i always love thinking about Kaiser Ken
Like This kid ego was so boosted and he was so isolated mentally from other kids his age. He found the Digital World and took it on as some obsur video game. He didnt have any real friends so itās not like he would have found out about its inaccessibilityĀ to others. So to him it was just this weird singlplayer game he used to escape the everyday world and the traumas left behind by his brothers death and the pressure of being a child genius.Ā So heās playing this game and heās here to just have funa nd vent and yall suckers must have played games like Plague Inc or have killed your sims before. Itās just a game. So of course he takes the oppirtunityĀ to just let himself indulg in some fantasy of having control. of course he plays up being the villain. have you seen this kid?? Heās a fuckin theatre kid larper hamming it up heās just having fun.
Then he sees other kids for the first time and for a bit he assumes theyre some npcās the game has created to thwart him and act asĀ āgood guysā for him to squash. Its just fun. Then he sees them irl and realises theyre actually other players! So of course this is infinitly more fun. He thinks theyre lame for not having even tried to customize theirĀ avatars. The glasses girl may look like a disaster but at least she tried to dress up her avatar. Bit confused how they got into his game. Maybe theres servers and i just havent figured out how to access others servers?Ā But he doesnāt really mind. Itās his game theyre playing in so he has control.
so he keeps hamming it up as the villain. Goes through this whole identity reveal. Then he realises how the other kids look visibly upset. theyre actually angery with him. They must be sore losers. Taking this game too seriously. he laughs it off. Keeps having fun. This is hisĀ Ā game. If they dont like it they dont have to play. Hes not gonna stop having fun and he may as well teach those noobs some lessons. So he toys with them.Ā He continues to be the villain. And the more fun heās having in the game the more the pressure of the real world grade on him. it weighs on him and he wants to scream and yell and hit.Ā
He wants to get away
So he runs away to the digital world. This video has become his safe haven. Itās the only thing making him happy anymore. he wants to fall into that avatar heās created. Then he gets hit in the fight with takeru. He barely if ever has gotten hit. It hurts. This is a game it shouldnt hurt this much. And he whips Tk and it a moment for him to realise if it could hurt him too.
Then the darkness is everywhere. heās desperate and this safe haven isnt safe anymore. Heās losing it. heās getting sloppy. Barely able to keep the character up. he wants to pause the game. But he cant go home. He doesnt want to go home.
They defeat him. And he loses Wormmon. Wormmon meant something. He might have just been an npc. and Ken might have liked kicking him around. But who doesnt like fucking around with their favs. Who hasnt found a fav in a game or a show and thought about angst. Wormmon always being there, as stupid as it was to rely on some game character, meant a lot to him. and now heās goneā¦ just like Sam.
He wants to reset.Ā
It isnt fun anymore. He wants to reset the game and start over. he wants to kick the other kids off his server so he can play singleplayer again. maybe he s the sore loser now but he doesnt care, This was the only thing that mattered to him.
He canāt reset. this is real. This is a real place with real people and he wasnt just playing a chaarcter, He really was the bad guy.Ā
How do you make up for that?
what am I supposed to add?
