#Seto Kaiba shows up for 5 seconds

[gx-gameon]

Gx episodes review (while thinking of my Au.

Episode 3

I am very uncomfortable with Crowler setting up Jaden to spy on the girls. Especially on the girls bath.

Like very disturbing especially when Crowler shows up to spy to. Like he’s there to catch Jaden but those out your female student’s.

But Syrus thinking the note for him and getting caught instead of Jaden is wild.

I don’t want this.

I’m going to have to re-write this. Like yes Jaden’s duel with Alexis is good. But there has to be a better way to set this up.

Jaden coming to help his friend and dealing out of trouble, love that. Spying on the girl’s in the bath, whether intentional or not, is not going to fly.

Episode 4

Love that getting rare cards for Duel Academy is on par with a military operation on purpose.

I love Jaden meting and helping Dorthy is wonderful. Love the boy helping her out even though it makes him late. A good boy.

Crowler taking all the rare cards to give to Chazz to beat Jaden is wild.

Also Chazz using the VWXYZ cars this duel (which correlates him with Seto Kaiba who uses the XYZ cards. In my Au Jaden grew up around these cards. Something that is shocking and new to all of Jaden’s classmates is something Jaden grew up watching trash other duelist. He grew up watching his Dad destroy Oto-san’s XYZ monsters. No one at the school is more prepared for this)

It’s a great second duel for Jaden and Chazz. With Chazz showing off this expensive and rare deck while Jaden is playing his weak monsters and the cards Dorthy gave him.

Also it’s the first duel that we get level 10 wing kuriboh. It’s a very Yugi/Atem move. Using a Kuriboh to get ride of a big threat.

I also love that every time some one tries to boil Jaden’s skill down to stupid luck he corrects them. Even if it’s sassy “luck? Nah I just have a soft spot for old ladies”

Also Jaden getting accepted into Ra in the second episode and turning it down because he values Syrus is so sweet. (Loyalty Syrus doesn’t deserve) but it is very in line with my Au. Jaden growing up around Téa and her friendship speech’s. He’s not one to abandon a friend, especially when he thinks he’s finally making the life long friends he’s always dreamed of. (His own Joey, Tristian, Téa, Duke, Serenity, Bakura. He wants friends so bad)

Episode 5 + 6

Baby Jaden! Baby Jaden!

And his first memory of duel spirits calling out to him. And him completing that he’s hearing winged kiriboh

Professor Banner coming in to play their scary story game. Immediately gets mess by telling the kids about the abandoned dorms and the missing students as if these kids aren’t 14 and going to go explore it!

Also Jaden hearing shadow games and saying “ya the millennium items, but they’re not real.” One in cannon is great k love the call backs to DM while also poking fun. I’m loving the fake shadow games.

But in the au Jaden is sweating bullets “shadow games? I’ve heard of those. Powerful items like the millennium items haha those aren’t real!” As he’s remebering all the story’s he’s heard form Uncle Atem, Uncle Joey, his Dad and Oto-san and the rest of the friend group. Like boys wondering if he had to call Uncle Atem and tell him that someone is kidnapping? Students and playing shadow games? No he should check it out first before he worries Uncle Atem about the millennium items being at his school.

Also the intro of Alexis’s story arc. The first mention of Atticus.

Jaden immediately wanting to go in knowing the rumors of missing duelist are true.

The wall of millennium items! With hieroglyphics! Why is this here? And Jaden recognizing them? Oh I’m going to have so much fun with this place in my au.

Alexis being kidnapped and and used to lure in Jaden and friends. Jaden recognizing her card and coming to his friend’s aid.

Also Jaden continues to”the shadow games aren’t real.” Thing is going to be so fun to twist.

Also Au Jaden has to be so stressed he asks after Alexis and they guys tells him Alexis is in the shadow realm. But this guy doesn’t feel like Uncle Atem. Jaden’s been around Shadow magic before and this guy doesn’t have it. He can’t feel the shadows the way he can around Atem.

But at the same time he’s talking about how the games are real and if they lose they lose their souls. But Jaden knows that isn’t right either. Atem always told him that the person who initiated the Shadow game got to pick the punishment for losing the game. Somethings not right about this guy. And Jaden’s not talking magic

But Jaden still duels him. He’s not going to let this creep kidnap his friends.

Jaden is doing well but then this guy pulls out the millennium puzzle.

Which first off this show is honkers for pulling out a fake millennium puzzle and having Jaden fade away like Yugi/Marik/bakura did in Battle City.

But the fact that Jaden canonical (dub) response to all of this is, “So what in our dorm we have black out curtains so that we can sleep in later. In not scared of the dark it’s great!” Is not only fantastic. Never change my empty headed king. But also a really cool foreshadowing that Jaden is tied to darkness. He’s the King of the Gentle Darkness. It should be no surprise that he is afraid of the dark.

Also love that canon Jaden sees all this and is just like “wow! What a fun challenge!”

But let’s focus au for a second. Jadne already knew this guy had no real powers, he’s felt that shadows before this guy doesn’t have them. But pulling out a cheap copy of the millennium puzzle! An object that means so much to his Dad and Uncle Atem (the whole group really) unacceptable! The millennium puzzle was Atem’s for thousands of years it would feel like him, there for this is not real because Jaden can’t feel Atem. Also if this was the real puzzle this guy couldn’t use it without defeating the previous owner(s) Yugi and Atem. Jaden has no fear but a righteous fury. But he’s trying to play it off as being worried for Alexis and not his rage at this moment of his Dad and Uncle.

He’s doing his best but he starts disappearing more and start to wonder if he guessed wrong. Maybe this guy does has some form of magic

Especially when Jaden stops being able to see.

But then Winged Kuriboh reaches out and shows Jaden how his mind is being messed with. Something he already guessed but had started to lose sight of. Also love that it’s Winged Kuriboh who showed him the path.

Jaden breaks the illusion with his attack and then breaks the paper mâché millennium puzzle by throwing Avian into it (a very Seto Kaiba move that man loved throwing cards at things)

Also cannon Jaden calling the guy out for being an out of work festival work and being right is amazing.

The guy tries to keep the lie going by bringing Alexis back up. But calls the millennium puzzle the millennium pendant.

Jaden makes fun of him again and the guy tries to leave with out telling them where Alexis is Haden runs after him and accidentally sets off a real shadow game.

Jaden thinks of a moment that it’s another trick but then he feels that shadows and starts to panic but Winged Kuriboh comes to Jaden’s rescue.

In cannon Jaden continues to think it’s a hoax but in the Au he can realize just how much trouble he’s in. Especially when the guy (panic?) gets possessed and starts dueling him again for his soul, for real this time. At least he has Winged Kuriboh at his side. He’s not alone.

Winged Kuriboh spends the duel flying around Jaden’s feet keeping the evil spirits away from Jaden.

Jaden is focused on the duel until he hears the possessed man say, “I’ll take your soul just like I did to the other students.” This is what took Alexis brother and the other students. He needs to win and call Atem.

Jaden wins and he watches as Panic loses his soul. In cannon he thinks it’s a special effect but in the Au he knows it’s not. He plays it off for his friends but he knows he needs to make a phone call when he get back to the dorm.

But at least Alexis is safe. Jaden offers to help her look for Atticus. If this has to do with the shadow realm he feels like he has to help, he has more knowledge than anyone else here. Plus Alexis is his friend. Jaden would do anything for a friend.

It’s sunrise by the time they finish their conversation and Jaden and the others have to get back to their dorm and class. It takes all day and he’s exhausted (he’s had no sleep and just dueled for his soul for the first time) but when Chumley and Syrus lay down to nap he pulls out his phone and goes to the woods to call Uncle Atem.

They have a lot to talk about.

#yugi moto #yugi mutou #jaden yuki #judai yuki #yugioh gx #seto kaiba #atem #dad yugi #yami yugi #pharaoh atem #rivalshipping #rewatching Yugioh Gx to plan out my fic!

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

Okay, folks. The first round of the Yugioh DM Rare Pair Poll is done. Now, while I go and set everything up, here's some little tidbits of our choices.

The most popular guy for pairings is Ryou at a total of 8, with absolutely none of them with a woman. Good for him, people showing him the love that canon didn't give him. The second most popular man is Seto Kaiba, with 6, though Mahad could join him here, if you count him and Dark Magician as the same person. Third is Hiroto Honda, at 5, which is quite respectable all things considered.

Now. for the ladies, Anzu cinches the crown, with her being part of 5 pairings, followed by a three-way tie between Mai, Shizuka, and Miho at 4.

[verybadatcardgames]

Sightshipping for 001?

Also answering for @over-roaming-waves, who was curious.

Sightshipping

when I started shipping it: Back in 2017, I started drafting a fic about their adventure in Egypt trying to hide the God Cards. It was really supposed to be a drama/humor fic about Isis having a constant headache and finding Pegasus to be an annoyance (because I personally found Pegasus to be an annoying character at the time), but as I kept writing, I really fell in love with both of the characters and imagining how their personalities would clash and complement one another

The adventure fic was up for a while, but I yanked it offline not long ago. The story is undergoing revisions and I want to redo it as a comic because I'm a masochist

my thoughts: Do you like to read novels?

I have so many thoughts, but for the sake of the ask, I will try to keep it short.

I really like the idea of them being so set in their plans pre-series and not really being amicable at the start, the both of them so committed to their pasts and their Items that it blinds them from seeing any alternatives from their personal life scripts. Then both their plans go up in flames (Pegasus loses Duelist Kingdom and Seto shows Isis the grim fate she believed in is not infallible), they both lose their Items, and with Atem crossing into the Afterlife, they're no longer tied into the Great Game. So now they have this freedom to explore the future and what the world has to offer, but there's also uncertainty and powerlessness in not being able to foresee what is coming, not knowing what other people are thinking, and not knowing what to do next.

And somewhere in there, I like imagining them going from business acquaintances to friends to lovers.

(also my constant daydream about Isis wanting to confess to Pegasus that she foresaw him getting the Eye ripped out of his head but didn't say anything back then because she didn't believe she could alter destiny with a warning but uh oh-oh no Seto proved you can change the future so she feels like utter crap that Pegasus nearly died and fears he won't want to talk to her again and the looming sense of dread and judgment haunts her; she's so scared he's gonna kick her to the curb when he learns she could have saved him so much grief if she had just said something

and she's so absorbed in the guilt of her past inaction that she doesn't realize Pegasus can plainly see she's torturing herself with all these thoughts so he reaches out and touches her hand and

ok I'll shut up)

What makes me happy about them: The possibilities--in the anime timeline. They're both alive and there is a chance something could happen. Daydreams and headcanons abound

What makes me sad about them: They stand in a room staring at each other for less than 10 seconds in the anime. Isis talks about wanting to "fulfill his wishes" offhandedly in the manga (by getting the God Cards back from her brother). The most dialogue we see exchanged between the two of them is in a GBA game

MY CROPS ARE THIRSTY AND I AM KEEPING THEM ALIVE WITH A NOVELTY SHOT GLASS

things done in fanfic that annoys me: Oh

Oh honey

There is not enough fanfic of this rarepair for that to be a thing

things I look for in fanfic: I dunno I have to look at my WIP folder

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: Isis with her job and intermittent dates with Aileen Rao; Pegasus sober with his art supplies and comics

My happily ever after for them: Married with 5 kids but one of them is a daughter biologically fathered by Seto Kaiba after Isis and Pegasus have a heated threesome with him in Marrakesh. Isis and Pegasus know the kid is Seto's, but they don't tell him because it would make things complicated, but Seto does eventually find out at his daughter's 13th birthday party. Seto punches Pegasus in the face and tells him he isn't surprised Pegasus could be that cruel but he can't believe Isis hid the truth from him, which leads to Isis' oldest daughter resenting her because she believes she was the product of an affair, even though she wasn't, but the fine details were not disclosed as Isis thinks the news that Pegasus isn't her biological father was already traumatic enough and she felt it wasn't appropriate to tell her teenage daughter she was conceived during a passionate threesome

Like it all works out in the end when all their kids are adults with their own lives and it gets better after a lot of shit hits the fan but that's my future/next gen "happily ever after" headcanon

who is the big spoon/little spoon: It switches, but I'd say Pegasus is the big spoon 70% of the time. He likes to hug Isis to his chest and doesn't want to let go because she is warm and comfy

And he has PTSD related to this

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: Morning, afternoon, and evening tea time--and movie night.

