shitpostingkats · 4 months ago
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Hello! My friends have PowerPoint nights and for my next presentation I want to go over why Jaden Yuki is an absolute freak of nature™️. I remember a lot of stuff like the monkey, eating forks, the whole genocide thing, etc., but it’s been a while since I’ve seen the show and will miss a lot. Therefore I am calling upon your vast knowledge of this weird little guy to best explain to my friends why he barely matches the definition of human. The more the better, your aid is greatly appreciated in this quest
*trips and 1000 photos of Jaden Yuki fall out of my pockets*
JADEN YUKI, LOCAL CRYPTID WHO LIVES IN ABANDONED BUILDINGS AND IS EXTREMELY HARD TO GET A PHOTOGRAPH OF?
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After the events s3, Jaden chooses to move back into the red dorm which has, at that point, no one else living in it. He goes into a depression spree of hiding from everyone at school and not attending classes, just bumming around campus and sitting alone in completely dark rooms. (As is his right) So everyone at the academy is just like "oh yeah, that's our local weirdo. No, you'll never see him. If you want to talk to him, write a letter and give it to his cat."
Oh yeah, his cat who ate their homeroom teacher's soul and now carries around his ghost in its tummy.
How does he live without school support? Why, he just fishes in the ocean and eats whatever he catches! (Most likely not cooked) He's been doing this since freshman year!
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(Red dorm students apparently took to fishing because of their lack luster cafeteria options)
Though, it's questionable if Jaden even needs to eat, because he can
survive in the cold vacuum of space without any scientific or magical protection
survive in oxygen-less environments (like space)
survive reentry into earth's atmosphere from orbit (again, unassisted)
go a whole week without eating and suffer no ill effects other than being a little peckish
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After the finale of s3, he is part duel spirit, which might go a long way to explain his baffling continued survival. Duel spirits don't seem to need to eat or breathe, and exist just fine in the cold void of space (With the exception of Yubel but like. Physically they were fine being isolated in space for years.)
This tracks with the time Jaden got back from a daytrip to one of Jupiter's moons, got lost, spent a week starving in the forest, and became so delirious he started hallucinating. (Yes, a monkey took pity on him and tried to guide him back to food and water and Jaden thought it was a constantly shifting spectre of his friends who were all informing him he was losing his mind and talking like monkeys.)
But also in season 1 it's casually revealed that he keeps accidentally eating forks so maybe he's just always been Like That
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amararala · 5 months ago
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if you’re still doing the emotion challenge: judai and G! :)
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Lil coloured sketch of G4 Judai :3
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mediocredoots · 2 years ago
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Doodle suggestion of a gx character in dm school uniform or dm character in gx uniform? (Jou would make an adorable slifer red I bet 😭) 💜
I would've never thought to do this so thank you for the idea. DM & GX really did have the best school uniforms. Red is such an odd color on Jou but Kaiba would probably say it's the dorm he deserves lol
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enneadau · 6 months ago
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What are your current HCs (that you can talk about) for Jurai and GX?
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Yuki Jurai, will be a powerful Duelist and Mage. However, as of the current moment in time, she's only about 6 years old and hasn't grown the strength to harness her full strength, or had any training.
She looks up to Mutou Yugi, the Queen of Games, who takes an interest in her after meeting her just after the Battle City finals, when Hanaq, the dark wrath of Ishizu Ishtar given life, defeated Kaiba Seto by kidnapping and using his brother against him, and stole the souls of everyone in the theme park who wasn't protected from the Shadows.
Yubel protected Jurai, who then met up with Yugi and got her number. The Queen of Games protected Jurai by sending her to V.I.P. Box One, where she met up with the Kobayashi triplets, whose older sister was the reincarnation of Kisara and whose dragonic form protected the children until the situation was resolved and she could return to her parents.
Jurai will meet up with Yugi again before she leaves the island and again after, but I won't give details here other than to say that Yugi gives Jurai permission to stay in contact.
During his recovery from the incident on the island, Kaiba will launch his competition to 'teach aliens to duel' and Jurai will take part. She will design cards that get sent to space. However, because Yubel is jealous of Yugi's mentoring of Jurai, she destroys Jurai's phone in a fit of rage, cutting her ties to Yugi and accidently hurting Jurai, leaving her unconscious.
