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This page explains all of The Second Coming's relationships with the other characters in the series.
Allies[]
Alan Becker/noogai3[]
Alan originally saw The Second Coming as a threat to his computer due to what happened with The Chosen One and the fact that he and his friends were messing up his Facebook page. After deleting all of the Fighting Stick Figures, Alan attempted to delete The Second Coming, but was unable to complete this action due to him being too resistant and swore that he would destroy Alan for murdering his friends.
The two fought, first on Alan's computer, and then on his phone. Alan saw that The Second Coming had made a bunch of animations to help him destroy Alan's computer, and on the verge of deleting all the animations, Alan saw how well made The Second Coming's animations were compared to his own and began to feel regretful, only to immediately delete them when they caused more damage than they were worth (grabbing and punching his cursor), before trapping his creation inside a box. Alan told The Second Coming that if he didn't break his computer and helped him animate, he would let him live freely on his computer. The Second Coming only agreed after Alan revived his friends by reloading sticksfight.com.
Over the course of five months afterwards, The Second Coming and Alan put aside their differences and became friends over animation. With the stick figure's help, Alan managed to learn how to draw and animate like a professional. Future animations show The Second Coming living peacefully with the Fighting Stick Figures inside of Alan's computer. Notably, "The Virus" shows Alan and The Second Coming working together to fight against the ViraBot, a virus sent by The Dark Lord as both a test run for his creation and revenge against his creator.
The Chosen One[]
The Second Coming has shown great admiration for his predecessor for saving him and his friends from the ViraBot that was sent to kill them and destroy Alan's computer, as when he repeatedly bowed in gratitude for their savior. His respect for The Chosen One was enough that he threw himself into the way of danger to help The Chosen One when he was losing to the enhanced Dark Lord, despite knowing there was virtually nothing he could do.
Five years later, when The Chosen One was being hunted by mercenaries, he returned to ALANSPC to seek The Second Coming's help due to him being the only one who knows the truth about The Second Coming's hidden powers, something he isn't even aware of himself. Despite being dragged back to the Outernet by his predecessor and pushed into fighting the stick figure mercenaries, The Second Coming still chose to defy the mercenaries by defending The Chosen One after he was weakened by Agent's electric spike and even carried him in his arms away from the pursuing mercenaries. Unfortunately, they were both captured by the mercenaries and separated.
Given that TSC sensed victim being renamed to H4CK3R, it is more than possible that he is aware of H4CK3R renaming The Chosen One to NO ONE.
King Orange[]
During "The Ultimate Weapon", after King Orange trapped The Second Coming's friends, King Orange creates a black hole. Before he can continue on with his rampage, he's shocked to see The Second Coming and gets launched backwards. The Second Coming then frees the Fighting Stick Figures, and quickly equips them with armor and weapons, before King Orange knocks The Second Coming out of the bastion and the duo begins fighting each other. King Orange is more powerful than The Second Coming because of his stronger block control and summoning massive amounts of arrows, but The Second Coming is more strategic and counters his moves using more unique weapons, such as Minecart TNTs and rails, before ender-pearling behind King Orange and facing him off. In the heated battle between the duo, King Orange continues to dominate against The Second Coming, but The Second Coming begins to even the battle tide, and counters King Orange's moves, before clashing once more, stick figure vs. stick figure. The Second Coming uses King Orange to launch himself into the black hole, and then uses his Minecraft Game Icon to destroy it. In a last desperate attempt to defeat The Second Coming, King Orange attempts to destroy The Second Coming's Minecraft Game Icon with his very own inside of the black hole. The result ends up destroying the black hole in a brilliant explosion.
The explosion was so destructive, it knocks the two icons out of their hands, and sends The Second Coming to another of the Nether Portals he created, while King Orange lands in the throne room, lying on the jukebox in defeat, causing the music disc to pop out, with his crown on the floor.
During "The Warden", the Warden and The Second Coming emerge, preventing King Orange from escaping. King Orange leaps over them but now, with The Second Coming's help, the Warden grabs King Orange and flings him back to the throne room. The Warden charges at him and King Orange barely dodges the Warden's swift attack. The Second Coming helps the Warden sense King Orange and the Warden throws a heavy blow at King Orange, and the fight continues. Just as the Warden makes his finishing blow, King Orange grabs a gold block nearby and places it into his staff, stopping the Warden from destroying him. With the gold block on his staff, it grants King Orange renewed strength and he's able to briefly fight back against the Warden. But with the Warden's strength and The Second Coming's combat skills syncing, they knocked the staff out of King Orange's hands and punched him over the bastion, unintentionally knocking him next to one of the Minecraft Game Icons.
