* 𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 .

ʷᵉ ᶜˡᵘᵗᶜʰ ᵖᵃᶦⁿ ᵗᵒ ᵒᵘʳ ᶜʰᵉˢᵗˢ, ʷᶦᵗʰ ˡᵒⁿᵍᶦⁿᵍˢ ˢᵒ ˡᵃʳᵍᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ᶜᵃⁿ’ᵗ ᵉᵛᵉⁿ weep. ʷᵉ ʰᵒˡᵈ ᶦᵗ ᵗᶦᵍʰᵗ ʷᶦᵗʰ ᵉᵃᶜʰ ˢᵉᶦᶻᵘʳᵉ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇᵉᵃᵗᶦⁿᵍ ʰᵉᵃʳᵗ: ᵗʰᶦˢ ᶦˢ ᵐᶦⁿᵉ, ᵗʰᶦˢ ᶦˢ ᵐᶦⁿᵉ, 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚.

[k4wai]

#𝐤𝟒𝐰𝐚𝐢. an  independent  and  private,  extremely  low  activity  roleplay  sideblog  for  KAWAI  SHIZUKA  of  kazuki  takahashi's  yugioh:  duel  monsters!  slightly  canon-divergent  and  supplemented  with  personal  headcanons.  established  2025.  written  by  fae  (  she  /  her  ,  30+  ).  follows  back  from  apricotheart.

01. carrd. 02. pinterest. 03. anzu.

[k4wai]

a literal angel baby.

[k4wai]

do  all  daughters  never  wish  to  be  like  their  mothers  regardless  of  the  love  they  hold  at  their  feet?  did  you  wish  the  same?  i  have  prayed  over  and  over  that  i'd  never  be  you  for  i  could  not  fathom  the  actions  behind  your  ache  and  pressure,  but  watch  me  now  as  i  grow  into  a  better  version  of  you. art credit. / template.

[k4wai]

more tags.

[k4wai]

@prodigiumamare | requested starter .

Shizuka isn't sure what brought her to the museum in the first place. It's not her usual haunt. In fact, she's more likely to be found at the mall than somewhere steeped in ancient history. It's not that she doesn't respect the past, but, well... sue her, she's a modern girl in a modern world and never really paid much attention in history class. She had been far more interested in science: biology, anatomy, chemistry. Wanting to know anything and everything about how the human body worked and now new technologies were developed to mitigate or treat diseases. Maybe, on the very slim chance of a miracle, she'd find a way to stop the degeneration of her eyesight for a second time.

She hated the dark.

The figure at the far end of the room is strikingly familiar. She mistakes him for Yuugi at first, but quickly comes to the realisation that he's too tall to be him and as far as she knows, Yuugi doesn't have any siblings. Huh.

❝ ...Are you real? ❞ It takes only half of a second for Shizuka to realise she'd said what she was thinking out loud and immediately colours in embarrassment. ❝ I mean — that's not what I — you just look so much like — ❞ Stop. Talking. Now. Even as she bows her head in shame, a memory comes into focus. Between all of the chaos that was Battle City, she recalls the strangeness of that duel between Ryou and Yuugi. Or well, there were two Yuugis and two Ryous? It didn't make any more sense now than it did back then; but she's coming up empty on explanations. The only thing she can be sure of is that he is as real as she is. Whoever he is.

[k4wai]

a literal baby.

[k4wai]

cheezbot bait.

━━ ✰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * dash ‚ putting the fae in failure . ━━ ✰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * dash ‚ games . ━━ ✰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * dash ‚ prompts . ━━ ✰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * dash ‚ p . ━━ ✰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * dash ‚ sp . ━━ ✰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * dash ‚ wishlist . ━━ ✰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * dash ‚ saved . ━━ ✰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * dash ‚ edits . ━━ ✰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * dash ‚ ship inspo . ━━ ✰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * dash ‚ starter call . ━━ ✰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * dash ‚ inbox call . ━━ ✰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * dash ‚ answered .

━━ ✰ 𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * writing ‚ interaction . ━━ ✰ 𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * writing ‚ reply . ━━ ✰ 𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * writing ‚ answered . ━━ ✰ 𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 * writing ‚ blog canon .

━━ ✰ 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐙𝐔𝐊𝐀 * character ‚ aesthetics . ━━ ✰ 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐙𝐔𝐊𝐀 * character ‚ appearance . ━━ ✰ 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐙𝐔𝐊𝐀 * character ‚ introspection . ━━ ✰ 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐙𝐔𝐊𝐀 * character ‚ study . ━━ ✰ 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐙𝐔𝐊𝐀 * character ‚ wardrobe . ━━ ✰ 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐙𝐔𝐊𝐀 * character ‚ music . ━━ ✰ 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐙𝐔𝐊𝐀 * character ‚ desires . ━━ ✰ 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐒 * connections ‚ jonouchi . ━━ ✰ 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐒 * connections ‚ mother . ━━ ✰ 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐒 * connections ‚ father . ━━ ✰ 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐒 * connections ‚ honda . ━━ ✰ 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐒 * connections ‚ anzu . ━━ ✰ 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐒 * connections ‚ otogi . ━━ ✰ 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐒 * connections ‚ yuugi . ━━ ✰ 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐒 * connections ‚ mai . ━━ ✰ 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐒 * connections ‚ mokuba . ━━ ✰ 𝐁𝐎𝐍𝐃𝐒 * connections ‚ seto .

