmon wandered for days, eventually going into a forest to forage for food and better shelter. She stumbled upon a small village. All of it’s inhabitants were wary of her. She calmly explained her story and promised not to bring any trouble to the village. A few digimon knew that the Ghostmon species were actually known not to be bad to other digimon and the villagers ultimately decided to allow her to live among them. That being said most of the villagers are still pretty wary of Ghostmon. Knowing this Ghostmon has opted to live in a small hut at the edge of the village. This way she is out of everyone’s sight, living out yet another isolated existence.
Personality
+ Genuinely nice. Ghostmon enjoys helping other digimon and always does so in a gentle fashion. She is always looking for the good in everyone and tends to notice people’s positive qualities before anything else about them.
+ Crafty. She likes to deal with difficult digimon or situations in non combative ways and this often works for her. She uses her ability to be invisible and intangible to great affect when doing this.
+ Level headed, even in difficult situations.
- Avoids confrontation to a large extent. This sometimes means not voicing her opinions if they conflict with others.
- Not confident in her abilities. If given the choice to fight or run she will always run because she doesn’t believe that are many physical fights she can win.
- VERY shy. So much so that she tries not to even show her face to other digimon unless she has to. If someone confronts her first she will sometimes hid her face in her hands and forget that she can go invisible. Once she is comfortable and knows the other digimon it isn’t as much as problem. This could perhaps be part of the reason she is able to deal with other digimon out casting her and why she seems totally ok with being forgotten.
It was a busy day as the sun started to set at the marketplace of a small, overlooked forest village. One dark blue digimon in particular was moving through the marketplace at a slow pace. She was carrying a brown paper bag full of groceries and being very careful not to bump into anyone. With her head down she made sure to give everyone she encountered a wide berth as she made her way out of the area and back toward her hut.
The digimon in this village were cordial enough to her but at the end of the day they mostly just tolerated her presence. It wasn’t too much of a surprise, she was an odd sight here. A digimon that clearly belonged in one of the darker areas to the north of the forest. The majority of digimon in this village were brightly colored and clearly raised in the village or somewhere else in the forest. It’s not that they disliked her on a personal level, it was just that she was different and quite literally “shady”. But they allowed her to live among them peacefully and that’s all that really mattered to Ghostmon in the end.
The door to Ghostmon’s tiny hut swung open and she floated inside. Sure, she could have just gone through the door but then her groceries would still have been left on the other side. She couldn’t risk having any of her fish fall onto the dirty ground. Not when it was time to prepare dinner.
Some time later, after it had become dark outside, Ghostmon floated back and looked down at her dinner with pride. In the modest little brown pot on her stove was a hearty, bubbling fish stew. She scooped a generous serving of the stew into a wooden bowl and set it down on her table. Right as she was getting ready to eat she realized that she forgot her spoon. She got up to retrieve it but when she sat back down her stew had changed!
Where there was once a savory fish dish there was now a bowl of clear water instead. At the bottom of the bowl in the center was a marble-sized orb glowing with a bright blue color.
“What? No, that’s not right… what happened to my food?” Ghostmon peered down at the bowl. The longer she looked the prettier the orb seemed to her. But that didn’t erase the face that neither it nor the water was supposed to be there.
Eventually the water started to stir. A shadow appeared behind the orb but it was so small that Ghostmon had a hard time figuring out what the shadow was supposed to be. It looked vaguely like a skull but then it appeared to be opening up. Maybe it was the jaws of some digimon?
“Jaws… uh-oh! Hey, don’t eat that!” Ghostmon grabbed her spoon and plunged it into the water in an attempt to rescue the orb before it got eaten by the shadow. At that very moment the torch that was lighting this part of her hut went out. Ghostmon squeaked and froze for the five or so seconds it took before, for some reason, the torch reignited and lit her house up again.
When she looked down again she saw that her spoon was deep into her fish stew. All sign of the orb and the water it was in was gone. Ghostmon simply sat there in silent confusion before a thought entered her mind.
’Eat up and make sure you get plenty of rest. You have to leave soon. She needs you. They need you.’
That voice in her mind was hers but she did not will those words into existence. Where did that thought come from? She waited for quite some time but not more unprovoked thoughts came.