[Fic] "Game Theory" -- Yu-Gi-Oh!; also, update on Ardis's funeral

[edenfalling]

One thing I find interesting about the world of Yu-Gi-Oh!, but which rarely seems to come up in fic, is that games are treated like professional sports. Card games, board games, dice games, tabletop RPGs... You name it, there is probably at least one professional tournament for it, and that tournament will probably be broadcast on television and

Comments

[proanon]

Oh, that's a wonderful, vivid theory-in-story-form...

[edenfalling]

Thanks! I was sitting on it with the vague idea of using this as an intro to a longer story that would show some of the actual life-or-death games, and the development of chess and poker and various other tournament circuits and the way they would (in Yugi's world) draw enormous attention, but I never really had the time or the motivation to do the relevant historical research. And the intro works fairly well on its own as an idea-sketch, so I gave it a more definite ending and let it out into the world. *grin*

[proanon]

Oh, it resonates wonderfully as an establishing mythos for the world... and all those other stories are wonderfully implicit; no need to write them out!

[uminohikari]

Huuuuh. Very interesting!

[edenfalling]

Thanks!

[edenfalling]

Thank you!

[elliemurasaki]

NEW HEADCANON

[edenfalling]

:-)

[elliemurasaki]

Sheds a whole new light on Kaiba's decision to change the focus of Kaiba Corp, too...except Seto's not really the type to buy into legends like that...

[ext_219879]

Absolutely new headcanon.

Yes, this. This this this.

[edenfalling]

Thanks, I'm glad it works for you!