#dartz

dartz and pegasus = deer and pegasus (pegasus is a pegasus.... duhhhr), marik and ryou = binturong and jackalope

Yugi has that myspace scemo haircut. You know the one. You know the fucking

^ That. The coloration is very literal because he is a weird goth who loves box bleach and hot pink. But my explanation for his grandpa rocking the same style is. He gave into going full scene cut because there was no way to tame his plethora of genetically passed-down cowlicks. This is genuinely less effort than looking normal for him. Also his eyes are brown but they look pink in some lightings because they relfect his bright ass highlights and waterline eyeliner. Yami pushes the bangs up because he can't see shit like this.

I have been an "Atem's hair is a wig" truther since the nanosecond I realized it was an option everyone go say thank you tumblr user rocketbirdie rn. Exact same makeup-based eye color illusionry as Yugi going on.

On the whole I'd like to interpret every character with dark pink/purple eyes as having brown eyes going forward, ie; Mai

Ryou isn't albino (imagine me dodging a tomato), but he is very pale and he's going grey at the ripe age of 16. This is 50% due to genetics and 50% due to stress and malnutrition and not going outside and the ring sapping up all his energy etc etc. He has the beautiful golden brown eyes of a baby cow. Yami Bakura's hair is "spikier" because he doesn't care about not tangling it up, and his eyes might look pinkish sometimes because they are more likely to be blootshot <3. Tkb has the same early greying genes and his body is clinging onto life abt the same amount Also he has freeforms and mild developing cataracts.

As I've said many times, Malik and Isis have ocular albinism, and their family has a male-dominant genetic history of rapid pigment loss in hair (same gene mutation that lead to said ocular albinism) (everyone pray for maliks hairline) (also this probably had an affect on the tribes beliefs regarding the isolation of their male heirs and the allotted outside time for their women). Malik straightens his hair but Yami Malik actively does not. And Isis wears braids and hair cuffs. Also I like the mental image of their skin getting darker as a physical sign of healing from a lifetime of both metaphorical and literal darkness.

Seto Kaiba Wasian. Hence the blue eyes. Just tacking another layer of "we need to overthrow this adopted ass bitch" onto his coworkers. His hair will be going white early as well because Kisara is permanently tangled up in his threads of fate. (Mokuba Kaiba Also Wasian obv but he takes after his Japanese side way more).

Kisara actually is albino obviouslyy.

Noah didn't have blue hair irl--he wanted to dye it as a kid but his dad wouldn't let him. So he gave his avatar a cool hair color in the simulation to make up for it.

Dartz 100% just has completely grey hair. Maybe he dyes it to be steel blue for funzies. The evil blue eye is a corneal scar--and this has no canon basis but since his eyes are off-center in every third frame, I think being mostly blind in that eye causes it to drift.

And the Von Schroeders are GINGER ("strawberry blond" what ever)

“Ironically, despite Kaiba's attempt to redefine Kaiba Corp as a game company instead of arms manufacturing, he turned Duel Monsters into the world's weapon.”

“Can we take a moment to appreciate how customer friendly Kaiba's products are though? In the finale of GX Jaden dueled Yugi, who was wielding a duel disk that was roughly 10 years behind his own model and they were still compatible”

“This video doesn't even mention the time in GX where Kaiba fired trading cards into space that were designed by children so they could be bombarded by space rays and gain superpowers. The more you follow this series the more you realize that it's also the story where a supervillain successfully reshapes the world in his image, died beloved, successful, unrepentant, and accomplished all his goals,  except for the only one that really mattered: beating someone in a card game.”

“Kaiba didn't just change an entire city's way of doing things, or even the entire world for that matter. He literally changed how villains try to conquer the world. He's so influential that villains are still playing his game.”

“Something else that is both hilarious and terrifying in 5Ds: the cops play Duel Monsters to catch lawbreakers. In fact, the rules of Duel Monsters are so immutable to the law and order of Neo Domino City that the bikes called Duel Runners are able to remotely hacked by the police to force a duel, and losing that duel shuts down your bike. The rules of Duel Monsters sit above the police in terms of hierarchy, since if they could hack Duel Runners to force a duel, they could probably just shut down your bike remotely. I like to imagine Kaiba is sitting on his capitalist throne saying "If a criminal can beat you in a duel, then what authority do you have to catch them", and just forces the police to adapt to his survival-of-the-duelist world that he made.“