#ask #sightshipping #pegasus #maximillion pegasus #pegasus j crawford #isis ishtar #ishizu #ishtar #aileen rao #yugioh #ygo #dm #duel monsters #seto kaiba #headcanons #fanfic woes

[usearki]

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#5

My son sent me this, after he almost had a brain aneurysm seeing it at 5.30am. (He woke me up going WHAT THE FUCK!)

I don’t know why tumblr won’t accept video timestamps, but it’s like the second item in (Which is just as well because this video is over 2 hours long) so...

UWU-GI-OH!

( @impet0n )

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#3

Yay for being stuck in Carlisle cos the trains are up the creek due to a signal failure. Joy.

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#2

My username:

This is why I’m called Usearki. Just thought I’d make it my sticky post cos it still amuses me years later.

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My #1 post of 2022

HE’S GOING!!!!

From the BBC:

Boris Johnson will resign as Conservative leader today - he will continue as Prime Minister until the autumn.

A Conservative leadership race will take place this summer and a new Prime Minister will be in place in time for the Tory party conference in October.

Not quick enough - he needs to fuck off now!

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[steve0discusses]

Yugioh Ep 28: Valon Joins the Dead People Gang

So lately it’s been really freakin hot.

Like crazy freakin hot. I haven’t done anything productive because youknow--I live in a Covid hotspot and I’ve been quarantined for what feels like is 6 years, and then to continue the 10 plagues across America, now it’s just really freakin hot.

I was trying to go the hell to sleep when I heard this WIND outside my window at 2 AM. Just...WIND. It was like 5000 degrees outside, and then it started thundering, and then the lightning started hitting and I was like...wtf 2020, please calm down!

So I decided to check Twitter at 3 AM really fast just to make sure this wasn’t a freakin dream. Aaaaaaand Northern California had a Fire tornado warning.

3 words I never thought I’d see in conjunction. Fire tornado Warning.

and it hella dropped in Tahoe, y’all, it was freakin nuts. Meanwhile, Death Valley--the place where Yugi hella biffed it and died, if you don’t remember--hit 130 F (54.4 C, for the metric lovers in the back) so...it’s been a time for every part of California, and now we have some good ol fashioned rolling blackouts accompanied by 27 wildfires (yes, 27 fires) who have turned the sky into a yellow pea soup.

So because of the rolling blackouts (one of our power transformers exploded because of either the lightning or overuse, I dunno) at any point...my power might go out. Because of this, I didn’t feel like booting up Photoshop and so instead I’ll just...work on this.

...something about the Fire Tornado, the yellow shadow realm outside my window, and crazy lightning over San Fransisco reminded me that it’s been a HOT MINUTE since I’ve posted so lets get back to Yugioh. Somehow they knew that the doorway to hell was my back yard and you know what? They’re right. Completely believable and I wish someone would close the damn door.

Tristan read my mind that it’s been such a hot minute since I’ve checked in, that he mansplained a very quick summary of what the hell is currently happening to Tea Gardner.

A brave man, Tristan Taylor. A brave man to risk getting into a fight with Tea, who is the only Goliath on this show that exists without also being a paper card.

Which is when Pharaoh had some news.

I guess without Duke around, Pharaoh had to be the new Killjoy

(read more under the cut)

I exaggerate a little for the caps, but it’s kind of interesting that when Joey is usually on his own, it’s Yugi who’s certain that Joey is about to die and Pharaoh is the one that has to calm little Yugi down. But, when Yugi’s not there, I guess Pharaoh is just already in a Mood.

Mai is really weird this episode! I wish this season had gone into more detail about the extent of the Orichalcos’s mind control. Because Mai could very well be under it’s spell...or not...maybe it has no spell and they’re just falling for it like a placebo?

It’s not like the Orichalcos was ever put on anyone who was “good.” like if it were possessing someone nice like...

....

....(let me think about this, I’ll think of someone on this show who is a true lawful good.)

....

.................Dark Magician Girl, then I’d actually know if this Orichalcos actually IS different from how these characters actually are. But Mai was introduced in this series as a villain, and she’s always been around to bust balls, so it’s like...what part is Mai and what part is not?

Apparently a part that only shows up when Valon dies.

PS Valon turns a very quick 180 right before he died. I honestly thought I had skipped an episode or something because bro mentioned something about...Valon burning down a church or something...but I think that was a spicy headcanon where he mixed up this show with another anime.

I think. If I skipped an episode, y’all would tell me, right? I didn’t skip an episode?

I did skip the card games, however, so something about getting punched like 1000 times in the dick by Joey Wheeler taught Valon how to be human again, and the death that followed the 1000 dick punches inspired Mai to remember that Valon exists and that she Loves Him.

(just flat on his face)

I just...

I am going to give Yugioh this one. They have had so little in terms of relationships--I will give this to them. Good Job Yugioh, you did it. You had a relationship on your show. Sure, it was one where she...never seemed to like the guy at all, but hey--they actually did embrace...a corpse. Good on you, Yugioh.

Again, I have a really difficult time not cracking up about this very tragic moment a little bit because (and I have said this before about relationships on Yugioh), but I have never seen a TV show treat a straight relationship this way. I have never seen Straight Baiting before in my life and it is...WILD.

Also because Valon and Mai have both murdered I want to say hundreds of people at this point, it’s hard to feel too bad about them, although they are drawn as a very cute couple in how their outfits match. They got the finger less gloves, the belts hanging off their collar, the sleeveless outfit that is both too much clothes and too little clothes at the same time.

And like...I really like the idea behind Valon/Mai. I still think that was a good idea to build off of, I just wish that there was more of a sign from Mai that she had any idea that Valon existed prior to this. Because Valon had Orichalcos too, but he was fully able to love her--so what was happening on her end that prevented this? Was it just the amount that she hated Joey was so much more than her love for Valon? Was Valon actually more jealous of her hate of Wheeler and misinterpreted it as love?

Anyway it’s a billion degrees and I don’t have air conditioning so...I think we’ll have more time to think about this next episode. Maybe it’ll occur to me two weeks after this heat wave ends exactly what I am trying to grasp at when it comes to these two, but for now all I can say is...well it was nice.

Ah RIP Valon/tine (or at least I assume that’s the ship name). You lasted almost a whole season. You almost became a thing. I guess well find out if there’s redemption after he eventually gets resurrected.

And on this show we redeem resurrected people kind of a lot, so that seems reasonable. Sure it was a couple hundred people that he murdered but like...we redeemed Marik.

And then she goes back to wigging out like immediately. The flipping and the flopping of Mai Valentine in this episode is a lot.

And immediately after he says something along the lines of this, he follows with...doing this:

Joey! Valon just died so you wouldn’t have to duel Mai Valentine! He’s dead, Joey! Maybe try talking???

The thing about this show is that cards can both heal you and also destroy you, and the line between the two is just...rolling a dice and hoping you come out healed. Yugi played cards against Yami so that Yami could free himself from his guilt and move on--Valon was healed of Orichalcos control because Joey beat him at cards--Seto was “cured” of his more evil side because Yami mind wiped him in a card game--card magic is weird.

At the same time, Cards can take your soul in just So Many Ways--kind of one of the downsides. But, in a very round about way, maybe cards are kind of like therapy in this world. Maybe they don’t have therapy, and all these kids playing card games with eachother is metaphorical to how they all need eachother in order to push eachother to actually go through the steps of-

Ah, who am I kidding? They just really needed to have Mai lose at cards so they could write her off the show.

I do appreciate that the show never tells you that someone’s actions in the past mean they must rot for eternity. This show will never cancel anyone and say “burn that bridge, let’s go” but I feel like murder is...the line where you can just walk away?

But youknow if that were true of Joey wheeler he’d have no friends left.

During this time, The Yugioh crew was inexplicably lost while, for once in his entire life, Seto was going the correct direction.

Unfortunately, the lure to throw cards at thing was too much for him to go the right direction for very long. It is kind of funny to note that he is the smartest boy in Domino--so he knows you can drive through a hologram--but he just didn’t want to know if they were real or not, so he...didn’t.

Like I think that says a lot about Seto, and I’m sure the show-runners didn’t think about this at all, but he could have tested his theory right now. He could have just seen if these were real in order to know if he was crazy or not...but he’d rather be insane, than be involved with magic.

Anyways, Mai drops that Orichalcos.

Reminder that San Francisco is only 7-12 miles from one end to the other depending on what part of the peninsula you’re on.

But then again, they’re reading a map in Roman characters and these kids are school dropouts who only speak Japanese and maybe Spanish. Maybe they’re actually doing really, really well considering the language barrier?

Anyway that’s all for now I’m gonna go pass out and hopefully when I wake up it’ll be next week when it is no longer hot. If you just got here, this is a link to read these caps from the beginning!

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

#yugion #ygo #photo recap #episode recap #yami muto #tea gardner #joey wheeler #tristan taylor #Valon #Mai Valentine #So much punching #Seto Kaiba shows up for 5 seconds #Mokuba too I guess #S4 #Episode 28

[capucapo]

It isn't every day that Mokuba is able to make it out of work before the end of visiting hours, but today he makes damn sure to leave Kaiba Corp with time to see his brother. Exhausted and gloomy as he feels, he holds his head high as he walks past the nurses' pitying stares through the now familiar halls of Domino hospital.

"How are you doing today, Big Brother?"

He knows there won't be an answer. He knows that today is no different from the day before. Or the 63 days before that.

63 days.

It feels like it's been a year since he's heard his brother's voice. But it feels like just yesterday, too.

Mokuba bites his lip, staring down at his hands. He can't even look his unconscious brother in the face.

"...I think I messed up today, Seto. Real bad, I... I totally freaked out in the middle of a meeting... with the Big 5... um. Nezbitt called it a temper tantrum, but one of the interns said it was a uh. a panic attack--"

He cuts himself off, goes quiet for a second. His little chest burns, but he won't let himself cry again, won't let himself be weak again. He gives the side of his head a few heavy handed thumps with the bottom of his palm as either a distraction or punishment for his show of emotion.

"--I know. It doesn't matter what I call it, it was really unprofessional. You'd be so mad at me if... You'd been there. I'm sorry... I'm trying so, so hard to be strong, but everything keeps getting worse, Seto, and I..... I.."

Voice cracking, a few stray tears betray him.

"I really don't know what I'm doing. I know you trusted me as your vice president but I just keep fucking everything up so bad. I really need you to wake up, big brother. I don't know how much longer I can keep your company going, our stocks keep falling and investors are pulling out and now Pegasus is talking about canceling our partnership for Kaibaland and- and-- and we might lose the licensing for that stupid....dragon you love so much... Please wake up, Seto...."

Silence falls on the hospital room, broken only by the beeping of a heart monitor and the choked, restrained sobs of Japan's youngest corporate vice president.

Some days he turns on the tv, making jokes and comments on the shows as if Seto could hear him. Sometimes he brings his Switch to show his brother his progress on Pokemon. Sometimes, he brings his deck of trading cards for that game he claims to despise so much, to show him how he's going to beat him some day.

"...I'm heading home now. And I'll fix things, I promise. I'll work harder and I won't freak out again.... I'll make everything okay sssso... so you can smile again when you wake up."

Today, he simply sits in silence. With nothing left to say, Mokuba stares down at his hands in his lap, too ashamed to even look at his brother's sleeping face. After several minutes, or hours, he isn't sure, the teenager finally picks himself up from the uncomfortable chair beside Seto's bed.

#ooc #instead of doing my job I accidentally drabbled oops #writing

[dpganime]

Shaman King vs. Yu-Gi-Oh - What Yu-Gi-Oh did right

Shaman King was first broadcasted in US back in 2001, riding on the success of Yu-Gi-Oh franchise. Though the two series have many similarities, Shaman King was nowhere near as popular as Yu-Gi-Oh. While YGO had one spin-off after another, Shaman King only had a sequel Shaman King Flowers and a spin-off Shaman King Crimson in manga - and nothing in anime except for 2021 remake/reboot.

So, why isn’t Shaman King that successful? Here’s what YGO did right but Shaman King did not:

1) A balanced protagonist duo

Yugi Muto was a nice boy who wants to have friends. He found one in the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle, Yami Yugi/Pharaoh Atem. Unlike Yugi, Atem was more arrogant and can be merciless at time. Atem was also mysterious, with his real name and story not revealed until the last season, which kept the audience intrigued. 

But in Shaman King...

Yoh Asakura was a nice and lazy guy, nothing more. His reason to become Shaman King was so that he could live an easy life? Or was it family duty? Whatever it was, we are interested enough to care.

His spirit partner Amidamaru and his human friend Manta were also Mr. Nice Guy. Three Mr. Nice Guys = BORING.

