''"This is a very deconstructive story."
— Autor
"Digimon Rewrite" is a Digimon fanfic written by a Brother–Sister Team. The story's goal is mostly just one thing: Deconstruct as many themes that Digimon has as it can.
The story has a large cast, and is basically about Digimon Hunters that destroy Digital Fields before innocent humans wander into them and are murdered. You become one of these hunters by contracting with ''The'' ''Contractor'' (It's always in Italics. Even when written as "Ol' Tractor" or something else.) When you contract, you're given a bit of info on how Hunting works, a wish, a power and a D-Arms. If you're savvy enough to work with the information given, you'll end up like Chase, but bad people can hunt too, like Kaoru, though if you've been dosing up on the Digimon Adventure, then you'll end up like poor One-Scene Wonder Michihiko.
Forum thread here
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List of tropes found:
- Abnormal Ammo: Kaoru's D-Arms can be refilled by him destroying things in a Digital Field.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Alison loves Deep, who is grieving over a past loss, who it seems was also a Penultima Kilo.
- All There in the Manual: The Dragon Cave Forum Thread has a lot of background info, and so does the actual site.
- Alien Geometries: 'Abstract Digital Fields' - Digital Fields that break the laws of physics, and extend beyond the perimiter of the building it manifested in. Not even Chase knows what causes this.
- Anyone Can Die: Well, there was a death in the first episode, several in the eighth and David dies (temporarily) in the nineteenth.
- Ascended Fanboy:
- Alison for sure, but many Penultima Kilo were Digimon fans prior to Contracting.
- And things are even more different than they were in Digimon Tamers
- Awesome, but Impractical: Since the Digimon's base form gets stronger with age, for a really experiencned Penultime Kilo whose Digimon half is a Rookie, Battle Digivolution is this, as it's just a new form and flashier techniques for the cost of Ten DigiMemories.
- Ax-Crazy: Whatever that thing was that reanimated David's body during the fight with Kaoru. Not that Kaoru himself isn't just as bad, however.
- Berserk Button: The usually kind-of mellow Deep goes a little berserk whenever anyone mentions his backstory.
- David was ruthless against Devimon in Episode 08 when he showed up at his college. Not to mention what happens next...
- Beware the Nice Ones: Chase has shown prowess in battle, and it seems that he's pretty friendly.
- David is possibly the most truly kind character thus far, not counting Zhane and Kyle, and then comes Episode 08...
- Bilingual Bonus: Hikari slips into Japanese when she is afraid.
- The name of the group 'San Chikari' means roughly 'Power Trio'
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Kaoru, David, Chase. Not that they've fought on the same side thius far...
- San Chikara has Melody (a Blonde) and Robin (a Brunette), but Darkai throws it off by having jet-black hair. He has red eyes however...
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Contractor and most of the main Digimon. The longer they've been partnered with humans (Coronamon, Apemon, Sorcerermon, Tsukaimon, Myotismon), the more "human" their personalities/outlooks.
- Bright Is Not Good: The Contractor's Digital Field is very bright and overall very judeo-christian in its apparent design. He is also treated by veteren hunters as if he were as bad as Kyubey or Gendo
- Brick Joke: Zhane's Flat, and it's ever growing number of occupants.
- Brother–Sister Team: The Authors are this, though
Word of God has stated that a Penuluima Kilo team like this would likely be hazardous for hunting. - Can't Catch Up: Zhane and Hikari get Champion Level... only for David, Kyle, Chase and Deep to start using Ultimate Level.
- Cast from Lifespan: DigiMemories keep Penultima Kilo alive, and yet they are needed for Battle- and Empathy Digivolution.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Most everyone; only Alison, Zhane and maybe David don't seem to have that, and Alison is already being broken.
- Dead Fic: No new episodes have been released since 2012.
- Design Student's Orgasm: A textual example. Bonus points for the fact that Millennium07 IS a design student. Or an art student at the very least.
- Missing Mom / Disappeared Dad: Hikari seems to have a problem with her parents and she lives with her uncle.
- Actually, WordOfGod is that they're dead.
- Actually,
- Emotion Eater: All Digimon not partnered to a human will feed by harvesting a human's brainwaves.
- Emotions vs. Stoicism: Kaoru, who acts without regard to others, is one of the most widely-known Penultima Kilo in the world. Compare to Deep, whose emotions do hold him back according to Sorcerormon.
- Handicapped Badass: As of Episode 05, Kaoru and David are this due to them both being badly wounded by the other but fighting on even so.
- That was only briefly though - The Contractor suits this better, with him being (or, at least appearing) blind.
- Insistent Terminology: The chapters are called "Episodes" as a rule, though one of the authors and some readers reffer to them as "Chaptisodes"
- I Work Alone: Hunters that work solo are this, but Kaoru goes as far as to shoot another bloke in his territory.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kaoru may or may not be this. Deep could also be considered this, due to the way he acts to Alison.
- Sorcerermon too could be considered this. Or just heavily Tsundere; Dere (and only sometimes) to Deep and Tsun to everyone else that he's been seen with. He also talks bad about Chase.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Deep is apparently rich and is extremely lonely for reasons were don't really know yet.
- Outliving One's Offspring: In Episode Three when Kaoru hears a broadcast of Michihiko's parents, desperate to find their son... But their son's long dead.
