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Continuing Slugfencers' question into my own, given the quote from the REG:

"Players are restricted from performing optional game rules that would result in a player controlling multiple copies of the same unique character.  A card is protected from any ability that would cause that card to become a second copy of a unique character controlled by a single player.  If a player does end up controlling multiple copies of a unique character, all copies of that character except the original copy are discarded regardless of protection.  Note: captured characters are not characters and thus do not affect these rules."

And the quote from Band - "How to Play":
Banding an opponent's character into battle causes you to take control of that character until the character leaves battle.


Would I be correct in saying this means I can't band in my opponents' Isaiah if I have mine in play?

That's correct if you have your character in play it restricts you from banding to your opponents version of that unique character

This also means if you have a green David you can't band to your opponents king David

At least that's how I've been told it works

To simplify what Redouter said, your not allowed to band an Opponents' Isaiah into battle if you have Isaiah in play. Nor can you play Isaiah's Call to play Isaiah from your Deck while you control your Opponent's Isaiah. But you can still control your Isaiah, even if you control your Opponent's Captured Isaiah because a Captured Character is treated as a Lost Soul (except Demons)

...captured characters are not road apples.

I completely disagree.  The definition of Ignore applies such that if we consider "play"ing of apples and whether they can be searched as apples or also oranges you'll see that you are CLEARLY incorrect.

*makes note that he's doing the "making things more complicated to explain every last detail" thing again*