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milkyzach · 4 months
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ignore the missing details i just needed to get these out
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sulfursocks · 1 year
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dsod kaiba warmup that I ended up colouring
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sapphira-mydnyte · 2 months
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Sluts... all of you... just for me? Ha! I guess I'll have to show you why I'm the best!
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A slutty dragon god is coming soon... but are you ready for him?
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thewittyphantom · 6 months
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While downloading the SEVENS world, I got lucky and got 3 Ryou Bakura quiz questions!
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chaosmax · 5 months
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More on: “I’m so surprised more people don’t evaluate and compare & contrast Kaiba and Diva in relation to each other more often”
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I'm looking at these pics side by side and either KT just straight up has a type of fav character design that he can’t shake himself out of OR this was on purpose to draw parallels between the two making them seem like shadow figures of each other/rivals/foils--
Both have a sleeveless coat, high collar, dramatic coat tail, pendant (or at least, I still solidly believe that KT just forgot to give Kaiba’s his, or perhaps you could argue that it missing has a symbolic reason or maybe to contrast with Sera and Diva who both have a small triangle pendant, turtleneck
Kaiba: silver/gray metal arm bracers, nothing special with hair sans when he’s dueling the duel gazer/headset is on his left, kneepads, belt, and his coat has the little spikes at the waist creating the flair of the spikes at his waist
Diva: gold bracelets, decorated hair with the longer strand on his right, wrapped fabric at the waist, spikes/flair at the end of his sleeves Also, nice framing with them literally in an inverted stance toward each other. And while on the Seto’s side it’s just himself and Mokuba against the rest of the world on Diva’s side he has all the kids that have joined the Plana at his back.
Like, I’m not an artist or visual director but all of these things are almost so 1:1 I highly doubt that we WEREN’T supposed to draw these connections. This seems to be visual cues galore.
And then for the meta/story side because I am first and foremost a story and writing evaluator:
When you really stop to think about it Diva and Kaiba are remarkably good character foils of each other with a lot of the same yet different methods, actions, flaws, weaknesses, and goals/motivations.
Motivations/Goals (those outside the main conflict of the film): Diva wants to create a new perfect dimension, a Utopia collective consciousness that the Plana would create and guide others to (this is more explicitly stated in the sub). And the Shadi and revenge thing, but more on that later.
Kaiba, (again most explicitly stated in the sub with Kaiba’s pre-tournament speech about how the new Duel Disk is meant to bridge the gap between people of all race/country/creed/etc. and the Transcend Game Manga) is trying to achieve a similar thing with his games and the duel disk. He states how the body is like a prison and these barriers between people lead to bloody useless wars. His connection via games is meant to escape that. He has a bunch of kids as the beta testers for their minds are the most imaginative. Kaiba is reaching for his own collective consciousness here but in a very different way.
Methods: Diva has complete confidence in the power of the Plana. He’s been told by Shadi about this great power and has seen it in action before he even receives the Quantum Cube himself. Diva and the rest of the Plana has seen that utopia the power of the Plana can provide (and Sera even showed Yugi a glimpse of it) but there is still that level of uncertainty in the creation of this new dimension. Sera states after Diva has gotten corrupted by the ring that the Cube has the power to create a new shining world of light, but if one drop of darkness gets in there the whole thing can be corrupted.
Kaiba has complete confidence with his tech. It is a simple equation of A + B = C. It may take it a while to get there, but there is a steady and succinct step-by-step process in his mind on how to get to point A to point B. And if he runs into a roadblock one way he explores another solution--as seen by when the Dimension Ascension had its safety limits in the World of Duel Links his focus became entirely on the puzzle, and then from the puzzle to the Duel Dimension System (it’s not a time machine i s2g if I see that one more time I will sCream. Atem recognizes him. He wouldn’t if it’s a time machine. It’s the darkside of dimensions, not the darkside of time travel). Kaiba’s methods are calculated and testable. There’s a scientific process to his approach.
Actions: They have very similar goal when it comes to the wider global scope, and yet intact that goal in different ways, despite both believing they are right in their own solutions even though this point never came up between them (but did between Diva and Yugi). Diva has seen paradise and that’s all he’s interested in until Yugi challenges him about building that paradise with everyone instead of gifting it to a few.
Aside from that conflict point though, Diva and Kaiba are pretty similarly ham-fisted when it comes to their actions once the plot of DSoD kicks off. Kaiba stomps around Domino City as he sees fit, he faces his challenges head on. And he is pretty clearly 100000% done with magical things running his tournaments and creates a counter for both of Diva’s Plana powers without much of a snag.
