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Joey and Friends being a terrible judge of character (aka trying to befriend people in possession of cursed evil artifacts that can kill you)
Hope you enjoy this silly drawing, and have an AWESOME day!!
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REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS
Too many beds
Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss
Really nice guy who hates only you
Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class
Divorce of convenience
Too much communication
True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)
Dating your enemy’s sibling
Lovers to enemies
Hate at first sight
Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead
Fake amnesia
Soulmates who are fated to kill each other
Strangers to enemies
Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating
Too hot to cuddle
Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground
Nursing home au
#Seen this going around and thought it'd be fun to write some short snippets#Toss me a DM Yugioh ship and one of the prompts and I'll try to come up with something for ya! :D
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Soo new Atem/TKB au!
Atem and Bakura get isekai-ed back into the past with all their memories of the future, and they need to work together to stop Zorc from being summoned or something. Bakura goes undercover in the palace as a guard or something, and Atem constantly has to come up with excuses about why he wants that guard specifically around all the time, so Mana "helps" them by spreading a rumour that the Prince is having an affair with the mysterious new guard.
The funny thing is that Atem and Bakura are somehow completely oblivious to these rumours because no one dares to confront them about it face to face due to their respective positions/reputations. The priests are just dancing around the subject and tactfully alluding to Atem maybe breaking things off with Bakura, but Atem is under the impression that they're just condemning his friendship with a lower class citizen. Obviously, the other guards won't ask Bakura shit cause they've probably seen him wrestle a crocodile for food and somehow emerge victorious or catch an egyptian cobra mid attack and bite its head off (all scenarios which totally happened and definitely didn't get blown out of proportion through word of mouth).
From the point of view of everyone else the entire au is a romcom, but for Atem and Bakura it's a psychological thriller where they have to outsmart Akhnadin and his subordinates and figure out how to save the world before Atem's coronation when Zorc's new vessel will attempt to bring the end of the world.
#oh this is cool#and I don't often find a ton of interest in this ship#but I like this very intriguing
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Thief King Bakura’s Age--A Fandom Conundrum
I’ve spoken on this before, and I’ve seen other people speak on it, but in this post, I want to give a couple reasons as to why I believe Thief King Bakura could not be sixteen at his time of death. I will support my belief by examining childhood development and cross-referencing TKB’s assumed childhood experiences to this information. My evidence will support the conclusion that it is highly improbable that TKB’s provided age is congruent with the Yu-Gi-Oh! canon. I will be deriving most of my conclusions based off the manga canon.
Canon Facts
I will be starting this post by examining the facts provided by the canon. (This will be a fairly short section)
For starters, the canon pegs the Kul Elna Massacre as occurring fifteen years before the events of Millennium World. In the Millennium Book, TKB’s age is stated to be sixteen.
This would lead us to conclude that the Kul Elna Massacre occurs before TKB’s second birthday. This could mean TKB’s age at the time of the massacre was anywhere between 12 and 24 months of age, assuming we are taking the Millennium Book’s information to be true.
Thief King Bakura’s Physical Appearance
I will be beginning our journey by comparing TKB’s physical depiction in canon at the Kul Elna Massacre. In the manga, we don’t get much of a view of TKB, but I’d argue we get enough to draw an analysis.
Looking at TKB’s proportions at this age, it is clear that it is not a one year old body he has, or really even a nearly two year old body. The main giveaway, for me, is the size and proportions of his hands. While it can be stipulated that the proportions could be inaccurate for artistic reasoning, I still argue that the size of his hands in comparison to the rest of his body, as well as the size of his fingers, indicates that he is not 1-2 years old. At that age, an infant’s hands are fairly small in proportion to their body, and their fingers appear to be fairly thin and indextrous. TKB’s proportions seem to be far more mature than those of most 1-2 year olds, and far too much so to be considered as a mere outlier.
Language Acquisition
Next, we will look at language acquisition for children. Notably, TKB is presented to be fairly well spoken as a 16 year old, articulating complicated notions and using word play easily in his speaking.
The point I’m trying to make here is that TKB has a firm grasp of spoken language.