The next four episodes following "The Warden" would involve The Second Coming, his friends, and their newfound allies attempting to stop King Orange from destroying Minecraft, only to be unsuccessful until Purple's last stand, when King Orange dropped the staff in order to save Purple. The Second Coming grabbed it, and with his friends' help, managed to get the combined Minecraft icon back through their Nether portal, where it split in two, reversing the effects of the black hole and saving everyone who got absorbed by the block. King Orange, deeply regretting his actions, removed his crown and bowed low before The Second Coming, asking for forgiveness. The Second Coming lifted King Orange back up and shook his hand, forgiving him and putting all bad blood behind them. The two would go their separate ways after that, The Second Coming going back to ALANSPC with his friends and King Orange heading home with Purple to begin his life anew.
Purple[]
Purple is the first stick figure The Second Coming met outside of his friends, The Chosen One and The Dark Lord. Their first real interaction was in Animation vs. League of Legends, when The Second Coming caught Purple coding the game, making copies of himself to fight the Fighting Stick Figures. The Second Coming stopped him and destroyed the clones' files, causing the clones themselves to disappear. Panicked, Purple absorbed all the Champion data and made the ultimate champion. With this power, he nearly won the game by himself, but stopped when he heard The Second Coming destroying his base. Before Purple could stop him, The Second Coming delivered the final blow, winning the game for himself and his friends.
While celebrating their victory, The Second Coming noticed Purple sulking in the corner. He approached him and offered him his spot on the team, being willing to create his own clones to fight against them. Purple agreed and raised his sword into the air.
The two of them met once more in The Witch. Purple tried convincing the Gang to follow him through a portal, but The Second Coming, remembering the last time they did this, tried telling them otherwise. However, seeing Purple next to the portal convinced the Fighting Stick Figures, and The Second Coming reluctantly followed them into a Parkour dimension.
They crossed paths once more in The Ultimate Weapon. After The Second Coming escaped his prison, reunited with Red, and returned to ALANSPC, he caught Purple trying to steal the Minecraft Game Icon. They fought, but Purple won their skirmish and took the block with him, later giving it to King Orange. The Second Coming did not interact with Purple much afterwards, but they did fight together after Purple's redemption and The Second Coming hugged Purple good-bye--forgiving him and accepting him as a friend--near the end of The King. As of now, the two of them are on good terms.
Purple and the Stick Gang went on a crazy adventure in Minecraft together, using the staff to basically cheat their way through their adventures. Eventually, the staff glitches and sends them all into hardcore difficulty, causing the Helpers to become hostile and attack the sticks. Purple almost manages to save them when they all mine into a massive chasm by accident, but his elytra runs out of durability and shatters, forcing Red and Blue to pitch in.
Friends[]
Fighting Stick Figures[]
The Second Coming met the Fighting Stick Figures immediately after he was created by hopping across the desktop and exploring his surroundings, where he encountered the four on their home website, SticksFight.com, and became instantly fascinated in their lifestyle and wished to join in. After successfully breaking in, he met with them face-to-face and was immediately welcome despite being a complete stranger to them and showed them the world outside of their website as they played around on Alan's facebook page.
Having known each other for years, The Second Coming has a unique relationship with each of them:
Green[]
Out of the four, Green has the closest relationship with The Second Coming.
Evident early on in their first meeting when the green stick figure welcomed the orange hollow-headed stick figure for freeing them from their home website and the two hugged each other in fear when Green was the last one left before being terminated by Alan Becker for messing with his Facebook page. This is further shown in Animation vs. YouTube where Green is the only one joining The Second Coming as they fight against YouTube itself and successfully defeat the website before fleeing together upon realization that the website was refreshed by their friends. they then get scared and run away so it wouldn't happen again.
This is turn is returned by Green when he breaks down sobbing upon being separated from his best friend while he, Red, Blue and Yellow are stuck escaping from Drowned Pirates after not listening to The Second Coming's warning about returning back home after he and Blue were saved by him and the others. Luckily, this emotional breakdown is what allows The Second Coming to find Green and the others, greatly elating him.
