Loogamon (Seekers)

Loogamon is the partner Digimon of Eiji Nagasumi in the Digimon Seekers web novel and its live action counterpart.

Description
Loogamon has a side that is friendly to people, but also will growl and bear its teeth when necessary.

Attacks
 * Howling Fire: Shoots flame imbued with magical energy from its mouth.
 * Spiral Bite: Bites in a spinning formation using its sharp fangs.

Development
As Eiji Nagasumi is a, Bandai decided to create a wolf to be his partner Digimon.

Digimon Seekers
Loogamon, in one of its digivolved forms, originally lived in the Castle of Nine Wolves in the Ninth Avenue within the Wall Slums and was the leader of the Castle. When doing so, it was known by the title of "The Demon Wolf of the Castle of Nine Wolves".

At some point, Abadin Electronics had collected Loogamon from Ninth Avenue, supposedly to keep it safe.

During its time in the human world, its memories of its time in the Digital World became foggy — effectively giving it amnesia.

Some time later, impressed at how Eiji Nagasumi had completed the mission he had been hired for, Tomonori Ryusenji, who was now in possession of Loogamon, gives him a brand new Digimon Linker — which had already been calibrated to work for him. He then shows Eiji that the Digimon Linker wasn't the only gift he had given him, pressing a button on the device to show that he had also given him a new Digimon — Loogamon.

A few days later, and Loogamon had already grown quite a lot with Eiji feeling like he had been raising his own child due to the Digimon Linker directly connecting Loogamon to his heart. Wanting to be able to raise Loogamon properly, he goes onto GriMM and asks for tips on raising dog-like Digimon — though makes sure not to mention he had a Loogamon as after searching for information on it he got zero hits meaning no one else had one. He receives a reply, with someone telling him to put his Digimon with other Digimon he owned as they will all play together and learn together. He doesn't bother to read the rest of the reply though, which states that dog Digimon have a social hierarchy and to discipline it first, and instead transfers his from his Digimon Dock to his Digimon Linker.

Loogamon had made itself leader of the pack despite being at a lower level than the Tyrannomon and as it was the leader, had first dibs on food and even tried to eat one of the Tyrannomon. This caused the Tyrannomon to fear it. Loogamon also wouldn't listen to a single one of his commands, with Eiji complaining that it ate too much and popped too much and that he couldn't afford to feed such a glutton.

Eiji receives an urgent call from Abadin Electronics, which leads him to rush over to Tomonori's office. Eiji complains about Loogamon to Ryusenji, though Tomonori just tells Eiji that he seems to have been raising Loogamon well and that he will reward him even more if he is able to get Loogamon to digivolve to higher levels with each level bringing him more rewards. Tomonori tells him to hololize Loogamon, which Eiji does, with Loogamon being asleep. Tomonori analyses the data and is impressed, praising Eiji for how high his DS value was. He tells him that no one else had ever managed to score so high and that he was glad he had hired Eiji for the role of Loogamon's Tamer.

After accepting a mission from Ryusenji to infiltrate the Sons of Chaos, Eiji goes home. The room Eiji was renting did not allow pets, though since Loogamon wasn't a real animal he figured it wouldn't count and so allowed Loogamon to hololize in his room. He tells Loogamon about what they'll be doing and tries to pet it, though it doesn't allow him to and instead growls at him. Eiji's alarm goes off, which has him put Loogamon back into the Digimon Linker. He opens up GriMM and begins an interview with a member of the Sons of Chaos and after accepting the mission to be allowed to join the group, proceeds to Mindlink.

