Takeru 'T.K.' Takaishi

T.K., the younger brother of Matt Ishida, is partnered with Patamon... T.K. was too young to remember his parents' divorce clearly so he is not as affected by it as much as Matt... TK is glad when he gets to see his dad and he doesn't mind living with his mom. He has the Crest of Hope, and his respective colour is yellow... T.K. was the youngest DigiDestined when the first original seven were transported into the Digital World... However, he was fairly independent on his own, rebuffing his older brother Matt's attempts to comfort and coddle with him... He was the first one to suffer the loss of his Digimon... When Patamon digivolved into Angemon, Angemon summoned all of the others' strengths and sacrificed himself in order to defeat Devimon... This event traumatized him severely, to the point where three years later he still possessed an utter hatred of "the powers of darkness," along with nightmares about losing Angemon again in combat...

T.K. grew a lot during the last years after his first adventure... He is the star member of his basketball team... At the start of April 2002, he and his mother moved to Odaiba, with T.K. attending Odaiba Elementary in the same class as Davis and his good friend Kari. Because he and Kari are already good friends, T.K. immediately becomes the rival of a paranoid Davis... Like Kari, T.K. has a slight advantage compared to the new kids because he has had the most experience with Digimon...
After Paildramon and Silphymon debut, Cody sees that he and T.K. would have to have their Digimon DNA Digivolve. He soon learns that there are two sides to T.K.: The 'kind and cheery' T.K. and the fierce and serious T.K. that only surfaces in the matters of villains of pure evil like Devimon or Kimeramon. T.K.'s second side was mainly due to Angemon's previous death and how he doesn't want to see Patamon die again... T.K. used the power of the dream dimension against MaloMyotismon, his dream for not one to suffer as he had, with Angemon, MagnaAngemon, Pegasusmon and Shakkoumon appearing all at once...

In the epilogue, set 25 years in the future (year 2027) T.K. becomes an author... He writes various stories based on the adventures he and the other children had... He is married (although unknown to who), and has a son, who has a Tokomon...