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This is an open post for people whoopsing themselves into the Digital World and going on adventures with some iteration of Erika and Wormmon while they're there.

Circumstance deets to mix and match as you desire:


-> Version of Erika. There are two options here; the one I'm most interested in playing at the moment of posting this is the one I talked about in this plurk, wherein the events of CSHM specifically don't happen but everything else in Erika's life does; around the time CSHM would have happened, she dies and wakes up in the Digital World, then meets Wormmon and goes about enjoying her new life.

The second option is the actual end of canon, where Erika is Hudiemon (who I've decided can partition into Erika and Wormmon because nyeh), with all the various things that that comes along with. I'm less interested in this overall because she's a distinctly different character, and since she has her shit so much together there's less to explore on my end, but if a more straightforward mentor-student dynamic is what you're after - or if you want something with preexisting CR dealing with Erika just being a Digimon now and that's how it is - it could be fun.

There are actually three options, I lied, the third is a wildcard for shit like...jamjar to Digital World. Jamjar Erika getting absorbed into Hudiemon? Eater Erika???? There are lots of possibilities. Life is god damn weird sometimes.


-> Where your character comes from. Digimon indulges in multiverses, so they can come straight from their own.....or they can come from a CS AU (so basically modern life but EDEN exists)......or some mashup of the two, or from a jamjar, or literally whatever. As you might have guessed, going to the Digital World tends to involve weird shit happening with computers. Sometimes that weird shit is as inexplicable as "a portal literally manifested on my computer" and sometimes it's weird VR hijinks that leave you in a coma and sometimes it's weird dire science mishaps and ETCETERA


-> Specific geographical locations. If you're familiar with Digimon you know the kind of stuff you can do. If you're not familiar with Digimon: places in the Digital World tend to look like fantasy wildernesses with weird inorganic bits baked into the scenery, or structures of human origin that built themselves and have never been inhabited by humans and thus are kind of Weird. Here are some examples and also some more examples. Digimon live both in the wild, where they can be very monstrous and dangerous, and in villages, which can be extremely rustic or actually fairly developed.

By default I'm assuming Erika and Wormmon are hanging out in a jungle-y area like this but if you have a better idea I am all ears.


-> Digimon friend. Sleuthverse doesn't do the like, chosen child partners assigned by fate to save the world thing, but there is kind of this sense that Digimon and humans click well together and some inexorable whim of the universe nudges friends together and it's very poetic and shit. If you think it'd be cool or there's something to explore there, and if you don't mind juggling two characters, go for it. Here's an index of smol Digimans because the wikis are hahahahahahahahaha


-> The presence of some greater threat. If you want some drama mixed in with your wilderness survival SoL between Getting Here and Going Home, there is always vampires, which historically cause most of the dramatic horseshit the Digital World goes through. Or demon lords, or weird eldritch shit. Maybe Eaters? If you want something to fight but you don't know what, I can rec something. If you just need something to run from, any big toothy Digimon can do that without being evil, they do hunt each other and eat people and shit sometimes.


-> DESTINY?! If your character would really just not fucking deal well with being punted into isekai bullshit, in Sleuthverse they'd be likely to attract the attention of Mirei, who is like, the Igor/Velvet Room Attendant of the Digimon games multiverse, and whose purpose is to 1) show up and go hmmmm how fascinating and talk cryptically about fate whenever weird nonsense happens, 2) offer hospitality and important powers and things to the people who have to deal with the weird nonsense. Have her dispense advice, give directions, let them stay a night in the DigiLab, etc. She's accompanied by her partners Angewomon and LadyDevimon, who sometimes take the form of a white cat and a black cat.


-> Literally any specific character dynamic or scene things you really want to make happen. Ways characters meet, drama, cute shit, whatever