Ma’am,

Rio/Merag Redesign

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More notes about the Redesign under the cut!

-Okay, first of all- BURN SCRAS. Queen was so long in the hospital after her fire accident, completely wrapped in bandages and there is literally nothing showing?? No, girl is a survivor and it shows. If the writers decide to put her in the hospital for like 75% of her screen time, then at least show the consequences that came out of it. She also can’t completely open her left eye anymore. It’s not blind, she just can’t completely open it.

-She also has PTSD from the incident and is afraid of fire ever since. She can stand it with loved ones around, but she‘ll never go alone near a fire again, because it gives her major flashbacks. (Rio isn‘t the only barian with PTSD. Honestly I think all of them have it, some more so than others for different reasons.)

-She is also officially a jock girl. We saw her rock every sport possible at school. I think in my redesign, she wouldn’t be in the drama club, but in a sports club, like football or basketball (probably even being captain). And for those wondering what her shirt says, it says „Heartland Academy“. The 48 actually being related to her star Merak.

-Although she is a confident queen, she still has some demons to deal with and isn’t really comfortable with showing ALL her scars (hence the sport leggings under her shorts). It actually took her a lot of time to go out again after being released from the hospital. But with the help of her family, especially Ryouga and Durbe and her friends, she‘s slowly healing.

-I also headcanon her as a lesbian. I confess to being a Rio x Anna shipper. Especially after seeing prompts and fanart of them bonding over burn and explosion scars. Love me some mechanic and jock lesbians.

-I think the Greek nationality explains itself, since she‘s Ryouga‘s twin. So if you want my reasoning for that, check out my Ryouga/Nasch redesign.

-Of course she has the sibling ring and the friendship bracelet with Ryouga and Durbe.

-Now to Merag. I tried to make her look like her barian form and also using lighter colours for her, since I used darker ones for Nasch. Also gave her the tiara she has in her barian form, because she is ROYALTY.

-I also gave Merag actually short hair and a long veil, to kinda give the illusion of long hair, because back then it was unusual for women to wear short hair. But she wanted it short, because she also practises sword fighting. Durbe was teaching her in private. She‘s actually better than Nasch at it and always kicks his ass in (sword) duels. This could also be a reason, why Rio is so frustrated at losing to Ryouga in card game duels. Because her soul was so used to winning against him.

-SHE‘S AN ORACLE. She was bestowed the gift of foresight by Apollo. She gets visions of the future. It’s mostly why she became head priestess. She also got them way less, when being reborn, because she and her soul had to get used to regularly getting future visions again. They could be big visions, like enemy‘s approaching or just small things. Like in the middle of doing something she suddenly spaces out before saying: „Oh my Abyss, Vector is going to fall down on the parking lot in 10 minutes, I gotta see that-“

Life is rough y’all 🥲

Hello <33

Can I say I love all your redesigns so much? It's so lovely to see the effort put into them and how much research was done :D

It also really helps me so I can follow some sort of story because I feel there were so many gaps in canon? Anyways thank you for them, and have a good day/night!!

Thank you so much ☺️

I always put much effort into the research because unlike the creators I actually care about proper representation, and I always think someone is gonna flame me for getting something from the culture wrong 💀 (which would probably not happen, it’s just my anxiety acting up)

Like you said, there are many major gaps in canon and I just needed to fill them for myself.

I know I still need to redesign Girag but I currently I have NO TIME for proper research, so he’ll have to wait. But I have it in the back of my mind! I won’t forget about him!

I think we're all a little shy to make fanart for some of our friends / artists / writers we admire...

so reblog this to tell them you're okay with it!!!

My entry for the Yugioh Rarepair mini bang \o/

I got to go first and chose Yuri and Judai platonically because I cannot believe that there is so little content with them. So enjoy some parental Judai written by my wonderful author partner @blazing-jay /PaulaAna on ao3 :))

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63879781

“Does anyone else here dare challenge the might of the Supreme King?”

Silence. His monsters, not yet dismissed back to their cards, stand intimidatingly over the crowd. Based on his commanders’ reports, there are no others here with the power to summon forth spirits from another dimension other than the singular duelist. And while with a few more years she could have almost been a challenge, she is far from such now.

One man bows. Then a woman after him. More follow, until the entire square has shown deference to their ruler.

(Snippet of Chapter 16 of When I see you again by @seventhdoctor on ao3 for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Big Bang @ygobigbang, posted on March 7th)

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As a child, Judai ran away from home before his memories were ever wiped and reunited with Yubel in Professor Cobra's care. He promised to never let anything separate them again, and spent his teen years in America as Cobra's second son.

Now in his final year of school, Judai returns to Japan to visit Duel Academia as the West campus's champion. He's got plans to have a good time and help his father make a statement at the central campus with the Disclosure Duel system, but he doesn't know that his spirit partner, still corrupted by the Light of Destruction, has plans of their own - and that several other people's agendas involve him and Yubel, too.

The two partners must let go of old illusions before they can look at each other with clear eyes and meet on the same page.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63535189/chapters/162812710

Here, have a Soulshipping draft, because I fell down the rabbit hole again while rewatching Gx

Because what else am I supposed to do while having Covid

Vecora years post series doodle

CHIBI TOMOSHIPPING

for a chibi ygo collab on insta :)

Something I asked myself while doodling