>>6235329Missed out on this post during my morning of Souvhating. Thank you for the kind pitch! Glad to have you reading. Yep, those are all themes I've been wanting to explore in a Digimon-based setting! A virtual world that's not meant to be a video game, but is just a life simulation that happens to not be good enough. Minus the Gnostic stuff since that's not intentional, but I did think about Naraka while coming up with it. The visual of a massive tower going up into fog, with a big portal above it, was inspired by Asura's Wrath and all the underworld scenes.
I intended for it to be a one-shot but I think I just vastly underestimated the length, so I'll just keep it going till the end of the story. It's hard to resist the urge to loredump or exposit, since I know that doing so will kill my pacing and increase the chance of it never ending.
