#sorta. daisuke confuses me

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Jimmy is really hard to draw but I've figured everyone else out

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Divine Intervention (Mouthwashing AU)

Part 1 | Part 2 (You are here) | Part 3

ive decided to call this au Divine Intervention cz i think it sounds cool and is sorta fitting? it wont be mentioned anywhere in the fic cz it doesnt happen but their rescue takes place the day before everyone dies in game. so she saved them at the last second basically

After a brief introduction to the rest of the crew, Arabella is led to the med-bay to meet the previous captain. Anya and Jimmy accompany her while Daisuke and Swansea pack some things. The old captain looks their way and seems to freak out a little when he sees the new person.

"It's okay, Curly... She's here to help." Anya walks up to the man.

He looks near death, hardly alive enough to be called a man. If it didn't feel wrong from a medically moral standpoint, Arabella would've considered him a walking corpse in her head. But he was alive enough to move, make noise, and hurt, so he was alive enough to be saved. Jimmy stays by the doorway while she walks towards the old captain and the nurse.

"Hello, Captain Curly-"

"He is no longer captain." Jimmy interrupts angrily, like the one thing he has is being taken from him.

"Well, Jimmy, I'm afraid neither are you-" she turns to face him- "since your crew agreed to board my ship and be rescued, whoever was captain, legally or acting, is absolved of their duties. From now until we land, you are all patients under the care of No Boundaries Search and Rescue team member Arabella Inara. Which is me, if you can't tell."

"He is... not a very good man." Anya explains quietly.

She waits for Jimmy to respond if he decides to. He looks like he's trying to be intimidating. When he figures all eyes have been on him for long enough, he mutters a 'whatever' and walks away.

"I didn't think he would just leave? He's distrusting but doesn't seem to care enough to ensure I can be trusted." Arabella states.

The half dead captain struggles and groans on the table, seemingly freaking out again. The girls turn their attention back to him and Arabella pulls a small med-kit out of her suit pocket. She places it on a nearby table before pulling out a vial and a syringe. The sight makes Anya and the dying captain panic slightly.

"W-what are you doing?" Anya stands in front of him defensively.

Arabella gives a confused look before realizing she didn't explain her intent.

"Oh, don't worry more than you need to. It's morphine to put Captain Curly to sleep while we move him to my ship and get everything situated. I figured it would be easier on both us and him. Since you would technically be his leading caregiver as the Pony Express nurse, you can decide if I should give him it or not."

Anya looks nervously at the syringe and Arabella. She thinks for a moment before sighing and relaxing, moving out of the way.

After a moment of no indication of a response, the captain simply turns his head to the side and up a little, as if he was offering his neck. Actually, he was offering his neck. A silent agreement to Arabella's words. She places the syringe up to his neck and pushes it in as gently as possible. He fidgets slightly from the pain but remains mostly calm. When it's in far enough, she pushes down so the morphine goes in and removes it as carefully as she put it in. It was fast acting and the old captain was unresponsive quick enough for Arabella to store the syringe in vial back in the med-kit before the rest of the crew approached.

"Go ahead..." She hangs her head low as if she's admitting defeat.

"Okay Captain Curly, if you can accept this shot gracefully, then when we get you on my ship and you wake up, I will have a proper conversation about my plans to get you all home. Well, about as proper of a conversation as we can." Arabella stands over him with the syringe, waiting.

"Are you all ready to go then?" Arabella asks.

"More than ready! I'm so homesick!" Daisuke responds in a cheery tone.

"Great, if one of you could carry Captain Curly to the loading area then almost everything is good to go. I'll help Anya get her stuff and take whatever is still of use from here. Can never have too much medical supplies." Arabella gives the order to no one in particular but Jimmy still scoffs and does it as if he was the one who was asked.

The crew, minus Anya, headed off to the loading area while Arabella and her worked on gathering whatever supplies weren't ruined. When they seemed to be far enough out of earshot, Arabella abruptly stopped.

"Where is your cockpit?"

[dialovers-translations]

DIABOLIK LOVERS Do-S Kyuuketsu VERSUS Ⅱ Vol.6 Yuma VS Azusa [TRACK 2]

Original title: 欠ける月を見ながら

Source: Diabolik Lovers VERSUS II Vol. 6 Yuma VS Azusa [CD not owned by me]

Audio: Here

Seiyuu: Tatsuhisa Suzuki & Kishio Daisuke

Translator’s note: I have no words. I swear the last few minutes of this track are just Rejet having way too much fun. You cannot convince me that they wrote that without knowing that it could EASILY be taken the wrong way. I mean, the whole situation isn’t exactly ‘innocent’ either way but it sounds even more dirty than it is. I’m not gonna try and hide either ーー my mind went straight to the gutter as soon as Yuma suggested she uses her hands instead of her mouth. If you’re curious what I’m talking about, you’ll have to read the translation. ;)

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Track 2: While Gazing at the Chipped Moon

Yuma: For a basement, it’s brighter in here than I thought. Is there a window on the ceiling or somethin���? 

You follow suit.

Yuma: Ah? What’s wrong? ...Ahー Ya pissin’ yer pants? ...I don’t mind. Come here.

Yuma hugs you close.

*Rustle*

Yuma: Just stay close to me, ‘kay? ...Take a look! Right above ya! There’s a big hole to look through! ...Aah, seems like this basement is right underneath the garden. 

You look up.

Yuma: They’re a bunch of dried up branches layin’ ‘round the edges of the garden. I had no idea this kinda room was underneath it. I’m surprised. 

*Rustle*

Yuma: ...Well, I guess it helps brighten up this place a lil’ without any lights ‘round, so I don’t see a problem with it. 

Something catches his attention.

Yuma: ...Oh? 

You ask what is wrong.

Yuma: No, it’s just...Ya can see the moon through that hole, right? Take a closer look. It’s slowly bein’ chipped away at. ...What was it called again? A lunar eclipse? Ya don’t see that every day. It’s my first time seein’ one.

You agree.

Yuma: You too? Hm...I see. Well, I guess we got lucky. It’s a rare sight after all. Too bad it’s from inside this creepy room.

You tilt your head to the side.

Yuma: This room just screams ‘creepy’, no? Ya still haven’t noticed? What kind of room this is, I mean. Take a good look around.

You look around.

Yuma: There’s a bunch of strange devices, right? Ya better don’t try and act like ya don’t know what these are. 

You reluctantly answer.

Yuma: Exactly...Hehehe...Seems like this was the pentalty room. In other words, the items lined up here and there are what you’d call torture devices

*Cling cling*

Yuma: Take a look at these handcuffs. It’s still got blood on there. Means these bad boys got used at some point. Seems like the previous owner of this manor was a shitbag who loved pickin’ on the weak. 

*Cling*

Yuma: There’s freaks like that crawlin’ ‘round the surface of this earth, ya see...They either get a kick out of tormentin’ others, or enjoy gettin’ teased themselves. ...Ah, right. Ya love that sorta stuff as well, no? Hehehe...

You quickly deny.

*Cling cling*

Yuma: Now that we discovered this hidden gem, it’d be a shame not to use the room to its fullest potential, right? ーー To start things off. 

*Cling*

Yuma: I’ll put these handcuffs on ya like this. Hehe...

You protest.

Yuma: How does it feel to get robbed of yer freedom?

You beg him to take them off again. 