2) A rival who does not overshadow the protagonist

Seto Kaiba was a well-written character. In each YGO spin-off, there’s an expy of Yugi and an expy of Kaiba as well. Cold, jealous, and (a little too) obsessed on beating Yugi in card games, Kaiba was mostly an antagonist though sometimes ally. He also had a story - in the past and present, but he’s not taking over the show. 

But in Shaman King...

Ren Tao was a blood knight that turned the whole show up-side-down. Well, actually, he was a kindhearted boy who was abused by his father. He was able to see his errors and redeem his wrongs. Compared to Yoh, he was a better fit as a main protagonist and as Shaman King. Unfortunately, he was not the main character. 

3) A love interest who can be nasty but for a reason

Anzu Masaki was Yugi’s childhood friend. She had her abusive moments towards Jonouchi and Honda, but that’s because they were being inappropriate, like lifting up her skirt. Yugi had a crush on her, but Anzu liked Yugi’s spirit partner Atem, who shipped Yugi and Anzu...spawned many fanfics. 

But in Shaman King...

Anna was mean. Period. She slapped Manta and punched Horohoro. Though I liked the 2021 version of Anna much more than 2001′s version, I find it very hard to understand why a nice guy like Yoh would be okay with Anna abusing everyone around him.

4) A beta couple who explains the plot

Wanna know why Blue-Eyes White Dragon meant so much to Kaiba? The answer: in their previous life, Blue-Eyes White Dragon was the spirit of Kaiba’s love interest, Kisara. It’s another story worthy to tune in where the origin of Kaiba vs. Yugi will be explained (come think of it, it has some Game of Thrones flavor to it). 

But in Shaman King...

Ren got married...to Iron Maiden Jeanne. They had a son. But how did they get there?

Either you are very interested but can’t find enough details or you just don’t care, but find the couple coming out of nowhere. 

5) The bad guys are punished for their wrongs

Pegasus was the big bad in the first story arc. He sealed Yugi’s grandfather’s soul to force Yugi to participate in Duelist Kingdom Tournament. Whatever his reason was, he lost and his Millennium Eye was taken from him - it was painful and traumatic. At least he didn’t kill anyone. Marik from the second arc had killed his father, but it was semi self-defense and in a moment of insanity. 

But in Shaman King...

Ren killed. Iron Maiden Jeanne killed. X-Laws killed. Hao killed. Fraust opened up Manta with a surgical knife...and all of them are forgiven? For those who shipped Jun Tao and Lee Pyron, let me tell you what happened: Tao family killed Lee Pyron so that he could be her Jiang Shi puppet. And oh yeah, per Anna, Lee Pyron was married. So that makes Jun Tao a homewrecker - and she and Lee Pyron live happily ever after?

6) A satisfying ending

Atem found his name and returned to the past. Yugi moved on to be a legendary duelist, a real King of Game (which is what Yu-Gi-Oh means in Japanese). Friendship and true meaning of winning are well defined. 

But in Shaman King...

Hao did all these bad stuff and he still won? He got to be Shaman King and decided not to wipe out humanity for the time being because his mom intervened? Okay, so what’s the point of this whole story? I’m lost.

So as for the rest of 2021 Shaman King episodes, I’m only going to watch the ones that feature Ren because I like this character. Nothing more. Sorry, I don’t think the remake is going to be any more successful than 2001 version. 

#shaman king

[starlightshadowsworld]

We don't talk enough about the absolute fever dream that was Yugioh GX season 2, specifically the Dub.

I had to rewatch part of it to write that post on Seto adopts Jaden, Aster and Jadens friendship plan thingy cos I couldn't remember shit.

And I lost my shit when Aqua Dolphin showed up (I just kept quoting that one post from the blog Bastion-erasure: If it weren't for the laws of this land I would have slaughtered Neo Spacian Aqua Dolphin.)

Jaden had the most realistic reaction to a talking dolphin telling him to be the chosen one.

Also, why isn't the fact he'd the gentle darkness not made more a big deal like sheesh! Come on guys it's so crucial and he's fighting the light of destruction... AHHH.

I... Am gonna calm down now. But I will never let that go.

Everything Aster said was pure gold, don't know why his hair went white for 5 seconds tho. Love his and Jadens friendship

I wish the spirits talking was used more, Neos was amazing.

Kaiba was there, amazing wonderful this asshole cackling on live TV good for him.

... We aren't talking about the T-Rex or I will lose my mind.

Tho, Jaden's voice when he tells Syrus he's not joking about not being able to see his cards and needs to chill by himself 🥺my heart... Also side note Chazz looked and was the most concerned and we love to see it.

#Yugioh gx #Yugioh gx season 2 #Jaden yuki #Judai yuki

[alectoperdita]

Fictober - Day 11

prompt: “I told you so” fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters pairing: Jounouchi Katsuya/Kaiba Seto rating: teen warnings: minor blood/injury, somewhat open ending a/n: pre-relationship hurt/comfort | Why did Kaiba’s tournaments always come hand-in-hand with some kind of death trap?

Fighting a shiver, Jounouchi cupped his hands around his mouth and blew warm air over his chilled fingers and palms. 

Bang!

The solid metal door barely shuddered in its frame. A string of aggressive swearing followed the next loud bang.

Jounouchi gave up on trying to warm his hands. Instead, he hugged his exposed arms and rubbed them in a vain attempt to generate some heat. His gaze flickered to the thermometer on the nearby wall. The reading still showed 5 degrees Celsius. He looked back at his companion, who remained hellbent on trying to force open the door.

"I told you so. That thing ain't gonna budge," Jounouchi said and immediately regretted it as frigid air flooded the inside of his mouth and throat and clawed into his chest cavity. He clenched his teeth together and rubbed his biceps harder.

Turning sharply, Kaiba drilled into him with eyes frostier than the temperature inside the locked freezer. "At least I'm doing something, instead of rolling over like a beaten dog with its tail between its legs," snarled the other duelist.

Jounouchi bristled at the insult, but not even his anger at Kaiba was enough to warm his rapidly cooling body. "No, the only thing you're gonna accomplish is busting your shoulder on that door. You said that our Duel Disks"—he tapped the device still strapped to his left forearm—"have built-in emergency beacons. Someone's bound to notice us, well, at least you're missing and come looking for us."

Kaiba's eyes darted around the room, no doubt hunting for some weakness in the structure he was convinced only he could spot. "That's the best-case scenario. Depending on how thick these walls are or if they're shielded, the GPS signal may not be able to penetrate."

As Kaiba began pacing back and forth, the tail of his long, white trenchcoat billowed and swirled dramatically around his knees. At that moment, Jounouchi wished for the first time that his fashion sense was more like the other boy's. A coat and a turtleneck would go a long way to stave off the cold. In his thin t-shirt and jeans, Jounouchi was bound to become a popsicle first between the two of them.

Jounouchi shifted uneasily from one foot to the other, then back again. "Unless your superpower's actually being super-strong and not a super-dick, we're not getting out of here without some help from the outside."

He cast a look around the empty and freezing room, wondering if it had been used for anything other than holding kidnapped duelists. Why the hell had he and Kaiba been taken together? Maybe they just wanted Kaiba—asshole had way too many enemies to count—and Jounouchi had been unlucky enough to be in the right place and right time? Dammit, all he wanted was one duel with Kaiba, preferably ending in a win that'd wipe that smug expression off his face once and for all. 

Now, he was stuck in an enclosed space with his worst enemy, who was prowling like a caged animal. No phones. Those had been stripped and dumped off them right when they were taken. But for some reason he couldn't fathom, the kidnappers had let them keep their Duel Disks. Maybe because they didn't know about the emergency beacon? That didn't sound like a feature that was common knowledge. Jounouchi hadn't known about it until Kaiba told him. 

Kaiba stared at him, not blinking like a weird freak, for almost a full three seconds before stomping away.

"Dick," Jounouchi muttered, his breath pouring out from between his trembling lips like a cumulus cloud.

Ignoring Kaiba, Jounouchi sank into a sitting position on the floor and pulled his knees to his chest before resting his head against them. If he made himself smaller like this, it would keep his body heat from escaping as quickly, right? "So who do you think did this?" he asked several moments later, unable to stand the silence. 

"Whoever they are, they'll regret it soon enough," said Kaiba from a far corner of the room.

"You must have some idea," urged Jounouchi. His body was shivering in full earnest now, and he was beginning to lose feeling in his fingertips. He curled into a smaller ball. 

"No. I didn't recognize any of their voices."

Jounouchi thought back to the four kidnappers. Not all of them had spoken, but the two who did had sounded like men. All of them had been dressed from head to toe in black, while their faces had been obscured by black balaclavas.

"That they were careful to hide their identities may be a good thing for us. If they hadn't tried, I'd be far more worried that they intend to kill us outright. So far, their behavior suggests ransoming or some other demand."

"Yeah, but why stick us in here then? They could have stuck us in any old room. This feels an awful lot like they're trying to kill us. You. Whatever."

A heavy silence reigned. Jounouchi thought he'd brought up a rather astute point, so Kaiba'd better appreciate it. 

The thought of dying curdled in his stomach. Unlike many of his near brushes with death so far, this one was given time to sit with him. Not just a mere instance of flashing terror and heart-stopping fear. This one wrapped him in its frigid fingers and squeezed him—his heart, his lungs, his very thoughts—until the overwhelming dread was all he'd ever known. 

He didn't want to die. Not yet. Not here. Not trapped with fucking Kaiba of all people. At least when he'd almost drowned in Domino Bay, he'd been with Yuugi. Even made his peace with death if it meant being able to save his best friend. 

This was worse than drowning. Slightly less painful, slower by many degrees but just as inevitable. 

"You're not dead yet, deadbeat." 

Kaiba's words, spoken much closer than expected, jolted him out of his stupor. He raised his head to stare into the other duelist's face, whose brows were knotted in what might be an expression of concern. Jounouchi shook his head to clear it. Kaiba's expression was as haughty as it'd always been.

His teeth chattered when he next opened his mouth to reply. "Maybe not now, but give it another hour or so."  

Kaiba's eyes raked over his body, or what he could see given Jounouchi's hunched positioning. "You're shivering quite badly," he observed almost too quietly. 

Jounouchi gestured to his summer attire. "I'm definitely gonna freeze to death before you do. So at least you won't have to spend your final minutes listening to me run my mouth. So congrats on that," he spat bitterly. 

Kaiba pursed his lips. "You blame me for this." 

Dropping his gaze to the ground, Jounouchi twisted the denim fabric in his grip. "I dunno. Maybe. Kinda. Not really. I mean, you're an asshole, but I don't think you deserve this either. I don't think I'd wish this bullshit on my worst enemy. This doesn't sound like a great way to go." 

"It can be quite peaceful by the end, or so I've read." 

Jounouchi swallowed a bubble of hysteria. He wasn't going to lose it. "You like reading about hypothermia as a hobby, huh? Why am I not surprised?" 

"It helps to be prepared," replied Kaiba flatly. 

The overwhelming desire to hit Kaiba in the face rose like a tide, and Jounouchi swallowed that too. 

"We're not at risk of hypothermia yet. We have time still, but I need to effectively utilize it before the secondary symptoms set in. The longer we remain here, the harder it will be to mount our rescue." 

Whatever "secondary symptoms" Kaiba was worried about must have already set in for Jounouchi because he already found it difficult to keep up with the other boy. Without warning, Kaiba stripped off his outer coat and tossed it to Jounouchi. Kaiba stood, a tall, lean figure in completely black as his attention left Jounouchi once more. "Hold onto that. It'll just get in the way while I find us a way out of here."

He stalked away without another word.

Jounouchi clutched Kaiba's coat dumbly. The inner red lining was softer to the touch than he'd imagined it. Then again, Jounouchi was close to losing most feeling in his hands. Kaiba had moved clear to the other side of the room to study several vents and pipe snaking out of the wall, along with the industrial fan circulating freezing air into the unit. Jounouchi stared at Kaiba's discarded coat again. Was this Kaiba trying to do him a kindness? Giving him his jacket to fend off the cold in the most blase and nonchalant way possible?

Did Jounouchi dare to accept it?

After a second, he decided pride was better saved for occasions where he wasn't at risk of freezing to death. With clumsy hands, he pulled on the coat, briefly bemoaning the lack of sleeves, and pulled the raised collar around his neck and throat to protect the naked skin in that region. The coat weighed more than he'd expected. Probably because of the metal studs lining the white leather, and as he ran his fingers along the length of the coat, he felt a wireframe underneath that helped to keep the coat's shape. No wonder Kaiba always looked perpetually windswept while wearing it.

