[✐fan essay] kul elna speculation spectacular part 2
First off, after watching way too many videos of snakes eating mice, I have to retract the whole "just gulp 'em down" thing Diabound has been doing. Killing one's prey first does make sure it doesn't, you know, claw your throat going down. Yeah.
That said.
( and then my fanon got weirder )
That said.
( and then my fanon got weirder )
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Well, I'll go back to the war point- I wouldn't be surprised if that all fell into place and then the Pharaoh couldn't really deal with the problem given he had other fronts to defend and focus on.
It was talking namely Ramses IV's reign (1155-1149), so yes that's a fair ways off. I was just thinking the abandoning a village because of war and it leading to tombrobbers and "going bad" reminded me of the Kul Elna situation, and that might be what inspired the idea to Takahashi. It'd be a little fast, but we never do hear any details about this war bad enough to make the Items, do we? It could have been going on a while... Do we have any huge come-behind victory in history to compare that to?.
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Since I've focused mainly on daily life in Egypt when researching, I really couldn't tell you about comparable invasions. It's near the top of my to-research list, however.
...I just know I'm going to go home, check my manga, and find all kinds of things that blow holes in my theories. It never fails.
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Oh, that's just the natural progression of canon exploration! Big idea, expand, check facts, issues, bend idea, check again, issues, throw in the towel au-free-for-all whee~!
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That said, I don't know how much you've read of the piles and piles of nonsense already accumulating on Papyrus's account, but - in her world, Mahaad is always the Black Magician, and is Atem's ka, taking permanent physical form the same way Diabound/Black Lotus has done for Papyrus. And, well. Mahaad was born when the invading country attempted a sneak attack on the young Prince's life, to prove they meant business. |D Attempt failed because SUDDENLY MAGICIAN FROM NOWHERE, but the palace's enchantments had been breached and the son of the Pharaoh had been jeopardized ( ... )
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I saw that! =D And while I usually mhrm over Atem-ka-DM connection, it's a pretty cool way of merging allegiances with the ka idea!
Hrm~ The Set-Kisara sound like they might be cool for a two pov drabble introspection, but yes, that'd be tough to do a back story on, unless you skip ahead of Papyrus for when they meet again. The Mahaad side strikes very fluffy funny... And no my mind did not go into tangent on "awwww, baby Atem saved and watched over by Egyptian Magician~"
Oh hey what's that make Mana?
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Yeaaahh, it's weird to think about Atem and ka, since it's kind of cool that in canon we never actually see what his is. But for the purposes of the way this particular universe works, Mahaad gets to pass for human (he uses magic to disguise his ka-ness) until Black shows up and is all OH DEAR THE PHARAOH IS ONLY HALF HERE ( ... )
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Some days, I like to think Atem's ka might be Horakhty itself, explaining (sort of) why he needed his name/identity before summoning it. Others - and in a deadfic - I go with Dark Magician of Chaos. And there's the thought when Yuugi helps Atem summon Ra and I think maybe he was once his ka somehow. ...and then that goes into the whole "Is Yuugi really (part of) the Pharaoh himself?" debate that amuses and irks me at once and that's totally left field. x3 ( ... )
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Horakthty is a good choice for a possible Atem-ka! Since ka in Takahashi-Egypt aren't the same as the actual conception of ka, I could see having Horakhty as a ka being a Pharaoh thing - every Pharaoh, being essentially a god on earth, has this God as their ka....
(How often is that "what is Yuugi" debate waged? In this AU I'm having him be Atem and Mahad reborn/united in the same person because I'd already decided I wanted Ryo(ko) to be Black+Papyrus, but I really did always figure Yuugi just looked like that because -well, he did, no deeper connection. XD Genes-wise he's apparently Siamun's doppelganger's grandson....though there doesn't seem to have been rhyme nor reason to when figures got "repeated" with time.)
The rest of the priests operate canon-style, since all I've done is explicitly give magicians the ability to summon their personal ka without an Item - ( ... )
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If Candy can have a mini-library that wouldn't look out of place at Hogwarts, I don't see why canon Ryou can't be stocking up on ancient Egyptian literature. <3 He's the most traditionally "nerdy" of the group, though I feel odd saying that since Yuugi is - Yuugi. (But he is a different breed of "nerd".)
Oh, right, Falcos - derp. That's just animé, though, isn't it? Bakura doesn't pull that stunt in the manga. Since I started working on this AU I've actually been avoiding watching the AE arc too much, as so much changed in the adaptation. But point taken! (In this AU, his ka is Hasan/Shadi instead.)
Come to think of it, it sounded like Atem was the first person to be able to call one of the Gods, so that could also be potential backup for Horakhty being his ka. (His father has the "name of the Gods" quote, but everyone's floored when Obelisk actually appearsPff, I hear you about having multiple theories for multiple versions - and about feeling there'd be something, but not being sure what. XD ( ( ... )
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I...don't think? people can have more than one personal ka (though what happens to everyone who gets their ka sealed in a slab is another matter - does it regenerate as a "good" ka now that the evil is gone?). As for Hasan/Shadi, he was sealed in the Items tablet by Atem's dad to protect Atem: he expresses that explicitly. So really all I did was say that instead of him being the "spirit of the tablet" or whatever, he's Atem's dad's ka, sealed there to protect his son even after his own death.
But yes, in this AU, Shadi is...half of a Pharaoh. Presumably after the Items were no longer needed he too went to rest and Akhenamkanen's soul is whole in the afterlife.
Where the slabs came from....man, God only knows. I'd say their design was inspired by drawings in ( ... )
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Ooh, yes. Yugioh high school is full of gamers...and horribly violent delinquents. And horribly violent delinquent gamers. (I love that the guy Kaiba defeats to show off Obelisk is a "villain of the chapter" from season 0. Apparently the punishment game wore off.) Ryou might indeed not be that off-putting.
I don't think there's a direct connection between Shadi and Shada at all, unfortunately. I'd say "Hasan based the form he assumed to protect the Items off of Shada, becoming Shadi", but that doesn't work: when Hasan is giving his life in the game world to save Atem & co, his mask strips off and reveals Shadi's face is already there. More messy writing from Takahashi? (I can track down exactly what Hasan says to describe who he is if you like - not right now, I'm not in my apartment, but later.)
My upcoming fic for journeystory may involve Black and Papyrus learning of the Millennium Tome and deciding to steal it. Perhaps. They have to learn everything Thief King canonically knows about Items (i.e., more ( ... )
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