Yuma: Ah...Lemme think. If ya want me to remove them that badly, don’t ya think ya should adjust yer attitude a lil’? 

*Rustle rustle*

Yuma: Come on...Tell me what to do. Woah there, don’t look away. I’ve taken away yer freedom, so ya better keep yer eyes on me. 

*Rustle*

Yuma: Exactly. Hehe...Nice expression. Bet ya didn’t think I’d do this, right? ...For some reason, I’m in a weird mood right now. Could that moon be to blame? I feel restless...in a different way from usual. I don’t really get it, but it has taken control over me, and I can’t help but have this strong cravin’ for...you. Mmh...”

Yuma kisses you passionately.

Yuma: I want to make you cry, make you submit to me...and have you admit the most obscene things. Mmh...

*Smooch*

Yuma: Hm? ...Hah. Judgin’ by yer face, ya just felt yer heart skip a beat, didn’t ya? Bet ya don’t find this all too bad, huh? Fine by me. I’ll do as ya wish. Come on, brace yerself. 

*Rustle*

Yuma: What do ya want? Should I just leave some kisses here and there? Like this...Mmh...

*Smooch*

You flinch.

Yuma: Or do ya prefer the pain? Ya want these fangs, don’t ya? Haha...Don’t try and hide it. I know that you’re yearnin’ for them. However, I won’t give them to ya ーー not this easily at least. That’d be borin’ as hell, right? We’ve got this convenient room to our disposal after all...

*Cling cling*

Yuma: Makes ya wanna try and push yer boundaries a lil’, no? Hehe...Let’s leave the main course for last and enjoy some stuff we usually never get to do. Nn...

*Rustle*

Yuma: This is a whip, right? No doubt in mind that guy used this to torment those poor little lambs. ...Didn’t I tell ya earlier, there’s people who need that sorta kick. Perhaps I’m one of them as well? When I picture your expression as you fight back the pain...It sends shivers down my spine.

*Rustle*

Yuma: Ahn? I’m not actin’ like myself? Ya think so? Hah. Then this room and the moon might be messin’ with my head. I shouldn’t be interested in lil’ games enjoyed by those disgustin’ noblemen. If anythin’, they used to make me gag...So I wonder why I’m havin’ so much fun right now? ...Could this be my true colors showin’...?

*SMACK*

Yuma: Heh. This bad boy makes quite the sound. ...Wait, what am I doin’? ...Aah, my bad. I felt a lil’ dizzy just now...There really is somethin’ wrong with me, huh? Ugh...

*Rustle*

Yuma: I...

You seem worried. 

Yuma: Hah. ...Haha. Just kidding~ 

You get upset.

Yuma: Ah? I was jokin’ just now. I wanted to see what kind of face you’d make, and just couldn’t help myself.

You protest.

Yuma: It looked convincin’? Don’t be fuckin’ kiddin’ me. I’m not the type of dude who would torment the weak, geez. Ya can’t even tell the difference between the truth and an act? Ya really are an idiot.

*Cling cling*

Yuma: There we go...Oi, lift yer hands a lil’ higher. I’m gonna remove the handcuffs.

You obey.

Yuma: Ahー The hole’s over here, right? ...’Kay. ...Huh?

*Cling cling*

Yuma: Ahn? ...That’s odd...I’m pretty sure this key...Ugh...Ah!

*Clunk*

Yuma: Ah...Fuck! It broke!

You make a fuss.

Yuma: Ah, hold on! Do ya really need to get that upset!? ...Hey! Don’t hit me!

*Thud thud*

Yuma: ...Calm down!! I can just chop off yer wrists and problem solvーー

You continue protesting.

 Yuma: ...I’m just kiddin’! Geez...I’m sure we’ll find a solution if we head upstairs. ...God, yer wrists are bleedin’. It’s ‘cause ya kept on movin’ ‘round. Does it hurt?

You nod.

Yuma: Guess I have no other choice. I’ll apply first aid.

Yuma licks the wound.

Yuma: There. Lil’ better now? ...Let’s say we’re even now, ‘kay?

You puff out your cheeks.

Yuma: Don’t hold it ‘gainst me. I was just curious how it’d feel to step out of my comfort zone for once. Don’t ya ever get that itch to try somethin’ new as well? ...More importantly, drinkin’ yer blood made me thirsty.

*Sluuuurp*

Yuma: After all, you’re like a delicious treat. Just a lil’ taste isn’t enough to satisfy us. ...Ah, yer blood really is nice. ...Say? Won’t ya let me feed off ya now that you’re stuck like this anyway? Ya don’t mind, do ya?

You hesitate. 

Yuma:  Ahー What a pain.I’ll take that silence as a yes. I’m not the most patient fella ‘round.

*Rustle*

Yuma: Now behave. I won’t hurt ya. 

Yuma bites you.

*Sluuuuurp*

Yuma: Mmh...Delicious...I can’t stop...

*Rustle*

Yuma: ...Gimme more...I’ll suck from this hand next. Mmh...

*Sluuuuurp*

Yuma: Mmh...Nn...

*Sluuuuurp*

Yuma: ...Haahー This is bad...I really went to town on ya, huh...Did it hurt? Or maybe it feels good? 

You whimper softly.

Yuma: Hehe...I wonder if it’s ‘cause ya had yer blood sucked while being handcuffed, but ya look as if ya enjoyed it way more than usual.

You seem embarrassed.

Yuma: No need to be ashamed. ...It’s too late for that. I’ve been showin’ ya my pathetic side as well, no? When I see yer blood...or get a wiff of it...I get so turned on, I lose sight of myself. However...

*Rustle*

Yuma: That blood of yers...

He sniffs it.

Yuma: Hmmー How strange, it doesn’t smell as strong as usually...Now that ya mention it, I feel as if it tastes different as well? The fuck’s goin’ on? ...Oi, Sow. Stop spacin’ out and look at me, come on!

He forces your face his way.

Yuma: ...Do ya notice anythin’ off ‘bout me?

You shake your head.

Yuma: Right? But ya know, something’s not right. ...Oi, inspect my body. I’m sure there’s somethin’ wrong with it.

You seem baffled.

Yuma: This time I’m serious. I’m not just teasin’ ya. Come on, hurry up.

You protest.

Yuma: Ahn? Ya can’t use yer hands? ...Well, I guess that’s true. But even without yer hands, you’ve got somethin’ else that’ll work just fine as a replacement, right?

You tilt your head to the side.

Yuma: Whatcha so confused ‘bout? I’m obviously talkin’ ‘bout that mouth of yers.

You seem surprised.

Yuma: Check my body thoroughly with those lips. ーー Oh come on, didn’t I tell you just now? I’m bein’ serious. 100% sincere. So, where ya wanna start? With my neck, perhaps?

*Rustle*

Yuma: Yeah, just start from there and take it nice and slow...What’s wrong? Are ya holdin’ back? ...Ya can be a little more rough, ya know?

*Rustle rustle*

Yuma: Ah...Your lips are so soft...Nn...It’s almost like someone is trailing a feather across a skin...Ah...

You sigh.

Yuma: Hah? Ya won’t be able to tell this way? You’re always so quick to decide without givin’ it a try, huh? How dull. Come on, get on with it already.

*Cling*

Yuma: Nn...Yeah, just like that...See? Ya can do it after all...Or are ya growin’ desperate now? Hahaha...Ya suddenly...picked up the pace...Nn...It tickles. Is this you’re way of takin’ revenge? ...Oh well, whatever.

