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PLAYER INFORMATIONNAME: Lel
AGE: 27
JOURNAL: leloipa
AIM/PLURK/EMAIL: leloipa
CURRENT CHARACTERS: Conan Edogawa
CHARACTER INFORMATIONSERIES: Digimon Tamers
NAME: Takato Matsuda
RACE: Human
AGE: 11
CANON POINT: Post Series and after the Audio Drama (Message in a Packet)
REFERENCES: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimon_Tamers
GENDER: Male
APPEARANCE: A little short for his age, with messy light brown hair and warm reddish brown eyes. In some lights they appear to be a true red color. He often has a goofy smile on his face, but is prone to introspection. His preferred clothing is a light blue hooded sweatshirt and a pair of tan slacks that come down to his mid-calves. He always wears a pair of green sneakers. When not in school he likes to wear a pair of golden blue lensed goggles on his head.
PERSONALITY & HOUSE REQUESTS:
On the surface, Takato is cheerful and a little goofy. He loves to draw, and often get carried away by his own overactive imagination. He ruins dramatic moments by offering to draw pictures of the situation. He's arrived in more than one tense battle scene by tripping or falling right in the middle of it. He flails when surprised, comes up with crazy hair-brained ideas that occasionally work, fails at explanations, and is single-handedly responsible for creating an obsessive demand for home-made bread in the local digimon population.
He is quiet and polite, but not withdrawn. He makes friends easily and can be very enthusiastic about his interests. And by interests he means digimon. He loves digimon. All digimon. At one point in the series, he is asked what he thinks the purpose of digimon is. Takato responds that that question is like asking the meaning of life.
Perhaps of more importance, Takato does not see a difference between real and digital life. Other people throughout the series claim that because digimon are made out of data instead of flesh that they are not as real or as sentient as humans. Takato doesn't. From the very beginning he treats digimon just like humans. He firmly believes that what you are made out of doesn't matter. It is interactions and friendships with other people that make you real.
Throughout the series (and especially in the earlier episodes) he has several heroic blue screens in which he tries to resolve his own belief that digimon are just as real and important as humans with the insistence of everyone else that they are just data. Programs. These moments are most commonly triggered by his terror that because Guilmon is made out of data that he might just disappear one day. Takato never wants to be separated from his partner.
Takato is something of a daydreamer and loves to draw and play games with his friends. He is usually very optimistic and easygoing, so much so that it is extremely difficult to truly make him angry. But on the rare occasion that something does infuriate him he will give himself over completely to his rage to a frightening degree. And it is a terrifying kind of rage. He doesn't stop to second guess himself or worry about other people getting hurt. He just goes straight for his target. The only time this happened in canon he turned his partner into a literal embodiment of the apocalypse that nearly destroyed an entire world just by existing.
He never gets upset on his own behalf. People can insult him and hurt him, and he will just take it. He won't speak up for himself. On the other hand, he will instantly act to defend his friends. On the one occasion that he lost his temper, it wasn't for anything that had been done to him. It was the pain of his friends that spurred him to act.
He feels emotions deeply and is very sensitive towards the feelings of the people around him. Takato has a high degree of empathy, and truly wants to understand why the people around him feel the way the way they do. If they're sad, he'll do anything to cheer them up. But a lot of time this very empathy makes him feel helpless. When his friends are sad and there is nothing he can do to improve the situation or when someone he considers a friend is feeling an emotion he just can't understand, he feels helpless and lost.
Takato has faith. He genuinely believes that you can create a better future if you can only believe in yourself and your friends first. Sometimes he stumbles and doubts himself, but he always comes back to that belief in the end. At the same time, an outside observer might think that he has trouble with understanding the difference between reality and fantasy. Takato knows that sometimes, if you wish for something hard enough it will happen. When it comes to digimon, imagination and belief are power. He doesn't quite realize yet that that may not be true in the human world.
He does not like fighting for its own sake. However he has an inner core of stubbornness and a strong sense of justice. If he sees a friend in trouble or an injustice happening he will throw himself into danger instantly. For example, he once dived off a platform several hundred feet in the air on the off chance that he might make it to Guilmon before a massive fire attack hit. He can be the bravest kid in the world when he doesn't realize what he is doing. At the same time he is prone to worrying. If he has time to think about or plan out his actions he can easily tie himself in knots fretting about all the ways their plans could go wrong.
But along with that sense of justice comes a tendency toward judgement. Takato likes to believe the best of everyone. He believes in forgiveness. But betrayal is something he is not prepared to handle. In a situation where someone has betrayed him and done something monstrous, Takato will execute them. Regardless of any past friendship they may have had. He was fully willing to kill Impmon in retribution for Leomon's death. When e says something is unforgivable, he really means it.
Takato deeply treasures his friends. Once he has a chosen a person as a friend he will remain faithful to them and go to great lengths to help them. Even if they try their best to push him away or give up on themselves, he will not give up on them. If given anychoice in the matter, Takato will choose to sacrifice himself over any of his friends. It isn't so much that he has a martyr personality as that he simply can't consider allowing anyone else to be hurt for his sake.