The Duel: Then of course they duel each other. And in this direct challenge they are pretty evenly matched. Kaiba, who the audience knows is a powerful duelist at this point dishes out powerful attack after powerful attack and even has new, stronger monsters to fight with. Yet Diva finds a way to avoid or redirect those attacks, even being bold enough to have an attitude that feels like he’s toying with Kaiba. While few others can go toe to toe with Kaiba in a duel the match was heavily going in Diva’s favor until Seto managed to summon Obelisk by picking up with the trace memories/wavelengths in the tomb.
Death and grieving: Both of them are trying to deal with the fallout of the death of someone that played a big role in their lives, but how each of their plotlines resolve for this are opposite at the end. Despite Diva’s actions to try and get rid of Bakura being against everything Shadi taught him and the rest of the Plana kids and even Sera and Manny trying to talk him down from it he doesn’t listen. Diva gets so caught up in the pain he’s feeling instead of what he knows. He’s eager to be able to blame someone for Shadi’s death he’s ignoring that Ryou Bakura is likely not the same as the ring spirit. But when confronting Ryou and realizes the truth he can’t ignore it anymore and he lets Ryou go and the glow of the cube fades. (Remember, it was the appearance of the corrupted Manny that caused the banishment of Ryou, not Diva himself, I see this getting mixed up quite a bit) And then he is able to start to fully move past his fixation on revenge.
But Kaiba hasn’t been able to make that progress himself. Even after Yugi reassembles the puzzle himself and shows it’s empty Seto keeps hounding Yugi, spitting cruel words and still refusing to believe that Atem isn’t still within Yugi. Then, even after Atem temporarily returns that isn’t enough for him to complete his grieving process, he finds a way to travel across dimensions for one last duel.
Flaws: Seto and Diva share some weaknesses in their ambition, ego, and arrogance yet at the same time it’s a situation of the pot calling the kettle black. Due to their own respective power they both think they’re invincible. Diva shittalks Kaiba’s egotistical actions of taking over Domino City and creating his own version of a collective consciousness within Duel Links. But Diva is doing a similar thing himself by how he’s dictating who should have the right to exist and even erasing people just for standing in his way like Jounouchi. Yet at the same time Diva thinks the power of the Plana is unstoppable and plain incompressible to anyone who is not apart of it--something that he gets a rude awakening for when Kaiba deflects his attempt to distillate him in the tomb and then later when Diva gets captured.
And then Kaiba gets knocked down a peg when his duel with Diva is a close one and then again when he has to team up with Yugi in order to defeat Diva’s corrupted form.
The character paths Diva and Seto are on through dsod are very similar. The characters are alike, but different. They have plenty in common to draw comparison to yet also differences that foil each other many steps of the way. And I just find this neat ™ and am surprised there isn’t more talk about these two in relation to each other when there’s so much crossover and they’re honesty the main two opposing forces of the film. Like there is so much going on here  TwT
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rainstormcolors · 10 months
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As always, it’s fair to like or dislike whatever fiction and you can choose what you want from canon.
But the ending of DSoD has so much potential in how you read into it, and yet another movie parallel one could see and that I think of would be to The Straight Story, where there’s a long dragging journey made towards someone the protagonist is estranged from but loves and wants to see and make amends with.
And just the simplicity of that ending exchange.
“Did you ride that thing all the way out here to see me?”
“I did.”
And the two are silent as they sit together and their faces start quietly breaking as they hold back tears. Because the journey itself said everything, everything that needed to be said about how much this trip meant for the protagonist, for the both of them.
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arzurebunny · 10 months
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Darkside of Dimensions (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Style)
Gosh I've had this fan trailer bouncing around in my head for so long, it feels good to finally make it a reality. Hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.
I'm not really a youtuber and probably won't be posting stuff often but if you enjoyed it please consider liking/commenting, and share it with other yugioh fans. Thank you!
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detectivemcqueen · 10 months
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Have you ever met the other yous from these Au's, if so did one ever stick out to you?
"I don't make it a habit to travel to other universes. I just make assumptions, and, by the infinite universe theory, they likely exist. I just try to keep a watch on the Darkside."
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virgamsysxvolumes · 2 months
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Pitch Pearl Dark
Okay, so I saw >this< post by @zillychu and my mind is just spinning trying to come up with narratives for this. But an idea I had inspired by this sort of was about Dark Danny/Phantom. Mostly just about instead of him going evil and eating Plasmius because Danny rejected him and he got pulled out of his body, Danny died and Phantom just lost his mind. Just absolutely went full Darkside and completely unhinged. Maybe he found a way to blame Vlad Plasmius for it and still ripped the ghost from him and ate him and doubled in power.
But the major story point for Dark Phantom was that losing Danny destroyed his Light completely and he essentially went "If I can't be whole and happy then no one can." and just completely destroyed the world to the point of almost collapsing the dimensions. Maybe he goes back in time in an effort to get Danny back; to steal his Danny from his weaker past self that just didn't have the power to protect him and thus did not deserve him.
