Digital Symbiosis

Digital Symbiosis
Takato and Guilmon (Digimon Tamers) using biomerge digivolution into Gallantmon.
Power/Ability to:	Gain powers by hosting digital beings in one's body.

The power to gain powers by hosting digital/data-based beings in one's body. Variation of Symbiosis. Not to be confused with Digital Soul or Organism-Artificial Intelligence Synergy.

Also Called

• Byte/Data Symbiosis
• Software Fusion
• Hardware Fusion

Capabilities

The user can gain powers by hosting digital/data-based beings in one's body. These can include sentient computer programs (A.I.'s), destructive computer viruses/malware or even living data bytes. The connection may or may not render the host into a digital being, but it still offers a number of special data and technological powers. As with other forms of Symbiosis, it can come with a price.

Applications

• Artificial Intelligence Physiology
• Computer Interaction
• Cyberspace Manipulation
• Data Manipulation
  • Computer Virus Manipulation
  • Data Conversion
  • Digital Constructs
  • Digital Empowerment
  • Digital Energy Manipulation
  • Digital Interaction
  • Download
  • Scanning
  • Self Data Manipulation
• Digital Power Link
• Electronic Communication
• Program Physiology
  • Computer Virus Physiology
  • Digital Form
• Technology Manipulation

Associations

• Cyber Mode
• Digital Evolution
• Digital Soul
• Symbiosis

Limitations

• Data Absorption/Data Erasure/Digital Negation
• The digital entity may completely take over the host's mind and/or body (Possession).
• If organic, the host's body may reject the symbiosis after extended periods of time.
• May be dangerous to the user.
• Powerful digital entity may harm or even destroy the host's body.
• Copious amounts of data may overwhelm the host's mind.

Known Users

• Yui Kasuga (Corrector Yui)
• Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom (Danny Phantom); with his online avatar
• Victor Stone/Cyborg (DC Comics); via Grid
• Tamers (Digimon Tamers); with Digimon
• Dexter Douglas (Freakazoid!)
• Yasuho Hirose (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VIII: JoJolion); via Paisley Park
• Cross Fusion Users (Mega Man NT Warrior)
• Mega Man X (Mega Man X4); via Cyber Peacock
• Omega (Mega Man Zero 3); via Dark Elf
• URL (OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
• Chad Wilson/Merry Powell/Circuit Breaker (Whateley Academy); via Mai

Gallery

Danny (Danny Phantom) can use the Fenton Helmet to overshadow his video game avatar and use his ghost power and even combining his powers with power-ups in the video game.

Victor Stone/Cyborg (DC Comics) utilized the program Grid for his own uses before it acquired sentience.

Yasuho Hirose's Stand Paisley Park (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part VIII: JoJolion)

Mega Man X (Mega Man X4) acquires Aiming Laser from combining with Cyber Peacock's programming.