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[November 6th] [Yu-Gi-Oh!] Casualty of War
Title: Casualty of War
Day/Theme: November 6th - This night thy soul may be required of thee
Series: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Character/Pairing: Duke Devlin (speaking to David Tanaka, the canonically unnamed character from episode #46)
Rating: T/PG-13
You know, people have always wondered what the other planes of existence are like, if they’re real at all. Ghost hunters and mediums make their living by trying to communicate with the inhabitants. Moviemakers get a ton of money by churning out picture after picture about the supernatural and scaring everyone. Books about ghost stories are always sellouts, even moreso if the stories are reported as true.
I’ve never really cared that much. I mean, so there could be ghosts in the world. So what? How is that going to affect me and my life and my business? If they hang out on their plane and I hang out on mine and we don’t bother each other, then everything’s fine and dandy. Right?
. . . Why am I using a word like dandy? I’m picking too many things up from you, you crazy preppie.
But anyway. That’s what I always thought about ghosts. I didn’t really believe one way or another that they were real and I didn’t care.
Of course, that was before I met Yugi and his gang. Now I know ghosts are real. Not to mention the afterlife, dark magic, and freaky parallel dimensions.
And soul-stealing. Yeah, that’s a big one.
Then there’s the insane organizations that try to take over the world. As if Doom wasn’t enough, now some jokers had to go and revive it! You’re just lucky you haven’t really been mixed up in the fight against them. They’re using something called the Neo-Orichalcos that they’re claiming will grant your wishes if you follow what it wants. And if you lose a duel with one of their members, you might end up working for them unwillingly.
As I understand it, one of four things can happen to you.
Number one, your soul gets stolen and held by the Seal of Neo-Orichalcos, just like with the first version.
Number two, that happens, plus the Seal controls your vacant body as one of its minions. That’s about as close to being a real zombie as you can get.
Number three, your soul isn’t taken, but you’re mind-controlled to be a servant of the Neo-Orichalcos.
Number four, you just die and become a wandering spirit.
Do you get where I’m going with this?
Joey ended up as a Number Three case after losing a duel. He went on a rampage under the Neo-Orichalcos’s control, stealing souls left and right. Then I ran into him and he decided to duel me, too.
The thing about the Orichalcos was that it twisted and magnified your own, darkest thoughts and feelings. I don’t know if the Neo version does the same thing, but that’s a pretty safe bet. Joey said a lot of hurtful things to me. The basic gist of it is that neither he nor Tristan really thinks of me as a friend. And honestly? I don’t know whether it could be true or not.
I’ve always felt like an outcast. You know that. And I don’t get along that great with either Joey or Tristan. Both of them are sore at me for dating Serenity. Joey’s suspicious wondering if I’m sincere and Tristan . . . well, he’s just jealous.
So why would they consider me a friend? I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of what Joey said is really what he feels deep down.
Remember not too long ago, when Bakura got desperate because of his father being kidnapped by Neo-Orichalcos soldiers and they made him think he had to use the Seal himself to save the guy? He completely cracked up when he played it. The Seal took him over so fast he probably didn’t even know it happened.
Yami Bakura warned him not to use it, but he didn’t listen. And once the Seal had hold of him, he said a bunch of angry, hurtful things to Yami Bakura. I know at least some of them were what he’d really felt and thought, because he’d told them to me in confidence in the past.
I guess you could say Bakura had what was coming to him, for using the Seal after he’d been told not to. He lost the duel because of how power-hungry and nuts he ended up getting. Only instead of getting sacrificed himself, he was pushed out of the way by Yami Bakura. I guess the Seal got confused with both of them there. It took the ancestor instead of the descendant.
Bakura’s never been the same since. Defeating Doom Reborn is almost an obsession for him now. Of course, I’d feel the same in his place.
Anyway, the whole point is, since Bakura really thought a lot of the hurtful things he said, Joey could have too. Bakura had thought he was over some of those things, but now he’s worried that he really wasn’t.
I guess it doesn’t really matter anyway. I mean, since I already felt like I didn’t belong, it shouldn’t bother me so much. You’ve always been the one I confided in, not any of them.
But you can’t even hear me, can you? I’m right here, and you can’t see or hear me!
David! David, it’s me! That’s not me lying on the ground with cards scattered everywhere. Well, no, it is, but . . . it’s not the real me! I’m here talking to you! David, please say you can hear me! Even just sense me! Please!
