#ygo dm theme: domino city

[kaibacxrps]

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Mun name: Vani (IDC how you guys will address me by)

OOC Contact: Tumblr IMs, Disco.rd (mutuals only)

Who the heck is my muse anyway:

Seto Kaiba is the CEO of Kaiba corporation, a world renowned softwares and games development company. They are one of the main partners and investors of Industrial illusions, the company responsible for the creation of duel monsters (they are also known for their theme parks in Japan and the USA, and later [GX] they own the duelists academy). Kaiba is also amongst the top duelits known in the world, Yugi is the only one who stands above him- no one else comes close to rivaling him.

Priest Set is one of the six priests that compose, Atem’s court in Ancient Egypt (and in the afterlife). He was the original wielder of the millennium rod, and carried the duties of extracting prisoners kas and execute them. He was also a phenomenal war strategist, and a powerful magician (who was only ever defeated by Atem. No one else rivaled him, in those skills). He fought against Zorc, alongside his colleagues and pharaoh, and came out as the sole survivor of that previous court. He became the new pharaoh, after Atem’s death (since it was revealed to him that he was Aknadin’s son, so they were related.). Set reigned over the Egyptian empire, and went down in history as a tyrant and merciless pharaoh in Egypt’s history.

Points of interest:

Kaiba can be recognized at about anywhere he goes. He is a very prominent, public figure. At some point, any muse is bound to have at least seen or heard something involving the name Kaiba. Don’t let those commercials and interviews fool you, Kaiba is a difficult person to be around in person.

Besides my AU, where Set shows up in the modern world. Interactions will either take place in AE or in the afterlife. In AE, it can be during his time as a priest, or when he is the pharaoh. Meanwhile in the afterlife, his soul is bound to serve his king. When Set is in the modern world, he is sharing his mind (not the body) with Kaiba, so he knows his way around as well as everything that happened during DM’s events.

What they’ve been up to recently:

It depends on the verse.

For standard Kaiba’s interactions are all set in his present time verse, 4 years post-DM. He has long since quit the professional dueling scene (after being defeated by Yugi in his BC 2.0 tournament, that takes place after Atem’s departure), so he has only been focusing on his company - and his brother (who is already studying abroad). Kaiba has also cut all ties and contact with Yugi & co, the last time he saw them was in their HS graduation. Currently, he is working on his duelists academy project, he has just bought the establishment and is making huge investments on it. He is often traveling abroad for business reasons, and is rarely seen around Domino city.

As a priest: Set is serving the royal court, he is an important and prominent figure within it. Because of that, his days are extremely busy. He can be often found being mentored by Aknadin, or in the company of other priests. On the rare occasion, it is possible to run into him while out hunting wild animals.

As a pharaoh: Set took over the throne after Atem’s death, and is currently trying to repair and rebuild the empire after all the damages and destruction caused by Zorc. Things are still very fresh and recent, on top of that the former priest is now trying to adjust to his life as the king of Egypt.

In the afterlife: Set’s soul made into his pharaoh’s after his death, in the mortal realm. He is finally reunited with his colleagues, but Atem is still nowhere to be found. As such, he alongside with everyone else waits patiently for their king’s return. Things will return to normal, once he makes it into it.

Modern AU: Set has been granted the chance to meet, the one that was meant to be his vessel. However, things have been less than stellar to him. And ever since he came across Kaiba, he has been kept inside of Kaiba estate. He isn’t allowed out of it, in order to avoid people mistaking him by his vessel.

Where to find them:

Kaiba is... All over the place really, although bars and nightclubs might be the better places to find him. Otherwise, he mostly stays in his company’s building or in his mansion.

Just look above for Set, it depends on the time period- when things are meant to happen. But during Ae, he doesn’t really leave the palace that much and in the modern AU he is stcuk in Kaiba’s place.

Current plans:

// I don’t have any? Not in the sense of making something, that would involve other muns muses. I’ll just keep working on my HCs, and hopefully write a few drabbles I have been meaning to get to for awhile.

Desired interactions:

// I would love to have more things taking place during AE for Set, or finally get to write something during the afterlife.

For Kaiba, I’m actually interested in some pre-DM stuff, so during school shenanigans? (At a time where they were all simply classmates, and nothing else) Or even much later into the timeline, during or post-GX.

Offered interactions:

I have many AUs to offer!

My biggest AU atm is my Yami!Set AU! All of these are open for interactions, and plotting!

I offer anything from pre-DM stuff, things taking place during the series events, post DM and even GX stuff for Kaiba!

For Set, it is a similar thing, albeit during AE and in the afterlife.

Current open post/s:

I don’t do any opens, unless it is for a current dash shenanigan sorry.

Anything else?:

Please be mindful about the continuity & canon sources, I use for my muses. All of them are being based off the anime, I don’t follow at all the manga nor take season 0 into consideration. I also ignore all the movies, and games for my interpretations.

I don’t expect my portrayals/takes on the characters to be everyone’s cup of tea. I’m bound to touch on certain subjects that might be upsetting for certain users, so please take care of yourself and know your limits.

I haven’t watched everything related to YGO. I’m the most familiar with DM and GX, I still have to catch up with everything that came afterwards.

Anyone looking to ship with me. These are the ones I refuse to rp: mirror (Noah/Seto), tabloid (Mokuba/Seto), Puppy/violet (Jounouchi/Seto) and corrupt (TK Bakura/Set).

I want to remind you all that, any and all HCs that mention a character’s name. Will never be applied nor enforced, upon anyone’s muses!

I can rp on disc.ord as well, if that’s easier for you!

Please don’t let these things intimidate you! I look forward to talk & discuss with you!

[pendulumprince]

Last night, a realization hit me (probably a bit too late) concerning YGO6.