Red[]
Like the others, The Second Coming and Red have a very close relationship, often fighting and playing alongside each other and worrying about each other's safety when anything happened to one of them. However, they have had the biggest conflict in the past out of the stick gang. This happened in Lush Caves, when, starving and lost in the desert, their hunger induced rage would cause the two varying personalities to clash, with The Second Coming's dismissed cautiousness being at odds with Red's more emotion based behavior.
Despite this, however, the two are usually close friends under normal circumstances and were quickly able to put aside their differences. After making it back home, the two would team up to confront Purple, before fighting him together. Later, in Monster School, after The Second Coming was almost defeated by King Orange, Red returns with Team Yellow to defeat him, with Red skillfully leading and working with his team to win the battle. After this, The Second Coming, runs up to his friend and hugs him, thankful of him and relieved to see him okay.
The Actual Shorts also further portray The Second Coming's relationship with Red. In Enchanted Origami, after The Second Coming accidentally makes hostile paper cranes out of paper from the book on an Enchantment Table, the two team up to capture them all before high-fiving. They also are seen creating a ricochet game with an arrow and shields in Ricochet, and use it to fight a skeleton by firing its own arrow back at it but faster (though it backfires). In general, the two are also seen close together in fights, along with Green, due to them being the most capable fighters in the group, which is best seen in Animation vs. Arcade Games.
Parkour[]
The Second Coming used a beacon to glitch his way into Red's Parkour course, and the two greeted each other with a hug. The Second Coming then showed Red how to use the beacon to teleport things, and the two of them used two beacons to delete a Brute from existence. Getting an idea to escape, they cross three beacons together, which ends up with them lost in the middle of a desert.
Lush Caves[]
While traversing through the desert, Red grew hungry and cold. He told The Second Coming about it, and The Second Coming called him a baby. Red argued that they were going to die here, and their tempers flared as they blamed each other for their predicament, until a full-on physical fight broke out between them. After a long skirmish, The Second Coming stopped when he realized they were in a lush cave biome. The two of them apologized, The Second Coming grabbed some berries for the starving Red, and they took in their surroundings for a moment when a player arrived.
The two sticks were confused about who this gamer was, until The Second Coming saw the screen behind him. The two sticks cautiously approached and then leapt through the screen, finding themselves in a new PC. Desperate to get home, they quickly mailed themselves back to ALANSPC, and broke through the email notification. They were back, and were just in time to witness Purple arrive through their portal, resulting in a standoff.
The Ultimate Weapon[]
The Second Coming and Red, suspicious of Purple, guarded the Minecraft Block from the intruder, keeping a close eye on Purple. Eventually, Purple puts his wings on and a fight breaks out. Despite Red's and The Second Coming's best efforts, Purple steals the block and Red is eventually caged by King Orange, though The Second Coming freed him and his friends later on.
Monster School[]
Red arrived in time with his Monster School friends to stop King and save The Second Coming from a Netherrite cage. When the two of them properly reunited, Red was exhausted from giving a powerful shot to the monarch. The Second Coming helped him to sit upright and the two of them shared a hug.
The King[]
The Second Coming and Purple helped Red to his feet after Red got Herobrine sucked out of him. After their adventure, The Second Coming told Red to return AlexCrafter's block, which he promptly did.
The Prank[]
Red invited The Second Coming in for some cake, which he flung in The Second Coming's face with a trapdoor. Red danced in celebration, and The Second Coming shook his fist in anger.
Enchanted Origami[]
Red found The Second Coming folding and making origami from the pages of an Enchantment table book. However, when the birds came to life and started attacking, the two of them had to stop them. They quickly bottled up the birds by putting them in jars, and when they finished they high-fived each other triumphantly.
Ragdoll[]
The Second Coming greeted Red after the former woke up, only for Red, and the other Fighting Sticks, to ragdoll all over the place.
Pork[]
The Second Coming cooked some pork, but Red and his pig shot him a death glare. Red comforted his pet, while The Second Coming argued that he's hungry. Red made his point by barbecuing Green over a fire, which prompted The Second Coming to break the campfire he was using to cook the pork.
Bob Is Always There[]
Red was seen during the montage giving The Second Coming a Christmas present.
