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Name- Taco

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Character, series- Koiso Kenji || Summer Wars

Character journal- diditinmyhead

Character type- Maaaiiiiiiin

Digimon partner- Kapurimon > Chuumon > Puttimon > Phelesmon > Beelzebumon

D-Comm colours/symbol- This thing, courtesy of Kate~

Imported from another RP?- ... naaaaah

Character appearance-

Character age- 17

Character history-
[Note] So, just so people know, if I start naming random names in this history and you have no idea who the hell it is, just assume that it’s one of the family members. I will say otherwise if it isn’t. Thanks, dudes. You rock.

Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant land of Summer, 2010, there lived a very mopey math geek named Koiso Kenji. Over the summer, he and his friend Sakuma Takashi were working maintenance on a virtual program known as OZ.

… now, before we get any further with Kenji’s history, allow me to explain a little about OZ, because this is going to become very, very important. OZ is a massive online world that can be used for just about anything. Shopping, gaming, social networking, business, you name it, it can be done through OZ. OZ requires that you make an avatar to represent yourself in this world, and prides itself on it’s efficiency in communication.

Anyway, back to Kenji. He and Sakuma were doing maintenence on OZ as a summer job, when BAM. In comes the prettiest lil’ thang you ever did see, right into the school’s computer lab …

Her name was Shinohara Natsuki.

Natsuki asked the boys if either of them wanted a summer job, to which Sakuma replied that they were already in the middle of one. Natsuki, thinking that neither boy could help her out, began to leave, when, suddenly, Kenji stood and said that maybe he could help her. Sakuma stood up and said the same, but alas, Natsuki said the job was only for one.

After a game of rock, paper, scissors, guess who won the job?

Right. So, on the designated day, Kenji met Natsuki at the train station, where the two of them would be heading off to Ueda, to spend four days at Natsuki’s family’s clan house. The occasion: Grandma Sakae’s 90th birthday. The job was simple: to just follow along with Natsuki and go along with whatever she said. While on the way to Ueda, Kenji met some of the family, got a few history lessons … and all seemed fine and dandy and fun.

Until, of course, they got to the house. Between being in awe of size of the clan house, accidentally mistaking grandma’s daughter for grandma, and everything else, Kenji was finally introduced to the lady of the next four days: Grandma Sakae herself. At first, Kenji was fine. Maybe a little intimidated, but fine. He tried to explain how he knew Natsuki to Sakae, when Natsuki interrupted and told Sakae that Kenji was her fiancee.

Both Sakae and Kenji were, needless to say, very shocked. Sakae then moved on to ask Kenji if he would protect Natsuki under any circumstance, and if he would die for her. Under her gaze, Kenji said he would. And then Sakae laughed, and all was good again.

Natsuki pulled Kenji aside, apologized, and explained what was going on. She had heard Sakae’s health was failing, and, on an impulse, she said Sakae couldn’t die until she met her boyfriend. She then re-explained the job to him: Pretend to be her fiancee around her family, just for the duration of the four days they were to stay with the family, and later, she would tell them that they’d broken up. Kenji was very adamant about not being able to do it, and work with the story Natsuki had come up with for him, but … let’s just say he’s easily persuaded by the charms of Shinohara Natsuki.

And so, their four days in Ueda began. Kenji met most of the family, and had dinner with them, trying to keep up the illusion of being Natsuki’s fiancee. Long story short, Shouta threw a fit and everyone went “nyeeeeh” and Mansuke went into another history lesson.

So then the night came and Kenji called Sakuma to explain what was happening. After a bit of teasing from his end, he hung up and realized that he had no idea where he was. He stumbled around the house for a bit before coming across a room with one of the missing members of the family, Ikezawa Kazuma, in it. Little computer geek was … on the computer. And told him where the bathroom was. Because he totally assumes that he’s looking for a bathroom. So Kenji follows his advice after pretty much getting ignored by Kazuma and OMG NAKED BABY-- err, I mean. He arrives at the bathroom. And the girls are bathing. He accidentally caught a glimpse of half-naked Natsuki. Oops. She told him the bathroom was free and advised that he take a bath, to which he agreed … but he was met with two of the younger boys still in the bathtub when he went in there.

