Winr (サイキヨ Saikiyo?) is one of the main characters of the Digimon Liberator DEBUG web novel. His partner is FunBeemon, and he plays a Royal Base Control deck.[1]
Description
A fifth-grade elementary school student who started playing the card game due to Digimon Liberator, having been a beta tester. He has an introverted personality and finds it difficult to interact with others, but he has opened up to his friend Yuuki, whom he knows from the beta test. He actually appreciates her inability to read the atmosphere. However, as young as he is, he understands that bonds with others can easily break, and as a result, he tries not to get too attached. Yet, his encounter with FunBeemon right after the official launch of the game begins to change his perspective gradually.[1]
Winr has a crush on Yuuki. DEBUG.2-2 GOOD GAME
Appearance
Etymologies
- Saikiyo (サイキヨ)
Official Japanese Name and romanization used on the Digimon Liberator website.
- Ja: A play on the world Saikyo (最強?), meaning "strongest".
- Winr
Official English name used on the Digimon Liberator website.
Fiction
Winr is part of the De-bug team for Digimon Liberator, helping to deal with any internal issues that arise within the game.
Shortly after the launch of the game, Winr met and became partners with FunBeemon.
Due to the large number of NPCs going rogue, the team were dispatched to hunt them down. They are also tasked with hunting down wild Digimon and turning them into cards, as the wild Digimon feature wasn't yet supposed to have gone live and was causing the game issues.
During his time as part of the de-bug team, Winr become close friends with fellow member Yuuki.
After gaining a new deck via a glitch and defeating a rogue NPC, Yuuki and Impmon become so overexcited they challenge the main scenario and drag Winr alongside with them. Despite the new deck, she is defeated easily by the NPC and its deck focused around EX7-047: Tlalocmon. She lost so fast, Winr couldn't even analyse the NPC's deck. DEBUG.2-1 Winr
Shortly afterwards, Winr defeats a rogue NPC and gains new cards just like Yuuki had told him about. He also got a new ability for his Tamer card. He decides to fight the prior NPC himself, and insists to FunBeemon that he wasn't fighting to avenge her and instead figured a deck that had defeated Yuuki would be a good test for his own new deck. He claims he had also gotten annoyed at how popular she had gotten lately, so figured he would steal said popularity by defeating something Yuuki was unable to defeat. DEBUG.2-1 Winr His real plan was to defeat the NPC and then teach Yuuki how to defeat it so that she would be impressed by him as he had a crush on her. DEBUG.2-2 GOOD GAME
He returns to the Emerald Coast, and stands in the open enjoying the wind. FunBeemon arrives and tells her partner to take shelter, since the powerful winds could blow him away with how small he is. Winr points out the hypocrisy, since FunBeemon is the one who gets blown away by the wind, and as he expresses his annoyance, FunBeemon asks him what's wrong and tells him that it had invited him here to help cheer him up as he had spent a long time looking at the area on his map. As FunBeemon laughs at how badly Yuuki lost, it asks Winr if he planned to fight Tlalocmon as well — with him confirming that he did indeed plan to do so. Funbeemon assumes he wanted to avenge his friend, though he lies about his reasons in wanting to duel it. Winr brings up his inventory and shows off his newly obtained cards to FunBeemon with the duo marvelling over their new cards. Winr then asks FunBeemon if it would like to become the Queen of the Royal Base.
