Since my post about Kaiba accidentally incorporating magic into his tech and general techno-sorcery (the term I’m using for this) is getting a little more attention, I’m going to discuss more headcanons about that:
The two main ideas of techno-sorcery that I have come up with are wires and circuits arranged into glyphs (glyphs usually need some form of magical power such as blood or ba applied to them in order to activate. Turns out running electricity through them works just as well) and that a computer repeatedly reading a file can take the place of actually speaking the incantations. (Those files are typically in a digitization of heiratic text, so everyone else is convinced they are either complete genius or complete gibberish)
If pressed on a given thing he could probably realize why it violates our current understanding of physics. Like he is scientifically literate. Its just normally his subconscious is like ‘yep, checks out’ so most of the time he doesn’t even notice to begin thinking about it. On top of that, he has pieces of magical understanding that have bubbled up in the back of his brain and in the process get reframed in more scientific terms (especially once he sits down and tries to write this shit up for the patent), so he would have to realize that he actually hadn’t heard those ideas from somewhere else
But it works dammit, there has to be an explanation.
That said, upon the release of the holograms, the scientific community flipped the fuck out and got really excited. Holy shit! How does this stuff work? It could totally revolutionize our understanding of light, of everything. Can we get our hands on it and play?
Kaiba’s a little nervous because trade secrets and all, but he also loves the attention. So he does invite some scientists and outside engineers over, it just has to be at his facilities on his terms. The release of duel disks makes this slightly less of an issue because the scientists could just buy one, but they are expensive and the stuff at his facilities can be specifically set up to run a given experiments.
They are still really confused why the holograms from the cards are always such better quality than holograms attempted for unrelated things. Like we know you’re really into card games Kaiba, but this is a bit extreme.
Its cause the cards actually contain (or contain links to) ka’s, and he has another program to access and scan them, so of course if you start out with a lot of information about what your trying to project you get a better result than if you start from scratch. [Holograms, even cruder ones, are too profitable however for him not to write a program so that they can be used in other areas]
Pegasus figured out what was going on fairly quick and decided to roll with it and corroborate Kaiba’s story. That said, when Kaiba first approached him about duel box’s/arenas (depending on continuity), he talked so confidently about the whole mess, that Pegasus almost became convinced himself that he had put computer chips in the cards, especially because upon a mind scan Kaiba so thoroughly believed it. However, reminding himself that no, he did not put computer chips in, he realized that he caught glimpses of less mundane things floating through Kaiba’s mind. It might have actually freaked him out a little bit.
So long as you avoid mentioning magic and use more scientific-sounding phrases you could have a decent conversation with him about techno-sorcery (or as decent as any conversation with him goes), especially later on as he’s perfected duel disks and generally his craft. He’d actually be a little excited because after talking with so many engineers and scientists who were scratching their heads, here’s finally someone who gets it.
And then if you remotely mentioned that what you were taking about principles of magic he would flip his shit















