Tea Gardner // Yu-Gi-Oh! ( Sketch ) (Pixiv Fanbox)

S-so now how do we win the damn duel...? ∑(O_O;) Despite how little I watched the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, I always liked the character of Tea (I think I must have something for the childhood friend type of characters) Anyway, the only frustrating thing about Tea was her insistence on using monsters of the kawaii but useless kind. Although I think this also makes me identify with her a little bit. Since when I was an active Yu-Gi-Oh! player I used to run a lot of decks with cool edgy archetypes and gimmicky strategies. I was never a big fan of the meta-strategies...┐( ´ д ` )┌ Although I had almost all the cards to build some of the most competitive decks of the era. I used to play just for fun, constantly getting rekt but having a really good time regardless ... Those were pretty cool times. I discovered the game more or less around the time Magic Ruler came out (around 2002 or something like that) I quit the game when Cybernetic Revolution came out. (Around 2006 or something like that) At that time I had completed at least the first 6 expansions of the TCG to 100% and all other expansions to a respectable 70% to 80%. 3000+ cards, almost all exclusively in first edition. (Including all the cards of which it was necessary to have 3 copies of the same card) A few holes here and there but it was certainly an impressive collection. At the peak of my Yu-Gi-Oh! fever I even had to get a part-time job just to keep adding fuel to my madness...(＠_＠) Fortunately, I managed to escape this spiral of destruction just in time. Knowing how obsessive I am with certain things, I am sure that I would still continue playing to this day and most likely would have put aside my artistic ambitions even more. The reason I left the game was a very lucky tragedy. I attended a really big convention of anime, comics, board games, and trading card games. That day I was carrying my most important folders with me with all the best show pieces from my collection. Plus another handful of folders with things to trade and some playable decks. "My whole life in a backpack" as I used to say...ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Everything went quite well at the beginning of the convention, but after a while for me and my friends it began to be a pain in the ass to carry so much stuff around such a large place, so between all of us we decided to rent a security locker at the reception of the convention center. Not really a bank safe but it looked good enough to deposit all our stuff with confidense. Yeah, the key word here is "confidense"...(-_-;)・・・ And as you may already guess, what you are imagining happened. Absolutely everything got stolen...° ° ° Damn, now that I'm writing this down some of the bitterness from that moment has come back to me. - Aaaarrggghhhhh....The pain...(ﾉಥ益ಥ)ﾉ At the time this was a terribly hard blow for me but I am sure that in no other way would I have stopped playing. Unfortunately there is no wise teaching to learn or moral to contemplate here. I was just f*cked so hard by life that it was impossible for me to get up again ... And as I already said, in a way I am thankful for that. But don't get me wrong, Yu-Gi-Oh! is still very cool, TCGs are cool, all hobbies are cool. I am a big fan of people trying to find a purpose through a hobby. It's just that since the moment I felt the call of the arts I began to think that all the other things I did before were just a waste of time for me. And I still believe it, I really wish I had had a clearer look when I was much younger and started much earlier with my artistic journey. But hey, as they say, we are the direct result of our past actions...! So maybe in an unknown way that loss pushed me in the right direction. Who knows, life is a very weird thing...¯\_(ツ)_/¯