terrace

L is for what you do to me: because oikawa got posssessed four years prior, that means that ryo and ken traveled about dejitarusei some time before that - whether by days, or months, or years. most likely than not the first, really. regardless - in the original, he would have been six to seven years of age when this occurred .. and in the dub, the same. this means that after returning from dejitarusei, oikawa (simultaneously?) got taken by vamdemon -- and then, a little while after that four year mark, visited ken at his deceased brother's funeral. oikawa then sent the e-mail after the funeral regarding osamu's soul and visiting dejitarusei, although it was simply a trick to get his dejivice to mutate into the dark d-3.

if ryo and ken were to have been friends in the real world, and such, ken would not have stumbled into dejitarusei by accident - as they portrayed in the anim�. thusly, the flipping coin that generalizes the show-version of ryo could very well be daisuke and his inane dreams of another life. sources have suggested to me that daisuke dreamt of this AI sort of character - and the dejitarusei went about creating, literally, an appropriate replica. a gennai sort of creature, neither dejimon nor human, but still there. this of course, since he's actually a living breathing whatever, would stand up to the fact that ryo was seen in one of the dejimon movies for a split two or so terms (see previous page's lowest picture). and support it. so where did ryo ever run off to? well, it's assumed that he's still doing a duty of protecting the dejital world he was literally spawned from - as does gennai, with the help of his own god dejimon. ryo on the other hand has no dejimon to help him, considering veemon was eventually sealed beneath one rock or another, for his rendezvouz with daisuke in years to come.

disloyalty: when kaiser is at last, finally defeated - ken is allowed to actually have his body under control by how own mind once more. and scarily enough, the least amount of time he spent with possession by osamu/kaiser was four entire years, considering the facts of that previous argument. regardless, when he came out of the stupor of beind that dejimon dictator, he looks quite disoriented and hazy - like he didn't seem to grasp the fact he was "back," so to speak. as the scenes progressed, he didn't even seem to acknowledge, nor look surprised with the events of when his crest of kindness iwas activated. He simply stared onward blankly, mouth only slightly opened in a mock sort of startlement, as if it was

absolutely nothing more than the usual, passing scenary for him to view. a common thing, almost. he gave an almost eerie indifference to the events, as compared to the horrors and torture the kaiser subjected him to in those four to *six* years of being a puppet. truly, the only thing that he recognized was his fallen dejimon wormmon - simply because one of the last more impacting memories other than osamu's death for ken was wormmon and ryo and their (mis)adventures together.

thus begins ken's frankly literal quest to reinvent his entire personality. i mean, the whole taco - the grand tamale. everything was in need of a quaint jug of cleaner, and maybe a shock treatment or seven along the immediate side. after his depressing self-reflection episode, he justly goes about trying to discover himself all over again. he is quite surprised about his actions when he cries in "genesis of evil," because he hadn't done so in those many, many years years. in the episode immediately thereafter, he has to "find himself," as i do quote with the dub version, when wanders the desert (before going back to get leafmon in primary village). he seemed to recognize osamu's portrait on his desk in another episode, but still looks perturbed, perplexed, disgruntled, and quite confused - as his mother goes on about "what if he has amnesia." He doesn't - he was simply forced into an almost consensual sort of coma for four-to-six years, stuck in the co-pilot's seat without any controls at all. when one person awakens from a sort of coma, they are quite puzzled, only remembering, if at all, the incidents that took place *before* their coma-ification. this explains ken's "hazy memory" with ryo and the past, even despite accusing the dark seed being that queer interference. it was kaiser that did, and all of those memories really (and thus the dark seed, indirectly) that messed with his memory banks.

while looking in the window before the osamu-portrait scene, he seems to be focusing more on his *own* image, rather than anything going on outside. it's also common, or so i've heard, that coma victims will be fascinated with their change of appearances. in the original, he was at least seven when he had his body hijacked by osamu/kaiser .. and was eleven or twelve when he got the chance to see himself again. in the dub, also seven -- thirteen or fourteen when he finally came back (two more years of being under kaiser's control).

there was also a sort of backlash to being stuck in that coma - as he seemed to retain an eerily serious-yet-curious prospective with all that went on around him. such extent led to his misunderstanding of daisuke's friendly disposition for something more sinister, and so on. *his* mind, and not the emperor's, was still caught in that phase of being a hurt child of no more than five or six years of age - as it justifiably explains why his grades slipped in tamachi. he eventually caught up, though. at a slow pace, nevertheless. of all the other things he recognizes, arukenimon is a grand one of them; acting almost childish in the fact she was immediately evil and bad despite his fuzzy memory, since she was associated with kaiser.

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cthulu: check the timeline sometime for a change of dates and such, between the original and the dub (it makes -more- sense now!), and i found that ryo and ken could not have seen the heighton view terrace fight since ken lived in tamachi (unless ryo lived in odaiba, and they were at a sleep over, but then how did ken meet someone a district and school away?). anyway, on with the case file.

cthulu is in a series of books written by the great horror writer, hp lovecraft. he is "basically a big, mean octopus who devours absolutely anything and everything. people, souls, worlds .. he's a hungry sonnuva'bitch," in the words of my good friend who originally noticed the similarity. the scubamon, are not unlike the "dark

ones" that serve the master. his powers include being able to send people to hell, and such. i've found that the dark ocean resembles some sort of purgatory for lost, wandering, or festering -- (continued on next page!)