#Seto Kaiba's Dead Wife

[kujakumai]

u ever think about how if Pegasus wasn't obsessed with resurrecting his dead teen wife then he could have just sat back and let some random genius kid obsessed with his game make him ten bajillion a year. Kaiba turned a nerdy card game he doesn't even own into a worldwide sports and entertainment juggernaut, while doing all the hard work of building and maintaining theme park and hologram infrastructure. Seto Kaiba is god's greatest gift to I2. If Pegasus had wished upon a star for a miracle to befall him then Kaiba is what the heavens would have conjured. He probably would've given Pegasus whatever dead wife related hologram tech he wanted if asked. All Pegasus had to do was rake it in and retire at 30 but noooo he had to go antagonizing the guy and kidnapping children and ensuring the best thing to ever happen to his game design company hates his guts forever. Poor business acumen tbh.

#skill issue. is all i mean

[kaibacorpintern]

[Lucid Dreamers: 1]

Summary: Atem wakes up in the ruins of Alcatraz with no memory of how he got there.

Meanwhile, Kaiba's coffee meeting with Pegasus takes a turn for the worse.

Word Count: 3k | Rating: M | Ship: prideshipping | Ongoing

“You were always full of bullshit,” Seto growled. “Spouting your bullshit riddles like a little bunny late for a tea party. I’d like to get back to business now.” “This is the business, Kaiba-boy,” Pegasus said. “Tell me about your stepfather. Did you ever feel he loved you? When was that?” Seto stared at him, unspeaking. There had been a moment, before the glass broke, where a strange feeling emerged from the muddy, bloodied battlefield of the day–a question. Will he love me now? Because I won? And then, when the glass broke, and Seto saw that he was being set free, another question–is this love? Dying for me? Set free into another kind of cage. Guilt and hatred and grief. The indifferent fires of rage, consuming everything, anything that came too close. “He’s dead,” Seto said coolly. “That’s the end of the subject. Or should I start nagging you about your wife?”

A/N: new pet project <3 do you like surreal horror vibes... mystery boxes... or terrible groundhog day loops? perhaps this may entice you!have fun! comments, kudos, and reblogs welcome!

#fanfiction #prideshipping #intern memo #writing notes #lucid dreamers

[steve0discusses]

S5 Ep 50: Tristan Hates Horses, I Think

Been a while! Tumblr’s annoying as hell changes to the text editor took a lot of wind out of my sails, ngl. It had some problems they're resolving as they go, but it was really annoying to use and to edit if you write any amount of youknow……words….

And I was talking to a friend about this, and they were like “have you tried writing it in google docs and copy pasting it after?” And I happily realized when you copy paste from google docs, it also copies the PICTURES. This has literally saved hours of my life, y'all. It has turned something that was so frustrating I didn't want to open tumblr again into something that is no longer an obstacle so I can write once more!

So lets travel to Yugi’s brain, where Tristan desperately has to make up for all the work he hasn’t done because he was just a wee tiny bit possessed.

It may be hard to pick up where Tristan is on this picture, and I hope I recorded it somewhere in OBS like 2 months ago when I finished the series because it was such a funny animation, but hot damn this boy has hops.

And  you can see him there on the ground in the bottom left corner, that isn’t a rock, that’s Tristan having toppled a man with his bare hands, a man who had a sword and was sitting on an armored horse.

Can you believe this guy ran for school president? And then lost and humbly became the janitor?

Meanwhile, Joey discovered magic.

Confirmation that duel disks are made out of old tank parts.

Realizing for the first time that magic exists, they decide to peace out.

Back in the real world, Mokuba and Roland don’t know where the hell Seto went. Which is weird, I figured Seto would at least leave a note or a text message or…anything…but apparently even if he did, he just disappeared at some point down in Marik’s old living room.

So Roland and Mokuba decided that in order to find him, they would have to take a massive Boeing 747 to find their lost child.

Some kids have a motorcycle, some kids have a scooter, Mokuba just wants the most boring ass big commercial plane that is meant to sit a couple hundred people in an awkward way. That’s what Mokuba wants.

Just Mokuba things.

My bro who edits these for me wrote in huge ass letters "ROLAND SIGHTING" While saying "ROLAND ROLAND ROLAND" so I want y'all to know how much we appreciate a good Roland in this house.

Speaking of, I know it's like season 5 but...who is the other guy? He wears funny sunglasses but I have never heard his name, not once.

But this is when the plane was filled with heavenly light.

They begin to see the fight happening between Seto Kaiba (the OG Seto, the one that is cool and isn’t depressed because his not-wife died) and Bakura (who is now Zorc). Don’t ask me how the time stuff works, and why we see it now of all the times in human history, and right over Egypt in the sky. Don’t ask me why.

I assume it’s time compression shenanigans, just like FF8, so maybe it’s just every moment in time is able to see this UFO in the sky, but overall, it’s here because it looks cool. The fact that this right here is actually not a physical place, but is actually a figment of Yugi’s imagination shaped by Pharaoh’s botchy memories--is neither here nor there. Instead, it’s everywhere. 

Seto is unimpressed by this, because he knows how science and timelines should work, and this wouldn’t pass Kaiba Corp inspection.

Back at the yellow palace made of cheese and mario blocks, Pharaoh is still knocked out from that time he summed all 3 dragons last episode, which to me feels like just eons ago. 

But it’s OK, he’s fine now.

Typically he’d be dead, because his dragons died on the battlefield and their life force is connected to their monsters. But not only is Pharaoh 1.) already dead and 2.) the author of this universe and cannot die or this universe ceases to exist he’s 3.) got the puzzle, which means he can’t actually perma die, unlike everyone else in his court who is perma-gone.

He is not surprised by what is currently happening in Egypt’s downtown strip.

This is probably every day in Domino. Every day Seto Kaiba wakes up everyone in town with his three-headed dragon princess just because he can. Hell, Seto was doing this fight with Bakura on the top towers of Domino just this morning (or last morning…not sure if time passes in real life the same way it does in puzzle life)

The audacity of Yami right now, the one moment Yugi isn’t there to scream about ledges, this boy is leaping joyfully off that ledge. 

He fuses with the dragon which gives him this familiar outfit.

I thiiiiink it’s the same outfit as Alexander season? I’ll be real with you though, I don’t really want to look it up. Either way, good to see the return of putting on a ton of armor in a card game, I don't think we've seen it Canonically since that one time Joey did it against Valon, and ever since then, Joey kind of forgot it was a thing he can just do.

But unlike Joey, Yami doesn’t take the opportunity to punch Zorc in the face, instead he just loses yet another time.

This time he didn’t even pass out, he barely even died. This is progress, truly.

But as Zorc is powering up the peepee missile to fire in Yami’s face (what a way to die!), Shadi has decided to inform us why he’s been stalking these kids for this entire show.

So there’s two ways to read this. 1.) Shadi was Hassan the entire time but had to go back in time from this moment in order to do it or 2.) Shadi possessed the power of Hassan last second so Yami could avoid death one final time.

Both of these explanations don’t fully make sense to me, I’ll be honest, because in order to know that he’ll be needed in the first place, Shadi had to know that Yami would die at this particular moment--a moment that is a different timeline than has ever existed before.

So really, Shadi was just going by a hunch. He was like “I dunno, I’ll see how this goes.” which is more in line with the Shadi we know and love.

Is it a crying shame that Shadi, who has been with us for so many seasons, and it so integral to this show had such an unceremonious death? Yeah. I feel like I didn’t quite get the closure I wanted but I’m also sort of confused as to…what happened. But I’ll leave it there because apparently we get more Shadi content in Dark Side of Dimensions.

Anyway, I have no idea if these images will even fit into a post with how how tumbler does posts nowadays, and I'll be real I had to re upload the last bit of it, which I suspect was over 15 images???? Not sure??? but we found a workaround! google docs works!

Also, Seto didn’t die today! Instead it was Shadi! For a SECOND time!

I cannot believe how freakin lucky Mana is, this girl is still kicking and if Mana survives everything I am…going to be astonished, that’s what. Mana secretly OP, who knew?

And always you can read the rest of these here

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

if I turn it into a link it doesn't work right because the text editor is really, really bad. I hate it a lot. But uh...feel free to copy paste it until I can get links to cooperate.

#yugioh #photo recap #yugi muto #joey wheeler #seto kaiba #tristan taylor #ygo #bakura #yu gi oh #yami muto #S5 #Shadi

[chimerickat]

the disrespect on that worst husband poll😭😭 if THE seto kaiba has put a ring on your finger, you're set for life. helpppp ik he's an ass 99% of the time but damn ppl, if thats how obsessed he is with rivalry and a card game, can u imagine what he's like with his wife??

Right??? Like the amount of people who aren’t even considering the fact that he’s not going to marry someone if he doesn’t want them?

I feel like Yami Yugi isn’t getting more votes because people are conflating him with Yugi but dude doesn’t have his own body, isn’t going to have any paperwork allowing him to do anything even if he gets his own body, can’t cook or clean. He’d be the most useless husband.

