Wizarmon (Adventure)

Wizarmon is a supporting character in Digimon Adventure, its sequels, and the Digimon Xros Wars manga.

=Evolution=

=Personality= Owing to their shared past experiences, Wizarmon is fiercely loyal to Tailmon and has dedicated his life to supporting her at any cost, even if she does not realize, care, or even if she distrusts him for it. Tailmon is his sole motivation for aligning himself with Vamdemon, and he does not hesitate to turn on Vamdemon for Tailmon's sake. He is so focused on his mission that he does not especially care whether others believe that his intentions are good, as long as they can all focus their attention on helping Tailmon. Similarly, if he is trying to help, he may ignore them and get on with it instead of attempting to explain himself first.

=Appearances=

Wizarmon's origin and first meeting with Tailmon are depicted in flashback. He had spent his life unable to make friends and traveled the Digital World alone. His loneliness had given him, in his own words, a "heart of stone". At one point, he had collapsed from exhaustion and dehydration in a desert town, whose inhabitants completely ignored his plight. Tailmon, who had come to this town as well, was the only one who tried to help him; she gave him water, and brought him to an oasis campsite to recover. The two bonded over their loneliness and how it had hardened their hearts, and Tailmon told him about how, for all of her life, she had been waiting and searching for "someone" whose identity she could no longer remember. To Wizarmon, Tailmon represented the end of his life of loneliness, and her actions won his loyalty. He eventually joined Vamdemon's forces as well solely so that he could assist Tailmon. However, Tailmon totally forgot about this encounter and their conversation.

In August 1999, Vamdemon mounts an invasion of the Real World to hunt for the eighth Chosen Child. Wizarmon is part of the forces that he brings with him to Tokyo. Like the others, he receives a duplicate of the Crest of Light from Vamdemon, to use to detect the child. At one time, he poses as a street magician to bring children nearby.

Eventually, one night, Wizarmon follows the reaction of the Crest to find the eight Child's Digivice in a crow's nest, following a misadventure with Meeko some nights previously. He takes the Digivice and decides that he cannot let Vamdemon know about it, so when Pico Devimon appears and tries to speak with him, he disguises his discovery by pretending to be drunk. He suspects that Tailmon is the eighth Child's partner Digimon due to their conversation from when they first met.

Wizarmon tracks Tailmon down to a rooftop from which she is observing Yagami Hikari and shows her his discovery. Although she reacts with hostility, he tries to get her to remember what she once said about searching for someone, and then forces the issue by appearing before Hikari and presenting the Digivice to Hikari and Tailmon. It glows, confirming Hikari and Tailmon's identities as Chosen Child and Partner Digimon.

When Yagami Taichi and Agumon see Hikari with the two Digimon, still believing them to be Vamdemon's minions, they try to stop them. After talking Taichi down, Wizarmon and Tailmon decide that they need to keep Hikari's identity secret for a while longer, and they leave her Digivice with Taichi while they attempt to take the real Crest back from Vamdemon. They find the Crest inside Vamdemon's coffin, and Wizarmon takes it, but Vamdemon predicts that someone would try to steal the real Crest and attacks them for betraying him. An attack on Vamdemon blasts Wizarmon into the waters of Tokyo Bay, and he is believed to have been killed.

Some days later, Kido Jo, Takaishi Takeru, Patamon and Zudomon encounter Wizarmon, clinging to a piece of driftwood, as they swim to Odaiba. He shows them the crest and asks them to take him to Tailmon, then passes out. When he awakens, he explains the situation to them and identifies Hikari and Tailmon as the eighth Chosen Child and partner Digimon, since the two had not been in Odaiba or in contact with the others for any of those events.

Wizarmon, Jo, Takeru, and Takeru arrive at the station and join up with Ishida Yamato, Takenouchi Sora, Izumi Kōshirō, their Digimon, Lilimon, and Ishida Hiroaki, who are about to climb it to come to Hikari and Tailmon's rescue. The others all regard Wizarmon with suspicion as they still think of him as one of Vamdemon's minions but, ignoring them, he notices that Lilimon has been afflicted by Vamdemon's and uses his magic to cure her. Wizarmon accompanies Lilimon and the humans into the station, but since is still weak from his injuries, Hiroaki offers to helps him along.

While Vamdemon is busy fighting the partner Digimon, Wizarmon takes him by surprise with a shot at his back, and throws the Crest of Light to Hikari. Vamdemon retaliates by hitting him with an energy blast that throws him against the wall, taking him out of the fight. At the climax of the fight, when Vamdemon launches a attack directly at Hikari and Tailmon, Wizarmon throws himself in front of them and takes the entire attack. As he dies, he tells Hikari and Tailmon that he is glad that it ended this way, as meeting Tailmon gave his life meaning. Hikari's grief at Wizarmon's death activates her Digivice, and Tailmon Super Evolves into Angewomon, who counts his killing of Wizarmon as one of Vamdemon's crimes for which she will punish him.

After the Chosen Children return to the Digital World, following the defeat of Metal Seadramon, Tachikawa Mimi erects a set of memorials for four Digimon who died trying to protect the group, including Wizarmon.

Wizarmon's spirit still lingers in the station. Around the third anniversary of Vamdemon's invasion of Tokyo in August 2002, the station is afflicted with strange paranormal phenomena, such as multiple employees (including Ishida Hiroaki) witnessing a ghostly apparition walking the corridors, technical difficulties with television show production, and hearing a voice emanating from the building. All of these are Wizarmon attempting to call for Tailmon.

On August 3, Tailmon and the Chosen Children come to the station and follow the phenomena, and Wizarmon's spirit appears to them. He warns the group that the Digimon Kaiser is not their true enemy, and they do not have the power to fight that true enemy yet. He tells them that "kindness will release the golden light" to turn the Kaiser back into his true self. He then disappears.

Wizarmon briefly appears to Yagami Hikari in a vision which she has while she and Takaishi Takeru are being attacked by the Mysterious Man's Devimon in the Real World. She sees Wizarmon silently walking away through the darkness, and she follows him to a space of light where, after Wizarmon disappears, she communicates with Tailmon and Meicoomon from inside Ordinemon.

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