Faces[]
The Second Coming drew a cat face on Red, who hops excitedly at this event.
Ricochet[]
While fighting some mobs, Red and The Second Coming bounced a skeleton's arrow with their shields, eventually making it go at insane speeds. It went so far and fast that it flew around the world and hit them both in the back.
Red's Speedrun[]
The Second Coming started Red's speedrun.
Dog Show[]
Red and The Second Coming judged a dog show together, which their friends participated in. When it was time to pick a winner, the two of them agreed to give it to Green's late dog.
Angry Birds[]
The warm-colored trio played Angry Birds together.
Fingers[]
The Second Coming gave Red fingers. They high-fived.
Day & Night[]
Red and The Second Coming argued over what time of day they wanted the Minecraft world to be. Red set it to day on a Command Block, which woke up The Second Coming, who responded by changing it back to night so he can catch some Z's. The two of them alternated for a moment, The Second Coming shooting death glares at Red from his bed, until Red turned it to day once again. The Second Coming turned it to night, and this back and forth continued until The Second Coming crashed out and slammed the Command Block repeatedly in a blind rage. However, his rage-induced outburst caused the world to split, Red's half was day and The Second Coming's half was night. When they realized this, the two sticks agreed to this compromise, shook hands and went about their business.
Yellow[]
The Second Coming admires Yellow's above-average intelligence, especially in the area of computers, video games, and hacking, as he patted the yellow stick figure on the back for helping to bring Alan's mouse with them to help The Chosen One fight against the enhanced Dark Lord.
The Roller Coaster[]
After Yellow showed his friends the roller coaster he made, The Second Coming took one look at it and tried running in the opposite direction, but Yellow grabbed him by the hand and seated him in the front seat. The Second Coming tried getting out again, but Yellow sat him down and patted him on the head, reassuring him that he'll be fine.
Potions[]
Yellow was hanging out with The Second Coming and Green around a campfire when Red's Pig, hopped up on potions, interrupted them.
Command Blocks[]
After the Command Blocks started going haywire and none of his attempts fixed things, Yellow was excited to see The Second Coming, hoping he could help. The Second Coming eventually did by restarting the PC and fixing the damage.
PvP[]
While they had moments together in prior episodes, their dynamic is shown better here in PvP, where the two of them built a mansion, seemingly competing against Green, Blue, and Red, who were making their own. After an argument broke out between the two sides, Yellow and The Second Coming worked together to combat their friends. Yellow especially came in clutch when, after The Second Coming got attacked by an invisible Blue and Red, he poured milk on the two invisible sticks, removing their effects and allowing The Second Coming a chance to retaliate.
The Showdown[]
The Second Coming patted Yellow on the back when he created a giant computer cursor during the battle against The Dark Lord, showing his appreciation and respect for Yellow's coding and tech skills.
Redstone Academy[]
Yellow taught The Second Coming, and his friends, about Redstone, and afterwards, gave them supplies to make a Redstone build. Upon reaching The Second Coming's build, he nodded and went on to judge Green's build afterwards. When the winner was to be decided, Yellow proceeded to stroll past The Second Coming and award the win to Red.
Build Battle[]
After Green won their first build battle, Yellow whispered something to The Second Coming about what to build next. The Second Coming agreed to it and the two of them typed, "Toy robot," as the next challenge to build.
Parkour[]
During the Parkour game where the sticks had to balance on iron bars, Yellow leapt past The Second Coming, prompting the orange stick to lunge forward and trip Yellow up. However, this only slowed both of them down and opened the door for Green to skip by and steal the victory from them. The Second Coming--seemingly blaming Yellow for costing him first--punched Yellow in the head repeatedly after they finished the course and Green won that race.
The King[]
During King's final destruction of Minecraft, Yellow had a moment where he put a hand on a glitchy The Second Coming's shoulder, seemingly worried and hoping he is okay.
Hacker[]
When The Second Coming saw Yellow restrained by Rocket Corp. workers, he tried even harder to activate his powers and break out his prison, only for his efforts to come up empty.
The Chef[]
Yellow and The Second Coming rowed to an Asian village to learn how to make various Asian cuisines, Yellow doing the navigating and The Second Coming doing the rowing. The two of them observed how the villagers make their food and, after loading up on ingredients, they rowed back to the Plains village to make the food for the Chef.