The sound of Kaiba talking to himself, pacing, and messing with things continued in the background, and Jounouchi tried to concentrate on the noise. Most of what Kaiba said was lost on him, but he appreciated it as it reminded him he wasn't alone. Even with the extra layer, the cold was beginning to seep into his bones and veins, creating a sluggishness that weighed down his limbs. Time slipped by in a way that escaped Jounouchi's grasp entirely.

How long had they been trapped in this freezer? An hour? Three? 

Across the room, Kaiba suddenly made a small noise of triumph. Jounouchi looked at the other duelist to find him hanging almost a meter off the ground while clinging to the top of a fan unit sticking out of the wall. For some reason, Jounouchi's heart sped up.

"What the hell are you doing, Kaiba?" he asked through chattering teeth.

"If I can get inside this casing, I might be able to reach the wiring or other internal mechanisms," explained Kaiba. Sweat trickled down the side of his face, which Jounouchi attributed to the exertion of doing an extended pull-up.

"Dude, you don't have enough leverage. You're gonna hurt yourself," insisted Jounouchi.

"Shut up, I found a loose panel on the underside if I can just— There—" Kaiba wrenched his arm down, yanking at the edge of sheet metal. "Shit!" he cursed as he lost his grip, fell, and hit the icy floor with a sickening thud.

With his heart in his throat, Jounouchi climbed to his feet and rushed over to the other boy, who was groaning and clutching his hand to his chest. "Oh my god, Kaiba, are you alright? Talk to me!"

Panting, Kaiba pushed up on his elbows, still cradling his dominant hand protectively. When Jounouchi dropped to his knees next to the other boy, he finally caught sight of the nasty, jagged cut running down the center of Kaiba's palm. Droplets of blood now littered the ground where he'd fallen, while fresh blood continued to ooze from the open wound. Thankfully, Kaiba didn't appear to have broken anything with his fall.

"Shit, you're bleeding," said Jounouchi with mounting panic as he helped Kaiba into a sitting position. "This is bad."

"It's all bad," spat Kaiba through gritted teeth. 

They needed to stop the bleeding and wrap the wound. After a bit of internal debate, Jounouchi tore off one of his t-shirt sleeves to use as a makeshift bandage. He grabbed Kaiba's hand and held fast, even as the other boy tried to push him away. Jounouchi wound the strip of cloth tightly around Kaiba's hand and tied a somewhat sloppy-looking knot over the palm. Blood immediately seeped into the light blue cotton, dying it a splotchy crimson. Grabbing Kaiba's hand, he clasped their palms together and hoped the pressure would stop the bleeding soon. 

"Why did you do that?" hissed Kaiba while glaring.

"What was I supposed to do? Just let you bleed to death? I hate to admit it, but I need you in one piece. Cuz if anyone's gonna figure out a way to get us out of here, it's gonna be you," snapped Jounouchi in return.

They sat on the floor without speaking for several long beats. If someone found them now, they'd look ridiculous. Like two misbehaving children forced to make up and hold hands as a reconciliatory gesture. Jounouchi swore he could feel Kaiba's pulse hammering through the palms of their pressed hands. Or maybe that was his own heartbeat running into overdrive? The wet spot in the fabric grew clammy to the touch, but Jounouchi didn't let go. Kaiba's fingers were equally icy against his skin, but the contact ignited a small spark of heat between their clasp hands. 

Eventually, Jounouchi pried his hand away to poke a finger at the bandage's deep red stain. Kaiba's fingers twitched as he sucked in a sharp breath, but he didn't withdraw. 

"The bleeding's stopped," reassured Kaiba.

But as Jounouchi looked upon the other man's face, taking in how his bangs fell limp and wet over the deep furrow between his brow and the slight blue tinge of his lips, he found other reasons to be concerned. Kaiba shook with each shuddering breath, exhaling hitched breaths of steam that threatened to freeze in the air as soon as they left their lungs. Under the harsh fluorescent lighting, his clammy skin had taken on a pale and sickly pallor. The top half of his collar was an even darker black than the rest of his turtleneck when drenched with sweat and visibly stuck to his neck.

"Shit, how'd you get so bad so quickly? Was it the blood loss?" asked Jounouchi.

Kaiba winced. "It's the sweating. You lose body heat much faster when wet."

"And you still went climbing around like a freaking monkey?" Jounouchi wanted to shake the asshole. It was just like Kaiba to do the thing most likely to backfire and blow up in his face.

"I can't sit there and do nothing!" roared Kaiba. 

Stunned by the sudden outburst, Jounouchi gaped. Kaiba quickly turned his head away, but not before Jounouchi saw the wild and trapped look that'd overtaken Kaiba's eyes and face. For some reason, he'd yet to take his hand away. If they were in almost any other situation, Kaiba would have shoved him away by now. But they could help but gravitate toward each other now, guided by the blind instinct to seek out any source of warmth.

"We're not getting out that way," stated Jounouchi, his gaze flicking up toward the warped sheet metal on the underside of the ventilation unit.

"No, we're not," Kaiba confirmed bitterly.

"We're gonna have to hope that the emergency beacon is enough," added Jounouchi.

Kaiba scoffed and hunched his shoulders defensively. "Hope."

"Don't be like that. We've been through worse. We just have to hold on, buy our friends the time to find us, right?"

Jounouchi released Kaiba's lukewarm hand to peel Kaiba's coat off his back. He took a deep breath, hesitating before firmly sliding over and pressing his legs and side against Kaiba. He reached one arm across Kaiba's bunched shoulders. Kaiba froze at the first brush of Jounouchi's hand, becoming a stone or ice statue in this case, as Jounouchi spread his coat across both of their backs. They sat stiffly side-by-side, so close that the cloudy tendrils of their breaths touched and mixed. 

Inside his head, Jounouchi counted down the minutes until Kaiba's patience reached its limit. For Kaiba to leave and retreat to another part of the room, even if it was to both of their disadvantages. Meanwhile, he rubbed his bare arm against the fine wool of Kaiba's sleeve, stealing what heat he could. 

Yet as time stretched on without rescue in visible sight, Kaiba sagged his weight against Jounouchi. Then he reached out and tucked one of Jounouchi's exposed arms under his armpit, enveloping it in a feeble cocoon of warmth. A lump lodged in Jounouchi's throat, and the only thing he could bring himself to do was to lace their fingers together. The tacky feel of blood-stained cotton chafed his palm. He ignored the sensation to focus on Kaiba's thumb caressing his wrist. 

Jounouchi couldn't remember the last time he'd been this close to another human being, much less Kaiba. A small part of him wondered what it'd be like to get even closer. To push his cold face to Kaiba's and seal their lips together. Maybe that would keep the remaining heat trapped between them in a closed system. A slight flush flooded his cheeks and neck, bringing with it a blessed hot tingling sensation. 

No. There was no way he'd ever kiss Kaiba, even if they were at death's door. 

Fighting the urge to hide his face, Jounouchi shook off the intrusive thought. He kept his eyes fixed on a point on the opposite wall, ignoring Kaiba with every fiber of his being even as he sensed the other boy's intense gaze on his cheek. That must be another symptom of hypothermia, but he was too afraid to ask Kaiba to confirm. 

"Jounouchi, you shouldn't have been caught up in this." 

Kaiba's use of his name shattered the quiet, like taking a hammer to glass. A foreign expression that might be guilt-ridden met Jounouchi's stunned gaze. 

Kaiba opened his mouth again. "I'm so—" 

"No, stop. Don't you dare apologize." Jounouchi's body shook not from the temperature, but from a dreadful sensation quaking through him. "You've never done it under threat of death, and you're not gonna start now. I'm not ready to die yet, Kaiba."

"You're not going to die, Jounouchi," Kaiba growled, low and gravelly as a familiar determined fire lit his eyes. 

Despite himself, a wry grin wormed across Jounouchi's lips. "I guess that must be true if Kaiba Seto says so." 

Kaiba's hand briefly squeezed his. "Damn right."

Check out other puppy/violetshipping ficlets I’m writing all #fictober20 long

#fictober20 #violetshipping #puppyshipping #kaijou #my fanfiction #yugioh #oof this was a long one

[elexica]

First Lines Tagging Meme

Oh boy I was tagggged for this one by @alectoperdita @atems-leather-pants @miss-moberg @jenivi7 . . . 

So I’m gonna do it, even if it’s hella late! 

Rules are: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line.

Links to the fics provided, warnings and content ratings on Archive.

1.  It’s Just a Fantasy, Taking Over like a Disease (Paris)

By day, they were almost perfect tourists.  The “almost” could be ascribed to the fact that Kojiro was an imperfect travelling companion.

2.  Back to You

Kaoru was a very specific kind of torture. He was omnipresent in Kojiro’s life: a never-ending pest, the greatest source of friendship, the only true constant in the fast-paced world of S.

3.  Way of the Househusband

The knocking at the door was too timid to mean danger.  Still, Ash was awoken and at half-past noon he rolled out of bed, grabbed his sawed-off Smith & Wesson, and steeled his face.

4.  We Are Just Like the Waves

As far as anyone else was concerned, Cherry woke up in the hospital, to the rhythmic beat of his heart monitor.  

5.  Love Me Like You Do

From the moment that Joey had tripped into the CEO’s office, Mr. Kaiba had been an allusive, seductive, scary presence in his life.  A combination untouchable prince and unnerving shadow, Kaiba was everywhere and nowhere.

6.  Gravitation

“Is this… some sort of shitty poem?”

7.  Guardian Ad Litem

Since they’d first met when they were kids, Kaiba had longed to hear the sound of his fist meeting Zigfried’s nose at high velocity.

8.  Lotus in the Snow

Atem was a valuable asset to bring along on business trips.

9.  Dream Dust

Brooding in the dimly lit, gothic library on campus didn’t make Seto happy per se, but it absolutely felt right.

10.  Second Chance Christmas

The sleet fell heavily against the car, turning the view through the windshield into an impressionist painting of abstract asphalt and splotchy red break lights.

11.  Someone Else's Debts

“How did you find this address?”  Kaiba hissed through the crack in the door.  He hadn’t released the chain from the door, and the deadbolt below it hadn’t been dropped either.

12.  A Thousand Years in Perfect Symmetry

It was always the same nightmare:

Kaiba was standing on the bridge of the warbird, those glowing green lights radiating off of the lightly metallic tones of his uniform.

13.  Zorc 2020

The Four Seasons Total Landscaping as a business didn’t have its own phone number—Joey had a cell phone, and not enough else going on.

14.  These are their stories. Dun Dun.

“Man, that was amazing!”

15.  Give and Toke

Joey stomped into the new cannabis shop in the neighborhood.  It looked like an Apple store: white walls, smooth white tables, iPads and clerks in matching polos.

16.  But Only You Can Dance for Me

“He’s basically our in-club security,” Joey said to Atem as he dealt the next round of blackjack in the back room.  “Why not just pay him do that?”

17.  Workaholic

“Man, I just don’t get it. How can you work so much?”

18.  Even If I Destroy this Tower (San Francisco, 2010)

“I don’t love you anymore.”

19.  I Couldn't Help But Wonder...

What’s the point of New York Fashion Week if you don’t go home with a billionaire?

20.  Always Tomorrow

“We don’t take walk-ins,” Joey said.  His shirt was rolled up to the elbow, revealing intricate tattoo sleeves.

I clearly really used to use dialogue to start stories, but I think I’m growing more into setting the scene.  That was fun!  Thanks y’all!  Not tagging anyone since I showed up late haha.

#my fic #my fanfic #yugioh fanfic #sk8 the infinity fanfic #banana fish fanfic #yugioh #sk8 #banana fish

[pastthevaulteddoors]

Rules: Name 10 favorite characters from 10 different things. Tagged by @uglifish​

1. Seto Kaiba from Yugioh. Do I even need to explain this one? Mai Valentine is a very close runner up.

2.  Haruka Tenoh aka Sailor Uranus from Sailor Moon. I loved her strength and wisdom growing up, and the obvious relationship she had with Michiru (cousins!? ha!). I love her so much that I named my dog after her girlfriend, only because I’d rather be yelling “Neptune” at the dog park rather than “Uranus.” lol

3. Was torn between Kyoya or Kaoru from Ouran High School Host Club. It used to be Kyoya hands down, but Kaoru has grown on me; he’s very insightful and is willing to sacrifice his own happiness for his brother. (couldn’t find a gif without Hikaru; Kaoru’s the one on the left)

4. Trowa Barton from Gundam Wing. Can you guys guess yet how old I am? :p I love all the Gundam Pilots, and I love them all equally, even the ladies (especially Sally Po and Lucrezia Noin). I picked Trowa because if I were to write a fanfic then I’d probably have the easiest time getting into his head to form a perspective. And who doesn’t love 90s crazy bangs?