I’m dead. God, oh God, I’m dead.
Day/Theme: November 6th - This night thy soul may be required of thee
Series: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Character/Pairing: Duke Devlin (speaking to David Tanaka, the canonically unnamed character from episode #46)
Rating: T/PG-13
You know, people have always wondered what the other planes of existence are like, if they’re real at all. Ghost hunters and mediums make their living by trying to communicate with the inhabitants. Moviemakers get a ton of money by churning out picture after picture about the supernatural and scaring everyone. Books about ghost stories are always sellouts, even moreso if the stories are reported as true.
I’ve never really cared that much. I mean, so there could be ghosts in the world. So what? How is that going to affect me and my life and my business? If they hang out on their plane and I hang out on mine and we don’t bother each other, then everything’s fine and dandy. Right?
. . . Why am I using a word like dandy? I’m picking too many things up from you, you crazy preppie.
But anyway. That’s what I always thought about ghosts. I didn’t really believe one way or another that they were real and I didn’t care.
Of course, that was before I met Yugi and his gang. Now I know ghosts are real. Not to mention the afterlife, dark magic, and freaky parallel dimensions.
And soul-stealing. Yeah, that’s a big one.
Then there’s the insane organizations that try to take over the world. As if Doom wasn’t enough, now some jokers had to go and revive it! You’re just lucky you haven’t really been mixed up in the fight against them. They’re using something called the Neo-Orichalcos that they’re claiming will grant your wishes if you follow what it wants. And if you lose a duel with one of their members, you might end up working for them unwillingly.
As I understand it, one of four things can happen to you.
Number one, your soul gets stolen and held by the Seal of Neo-Orichalcos, just like with the first version.
Number two, that happens, plus the Seal controls your vacant body as one of its minions. That’s about as close to being a real zombie as you can get.
Number three, your soul isn’t taken, but you’re mind-controlled to be a servant of the Neo-Orichalcos.
Number four, you just die and become a wandering spirit.
Do you get where I’m going with this?
Joey ended up as a Number Three case after losing a duel. He went on a rampage under the Neo-Orichalcos’s control, stealing souls left and right. Then I ran into him and he decided to duel me, too.
The thing about the Orichalcos was that it twisted and magnified your own, darkest thoughts and feelings. I don’t know if the Neo version does the same thing, but that’s a pretty safe bet. Joey said a lot of hurtful things to me. The basic gist of it is that neither he nor Tristan really thinks of me as a friend. And honestly? I don’t know whether it could be true or not.
I’ve always felt like an outcast. You know that. And I don’t get along that great with either Joey or Tristan. Both of them are sore at me for dating Serenity. Joey’s suspicious wondering if I’m sincere and Tristan . . . well, he’s just jealous.
So why would they consider me a friend? I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of what Joey said is really what he feels deep down.
Remember not too long ago, when Bakura got desperate because of his father being kidnapped by Neo-Orichalcos soldiers and they made him think he had to use the Seal himself to save the guy? He completely cracked up when he played it. The Seal took him over so fast he probably didn’t even know it happened.
Yami Bakura warned him not to use it, but he didn’t listen. And once the Seal had hold of him, he said a bunch of angry, hurtful things to Yami Bakura. I know at least some of them were what he’d really felt and thought, because he’d told them to me in confidence in the past.
I guess you could say Bakura had what was coming to him, for using the Seal after he’d been told not to. He lost the duel because of how power-hungry and nuts he ended up getting. Only instead of getting sacrificed himself, he was pushed out of the way by Yami Bakura. I guess the Seal got confused with both of them there. It took the ancestor instead of the descendant.
Bakura’s never been the same since. Defeating Doom Reborn is almost an obsession for him now. Of course, I’d feel the same in his place.
Anyway, the whole point is, since Bakura really thought a lot of the hurtful things he said, Joey could have too. Bakura had thought he was over some of those things, but now he’s worried that he really wasn’t.
I guess it doesn’t really matter anyway. I mean, since I already felt like I didn’t belong, it shouldn’t bother me so much. You’ve always been the one I confided in, not any of them.
But you can’t even hear me, can you? I’m right here, and you can’t see or hear me!
David! David, it’s me! That’s not me lying on the ground with cards scattered everywhere. Well, no, it is, but . . . it’s not the real me! I’m here talking to you! David, please say you can hear me! Even just sense me! Please!
I’m dead. God, oh God, I’m dead.