#Saotome Rei/Martin Kanou

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

Round 1: Poll 1

Propaganda under the cut

Pairing 1: Emasculateshipping(Professor Cronos de Medici | Dr. Vellian Crowler/Napoleon | Jean-Louis Bonaparte)

Propaganda: As the Funny European Team Rocket Men of GX, the two are almost too obvious-- not just in how much time they spend together or how much of that time seems a bit too intimate for men who are supposedly just work buddies. The ship, with its participants being based on historical figures (obviously, Napoleon Bonaparte and the Medici family respectively), the ship therefore has a real-world historical precedent of sorts (Napoleon was Italian; two Medici women married into French royalty); the two have similar and compatible priorities (Cronos being first and foremost concerned with his babies-- ahem, *students*, while Napoleon is mostly worried about his own son; the step-father potential in Cronos is Immaculate) and, of course, the ship is very funny-- not in the least because you have two men, one single in his mid-thirties while the other is divorced in his fifties, thereby trying to navigate their relationship like a pair of stupid teenagers. But of course, there is also serious potential in the ship as well. After all, Napoleon's divorce means that he's going to be extremely anxious about screwing up a good thing again, while for Cronos it's a potential red flag that their relationship will end in disaster. The plot of season 3 also gives them both immense pain to work through, after all that they've been helpless as their respective kids suffered. It's easy to overlook them both, especially Napoleon (I promise that's not a joke at the expense of his height, he's just kinda mainly remembered for how he's introduced in season 2 as French Cis Cronos and has little unique character of his own until Martin's introduction), but there's absolutely something to engage with both in the characters themselves and in the interactions between them. Also they literally went on a picnic date while watching Judai duel once they're gay your honor

Pairing 2: Thirdshipping(Saotome Rei | Blair Flannigan/Martin Kanou|Marcel Bonaparte)

Propaganda:  Sometimes love is two weird outcast kids hurting each other and finding peace anyways

Now, let’s keep things civil. This is a silly poll where we can share why we love our overlooked ships. There’s no need to be nasty to prove your point. Bashers will be consumed by Darkness.

[esperfruit]

Welcome to Yu-Gi-Oh! GReduX

Preface:

Yu-Gi-Oh! GReduX is an idea I first conceived when I was 17 and I decided to revive it.

It’s a sequel to Yu-Gi-Oh! GX that later turns into a sequel to Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V and also is deeply connected to Duel Terminal. As I have a lot going on, I don’t have the time and energy to turn this into a fully-written fanfiction so I am telling the story through blog posts and art. It is still in a very raw state so this pinned post will be updated over time when I have something to add. This post will also only cover the “post GX" section of GReduX, that being Act 1 and 2. Act 3, the post Arc-V and Duel Terminal section that involves time-space travel shenanigans, will receive its own post sooner or later and will be linked to this one.

This project usually uses sub names but I can also use dub names whenever I feel like it.

I will use the tag “ygo gredux” for all posts connected.

Feel free to ask away when you want to know more about GReduX.

Premise:

GReduX starts not long after Judai and the others graduated and a new semester at Duel Academy has begun. One day Principal Samejima calls Professor Chronos into his office, who was accompanied by his younger sister, the nine.year-old Bianca de Medici, as he recently became her legal guardian after their parents died in a house fire one month ago.

Samejima informs Chronos of an exchange program with the new promising duel school, Terminus Academy. The program sends two students and one teacher to the other academy for one year and Samejima suggested sending Chronos, Tyranno Kenzan and Rei Saotome as Duel Academy’s representatives. Kenzan and Rei have already agreed to the program and Chronos was more than eager to teach at this Terminus Academy to show what Duel Academy has to offer as its greatest professor.

Not long as the group of four arrived at Terminus Academy, they met new and old faces and Chronos learned all teachers at this school are people he knew in the past with the principal, Rantaro Yamikage, being an old friend of his. As a sign of their friendship, Rantaro offered Bianca to become a student at Terminus despite her only recently finishing elementary school. Both Chronos and Bianca agreed to that offer with Chronos being excited to teach his beloved sister about the game they are both so passionate about. 

Soon they would have to realize that Terminus Academy is a more than an extraordinary duel school filled with exceptionally powerful duelists in terms of skill and personalities.

The heroine of this story is Bianca de Medici or Bianca Crowler in the dub. A nine-year old girl, who lived in Italy and just recently witnessed her parents burn to death right before her eyes by a serial arsonist. She is now in the care of her older brother Chronos, who she loves and admires dearly but could not see often due to his job at Duel Academy. 

Bianca had never been a social butterfly and preferred talking to her deck than with other humans thanks to being born with autism and the ability to communicate with Duel Monster spirits. She was a model student in terms of grades but never had any human friends and was even bullied by other kids and got frequently in trouble because of her violent outbursts whenever she was being picked on despite being very shy when unprovoked.

