#seto theories

[maridoodles]

i put too much thought into the backing cards for my new charms

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[posuegg]

[ryuichifuwa]

DO YOU EVER THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK.

[fatedroses]

I swear I'm gonna be paranoid for this specific gradient of ourple.

[moonogre]

“I will not let your lack of curiosity deter my charity. I sought you out to relieve you of your regret, for once in your miserable life.” Yes! Miserable! He was miserable! His life was miserable. And in that moment he felt like he would die, for the chance to make Kaiba miserable, too: maybe he could abandon himself to the fast-festering violence inside him, and inflict a hurt that was finally worthwhile. Kaiba smirked as though he could read his every thought. Go on, he seemed to dare. And then the words echoed from the day before: I know you don’t have it in you. 

Instability Theory

Kaiba’s declining mental state is jeopordising KaibaCorp’s most ambitious project yet. Jonouchi hasn’t seen his dad for weeks now and is starting to worry. They can probably help each other out, if they can get their issues out of the way first. A violet fairytale. Sci-Fi; Hurt/Comfort.

Read Chapter Three on Archive of Our Own.

Pairings: Jonouchi Katsuya & Kaiba Seto

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: This story is a dark one, so please beware. Future chapters will revolve around distressing subject matter concerning child abuse and CSA. This chapter is tagged for neglect, alcoholism and physical abuse.

Status: Chapter 3/?; 33,032 words.

Tags: daddy issues, rampant paranoia, sad boy saviour complex, malfunctioning virtual reality, hallucinations, enemies to lovers, fairytale allegories, strange dream sequences, bizarre dissociative internal monologues, marathon sex (eventually), canon inspired, character study

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[kisaraslover]

im a SUCKER for Kaiba's 5 millennia accumulated guilt manifest into overprotective behavior over Kisara. the strongest moments hes tied to his past as Seth, remembering, feeling etc would be because of her or BEWD, those moments are when Set and Seto feel like 1 very long life, like when youre reminded of kindergarten friends, or the air of your elementary school winters. heavy heart until you shake it off

[hibiy4]

赤目色

[empty-dream]

A heart that rescues hearts

Finally I can redraw from this scene in Shounen Brave. A split second scene that I truly love because I believe those are the eyes that knows everything (I've said this 1000 times probably).

If he has always been aware of the loops and all the bad things that have happened and will happen if he saves Marry yet he still does it anyway, then brave he is.

[dryades-angeli]

Serenity and Kisara are may the same person?

Some Silentshippers speculate that Serenity and Kisara could be the same person. And the artist Setsunakou has also taken up this idea in her artworks. Among others in this picture. ~*~ L O O K: Both have those trademark eyes that Kishimoto uses for most of his female characters. Mai and Ishizu, for example, have different eye shapes that make them look a little more grown-up. Important to note: Serenity's previous design even had blue eyes, like Kisara.

Now let's get to the hair. As you can see from Seto and Mahad, the incarnated people do not necessarily to have exactly the same appearance. Seto's Egyptian version has longer hair and Mahad, as a magician, has a different hair color. So Kisara's incarnation may have shorter hair and a different hair color. The fact that Serenity doesn't have her hair on her face isn't a sign that she couldn't be Kisara. Look here:

The old version of Joey Wheeler had the same parted hair as Serenity. In the new version they fall in his face. When Akiza from 5D's opens her hair, it looks almost exactly like Kisara's. So if Serenity put her hair over her face, she would look almost exactly like Kisara. C H A R A K T E R: Let's try to assign character traits to the two. Serenity: Good-natured, gentle, a little naive, compassionate, shy, vulnerable, have her inner strength, optimistic, fragile. Kisara: Mysterious, lonely, shy, calm, sometimes a little self-confident. Ine the manga more passive, lonly and tired of life.

