Chinn Chuu 🐯🌺

Chinn//30//proshipper//a very hardly an artist

[chinn-chuu]

Mokuba 3 -- 13

Seto 8-- 18

[kaibabrothersmadness]

One thing about Kaiba Seto I'm still perplexed about the Yugioh anime never having explored more of despite it constantly being relevant to his characterization towards the Gang, is that back in the orphanage, 10-year-old Seto had to quickly learn to view his same-aged peers as threats because some of said other orphans thought it was funny to take their frustrations and feelings of being powerless and abandoned out on 5-year-old Mokuba who already was drowning in depression after their parents died and their other relatives ditched them:

That is such a crucial detail about Seto and the way he had to learn to view his peers. As threats he has to be ready to fight because all of them could suddenly prove themselves to be a danger to him and especially Mokuba.

So his instincts tell him he can't let anyone in and befriend them, even if they are kind, helpful, and friends with Mokuba right now. 'Cause what if he let's his guard down and becomes friends with them, too, and THEN they show their true colours because they needed him to stop being cautious first? And Seto knows exactly that if the Gang were to attack one of them, it wouldn't be Seto. It would be 5-years-younger Mokuba first, whose trust they've gained by now, because he himself has been keeping himself so safe and inapproachable to everyone around him that the Gang knows that the best way to hurt him is hurting Mokuba. And at thing point, they would KNOW how to hurt them best.

So he can't stop being cautious. And especially not if the Gang are the first people in so many years that Seto would even start daring to hope for that making friends might be a safe thing to do again.

Seriously, how tf did this never come up to be given any kind of development? The show had the Gang not exactly rarely question why Seto is still so hostile and not letting his guard down around them and why they even bother. But the show also had very little interest in giving Seto actual development for that flaw, or even just EXPLORE what his problem with them still is.

Which is really weird considering how much this show LOVED Seto. So one would think exploring WHY we were in this eternal stalemate between Seto and the Gang would have at some point been declared a priority over, for example, completely inconsequentially inventing Siegfried into Seto's backstory as some weird peer he met like ONCE, but nothing really happened there, so it also did pretty much nothing for Seto's character (if I'm wrong about this, feel free to enlighten me)

Cause in comparison to that, the information that Seto protected Mokuba from bullies Seto's age in the orphanage is one we got in season 1. So it's not like this is backstory they only added in later on and couldn't do much more with because of it. They could have explored Seto's hostility towards making friends the ENTIRE time from s2 onwards. They just didn't do it and I find that baffling to this day.

[shadowrealmfm]

Mokuba: I’ve been described as a “heartless killer” and a “little shit” but I prefer “has alternative ways of having fun”

[2012-04-18]

[rainstormcolors]

“I loved playing with building blocks, oftentimes all on my own. I didn’t really have a lot of blocks however and so I would often destroy what I had previously erected, beginning with the building process from anew. I would do this over and over again. Around my neighborhood, there was this toy store and its window front had been decorated with a giant block-built house, a sight I visited rather frequently. No matter how much I tried to build after that block house with my own blocks, I would only be able to rebuild the front of the house, with the interior entirely missing so my house was little more than a flat surface.

[…]

Even now, I think I am still holding that piece in my left hand… and that sure has given me reason to think.”

                                             — Kazuki Takahashi, 1961 - 2022

[shadowrealmfm]

Mokuba: Seto has a folder on his computer named “King of Games” and it’s just pictures of himself.

[dirtyyugiohconfess-blog]

“I spend a lot of time thinking about office sex at Kaiba Corp. with Gozaburo. I really like formal clothes. On another note, it would also be quite fantastic to be bound to his bed.”

Submitted by lordmorzan

[assballs420]

redraw of an old kaiba drawing i did yayayayayayya

[tirastales]

I'm Still Here (Chapter 4: Arrival)

"Mokuba arrives in Yajū"

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Hey hey hey!! Another chapter from me in the same month??? Unbelievable jdhdhd

But I'm on a major creative kick rn and imm ride it out until it dies so hopefully we get more and more chapters coming soon!

Hope y'all enjoy!

"A Stardew Valley inspired story where Mokuba discovers a letter and deed left behind to him and his brother by his late father, travels to the town of his birth, and learns about his parents, and himself."

