#would bakura be impressed by the salesman successfully convincing ryou's dad into buying something he believes is fake

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i think the canonical reason ryou has the ring is because his dad bought it at a shady stall in egypt. which is a classic origin story for cursed artifacts but like. the millenium items are solid gold. no graverobber worth their salt is going to sell it to some random englishman for a fraction of its value.

so, here's my theory for why that happened: the items are equal parts gold, liquefied flesh, condensed dark magic, and trapped souls. i like to think the last 3 have some effect on the physical properties of the metal.

like, for example, fucking up the density. or preventing it from tarnishing. or, just generally, being a lot more indestructible than gold generally is (gold is, notably, a very soft metal)

basically i like to think that whoever found it went "oh this thing is super fake, bet I can find a gullible tourist though!"

#i like the idea of extremely extremely valuable and rare artifacts being mistaken for something ultimately worthless #would bakura be impressed by the salesman successfully convincing ryou's dad into buying something he believes is fake #or would he be pissed at someone having the audacity to claim the ring that houses his soul is mere fools gold #who can say!! #either way he's ryou's problem now!! #yugioh