hey man, sorry that i was acting so weird and megalomaniacal last night. i wasn’t really myself. did you notice the amulet i was wearing, the one that was shaped like a dragon skull and emitting that ominous red glow? pretty sick right? …cursed? no dude, it’s literally just a prop i bought at spirit halloween. it was ten dollars. anyway have you heard of dissociative identity disorder
in final fantasy xiv theres a healer class named Astrologian, which revolves around the mechanic of drawing tarot cards and using that to buff teammates up during fight. this is what it looks like in game. the cards revolve around a globe which the character plucks and read from.
this however was what the beta design looks like
this is an iconic duel disk from yugioh
this is urianger aurgurelt. aside from scaring the localizers so much they changed his speech from 1500-1600 english to something more modern-shakesparean, he's also voiced by KENN
KENN got his voice acting career off the ground initially back in 2004 by voicing judai the protagonist of yugioh gx
At the end of the day, who really are you if everything you know about yourself stems from the life of a person you're pretending to live as?
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My name is Muto Yugi.
I like games. I like my friends. I like burgers. I have a grandpa at home who loves me.
My name is Muto Yugi.
I go to school everyday with my friends. I wake up at 5AM so I have time to do my hair.
My name is Muto Yugi.
I meet them everyday. We play games together.
My name is Yugi Muto.
I don't like the taste of burgers. I don't like eating.
My name is Yugi Muto.
I wake up at 1AM everyday. I sneak out through the window. There is this guard in my home that I don't know.
My name is Yugi Muto.
He grabs my arms and keeps me trapped in my home. He claims he's "worried" and that "I'm injured" but HES LYING!! HE WANTS TO TRAP ME INSIDE!!
My name is Yugi Muto.
The guard is wrinkled and says my name like he knows me. He's lying. It's a trick.
My name is Yugi.
My friends look at me funny. I don't like looking at them.
My name is Yugi?
I don't brush my hair. I don't wash my face. I don't go to school. Everyone is WATCHING ME at school. I don't know ANYONE AT SCHOOL.
My name is Yugi?
WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP SAYING I'M ACTING DIFFERENTLY??!! I'M NORMAL!!
MY NAME IS YUGI??
I don't know what school is I don't know who you are stop looking at me STOP LOOKING AT ME ST-
MY NAME IS-
I seem to fall asleep for days at a time I'm dressed my face is washed my hair is brushed I'm fed. It is my captive doing it. They're forcing me here. They're keeping me here against my will. I have to escape I have to escape I have to escape I have to escape I have to escape I have to escape I have to escape I have to escape-
I DON'T THINK MY NAY NAME IS YUGI.
I don't recogniz recognise--I don't think I'm me wh--
Move eec each limb--the reflection isn't me
I don't know who I a--y myself. Please someon-
I DON'T THINK MY NAME IS YUGI
THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THAT'S NOT ME THA-
Sometimes when I wake up I'm a new version of me I haven't met and I don't remember where I am and I think. Like. I belonged somewhere far far away and got trapped here as a form of c o s m i c p u n i s h m e n t. Like. A sinner taken to the slaughter. And I stop sleeping and suddenly I realise these people I call my family are people I don't know OR love. But that's cruel right. And I wake up not remembering days. Weeks at a time. And suddenly the house I thought was mine feels like a prison and when I look in the mirror my face it changes every time and I feel sick and have to look away because that's not me.
And I begin fearing that I don't recognise myself in any of my memories and I dont recognise the friends the me I see in my memories fought so hard to get and I realise that I REPLACED HIM. I AM THE REPLACEMENT. And so I try to gamble my life away and I fill "my" body with meds and caffeine and I pity the "ME" I replaced so much that I run around and s l a u g h t e r everyone who ever hurt him because he deserves to rest in peace. Sometimes I wonder if I'm actually dead and this is my afterlife but haha.
That has to be a lie right. Right. Please. Tell me I'm right. Who the fuck am I now? Him? M-
There is one particular detail about yu-gi-oh that I’ve never seen being discussed or mentioned at all. Granted, I have not been in the fandom for long, and I don’t know what’s the general consensus about this but…
Isn’t the mummy Yugi & co. see in the museum in the early manga (chapter 13) actually… Atem?
I want to point out a few things that feel relevant to me, anyway,
1) The fact that Yugi alone is who stays behind to look at the mummy.
2) Obviously, Shadis served Pharaoh Atem and his mission is to make sure his soul finds rest.
3) Shadis says, “his soul will live on with his name.”
As we know, Atem's name is what opens the door to the afterlife. In ancient Egyptian beliefs, the soul cannot rest without the name, nor without the body.
“Yet he has been denied eternal sleep.”
We know Atem's name was purposely erased from history.
And, moreover… The name of Atem's father was known, was it not? The name is the key for a soul to rest, so Shadis can’t be referring to him. Moreover, the tomb of Atem's father was sacked by Bakura; even if Atem took it back to its right place (which we see him do in Memory World),
… it doesn’t mean his tomb wasn’t robbed again later, right? They were often robbed after all, so it’s unlikely that the mummy in the Domino museum is that of Atem's father.
Plus, we know Atem's tomb wasn’t robbed at all because that was where Sugoroku found the Puzzle! While everyone else who had tried to trespass had died.
And most importantly… yu-gi-oh is Atem's story. Of course that’d be him.
And the way Yugi is the only one to stay behind and look at him, unknowing of everything that would happen…
There’s something so beautiful and so poetic and tragic and heartbreaking about Yugi seeing Atem's body, even in this state. Especially because he is closest to Atem yet has never been able to touch him.
The… yearning… Gosh. Canonical puzzleshipping, you’ll be the death of me.