Creeper Prank[]
Yellow and The Second Coming were hanging out when Red arrived in a creeper suit to scare them. It didn't work.
Color Confusion[]
Yellow snuck up behind The Second Coming and turned him blue, then filled in his head. TSC fell over due to the extra weight.
Slime Trampoline[]
Yellow bounced on slime blocks with The Second Coming and Blue.
Frost Walker[]
Yellow accidentally froze The Second Coming in ice after skating over the swimming orange stick with boots enchanted with Frost Walker. Despite being frozen and having only a part of his arm still mobile, The Second Coming threw one of Yellow's boots back at him.
Kirby[]
Yellow and The Second Coming discovered Kirby while browsing retro games. As they interacted with him, the iconic pink blob inhaled The Second Coming, spat him out, and absorbed his hidden powers. With said powers, Kirby shot a powerful green laser into the distance, shocking the two sticks until they just decided to shrug it off.
Faces[]
The Second Coming drew a face with glasses for Yellow, which Yellow used to make himself look smarter.
Blue[]
The Second Coming and Blue are good friends, and have similar personalities as well, being more passive and protective than their friends. However, they don't have much one-on-one time together. Some of their highlights include The Second Coming watching Blue make a Minecraft-Adobe Animate tree hybrid, arm wrestling with each other, and cooking turkey, though that didn't go well. That being said, their most iconic moments together were when they tackled Blue's addiction together with each other's support. The Second Coming was still willing to help even after he got punched in the face by Blue a few times.
Just as The Second Coming was there to calm Blue down in that aforementioned episode, Blue is often seen calming The Second Coming down. While the orange Hollow-Head is shown to have a hot temper, he never tends to crash out when he's with Blue. If anything, Blue tends to keep The Second Coming cool, especially in the episode Hacker where The Second Coming, when stuck in a cell trying to get out, remembered Blue telling him to calm down and he did. Even though The Second Coming tends to get hot-headed at times, Blue tends to be the Yin to his Yang and is often there to soothe his frantic nerves.
Animation vs. Addiction[]
While it's unclear whether this episode is canon or not, it does show how strong the bond between The Second Coming and Blue is. The Second Coming found Blue in the midst of his addiction and hugged him to calm him down. When Blue calmed, The Second Coming left, but his intervention showed Blue how deep he was and he begged The Second Coming for help breaking his addiction. The Second Coming agreed and the two began meditating.
During their breathing exercises, Blue couldn't focus, causing The Second Coming to forcibly drag him away from his addiction multiple times. Blue was so deep in it that he socked The Second Coming in the face in order to get his fix, but when he realized that he was becoming chained to his addiction, he offered himself to The Second Coming, seemingly begging for forgiveness and help.
The Second Coming tried a different strategy, blindfolding Blue and helping him focus on his breathing. Whenever Blue's thoughts got away from him, The Second Coming helped him regain his focus and eventually Blue managed to overcome his addiction. The Second Coming told Blue to take his blindfold off and he did, revealing a whole new, beautiful world around them. Blue hugged The Second Coming, crying tears of joy, and the orange stick hugged him back, patting him softly.
The Piglin War[]
After a failed expedition to find Netherwart, Blue encounters someone resembling The Second Coming and follows "him" through a portal.
The King[]
During the Gang's final attack, The Second Coming held King down so that Blue could take some desperate but ultimately meaningless shots at the monarch.
Wanted[]
When The Chosen One tried to get The Second Coming to activate his powers, Blue was the first to explain that The Second Coming can't shoot lasers from his eyes like Chosen could.
Hacker[]
After several fruitless attempts to awaken his powers, The Second Coming tried thinking of what his friends would do. He thought of Blue, who suggested that he meditate, and The Second Coming decided to try it for himself.
Beef[]
The Second Coming served Blue a burger from his burger stand.
Slime Trampoline[]
Blue and The Second Coming bounced on slime blocks with Yellow.
Plantenstein[]
While he tended to his garden, Blue saw The Second Coming drawing a tree in Adobe Animate. Blue took an apple, spit out the seed, and got an idea. He planted the seed in a plot of land in his garden and fed it bone meal. The seed soon grew, and The Second Coming arrived in time to see an animation-Minecraft hybrid tree. Blue took an apple from his tree and offered one to The Second Coming.
