kaiba is a ball of stress every minute of every hour of every day of every day with the sole exception of when dueling or conversing with his brother. he's got a stick up his ass, but a good portion of that comes from the stress he puts on himself all the time: he constantly feels the need to be five steps ahead of everyone else, whether or not he is, with every investment and move needing to contain some motive. small talk is his worst enemy because it means he's stressed /and/ feeling unproductive, which makes him irritated. and look at what he does to relax! duel? where he makes everything high-stakes and is just barely beginning to learn how to "trust" not over-thinking every move?
he has this convo with joey where joey tells him joey duels for fun and kaiba gets SUUUPER pissy because "every victory is vital!!" ... and joey kind of laughs at him like lol ok bro w/e, and that really sums up kaiba's stress. his forever stress.
that said when he does have those moments where he forgets who he is and what he has to do and the future of infinite possibilities, he gets really ....... this is dorky to say but he gets real soft and sort of fluffy, he can be drywall funny and basically that snarky friend who is fine with not moving for a minute or five. these moments are very very rare but idk you can see it when it's just him and mokuba walking around a virtual forest or when they hug and other cute junk like that. he relaxes. it's weird and puppies prob die while he does it.
in conclusion: when stressed, he's hyper productive but hyper irritable and closed-off. and he gets stressed about everything.
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kaiba is a ball of stress every minute of every hour of every day of every day with the sole exception of when dueling or conversing with his brother. he's got a stick up his ass, but a good portion of that comes from the stress he puts on himself all the time: he constantly feels the need to be five steps ahead of everyone else, whether or not he is, with every investment and move needing to contain some motive. small talk is his worst enemy because it means he's stressed /and/ feeling unproductive, which makes him irritated. and look at what he does to relax! duel? where he makes everything high-stakes and is just barely beginning to learn how to "trust" not over-thinking every move?
he has this convo with joey where joey tells him joey duels for fun and kaiba gets SUUUPER pissy because "every victory is vital!!" ... and joey kind of laughs at him like lol ok bro w/e, and that really sums up kaiba's stress. his forever stress.
that said when he does have those moments where he forgets who he is and what he has to do and the future of infinite possibilities, he gets really ....... this is dorky to say but he gets real soft and sort of fluffy, he can be drywall funny and basically that snarky friend who is fine with not moving for a minute or five. these moments are very very rare but idk you can see it when it's just him and mokuba walking around a virtual forest or when they hug and other cute junk like that. he relaxes. it's weird and puppies prob die while he does it.
in conclusion: when stressed, he's hyper productive but hyper irritable and closed-off. and he gets stressed about everything.