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[dreamtamer]

Player Information

Name: Lel
Age:  Late 30s
Contact details: leloipa on plurk, Lel #8770 on discord
Other characters: Conan Edogawa (Shinichi Kudo), Danny Fenton 

Character Information

Name: Takato Matsuda
Canon: Digimon Tamers/Digimon 03
Canon Point: After the Message in a Packet post series audio drama
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: OU
Age: 13

World Information:
This series of Digimon starts off in a world that is very similar to the real world. Takato lives in the Shinjuku district in Tokyo, where his parents own a small bakery. Digimon is a massively popular card game and video games franchise. However, it is quickly revealed that digimon are real. They are data based life forms that evolved from an AI experiment in the 1980s and escaped onto the network. As the internet evolved and more data passed through it, the digimon and the digital world they lived in inside the network evolved as well.

By Takato's canon point, it is common knowledge that digimon are real. It is also known that all of the digimon were forced to return to the network until the Digital World heals. Shinjuku has completed rebuilding from a series of digimon attacks, and everyone is being encouraged to forget about the digimon and move on with their lives.

But... Takato doesn't want to do that.

Personal History:

Takato started out as a very ordinary boy. He watched the Digimon television series and played the digimon card games. He even drew fanart of the series, but he always thought it was just a story. And then one day, one of his digimon drawings came to life as Guilmon. To Takato, it was like a dream had come true.

 

Takato and Guilmon quickly became best friends and partners. In between teaching his new best friend about the human world, Takato met other children who had become partnered with digimon. He and Guilmon took on the job of fighting the Wild Ones, unpartnered digimon who were attacking the human world. They grew stronger and stronger as more powerful digimon began to invade the real world.

 

And then one of their digimon friends was kidnapped and taken to the digital world. Along with the other Tamers, Takato and Guilmon traveled to the digital world to rescue their friend. There they learned that Culumon was the source of all evolution in the digital world, and that the digital world was under attack by an obsolete security program. The D-Reaper had been programmed to delete anything that exceeded its programmed boundaries,  but it itself had evolved and determined that everything in both worlds needed to be deleted. 

 

But before anything could be done, they were attacked by Beelzemon, an old acquaintance who had agreed to destroy them all in return for power. He quickly defeated all the Tamers... and then he killed Leomon, one of the other Tamer's partners. 

 

Takato and Guilmon lost themselves in their anger at Leomon's death. In his rage Takato ordered Guilmon to evolve to the Ultimate level for the first time. It went terribly wrong.  Guilmon evolved into Megidramon, a demonic dragon that began corrupting and destroying the entire digital world by its very existence. Horrified at his own actions, Takato found the connection to Guilmon within himself, and restored his partner to his original self. As they stared down Beelzemon's attack, Takato made a wish that this time they could fight together. Together, they evolved into the holy knight Dukemon and defeated Beelzemon.

 

The Tamers retrieved Culumon and a repentant Beelzemon and returned to the human world, using a digital boat that had been created for them by human programmers. But back in the real world, they discovered that the D-Reaper had followed them home by kidnapping and replacing one of the Tamers with a puppet, and now it was attacking both worlds.

 

Takato quickly learned that now that he was back in the real world, he was no longer made out of data and he could not merge with Guilmon to become Dukemon any more. Without the ability to reach their most powerful forms, the Tamers were limited in their ability to fight the D-Reaper. And that was when a gift was sent from the rulers of the Digital World. A program that would convert them into data in the real world, restoring their ability to reach their highest forms.

Around this same time, the human programmers who had created digimon realized that Takato and Guilmon needed the ability to fly in order to truly fight the D-Reaper. Using the data of the digital boat, which Takato and Guilmon had befriended on the way home from the Digital World, they gave it wings and turned it into the dragon Grani. A dragon steed for a dragon knight.

With the new abilities and allies, the Tamers were able to push back the D-Reapers agents and finally entered the D-Reaper's Zone for a final battle. During the battle Grani sacrificed himself and merged with Takato and Guilmon, giving them his wings and allowing them to evolve into a winged knight form. They were able to rescue their friend who had been taken by the D-Reaper while the other Tamers activated a program that returned the D-Reaper to its original form as a basic data clean up program.

But the use of that program destabilized the data in the real world. All of the digimon partners were forced to return to the Digital World with only the hope that some day it would be safe to return. And Takato made a promise to Guilmon that one day they would play together again.