You continue trailing your lips across his skin.

Yuma: Yeah, just keep goin’ like that...Nn...Carefully slide your lips across...Hah...Nn...Feels good...

*Rustle*

You ask if he’s doing this to tease you again.

Yuma: Hahaha...Guess I’m busted, huh?

*SMACK*

Yuma: ...Ow!! Did ya really need to hit me!? I was just havin’ some fun! For one, we wouldn’t need doctors if we could simply find out what’s wrong with someone’s body this way.

ーー TO BE CONTINUED ーー

[lexsssu]

Shall We Date: Worship Me AU - Uriel (Avatar of Chastity)

What if the MC gets transported to the Celestial Realm instead? What if the angels were the love interests?

GENERAL HCs

Uriel — “The Flame of God/God is my Light”

Has a penchant for perfection

Give him a task and you bet your ass he’ll come back finished with results so phenomenal you’re sure that if you did it, there’s no way it would turn out this great

Reserved, but not exactly anti-social

It’s not that he doesn’t want to talk about himself whenever people ask about him, but it’s just that he thinks there are a million other things that are worth more to converse about than his exploits or the things he enjoyed

Chastity doesn’t just mean staying pure by abstaining from sexual relations and the lack of temptations one experiences, but being placed in the face of temptation and yet staying true to one���s morals. This is why Uriel doesn’t condemn anyone who decides to engage in such acts, whether within the sanctity of marriage or not, whether it is done because all parties hold sincere feelings for one another or not.

Gone is the ancient time and the rules that once applied then cannot be the same for current times. This is why Uriel has made it his mission to continuously study about humans, to stay up to date with the way they thought and felt so as he can better serve as a guiding beacon to them

When he’s not busy with his regular duties, you would normally find Uriel at the Celestial realm’s library with stacks of reference books on his table. Time is nothing to them, which is why for him it felt as if humans changed too quickly in so little time

An ideology that may have taken decades or centuries to form is but a blink of an eye to them which is why Mr. Perfectionist can’t help but immediately want to be informed in the hopes that it will help him improve himself

If he doesn’t keep adding and updating to his knowledge then how can he even hope to be one of the guiding virtues of humanity with outdated ideals?

Ideals can and will change over time, but his morals are the one thing that Uriel will never change.

His mind and body may be corrupted over time, because eternity is such a long time indeed, but the morals that made him who he is, what HE is will always stay the same

Tbh you can’t tempt this guy with anything

If you do manage to “tempt” him, know that you didn’t actually succeed but he just liked/pitied you enough to go with whatever fuckery you wanted him to commit

That's why he normally agrees with whatever bullshit his twin brother, Gabriel, tries to wrangle him into

Uriel ain't doing it because Gabriel tempted him, but because he loved his twin so much that he's willing to indulge him whenever he wanted to fuck shit up

Gabriel is the one who starts messes and Uriel is the one who just lets him be, because he's a supportive big brother

...Much to most of the other virtues' ever increasing stress

Is an advocate of "actions speak louder than words"

He's a serial head-patter

Will boop your nose when he notices you're a bit too lost in your thoughts

Azrael is normally the victim of his headpats and nose-boops

Since he makes it his job to know all that IS known, he finds some modicum of interest in that of the UNknown

Things like extraterrestrial beings for example. Basically, anything that didn't belong to any of the 3 worlds was within his scope of interest

If you check his YouTube history you'll see it's filled with UFO sightings, conspiracy theories, UMAs, etc.

Probably joined that raid in Area 51 while undercover—

Asks Gabriel to bring him souvenirs and pictures whenever his job takes him to a location near hotspots for UMAs, UFOs, and other strange otherworldly phenomena

Reminds Azrael every now and then to inform him if he ever ferries a soul that had come across any UMA and ask them about their encounter

As the virtue of chastity, it's up to him to teach the little cherubims about the birds and the bees as part of their training to become full-fledged angels

More often than not, his terminology and clinical way of explaining has traumatized most of the little ones…

...much to Raphael's increasing stress

"And then the man will place his pe*** inside the woman's va**** where he would start thrusting continu—"

What's worse is that he even has diagrams for it

So many little cherubims lost their innocence to Uriel-sensei…

He doesn't purposely try to annoy Raphael unlike Gabriel, it's just that his actions and way of going about things aren't the way most people would fo it and what's worse is that he unintentionally traumatizes people

And it's usually up to Raphael to do damage control on all the virtues' behalf

Raphael almost killed him that day he had to give that talk to Luke and his batch

"...What's wrong about telling them what happens between a man and a woman? It's biology and something that's done frequently by humans"

He doesn't see the point of beating around the bush when their purpose was to teach the new recruits about humanity and everything about them, including how they reproduce

Favorite food is pancakes…

...because they look like flying saucers

Uriel enjoys stargazing at night, not just to look at the heavenly bodies but to spot any UFOs if he's lucky enough

He isn't particularly bad at cooking, but he's not great either

Pancakes are what he's most confident in cooking and he makes the best darn ones in all of the celestial realm

If he's the only one left at home and you're sick, don't expect chicken soup and be ready instead for a stack of warm and fluffy pancakes topped with some butter and generous helping of syrup, whipped cream, berries, and etc.

When the day finally comes that he falls in love with someone...the 3 worlds will know true fear—

But legit though, all those millennia of being a single pringle and practicing so much restraint flies out the window when this man finds himself utterly and deeply in love with you

JP VA: Daisuke Ono

ENG VA: Matthew Mercer

ROMANTIC HCs

He's read so much about the different forms of love and has felt them all except for romantic love so he's a bit rattled at first

Probably coops himself up in his room for a day or two to get his bearings

When he does finally step foot out of his room, there isn't any obvious changes at first but you can't help but feel that there's something different about Uriel

Uriel is now a man on a mission

As perfectly as he executed his tasks for millennia, as fierce as he wielded his flaming sword during the Great War against the rebels, and as ruthless as he was when he faced the truly wicked…

…Uriel will have you

Of course, regardless of how much he wanted you to become his that didn't mean he suddenly turned into some sort of barbaric brute that kidnapped women for sport

He will study you so thoroughly that at times it almost feels like he knows you more than you know yourself

The little mannerisms you make during your everyday life that escape your notice? It's a given that Uriel has seen and already safely filed them away in his mind for future reference

"...She likes pointing with her lips?...Cute…" What he wouldn't give to catch you doing that while he was with you so he could partake of your lips as well—

Once he’s interested in you, only God knows at this point what has to be done for him to even lose a small bit of it

You have essentially become a key figure in Uriel’s world

Uriel always has you at the back of his mind to the point that it could even be called obsessive

However, he’s still the virtue of chastity so you don’t have to worry about him ever forcing himself upon you or anything of that sort

He’s super clingy and sorta weird, but he loves you and the last thing he wanted is for you to become sad because of him or anything else

Though he honestly can’t deny that seeing the myriad of expressions on your face, from happiness to sadness, to surprise, excitement, anger, and etc. was one of his favorite hobbies ever since falling for you

Despite his earnest wish to make you his, Uriel surprisingly takes a long time to even confess

He’s a perfectionist so it’s a given that he’ll take everything into account, including how he’ll make you fall for him first before he even thinks about confessing

Bothers Raphael for some “research material” on how to woo you a.k.a. borrow some romance manga despite Raph’s initial protests

For the sake of his own sanity, Raph begrudgingly lends Uri his stash of romance manga

It’s both hilarious and somewhat disturbing to see how taken he is with something other than work and UMAs

Amused: Michael, Cainabel, Gabriel, Simeon

Scared/Disturbed: Raphael, Luke

Neutral/Confused: Seraphiel, Azrael

Secretly plays the alto saxophone, but doesn’t deem his skill worthy enough for you to hear so he practices when he’s absolutely sure that no one is there to hear him when his skills aren’t yet up to his standards

Lowkey jealous when you hangout with the demon brothers and tries to find ways to distract you from hanging out with them

“ I seem to have seen a creature most extraordinary earlier. I believe it was one of the UMAs detailed in the tome for mysterious dwellers of the nether. Mayhaps you’d like to accompany me on a hunt? ”

His face is as straight-laced as it always is, but if you knew him long enough and looked closer, you’d notice that his ears seemed to have the slightest twinge of redness to them.

