#aknadin

[rainstormcolors]

You've heard of "How can Pegasus be just 24 years old?"

Now get ready for:

[ap-kinda-lit]

The other day I was rewatching the scene between Moses and Seti in The Prince of Egypt and it made me think of a scenario where the same thing happens between Atem and Aknadin

[sktachi]

More OC/AU stuff.

[emotigonecreative]

Kalor Session 9

The party fight the strange shadow creatures, finding that Lillian’s radiant power is the most effective against the monsters. Lydia tries to hold their own but when they try to use their magic it surges wildly, summoning a unicorn instead of the spell they wanted. Lydia rolls with it, trying to get the unicorn, who declares themselves as Gwain, to work with them to fight the creatures. It begrudgingly obliges,much to Lillian’s delight as the unicorn takes a shining to her. Lydia locates the source of the disturbance—a shadow stone in a well— and with the stone nullified the party is able to defeat the remaining shadows.

When the party compares the stone to the one Lumivarax found in the Sassaran ruins it’s remarkably similar— almost identical— and when Aknadin takes one to inspect it he surprises the party by turning its powers on them. He is surprised when the party is seemingly unaffected, until they all realize Buberry’s eyes are glowing a sickening purple as he turns his bow on them. Aknadin uses the distraction to escape, holding the stone and producing a strange dark portal that whisks him away. With Aknadin gone, Buberry returns to normal, with no memories of what happened. 

The party, hoping to somehow pursue Aknadin, investigate the remaining stone. They are unable to discern its nature, determining it is neither arcane nor divine, but discover that channeling magic into it causes it to teleport the user an undetermined amount of space in any direction, as Lydia and Victor test it on land, and Vanth and Lillian test it in the sky. They learn that it seems to work through shadows as the further they teleport, the more they glimpse a strange darkness enveloping them.  The tests come to an end when Buberry and Lydia try to teleport thinking of home, the astral plane, instead winding up in a shadow dimension and catching sight of a strange creature they can’t identify.

They quickly teleport back and Victor wonders if this strange stone is related to rumors he heard of the Sessaran Empire and their ability to appear and disappear armies. He concludes it’s almost certainly the reason for the disturbances in Trost, with accounts describing the same shadows.

They are gearing up to leave as Robert returns, having been lost in the tunnels as they tried to escape the guards. He was able to smuggle their things out of the city, notably their cart, and is shocked to learn that Aknadin betrayed them and escaped. They gather up whatever animals and supplies they find in the abandoned village, leaving a warning of the shadow creatures for any travelers who happen upon the place.  Lillian finds a small altar of Sol and prays over the lost souls, while Victor sets up a headstone for the lives lost to the uncontained magic of the stone.

Disguising themselves as peasants to avoid attention the party takes to the road heading to Augustine, setting up camp off the path in the tree line as Lydia uses their magic on the earth to conceal them and their carts from passerby. As the rest of the party settles down, preparing their gear and hunting for food, Vanth quietly slips away, spotting her silver raven returning with a message from Corvus noting they will meet in person. 

During the night, the party spots a caravan of knights and a carriage bearing the emblem of the royal house. Captain of the Guard, Vinick, is surprised when they approach, admitting the King has been searching for them.The King himself emerges from the carriage and inquires about Aknadin, expressing concern but not surprise at his betrayal.

Vanth, Lydia, Lumivarax, Victor, and Robert enter the King’s carriage to discuss what transpired in Dito as the rest of the party keep watch— wary of another betrayal. The party explains the situation, and the King explains the Lumber permits that caused him to be cursed by the fey were signed with Aknadin’s name. 

The King mentions bringing this information to the Arbiter Council, but Victor refuses, telling the King he shouldn’t trust the guilds. He and the party explain their suspicions about Reynard, the warning from Jace, and the King reveals that it was Aknadin that pushed the idea to start excavating the Sessaran ruins in Trost. When the King brings up the long-ago death of the crown prince, drowned at the tender age of eight in one of the castle ponds, the party speculates that perhaps Aknadin has always been working against the crown. Victor wonders if Aknadin also had a hand in the death of Jace and the Istirian ambassador. 

 He asks the party what he can do to help them get to the bottom of this, and they express interest in records on the Filodaxi's history. Vanth gives the King her silver raven statue so he can send them what he finds. He also mentions an inert stone on Aknadin’s desk, dark and crystalline, and the party asks the King to look into it as well.

The king promises to give them what he can, and with that they exit the carriage and the King returns to Augustine with his retinue.

Back in Augustine, the city is on high alert, so the party uses forged documents to pass as merchants. Robert sets up his ship, and Lydia accompanies him while Buberry scouts the city. Meanwhile Victor visits the church to seek information about Filodaxi from a priest named Christopher.

