I am unsure if I have plans for February! depending on how some ongoing threads proceed, RS might end up picking a fight with one of Ryslig's many Horrible People, but I don't have enough info IC'ly to plot that out yet
oh, Mari, I was meaning to ask: how do you wanna handle my headcanon re: "RS's names" aka "he used 'Bakura' and 'Zorc' as stand-ins during the last shadow rpg b/c he couldn't remember what the real ones were"? wanna go with "oh, 'Bakura' was actually right?? huh" or play around with the concept that maybe that shadow game retroactively renamed his pieces...?
at least I'm assuming you're going with Thief-King being Actually Named Bakura,, :|a (this is mostly just me like "RS would def be confused for at least a second, but idk if Mari wants to do stuff with that too or just have RS keep it to the brackets")
Curious, I'll wait for more info before having Altair shake RS. Altair will definitely bother RS for a distraction. His friendship with RS is already complicated so he's less likely to have ruined it during the doubles event. Art heist maybe?
yeah, i went with "bakura" because it's the only thing i had canon justification for...your headcanon is super plausible and i don't really wanna mess with it bc i love it so this is tough. i feel like the most thematically yugioh thing to do would be to have rs hear "bakura" and "zorc" but leave it like. vague re: whether that's real or the autotranslate?
"everyone is named yugi in this bar. including a guy who at the end of the story we discover is not named yugi but we're marketing him that way for eternity anyway" - also takahashi kazuki, probably
that's partly why I wondered if you'd be interested in my other headcanoned-possibility, that due to the intersection of shadow-magic and sympathetic-magic, RS might have Retroactively Re-True-Named his component-souls unwittingly?
it's also possible that TKB got smacked with a little of the amnesia-magic & forgot the evil god's name?
apep, writing a cursed tome to usher himself into the world: shit, i can't call myself apep, they'll know what they're doing in that case. i have to call myself the stupidest sound i can think of so they will NEVER SUSPECT A THING
(kul elna villager 1: "what's the baby's name" tkb's mother: "bakura" kul elna villager 2, passing by, a nosy mf because it's kul elna: "that's just a bunch of nonsense syllables" tkb's mother: "so is every decree issued by the pharaoh" villagers 1 & 2: "i'll drink to that" /extensive period appropriate beer consumption ensues, a tomb is robbed)
i don't have the mental brainwaves to maintain a social media presence Myself but if there is a chance the people whose art i enjoy will see sth i said and smile, it would make me happy
(this is mostly just me like "RS would def be confused for at least a second, but idk if Mari wants to do stuff with that too or just have RS keep it to the brackets")also I've been headcanoning "Zorc"s real name was actually Apep, idk if you wanna do anything with that eitherevery time thief king talks about The Big Bad Shit What Comes If You Assemble The Items And Make A Wish a car passes by"the evil god, " /SUDDEN IMPROMPTU OUTDOOR SYMPHONYit's also possible that TKB got smacked with a little of the amnesia-magic & forgot the evil god's name?/extensive period appropriate beer consumption ensues, a tomb is robbed)
TKB "'Fuck You', that's how"