I have to talk about this card. I cannot not.
Okay, look, I get it, he's always doing chess stuff. We have very many cards and references to him and chess and sure it can get tiring but like, there's so much symbolism with it. The easiest stuff to note is him being the black king and Chevalier being the white king, especially when it's the two of them dealing with chess. Whiiiiiiich brings me to this card.
It is not lost on me how Gil is holding the white queen in his hand with the white king toppled on the board. For anyone that doesn't play chess, you topple the king on a checkmate. It means you've lost. Your opponent doesn't get to topple it, that's bad etiquette. YOU topple your own, lying him down to say that you accept defeat and the game is called.
But, see, that's also why this picture isn't about Gilbert playing chess with MC because there are NO other pieces on the board. You cannot, in fact, get a checkmate with only two kings on the board. That's a stalemate. You can't win. It's almost impossible to get that far in a game anyways, but that's not the point. This board is specifically set up to send a message, and that message is that the black king has somehow won in a one on one contest, and the white king has given up-- because there is no winning here otherwise! Chev had to forfeit! He had to say, "Okay, I'm done. You win." He had to topple his own king to end the game.
Do you see? Do you see why this card is driving me crazy?! Even if Chev isn't there, even if this story is about Gilbert's possessiveness (as I pretty much gathered from the event details), this picture has his opponent surrendering to the black king with no other pieces in play while Gil fondles the white queen he had captured.
Tell me that isn't something!
And! AND! The ONLY way for Gilbert to have the white queen IF there were only two kings and the queen left on the board is for the white queen to have moved RIGHT NEXT TO (in the black king's immediate spaces) the black king for him to take her! Like his route story literally had happen!! A king can only move one space. A king can only capture pieces right next to them. A queen can move practically any direction. But in this case, white had to give their queen to black in order for her to be captured. Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
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