I looked for the characteristics from the relevant wikis. So they are not mine. Kisara and Serenity seem pretty weak at first glance. Seto even had to save Kisara twice, because she didn't know how to help herself. Serenity, on the other hand, is very attached to her big brother and lets him protect her. Tristan also sacrificed himself for her in the duel against Nezwitt in the virtual world. Both are quite shy and reserved, even seem a little fragile. Both are very gentle and have their inner strength that comes out in crucial moments. The differences Serenity seems to be cheerful, naive and a little more dependent than Kisara. On the other hand, Kisara makes a rather mysterious and lonely impression. But that also has to do with how they grew up. Serenity always had the protection and love of her mother and brother. Kisara, on the other hand, seemed to have had no one. Especially since she was captured by slave traders, stoned and had to fight alone against monsters. If Kisara had grown up as sheltered as Serenity, her character would not have been any different. S E T O ` S R E A C T I O N: I'm talking about Seto Kaiba here, not Priest Seto. Just to be able to classify it. When he met Kisara, he was extremely shocked because he recognized her from a vision of himself. He had this vision after Battle City and the Virtual World. When he meets Serenty, he reacts quite calmly, indirectly fulfills his request and his gaze rests on her for quite a long time. So it could be that he subconsciously recognized her but couldn't place her. As I said, he only knew Kisara from one of the visions he had after his meeting with Serenity. ~*~ It will probably remain just a theory. But to me it makes perfect sense. What do you think about that?

[shinayashipper]

Yugi is such a doting boyfriend but can't really handle being Doted which Kaiba is Very Determined to change

[d1g1talw0rld]

The full post, everyone!

In ancient Egypt, the color green was considered a sacred color. It was associated with life, death, the natural world, religion, and rebirth. These themes are also very relevant to the two green-haired characters in Yugioh, Noa Kaiba and Seto Kaiba (in his season zero/early manga iteration)

Life and death are fairly straightforward. Both Noah and Seto experienced death, and yet did not die. Noah died physically and yet lived on in the DIGITALWORLD, and Seto died mentally due to his penalty game, though his physical body was mostly unharmed. Both associate winning with life and freedom, and losing with death. In the end, Seto transcends reality to enter the afterlife, and Noah accepts death as it was always meant to happen. They also both see violence as a survival strategy, which leads into the natural world.

Both Kaiba brothers, for their talk about ascending and computerlike minds, operate on very animalistic instincts. Both have an incredible survival drive, and are willing to do anything to protect themselves or the ones they care about. For instance, Noah beliving if he were to kill Seto and the others he would be able to escape and live as a human again, or Seto in the rooftop scene, desperately gambling with his last chance, as he saw it was the only option to save the brother who kept him going. However, they both also show a distinct leaning away from said natural world, either by choice or by circumstance. Noah is trapped inside a computer that slowly degrades his humanity, and Seto engrossed himself inside of fantasy games and technology that rivals any great miracle (he even bragged so himself).

Religion is another theme they share. Noah's more direct symbolism pulling from many cultures, including the tree of life he was shown with, Noah's Ark, angels, but most importantly, Noah shows religious guilt and religious trauma, in an indirect way. Pleading to a face in the sky, asking "Why wasn't I good enough to go with you". Seto is the opposite. Seto killed his "god" and would happily do it again. He even told Yami/Atem that "if God stands in you way, bring God down!" Seto denies all possibilities of magic and faith, until the bitter end, even though he becomes a godlike figure in his own right (making things from nothing, connecting almost all of mankind, TRANSCENDING DEATH and/or TIME), and worshipping Atem as a distant God he can never "knock down" (his hologram of him is IN A CHURCH, it isn't stuble)

Rebirth, likewise, isn't stuble. Noah found rebirth in the DIGITALWORLD, a parody purgatory of life after death. And he also found a rebirth of the soul, as his interactions with Mokuba sparked a return of his dead and dormant humanity again. Seto…Firstly Seto rose from poverty and cast aside his name to become a powerful figure with a new life, in a metaphorical rebirth. He also has died multiple times due to various shadow penalties (the illusion of death where he died and was resurrected ad nauseum for eight hours comes to mind specifically), and always bounced back. And of course, he ventured to the paradise of the dead to return his lost Atem to life. He was the Orpheus who didn't look back, because he refused to look back all his life, and it was all building up to something in the end.