Unknown to Eiji, the Mindlink had transferred his mental data into the DigiCore of Loogamon with his body in the real world being unconscious. As such, he could see and experience everything Loogamon was doing through Loogamon's eyes. Loogamon had jumped into a river, after which Eiji eventually woke up, confused as to his surroundings and, smelling the scent of wet dog, assumed he was dreaming. A Chuumon, Damemon, and ChuuChuumon runs past him — with the Chuumon having stolen cheese from the other two. Chuumon begs for mercy, hoping it would be spared as it was a rat just like ChuuChuumon though ChuuChuumon states that it is was offended it shared such a commonality with it. Just as Damemon was about to attack Chuumon, it notices Loogamon, and calls out to it which confuses Eiji since he had no had no idea what Damemon meant by asking who the unknown dog was. Damemon tells Loogamon that if he doesn't leave its turf by the time it was done killing Chuumon, it would kill him next. As Eiji wonders what is going on, a voice suddenly rings out of his ears laughing at the fact that a rat would challenge a dog with Eiji — still not aware of the fact he was seeing the actions of Loogamon itself from within its body — sees himself walk towards the Damemon (thinking it was his human body doing so). ChuuChuumon tells Damemon to attack Loogamon, though Loogamon is able to avoid the bullets of Damemon's "Gun Vulcan" attack. Eiji complains about the smell radiating from its weapon which Damemon laughs about since such a stench would effect a dog due to its higher sense of smell. Unlike Eiji however, Loogamon wasn't deterred and easily counter attacks Damemon — with a single "Howling Fire" enough to not only defeat Damemon but also send it flying out of the window of the building Loogamon had found itself in. ChuuChuumon had fallen out of the Tyutyu Tray during the ensuing attack and cowers in fear after Loogamon said it was going to eat it. ChuuChuumon, recognizes the interface on Loogamon's head asks if it was Loogamon, the Digimon known as "The Demon Wolf of the Castle of Nine Wolves". This took Eiji by surprise, though also had him finally realize what was going on. Loogamon allows ChuuChuumon to leave, deciding it didn't look tasty, which is followed up by Eiji directly asking Loogamon if it could hear him.

Loogamon was surprised that Eiji hadn't listened to the Mindlink explanation from Tomonori and sighs after Eiji says that all he got from the explanation was that it'll make him a better code cracker as Ryusenji was hard to understand. As Loogamon starts to walk, Eiji warns it that it's about to step on a broken piece of glass. Loogamon looks into it, which gives Eiji even more confirmation that he was not in his own body as it was Loogamon looking back at him.

As they looked into their reflection, Chuumon approaches Loogamoon and apologizes for not having recognized the legendary great boss of the Castle of Nine Wolves. Chuumon offers its services to Loogamon and asks where it had been, as it had heard it had either been killed by an assassin or kidnapped by a human. Loogamon sees this as disrespect and tells it that neither of those things would happen, and that it had not told Chuumon that it could speak to it. Loogamon still ends up accepting Chuumon as its new minion since it looked tastier than ChuuChuumon, and asks if anyone else thought those things had happened to it. Chuumon asserts that it was only a rumour but that everyone from Ninth Avenue had deserted it following Loogamon's disappearance. Loogamon gives Chuumon some real world meat as an allowance, which it accepts — after which it flees in fear of the dog with both the meat and the cheese it had stolen from Damemon and ChuuChuumon. Eiji asks if Loogamon had finished talking to it to which Loogamon asks if he still wanted an explanation. Eiji confirms as such, though Loogamon simply tells him that "seeing is believing/the proof is in the pudding" and jumps out of the nearby window. This shocked Eiji, with Loogamoon landing on its feet on the floor. It runs towards the nearest building and is able to climb up it by digging its claws into it.

As Loogamon climbs up the wall, it explains what Mindlinking is to Eiji who remembers that Ryusenji had told him something similar and that he had only really understood it now that Loogamon had explained it to him. Loogamon asserts that Eiji will get more used to Mindlinking as time goes on, with the duo continuing to talk as it scales the building. After a short climb, Loogamon reaches the top.

Eiji Nagasumi looks on in amazement at the Digital World. Eiji was surprised to see a deserted city, as he thought he would see something more like the vibrant Digital World he had seen in Tomonori's video. Loogamon tells him that they were actually in a Wall Slum and that they weren't actually in the Digital World. This surprised Eiji, which had him theorize that no human had ever actually managed to enter the Digital World with Loogamon stating it was unlikely any human was able to to get through a Wall Slum and as such no human was likely to have actually into the actual Digital World. A monitor appears before Loogamon, with Loogamon reminding Eiji that they were here to complete a mission for the Sons of Chaos.

