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lionhearted_destinyOOC Information
NAME; Ashley/Ari
AGE; 21
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED; Campbell Saunders, Terra
IC Information
CHARACTER NAME; Juri Katou
AGE; 11
CANON; Digimon Tamers
CANON POINT; Post Message in a Packet, Drama CD
FAMILY TYPES; N/A, canon partner Leomon (Leormon)
APPEARANCE; Juri’s a young girl with red hair that she usually ties a small portion into a side-ponytail. She’s not all that short for her age, though not all that tall either. As seen here, she usually wears, in typical one-outfit-only anime fashion, a green and yellow dress and light green and white sneakers. Often times she carries around a little fox/dog puppet, which she keeps in a small bag.
PERSONALITY; When she first appears in the series, Juri appears to be an odd but cheerful girl. The best way to describe her would be eccentric. She talks with her puppet – often when telling someone bad news or saying something she doesn’t feel comfortable saying – and finds Guilmon cute, putting a sticker on his face shortly after meeting him. When she first meets Leomon, she’s convinced he’s her partner, despite the lack of a digivice, and she chases him around, believing that will somehow convince him as well. She finds the Tsuchidaramon’s food tasty, digging in before anyone else, and overall appears to be a little bit of an oddball.
There’s a lot more to Juri than her eccentricities. A whole lot more. Because of her mother’s death and her father’s distance while raising her, Juri’s got a lot of issues, specifically a belief that she’s not a very good person and her constant struggle to keep up the appearances of a smiling, happy child. With her understandable rejection of her stepmother, Juri got it in her head that she’s “not a good girl” and it’s something that isn’t apparent until after Leomon dies. It’s not that Juri hates herself; she just doesn’t have a very high opinion of herself. She tells Leomon that she’s not strong and apologizes to him for having her as a Tamer. She blames herself for her mother dying, for Leomon dying, for all the bad things that happen after the D-Reaper uses her as a fuel source. By the end of the series, this is not something that is cleared up. Rather, as the Drama CDs state, she says she’s trying to be a good girl. She still doesn’t believe herself to be a very good person or a strong one, but she’s moving in that direction, and that’s good for her.
On that note, in terms of becoming a good person, she highly values the connections around her, and she considers their influence the reason why she might become that way. She says if you get off the path to doing good, there will be people around you to get you back on it. Her strength, therefore, doesn’t come from herself, but those around her. Given her interactions with her friends, Culumon especially, as he is the one who convinces her to start fighting back against the D-Reaper, this is evident. She hates that the D-Reaper upset the people around her using her voice and her form, so it’s easy to say that she wants to make others happy as much as possible. She gets strength from people, and in return she wants to make them smile.
Making people smile is her motivation for acting so happy when in actuality she is not. As mentioned, she often uses her puppet to tell people bad things or bring them up, such as when asking how they were going to get home from the Digital World or trying to let Takato down easily when she believed he was trying to confess to her, early in the series. It’s unclear whether she completely understands this or not, but this is her way of appearing childish and less serious, so she’ll therefore upset people less when discussing uncomfortable things. Though we don’t see her interact with him much, it’s easy to assume that she uses her puppet to cheer up her half-brother Masahiko as well, so that might be where she picked up the habit.
Despite her insistence that she is not a good person, there is evidence contrary to this. She forgives Impmon, despite him being the one to kill Leomon. Along with this, the aforementioned desire to make people happy show a girl who very much likes when things are peaceful and wants to keep them as such. If she’s sad, people will not be happy, in her logic, so she hides her sadness to keep those around her from feeling how she does.
Her fear of losing others – from her mother’s death and then Leomon’s triggering it to come into full focus – doesn’t manifest as her not getting close to them, but rather acting as a people-pleaser, as implied with her strive to act happy. By the end of the series, she hasn’t entirely dealt with losing those close to her, but she’s beginning to. From the deaths of those close to her, she’s developed a complex with fate or destiny, stating that it was her destiny to be alone and sad. She was stuck in her depression, but eventually, with Culumon’s help, she moved to think that humans can grow past that. She uses this as her argument against the D-Reaper that humans can grow. “Even I can become a good girl,” she says, putting herself on the lowest point of humanity…so because of that, it shows an incredibly optimism, despite her sad thoughts. Therefore, she has a weird contradiction of both thinking the worst of herself and using that to fuel a shining belief that mankind is ultimately capable of growth and good.
