[Digimon] I Wasn't Chosen, but I Became the One in Charge

At a summer camp in 1999, an untimely heavy snowfall swept us into a bizarre and fantastical world.

Without a partner Digimon, a Digivice, or a Crest, I seemed to be the only odd one out among the eight of us.

To avoid being left out, at eight years old I ended up acting like their big sister, mom, and grandma. By day, I churned out strategy analyses and plans, almost running Koushiro's computer out of battery several times. At night, I transformed into a level-two national psychological counselor, giving counseling to a bunch of kids of all different ages.

When I came to my senses...

Huh? How did I become the leader? (scratches head.gif)

Yorozu Maoka, a third-grader at Odaiba Elementary School. She's taller than you'd expect for her age, and has an equally astonishing capacity to handle stress.

She attends the same cram school as Ichijoji Osamu, older brother of Ichijoji Ken. Though people often call her a genius, she doesn't care for the label. She has the strange feeling that the word "genius" gets used so often where she lives that it's suffering from inflation. Her unusually sharp senses once made her suspect she was sensitive to the supernatural, but she eventually remained firm in her belief in atheism.

She spans both seasons of DA, working part-time the whole time but never being chosen. You can call her "an unofficial member of the Chosen Children," or "a temp worker hired by the Homeostasis."

Even so, one Digimon came looking for her and wanted to become her partner. They're a rare pair who got together through one of them taking the initiative of their own accord.

All pairings, all directions. All canon couples are broken up.

Theme: Toiling away for Homeostasis