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Ichijouji Ken

Series: Digimon Adventure 02/Digimon: Digital Monsters
Age: 11
Hometown: Tamachi, Japan
Traits: Kindness
Partner: Wormmon
Jogress Partner: Motomiya Daisuke
Room: 412 A

Background
The youngest child of the Ichijouji family, Ken spent most of his childhood living in his late brother's shadow. After all, Osamu was the family genius, always getting on the news, always bringing greatness to the Ichijouji family name, while Ken, well, he was just plain Ken.

The little brother; the tag-along, the one that his parents seemed to forget about as soon as Osamu walked through the door.

Not that Osamu minded spending time with his younger brother. It was Osamu, after all, who taught him to blow bubbles and commented that because Ken was kind, his bubbles always came out perfect. Of course, Ken didn't believe him, for perfection was something Osamu achieved, not him.

Then, one day, things changed. A digi-vice came though Osamu's computer and Osamu snatched it up and threw it into his desk drawer, telling Ken that it was his and not to touch it. Ken, of course, was a curious child, and had to see; so he waited till his brother was gone before picking it up. And was subsequently sucked into his brother's computer and into the Digital World, where he met his partner for the first time, Wormmon.

It is believed that during this time, Ken and Wormmon met up with Ryo and his V-mon (believed to later be Daisuke's V-mon), and battle against Millenniummon. Following Millenniummon's defeat, he released dark seeds. Ken, being the kind of person he is, pushed Ryo out of their way, only to be struck by one himself. Ken is nursed back to health over the course of several weeks, and when he returns home, discovers that it was it was the same day he had left.

He is met by his angry brother, who informed him that, by going into the drawer and taking the device, he had broken his trust. In anger, he found himself wishing that Osamu would just go away.

A wish made in childish anger that he would soon regret, as he stood by helplessly as his brother was struck by a car and killed. Shortly after his brother's funeral, he received a mysterious e-mail on his brother's computer, telling him to take the Digi-vice from the desk drawer and return the Digital World and escape the guilt he felt for the death of his brother. Ken did so, and ended up in a part of the Digital World called the Dark Ocean. Placing the Digi-vice into the water there, it shifts and turns into a Black D-3. And the Dark Seed that had been planted in him during his first adventure finally beings to grow.

Of course, with this, comes changes. Ken begins to develop traits once held by his brother, such as his genius. He begins to excel at everything he does, and becomes the best soccer player Tamachi Elementary has ever had. He wins various academic contests and sets many a school record. His parents are ecstatic, for it seems as if Osamu has come back to them.

However, thanks to the dark seed, Ken also begins to develop apathy towards everything. He sees others, including his own parents, beneath his notice. Nothing stands in his way in the real world, so he turns his attention towards another, the Digital World.

Adapting the guise of the Digimon Kaiser, Ken returns there for a challenge and sets out to conquer it, one Digimon at a time. Ruthless, he builds dark towers as a sign as of his power and invents dark rings, that, when placed around a Digimon, allow the Kaiser to control them. The towers also dampen the affect of the digital evolution, and no longer allowed the Digimon to evolve into their higher forms.

Of course, the Digital World did not take this sitting down, and called upon a new team of Chosen Children to come to its aid: Yagami Hikari and Takahashi Takeru from the original group three years ago and new comers Motomiya Daisuke, Inoue Miyako and Hida Iori. Along with their Digimon, they discover Armor evolution through the use of Digimentals. Armor evolution is not affected by the dark towers, and such, the Kaiser has found himself some opponents in his quest, as the Chosen set out to destroy the dark towers and put an end to the Kaiser's reign of terror.

Their battle starts to spill over into the real world when Daisuke and Ken's soccer teams have a match. Although Tamachi still wins, Daisuke is the only one that's even come close to stopping Ken "The Rocket" Ichijouji, when Daisuke side slides into him, accidently cutting his ankle. Later on, in the Digital World, Daisuke discovers Ken and the Kaiser are one in the same when he noticed that the Kaiser has the same wound that he gave Ken.

Ken decides at that point to leave the real world entirely and begins his full time stay in the Digital World. He begins work on the Dark Spiral, a device that does the same thing as the Rings, but allows him to control higher level Digimon, using it to force one of the original Chosen's, Taichi's, partner, Agumon, to evolve against his will. Agumon is freed, but it becomes quite obvious to the children that the Kaiser needs to be stopped.

Deciding to use one of the Kaiser's advantages against him (being that he's in the Digital World 24/7 and the good guys have school and stuff), they decide to stay in the Digital World until they defeat him, using the idea of going on a camping trip with friends to hide their absences.