While she's out cold, Jurai's parents take Yubel's card and sends it with the other cards, to protect their daughter, and when Jurai wakes up, she's concerned but believes her parents when they say it's for the best. That removes the danger from the household, but after a couple of months, Jurai starts having nightmares that can't be calmed down.
However, due to a later incident in Ennead, magic isn't exactly a secret, just ignored by those who choose not to believe, so instead of taking Jurai for the brain surgery that her parents do in canon, her parents instead show up on Yugi's doorstep and ask her if she can help.
Yugi, who at the time is a student studying Game Design in Tokyo, agrees to teach Jurai and when Jurai is allowed to apply Yugi's teachings, she doesn't get nightmares, but Jurai's parents don't like magic at all and don't want it in the house. So they don't always allow it and the severity of the nightmares scare them until they drop Jurai on Yugi's doorstep for good.
And Yugi takes Jurai in as her daughter.
Jurai gets raised, from age 8 to age 14 by Yugi, her husband and the family she's built around her, with her mother, aunts and uncles teaching her a lot.
The day she goes for the Duel Academy test is the first day she calls Yugi 'Okaasan' or Mother.
When she goes to Duel Academy, it's under the name Yuki Jurai, not because she's embarrassed to be a Mutou, but because she both doesn't want to embarrass her mother by being a failure and an Osiris Red, and because being known as a Mutou will make making friends hard.
There she meets Marufuji Shoko, the little sister of Marufuji Ryu, the Kaiser of Duel Academy and makes friends, as well as earning the respect of others and when the Shadow Rider/Seven Star Assassins start throwing magic around she steps up.
I have more headcanons and events based within GX, but I'm about to go to bed, so if you're interested let me know and I'll post more tomorrow.
Part 2 here
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kaiowut99 · 8 months ago
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Out of curiosity, what’s the full photo you have of your pfp? :0 I’ve never seen that render before
Oh, good question! It's actually from the cover for GX's Vocal Best!! album (OP/EN song compilation), which has Judai and Manjoume rocking out on it haha; one of my favorites since they're just there having a blast:
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aberooski · 1 year ago
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Can you imagine if Syrus' friends are just as confused as the audience regarding the fact that Syrus never snapped or became evil?
Imagine them being like, "Are you sure you don't want to go apeshit now?" quite a lot of times and Syrus always shrugging like, "Nah, not right now."
Even Zane would be a bit on the edge by the time Syrus is in charge of his recovery.
Honestly Syrus had every right to snap at some point over Zane's treatment of him. Zane treated him so bad for so long that he suffers debilitating anxiety and extremely low self-esteem and self worth. But he never held a single thing against Zane. Honestly no one did for more than a single episode for the purpose of the episodic narrative.
Syrus looks up to Zane so much that he believes everything Zane says about him is right and that he has every right to treat him as poorly as he does. He adores his brother, he loves him and idolizes him and tries so hard to make him proud and after meeting Jaden and start to gain a little more confidence and learn to believe in himself, try to prove Zane wrong.
But no matter what people still see him as being in Zane's shadow. They tackle that in episode 4 season 2: "Sad But Truesdale" one of my favorite episodes btw lol which is really the only time we see him even remotely snap or get confrontational and stand up for himself, or at least it's the first time we see that.
But the thing is, at that point he and Zane have.... sort of made amends, namely Zane telling Sy he proved him wrong about saying Sy didn't belong at Duel Academy and saying he loves him before sacrificing himself to protect him from Camula back in episode 32, but being in season 2, Zane is about to go dark himself. which therein lies the reignited of the big issue.