At the age of six, she had a dream of being visited by Duel Monster spirits of the Ice Kingdom. The spirits, who she immediately formed a deep connection with, asked if she wanted to be their friend and she agreed without hesitation. They also requested to form a contract with her that asks her to become a powerful duelist with them at her side in exchange for their protection. After the contract was sealed, she woke up with a deck of Duel Monster cards next to her, the Ice Kingdom, and a silver bracelet with an ice blue stone in its center at her right wrist. Ever since, Bianca, a dueling prodigy, has been seeking power alongside her new spirit friends with White Blizzard Dragon as her ace, while finding out what powers lie in the bracelet she received from her otherworldly friends.

At Terminus Academy Bianca starts off as very emotionally stunted and still traumatized from the house fire, developing  pyrophobia as a result. In that state the young child has to prove herself as a powerful duelist and student under a group of teenagers with similar abilities as her. Fortunately the class she attends has a strong sense of unity and she can count on her brother Chronos and her friends from the Ice Kingdom to have her back.

Terminus Academy:

A duel school founded by Rantaro Yamikage one year ago. It’s much smaller than Duel Academy as it has only three classes with 16 students each. It was built as a counter project to Duel Academy as the students wear similar uniforms to DA in black and orange and are not split in different houses but share one huge apartment complex not far away from school as their dormitory.

The purpose of this school is researching young duelists with the power to talk to duel spirits or show the potential to. Every student was scouted by Rantaro himself when he traveled around the world. The students do not have to pay any fees and every cost is covered by the school, they only have to show good results as students in order to stay at the Academy.

Terminus Academy is located in the fictional city of Resort Valley, named after it being a very popular health resort filled with all sorts of places for fun and relaxing activities. Rantaro chose this city as the location so the students would have a healthy and welcoming environment and as an opportunity to perceive other activities outside of school.

The Academy offers everything a school needs to and more with an always clean and safe building, latest equipment, healthy food and a card store with new and old packs so students will always have a chance for good deck building. Terminus also holds various events for their students and helpful courses for them to make their school life educational and fun. Whenever something breaks, it would be repaired or replaced in no time. How a school this small could have such a huge budget even with its undercover funding from Kaiba Corporation is one of its greatest mysteries.

In only one year, Terminus gathered an exceptional positive reputation from students, parents and outsiders alike. A near flawless learning environment, student satisfaction and dueling performance at an all-time high made it become more popular than every of Duel Academy’s branch schools and came to rival DA itself, gaining the attention of many journalists and as well of Industrial Illusions. 

Class 2-C:

The class of sixteen Professor Chronos was assigned to teach over the year:

Bianca de Medici/Bianca Crowler

Tyranno Kenzan/Tyranno Hassleberry

Rei Saotome/Blair Flannigan

Midori Tachibana

Alexander Muller

Hazel Cortex

Lien Cai

Constantin Sokolow

Dejan Kovac

Diana Sergio

Martin Kanou/Marcel Bonaparte

Esra Farhani

Grant O’Brien/Grant Brodie

Jason McConnor

Marlee Reed

List of reference sheets HERE

Every one of them being a very talented duelist in their own right with many of them being able to talk to spirits or awakening to it later. Midori not only being the class representative but also the Academy's head girl. As a group of eccentrics filled with dreams and determination, these teenagers (and that one elementary schooler) are a very chaotic bunch, getting in all sorts of trouble and hijinks. And while having their differences and arguments, they have a very strong sense of unity and stick together through thick and thin as friends, managing to overcome every challenge.

It turns out many of them had forged contracts with their deck just like Bianca did and have gained similar protection. When the world was dragged into Darkness at the end of GX, many students of Terminus, including Class 2-C were unaffected by Darkness as they were put into a safe, dream-like state by their cards where Darkness could not reach them.

While being a member of Class 2-B, the student Nigel Setanta became a part of this group over time thanks to his friendship with Jason.

Staff:

Aside from janitors, cleaning and lunch staff and housekeeper, who runs the card store for both school itself and the dormitory, the Academy has the principal, three teachers and a nurse:

Rantaro Yamikage

Professor Chronos de Medici/Dr. Vellian Crowler

Dr. Kakeru Yamamoto

Napoleon/Jean-Louis Bonaparte

Dr. Dahlia Thorndyke

Currently there is also Asuka Tenjoin/Alexis Rhodes at Terminus for an internship for her goal to become a teacher.

Chronos, Rantaro, Kakeru and Dahlia were close friends during their time at university in Domino City and Rantaro purposefully arranged them being reunited again through hiring Dahlia and Kakeru for his Academy and organizing the exchange program. Napoleon, teacher of Class 2-B, applied for a job as teacher at Terminus shortly after leaving Duel Academy and similar to Bianca, Rantaro offered Martin to become a student as well, Chronos and Napoleon meeting again was a pure, yet ironic coincidence.

Kakeru, teacher of Class 2-A, was Chronos’ best friend during university times and he especially is looking forward to doing everything with his friend again, who had changed a lot since graduation unlike him. This group of educators turns out to be a miniature version of Class 2-C in terms of being chaotic yet sticking together.

