#zygor

[mirpuzzle]

You know those two grown men that hang out with Ghost whose names I can never remember? Who are they and why are they hanging out with a 15 year old? Did they meet at Duelist Kingdom and after being betrayed by Keith they just decided to stay friends? Are those his cousins? His dads? Just some friends of his?

I'm asking you because I think you're the only one who has even the slightest idea who those guys are and why they're hanging around Ghost.

Hello! ✨ I'm glad you ask, because I love those two, and they rarely get any attention from the fandom, except for a few devoted fans. I hope you don't mind long posts TwT I'll write everything under the cut.

My guess is that the three of them met at Duelist Kingdom when Bandit Keith brought them together. However, I like to think they could've been friends before that. After all, there's so little information about them that we practically are forced to make up headcanons.

In the manga, that's the only time they appear. They weren't with Kotsuzuka during his Duel against Yami Bakura.

I'm glad they did stay together in the anime. Unlike when they followed Bandit Keith's orders, Kotsuzuka's gang seems to have no leader. They treat one another as equals, so much so that they were okay with working together to get at least one of them to the Battle City finals. It would mean achieving what they couldn't at Duelist Kingdom because of Keith. I see them as close friends.

The red-haired one is Kiyoshi Takaido, or Sid in the dub. His full Japanese name is shown in the episode where we see their rarest cards.

Takaido seems like the kind of friend who backs you up from afar. He doesn't talk much compared to the others. However, he can have an explosive personality, and has no problem with provoking others. He can be a bit of a coward, too. We didn't get to see enough of him. I think his character holds great potential to explore in terms of trust, bonds, and self-improvement.

His rarest card being Firewing Pegasus, along with his hair being red and shaped like a flame, has led many of us to assume that he could be a Pyro/FIRE duelist.

The black-haired one is Satake, or Zygor in the dub.

The scene I mentioned earlier doesn't last long enough to show his first name. However, he may actually have one. I plan to make a post specifically about this in the future.

Satake seems to have experience fighting, so I wonder if he tends to get into fights often or what kind of past he carries. He's shown to be very supportive of Kotsuzuka. I like to see him as the protective one, and the one who keeps the group together.

Due to his rarest card being Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon, and the shape of his hair, many of us assume he plays a Thunder Dragon deck, or specializes in Thunder monsters.

I doubt they have canon ages. We are lucky they even have names in the anime, since they were nameless characters in the manga. They could be 20, or they could be 17. Who knows? I guess we'll have to resort to headcanons, much to my disliking.

With Yugioh, there's no way to tell a character's age based on their appearance alone. Tell me about it. I frown every time I see someone assume Kotsuzuka is 10 or something just because he's short. Sometimes I want to yell 'Kotsuzuka is 15, people, fifteen!!!' at them. He's only 1 or 2 years younger than Yugi's group.

This is one of the reasons why I like to imagine Kotsuzuka, Takaido and Satake as childhood friends. If that's not the case, meeting for the first time at Duelist Kingdom, getting along, and then bonding after Keith's betrayal (like you said) also works.

Thank you SO much for the ask! I love these three guys with my life, and I could talk about them for hours.

[doctorwhogirlie]

Doctor Who: Zygons

Favourite Episode: The Day of the Doctor

Home Planet: Zygor

Scary Factor: 0/10

My Personal Rating: 7/10 They creep me out but as monsters go, they're pretty cool, bit useless, but I love useless monster. I think if they were real I'd get really squeamish about them, they look slimy! Also shocked that they show up with the fourth doctor and then not again until The Day of the Doctor!

(Please don't take these too seriously, it's just a bit of fun)

[kaibacorpstocksplit]

YGOctober Day 17: Ghost Kotsuzuka, Takaido, Satake, and Ryou Bakura

How nice of Yami Bakura to make sure Ryou had some friends waiting in the Shadow Realm!

[bakorrra2]

The animation here is soooo good wow

[thewittyphantom]

I had a weird Yu-Gi-Oh dream where it was after Battle City and somehow Sid and Zygor were around and tried to beat up Ryou Bakura for what Yami Bakura did. There was also something about a magic pendant Tea had that could save Ryou from being possessed, but it only worked once, and Yami Bakura corrupted it so it broke.

