Darius & Kenji’s friendship and Brotherhood over the years, an analysis.
Kenji and Darius have one of best dynamics of the entire Jurassic franchise, their brotherhood is heart-warming, sweet, funny and sometimes painful to watch in the tv shows they're featured in. Today I will be breaking down their story of going from strangers to brothers.
Season one of jwcc: In s1 of jwcc, they start on rough patch, being polar opposites who don't get along much. Kenji catches Darius sneaking out one night and follows him, chaos ensues, they go to the raptor pen with Brooklynn and almost get attacked. They end up trouble. Darius first hears of Kenji's not so great father and takes the fall for Kenji.
They get a shared punishment, which only leads to more sneaking off and the first time Kenji saves Darius's life and the two find common ground to become friends.
For the rest of the season Kenji stops calling Darius "Kid" and sees him as a real friend, he follows Darius's lead and sometimes finds time to tease him.
At the end of the season, Kenji encourages Darius that he is a good leader and that they will stick together to survive.
Season two follows the campers surviving and living alone on the island, Darius remains as leader and the friendship between them all grows.
Kenji continues to tease and have fun with Darius despite their situation, it may seem childish on the outside but Darius knows its Kenji's way of showing he cares by trying to cheer his friends up.
When Darius and Kenji go alone to fix the water problem in ep3 they discover the watering hole, Kenji sees the majesty in the dinosaurs Darius always sees and Darius starts his field journal.
Kenji doesn't get dinos the way Darius does but when he sees how much Darius talks about them, he encourages Darius to write his own book about them. Because he believes in him.
The rest of the season, Darius and Kenji are pretty split up due to the plot but have some moments in between, their friendship is strong at this point.
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous hidden adventure takes place between s2 and s3 of jwcc and there are some great moments between Darius and Kenji
During the roller coaster ride, the Tarbo finds the campers and Darius realizes he still has the scent of her nest on him.
There’s a choice between abandoning the coaster to climb away or stay to jump out and wash off the smell.
If you choose for Darius to stay, Kenji will too and declares to not let Darius do it alone.
The campers have been stranded a very long time and when trying to find a way out, they find a boat. Captain Kenji is born and so is the prank war between Kenji, Darius and Brooklynn. It's a sweet side plot in the beginning episodes that makes Darius and Kenji more like brothers.
During the penthouse episode, Kenji is overjoyed to show his friends a good time. And his growth is shown when he smashes his dad's expensive statue to save his friends.
The day is slightly tainted by the attack but at the end of it, Darius tells Kenji something he deserved to hear, that he's more than his wealth.
The season delivers more light brotherly teasing between the boys and then Kenji and Darius hit a slight rough patch when the Scorpius rex is revealed.
Darius is angry at Kenji for not doing what he asked, he can't stay angry for long and Kenji is trying his best. The season ends with them having another fall out, Kenji being angry at Darius for risking Brooklynn's life. Darius isn't completely at fault, he was following Brooklynn's orders.
S4 is my least fav but it has some good Kenji and Darius moments
Ep1 has Darius and Kenji at each other's throats for what happened at the end of s3.
Brooklynn makes a good point here by saying Kenji is angry at Darius specifically because he will be Kenji's hardest goodbye, it hurts to get close to someone and then suddenly say goodbye to them.
But when Darius is in danger, Kenji doesn't waste a second saving his life, because at the end of the day no matter how angry he is, Kenji will always be there for him.
The rest of the season doesn't show much of their dynamic until the last episode, Kenji wants to apologize for his attitude at the beginning of the season and Darius is the first person Kenji wants to tell about his relationship with Brooklynn.
Darius is nothing but happy for them. They go against dilos together <3
The season ends on a cliff hanger with the campers and Kenji finding out Daniel Kon, Kenji's father is Kash's boss.
Kenji learns who is his real family in s5. He's reunited with his Dad, who takes the kids in and away from Kash.
With Kenji reuniting with his dad, he wants to prove he's grown and Darius assures him he has grown from the cocky rich kid he used to be when they met.
Darius and the rest of the campers all don't trust Daniel, but Kenji does as he wants to believe the best in his father.
The team convinces Daniel not to do dino fights by showing Big Eatie reunite with her daughter, Kenji makes a comment about how cool it is that Darius can talk to a T rex.
Daniel's mind is changed. Here's where things go wrong, when Daniel continues to prioritise his business over sending six traumatized kids home.
The campers sneak out and find out what's going on and Kenji feels let down. His Dad hypes Kenji up in way he never did before and it makes Kenji feel wanted.
Because of his, Kenji betrays his friends when they try to stop Daniel's presentation by ruining their control chips used on dinos.
Daniel locks up the kids and Kenji doesn't stop him.
Darius's first response to this is to bury his feelings while everyone else vocally deals with their own.
Darius is betrayed but since it hurts too much, he'd rather focus on something he likes, ie the dinos.
It takes some time but when Darius does deal with his feelings surrounding Kenji, he's hurt.
Kenji is his friend and he feels he can't trust him again, even if he wants to someday.
Kenji follows his dad to Nublar and the first person Kenji thinks about in the penthouse is Darius.
During Kenji's time on Nublar with his father, he sees his father's true colours.
He treats Kenji like nothing more than a business partner, making him work and only complimenting him when he does something that benefits the business.
Kenji is conflicted and knows there is something wrong with the way he's been treated but doesn't want to believe it.
Kenji was treated well and loved for months by his friends and now he sees how badly he was treated by his father after knowing what love and care is supposed to feel like but he's still just a kid so it takes him some time to come to terms with that.