And Marik? Needs just as much therapy as Kaiba if not more. Kaiba at least had a normal childhood pre parents dying. Marik grew up in a cave.

(Personally I would pick Joey dead last tbh if it were me but a caring dumbass can be an appeal for some people I guess? I also think Duke is likely to cheat on you…)

#seto kaiba #kaiba seto #yu gi oh #yami yugi #marik ishtar

[iamlostsomewhereinthegarden]

Being Maximillion Pegasus’ adopted child

Aka in which I get inspired by my last headcannons and you are the only non-sacrificed adopted child of Maximillion Pegasus

Pt. 2

* You somehow reminded him of his wife he was trying to revive

* And so you were wisked away to a happy life

* You’re very shy at the beginning

* Especially cause of the rumors of children going missing when adopted by Pegasus

* It takes a while for you to warm up to him yk cause you’re scared of what’ll happen to you

* And after a bunch of uncomfortable dinners Pegasus realizes he needs to step up his game

* So one night he comes in with a bag of hair products

* But all you see is a bag so you’re scared out of your wits

* Like you almost pass tf out cause there could be anything in that bag!

* So after you almost passing out and dying and him correcting the situation he tells you what he came in your room to do

* And that is to braid his hair so y’all can bond!

* The braids came out half decent as you braided the hair of the other kids at the orphanage but was too nervous to the Pegasus’ own properly

* You weren’t too fond of how it looked and was scared that he would’ve hated it and you’ll get punished

* So imagine your surprise when this man is in absolute glee from you braiding his hair

* Like I’m talking the guards have to take pictures of the hair, there are Polaroids on the wall man is absolutely happy

* And that’s when you realize that living with Pegasus wouldn’t be so bad

* After a while you get comfortable with your new dad and enjoy the hair sessions along with living a lavish life

* Think of Seto Kaiba but if he had a cool dad

* Eventually Pegasus feels guilty and also doesn’t want you to get jealous so he stops adopting kids and goes after other people

* And this is why/when Duelist Kingdom comes about

* You also don’t know why the children were disappearing just that you stopped it and you feel happy about that

* You also learned about his dead wife and wish you could’ve had her as a mother

* You know of the millennium eye but just think it’s a fancy prosthetic and not some ancient Egyptian magical artifact

* You also do duel because yeah your dad is the creator of duel monsters but you don’t make it your whole personality

* Because of the little hairdo times with Pegasus you aspire to be a hairstylist along with taking over the business when it comes to it

* The type of deck you duel with is up to you or you can look at my tr duelist headcannons shameless plug to choose one

* But yeah this is where duelist kingdom starts and at this time your equal age with the the friendship gang and Kaiba or a year younger

Also I have a pt.2 coming out for this as I lowkey wanna do how reader deals with duelist kingdom

#headcannons #gn reader #yugioh #yugioh dm #maximillion pegasus

[hopefulstarfire]

I've been meaning to add more of the profiles so uh here have Iris's!!

Name: Iris Ophelia McGinnis. Nicknames: Irey (by River). Aliases: N/A. Nationality: American, born in Japan. Of Irish descent. Birthplace: Domino City, Japan. Age: 20-21 years old. Birthday: August 28th. Star Sign: Virgo. Gender: Cis female or demigirl? (she/her, also would use they/them) Sexuality: Demisexual biromantic. Occupation: College student, part time bookstore seller, part time batista (formerly), part time Kame Game Shop employee, Duelist. Ideal V.A.: Marisha Ray.

Hair Color: Blonde. Hairstyle: Shoulder-length and wavy, a bit unruly. Has long, side swept bangs over her right eye. Eye Color: Purple. Skintone: Pale. Height: 5'4". Build: Heavier set, with a pear shape. Thick thighs. Notable Features: Small scar under her right eye, notched eyebrow, pierced ears, tongue piercing, always has her nails painted black. Is saving up for her first tattoo. Outfits: Can be found here! Accessories: Usually wears a thick black choker necklace of some sort, and a black wrist cuff bracelet. She always carries a rosary that was a present from her grandfather as a good luck charm.

Overall Personality: Very snarky and sarcastic. Suffers heavily from resting bitch face; also tends to not be able to hide it when she does not like somebody. Beyond that, however, she typically struggles with expressing emotions and vulnerability; to the point that not even her brothers have ever seen her even shed a tear. She tends to also bury a lot of her more negative emotions and feelings to "deal with it one day when she's dead". Is absolutely fantastic with kids and animals. Isn't afraid to be blunt when she needs to be and can be overly straightforward. When you've earned her respect and care, she will be the most loyal person in the world. Very much has a caretaker nature and wants to help heal everyone she can and look out for everyone. Tired Big Sister energy as well as depressed broke zillennial energy. Hobbies: Reading, annotating books, gardening, thrift shopping, collecting Addams Family merch where she can afford it, researching about anything and everything, cooking, playing different card and board games with her family. Likes: Halloween, thick books, fanfiction, motorcycles, cats history, mythology, small businesses, rainy days, anything chocolate mint, seeing karma work its magic. Dislikes: Rich people, corporate assholes, heights/flying, overly noisy places, animatronics, hard candies, sports, writing essays. Favorite Food: Chicken fried rice. Least Favorite Food: Caviar.

Parents: Meredith McGinnis and Steven Nesbitt (estranged from her sperm donor); Roland Butler (step-father; sees him as her real dad) Sibling(s): River McGinnis, Henry Nesbitt (half brother, deceased). Considers Seto and Mokuba Kaiba to be her brothers. Extended Family: Cillian McGinnis (maternal grandfather), Lilian McGinnis (maternal grandmother, deceased), four maternal uncles and aunts by marriage, and ten maternal first cousins. Pet(s): Best Friend(s): Alister Gayle, Seto Kaiba, Kat Mercer, Maddox Griffin, Nana Mutou, Ellie Munroe (belongs to @kohakuhime), Mai Valentine. Love Interest(s): Alister Gayle.

Deck: Cyber Angel. Signature/Ace Card(s): Wingweaver and Cyber Angel Idaten.

Backstory:

Born as the result of an affair between Meredith and Steven; Meredith had no idea it was an affair, however, as he claimed that he and his wife were legally separated and in the middle of a divorce with some legal circumstances making matters complicated (i.e. prenup) and he consistently lied and manipulated her with it.

Estranged relationship with her father early on. He didn't see much use in her and only interacted with her briefly to try and keep her mother from "putting up a fuss".

Cut off contact with him when she was 6 after her half-brother died and her mother found out she was pregnant with River. Nesbitt didn't respond to the pregnancy well and they stopped seeing him for a long time.

When she was 13, she and River were essentially bribed to attend a dinner with their sperm donor and his boss to get money for their moms medical expenses with her MS. It turned out that dinner was to arrange a marriage between her and Seto, who was 3 years her younger and recently adopted by Gozaburo.

Began seeing the boys as her brothers and they all strove to look out for each other in everything. There is plenty that Iris keeps to herself to not worry her mother, especially so she can keep trying to look out for the Kaiba brothers. Meredith and Roland, who had recently been promoted at the time of the boys adoption, both come together to try and find a way to help all four children (and ended up finding love with each other).

Fought to support Seto during his takeover of KaibaCorp and was there in the meeting room with Mokuba and River as well when he became president. Still struggles with that memory.

Arranged marriage was cancelled around that time and she and River stayed close with the brothers and were happy to see Nesbitt have to lose his machines.

Graduated high school a year early and began attending college to study to become a nurse.

Met Alister Gayle about a year/year and a half before Duelist Kingdom when he began working undercover at KaibaCorp. They originally did not like each other but sooner or later became best friends -- or something more.

#yugioh #ygo #yugioh ocs #yugioh oc #ygo ocs #ygo oc #oc profile #iris mcginnis

[brisfanfictions]

Episode 27: The Fall of Kaiba! The Invincible Toon World!

Rose was with her friends on the balcony. Frowning as she gazed at the Dueling Ring below her. About to witness a duel with her long-time crush (which none of her friends know about), Seto Kaiba, and her archrival, Pegasus J. Crawford.

She was an entrant to Duelist Kingdom.

-FLASHBACK-

Before her parents moved her and her older brother, Ash, to Japan, she was a local champion in the state championship in America. Having lived in the south, she has a southern American drawl.

Somehow, Pegasus found out about her being an ex-reining champion for Virginia, which was where she lived. He sent her a package with a dueling glove, two star chips and a video.

Both her and her brother was curious about the video and popped it in. Quite eager before she was brought out of the real world. To which she started to panic.

"My darling Cecelia," came Pegasus' creepy drawl. "Oh how I missed you so~."

Rose raised an eyebrow, annoyed. "Who you talkin' 'bout, asshole?" She asked in her southern accent.

Pegasus looked offended. "You don't remember your husband?"

Rose begun to snarl. "What makes you think Ai'm your wife?!" She was completely baffled and disgusted.

"You look exactly like her," he deadpanned.

Rose rolled her eyes. "Sorry, hun. Ya've got the wrong gal."

