Very experimental piece playing around with brushes back from March! Was listening to Graduate by Third Eye Blind on repeat while working on this piece throughout the month! Some more thoughts/story under the cut 💖
So a lot of the Text Me When You Get Home. story-verse (set post-canon with the main cast in their mid-twenties) for Yugi is just letting him be angsty and tired, which he deserves!! I have so many feelings about characters who are the sort of "epitome of good" that get to JUST BE TIRED!! Give them a break! Let them be mad/sad!! It's good shit!!
In the Text Me When You Get Home. story, Yugi works as a freelancer with Kaiba Corp, but also still maintains his part-time job at the mall at a Hot Topic store, since it's the most "normal" he ever feels. He's still struggling returning to a regular life after saving the world and losing Atem, and he's sort of always waiting for other shoe to drop. He wants a normal life SO badly, but how do you go back to normal after everything he's gone through? He's learning, slowly. And I feel like it'd be a great way for Seto to step up and step in for Yugi to lean on him a little (in his own Seto way), with a lot of unspoken support - buying him lunch, cancelling meetings when he's stressed, sitting in silence and listening to music when the sun is setting. Stuff like that. I think it would be a nice break for Yugi in a lot of ways since all of his other friends are SO vocal (and sweet! but so vocal), so it's nice having a space where things can just be quiet too.
Yu-Gi-Oh makes me have gay thoughts and I love this show sm. Like, how are you gonna show me this anime and be like, "Hell yeah! Guys dueling each other with scary monsters!" And then it'd be this: