genuinely curious as to why some people think seto kaiba would watch oppenheimer. like i wanna know their thought process
Same! In my opinion he would be very uneasy watching a three hour long movie about nuclear weapons, because of the memories of his stepfather
In the Virtual World arc of the anime, Noa says this to Gozaburo, implying that his company’s weapons had the possibility to annihilate 97% of the world population. Now I don’t know if Seto was aware of this but it’s clear that anything that can call back to the memories of his father’s business is hurtful for him
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It is indeed very interesting, when Seto created Death T, it was 6 months after Gozaburo’s death, when Gozaburo jumped off the window he told Seto losing was death. This resonated with all he had learned through his life. He internalized that message and became obsessed with winning at games, and then Cards With Teeth happens when he tries to steal the card from Yugi and is then subjected to the penalty game The Experience Of Death which for him will become the inspiration of the Death T and a reinforcement of his message that losing is death. Death T is the most simple manifestation of the message that losing is death, but for Seto it was also masking a desperate desire for revenge. But ultimately all that he obtained was not only another penalty game, but also the possible loss of the only person who loved him at that time - Mokuba, that he tried to harm with his own hands during Death T.
His revenge just left him even more broken even though he got to “rebuild his heart”. And I think in his DSOD speech he recognizes that a lot of his life has been conflict, but that he gained nothing from it at the end, only more hurt.
In Duelist Kingdom he compared games to war, because that’s what they had been for him up until then
And in his DSOD speech, even though he was in such a bad place (he lost Atem), he was saying the opposite and talking about how games could unite rather than divide human beings
And this is so important to me, because it means that Seto, despite the fact that he never got any time to rest from Death T to DSOD, and if anything just saw the idea that games are in fact war reinforced during those years, was able on his own to find in himself the child who believed that “games purify our souls” and are “the products of human wisdom”, the child who challenged Gozaburo and not the one who absorbed his message that war and games are one and the same.
He is just so strong.
 Reblogging this again because it makes me so emotional that the seeds of that speech were always present in Seto’s ideology, hence why he always instinctively detested war, but he got to realize that the “personal fights” he originally viewed as war on a smaller scale essentially could be their own form of connection and friendship (maybe he thinks he still cannot access it in the more “typical” sense) , even though he had no reason to believe this given his life and what games had been until then , in DSOD he wanted everyone to be able to understand this
It’s kind of precious also how he is trying to extend his understanding of bonds and connections to other people