… again, oops.

So then after his wonderful bath, he came back out with the rest of the family, only to find that another of the missing family members had arrived …after ten years of being away. Jinnouchi Wabisuke had returned, much to the rest of the family’s dismay. Sakae, in her own way, welcomed him home, to which he was a royal jerkass.

SUDDENLY. NATSUKI. Who instantly glomped her favorite Uncle. Causing a WTF reaction from Kenji, who was so very, very confused about everything ever. So then, once things calmed down a little bit, Kenji sat by and read the rules to Hanafuda Koi-Koi while Natsuki and Wabisuke played and caught up a little with each other. Wabisuke won the game and told the kids to go to bed, to which Natsuki was reluctant. He got up and started moving to another room of the house, and Natsuki followed him. Kenji was still very, very confused about everything. Ever.

After a while, he tried to go to sleep. Unfortunate for him, it wasn’t easy. While he was tossing and turning, he received a text with a wall of numbers, asking him to solve it. And, well, Kenji the math nerd couldn’t possibly pass that up, oh no. So Kenji worked at it, and solved it, then sent the decoded message back. He received a thank-you message, which, frankly, spooked him enough to jump, and then he went to sleep. Because MATH IS EXHAUSTING, OBVIOUSLY.

The next morning, he was awoken by two of the kidlets jumping on him and demanding he wake up. They dragged him into the living room, to the television, where reports were being made about a security breach on the OZ network. They were showing a picture of the culprit that had caused this, and it was pretty easily recognized as Kenji. Kenji, in a panic, tried to turn the TV off, only to have it turned on again by the kidlets, who started spouting things about catching the criminal. Kenji unplugged the TV, then rushed into the other room, where he repeatedly tried to log into OZ via his phone. And he repeatedly was denied. Remembering that weird kid with the computer, Kenji ran to find the room, finding him still in it. He asked to use his computer, but he didn’t ask politely enough. DENIED BY KAZUMA. So then he asked again, this time more politely, and was granted access to the computer. He continued to try and access his account, but kept getting DENIIIIIIED. After admitting to Kazuma that his account had been hijacked, he was advised to call customer service. Again, DENIIIIED. His cell phone couldn’t connect due to his failures with logging into OZ.

Just when Kenji had started to freak out more, he received a call from good ol’ Sakuma. He’d been following the reports, and wanted to confirm that Kenji wasn’t actually intentionally at fault. Sakuma believed he didn’t do it, but also admitted that he couldn’t log into OZ himself because the sector password had been changed. He then went on to explain that a strange e-mail had been sent out to players last night, with a character code that couldn’t easily be cracked. It was soon realized that, yeah, Kenji did have something to do with it, by way of cracking that security code and sending the answer off.

In any case, Sakuma did come in handy. He created a guest avatar for Kenji that connected to his cell phone number, for him to use until things blew over. With that, Kenji went on with the investigation, to find out what was going on, and who was controlling his avatar. He found his avatar, and confronted it, asking it to stop doing bad things … but then OHSNAP BATTLE MODE. The avatar attacked his avatar. But that shouldn’t have happened, right? Certain areas were reserved for battle, and this was just right out in the open of OZ. Whatever had taken control of Kenji’s avatar had altered the fields of OZ to his liking. So now there was a mouse avatar bouncing on a squirrel avatar. While stunned, Kenji was pushed out of the way by Kazuma, and Kazuma brought his own avatar, King Kazma, in to battle the nuisance. Which caused a bunch of people to watch, because King Kazma is the shit. Seriously.

Once it looked like Kazma was going to win it, the kidlets returned to “capture the criminal.” Their “capture” ended up breaking Kazuma’s concentration, and the avatar escaped … and ate some of the other accounts that had been taken, allowing it to EVOLVE.

INTO.

