#developer's notes. ooc.

my oldest rat, dick, got out of the cage he’s in (he has to be kept alone bc he had a bad fight with his brothers, i’m slowly trying to reintroduce him) and i ran around in a panic this morning trying to find him. he wasn’t in his usual spots. could not find him.

when i finally gave up because i had to head to work (and he couldn’t have gotten far because my room is small and there’s no holes for him to get out of) i went to my laundry basket for grab a sweater and found the little bugger snoozing in a sock.

so i might already be going a little canon divergent with little enzo, but...

it always kind of bugged me that he was able to switch to guardian mode during daemon rising, because he’s pre-season 2 enzo, and the fact that he can also switch to gamesprite mode seems like he... might? have some of his season 3 status? and i feel like it might’ve been a thing that’d be expanded on if we’d gotten the time with the series we deserved (and not paradigms lost, that -- that was the beginning of the dark ages). but it’s something i’m gonna play with.

so my general theory is that his memories are backed up from before game over, from a partial backup, so it’s not a complete picture. kind of like how if your computer shuts down suddenly while you’re working on something it might remember that was a thing, or it might not. but his actual form is from the last completed backup, which was before his birthday. he has some remnants of the guardian code in him but not to the degree that bob or even matrix do, it’s more a process that he can ignore if he chooses to because he didn’t get the physical upgrade to his icon.

it isn’t really up until everything starts going to hell that he really remembers what happened. like, really happened. not just watching vidwindows and dramatic re-enactments.

he makes the choice to not be matrix because -- well, he still remembers wanting to be a hero more than anything. and he idolizes matrix, considers him a big brother even if they are the same sprite, but he won’t be like him because he still wants to save the world his way and live the dream of being a guardian. he wants to be the hope for people the way bob has always been for him.

daemon deletes everyone.