Juri’s not a pushover. When push comes to shove, she can act with determination, as her standing up to the D-Reaper shows, but even before that, she uses her ingenuity when captured by Orochimon to try and knock him out with sake, knowing how people at her father’s bar act when they have too much. Even though this proves to only make him stronger, when the other Tamers arrive, Juri figures out the right card – LadyDevimon, which no one expected out of her – to give Leomon the strength to defeat him. She has little to no interest in Digimon before meeting Guilmon, but she comes to understand a lot about them and fixate on the card game, collecting as much as she can. Even though Ruki is intimidating, Juri approaches her and asks her to teach her about the card game, leading to them becoming friends. All of this shows Juri is a determined, strong, and smart girl, capable of learning a lot when she puts her mind to something.
Besides Leomon, who she considers her strength, the strongest connections she has to the others in the group would be to Takato and Ruki. Ruki becomes her best friend, and even though they fight when Juri calls her chan and acts, in Ruki’s opinion, childish, they still make up and Ruki praises her growth after they beat Orochimon. Even though she’s in an extreme depressed state after Leomon dies, what snaps her out of her detachment – despite battles between two Digimon Sovereign taking place before that – is Ruki being in danger from the D-Reaper. When Ruki returns, Juri is relieved and runs to her, grateful she hadn’t lost another friend. She is still sad, but it gets her to show expression.
As for Takato, early on he is a classmate and friend. As she is the first to accept Guilmon outside of the other Tamers, they begin to grow closer. Takato clearly has a crush on her, but Juri doesn’t think of him that way as the series starts. However, considering their interaction in the Drama CD, it’s clear that she has started to like him back by the end of the series, with how she teases him about how much he likes her and her trailing off saying “I also…” She’s not only grateful to him for saving her, but she considers him a very, very close person.
Leomon is her strength, as mentioned. Beyond simply being excited to have a partner, Juri wants to help him become strong and derives her own purpose from him. Because she is a Tamer, she has meaning. Because she can help this amazing creature, she has meaning. He is her partner, more than her friend. It’s possible she considers him a stand-in for a parental figure, as her father never really understood how to raise her and grew distant as she grew and her mother is dead. She doesn’t let her stepmother get close to her, so Leomon is the only one who could be considered an “adult” who she is actively close to. Though in his first appearance she appeared to have a crush on him, this doesn’t come up at all after, so it’s safe to say that faded. This could be why his death hit her so hard; it is another instance of losing this strong, secure parental figure she has been denied, and it triggers her depression.
She’s clearly like other young girls, as evident by her putting a sticker on Guilmon’s face; she’s childish at times and, even with her putting on a mask for others, cheerful. Not all her happiness is faked, and the times she seems most joyful are when she’s around her friends and can truly forget about the bad things in her life. In this way, she derives strength from them not only in a sense where they show her how to be a good person, in her own words, but that they show her how to be happy. Juri plays happily with Guilmon in the park, happily spends time with the playful Culumon, and laughs with her school friends about the boys’ antics.
Despite thinking she can’t do much to help, Juri will still try. And that’s a lot about her, she tries. When she’s in despair, she utterly gives up living, gives up everything, to the point where the D-Reaper uses her as fuel for its power. But the events of the series have shown her she must try to get out of this state when it happens, so she will try and try until she’s blue in the face. She might still repress her worries at times, and she will likely revert to her people pleasing tendencies, but she’s trying her hardest to be stronger, even if she’s scared, and that, in her mind, counts for something.
HISTORY; Wikimon.
Digimon Wiki, a better resource.