LOVE MACHINE.

Only they don’t know that’s its’ name yet. Spoilers~

So Kazma tried fighting the bigger dude, and kinda got his ass handed to him. Kenji’s squirrel used “LOOK! A DISTRACTION!” and pulled the defeated Kazma away.

Later, Sakuma revealed the identity of the culprit; an AI called. Yep. Love Machine. I said it earlier.

Meanwhile, in the living room, an ordinarily lovely lunch was interrupted by the reports on the television about someone very familiar causing a lot of trouble on OZ. It was revealed at this point by Rika that Kenji was not who he was made out to be. Natsuki was left to be confronted with this.

But then they all went and found Kenji and dragged him out to talk with Mariko. Who scolded both Kenji and Natsuki thoroughly about the lies they told. This leads to Natsuki having an epic flail moment about her fist crush being on Uncle Wabisuke, and Shouta running in and being all “DUDE, HE NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED.” Which he did. After remembering that he’s a cop. Sakae, who was sitting to the side and witnessing the entire thing, finally spoke up, asking Kenji if he really did what the news said he did. Kenji replied that he was innocent, then dragged himself and Shouta over to sit in front of Sakae, apologizing for the trouble he’d caused, and that his time at the clan home had to end like it was. He then went on to say that he enjoyed his time with them, and that he was happy to spend his time with the family. He explained that his family was always away, and never had the time to spend with him, and that spending time with the Jinnouchi clan made him feel like he was welcomed and accepted among a family. He thanked Sakae for her hospitality, and then thanked the family, to which he received a chorus of “you’re welcome,” and “goodbye.” Shouta dragged him off to the car, intent on taking him down to the station. Before they could get too far, though, Natsuki came running out after them. Kenji tried to call out to her, only to be shut up by Shouta.

Unfortunately, they got stuck in traffic. Which infuriated Shouta, but was a lucky break for Kenji. Natsuki and Riichi arrived via motorcycle to relay the news that traffic was backed up forever and a day, and that they’d have to go back to the clan home for the time being.

Once back at the house, Natsuki, Kazuma, Kenji, and Shouta all huddled around Kazuma’s laptop as they communicated with Sakuma over the OZ network now. Sakuma was giving them more information about Love Machine, and how the AI could take anybody’s account with his password. He then went on to also explain that since OZ is used for multiple purposes, any account taken could very well control something important within the outside world. Basically meaning … yeah, this thing could fuck with your water systems, electricity, national security, etc, etc. Cue Kenji getting mopey about everything being his fault.

But then they all saw Grandma Sakae being badass and using her awesomeness to do business with a Rotary Phone, encouraging everyone she knew with power to do something to combat this whole thing. That cheered ‘em all right up.

So, now we go back to Mister Exposition. Known as Sakuma. He explains once again that OZ’s control sector couldn’t even be broken into by the engineering team, but that the password was protected with a number code. Ohai, who do we know who can crack number codes? Hell yeah. So Kenji cracked the code, and got the password into the control sector, effectively stalling Love Machine for a little bit and helping to return things to normal for the time being. It was also revealed at this time that while Kenji is a wonderful Mathematician, he is a terrible speller. His name was not on the list of the people who managed to crack the code, because he got the last letter of the whole thing wrong, thus proving that the hero didn’t break it this time. Nice job, anyway.

