if there's one thing about yugioh dm that i think about constantly, it's this fucking panel. it haunts me. It contains multitudes. the manga never fully digs into it, but it casts a shadow over Yami no Yugi and makes his entire character like 30000% more interesting and angsty.
Like. fuck. Imagine your name is Yugi Mutou and you're having the worst day of your life and a guy just threatened to stab you if you didn't pay him money you didn't have. And as you fiddle with the puzzle you've worked on for 8 years, suddenly this sense of confidence rushes over you. You suddenly know you don't have to take that guy's bullying lying down. Suddenly you feel this swell of knowledge and understanding and you realize you can take him down with his own greed. And you do it.
And then again, something happens to the people you care about, and you find yourself doing something about it. Over and over again, every time something bad happens, you use your wits and instinct to cause the perpetrators to be punished and your loved ones to be protected.
But then slowly....slowly....something starts to occur to you.
Are you actually Yugi Mutou?
Things aren't quite fitting together. You have memories of being Yugi Mutou. But something about them just doesn't quite click together. Were you actually there before that night that bully threatened you with a knife? Or did you just think you were? Have you actually been around those people you feel like you care about all the time, or are those just wisps of memories of someone else spending time with them?
If you're not Yugi Mutou, then...who are you? You only remember being Yugi Mutou. But you also feel that there's someone else who is also Yugi Mutou, who might have been Yugi Mutou before you were.
Somehow, you start to get the sense that you might be a shadow of something else entirely.
But you put that aside. Because despite what you suspect, despite not knowing who you are, the people you know you care about seem to also care about you. Even the other Yugi trusts and cares about you. So maybe it's all right, and this is normal, and this is what you're supposed to be and do. So you keep protecting them, those people you care about, including the other Yugi.
Except them you keep running into those items again, ones like the one you built, like the one that seemed to awaken this other side of you -- or was the the first time you were ever actually awake? And the people with those items hurt you and the people you care about. One of them seems to contain another mind -- like you, kind of? Only this one is hurting their hose, this one is cruel - except maybe, haven't you also been cruel? Haven't you been doing something similar to people who put your loved ones and your other self (your host) at risk?
And then things continue, and you try to fight and protect the people you care about, even if it means throwing someone else's life away, and the other Yugi....won't let you. And the other Yugi says...he's scared of you.
And then this. Then Pegasus drops those little words: "the evil intelligence inside the Millennium Items."
And you know you're not Yugi Mutou anymore. You never were. You are some strange, dangerous ghost from an ancient relic, who woke up with his memories and used his body to hurt other people.
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