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/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) used the Fenton Helmet to overshadow his video game avatar to use his ghost powers in the video game and merged his ghost powers with power-ups in the video game Doomed.

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.