Because after all of that progress they made, when Zane goes dark he reverts back to not caring about Syrus but even worse than before. Even back in season 1 they try to give you hints that he might actually care about Syrus a little bit not that I believe it for a second, but now he truly doesn't care at all. Not just not caring about Syrus but not caring about anyone. But it really comes to a head in episode 95, when Syrus duels Zane to try and remind him of who he used to be, but also to prove to Zane that he's strong enough to face him and strong enough to be a true duelist. Which only serves to land him in the hospital with Zane just writing him off as weak and just as worthless and weak as he had always said he was before. Just pure emotional whiplash for Sy to deal with after the progress they started making in season 1. I literally wrote an entire one shot about it that episode fucks me up so much and makes me so mad and upset But then there's even more whiplash in season 3 because Zane comes back and protects him in Dark World and helps him work through his conflicting feelings about Jaden, and then after basically bestowing Sy unto Jay:
"You can’t leave Syrus! 😢 He needs a big brother! 😭"
"He's got one. 😌"
LITERALLY SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP EVERYWHERE STOP I CAN'T
and telling Syrus he's proud of him he says literally nothing to Sy in the sub and I hate that just dies right in front of him.
Boom. More trauma.
And then they back pedal on his death and he's alive again in season 4 and Sy dedicates so much time and effort and attention and love hinto being his caretaker. When he has every right not to. Syrus is too good to be Zane's brother. Zane doesn't deserve him.
I know I've been blabbing on here and, but listen Sy's my favorite ever I have a lot to say akaksk 😂 Syrus had every right to snap at some point, that's my whole point, and the whole point of this whole ask I'm sorry for the whole dissertation happening here akksksk
Syrus needed to have his
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Moment at some point. He deserved to get frustrated with Zane, to hold him accountable for everything he said and did to him. I hate that no one ever held anything against Zane and just gave him a pass for his abusive behavior. Syrus can if he wants to, that's his right and his choice but the others shouldn't have allowed it to continue happening and not call him out on it more than the one time Jay did in episode 8 and then just dropped it.
I know if I were his friend I would be very surprised he hadn't snapped ever. I think they all should be surprised, but also at the same time it's just not the type of person Sy is. He gets into arguments and is confrontational with people sometimes it's Hassleberry 9 times out of 10 lol but generally speaking he's very timid and is just content with his situation because Zane has beaten him down so much over the years. If anything they would be more surprised if he did snap or go dark, but I think if he did it would open their eyes to how they contributed to the problem by not actually holding Zane accountable for his actions.
But for the sake of this scenario, I think they might even encourage him to just let loose because holding all that stuff in isn't healthy, but he'd say no even though he definitely would want to deep down.
A real:
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Kind of moment if you will. That's what they'd be trying to get him to do, but Syrus not allowing himself to let those feelings out and just having them pile up and fester while putting on the facade that he's okay and isn't angry about everything Zane put him through... yeah I think everyone should be worried and surprised that he hasn't snapped at that point and Zane should be very nervous about Sy taking the role as his caretaker. Because when he finally does snap? All I can say is yikes and good luck because when he finally does allow himself to snap in this scenario I think he would reach a really low spot because he's already there. He would just sink even lower.
They're gonna need all hands on deck to bring him back from that eruption of emotion and pain. Because letting the floodgates open to release that much hurt, I can tell you, not for the same reasons but from being hurt by people before, it's extremely difficult to close those gates again.
And one last point to that end, you know who I think would be integral to saving Sy from that? Chazz. Because he also has horrible and intense older sibling trauma and pain that he's trying to heal from himself, and it's not even all that different from his in some ways. He can understand Syrus's feelings better than anyone, and really sympathize with him and having someone who can even remotely understand his hurt would help Sy so much when he finally does snap. It would be double special too because they never really mixed all that well, but as shitty of a thing to relate to is, this they have in common. And I'd love to see them not like... trauma bond, but trauma bond if you know what I mean aksksk like kinda actually be friends. Because Jaden loves his bestie, but he and the others could only help so much because they know what he's been through, but don't really understand.
Chazz does.
Me currently typing this out:
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Johan Andersen for the "Give Me a Character" image?
Jesse Anderson/Johan Andersen:
How I feel about them: blorbo, babygirl, malewife, a himbo, a twink, my baby. Johan is my beloved and I adore him. He has blue hair and pronouns and if the south wasn’t such a weird place I would move there to get that accent. i am So Normal about this man. gay awakening fr. He is so gender and has no gender. I love him. (A side note: I hc him as transmasc because a. voiced by a woman in sub and b. blue hair and pronouns. Likely had a huge crisis about that after the whole Yubel thing.)