Honestly speaking, he tries to be a smooth and cool boi when it comes to you, but this dork seems to lose all his tact when faced with the radiance of your eyes and the intensity of your smile

With how long it takes him to make everything perfect before he woo’s you, time and space itself will cease to exist before he finally deems himself ready

So you have to do the wooing yourself and show him that you love all of him, imperfections and quirkiness included

[shadowtarot]

(Thieves in Inaba.) Was the kidnapped person a social link? Could it be Adachi?!

Thieves In Inaba Part 34

Okina City, Thirty Minutes From The Kidnapping. 

Kou is looking over the civilians, seeing who all is injured and helping out as needed. While still a bit shaken up from the shadow attack, he has a lot more of his composure back. 

“Those monster wolf things sure were crazy…where’d they even come from anyhow?” He mutters, looking around at the damaged windows and plant life around the shopping center. 

Daisuke, his friend, walks up to where he is and joins him in looking at the damage. “Hard to say, that guy Ryuji never bothered to explain it to us. But do you think he and his pals might have been the Phantom Thieves?”

“What? Don’t be stupid, those guys went off radar for a while now. Plus they’re Phantom Thieves, do you really think they’d just show up late afternoon where they could be easily identified?” Kou rolls his eyes at his friend’s suggestion. 

“I mean…you don’t know them personally so how could you claim to know how they operate?” Daiuske retorts. 

“I..well. Whatever.” Kou shrugs the whole topic off. “But you know what has me more confused? Yu. We saw him and a lot of the others he used to hang out with run into the area where Ryuji’s friends went. And they had weapons on them. All of them. What do you think this means?”

“Maybe we should stop by the blacksmith’s and pick up some weapons for ourselves?” The soccer player suggests. “Or..do you mean something else?”

“Obviously I mean something else. You saw those weird powers, we could barely outrun those things and yet that group of masked teens were blasting them like they were in some sorta RPG.” Kou scratches his head in confusion. “What should we be doing? Watching after the evacuees is important and all…but I kinda feel like we should do more.”

The two begin to talk about possible things they can to, when the sounds of a pack of wolves howling can be heard. The shadows have returned and they located where their prey is. 

“Shit! None of those guys are here man. What do we do?” Daisuke is visibly nervous. 

“We…we have to try. If we can keep them focused on us long enough for Kazushi to get everyone to a more enclosed area, we’ll be okay.” Kou gulps, but stands his ground as he grabs a broken bit of a bench leg to defend himself, Daisuke doing the same. 

The shadows growl before dashing at them. Neither of the Strengh holders back down however, staying as firmly planted as possible. They needed to buy that time, but for how long could they? 

Just then, a pair of gunshots ring out as two members of the Shadow Wolf pack fall limp before dissolving into nothingness. 

“Wait..is that…” Kou is looking up at the source, to see two figures with guns still smoking from the shot, the one on the right has a duffel bag on them and seems very familiar to the sports duo. That same one smirks

“Hey kid, if you really want to die this bad you should know there’s better ways of doing it.” 

“Touru Adachi…you’re supposed to be locked up. How the hell are you out?!” Kou yells at him. 

“Look, I could explain, or you could get the hell out of here. I don’t really care either way, but I have my reasons for being here and it doesn’t involve having a friendly conversation.” He turns back to the shadow pack as he readies to fire again. 

His partner, who hasn’t spoken a single word readies their gun as well. They seem just as well trained. Or at least well practiced.

Kou however, refuses to back down, running to join the two. “I’ll help! I don’t fully trust you to not just try something.” He gets into a ready stance. 

“Are you deaf or stupid?” Adachi glares. “Eh, whatever. Your funeral.” 

The shadows go after Adachi and his ally, both of whom fight them off easily…at first. The partner seems to be struglling a bit as they fight. 

“Hey, I thought you said you could fight. Or were you just trying to look good?” Adachi seems to be annoyed that he has to pick up his partner’s slack. 

“….I told you earlier…I’d need a sword to get the job done efficiently…” They respond, in a hushed voice as if to trying to not be heard by anyone. 

Adachi rolls his eyes. “Sure. That toy you had would have done wonders.”

In the midst of their arguing however, a wolf manages to grab Kou. He yells out, causing the duo to refocus their efforts on the shadows. 

“Tch, we could just shoot the thing and it’d drop the kid.” 

“But then we risk the bullet hitting him.” The partner looks at Adachi as if telling him something.

“What? …fine I’ll give you that dumbass sword if you seriously think it’ll actually do something.” Reaching into duffel bag, Adachi pulls out a blood red toy beam sword and hands it to him. 

“If you screw this up, don’t come crying to me.”

[higuchimon]

[fanfic] Crafted For Command:  Chapter 1

“Wake up.”

Daisuke didn’t want to, but his eyes opened anyway and he blinked, absolutely lost on where he was. Where had he been?

Right. The Digital World. Fighting the Kaiser. Then something had sorta blown up near him and everything turned red, then black, and now he was… he was…

Apparently in a very deep pit of trouble.

Kaiser stood in front of him, hands on his hips, whip hanging off of his belt, a smirk on his lips that Daisuke hated the sight of right away.

“That’s a good boy,” Kaiser praised and Daisuke wondered why in the world he liked the sound of that when he hated the Kaiser so very much.

Daisuke drew breath to demand to know what was going on, where he was, and what the Kaiser thought he was doing. He couldn’t get a single word out before Kaiser pressed a gloved finger against his lips.

“Be quiet. You weren’t given permission to speak.”

What’s that got to do with it? Daisuke wanted to ask but it was as if his voice no longer worked. He checked himself over as quickly as he could. No Ring. No Spiral. Did those work on humans? If they did, Kaiser hadn’t ever tried it before. And since he couldn’t find one now, even if they did, that wasn’t what was going on now.

Kaiser’s finger remained where it was, but now he tapped it on Daisuke’s lips.

“I know that you’re confused and have questions. I’ll tell you what you need to know. I’ve learned something very interesting about you, Motomiya Daisuke, and I want to make certain that it’s true.”

Confused didn’t even begin to cover everything. He jerked his head around again, pulling it away from the Kaiser’s touch, trying to find V-mon and his friends. He came up with nothing.

Was he the only one who’d been caught? That didn’t look good in the slightest.

Kaiser cleared his throat and Daisuke turned back to him as if his head were on a string.

“I want you to pay attention to me and only me. There’s no one else around for you to listen to anyway. I’m the only one allowed access to this room. Not even Wormmon can come in.” He cupped the side of Daisuke’s face with one hand. “It’s just you and me, Daisuke.”