5. Sesshomaru from Inuyasha. I love that asshole, and I love how he secretly has a heart. Jaken is a close second because I love assholes.

6. Victor Nikiforov from Yuri!!! on Ice because I love dumbasses, too.

7. Hiei or Kurama from Yuyu Hakusho? This one’s tough, because really I love all the main cast. I would say Kurama because, well, it’s Kurama (and I adore him in the pink sweater!).

8. I was torn between Kurapika’s bassassery and Leoreo’s doofiness from Hunter x Hunter, but I remember the chills I got when Kurapika went full red-eyes and yeah, it’s gotta be him.

9. Spike Spiegel of Cowboy Bebop. This entire series means a lot to me, and it’s the group (Jet, Ed, Faye, Ein) as a whole that bring it together. There’s so much to love from this series.

10. Shin-chan from Crayon Shin-chan. I know, weird choice, right? I figgen love this stupid show. It’s just a feel good moment where you don’t have to think too hard to laugh.

I’ll probably go home and look at my Funko collection and be like ‘why didn’t I mention THAT one?!’

Tagging; Whomever. No pressure (ALL OF THE PRESSURE)

[ayma-nidiot]

In the White Light - Prideshipping fic Chapter 1

Also on AO3 -> https://archiveofourown.org/works/23875060/chapters/57390967

Summary: In a war against dark forces, most of the Nameless Pharaoh's High Priests have died. Yami Yugi travels to modern day Domino City, desperate to find a soul strong enough to help him turn back the hands of time. He just might have found him - in the form of one of his priests who supposedly had died - and he doesn't fear the curse that has made Seto Kaiba so powerful. After all, he wields the power of an ancient Egyptian song.

Notes: So this will be a pseudo-crossover of Yu-Gi-Oh with Fire Emblem Fates and Fire Emblem Awakening.

The order of events in this fic will be slightly different from the anime. In reality, the Pyramid of Light happens after season 3 but before season 4. In this fic, it will interrupt the Battle City Tournament of season 3. Also, the duels in the Battle City Tournament will have different opponents against each other than in the anime.

The fic starts at the end of season 3 and will end at the end of season 5.

As always, constructive criticism is appreciated, especially if I am not portraying the rules of Duel Monsters correctly. I am fairly new to the game and am quite confused by the rules.

Chapter 1 – The Bane of Your Existence

“Now you’re the one who’s defenseless!” Seto Kaiba, duelist extraordinaire, laughed as he dramatically put one of his most powerful cards on his Duel Disk. He now played in the semifinals of the Battle City tournament – unsurprisingly, held by him. To add a bit of a twist to the tournament, he decided to hold it on top of his KaibaCorp blimp. “Behold, the bane of Yugi’s – and your – existence: the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!”

“Hah!” Yami Yugi, a spirit from ancient Egypt, was not impressed by his rival’s haughty behaviour. “It was the bane of your existence. Or do you not remember our very first duel?”

“Oh, I know whose existence will be banished on this day, Pharaoh. Now go! Blue-Eyes, finish off that-”

“I don’t think so, you rich punk!” Joey Wheeler, Kaiba’s current opponent in this duel of the Domino City Tournament. “You’ve activated my spell card, Scapegoat, negating the attack from your Blue-Eyes White Dragon!”

“Oh no…”

“Oh, yes!”

“Grr…” Kaiba, not only irritated from this surprise attack, now began to feel pain in his shoulder blades and in his lower back. “Be that as it may, most of your good monsters are still gone. How are you going to counter it?”

Joey drew his next card. “I place these two trap cards face down to end my turn.”

“What, you’re just going to not play any monsters, and have these puffballs be the only thing to defend your Life Points?” Kaiba drew a card and cackled. “Hehe… Okay, Blue-Eyes, attack his second Scapegoat!”

“That’s right! Savin’ the best for last is my specialty.”

“So is mine, Wheeler, so is mine.”

Two more turns passed, and now it was Joey’s turn; his Scapegoats were now all gone.

“Unless you draw a god card, Wheeler, you are toast! Oh, that’s right, you don’t have any!”

“Or unless I draw this: Monster Reborn! I use it to summon Jinzo from my Graveyard! And that’s not all… I’ve got the Swords of Revealing Light!”

That same spell that Yugi used in our first match! Wheeler didn’t have it before… Kaiba now glared at Yami Yugi. So… You lent it to him, and not me, an actual worthy duelist?

He returned to his normal composure. “So what? All it’s going to do is buy you time. Unless you’ve got a deck full of Monster Reborn to bring back your actual good monsters, then you still don’t have a chance.”

Kaiba laughed with each card he drew over the next three turns. His back pain grew even more as well, but he ignored it in favour of what he believed would be his imminent victory. “So, you didn’t summon anything good, did you? Just a few useless spell cards?”

Joey simply slammed a trap card face-down on his Duel Disk in response.

“I judge from your silence that you’ve run out of tricks.” Kaiba held two cards in his right hand. “I will first use Polymerization to bring forth Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon! And if you thought I was done, I’m going to tribute this Ultimate Dragon…”

“Uh…” Tristan stepped back. “He’s not done? But isn’t Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon his best monster?”

“…No, I’m afraid not,” answered Yami Yugi. “Don’t tell me he’s going to summon-”

“Now behold! I will tribute my Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon! Come forth, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon!”

As this beautiful beast, made of pure white armour and sapphires, roared up a whirlwind, Joey’s belief in himself began to wane. “Impossible… I thought you lost that card after Yugi beat Anubis! This can’t be real!”

“Oh, it’s real, Wheeler! I have four dragons in my graveyard, so my new dragon gets an extra 1200 Attack Points, for a grand total of 4200! Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon, attack Jinzo and wipe out the rest of this loser’s Life Points!”

Joey fell on his knees in shame and in pain from this loss. “Yug, I’m sorry… It looks like it won’t be you and me in the finals after all… And after you sent that Marik packing, too. I really wanted to see all your god cards in action.”

“So now it’s time to finally beat you, Yugi!” Kaiba set his sights on Yami Yugi now.

“Before we do, I’ve got something to ask you, Kaiba… When Joey summoned his Scapegoat, I noticed a twinge of pain in your face. Are you feeling all right?”

Kaiba didn’t expect this level of concern from Yami Yugi. “Why are you concerned about me? Shouldn’t you be more concerned about the guy I just crushed?”

“Make no mistake about it, I am. But just because you’re my rival doesn’t mean I wish you harm. You know what, we should take a break and then resume with the finals in an hour or two.”

“And just in time for lunch, too!” Teá exclaimed. “Yes! Perfect chance to show my cooking sk- Hey, where did you go, Tristan and Joey?”

“Hahaha…” Yami Yugi now turned back to Kaiba. “See you at lunch?”

“I prefer to eat in peace, thanks.”

“Oh… Well, then, at least let us cook for you?”

“…Fine, then. You should serve me, after all.” Kaiba headed for the lower deck.

To avoid having to mingle with this band of doofuses any more than he had to, Kaiba decided to make a stop – a conveniently long stop – to the loo and wash his face and hands. “Tch. I don’t need this friendship bull from you, Yugi,” he spoke to the mirror. “My money is more than- Huh?”

Kaiba had been so busy lauding his own riches – and admiring his own looks. But that didn’t stop him from noticing two giant wings coming out of his back in the mirror’s reflection, wings that looked similar to those of the Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon.

“What the fu-” Kaiba looked at his back again, but this time, the wings were absent. He blew off his “vision” as just being absorbed in his victory. “Ha. I knew it was just my imagination.”

He dreaded having to do it, but he hadn’t eaten all day, and the match with Joey tired him. So Kaiba took a deep breath before entering the kitchen – which to his relief, had not a spirit of the Pharaoh, but an ordinary Yugi Mutou instead. He had expected the boy to be annoyingly cheerful when he entered, and not reclusive as he was now.

“Thank you, my humble servants.” Kaiba smirked as he took some of the food that everyone – who, like Yugi, had chosen to ignore his presence – back to his room. Before he could finish his lunch, he heard a knock at the door.

“Go away, you dweeb.”

“Seto, that’s not very nice.” Mokuba frowned as he opened the door. “I was just here to give you your favourite dessert – and to see if you’re okay.”

“Oh, uh… Mokuba. Sorry about that. Why wouldn’t I be okay? You saw me win, didn’t you?”

“Did Yugi and those obnoxious friends of yours give you a hard time again?”

“I’m… not sure I want to talk about it.” Kaiba gave his empty plates back for Mokuba to wash. “I would like to rest before my match with Yugi, so you may leave.”

“Okay… Big Bro, I’m here for you all the time. Don’t you forget that.” So spoke Mokuba as he quietly shut the door.

“I wish people would stop caring about me…” Kaiba drifted off, even more tired now that people around him wouldn’t seem to get off his case.

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“Mind Crush!”

At the mercy of this mysterious spell, Kaiba cowered, and remaining as such as his VR equipment lowered to the ground.

“May you eventually learn the heart of the cards, Kaiba.” Yami Yugi walked over to where Kaiba knelt and offered helping hands. “Now come, up you get.”

“You don’t have to help me. I just absolutely squashed your grandfather. Why show kindness to an enemy like me?”

Yami Yugi didn’t accept Kaiba’s refusal to help him, and knelt down at his eye level. “I told you, I want you to learn the heart of the cards. Have fun playing this game, instead of seeing it as just a way to make money and hurt people.”

Kaiba had no words for this seemingly new gentle attitude from Yami Yugi.

“What’s wrong, Kaiba? You’re blushing.”

He could feel it in his face, and that Yami Yugi didn’t lie. Kaiba could hardly bear to look at the face – the very handsome face – of this stranger who had just beaten him flat. He wanted to run his fingers through the other man’s bangs – he was close enough to see every strand – and he didn’t even bother to resist doing so.

“K-Kaiba…” Yami Yugi, to Kaiba’s surprise, didn’t flinch at all, but instead leaned into the hand that touched him. “I’m… I’m so glad… to finally see-”

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“AH! FUUUUUUUUCK!” Kaiba sprung awake at this… interesting dream, in more ways than one.

“Jesus, Kaiba… What’s gotten into you? Did you have a nightmare or something?”

Kaiba was not pleased to see Joey standing at the door to his room. “What the hell are you doing here, Wheeler? And yes, if you must know, it was a nightmare.”

“Ooh, I like scary stories!” Tristan showed his face, too. “Care to tell?”

“No, but I do care for the both of you to get the fuck out of my room!”

“Yeah, yeah.” Joey waved his hand horizontally. “We just came here to tell you that Yugi is feeling up to your match now. I don’t know if you are; you certainly don’t look it.”

“O-Of course I’m up to it. Just… Uh, I’ll be there in a minute.”

#prideshipping #yugioh #fanfiction #kaiba x yami yugi #kaiba x atem

[kaibagirl007]

Come Undone 5/6

( the fifth part of a mini side-fic series to accompany my RP with @dragontamer05 )

Despite the fact that Seto now found himself blocked from his descendant’s mind, he still continued to linger close by Kaiba, just on the off-chance that the barrier between them might weaken and crumble. So far though, it was seeming to be permanent. But things weren’t at a complete loss and waste of his time. Now that the blue-eyes white dragon was aware of his existence, she visited him from time to time and eased his loneliness.  

‘I do not like him,’ Seto stated bluntly to Blue as he sat nestled against her with his eyes firmly fixated on the one-eyed man conversing with his descendant as they seated out in the open air beside the grand chateau. ‘He reminds me of Aknadin and should not be trusted.’

Blue raised her head from where she lay and craned her neck to stare at the pharaoh snuggled right beside her wing. She purred softly as she spoke to him in her dragon tongue.

‘Yes, I am perfectly aware of who he is. It does not alter my opinion of him, especially since I am also aware of the things he has done.’

Annoyed by Seto’s response, Blue’s purr morphed into a growl as she scold him for his bias and used the tip of her tail to knock the Khepresh from his head.

‘You are more understanding and forgiving than I…’ Seto commented as he leant over to retrieve his headpiece. He then looked at the blue-eyes and gave a sly smirk, ’… yet you refuse to extend that forgiveness towards my descendant. That makes YOU biased too.’