All the people I ship with them romantically: Jaden and Jim, mostly. have Dabbled in jessXzane but I don’t like that one as much. Obviously Spiritshipping is my favorite :P but Cowboyshipping is a close second
My non-romantic OTP for this character: Jesse and Atticus. I can see them having lil sleepovers, painting each others nails with facemasks on and gossiping. Atticus definitely dyes Jesse’s hair for him.
My unpopular opinion about this character: Took away from Jaden’s/Judai’s relationship with Syrus, and consequently we didn’t really get to see Syrus and Jaden and Zane grow as friends and brothers. I would have liked to see some more focus on that. (This coming from an anti-syrus bitch. I would have loved to see Syrus and Zane grow as bros.)
One thing I wish had happened with this character in canon: shoves Judai and Johan’s heads together now kiss
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hearts-of-cards · 10 months ago
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@thunderousreign Asked:
"Sometimes I wish... you didn't have to keep dealing with my shit." (For Judai from Jun)
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"Do you really feel that way, Manjoume?" Judai's face fell for a moment.
"You're my friend... I don't see that I'm dealing with anything from you. People aren't always positive. I take the good with the flaws."
His signature bright smile took place on his features as he chuckled ready to poke fun at one of his longest friends since the academy.
"And you have some good among all the flaws.~ Take it or leave it, we're friends. You're stuck with me."
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hotpinkashcrimson · 2 years ago
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Hey do you think the only reason judai got to fight manjoume in the whole light society arc was because manjoume initiated it. Was he fucking avoiding manjoume. Or was he doing that thing he did in episode 25 where he pretended not to see the bathroom breakdown and was respecting her thoughts and actions. Even if she was "brainwashed" as hell.
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varicrux · 1 year ago
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“  tell  me  that  you  need  me  in  your  life.  ” / for judai !
@liightbringr. | SABRINA CARPENTER ‘ EMAILS I CAN’T SEND ’.
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VOCABULARY ISN'T HIS STRONG SUIT. he's never possessed the craft of turning words into prose fit for how he feels or expressing the depth of his emotion through spoken syllables. yuki judai is a man of action , a man of SHOOT FIRST , ASK QUESTIONS LATER , although he didn't used to be. his presence used to command sunlight , sever the overcast grey like the parting of the red sea , & uplift the souls that have been blessed to walk alongside his stride. judai used to hold stardust in the palms of his hands as though it were his birth right , each wrinkle etched into his own constellation , ANCIENT & POWERFUL. the bones under his skin ache with duties not unlike a messiah , shepherding the weak , the lost , & the broken to paradise of peace when no one even knows his namesake.
but she does. she , who is blended together with the same celestial matter , the same apollo - kissed resplendence , an akin venerable force , utters his name so melodiously from blossom - esque lips , he'd rather die than never hear it again. judai thinks about eva's touch , the way he remembers the contour of each line that encircles the pads of her fingers & yearns for the ease in which she battles his inner demons ⎯⎯ it isn't her fight & the GUILT he suffers for her to need to intervene bubbles in the pit of his gut like a poison. its miasma rears it ugly head in the darkness of lonely midnights , but when eva is near , when judai can hear her voice , that is when he believes heaven is real.
& so his stillness is interrupted. tread begins again , halting only when the distance between she & himself is minimal enough that their resident body heats intermingle & their breaths converse with each other. eyes with tales of sun flares & battle - worn yesterdays soften so smoothly the action almost isn't visible. the duelist buries himself in her gaze / swims so freely in the ocean of her sight , basking in the way the color sparkles , her pupils dilate. she's always been a sight to behold & not once does judai's breath belong to him in her presence.
' ⎯⎯⎯ yanno i suck at words , blue. ' he opens with amusement , the smallest of grins etching into the corners of his mouth. ' you deserve so much , the damn world even. to this day , i wonder , why me? what made you choose me , outta everyone else , 'cause , ya' could've had a normal life. a normal school life , a normal relationship , a normal . . . ' judai trails off because for a reason unbeknownst to him , the word marriage catches in the hollow of his throat , as if this isn't the right time. he takes his body's heed & moves on. ' ⎯⎯ y'know what i mean. what i'm tryin' to say is ⎯ ' another pause. temple presses to temple , summer brown uniting with summer blue , upper limbs circling around slim waist.