If Daisuke could’ve spoken – and his voice remained oddly frozen – he would’ve declared how much he hated that fact. All he could do was stare at the Kaiser, though, and let his eyes do the talking.

“Are you aware that not all of your Chosen friends are as human as they appear?”

Daisuke blinked, tilting his head. Then he shook it carefully, since Kaiser seemed to be expecting an answer. He’d never heard of anything like that. He wasn’t going to believe it just on the Kaiser’s say-so, either.

A gesture and a screen appeared behind Kaiser, where Daisuke could see it. “Watch and learn, then. I’ve gathered some very interesting information.”

The screen flickered, then resolved into an image of Taichi and Yamato lounging together by a river. Daisuke didn’t recognize it, but he also spied Gabumon and Agumon with them, so it was probably somewhere in the Digital World. He wasn’t sure of what they were doing nor could he hear them, but Yamato raised up one hand and if Daisuke could’ve rubbed his eyes he would have.

Because as far as he knew, people’s hands didn’t just burst into flames like that. They should’ve jumped and screamed and done… something. Instead of Yamato trailing one hand in the air, a bit of fire following behind, and Taichi smiling.

The scene shifted over to Sora, and this time he recognized where she was: the area that Birdramon patrolled. Only now they were patrolling it together, which wasn’t so unusual. The older Chosen visited their partners whenever they could, usually when the younger ones kept the Kaiser distracted.

Only he’d never, ever seen Sora-san flying while she was in the Digital World, and doing it as easily as if she did it every day of her life.

Again the scene shifted and this time it showed Koushirou-san, chatting with a powerful lion-like Digimon, in a place that Daisuke didn’t recognize, but it had a lot of baby Digimon there. Then the two of them turned to what looked like a row of targets, set up out of range of the babies, and the lion Digimon raised up one fist, blasting his attack, Fist of the Beast-King, toward one of them.

That wasn’t so unusual either. This time, what set it apart was that Koushirou did a version of the same attack, red-gold flames incinerating one of the targets, and the lion Digimon nodded, resting one hand in pride on Koushirou’s shoulder.

Last and not at all least, he saw Jou-san. He looked like he was just in his room, or a place Daisuke guessed was his room. Underneath his table there rested a small refrigerator, but instead of pulling out a soda of some kind, there was a vial in Jou’s hand when he stood back up, one neatly labeled.

The screen moved in on it and Daisuke had time to read it before it changed. Understanding it took a few moments longer.

Blood?? He’s drinking blood?

He wanted to shake his head even more. This didn’t seem like anything at all he wanted to believe about any of his friends.

Why wouldn’t they tell us? I mean, I can get not telling us here, because of the Kaiser, but why not at home? He would’ve asked all of that out loud if he’d been able to. Then the Kaiser touched him again.

“They are part Digimon, part human. I’ve taken samples from all of you to determine precisely their lineage and their types. I can instruct you in that another time: when you’ve learned your place properly.” He smiled and that drove at least some of the worry and confusion out of Daisuke. “But let me continue. Not only are they of Digimon breeding, but so are you.”

Daisuke blinked again. Then he shook his head, far more furiously than before. He didn’t care what the Kaiser had in mind. Those images were probably faked anyway. He knew who he was. He knew who he wasn’t.

But the Kaiser wasn’t going to let it drop that easily. “What I learned from the scans of you I’ve done turned out to be very useful. You’re special, Motomiya Daisuke. More so than any of the rest of them.”

His hand rested again on Daisuke’s cheek, then slid downward to cup his chin, turning his head so that Daisuke looked right at him.

“You won’t believe what I’ve learned if I told you. So I will demonstrate instead. This will take time. Days. Perhaps even weeks. I doubt any longer than that. You’re not that stubborn.”

Daisuke determined that he would be, no matter what. Perhaps that showed in his eyes, since the Kaiser chuckled.

“These are my orders, which you will obey.”

No sooner did he speak, than Daisuke noticed something strange about his voice. Stronger, deeper, commanding. Everything in Daisuke urged him to listen and to obey.

“You will only leave the fortress if I not only grant you permission, but have you on my leash. Leaving otherwise is not an option.”

Kaiser’s hand moved downward from Daisuke’s chin to rest on his chest. Daisuke’s heart beat faster at the touch. He told himself it was because he was furious. He wasn’t sure of how convincing he was.

“You’ll speak only when I ask you a question or give you an order. When you do speak, you’ll be respectful of me. No insults. No trying to get around your orders.” His hand moved again, splayed now across Daisuke’s stomach. “You will only go to places in the fortress or out of it that I order you to go to. I won’t have you roaming around unleashed.”

He moved his hand away from Daisuke, who at once told himself that he didn’t miss the contact.

He knew he lied on that one right away.

“Do you understand your orders?”

Of course I understood what you said! What makes you think I’m going to do what you want?

What came out of his mouth was a single word. “Yes.”

Kaiser smiled. “When you address me, you will call me master. Now, do you understand your orders?”

Part of Daisuke, the part he was most familiar with, ached to scream and resist. The rest of him, a part that he’d never even known existed and wasn’t sure why it was making itself known now, luxuriated in the thought of orders and control and being ruled.

“Yes, master.” He even sounded like himself to his own ears, only he wasn’t saying what he wanted to say!

Kaiser fisted his hand in Daisuke’s shirt and pulled them closer together. Only now did Daisuke realize that he hadn’t been restrained at all this whole time. He’d been too surprised and far too confused to even notice until now.

And now Kaiser’s actions spun every other thought out of his mind.

He gave no orders. He demanded everything.

Kaiser’s lips landed on Daisuke’s and kissed hungrily, as if Daisuke held the very breath of life within him.

To Be Continued

Notes: The M-rated portions will come in due course. Gotta set things up first.

[keep-on-trying]

Takeru’s Role in Digimon Adventure Tri Part 3: Kokuhaku

So, some of my blog followers were interested in my take on Takeru during Kokuhaku, so I’ll be writing this now! I’ve watched the movie about five times now, and each time I fall into tears. I also feel that I’m starting to see Takeru’s reactions well now. I’ll go over all of the moments that include Takeru, and what i see them telling us, in a similar fashion to what I did with Hikari post! Super, super long post under the cut, and spoilers for those who haven’t seen Kokuhaku, so enter the cut content at your own risk!

Takeru and Hikari at the front of the Ichijouji’s Residence

After the events of Ketsui, Hikari and Takeru decide to go to Ken Ichijouji’s residence to try and find some answers. No one answers the doorbell, not even Ken’s parents, which is pretty odd. They also can’t get in touch with other 02 kids, namely Daisuke, Iori and Miyako.The next dialogue tells quite a bit about Takeru thou.

Hikari does some flashbacks to the supposed Digimon Kaiser Ken (which we all know by now not being Ken after all, but Not-Gennai instead) after this line, and looks very worried. Takeru then says the following:

This line shows that at the start of the movie, Takeru is still the very kid full of hope, not willing to give up just yet.

He even manages to cheer Hikari up with this, making her hopeful as well. Having the crest of Hope seems to be quite a nice feature for Takeru. This scene as a whole is a good starting point for Takeru’s arc, since Saikai and Ketsui didn’t really give that much hints on what his conflict would be. At least I couldn’t think of any hints.

