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wahooooo look at my pet lizard

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I give you all this and will disappear once more

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Testing tumblr hiiiii :’D

I like Yugioh. Mainly Puzzleshipping. You can find me on both Twitter and Instagram @/kohrokke 

Yugioh fans on Tumblr please adopt me ;__;

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To love a Pharaoh

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fucking help me (no Miho hate allowed this is a Miho positive zone)

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today nothing cursed just kaiba's hands appreciation post

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Mokuba: The snitch is Polyamorous Yugi!

Seto: That fuckin’ snitch. I want him, dead. I want his wife, dead. I want his husband, dead. I want his husband, dead. I want his husband, dead. I want his husband-

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Joey: Hewwo! I will be youw suwgeon today! Intewnal bweeding you say? Let’s make ouw fuwst wittle incision.

Yugi: DOCTOW WEWRE LOSWING HIM!!

Ryou: GWAB THE DEFIBWIWATOW!

Bakura: please just let me fucking die

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Joey: I hate horses? They’re too tall and pretend to care about others feelings

Yugi: They do care

Joey: THEY DONT

Yugi: they want to help you

Joey: THEY DONT THEY WANT TO RUIN ME

Yugi: Listen

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Yugi: Oh hey, Bakura. Uh- what’re you doing?

Bakura: The government wants a list of all the weapons I have and I’m letting them know it’s not their business.

Yugi:

Yugi: Bakura this just says “Fuck around and find out”

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Yugi: And William Afton killed at least 5 or 7 children with his own murder robots-

Bakura: [sobbing] please ,, I just want to go home

Yugi: I’M NOT DONE. And Henry was like his friend-

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I'm sorry but WHAT is happening in Duel Links??

*CRACKS KNUCKLES* ALRIGHT im certain other people could explain this better than I could (bark at me if any of this is wrong,) but, an attempt at a quick rough tl;dr of it:

so like. an important thing to note with DL is that like..... the in-universe explanation for Duel Links is that it's one of Seto Kaiba's new VR New Evolution of Dueling Ego Projects, which like, ok sure, he Makes Those, but what's a little alarming with this one is that technically (almost) none of the characters In The Game are actually Those Characters Specifically, they're AI recreations of them with their original self's memories (that's already a lot, right out the gate.) (I say "almost" everyone because I think it's implied DSOD Kaiba and maybe Mokuba actually Are them because it's Their Game and they're always product testing it, there might be others though)

anyway another thing with this situation is that, uh, Most Characters in Duel Links Do Not Know They're AI. They just assume they're the original guy, that's just them! Hanging out in this cool new Duel VR! But then sometimes you DO get characters who actively are aware that they're just code in a video game (Yami Bakura and Bruno 5D's both comment on it), so you have this really interesting ecosystem of duelists who Are aware they don't really exist, and duelists who are None the Wiser. absolutely batshit.

and sure this is all well and fine with like, DM and maybe GX characters, ok sure it makes sense Kaiba would be recreating notable duelists of that era, but i cannot stress enough He Is Also Making AI Recreations of Dead People. DL very much takes place post-manga, post-DSOD. But Yami Yugi is There. Yami Bakura and Yami Marik are Very There. Manga Pegasus is there. Seto "I Will Never Learn to Come to Terms With Grief" Kaiba is actively raising the dead in his little VR card game simulator so they can live forever and there's a 50/50 chance they'll be FULLY AWARE that they died. JESUS.

There's also the hulking elephant in the room of Duel Links Has Been Including Characters From Series Kaiba Has Nothing to Do With For Quite Some Time Now--and a lot of those characters are like HEY. WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE. like I SWEAR someone from either Zexal or Arv-C was actively like "hi what the hell is KaibaCorp" so like...Kaiba's branding is ALL OVER THE VR WORLD EVEN IN THE WORLD'S HE DIDNT EXIST IN. It's painting this absolute off the rails picture of Seto Kaiba trying to create this virtual multiverse of The Best Duelists From Every Timeline Living or Dead, and half the guys he's pulling in at this point are like *spawns into a perfect recreation of their hometown with no real idea of who did this* "what in the goddamn."

like guys from zexal/arc-v are actively IN GAME like trying to figure out why this VR world exists and who created it. It's absolutely wild and fascinating to watch. excited to see what happens when they add VRAINS world next month?!?!? idk anything about VRAINS really but it's probably going to make the DL lore even more bananas.

ANYWAY. ALL OF THAT SAID. NOW WE HAVE MAXIMILLION PEGASUS DROPPING IN-GAME OMINOUS SENTIMENTS it's kind of a culminations of all of the aforementioned shit. Duel Links Pegasus (an AI recreation of manga!Pegasus, who is fully aware A.) that's he's dead and B.) that there's multiple worlds and timelines crammed into this Virtual Reality) has a conversation with Paradox (an AI recreation of Paradox the Bonds Beyond Time Yugioh Movie Bad Guy, who, for all intents and purposes, fully believes he's the real dude and he wants to kill-die-explode-murder Pegasus SO BAD) breaking down that "hey, this place unites different histories, and if you kill me duel monsters won't cease to exist. Anyway, I'm not real! Ohoho! This world holds threads of tragedy, Paradox-boy!" <-- (not verbatim. but i wish it was.) Meanwhile Paradox is having a sputtering breakdown right next to him. This is a video game to play yugioh the trading card game.

like. it's just absolutely wild. konami could have just said "hey heres yugioh characters from every series. whatever" but no instead they threw in a bunch of mild psychological horror and inter-series friction and existentialism and it's a freemium video game that i have 600+ hours on on steam. yugioh duel links !

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Puzzle June #23: Comfort

The whole month disappeared. (ﾉД`)

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Yugi: And William Afton killed at least 5 or 7 children with his own murder robots-

Bakura: [sobbing] please ,, I just want to go home

Yugi: I’M NOT DONE. And Henry was like his friend-

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Yugi: And William Afton killed at least 5 or 7 children with his own murder robots-

Bakura: [sobbing] please ,, I just want to go home

Yugi: I’M NOT DONE. And Henry was like his friend-

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low effort Pegasus meme

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Yugi: Oh hey, Bakura. Uh- what’re you doing?

Bakura: The government wants a list of all the weapons I have and I’m letting them know it’s not their business.

Yugi:

Yugi: Bakura this just says “Fuck around and find out”