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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)

acclast:

He just didn’t want her to get hurt again