(Idky the title tbh)

Please Note that (some of) this post will also be (hopefully) featured as part of my fangirl article for this months issue in the next ygo magazine.

Speaking of which, Shoutout out to mah peeps working hard to deliver YUGIOH magazine magic btw.

And now on with the YTPR-holiday themed nostalgia:

PHARAOH ATEM:
AH THE HOLIDAY SEASON

IT IS A TIME FOR REFLECTION ON THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED BOTH IN THE PAST AND WHATS TO COME OF OUR FUTURE. A TIME FOR CHANGE AND GRATITUDE. AMD YES JOEY! -.- PRESENTS!

JOEY: YEEEEEEEEE

PHARAOH ATEM *ROLLS EYES*:

AND TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO RECAPTURE THOSE MOMENTS THAT YUGI AND I SHARED THAT WE THINK TRULY MATTERED TO THIS SEASON OF GIVING. IN SHORT I WANT US ALL TO REFLECT ON THE YTPR HOLIDAY SPECIALS THAT WERE DUBBED MANY MOONS AGO , AND AIRED IN JP MANY MOONS BEFORE THAT (At least according to DANNIX inc jp)

BUT ENOUGH SPONSORING, ON WITH OUR FIRST HOLIDAY SPECIAL EPISODE,

"SNOW PLACE LIKE HOME," IN A SIMILAR FASHION TO POKEMON'S "SNOW WAY OUT" HOLIDAY SPECIAL EP, EXCEPT YUGI AND I WERE TRYING TO FIND A CHRISTMAS TREE, AND WE IGNORED FORTRESS'S WARNING OF A BLIZZARD HEADING IN OUR DIRECTION. AND 🐳 THANKS TO YUGI CONVINCING ME TO FORGET ABOUT THE BLIZZARD. WE ENDED UP IN SUCH ANOTHER FINE MESS, THAT EVEN THE ANIME VERSION OF THE DOMA ARC IN THE YGO LEXICON COULDN'T EVEN COMPARE TO. XD

AND THE WINDS WERE SO STRONG THE DUEL-SPIRIT IN MY KURIBOH CARD GOT RELEASED TO PROTECT US, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE BLIZZARD DUELED US AND SEPARATED OURSELVES, SO THAT YUGI HAD TO SPEND THE NIGHT ALONE WITH KURIBOH, AND ALL THE REST OF HIS MONSTERS, IN A FRIGGING IGLOO (WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO FORTRESS FORGIVING US FIRST IN ORDER TO PROVIDE US BOTH WITH A WAY TO SHELTER US FROM THE BLIZZARD AND LATER, OFC , REUNITE US ONCE AGAIN.) EVENTUALLY WE WERE ABLE TO FIND EACH OTHER, AND (ALSO THANKS TO THE FORTRESS) WE FOUND THE PERFECT CHRISTMAS TREE. AND HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO GET BACK TO THE MUTOS IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS EVE FESTIVITIES.

YES, YUGI AND I, AT THIS TIME, POSSESSED BODIES OF OUR OWN, INSTEAD OF THE ONCE PRIZED PUZZLE THAT HUNG AROUND OUR NECKS. BUT I KNEW DESPITE THESE ISSUES SOMEHOW, WE WOULD STILL FIND EACHOTHER AND MAKE IT HOME IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS.

THE NEXT DAY, ER EPISODE, WAS WHEN MY FRIENDS STOPPED BY TO HELP US CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS. XDDDD ODE TO JOY...BUT IT WAS CUT SHORT WHEN KAIBA AND OUR GREATEST FOES WE WERE FACING AT THE TIME ALSO SHOWED UP. KAIBA WAS HIS USUAL CHEERY SELF *sarcasm implied* -.-

BUT FORGET THE CEO OF KAIBA CORP, FOR IT WAS REALLY EMPEROR HEISHIN ,SCOTT IRVINE, AND DERRICK SCHMIDT, WHO IN THEIR (SLIGHTLY) MISCHIEVOUS WAYS TAUGHT US, OKIE MOI, THATS FRENCH FOR I, THE MEANING OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON. BUT STRANGELY THEY ACTED AS IF THEY WERENT GOING TO RUIN OUR HOLIDAYS...LIKE FOR ONCE IN THEIR FRIGGING LIVES THEY WERENT EVIL. AND AT FIRST I THOUGHT THEY WERE FAKING IT, SO THEY COULD RUIN THE HOLIDAYS FOR US. BUT THEY ACTUALLY HAD FORMED A TRUCE WITH US AND CHANGED THEIR WAYS, TO BE NICE FOR ONCE TO US AND WELL, ALTHOUGH EACH ATTEMPT THEY MADE TO PROVE THEIR NICENESS, PRETTY MUCH BACKFIRED, I SAW THEY WERE TRYING TO BE THE MOST SINCERELY HONEST ADVERSARIES  ID EVER FACED. SHAME AFTER THE HOLIDAYS WE ENDED OUR TRUCE AND FOUGHT THEM BUT THATS A EPISODIC SUBPLOT FOR ANOTHER TIME.

BUT STILL HOW'S THAT FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS? XD