Spirit Contracts: 

Duel Monster spirits from another dimension called Duel Terminal, which closely resembles a computer program, have gained the power to transcend into other worlds and can influence them to certain degrees. The most effective method is making contact with humans that show immense potential as duelists and can communicate with them. They then form a Spirit Contract, which allows the spirits to manifest into Duel Monster cards and an item the duelist will always carry with them, be it a bracelet, a pendant or anything else.

With the item at their side, the duelist is under protection of the spirits from Duel Terminal with said protection showing their effects in  many different ways, for example Bianca not being injured by the flames or poisoned by the smoke of the house fire. The Monsters can also become truly tangible in duels with another duelist with a Spirit Contract and cause real damage, which usually only occurs when the duelist is either in danger or loses control over their powers.

If a duelist with a Spirit Contract has become especially powerful, they can be able to perform a “Terminal Draw”, which works similar to a Destiny Draw, in being able to draw a specific card of their deck archetype from their deck in a pinch and when the duelist has reached the absolute height of their strength, the Terminal Draw can even be compared to a Shining Draw. 

The reason the spirits from Duel Terminal are contacting humans is that Duel Terminal became completely jumbled in its own timelines with events being undone or misplaced in time and at worst threats that had have been previously been defeated are suspected to return in even greater and more terrifying capacity that will not only affect Duel Terminal, but every dimension and the only way to bring everything back into order is to cooperate with humans from another world, who can not only help them reclaim their former strength but to surpass it as well.

Rantaro Yamikage, a scientist for Kaiba Corp. at the time, had noticed shifts in time-space caused by Duel Monster spirits influencing the human world in unexpected ways and thus decided that this matter had to be studied at any cost and founded Terminus Academy with the approval and secret funding by Seto Kaiba himself.

Everything went well as expected and Terminus was formed in no time with construction and organization done by Kaiba Corp. and student scouting by Rantaro until one day Rantaro had been contacted by spirits that call themselves the Fabled…

Act 1:

Act 1 covers the first half of the school year with everything and everyone being introduced. It is more on the comedic and slice of life part with the students getting into wacky hijinks that somehow also manage to get the teachers involved. Bianca also learns to open up and become friends with her classmates despite the age gap. Jason becomes friends with Nigel and assimilates him into the chaos of Class 2-C. 

Bianca gains a reputation among the students and proves herself time and time again to be a very powerful duelist with defeating countless of them. Her Ice Kingdom deck, which she is the only owner of in the world, caught the interest of Pegasus J. Crawford, paying Terminus Academy a visit as a result.

He was very fascinated with the students there and decided them to be the test users of the new summoning method Industrial Illusions and Kaiba Corp. had been working on when it was finished, Synchro Summoning.

Bianca had become quite cocky with her winning streak so Midori, the Academy’s strongest duelist also called “The Empress”, decided to humble her by defeating her in a duel in front of the entire school and succeeded at doing so.

At first Bianca took the loss very poorly but with some uplifting from her peers and her spirit partners, she regained her composure and managed to grow even stronger from that experience by learning Fusion Summoning.

After a school trip to Italy for 2-C, Synchro Monsters were finally complete and it was decided that Lien would be the very first person to ever Synchro Summon in an official duel against Bianca. 

Her Flamvell and Neo-Flamvell, who she had a Spirit Contract with, evolved and adapted to Synchro.

In the duel Lien successfully summons the Synchro Monster “Ancient Flamvell Deity” but the duel had to be terminated as all her fire-themed monsters had brought Bianca to a breaking point and she suffered a panic attack from her pyrophobia.

Despite the termination, the test was a success and Synchro Monsters were now ready to be introduced to the world.

Jason and Nigel’s friendship blossomed further and Jason realized thanks to Nigel that he doesn’t have to screw himself over in order to rebel against his parents but can also strive for his own path with the power he has if he finally puts it to use. That resolve evolved the Mist Valley deck he contracted with into Gusto and thus formed a friendly rivalry with Nigel, swearing to surpass Ritual Summon expert one day.

At the end of this half, Bianca is confronted with the arsonist, who killed her and Chronos' parents. To get his hands on the valuable Ice Kingdom cards, he trapped him and Bianca in a life-or-death duel in a burning building with the Laval deck he contracted with. 

Despite being confronted with her fear of fire, the rage of being faced with her parent’s killer took over and she went all out against him, taking him down with her deadliest Fusion Monster, “Glazio, Devil of the Ice Kingdom”, freezing him to death despite his pleas for mercy as the attacks in this duel were real.

Act 2:

Eight months into the exchange program, Principal Samejima agreed to Rantaro’s proposal to hold a tournament between Duel Academy and Terminus Academy at Terminus’ campus, the GX Tournament V2. Students and teachers from both schools face up against each other as well as students from the same school.

Much to Samejima’s dismay, the tournament was being dominated by Terminus with all the best students he ever had had already graduated or are part of the exchange program.

Mysterious incidents seem to occur during the tournament as many of the participants' behavior suddenly began to shift into aggressive and even violent, including Chronos, who almost hit a student from Duel Academy, who tried to steal a deck, if not stopped by Dahlia.

