I really like the use of the present tense here (something I’m ordinarily not a big fan of) because it makes everything happening feel both immediate and slightly disorienting – both like everything’s happening at once, and almost like nothing exists but the present – there’s no past and future. And that really is what this must have been like for Kaiba.

I’d never thought of piecing together his soul/mind/whatever in terms of reconnecting the body and its systems, but that really works because that’s so perfectly how Kaiba might look at it – he’s found an engineering analogy as a way to understand what’s going on and what he has to do.

I also like the change in tone, from peaceful – and I like the way Kaiba focuses on perfection, and also how he realizes he doesn’t remember when he’s had this kind of peace and time. I also really liked how his immediate reaction is to blame himself for focusing on himself instead of Mokuba, really for taking time for himself. And I really liked the way he sacrifices his dragon for Mokuba, because that’s such a good analagoy for what happened to his life to bring them to this point.