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Short complaint about the twist:

Having the Agent’s true identity being Aegiomon, or an extension/modified version of the same Aegiomon we follow throughout the game is simultaneously sad and hilarious, because a lot of the players i’ve seen just did not give a shit about Inori. The last streamer I’ve watched flat out forgot about her existence 😭 😂

I know not everyone shares the same feeling of indifference towards the main characters but even within the game itself the Agent doesn’t seem to react all that much to the them (the two characters they supposedly cared so much about) disappearing. “I’m worried about my friends” this sounds a lot like someone who just lost their friends at the mall or just has some minor inconvenience and not losing them because they just disappeared from the universe.

Its a stark contrast to how Aegiomon feels about Inori, Aegiomon who is willing to destroy the world and kill himself just so nothing bad can happen to Inori.

Its also a huge contrast to how the MC was in CS and HM. The MC in those games had inner thoughts and monologues that showcased how they feel in certain moments and scenes, whereas the Agent in TS does not, and I’m not counting the Operator as the Agent’s “inner thoughts” and even if I tried they felt too separated from them to be their inner thoughts.

​(its also my hc that the agent’s personality is like an amalgamation of my own take on them and how they are drawn in the official art and all the funny vtuber/streamers I’ve watched playing this game, which.. sadly the majority of them did not give a crap about Inori and the accidental result is kinda sad and funny to think about..)

Edit: I’ve been pondering about this and I just remembered what the Operator said during the twist reveal:

“Inori’s little brother was a big fan of a certain character. He often liked to pretend he was that character… Your appearance, your memories… they were created in part from the memories of Inori’s little brother.” -Operator

Suddenly Agent Yuki being a blank, self-insert MC with very a generic action hero personality that lacks depth, made a lot of sense, because essentially they are how a little kid (Inori’s little brother) perceives them or at least how he remembers them.

so.. of course, them basically being a self-insert MC made sense because Inori’s little brother likes to pretend to be that character and Aegiomon tried taking her brother place by also fulfilling Yuu’s wish to literally modifying himself to become Agent Alpha (Agent Yuki)

Inspiration :

The birth of Agent (Aegio)