The situation started to get out of control further as more and more duelists turned violent and downright malicious. Said duelists also developed breathing problems, high blood pressure, tearing muscles and chronic migraines. Neither Rantaro nor Samejima were able to provide answers and so Class 2-C including Nigel, Kakeru and Napoleon began to do their own research while Dahlia and Emi Ayukawa/Fonda Fontaine took care of collapsed or contaminated duelists. 

Everyone wonders why Rantaro strictly refuses to stop the tournament at a time like this and with how out-of-character he acts, his warm and welcoming demeanor switching into cold and strict with his kind smile now having something eerie in it.

Bianca gets challenged to a duel by Midori, who had turned violent as well. Bianca had her rematch against The Empress with finally surpassing her with her new Synchro Monster “White Blizzard Impact Dragon”. Midori then collapsed after the duel and was contaminated as well.

When Chronos raised his hand against Bianca when she tried to stop him from hurting another student, Kakaru finally had enough and challenged Chronos to a duel to bring him back to his senses.

Even though Kakeru fought with everything he got, he was crushed under the might of Chronos’ “Ancient Gear Chaos Giant” with whom he severely injured Kakeru with after his victory. 

White Blizzard Dragon told Bianca they were able to witness a dark energy possessing Chronos that forces his Ancient Gears, who he had formed a Spirit Contract with not long ago, to use their powers to harm others.

After Kakeru was hospitalized, Bianca and the others confronted Dahlia, who had been acting suspicious for a while and she finally decided to tell the truth as she can’t bear seeing everyone she cares about getting injured:

There is a supernatural virus going around that infects others through duels. It makes the infected severely violent but also inflicts health issues that are very likely to kill its victim over time and take over their dead body if not treated. The virus is called Evilswarm and was brought in by none other than Principal Rantaro Yamikage.

His goal is to spread Evilswarm as far as possible through GX V2 with his true motives being unknown. He blackmailed Dahlia to turn Evilswarm into a bacterial state and infuse it into his primary test subject, Chronos. Sick of Rantaro’s madness, Dahlia already created an antidote for Evilswarm and it already proved itself as effective as she secretly tested it on Midori, who had been cured but is still bedridden. She tells everyone that the infected need to have the Evilswarm weakened in them before the antidote gets injected or it won’t work. Dahlia also informs Bianca that Chronos might not have much longer to live if he isn’t cured soon with how long he had been infected.

Without any hesitation, Bianca rushed to Chronos and challenged him to a duel to save him. It pushed both of them to their limits and Bianca witnessing her brother's health fail the longer the duel went broke her but she forced herself to keep fighting for his sake. What gave her the final push was hearing the plea of his favorite Ancient Gear Golem, Sirius, to save his life at all cost. Bianca defeats Chronos with the combination of the very first Terminal Draw, a Permanent Spell Card that deals effect damage, two of her Fusion Monsters and White Blizzard Dragon, allowing him to finally receive the antidote and be brought to the infirmary.

It was finally time to grab the problem at its root. While Terminus’ and Duel Academy’s best united to defeat and cure all the infected, Dahlia and Lien confronted Rantaro, who sneaked into Dahlia’s underground lab to destroy the antidote, the recipe to make it and to later kill genius pharmaceutic Dahlia so Evilswarm could never be cured ever again. 

Bianca meanwhile was with her brother at the infirmary, watching over him. When she was suddenly approached by the Ice Kingdom spirits, who told her that Lien’s Flamvell contacted them for immediate assistance because Lien was in huge danger, she rushed to the underground lab as fast as possible, led by her Monsters and followed by Napoleon and Samejima. When she arrived there she saw both Lien and Dahlia laying on the ground, severely injured.

Napoleon and Samejima brought the two of them to the infirmary and gave them the antidote just in case. The infuriated Bianca then confronts Rantaro, who gladly accepts the challenge of Terminus’ new strongest student, saying once someone as powerful as her is infected, he’d be unstoppable.

Before the decisive duel could start, Chronos arrived, dragging himself to the place with his duel vest, still severely weakened. Despite his critical state, he had to help Bianca take down Rantaro no matter what. When being asked by Chronos why he was doing all of this and what happened to his precious and kind friend, Rantaro only gave vague answers but he proved that this good-hearted Rantaro had been gone forever even before the whole exchange program even began.

In this 2 vs 1 duel the de Medici siblings struggled more than ever because of Rantaro’s Fabled cards, which he had artificially modified into the dreadful ArchSeraphim, who all possess downright unfair effects with his Ace Monster being “ArchSeraphim Overlord Abyss Shadow”, a Fusion Monster with 6000 ATK and 6000 DEF that reduces the opponents LP to 1, can only be defeated by Battle with a Fusion Monster and is completely immune to opponent’s card effects.

In this near hopeless situation, Bianca performs a Terminal Draw and Fusion Summons the siblings’ ultimate Monster, Ancient Gear Blizzard Dragon, a combination of both their Aces and reduces Rantaro’s LP to 0 with the help of their Monster’s piercing damage dealing effect and Chronos’ previously set Limiter Removal.