Additionally, since there’s no real place that explains Message in a Packet besides the videos themselves, I’ll cover it here. After Takato found the portal to the Digital World in Guilmon’s home, as the Wild Bunch couldn’t figure out how to reunite the kids with their Digimon and they were worried that the breach would let out wild Digimon, they covered the hut with concrete, to prevent an attack they couldn’t fight against.
Several months following that, Jian told Takato and Ruki that though they can’t see their Digimon yet, they can send them messages. Takato told Juri, and though she was initially hesitant, he reminded her of Culumon, who she ended up recording a message for, thanking him for all the support he gave her while she was trapped inside the D-Reaper. She also sent a message to Impmon, thanking him as well, and encouraging him, assuring him he’d see his partners again and that she knew he was walking down the right path in the Digital World. She sent the message off with a cheerful end, saying she’d see them again in the future.
SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON;
2.) What would you say is your greatest strength?
My strength? Um… I’m not really… …I guess, I’m trying not to give up anymore. I’m trying to take everything everyone’s told me and…become a good girl. And I’ve got a lot of people to put me back on that path, if I ever get off it. …Oh, that’s not something of mine, is it? Or…does it mean I’m determined…?
3.) If you were given the option to stay in the Digital World or return to your home, which would you choose? Why?
Oh, I… Um, this Digital World? With Leomon… I miss my mom and dad and Masahiko. Takato-kun, and Ruki-chan—ah, the Ruki-chan I know. But I… I just got Leomon back… And the other Tamers aren’t here, no matter how much better they’d be… I- I want to go home! One day! But only if we can fix this, and if I…can take Leomon with me.
5.) You have one choice. That choice will result in either the end of the world or it will save it. Which way would you go?
In a single choice? What kind of question is that? Of course I’d save it. I may not be… No, I may not have much experience with that, but any one person can change the world, so… I’d choose to save it. Of course I would.
THIRD PERSON; Juri's completely fine with helping rebuild things, especially if the village got destroyed by rampaging Digimon. What's nice, is this village. It reminds her of the Tsuchidaramon village, it reminds her of the peaceful parts of the Digital World she knows, which aren't many, and which she doubts still exist, due to the D-Reaper.
No, no. That line of thought's bad. She knows that, she's talked about that. And besides, it's not like she's alone here. Not now, not anymore...
“Juri, are you sure you can carry all that?” Leomon is behind her, her Leomon, with a large bunch of straw, probably big enough for a whole house. She, meanwhile, is carrying a pack of large sticks.
She fights rolling her eyes and laughs a little; he's doting on her. Maybe he feels guilty for leaving her alone, maybe just a little. “I'm fine Leomon. I'm strong, remember?” She says this partly to tease him, partly to remind herself, because it’s something she still doesn’t entirely believe.
His expression softens, and it looks like he wants to reach down and pat her head, despite his full hands. ...That would be a problem, so he doesn't do it. “Of course. The strongest creature I've ever met.”
She tries not to blush; when Leomon says it, it seems more permanent. “C'mon. Let's get back to work. Can't have these Yokomon sleeping outside!”
She smiles brightly. He smiles back. It's just about perfect. She hauls over to one of the house plots, dropping the sticks and them beginning to set them up. She still can’t get over this place. Here, it’s so much more peaceful, despite still being in danger. Digimon live in a city. They have jobs. The stark contrast stands out, compared to the harsh wasteland she saw. Kill or be killed, there, and now they’re building houses?
Let alone Digimon getting reborn. It’s something she doesn’t like to think about, because if she does a small twinge of jealousy rises up, and she has to force it back down. Leomon is here now. He’s not going to leave. Despite her fears to the contrary, she’s going to hold on to him as tight as she can. This is a miracle she’d always been too sad, too jaded to believe. She likes this world, that gave her this miracle, so she’ll protect it. Even if she didn’t, she’d help anyway. These Digimon deserve the chance to live peacefully…and there’s the whole matter of the worlds all flying together.
She may not be Takato, or Ruki, or Jian, or Ryou, or even Kazu or Kenta or Jian’s little sister, or Ai-chan or Mako-chan. But she’s still going to try as hard as she can.
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Additionally though I was too busy to really start up conversations, here is a short other sample, of Juri in another situation.
