Yet another ask because of. Adoration of your takes on things and also just enjoying having someone to chitchat at about it.
Do you think it's more interesting to have the idea of the millennium items being able to choose their host, or that the host chooses the item? Like, if the item chooses the host, they might consciously / unconsciously decide "This host / wielders would serve my greater goal of good (or evil in the ring's case, depending on how you see it)." Where if the host chooses there is some force inherent to the item that makes it more difficult than 'pick up, wear, bam you got an item' that might explain why yugi was the first to solve the puzzle and why the ring kept killing people when they tried to wear it.
My personal favorite is that it's a mix, and the item can use it's ability to subconciously check if the wielder has followed whatever forces keep the item from being handed out to anyone. (Especially interesting for puzzle people since from Yami's perspective this would be him finally being freed after thousands of years, he would have done anything to be freed sooner, thank gods for someone finally freeing him- but from Yugi's perspective it was only after years of seeing the number of pieces in the puzzle go up and down, after seeing it hide itself in the box from others, and only after he put it together with an earnest hope that he could have *someone* as a friend did it begin to behave Euclidian-ly.)
(Thank you again for answering my asks. I'm unused to fandoms like yugioh, and being able to just type to you has been very fun. We're playing dolls about jewelry who plays dolls with life itself :). )
I also like a mix of the two!! I've mentioned before that I like to think of the puzzle as having a mind of its own, and I would absolutely extend that to the rest of the millennium items. Oooohoo what I would give to have seen the puzzle's effects on Yugi in the eight long years it took for him to put it together. After all, it did pretty much try to kill everyone else who got within arm's reach, and it continued to do that to anyone who wasn't Yugi well after the fact. But I also think that Yugi (who was, as we all know, assigned Gamer at birth) simply did not give a damn. He was too stubborn for the puzzle to eliminate. It got outgamered. It gave up.