By this time, the Kaiser has come up with the great idea of creating his own Digimon using parts of others. Wormmon, fearing for his partner, helps the Chosen when they invade the base, and leads Daisuke and V-mon to the power core of the base, which turns into a Golden Digimental and allowes V-mon to evolve into Magnamon. Magnamon attempts to defeat Chimeramon (the Kaiser's freaky ass Frankenstein Digimon), but instead, Wormmon turns against him and sends his power to Magnamon, which in turn, allows the Golden Armor Digimon to defeat Kimeramon.

The Kaiser, upset that he lost, proclaimed that he'd just reset the game and start over. The other Chosen told him that what he had been doing wasn’t a game, in fact, he had been terrorizing living, breathing creatures. Ken collapses, unbelieving, and the Golden Digimental turns into a Crest (an object that all the original Chosen had had, but were destroyed by the end of the first series) and floats to him. Wormmon, using his last breath, explains that the Crest of Kindness was always Ken's and it was returning to its rightful place. Wormmon dies in Ken's arms, shattering any semblance of rational left in the boy, and he staggers off into the Digital desert alone, the other Chosen watching behind him.

Ken returns home, much to the relief of his parents who had been holding regular news conferences begging for their son to return home, but not everything is all right in the Ichijouji household. Ken spends the first couple days of his return in a type of coma, and upon awakening, it seems as he has some type of amnesia. While trying to figure out just want went on, Ken discovers two objects on his desk, his crest and D-3, and ends up in the Digital World once again, this time in Primary Village, where Digimon who are killed end up going to be reborn. Confronted by various baby Digimon and fueled by his desire and admission that he can't change what he's done, but he can try to make up for it, the crest leads him to Wormmon's egg. Upon reaching it, it hatches and Ken is reunited with the baby form of Wormmon, Leafmon.

Reunited as Chosen Child and Digimon, Ken and Wormmon begin the task of cleaning up the Kaiser's mess by trying to destroy the Dark Towers. However, their steps are dogged by a mysterious woman in a long red dress with white hair as she teases and taunts Ken at every turn. She beings trying the leftover towers into fake Digimon and sending them out to do damage, with leads Ken to crossing paths with the other Chosen. When Stingmon (Wormmon's evolved form) saves Iori from a Thundermon by destroying it, the Chosen are convinced that Ken is still up to his old tricks. All except Daisuke, who continuously tries to seek out Ken and convince him to join the team.

During one of the attacks by the fake Digimon, the other Chosen discover that Ken and Stingmon hadn't, in fact, been killing real Digimon, but they were dark towers turned Digimon when the fake skin was ripped in a place that allowed them to see the truth underneath. Following that battle, the Chosen, except for Iori, became more accepting of Ken. And when XV-Mon (V-mon's evolved form) and Stingmon jogress evolved into Paildramon, it became apparent that Ken was a member of the team, even if it some of the relationships were strained. And while Ken still uneasy around them, he found himself teaming up with them in the various battles with Archnemon (the above mysterious lady in red), Mummymon and later Black WarGreymon, a Digimon created by Archnemon using 100 dark towers. Black WarGreymon begins searching for the Holy Stones, which, when destroyed, allow for the weakening barrier between the real world and the Digital World.

It's during one of these trips to the Digital World to find a Destiny Stone that Ken suddenly finds himself in a place that is neither Tamachi or the Digital World. But just what is it?

Personality
As the Kaiser, Ken was, to put it simply, a bastard. He kicked puppies, ringed Digimon to control them, and even abused his own partner. Even in his dealings with people, he treated them as scum and no one was the wiser, simply dismissing it as a quark of his genius.

He was better than everyone, included those blasted Chosen Children, and no one was going to take that away from him. He was going to win the game, after all. He was the best and he was going to prove it.

Following the defeat of the Kaiser, however, Ichijouji Ken, was a boy plagued by guilt and so far removed from the boy he had once been, that he wasn't even sure if he could be that person ever again. No longer the super genius he once was, he is now simply a shy boy who is trying to rebuild his life with his parents and himself as well.

He believes that he deserves everything he gets and then some for what he had done as the Kaiser, allowing them to think what they will of him, not even bothering to correct their assumptions about Thundermon.

However, things begin to change for him, as he finds himself more and more in the presence of the other Chosen as they begin to warm to him, Daisuke's offers of friendship, and Wormmon's endless encouragement.

However, Ken does still fear the darkness and the Dark Ocean and it's pull, and still fears that he'll give in to it. He's also easy to anger when it comes to someone bringing up the Kaiser as a way to bait him, as Archnemon does when she tries to distract him from going to the Digital World to help the rest of the Chosen. Ken also tends to be quiet and withdrawn until he warms up to someone and is comfortable in their presence, even if he still doesn't talk much.

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