With his mule safely aboard the ship Lydia leaves Robert to his work and tracks down Lillian and Vanth, while Buberry meets up with Lumivarax to find a seedier market to pawn off the remaining spoils from their mission in Trost. 

Soup finds the magic shop with Lillian and Vanth as they try to re-up their supplies, but when he calls out to her the shopkeeper recognizes Lillian’s name and begins alerting the guards. In a panicked response, Lydia’s magic surges again, accidentally casting Magic Missile at 5th level, killing the shopkeeper and three others, and leaving one person grievously injured. Five guards immediately converge on them, and Lydia decides they might as well get the supplies they came for and begins looting the store as chaos ensues.

[bakorrra2]

I wish it was more painful for him

[hopefulstarfire]

Yknow what infuriates me to this day

The fact that this motherfucker

Still managed to make it to the afterlife with the rest of Atems little group.

I'm sorry you're telling me. The man that committed mass murder, a fucking genocide against an entire village, the guy who CREATED THE CURSED ITEMS OUT OF MURDERED SOULS, didn't get his fucking heart eaten when his soul faced judgement?????

You're fucking with me right????

I will pull a Kaiba and hurl myself into the afterlife just to beat this man's ass WHY IS HE THERE--

[steve0discusses]

S5 Ep 42 Pt 2: We are All Warhammer Minis

Last we left off, Bakura just reminded Yami that he did, in fact, invite him to play a Shadow game, and then Yami just kinda never realized the game had started. Yami was warned, Bakura explains, It’s not like he wasn’t told exactly what would happen.

Which is a weird ass thing to say, when it like involved Bakura crashing Yami’s funeral.

Like Yami was supposed to DIE in that tomb, right? Like he was gonna find peace and happiness and then peace the hell out of Yugi’s haunted bean. But instead of perma-dying, he’s freakin stuck here. With Bakura. For the end of his days. His very worst frenemy. The ultimate trap. What a weird way to hang out with Bakura, getting trapped like this.

It is interesting how the Alexander the Great arc actually does play into this arc. Shada did make a model of the past for them to fight in, and now Bakura’s doing the same except way more dramatic because unfortunately it alters history.

(read more under the cut)

Don’t think too much about what would even happen to Yugi and friends if you damage or move anything from 5000 years ago. Like I’m pretty sure you can knock over a few cans of ancient Egyptian paint and just Greece would have ceased to exist. That’s how tenuous changing the past seems to me, if I have learned anything from Twilight Zone.

The fact that without Yugi existing in the future, would mean Yami would not have been able to alter the past: don’t think about that. Shadow Realm means we don’t think about that. Shadow Realm does what it pleases.

That or this show is going to split off into hundreds of multiverses just like Marvel and honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.

Also, we are informed that the rainbow filter is not so much of a Aknadin technique as it is a Bakura’s busted hourglasses technique.

Also it took me 2 watches of this episode, making the caps, editing this out, to realize that he has the hourglass sideways. The three hourglasses are just hourglasses in three directions, sand going down, sand going up, or sand staying still. Holy crap, y’all, long covid: my brain took way too long to realize that.

But we got there!

Did I go “wtf” when Joey was like “ah, I could get used to this!” Yes, yes I did.

At that point, Zorc shows up to give Aknadin a wish, I guess. Like a genie.

And then he was immediately doused in purple gatorade.

You may be wondering “hey, but I thought you can’t make Zorc because Yami locked Zorc away when he lost his own damn name” and don’t worry, Bakura already thought about that.

I guess the function of the last hourglass is “I put a gun to the plot and told it to step forward or I swear to Gods, I will shoot.” He can bend future time one single time at his will, and waited this long to use it. Probably because youknow, it’s Bakura, he’s not going to choose any time to do this but the very rudest time to do so.

Back at Casa Pharaoh, Tristan has made it to the chamber of legs. Notice how Yami’s Dad is the only guy who was like “Hell no, I’m not shaving for my portrait, just draw me in a robe.” Just like me every time I decide to wear tights with a skirt.

Turns out that yes, Yami deleted his own name just everywhere. The curse he got cursed with was very effective.

And back at Aknadin and his awkward family reunion, Seto is kind of over having a family and it’s only been like less than a minute of having one.

No, they did not have a moment of “Wait! Yami is my cousin???” which like, asking your Son to kill his cousin sure is moment. Also the moment of realizing your cousin is 2 feet shorter than you and trying to figure out how that works.

And now, Seto’s Dad looks like this guy:

It’s a look. It’s a card somewhere.

So, in a moment that was hard to cap, Aknadin decided to blast everyone in the face with a plasma beam, and out of the clouds comes Hassad, here to block to blows and take a fireball the chest, like a trooper.

Now if you don’t remember Hassad, he was a hallucination that Pharaoh had in the cave before he saw himself as a literal baby and was like “yikes” and left the cave. Turns out, Hassad is the protector of the Pharaohs, and is finally here to do his damn job.

