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It's Your Move
Apr. 25th, 2016 10:01 pmMain Points:
Yugioh Canon Adjacent, Legacy!verse
Chapter Summary: Mildly AU, starting with the end of the series. Yep, that moment, in which there was not a dry eye in the room. You've been warned. (We'll figure out how AU this is after the new movie, I'm sure.)
Word Count: 270
Rating: teen
“I hate to break the terrible news ta ya, but you’re not going anywhere! ‘Cause everything you’ve given us stays right here in our hearts!” Joey’s grinning through the tears. Out of everyone that could’ve been expected to give a cheerful speech, Wheeler hadn’t been first on the list, and yet…he should’ve been. After all, an incarnation of one of the legendary warriors of Atlantis was hardly someone to be overlooked.
“Right!” The Pharaoh smiles, himself. He’s tired, and now he finally has a chance for rest. Maybe he should have pushed himself out more, gotten to know these people who weren’t just Yugi’s friends but also his own, but this is no time for regret. He would have acted the same way, and he can’t fix it now. He’s just lucky enough to have friends who understood. That’s true power, not being Pharaoh or having the God Cards.
“Like we always say…it’s your move!” Yugi’s smiling, too, and that’s the permission he needs. He walks forward to the gate, giving them a thumb’s up as a final farewell salute.
As he joins his friends in the Duat, turns around to get one last look at his friends, he doesn’t realize the scene he sees is almost a minute behind what is actually occurring out there, and the gates close before he can realize something’s wrong. He goes to the afterlife in blissful ignorance, but in the end, Yugi had proven he was just as gifted. Perhaps Atem would’ve had trouble accepting that, but the test had shown the truth. Yugi was more than capable of fighting his own battles.
Yugioh Canon Adjacent, Legacy!verse
Chapter Summary: Mildly AU, starting with the end of the series. Yep, that moment, in which there was not a dry eye in the room. You've been warned. (We'll figure out how AU this is after the new movie, I'm sure.)
Word Count: 270
Rating: teen
“I hate to break the terrible news ta ya, but you’re not going anywhere! ‘Cause everything you’ve given us stays right here in our hearts!” Joey’s grinning through the tears. Out of everyone that could’ve been expected to give a cheerful speech, Wheeler hadn’t been first on the list, and yet…he should’ve been. After all, an incarnation of one of the legendary warriors of Atlantis was hardly someone to be overlooked.
“Right!” The Pharaoh smiles, himself. He’s tired, and now he finally has a chance for rest. Maybe he should have pushed himself out more, gotten to know these people who weren’t just Yugi’s friends but also his own, but this is no time for regret. He would have acted the same way, and he can’t fix it now. He’s just lucky enough to have friends who understood. That’s true power, not being Pharaoh or having the God Cards.
“Like we always say…it’s your move!” Yugi’s smiling, too, and that’s the permission he needs. He walks forward to the gate, giving them a thumb’s up as a final farewell salute.
As he joins his friends in the Duat, turns around to get one last look at his friends, he doesn’t realize the scene he sees is almost a minute behind what is actually occurring out there, and the gates close before he can realize something’s wrong. He goes to the afterlife in blissful ignorance, but in the end, Yugi had proven he was just as gifted. Perhaps Atem would’ve had trouble accepting that, but the test had shown the truth. Yugi was more than capable of fighting his own battles.