' i . . . i need you more than i've ever needed anything else. '
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shitpostingkats · 5 months ago
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Wouldn’t it be really funny if Jaden had like The Most Messed Up Traumatizing Childhood but is completely unaware that what he went through isn’t normal? And every time he says something his friends take +1000 points of psychic damage. (It’s like that one meme of the guy in the fast food drive thru talking with the employee looking like they’ve witnessed The Horrors) For example:
Chazz, fed up with whatever dumb crap Jaden has said this time, not expecting a serious response: oh my god why are you like this, were you dropped on your head as a child or something?
Jaden, goes to retort, but then pauses, actually considering something, then half mumbles to himself: hmm you know that might explain the botched lobotomy actually…
Chazz & everyone else in the room: I’m sorry the what
Or alternatively:
Alexis during lunch with the crew hanging outside the Silfer dorms, concerned at how run-down they seem to be getting: Why don’t you move up at all? If you’re that attached to the red, at least see if you can just move into the Ra or Obelisk dorms, I’m pretty sure the Slifer dorms are an actual health risk at this point, the building looks close to collapsing…
Jaden, completely unbothered, eating a sandwich: I mean up until enrollment I was living in a cardboard box in some back alleyway, the Slifer dorms are paradise compared to that. Plus the other dorms are too fancy for me idk-
Everyone: You what.
Jaden, taking another bite of his sandwich, entirely oblivious the growing looks of horror that worsen with every word out of his mouth: I mean it wasn’t so bad, it was only for what? 3 years? The rats were actually pretty friendly if you gave them food scraps! Better than the giant possums at least.
Everyone: The what.
Or!:
Jesse, hanging out with Chazz and Jaden in Jaden’s room and going through decks: You have such a good relationship with Winged Kuriboh, I can tell he cares about you a lot, you must have been friends for a long time!
Jaden, casually sifting through his cards: Oh, no actually, I got him the day of the entrance exams. Actually I didn’t even know I could see duel spirits until I got to the academy. Or at least I think I couldn’t? I have vague recollections of something from way back when, but I try not to think back too far, otherwise the screaming gets in the way
Jesse, completely unexpecting the way he says it so nonchalantly: The,,, screaming?
Jaden: Yeah if I think to like,,, any time before I was 8? All I get is a bunch of static and screaming. Weird huh?
Chazz, half paying attention, once again joking and not expecting anything seriously: Screaming huh? What, you commit a murder or something?
Jaden, once again pausing before contemplating, unaware to the horror building the longer he stays silent, before finally responding: Huh. Y’know that might explain the blood that pops up too actually-
Chazz, now fully paying attention and regretting every life decision that has led him to this point, and is barely holding onto his sanity by a thread: *deep bone-weary sigh* was this before or after the botched lobotomy
Jesse, who is completely and utterly devoted to Jaden, but is unfortunately New and has not yet been exposed to his special brand of out-of-pocketness, and is now internally screaming: excuse me the what-
I’m realizing now I wrote a lot on this BUT I want to see your interpretation too sgshdjd This is just the funniest thing to me, I love it when a character is completely unaware of the psychological damage they unintentionally inflict on others it’s so funny hahashsjsjs (all of the scenarios are from before the Dark World arc do with that information what you will)
Being Jaden's friend is an occupational hazard.
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amararala · 2 years ago
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B1 for judai & mwah for the pallet pls!
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Such a bubble gum princess so much pink! Thank you for the suggestion @mediocredoots I hope you enjoy him even slightly as much as I do! felt confident enough with the pallet that I went ahead with it, will be reposting this with his *normal* colours in the future if I am so lucky
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mediocredoots · 2 years ago
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Ooo emotion challenge :o I would like to see Judai C10 in existential crisis 🙏🙏
Emotion/Pallet Challenge: Accepting
You are also going on the list of people I'm suing for emotional damages. Why must you have me beat up my boys! What is this violence 😂
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cyberdragoninfinity · 17 days ago
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Jaden for the ask game?
