#who I can't believe is canon to Yugioh lol

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5 for the fic ask (cornered obviously)

5.) What do you wish someone would ask you about [insert fic]? Answer it now!

Oh gee, this is really tough one but I think I came up with something that might be interesting? Here goes:

How did you come up with Bakura's character in Cornered?

Omg, wow, amazing question (lol)

Bakura is every serial killer in any detective drama ever. He is your worst nightmare, a murderer, a love-struck idiot... He is honestly so frustrating to write FJIEFHHF

Basically, I was really inspired by the show Dexter, not necessarily character-wise, but ... manipulation-wise..? That guy is so good at it I love when he goes into work and gives everyone donuts ... that's Bakura

Hannibal Lecter type genius... Well, almost. Bakura has weak spots that can cloud his judgment; I think he's an excellent planner but a horrible improviser.

Also, I want to add that after I completed Cornered I started watching Hannibal (rip) and I audibly gasped every time Hannibal did something Bakura-y (Cornered-wise, ofc.). Like. The MONEY, the cooking (minus the human flesh part), the obsession with a moody detective... I can't believe the hit series Hannibal time traveled, read Cornered: the yugioh AU fic, and made it into a show (lol)

I also just... kind of wanted to make him almost unstoppable yet ridiculous at the same time. He's scary, of course, he's awful, he's icky, he's freaking mean... But gosh, writing that? Writing out this stuck up guy trying to charm his way to innocence with a detective who KNOWS he's bad and has EXPERIENCED the bad was just too fun to pass up. How far would he go???? Ah...Fiction, man. This shit rocks. Anything goes!

Also, while a lot of Bakura's Cornered character strays from ygo canon, I think his manipulation, apathy, and patient temper do draw a lot from canon yami bakura. He was an obvious choice for me for this kind of character, heheh

Ok, sorry for the Bakura lore heheh, I just feel like I don't get to talk about him as much!

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Puzzleshipping for the ship?

001 | send me a ship and I will tell you:

when I started shipping it if I did: this one's definitely new for me cuz I never really spared it a thought tbh not that I disliked it or anything before I was just kinda indifferent about it. but that changed during my most recent rewatching of yugioh these past couple of months. Idk why it took me about the 100th time of watching the series to finally open my eyes to it but actually getting to the last season changed EVERYTHING lol

my thoughts: They run through my thoughts from time to time lol. I think we can all agree whether you strictly believe it's platonic or romantic that yugi came to love atem and vice versa. It's canon. atem got so attached to yugi that he would do anything to keep him safe. yugi is quite literally the light that shone through the darkness that had surrounded atem in the beginning then became the light to guide him the way to himself, his memories and finally his resting place. how fucking poetic is that!!

What makes me happy about them: Everything! Every interaction they had throughout the series. though I do love when Yugi has to take over whenever atem was going murder happy on some characters hfkjdsf

What makes me sad about them: the obvious...atem having to leave so he can finally rest in peace 🤧

things done in fanfic that annoys me: Hm I can't really think off the top of my head rn that's specific to them.

things I look for in fanfic: just general good vibes lol I'm not too picky with this pair I'll read just about anything of them tbh. i do enjoy atem being utterly in love with yugi and pinning to which yugi is sorta oblivious to it lol.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: hmm for atem maybe mahad. for yugi he gets along with so many people but if I had to choose probably ryou. two nerds just wanting to play games that got wrapped up into some magical egyptian nonsense 😂 

My happily ever after for them: Yugi winning the ceremonial duel as a draw and since it isn't a loss or a win atem gets his body back and gets to live on with his aibou physically this time around 🥺

who is the big spoon/little spoon: I think they both mix it up here and there depending their mood. Yugi seems like a big cuddler and heat seeker so he probably ends up being the big spoon more than often

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: games!! any kind! I feel yugi would take atem around a lot of world so they can experience different things together.

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Yugioh S5 Ep 21: Joey Takes A Snack at that Cray Sauce

Hey guys! The 17 yo cat with kidney disease I was out of town watching lived to see another week (she was a very good girl). Which means now I can get back to the good stuff. This episode is brought to you by the colors red and orange, and I hope you like this color, and I hope you like this after effects they CGId onto this volcano.

Anyways, they first have to do this familiar ledge fall, because, it’s Yugioh, and if there’s a bunch of lava, Tristan wants

in

that.

And then Joey decides...hey you know what? I’m gonna jet. And...it’s not the first time he’s pulled a wild card and been unpredictable, I mean none of us can really forget that time he decided to get murdered by Mai instead of going in a straight line towards the end boss last season, but this time it was kind of funny how it was hastily composed.

And off he goes, folks.

As he left, Tristan was like “Ya dummy!” and Tea was like “nono, we gotta encourage him--run Joey! You can do it! See? Now he’s gone.” and it’s like...Tea is either trying to kill Joey with her support or honestly thinks that’s good support and I can’t fully tell which she is.

(read more under the cut)

It’s at this point that Grandpa has the gall to say “Did any of you happen to catch the lore? I fell asleep during that part.” Just like my Dad when we watch any movie as a family.

Meanwhile, maybe 100 ft away from them, Joey is in mortal peril but it’s Joey, so he’ll be fine. Don’t worry about it.

In fact, this episode seems like it would have been a better arc if it stretched out more episodes because the Joey neglect happens so quickly and out of nowhere that it’s...less organic than your average children’s show. Honestly it’s kind of funny how fast the fall of Joey Wheeler happens this episode. And I think it could have been a fun interesting time if it was handled better but youknow...it’s crammed into one single episode and you’ll se what happens.