Sparks crackled at the back of dragon’s throat as she warbled in protest before turning away and slumping her head back down on to the ground where it had been just moments before. It wasn’t that she refused to forgive her duelist for having hurt her human, but the fact that he had so much to atone for and had done virtually nothing since the brief cafe encounter to even suggest he had intentions of doing such. Only when he’d start to show progress would she reevaluate her stance on him and his worthiness to be granted forgiveness. 

Blue heaved a sigh as she watched the wine drain from Kaiba’s glass as he listened to Pegasus talk. She tried to stay optimistic for the three human souls and her own that were tangled in destiny’s thread, but even she was dubious about what the final outcome would be. Her duelist had strayed so far from the light and into darkness that she herself was having trouble keeping him in her sight. Would he ever return? She hoped so; her human longed for him… and so did she.

“… as you can see, Kaiba Corporation is in perfectly capable hands-“

“My company shouldn’t be in HIS hands, it should be in MINE!” Kaiba growled angrily as the other finished informing him of his company’s current performance under his brother’s control. He slammed the empty wine glass down on the table beside them and immediately began to pour more of the deep red liquid into it.

Pegasus’ eye wandered over the gaunt,- almost skeletal,- frame of the young man seated before him. He felt a sense of guilt for having stood by and allowed the deterioration to occur when he could have perhaps stepped in sooner and prevented it. Had he done so though, he knew there would have been no trust left between them that had finally seen the other approach him on his own accord. “Your brother did what he did because he’s concerned about you, as are a lot of people, myself included.” 

“Pfft, the board’s only concern is how my ‘image’ reflects on the company.”

“You can hardly blame them. Some of the parasites you choose to mingle with these days don’t exactly have glowing reputations themselves.”

“Interesting choice of word you used to describe my ‘friends’,” The snide remark was made as Kaiba raised the wine to his lips once more.

“Those people aren’t your friends. They’re socialites, sycophants and call girls; not a single one of them cares about your wellbeing.” Pegasus failed to hold back the scornful remark. He knew it could have potentially put an end to the conversation,- and quite possibly their friendship if the other was in a defensive mood,- but he felt it needed to be said.

“Meh, the feeling’s mutual,” Kaiba lazily shrugged and continued drinking. He’d lost count of just how many glasses of wine he’d had, but knew for a fact he was nearing the end of a third bottle between them, of which he’d easily drank two on his own. Maybe that was why he currently felt so loose and relaxed as he admitted, “I don’t ‘love’ or ‘care’ for anyone these days… not even myself…”

Without saying a word, Pegasus reached for his own wine glass and sipped as he patiently waited to see if the other would continue to talk without prompt. Surprisingly, he did.

“I’ve developed an unhealthy lifestyle of parties and debauchery that gets worse each day…” Kaiba stared down into his drink as he spoke. Why? Why was he so suddenly okay with disclosing this? Was it the wine? Had he finally reached the point where he was past caring? Or was confiding with Pegasus,- a man who had seen him at both his best and worse,- actually something that he was willing to do? 

“My self-respect is shot… With no regard for my life, I will fly and drive recklessly, sometimes even under the influence… Drinking myself unconscious has become a regular occurrence… I engage in hollow sex with women whose names and faces I don’t even remember… I’ve experimented with a range of drugs and have OD’d more than once…” 

Regret was detectable in Kaiba’s voice as he spoke, and Pegasus fought hard to keep a frown from his face as he listened. I should have acted sooner instead of waiting for you to come to me.

There was a brief pause, and Kaiba struggled to keep his mouth neutral as it repeatedly twitched into a frown as he spoke, “Last week, I… I felt so desolate, I… I played Russian Roulette, in the hope I’d… end it all.” With his darkest confession voiced, he then downplayed it as he continued with a psychopathic look in his eye. “But lo and behold, I’m still here. I’m invincible. A walking god amongst men. I can do whatever the fuck I want without fear of consequences…-“ 

’I told you; that is NOT how destiny works!’ Seto yelled, only to startle Blue whose wings fidgeted and sent his Khepresh tumbling to the ground for a second time.

“Mhmm, and what if death lay just around the corner for you? Then what?” Pegasus asked. He’d been given an unnerving peek at the other’s current state of mind which was proving to be more unstable than he and Mokuba had first suspected. 

Then I’d welcome it with open arms. Kaiba’s thought was dark, honest, and something he dare not say aloud. He looked Pegasus straight in the eye, “I’m not afraid of dying if that’s what you’re asking.”

Pegasus calmly set his glass down, and breathed in as he placed interlocked hands on the top knee of his crossed legs. He was about to address the elephant in the room that had caused such desolation, and did so in a casual manner. “The thought of living without Kisara still terrifies you, doesn’t it?”

“No.” Kaiba’s response was curt and his expression close to outrage.

“I’ve been where you are. I know the pain of losing someone you love beyond all things imaginable. That girl has left a void in your heart that you feel will never heal-“

“Shut up! You know NOTHING!”

Despite the hostility being shown, Pegasus remained calm. “I lost the woman I love too. I know exactly-“

“NO, YOU DON’T!!” Kaiba screamed. His eyes were wild and face creased with distress. “You lost Cecelia because she died. You didn’t chase her away because you were too fucking proud to tell her how you felt!”

“And how do you feel?” Pegasus felt his heart break from seeing his friend so anguished. There was some consolation though; he hadn’t been pushed away like others who had tried to help before him.

“I didn’t tell her, so what makes you think I’d tell you?”

Okay, maybe he’d spoken too soon. The other’s defences were clearly raising again. Pegasus knew he had to tread carefully from now on. “You don’t have to go through this alone, Seto. You’re in a dark place right now, one you may feel is impossible to escape. Well I assure you, it’s not. Let me help you, or at least stop this destructive behaviour of yours. You fill your life with people, substances, and rituals that aren’t good for you. If you’re not careful, your brother is going to be burying you way before your time is due-“

“I told you, I’m NOT afraid of dying!” Kaiba stated as he rose to his feet from where he sat.

Pegasus copied his actions. “What about leaving Mokuba alone? Are you afraid of that?”

“He’s proven himself capable of managing Kaiba Corp, I’m sure he can deal with my death if it were to happen, which it won’t. I’m not going to purposely end my life. But I’m not going to stop living it how I choose either… Just back off.”

There was a long moment of silence as the two men stared each other down. Both Seto and Blue watched with bated breath.

“Very well… “ Pegasus conceded and calmly sat back down. “Shall I have Croquet bring you another bottle?”

“No. I’m done here.” Kaiba stated before turning to head towards his jet and leave. Only a couple of steps were taken before he froze, looked back over his shoulder and calmly spoke, “Continue to watch over Mokuba for me. He needs guidance that I’m not capable of providing.”

“You sell yourself short, my boy.” A sad smile accompanied Pegasus’ words. He remained where he sat and make no effort to intervene as Kaiba then continued on his way.

‘Is that it?’ Seto was disappointed with the outcome. He got up from Blue’s side, and whilst she ran towards his descendant, he approached the one-eyed man. ‘Go after him!’

Pegasus fidgeted uncomfortably in his chair. He wanted nothing more than to prevent the other from leaving but knew that his hands were tied. At least he was safe in the knowledge that the younger man’s ability to fly wouldn’t be hindered by the vast amount of wine consumed, which had in fact been non-alcoholic. He reached for his own drink once more.

‘If you value the friendship you supposedly share, you would stop him from leaving!’ Seto continued to scold even though he was aware that he could not be seen or heard. ‘He is your associate; your partner; your ally; your brother in arms! For the love of Ra, HELP HIM!!’

Crash!

Pegasus and Seto both stared and blinked at the wine glass that had smashed on the ground. “Clumsy me,” the former tittered whilst the latter couldn’t help but wonder if his outburst had startled the one-eyed man into losing grip on the drink.

“I’ll get that Mr Pegasus, sir.”

“It’s fine Croquet, I’ll see to it,” he waved his hand at the loyal servant hurrying towards him, before reaching down to pick up the main body of the fallen glassware. “Fetch me a mop… and my phone; I left it on charge.”

“Yes, sir.”

Blue let loose a roar as Seto watched Pegasus fish out the remaining shards from the dark red puddle. The aircraft was readying to take-off, which meant they both had to leave too. 

‘If,- by some miracle,- you can hear me, please save my descendant from himself… I saddled him with far too much.’ the pharaoh spoke remorsefully before disappearing to rejoin the white dragon. 

The sound of the jet’s engines rumbled in the distance. Pegasus raised his head and looked towards the sound’s source to see not one, but two Blue Eyes take to the sky. He watched them climb higher amongst the clouds and vowed: I will do my damnedest to save that boy.

“Your phone, Mr Pegasus, sir.” 

“Thank you, Croquet.” Pegasus took the handset offered to him and allowed the other to take over with the wine clean-up. No time was wasted as he swiped through his contacts and made a call to Mokuba.

“Hey Pegasus! Did Seto keep his word and visit you like he said he was gonna?”

“He did. In fact he’s just left.“

“How is he?”

“Infuriatingly stubborn.” Pegasus simpered at hearing the optimism in the young teen’s voice. The bond may have frayed between the two brothers, but this one’s hope was keeping it from breaking completely. He just prayed it would hold out for a while longer. His lips relaxed and his tone turned sombre, “My dear Mokuba, there is something we need to discuss. However, I have a feeling you are not going to like what I have to say…”

#my crappy writing #rp stuff #fanfiction #Come Undone

[mellz117]

Hi! I’m Mellz and I’m starting up Kingdom Hearts 2 on the PlayStation 2! 

Just below are links to the first parts of my previous Kingdom Hearts plays.

[ KH1 ] _ [ Re:CoM Sora ] _ [ KH Re:CoM Riku ]

It’s been a hot minute, like 3,155,763 smoldering hot minutes, which would be 6 years including leap years. Yeah it was 01/27/2014 last I touched this game, exactly 6 years ago to this day (01/27/2020) as of me starting up again. This was an accident.

Guide thingy: Things like long gaps between commentary and days will be separated by a line of dots like that ->  ……

Text relating to an image posted will have a blockquote either above and/or below the image

Dialogue exchanges will also be separated by a blockquote

Ok I'm playing on standard difficulty, if I'm having a hard time, then I just suck. If you’re reading this and haven’t experienced KH2 for yourself, why are you here? Go away, there’s spoilers for things that aren’t revealed until later.

SO LET’S JUST JUMP INTO IT

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I always liked this fancy CGI opening. There’s a lot of things I missed last I saw it.

IT’S HIM. Look how cute he is! 

So we start off with a recap of Kingdom Hearts via a dream it seems and our protagonist, my precious boy Roxas, wakes up his own home all alone because apparently DiZ didn't create a digital family for him. But KH is notorious for forgetting parents, so maybe they did. I’m not Cinema Sins so I wont ping this game for not giving Roxas fake parents lmao

In the next scene Roxas is more interested in his own hands than he is in his friends' conversation. 

blurry ring textures, blurry checker pattern. Not everything holds up well on a flat screen TV

He hasn't been paying attention so he's just as confused as the player is at this point when he finally takes his attention off his hands.

This dialogue is so early 2000's. KH1 and CoM avoided this but with the urban setting of Twilight Town it's DEFINITELY noticeable and outdated. So rumors have spread about Roxas, Hayner, Pence, and Olette that photographs are being stolen, and THEY'RE the theives. Who is the operator of the rumor mill? Seifer and his posse. Also the actual WORD is gone too, they try to say “photo” but it just DOESN’T EXIST. This is where the game gets a bit odd.

TUTORIALS GALORE. I JUST WANT TO PAUSE AND CHANGE THE CAMERA CONTROLS STOP TELLING ME ABOUT MY NEXT OBJECTIVE but no no it’s telling me how to lock on, control my camera, context sensitive buttons, etc 

This girl’s dress looks like shes wearing a bra over it 

I like how the animal AI hasn't changed at all in this entire series. And by like I mean hate, KH3 doesn't change that. Sven is as boring as this cat we have to look at.

The gang heads to the sandlot where Seifer, Fuujn, Raijin, and Vivi like to hang out I guess? Vivi is a little, solid black, wizard dwarf amongst all these regular humans and no one bats an eye. This shit is normal. Seifer with his stupid Seto Kaiba jacket, shows up to further accuse Roxas and his friends of stealing photos, one specifically of Roxas flat on his face and Seifer standing triumphantly over him (which we’re actually shown later). "That was undeniable proof that we totally owned you lamers" he says in regards to it and challenges Roxas to a rematch.

A+ dialogue

Seifer. My dude, ya dumb-dumb. If you think for one second that I'm gonna let my boy lose to you, you are sorely mistaken. 

