Heh, well it's still better than some names, like Citronshipping- at least 'Angstshipping' has some form of logic behind it!
point, but in either version the TKBakura we see in the World of Memory is being used, and in the original ancient Egypt the possession by Zorc began presumably when he stole the Ring from Mahaado, so...there's never any large period of time in which we see a Bakura entirely free of outside coercion.
I certainly don't think he's a hapless victim, though- he set out to kill the Pharaoh and take the Items by himself, and all Zorc changed was that 'summon Zorc' was tacked onto the end of his list of goals.
Oh, I'm certainly not arguing with that. Though now I'm wondering: what could have been done (besides plotless duel-of-the-week filler!) in order to fill up those 50 episodes they needed before they could start on the Memory Arc? The anime writers always seemed to be stuck at a need for filler arcs right where it would be massively awkward to pause the story and add them in. And you know, the alternative to 'stop-the-plot' filler would be the writers attempting their own renditions of the main duels and how the tournament ended. Don't tell me you would have preferred that!
(BTW, while I would have loved a look at how YGO's magic effected other ancient societies, I couldn't stand what most of DOMA did with it. The Memory Arc had a consistent magic system solid enough to make my fantasy writer-self squee, please don't be screwing with it!)
I can't really do serials anyway because I write so sporadically and out of order. "Oh, you wanted chapter ten? Well...I just wrote chapter eighteen, how's that?" I'm better off completing it all and then posting.
It's....going to be long-winded ^^; And it deals quite a bit with the anime version of Zorc's possession- the idea that Zorc slowly subsumes their will by twisting it to his own ends. Only with Bakura there really isn't very far to twist it. I'm looking forward to writing the scene where it's revealed that Bakura has become possessed. Malik's reaction: "Should I even be concerned about this? There doesn't seem to be any significant change in his behavior, after all." ... Bakura and Malik have the most epically unromantic romance ever, I swear.
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point, but in either version the TKBakura we see in the World of Memory is being used, and in the original ancient Egypt the possession by Zorc began presumably when he stole the Ring from Mahaado, so...there's never any large period of time in which we see a Bakura entirely free of outside coercion.
I certainly don't think he's a hapless victim, though- he set out to kill the Pharaoh and take the Items by himself, and all Zorc changed was that 'summon Zorc' was tacked onto the end of his list of goals.
Oh, I'm certainly not arguing with that. Though now I'm wondering: what could have been done (besides plotless duel-of-the-week filler!) in order to fill up those 50 episodes they needed before they could start on the Memory Arc? The anime writers always seemed to be stuck at a need for filler arcs right where it would be massively awkward to pause the story and add them in. And you know, the alternative to 'stop-the-plot' filler would be the writers attempting their own renditions of the main duels and how the tournament ended. Don't tell me you would have preferred that!
(BTW, while I would have loved a look at how YGO's magic effected other ancient societies, I couldn't stand what most of DOMA did with it. The Memory Arc had a consistent magic system solid enough to make my fantasy writer-self squee, please don't be screwing with it!)
I can't really do serials anyway because I write so sporadically and out of order. "Oh, you wanted chapter ten? Well...I just wrote chapter eighteen, how's that?" I'm better off completing it all and then posting.
It's....going to be long-winded ^^; And it deals quite a bit with the anime version of Zorc's possession- the idea that Zorc slowly subsumes their will by twisting it to his own ends. Only with Bakura there really isn't very far to twist it. I'm looking forward to writing the scene where it's revealed that Bakura has become possessed. Malik's reaction: "Should I even be concerned about this? There doesn't seem to be any significant change in his behavior, after all." ... Bakura and Malik have the most epically unromantic romance ever, I swear.