NAME; Ashley/Ari
AGE; 21
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED; Campbell Saunders, Terra
IC Information
CHARACTER NAME; Juri Katou
AGE; 11
CANON; Digimon Tamers
CANON POINT; Post Message in a Packet, Drama CD
FAMILY TYPES; N/A, canon partner Leomon (Leormon)
APPEARANCE; Juri’s a young girl with red hair that she usually ties a small portion into a side-ponytail. She’s not all that short for her age, though not all that tall either. As seen here, she usually wears, in typical one-outfit-only anime fashion, a green and yellow dress and light green and white sneakers. Often times she carries around a little fox/dog puppet, which she keeps in a small bag.
PERSONALITY; When she first appears in the series, Juri appears to be an odd but cheerful girl. The best way to describe her would be eccentric. She talks with her puppet – often when telling someone bad news or saying something she doesn’t feel comfortable saying – and finds Guilmon cute, putting a sticker on his face shortly after meeting him. When she first meets Leomon, she’s convinced he’s her partner, despite the lack of a digivice, and she chases him around, believing that will somehow convince him as well. She finds the Tsuchidaramon’s food tasty, digging in before anyone else, and overall appears to be a little bit of an oddball.
There’s a lot more to Juri than her eccentricities. A whole lot more. Because of her mother’s death and her father’s distance while raising her, Juri’s got a lot of issues, specifically a belief that she’s not a very good person and her constant struggle to keep up the appearances of a smiling, happy child. With her understandable rejection of her stepmother, Juri got it in her head that she’s “not a good girl” and it’s something that isn’t apparent until after Leomon dies. It’s not that Juri hates herself; she just doesn’t have a very high opinion of herself. She tells Leomon that she’s not strong and apologizes to him for having her as a Tamer. She blames herself for her mother dying, for Leomon dying, for all the bad things that happen after the D-Reaper uses her as a fuel source. By the end of the series, this is not something that is cleared up. Rather, as the Drama CDs state, she says she’s trying to be a good girl. She still doesn’t believe herself to be a very good person or a strong one, but she’s moving in that direction, and that’s good for her.
On that note, in terms of becoming a good person, she highly values the connections around her, and she considers their influence the reason why she might become that way. She says if you get off the path to doing good, there will be people around you to get you back on it. Her strength, therefore, doesn’t come from herself, but those around her. Given her interactions with her friends, Culumon especially, as he is the one who convinces her to start fighting back against the D-Reaper, this is evident. She hates that the D-Reaper upset the people around her using her voice and her form, so it’s easy to say that she wants to make others happy as much as possible. She gets strength from people, and in return she wants to make them smile.
Making people smile is her motivation for acting so happy when in actuality she is not. As mentioned, she often uses her puppet to tell people bad things or bring them up, such as when asking how they were going to get home from the Digital World or trying to let Takato down easily when she believed he was trying to confess to her, early in the series. It’s unclear whether she completely understands this or not, but this is her way of appearing childish and less serious, so she’ll therefore upset people less when discussing uncomfortable things. Though we don’t see her interact with him much, it’s easy to assume that she uses her puppet to cheer up her half-brother Masahiko as well, so that might be where she picked up the habit.
Despite her insistence that she is not a good person, there is evidence contrary to this. She forgives Impmon, despite him being the one to kill Leomon. Along with this, the aforementioned desire to make people happy show a girl who very much likes when things are peaceful and wants to keep them as such. If she’s sad, people will not be happy, in her logic, so she hides her sadness to keep those around her from feeling how she does.
Her fear of losing others – from her mother’s death and then Leomon’s triggering it to come into full focus – doesn’t manifest as her not getting close to them, but rather acting as a people-pleaser, as implied with her strive to act happy. By the end of the series, she hasn’t entirely dealt with losing those close to her, but she’s beginning to. From the deaths of those close to her, she’s developed a complex with fate or destiny, stating that it was her destiny to be alone and sad. She was stuck in her depression, but eventually, with Culumon’s help, she moved to think that humans can grow past that. She uses this as her argument against the D-Reaper that humans can grow. “Even I can become a good girl,” she says, putting herself on the lowest point of humanity…so because of that, it shows an incredibly optimism, despite her sad thoughts. Therefore, she has a weird contradiction of both thinking the worst of herself and using that to fuel a shining belief that mankind is ultimately capable of growth and good.