Maybe eventually Danny manages to get him to calm down and let go. Maybe he doesn't and now he has an OP psychotic yandere after him. Maybe the only solution is to imprison Dark Phantom indefinitely. Maybe the solution is proper grief counseling, I dunno. These were just some ideas that sprung into my head for a darker turn to this Pitch Pearl idea.
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stealingyourbones · 1 year
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Danny is on the justice league and one of their heavy hitters but as king of a different dimension there are somethings he can't do like help defeat darkside
He can however call back up
This is how the justice league are introduced to the chaotic ball of energy dani and the man who makes batman look downright jolly Dan
One of the few things that can defeat a New God is an Old God. Dan may not be an Old God but he's just as powerful as one.
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blackheartbiohazards · 2 months
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I am honestly so glad to see that the incestuous subtext (which really, come on is barely subtext, it's pretty much text) is confirmed by world of god (Shinji Mikami).
Darkside Chronicles changing the entire story and dynamic of these two basically ruins any compelling dimension of them as characters and reduces both of them to cackling motivationless "for the evulz" badguys.
This really goes back to my harping on being frustrated with the way that some fans do not understand or read the context of the Weskers and the Ashfords having suffered some extreme (and bizarre) child abuse, being raised not as children but as eugenics experiments.
Like, OBVIOUSLY Alexia and Alfred have a fucked up codependant relationship, they're the only people in one another's lives that they feel like they can depend on.
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milkyzach · 5 months
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kaiba redraw cus ,... he .. he,.,... he..... him .....
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cloudsmachinations · 1 year
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Beautiful art commission by @lesssend
As The Sun Rises is a new Post-DSOD fic written by me, @cloudsmachinations
Post-Darkside of Dimensions. At that very second, Yugi’s entire world rearranged itself. Whatever life he’d led before then, he couldn’t fathom how it was supposed to make sense anymore. There was just this moment a thousand times over — a young man and his shadow; a mortal and a deity; a boy and another boy, bound together by fate.
Check it out on AO3!
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sapphira-mydnyte · 5 months
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Birthday boy deserves a nap after all the pressies he's gonna get spoiled with today! Happiest birthday to Seto Kaiba! 🩵 Our beloved Dragon of Domino & Kisara's hubby.
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He's married to Kisara spiritually & you can't convince me otherwise... he gonna get spoiled real good by wifey later. 🤭😏
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thewittyphantom · 7 months
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I was thinking about how in DSOD Shadi rescused the Plana kids from terrible situations, with Aigami and Sera being rescued from abuse, and a thought struck me--what if he rescued the Kaiba brothers in the same manner and gave them the Plana powers?
That could be a really interesting AU to have Kaiba grow up around magic, and his mind is definitely sharp enough to both comprehend and counter it, as the movie shows. I could see him being tempted to take revenge on Gozaburo the same was Aigami was for Ryou, or rallying the kids together after Shadi's death to continue focus on their utopia.
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norcumii · 11 months
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SPOILERS AHEAD FOR D20′S NEVERAFTER
(This was started the weekend after the finale, then my spoons ran away for awhile. -_-; Hopefully this is coherent anyways, even if late.)
I have been...struggling with this season of Dimension 20. As we’ve gone from episode to episode, I keep coming back to the issue of foundational rules – not in the sense of mechanics of world-building, but the thematic underpinnings and models. You’re telling a story about stories. We have these elements of horror and free-will; themes of consumption and corruption; cycles and multi-verses.
And I haven’t been able to tie it all together. My metaphorical wall-chart of photos and string has been an unending tangled mess (and my brain staunchly refuses to stop fixating on Aesop’s Mouse and Lion, aka the mascots of Disney and MGM so obviously that’s been a heel-turn of Capitalism waiting to happen >_>). After the finale I just sat there blinking for a bit, feeling like that certainly was a thing that had happened, but what did it all MEAN?????
There wasn’t anything that felt wrong with what happened, but there wasn’t any narrative logic I could grasp, no themes to tie things together other than “things are better now and what people chose for themselves” which is...nice, but vague enough to be unfulfilling. I couldn’t find anything to the Adventuring Party episode to help, so in growing frustrating I went browsing through the related tags on the tumbls.
This deceptively simple post broke me because it explained matters so well. It’s trauma. The whole season, all the horror and meta themes are about trauma. Suddenly all the oddly shaped puzzle pieces I couldn’t stop pawing at fit.
This is why the dark times began in the first place. People worried so much about trauma that they managed to traumatize themselves. Look how Sleeping Beauty’s vines literally smothered her in an attempt to protect her. All these population centers withdrew from each other, borders closed between the various kingdoms, and thus people pulled away from the potential for community support – everyone was left to struggle and fall on their own.