As the duo leave the Forest, Winr appears to doubt himself — stating he was worried the cards could actually terrible and cause them to lose, though FunBeemon calms him down by telling him not to worry about it and that it can tell he's actually excited to try them as he is always so meticulous about his deck. They continue on, eventually finding themselves in the rainforest where Yuuki fought Tlalocmon. Shortly afterwards, they find the NPC responsible for playing the Tlalocmon Deck and prepare to duel. DEBUG.2-1 Winr
After he wins, Winr looks at his rewards, with FunBeemon points out they had gotten revenge for Yuuki. Winr continues to lie about his reasons for dueling the NPC, with FunBeemon reacts confused, stating his face clearly showed he was happy he had gotten revenge for her. He ignores FunBeemon and tells her that Yuuki and Impmon had probably finished bickering by now and were ready for a rematch and that they would be unable to win without help and would come crying to him again after their inevitable second loss. He then admits his real reasons for dueling the NPC, blushing having admitted his feelings towards her. Happy to see Winr admit those feelings, FunBeemon hugs him and asks him why he had come to LACUNA. He tells her that he wanted to test cards in the game before buying them in real life, complete the game's storyline, and would be yelled by Yuuki if he didn't play with her though quickly admits his real reason is because his parents are always fighting and as such he didn't want to go home. After ending the hug, FunBeemon asks if he was going to log off though he says he will play some more as he wants to test out his new deck a little more. FunBeemon flies off, presumably to to find someone for Winr to play against — with Winr giving chase. DEBUG.2-2 GOOD GAME
One day, Ryutaro Williams, Yuuki, and Winr, under the orders of Altea, were given a mission to deal with some cheaters — taking the place of the GMs as they were too busy to deal with it themselves. The cheaters would hack the tournament winners, preventing them from logging out or even communicating with other players, and would agree to restore their accounts in exchange for their tournament prizes. They would then sell the prizes to make large amounts of money. The group of 30 hackers had affected so many tournaments, the fear of being hacked had caused entry numbers to drop drastically. Learning this information riled up the Digimon, and their discussions bring to light that there isn't even evidence of the hacking as it left no trace and in addition to that — the higher ups have no clue how they even managed to do it in the first place, as other cheating attempts would be stopped buy the game itself due to the hackers modifying their systems. Though the task seems impossible, Ryutaro reveals he has a plan and brings up how the winner of the previous weeks tournament had fallen victim to this scam. He goes through what the hackers do again, then says he had actually agreed with the hackers to buy said stolen prize and had a meeting with them at Lapis Marine to get the stolen item.
They send out Winr to make first contact with Winr's plan being to lower their guards as he was a kid instead of the giant Ryutaro. Espimon had sent a message via Tyrannomon with it telling them not to allow the hackers to run towards Lapis Stadium Tower as the debugging team were testing a player who had taken out an NPC there to see if he was a good fit as a new member of the team. Winr sends a message to Ryutaro just as he was about to check the map for escape routes with it saying that more than 10 hackers had shown up and he was scared they were going to take advantage of him since a kid would be unable to stop them. This angers Ryutaro, since he had allowed Winr to go alone, and he leaves alongside Tyrannomon to try and save his young friend from harm. He gets there in time, with Yuuki also having joined in the rescue attempt. The three of them were now surrounded by the large number of hackers. The hackers were aware of the fact they were dubuggers under cover, and were not intimidated by their jobs as they just considered them the same as regular players. They laugh at the fact there's no evidence, with Winr telling them that this is still an official trade and if they went against their word and didn't give them the stolen item they could report them and get them banned. Aruba Dokuson, leader of the hackers, points out they had yet to receive the payment and that they have the blackmail of the fact that debuggers were pretending to be regular players. Ryutaro then proceeds to challenge Aruba to a duel. DEBUG.3-1 Ryutaro Aruba agrees, and states they'll stop their scams if Ryutaro is able to win. Meanwhile if he wins, he will post online about how the group had been going undercover as regular players with the shame supposedly being enough that it'd cause them to never be able to play again. Though at first worried that Aruba would lose, his minions quickly change to mocking the debuggers confident that their leader would never lose. Aruba gives Ryutaro the chance to back out, but Ryutaro refuses and accepts the duel request.
