Every YuGiOh plot ever can basically be summarized as various forms of "what if a sport of choice was also a conduit to summoning spirits from a hell dimension?"
whoops our cards tapped into the evil spirits sealed by ancient egyptians
whoops our cards are summoning peruvian antimatter gods out of their cages in the ground
whoops our cards tapped into the background radiation of human thought and gave rise to machine overlords borne of our hatred
whoops our cards became a conduit for the wrath of the spirits we've been summoning to fight eachother in a deathless hell war
whoops
It'd be like if basketball turned out to be borne from a ritual that keeps the sun from being swallowed by darkness and our current sport is close enough for it to still work
Join in on the fun at home and write your own yugioh plot!
-Decide on a sport of choice
-Decide on what spiritual or magical conduit they'll be accidentally tapping into
-How do things spiral fantastically out of control because of that?
-However absurd your first instinct is in racing towards an ending, make the actual ending destination ten times more absurd.
-Ham
-Everything ties back to the sport. It is the only form of conflict resolution now.
@velexiraptor @fluxom_alt gravity wells become gravity bowls and the entire system becomes a skatepark, and Earth's best skaters, including an aged Tony Hawk (who will sacrifice himself throwing his last 900 to save the rookie who just started this year) have to team up to save the Galactic Community Center for Disadvantaged Species (Earth) from being bulldozed because Space Bezos wants to gentrify the Milky Way.
@kelseyhusky @velexiraptor Tony Hawk sacrifices himself doing his last 900 into a black hole, spinning so fast that he's able to negate the spin of said black hole and destroy it, saving the protagonist in the process while passing on his skating spirit to the next generation.
He comes back a season later when a shooting star crash lands into pluto and reveals itself to be him returning from a distant time he was sent to when he destroyed the black hole
@fluxom_alt @velexiraptor But the high velocity has caused all colors to blend back together uniformly around him so when he returns, he is Tony the White.
@kelseyhusky @velexiraptor i just HOWLED, that'd be so perfect