thekijs asked:
I know very little about Yugioh, and I have a question after seeing some official art you reblogged. The Milennium Puzzle (I think that's what it is? The golden pyramid necklace thingy the main character wears) looks to be made of gold, quite large and thus quite heavy, and worn on a fairly long cord around Yugi's neck.
So my question is, how often do you think that thing fucking takes him out by bouncing around and smacking him right in the damn solar plexus? Like, how bruised are Yugi's ribs any time he has to jog or run somewhere? Hell, if he breaks into a sprint is he at risk of chipping a tooth or getting a black eye from the millennium puzzle bouncing around?
gallusrostromegalus answered:
You bring up a good point that MANY a cosplayer found out about the hard way because even when it’s made of cardboard, that sucker wants to swing around and can take out an eyeball. I have Several Theories:
- The Millennium Puzzle is governed by the same Anime Physics that prevent female characters with Humongous Hungolomghnonoloughongous from knocking themselves out with their own tiddies.
- Yugi’s hair is Like That ™ because he’s projecting some sort of gravity-warping field that makes his hair do that and the puzzle stay put.
- Gold in that universe has the same weight and texture as marshmallows.
- Since the Puzzle is actually Yami’s Body, Yami is using his poorly-defined magical powers to cling to Yugi’s shirt like a baby Koala.
- The Puzzle is actually flat and only appears to be 3D by the magic of Animation!
- The BDSM Leather Bodysuit Yugi Wears is actually Legit Body Armor to protect him from being shanked by his Magical Bling.
- Like how the Millenium Ring can move it’s tines to stab people or skitter around like terrible cursed artifact tarantula, the Puzzle can actually reassemble it’s pieces at will and whenever it slaps into Yugi, it just loosens the magical field that holds it together and allows the pieces to harmlessly “slosh” against him before recombining. It’s not shown in the anime because they had a budget of like, $4.32 AUS and a can of sprite.