MY DEAR DEAR FRIEND JADEN YUKI
Why I like them/why I don’t: he's such a good character, man 😭 like what an introduction to the ygo spinoff grand lineup of characters. he's funny and charming and nuanced and so infectiously charismatic both in and out of universe i just have to love him. people tend to completely ignore his character growth in season 4 to keep him Sad Sad Turbo Depressed Forever which is such a shame, jay having to be reminded to not lose his sense of fun and passion for what he loves, something that's been so crucial to him for like half the series, is one of my favorite parts about him! he's just a fun character to watch and root for, truly one of the best yutags imho
What I like about their appearance: I love that in the grand roster of insane yugioh hair jaden rolls up and he's just. brunette. double brunette. it's delightful. kuriboh-head.
Do I prefer their dub names or original names? i have endless respect for judai as a name but he is forever going to first and foremost be jaden to me im afraid. i look at him and im just like "goddamn that is the Guy Named Jaden" ever. his impact on tboys named jaden.... unmatche
OTP: said it when i talked about aster but heroshipping numero uno <3 sooo so dear to me. i like chazz/jaden a lot too but i need there to be some catastrophe and divorce in there.
NOTP: talked already about how im not huge on the romantic jaden/yubel read, but im also not very big on jaden/syrus.... i know sometimes "uhm these characters are sibling coded" can be a bit of an asspull but this time thats like. The Text. they came like that. there is a very deliberate parallel between zane and jaden and how syrus looks up to them (and gets hurt by them.) jaden: "syrus needs his big brother" zane, dying: "he's got one" DUB LINES OF ALL TIME FOR ME. sy has two big brothers and it rules. anyway
OT3: i like the potential of jaden/chazz/jesse, i think that's a fun one.
Favourite card they use: Flame Wingman is just so fucking cool I love its tail and its color palette and its Very Genderful Implications. Also a big fan of Neo Spacian Dark Panther...all of the neo spacians are hysterical i love them
Favourite moment they were in: I FORGOT TO ANSWER THIS ONE FOR SOME REASON?!?!? god. he has a lot of great moments but my fav is the season 1 finale when duels zane. it's just such a good duel
Least favourite moment: guhhhh i have a lot of issues with the way jaden is handled in season 3 so i wont go off too much but im just not a terribly big fan of some of the elements of his personality that kind of got rather haphazardly sacrificed to make A Lot of Of All That function in the narrative (and kind of not spectacularly well.) ho hum.
Something I associate with them: Eevees, fat orange cats, and this genre of post
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number-1-kuaidul-fanboy · 7 days ago
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What are your top favorite villian characters or groups (DM-Vrains)
Fuck "DM-VRAINS". Kuaidul Velgear from Go Rush is my immediate and very likely permanent answer to the question of my favorite Yugioh villain.
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He's my blog's namesake now for a reason. Kuaidul is my favorite Bridge/Rush era villain, my favorite Yugioh villain, and my favorite Yugioh character tied with Judai Yuki. I love him. He's hilarious, over the top, fun, sympathetic, fascinating to analyze, he's just the complete package.
As for other villains, Yubel and Ai are second and third place respectively. I've always really loved the fact that in their own ways, they're both motivated by love.
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After them, Paradox and Vector are pretty high up there, I enjoy the Barians in general honestly. Also, I know he's not a main villain, but Yusuke Fujiwara is really underrated and I appreciate him a lot. I also quite enjoy some more recent and therefore spoilery Go Rush villains that I won't refer to by name but man are they great.
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aberooski · 1 year ago
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Ain't gonna lie, I Hage complicated feelings at Zane. Like, how he treats Sy is not ok but also, I see him as someone who has a hard ass time being like, open with emotions or affection. (Like, he does care but is pretty not good at showing it coughatleastlikeatseason1)
Like look, this brotherhood is already messy, it gotta be very fuckin messy to snap Zane to his senses before they could be buddy buddy. (Like, a big snap moment for sy and Zane being the one to go and try and make things right cause mmmm I love that shit yesh angst that turns to comfort and also character growth)
Oh yeah. It would take a HUGE mess to make Zane come to his senses concerning Sy, especially depending on how late in the show said mess would take place.