Both of these characters have or have had at some point, green hair. However, it's more complex than that. Noah's hair is closer to teal, a mix of blue (which is the color of the ocean and also associated with technology) and green, symbolising how he's slightly to the left of those things, a perversion of the natural cycle, even, a rather unsettling interruption of nature. Noah's teal symbolises the blending of technology into something supposed to be natural, and taking over it, as the color leans much closer to blue. Seto's hair is commonly interpreted as dyed, as in that he created his own versions of these cycles with man-made materials, as he always had a tendency to do. Both green haired Kaiba brothers show different variations on a theme, different formats of a line. Perhaps, even, different shades of a color.

[tititiri]

I noticed something interesting...

Although fact that name is clearly inspired by Egyptian mythology.... god Seth. However, should I translate Kaiba's name as "shallow human"?

Another issue is that the name can be written in 3 other ways:

My theory: I think the choice of characters wasn't accidental. After all, Seto is a character inspired by a person who annoyed KT. Why didn't they have a reason to choose just such characters for his name for a kind of "revenge"? (I would probably do that myself XD)

I don't think anyone can deny that he is a character with a very complex personality. If it's the master's Takahashi sense of humor, I appreciate it very much (:

On the other hand, the use of the character 人(human), along with a name overtly applicable to a deity gives one pause for thought....

●Seto Kaiba despite the fact that he tries to portray himself as a God, Messiah, who saves and rules the entire world of duelists. A person who has power over the souls of the inhabitants of Domino City... is still just a man who has both advantages, disadvantages, weaknesses and fragile body.

I hope you will find it interesting. I'd love to hear what you guys think about it.

On the subject of writing the name, I used this source

I'm aware that Japanese names aren't as easy to explain as European names. In the case of Japanese names, I have encountered the claim that only the parent who gave the name has full knowledge of why them chose it.

[shironezuninja]

Some of the songs on the DP & Wolvie movie OST won’t be making it to my music playlist. Promo videos for the film had songs that SHOULDA been on the OST. “Like A Prayer” was the only one that was heard from Promo Video to Film.

[moonogre]

Snippet 3

Business | Technology 

KaibaCorp Dreams of Another World

May 28 

“It’s not a question of what’s next. It’s what’s happening right now. Right in front of you.”

These are the words from the seventeen-year old visionary Seto Kaiba, known worldwide as the reigning Duel Monsters champion and CEO of KaibaCorp (TSE:KBA). His advice seems perfect for this moment: he is standing right in front of a gigantic dragon. It is screaming and ready to attack and he is fearless. 

The creature in question is one of three in the world that belong to the young CEO: Blue Eyes White Dragon, a rare Duel Monsters card and the star of KaibaCorp’s impromptu demonstration of its latest project: Scheherazade.

Named after the fabled storyteller of “One Thousand and One Nights,” Scheherazade is as much a technological marvel as it is a philosophical leap forward. The platform creates immersive worlds drawn from both written stories and players’ own memories, merging fiction and reality into a seamless experience. A combination of machine learning, memory recall, and advanced simulation technology allows the system to respond and adapt for real-time, constant immersion. While virtual reality has been evolving steadily over the past decade, Scheherazade’s memory integration takes it to another level, with unprecedented possibilities for storytelling, education, and, of course, gaming. 

Its most immediate application will be for duelists, offering fully interactive Duel Monsters matches in an arena where the creatures seem to step out of the cards and into life. Industry insiders speculate that this move could put KaibaCorp at the forefront of both gaming and virtual reality, potentially outpacing rivals like Industrial Illusions (NYSE:ILL) and Meta (NASDAQ: META).