It was really prettily animated too; I wish i could transfer dream art to reality XD

[warcraft-guru]

Zygor Guides Review - (1-80 WotLK Classic Leveling Test)

We spent over £2000 testing Zygor Guides for World of Warcraft Classic: WotLK. See what we found after reaching level 80.

See: https://warcraftguru.com/leveling-test-with-zygor-guides

[xxladyloganxx]

One of Bandit Keith's henchmen wears the exact same outfit as Bakura (or rather Bakura is copying him because he was this fit in Duelist Kingdom) during his duel with Bonz but with a lavender over-shirt and darker jeans.

[ninbinary]

[zygonpropaganda]

Greetings, human tumblr users. It is me, your beloved zygonpropaganda mod. Please disregard the previous post.

[pluralzalpha]

Galactic Gazetteer: Zygor

Primary: Tau Ceti

Nearby planets: Ogros, Diplos

Distance from Earth: 12 ly

Environment: watery, covered in mineral-rich lakes

Inhabitants: Zygons

Animal life: Skarasen

Status: destroyed, c.12th century

First appearance: Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough (2008)

First appearance of the Zygons: Terror of the Zygons (1975)

Fun fact: Zygor was destroyed in a stellar explosion that occured as part of either the Zygons' war with the Xaranti or the Last Great Time War (unless the former was, in fact, part of the latter).

Another fun fact: Zygon technology is organic, and they have enhanced the animals on their planet as cyborgs.

[mirpuzzle]

Hi! Could I hear some of your thoughts/HCs about Bonz, Sid and Zygor's personalities? I want to add them to my Sims 4 save, but I'm having trouble choosing their traits, and you seem to be the expert on these cornflakes, :]

Hi! 🌸 Sorry for the wait. It'll be my pleasure to ramble about Kotsuzuka and his friends ❤️ This will be a long post.

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Shared traits

✦ Kotsuzuka and his friends can be naive and trusting. This can sometimes cloud their judgment and common sense.

Yes, dear. Trapping someone and his friends in a cave, leaving them to die just because you lost a duel to him is indeed too much. I'm glad you figured that out 👍

✦ They have a strong sense of camaraderie, so betraying their loyalty will cause them to hold a grudge against you.

Kotsuzuka | Bonz 👻

✦ Ghost-boy is impulsive. Even though I think their gang-like friend group has no leader, I imagine Kotsuzuka's impulsiveness often drags Takaido and Satake into stuff. And they go along with it. Because it's fun.

✦ Kotsuzuka is a playful little guy. He loves scaring people, but only when it's intentional. Scaring someone by accident might make him feel bad, like that time in Duel Links when a girl mistook him for a ghost and ran away when he tried to duel her, and he was later accused of stealing her card. Poor little thing T_T

✦ He's self-conscious about his appearance, even if he tries to play it off. Mean comments can offend him 😞

✦ He's very expressive and has no problem showing his emotions. OR, has trouble hiding them.

✦ The way he questioned Keith's instructions during his duel against Jonouchi | Joey tells me he's true to himself and usually doesn't keep quiet when something doesn't feel right.

✦ He can be dependent, especially on someone he looks up to.

✦ There's a major difference between manga and anime (Battle City arc), which translates into Kotsuzuka having opposite changes in his character development:

In the anime, he and his friends want to prove they can go to the tournament's finals by themselves (partially out of spite), even if that means resorting to dirty tricks and stealing other duelists' Puzzle | Locator Cards.

In the manga, Kotsuzuka is alone and seems to be dueling fairly. This, combined with what we know from Duel Links (which is based on the manga) and other games, we can tell he's not a bad guy. He no longer needs to follow Keith's orders or resort to cheating. He wants to prove he can be a good duelist without Keith's help. Of course, this doesn't stop him from mainly taking on opponents he deems weak.

✦ Other random headcanons I made up: . Kotsuzuka is a goth and no one will convince me otherwise. . He specifically styles his hair like that to look scarier. . He doesn't have eyebrows. However, that doesn't stop me from giving him eyebrows when I draw him. He paints them with makeup. That's why I color them black.

Takaido | Sid 🔥

✦ Matching his apparent fire theme, Takaido seems to have an explosive personality. I don't know if this translates into him possibly having a short temper, but, having a serious argument with him, or making him really upset doesn't sound like it'd go well. He's prone to snap and yell.

