05-18-2004, 03:58 PM
Antoher way I think we can look at it is in the context of Yin/Yang.
This of course is easiest to do with Aquilamon/Gatomon's evolution.
From the base act of DNA digivolving in the first place consider if Aquilamon was either feeling under the weather that day or simply not had enough to eat that moring to give him the enegry he needed to be the dominant power in the equation. Thus when the time came, Gatomon assuming she was in top form that day would automatically need to be the primary while Aquilamon becomes the secondary power source. So the Yin/Yang had been basically flipped by wax and wane of the two digimon's power. Now since Gatomon's data was now the dominant we end up with Angewomon as the final result.
Now if they had digivolved to Sylphymon in the first place consider if they had been injured in battle only enough for it to have been difficult but not impossible for them to sustain their ultimate from. Now consider if what data had been injured had mostly come for Aquilamon. Because of this it makes it a varitable necessity for them to slide evolve over to Angewomon to continue the battle instead of dedigivolving to champion or rookie forms which would have made them a hinderance to the team.
Also please look back to the episode where Sylphymon first appeared. It seemed that the writers/animators went out of their way to show that while they had merged it wasn't as complete as either Paildramon of Shakkoumon's jogressed status by showing that while in the same body their minds had not merged like the others had.
We didn't see an instance like this again until Tamers. The Bio-Merge ability more or less showed that the children's life energy became the power source in which to reach the mega level. This of course wasn't really a surprise since we've known since the third episode of Adventure that a human's energy and state of mind (The Birth of SkullGreymon) is a large factor in the temporary digivolving process. However the children's minds didn't become one with their digimon and they could still talk to both each other and their partners in those forms.
While on the outside Sylphymon was physically merged the mind was shown to not reach that state of 'oneness' most likely from the difference in the data of the two digimon were not completely compatible i.e. Gatomon is considered female while Aquilamon is male. The same can be said of Tamers in that the Children may have been classfied as analog while the digimon are of course digital.
The need for slide evolution may also come from basic necessity as well. Consider if they were fighting a demon/dark type digimon. (Probably would have been helpful while dealing with Daemon.) Now Sylphymon and Shakkoumon do not use 'holy type' atributes which would make them less effective in battle however Angewomon and MagnaAngemon both hove those attributes so they would switch domanant roles to slide evolve to the other digimon's ultimate in order to continue fighting.
I feel that the resulting digimon from DNA digivolution has nothing to do with physicallity but from the basic power needed to reach certain levels. All of the chosen children's digimon have transient power levels out of the basic need for them to be able to slip in and out of the real world. This is especially important in 02 since it would have been neigh on impossible to hide any digimon whose power stayed at a constant above the rookie level. Not to mention inconvienant if the digimon stayed in their jogressed forms permantantly since that then makes one of the children unnecessary and the digimon in question would probably then look as one or the other children as it's chosen partner most likely whoever had been the secondary digimon's partner would then be left with nothing.
This of course is easiest to do with Aquilamon/Gatomon's evolution.
From the base act of DNA digivolving in the first place consider if Aquilamon was either feeling under the weather that day or simply not had enough to eat that moring to give him the enegry he needed to be the dominant power in the equation. Thus when the time came, Gatomon assuming she was in top form that day would automatically need to be the primary while Aquilamon becomes the secondary power source. So the Yin/Yang had been basically flipped by wax and wane of the two digimon's power. Now since Gatomon's data was now the dominant we end up with Angewomon as the final result.
Now if they had digivolved to Sylphymon in the first place consider if they had been injured in battle only enough for it to have been difficult but not impossible for them to sustain their ultimate from. Now consider if what data had been injured had mostly come for Aquilamon. Because of this it makes it a varitable necessity for them to slide evolve over to Angewomon to continue the battle instead of dedigivolving to champion or rookie forms which would have made them a hinderance to the team.
Also please look back to the episode where Sylphymon first appeared. It seemed that the writers/animators went out of their way to show that while they had merged it wasn't as complete as either Paildramon of Shakkoumon's jogressed status by showing that while in the same body their minds had not merged like the others had.
We didn't see an instance like this again until Tamers. The Bio-Merge ability more or less showed that the children's life energy became the power source in which to reach the mega level. This of course wasn't really a surprise since we've known since the third episode of Adventure that a human's energy and state of mind (The Birth of SkullGreymon) is a large factor in the temporary digivolving process. However the children's minds didn't become one with their digimon and they could still talk to both each other and their partners in those forms.
While on the outside Sylphymon was physically merged the mind was shown to not reach that state of 'oneness' most likely from the difference in the data of the two digimon were not completely compatible i.e. Gatomon is considered female while Aquilamon is male. The same can be said of Tamers in that the Children may have been classfied as analog while the digimon are of course digital.
The need for slide evolution may also come from basic necessity as well. Consider if they were fighting a demon/dark type digimon. (Probably would have been helpful while dealing with Daemon.) Now Sylphymon and Shakkoumon do not use 'holy type' atributes which would make them less effective in battle however Angewomon and MagnaAngemon both hove those attributes so they would switch domanant roles to slide evolve to the other digimon's ultimate in order to continue fighting.
I feel that the resulting digimon from DNA digivolution has nothing to do with physicallity but from the basic power needed to reach certain levels. All of the chosen children's digimon have transient power levels out of the basic need for them to be able to slip in and out of the real world. This is especially important in 02 since it would have been neigh on impossible to hide any digimon whose power stayed at a constant above the rookie level. Not to mention inconvienant if the digimon stayed in their jogressed forms permantantly since that then makes one of the children unnecessary and the digimon in question would probably then look as one or the other children as it's chosen partner most likely whoever had been the secondary digimon's partner would then be left with nothing.