So then they had dinner. Some more of the previously missing family members joined them. Kenji was complimented by Grandma Sakae for stepping up and doing his part to fix the problem, which led to the family being generally accepting of him again. But then! A news report! Despite things being up and running in OZ again thanks to Kenji’s efforts, there were still over 2 million accounts that were rendered unusable, and continued to be as such. Raises some red flags, don’t it? Well, Kazuma piped up (omg he’s actually at the table, what) and said that Love Machine still hadn’t been defeated, only stalled. They then had to explain what was going on regarding Love Machine to the rest of the family, and Kazuma seemed confident that they could defeat it … but then Wabisuke spoke up out of nowhere and, well, long story short, confessed that he was the one to develop Love Machine. He also confessed as to what Love Machine’s purpose was: To gather information. He had sold the AI program to the United States, who had decided to test-run it on OZ servers. Obviously, it was doing more harm than good, but Wabisuke was being kind of a jerkass about it and only focusing on how successful it had been from his end, and how much money he was going to get as a result of it. Sakae did not approve. Sakae confronted Wabisuke, and Wabisuke told him that he would be able to make more money than the money he’d taken for himself, or even more money than that of which her late husband managed to stupidly splurge. Sakae got angry enough to the point where she took a spear from the wall, and went at Wabisuke, saying it was now time for him to pay for his crimes. Wabisuke only grabbed the blade and walked off, stating that he never should have returned. Sakae then announced that it was their duty to take care of the mess that one of their own had made.

Naturally, Natsuki had been saddened by her favorite Uncle’s involvement in this whole fiasco, and then his taking off, but when Kenji tried to talk to her, she asked to be left alone. Kenji respected her wishes, and was about to leave and continue helping with cleanup, but then Sakae beckoned for him to come to her room. Kenji helped Sakae to sit down, and was about to return to, once again, help with cleaning up, but Sakae suddenly asked if he knew how to play Hanafuda. So they played Hanafuda. Sakae apologized for what he’d seen concerning Wabisuke, and even concerning Natsuki. She then proposed a wager, based on their game of Hanafuda; if she won, she wanted Kenji to take care of Natsuki. Which, of course, shocked the hell out of Kenji, but he remained silent as she explained that while Natsuki was still young and foolish, in time she would learn from her mistakes and become a good wife. Kenji admitted that he didn’t think he could even take care of himself, much less Natsuki … but Sakae urged him that he could do it. Kenji tried a few times to protest, but in the end, he relented, saying that he would try his best. With that promise, Sakae won the game.

Kenji woke the next morning to the sound of the dog barking, and panic in the household. He got up and rushed to where all the activity was, to see what was happening. When he found everybody, he found out that Sakae had died of heart failure in her sleep, and the other members of the family were desperately trying to resuscitate her. To everyone’s despair, Sakae was too long gone to bring back, and Mansaku called the time of death.

Mansaku had been monitoring Sakae’s vital signs through OZ, and he had known how to treat her. An alarm would have gone off if anything were to go wrong, but he had stopped receiving data since the night before, due to one of the stolen accounts being connected to that. Mansaku believed it was Sakae’s time to go, but everyone else was adamant on not believing it.

The following day was spent in mourning, every member of the family dealing with the loss of Grandma Sakae in their own way. Natsuki was taking it really hard, and Kenji made it a point to stay with her and help console her. Natsuki asked Kenji to make her tears stop, and to hold her, offering her hand. Kenji, though hesitant, took her hand. She cried harder, but showed that she was grateful for his comfort by linking their fingers together.

Lunch was quiet that day. The girls began talking about making plans for the funeral, while Mansuke stood up and declared that Love Machine was a threat to the world, and the right thing to do would be to protect the innocent before planning Sakae’s funeral. After being effectively told off by his own daughter, Kenji stood up and defended Mansuke’s point of view, which inspired Kazuma to start thinking of a way to defeat Love Machine. Kenji had apparently inspired him to take action by standing up to the girls of the clan.

So, while the girls started making plans for a funeral, the boys made a war plan to be rid of Love Machine once and for all. Different parts of the family brought in the big guns; Mansuke brought in his boat as an external power source. Tasuke offered a large modem and computer. Riichi got some special armed forces technology to help. Kazuma was going to challenge Love Machine to one more match, and this time, he was even more determined to win.

Enter a scene with Kenji watching a sweaty Kazuma practicing. Oh, and Kazuma’s mom, Kiyomi, told Kenji about how Kazuma used to be bullied. And that he learned martial arts from Mansuke in order to defend himself. gdit Kazuma quit making me feel like a pedo.