And it was inspired by this post, which draws parallels between DM/Zexal and GX/Arc V. If the trend continues, that means that YGO6 will parallel 5Ds. 

And as the post points out, we already have some inkling that this will be the case, as Yusei “dueled on a moving object for a majority of his series”, and Yusaku “will probably duel of a moving object for a majority of his series”. There’s also the fact that they’re both ‘older’ than the average protag (I know Yugi was 16 and Judai ended off at around 17-18, but Yugi never looked it and Judai still started out quite young). And even past that, if the speculation is right on Yusaku’s demeanor being on the more serious side, that’s another thing he’ll have in common with Yusei. 

All this also means that the broad strokes of YGO6′s plot will mirror that of 5Ds. This… both excites and concerns me, probably because there are some aspects of 5Ds I love more than anything else in the entire franchise, and others I hate with a passion. I obviously don’t want this to repeat with YGO6; I want to be able to love it in it’s entirety, at least as much as I love Arc V. 

And because we’re still in the utterly useless, 100% speculation/hopes-and-dreams phase, there’s no harm in me putting my guesses and hopes out there,  if YGO6 indeed mirrors 5Ds:

So for a moment, allow me to get my tvtropes on, because their definitions are the best ones I can think of for this first point. 5Ds, at it’s core, is a story of The Chosen Many, which works beautifully with it’s overall theme of the bonds between people being of the utmost importance. But the Crimson Dragon’s judgement wasn’t infallible (as seen in their initial decision to give Rudger the head mark), and two of the (eventual) six signers—Crow and Rua—started out as The Unchosen Ones. They had to prove their heroism before they got their marks. 

I would say that because of this, YGO6 will also be a story of The Chosen Many, but… Arc V just did that in the 8 counterparts. I really doubt the writers would repeat this trend back-to-back; but this does leave The Unchosen One trope. So, first speculation/guess: Yusaku will start off not being ‘chosen’ for much of anything. Destiny isn’t going to give a damn about him at first, but things are going to start happening for him very quickly once he proves his heroism (whatever that may entail). 

Do I want this to happen? I’m still primarily holding out for my initial hope—that he’ll be the incarnation of a benevolent force/being. But if the writers went this route instead? I wouldn’t be mad at all. There’s nothing quite like a story where a normal protag rises above and beyond the expectations of fate and totally changes things, forever. I wouldn’t mind if this was Yusaku’s story.

Another one of the big themes in 5Ds was society itself. You all know the deal: Neo Domino/the OSD was a post-apocalyptic dictatorship that had a massive disparity between the classes. Gang warfare was a huge problem. Poverty was rampant. If you were in the OSD you literally could not leave. Convicts had tracking marks burned into their skin. There was very little hope of which to speak.

I don’t think the YGO6 world is going to be like this, but if it is? Yusaku will be on the other side of things. He’ll be living in YGO6′s equivalent of Neo Domino, and he won’t have to think about ‘the poors’ until the plot hits him in the face, after which he’ll naturally change his tune and fight for a more just society.

But I think it’s more likely that YGO6′s society will have some other huge, disturbing problem that Yusaku and his band of merry thugs will eventually have to contend with. This could be anything, but the one that most readily comes to mind would be something like a quasi-Orwellian, big-brother surveillance state. So you can be a dueling Youtuber, you can have your hobbies, you can live something of a normal life… just don’t step out of line. Because you’re always being watched. And if you ever do try to fight the system for a greater degree of freedom or transparency, your life is over.

It would certainly be true to life (*waves to the NSA*). But it doesn’t have to be this. I guess my broad prediction is that YGO6′s society is going to be fucked up in some noticeable way, and one of the main themes is going to be fixing it (whether that be simple reform or full on revolution).

Do I want this to happen? … I think it’s obvious by now that I think this would be great. I just hope that it’s handled in a way closer to 5Ds itself, and not The City of Arc V.  

Now, for what I don’t want to happen?

Yusei… went through a degree of character development. But not nearly enough. From where I stand, he’s the protag who went through the least development, period (some say Yuma went through even less, but I can’t agree or disagree because I haven’t watched Zexal). He learns to loosen up and have fun with his duels, but other than that he remains pretty much the same.

You can maybe attribute that to his ‘advanced’ age (by shonen protag standards), but I disagree. An 18-19 year old is nowhere near done developing as a person. And as Yusaku is all but surely younger than Yusei, there will be no excuse if he remains static.

And… y’all know by now what killed me with 5Ds. Fucking Z-one. The light of my life, the man who sparked a thousand analytical posts, the one thing that would have given Yusei untold amounts of depth, and… it was all pissed away. I get mad just thinking about it. 

To date, Yusei’s the only protag who’s never had his ‘dark side’ take hold (Yuma also counts, arguably… from what I know about Dark Zexal, it was Astral who lost it, not Yuma). Frankly, there needed to be at least one YGO protag who didn’t jump off the deep end, in order for it not to become too predictable for future protags. The fact that it was Yusei is fine. But us being teased with what appeared to be his eventual descent into villainy? To present us with the beauty of Yusei’s greatest enemy being himself, only to snatch it back at the last moment? That was fucked up. That was unnecessary. That, imo, totally ruined 5Ds’ already weak second half. 

Because Yuya’s darker nature was a continuous, series-long problem, I don’t think Yusaku’s potential dark side will be—or if it is, it will manifest in a very different way, and will be fueled by something other than anger. But no matter if he has a ‘dark side’ or not, I just don’t want to be teased in the same way as the Z-One fiasco. 

What else? No robots. No time travel. No western style mini-arc that has no impact on the rest of the plot. No distant future finale. 

Anything else is fine. 

*looks at the length of this post* lol why do I do this