As far as weaknesses go, Takato is a bit of a klutz. At times he can be naive and recklessly curious. Not to mention gullible. He can be easily carried away by his extremely overactive imagination, and often finds a need to seek reassurance from his friends. He doubts himself often in day to day life, and worries over everything.
I believe that he would be best suited for either Gryffindor or Hufflepuff.
He would fit in Gryffindor because of his courage. He is a gogglehead, after all. When his friends need him there is nothing that he is not willing to do. Whether it is challenging an undefeatable reality destroying program to combat or jumping off a platform hundreds of feet in the air.
Likewise, his loyalty to his friends and willingness to listen would put him in Hufflepuff.
COMMUTER DETAILS: Not Tapped
POSITION: Student
ABILITIES & POWERS:
Takato is a special case here, in that he has no strength or special ability on his own. What he does have is the ability to act as a kind of combination power source and weapons supplier for his partner. Because of this, most of his abilities will be inaccessible unless someone apps his partner here some day.
Takato has the ability to take cards from the Digimon card game and turn them into real effects for his partner. For example, if he scans the white wings card, Guilmon will temporarily gain white wings and be able to fly. If he scans a card with an ice attack, Guilmon will be able to use that attack for a short time.
Takato can lend his own energy to Guilmon to allow his partner to evolve into higher forms. At the highest level he can physically merge with his partner to become the holy knight Dukemon. And in this form they can evolve even higher into the Angel/Knight Dukemon Crimson Mode. This form is called the 'patron deity of the network' in the card game and has powerful purification attacks.
When Guilmon is fighting, Takato can give his own energy to Guilmon to strengthen him. Takato's belief makes Guilmon stronger. But in return Takato feels every hit that Guilmon takes as if it is his own. The higher the level the more pain Takato feels.
Takato also has a history of having strange prophetic dreams and dreamwalking. He has had shared dreams/visions with Guilmon inside his head, and once dreamed of someone the day before he met her.
At this point in the series, Takato and Guilmon also repeatedly show evidence that there is some feedback going on between their emotions. The one time Takato loses his temper, Guiilmon loses his temper at the same exact time. This is probably a side effect of their ability to merge together into one being.
How will all of this translate? Takato will have a natural talent for transfiguration and divination. Care of Magical Creatures will be his best class, He will do very well with any skills that require energy transfer. He will not do as well in History of Magic or Potions or anything that requires a lot of study. He's a little too prone to daydreaming for that,
WAND:
Wood: Chestnut
This is a most curious, multi-faceted wood, which varies greatly in its character depending on the wand core, and takes a great deal of colour from the personality that possesses it. The wand of chestnut is attracted to witches and wizards who are skilled tamers of magical beasts, those who possess great gifts in Herbology, and those who are natural fliers.
I chose Chestnut for Takato because of his talent for working with magical creatures. After all, he is the only Tamer to have raised his partner from an egg. He is even told at one point that he would make a better mother than a Tamer. Likewise, I expect him to have a talent for flying based on his skill on riding Zeroarms Grani (A flying mechanical dragon he used as a steed.)
Core: If possible I would like his core to be his D-Arc. This is a semi-mystical device that is already connected to him, emotionally and mentally. It appeared the day he became a Tamer, and is the physical representation of his bond with his partner and also the tool he has used to manipulate energy and data within their bond. When their bond shattered, the D-Arc shattered as well, and when it was reborn a new D-Arc appeared. You might call it an kind of technomagical artifact.
If this isn't possible, then his core will be dragon heartstring. Throughout his series Takato is heavily associated with dragons, knights, and the colors red and gold.
His wand will be twelve inches long and springy, to reflect his comfort with who he is and his open mind.
MISC.:
WRITING SAMPLESFIRST PERSON:
[Small clicking sounds can be heard as a small begoggled boy pokes hesitantly around the communicator.]
Um, hello? Is anyone here?
Maybe I'm dreaming again. Could this be real? This place, I've never seen anything like it in Shinjuku.
...No. It can't be. If this was a dream Guilmon would be here. Maybe this is more like a nightmare.
Or maybe... Could I be in the Digital World again? Could I meet him again? For real?
THIRD PERSON:
It was kind of funny, but in the end Takato didn't really mind being kidnapped to another world like this. Sure, he wished that he had been able to say goodbye to his parents and friends. But the cause was just. He was sure of that. And even if he couldn't become Dukemon anymore, the part of him that knew what it was to be a knight could not refuse this fight.
What better cause was there than to save lives?
Of course, that didn't help him from getting hopelessly, hopelessly lost on the way to class. He'd gotten caught up in thinking of a subject for his next drawing and the nest thing he knew he was in a hallway where nothing looked familiar.
"Maybe I shouldn't have taken that last shortcut."
Takato sighs and looks down the corridor. At this rate he was never going to get there in time for class. And there was going to be a quiz in History of Magic too! He hopelessly looks around for an idea, kind of hoping for an arrow or map or something. But all he sees are pictures.
The pictures. A crazy idea occurs to the boy.
After he'd first arrived here he'd been fascinated by them. They weren't like Guilmon. Not exactly. But they were drawings that were alive in some way. Maybe they could help.
Takato hastily approaches the nearest one and gives it a little bow.
"Ah excuse me? Sir? Can you tell me where I am?"