After Yami, uh, already died once, but youknow what? Better late than never, Hassad!

But unfortunately, this means we’re back at square one, that’s right, it’s time to duel again!

But like, next episode. don’t worry. It’s next episode.

phew.

Like seriously Yugi has done more damage to planet earth than most anime children. Power to him.

And then as I was capping I realized something about Dartz, and I said “I’ll find a way to organically fit this into the commentary” and maybe if I had a better brain I would have done that. Instead, an aside about Dartz’s season that I keep thinking about this season with Bakura.

Because never forget Dartz walked into Cairo, saw Yami, and was like “neat, I’m gonna steal his power” and then saw Bakura and then immediately turned around. When like, this is all that Bakura does.

This leaves so many questions about Bakura and who he was before he was possessed by the spirit of the ring, and when he got possessed by the ring, since he was supposed to be in prison right? So...that was one pissed off prisoner to just have VIBES that were enough to throw off Dartz.

Anyway, that’s all for now, as per usual, here is the link to read these from the beginning, if you so desire. I know my update schedule is so slow atm, but my backlog is pretty freakin strong at this point so there’s more, if you’re new here:

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

[kaibasupremacy]

// episode 214

[thewittyphantom]

I found really cool fan art of Seto and Mokuba’s biological dad being an Aknadin reincarnation (complete with Eye).

https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/127att0/wip_of_family_portrait_of_what_seto_mokubas/

[verybadatcardgames]

Just a crazy man being carried off with his silly delusions. Nothing to see here. Move along

[likeadog]

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[rainstormcolors]

YGO hot take / speculation under the cut.

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Given when Kazuki Takahashi was born (1961), and how his parents had to have lived through WWII, I'm reflecting on maybe part of why Aknadin was written as he was. Decidedly the bad guy, but also the idea of how love attempted to move through the generations, even as it may have been so tainted. Recognizing this was the bad guy, but trying to see the love that might have been there. This isn't to say fans can't spit on and hate on Aknadin, and I've always pulled away from this kind of discussion for a few different reasons including that, but I kind of always had a little bit of this impression in this writing choice.

I just rewatched Ringing Bell which has that reading too, of soldiers returning home from the war as different people. And then I think of Kazuki Takahashi saying in the back of the bunkobans: "Just as there is nobody in this world who is “complete”, their fathers even moreso, are just human too. There is reason to assume that they, too, in the midst of struggling to survive in this world, might have lost a piece of their heart and were just worn-down warriors."

[zxlo-hxlo]

I still have more, I just can't be bothered to find them all.

[kisara-kaiba]

okay so trying to plan out a mizushipping fic was much harder than i anticipated bc trying to write something that actually has to somewhat fit into a canonical timeline is so frustrating

[emotigonecreative]

Kalor session 8

The party managed to escape into the sewers, but are unable to shake the guards. Armed with wands of magic missile the Istirian forces pursue them deep into the subterranean system, dealing heavy damage to the party front liners. Lumivarax goes down several times, much to Lillian's dismay as she struggles to heal him, but Victor saves him by breaking Haste on enemy wizards, causing them to abandon their chase.

With the guards fatigued, the party is able to slip away deeper into the tunnels under Dito. When they encounter a locked door Lydia manages to slip through in their more gelatinous form- but not unnoticed as Aknadin and Lillian clock the action, raising their suspicions about the strange "half-elf".

Worn out and low on health the party realized they aren't out of the woods yet as a bloated corpse rises from the knee deep water, the mummy grasping onto Lillian and cursing her with Mummy Rot.

Again the party is able to escape, and finally reach an exit overlooking the grand river that surrounds the city and marks the edge of the Istirian border. Safely on the other side they set up camp, Aknadin sending a message to update the queen on the disastrous peace mission to Istiria while Lydia and Buberry go hunting.

Victor, feeling the will of Sol driving him to protect Lillian and root out the foes who would have them falsely accused takes the oath of the paladin, asking Lillian to guide him. Sol, seemingly pleased, reaches out through them to cure Lillian’s mummy rot curse, the power turning a streak of Victors hair and Lillians purity ribbon a brilliant gold. Lumivarax welcomes Victor to the ranks of paladins.

Vanth meanwhile distances herself from the party to send a message to Corvus via her silver raven statue, asking if the Pike's death and their subsequent blame is part the Moon’s designs. Lumivarax attempts to attune to the Shadow Stone he found in the ruins near Trost, while Victor gifts Lillian a Ring of Spell Storing.

The next morning the Party heads back toward Augustine, encountering a seemingly deserted village. Lillian immediately recognizes it as the same one in her visions, but before she can warn the party properly Lydia ventures off to investigate alone, coming face to face with a dangerous shadow creature.

[bakorrra2]

I really wish this game existed