A/N: Written for the Digimon Flash Bingo, #077 - great.
When a Hero Changes Name
Of course, when you're young, you think your parents are the greatest people in the world. Maybe he hung on to that ideal a little longer since his dad wasn't around to prove him wrong and any mother that could raise two kids on their own without cracking was a strong one and a saint, especially when they both got into their fair share of trouble and more.
Of course, when you're young, you don't think about how things will change when you grow up. Or you might, a little. Like getting married. Like running off to some far off country. Or moving out to the country, or deeper in to the city or something superficial like that. But you don't really think about how you're going to change along the way, and how your perceptions of others will change as well.
It sort of slapped him in the face when the digital world stuff came about. Not at first, because there was Agumon and him and it was a brand new thing for the both of them. But then the secrets started coming out. The truths. That his mother knew about the digital world (and that explained why she'd so calmly taken to Agumon's presence in the house). That his father had actually gone to the digital world - and also never come home. Of course, he knew his father hadn't come back. What he didn't know was where he'd gotten lost.
And then their trip to the digital world. Their long trip. Not the short one to fetch that Drimogimon. Marred with perceptions that changed. With assumptions that were proven wrong. His father was supposed to be a hero and in some circles he was - but in others he wasn't, and that confused him. That challenged the child in him.
And then, finally, he got the chance to see for himself and that turned the image of his father upside down.
And when things change, you tend to lose the whole "how it was before." Sometimes, when perceptions change, they can never change back again.
Marcus was a lucky one. His father was the good guy again. He got to learn that deeper truth. And luckier still was he got his father back from that ordeal as well - but he wasn't the hero of the tale anymore. Marcus had taken that role for himself.