He smirked. "I heard that you were a state champion for X* years."

"What's it to ya?" She was hesitant now.

"Why don't we have a little friendly duel?" He held up his deck. "However, I think we should make it a little interesting."

"And how do ya wanna make it interestin'?" She took out her placemat and placed her deck where it should be.

"If I win, you enter my tournament and I get to take what is precious to you."

"And if I win, I don' and I'll continue my retirement." She gave an innocent smile.

"Also, there will be a time limit."

She just has a confident glint in her eyes.

"Let's duel," they said in unison.

Fifteen Minutes Later...

Rose was in complete shock.

How could've I lost? She asked herself.

"Now I get to take something precious to you!" He gave an evil laugh as his weird eye glowed.

She saw the beam of light go over her head and hit her brother.

"Ash!" She yelled. Wanting to go over to him. However, she found that she couldn't move.

She had to watch her brother's soul get ripped out of his body. Which was sucked into the TV set.

"Rose!" He yelled through the screen. Appearing for only a minute.

Then she pressed her hands against the screen. Tears streaming down her face as she screamed for her brother, over and over again.

-FLASHBACK ENDS-

Her hands gripped the little water elemental locket around her neck. Inside was a picture of her family, which was both her parents, her and her brother.

I will defeat you, Pegasus. She thought with such vengeance. You will release my Nii-sama from that Soul Card.

Pegasus' eyes drifted up to her with a smile. "Cecelia!" He cried, waving to her. "My sweet, darling Cecelia!"

Rose just cringed. Looking absolutely disgusted. "Ya've got thee wrong gal!" She shouted in response.

Out of the corner of her eyes, she saw Seto looking at her and Pegasus. And boy did he look ready to murder the Industrial Illusions CEO.

"She's a stupid American southerner!" Seto shouted. Despite his feelings for the blonde girl. "And she isn't your dead girlfriend!"

Rose's hopes died immediately. Then retaliated.

"I'm NOT a stupid American southerner!" She screamed. "When I get my hands on ya, ya're dead!" She was shaking her fists in anger Which hid her sadness and disappointment in her voice.

He'll never change. She depressingly thought. Not for me...

When her friends were focused on the duel, she slipped away to get away. And to be alone in her thoughts.

Several Minutes Later...

Before the duel concluded, Seto apologized to his brother, Yugi, and, the second person that is precious to him, Rose.

Afterwards, Pegasus had his goons take Seto away while Rose had begun her way back towards the arena.

Her eyes widened, a gasp escaping her lips, as she watched Pegasus' goons drag Seto's lifeless body away.

Running in front of Seto, her hands lightly cupping his cheeks as she gazed into his lifeless eyes.

"Seto?" She asked. Tears had begun to form in her crystalline eyes. "What had he done to ya? My dear, sweet, darling Seto..."

Rose? Seto asked, locked away inside the Soul Card. He looked around in confusion, but faintly smiled. He reached a hand out into the void, hoping to touch a wall or something. In hopes that he could touch her hand or cheek or even a strand of her long, soft blonde hair. It's as if I could hear her and feel her warm, loving touch on my cheek... Yugi will get us all out, my dear... Have faith in him, but don't get too depressed when you can't rescue me. I know that we'll be reunited in the end...

Having forgotten that there were guards around. Until the last minute where two more goons appeared and grabbed her arms.

She was struggling against them. Which proved to be futile.

"Let me go!" She shouted as they drug Seto away from her. "Seto!" She repeated, over and over. More tears escaped her eyes.

Soon she gave up. Slumping in their grasps.

I WILL make you pay, Pegasus. She mentally vowed. Determination and anger shone in her clear blue eyes. For stealing away the two most precious people away from me... I will get you... If it's the last thing I do...

#seto x oc #seto kaiba #seto #yugioh #yugi motou #yami yugi #joey wheeler #tristian taylor #serenity wheeler #mokuba kaiba #kaiba #kaiba brothers

[cdkwrites]

fic list

helpfully sorted by rating then alpha by title. fics will be showcased in modified mla format. under a cut because this is... crazy long and i don’t want it to be something people see and get irked by.

example fic. main ship (character a x character b); minor ships (character a x character b). summary. series (if needed). canon compliant/continuation/oc canon/divergent (from canon)/au. number of chapters, in/complete, XX (word count). 00 month 20XX.

g rated

at least i’m trying. yugi mutou x atem. “how much money would you give me to flip this table, right here, right now, in the middle of class?”. canon compliant. oneshot, 656. 07 april 2021.

chasing thunder. katsuya jonouchi x atem. "what do i get if i win?". divergent. atem’s birthday 2021. oneshot, 351. 03 july 2021.

christmas traditions. katsuya jonouchi x atem. who better than someone new to teach christmas traditions about to make jonouchi enjoy christmas again?. divergent. 12 days of christmas 2020. oneshot, 2,990. 14 december 2020.

coming of age. yugi mutou x atem. atem throws a surprise birthday party. divergent. yugi mutou’s birthday 2021. oneshot, 546. 04 july 2021.

counting stars. yugi mutou x atem. atem misses the stars. yugi finds a way to bring them to him. divergent. oneshot, 2,008. 20 november 2021.

deck the halls. yugi mutou x seto kaiba. seto absolutely does not want to decorate for the holidays. yugi does. they decorate for the holidays. 12 days of christmas 2020. canon compliant. oneshot, 993. 19 december 2020.

i like it anyway. yugi mutou x seto kaiba. seto's running late for a very important date. yugi mutou’s birthday 2021. canon continution. oneshot, 770. 04 july 2021.

it’s nice to have a friend. yugi mutou x atem. atem's always had a crush on yugi. and over the course of a few years, he gets to slowly go from friends to lovers with his crush. au. oneshot, 1,756. 01 november 2020.

lavish cakes. yugi mutou x seto kaiba. yugi always insisted on celebrating a birthday. seto kaiba’s birthday 2020. canon continuation. oneshot, 300. 26 october 2020.

left them all to me. kazuko kubota x great royal wife keket. an odd, twisted smile appeared on the ghost’s face. “ah,” she said, glancing away. “i don’t…remember my name. i don’t even know how long i’ve been unable to interact with the world. the most i am certain of is that i had once been a princess.” oc canon. oneshot, 5,293. 23 may 2021.

little bit of warmth. yugi mutou x katsuya jonouchi x atem. atem's feeling a bit down. jonouchi and yugi have a plan to fix that. 12 days of christmas 2020. divergent. oneshot, 1,187. 23 december 2020.

love you to the moon and to saturn. yugi mutou x katsuya jonouchi. it's all jonouchi can afford. yugi mutou’s birthday 2021. canon compliant. oneshot, 416. 04 july 2021.

myths about love. katsuya jonouchi x mai kujaku. legend told of a beautiful, ancient goddess with a jealous streak a mile wide. she had an arrange marriage with an ugly brute of a god - what a shame. AUgust 2021. au. oneshot, 500. 10 august 2021.

not a birthday. katsuya jonouchi x seto kaiba. no one understands better than jounouchi that birthdays aren't always worth celebrating. seto kaiba’s birthday 2020. canon compliant. oneshot, 100. 26 october 2020.

pink champagne sugar. yugi mutou x anzu mazaki x atem. a lipgloss can be so personal. divergent. oneshot, 170. 02 feburary 2021.

state of grace. yugi mutou x atem x seto kaiba. kaiba had spent some time with yuugi planing the perfect birthday party for atem. atem’s birthday 2021. divergent. oneshot, 520. 03 july 2021.

still learning. yugi mutou x atem. and getting older still. atem’s birthday 2021. divergent. oneshot, 410. 03 july 2021.

trying. anzu mazaki x yugi muto. you gotta teach your gamers how to stretch properly. canon compliant. oneshot, 170. 11 may 2021.

under the mistletoe. yugi mutou x atem. christmas dates is a fairly established tradition. too bad atem's never heard of such a thing. 12 days of christmas 2020. divergent. oneshot, 2,659. 13 december 2020.

where every wish comes true. yugi mutou x katsuya jonouchi. yugi wants a holiday date. jonouchi agrees to help. yami yugi has a very simple solution. 12 days of christmas 2020. canon compliant. oneshot, 1,074. 24 december 2020.

wherever you stray, i follow. yugi mutou x kazuko kubota. a simple birthday set of plans. yugi mutou’s birthday 2021. oc canon. oneshot, 541. 04 july 2021.

you would be there too. yugi mutou x atem. everything's better with your friends. 12 days of christmas 2020. divergent. oneshot, 707. 18 december 2020.

your ivy grows and now i’m covered in you. mai kajaku x isis ishtar. "ew... that is so sappy, i might vomit". canon compliant. oneshot, 552. 15 may 2021.

t rated

a marvelous time. keket x atem. "is someone looking to stake his claim?" "i don't have to stake my claim. you're already mine.". AUgust 2021. au. oneshot, 316. 10 august 2021.

