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Originally Posted by SanoBaron

okay, I think Matt is a more complicated character than you're giving him credit for.

I mean, the crests dont all reflect the characters entirely, some of them reflect traits they need to learn to have or to overcome the opposite of that trait. like, TK didn't always have hope and Mimi certainly had to earn her sincerity, but I feel Matt is kinda hard to dictate how he is a friend.

yeah, Matt does jump off the deep end, but it's mainly because he's always worried about the little brother he couldn't be with for a good chunk of his life, like how Tai was reckless when Kari got sick, Matt gets emotional if anything happens to TK.

IMO, Matt's crest is meant to be what Matt NEEDS to have, and he did overcome his distrust of Joe during that episode where they were forced to work the restaurant. friendship is a difficult thing to really put into place. it's not always being nice, sometimes it's being honest with them. hell, when Davis had to earn his egg of friendship it was after he and TK had a straight up fight, which friends sometimes do.

I counter this with the fact that Izzy is just smart, on a normal day, and for his Crest to activate Vademon had to literally take his intelligence and curiosity away for him to get it back and power up Kabuterimon.

Mimi is normally sincere, it's just that she used to whine more than be caring at first. Even if T.K. has moments where he is filled with dread, like how Tai can obviously be very scared of the huge monsters going after them, they get over it, and being the opposite of their crests is not a default for them.

Friends may not always be getting along, but for someone who supposed to Represent the idea of Friendship to be that much of an ass while someone like Sora had to be insulted to get self-hating and depressed and Tai had to realize he could die (even though he knew that before Izzy brought up the whole data thing) to start second guessing himself, it doesn't endear him to me.

Matt can be as complicated as the writers like, doesn't change the fact that he's a jackass, whatever his problems may be.