━━ ✰ 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐒 * 000 ‚ undecided . ━━ ✰ 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐒 * 002 ‚ main . ━━ ✰ 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐒 * 003 ‚ canon . ━━ ✰ 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐒 * 004 ‚ dsod . ━━ ✰ 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐒 * 005 ‚ ancient egypt . ━━ ✰ 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐒 * 006 ‚ sightless .

[k4wai]

what if this was a little starter call while i figure out my tags and icons.

[k4wai]

𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐳𝐮𝐤𝐚 . i  feel  like  a  warm  gust  of  wind  could  exhale  my  way  and  i'd  be  disappeared  forever,  not  even  a  sliver  of  fingernail  left  behind.  on  some  days,  i  find  this  thought  calming;  on  others  it  chills  me.

[ohisms]

✱˚｡⋆ ↪ 𝐀 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐒 .    (  a collection of  action prompts.   feel free to reverse roles as desired. this prompt will be updated.  )

[ REDWOOD ] sender lashes out at receiver when it isn't their fault.

[ WILLOW ] sender embraces receiver in a moment of extreme distress.

[ PINE ] sender fervently resists receiver's attempts to comfort / care for them.

[ BIRCH ] sender finally ends a tense argument by reaching out to apologize.

[ POPLAR ] sender mentors receiver through learning a new skill.

[ PALM ] sender and receiver avoid / ignore the stresses of real life together.

[ ELM ] sender lends receiver aid in a time of urgent need.

[ MAGNOLIA ] sender, believed to be dead, arrives at receiver's door.

[ DOGWOOD ] sender gifts receiver a token of good luck / protection.

[ MULBERRY ] sender and receiver take a long walk through nature together.

[ HAZELNUT ] sender begrudgingly patches up receiver's wounds.

[ CAMPHOR ] sender suddenly pushes receiver out of danger's path.

[ CASHEW ] when they're finally alone, sender invites receiver to dance.

[ LAVENDER ] sender lays their head in receiver's lap and closes their eyes.

[ BEECH ] it comes to light that sender has betrayed receiver.

[ HIBISCUS ] sender invites receiver to go traveling with them.

[ HICKORY ] sender pushes receiver to admit that they need them.

[ MAPLE ] sender shakes receiver's shoulders, begging them to wake up.

[ CHERRY BLOSSOM ] sender revels in receiver's beauty, stunned.

[ JOSHUA ] sender offers receiver a safe place to hide / crash .

[ ASH ] sender and receiver become reacquainted after many years.

[ FIG ] sender, knowing receiver is hungry, pressures them to eat.

[ YEW ] sender beckons for receiver to join them in the water.

[ CYPRESS ] sender shamelessly flirts with receiver.

[ LINDEN ] sender cares for receiver, who took a hit to protect them.

[k4wai]

some 1am thoughts i will flesh out better later:

shizuka began developing juvenile macular degeneration just a few years after she and jonouchi were separated. by the time she started school, she was wearing glasses, and by middle school her vision impairment was enough to be considered legally blind. she could make out colours and vague shapes, but couldn't recognise faces without a voice to go with them. the surgery would restore most of her vision, but it wouldn't stop the degeneration process. with the condition having no cure, shizuka will gradually lose her sight in later years, becoming completely blind by the time she's 40.

she has a complicated, often contentious, relationship with her mother. shizuka is less forgiving than she appears and holds resentment for the way their mother knowingly left jonouchi behind as a child with their abusive, alcoholic father. all of her mothers' fears and excuses — that he would end up just like his father — felt hollow and superficial; it was not uncommon for shizuka to try and sneak out, to try and go back for him, but she was always thwarted and when her eyesight began to deteriorate to a point of legal blindness, those escapes stopped altogether.

to add to the above, later in life, shizuka began to have the sneaking suspicion that leaving jonouchi behind was less about him becoming like his father and more that he didn't fit the picture perfect family portrait their mother wanted for herself.

what most people aren't aware of is that shizuka's only kind and calm to a fault. she's spent most of her formative years repressing any negative emotions and now, absent of her mother's controlling and overprotective nature, shizuka often finds them difficult to deal with. her biggest tell of what she's really feeling is to look at her palms. more often than not, one may find crescent-shaped indentations in her palms where she squeezed her fists so tight they nearly bled.

shizuka has a conditioned distrust towards men overall, almost entirely brought about by the way her mother talked about their father. she talked badly about him, and talked badly about every relationship with a man thereafter that fell through, cementing in shizuka's mind that men simply weren't to be trusted at face value. the only exception to this has been jonouchi. as a note, while's she nice and polite enough with his friends ( honda and otogi, more specifically, despite their advances ), her distrust extends to them as much as it does anyone else not her brother.

in contrast, she bonded almost immediately with mai and anzu during battle city, and has remained in close contact with them since then despite their different paths in life.