The chat between Takeru and Jou at Koushiro’s

Takeru goes to visit Koushiro later on, and has bit of a chat with Jou about how Koushiro is pushing himself too hard due to what happened with Meicoomon and infection. This scene still has the kid with ever hopeful attitude, when he’s trying to tell Jou that it’ll be fine.

Oh god this line hurts. He truly believes everything will be fine, so no need to worry. And like just a minute later everything god damn changes!

Patamon showing signs of infection

Patamon and others get out of the Server Room Koushiro had them put up. First everything is fine, Takeru hugging Patamon with happiness. But then the worst thing ever happens...

Patamon is showing first signs of infection with having flickering butt. It’s sorta looks like a glitch in a system.

And it begins! This is where Takeru’s hope starts to have a u-turn! He just said that everything will be fine, and now it apparently won’t be.

He’s checking the tail to be able to confirm what he saw. Aww Patamon is tickling.

He’s clearly still trying to hope that he was just seeing things here. This exchange of eye contact is really omnious-looking, so to speak.

Patamon closes his eyes, and it pretty much tells us audience to get prepared for what’s gonna happen next, because...

The infection kicks in the next second! Seriously this is some scary stuff. A cute little digimon suddenly turns savage.

Screenshots don’t do justice because he just had the sort of a “Oh god no“ kind of face animation. He can’t believe what he’s seeing right at that moment.

Patamon starts fully acting like savage and Takeru tries to hold him still.

Patamon bit Takeru oh god please no! Looks like Patamon’s teeth hurt.

Looks like Jou heard something because he’s looking at Takeru now, asking his name. (Just look at how happy other digimons are.)

“Oh no Jou-senpai heard me!“

“Must hide the evidence!“

(I’m sorry I couldn’t resist ;_;)

Takeru is so hard trying to keep Patamon in check and to calm him down. Seriously, it hurts to see this.

Takeru is so trying to protect Patamon here. He doesn’t want to admit to Jou that Patamon is infected. It’s like, his protective side kicked in.

Jou seems to sense something is wrong with Patamon thou. I mean, he can see him struggling in Takeru’s arms.

Please stop torturing Takeru D: Analyzing this scene as a whole is really tough because it hurts seeing them like this.

Ok Patamon is now trying to break the infection mode.

And it works! Patamon is back to normal aaah <3333

He’s back to his cute self! (Also cleverly hides his sharp teeth now)

Takeru is happy to see Patamon back to normal as well. But it’s not like this didn’t leave a scar to Takeru’s mind set thou.

That alone tells how much Takeru wanted Patamon to stop struggling and be back to normal. He was apparently squishing Patamon quite hard. Takeru apologizes quick.

Takeru, sweetie, why are you lying? I know you’re scared for Patamon, but wouldn’t it be easier to come clean? Takeru apparently is too scared to admit it, and I guess it’s due to the fact that he had just said that everything will be fine. He just got the harsh counter-attack for that statement.

Bit of dialogue about not trying to break Koushiro’s place occurs, and after that Patamon notices Takeru bleeding from his bite marks. Not sure if Patamon knows what he did. It doesn’t seem like it.

Takeru doesn’t seem to want to tell Patamon about it being his bite marks. Aww Takeru ;_;

Blessed image of the two. Just look at them. As much as it hurts.

"I wanna be with Takeru!”

This scene was hard to name. It continues straight from last scene. Following dialogue is all said by Takeru.

Jou said this line, like trying to understand why Takeru is asking this.

Takeru, I’m not sure you’re gonna like the answer even if you’re asking it hypothetically.

Before we move on, can I just say how cruel it is to show our happily eating and chatting digimon partners while having such heavy dialogue? I guess they’re not listening to Jou and Takeru at this point, but still.

After hearing Jou say that they might have to fight them if they were to be infected, Takeru pretty much looks like he didn’t want to hear that. Even when it is the harsh, harsh truth.

Patamon gives us a confused eye-blinking. Maybe he’s starting to realise that maybe he’s infected, and that’s why Takeru is asking such things?

Jou is such an honest soul. Even more after he overcame his conflict in Ketsui. He means well, but he’s too honest here. Then again, Takeru isn’t honest to him so he has no idea that he needs to be more considerate.

But while this dialogue happened, Takeru is silently trying to sneak out with Patamon. He does tell Jou that he’s going home, but it kinda looks like Takeru hopes Jou won’t turn around to him. Well...

Jou did turn around and saw his plan. Busted!

He’s so trying to hide his true intentions and make it sound like he’s just cautious.

This is such a huge line from Takeru. Here right now, on this screen, he’s losing so much hope. He’s turning from optimistic to pessimistic. Thinking of worst-case scenarios.

I agree with Jou, stop that non-sense talk-. Oh, right it’s actually coming up ahead. Damn. ;______; Now even the digimon get interested what’s going on around them, turning heads towards Takeru.

Seriously Takeru, wouldn’t it be easier to come clean :( This is honestly a truth from him, he does want to be with Patamon right now. But he also wants to try and avoid spreading the infection.

Come to think of it, he’s probably scared of the whole scenario because of what happened in Adventure day, with Angemon dying. Having your digimon partner die twice would be god damn aweful. No wonder he wants to be with Patamon right now.

Now there’s an episode with Patamon wanting to go home with Takeru. Patamon at this point has probably sensed that Takeru has indeed some good intentions behind his actions so he’s gonna help Takeru.

God damn it Patamon don’t make me cry ;_;

Jou’s face is gold thou. He doesn’t know what to do about this anymore.

Well, apparently Patamon’s episode worked and he goes home with Takeru.

...God damn it Patamon why is all this cruel stuff happening to such a cute digimon like you I can’t handle this. More over, why does this have to happen to Takeru of all people I can’t handle it!

Dialogue under the bridge with everyone (well, almost)

Even a whole day after (or so it seems since they’re gathering here after school), Takeru tries to convince others all’s fine, it’s just Patamon wanting to be with him. I’m amazed at his skill to hide himself. Hikari definitely is worried, like she’s able to tell something isn’t right about Takeru right now.

This is such a heavy dialogue that it’s hard for me to just skip any of it. All of it is important.

Takeru is probably reacting to this because of Patamon. But interesting thing is..

Sora and Yamato seem to think Takeru is telling them to consider Meiko’s feelings there. Well, it’s not completely wrong, but it also sort of saved Takeru from being busted with Patamon being infected. They do all believe Meicoomon got infected at this point after all.

Hikari seems to be able to tell there’s more to it thou. As a quick sidenote, considering how such good friends Hikari and Takeru are ever since their childhood, it’s no wonder they’re able to tell when something is wrong with each other.

I want to quickly say that I missed the interactions between Taichi and Takeru, they were so great in Adventure. He’s saying this line with sort of a mature tone as well. (Also look at sulking Yamato, he’s sorry for saying such line)

Takeru flashbacks to some event that probably happened earlier that day before school. He seems to really try to convince even the infected Patamon that everything’s fine. Nothing is wrong. God damn.

Takeru seemed a bit spaced out at this point, when Hikari says his name.

He’s constantly lying to himself. It’s eating himself alive.

I feel so, so sad for Takeru. All these scenes, they’re eating me alive! No wonder he wants to be with them as much as he wants, Patamon is infected and could turn full-time savage any time now. He wants to spend as much time as he can before that happens.