When Rantoro was defeated, he just laughed about the absurdity of his situation and congratulated the siblings and everyone at Terminus for their glorious work, admitting he couldn’t be a prouder principal and that Terminus truly will initiate a new age of dueling. Before Chronos could receive any answers on asking once again how Rantaro turned out that way, a dark energy surrounded the principal, seemingly eating him alive until nothing of him was left.

Bianca could only look at this for a short time until Chronos collapsed thanks to his still critical condition.

The aftermath of the Evilswarm Incident was the cancellation of GX V2 despite Samejima reluctantly admitting that the victor would have definitely been Terminus. Everyone involved was properly treated to make sure Evilswarm was completely eradicated. Terminus Academy had to take care of reparations for the damage caused by Rantato. Dahlia took over the mantle of principal and had to announce that Terminus had to close down for at least one year to take care of financial and legal matters, giving everyone injured during the incident time to recover. The students were allowed to return home during that time or stay at the dormitory.

Rei and Kenzan, returned to Duel Academy, the teacher and two students chosen by Rantaro for the exchange program were taken under custody as it turned out they were spies for Rantaro. Asuka finished her internship and left as well to finish her studies.

The bedridden Chronos and Kakeru made up again and were taken care of by Dahlia, who they forgive for her involvement in Evilswarm as she was forced into it and she did her best to make up for her misdeeds. To their surprise, Chronos was writing a letter of resignation to Duel Academy. When asked about it by Dahlia, Kakeru and Bianca he told them he does that so he can give Dahlia an application to become an official teacher at Terminus after its great re-opening next year.

[number-1-kuaidul-fanboy]

So Yubel ships Thirdshipping then?

[insomnia-arts]

My second piece for @gxmonth goes with the prompt : You and Me!

Featuring a pair that doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of fanart, Blair and Marcel/Rei and Martin!

This one was a whole lot of fun to draw and color, and I love the effects added on top of the finished piece don’t you?

I’ll be posting my pics on Wednesdays and Saturdays, so see you then!

[iyliss]

Day 1 - Royalty

The Charnel God AU where the romantic plot is replaced with evil guys plotting to kill a kid.

[haouenjoyer]

timed post//

day 6! they dont get more screen time its so cruel

[honeys-bnbdc]

Day 5, Dramatic Rescue

These aren’t to be taken too seriously, I even put (crack) after the more ridiculous ones because I’m so benevolent. Some of these are very outta context, so don’t get worried if you don’t em lol- also, ignore any and all typos bc I didn’t proof read this, it jus came straight from tha dome to this post <3

-Whenever Sho laughs, he causes Asuka to laugh and vice versa- this has caused Manjoume so many headaches, he hates being in the same room as them when they get like that

-Placing a flat hand on Johan’s chest grounds/calms him down (making small circles helps too!) Johan is not conscious of this fact, but the rest of the friend group has picked up on it, half em knowingly, and the others unknowingly lol

-Kenzan is gay and trans, he also has an older sister

-Junko and Momoe don’t do anything dueling related when they graduate, and they also don’t get an influential job their parents wanted them to have

-The two have their own houses, but they end up staying at the other’s for weeks regardless

-Through a series of hijinks and shenanigans, Motegi, Taizan, Alice, and Kagurazaka end up going on wacky adventures together- they become good friends despite how they have almost nothing in common

-Judai once had a girlfriend during first year, but they were so unromantic and just hung out with eachother as friends, that they forgot they were even dating (crack)

-Kenzan and Rei are still best friends in college, they even went to the same one somehow

-Kenzan often helps Sho out at the dojo when he has time, and while he’s no longer on the path to becoming an archeologist, he still goes with Jim on any digs he goes on, or just discuss stuff about it lol

-Martin is genderfluid, that’s it, that’s the whole hc

-The only reason Martin’s dad was able to continue seeing him was because Martin convinced him to talk to his mom, and they all discussed when and how he could visit him (after alot of yelling and more fights) but his mom only budged because they never actually signed the divorce papers and Martin really wanted to connect with him again, and that’s honestly the main reason she even considered it (this is a very dumbed down version)

-Judai’s flakey with all his friends still, but he’s in contact with Misawa, O’brien, and Edo, in that order lol

-He’s mostly in contact with Misawa since he still lives in the dark dimension, so it’s easier for Judai to comfortably drag him along everywhere

-Asuka and Kenzan are the buff mom friends of the group- no I will not be taking questions on this

-Junko’s a whore and an adrenaline junkie, no I will not be taking questions on this either (this is more for when she’s older, but she did date around in school)

-Judai’s parents are actually very supporting and dot on Judai whenever they remember he exists- in fact, they’re very independent people, so they barely even see each other or call, so they also neglect each other lmao

-Edo likes to play matchmaker, but he’s actually good at being subtle, so no one notices-plus he doesn’t do unless he’s around the people in question, he doesn’t care to go out of his way (crack)

-Jim was the first person O’brien took to see his parents, and Jim was in awe that he didn’t take Judai first

-Asuka has to call Fubuki at night whenever her paranoia gets too bad, and she’s afraid he’s gone again

