Owen Dreadnought

is a character in Digimon Liberator. His partner is .
==Description==
Owen has a difficult personality, which is actually just a front to hide his shyness. As a result, he rarely opens up to others and finds the unrestrained and intrusive Shoto Kazama annoying.
==Appearance==
==Etymologies==
;Owen Dreadnought (オーウェン・ドレッドノート)
Name used promotional material for Digimon Liberator.
==Fiction==
===Digimon Liberator===
When Owen was a child he lived same neighbourhood as Shoto Kazama, though they were only acquittances. Owen moved away before they could properly get to know enough other. Shoto supposedly promised Owen something during one of the few times they hung out, but Shoto doesn't remember this.
By the time he he was an adult, Owen became a very talented player of the and was the defending Champion of the Digimon World Card Championship.
He was one of be debuggers during the beta test of , but quit so he could focus on the Championship.
He once again makes the final of the most recent tournament, with his opponent being Zenith. He loses to Zenith, however.
Whilst playing Liberator, Owen comes across , a new type of Digimon. As soon as Elizamon met Owen, it was captivated by his strength, and, acting on its desires, it resolved to remain at his side, convinced that it will become stronger by doing so. As such, it became his partner.Digimon Liberator: Elizamon At some point Owen also re-joined the debugging team. 
Owen and Elizamon eavesdrop on Cool Boy, Yao Qinglan, Shoto Kazama, and Arisa Kinosaki's conversation in the Garden. As Shoto and Arisa are in the middle of accepting the admin's request to join the debugging team, they are interrupted by Owen. He expresses annoyance at the duo being amateurs, feeling they would just drag the admins and debug team down. This upsets , with Elizamon laughing at Pteromon. They're shocked to see Owen with an unknown Digimon, and realize he is just like them. Elizamon and Pteromon bicker, though Owen tells his partner to cut it out as there was no point getting involved with amateurs. Yao asks Owen why he had shown up, with him stating he had overheard their terrible decision and wasn't happy with it. She insists that they're just trying to protect the duo, but this enrages Owen with him declaring that it'll just lead to the admins suffering from the consequences of allowing them to join. He claims they'll just run away the second trouble comes, this setting off Shoto. He yells back at Owen, saying he is sick of listening to him, and agrees to join the debug team purely to spite Owen. Owen becomes sick of the conversation, not wanting to talk to a terrible card game player, with this giving Cool Boy an idea. He asks Owen if he would approve if Shoto showed he was a good player and tells Yao to duel him so that everyone can see Shoto's skills. Owen tells them to do whatever they want. The agreement then changes and becomes that Shoto and Arisa can join the debugging team by proving he is a good duellist.
Owen states Shoto has no choice — with Arisa defending her friend and saying that Shoto has a chance to win. Finding Owen to be mean, Arisa angrily yells out how she regrets using Shoto's fandom of Owen to invite him to play the game with her. Owen shows little care to Shoto's like for Owen, and just says he will see what Shoto can do in this duel — with Arisa wanting Shoto to win even more so that it'll put Owen in his place. 
Just as the duel was about to start, everyone is suddenly transported to Lapis Marine. They find themselves in a tower on the beach where they could see girls in bikinis through the windows. This removes Shoto's motivation to duel, as he instead wanted to watch the girls — whilst Arisa and Pteromon become motivated to go see the sights and shop. Cool Boy is surprised to learn the duo had never been, with Arisa saying that she had prevented them from going as the NPCs were strong and she didn't think they were ready to come just yet. They ask why they had suddenly been teleported there, with Yao saying they couldn't duel in the Garden as it would cause the wild Digimon to become involved in the duel and that the tower was a good spot to duel as they were out of sight of the other players. Annoyed at however everyone was chatting instead of duelling, Elizamon tells them to get back to the duel as Owen is very busy and can't waste his time. As Pteromon becomes annoyed at Eliza and Owen, Shoto gains his resolve to duel again and prove Owen wrong. 
In the middle of the duel, Shoto and Arisa are surprised to when Yao uses , a card they had never seen before, with Yao telling them that they had made sure to inform them beforehand how they had identified new wild Digimon. As she tells them how she had befriended and raised , Shoto becomes surprised to learn that even existing Digimon could come with unknown Digimon cards via further digivolutions. Cool Boy then tells them that most of the debugging team had gained previously unknown Digimon cards this way. Arisa expresses desire to meet the debuggers and their unknown Digimon, though Bool Boy points out that Shoto will need to pass this duelling test for them to be able to do so.
Shoto eventually wins, with Yao shocked at him using instead of Zephagamon (unaware he had lost access to Zephagamon). Shoto and Arisa celebrate, with Yao and Cool Boy congratulating him. The GMs receive a message, with Cool Boy realizing what time it was — causing both to quickly leave. Shoto tells Arisa about his childhood history with Owen, with Arisa surprised and annoyed to have only just learned this. Owen tells Shoto he is weak as he lacks the passion to win and just wants to have fun and tells him that if he can't find that passion he never wants to see him again. Shoto didn't hear him say this though, due to some sort of glitch. Though he doesn't remember what was just said, he still gains the desire to one day impress Owen. As Shoto won the match, he and Arisa receive messages saying they been accepted into the debugging team.
