In the other Yugi's -- no, Atem's heart, it feels a little bit like blocks are sliding around, moving into place, puzzle pieces moving out of the way of a new part of himself, great stone slabs grinding slow and ponderous into their new form. It feels weird -- different -- but not bad. He's Atem.
And he's got lots of real friends, here. He can scarcely believe he made them, without Yugi here to get to know them first, to do the hard part (high stakes murder games to protect them are the easy part, you heard him), but he did.]
Yes. Yes, the people here...they're part of my heart.
[Which feels both bigger than it did before, and less empty -- even though he still doesn't have memories of who he was before he was sealed into the Millennium Puzzle (he'd wondered if that would happen, but a quick mental scan says no) he feels like he's standing on firmer ground. He'll be able to give his name now without feeling off, or wrong, or dishonest. Even if he doesn't tell everyone everything...he can introduce himself as himself, instead of the part of him that misses the other part so much it can't let go.
He can do it without it feeling like Yugi is gone.
But, the number of people he knows, means...]
...it does mean I have a lot of people to correct.
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In the other Yugi's -- no, Atem's heart, it feels a little bit like blocks are sliding around, moving into place, puzzle pieces moving out of the way of a new part of himself, great stone slabs grinding slow and ponderous into their new form. It feels weird -- different -- but not bad. He's Atem.
And he's got lots of real friends, here. He can scarcely believe he made them, without Yugi here to get to know them first, to do the hard part (high stakes murder games to protect them are the easy part, you heard him), but he did.]
Yes. Yes, the people here...they're part of my heart.
[Which feels both bigger than it did before, and less empty -- even though he still doesn't have memories of who he was before he was sealed into the Millennium Puzzle (he'd wondered if that would happen, but a quick mental scan says no) he feels like he's standing on firmer ground. He'll be able to give his name now without feeling off, or wrong, or dishonest. Even if he doesn't tell everyone everything...he can introduce himself as himself, instead of the part of him that misses the other part so much it can't let go.
He can do it without it feeling like Yugi is gone.
But, the number of people he knows, means...]
...it does mean I have a lot of people to correct.
[oh no, what a terrible problem to have.]