Common language, by its very definition, is something that cannot be developed in isolation. The complexity of one’s grasp on spoken language depends on the quality and variety of sources one can mimic, and (more crucially) the development of the language at critical age. Language acquisition begins at approximately 9 months of age (<1y.o.), and telegraphic begins at 24 months (2y.o.) The telegraphic stage is when “children begin to produce longer and more complex grammatical structures.” This is the stage when syntactic categories (noun, verb, etc.) are definitively present in a child’s speech, and it is a crucial period for children to pick up adult speech norms. According to TKB’s canon age, he would not have yet reached this critical period of language acquisition by the time the massacre occurred. Children who are isolated from outside linguistic influences are unable to pick up on these important lessons during the critical linguistic stages, and are at a lower level of speech articulation in comparison to their socialised counterparts, according to the Critical Period Hypothesis. It would be greatly unreasonable for TKB to have the command of language he has if he were to have been so young when the massacre occurred.
Trauma Recollection in Children
Thief King Bakura seemed to demonstrate clear recollection of the events of Kul Elna. His long term memory of a traumatic event remained concrete fifteen years removed from the event–and more importantly, he was able to express verbal memory. In reference to a study conducted by Terr in 1988 on children aged 1-5 who experienced a traumatic event, Robyn Fivush states
All children showed evidence of remembering the trauma in their behaviors, such as expressing specific fears, but children below the age of about 18 months when the trauma occurred were unable to express any verbal memory. Children between 18 and about 28 to 36 months at time of trauma could subseuqently (sic.) give fragmented, “spotty” verbal accounts; only those children older than about 2.5–3 years at time of experience were able to give a complete verbal account of the trauma. This pattern suggests that children’s verbal ability at the time of experience is a critical factor in their subsequent ability to recall the experience verbally.
The rest of Fivush’s report goes on to articulate how the memory of a singular traumatic event (Type I) seems to become more concrete as the age at the time of the trauma increases. The critical age seems to be three years old, where children who are younger than this demonstrate severe difficulty vocalising and recalling their trauma as it occurred. If canon is assumed correct, then TKB would not have reached this critical age by the time the massacre occurred.
In Fivush’s report, there is a case study mentioned that does seem to add dimensionality to this “critical age.” The case study done by Hewitt in 1994 talks of a child who experienced a trauma at two years seven months, and then was able to describe it verbally as a four-year-old. However, the child was already quite verbal at the time of the trauma (due to outside influences), and thus could not serve as a sufficient analogy for TKB. In other words, TKB did not have the social network needed to be an outlier to this theoretical rule of trauma recollection at a critical age.
Feral Children, and Where Bakura Does Not Fit the Mould
A feral child is defined as an individual who grew up away from outside contact from a very young age. Feral children are most commonly nonverbal, unable to read social behaviour, and live in a way that is incompatible with the rest of society. I cannot and will not pretend to have read every single case of feral children, but what I can tell you is the general trend of the most popular cases that I have seen and researched, and why these do not fit TKB.
Feral children, in nearly every case I have seen, are unable to use human language, or their use is incredibly limited. This simply is not the case with TKB. As aforementioned, TKB employs a high level of language, which he could not have developed as a child outside of human contact.
Feral children who are isolated as infants manage to survive by being taken in by other animals, and thus display animal mannerisms instead of human mannerisms. While TKB (and in part Yami Bakura) does tend to display serpentine characteristics, clearly of Diabound’s influence, he was not raised to display serpentine mannerisms. He is still able to act human, so it is evident that TKB was socialised for a number of years before the massacre. (many feral children are believed/confirmed to have been abandoned as infants, before they are able to solidify human speech and behaviours.)
TL;DR?
It is simply very difficult to believe, given these points, that Thief King Bakura could have been less than two years old at the time of the slaughter of Kul Elna. He does not have the physical appearance of a 1-2 year old, his language skills are far too advanced for him to have been abandoned at such a young age, his trauma recollection seems too verbally developed for him to have been so young at the time of the trauma, and he does not fit in with any prior case of feral children. If you have questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to visit my ask box, or simply comment on this post (be kind though, please!)
I hope this post was informative to you, and I hope you enjoyed what I had to say (or at least survived reading it ^^;)
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inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.
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I bet someone's already figured this out by now, but YOU CAN BOOP THE KITTY!!!! :D :D :D
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Everyone, put this on your resume right now
im so fucking good at clicking buttons
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reblog only if you’ve received less than 1000 boops! we can all get each other to “max”
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Avatar Instagram AU. Everything is the same, but there is Instagram somehow. Partially did this because I wanted to make the “followed by prince Zuko” joke.
Apparently alt text doesn’t work per picture like on Instagram like I thought, so I moved the descriptions under the cut instead (because it was already a long post):
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