Ryutaro wins the duel, and informs the hackers that they're going to freeze their accounts as punishment and that the various members would either receive warnings or tournament bans. The debugging team arrest all the hackers, though Ryutaro gives Aruba his spare account telling him to play the game using it as he wants a rematch. He leaves on Tyrannomon, and takes the dinosaur to coast to swim. Before they can swim though, Winr contacts him and tells him the group had been summoned by the GMs as they were unhappy with how they had dealt with the investigation. DEBUG.3-2 WE CAN BE HEROES
Winr attends the debug team meeting that had been set up to induct Shoto Kazama and Arisa Kinosaki as the newest members of the debug team. SELECT FEW (Part 1)
Yuuki and Impmon see a wild Wormmon (and didn't know what species it was) whilst in the Obsidian Desert, and leave to tell the others. This causes a widespread search of the Desert with multiple debug team members sent out to find it. Yuuki goes with Winr, who, after lots of searching, are unable to find it. Yuuki yells at Winr at how she wasn't lying, with Winr telling her to keep it down since he had already suffered enough through having to travel through the Desert. She says Impmon saw it too, who backs up her claim and adds that it looked like a caterpillar. Winr asks FunBeemon's opinion, who says it may have been a DoKunemon, Wormmon, or even a new Digimon entirely. It points out that it had asked its Royal Base hive members to search around the desert beforehand, and that none of them had seen the green Digimon in question — though offers out the theory that it may have possessed an NPC or object since being spotted. Winr doubts this though, figuring that a random wild Digimon would have no where to hide, since so many debug team members were out looking for Maquinamon and that some had even captured some in the Desert and had made sure to check every single NPC and object in the area. He brings this up to Yuuki, who's protests go in vein. Winr asks why Yuuki is pushing so much about this supposed sighting, with her just saying "because". As he thinks over it, he realizes that she cares about all Digimon and how distraught she probably is about the fact that a wild Digimon could be suffering and then die as wild Digimon are unable to survive long inside LACUNA and so apologizes. As their partners try to cheer them up, Ryutaro and Tyrannomon show up. Ryutaro praises the duo for their work, whilst Tyrannomon jumps into the nearby water to cool down. They are quickly followed by Suzune and Frigimon, who had been working with Ryutaro and Tyrannomon.
Stopping for a break and a chat, Suzune says that she and Ryutaro hadn't found the Digimon either — though had seen some of the other debug members were duelling against a trio of NPCs and so something must've been going on in the desert. Not wanting to doubt Yuuki and Impmon, Suzune says that with no one having been able to find the wild Digimon — it must've already died. Yuuki becomes visibly sad, though quickly puts on a fake smile to try and hide the pain. With the mission "complete", Ryutaro, Suzune, and their partners leave — with Winr routed firmly in place. FunBeemon asks if he wants to say something to Yuuki, with him slightly annoyed at him being so obvious. Rather than act on his wishes though, he decides to let Impmon do it instead as "it'll be harder for Impmon to open up if we're there". FunBeemon laughs and says how it's a mature response, though just offers for them to come up with what he can say to her whilst they wait for her to return to the base. Winr protests about how he can never win against FunBeemon, and leaves. DEBUG.6-1 OASIS
One day, a large amount of black holes open up in Jewel. Unchained tells Cool Boy that they predicted said issue could cause LACUNA to be destroyed. The admins log out all regular players — though allow staff and debug team members to remain logged in. Winr was logged in at the time, with the admins sending a notification for logged in debug members to go to the Garden. Once there, they were all told to go look for NPC Sam the Clown as it was controlling the Digimon inside the black holes. RAID ON THE WORLD (Part 1)
With no one able to find him despite searching the entire City, Arisa Kinosaki eventually figures that they couldn't find the NPC as the wild Digimon possessing him must've digivolved to Imperialdramon and as such was no longer an NPC. Arisa texts everyone her theory, with this putting a stop to the search, the entire group now focused on taking down the fifty Imperialdramon. RAID ON THE WORLD (Part 2) Winr defeats at least one of them. OVERWRITE BLACK (Part 1)
Notes and references
| Digimon Liberator DEBUG | |
|---|---|
| Main characters: | Yuuki | Winr | Ryutaro Williams | Suzune Kazuki | Altea | Unchained | Zenith |
| Digimon: | Impmon | FunBeemon | Tyrannomon | Frigimon | Espimon | Maquinamon | Vemmon |
| Other characters: | Other characters |
| See also: | Digimon Card Game | Digimon | Digital World | Real World | LACUNA | Digimon Liberator (Liberator video game) | List of chapters | List of chapters (comic) | Digimon Liberator (comic) | |