a careless man’s careful daughter. katusya jonouxhi x mai kajaku. mai's parents divorced when she was young. she meets jonouchi, a sweet man working part time waiting tables to put himself through college. he understands her like no one else. au. oneshot, 2,036. 21 november 2020.

acts of service. yugi mutou x atem. the act of risking one's life in service to the one they love can be so personal... 5 love languages. canon compliant. oneshot, 1,500. 04 november 2020.

bone crush. yugi mutou x seto kaiba; mokuba kaiba x rebecca hopkins. kaiba and yugi have been hooking up for a while but there's one thing kaiba won't do, no matter what. and it's enough to break them apart. canon continuation. oneshot, 1,274. 13 april 2021.

but it’s alright. atem x keket. in a year's time, all would crumble. in this singular moment, all is right. atem’s birthday 2021. oc canon. oneshot, 623. 03 july 2021.

come up for air. yugi muto x katsuya jonouchi. “that was, by far, the stupidest thing you’ve ever done.” in wishshipping. canon compliant. oneshot, 954. 10 april 2021.

five times yami yugi almost kissed yugi, one time he did. yugi mutou x atem. challenge format of five times, one time. a nice exploration of yami yugi's feelings and why he didn't kiss yugi five separate times and one time he totally got to smooch his aibou. canon compliant. oneshot, 1055. 28 october 2020.

gifts. yugi mutou x atem. everything yugi gave, it was from his heart. 5 love languages. canon compliant. oneshot, 1,500. 02 november 2021.

give you my sunshine. yugi mutou x anzu mazki. anzu's been feeling a little down during the holidays since it's the first time she's spending them alone. 12 days of christmas. canon continution. oneshot, 3,197. 16 december 2020.

holiday cheer. yugi mutou x katsuya jonouchi. sometimes you need a kiss from your buddy to cheer you up. 12 days of christmas. canon continuation. oneshot, 674. 20 december 2020.

holiday shopping madness. yugi mutou x seto kaiba. what do you get a guy that says "sorry i gave your grandfather a heart attack"?. 12 days of christmas. canon continuation. oneshot, 2,041. 17 december 2020.

in the mourning. n/a. pharaoh atem is dead. priest set is struggling to come to terms with the death of his cousin and what that means for his own future. au. oneshot, 1,806. 14 september 2020.

last words. yugi mutou x katsuya jounouchi. during that pier duel, yuugi had no idea he'd survive. canon compliant. oneshot, 265. 04 january 2021.

let’s be alone together. katsuay jonouchi x mai kajaku. mai wants to make this a good birthday for jonouchi. katsuya jonouchi’s birthday 2021. canon compliant. oneshot, 2,169. 25 january 2021.

life was a willow. atem x anzu. atem had told her she didn't have to fly out for his birthday. good thing she didn't listen. atem’s birthday 2021. divergent. oneshot, 408. 03 july 2021.

living in a material world. katsuya jonouchi x atem. jounouchi really wishes he could afford atem's tastes. lucky for him, atem's a quick study. katsuya jonouchi’s birthday 2021. divergent. oneshot, 2,546. 25 january 2021.

met you by surprise. yugi mutou x anzu mazaki. anzu came back home for him. yugi mutou’s birthday 2021. canon continuation. oneshot, 682. 04 july 2021.

misguided ghosts. keket x atem. “neither of us have any memory of how we got to this point, either. both of us alone for thousands of years. you…understand.” oc canon. one shot, 4,648. 15 may 2021.

ode to christmas. atem x seto kaiba. seto decides to take his boyfriend on a christmas date. 12 days of christmas 2020. divergent. oneshot, 2,948. 15 december 2020.

on the nature of santa claus. yugi mutou x anzu mazaki x atem. romance is in the air, folks. 12 days of christmas 2020. divergent. oneshot, 3,400. 22 december 2020.

part ii. yugi mutou x atem. atem has a nightmare. nightmares. divergent. oneshot, 2,472. 06 october 2021.

perfectly arranged. keket x atem.  atem and keket were put in arranged marriage when they were younger. as they both got older, atem started to develop feelings for his wife. he's fairly certain she doesn't feel anything back for him. au. oneshot, 2,974. 09 april 2021.

quality time. yugi mutou x atem. spending quality time with someone is easy when they live in your heart. 5 love languages. canon compliant. oneshot, 1,500. 04 november 2020.

still having nightmares. yugi mutou x atem. yugi awakes from a nightmare. nightmares. divergent. oneshot, 2,320. 18 september 2021.

too proud to say. thief king bakura x atem. "aww you're so cute" for a ship of your choice?. canon compliant. oneshot, 782. 17 april 2021.

we could be the way forward. thief king bakura x atem. bakura had every intention of getting his revenge on pharaoh atem and his court. however, his plans go a bit sideways when he discovers that he and pharaoh atem are soulmates. even worse: atem refuses to act like the brat bakura knows he is. au. oneshot, 8,673. 13 feburary 2021.

words of affirmation. yugi mutou x atem. there are five known languages of love. this explores the words of affirmation that yami and yugi give each other the minute they can communicate with each other. 5 love languages. canon compliant. oneshot, 1,500. 01 november 2020.

writing the future. yugi mutou x katusya jonouchi. yugi's been saving money for a special gift for his wonderful boyfriend. katusya jonouchi’s birthday 2021. canon continuation. oneshot, 685. 25 january 2021.

you’d come back to me. yugi mutou x seto kaiba; mokuba kaiba x rebecca hopkins, katusya jonouchi x mai kujaku. seto has been presumed dead for three years. his return causes both unresolved feelings of grief to be brought to the surface and the past to be dragged right back up. in hopes of helping seto move on and reintegrate back into society at large, mokuba asks yugi to work on spherium ii with seto. never one to leave a friend in need hanging, yugi agrees. over the course of the project, seto and yugi both come to terms with their mutual grief and grow towards a better understanding of each other. canon continuation. 12/17; 88,000+. 02 august 2021.

you felt enough. yugi mutou x kazuko kubota centric, yugi mutou x kazuko kubota x atem x keket. yugi's had a very hard day at work and what he needs is some alone time with kazuko. canon continuation. 12 september 2021

m rated

fall from grace. keket x atem; anzu mazaki x thief king bakura, kazuko x yugi. when atem from one of the high houses of hell is discovered dying in the streets of 1920s paris by a mysteriously kind angel, tensions of this old war spark when she elects to save his life. the devastating fall out of one simple act of kindness is more than enough to shatter the truce. soon, it maybe be impossible to avoid the resulting war for all species on earth. au. 5/?, incomplete, 22,874. 09 july 2021.

my hands are shaking from holding back from you. atem x seto kaiba. a little birthday attention, as it were. seto kaiba’s birthday 2020. oneshot, 1,000. 26 october 2020.

physical touch. yugi mutou x atem. when all the dust settles, they get to be with each other. 5 love languages. divergent. oneshot, 1,500. 05 november 2020.

... so it goes. atem x seto kaiba. getting alone time with your rival can be so hard sometimes, especially when you're a famous ceo who took over your father's company when you were a teenager. even more so when your rival's friends insist on being annoying. au. 5/5, complete, 29,376. 10 november 2020.

e rated

a loaded god complex. atem x seto kaiba. when seto makes it to the afterlife, he gets everything he could ever possibly want. too bad it doesn't last. canon continuation. oneshot, 5,837. 02 november 2020.

dreams. yugi mutou x seto kaiba. seto has a dream about a certain spikey haired duelist. canon continuation. oneshot, 716. 05 september 2021.

flashback on a film reel. atem x kazuko kubota. the intensity of his gaze never faded - and she understood what he was saying. oc canon. oneshot, 2,272. 12 july 2021.

heaven in hiding. yugi mutou x atem. sneaking away from royal guard duty to have a little fun with your charge is always fun. at least in yugi's opinion. au. oneshot, 2,999. 21 january 2021.

i’ll tell you my sins (and you can sharpen your knife). anzu mazaki x atem. she knew exactly what he was getting at. he seemed to be under the impression that the fact she cared about him was conditional, as if there was something he could do that would cause her to stop caring about him. he was absolutely wrong. canon compliant. oneshot, 5,356. 12 march 2021.

take me all the way. anzu mazaki x atem. one way to sooth an ancient pharaoh, i suppose. canon compliant. oneshot, 949. 11 april 2021.

we’re gonna rattle this ghost town. katsuya jonouchi x mai kajaku. first thing to do in a new apartment with your love. go. canon continuation. one shot, 1,026. 18 april 2021.

#masterlist

[intobarbarians]

kazimakuwabara: My wife and I have an ongoing joke story where  Kuwabara and Yusuke are vacationing in domino, they come across Kaiba and Jou and are like welp. these kids fucked up. Kaiba has crazy psychic powers and is in extreme denial, and jou is a demon child and doesn't know. Guess we gotta stay to help these idiots out. XD

kuwabara: you see ghosts? visions of the past? visions of the future? bro, you’re psychic

seto: nonsense. i am the inventor of a hyper-realistic holographic program. psychic powers aren’t real

kuwabara: one of those things has literally nothing to do with the other

yusuke: uh, babe? we came here on vacation, not for you to mother hen some rich asshole in denial about being a psychic

jounouchi: so i died, but...now i’m not dead. also i can shoot energy from my finger and i have the grim reaper on speed dial.

yusuke: *quietly* fuck.