✦ Remember when he stopped Honda | Tristan by throwing a bead at him, in the dark? He has good eyesight/aim, so watch out if he throws things at you.

✦ Takaido isn't the type to get into a group fight directly. He's more likely to back his friends up from afar if he can. He also doesn't have a problem with provoking others… as long as whoever he's provoking doesn't pose a threat.

✦ I've noticed he talks less than his friends. However, when he does, he makes it count. He knows what to say.

✦ Takaido can be a bit of a coward. The way he abandoned his friends when Kotsuzuka's duel with Yami Bakura was nearing its end, or the way he stood frozen in fear (in the manga) as Keith punished Kotsuzuka FOR FOLLOWING HIS INSTRUCTIONS could mean he doesn't handle fear/panic well.

✦ The way he dresses makes me think he cares about his appearance and spends some time choosing an outfit that makes him look good.

*fangirls_screaming.mp3*

✦ Other random headcanons I made up: . Takaido likes spicy food and warm weather. . He hates cold.

Satake | Zygor ⚡

✦ Satake is a tough guy. Not only physically but emotionally as well. Out of the three of them, Satake is the only one who's never cried during the time they've been on screen, not even at the end of the duel against Yami Bakura. Perhaps life has taught him to toughen up, and he either doesn't cry anymore, or it would take A LOT to make him cry.

✦ In the manga, when Keith lost it and punished Kotsuzuka FOR DOING EXACTLY AS HE SAID (yes, I'm still mad), Satake looked at them in horror as if he was about to say "Oi, Aniki, that's enough!" but couldn't react out of shock. This is why he strikes me as a protective friend.

✦ He's very supportive. You can count on him to cheer for you, comfort, reassure you, or keep you sane. Or to beat someone up for you.

✦ He's good with heavy work and often relies on physical strength. It's like his first instinct is to fight or attack things, probably to look intimidating. However, I haven't seen him raise a hand against any of his friends even once. This aggressive behavior must be aimed at strangers and enemies.

✦ Other random headcanons I made up: . I don't know why but I think he would be good at babysitting kids. That doesn't mean he would be a good influence, though. . Contrary to his intimidating appearance and attitude, he's fond of little animals. They evoke that protective nature that's characteristic of him. . He likes storms. He thinks tornadoes are cool (not up close, of course).

Thank you for the ask! I hope any of this helps. If anyone else would like to add their thoughts/headcanons, feel free to do so ♥

[doctorwhogirlie]

Doctor Who: Skarasens

Favourite Episode: Terror of the Zygons (Only story)

Home Planet: Zygor

Scary Factor: 0/10

My Personal Rating: 4/10 - Loooook at them!! They're so funny looking, I love it, I think they were filmed in stop motion too, I'm not sure, but either way I love the way it moves. It really made me chuckle, watching this thing, I kinda want one.

(Please don't take these too seriously, it's just a bit of fun)

[millenniumdueled]

((posting this on behalf of Rayne @hulizi / @distantring who is such a good and dedicated Bakura method rper they forgot their login again. you know, for the bit ))

"And that makes five," the slow and drawn out voice nasalled the words with a pathetic chuckle, pleased with the actions as another victim was sent rushing out of the cemetery. Sure, Bonz had hoped this would net them maybe a rare card or even some money, but at this rate, they were onto the Finals! "Just one more boys, and our misery since Duelist Kingdom will finally be over."

"So pretty soon we gonna get to move on and up ain't we Bonz?" 

"That's right, Zygor, nothing will stand between us and fame and fortune!" Their plan was simple enough, Zygor and Sid would hide between the headstones and wait for duelists to pass in. They'd planted fliers around Domino with rumors of powerful duelists waiting in the cemetery. When the unwitting would wander in, the two would jump them and scare the poor souls towards Bonz, who'd finish the job by making the kids drop their things and leave.

And as the three shared a deep laugh at their great fortune, a hushed fog rolled over the resting place of the deceased. "Just another chip, innit?" sid questioned, eliciting a proud nod from Bonz. "Rightio, then we should be bout to get back in place? Don't wanna miss another meal ticket?"

Quite fond of meal tickets, myself, a voice rang out through the fog, catching the attention of the three men standing in the open, wouldn't happen to have room for one more would you?

"Hey who's there?" Zygor stepped forward and shouted, fists clenched immediately.