Juri’s not a pushover. When push comes to shove, she can act with determination, as her standing up to the D-Reaper shows, but even before that, she uses her ingenuity when captured by Orochimon to try and knock him out with sake, knowing how people at her father’s bar act when they have too much. Even though this proves to only make him stronger, when the other Tamers arrive, Juri figures out the right card – LadyDevimon, which no one expected out of her – to give Leomon the strength to defeat him. She has little to no interest in Digimon before meeting Guilmon, but she comes to understand a lot about them and fixate on the card game, collecting as much as she can. Even though Ruki is intimidating, Juri approaches her and asks her to teach her about the card game, leading to them becoming friends. All of this shows Juri is a determined, strong, and smart girl, capable of learning a lot when she puts her mind to something.
Besides Leomon, who she considers her strength, the strongest connections she has to the others in the group would be to Takato and Ruki. Ruki becomes her best friend, and even though they fight when Juri calls her chan and acts, in Ruki’s opinion, childish, they still make up and Ruki praises her growth after they beat Orochimon. Even though she’s in an extreme depressed state after Leomon dies, what snaps her out of her detachment – despite battles between two Digimon Sovereign taking place before that – is Ruki being in danger from the D-Reaper. When Ruki returns, Juri is relieved and runs to her, grateful she hadn’t lost another friend. She is still sad, but it gets her to show expression.
As for Takato, early on he is a classmate and friend. As she is the first to accept Guilmon outside of the other Tamers, they begin to grow closer. Takato clearly has a crush on her, but Juri doesn’t think of him that way as the series starts. However, considering their interaction in the Drama CD, it’s clear that she has started to like him back by the end of the series, with how she teases him about how much he likes her and her trailing off saying “I also…” She’s not only grateful to him for saving her, but she considers him a very, very close person.
Leomon is her strength, as mentioned. Beyond simply being excited to have a partner, Juri wants to help him become strong and derives her own purpose from him. Because she is a Tamer, she has meaning. Because she can help this amazing creature, she has meaning. He is her partner, more than her friend. It’s possible she considers him a stand-in for a parental figure, as her father never really understood how to raise her and grew distant as she grew and her mother is dead. She doesn’t let her stepmother get close to her, so Leomon is the only one who could be considered an “adult” who she is actively close to. Though in his first appearance she appeared to have a crush on him, this doesn’t come up at all after, so it’s safe to say that faded. This could be why his death hit her so hard; it is another instance of losing this strong, secure parental figure she has been denied, and it triggers her depression.
She’s clearly like other young girls, as evident by her putting a sticker on Guilmon’s face; she’s childish at times and, even with her putting on a mask for others, cheerful. Not all her happiness is faked, and the times she seems most joyful are when she’s around her friends and can truly forget about the bad things in her life. In this way, she derives strength from them not only in a sense where they show her how to be a good person, in her own words, but that they show her how to be happy. Juri plays happily with Guilmon in the park, happily spends time with the playful Culumon, and laughs with her school friends about the boys’ antics.
Despite thinking she can’t do much to help, Juri will still try. And that’s a lot about her, she tries. When she’s in despair, she utterly gives up living, gives up everything, to the point where the D-Reaper uses her as fuel for its power. But the events of the series have shown her she must try to get out of this state when it happens, so she will try and try until she’s blue in the face. She might still repress her worries at times, and she will likely revert to her people pleasing tendencies, but she’s trying her hardest to be stronger, even if she’s scared, and that, in her mind, counts for something.
HISTORY; Wikimon.
Digimon Wiki, a better resource.
Additionally, since there’s no real place that explains Message in a Packet besides the videos themselves, I’ll cover it here. After Takato found the portal to the Digital World in Guilmon’s home, as the Wild Bunch couldn’t figure out how to reunite the kids with their Digimon and they were worried that the breach would let out wild Digimon, they covered the hut with concrete, to prevent an attack they couldn’t fight against.