Season 1 would be too early for it to happen and it would get undone in season 2 anyway, but also in season 2 there would be almost no chance. Zane is so far gone he would've had to have almost killed Syrus to bring him to his senses, and even then part of me worries even that wouldn’t be enough. Hurting Syrus during their duel didn't even remotely phase him, so it's not looking great for their relationship.
But I feel like episode 95 could've done something to ultimately hint at some kind of reconciliation between them later, but it wouldn't be apparent at the time. It kinda couldn't be because it's really important how Zane is so far gone that he doesn't even remotely care. The rollercoaster of him not being shown to care for him or be very nice to him at the beginning of the show to Zane sacrificing himself to protect Sy from Camula and their relationship starting on a healing path, only for Zane to fall down that rabbit hole in season 2 and go so dark that he's completely rejected anything and everyone other than victory and actively and knowingly and purposefully harms his brother for the sake of victory. Just that juxtaposition of sacrificing victory and potentially the entire world for his little brother's safety to personally being the one hurting his brother so that he can achieve victory???
Narratively? I love it.
Emotionally? I fucking hate it. 🙃
But I think their relationship should've been messier in season 3 then it was because um.... episode 95 happened.... they really should address that in a not dismissive way. And I think Zane realizing he's dying would be a good motivation to try and patch things up with Syrus. But Zane isn't the most emotionally expressive or available guy, he's not really a talker with that kinda stuff.
Zane is an acts of service kind of guy. For example, sacrificing himself to protect Sy from Camula in episode 32 though he does actually tell him he loves him beforehand at least in the dub and defending him from the Doom Dozerand just kinda generally going out of his way to help Syrus figure out his complicated feelings about Jaden because of everything that had been going on the last couple episodes in episode 137
In my mind if we were actually going to get to see Zane's turning point back from his lowest point in season 2 to his kinda happy middle season 3 self, 137 wouldn't be a bad place to see it come to a head. But I also think it could be touched on when they call upon Zane to help with the process of opening the portal to get them the Rainbow Dragon card to they can transport the school back to their dimension during the, as I call it, Zombie-Apocolypse-Survival-Horror arc. Because at that point the Duel Ghoul mess has begun and y'know who's a Duel Ghoul by then?
Syrus.
If they mentioned that to him I'd like to think season 3 Zane would care at least a little bit. I think he'd think helping them be able to bring the school back and revert the students back to normal would help redeem himself from episode 95 but ultimately when they get back it doesn't make either of them feel better it just makes things more awkward because even though Sy is kinda happy about it, it still doesn't make up for all the harm he did over the years and especially in 95. It really would be Dark World ultimately that would cause Zane to come to his damn senses for real I think. At least if we're talking about a loosely canon based scenario.
The thing also is that Zane trying to rescue Syrus from the Doom Dozer also causes him to get hurt due to the force of the explosions happening throwing him into a tree pretty damn hard after already having been knocked around a little bit by the Doom Dozer itself and the only reason Sy isn't immediately unconscious is the damn adrenaline keeping him going. Once Zane gets rid of the thing and shit calms down Sy is out.
Ultimately after everything he'd done and especially now knowing that he's dying and doesn't have a lot of time left, Zane having caused to get hurt while trying to help him would kinda speak to him at that point I think. And honestly it says something in my mind how everything Zane does, regardless of his intentions, brings Syrus some type of harm whether it be bodily harm or emotional pain.
Honestly if we're making stuff up I think it would be fun if it was Zane's fault the Doom Dozer was even out there and Aster realizes Syrus is in it's flight path and could be fucking killed and that's what gets Zane to have a like "oh shit" kinda realization moment and goes to fix this mess he created. He gets rod of the Doom Dozer before it can hurt Syrus but he got Sy hurt himself in the process.
I'd love to see him actually realize the harm he causes Syrus even if he's trying not to. That would also really add more weight to him passing the role of Syrus's big brother to Jaden before he dies. Because he's realized and accepted that Jaden is a better brother to Syrus than he could ever be.
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