"Oi, Satake-"

"Hey, I told you call me Zygor,"

"You fools are blowing our cover!" It was Bonz to speak up now, their plan was falling apart rapidly, and he still couldn't make out who was approaching the three of them. What if it was one of those damned Kaibas? "Who wanders in to this damned place?"

Just a wayward traveler, you could say. A lost soul. A hungry maw. A light chuckle echoes throughout their area as the body for the voice comes into a view. A pale young man with spiky white hair and a blue button up shirt opened to reveal a blue and white striped shirt all atop a pair of jeans. Bonz raised an eyebrow with a devious smirk, amused by this guy already.

I heard there were powerful duelists in the cemetery, and you see I have this here locator card and wondered if you three happen to know where these "duelists" were at?

"Ha, you're looking at em right here," Bonz stepped forward, smug in his attitude. They hadn't had to duel once until this point, but everyone that had come in had been weak, what makes this guy any different?

Am I? Then I guess I owe you an apology. The fog grew denser over the feet of the challenger as he stopped his approach, lifting his duel disc into the air at the trio with an awful smile, all I see are residents.

"Oi, I recognize this cat I do," Sid spoke up just beneath his breath, leaning down to Bonz, "he's one-a Wheeler's mates, swear it."

"Wheeler's?" The ghoulist little duelist gives his new opponent a stare down, remembering all those months back to the cave and his duel against Joey. To Joey's friends running up. To the one in the stupid sweater. The smirk wipes from Bonz' face and his voice deepens. "when this is over, we're gonna beat his ass got it?"

Both Sid and Zygor nodded with a laugh, the trio staring down their newly minted opponent "behold, stranger, for you've entered the den of the DAMNED!"

…okay…

"Where nary a soul can leave here unscathed and unaffected by the grips of the dead, clawing up their sides to drag them to the pits of Hell! Leave now and you'll be spared, but stay and SUFFER IN ETERNAL DROWNING!"

There's a long pause of their opponent frozen in place, staring down Bonz after the tiny monologue, an awkward silence hanging in the air as the fog deepens again, roiling over them like a blanket and shielding their eyes to anything outside the duel. If you insist, it's always nice to see people with prophetic dreams of the future.

Bonz' duel disk activated, spitting the hologram projectors outward and readying the fancy KaibaCo technology for his first actual duel of Battle City, right before his trip to the finals, "only dreams of the future I see is you running away screaming for your mommy!"

That's it? The question is left to linger in the air for a moment, unanswered and not given credit until his duel disk is also activated, heavily watching the hologram machines light up, an insult to my mother? After that big bluster about Hell and drowning, you're gonna follow it up by saying I'll be running to my mother? I'd be disappointed if my expectations weren't already so low.

"I'll show you 'low expectations' all right," Bonz reached for his five cards and grabbed one in his hand, beginning to speak before being interrupted.

That you will.

"Dragon Zombie, in attack mode!" With a scowl, the zombie was thrusted onto the disk, and made to life before Bonz duel to the hologram technology at his disposal. "With an attack of 1600. I hope you're ready for the dawn of your DEATH?" To accompany the theatrics, Bonz let out a chilling laugh, throwing his whole body into it.

His opponent shrugged, a Romero reference? Drawing his opening hand and his first turn card, low hanging fruit, one monster defense position. Turn.

"A simple defense monster? If you want to talk about low hanging fruit, how bout we get a little Gacy in here? With Crass Clown!" Down to the field is another monster, the round and rotund clown laughing as the holograms spew forth his new monster.

Did you just make a gay joke using Gacy as the punchline-

"Now Dragon Zombie," no that's fine just ignore me, "attack his face down monster!" The lacerated mouth of the zombie opened and poured out a thick smoke that washed over the holographic card back of the monster Bonz' opponent had set, blending in with the haze that had washed across them all. The trio covered their faces, audibly coughing from the blow back.

"Wow these here holo-grams do be strong."

"Yeah, were they supposed to be having smell?"

A construct of a jar with a black substance sprang to life above the card back, a single eye and wide smile look out to Bonz' hang with disdain, before exploding into shattered pieces. Aw, what a shame, guess my pottery is history now.

"Yeah and that means now I-"

Ah, ah, not yet, my sickly little friend; you triggered the effects of my Morphing Jar, causing us both to discard our hand, and draw five new cards. His hand went into the graveyard slot, with fingers delicately pulling five new ones. And because I'm such a nice guy, I'll even let you attack with Violator, there.