Several months following that, Jian told Takato and Ruki that though they can’t see their Digimon yet, they can send them messages. Takato told Juri, and though she was initially hesitant, he reminded her of Culumon, who she ended up recording a message for, thanking him for all the support he gave her while she was trapped inside the D-Reaper. She also sent a message to Impmon, thanking him as well, and encouraging him, assuring him he’d see his partners again and that she knew he was walking down the right path in the Digital World. She sent the message off with a cheerful end, saying she’d see them again in the future.
SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON;
2.) What would you say is your greatest strength?
My strength? Um… I’m not really… …I guess, I’m trying not to give up anymore. I’m trying to take everything everyone’s told me and…become a good girl. And I’ve got a lot of people to put me back on that path, if I ever get off it. …Oh, that’s not something of mine, is it? Or…does it mean I’m determined…?
3.) If you were given the option to stay in the Digital World or return to your home, which would you choose? Why?
Oh, I… Um, this Digital World? With Leomon… I miss my mom and dad and Masahiko. Takato-kun, and Ruki-chan—ah, the Ruki-chan I know. But I… I just got Leomon back… And the other Tamers aren’t here, no matter how much better they’d be… I- I want to go home! One day! But only if we can fix this, and if I…can take Leomon with me.
5.) You have one choice. That choice will result in either the end of the world or it will save it. Which way would you go?
In a single choice? What kind of question is that? Of course I’d save it. I may not be… No, I may not have much experience with that, but any one person can change the world, so… I’d choose to save it. Of course I would.
THIRD PERSON; Juri's completely fine with helping rebuild things, especially if the village got destroyed by rampaging Digimon. What's nice, is this village. It reminds her of the Tsuchidaramon village, it reminds her of the peaceful parts of the Digital World she knows, which aren't many, and which she doubts still exist, due to the D-Reaper.
No, no. That line of thought's bad. She knows that, she's talked about that. And besides, it's not like she's alone here. Not now, not anymore...
“Juri, are you sure you can carry all that?” Leomon is behind her, her Leomon, with a large bunch of straw, probably big enough for a whole house. She, meanwhile, is carrying a pack of large sticks.
She fights rolling her eyes and laughs a little; he's doting on her. Maybe he feels guilty for leaving her alone, maybe just a little. “I'm fine Leomon. I'm strong, remember?” She says this partly to tease him, partly to remind herself, because it’s something she still doesn’t entirely believe.
His expression softens, and it looks like he wants to reach down and pat her head, despite his full hands. ...That would be a problem, so he doesn't do it. “Of course. The strongest creature I've ever met.”
She tries not to blush; when Leomon says it, it seems more permanent. “C'mon. Let's get back to work. Can't have these Yokomon sleeping outside!”
She smiles brightly. He smiles back. It's just about perfect. She hauls over to one of the house plots, dropping the sticks and them beginning to set them up. She still can’t get over this place. Here, it’s so much more peaceful, despite still being in danger. Digimon live in a city. They have jobs. The stark contrast stands out, compared to the harsh wasteland she saw. Kill or be killed, there, and now they’re building houses?
Let alone Digimon getting reborn. It’s something she doesn’t like to think about, because if she does a small twinge of jealousy rises up, and she has to force it back down. Leomon is here now. He’s not going to leave. Despite her fears to the contrary, she’s going to hold on to him as tight as she can. This is a miracle she’d always been too sad, too jaded to believe. She likes this world, that gave her this miracle, so she’ll protect it. Even if she didn’t, she’d help anyway. These Digimon deserve the chance to live peacefully…and there’s the whole matter of the worlds all flying together.
She may not be Takato, or Ruki, or Jian, or Ryou, or even Kazu or Kenta or Jian’s little sister, or Ai-chan or Mako-chan. But she’s still going to try as hard as she can.
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Additionally though I was too busy to really start up conversations, here is a short other sample, of Juri in another situation.