Even when everyone���s trying to decide on whether they should have their own Digimon Partners visit them, Takeru can’t exactly hide his sadness. No one is taking note to it at this point, which is... interesting. They are pretty actively speaking about how they should have their Digimon Partners visit them, so I guess they’re not focusing on Takeru at that moment.

During this conversation thou, Meiko gets detached from the group. It goes on for a while until Hikari tells others that they probably should stop. Everyone apologizes to Meiko, who then with a smile tells everyone to go pick their digimon. Takeru’s face is interesting here.

I actually now noticed that Taichi makes similar face too, but I think what’s running in Takeru’s mind at that moment is that this conversation occured because he took Patamon home. He probably feels bad for it during this moment. It’s probably why the next scene happened from Takeru’s point of view as well.

Takeru tells Meiko about Patamon being infected

See what I mean? After everyone leaves home, Takeru apologizes to Meiko about what he did. He feels responsible for making Meiko feel out of place under the bridge. Meiko says it’s fine and is about to head home, when Takeru tells her without real words that he wants to confess something.

It’s quite big for him to be able to confess Patamon being infected. And he confessed it to Meiko of all people. I used to think this was because Meiko was new to the group and easier to approach when needing to confess, but nowdays I actually believe it’s because he still at this point believes Meicoomon is infected as well, and it’d be easier to confess to Meiko since she would know the pain.

Takeru is crashing at this point. He’s falling more and more into the path of despair, losing any sight of hope. He’s still trying to hold it together, but it’s only a matter of time before he crashes completely. And we all know when that happens.

After Meiko starts apologizing with shaking hands, saying it’s all her fault, Takeru sort of snaps out of his despair for a moment, realising that he’s making Meiko feel worse for some reason.

Seriously. At this point he didn’t know Meicoomon was the cause. He genuily tried to tell her it’s not her fault at all. This hurts. Freaking hurts.

“I’m infected, right?“

Can I skip talking about this scene? No? D: I know, it is the big scene for Takeru’s Arc, and probably his lowest (I mean his mind is so low at this point the despair is high and hope is starting to be pretty much gone) point in the movie, but I literarily crash every single time! This scene hurts that much! But I’ll try...

The start of the scene is already omnious. Takeru appears to be preparing to see Patamon, not wanting to show off what he knows of Patamon being infected.

He takes a deep breath, and opens the door.

He’s saying that line with such a calm voice. Great holding of your feelings there Takeru.

He’s so skillfully hiding his despair oh my god.

;____; Patamon please.

Aaaaaah Patamon is giggling here I just noticed this is even worse now. No wonder Takeru is having hard time hiding his despair at this point.

Patamon shows of signs of infection again. Oh god I’m not ready. Takeru is spooked by it too.

Watching Takeru here hurts so much. Patamon knows of that happening? Oh god no.

PLEASE DON’T SAY THAT WITH A HAPPY SMILE ON YOUR FACE ;_; I know he’s trying to not make Takeru cry but it hurts!

Takeru’s realisation on Patamon knowing that now. Gosh the screencaps don’t do justice to his reaction.

There’s bit of a silence after this line, it makes it sound like Takeru is left without words.

Takeru is starting to panic. He’s trying to convince himself and Patamon that there’s still hope left. But the voice in this scene... it’s clear it’s meant to tell he’s lying even to himself and he’s quickly just trying to avoid the inevitable line that is coming up. I’m not even ready myself.

Patamon no!

PATAMON NO DON’T SAY IT!

Do you guys have ANY idea HOW MUCH PATAMON’S LINE HURTS MY SOUL AND HOW MUCH THIS WHOLE SCENE HURTS? The falling suitcase is perfect shock animation. Perfect. No questions asked. He’s not believing his ears. He can’t believe what he heard. He’s falling deep into despair, and all hope starts to be gone.

He’s trembling here hard, he’s ready to cry, he’s trying to hold but he’s ready to cry. Same here ;_;

DON’T YOU DARE TO SMILE YOU ;_; Hold on, I need a break for a moment...

Takeru can’t hold it either ;_;

I... I can’t say anything. We all know how he feels. He let all his feelings out. Good kid, cry ;__; Cry your feelings out.

Yamato being the big brother

Sun has set, and Takeru is still in the same pose from last scene. He’s stopped trembling, so he’s calmed down and stopped crying at least. The door starts ringing thou. And guess who is behind the door!

Side note, Takeru actually says Aniki here. I find it interesting that Takeru switches from different big brother words in Tri. He’s used Oniisan, Aniki and Oniichan. I’m not sure what exactly is the difference between those three words, but I find it interesting, especially when Hikari is always using Oniichan on Taichi. Anyways, moving on.

Gabumon and Patamon say their greetings to each other, when Yamato starts talking the following:

Aaaah Takeru is busted. Yamato is very observant as well.

...Wait, you didn’t notice? Takeru dear, lousy excuse, how would you not notice! Erhm, moving on! Next dialogue is just amazing from Takeru.

Suuuuuuure Yamato, sure. Well you didn’t fight with him this time thou krhm.

Actually, good question, why would he?

I’m with Gabumon!

:D But can we talk about Takeru in this conversation? He’s definitely doing his “troll little brother“ act here, possibly to hide that something is wrong from Yamato, by distracting him with this conversation. Or maybe Takeru is a bit surprised that Yamato came by? Maybe he genuinely thinks Yamato came to whine talk about someone.

Look! Yamato noticed! If you’ve been following me for a long time, you may have noticed me constantly talking about how I love the siblings in Adventure. Yamato is a great big bro. Takeru sounded a bit surprised of this thou. He didn’t believe his brother of all people would notice something being wrong with him? C’mon Takeru :D

This scene first looks like the kind where Takeru is gonna confess to Yamato. And I think he was going to. Patamon seems to believe so as well. He goes to sit on the table and has a bit of a pause before he continues.

Yamato just leaned forward after that line. He’s listening.

Patamon is feeling omnious, possibly wondering if Takeru is gonna confess or not.

Takeru is quiet for a moment again, and I believe this is where he decided to not bother Yamato with the infected Patamon info. After all, when he continues...

He becomes the troll little brother again lol. Yamato is gold.

After a long silence...

Just look at him. Just few minutes ago he was an emotional mess, and now he’s able to put on his troll little brother face again. Amazing skills I’ll say.

As a bonus, I’ll include the last part of the scene even thou I have nothing to add, I just love it.

Next up is the smooth transition to Sora’s scene so, let’s move on! Actually no wait!

That is a worried face! I’m 100% certain! This happens while Takeru is on phone with Sora. He is certain Takeru wasn’t honest but doesn’t want to push him, or so it seems. Awwwww Yamato.

Hikari looking for Takeru at school

This scene is extremely brief, but serves as a boost to show how much Patamon’s words are bothering Takeru. I’ve seen people compare this scene to 02 ep 13 where Takeru is looking for Hikari, and I agree, it is kind of a pararrel to it.

Last moments between Takeru and Patamon before Meicoomon appears again

The scene after the Digimons find out about Reboot with Takeru and Patamon is so sweet, but... I don’t know what to say about it. There’s no words. I feel it’s better explained through seeing the animation, the screencaps don’t do any justice in my opinion. I’ll try to see if I can find a gif... oh yay I did!

See how Takeru is hugging Patamon? Patamon’s infection is getting worse. The worst part thou is that Patamon knows what’s coming ahead, and he’s not telling anything to Takeru. Patamon why ;_;

Meicoomon appears

Time for the big scene! I’ll try to cover only the Takeru bits because this scene is long!