Bonz scowled at being commanded, discarding his hand for new cards. An eyebrow raised, Snake Hair was it? If he can keep Dragon Zombie alive and draw Polymerization.. "Crass Clown, attack his life points directly!"

Quickly, the large clown thrusted it's pole arm forward at Bonz' order, the blunt end of the stick slamming into the man's body with an audible thud. The gang stopped for a moment, the duel pausing as fog slowly gathered thicker around their opponent.

"Hey, Bonz, these ain't supposed to hurt people right?"

"No, no they aren't. It's just a performance."

4,000 - 1,350 = 2,650

As the life points rung down on their counters, the white haired man let out a pained laugh, the fog was clinging to his legs as if it was doing something. You know, when Maximilian Pegasus originally drew your fat clown, he drew it with a scythe.

"Huh?"

He thought it would instill fear in the children playing the game. But Industrial Illusions felt it was "too sinister" and changed it to a pole. Funny, then, that your clown is just an out of shape monk. But enough about de Segonzac's little doodle, I think it's time to explain this.. Shadow Game.

"What the fuck is you talking about?" Zygor stepped forward, the annoyance of this man's little tangent having already got the better of him.

"Oi, mate, keep it down-"

"It doesn't matter what you call this game," Bonz rose his voice above his companions, lifting a pointed finger to this odd duelist, "the next turn is going to be your last, go on and draw your last card so you can draw your last breath!"

With his new turn starting, the man drew the next card with a gleeful smile on his face, in Monster World, we call this a cantrip. I activate the magic card Pot of Greed. You know what this is yes? 

"Yeah, a waste of a turn."

Not quite, my little brain dead friend; into the magic zone it went before the green jar appeared before them all, you see, it's called a cantrip because it costs nothing to play and it replaces itself. And not only that, it gives me a second card. Sometimes you just need a little green pot in your life, don't you?

From the jar shot two orbs of light, rushing down to his deck and drawing two cards from them. With the spell resolved, another card is taken from the hand, now, I'll play the monster Card Trooper.

The monster appears on the field, a little unassuming robot, not unlike a ground tank mech. "Card Trooper? It only has 400 attack?"

Very good, your ability to read the cards is only matched by your overall stupidity. But Card Trooper has a special effect. It lets me send the top three of my deck to the card graveyard to boost it's attack by 500 for each card. And do you know what 500 times three is?

Bonz grimaced, taking a step back.

That's right, 1,500! Good boy. Add that to the 400, and that's 1,900. Card Trooper, be a dear and destroy that clown for me, would you?

A bright light shone from the glassed dome of the monster before a powerful laser blasted forth and struck the clown. It didn't even have time to scream before it was evaporated in its entirety.

4,000 - 550 = 3,450

It wasn't the ticking of his life total Bonz felt, but the sudden pain in his chest. Like someone had thrusted a searing knife into his sternum, not far enough to puncture organs but the skin was definitely broken. He fell to a knee, grabbing his chest tightly while whimpering, "oi, Kotsuzuka," Sid stepped forward only to be halted by the laughing of their opposition.

Sorry, I didn't explain the rules of the game! That wasn't right of me, can't make it up now can I?

"What do you mean "rules"?" It took help from Zygor to get Bonz back on his feet, the pain subsiding.

I told you, this was a Shadow Game. The monsters you play here are real. And the more attachment you have to them, the worse their deaths are going to feel. Fitting you're attached to a clown, I see two beside you now.

"Hey, who the fuck you calling a clown?"

You, you large oaf. And when you lose life points, you're losing life points. Of course, I lost more than you but unlike you, I'm not attached to these monsters. They aren't mine.

"What are you talking about? What do you mean they aren't yours what is this?" There was a shake in the scream, perhaps from the feeling of the knife piercing, perhaps the confusion of this inane yammering. But something wasn't right.

A young man and what I would assume was his lady friend graciously gifted me this duel disk, deck, and locator card earlier. In exchange, I sent their souls screaming into Hell to be alone and lost for all eternity.

He admired the disk for a moment, gaze slowly lifting to Bonz and company, and once this game is done, all three of you can join them in a world of isolation and shadows. It's okay, you'll be able to suffer together.

