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[we_meet_again]

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[we_meet_again]

Mmm, I don't think I'm taking on any more than everyone else...? It's not like my problems are unique.

I can't save everyone. I can't protect my friends. There's a limit to how much I can even protect my unit. I accept the fact that there are times when I have to hurt people. And there are people I've hurt without even meaning to.

What's probably important is the things I can control.

...

[He pauses a beat, thinking.

Then he works a Duel Monsters card out of his breast pocket, puts it face-down on the table, and slides it over where Intensity can reach it.]

I still have a lot to work on, but progress is being made.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Your problems may not be unique, but you do take on more than the average person. You realize that having so many units to care about is not necessarily the norm, do you?

And the fact that you still try to play peacemaker after the fact - that you have no outlet for your frustrations.

When's the last time you flipped out and stabbed somebody. I'll be the first person to buy you a drink when that happens.

[But he takes the card, flipping it over to look at it in that way that only yugioh characters can draw cards.]

[we_meet_again]

[For removing bodies from graveyards.

Consider things settled.

look i know you just got one of these from someone else but i've had this image open in a tab since the day after button game please take it anyway]


[he smiles, wry]

Would you? You're good to me.

How do you keep from stabbing people? Must be tempting, sometimes.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Timeline wise, Cobalt gave it to him first! So....!

Though this particular card has a lot of emotional significance to Intensity.

So he misses Cobalt's question as he just stares at it blankly for many moments, eyes wide.

After a beat:]

Hmmm. What was that?

[we_meet_again]

[Oh, it does? shit]

...

[looking at his face, then back at the card]

What is it?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yugi ever tell you about his last duel with King?

[we_meet_again]

No...

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .





Do you know King is dead?

[we_meet_again]

Yeah, it's why you were building that ship that was powered by the collective consciousness. To retrieve his soul from the Beyond.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yugi showed me the memory of their final duel. Held as frankly a spectacle in front of all their so-called friends. Of which I was not a part of.

If Yugi won, King's soul was to pass on. And he won by sealing this card so it was unusable to King in the match - Resurrection.

[The next words are bitterly spat out:]

How noble. How symbolic. To prevent someone's ability to come back to life and mark them for death.

So Yugi won. King died.

And both of them were miserable for it.

[we_meet_again]

[speechless for a moment, visibly confounded]

...

Then... then why? If neither of them wanted that?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

They both thought they were sparing the other. Being selfless.

Or at least---

[And he picks up something new to drink since as previously discussed this is a sore subject]

Their similar actions in the Castle game lead me to that conclusion. Neither of them are actually able to give me a solid answer.

1/2

[we_meet_again]

[just

give him a second to process this because aaaaaaaAAAARGH?!?!

if he'd been in Intensity's position he probably would have stabbed someone because what the FUCK you guys!!!!!!]

[we_meet_again]

[aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhh]

Is it that they don't remember or they just don't know?!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Does it really matter?

I just have to stop them from doing it again.