A few weeks later, Cool Boy and Yao have Shoto and Arisa attend a debugging team meeting so that they can officially induct them into the group. Owen doesn't show up to the meeting though.
A month later, countless Maquinamon show up in various parts of LACUNA — with the debugging team capturing them and turning them into trading cards. 
A month after that, Shoto, Arisa, Owen, and Violet "Vi" Inboots find themselves on one such mission to capture a Maquinamon in the Obsidian Desert. It proves too fast for the humans, leading Owen and Shoto to digivolve Elizamon and to and . Now on the backs of their bigger faster Digimon, they are able to get closer to it. Owen figures out where it's going to go, and as Shoto is closer he relays a message for him to capture it. Shoto and Kokatorimon hide behind the corner, with their ambush allowing Shoto to turn Maquinamon into a card. As most of the group celebrate the success of the mission, Shoto tries to get Owen involved though Owen wasn't interested in doing so. Once the celebrations wear down, Shoto complains at being overworked by the debug team, with Violet seemingly trying to comfort him by saying things hadn't been this hectic until he and Arisa had joined. Unlike Shoto though, Arisa had been enjoying her time. This pleases Shoto, since he felt like she hadn't been able to have fun and explore LACUNA since she had spent all her time training him to get better at duelling. Violet tries to invite her "rivals" to do something with her, though is cut off when they receive messages on their D-STORAGEs. Shoto is told that a rogue NPC had been sighted nearby, whilst Arisa is told that another Maquinamon had been seen. The four of them split up to deal with both issues, with Owen and Shoto going after the NPC and Arisa and Violet going after the Maquinamon. 
Whilst riding on the back of their partners to get to the rogue NPC, Shoto calls out to Owen about the fact he knows Owen is trying to avoid him and feels they need to have a conversation. Owen cuts him off though, and brings up that Shoto had forgotten his promise to him from when they were children. Shoto confirms he does indeed not remember making a promise with him, but that even then they need to be able to work together since they had been assigned as partners by Yao. Done with the conversation, Owen has Dimetromon run faster so that he wouldn't have to talk to Shoto any more. Pteromon, from inside Shoto's D-STORAGE, tells Shoto he can tell the two of them are close — though Shoto denies this since the conversation was awkward and Owen ran away from him. It tells Shoto not to give up, and that if he does want to get along with him better there will be many more chances for them to do so. 
Everyone comes to a stop, as a giant battlefield forms in front of them — with Shoto confused since they were 200 meters away from the rogue NPC. Owen contacts Shoto via voice call, and tells him to get his Emblem ready as a debug team member was about to fight three NPC at once and as such the duo should join in to even up the numbers. Shoto worries over the fact he had never actually been part of a 3v3 duel, though Owen says it doesn't really matter if he loses as to win a 3v3 duel — one side simply has to win 2 of the 3 duels and that Shoto is just a place filler since he and the other member will win anyway. This mockery angers Pteromon, with Pteromon demanding Shoto win his duel so that Owen can see what he's made of. When the duo arrive, both are surprised to see said debug member was Close since she was known for not actually doing debug team work despite being a member of the team. Close apologizes to the duo, telling them that the trio of NPCs were actually just regular NPCs that had all challenged her at the same time and weren't the out of control NPC they were looking for. Owen points out that even if they're not out of control, there is no storyline content in the game that requires a 3v3 duel so something is still wrong and so should still be investigated by the debug team. Close thanks them for coming to help her, as she feels she would be unable to defeat all three of them, though Owen stubbornly tells her she can thank them after they win. As the 3v3 duel begins, Owen tells Shoto to prove to him that he isn't just here as a place filler.
Owen makes short work of the NPC and decides to watch Close's duel. Shoto wins whilst Close continues to duel. This meant they had won the 3v3, since only two of them needed to win. As Shoto wonders out loud how Close was doing, Owen criticises Shoto for not being able to "assess the situation on his own" — though does praise him for proving he wasn't there as roster filler. The praise shocks Shoto, who wonders why Owen had suddenly "become a different person", though realizes he hadn't when Owen says he still has a long way to go to catch up to him. Owen points out that Close's duel wasn't going very well as she had only two security to her opponent's five and explains the current state of the board. As Shoto settles down to watch the rest of the duel, he realizes how weird it is that a trio of Deep Savers NPC were hanging out in the Obsidian Desert — with Owen saying they probably travelled there because of Close. As Shoto asks why they would do that, he tells Shoto to shut up as the NPC was about to make its next move. As the NPC takes another of her shields, Shoto worries she was going to lose — though Owen tells him to be quiet and watch and that he was confident she was going to win. They watch Close start her turn, with Shoto looking on in awe when she uses .
==Deck==
Owen has been shown to use the following cards in his deck:
*Agumon
*WarGreymon
==Notes and references==
Category:Characters in Digimon Liberator
Category:Tamers
Category:Antagonists
Category:Allies