- Popp's culmination of this whole 30 episode character arc where he does a heartfelt self-sacrifice for the sake of his friends (it's something I would put a cw: suicide for in the actual thread header for these days but Popp would not think of it that way because he is from a 90s shounen manga, you know how it is with 90s shounen) (trivia time! I looked it up and our canons have four months of overlap in WSJ)
- Kaiba's currently intimidated by the power difference so a memory highlighting Popp's less competent traits could break that down some. He's the best friend comic relief and it is his very important job to fuck up so the rest of the cast can look cooler, or to bravely stand up to an opponent who outclasses him so he can get rescued. Want to see him lose a fight? Chicken out of a love confession? Fuck up teleporting repeatedly? Cry helplessly as his teacher dies in front of him? (as a bonus, Master Avan is also here but from the prequel, he is also a teenager) Have a really unconstructive nervous breakdown over his bestie getting amnesia?
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- Popp's culmination of this whole 30 episode character arc where he does a heartfelt self-sacrifice for the sake of his friends (it's something I would put a cw: suicide for in the actual thread header for these days but Popp would not think of it that way because he is from a 90s shounen manga, you know how it is with 90s shounen) (trivia time! I looked it up and our canons have four months of overlap in WSJ)
- Kaiba's currently intimidated by the power difference so a memory highlighting Popp's less competent traits could break that down some. He's the best friend comic relief and it is his very important job to fuck up so the rest of the cast can look cooler, or to bravely stand up to an opponent who outclasses him so he can get rescued. Want to see him lose a fight? Chicken out of a love confession? Fuck up teleporting repeatedly? Cry helplessly as his teacher dies in front of him? (as a bonus, Master Avan is also here but from the prequel, he is also a teenager) Have a really unconstructive nervous breakdown over his bestie getting amnesia?