After some time Takato found a new portal to the Digital World. He was very excited about this, and was making plans to enter it and find Guilmon, when the adults discovered this. They told Takato that it was too unstable and dangerous to use, and put a firewall over it to prevent the Tamers from entering it. Takato got very angry about this and yelled at both his parents and the human programmers. And somehow, he broke through the firewall.

But again, he was stopped before he could enter the portal. The adults filled in the access point with concrete. Takato was very angry with them for a while, but eventually he felt guilty about the things he said to them and apologized. They told him he should forget about the digimon and move on with his life. But... even if he didn't want to be angry about it anymore Takato does not want to give up on his last promise to Guilmon. He still wants to play with him again some day.

Personality:

Takato is cheerful and kind-hearted, but prone to worrying. He is very creative, but often get carried away by his own overactive imagination. He often comes up with crazy hair-brained ideas, but most of the time they work. Takato isn't very good at explaining himself, and often tangles himself up in his own explanations, but he tries anyway. He is also more than a little impulsive, and doesn't always think through the consequences before he acts. Takato makes friends easily, and can be very enthusiastic about his interests. 

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. He can be surprisingly observant when he wants to be, but also often misses the obvious. And he has never lost his sense of wonder about the 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.  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 overthinking things. 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.

And perhaps of more importance, Takato doesn't see a difference between real and digital life. Other people throughout the series claim that because digimon are made out of data, they're not as real or as sentient as humans. Takato doesn't. To him Guilmon is his friend, and isn't that the thing that really matters? 
 

Takato is usually very optimistic and easygoing, so much so that it is extremely difficult to truly make him angry. Even when someone is cruel to him he will often be more hurt and confused than angry. But on the rare occasion that something does infuriate him he will give himself over completely to his rage to a frightening degree. He doesn't stop to second guess himself or worry about other people getting hurt. He just goes straight for his target. 

Key themes:
Tomorrow I will be a better me.

As long as my friends are with me, I can accomplish anything.

Main Motivation:
Takato just wants a world where he can play together with his friends. All of them, whether they're made out of DNA or data. That motivation has stayed the same through the series, whether that meant fighting trying to get all of his friends to work together or merging with his best friend and partner to become a knight/angel and punching his way through a rogue computer program trying to delete all of reality. At his current canon point, that means doing everything he can to find a way to Guilmon again. He made a promise that they would play together again some day, after all.

Skills:
This is a complicated question, because as a Digimon character, a lot of Takato's abilities are channeled through a partner who is appable as a separate character, and canon never really shows Takato on his own. 

Abilities with Partner

• Takato is deeply connected to Guilmon through a device called a D-Arc.
• They sometimes can hear each other from a long distance away, or simply seem to know that the other needs them. They have also had conversations inside Takato's mind.
• Takato can give Guilmon his own energy to help him become stronger for a short time or to help him evolve to stronger forms. The stronger the form, the more closely Takato is connected to him. At child and adult levels this is not very noticeable. At the perfect level, Takato feels the pain from any injuries that Guilmon takes and can directly give him energy. At the ultimate level, they merge together into one individual. This connection is usually passed through the D-Arc, but the first time they merged together, they did it without one.
• In the Tamers world, Takato can change data through the power of belief. 
  
  • Takato can use the cards from the Digimon card game to temporarily give Guilmon new abilities or items. It is explained that this works because Tamers can manipulate the data connection to their partners through the D-Arc through belief.
  • Takato can turn any card into a blue card simply by wishing for it. A blue card is a card with a special algorithm on it that is designed to connect humans and digimon. Takato's card reader became his digivice when he first used a blue card on it. 
  • In the Digital World, Takato could manipulate his own data by believing that he could live without eating or that he could breathe water.

Abilities Takato can use on his own

• Not psychic, but probably going to be more sensitive to psychic/empathic things happening than a typical human. He's had at least one true dream where he went on an out of body experience. 
• Seeing as Takato broke through a government firewall after Guilmon left, he probably has some ability to manipulate data through the D-Arc on his own. He could potentially still create blue cards, although that's a rather useless ability without any digimon around.
• Good at drawing
• Knows how to bake bread

Item:
His D-Arc.

Sample:
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Notes:
I am using the original Japanese sub. The English dub is similar, but changed some names, and there are some minor characterization differences.