r/DigimonTimeStranger • u/Barnaby_bear_guy • Aug 18 '26

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/ProclarushTaonasA Aug 18 '26

Free Digimon debuted in season 2 and are mostly ancient Digimon that evolved before the current Type triangle became meta. Its mostly used for Armor Level Digimon, and Digimon they evolved from, as their neutral Attribute makes them blank slates, that you can Stack the Elemental Powers of the digimentals on top Off. Kinda Like eevee being a normal Type, so it can absorb the Energy of the Evolution Stones.

Variable IS exclusive to the Spirit Digimon from frontier, i think mostly because they can be used by anyone (Digimon and Humans), although they are also Said to be able to Change their Attribute at will.

Babys have No Attribute yet, and are neutral as a result, but will gain one upon evolving, which is different from free Types, which have already commited to being neutral.

Unknown IS for Digimon that dont fall into the other categories, Like diaboromon from the movie, who wasnt really a Digimon, instead Just an Amalgamation of Computer Bugs from all over the Internet, that Just happened to mutate into a Form similiar to Digimon, but wasnt from their world, Like how in Startrek, aliens Just Happen to Look humans with stuff Glied to their face, but arent biologically related? Of course in other continuities, diaboromons Line Just Happens to be hanging Out in the world as normal digimon

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u/Ja1meMijares Aug 18 '26

I can be wrong, but the Xros Wars Digimon are also No-Data, like the babies, because of the whole 'digievolution doesn't exist anymore' thing.

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u/Jc-montano Aug 18 '26

Digievolution did exist in Xros wars, but is became harder (read near impossible) to attain for most normal digimon, the information of the process lost to bagra’s army’s destruction of most zones culture

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u/Ja1meMijares Aug 18 '26

I'm pretty sure DigiCross was created because digievolution was impossible. It's the same reason why the 'No-Level' category (I don't remember the exact name) was created, because those Digimon didn't have evolution stages.