-Asuka also tends to overthink and overwork, so she typically has to write lists and repeat what she’s done during the day so she feels like she done enough to deserve rest (yea, this one’s not happy lol)

-Judai actually forgot his memories twice, the first time after the card contest, and the second time right before he left to the academy (I like to think his middle school and academy self are like two completely different people, just so we have another Haou on our hands lol- this can be considered crack)

-Hayato is the type to be constantly anxious about losing his friends, but never contacting them because the nerves make him nausea, and just downright feel bad

-Sho often calls Hayato sporadically just to ramble, Hayato enjoys them alot, and it reassures him that he can just call them and talk about anything (these two hcs are at constant war with each other) (Sho also knows that this helps reassure Hayato lol)

-After Ryo started distancing himself from Sho, he would feel so bad that he would talk himself in circles to Fubuki, and Fubuki would just nod along each time and be, “man, I don’t know what to tell you; either commit or go talk to your little brother”

-O’brien gives the best hugs in the group, everyone is delighted whenever he gives out the rare hug

-Taizan doesn’t have any powers, he’s just so strong that lesser duel spirits are attracted to him, and bigger spirits can materialize if they respect him enough lol

-Alice and Judai are siblings- this is never discussed with each other, they just are

-Kagurazaka is so embarrassed by his high school (and middle school) self that he ends up working at a friends bakery after graduating, and he likes to show off his analysis and psychological skills by guessing the customers orders and favourites lol

-Motegi and Judai are like siblings with too big of an age gap so they never really connected, but they still care for each other a lot-- y’know what I mean? Ya gotta know what I mean---

-Asuka is aro demi, that’s it, that’s the entire hc----

-Burstlady once set the red dorm on fire because she wanted to show off to Judai...by boiling some tea that doesn’t really need that much heat- anyways, she was so embarrassed that Judai just lied and said he wasn’t paying attention lmao

-Glow Moss is something of a cold blooded animal despite, y’know, not having blood- whenever they want to feel warm he just kinda sticks to one of the warmer monsters; they hate it when they do that because they’re like silly putty that’s just a little too sticky

-Sho is dyslexic, no one notices til they graduate

-After everything’s settled down, everyone has jobs, in college,etc., the crew plan big outings with each other and due to past experiences, Asuka or Jim have to be the “leader” when they go out because they’re the only two “actual” responsible ones- Edo and O’brien don’t care to keep everyone in check, Kenzan, Misawa(also, Misawa’s alot more lenient since he’s gotten older), and Rei are too easily swayed into doing stupid things, plus they forget to check on everyone, Ryo doesn’t even want to come to these, Fubuki encourages the others too much, and everyone else is too chaotic

-Whenever they can’t do these outings in a big group, they have to actually plan out who gets to be in a group together because certain combinations end in property damage or a restraining order

@gxmonth The group is a lot more goofy when they’re older while simultaneously more stressed lmfao

[nancelilspace]

Day 2: “Red, Yellow, Blue!”

So, I don’t think I have a favorite room but I believe that if I belonged to Duel Academy I would be in the Yellow Room, I mean, I’m not THAT bad at dueling.

[spiritsncrystals]

Well clearly you have to bring up the other boy you like when talking about making food for someone 

[higuchimon]

[fanfic] Placing Blame

Rei cracked the door open and carefully tilted her head around it, covering her eyes with one hand at the same time.

“Maruchi?” She called out. “Are you – awake?”

She stayed tense until she heard him answer a few breaths later. “You can come in, Rei-chan.”

At once Rei dropped her hand and entered the room. Most people in Ra Yellow had grown to expect her regular visits ever since their return from Sand World, but she always made sure to keep her eyes covered in her morning visits, at least until she knew Martin had his clothes on.

She hadn’t made sure on one of her earliest visits and hadn’t that been embarrassing!

But now everything was all right and Martin sat in the chair by the window, enjoying a little morning sun.

“Are you ready for class?” Rei asked, taking the chair opposite to him, as she so soften did. She came by every morning to walk with him to their first class together.

Martin nodded, but he didn’t look up as he usually did. Rei’s eyes narrowed. “Is something wrong?” Now that she knew him a little better, she could tell when something wasn’t right. Martin didn’t like to open up abut things, so she had to push to make sure he didn’t keep it all to himself.

There probably weren’t any other beings like Yubel around who might take advantage of his issues, but Rei didn’t want to take any chances that she didn’t have to. Someone had to watch over this guy and she’d appointed herself to the task.

“It’s nothing wrong,” Martin said at last, after she stared at him for several long minutes. “I was talking to Papa last night.”

She nodded, making a little gesture to indicate she would like to hear more if he’d be willing to tell it to her. After a few seconds, he did.

“He wants to go back to Paris for a while. He said that he hasn’t been able to spend enough time with me here and he wants to fix that.” His lips moved, but Rei wasn’t sure if that was meant to be a smile or not. “He wants to talk to Mama soon too.”

Over the weeks since their return from that other world, Rei had wormed a lot out of Martin, more than enough so that she knew Napoleon and his ex-wife hadn’t talked to each other without voices raisd in years. If he wanted to change that – well, she wasn’t sure how much good it would do, but they were at least trying. He was at least trying.