This is the latest in the bold new direction forged under young Kaiba’s leadership, which transformed KaibaCorp from an arms contractor to a tech powerhouse, pioneering innovations at the intersection of telecommunications, augmented reality and entertainment. KaibaCorp’s origins date back to the post-World War II era when it rose to prominence as a leading arms manufacturer, standing just behind global defence giants like Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman Corp (NYSE: NOC). The company’s previous success in the defence sector is often credited to the founding family’s deeply personal experience with war: Ryu Kaiba, KaibaCorp’s founder, served in Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour. The war also impacted his son, the late Gozaburo Kaiba, who was one of the 650,000 survivors of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 

The latter half of the twentieth-century saw KaibaCorp as a bastion of military technology, supplying weapons to governments around the world. Yet the company was perpetually mired in controversy, and a frequent target of political outcry for its contributions to war and conflict. Protests frequently accompanied its business dealings, which placed it at the centre of public debate about the ethics of arms dealership. It is speculated that mounting pressure and dwindling public support factored into the shocking suicide of Gozaburo Kaiba, who jumped to his death from the KaibaCorp headquarters during a meeting with the company’s board of directors. 

This tragedy would make it the third time Seto Kaiba had lost a parent. Gozaburo Kaiba adopted both the current KaibaCorp CEO and his younger brother, KaibaCorp’s Senior Manager of Technology Operations, Mokuba Kaiba, following the deaths of their parents. Their mother died of eclampsia while giving birth to Mokuba, and their father was killed in a car accident in the infamous Izumo Earthquake Disaster.

Seto Kaiba succeeded Gozaburo as CEO of KaibaCorp at fifteen, making him the youngest person to ever lead a billion-dollar company. His youth left him no shortage of ideas, and he set the company on course for a seismic shift in focus. He went on a buying spree, absorbing a staggering number of promising computer technology companies in his first quarter as CEO. He also terminated operations at KaibaCorp’s global weapons testing centres and completely divested the company from projects supporting armed conflict. These actions led KaibaCorp to several high-profile lawsuits for defaulting on its contracts and sales agreements. These disputes were settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.     

Between the payouts, acquisitions and lack of customers, KaibaCorp was teetering on financial ruin. The company was saved with Kaiba’s most notable innovation: SolidVision, the holographic projection technology that brought Duel Monsters to life. This was followed by the Duel Disk, a revolutionary p2p interface that allowed duelists to compete in real-time holographic battles, becoming a staple for competitive players across the world. These commercial successes catapulted KaibaCorp into global fame and made Duel Monsters a cultural phenomenon, while signalling KaibaCorp’s new mission: to create, not destroy.

This pursuit has now brought KaibaCorp to the verge of another groundbreaking moment. Scheherazade, set to roll out this summer, will first be available at stadiums and theme parks before making its way into homes through a specialised hardware release. Duelists and VR enthusiasts alike are eagerly awaiting the chance to immerse themselves in the fully realised worlds this technology promises to deliver.

In many ways, KaibaCorp’s evolution is as poetic as it is fascinating. What was once a company defined by its contribution to destruction is now positioned to offer the world a new way of seeing itself, through stories, memories, and duels. 

“This is just the beginning. Scheherazade isn’t just a virtual space—it’s a new frontier for human imagination. It’s the bridge between what we can dream and what we can live.”

And in that, perhaps, lies Kaiba’s greatest victory: transforming a company of war into one that makes dreams reality.

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The article featured two captioned pictures. Duel Monster Blue Eyes White Dragon, rendered in Scheherazade: a still of him pulled from the testing zone broadcast, looking up at Blue Eyes White Dragon. He was surprised at the lack of fear on his face– the light from the White Lightning Attack had washed every emotion into brightness. He was just vacant, ready, waiting.  He was more expressive in the second photograph: Father and son. One of the last before Gozaburo’s death. The man had a hand on his shoulder and was sneering down at him. Kaiba, fifteen, slanted his face to return his contempt, the corner of his mouth barely lifted in a matching, cruel smirk.

[kujakumai]

On the subject of being good with children, which characters do you think WOULD be good babysitters?

YUGIOH CHARACTERS AS BABYSITTERS, RANKED

TOP PICKS:

Seto Kaiba runs an entire company dedicated exclusively to safely entertaining children, and unless his parks are getting continually sued I believe he knows how. Your kindergartner is not only safe with him but will probably leave knowing how to play chess and write in C++. He may allow them to play with knives, but only if they're 9 or over, plus he has all the emergency numbers on speed-dial.