A cloaked Digimon, with a member of the Sons of Chaos using Mindlink to talk to them through it, tells Loogamon/Eiji that they were two minutes late. Eiji suddenly appears next to Loogamon, which surprises even Loogamon. Eiji explains he had remembered he was told he could access commands on virtual monitors by thinking of doing it and having seen a button saying hololize simply thought of pressing it which allowed him to hololize next to Loogamon. Loogamon is surprised that Eiji wasn't scared that something might go wrong and calls him an idiot, though stops himself halfway into saying it and instead says Eiji is brave though didn't actually mean it and simply didn't want to waste more brain cells on Eiji's silly actions. Eiji tries to pet Loogamon and is surprised it's able to work with an annoyed Loogamon telling him not to touch its forehead. It tells a confused Eiji that when Digimon hololize in the real world they exist as data and that the same thing is the case for Eiji now they were in an alternate World. Eiji asks the cloaked Digimon about the information for the mission, to which the cloaked Digimon answers by telling Eiji he had already been docked two points on the test due to being late. It tells him that his mission is to create a map of Ninth Avenue for them, and that he just has to walk around the area with the provided map tool as it would auto fill the information for him. Loogamon laughs, and informs Eiji that the mission was perfect as it had something it needed to do in Ninth Avenue anyway. The Sons of Chaos member then wishes Eiji luck on his mission, hoping he would be able to pass and become a member of the group. Loogamon heads further underground, and tells Eiji that is was a shortcut. It goes to the subway with a train showing up just as they arrive. Eiji was unable to read the DigiCode on the subway map, with Loogamon telling Eiji to not cause any trouble as they were in a pubic place. As the train drives to its destination, Eiji talks to Loogamon and as they do so many Digimon get off and on the train with most of them reacting in shock to seeing a human on board. He notices they were all injured or damaged and is shocked when Loogamon tells him they were all Digimon that had previously been partnered to humans that found themselves abandoned upon failing missions and that they had banded together to create a place where such Digimon could live. Since everyone there was poor, they all fought to survive which is why they had seen the fight earlier between Chuumon, Damemon, and ChuuChuumon. It also tells Eiji that they couldn't return to the Digital World as the Digital World would reject any Digimon that been been contaminated by data from the Human World which is why they had to live in the Wall Slum and that that was how God had set things up. The train finally arrives at Ninth Avenue, leading the duo to get off the train. Eiji asks Loogamon why he knew so much about the Wall Slum and why Chuumon recognized him though Loogamon replies that its memory was hazy and it was regaining them as they travelled throughout the Wall Slum.

Eiji looks around at the area in fear, figuring that it must have a really high crime rate though he snaps out of it when he excitedly — to Loogamon's annoyance — exclaims that Loogamon should be his superior due to how smart it was ( in the Japanese version) which Loogamon flatly rejects.

They walk around, having the map app auto map the area for them and notice that nearby Digimon were hiding from them. They arrive at the Castle of Nine Wolves which causes Loogamon to remember that the castle is where it used to live. It remembers that it lived in there as a higher digivolved form than Loogamon though when Eiji asks about said digivolved form a approaches them. Eiji realizes it belonged to the DigiPolice and is shocked that they were in the Wall Slums. A group of get out of Cargodramon and surround the Castle, with someone having contacted Eiji asking to talk to him on GriMM. Turning down the request would be seen as going against the DigiPolice but Eiji had no choice in the matter as his means of communication during the mission was in the hands of the Sons of Chaos member running the mission. Thinking Eiji himself had turned down the request, a voice yells out in disgust at him ignoring it.

Rather than be scared of the DigiPolice however, he is instead excited at being able to meet them and even tells an annoyed to take a picture of them. As he fawned over the DigiPolice, Satsuki Tamahime performs a Mindlink which alerts her to the fact that Eiji was a member of the Sons of Chaos with the fact he was able to Mindlink and Hololize making him even more dangerous. She gives him one last warning to come with her, though he turns it down claiming he was just on a walk so had no reason to go with her demands. This angers Satsuki, leading her to send the Commandramon to attack the duo — though their bullets intentionally miss them with Satsuki telling him they were merely a warning shots. This gave Satsuki time to get out of Cargodramon and approach Eiji directly, though she too was Hololized.