"Fuck this, I'm done," Sid, always the coward, began to take off away from the duel, running down beyond his group.

"Sid, hey!" Zygor's shout fell on deaf ears, as Sid disappeared into the fog, as the man played two cards face down on the field.

I'll just set these two cards face down for now. Oh, and my name is Bakura, thank you. Now.. the words were interrupted by Sid, starting to run up to where Bakura was standing, having made a full loop. Ah, thank you, could you go inform your master that my turn is over?

"Wait, how did-"

You don't get to leave the shadows. The fog will cling to you and drag you down to the muck. Now, tell your owner it's his turn. I'm getting bored.

"This is dumb. This is fucking stupid!" Bonz took his turn and drew a card, watching Sid slowly moving back in place. Muttering that it's a circle under his breath. "Now, I-"

Not so fast, I'm going to take the opportunity to take three more cards from my deck and put them in my graveyard, to increase my Card Trooper's attack to 1,900. Okay, now what were you going to say?

"Wait you can do that?"

Come on, eternity is waiting.

"Man fuck you," Bonz rushed a monster in defense as Bakura took three more cards off the top of his deck, "I place one monster face down, and I switch my Dragon Zombie to defense mode."

A wise decision from a poor man, guess it's my turn now. Are you done?

"Yeah!"

Glad we both understand the outcome. Oh, and as your turn comes to a close, I'll activate both my facedown trap cards.

"Both? You had two?" Sweat drops from Bonz' brow into his eye, the salt stinging his vision.

Two indeed I did, and they're both Needlebug Nests. These each allow me to discard five cards from the top of my deck and into the graveyard. A fourth of my deck put in the ground, as it were.

"Why would you do that?"

Because one of us needs to put pressure on me in this duel, and you certainly aren't managing any of it. Now then, it's my turn.

What the fuck, what the fuck is this guy's issue, Bonz felt his knees tremble, he should be able to capitalize off the way Bakura was playing, but as the man drew another card, he felt lost. This didn't make sense!

Now then, two cards appeared face down on the field, while a monster was placed in defense mode. I'll activate Card Trooper's effect once more, sending three more cards to their permanent home. Then I'll switch him to defense mode. Seems our game is almost over.

"You're mad,"

Actually, I'm in a relatively good mode, but that's fine. Go on, the game is over.

Is it? Both monsters in defense, he could kill my defense monsters. Unless he's baiting me for a trap. But all he's done is remove his deck. He's playing me. C'mon Bonz, c'mon, shaky hands dip into the deck and pull out just the card he needed.

Polymerization.

"Okay, first I switch Dragon Zombie back to attack, and reveal my Snake Hair as well!"

Intimidating.

"Mock me all you want, but the duel is over! Dragon, Snake, attack his monsters!"

And you activate my trap card.

"Another trap?!"

Yes, just one. Behold my… third Needlebug Nest.

"That's it?" Bonz foot stomped forward and suddenly, all that panic and talk washed away to agitation, he'd been played a fool and mocked for this? "All you have done is discard your deck this whole duel and you have the balls to call me names? Just to discard cards again?"

And would you look at that, down to just one card..

"Kill his monsters!" With fervor, Bonz' creatures laid into the Card Trooper, smashing it to bits, and the second one face down all smashing to pieces. Their metallic remains littering the battlefield.

You done?

"No, but you are! Now I'll activate Polymerization! And fuse my Dragon Zombie and Snake Hair, to create this!"

Behind the monsters, a swirling vortex opened up, dragging the creatures forward. They clung to the ground, scratching and clawing to avoid being pulled in. But their wills were ignored, and in they were sucked and engulfed in light, shaping into a new creature, a literal mammoth of a monster.

"Behold! My Mammoth of Goldfine! Unfortunately I can't attack now, but I will next turn, but it won't matter. You've lost."

Silence takes the floor as Bakura draws card number forty from his deck, laughing the whole way. I had to do research on the rules for Kaiba's puppet tournament, and the rules state a forty card deck count. No more, no less.

I've put five cards from Morphing Jar, nine from Card Trooper, and fifteen from Needlebug Nests. Plus the cards themselves. That's thirty-five. Leaving me with a hand of four and a face down card.

So, I'll play the last monster in the deck, the King of the Skull Servants!

