"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."

fortuneangel:

Epilogue. At the end of it all, the last remnants of humanity can finally see the new future they fought so hard for. Genuinely one of the most heartwarming things I’ve seen from ygo.

redeyesretrodragon:

I love that they named Aporia’s duel runner the Trinidart Ouroboros. A.) cuz it’s a FUCKIN BANGER name, but also B.) it’s an interesting cause for consideration. Cuz, his runner’s design is, ah, well,

….that is NOT an ouroboros lol. It’s not even a wheel like Jack’s duel runner or anything. That’s a hydra. That’s a snake-cerberus situation. But, no, they went with Ouroboros for the name, and despite not quite fitting the bike’s appearance, it fits Aporia himself SO so well imo. He (and of the Three Pure Nobles by extension, naturally) already has an infinity symbol motif that’s visible from space (the Circuit, the chest symbol on the Meklords, the chest symbol on HIM, the Nobles’ eyes/mouth plates, etc etc.), but you bring in an ouroboros motif alongside that, and now Aporia’s symbol of endless infinite cycles is a beast. There’s something almost a little gruesome, miserable, even more hopelessly inevitable to the implication of an ouroboros when it comes to this guy.

Aporia isn’t just associated with infinity as a visual element, he’s actively haunted by vicious cycles and perpetuating them in his actions towards others. The Meklords ruined his entire life and caused him such agonizing pain, and now they’re his entire deck, and now he’s determined to inflict that same pain upon others with them. Half of his Duel Links voicelines are about him unleashing his suffering in duels, or making his opponent suffer and feel the same despair he’s known for so so long.

The Ouroboros eats itself alive. This serpentine symbol of life and death and rebirth. Aporia lives and dies and lives and dies and lives and dies and weaponizes the tools of his own agony to further the cycle of pain. And all it gets him is more despair that he struggles to see is a bit (a lot) self-orchestrated.

(until Jack and Leo and Luna finally shake him out of the cycle, of course)

It’s just neat!! Invoking the ouroboros with his duel runner name is already a cool tie-in to the infinity motif so important to his character, but as it turns out Aporia’s got more than a couple things in common with the emblematic creature.

Not to mention that the ouroboros is a frequent visual metaphor for eternity. Huh I feel like I’ve heard something with that word before…

(muffled wailing)

redeyesretrodragon:

god the Three Pure Nobles/Three Emperors of Iliaster are so fucking funny. what if you were on your deathbed and you begged your best friend/old man boyfriend/the other last living person on earth to make robotic gijinkas of the three most horrible traumatic events of your life and use them as purveyors of his will and so your friend was like “well, shit. ok???” and then he makes them and all three of them FUCKING HATE EACH OTHER but your friend is still like “i need you guys to help perform the grave and necessary actions to help prevent a completely fucked sideways apocalyptic future for me” even though one of the Trauma Gijinkas is like 12 and another one is like 19, both notoriously fantastic (/s) ages for handling any sort of important high stakes responsibility.

so there’s just these three photocopies of Some Dying Old Man in the Future’s Absolute Worst Moments of Being Alive running around and one of them is roller skating around everywhere and one of them A.) has a sword and B.) is part motorcycle and one of them is an old old old man who’s also like 10 feet tall and built like a brick shithouse and also none of them seem to fully know they’re all 1/3 of a guy until your aforementioned bestie turned that .exe back on for them.

and THEN on top of EVERYTHING ELSE they can steven universe fuse back into a copy of YOUR ancient-future dead old man ass so now you get to live again in a mechanized form but also you’re built like a giant jacked monster-angel-werelion and this is NEVER elaborated on in the text proper. your best friend you begged to kickstart this whole thing kills you, also.

redeyesretrodragon:

for the record the fact aporia says this whenever he duels against paradox or antinomy in duel links

and the fact they named aporia and paradox’s tag duel deck this

DOES make me cry and sob and fall on the floor and wail and explode. for the record. just so everyone knows

demonatemu:

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