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Ennead GX Master Post

Nothing I've posted for Ennead GX spoils Ennead DM, so it's safe for my readers to read, I promise.

Post 1 - Pre-Duel Academy

Post 2 - During Duel Academy

Post 3 - Season 1 Room Mates

Adoption Question

Art Link for Duel Academy Jurai

A Classmate for Jurai

Yugi and Tiny Jurai Picture by @zakurarain

Jurai in the various school uniforms by Peachie

An ask by an awesome reader

FICS INVOLVING JURAI

Future Proof When darkness consumed Kaiba's theme park, Jurai finds herself one of the few people still walking around. Thankfully she has her guardian at her side and her idol is there too… (Posting, 1 Chapter so Far)

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Thank you!!!

I’m avoiding doing laundry by restarting GX dub and of course watching anything Yu-Gi-Oh related always gets me thinking about your wonderful work! I know you aren’t even close to finished with Yugi and her story but I have some random questions I want to ask. Please don’t feel like you have to answer! I’m just very aware of the fact that if I don’t ask them I’m going to be thinking about them for the next week. (I’m using the dub names because I don’t want to fight autocorrect today.)

1. If Jaden is adopted by Yugi will she know about shadow games? Will she know about the previous adventures her parents had? Or will she be sheltered from those things until she fights spirit Jinzo?

2. Would Jaden be able to use her powers or understanding of shadow games to help against any of the shadow riders (season 1 villains) because I’ve realized that in GX the first two opponents try to get the games to spin in their favor by either using hostages to distract their opponents or by knowing what their decks will look like. (Granted Camula knowing what is in everyone’s deck isn’t very different from Pegasus using his eye but I digress).

3. How would Jaden react to someone stealing Yugi’s deck and pretending to be her while dueling? (I might have asked this already but the scenario is very funny to me)

4. Would we see more involvement from adults when the spirit keys are introduced? I can’t see Jaden not telling her parents about is going on or them not being contacted when she passes out after the first duel with Nightshroud.

5. I’m pretty sure that the first season will be similar to what we saw in Ennead where everyone thinks Jaden is a boy until the second season and Jaden being revealed as Yugi’s daughter probably won’t be revealed until after the season finale duel with Kaiser but would Crowler then be spending all of season 2 trying to boost Jaden to blue and Jaden just stubbornly refusing to leave?

Thank you for humoring me. I should probably start laundry now. 🫠

Go do your laundry!!!! Until that’s done, you get no answers.

Now that’s done, here’s the answers to your questions…

Jurai (fem!Judai) will be aware of her powers in Ennead GX because of events mentions in Battle of the Gods, and because of other events that will lead into Ennead GX. Yugi will be aware of them too, and that is why she decided to adopt Jurai when her parents were thinking about the ‘brain surgery’ option. Jurai will also have been bestowed an idea of how dangerous magic could be and the responsibility behind being able to wield it that one must remember. It’s not a toy, and she will know this. Yugi won’t be super strict with her, but guiding instead, to help Jurai learn safely.

Jurai will be able to use her powers to assist and to help her friends, but there’s only so much a Mage can do against a Shadow Item without a focus of their own. However her training will assist her in being able to guide her friends but on the other hand, the stories told about how her mother’s friendships were and how they stood together, will make her both a little more and a little less lenient on certain behaviours of her friends. (Here’s looking at you Chazz/Manjome)

Jurai would not be overly worried about someone stealing a copy of her mother’s Battle City deck because she knows her mother carries a different deck these days, but she wouldn’t be happy about it and honestly I could see her correcting anything the imposter got wrong if she was outted as Yugi’s daughter by this point, since she attends Duel Academia under her birth name both to avoid claims of favouritism and to avoid people swamping her to get to meet her mother, and if not secretly being like ‘this is a really bad copy of mum’.

Yugi and co WILL be informed when Jurai ends up in the infirmary after that duel and Yugi and one of Jurai’s aunts will be coming to the island to teach the students about Shadow Games and how to survive them, as well as help protect the keys and absolutely blast Shepherd for putting such a dangerous task on children.

I’m not going to hide Jurai’s gender, but I am hiding the fact she’s Yugi’s daughter for a while, until the appropriate time to reveal it. Also since Jurai is female and would be in the female dorm, plus the fact that in the Ennead Universe there will be more girls attending because of the Queen of Games, the female dorms will be ranked, so when Jurai gets promoted, she would just be moved floors, rather than to an entirely new building, so she wouldn’t have to leave her friends because they could all meet in the common areas and crash out there if they want.