“If you get on your knees and beg, maybe I’ll let it slide.” Seifer says and Roxas plays it slick, taking a knee and looking through a convenient selection of foam weapons. Battle ensues.

So of course I win because Seifer is a pleb, and Pence takes a commemorative ______ of Roxas's sound victory, but oh no! Something stole the camera right out of Pence's hands! Roxas gives chase, because apparently he's the only one who cares enough to do so, and confronts the actual thief, a Dusk type Nobody. Roxas is taking this creature encounter rather calmly. Like mild confusion at most.

I hate these things, they're creepy. When you do a reversal on them they like, plant their hands on the ground behind them and their legs wrap around their arms while they spaz out. Ughghdhahh

Of course Roxas's foam bat doesnt cause any damage to the Dusk, and suddenly a familiar giant key digitally manifests in his hands. DiZ is installing mods I see. I have a Keyblade mod in Skyrim, so we have something in common.

After we defeat the thief the next scene shows the gang at the usual spot with the recovered photos. Ok ok so was "photo" the only word deleted from the vocabulary or were any other alternative words taken away too? Like, if they could have said "picture" this whole time, they would have had much less stupid sounding dialogue exchanges. Whatever lmao.

“Tell us about the picture thief.”

“Not much to say. The pictures were just lying there.”

You liar. Tell them about how you fought a wormy, white boy.

Pence notices all the pics are of Roxas and speculates the picture thief wanted to take the REAL Roxas and Hayner is like

The best friendships are ones where you can take jabs at each other and know there’s no malice intended.

 In the scene thereafter, the kids go their separate ways, the evening(?) sun assaults Roxas's eyes, and whenever he closes them he gets another vision? Idk what time of day it is it always looks the same.

God ok as someone who hadn’t played CoM before playing KH2 for the first time, I must have been SUPER lost regarding who DiZ and Namine were and why Sora is in the pod. More recaps of KH1: I don’t know why they found it necessary to redub over the old voices with the new actors in these flashbacks.

Moving on. Roxas learns what the Keyblade is through his dreams. On his way to meet up with his friends, he tries summoning the Keyblade with a stick, when that doesn’t work he carelessly throws it aside and it hits this cloak clad man behind him. This dude is either completely unfazed by that is or so offended he can’t even say anything and walks away before he goes all Karen on Roxas’s ass.

We’re back at the usual spot and summer vacation is nearing it’s end. Hayner wants to go to the beach before school is back in session! You poor fuckers...

Same, dude. I’m waiting on my tax returns, looking forward to that.

SKATEBOARD

“TO DEFEAT THE HUNSSSSSSS!”

Pretzels at the beach? Salty and not refreshing. I got you fam, I’ll make enough money for a watermelon. Roxas is so poor omg... How much is 150 Munny in American currency?

Just BEAT the cargo with a foam bat. What’s IN the bag? Is it trash? Clothes? Is it potentially breakable? Next. Time to beat some bees!

So Poster Duty was my go-to job in this game in the past because you could get 100 Munny if you did well. But now that I’m older I realized how annoying it is. I had an efficient route planned out, hit as many of the 3 poster placements in that route, and be over and done with that in about 1:10....

But then Roxas goes aND DOES THIS!

FUCKING SKIPS THE ONE DIRECTLY NEXT TO HIM, DEFYING GRAVITY IN FAVOR OF THE POSTS BELOW

HE DOES THIS CONSISTENTLY!! I do have a live reaction to this but it’s too big for tumblr. I’ll have it up on youtube one of these days

Eventually I stopped sticking posters to walls and became a mailman until the game made me stop.

Black-clad man is back with his own stick! Oof, Roxas eats the pavement and is manhandled by cloaky boy. WAS THIS ROUGH TREATMENT REALLY THAT NECESSARY? You might wanna treat Sora's Nobody with a little more respect. AND YOU STOLE HIS HARD-EARNED MONEY! YOU BASTARD!

The gang is on the clock tower, very dangerously high up. Wtf what if someone falls?! Roxas feels so guilty about what happened and Hayner gets over this little fiasco pretty quickly and the next day he already has another fun plan.

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On his way to the station, Roxas crosses paths with Pence and Olette, the latter two freeze and Roxas meets Namine. Is her interest in Roxas linked to her desire to be Sora’s friend? A strange girl tells Roxas she wanted to meet him “at least once” and he doesn’t know what to do lol. Namine doesn’t stay long, leaving Roxas with his confusion. What is going through his head? A girl he doesn’t know seems to know him well enough to want to see him. Pence and Olette unfreeze after Namine is out of the shot. Pence and Olette have such a cute relationship, I’d love for them to be siblings. Pence goes shopping with her even if he might not want to. I can relate, I hate clothes shopping.

These Dusks don’t seem like too much of a threat tbh, they just kinda swagger slowly towards Roxas and grab his hand. Roxas hardly struggles to escape to the sandlot.

Chicken wuss

WE FINALLY GET SOMEWEHERE, we end up on the stained glass pillars in the Station of Serenity (?). Time to grind for like 5 minutes because this giant noodle boy already killed me once.

This thing really unsettles me. All the creature Nobodies do! They’re all twitchy and stretchy. DISGUSTING

DAMN THAT IS A HIGH FALL HOW DO YOU SURVIVE THAT?!

Upon defeat, this big noodle boy falls on top of Roxas and Namine saves him from being enveloped by darkness.

Namine really seems to like to silence him. First she shoves her hand in his face but that was too forward. This time she daintily places a finger over her lips and says her part. Black-cloak guy shows up, rough handles Namine a little bit but not as roughly as he did Roxas. AND SHOVES ROXAS INTO A PORTAL

SEIFER IS AN OPPORTUNISTIC SHITLET POSING IN FRONT OF HIS UNCONSIOUS BODY. Bitch you didn’t earn that. Hayner, Pence, and Olette see Roxas with Seifer’s gang, Hayner feels betrayed thinking Roxas ghosted him in favor of Seifer. He stays pretty salty about it for a good while

IM NOT WORKING ON THIS LIKE I SHOULD. ITS ALMOST A MONTH SINCE STARTING. In my next post we'll be "Struggling" to progress. Eh? Eh? Get it? Like the tournament?

I'm not funny.

Here’s the next part: [ _2_ ]

Below is a compilation of my live reactions and comments throughout this point of the game.

#mellz plays kh2 #Kingdom Hearts Series #kingdom hearts 2 #kh2 #PlayStation 2 #square enix #disney #mellz post

[steve0discusses]

Yugioh Season Zero: The Yo-Yo Crimes of Jounouchi Pt 1

It’s been a while since I visited the many times Yugi should have gone to jail, AKA season Zero, and I’m excited to visit it again.

If you just got here, this is Season Zero, which is very different vibe and a different direction plotwise than the other seasons and you can read the season zero recaps from the start in chrono order here: https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yuugi%20muto/chrono

So be warned, this is a 90′s anime, and it will do 90′s anime things, and I expect y’all reading this aren’t like 12.

Like I said in an earlier post, I wrote this out fully when I was going through the symptoms from my second dose--which PS, is worth it--but those symptoms knocked me out for 10 days. I was kind of a space cadet, and yo, I made some mistakes. Including writing this post out in full and then not clicking “save” on this post and then not realizing I had done that until several days later.

So long story short, I don’t remember what I originally wrote here, but lets all assume it was weird, and didn’t make sense and wasn’t funny. We’ll just assume this was for the best that it was deleted forever.

So this episode is about 2 things: Yo-yos and Jounouchi. Both get used as a tool for violence, and both need to get just a little bit cursed by Yugi to scale it the hell back. So, understandably, we start off this episode with Jounouchi, who has eagerly identified with this off brand yo-yo he apparently got out of a dumpster for being just a huge ass defect.

(more Yo-Yo crimes under the cut)

I see you dodging copyright infringement, Yugioh. Eireboy.

Also whenever I read “Eireboy” I do it in my mind in the same pacing and vocal tones that Pegasus uses to say “Kaiba boy.” Something about it’s conjunction to Yugioh, I see anything with “boy” at the end of it, and it’s voiced by a weird guy with one eye.

So I wrote these caps under the influence of my second dose, just assuming y’all understand the life I lived, but I realized writing this episode...traveling bands of yo-yo performers that go to your school and shill yo-yos with yo-yo shows in the hopes that it will get you so obsessed with yo-yos that you will not join a gang and do drugs and have sex may be just an American thing.

So when I saw a yo-yo episode I was like “Tight! Clearly, the yo-yo clowns have come to town!” and I assumed everyone in this class would be draped in yo-yos, because I just assumed that at some point at School you will get MAD OBSESSED with yo-yos for about 2 weeks.

But in this episode, everyone was like “Jounouchi, why are you playing with a random yo-yo?” and it didn’t occur to me until typing this out just now: only Jounouchi is doing this. He did this unprompted, without the encouragement of a bunch of middle aged performers doing tricks to techno music.

So instead, I have to think of Jounouchi as Ralphie in this scenario, and he just got a official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot, range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time for Christmas, but he’s gonna shoot his eye out.

Because yo-yos in this episode are basically guns.

...Kind of like a duel deck was also just a gun...

...or the wands in Harry Potter...

...which honestly...I’ve probably said this before but where I’m from, we just use straight up guns in these elaborate analogies because we freakin have to make the point crystal clear. The moment Ralphie finally got his hands on a bb-gun, he very nearly shot his eye out and broke his glasses. And that scene will haunt me until my dying day...

...but fine, we can use yo-yos, I guess it works, although to me, yo-yo’s are just teachers hoping you’ll become such a dork that no gang will accept you (and then in this universe, it does the opposite? So freakin weird).

The beginning of this episode is Jounouchi trying do his best to impress with his skills, but in actuality, getting very close to clubbing Anzu with a yo-yo. And, while Anzu is the strongest person in Yugioh in the later seasons, I feel like Season Zero Anzu is another level. It’s a serious tempt of fate that Jounouchi is doing, so Honda wisely cuts him off from doing any more of that so she won’t end up strangling yet another person in broad daylight in the middle of school.

Remember your yo-yo safety, children.

Straight up, Honda’s version of yo-yo safety is to just Never Use a Yo-Yo and that’s the most gun safety thing ever that they’ve slipped into this Yugioh Episode. I almost expected Yuugi to pull a “well, actually, I use a hunting yo-yo to get enough venison to feed my family.” But youknow, he lives in a city, so while Yugioh is pretty weird and Yuugi has to worry about a lot of things--he doesn’t have to worry about that.

This is actually foreshadowing, which I only realized in hind sight, mostly because I just can’t associate a Yo-yo with crime. Joey knowing how to use a yo-yo was foreshadowing that he was absolutely part of this gang in a past life.

Yeah that one went completely over my head the first time and the second time and it really wasn’t until just now that I finally caught it. Hoo boy, sometimes I wonder why y’all let me analyze this show.

Jounouchi decides to confront the yo-yo bandits and everyone else is like “Silly Jounouchi, he’s not gonna do that. That would be stupid.” And...in S0, they don’t know him well enough yet to know that he really is that much of a well meaning dumbass.

I think a S1-5 Yugi would have been sprinting out the door to keep Joey from killing himself (again), but Season Zero Yuugi had hope that Jounouchi would just naturally tucker out and fall asleep or something.

And he was so wrong.

Anzu’s “New Tricks” line was from the dub itself and man that’s a good line. I love Anzu’s sass in Zero.

So, Honda decides to help them find Jounouchi so all of them together could give Jounouchi an intervention for skipping school. This is the same Honda that once skipped school to babysit a tomagachi and said it was because of “Maternity leave,” but don’t worry about the hypocrisy, because from this episode we learned that Jounouchi needs a very short leash.

So this episode is a great Jounouchi episode to explain stuff that still hasn’t been explained in 5 seasons of Yugioh. In S1-5, we don’t get much about his home life other than his Mom left and his Sister lives far away and is like sickly as hell. We know nothing else. But this is the episode where we finally get to find out why Yuugi and his Grandfather decided to basically adopt him from S1 onward.

Yugioh is tackling some pretty heavy territory, but I respect the show for not trying to magically change Jounouchi’s parents like they did to Dartz. Instead, the crew decide to reach out and try to find their friend who clearly didn’t go home last night (and won’t be going back for a while), by checking every alleyway in Domino.

Fun fact Yuugi drops this episode, Domino is one of the biggest cities on Earth. This makes the Battle City Tournament even more crazy when you realize Kaiba shut down several blocks but, it also makes a tiny bit more sense how we have so many Millennium items in one place. (Yet...it still doesn’t explain Bakura and Joey’s accent.) And, I guess if your city is just extra large, you get an extra large warehouse district, too.