Also relevant, Kenji told Sakuma the plan. Cue “wait what King Kazma is a thirteen year old boy what.”

So the time for the battle came, and everyone got into their places, totally ready to beat the crap out of an AI. As expected, Love Machine took on the challenge made by King Kazma, and the fight began. All seemed to be going well for a while. They had managed to trap Love Machine into a situation that would seemingly destroy him, but some idiot had to be … well, an idiot, SHOUTA, and take all of the ice used to keep the giant server cooled down to make sure Sakae’s corpse wasn’t rotting in the summer heat. Granted, his intentions were good, but seriously, man. Life or death. Do you get it?

Because of this, the stage experienced errors due to the server overheating, and Love Machine managed to break free … but not only that. He also evolved again, using the countless amounts of OZ accounts he’d managed to obtain. He made easy work of King Kazma, with Kazuma still too stunned to really do anything about it.

So then we get a snarky comment from Shouta, and some epic Kazuma’s fist + Shouta’s face OTP stuff. But then the world clocks reset for 2 hours, and began showing several nuclear reactors from across the world. Riichi then relayed the news that a Japanese satellite was plummeting to earth and bound to hit one of the nuclear reactors shown on the timer, whiiich explained why the timer was set for 2 hours: it was the time it would take for the imminent impact. The satellite could be redirected via GPS points, but the horrible truth was that Love Machine had control of the GPS points.

Riichi also explained that in order to redirect the satellite, though, they’d have to retrieve the account that was stolen that could control it. With over 400 million accounts already in the hands of Love Machine, it seemed like an impossible feat. Kazuma tried to get King Kazma up and back to fighting Love Machine, on a last ditch effort to do his part in saving the world, but alas, at this point, Love Machine was far too strong. In the end, King Kazma was taken as well, joining the 400 million that had already been stolen.

It seemed as if all hope was lost, but remember who the protagonist of this movie is, kids. Kenji, deep in thought, stated that they hadn’t lost yet. Much to the protests of an overwhelmed and emotional Kazuma, Kenji maintained his stance, saying that they just had to keep going until they found the answer. This prompted Natsuki to rush off, once again trying to get a hold of Wabisuke. She finally managed to crack the code on his phone and get a hold of him, informing him of what happened and asking him to return.

Meanwhile, Mariko read Grandma Sakae’s will. The will left no material belongings to any of the family, but it did stress the importance of not giving up, and the importance of family as a whole. It also asked that should Wabisuke return, that the family welcome him back with open arms, and offer him a meal, because the worst things in life were being alone and being hungry.

As if right on cue, Wabisuke returned, in a panic over Grandma Sakae’s death. Mariko stepped forward and asked Wabisuke to go pay his respects, and then join them for lunch. So, lunch happened. In the middle of the end of the world. During which, they discussed what sort of plan of attack they’d have for Love Machine. Wabisuke said he would try and disable his powers, but wasn’t sure if he’d be able to get it done in time. Kenji suggested that they find a more efficient way of regaining the stolen accounts, and offered the solution of hanafuda when everyone voiced their curiosity about this.

So, with lunch concluded, the family huddled together to challenge Love Machine to a game of hanafuda, to gamble the accounts they would need. Natsuki took the leadership position and became the hanafuda player, while using the accounts of her family to gamble for the accounts Love Machine had taken. Things were going really well, and Natsuki was winning most of the games … but then Love Machine learned how the game worked, and won a round. Just when things seemed hopeless again, a German kid offered his account for Natuski to use to help save the world, followed by the remaining accounts of people all over the world. The guardians of OZ, John Lennon and Yoko Onno gave Natsuki’s avatar a surpaiiiiis upgrade, and made her look even sexier than she had before, but also gave her epic Koi-Koi powers (okay, really, this is a lot more serious than I’m making it out to be, so I apologize to anyone who’s reading this and going “what is this crack”), and she used those epic Koi-Koi powers to win the game. Literally. She got back all of the accounts except for two: Kenji’s old avatar, and Love Machine himself.

