“Atem gets his own body” AU where he keeps trying to tell archeologists where Punt was and none of them will believe him. Except Ishizu. Ishizu believes him. Atem and Ishizu’s quest to convince academia about the correct location of Punt.
They get thrown out of at least one (1) conference. Ishizu calling up Atem like “You’ll never believe what someone just said about us in this paper called ‘In Response to Ishtar et. al.’” and he’s like “I don’t know why this is so difficult. I’ve literally BEEN there.” and she’s like “I know, I know.”
Things Dr. Ishtar’s research assistants have managed to gather about her weird friend, Atem Muto:
Definitely doesn’t work here. Just…hangs out, sort of.
Apparently Egyptian but raised in Japan or something? Speaks perfect Japanese and Coptic but basically no Arabic. Speaks to Dr. Ishtar in a bizarre amalgam of the former two (Where did Dr. Ishtar learn Japanese?)
Must be some kind of expert because he knows literally everything about ancient Egypt in perfect detail, several details so specific it half feels like he has to have made it up, and is happy to talk about it at any time, sometimes seems to jokingly suggest he lived there.
Except he doesn’t exist on google. Surely a guy who’s done this much research has published a paper somewhere, right? Made some speeches? Listed as a contributor, or as a professor somewhere? But there is nothing. Not even a facebook profile. Man is an internet ghost.
In fact, he barely seems to know how computers work at all. One time someone showed him that you could play solitaire on one of the laptops and not only did he not know this already but was really excited about it.
Did I mention he’s like, 25, max? What? The intern is older.
He is so nice though. Kind of awkward but really encouraging. Like, huge weirdo but when he flies back to Japan to visit family for a few weeks everyone is super bummed. What a cool guy. Cool, weird guy. And what’s with his hair?
The last duel of the GX manga is Jaden just giving up all pretense of playing fair and trolling the main villain with (Winged) Kuriboh. He then proceeds to fuse
(Winged)
Kuriboh with Chazz’s Light and Darkness Dragon to make them into a literal deity whose special ability is having the power of all of the Millennium Items and increasing its attack by 1000 for each card he correctly predicts when drawing from his deck. Which Jaden then does six times thanks to the Millennium Eye.
Each card he proceeds to draw are the precise cards that he needs to fuse his ace monster, which he also boosts up to 6000 ATK. He then proceeds to destroy the main villain’s ace card and take the rest of his Life Points. And all the while, the main villain just stares in outrage and complains about how unfair this is.
Apart from just being a fantastic video in its own right, trying to guess which character it’s going to be based on the card they’re holding while being incredibly sleep deprived is some of the most fun I’ve had all week.