Eiji tries to flirt with her, though she angrily shuts him down and asks him what a member of the Sons of Chaos was doing there. She also has Cargodramon fire another warning shot since she was annoyed with his failed flirting attempts and tells him that he's lucky she didn't have  with her, since she would've had it kill him by now if it was here. Eiji once again protests and tells her that he was just walking around making a map of the Digial World with Cargodramon backing him up since he didn't have anything stolen on him. As Satsuki complains, still wanting to arrest him, Loogamon makes the situation worse when it suddenly attacks and defeats two of the Commandramon with it stating it had done so as they were invading its home. This infuriates Satuski, causing her partner,, to jump out of Cargodramon to fight him — with this leading Eiji/Loogamon to realize she was Mindlinking as well.

She tells them they're under arrest and accidentally tells them who she is causing her to panic since she wasn't meant to have done so. As she gets halfway into telling the remaining Commandramon to shoot them to death, Eiji cuts her off and asks her what she uses to spell her name and also tells her his name — hoping it would help to de-fuse the situation. After answering his question she becomes more annoyed at him seemingly flirting with her once again, with Eiji also realizing that telling her his name was a bad idea. He tries to back track and use his online handle of Fang instead, though it was too late since he'd already told her he was Eiji Nagasumi. Now knowing who he is, she ranks him as a A class hacker which causes Eiji to celebrate thinking it was a good thing — also thinking this meant Satsuki liked him since he was A rank. On the contrary, she informs him that A rank hackers are put onto the DigiPolice's blacklist and he would no longer be able to live a normal life.

Numemon finally attacks, though Loogamon is able to avoid its attacks. Loogamon comments that Numemon is gross, and that makes Satsuki gross too since she has one. Satsuki becomes even more angry since she loves Nuemon, with Eiji once again trying to de-fuse the situation by asking her why she likes Numemon so much. This actually works, with Satsuki going on a long tangent about why she loves slugs and snails and informs him that she owns some in real life as pets and asks him if he wants to see a video of similar creatures. He turns that idea down, though she ignores him. As she searches the internet for a video to show him he deactivates his Hololization though she notices Loogamon trying to flee and has the Commandramon launch an attack. Loogamon tries its best to deal with the Commandramon and Numemon but with so many of enemies, one of them being at the Champion level, its attacks begin to have less and less of an effect with both Eiji and Loogamon's desires causing it to digivolve to.

Shortly after winning, Loogaramon de-digivolves to Loogamon, whilst Eiji sends out the three Tyrannomon to collect map data and estimate the population within Ninth Avenue. As they do so, Eiji asks Loogamon if it had got its memories back, though Loogamon tells him that its memories were fragmented, hazy, and lacked details and it only knew it had ran the area due to the smells there. Despite this, Loogamon didn't care it lacked its memories anyway since it didn't want to be the type to cling to memories. The Tyrannomon return, with Loogamon telling Eiji to have them to continue to patrol this way, so as to make sure no one could invade its territory, with Eiji telling them to do just that. A siren blares, causing the Digimon of Ninth Avenue to flee, with Loogamon telling Eiji to recall the Tyrannomon. As Eiji questions it he looks into Loogamon's eyes, realizes its serious, and does as he's told. Loogamon runs up the side of the Caste of Nine Wolves to assess the situation.

Upon reaching the top of the Castle, it looks out at the Net Ocean in which it sees a giant whirlpool. Eiji asks about it, to which Loogamon states its dangerous and that the Walls are meant to protect them from things such as those but that sometimes things get through it. As they talk, the whirlpool destroys a section of the Wall Slums — also killing all the Digimon living inside said area. After doing so, it disperses. Eiji's alarm goes off, causing him to end the Mind Link and return to the Human World as he had an appointment with Tomonori Ryusenji to attend.