#kazimakuwabara #yyh #ygo

[kujakumai]

cleaned up old WIP, 2800 words, AU where Yami Bakura succeeds in switching hosts in DK and Mokuba makes friends with an evil ghost. Not going to be continued but it literally would not leave my brain alone until I finished it.

Things were not going according to plan.

The plan was to take control of a soulless puppet, an easy vessel incapable of interfering with his ends. He had the vessel, had accomplished that much, but he was not expecting the pharaoh and his little friends to succeed and convince Pegasus to give everyone their souls back. So now not only was there a second person in this body he had to keep suppressed, but now he was stuck impersonating a child, smiling through an awkward reunion and then placed onto a helicopter next to a gangly high school student who was watching him like a hawk.

The spirit-that-was-no-longer-Yami-Bakura knew that he was supposed to be Mokuba, but he did not remember the tall one's name. K-something. He had a stupid jacket and hardly took his eyes off him the entire ride, as if he thought his little brother was going to disappear in a puff of smoke when he wasn't looking. Annoying. Infuriating. Luckily it did not seem he wanted to talk, or at least accepted silence. No one expects recent kidnapping victims to say much, which was a boon. A little dazed, a little quiet, a little off, and no one really found it unusual.

They dropped off the pharaoh and his friends, and finally landed at a gaudy and ostentatious house so large it took him a second to realize it was a home at all, an absurd monument to decadence with grounds full of ugly topiaries. Wealth, then. Perhaps this wouldn't be so bad. He could work with this. The rich kid in the stupid coat quietly held his hand the entire walk up the driveway, until they entered a foyer just as gilded and obscene as the outside had been.

No, things were not going to plan, and playing grade-schooler was awkward and an insult to his dignity, and he was farther away from the other millennium items as he ever had been. He would have to grit his teeth through it until he could figure out the next step. In the meantime, perhaps, enjoy some amenities.

Richie rich sighed, relaxed his shoulders the moment they got inside. He looked at who he thought was his little brother and gave him a small, exhausted but genuine smile. He struggled with what to say next.

"Mokuba," he said, "I have to check on a few things in my office. See what kind of damage they did. Do you want to come with me?"

"No." Finally, a chance to be out of this idiot's sight.

This answer seemed to surprise him, a twitch of skepticism. "Will you be okay by yourself?"

He nodded. Keep answers short, when you're impersonating.

His face betrayed more skepticism, concern, and the tiniest hint of disappointment. As if rich kid himself was the one who was scared to be alone in his own house. He accepted the answer, though, to the spirit's relief.

Rich kid bent down and pulled him into a tight hug and ruffled his hair. "We'll get something special for dinner, okay? And ice cream."

"I do like ice cream." This was true. Ryou Bakura almost never bought ice cream, and when he did it was the stupid healthy kind that everyone knew shouldn't even really qualify as ice cream, which was another reason he was a terrible host. That and the fact that he was startlingly pale and had the upper body strength of a limp noodle and the personality of skim milk. This would be better, even if he had to deal with the abrupt drop in height.

Rich kid headed off towards the staircase with another tired but trying-to-be-reassuring smile, and it was then that the spirit of the ring felt an annoyance in the back of his brain. A presence. A scratching, biting, flailing presence, screeching mad, which he had been suppressing for a while now but finally broke through.

get out get out get out get out give it back its MINE get out

The host, awake. What a bother. More rambunctious than Bakura, then? No matter. He could handle a child.

that was MY hug and MY headpat and MY big brother and you can't have them he's been gone for ages and they're mine not yours get out get out get out

The spirit pushed back, ignored him. Shush. He had planned to hold this body alone, and he did not intend to go back to sharing. If you're good, I might let you have it back for a little while later.

shut up go away go away go away go AWAY

And then Mokuba Kaiba did something, something the spirit was not accustomed to or expecting at all, something which Ryou Bakura had never been willing or able to do. He shoved, violently, and the spirit of the ring was ripped out of control with some amount of panic.

"SETOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Why you insolent little--

Seto Kaiba was not aware of the mental turf war happening over his little brothers body. What he did see was his brother scream his name and fall down, and the whole room echoed with a metal clatter as his briefcase fell on the floor and he ran towards him.

--

The ring had been discarded unceremoniously to a side table, and not-Bakura-and-not-Mokuba-either had no choice but to wait and observe, as a pediatrician on a sudden housecall shined lights in the boy's eyes and rich kid, who the spirit had since gleaned was named Seto Kaiba, looked on in worry.

"You said you heard a voice?" The doctor asked.

"Uh-huh. I think it lives in the necklace."

"You got that thing at Pegasus's house?" Kaiba asked, in disbelief.

"I don't remember. I was just wearing it when I woke up."

"What did the voice say?" the doctor continued, professionally ignoring any talk about magic necklaces.

"Not a lot. It was kind of mean."

"I see." She turned to Kaiba. "He's fine, physically. You might want a psychologist." and Seto Kaiba made what could politely be referred to as A Face. This was not what he wanted to hear, this was news that worried and annoyed him in equal measure, and to some degree was news he had half-expected.

"He's had a rough few months. I'll look into it." and she was dismissed, and Mokuba hopped down from the counter.

"Can we order pizza?" he asked, with big pleading eyes.

Kaiba watched him with dry amusement. "Mokuba, you can have anything you want from any restaurant in a forty mile radius."

"And I want pizza. Real pizza, from somewhere that doesn't also serve caviar."

"Cheap pizza?"

He nodded very seriously. "The grossest greasiest cheapest."

"I can do that. Anything else you want?"

Mokuba's eyes lit up, and soon he was dragging Kaiba by the hand towards somewhere else in the house. "I got to this really hard level in my game I can't get past and I wanted to see if you could beat it, and I found this really cool video I wanted to show you, and I got a really good report card you never saw, and--" and months worth of pent up requests were tumbling out rapid fire, and Kaiba was smiling with affection and some amount of relief.

Loud and clingy, then, was the normal and expected behavior. The spirit of the ring made note of this, as he lie abandoned.

--

The ring was still sitting on a side table, in Mokuba's bedroom, apparently because no one knew what to with it or thought it mattered much. This was a problem. The spirit couldn't do anything without a host, and now everyone was suspicious, these stupid rich people worried too much and paid too much attention.

He was forced to sit there all night, pondering about how he was going to get out of this mess, when at one or two in the morning he observed Mokuba wake up, and rub his eyes, and hop out of bed. He did not turn the light on, but he did check the time, and reach under his bed to retrieve what appeared to be a small backpack. He took it with him as he moved quietly towards the door, and the spirit saw his chance.

Hey, kid. He was near enough to speak into his head. Maybe this wasn't a dead end.

"You!" Mokuba stopped in his tracks and looked right at the ring.

Yes, me. This could be salvaged, he thought, concocting a plan. This was a child. Play friendly ghost and imaginary friend. Surely it would not be hard to weasel himself into the good graces of a sixth grader.

Mokuba glared at the ring with suspicion. "I don't think Seto believed me when I said you could talk, but I knew it." He picked it up delicately by the string to examine.

Where on earth are you going at this time of night?

Mokuba was the current host, technically, so there was a connection, and 11 year olds are not particularly used to or adept at hiding their own thoughts, especially inside their own heads. The answer, if not in words but in abstract concept, was provided instantly as it bubbled to mind. He was going to the kitchen, as he did once or twice a week, not their personal kitchen but the house staff kitchen, where he would move a chair to stand on the counter to reach the very back of the highest shelf of the third cupboard to the left, which was where one of the cleaning staff kept a pile of chocolate so he could cheat on his diet without his wife knowing, a fact Mokuba knew through surreptitious eavesdropping. Mokuba's end was to steal just enough of it that he wouldn't be noticed, and add it to a stash of snacks and other shiny trinkets currently hidden in the bottom of a pile of legos in his closet.

...You steal food to hide in your closet? Why would a child who lived in a three-story mansion need to steal?

Mokuba was only mildly perturbed by the fact that someone had just read his mind. He was mainly curious, now. "Our dad didn't like junk food, so I always took stuff to keep around." he explained, "I guess I don't really have to anymore, 'cuz Seto will let me have whatever I want, but--" he faltered, unable to finish or give a reason.

There wasn't a reason, and Mokuba knew that. There was no need to sneak or stash or steal anymore, but he kept doing it, irrationally, for reasons that confused him, a complicated swirl of things a child could not name or understand but were very easy for the spirit to read. Fear; compulsion; habit; the illusion of safety; the sense that your life was precarious, unstable; a need to exert control over your surroundings. It was not the food or the stealing that mattered, but of the hiding, of having something they could not take away from him.