Then what else Martin said sank in and she jerked a bit. “You’re going to be leaving?” A tiny pang struck deep in her heart. Bad enough that Juudai-sama and Ryou-sama were both gone – and she hadn’t had a chance to talk to either of them – but now Martin was going to leave too?

“Papa wants to wait until everyone else comes back if he can. To know that they're safe.” Martin’s lips now curved into a definite smile. “Of course, he can’t leave until Chronos-sensei comes back anyway.”

Of course he couldn’t. He was covering Chronos-sensei’s classes now that the senior teacher vanished as well. Rei nodded slowly, pressing her lips together. That could mean they would be here for the rest of the year. Or longer. No one knew when – or to be fair, if – those who were missing would come back.

Rei cast her eyes down for a few seconds, worrying at her lip, before she looked back towards him. “Maruchi,” she murmured, “I-I should have said this before.” Talking about him leaving brought up a thought she’d nurtured for a while now. “I’m sorry. I’m very sorry.”

Martin stared at her. “Rei-chan?”

“What happened to you in that world – with Yubel-” Rei shivered at the memory of that creature. For a Duel Spirit Yubel wasn’t that strange. Rei had definitely seen stranger ones in the cards. But to see that being standing in front of her, holding Martin’s body and tossing it aside as if it were nothing more than a piece of garbage – that wasn’t something that Rei ever wanted to see again. “It’s because of me. If I hadn’t insisted that you take me to Amon-kun’s party, then we wouldn’t have been there when the school got taken away. If you’d been in here,” she waved a hand towards the dorm all around them, “then you would have been safe.”

Martin continued to stare at her, then slowly shook his head. “Rei-chan, I don’t blame you.” Each word came from him slowly, with even greater confusion than the word before it.

Rei raised her head to meet his eyes. “It’s true, though.” She’d thought it over a lot and nothing she could come up with made it any better. There was a lot to blame on Yubel, and she still wasn’t entirely sure of what to think of Amon himself, but she knew she carried her own share of guilt for what happened.

But now Martin reached out and rested a hand on her wrist. “Rei-chan, it’s all right. I don’t blame you.” He dredged up an expression that looked a great deal like a smile. She wondered how genuine it was. “Yubel was in my head. I – don’t remember everything, but I know this. Yubel would have done anything to find a way to Juudai-kun. They were – they are-” He hesitated, trying to choose his words. “Nothing’s going to stop them from finding him. If it hadn’t been me, then it would have been someone else. Maybe someone it would have hurt a lot more. Or someone that you couldn’t help like you did me.”

Rei didn’t want to think about that a lot. The idea of never being able to help someone who needed it sat cold and hard in the depths of her stomach. She felt a tiny, very weary smile touching on her own lips. She wasn’t sure if Martin were right but she didn’t know enough to argue about it a lot.

“Are you sure?” If he didn’t want to blame her, though, there wasn’t much that she could do about it. She wasn’t going to demand that he hate her and never want to talk to her again.

She’d just have to be careful and try not to let anything like this ever happen again – and to be the best friend that she could be to Martin while he was still there for her to be a best friend to.

Martin nodded in determination. She wasn’t sure if he could have made that gesture before everything that happened. She’d heard Napoleon mention to Principal Samejima that he was so proud of Martin, that he’d grown up ever so much, and she couldn’t say that he was wrong. She vividly remembered what Martin had been like at the start of the school year.

At least now he had a lot more color to himself and he wasn’t quite so likely to fade into the woodwork. So many of those who’d been in that world of sand with them now went out of their way to greet him and treat him well, better than they had before. Rei wasn’t sure if they did it out of genuine friendship or if they were too scared to ignore him again, in case he somehow manifested claws or a demonic aura. But they didn’t ignore him and they weren’t mean to him. Rei thought that was better than nothing.

“All right.” She tugged her PDA out to check the time and yelped, leaping to her feet. “We’re going to be late for class!”

Both of them headed out the door as fast as they could, Rei’s slightly longer legs lending her an advantage, and raced for the main building. Rei thought they might be able to make it if they hurried fast enough. At least this wasn’t one of the more important classes. No one knew where Satou-sensei vanished off to and a temporary teacher for his classes had been instaled until someone suitable could be hired on a more permanent basis. Most of the students treated it as a free study hall. Rei still didn’t want to be late, since the teacher they did have wasn’t nearly as dull as Satou-sensei and wasn’t averse to handing out detentions for late students.

But at least she’d learned something today, something she found vitally important. Even though he had every reason to, Martin didn’t hate her, and the idea of Martin not hating her warmed her from the inside out.

She didn’t want him to go away. But if he had to, she wondered if he’d want to tale a walk on the beach one afternoon. Or do some homework together one of these days. Or even both.

If Rei picked up anything from her seniors, it was that you had to go for what you wanted.

The End

Notes: I never quite liked that Martin and Napoleon left in season 4. I think Rei would like it even less.