In this scene, Tailmon gives Hikari the silent signal of going in and letting her evolve. Patamon wants to join but since Takeru at this point is way too scared of losing Patamon, since he’s pretty much lost all the hope, he won’t let him go.

Later on, after Angewomon has joined the fight and it’s looking grim, following dialogue happens.

See how desperate he is in keeping Patamon close to him? How his despair has grown? How he can’t see any hope?

Everyone’s hearing his despair now. Look how they all turned to Takeru. Next bit hurts, hold on I need to prepare.

;______; Hikari hold Takeru, there you go girl. Aaaaaaah this scene hurts too much.Takeru doesn’t want Patamon to go. He knows what’s gonna happen. His despair is so strong.

Patamon evolves to Angemon and for a while, he seems to be doing fine. Until after the scene where Koushiro figures out Meicoomon being the source of the infection. After that scene, we’re back to the Meicoomon fight, and well...

Angemon has a stroke infection numbing him and he falls down. Takeru quickly tries to go to him, but Daigo Nishijima stops him. But this is the scene where everyone comes to realise Angemon is infected, and the situation is about to go dire. Angemon first manages to control the infection, but is soon overtaken by it and is fighting against Angewomon. After other kids realise they’re all gonna get infected one by one, Takeru finally falls down. No really he does.

This is where Takeru lost all of the little hope that might have lingered. It’s the point where he meets the darkness of his crest. His voice event sounds devastated. Man these voice actors are good at showing emotions through voice alone.

I just love how caring Hikari is for Takeru here. She doesn’t seem to know to find the words, or how to comfort him, but it’d be imposisble to do in such situation. At least she’s there for him. Do you even wonder why I adore these two? Cough cough, moving on.

Koushiro appears, everyone gets infected one by one until there’s only MetalGreymon and Tentomon left (Tentomon not in the fight yet). Reboot countdown starts, and following dialogue happens (I cut it down to two screencaps).

Takeru sounds mad. He just had his partner lose control of himself and now there’s something else as well? I’d be mad too.

After this, everyone but Tentomon is infected the saddest scene in Digimon history happens, and I cry. Erhm I mean. Everyone is not prepared for it. Koushiro’s backup plan failed due to infected partners being too strong for Kabuterimon, and devolved Tentomon didn’t want to be saved alone (God DAMN it ;_;). So... reboot happens, everyone gets rebooted, every single partner is now gone. Next scene hurts so god damn much.

He’s in tears ;_;

He stood up.

We’re shown this scene. And then well.

This whole scene is quiet but darn emotional none the less. Takeru is crying his feelings out. He’s not holding back. Cry Takeru, just cry.

Side note! Yamato is the best big brother Takeru could have I’m so glad he’s holding him there, I’m so happy he’s there for him right now. Ok hold on I’m crying now too. TAKERU JUST CRY YOUR FEELINGS OUT IT’S OK ;_;

But all that dialogue is Takeru talking, thought it’s not from the scene directly. It’s like, a post-scene line. Next up is a collague scene of how time is passing by while Digital World is still rebooting. But that’s it for this scene!

Post-Reboot scene with Koushiro

There’s couple of small scenes here with Takeru, but all of them a important on showing how he’s slowly recovering from his falldown. First up is conversation with Koushiro.

Takeru shakes his head next as a no to the question.

Next bit is important for Takeru.

Koushiro actually turned his head towards Takeru :o Oooh.

He’s blaming himself. He just wanted to protect Patamon. C’mere Takeru ;-; He’s not even at fault for what happened. He always seems to be afraid of seeing Patamon again since he won’t remember Takeru anymore. Poor thing. Next up is Koushiro’s bit that I believe is what’s helping Takeru to recover slowly to his old self again.

These lines stuck to Takeru. He will actually repeat these later on. Koushiro helped Takeru overcome his despair in a sense. He doesn’t do that here just yet, but it’s the start.

Takeru and Patamon Illusion

Small scene, with no words at all, but shows just how much Takeru misses Patamon and feels guilty. The Illusion of Patamon is interesting. I’m honestly not sure what it’s supposed to tell. But the scene is sweet none the less.

Talk with Meiko about going to the Digital World

After Koushiro tries to convince everyone to go to the Digital World to meet with their Digimon partners again, they all hear a whistle, and together decide that it’s time to go meet their rebooted Partners. Takeru decides to go and try convince Meiko to join them as well. And while others are talking to Himekawa and Nishijima about a plan on how they’ll be going to the Digital World, following dialogue happens between Takeru and Meiko. I’m not skipping anything because it’s very important.

Takeru, are you sure you want to know? You do? Ok, prepare yourself.

Brace yourself boy!

He didn’t expect that. I bet he’s thinking something along the lines on “What what?“ Next up Meiko explains more in detail about Meicoomon, and it’s shown to us mainly through flashbacks. Next bit of dialogue is important for Takeru’s reaction.

Look at him.

Just look at him!

He can’t believe what he just heard.

He so wants to shout at Meiko, I get that kind of feeling here. He’s definitely blaming Meiko at that moment. But then, a familiar sound happens.

He hears the sound of the whistle, and time sort of stops. He briefly looks at the illusion of Patamon.

Look, those words snapped Takeru out of his incoming burst of anger, and he calms his mind. He then turns back to Meiko.

Then he repeats what Koushiro told him before.

He’s slowly going back to his optimist side again. He wants to see Patamon again. And he wants the same for Meiko and Meicoomon as well. It’s clear in following dialogue that happens when Meiko snaps and tells Takeru to stop being kind and to just outright blame her.

See what I mean? Patamon’s words of not wanting to make everyone cry stuck to Takeru as well. That’s why he decided to not blame Meiko here. Possibly. There’s more to it as well, which I’ll get to in a bit.

Takeru why are you saying this when you didn’t wait for her ajhsfjhfgsjhsfgjsfgsjhfg sorry let’s move on!

Before heading to the Digital World

Jou asked this by the way. Next Yamato asks Daigo Nishijima if he knew, which he apologizes about. Sidenote, Koushiro turned his head to them quietly without a word, he came to his conclusion and didn’t share it with them! Koushiro, you can’t fool me!

Look how everyone turned to Takeru. And this is what I was talking about before.

Everyone has a look at Takeru after this before he continues.

I hope you see what I mean. He can’t really blame Meiko for hiding the truth, when he himself wasn’t honest either.

And that was all of his moments in Kokuhaku!

Seriously, Takeru no doubt shined in Kokuhaku. His conflict didn’t get a full finish in this movie, but he did start recovering and showing signs of being an Optimist again, filling with hope. I really like how he was shown in this movie. The scenes in the Digital World didn’t have anything for Takeru so i won’t be covering it in this post. Only thing I could point out there is how Takeru is the first one to run towards the sound of the whistle. But it’s not really big and I don’t know what to analysize from it. 

If you’re actually reading this line, then oh my god, I’m so sorry for this long analysis, and thanks for spending such time on reading this. I hope it was a satisfying one! This did take me several days to finish, mainly due to the film being so heavy for me. (I hope you guys enjoyed having me torture myself with this great but emotion-high movie.)

Bonus scene before I’m off!

Takeru is back to taking care of Hikari I love it \o/

But anyway, thanks for reading, and have a nice day! This was Aleira, signing off! ♥