Mokuba didn't understand any of that, because he was 11 and 11 year olds don't understand why they do anything. He just knew he liked sweets and hated people telling him what to do and that having bags of chips and other people’s lost jewelry at the bottom of an old toybox made him feel better.

Can I come with you?

"No! You tried to take control of me!"

Yes, but you kicked me out, and you'd probably be able to do it again, so I would be stupid to try. I also like chocolate, you see, and it's very boring to be stuck here on your desk.

"Can you even eat? You're a necklace."

I can when I borrow a body.

"You tried to take over me so you could eat chocolate? I'm not stupid enough to believe that."

That and other things. I can't do very much at all, while stuck in the ring. No food, no sunshine, no running around. It's no fun to be without a body, which is why I am occasionally driven to steal one. Terribly sorry about that. he added, in his most pathetic-sounding tone, Please? I don't have anyone else to talk to.

Mokuba was hesitant, but clearly found the fact of his existence too interesting to ignore. "Fine." He picked up the ring and dropped it unceremoniously into his backpack, which had a dragon on it.

Not trust yet, but tolerance and curiosity. One step at a time.

You shouldn't go barefoot, you know. Socks will be quieter if you're trying not to get caught.

"I didn't ask you."

So Mokuba descended down the stairwell, in the dead quiet and dark of the Kaiba Mansion, with no flashlight because he knew it well enough to navigate blindfolded. The place was decadent in the ugly way rich people's houses were, luxury but without taste, soft carpets and gilded banisters.

Mokuba had not quite realized yet how to think at the ring, so he spoke in a low whisper. "What are you, anyway?"

A ghost. So much more complicated than that, but simple words were suitable for children.

"How'd you end up a ghost in a necklace?"

I died, and then someone put me in a necklace.

"That's not an answer." he followed up, "Do all dead people become ghosts?"

No. Just sometimes, maybe, if the way they died was especially violent or gruesome or terrible.

Mokuba frowned. He had caught on remarkably quickly to guarding his own head, but the spirit could tell he didn't like this answer.

This was delicate, but he risked a push. Was there someone you had in mind?

Mokuba said nothing. He reached the staff kitchen on the lowest floor, and opened the door, slow and careful. He was deciding whether to say anything, as he climbed up as quietly as he could and reached far into the back of the cupboard, scrabbling.

"Our dad killed himself last year. Jumped out a window." He finally said, hopping down with his spoils. He said this the same way one might dolefully report the milk had gone bad. Unfortunate but boring.

You don't sound very sad.

"Nah, he sucked. And he never liked me." he said, "Seto was really really upset though. He was pretending not to be, but I could tell." Now there were feelings there, big and weird and sad and clinging ones. For reasons the spirit could not discern, the simple phrase ‘Seto was upset’ carried with it more weight, a thousand million times more weight, than news of a father's tragic death by defenestration. "I hope he's not a ghost. I don't wanna see him again."

Probably not.

Mokuba sat down cross-legged on the kitchen floor, unwrapped candy in silver foil. "You really can't do anything from in the necklace? Like, ghost stuff? Make things float or anything?"

No. It is a bit like being trapped in a very small box.

Mokuba mulled this over for a little while. "If you wanted to borrow a body to do fun stuff, you could have just asked."

Really?

He nodded. "Not being able to eat chocolate sounds lame. It'd be mean to just leave you like that." He put one chocolate into his mouth and dumped the rest in the backpack, where they covered the ring unceremoniously. More indignities. "Not in front of my brother, though. And you have to give it back whenever I say so."

...I could agree to such a compromise. Your candy haul is impressive, by the way.

"Thanks!" He grinned, emanating genuine pride. No one had ever complimented him for stealing before.

Tragic, the work of great thieves. How the very best of it can never be bragged about, the most impressive of skills gone unnoticed by nature, how the very success of a perfect crime relies on keeping your mouth shut about it. An unappreciated art, where even mastery gains you no respect.

You don't care that this poor man has to go out and buy twice as much food to make up for what you steal?

"No, he's a jerk. One time when I was six they confiscated my gameboy, so I went to steal it back and he caught me and told my dad and I got in huge trouble. So every day for a week I snuck down here and moved his keys to a different place so he couldn't find them. They were all so mad at him for losing them all the time, and he thought he was crazy."

Why was your gameboy confiscated?

"Don't remember. I think I bit someone at school." he shrugged, "They probably deserved it, though."

Mokuba Kaiba. he said, I think you and I are going to be excellent friends.

"Okay. Do ghosts watch cartoons?"

#unsure if this is good enough to post to AO3 #but it was fun!

[beyond-far-horizons]

Mother to the Kaiba bros

Been thinking again about backstory and headcanons for Seto and Mokuba’s mother and can I say again how much I HATE the fridging and erasure of women esp mothers in fiction. 

We know nothing about Seto and Mokuba’s mother (or their real father either I know), but here is Priest Seto’s mother and wow what a babe! We can see where he gets his looks from and since he looks the same in present day I assume his mother looked the same there, so Mokie must get that mop of hair from Dad ^^! She’s even got the beautiful angular eyes and perky nose of his plus the blue preference. But like most shonen mums we know nothing about her apart that she died early (conveniently for the plot), same with Atem’s mother while the whole story revolves around Aknadin and King Aknamkanon’s struggles with duty and fatherhood and the legacy their sons inherit, both good and bad. 

In Shonen in particular (but also extremely common elsewhere) the mother will be dead (usually childbirth) or died early in childhood, having fulfilled her primary and only purpose of giving birth to a male character. Most of the time she will not even have a name or a face, let alone a job or dreams of her own. If she does it will usually be completely tied with her role as wife, mother and home-maker. 

Those are all beautiful things, but I hate when a woman gets reduced to just ancillary roles for the guys. She defined by how she supports the active characters - the boys/men and offed because that is considered ‘boring’ or for some cheap emotional pain. 

I love giving these characters a rich life and histories, even if it appears only as hints in a minor character. Mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, great aunts, friends, lovers, community members, female characters in general all deserve more and thinking broadly and against the grain makes our stories richer and truer to life.

Every time we write/create you have an opportunity to repeat the tropes of the past or better them. Please consider how you write female characters and give them the justice they deserve. :)

#seto kaiba #female characters #writing #shonen #mokuba kaiba #yugioh #meta #priest seto #yami yugi #atem

[steve0discusses]

Ep 45 Part 1: Wife Gone, Miss Wife

Hey y’all, been a while! I fully blame this last unexpected haitus on Tears of the Kingdom. Also a billion other life things I won’t go into because 👏 I 👏 Want 👏 To 👏 Talk 👏 About 👏 Dead 👏 Wife 👏 !

Like damn, we’re coming back for just...a wild episode. Remember how a few episodes ago we finally united Seto with his long lost wife card? (and I had to check my notes and um...it was actually last episode if you count Kaiba, and only Ep 39 if you count Egyptian Seto. So uh...6 episodes.)

Remember that moment? Anyway, she dies this episode.

Yeah. Like. Damn. That quick huh? Knowing Yugioh’s track record with wifeys we’re pretty lucky she’s been on screen even that long before she went the Valon route and just full on died from one brush of cards with Joey.

Speaking of Joey, we last left the gang fumbling through a series of puzzles to unlock the pharaoh’s name. Bakura, disguised as Tristan, ran head first in there and threw off any semblance of a disguise and y’all, lets see how long it takes the guys to realize this isn’t Tristan.

Inside of this glowing door is a room with absolutely no light in it, which, don’t worry about it. That’s just a thing we do in art when we don’t want to draw a background--blow it out with light.

(Read more under the cut)

MAN I have questions about the support bricks on the wall, but for now we’ll ignore that and look at the even more confounding giant bricks on the ground.

faced with a wall of Egyptian text on this pair of ancient Egyptian sunglasses they drew on the floor, it is lucky that Bakura cursed Tristan’s bean or else they would have never gotten past this room.

They’re zooming right by the fact that their friend is reading ancient Egyptian. A friend who is best known for 1.) Being a student janitor because he failed to become class president, 2.) being head of a “melons” club, and 3.) punching god-strengthed villains in the face when he should know better. A god which definitely didn’t get pissed as hell and immediately possess his bean earlier today.

So he levels with Yugi, using the biggest most simple baby words that Bakura knows, and they still talk right completely round each other.

Hey remember in Season Zero when that effed up thing happened and we all assumed it would never show up in this remake? (and by we I mean me)

It freakin showed up. My audible gasp when this show remembered that Yugi cursed um ALL of his friends. Like and he just straight up told them? Just like this?

Like at the start of this arc he and Pharaoh did have a chat about how Yugi didn’t have friends before he came along, but I thought they were gonna glaze over it! But nah, he just laid it out there that the past few years were all because Yugi got bored between class and wanted a buddy.

The implications of “hey we would not be friends if I didn’t curse your ass” is already pretty deep. But doing it within a brain puzzle that you followed your friend into, despite the fact you could literally die doing this, and realizing...the only reason you’re in this puzzle to begin with is because you were cursed 2-3 years ago...

...this is the Yugioh I never thought would come back. This season, man! This season goes so freakin fast and so freakin hard through things that like...this could be a whole episode in another show.