[daddyzarc]

Yubel: “Ew Whose kid is this”

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

Second Chance Bracket YGO GX Poll 1

Propaganda under the cut

Pairing 1: Thirdshipping(Saotome Rei | Blair Flannigan/Martin Kanou|Marcel Bonaparte)

Propaganda:  Sometimes love is two weird outcast kids hurting each other and finding peace anyways

Pairing 2: Fusionshipping (Marufuji Ryou | Zane Truesdale/Yuuki Juudai | Jaden Yuki)

Propaganda: i love shipping judai with anyone else, including this ship, but it was however overshadowed by gx rivalshipping which was used to be my all time favorite. looking back to the gx fandom after my main hyperfixation (which was erm… yugioh gx) was replaced by smg4 last year, i want to move on from that popular ship and become a fusionshipper instead.

Now, let’s keep things civil. This is a silly poll where we can share why we love our overlooked ships. There’s no need to be nasty to prove your point.  Bashers will be consumed by darkness.

[esperfruit]

Alignment Chart memes but it's the YGO GReduX cast

[number-1-kuaidul-fanboy]

Sunset Confessions

YGO Rare Pair Week Day 4

Prompt: Post Canon

Pairing: Trans Masc Rei Saotome/Martin Kanou

Word Count: 506

Summary: Martin realises that he still has a crush on Rei, even after Rei’s transition.

Rei was lying in the grass beside the small Slifer Red dorm rooms, one of which as an Obelisk Blue student, he at his request, now called home. It was simply easier than staying in either the male or female dorms in Obelisk Blue. Besides, he had a nice view of the sky out here. The school completely hid the setting sun from view, casting most of the sky in a dark indigo with orange and pink streaks beside the school. If Rei squinted hard enough, he could spot dim stars among the indigo.

“Rei…” A small voice broke the silence of the early night.

Rei sat up. Martin was standing in the grass several paces away from Rei, staring off into the distance and shyly gripping his arm.

“Hey Martin!” Rei smiled and waved to him. “I haven't seen you around much! How ya been?”

“Just… studying for finals…” Martin’s voice was small and quiet as usual, though perhaps more so somehow. “Can I… sit with you?”

Rei nodded. “Sure!”

Martin shifted to sit next to Rei, his fingers tugging nervously at the blades of grass. Rei gently nudged his friend’s shoulder.

“Something bothering ya, Marty?” His tone was light-hearted, but he was genuinely a bit worried.

“I… um…” Martin bit his lip. “Can I… um… would it… be weird if… I mean… you still like boys, right?”

Rei snorted with laughter. “You mean even now that I know I’m a boy? Yeah, I still like boys… Well, one boy that is.”

Rei couldn’t help but smirk at his own words, staring at said oblivious boy: his best friend since he started at Duel Academia.

Martin turned to him. “Which boy? The Kaiser? Judai?”

He was clearly asking in earnest but Rei couldn’t help but crack up regardless. “No, no, a new boy. A sweet boy in Ra Yellow who's on track to getting into Obelisk Blue with me in our second year.”

“Oh?” Martin blinked. “Have I heard of him?”

Rei giggled even harder. “Oh, I think you have, yes. He’s a good friend of mine. My best friend in fact. I don't know if he likes boys but… I hope he does “

Martin leaned a bit closer. “Who is this boy?”

“He’s you, dumbie!” Rei grabbed Martin's shoulders, shaking him playfully. “Come on! Are you dense?”

“O-oh…” Martin’s cheeks reddened ever so slightly though for once, he didn’t take his eyes off Rei.

“So… uh…” Rei let go of Martin's shoulders, looking away. “Guessing you don't… like me back, huh?”

“I… well…” Martin bit his lip. “I always kinda… had a crush on you… and I don't think that ever really went away… Even now that you're a boy… I guess I… like both? Boys and girls I mean.”

Rei gasped happily, looking back at him. “S-so?! That's a yes then?!”

Martin smiled. “Y-yeah… it's a yes.”

“YES!” Rei couldn't help but break into a cheerful squeal, then lean in to kiss Martin on the cheek.

Martin smiled, his cheeks red as cherries.

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

Second Chance Bracket YGO GX Finale

Propaganda under the cut

Pairing 1: Thirdshipping(Saotome Rei | Blair Flannigan/Martin Kanou|Marcel Bonaparte)

Propaganda:  Sometimes love is two weird outcast kids hurting each other and finding peace anyways

Pairing 1: Cowboyshipping(Jim Crocodile Cook/Johan Andersen | Jesse Anderson)

Propaganda: my farking FRIEND who doesn’t have tumblr asked me to

Now, let’s keep things civil. This is a silly poll where we can share why we love our overlooked ships. There’s no need to be nasty to prove your point.  Bashers will be consumed by darkness.

[number-1-kuaidul-fanboy]

I like them :)

I know it's partially because I wrote them as friends in my Rei fic, but I really do like their friendship. They're so much younger than all their peers (at least Martin looks quite a bit younger) so I think it's sweet that they at least have each other.

And also all their screentime so far has been Rei demanding that he eat stuff and that's funny to me.