As Yugi ruminates a cool thing that would have been really interesting this season--like running into more rando’s from other periods of time than just Alexander--Tea looks across the lava highway and was like “found it.”

Back at the dragon situation, Joey starts opening his heart to this dragon and it’s like...did they originally intend for Seto Kaiba to be here? Because I guess Joey uses Red Eyes a lot, but I also skip a lot of the card games, so when I think “who likes the dragon card?” Joey is not the first one I think of.

That and like he got over his Atlantis dragon card like hella fast, right? Like totally already over that?

And also if you thought Joey would pull out his other dragon to try and communicate or get a hold of this dragon like...nah.

Back at the fort, these guys decided to ditch Joey to get to this sword at the top of a volcano to solve the riddle, and what follows is some weird ass canon.

As I’m pulling up my Google Doc with my deathcount on it, Tristan decides this is the time he won’t freakin die and turn into a robot monkey for 15 episodes.

And he makes a huge ass green dragon. You’d think this MASSIVE dragon would do more in this episode, but nah. Although he pulls out Massive Dragon, it’s like kind of worthless, so he mostly puts it back in his pocket.

And then Tea pulls this elf chick out and it’s freakin hilarious because look at her giant elf.

Like Tea is not a small person! Are Yugioh monsters all 12 ft tall???

Yugi is also all ham about fusing with his dude now. It knocked him out a couple episodes ago, but Yugi is so keen on destroying his body that he’s back in clown town. And like...took his Grandpa for a ride, I guess, although I’m pretty sure Summoned Skull has wings.

Course, Summoned Skulls insides are his outsides...and I dunno if you’d want Summoned Skull to give you a big hug and carry you around. Summoned Skull just seems like he’s sticky.

And, once they make it to the top of the volcano where the plot sword lives, we first have to visit this plot twist of the century.

YEAH.

OUT OF NOWHERE.

THIS EPISODE IS NOT LONG.

Aaaaaaand now Joey is going to try and kill everyone here. I did not skip anything, PS, Joey dipped off-screen.

PS, everyone’s reaction to “I will kill you!” was a whole lot of rolling their eyes at first being like “Joey, stawp.”

So, now that Joey’s randomly possessed by this dragon, we get a peek into what Joey’s brain zone looks like. It’s a whole lot of nothing in between his ears.

Consistent to S1 actually, when we had a bit of a Joey Brain Zone moment. It was a blank void there, too.

So apparently Joey decided, back when he was confessing his love to Red Eyes Black Dragon, that he would jump on it’s back to calm it down--and it just...fused with him. So...now he’s a dragon.

Sure, I guess. I mean...there’s really no limit on what a Duel monster can’t do, so I’ll allow it.

The team tries to just say “ah screw it” and pull up this sword themselves (you can kind of see it in this shot) and the sword just slurps into the dirt even more out of spite. Seeing that there’s a bit of a time limit, Grandpa pulls this one out of his back pocket.

Yo, Grandpa’s not even possessed. Hey, remember that time that Grandpa nearly died giving Arthur Hawkins the last of his water back in Egypt? Remember that?

Like uh, you can definitely tell this was made by a different team that may not have gotten that cue card. It may have been lost in the mail. Either way, kind of a hilarious heel turn on Grandpa’s personality here, although it does make logical sense to save most of the kids from sacrificing one kid. It’s just...that kid is Joey...so...that’s like his adopted Grandson, right?

So Yugi does something very on brand for Yugi and invades a brain.

And like...obviously Yami and Yugi would say no to this. They would never do this. Not after all the dozens and dozens of times they have sacrificed the world and everything for their best friends.

But...maybe just this one time we can kill Joey? As a treat?

So uh...Yami hella vaporizes Joey with his new powers. Luckily, Joey Wheeler has Shaggy Doo energy and just...he survives it for some reason. I don’t know why he isn’t dead, maybe because the dragon made him stronger? Eh, don’t do the math (on any part of this episode).

So Joey gets up and is like “I know the answer to the riddle!” As the sword kinda melts into the volcano and Gramps is like “Well we’re dead, actually, so no one cares!”

And Joey’s like “Look!” and he hops onto the back of the Red Eyes Black dragon and reveals this random thing:

Because it turns out, that the dragon was the real problem and not this volcano with a sword in it.

Which youknow...could have been cool if this episode wasn’t so many insane plot points so quickly. Kind of a lot of episode here. This episode could have been a whole season of a show.

Like how long was Joey Possessed by Marik in S2? Like 5 or 6 episodes? And you can see how much more successful it was at selling the story although it was a lot of the same themes and ideas. Pacing is important.

And then Joey passes out from the suit juice.

Which is when we get one more Alexander cameo, just kinda watching them leave and onto the next arc of their little journey.

They sure did put a lot of eyeliner on Alexander the great, and, being real...he may have actually been wearing a hell ton of dope eyeliner when he was alive, so this could be historically accurate, for all we know. Those old marble statues used to be painted, after all. Maybe they had dope Yugioh eyeliner down to his cheekbones? One can wish.

And like if you ever get the time--seeing what those marble statues looked like with paint on it is so freakin goofy and fun, I love it. I love that for 600 years we thought those marble statues were supposed to be naked and white but it’s like, nah man--this guy’s just wearing a skin tight breast plate and when you paint it, it’s so garish it’s like a freakin clown outfit.

But anyway, that’s all for now! Hope y’all have a good weekend, and as always, here’s a link to read these in chrono order, if you just got here!

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