can't believe they let this man hire gamers to try and take yugi out like this

but most of all, i can't believe that he saw a girl hitting on yugi for the express purpose of extorting a card out of him, and thought "hey wait a minute, that's MY job"

(hitting on yugi, or extorting a card? unclear, probably both)

and then when yugi's too sick to finish the duel, his ass STEPS IN and finishes it with his own deck, only to monologue about how HE'S the only one who can beat yugi in ritual combat a card game

they made him more important in this part of the series than he is, and that's SO FUNNY

it's so funny that he had to come in and SAVE YUGI THE SHAME OF DEFEAT just so he can do it later. with a little murder as a treat.

brother you're giving off the wrong vibes, i assure you

the vibes are rancid, but also not straight.

Kaiba pulling off his mask like a scooby doo villain was amazing

you thought it was a mild mannered arcade worker but in fact it was ME, KAIBA!

UM ALSO I'M WATCHING EP 20 AND I CAN'T BELIEVE YUGI CAUSED A FUCKING ACCIDENT OVER CARDS

this guy

LOOK BOTH WAYS YOU DIPSHIT

BEFORE YOU CROSS THE STREET LOOK BOTH WAYS

but
but cards :<

S0 KAIBA IS SO DELIGHTFULLY BANANAS OKAY

season zero as a whole is a fantastic mess tbh tho
like golly
goddamn

im stealing the canadian fashion model villain shes making an appearance in skein if it kills me-

L O L

Kaiba was already bananas but this is the WHOLE BUNCH

Day O (Banana Boat Song)this many bananas

A WHOLE TREE OF BANANAS KITTEN IMAGINE

SIX FOOT SEVEN FOOT EIGHT FOOT BUNCH

JCFJDJDBHDJDHFHD

Delightfully bananas is such a wonderful way to describe Kaiba

if i didn't love tsudaken's performance so much i'd make a s0 account to perturb the other kaibas

fjdjfhrjrkrfnfnfnf

Noa muse from around the corner:

respect your protogenitor, whelp

G o d s I'd die for S0 Kaiba tbh (says me, the guy who plays S0 Yuugi)

Also I think I'll include the Violet Hekate arc in BLGioh

(noa is suffering,) and heh

my hand slipped

CORRECT

also joke's on u guys, i was already thinking about playing pre-duelist kaiba. idk about s0 proper, but CERTAINLY a kaiba with a few hinges removed is definitely worth playing.

it'd be so funny to put him in situations that clearly, he is too much of a Creatura to deal with normally

TEMPTATIONS!!!

a kaiba out of time interacting with other kaibas would be amazing
kaiba: even at my worst, i was never as bad as this!
kaiba, last fucking year: look, hr, we've been over this. put leatherface on the payroll.

ghasdkljfdsddl

i'm 100% convinced that the mind crush actually did fuck with his memories of Death-T. he's still got the wherewithal to realize "damn that was fucked up" but the specifics aren't...quite there

hence "I WOULD NEVER HAVE DONE THIS KIND OF THING. MARIK U REALLY ARE EVIL"

also thank you for saying leatherface. crewgioh on here gets it

meanwhile most video essays that drop in my lap say that chopman is jason

which i understand, some of the lore cribs from jason, but i do wnat to point out that jason didn't have a leather face, nor did he use a chainsaw to massacre

they are weak and will not survive contact with krystal the winter

for REALS tho lmao

also though, could you imagine how much funnier it would be if baby kaiba was in any of the games i've been in? if he was in rys? HELL YEAH I'M A DRAGON AND I'M BEING AN UNHINGED TEENAGER ABOUT IT!!

WHERE'S YUGI I JUST WANT TO TALK TO HIM
I JUST WANNA TALK TO HIM
I JUST WANNA BITE HIM
I JUST WANNA TALK TO HIM

njm lk.,mj j';/l

i mean, honestly the same in Heckin, if that had happened. he would not be as measured as he's being. he'd be doing what alastor said

just blast the opposition and get u some land, sweetie

noa just. dying in the ryslig scenario
like HELLO YES THIS IS MY YOUNGER STEP BROTHER
I'M -SORRY-

all his character development and this is how the gods repay him
delayed fucking karma

kaiba: why do you look like me but with green hair? tf?
noa: the writers thought it would be funny

god tho
manga discrepancies, my beloved,

angfv skdrjhgbnvfjidkuhrg GODDD
Noa: listen. if you find the answer, i'll be so relieved

we actually had
a seto rosenkreuz around when noa apped to ryslig
he lasted like two months but

I HAVE TO LIVE WITH MANGA DISCREPANCIES THE REST OF MY LIFE. and i'm not even talking discrepancies from the anime, just discrepancies of the manga and itself

the point is
we had fucking duelist of the roses seto
and noa had to ask himself

I KNOW AND THAT WAS STILL SO FUNNY

is this why we have the same fuckign face

noa it's time to buy the ancestry dot com kit

ARE WE BOTH DESCENDED FROM FUCKING ROZENKREUZ

start digging noa

i ended up crauing him to kaisou in the end and his au self gets to serve neith in the worlds awkwardest reprisal of tutu the dream sphinx

its fine hes fine,

anyway beams in manga discrepancies

beams harder

i weaponize this when yugi and atem get into a debate abt the potential of bakura and rs agjdfgkldfhg

yugi: i mean. atem you killed people, ngl
atem: rs is still worse
yugi: no,

i mean no one can assert in full confidence that anime seto and noa AREN'T both descended from rosenkreuz, can they

