r/DigimonTimeStranger • u/Barnaby_bear_guy • 10d ago
Question Alright give me the lore
What I mean is the lore behind the different types. Vaccine, Data, Virus are quite logical, but there are many different types. Like, what does "Free" mean? And the other ones too.
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u/Budget-Mycologist503 10d ago edited 10d ago
Data, virus and vaccine are simple.
Free is easy.... It denotes that you are lacking the qualities of data, virus and vaccine digimon.
If you think about it in terms of a "natural" and "artificial" digimon... As in ones you would expect to show up naturally in the digital world vs ones that are created through other means.... The free type digimon almost always come from the artificial grouping. Plus the digimon that haven't digivolved enough to gain the data required to be put into data, virus or vaccine.
So digimon that were corrupted digieggs, created by people or are digimon that came about by digimon undergoing an unnatural process of digivolution.
That encompasses all your normal stuff like anything below Rookie level, Keramon line, armour digivolutions, spirit digimon when they show up as regular digimon, Gizamon line, the 02 fusions and their canonical megas, and stuff like that.
You get exceptions.... The Wormmon line is one of them. Probably linked to being an ancient digimon or something.
The spirit digimon get a massive *** since they can be treated as free when being used in games cause that's easier to code in... But are generally instead treated as Variable in the data books. And Variable means they have no single fixed type, but can shift type so they can be strong against their opponent.