Fan:Edmund Harmon

Edmund Harmon is a fanfictional character in the Digimon Cinematic Sagas. He is one of the main characters in the DigiDestined Saga.

Description
Edmund was born in 2004 to Kevin and Audrey Harmon. He was only one year old, when he witnessed with his father the imperfect temporary bio-emergence of Parrotmon into Los Angeles. His mother did not see, but believed that it really happened. The event led him and his father eventually to be chosen as members of the DigiDestined.

Despite his status of being son of Kevin Harmon and grandson of Robert Harmon, Edmund was raised to treat every human equally. They were living almost like normal people in Los Angeles, while Edmund's grandfather lived in Washington. Edmund became the youngest initial member of the DigiDestined, when he and his father received their Digivices along with four others. Edmund was more pacifistic than others, but his experience with Devimon made him traumatized and more willing to fight.

Digimon: First Adventure
The film describes how Edmund becomes a DigiDestined. He was picked up from school by his mother. But suddenly, the Bio-Emergence Fog appeared and the six Digivices emerge through it. Two of them are given to Edmund and his father. Later it is revealed that Kevin and Edmund had found two small Digimons named Mochimon and Tokomon on their home. Later at night, when Kuwagamon Bio-Emerges to the real world, the Harmons wake up and call the other four children to assist them. Their partners Digivolve into their Rookie forms, with Mochimon Digivolving into Tentomon and Tokomon Digivolving into Patamon, and they destroy a Black Gear controlling Kuwagamon who then returns to the Digital World. Kevin then asks the children to arrive into the Streamix building tomorrow. But in the morning, the Black Gears attacked them and disrupted the barrier between the real world and the Digital World. The five children were sent into the Digital World, and Edmund was sent with Patamon had ended up to a forest.

He was contacted through a mysterious DigiMessenger application by the four other children: Troy Dawkins, Seamus Maitland, Jake Thacher and Miyuki Koharuno. After receiveing instructions from his father, Edmund and Patamon explored the area and the next day, they arrived into the Village of Beginnings. They befriended with its caretaker Elecmon and were attacked by Leomon who was controlled by several Black Gears. Troy, Seamus, Jake and Miyuki came to his help, and Kevin managed to get into the Digital World too. After Leomon was free, he and Elecmon told the humans about the origins of the battles between good and evil in the Digital World. They decided to follow the evil tyrant of the File Island, Devimon and his evil forces to Kyoto, Japan. Edmund felt pressured a little bit, since Leomon had explained the youngest one of them was meant to defeat Devimon.

During the first phase of the battle of Kyoto, Edmund witnessed how Kevin, Seamus and Leomon were trying to destroy Bakemon forces as well as free Andromon and Teddymon from the Black Gears. After they were defeated, Troy's group arrived to join them and faced Devimon who had grown himself into large size. Leomon and the Partner Digimons were not powerful enough to defeat him. Devimon was about to kill Edmund, but Patamon stopped it and Digivolved into Angemon. Angemon, however, needed to be powered by the Digivices and use his life energy to destroy Devimon. They both died, but Angemon transformed into a Digi-Egg to wait for a rebirth. Despite knowing that his partner will be reborn, Edmund was traumatized of this. After Leomon had taken Angemon's Digi-Egg to Elecmon, Kevin decided to send Edmund to his grandfather to heal from his depression and sadness. After one month, he was starting adapt to his new environment and was still living there until he would feel his normal self again.

Trivia

 * Edmund is mostly based on Takeru "T.K." Takaishi since he has Patamon as his partner and he is the youngest member of the original DigiDestined. The main difference from him is that his father is mentor of the team as well as partnered with Tentomon. And Seamus Maitland, a DigiDestined with Gabumon, is not related to Edmund, while Yamato "Matt" Ishida is T.K.'s older brother.
 * When the American counterpart for a DigiDestined partnered with Patamon was planned for the film series, he was initially chosen to be both the youngest member and son of the team's mentor.