#ygo equivalent of a live performance of The Chain. like watching someone's parent argue in the kitchen

[cyberdragoninfinity]

z-one vs aporia makes me so fucking mentally unwell to remember. z-one really executed someone who REALLY cared about him in cold blood in front of everyone after going "yeah i don't see you as my friend you're just a machine". and he's one of the few permadead characters. dead inside. (kinda like aporia! *laugh track*) also this is a personal thing but i was really spoiled on 5ds before starting it but i legitimately did not know z-one vs aporia was a thing at all so that may have helped

YEAH! YEAH!! YEAH GOD ALL OF THIS!! YOU GET IT.

Like we get it right on the heels of the text basically just telling us Aporia fights for Z-one not just out of hope for the future, but out of his love for him. He will do whatever Z-one asks of him because he fuckin loves him!!!! SO SO MUCH!!!

and then Z-one just fuckin kills him! Just executes him in front of everyone, in front of kids, in front of THE KID WHO REMINDED APORIA TO HAVE HOPE AGAIN IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! I LOVE DIVORCE!!!!

But even before that, the way he spends the whole duel actively toying with Aporia, dangling hope of a victory in front of him only to yank it away, makes me UNWELL. The way he starts out the duel so cordial and almost warm but the second Aporia refuses to stop or back down from his point Z-one just goes Ice Cold. goes full I Will Crush You Until There's Nothing Left mode. it's TERRIFYING. Aporia isn't a person to him anymore!!! Just a thing. Just a tool acting out and beyond its programmed task and which must be dealt with accordingly :,^)

All of this because Aporia committed the crime of *checks notes* effectively telling Z-one Maybe Things Will Be OK, Actually. Maybe We Should Trust Team 5D's. 8,^) *screaming into a pillow*

I ALSO HAD A SOLID CHUNK OF 5DS SPOILERS GOING INTO IT BUT SOMEHOW DIDNT KNOW THIS ONE WAS COMING and god it just Hits. this duel is the reason Aporia weaseled into my brain in the first place; something about this metal as fuck imagery of this broken and beat to shit robot throwing down against his friend for the sake of the future ripping my brain wide open. I have watched this duel a perfectly normal amount of times <--lying

it's so fucked up, i'm obsessed with it and them and it's so fucked up. And YEAH LIKE YOU SAID!! APORIA'S JUST. PERMADEAD. ygo bad guys either die or get redeemed and somehow he got both and it makes me explode. ;___; One of these days I'll get into my post-canon 5Ds AUs where Aporia made it out alive in one way or another (if folks can do it with Bruno then I can do it with my big guy!!!!) THEN YOULL ALL SEE!!!! SOBBING