It wasn’t what I originally thought, some nebulous fear of fear itself inevitably leading to the darkside nonsense, but instead how we isolate ourselves into our little echo chambers – each person caught up in their story and their story alone. How we become mired in those events/trauma until one’s entire life is framed around That Horrible Thing What Happened At One Point In My Life.
Which in turn addresses the Authors – as a storyteller myself, I was mighty uncomfy with the presentation of the Authors as a unified bloc of uncaring eldritch horrors from beyond that only wanted the suffering of their playthings. I couldn’t figure if I was picking up on the wrong vibe, or if this was one of those learning moments where “if you’re uncomfy that might be ‘cause it hits too close to home and you need to sit with that for a bit to chew it over” or whatever. With the trauma context, it makes sense. On the one hand, the Authors are the external force: just like the characters, they’ve been corrupted by the fear of the Dark Times, and thus spreading that to their creations, which spread it back to them, etc. On the other they are very much an internal force: when we are traumatized, we tell ourselves stories to contextualize what happened. That can be done in a healthy way – this is one of the reasons we tell stories to begin with – or one can become mired in that narrative, telling and retelling it while fixating on the worst parts (that fear of the Dark Times thing again) until all that one sees is the worst iteration.
Which is why there was the multiverse aspect, and why each one could/did get worse. For that matter, it addresses the evolution of Pib’s minis, which baffled me when they were revealed. He begins as the dapper rogue, then becomes the hardened stray, then the scared little cat. Trauma wears at people, and oftentimes the immediate reaction is to withdraw, to be emotionally distant and appear tough – Rather like Zac’s choices on how Pib changed between incarnations. From there its so easy to get ground down further, into something so tired and hurting that it’s difficult to expect anything other than to be hurt further. Or look at Rosamund, increasingly isolated by her briars, which are choking her as they “lovingly” work to protect her from the big bad scary world – until she is puppeted by them.
Honestly, a lot of character choices make a lot more sense. Ylfa’s separation, how she believed that “the girl kept holding the wolf back.” The Stepmother’s everything, exemplifying that old saying about how “hurt people hurt people,” and a classic example of how easy it is to repeat generational trauma, especially when you don’t have a model for other ways to approach matters. The princesses’ utter nihilism, the exhausted desperation to just have the suffering stop. The fairies as the well-meaning but misguided faction endorsing placating the/a source of trauma to keep things from getting worse is all too familiar of those caught up in traumatic cycles but want to exercise some, any kind of autonomy. Meanwhile look at how Rapunzel grew able to lash out at literally everyone, and how she was utterly honest without ever needing to be truthful. How so many people just needed to rest in Mother Goose’s book, to get some reprieve from the relentless cycle of trauma (and how it helped them, and in return helped the party).
This explains the horrible Worst Case ending that was mentioned in the Adventuring Party: the Stepford Wives society of terrifying seeming-perfection crystallizing everyone into a semblance of how Everything Is Fine, Nothing Is Wrong, and no lessons are learned, no changes can be made, and the core is often rotting away unseen. All too often, society pressures us to pretend trauma didn’t happen, or that it wasn’t so bad. (How many times have you heard that PTSD is only for military folks, or those who survived massive natural disasters or whathaveyou?) The lesson we internalize is to pretend that all is peachy-keen, no problems whatsoever, and when that happens the trauma is never addressed. One can’t heal if all your energies are devoted to keeping up the facade of an idyllic existence. To be stuck in that cycle is indeed pretty apt for the worst end of a horror season.
Of course, this leads to the big question: what makes the players different? HOW did they manage to break the cycle? By literally crafting a new narrative – by allowing EVERYONE to make their own, new narrative, to shed the weight and burden of generational trauma. Some of them, like Pinocchio, had already internalized their own story – in his case, that meant taking up the terrifying responsibility of autonomy, taking up his own strings and destiny. Pinocchio learned and understood his story, stepping forward to not be ruled by his past experiences – like Gerard, choosing to leave his humanity and stop chasing the old goals that everyone said he should desire. Even though they both grieved the loss of that goal, and all the ramifications of leaving those hopes behind – even as it meant accepting the scars and changes it wrought upon them – it helped them and others in their stories break out of the cycle of trauma.
Stories are doorways to other places – sometimes a temporary haven in someplace better, where no matter how bad things get, there is a ‘happily’ at the end of it. Sometimes they’re models of how things could be horrible, and we can learn how others deal with grief/tragedy/horror – so we in turn can acquire those skills and life lessons. Vicarious experiences can help mitigate/understand trauma, and somehow, without me even noticing it, this season leaned wholeheartedly into it.
I think I need to rewatch it all through that lens, and tbh? I’m looking forward to it.
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