Takato Matsuda

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Hair: Brown
D-power Color: Red, Gold

Description
Takato is the central character of the 03 digidestined.  He starts out by playing the card game, and normally losing to his friend Kazu.  One day in class, though, he draws up his own digimon, named Guilmon.  The next day, he finds the blue card in his stash of cards.  He scans it through his card reader and then watches it turn into his very own digivice.  He goes home that night and tries to scan his picture and stats of Guilmon through the card reader on the D-power.  However, it doesn't work at first, but the D-power then reads each and every page just like a card, creating his digimon partner in an egg, which shows up on the screen.  The next day, the egg has hatched and notifies him of where his digimon will biomerge using a compass built into it.  He finds Guilmon and tries to keep him at home, but it's impossible to hide him there forever, so he hides him in the park.  Later on, Impmon tries to get Guilmon into trouble by terrorizing some people and blaming it on Guilmon.  Takato blames Guilmon at first for not obeying him and saying in the park, but when Devidramon got loose of the digital barrier, he finds out from Terriermon that Impmon set him up.  Takato apologizes to Guilmon and, with the power of his own heart, has Guilmon digivolve into Growlmon, a larger form of Guilmon with white hair on him.  After that, when the tiger deva showed up at the top of Yamaki's headquarters, all of the other digimon failed, including Growlmon, who was being injured severely.  However, Takato was able to reach out to Growlmon somehow and grab onto him (but in real life, he grabbed onto Calumon, the catalyst of digivolution) and used the power of the catalyst to Matrix Digivolve Growlmon into WarGrowlmon, a heavy armored machine who defeated the tiger deva in no time.  After some time being in the digital world, Takato witnessed the death of Leomon.  He wanted revenge so bad that it took over his entire soul, which forced Guilmon to digivolve to it's alternate mega form, a huge winged beast that had no soul.  Takato then dropped his digivice, which broke apart into digital data since he lost control of himself and his digimon partner.  He then realized how much he cared for Guilmon and put that over his feelings of revenge, which caused them to Biomerge Digivolve into Gallantmon, a knight-type digimon.  After the battle when Takato and Guilmon return to their normal forms, Takato recieves the gold D-power, who's pattern looks like the outer edge of Gallantmon's shield.  They later returned to the real world by the ark, who Guilmon could tell that it was alive.  Then, durring the battle against the D-reaper in the real world, the creators of the digital world recreated the ark into Granni, a powerful armor piece.  But, it needed something to get itself out of the digital field, so unknowing to everyone, Gallantmon sent out a beam of energy to it, making it biomerge into the real world as an addition to Gallantmon's armor.  Finally, after the group entered the D-reaper using the power of the pink card, which was to be stronger than the blue cards and make them last in the D-reaper without being deleted, Gallantmon and them were losing the fight until Granni sacrified itself to have Gallantmon Mode Change to Gallantmon Crimson Mode.

Personality
Takato seems to be young at heart at first, but he grows up quickly, learning how to be a leader and how to follow when necessary.  He also discovers time and time again that even though Guilmon may seem to be a handful, he loves him just the same, which most of the time causes Guilmon to digivolve into it's different forms.  Takato later finds out that he is part of Guilmon and Guilmon is part of him, which really changes what he thinks of himself and his digimon partner.

Takato's Digimon Digivolution
Guilmon, Growlmon, WarGrowlmon, Gallantmon/Megidramon, Gallantmon Crimson Mode