this is the nightmare post canon au that everyone would hate lmfao. i dont think of any of them being successful post canon and it always makes ppl too sad when i bring it up so i get shut down lmfao but i gotta do this

bakura is basically just a trust fund baby shut in that has a very active inner world, but not much else

yuugis grandpa dies, so he takes over the failing game shop. kids just dont wanna buy card games anymore 😔 and he cant conpete with the vidya game stores cause he cant buy all that equipment

anzu goes to murica for a dance degree, gets her degree and everything, but cant make a break, so basically just does depressing cabaret for cheap at bars like mary jane

honda went to go work for his dads factory and lives in a very small apartment with jounouchi (these two would stay in close contact). jounouchi is an alcoholic but cant really ever get his life together, so he's always getting fired from jobs and bums off of honda. honda can never get ahead bc he worrys that taking any risk would make them homeless

kaiba has a severe spinal injury from launching himself at the fucking earth in his lust filled delusions hoping to see atem again, so he's basically bed bound and mokuba is his caregiver. yuugang does not talk to kaiba at all anymore so idk what to do with this idea, but its very funny and real to me

#yugioh

still thinking about this, and praising my genius mind to have the parallel of bakura mourning a dead sibling by caring for a surrogate body where he's essentially a caregiver and mokuba whos mourning an alive sibling where he's also a caregiver

also rubbing my evil hands together with great joy at kaiba basically becoming noah 2.0 and going balls deep into VR because he has no other outlet in his life (aside from the literal outlet ports in his body now, but thats mokies problem to deal with 🏥). the worst hell for kaiba is becoming noah