In one episode, Mae tells Kenji that he shouldn't have to earn his father's love with business deals or making him money.
This resembles what Darius told Kenji in s3, that Kenji didn't need to impress his friends, they already love him, because they know him.
They know he's loyal, funny, cool and brave. They love him for who he is and not because of what they do for him or how rich he is.
When Kenji and his dad return, Kenji is done with his father, he wants to make things right with the campers.
Darius doesn't forgive him right away. He's rightfully angry and isn't ready for forgiveness but lets Kenji help the fam anyway.
When fighting Daniel's men, Darius lets out his true feelings to Kenji and Kenji. Kenji used to always have Darius's back until his dad came back and Darius isn't ready to let that go yet. They still work together during this and Darius sees Kenji fighting by his side and Kenji promises to never abandon him ever again. They make up, Kenji who probably only got one hug from his dad clings to Darius because they both clearly needed it.
At the end, Kenji declares to his dad that the campers are his real family and his dad leaves without him. But Kenji knows the campers won't do that to him.
When returning to the mainland, Kenji watches his friends reunite with their families, happy for them and sad that he can't do it himself.
But then Darius waves at him and introduces him to his mother and Kenji is welcomed into their family.
Kenji is taken in by the Bowmans, he has two brothers, Darius and Brand.
The camp fam has weekly check ins and all is well.
Dinos come to the mainland.
Darius gets a job at the DPW
Kenji starts rock climbing in Colorado.
Kenji breaks up with Brooklynn.
Brooklynn stays with Darius
Darius realizes his feelings for Brooklynn
Darius and Kenji in are the roughest patch of their friendship. Kenji is angry at Darius not being there for Brooklynn.
Brooklynn is gone and both brothers don't have each other to lean on during their grief.
Darius isolates himself in his grief and wants to hunt down the allosaurus.
Kenji is not speaking to Darius at all.
They are forced together when warning the group that they are being hunted. Ben and Sammy leave the brothers alone to talk to Daniel Kon.
Darius tries his best to be there for Kenji, but it's hard. Kenji isn't ready to forgive and wants to focus on what needs to be done.
Kenji also knows Darius is having trouble talking to his mother as Kenji still calls her.
They visit his Dad. Daniel Kon has no changed and is still using Kenji for business.
Aggravated by his father, Kenji vents to Darius and asks him for advice, Darius honestly tells him that Kenji shouldn't have to sacrifice the great man he's becoming for a man whose never treated him right.
Kenji believes him but agrees for the sake of finding out what happened to Brooklynn.
Then Daniel has the fucking audacity to say to Kenji "I know how you like things easy."
And Kenji, with his brother by his side declines his fathers offer and decides he still doesn't need him, they will find out what happened to Brooklynn without him. Kenji turns to leave and Darius is right there with him.
Daniel does change his mind and tells them anyway, but the good doesn't last long as Micro bangs shows up and Daniel Kon is no more <3
Kenji is traumatized and when having a breakdown, Darius is there for him. If anyone would understand what Kenji is going through, it's Darius.
This is a breaking point in the brothers relationship during the story.
Kenji discovers there is more to Darius's feelings for Brooklynn, he knows Brooklynn's phone password and is familiar with Brooklynn's old habits like leaving shoes in the middle of the floor.
When going to a drop point, it's almost like they're on good terms. Kenji's distasteful attitude for Darius has dropped and Kenji is making jokes again.
The tension is still between them, so they have nothing else to talk about except the mystery surrounding Brooklynn.
They snoop on her phone and Darius tries to hide the voicemails he left for Brooklynn.
After a fight, he gives in and shows them to Kenji. And confesses his truth to him.
Kenji is surprised and wants to know if the feelings were reciprocated, but Darius finds an unsent message from Brooklynn to him. They find a video of Brooklynn running from the allo.
Kenji now asks Darius as his brother, where he was when Brooklynn needed him. Now knowing Darius was in love with her.
The answer is on hold because of plot xx
But as the season continues, Kenji continues to make more jokes and the brothers are teasing each other again.
The brothers reunite with the camp fam and Bumpy, when it looks like Bumpy might die, Kenji puts his hand on Darius's shoulder, he's leaning on him.
After all the chaos, Darius tells Kenji the entire truth and the rift has become smaller.
The season ends with all of the camp fam on a boat
Kenji and Darius don't get too much one and one screen time. But the events of the previous season are affecting Kenji a lot.
He's grieving his father and not in a healthy way. He's impulsive and risking his life.
He sets a goal, caring about Bumpy's egg. Darius even witnesses him using baby talk on the egg.
As the season goes on, Darius struggles to talk to Kenji about his issues and because of the rift between them, it makes it hard.
Darius is still getting used to having his brother back and is afraid of doing something that will cause Kenji more pain than he's already in.
But when Kenji dislocates his shoulder after being risky and impulsive again, Darius has to figure out what's wrong.
He does try and Kenji is almost tempted to talk about his feelings and current mental state but he shuts it down.
And as Paul Mikel Williams has said in an interview once, Kenji and Darius never have enough time to fully repair their relationship as they are always on the go and always busy with something.
The rest of the season shows very little of Kenji and Darius's dynamic, they both discover Brooklynn is alive and we have yet to see them interaction since that discovery.
I am so curious to see how this will effect their relationship going forward. I really hope they do make up for good and don't fall apart again.
Their brotherhood is one my favourite parts of both tv shows and it crushed me to see them drift apart in chaos theory especially after everything they went through in jwcc
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