[✐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 )
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 the Millennium Tome, whence came the Item recipe, but that'd mean that in encouraging the Items' creation Zorc also encouraged the possibility of his own downfall. But it's not stated the Tome itself is from Zorc, just that he's been playing everybody since Day 1 - he wanted those Items made.
Either way, if the people created the slabs and then the Pharaoh could give them names - explained waaaaay too broadly, in ancient Egyptian magic, speaking a name/a phrase in a magical context made it binding or true. So if someone drew the form of the God without understanding really who it was, Atem could give it power as a representation and a summoning item by giving it its proper name. Again, that's playing hard and fast with Egyptian sorcery, but we're talking about a man with tricolor hair summoning a giant chicken that sometimes erupts into flame. I think I'm OK.
I will forever lament that my AU is not - well, more canon, as the other two are paired up with the proper lyrics in there (children of the sun and the moon). AT LEAST GIVE ME SHERYOU, CANON. THE GLORY OF SHERYOU. WHY.
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Double ka does sound like a very iffy concept.
He did? Well if Akhenamkanen sealed Hasan/Shadi in the tablet before he died... Suddenly Shadi=Shada is not so straightforward! Unless it was just Hasan and Shada like, merged with Hasan after his own death or something. Either way, there's definitely a very easy transition between the Akhenamkanen/Hasan/Shadi to follow for the AU.
Oh gosh, that Tome. That things got to be the biggest, quietest black box of the entire series. And it's the source of near EVERYTHING. ...Which makes it the source of the gods in some way all the more likely. And you're take seems as likely as anything, and pretty well thought.
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And now, no matter what I come up with, "we're talking about [a series with] a man with tricolor hair summoning a giant chicken that sometimes erupts into flame. I think I'm OK" shall be my go-to explanation of insanity. With permission and citing. =3
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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 than most Item priests) somehow...
Permission granted~ Oh, Yugioh.
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Oh? I always took Shadi showing under the mask was a sign that Shadi had infiltrated the game too, like Yuugi & co., and we were just seeing his present self (properly) die within the shadow game. It wouldn't be too hard to believe, since Hassan comes from Babosa and Babosa was in the present, real world himself. Grant it, Yuugi & co. didn't play actual, concrete seen roles in the recreated world, but then they also had bodies left behind while Babosa didn't, showing rules are screwy with him.
...course, rules are generally screwy with Shadi, so who knows.
Hey, any mention of the Millennium Tome in fandom is amazing to me, much less as an active role. =3 It sounds cool!
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Kaiba's case seems to indicate that when a person has learned his or lesson, so to say, they'll get better - but even then, his game was given a very set end period (there were only so many pieces he could put back together). What I find odder is that the guy in question is still a bully. XD Good old Yugioh. People don't change that easily.
Ah, I always read Shadi being under the mask to mean Hasan is another facet of himself, though Bobasa talking about "Master Shadi" does complicate matters (I see it as him hiding the truth). As you say, rules get screwy around Shadi. Which must make needing to judge people very awkward. XD XD
I'm holding off on starting to write until my program has ended; getting to write is my prize for myself, silly as that is. ^-^; It will - well, I can't promise it'll rival the chapter where Sugoroku flashes back to obtaining the Puzzle, but Thief King & Diabound lived similarly Indiana Jones-y existences, at least when on heists. :P Particularly when stealing from magicians~
even 3,000 years ago, people named bakura were doing dungeon crawls.
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