But, this is Yugioh, so we’re gonna put a pin in that.

Because it’s time to go back to Seto Kaiba’s past life and his nearly dead stranger friend that we have collectively decided is his wife, and by “we” I mean literally everyone on this show but Aknadin.

Aknadin sure doesn’t know what a “wife” is, but he sure as hell knows what it ain’t.

Kissara runs towards Seto in this huge, empty boss arena that I would avoid like the plague in any video game.

And speaking of based, Seto Kaiba shows up. Because this episode wasn’t unhinged enough yet. Seto Kaiba is here to be the greek chorus of his own wife’s death.

He’s noticed. He’s noticed this is weird.

It’s a different storyboarder this season, but this storyboarder is still dropping some great frames. Look at this Seto they gave us, just snooping behind a pillar. New PFP just dropped (that is if anyone was even still using twitter which like, my life has been extremely blessed ever since I left it, we should all leave it together.)

So anyway she farts out a Blue Eyes on turn one, and Seto just kind of seethes from behind a pillar while trying to parse just anything that is going on.

Aknadin decides to shove her (well, her dragon...spirit...thing) into the rock tablet during the card shenanigans that followed. I, at first thought it was with an Orichalcos, and I got very excited about how complicated this season was going to get before I realized it wasn’t lime green.

I do not fully understand the card shenanigans at play here, it was not covered in my education playing through Yugioh Duel Masters (Master Duel) but it doesn’t matter because of the power of...love? or whatever the hell vibes are going on between these two goobers. They, with their vague as hell energy, will stand together against whatever life throws at them.

And by that, I mean literally dying 5 seconds afterwards

Seto Kaiba behind a pillar watched this go down, confused by whether he should feel anything at all by this random series of events between a girl he had half a conversation with, and a guy who looks like him except with guns the size of barrels.

Seto, filled with the pure anger of his wifey’s revenge, also immediately biffed it in solidarity.

Seto still remained behind the pillar, because why interrupt this? I mean yeah he looks like yourself and that girl absolutely died but eh...he’s gonna stay behind the pillar. Maybe if he had a duel disk he’d have thrown a couple cards and done some property damage. but as you can see, there are not helicopters or cranes to do property damage with.

So instead he remains behind the pillar, which they didn’t draw here in this next frame.

And on the back of a horse, in gallops Pharaoh.

I live for these popcorn moments in TV, where we’re like “hey, what if we just threw these characters in a weird blender and see how they reacted?” and this episode is just--everyone ends up in this one random spot and they all collectively are like like “what? The hell is happening?”

And we will see more of that next update.

As usual, here is the link to read these in chrono order:

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

Next post will go up like tomorrow probably, but, may my post after that not take 2 months to make, lmao, I swear guys we are going to finish Season 5!

#YGO #Yugioh #Yu-Gi-Oh #recap #episode recap #long post #yami muto #seto kaiba #preist seto #?Was that the name? #yugi muto #bakura #Theif King Bakura #Season 5 #Episode 42 #Kissara #BEWD #SHE DEAD

[alectoperdita]

K/J #66 🌸

*cackles* I had so much fun with this one.

“I won’t let you get hurt.”

"Come out and face me, Set, you coward!"

The outraged roar rang from one end of the mansion to the other, rattling every window and door on its frame. Jounouchi winced and huddled further into the closet he and Kaiba had taken refuge inside. If the situation wasn't as dire as it had become, Jounouchi might be tempted to make a joke about their hiding place.

He jabbed an accusatory finger into Kaiba's bony shoulder. "Figures this is all your fault," he said quietly.

Kaiba pinned him with a fierce and bright gaze. "My fault?"

Jounouchi rolled his eyes. "Fine, whatever, your past life's fault. Do you gotta piss everyone off?"

"Maybe next time you should throw any package sent by the Ishtars straight into the incinerator," Kaiba hissed.

"They meant well! I'm sure they had no idea that your vindictive ex-wife had cursed the damn thing."

"Set's wife!" Kaiba corrected in a near shout, then clamped a hand over his mouth. He glared at Jounouchi over the top of his hand. 

At thirty, Jounouchi was officially "too old" for this shit. He was missing work. It was almost time for final exams, and he still had so much to prepare for classes. Maybe this was why Kaiba had been so damn cranky about the supernatural stuff when they were teenagers?

When the spirit first entered their lives several days ago, she had been more a nuisance than anything else. Twosret, Pharaoh Set's once queen, had eyes for nobody but Kaiba. When it became evident who she was, Jounouchi thought it best to keep his distance until Yuugi, or the Ishtars came up with a solution. Though only Kaiba and he could see her, she had been mostly harmless. Sure, she would follow Kaiba everywhere like a lost puppy, but the worst thing she did was treat Jounouchi like a servant.

Things took a turn for the worse when she learned the significance of the ring that Jounouchi wore on his left hand. Then she turned spurned, wreaking physical destruction all over the mansion with ear-shattering screeching. Last night, she tried to drown Jounouchi in the tub. Today, he and Kaiba were sneaking around their own home like thieves because she had locked them all in with some freaky magic.

"We can't stay like this forever," Jounouchi muttered and threaded his fingers with Kaiba's other hand, knocking their matching rings together. "You think Yuugi will get wind that something's gone wrong?"

They also had no means of reaching the outside world. Their cellphones and the landlines were all dead. Twosret wouldn't let them slip through her clutches that easily. Thank god Mokuba was currently abroad! At least the kid would be safe and far away.

Kaiba's jaws and his grasp tightened at the same time. "Perhaps. But it would be foolish to count on that. By then, it may already be too late." Then he stood and tried to dislodge Jounouchi's grip.

Jounouchi also climbed to his feet, but he refused to release his husband's hand. "What are you doing?" he asked, already knowing he was going to hate any answer Kaiba gave.

"I'm going to put an end to this one way or another," huffed Kaiba, now glaring at their intertwined hands though the glower did soften when he raised it to meet Jounouchi's eyes. "Do everything you can to get out of here. Make your way to Yuugi's if you can."

Jounouchi squeezed Kaiba's captured hand so hard that he must be cutting off his circulation. "No way am I leaving you to face this on your own, Seto."

"She wants me! You might still be able to escape."

"I. Ain't. Leaving. You."

Kaiba lifted his other hand to cup Jounouchi's cheek, flushed with fear and a healthy dose of anger. "I won't let you get hurt. I can't allow anything to happen to you. Please, Katsuya, just listen to me for once in your damn life."

"Fuck no, you bastard!" Jounouchi released his husband's hand only to throw both arms around his neck and embrace him tightly. "You're not getting rid of me that easily. Marriage vows works both ways. Till death do us part and all that junk. You fucking promised."

Arms encircled his waist, and Kaiba returned the hug with a shuddering breath. "I did."

#Anonymous #my fanfiction #puppyshipping #violetshipping #replies #writing prompts #ask memes #yugioh #thank you for playing! <3

[intheshadowofsignificance]

Stalemate

Number 3/30 of @bellamy-taft‘s birthday drabbles, I’m pretty proud of how this one turned out!

If interested, you can read and review this chapter here. 

Pegasus turned the music down to a dull roar, avoiding Seto's tired stare for his bookshelf. "Is arranging them by color supposed to endear me?"

"They're alphabetized, if you were expecting me to notice you handpicked the color wheel, I didn't."

Pegasus slid a paper-towel-wrapped breakfast sandwich through the hatch with little flourish. "Have you ever talked with Mokuba about death?"

"We're orphans." Seto said flatly, his gaze flitting over the food as he told himself not to panic. Crawford had never been so obvious, and especially now, it wasn't his style. "You suddenly can't spare a plate?"

"He was rather young when your father passed."

"We have better things to talk about than my dead father."

"Do we?"

Seto took the sandwich out, pointedly wiped down the hatch, and dropped it back in. "This is an extreme form of punishment even for you." He wasn't going to eat like he was one step above a dog, and refused to indulge any death talk.

"Believe me, Kaiba-boy, if I wanted to punish you there are much easier ways."

"At least turn the music down."

"I didn't hear a please."

Seto fought the brief urge to grit his teeth. Something had set Pegasus off to an extreme he hadn't seen before, and he couldn't believe it was the fault of one misaimed comment.

"Please." He carefully pushed the word out through his teeth, too aware of the slight whistle at the end of it.

Pegasus leaned in; hand cupped to his ear.

"Please. Turn. Down. The music."

"I do believe we've discussed this: the only one who gives order on my island is me."

Seto stared in disbelief, "Makes threats. The only one who makes threats is you. You're bringing up your dungeon at a time like this?"

"What exactly is 'a time like this?' I didn't realize our present meeting was more special than any of the others."

"Pegasus." Seto waited for their eyes to meet, both standing straight and still. Crawford's index finger and thumb found the volume dial, rolling it back.

"Yes, Seto?"

He nodded his thanks. "I hear you."

"Yes, I'm beginning to think you do."

"I need to know Mokuba is okay."