Speaking of, they eventually find Jounouchi at his new (but also old) crime antics mugging some random stranger next to this Game store that I just realized was cropped so it looks like it says “GANG.”

Say hello to our crime clown. He’s sort of like a discount joker, and that beanie is...man it is green.

I forget this green exists sometimes, but Season Zero has it as one of their prime colors. Good ol’ Retro Kaiba green.

I’m a little tempted to swatch Season Zero a bit and figure out their full color scheme--it’s really saturated, which is interesting when you compare it to the later seasons which are a lot more muted since...the 00′s were like that, they greyed a lot of colors out. But I’ll do it later if I do, maybe another post for another day.

Jounouchi and Honda, before they moved to the school with Yuugi in it, used to go to the same school and up until now I just assumed they were close friends. But apparently they were a lot more distant than that. I’m sure they met up several times as Jounouchi destroyed stuff and Honda came along in his volunteer janitor outfit to put the stuff the hell back, and maybe that’s how they got to know eachother better?

But basically, Jounouchi was the freakin worst, and Jounouchi’s best friend was Hirotani--this 45 year old 15 year old with the blue pony and turquoise fade--and Honda has SO MUCH hot goss to say about it.

I really get the gist that Honda may not have liked anyone else at his old school, like at all. Like maybe Honda likes cleaning up trash so much because his school was just trash top to bottom.

As is tradition, Yuugi got his tar beat in by Hirotani. Another concussion to add to his list of issues to tell his future therapist that lives in that puzzle he wears around his neck.

I still expect him to do a double cross, but it seems they wanted to keep it a relatable and more realistic fall-out, where Jounouchi has just bounced on them without even a goodbye. He and his Dad had a bad fight, and Jounouchi was like “well so long to all of this and everyone that has anything to do with it.”

In later seasons, Joey is the one trying to save other people. He’s saving his Sister, he’s saving Mai, he’s saving Yugi, but in this season Jounouchi’s friends had to save Jounouchi from himself a few times now.

I like this depth to his character, I’ll be honest. I can understand why S1-5 don’t touch on it, and I don’t think it’s because they didn’t want to have an abusive Dad storyline, because they did that several times over with Seto Kaiba (man the Dad situation in Yugioh is DIRE.) Instead they probably just felt like Season Zero already did it, so why do it again?

It’s just a shame that it wasn’t talked about in the other seasons. Joey makes a lot more sense to me now because we get to see why Jounouchi is so hard set on saving people. S4 Mai Valentine, who ditched everyone and joined a gang? That’s basically a Joey move, and that was why Joey Wheeler was all over that.

Really would have added a lot to that particular arc if the show...actually talked about Joey’s history at all rather than assume I would have watched something that was never released in the States. Instead...it just looked a lot like he had only romantic motivations, which may not have been what they were going for.

Speaking of romantic, check out this sunset. Like the sun is exploding for some reason--just a wild sunset you only see for a still frame before a commercial break.

As Joey, youknow, takes on an entire rival gang single-handedly.

Hey guys, I lived near a pretty big city most of my life and I have been on a roof...once. Just the one time when I was doing an internship in SF with a painter and we needed to take a reference photo of his painting for a gallery (and it was hella sketch, and we weren’t exactly allowed up there). Who are all these people giving teens Roof Access? It’s so hard to get! Even if you live in an apartment of a tall building, I can count on zero of my fingers the amount of times I was allowed on that roof. But TV shows and movies--they freakin love roof gardens and roof hangouts and roof fights.

Am I missing out?? How did y’all get on the ROOF? I know I’m on S5 of Yugioh now and I have seen a lot of roof stuff, but like...is this normal for everyone else? I know there’s schools that have roof sport--that’s common in the city everywhere--but that’s like...specialized roofs with 30 ft chainlink fencing and really good supports to your body doesn’t fall straight through it when you jump too much. The hell is using their normal ass roof?

This gang should have their legs swinging halfway into the floor below them, is all I’m saying, if my roof couldn’t handle our solar heating, then a normal ass roof cannot support a gang fight.

But it does look really, really cool.

Anyway, Anzu does some offscreen snooping and finds out where the crime hangs out, and suggests that we step right into crime zone and just yank Jounouchi out of there. Which is something you would only do and say if you were Anzu and cannot fear death.

If it were Jay’s it would be with an ‘s. That’s how you do a plural Jay. But it’s the 90′s, so we put a “z” on the end of everything that should have been an “s” and that’s how you get the...

I mean, thank you, dubbers, for not saying “Jizz” but for reals...that be Jizz.

Please don’t flag me, Tumblr. (which, PS, I think they turned off the flagbot, Tumblr hasn’t flagged me in forever and I’m so thankful. Mods are asleep, we can talk about anime again)

So even though Honda decided that he was fed up with Jounouchi and didn’t want to save his ass, he decided to give it another go but complete with some new sash. He also did this without telling any of the others, who just kinda spectated him for a little while.

Honestly, if they weren’t laughing at him, I wouldn’t have known that this sash was any weirder than any of his other sashes. I don’t know really know what a school uniform should look like. It’s a shame, I feel like this series has a lot of jokes and puns probably soaring right over my head.

A little bit embarrased he was caught being vulnerable, Honda decides to give us a little more context to why he ever decided to give Jounouchi the time of day in the first place.

They had PE class once, and Honda apparently loves the hell out of PE. Jounouchi ran really fast in a straight line that one time, and that is why he’s trustworthy friend material. He just needs to stop joining gangs, and he’ll be solid.

I have no idea if the fandub put that in there or if that was native to the show, but Miho legit stans Honda/Jounouchi and acts as if she’s off to write some fanfiction about it. Honestly if she did, it would make her so much more interesting of a character.

And so, until next time, we shall have to wait and see exactly what Yami Yuugi is going to do with a freakin Yo-yo and I’m sure it’s all sorts of real effed up. Excited to get there, honestly. A shame it had to happen on the part that isn’t dubbed yet, but I’ve done these subbed before, it’ll be fine!

#Season Zero #Yuugi Muto #Jounouchi #Honda #Anzu #yo-yo #Jounouchi joins a gang #Gotta go save Jounouchi's ass I guess #Miho #she was here too I guess #Just a great Jounouchi episode for the Jounouchi stans out there

[pharaohsparklefists]

It’s part 2 of Episode 115, and you can catch up with the zany antics of part 1 right here if you missed it!

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So iiiiiit’s Kaiba vs Noah in the Irritating Boy Prodigy World Championship and Kaiba is tired of Noah’s posturing and “pretentious” statements. He claims that such talk...

Which is really quite lovely and poetic, although also perhaps a touch unclear as an example of card game trash talk, no? And of course, I wouldn’t go so far myself as to suggest it is also bordering on, ahem, pretentious. I will leave that to the judgement of my honoured reader.

I do think it’s cool that Seto sees a version of himself on steroids if he’d stayed as a good Kaiba son, and recognises all his disdain for humanity as an excuse to avoid emotions. I mean, it’s nice he can recognise it, although it would be EVEN NICER if Seto didn’t also reasonably frequently disguise his normal human emotions with disdain but HEY baby steps.

Anyway he confronts Noah’s story of Gozaburo’s intentions and fatherly love with a direct challenge; if Gozaburo really intended for AI!Noah to take over KaibaCorp instead of Seto, then...

This triggers a loooong flashback from Noah, during which, I have to imagine, Seto et al just stood around in awkward and slightly huffy silence, presuming Noah was just buffering.

Lil Noah (same size, probably, but younger) wakes up after a “bad dream” in which he was killed in a traffic accident. He discovers he’s locked in his bedroom with NO MAIDS which is very unusual for him. One wall turns semi-transparent which is also pretty unusual, I assume, and Gozaburo appears.

It’s translated as “Father” which is usually 父 (chichi) or more formally お父さん (otosan) in Japanese, but I thiiiink he’s calling him 父上 (chichiue) and sort of mushing the sounds together cause it sounds like he’s saying something like “chiiue”. I dunno if that’s more or less formal but it literally means “father-up” or “father-above” soooo... check out the notes and see if someone who understands Japanese better than I do added any information!

From Gozaburo’s perspective, he now has less of a son and more of a big chibi tamagotchi on a screen in his creepy sci-fi basement

“Can you, uh ... step back. You’re freaking me out. Creepy-ass ghost boy.”

Gozaburo is actually really really Nice and Kind about the whole thing which I personally think is bullshit because Gozaburo is an abusive monster and yeah you get real life abusive monsters who are nice to their own (dead?) kids but “poor Gozabuwo he’s so saaad he bought his dead kid a puppy” is not the hard-hitting addition to the Kaiba brothers’ backstory that I asked for.

Here’s the fuckin puppy:

It is not, Mr Gozaburo, it is creepy. It looks like a sad puppy-kitten hybrid. You pushed the KAWAII slider too far.

Anyway for a while everything is totally fine and great in Dead Kid Digital Paradise. Noah gets a trip to space AND a cake for his birthday whereas usually children only get ONE of those two things and they don’t even get to choose which (get in the fucking rocket, Timmy). Noah sometimes forgets he’s not real.

“Ha yes, when I uploaded render=>seas[d=HD,colour=#2B94FC] I definitely saw exactly what you saw...”

But Noah has become disillusioned with the NPCs in his digital world, even “Sunny” the miserable hybrid. Gozaburo asks after Sunny and Noah assures him Sunny is TOTALLY FINE

“That’s what I most wanted to add to my living arrangements. A rabid animal auditioning for Mad Max 5: Also The Pets Went Feral.

So then, making light birthday conversation, Noah’s like “hey dad you know what’s cool, if we tried hard and believed in ourselves...”

Gozaburo is like “huh. how many people would survive?” and Noah’s like, “eh probably 3%” and I was a lil worried they were going to have Gozaburo go all ~genocide is wrong, what have I done to raise this monster~ but instead he was like, “hmm seems a little low? anyway interesting idea but now I’m bored byeeeee”

Apparently that brush-off was Noah’s first indication that Gozaburo was not quite as into his digital son as he was into his physical-reality son

Shortly thereafter, Seto and Mokuba showed up, but apparently Noah was never mentioned to them and they never noticed Gozaburo’s time in his creepy child-tamagotchi-dungeon and I DON’T KNOW guys I just don’t like the implications of this post-hoc rejiggery of a very strong backstory. You know what Seto’s backstory did not need? The removal of all little!Seto’s agency, in order to reframe Gozaburo’s abuse as arising from grief. 

Anyway, Kaiba’s like,

And I’m like, you’re tragically lost to some undergraduate philosophy discussion group, my sweet darling pretentious teenager. Can you IMAGINE how insufferable 16-year-old private-jet-owning history-refusing god-killing Seto motherfucking Kaiba would be in your undergrad philosophy class? Some incisive but retiring young woman is, in another universe, as we speak type read, raising both eyebrows at something he just declaimed in response to the long-suffering TA and adding it to her wildly successful That Crazy Rich Kid In My Phil Class twitter.

Despite his ridiculousness, Kaiba does make an excellent point:

Noah has shunned his humanity, cocooning himself in contextless (and GEOLOGICALLY INACCURATE) knowledge and smug disdain. On the other hand, people could definitely turn out WORSE after like 10? years in near-total isolation with godlike powers over a virtual reality but no ability to affect the outside world.

Noah doesn’t like Kaiba pointing out his flaws so he tries to get the conversation back on track by making a VERY UNDERWHELMING “prediction”

He’s holding up his fingers like that because he ~~predicts~~ that this ~~mysterious event~~ will take place on the third turn. It’s currently the second turn. AND HE IS IN CONTROL OF LIKE THEIR ENTIRE SENSORY EXPERIENCE. It’s not a ~~~~prediction~~~~ it’s just a fucking THREAT and you just know, you just KNOW, when he follows through on his THREAT, next fuCKING TURN, he’s gonna be all like ohoho I’m sooooo SMART I ~~~~~~predicted~~~~~~ this very outcome ohohohoho. 

Fuck you Noah.

In any case, no one is particularly phased by his prediction THREAT because after all, 

“Shock is not one of his core emotions. They are contemptuous disdain, glee, attention-seeking, Mokuba!, DUEL, and I must kill god and I will. 

#that's a joke #Seto has LOADS of emotions #he's just got a very Seto Kaiba way of expressing them #Yu-Gi-Oh! #sparklefists watches ygo #episode 115 #seto kaiba #Noah #yugi #gozaburo kaiba