Howling winds prelude the sound of concrete shattering and cracking, dirt lifting up and out from the emergence of a bony hand that grabs for anything solid to lift itself from earthly prison. Its' red robes of gold trim betray the card's art of purple robes, and as it stands and bemoans it's summoning, Bakura removes his graveyard to begin counting.

A King among minions, who gets stronger from every lesser minion tossed aside and forgotten. In fact, the King gets 1,000 attack for every soul lost to the graveyard that bears it's likeness. Do you want to know how many that is, Kotsuzuka?

Seventeen. Seventeen servants that have been forgotten and discard. But the King here? Remembers all his lost subjects and is fueled with anger for their loss.

"But, you're the one that did that-"

Bringing his total attack power to 17,000. I believe your Mammoth has 2,200 attack? A respectable amount. Nothing to a King. But what is a King without his accessories? So now I'll activate this, the magic card Disposable Learner Device!

The face down card lifted from the ground and attached itself to the Skull Servant King, the attack value skyrocketing again. This little magic trinket raises the attack by 200 for every monster in my graveyard. Do you want to know how many?

"Seven..teen?"

Twenty-eight. Which means my King gets another 5,600 attack. Now what happens when I do this? Another magic card is played, a second copy of Disposable Learner Device showing on the field then attaching to the King. Another 5,600 attack. Which brings our total attack to 28,200. My my. Skull Servant King

Kill them.

With a snarling howl and a bite in the air, the King of the Skull Servants rushed the Mammoth, slashing at it with a fierce chop and breaking apart the undead creature, its own bones joining in piles with the Card Troopers from earlier.

3,450 - 22,000 = -22,500

Kotsuzuka fell to his knees with his hand covering his mouth, coughing. Thick speckles of blood rolled over his hands as his eyes grew heavy and hard. The blood began turning black, choking on something as he tried to cough it all out. But it was screams of Sid and Zygor that caught his attention, shadow rolling up them and pulling them down.

The base of the darkness grew deeper, their shouts turning into frantic sobbing as they tried desperately to claw free. The shadows reached their chest, and the screaming turned to gurgling, like they weren't being pulled to the darkness but melting into it. Slowly the shadows crept up and over their faces, their forms losing all semblance of who they were until they had melted fully into the shadows that had drug them, gone.

Kotsuzuka's own coughing had gotten worse amidst his tears, thick black liquid just flowing from his mouth and eyes. When he went to look at his hands, he watched his skin falling off in chunks of black liquid. An attempt to scream came out of a watery gurgle, and soon his body was puddling like his friends, until there was just silence.

The fog lifted in the cemetery, nothing left but the headstones, Bakura, and a duel disk with their locator cards. Sauntering up to the discarded items, Bakura looked both ways performatively to see if anyone was around. If you want me to take your locator cards, say nothing ever again for eternity?

A pause, not even the wind spoke up.

He bent down and grabbed the cards with a smile. Oh, by the way, I lied. You'll be alone in those shadows.

[bakorrra2]

He literally said wtf

[queeriboh]

12 across the board, out the entire cast to me as you see fit.

12. Sexuality hc! oh boy this is going to be long okay. I'm going to do all the characters who come to mind as I go but I'm not going to get to like super obscure or one off characters, like the s0 villains or anything bsbssbwjsnx

Yugi: bisexual

Atem: Gay.

Joey: bisexual, but just figuring that out

Honda/Tristan: I usually headcanon him as the token cishet, but I'm down with bi Honda too.

Anzu/Téa: bisexual disaster

Bakura: agender asexual but also Gay

Yami Bakura: aromantic / asexual

Duke: pansexual

Mai: bisexual

Shizuka/Serenity: lesbian

Grandpa: bisexual legend

Kaiba: gay / demisexual

Mokuba: bi/pan

Noa: asexual

Rex: bisexual

Weevil: gay

Pegasus: bisexual

Bandit Keith: Super Straight. everyone has gay thoughts sometimes you just have to do the AMERICAN thing and ignore them, that's god testing you duh 🙄

Bonz: lesbian

Sid: straight

Zygor: gay

Ishizu: lesbian

Marik: gay

Yami Marik: aromantic / gay

Rishid: straight / asexual

Mahaad: gay / demisexual

Mana: bisexual

Set: asexual

[warcraft-guru]

Mage main fighting bear in WotLK Classic with Zygor Leveling Guides visible.