[moonogre]

I really do wonder how accelerated Seto was into his own emotional isolation before Gozaburo’s abuse. I always end up circling back to the shit with his parents' siblings fleecing him and Mokuba out of all their money and dumping them at an orphanage. Getting abandoned by your family when you are a child is crazy fucking work. It does bonkers things to how you see trust, relationships, obligation, reliability, safety, rules, morality, greed, family, risk and that’s all BEFORE you step foot in a whole ass orphanage to scam an arms dealer into adopting you.

I love explorations where Seto’s self-concept is really transformed and challenged by a complicated or adversarial relationship with Gozaburo, though it’s not something I ever find myself defaulting to in my own characterizations of him. I do wonder if young Seto had begun viewing everything extractively because of his family's betrayal and that by the time Gozaburo showed up, he saw him as a mark to exploit for his own ends and an experience to endure like everything else.

I guess I end up seeing Seto’s relationship to Gozaburo as it’s own kind of opportunism stemming from some pretty terrible things he can observe about his life when all other things are in flux: “my own family took everything away from me and threw me and my brother away. I have not heard from them and they are not concerned for my welfare and the welfare of my brother and it does not trouble their conscience that we survived an orphanage, and could have been separated at any moment to terrible fates, and we have come to board with a severe and callous stranger that physically and mentally harms us. Family is not the sacred boundary that everyone says it is. My mom died and then my brother showed up and then my dad died and then my parents' siblings showed up and then they disappeared but they might as well be dead for all I know or even care for how little they cared for us when it really mattered. People come and go and it seems the only place they can stay put is in the past. As for who cares for me now, I am the ward of a man who I had to challenge to want me. I am not even his son and he is not even my father. Family is not the sacred boundary that everyone says it is. I can cheat my way into his home and cheat my way into whatever I want in his life. There are people who act and people who are acted upon. The more you punish me the more I take. I learn to take punishment so I can take other things. I am taking everything for myself. What is there left to lose? Mokuba? I kept us together but there’s this world where you either take or are taken from at a moment’s notice and he’s none the wiser to it and there’s something about that that makes me sick. If he doesn’t wisen to it one day someone will take him away from me. Or maybe he will take something I need from me—siblings steal from one another all the time. Family is not the sacred boundary that everyone says it is. Maybe it’s better if he goes too if he can’t defend himself, or before he does something I can’t come back from. What’s the point. People strip everything away from you and then it is gone and you have to face the fact that yes, you are nothing. You don’t have to tell me to lose is to die: I already know. Family is not the sacred boundary that everyone says it is. Go out the window for all I care.”

Sometimes young children clue into the fact that some adults can be so self serving and thoughtless as to leave intractable, sometimes irreversible marks on their quality of life. It is a horrible side of the world to encounter as a child. The types of global suspicion, paranoia and distrust of adults that emerge in cases of child abandonment is something I can see as probable in Seto’s circumstance.

It’s certainly reinforced in every adult interaction following Gozaburo’s death: he rules a company with a hostile board who are always trying to literally physically incapacitate him or kill him or trap him somewhere or steal some more shit from him. More adult greed and opportunism: Pegasus, Big 5, whatever.

Their dad died in that car accident and I don’t think they spent 24 hours with a single adult invested in their long term happiness since then, with the exception of Isono.

[vinnigami]

can i request kaiba but he's dressed as saggi the dark clown pls <3 ?

didn’t specify which kaiba so it’s mokuba. he doesn’t like it

[toadstool32]

HI HI HELLO, everyone go read Basss-ed on a True Story by hlmedinfl on ao3 a riskshipping fic inspired by bandom rpf conspiracies for the YGO Rare Pairs Mini Bang!! go check it out!!

+bonus doodle of the obligatory sneaking out of band duty to go on a date with the guy ur brother hates lol

[rainstormcolors]

The nightmare is real and you're already awake.

A commission from @rainynovaside.

[kaftofi]

i dont draw seto much but then i realized u have to be the change i want to see in the world

he is such an interesting and tragic character, i want to explore his past some more........ i also want to see him drawn weirder

[spinkerxd]

i had a vision

[chinn-chuu]

why i laughed so hard

[shadowrealmfm]

Kaiba: Is it weird that I talk to myself sometimes? Kaiba:...Nah Kaiba: My internal monologue will always keep me company.

[shungrass]

🥺 shaylas!!!