Eiji goes to his meeting with Tomonori, who congratulates him on his recent results with Loogamon. Eiji tells him that he had been accepted into the Sons of Chaos and informs him of his trial mission and tells him it was easy since Loogamon had lived there before. Tomonori tells him that Abadin had collected Loogamon from Ninth Avenue to keep it safe, though doesn't expand on that when asked. Eiji continues to tell him about the mission, and about the fact that Loogamon had regained some of its memories, with Tomonori telling Eiji to be there for Loogamon when it gains its memories as regaining them can cause mental anguish. As Eiji affirms he will, he is given a reward due to helping Loogamon digivolve to Champion and is tasked to continue looking into the Sons of Chaos. He tells them he already has a meeting set up with the higher ups of the group, impressing Tomonori — who becomes even more impressed upon learning his meeting will be with Marvin Jackson. He reminds Eiji not to blow his cover, then opens up a file for him to see stating it is so important it is a matter of life and death.

After the mission, Eiji had used s to spread rumours about the mission — making himself a popular topic among hackers. This lead to the meeting with Marvin. Eiji logs into GriMM and accesses the Sons of Chaos' channel to attend his virtual meeting with Marvin, taking Loogamon with him. As the duo talk, making sure they're set to private so that no one could hear them, Loogamon notices it was being scanned by someone and quickly notices Marvin — and his partner — approaching them.

They exchange introductions, followed by Marvin asking if Eiji had ever applied to the SoC under a different name or if he had belonged to other cracker teams, as it was unusual for such new cracker to be able to defeat the DigiPolice like he had. He figured either the information was a lie, or Eiji was up to something. Eiji, now fearful that the SoC had already caught on to him, states he hadn't and had simply been a freelancer until recently, with Marvin figuring that a Mindlinker probably wouldn't be stupid enough to pull something. The four of them go into Marvin's private room, where he tells Eiji about their upcoming plan and that they don't have enough members to pull it off. Eiji questions that, since the SoC have a lot of members, though Marvin says they need A class hackers that can Mindlink and that there are very few of those. With Eiji fitting that criteria, he instantly offers his services without listening to what it was with Marvin surpirsed since it would obviously be dangerous. Marvin praises him for defeating the DigiPolice, whilst Eiji asks if Tartarus will be part of the mission claiming he idolizes him with him being the entire reason he joined. Marvin becomes distracted as Airdramon begins to play with Loogamon — Marvin deciding to join in too — though answers Eiji after doing so, telling him that though Tartarus set up their missions, he rarely gets involved in himself. He shares a file with Eiji, telling him that the mission was named "OPERATION INFINITY", and that he should return Mindlinked the next day. Just as Eiji bids farewell, Marvin asks him if he had heard anything about a BlackAgumon though Eiji states he only knew that someone was looking for one. Marvin reveals it was actually the SoC that were looking for it, with Eiji surprised, since the reward was 100 million. Marvin informs him that 100 million was nothing for SoC, especially as Tartarus was obsessed with getting his hands on a BlackAgumon.

Loogarmon


Loogarmon is Loogamon's Champion form.

When Loogamon and Eiji Nagasumi, via Mindlink, are trying to complete their mission for the Sons of Chaos to map the they are attacked by the DigiPolice whilst in Ninth Avenue. Loogamon tries its best to deal with the and  but with so many of enemies, one of them being at the Champion level, its attacks begin to have less and less of an effect with both Eiji and Loogamon's desires causing it to digivolve to Loogarmon. Loogarmon easily defeats Numemon with one attack, causing Satsuki Tamahime to call out for a retreat. The Commandramon rush to the wounded Numemon, help it up, then flee on. Eiji Hololizes again to admire Loogarmon, who informs Eiji it had regained some of its memories as leader of the Ninth Avenue. Eiji excitedly celebrates the fact its partner ran the area, though Loogarmon doubts it is still the leader having left at some point. Loogarmon becomes determined to regain the rest of its memories and as it declares this hundreds of Digimon arrive and chant Loogarmon's name. This pleases Loogarmon, since it meant it was still considered to be the leader, and it poses for its followers.

Attacks
 * Howling Burner: Charges up a beam of flame and then shoots from its mouth.