Turtle Eggs[]
Blue and The Second Coming fought with swords and shields before Red interrupted them, shooing them away from his turtle eggs.
Faces[]
The Second Coming drew a derpy face on Blue, which gets laughs from the others, but left Blue annoyed.
Speedrun[]
Blue was present to start The Second Coming's speedrun.
Arm Wrestling[]
After The Second Coming beat Green in an Arm Wrestling match, Blue took his turn against The Second Coming, having drunk a Strength II potion beforehand. Blue wins easily, and The Second Coming leaves for a moment. However, when he saw Alan enlarging things in Adobe Animate, he asked Alan to do it to him, which he does. Now bigger and stronger, The Second Coming returned to Blue for Round 2. At first, their match is even, but when Blue's potion expired, The Second Coming slammed him through the table they were playing on and "yelled" victoriously.
Smoke[]
Blue, while cooking a turkey, asked a sleepy Second Coming to watch it while he got some spices and other ingredients. The Second Coming agreed, but sleep overtook him and he dozed off, causing the turkey to burn. By the time Blue returned, the turkey had become a smoky, charred, black piece of ash. Blue panicked, woke The Second Coming up, who witnessed the mess and gave orders to douse and flames and fan the smoke out while The Second Coming airs out the PC by changing the background to Bliss. This cleared the smoke away, and Blue offered The Second Coming a drumstick, only for it to disintegrate into ash.
Onion Skinning[]
During a playfight with Alan, Blue rode The Second Coming like a horse.
Speedrun Competition[]
Blue and The Second Coming exchanged a high-five after everyone saw their final standings of their speedruns.
Enemies[]
The Dark Lord[]
The Second Coming greatly dislikes The Dark Lord for killing his friends, while also savagely attacking both himself and The Chosen One without mercy.
After following The Chosen One through the portal he created back to his home with his friends, The Second Coming and others witness The Chosen One fighting against the creator of the ViraBot and his predecessor's longtime nemesis, as well as Alan's other creation: The Dark Lord, who intends to use the viruses to conquer the world internet and cause mass death to all other stick figures. Realizing that his predecessor is at a severe disadvantage, The Second Coming jumps in the way of him and The Dark Lord, preparing to fight him in order to defend the black one.
Despite his attempts, The Dark Lord easily deals away with it before personally using his virus powers to delete Red, Blue, Yellow and Green one-by-one in front of him before savagely beating The Second Coming over and over. This combination of intense physical and emotional damage, causes The Second Coming to give into intense rage powerful enough to unlock his true potential. Utilizing this new power, he destroys all the ViraBots and decimates The Dark Lord without mercy in retribution for his friends' deletion, eventually blasting The Dark Lord with all his strength, leaving The Dark Lord's fate ambiguous as The Second Coming finally lets exhaustion catch up with him having avenged his friends.
However, due to his powers being too immense, he cannot consciously control them or remember what he does when they activate and thus doesn't remember anything after seeing his friends be deleted before waking up to see them alive and not knowing what happened, as well as being confused as to why The Chosen One bowed down before him due to The Second Coming assuming that The Chosen One must have defeated The Dark Lord and stopped his ViraBots, relieving them that the evil stick figure was no longer a threat to anyone.
H4CK3R[]
During the events of Animator vs. Animation Season 3, victim is the leader of an organization which is the driving force that he and The Chosen One opposes.
It's currently unclear if The Second Coming knows who H4CK3R is or that he and the gray stick figure are unknowingly related, though The Second Coming has seen victim before in Animation vs. YouTube. As of now, the two of them have little interaction with each other, The Second Coming was only able to get a passing glance at victim as the former was being escorted out to use the Pencil Tool while the latter entered to torment and interrogate The Chosen One. Later on, as H4CK3R was looking through The Chosen One's memories, he was shocked to find out about The Second Coming's awakened powers, and The Second Coming was the same way, looking at his hands in shock. The Second Coming was promptly put in lockdown and H4CK3R left with his Mercenaries to capture Yellow.
The Second Coming's hate for victim likely deepened when he bent part of the cage open and saw Yellow captured by victim's workers. Seeing Yellow captured drove him to try to awaken his hidden powers even more, before finally deciding to meditate to awaken himself.