Homeostasis

ホメオスタシス, *Homeosutashisu*

**Homeostasis** (ホメオスタシス, *Homeosutashisu*) is a formless, god-like entity, or group of entities, that maintains the balance between good and evil in the Digital World.

## Appearance

Homeostasis has no physical body. It was seen in the Digital World as particles of light. However, when possessing other humans it also takes on their form. It has so far seemed to have taken Himekawa Maki's and Yagami Hikari's forms.

## Personality

Homeostasis concerns itself only with maintaining the balance between good and evil in the Digital World. It doesn't care for personal feelings or attachments.

## Abilities

Homeostasis has the ability to possess other humans in order to communicate. It was shown to also have the ability to cast illusions and visions.

## History

Homeostasis possessed Himekawa Maki during the battle between her group of original Chosen Children and the Dark Masters. Homeostasis appears to be the one to give the other partner Digimon the power to evolve into the Four Holy Beasts. Homeostasis later chose the 1999 group of Chosen Children after examining their data from the 1995 incident, when they witnessed Greymon and Parrotmon's fight. It also created their partner Digimon, Digivices, and Crests based on data it scanned from the children at that moment, assisted by Gennai and other beings like him.

## Digimon Adventure

During the fight between Ishida Yamato and Yagami Taichi and their digimon, Homeostasis chooses Hikari as its host, since she is the only one of the Chosen Children who could hear it. It speaks through Hikari to reveal to the Chosen Children why they were chosen. Homeostasis shows them a holographic recording of the past, telling them of Hikarigaoka's incident, Gennai's preparations of their Digivices and crests, and the escape from the Dark Masters' attack.

## Digimon Adventure tri.

In 2005, opposed to Yggdrasill, Homeostasis aims to keep Libra's powers from disrupting the balance between the Real and Digital Worlds. It is assisted by Hackmon, who acts as its messenger in the place of Gennai, who is missing. In the summer, Homeostasis possesses Hikari again while she is at school and leaves with her body to find the eight partner Digimon. It warns them of the existential threat that Infected Digimon pose to the balance between the worlds and says that the only way to prevent the total destruction of the Digital World is "a great sacrifice", but it loses its control of Hikari before it can say anything else. Himekawa Maki then explains to the Digimon that it was talking about the Reboot.

A few days later, Homeostasis decides that Libra has become too powerful and must be destroyed, and tasks Hackmon with killing it. It also believes that the Chosen Children, who have failed to do anything to stop Libra, are no longer of any use to it and must no longer interfere with its will, so the Digital World starts to reject them by randomly changing its terrain and subjecting them to angry Digimon attacks. When the Chosen Children confront Libra in the Real World and Jesmon joins the battle, Homeostasis possesses Hikari again to try and convince the Chosen Children not to interfere, but they reject its insistence that they should forget about their friendship with Libra, and Hikari forces Homeostasis out of her. After the Chosen Children successfully destroy Libra, Homeostasis initiates a forced shut-down on Yggdrasill.

## Trivia

* Homeostasis is a term in biology that refers to the self-regulating process of stability maintained by living systems for survival.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Digimon Adventure, episode 45
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Digimon Adventure tri., Confession
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Digimon Adventure tri., Loss
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Digimon Adventure tri., Coexistence
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Digimon Adventure tri., Our Future