Hiroto Honda babysits his niblings on the regular. Can warm a bottle and change a diaper. A level-headed and practical guy. He’ll be fine as long as his friends don't drag him into a horrible game-themed deathtrap. Don't ask why that caveat exists.

Rishid Ishtar is safe, experienced, has dad energy, however he will crumple like wet paper at the first sign of conflict re: ice cream for dinner / no bedtime / blood-soaked cross-country quest for revenge / an extra episode of cartoons over the screentime limit.

Ishizu Ishtar would make a great babysitter. I don't really have a quirky joke here she just would.

"MAYBE"S

Jonouchi used to watch his little sister and I think he'll do about as well as any other teenager you're paying minimum wage, and with a lot of earnest enthusiasm. Your child will be fine at the end of the night, though they will probably have eaten some junk food and played a T rated videogame.

I do not think Atem would know what to do with a baby, and may panic about it, though if you have an older child he will be happy to offer a rousing speech and some deep-voiced mentorlike advice while teaching them to play board games. Not a bad choice, just try not to leave him with anyone under seven.

Yugi knows zilch about kids and often appears a little annoyed by them. Same general rules as Atem--do not leave him with a baby, but he'll probably just teach an older kid to play shogi or something.

Mai Kujaku will put the kid in front of the television and order pizza while she paints her nails. Honestly, though, what more are you paying her for?

Listen, I love Anzu. I do. She’s smart, driven, and big-hearted, but she is also sort of short-tempered and impatient, and patience is like 90% of child-rearing. Please do not ask Anzu Mazaki to watch your children. She WILL say yes because she needs the money, and she WILL go into it with optimism and gumption, and yes, both she and your child will both be in one piece at the end of the night, but it will be clear from both of their frazzled expressions that she lost most of her sanity an hour in after the fifth "Why?"

DEFINITELY NOT

Ryou Bakura would in theory be a perfectly good, if kind of spacey, babysitter, but you cannot trust him to remain Ryou Bakura, and the other guy is definitely not someone you want anywhere near your children.

I don't think Marik Ishtar has ever interacted with a child for very long and the number of people he talks to that are even his own age is in the single digits. And he is definitely not getting spat on or dealing with any bathroom stuff. I'm not saying he can't figure it out but the learning curve is going to be steep.

I have to put Yami Bakura here in principle and yet for some reason I think it wouldn't go that bad? I mean he definitely doesn't care about the safety of your child. And he may enlist them to the armies of darkness. And he's not cleaning anything up. But he's like, a weird socially awkward over-the-top guy? And children love those? Honestly I think they would both have fun. For at least an hour until everything goes horribly wrong.

Please do not summon Zork Necrophades to babysit your child.

[fangirlingpuggle]

Silly AU/fic prompt of Jaden being Kaijou kid.

Rumors start circulating that the Kaiba heir attending Duel academy rumor and speculation fly and everyone's trying to figure out who it is (No one's actually listened to Jaden whose said 'oh that's me')

Chazz's brothers find out and end up on duel academy trying to find the kid and everything's in chaos,.

Chazz is freaking out trying to stop his brothers from whatever scheme they're planning and is just like

C: 'Agh where the fuck is this kid, how can we have no idea who Seto fucking Kaiba's kid is'

J: 'I mean he's only one of my dad's my other is Joey wheeler you know'

C: 'Ah right good point slacker, how can we have no idea who Seto fucking Kaiba and Joey fucking Wheelers kid is'

C:...

C: Wait...what did you just say?

Cue Chazz kinda starting at Jaden jaw unhinged internally freaking the fuck out. No one else has noticed Chazz's brother currently have pepe silvia board of theories coming to the dumbest conclusions.

At this point Kaiba and Joey have arrived and Jaden is just like 'Hi Dads' cue every single person in duel academy freezing and slowly tuning to look at him

(Bonus rivalshipping idea where suddenly both Chazz's awful brothers are sudedenly trying to get back in Chazz's good books when they find out he is dating the Kaiba heir)