[MINGLE ] And many happy returns to you, Bakura!

[wildcard_of_the_desert]

[Has a creepy, stalkerish or just plain rude valentine made it under your doorstep? Probably, at least until Bakura got lazy and stopped bothering. Regardless, do you want to express how you feel about said valentine to him? Then this is the place to do so!]

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[whiterosefoes]

Why? You're the one that wants to go!

[fluffydeathdealer]

...I don't think I have it in me to become one of the vengeful dead, anyway.

[He rubs the back of his head ruefully, grinning.]

So I guess you get a pass on that one!

[whiterosefoes]

I guess. Let's be real, you're pretty much the most forgiving guy in the world.

[fluffydeathdealer]

...eh? You think so?

[Ryou stares at her blankly.]

I think Yugi-kun is probably more forgiving...

[whiterosefoes]

Oh? ... Well I don't know him all that well still. What does he let people get away with?

[fluffydeathdealer]

Uhm. Basically, Yugi-kun will forgive anyone who seems to show remorse or that they aren't 'entirely' evil. Even if they've caused him harm.

At one point he was sharing a room with a guy who stole his grandfather's soul and that of Kaiba-kun and Mokuba-kun, and then used them to lure him into a duel monsters tournament where he tried to kill him to get his Millennium Puzzle.

I asked him about it and he said the guy felt really bad about it, and he didn't want him to be lonely.

[whiterosefoes]

Wow that's... yeah. He might win there.

[Harriet blinks, though, thinking back. When the building disappeared, didn't Yugi and his roommate stay behind their barrier? But his roommate was...]

- Wait, are you talking about Pegasus?

[fluffydeathdealer]

...Ah, you met Pegasus-san?

[Sigh. Now he feels bad. He nods slowly.]

He had his reasons for it.

[whiterosefoes]

He seemed so nice and friendly...

[good job Ryou she's traumatized now.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

Well... He kind of is. I don't really understand all the details... I was asleep for some of it and my mind is kind of fuzzy on what happened that night we broke into his tower. But I think he wasn't such a terrible guy.

H-he didn't go around killing people at random or anything!

[Just tried to kill a teenage boy in front of his friends to try to steal his magic necklace. Oh, and kidnapping. And industrial sabotage. But he was still... not that terrible a guy.]

[whiterosefoes]

...

I don't know what's worse, Ryou... that "doesn't kill at random" is the best you can say about him, or that I'm at the point where that sounds acceptable.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Sorry... I was there at Duelist Kingdom, so I may be biased. I can't really say all that much to make him seem less of a jerk. Because of him, Yugi-kun and the others went through a lot of trouble.

I agreed to be nice to him because I like Yugi-kun, but I don't really know that much about him. I never saw him as anything but an opponent, apart from meeting him once when Yugi-kun got hurt here.

[whiterosefoes]

... I don't expect you to cover for him, you know. I hardly knew him either. But he reminded me of my partner, and I liked him. It's just a bit of a shock.

[fluffydeathdealer]

I don't like being mean about people. I feel like kind of a jerk for telling you.

[Sigh.]

Your partner was like him?

[whiterosefoes]

Exactly like him, I used to think. He's another lookalike, like Kaiba and Rosenkreuz. Thomas Stanley was his name. He taught me how to sword fight, and all kinds of things.

[she pats the ever-present rapier at her side.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

[Oh great, another weird name. He's not even going to try this time.]

He sounds really nice!

[Though the image of another Pegasus is kinda weird...]

All of this lookalike stuff is really weird... no offense.

[whiterosefoes]

Of course it's weird... why do you think I ask so much about it? I'm the one that mainly has to deal with the weirdness. Everyone else would just stay in their own time apart from this.

...Though, at least I don't have a lookalike.

[fluffydeathdealer]

As far as you know! It might just be that you never met them.

[Ryou grins brightly.]

They say if you meet your doppelganger, it's a bad omen. So maybe it's just that you've been lucky.

...anyway. I might be going back too, so I'll have to deal with that as well.

[whiterosefoes]

Haha..then. Maybe my time travel ancient doppelganger was Japanese too. Wouldn't that be a laugh?

But you going back - I almost forgot about that. Well, ah... It gets weirder then. Stanley is Henry's step-father. That'd make him... your grandfather sort of?

1/2

[fluffydeathdealer]

...

[Deadpan:]

Suddenly I feel the urge to go back to Domino City.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Ehe... sorry. I'm just kidding. That's really going to be weird... but you said he was a nice guy, so it should be fine.

[whiterosefoes]

Yeah, he's fine overall. It's the mum you'll want to be careful of. Scary woman...

[she means it too. bitch tried to poison her.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

Is she really all that bad? Henry hasn't told me much about her.

[Ryou's voice is filled with concern.]

[whiterosefoes]

Well, she's ghastly if you're on the wrong side of her. She used whatever means necessary to hinder me before our duel - on top of that her Harpy Lady deck was incredibly powerful! Stanley actually had to rescue me from that...

[she rubs the back of her head. Even the Rose Duelist suffers a defeat once in a while.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

...eh? Harpie Lady...?

[That was kind of a weird coincidence. He doesn't know many people that use those. Only one, really. Well, it was probably a coincidence. Just on a whim, he asks.]

She sounds kind of scary... Vaughn-san, what did she look like?