Talk:Pokémon VS Digimon/@comment-3035019-20151226155039/@comment-26510892-20151226164111

Both are friendly, and coincidentially blonde, teenagers who start off as just normal but are later forced to go on grand quests after the destruction of their hometowns. They also later gain special abilities/weapons along the way. Later on, it's revealed that they both were just being used as hosts by greater, yet more violent beings (The Summon Spirit Ratatosk and Zanza respectively)

There's a little bit more to the whole "hosts" part, but there's a lot of detail behind it