Hope these answers are satifying, there’s more Ennead GX information here if you would like more.

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I finally decided to suck up my embarrassment over letting your stories marinate because I had a bad year and decided to restart everything because you are an awesome writer and I had a thought.

Please ignore the bad misspelling. It’s past midnight and “Help Me” chapter 11 has wrecked my emotional stability (in a good way).

How would Onesan/Yami react if/when Yugi started having a plushie in her mindscape/soulscape that represented her/his memories with the pharaoh?

I have a vague idea but at the same time my brain keeps going to how to make it angst and my brain keeps going to what is that happened during the Dartz incident right after Yugi is removed.

I’m blaming Help Me on this ask. Well mostly Help Me, the sleep deprivation probably hasn’t helped much but the angst in Help Me definitely created this thought.

Hey, I’m just glad to see you back and look forward to your reactions about how things have progressed since you last read the Ennead series.

Help Me is a fascinating fic that I have to be in a very specific headspace to write, so I am glad that it has emotional impact on others too. XD

Oneesan/Meisa/Yami would react with joy when she first discovered it because it would mean that her twin/partner subconsciously considers her important enough to have a whole thing just for memories of her. However, if that was discovered in Yugi’s empty soul room after they were lost to the Orichalcos, that would also drive home just how much the Pharaoh had screwed up and make that heartache so so so much worse.

Help Me is VERY angsty but I do love a lot of it XD XD

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I wish you the best of luck with everything! Thank you so much for responding and sharing your work!

Random question unrelated to anything definitely not related to me rereading Ennead: Cherished or the fact that I can’t find it searching through your Tumblr;

But if Katsuya and Yugi get married does Katsuya become Muto Katsuya or does he keep his original name? Or is it one of those scenarios where he keeps his original name for professional work and Muto for his everyday life?

I’m sorry to suddenly spam your inbox like this. I’m rediscovering how much I love your writing and how much fun everything you have written has been to read.

Hiya! It’s great to see you and I’m glad you’re enjoying my works again!

Sorry for the delay in replying, I’m in the middle of a divorce and an international relocation, so I’ve been a little unable to access my computer and answering on my phone is awkward because I like to be able to see your comment to reply to it, so I don’t miss anything, but I have my laptop now and my friend has helped me get a new PC so I’ll be able to reply more often now!

In the Ennead universe, Katsuya will become a Mutou if he marries Yugi, because he would rather carry on the Mutou name then that of his father, because they were the ones who helped him reclaim his life and create a path forward that he could be proud of.

Feel free to spam my inbox with questions! I love answering them and often they make me think of things I haven’t, or help me flesh out details I might have missed!

And really and truly I write this series mostly for the readers. Without people like you, I would have given up a long time ago, so thank you for coming back and letting me know you still love my work.

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AI is Dumb

As someone with an engineering major and a deep seated hatred for coding AI is dumb.

I’m talking about Artificial Intelligence not someone names Al.

I don’t mean in a use of AI is a dumb idea way.

I mean ask Chat GPT how many “r”s are in the word “strawberry” and it will give you the wrong answer dumb.

I mean “ask it how many hours it will take for laundry to dry on 8 feet of laundry line when it takes 2 hours for 4 feet to dry” and it will give you the wrong answer.

I mean “I caught a kid cheating on a Dynamics 200 level class using Chat GPT on his phone and he still did not have the correct answer after I caught him 1.5 hours into the exam” dumb.

I have had to correct AI assumptions multiple times when using it as a learning aid. Sometimes multiple times on the same question.

My point is that AI cannot put together what authors can. It’s a good to for generic tasks. It’s a good time saver for processing things that are already put together. It can act like a good stand in for spark notes for example. But it cannot replace an author.

As I’m sure most teachers can attest to. Anything AI can come up with is generic and predictable.

So the moral of the story is Authors, please don’t sell yourself short. Your stories are all something you have come up with. What AI generates is a lot more like a generic story generator than any masterpiece you come up with. Because you have real life experience and understandings that can help guide you when you are writing.