THEY SURE CANT
AND IT HAUNTED HIM FOR THE REST OF HIS GAME TIME MARI

with most cats, when they hundred-yard stare into space, you don't know what they're thinking about
with noa, You Know.

also kitten "i have to live with discrepancies from the manga" like that's NEW now that you play kaiba (holds everyone named bakura up like hamburger)
(also holds up the history of the tombkeepers)
(but that's a me problem)

(no thats a shared problem, shoves myself in there,)

(mari do you have any idea how hellish my notes for skein are now that im digging them back out they're the Worst)

tho tbf on the tombkeepers i can explain that one away as listen fam over even a few HUNDRED years shit gets messed up. let alone THOUSANDS

(i can reconcile a lot of it thanks to the line kaz threw in about how there was a schism like. oh ok the ishtars are the extremist branch who fucked off to make their OWN cult with the exact opposite of blackjack and hookers)

(so yeah)

lbr with how many thousands of years the real surprise is only One schism happening

(also very fond of the hc that because language naturally evolves somewhat over time, to the ears of people with past lives that can SPEAK ancient egyptian, the ishtars' dialect of it is nails on a chalkboard)
(archaeologists like HOW IS MS ISHTAR SO CONFIDENT SHE KNOWS WHAT THE MISSING VOWELS ARE IN THESE WORDS while atem is yelling MAKE IT STOP)

THE MANGA IS SO WEIRD ABOUT BAKURAS YOU'RE RIGHT

let's not forget ryou "while my hand healed i definitely made this detailed diorama" bakura

and there's no scar? my ASS there's no scar lmao

that thing went RIGHT IN THERE

and lest we forget, the timekeeper with watches on both wrists. the ultimate role in duelist kingdom for ryou bakura

or even his switch from being worried about the ring to not seeming aware it's a problem anymore!!! like. after he put it on again in duelist kingdom, what did you do, rs
was it something super chilling like "notices his landlord wishing he never has to worry about me again".....and granting it....

oh yeah no. there's definitely some chicanery afoot

ryou's brain is like silly putty. you can imprint things into it, and also squish it around a little into shapes you like

maybe ryou periodically likes to switch which wrist his watch is on! keeps it interesting!! makes his own fun!!!!
....no actually that's even more sad than "on both wrists"

no matter where i play ryou, that's written into the app. "easily possessed, easy to influence magically and mentally"

MARI NO OMG

THAT IS MORE SAD

i mean, "easily influenced" is possibly a family trait considering his dad was so obsessed with finding This One Artifact In Particular (That Happens To Be Chock Full Of Evil "Put Me On, And I Will Either Make You Worse, Take You Over, Or Kill You" Magic)

mahad: bakura....the millennium ring is too much for you!
thief king bakura, ted lewis voice, inexplicable british accent: I don't care.

all bakuras seek that which does not belong to them confirmed

ABS - always be stealin

what is your japanese dsod read, incidentally. do you think the entity we know as rs/the zorc-tk hybrid sealed away was still inside it, or was rs exorcised in mw and what happened to diva and mani a byproduct of the ring being Especially Evil even before it had a dickdragon and a Just Plain Dick sealed up in it?

the dub makes the clear call that rs is still there and running the show ringwise, they overlay lewis's voice atop monster!diva, but there's no rica i can discern in the sub and i think i could pick her out if she were there.

I always think of it as remnants of zorc, not necessarily RS

RS is gone gurl, but the Ring is still steeped in the little droplets of zorc that remain

if it were RS i don't know that he'd be able to manhandle the destined host the way he did.

or possess mani to do it, since he has STANDARDS

yeah. the ring is not only evil because of its origin but it in particular is very good at absorbing all the badstuff that makes up zorc from its wearers, see: why mahad was needed to wear it (only dude who could seal it)

so that makes sense

(tho the alternative
ryou: you undimensioned me!
rs: I STORED YOU FOR SAFEKEEPING. I WAS GOING TO PUT YOU BACK AFTER THE WORLD WAS DESTROYED. GOD. WHY DO YOU NEVER GET THIS, HAVE YOU NEVER USED A CUPBOARD)

(I'M NOT ALLOWED TO PUT YOUR FRIENDS INTO MINIFIGURES, I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO SHOVE YOU ON THE DIMENSIONAL SHELF......IT'S LIKE YOU DON'T GET THAT ANYTHING YOU DON'T SECRET AWAY CAN BE TAKEN FROM YOU!)
fuck i was doing a bit but it got deep. fuck.

HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO ME ;A;

but also hehe

f e e l i n g s

me takin notes
hehehe