My dreams came true, it actually ended up red!

And what's more, it goes in the kind of design direction that I would call "excess energy", which I greatly appreciate.

It's really a design space that I always hoped Digimon would explore more than it did. One of the high points when it comes to Digimon designs in the last few years were in my opinion the mythology themed designs that were introduced in Digimon Crusader (except Cerberumon Jinrou mode, that was just silly). The Aegiomon line is probably one of my all time favorite lines and especially the very final form, Jupitermon Wrath mode was just an incredible design; It was a divine death machine that actually looked as completely overwhelming as it should.

Basically at this point (and even back then) Digimon had so many super powerful shining knights that yet another spiky armor design with a description like "his sword sure is really sharp" just does not stand out anymore. But Jupitermon Wrath mode basically took the concept of unbelievable power sealed into armor to a whole different level! Sure, it featured armor, but the design was less focused on the armor itself than it was on the fact that said armor was basically only barely containing a raging mass of concentrated plasma. It seemed volatile. It was completely over the top. It was such a poignant way of illustrating raw power (And I will forever be salty that the crusaders story ended before Aegiomon was able to reach that form).

But then in the next few years no other Digimon designs took a hint from that and we were back to generic armor designs (and especially Omegamon variations). So seeing that Rudomon's final form has that elemental energy look is truly worth celebrating (I'll surely have more to gush over once we get the page in higher resolution).