AI using authors learning without permission is a problem. But the inputs that it has stolen is just a single input. It is not good enough to come up with anything you have created. It can only mimic it.

Please don’t lose your drive to write. I may be a stranger shouting into the void about a topic I’m only vaguely aware of but please do not let this setback stop you.

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Thank you!

This might be an outrageous question but will we ever see Danny’s introduction to the Unstoppable Mailman? His introduction in the Mortified series was awesome but Danny first finding him seems like it might be a fun read as well.

If not I will continue to read Mortified and all enjoy all of the Unstoppable Mailman available.

Ahhhh probably not, to be honest. My thought about it is that it was either something minor, like someone sending him a letter, or he was traveling through Amity to deliver a message and there was a misunderstanding... that then got resolved fairly quickly. I might use him again, though!

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Thank you

I have a random question about Danny’s lair from Mortified.

I’m also coming off of a bad case of Norovirus so if this is rude or doesn’t make any sense I would like to apologize in advance. Thank you for sharing all of your wonderful stories. It is always a wonderful read while I’m healthy but it was really fun to read while I was stuck in bed.

In Mortified if Danny, Dan, Ellie, and all of the other siblings share a lair does the lair grow to accommodate everyone’s mind? Like in the chapters where Danny discovered that his doodles were a part of the architecture and stuff.

Do all of the ancients/parents have rooms in the lair now? I remember that Frostbite and Clockwork already had rooms and it’s a bit fizzy if Nephthys had a room or if I’m mixing up Sam’s room with her. But did the lair create rooms for the siblings and Dan’s parents as they formed bonds with them or would they pop into being when/if the siblings ever get to the lair?

Sorry in again if this does not make any sense. This question originally came from me wondering if Danny’s lair would ever become an open environment like Libra. But then I realized that Danny’s character would never be ok with putting people out in the open and risk them getting hurt by opening his lair.

Thank you again for writing Mortified. It is really wonderful read!

As the siblings become stronger and more independent/distinct as people, the lair will grow and change to accommodate them and their preferences. Since Danny is the oldest and strongest, the lair as a whole will draw on him more than the others, but honestly, for some it's a bit of a relief that he's not the only one connected to that lair. It's so big! It makes more sense to know that there's six other people who are maintaining it (even if they weren't contributing very much while they were destabilized).

Anyway, yes! People they're close to will have rooms in the lair.

(And this question made perfect sense! Don't be so down on yourself. <3)

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Are there any idea in any of your writing you wish you had explored?

Like AUs of your stories you create in your head but don’t write because it seems too similar to other idea you have?

Nothing in particular immediately comes to mind, but I do generally have multiple ideas for where to end a story and what path it should take to get there. I'm sure that's true for anyone who writes!

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Another strange Ancestral question but do the Avylnys believe in other mythical creatures like Brownies and Fae? (Or maybe will-o-whisps?)

Or is the belief that it just the ancestors that do the little chores/mischief/etc that other European countries have?

This has everything to do with some of your Fae AUs and how any aspects of it might come into play later on.

I’m aware that if those aspects of old stories come into play Jack and Maddie might become a bit more insane. But the way you have mixed all of these mythologies together makes the world so interesting!

No more than other Europeans do, I'd say, and most of good luck/bad luck/household spirits stuff does get attributed to the ancestors/spirits. As far as including other mythological creatures, I wouldn't except maybe as specific ghosts. Ancestral is already pretty far away from the domain of canon, even if I'm trying to link everything back to canon characters and objects. I don't want to get too far out there, if that makes sense.

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Another random Ancestral question that is more like a prompt.

Did Gwensyvyr watch Danny and Jazz grow up? Like did they have yearly vacations to Avylnys where Gwensyvyr was able to “haunt” them for lack of better phrasing? Like could she have nudged open a secret passage for them while they are exploring? Maybe shifting something while playing a game of hide and seek to help them stay hidden? Maybe hum a lullaby trying to help someone sleep? (Which started out cute/soothing when Danny/Jazz was a baby but progressively scary sounding the older they got)

I’m not sure where this thought came from but I will blame the line about Gwensyvyr watching Danny sleep.

Yep! She doesn't know them nearly as well as the other cousins, because they mostly lived in Amity Park, not Avlynys, so when they were there, she spent more time watching them. But she still didn't have enough power to really move things around, so it was mostly watching and being wistful because she expected there to be a point where they'd stop visiting.

