Tomoro Tenma | Digimon Beatbreak | Bottlecap Bay Application

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CONTACT: Tyranno
OVER 18? Yes
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CHARACTER
NAME: Tomoro Tenma
CANON: Digimon Beatbreak
CANON POINT: post-episode 13
BACKGROUND:

Tomoro was born in a world several decades after the planet was devastated by a vast natural disaster, where humans seek their ideal self guided by AI devices known as sapotamas, which are powered by emotional energy known as E-Pulse. Tomoro's E-Pulse was irregular, which caused sapotamas and related tech to glitch, causing him to be seen as strange and be stigmatized. As a result, Tomoro decided not to trust sapotamas or AI.

Tomoro's parents were arrested when he was a preteen for reasons that are as of yet unknown, forcing his brother to drop out of school and quit his band to take care of him. The two had to leave their home to take up residence in the flooded, poorer bay area distict of Shin Hikarigahama.

One night, Tomoro's schoolmate, Hitomi, was attacked by monsters called Digimon because they smelled the scent of his E-Pulse on her Sapotama, which he accidentally touched earlier in the day. Hitomi was afflicted by a condition known as "Cold Heart". Later, Tomoro's E-Pulse created a Digimon of his own called Gekkomon from his own sapotama, who promised to lead him to Hitomi, only for the Digimon responsible for attacking her to corner him. Tomoro's brother Asuka tried to save him, but was afflicted with Cold Heart himself. The Digimon responsible was then suddenly deleted by a mysterious Digimon, delaying any chance of restoring Asuka for the time being.

Tomoro was taken in by a group of "Cleaners" called Glowing Dawn, who worked to deal with Digimon related incidents for bounties while promising to help Tomoro restore his brother. Tomoro struggled to accept them and Gekkomon, but in time was able to cooperate with him to defeat the Digimon that froze Hitomi and save her. He eventually accepted his new role as a Cleaner, and cooperated with Glowing Dawn.

Tomoro's frustrations with Gekkomon eventually reached a boiling point where Tomoro drove Gekkomon into a berserk state, where the crazed and out of control Digimon attacked him. The result was their defeat by a member of a top Cleaner group, Kaito Kutsuna, and Gekkomon being reduced to his lesser evolved state, Kekomon. Tomoro fell into a depression over what he nearly caused to happen, but was roused to help defend Glowing Dawn's headquarters when it was attacked by a MarineBullmon, a Perfect-Level Digimon. Tomoro realized that his difficulties with Gekkomon were inherent to his frustrations with himself, and that by accepting Gekkomon, he should also accept himself. This allowed him to evolve Gekkomon to his Adult stage, ArmaLizamon, and defeat MarineBullmon, saving their home and comrades.

SUITABILITY: Digimon and Pokémon are cousins, conceptually, and so I feel Tomoro is a good fit for this game based on that alone! That said, his anxieties about being separated from his world and having to survive here without his partner or being able to work towards saving his brother could lead to interesting moral questions for him, and exploring how he feels about that as he develops an actual connection to this world and the people here.

QUESTIONNAIRE:

1. Tomoro ultimately chooses to save the injured Pokémon, as he's been in that poor creature's shoes, being seen as an "other" and too troublesome to help or help or having the blame for someone not helping being put on an aspect of who they are. Regardless of the risk or the threat to the mission, Tomoro pushes to make the injured Pokémon their main priority, and if the rest of the group disagrees, Tomoro is likely to go rogue and try to help them get to safety himself. He's gone off on his own and taken matters into his own hands multiple times in his source material already, and this would be no different! That being said, if someone knew him well enough to point out that he's putting too much of his own experiences and personal issues into the matter, he'd take pause, and stop to consider his actions. This wouldn't be enough to stop him from insisting they help the injured Pokémon, but it would potentially stop him from going it alone.

2. Ohhhhh boy. The character in question would be the Digimon who took the Sapotama containing his brother Asuka's E-Pulse, Gokuwmon. Tomoro doesn't know the Digimon's name or identity, but for the purposes of this question, let's assume he did. This character is a big rage point for Tomoro, since he wants to save and restore Asuka above all else, so Tomoro would be having absolutely none of this. His response would be basically to tell the other party to shove off, and if they didn't budge, they'd either abandon attempting the quest entirely, or take it to a higher power to resolve. That's if Tomoro is thinking clearly. If they're particularly angry that day, they're likely to attack Gokuwmon outright, and likely get themselves into a whole mess of trouble.

3. Tomoro is conflicted about this decision, but after much thought about it, I believe he ultimately takes the offer. He would feel bad for hurting the other Guilds, but he ultimately has a greater responsibility to Glowing Dawn, to Gekkomon, and especially to his brother Asuka, to return home and see things resolved. What is more, Tomoro has been described by the head writer of his canon as a character who does not necessarily behave like a "hero of justice", who makes pragmatic decisions and puts what he cares about first and foremost. This has been shown multiple times in the series, where he's ultimately attempted shameful things out of anger or sorrow. The ironic thing is the people who he's doing this for would not want him to make these kinds of decisions, but, well, that's what happens when you're a teenager who's had a childhood like Tomoro's.

4. Tomoro would feel absolutely awful about it, but I feel he would ultimately put the greater amount of lives ahead of the smaller amount of lives and send out the medics in the pokeclinic. They'd be absolutely agonized about the decision, and feel horrible about signing people's deathwarrents, but there's the whole "not necessarily a 'hero of justice'" thing at work again. They'd take all the pushback in silence, not really explaining themselves and just accepting any negative response from the opposition, before shutting themselves out from outside contact. They would ultimately need someone to pull themselves out of this kind of funk, because as we've seen in canon, Tomoro does not reach epiphanies without someone coming in to metaphorically knock him upside the head.

Pokémon: Toxitricity is my choice. Not only does it fit the colorscheme of Tomoro's hair (which is purple and yellow), it fits his musical theming in that Tomoro is a drummer who wants to be a professional musician one day. The electric type also gives me a chance to play with it being out of control and irregular, as a match up to his irregular E-Pulse in the show. Finally, the additional poison typing matches how Tomoro's E-Pulse is sometimes portrayed as dangerous to both himself and Digimon trying to absorb it.
GUILD OPT-OUT: N/A - I have no interest in opting out of any guilds.
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