"He's safer now than you'd say he's ever been."

"I've never had a say in any of this."

"But, understandably, plenty of opinions about how I run the show."

It was hard not to make another "demand." Asking questions didn't get him anywhere either, but it was slightly better than pushing his luck. "What happened to her?"

Pegasus withdrew his hand and it slowly dropped back to his side. "You don't get to ask me that."

You don't get to hold your dead wife over my head when it's convenient and refuse to acknowledge her when it isn't.

"You want me to understand, I'm trying to."

"And I'm helping." Pegasus said calmly.

The speaker went off, and then the lights, before he made his way upstairs.

#glass fanfiction #seto kaiba #pegasus j crawford #maximillion pegasus #drabble a day for april

[3w-writer-with-wings]

Top 10 Worst Fathers in Yu-Gi-Oh!

10) Eliphas (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL)

(was responsible for the creation of the world that nearly collided with human world, treated his only “son” as a weapon and tried to brainwash him, attempted to kill a teenager multiple times and wipe out his memories, attempted to kill the citizens of Astral World who were healed by the power he didn’t approve of)

9) Ryou Bakura’s father (Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Side of Dimensions)

(neglected his son and despite the danger, stole an Egyptian artefact that ultimately caused his son to be possessed by an evil spirit that went on to kill many people)

8) Ryuji Otogi/Duke Devlin’s father (Yu-Gi-Oh! manga)

(neglected and forced his son to hate people he hated, attempted to break a child’s neck and caused a fire that nearly killed him)

7) Tron (Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL)

(brainwashed his three children, attempted to kill at least three teenage boys, caused many people to fall in a coma, stole souls from many people, including his own children and blinded a young woman)

6) Gozaburo Kaiba/ Seto’s adoptive father (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

(kept his dead son alive in virtual world pretending to care about him, only to replace him with another child that he abused, neglected and caused him to become just as ruthless as him and he attempted to kill both of his sons)

5)  Professor Cobra/Viper (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)

(exposed entire school to harmful devices that steal energy, caused many students to fall unconscious which endangered their lives, attempted to drown a student, brainwashed a professor into killing a student, attempted to kill a student, was responsible for entire school to be transported to a different dimension where they were turned into zombies, one student nearly died from an injury and one student went missing)

4)  Dr. Faker 

(sacrificed his best friends, neglected and forced his son into collecting dangerous cards and steal people’s souls, attempted to sacrifice his friend’s son, used his youngest son as a weapon to cause the destruction of an alien world and nearly killed four teenagers)

3) Marik’s father (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

(neglected his adoptive son, wife and daughter, physically punished and kept his family from the outside world, treated his adoptive son as a servant, forced the traditions onto his children, threatened to cut off his adoptive son’s tongue, carved a tattoo with a heated knife into the back of his youngest son despite his pleads, sliced the back of his adoptive son with a knife as a punishment and was consequently responsible for the creation of his son’s evil side that went on to kill many people)

2)  Dr. Kiyoshi Kogami (Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS)

(kidnapped and tortured 6-year old children, neglected and brainwashed his only son, created AIs with free will that nearly wiped out humankind, tried to destroy those AIs along with hundreds of people and destroy network on which people rely on)

1) Leo Akaba (Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC V)

(brainwashed entire school of students in order to turn them into child soldiers, caused the destruction of a dimension, sacrificed thousands of people, neglected his son and wife, kidnapped four innocent teenage girls and killed three of them, attempted to kill his friend’s son and consequently killed three innocent teenage boys)

#yugioh series #yugioh gx #yugioh vrains #yugioh zexal #yugioh arc v #yugioh manga #yugioh dark side of dimensions

[pharaohsparklefists]

Episode 111, part 1!!!1!

Kaiba’s finding out shit about this Noah punk but Noah has zipped away to deal with the Big Five. Back in his weird floating chair he has an awkward teleconference with them and gives out to them for attempting to steal bodies outside of the designated body-stealing zone.

Sick burn from a kid who has literally no friends ever.

(I presume he thinks that’s circumstantial and if he ever met anyone who wasn’t a kidnap victim, he’d make friends with them SUPER easily and without brainwashing them with eye lasers AT ALL.)

Anyway four of the Big Five are pissy cause they don’t have bodies, having failed in their attempts to rightfully (?) win the bodies by dueling the owners of the bodies in a trading card game. One of them DOES have a body, despite losing the trading card game. He claims he won Honda’s body fair and square. The others mock him. Noah’s like omg smh stfu idc 

and then for some reason Noah is like, okay adult criminals, you get One More Chance, you can duel someone and if you win, you can steal whatever bodies you want I guess smh idc

of course. whatever. great. more card games.

MEANWHILE, the reunited Nerd Herd, guest starring Kaiba, is walking down a road when Kaiba suddenly gets fed up and turns to walk the other way and the others are all like, hey now buddy where are you going don’t leave us which, like, none of all y’all have the first fucking idea where you’re going, just follow Kaiba if he wants to walk the other direction, like?? but they don’t and instead, Anzu sprints ahead of him and confronts him 

He’s like, I’m going to go find Mokuba and that’s private KaibaCorp(tm) business so I’ll sue you if you come along, or something equally reasonable, and Anzu’s like, uhh we’re worried about you and Mokuba whether you like it or not also we’ve all been KIDNAPPED here so jot that down, and also... 

And Kaiba’s like, maybe if I just don’t look directly at her she’ll stop talking to me with her facts and her rational points and her human emotions, so he just, like, turns his head to face away, exactly like a cat

And then he’s like, hey if worrying about friends is a thing you want to do how about you worry about THAT friend over there and points behind them and they all turn and he runs away, I swear to god

“Nailed it. Kaiba out.”

Honestly I think this would have worked pretty well even if there HADN’T been a worrying friend on a nearby cliff, but there was, so he makes a clean break.

So while the Nerd Herd face down their fallen comrade, now inhabited by a corporate executive (this show is such a trip), Kaiba heads off on his lonesome to find Mokuba and brood, not in that order.

Firstly, WOW is this episode animationally inconsistent. USE CHARACTER MODELS, YOU FUCKING NERDS.

Secondly, again, I strongly criticise this writing decision. Seto and Noah didn’t have to look alike, the writers chose to make them look alike. The story plays out exactly the same if they don’t look alike, because Seto was never Noah’s body double or anything. Dead people can’t be choosers. It’s important that SETO choose GOZABURO, it’s an important part of Seto’s characterisation. He targets someone he knows has power and wealth, and challenges him in a way he’s calculated to be likely to succeed. Gozaburo picking Seto out and then going along with Seto’s chess gambit, always intending to adopt them anyway, puts way too much of the control back in Gozaburo’s hands.

Anyway, since Noah told him he was Gozaburo’s son but his current age doesn’t line up right at all, Kaiba decides that one of two things must be true. Either Noah is lying about what happened, or...

(appose lol)

I think it’s VERY TELLING that this is the only other solution Kaiba came up with. They’re in a VIRTUAL REALITY, Noah could easily be 34 and just a fucking weirdo who uses a child avatar. Noah could be Gozaburo in disguise. Noah could be someone else from Gozaburo’s past, like an ex-wife or a best friend or the creepy butler dude. Noah could be an AI spooling plausible nonsense from Seto’s memories like one of those bots that tries to write recipes or whatever based on pattern recognition. 

But no, Kaiba jumps straight for...

“How does that always happen to me?”

In fact, Kaiba thinks...

It amuses me a lot that Kaiba came up with the ghost theory ON HIS OWN and then ascribed it to “Yugi’s occult garbage” like excuse me sir this is 100% home-grown occult garbage, farmed organically in your own brain. He obviously just misses Yami.

All this time, Kaiba was climbing up an incredibly long flight of stairs and one would wonder why, since it’s a virtual reality and any direction is as likely as any other so why not walk downhill? But it’s because he wants to stand on the top of the landform and shout.

It’s more like MOKUBAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

“YOU’RE GROUNDED FOR A MONTH UNLESS YOU UNKIDNAP YOURSELF RIGHT NOW, KID”

It is unclear if Mokuba can hear him, but Noah, still in his floating chair can; he’s watching him on a screen. Noah asks Mokuba if Mokuba wants to go back to Seto, but Mokuba is still very brainwashed

:(

Y’know, I know, redemption is always a fun what-if, and Noah wasn’t all bad in the end, etc etc, but this shit - separating the brothers, dredging up their worst traumas, and then brainwashing Mokuba completely into a puppet - is why I can never get behind Noah getting included in fluffy Kaiba bros shit. Like whatever you’re into, but I find it jarring to be reading/admiring fanwork and I’m like “aww Kaiba and Mokuba buying each other cute presents OH GOD NOAH IS HERE RUN”

Anyway, gazing out from the top of his shouting-hill, Kaiba sees a familiar sight

FOG! I mean, Kaibaland.

#sparklefists watches ygo #Yu-Gi-Oh! #episode 111 #KaibaCorp #seto kaiba #Mokuba #Noah #nerd herd #Anzu Mazaki #the big five