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Thank you! I appreciate you looking at them!

Random question with Ancestral that probably have no bearing on the story:

Does Gwensyvyr’s count as liminal if she died passing through the portal or is she considered a dead since she fully died?

Do her children count as neverdead? (I think that was the classification in Mortified) Or were they technically also liminal before death?

Is Danny the first fully liminal descendant since Gwensyvyr herself?

Does Gwensyvyr know about ghost cores and other “basic” ghost things? Or does she not because she has mostly been on the living side of the portal?

Thank you for sharing Ancestral and taking questions! It’s always a pleasure reading your work!

Oof, some of these I can't answer fully because either I haven't decided myself and need to see how the rest of the story unfolds in order to use them best, or because they'd be big spoilers re: what I've already decided.

Let me try to answer the ones I can in order.

After she was killed in the sacred pond, Gwensyvyr was a half-ghost, same as Danny. As to whether or not she counts as liminal now, well...

I don't know that I'm going to use the same categorizations in Ancestral as in Mortified at the moment. If I did, then the children conceived after her husband died would be considered deathless (that is, ghosts that never died)... as long as they were still alive. After dying would be different.

:)

Yeah, she and a big chunk of her family were in the Ghost Zone fighting Pariah Dark for years. She knows what's what, although her understanding is in Avlynyse, rather than English. She wouldn't use the same terminology.

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Random question with Ancestral that probably have no bearing on the story:

Does Gwensyvyr’s count as liminal if she died passing through the portal or is she considered a dead since she fully died?

Do her children count as neverdead? (I think that was the classification in Mortified) Or were they technically also liminal before death?

Is Danny the first fully liminal descendant since Gwensyvyr herself?

Does Gwensyvyr know about ghost cores and other “basic” ghost things? Or does she not because she has mostly been on the living side of the portal?

Thank you for sharing Ancestral and taking questions! It’s always a pleasure reading your work!

Oof, some of these I can't answer fully because either I haven't decided myself and need to see how the rest of the story unfolds in order to use them best, or because they'd be big spoilers re: what I've already decided.

Let me try to answer the ones I can in order.

After she was killed in the sacred pond, Gwensyvyr was a half-ghost, same as Danny. As to whether or not she counts as liminal now, well...

I don't know that I'm going to use the same categorizations in Ancestral as in Mortified at the moment. If I did, then the children conceived after her husband died would be considered deathless (that is, ghosts that never died)... as long as they were still alive. After dying would be different.

:)

Yeah, she and a big chunk of her family were in the Ghost Zone fighting Pariah Dark for years. She knows what's what, although her understanding is in Avlynyse, rather than English. She wouldn't use the same terminology.

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Stage 1: using your native language's idioms in English out of habit/lack of knowledge

Stage 2: using English idioms as much as you can to prove that you're good at English

Stage 3: using your native language's idioms in English because they fuck actually

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I will totally do that, random popup that's Definitely not a virus (sarcasm)

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Ok time for confession before I’m too chicken to say it.

When I first started reading Ennead in high school I remember being oddly disappointed that Bakura was a woman. In retrospect I think it might have been because I had never seen a lesbian couple in Yu-Gi-Oh before and really wanted to see some kind of romance between the two that had a good chemistry I liked. I had never seen that kind of relationship before in the other female Yugi stories and writing.

I remember my surprise when the chemistry I was hoping for started to reveal itself as the story progressed and finding myself almost surprised by the romantic history later on. But at the same time not as surprised as I should have been if I wasn’t expecting it.

Now, nearly a decade, many many stories, and self exploration later, Ennead has been a source that had helped me understand a lot about myself and my own personal sexual orientation.

Thank you for that.

Your writing has always influenced me in ways that I can’t always explain. And I just wanted to share that with you.

Thank you for such awesome stories. Please know you have helped me understand myself better with your writing and I am happier for it.

Thank you!

I am honored to have been able to help you and that you have been with me for this ride as long as you have. I know it's been a long journey, and we're only about halfway through, so the fact you're still here makes me so happy.

Hearing stories like yours and knowing that im making a difference is the only thing that's kept me going for the last 12 years.

There have been many times when I've been tempted to give up. Just leave it where the last written chapter lies and walk away. I promise I will do my very best to finish so I can keep helping people.

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