So they saved the day.

… Orrrr not. See, they had to throw just one last twist. The satellite had been redirected again, to one certain landing point …which happened to be the Jinnouchi clan household. Everyone began preparing to evacuate, but Kenji, still the protagonist, began cracking the codes to get into the account that could redirect the GPS units. The satellite was going to fall anyway, but if he could get into the account, he could redirect the coordinates so that it would divert just a bit away from the house. Of course, everyone thought he was crazy at first, but soon after they all stood by him. Kenji had an epic moment of brain meltage, but he managed to secure it.

Wabisuke managed to decrese Love Machine’s defense capabilities to zero, and Kazuma, who had gotten King Kazma back as a result of Natsuki’s epic Koi-Koi powers, ended it with a single fist to the face on Love Machine’s severely reduced defense.

And once Love Machine was history, Kenji managed to redirect the satellite to fall just barely away from the house, still causing a giant explosion and BOOM, but not causing any more casualties than what had already been done.

The funeral for Grandma Sakae was held the day after, and despite it being a funeral, everyone still gathered together to sing Happy Birthday to Grandma, as it was her 90th birthday. Despite it being a sad occasion, most everyone followed Grandma’s wishes, and tried not to be too sad; in fact, the members of the family who weren’t Shouta were trying to get Natsuki and Kenji together for real. Kenji admitted that he loved Natsuki, to which Natsuki replied that she was happy about that. Of course, naturally, they tried to get them to kiss, too, but when they went to do so, Kenji suffered an epic nosebleed. Natsuki took the initiative and kissed his cheek, which caused the poor boy to have an even more epic nosebleed and pass out.

Despite his reaction, however, he and Natsuki did start a relationship. A few months passed, and school began again. Things seemed to be really great, but then he received a frantic call from Natsuki, saying that Kazuma had disappeared. Kenji was right over to help, and reassure the family that he would do what he could to find him, but weeks passed and there had been no sign of him still. Kenji was still doing what he could to console Natsuki and look for Kazuma on his own time …

… until he disappeared, too.

Character personality- Early on into the movie, we see that Kenji is [A] very shy. [B] very smart. [C] has like, no confidence in himself. [D] mopey about not being representative of Japan in Math. But then he's picked up by the girl of his dreams and whisked off to the magical world of the Jinnouchi Clan, where he undergoes a lot of events and meets a lot of people in a short time. These events make Kenji the man .. or, well, more of a man that he is today. You can read about these events in his history. :P

Now, Kenji is still very shy. He's still very smart, but perhaps a little more 'wise' than he was before he started, has more confidence in himself (though he still lacks SOME confidence. I mean, come on, he can't have changed THAT much, right?), and is really not that mopey anymore. He's also a boy in his first relationship ever with a pretty girl. Yeah. His dealings with that? He, uh. Gets frequent nosebleeds. And is very awkward. Indeed.

Kenji has proven that he'll lay his life on the line for people he cares about. He's shown that he won't give up even when the odds seem hopeless (he'll find a way!), and he has shown that he can really rise to the occasion when he needs to. But in everyday life, he's still a shy boy who is well on his way to becoming a really great man. |D

Digimon personality- Kapurimon is harmless.

…no, really. he is. Kapurimon is the epitome of innocence, curiosity, and childlike wonder. He asks questions, and tries his best to be “older” than he really is. He tries his best to be helpful, and tries his best to be strong in the face of danger.

No, Kapurimon isn’t a problem at all.

But once he becomes Chuumon … yeah, from Chuumon onward, there’s a problem. His personality does a complete 180, and he takes on the personality of a sneaky, evil little thing. He intentionally tries to hurt people and digimon both, and he wishes to absorb the data of any digimon he can find, whether it’s possible or not. He’s devious, and pretty much lives off of causing chaos in order to pursue whatever he wants to do. As he continues to evolve and become more powerful, he becomes more of a threat to his tamer, and to other digimon. Kenji will be able to get him under control when he’s like this, but it’ll be a difficult road for him to do so and for them to work together as a team while he’s evolved.

