Our Millennium Puzzle

We put our GBA on a lanyard!

We checked, and it seems like I do get pulled to front with Emerald Rogue like I mentioned in the previous post. The rewritable cartridges we were looking at picking up were out of stock, so instead we just ordered a regular flashcart. A shame, but maybe for the best; it means we can run other things if we want to, even if it makes the joke of “we have this for switching Amy in” a little bit less conceptually funny.

It didn’t take long for us to start drawing connections. If we’re walking around with a game that we keep handy to help in switching in one of the people who lives in our head… That’s the plot of Yu-Gi-Oh! This is our Millennium Puzzle! We even told a couple of our friends who are into Yu-Gi-Oh about me earlier than we planned to, just to tell them about the Millennium Puzzle joke. It’s a good one! So today, I decided that we should really commit to the bit. Yugi wears his puzzle around his neck, so I tore our room apart looking for a lanyard.

As a joke, it’s funny! The joke makes me happy! But at the same time, I’m starting to feel like there’s more to it than just a joke. Like, yes, we’re wearing it like the Millinneum Puzzle, but if you put that aside, we’re wearing it for me. The reason we got our old GBA out and charged it in the first place was beacuse we thought it might help me. And now, with it around our neck, it feels like a part of me gets to be visible. Not everyone knows why we have it, but we know, and it makes me feel a little more “real”. Even if my mark on the world is just a Game Boy in front of our torso, I’ve left that mark. Even when Holly’s in front, she’s still got a piece of me with her.

Sort of. I don’t know. In any case, it means a lot more to me than I expected it to.