Of course, his personality reverts to a normal, adorable little thing as soon as he devolves to Kapurimon.

[Note] There is a reason for the random personality switch between Kapurimon and Chuumon, and I felt an explanation was necessary in order to better explain why I chose this sort of personality for him. Kapurimon represents Kenji’s first OZ Avatar, before Love Machine took a hold of him. He’s innocent, quiet, and really doesn’t cause any trouble at all. But once Love Machine took a hold of his avatar, he became rather devious, rather creepy. In order to become a stronger AI, Love Machine “ate” a few of the other stolen avatars, and then went through an evolution of his own.

And thus, I was inspired to do this for Kenji’s partner. :P Yggdrasil’s sense of humor is dark, no?

Character abilities- Kenji finally has somewhat of a backbone! Yaaaay! Not enough to keep Natsuki from being the pants of the relationship, but the important thing is that he has a start.

Okay, no, seriously. Kenji's abilities aren't physical. In fact, the boy is probably the least physical person on the planet. No, his talents lie with math. He's a math whiz who can crack huge mathematical codes, and do calculations in his head. He mainly does the mathematical codes on paper, but there was one time when he was pressed for time that he figured it out in his head.

... he might have killed a few brain cells doing that though.

Other than that, he doesn't really have anything special about him. He's supersmart in math. That's it.

Sample RP- “Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up!”

Kenji groaned, placing a hand to his forehead and trying to open his eyes. It was bright; instantly, he shut his eyes again.

“Wake uuuup! Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up~!”

A tiny, boyish voice continued to demand that he woke up, accompanied by the feeling of a very light tapping on his stomach. Kenji groaned again, covering his ears. It wasn’t time to wake up yet, was it?

“Wake uuuup! I saw you waking up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, pleeeeease, tamer?”

He was about to just ignore the thing and fall back asleep, but that word stuck out at him.

“Tamer …?” He asked, finally opening his eyes and sitting up, looking directly at whatever was causing the noise …

… which happened to be a weird looking rat-thing bouncing on his stomach. It stopped, looking hopefully up at him with wide, innocent eyes.

Kenji stared back for several moments, before …

“AHHH-!” He shoved the little thing off and scooted back a few inches, flailing and grasping at a tree that was nearby, eyes focused on the little thing, who bounced after him after recovering. It was then that Kenji realized that something was different about his room.

…that tree wasn’t there before.

This forest wasn’t there before.

This … creature wasn’t there before.

“.... this is it,” Kenji said to himself, voice shaking a little. “I-I’ve finally done it. I’m dead. Yep. Knew it. I always knew I’d die this way.”

“What’s dead feel like?” the little thing asked, staring up at him again with the same innocent eyes.

“..... nothing feels that different, actually. I’m just trying not to panic because I’m in a weird place in heaven or something.”

“Ohhhh … well, if you’re lookin’ for heaven, you’re not in the right place,” the little thing said, bouncing again. “This place is called the digital world~”

“.... wait, what?”

“Oh, you didn’t hear that? Hold on, I can say it louder!” And the little thing started sucking in a big breath, only to have a hand clapped over his mouth.

“No, no, I heard it, I’m just finding it hard to believe, that’s all …” He sighed, removing his hand from the little .. whatever it was’s mouth and taking him into his arms, looking down and making a face at himself.

“Yggdrasil brought you here!” the little thing said, hopping up onto his shoulder. “Our God!” Kenji looked over at him again, that same expression present on his face.

“Do you think he could’ve at least changed me out of my pajamas before sending me to a world I know nothing about?”

Sample journal entry-
[ TEXT ]
um … hi.

i’m not sure where to start, but … i just arrived here, and there is a kaprimon on my sholdur saying that we need to find a place to stay. i’m inclined to belive him. why can’t i find the shift button?

oh, um. my name is kenji. koiso kenji. if anyone is out there, please help?

( ooc: the joke here is that Kenji’s not the best speller. xD )