Into the Sea

About me: I'm pcturtl! This is my personal blog, and mostly I'll just use it to post my art and things that catch my eye. I switch interests often. I'm a bit awkward, but if you want to say hi, or talk about headcannons, I'd love to hear from you!

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Found this in my bin and decided to finally finish it after a few years.

In order of (what I think are) each of their effective ranges. Zer0 is great at both super long and melee (and since he has deception he can fill both slots). Axton and Maya are both long-mid range, but Axton likes to be a bit further compared to Maya who can phaselock enemies that come too close. Sal likes mid/short since he can face tank with fire power. Gage likes short range because she can't aim. And Krieg, like Zer0 is melee.

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Art I made for my fic: Tales from the Slifer Red Girl's Dorm

Can be found here for those interested: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63506011/chapters/162733036

A Yugioh GX Genderbender fic that was written for the YGO big bang. Drawing art was a part of my writing process, so I had a bunch done that I wanted to share, but since this was part of the big bang I didn't want to compete with my assigned artists. Hopefully around a year is enough time.

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Stills from my animatic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfWA58HiyiI

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Had fun making this animatic! Hope y'all enjoy.

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Late to the party, but I wanted to give this a go since, for all my time in the yugioh fandom I've never actually tried to emulate the style.

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The logical conclusion for when you want to write an arc but you forgot to make your protagonist interested in girls.

Parody of the Tomoda scene from ep4 of the Nozaki anime.

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A redraw of one of my old works, a Yugioh GX crossover with FFXIV. New drawn in 2024 (left) vs old drawn in 2020 (right).

I remember this being the most complicated piece I'd ever attempted back then, and I spent so long redrawing the pose only for me to still feel like it was off in the end, but not knowing how to fix it.

I'd wanted to attempt to redraw this, and I'm glad to finally have a pose that makes more sense, as well as feeling like I improved in general.

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So... this is super late, but back when it was popular, I did color in that one concept art from the Enter the Florpus movie. Dunno why I decided not to post it, but I think I did a good job so I'm posting it now.

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So back when I played Duel Links, I ran Ojama World Chalice for a bit. Mostly, the game was won using the World Chalice link monsters, but the Ojamas did win a few games on their own merits.

This was around the time that the Relinquished pack came out, and Ojama's were a weirdly strong match-up against them because that deck struggled against normal monsters in general, and Ojamas were too "weak" to make a decent steal target, but could manage to win the duel on their own if left alone. This scene is how I imagined these characters would act during those duels.

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Flame Wingman’s Demotion

In season 4 (ep 167), Judai calls Flame Wingman his favorite HERO, which is a change from how he normally addresses it as his favorite monster (last seen in ep151)

So it seems like Yubel took back the favorite card position once they reunited.

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A bit late, but don't you love when unexpected card drops come 10years after the series has ended to prove your theory correct?

Card name is Eternal Favorite, depicting Yubel embracing Judai after their fusion at the end of season 3.

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Yuya: We're Kaiba Corp's star dueling team. Yugi Muto, Normal summoning. If it's not real dueling, tell me all about it.

Yuma: Yusei Fudo. Synchro Summoning. A little patronizing, but mostly professional.

Yusaku: ...Judai Yuki. Fusion.

A redraw of this scene from My Adventures with Superman:

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next up...

a preliminary for the YGO Rivals poll (1)

Who's do you consider to be the Main Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Rival?

Chazz Princeton/Jun Manjoume

Edo/Aster Phoenix

Zane Truesdale/Ryo Marafuji

Voting ended onJul 13, 2023

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This is the sort of question on which I could write an essay

I'm not convinced it's not Judai himself tbh

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Uuuu...

Judai himself? That's a spicy take. Love it. Can you elaborate on that please?

Also, same, would totally love to see/write an essay on this

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Different person, but I almost wrote an essay before on this, so might as well get it done.

To get him out of the way, if we take season 2 in a vacuum, I'd say it's probably Aster. He plays the rival role the most straightforwardly, and is the one who probably does the job of a rival of "sparking mutual growth through conflict" the best out of the three. The problem with him is his rivalry is confined to season 2 only. He's not in season one, and his conflict with Jaden over which one gets to be the "hero" is over at the end of the season and replaced with genuine gratitude. They are "rivals" in the same way Superman and Batman are "rivals" where, they had a rough start, and their personalities don't always mesh, but in the end they have a mutual appreciation for each other and similar values (all HERO users share a braincell).

Chazz is weird. As a whole GX is a series that really likes to play with tropes, and Chazz's arc is a big example of that where, he is initially set up to make it seem like he's going to be "The Rival" in the story of the rich elite kid vs the underdog, but in the end he ends up functionally going through a protagonist arc. I think Chazz's main issue is, not that he never beat Jaden, but that he never really gets Jaden to change through their "rivalry". To his credit, he tries. He has this whole "rival" speech ready to shake Jaden out of his depression after he lost the ability to see his cards, but it doesn't work. The problem Jaden was facing wasn't one a rivalry could solve and so it didn't. Chazz is a rival in the same way that Jaden is a protagonist. Both of them are subversions on the typical idea of the archetype, so in the end maybe they suit eachother.

Then there's Zane. He serves as a "dark mirror" type rival, similarly to Aster but a bit less obvious. Him and Jaden are both "gifted" kids who have difficulties trying to live up to expectations, and whose love of dueling gets tested because of this. Both of them are "Big Brother" figures to Syrus. And Zane actually does fulfill the "growth through conflict" requirement of a rival as his interactions with Jaden do force him to change as seen in the s1 finale and in how Zane's duel with Yubel was able to inspire Jaden to keep fighting. Stating it all like this, Zane seems the best fit, but the problem is that I don't think the two of them actually see each other as rivals. In the end, I think both of them realize that what the both of them want is for Syrus to be happy and to have a fun time playing cards and they both agree that the other person helps in accomplishing those goals and that the main issue is themselves.

Which I guess brings us to Jaden himself. As a character, he is a bit of a mess of contradictions and conflicting needs. He 's outgoing, friendly, genuinely wants to help people, and enjoys having friends. On the other hand, he has a habit of going off on his own, isn't comfortable in a crowd, and is bad at sharing his feelings and struggles with acting as a "team player". He overthinks and plays too safe when he's scared of the consequences, so he tends to act recklessly without regard for consequences because at least then he can convince himself to keep going. His character arc is about him trying to reconcile the various parts of himself to find a version that he's happy with. GX as a whole is a series about growing up, about taking the various parts of yourself, the good and the bad, and using them to make a better version of yourself. So in that sense, the person who Jaden has the most conflict with, and who drives Jaden's growth the most through that conflict is probably Jaden himself.

It's hard for me to decide, so in the end I feel it just comes down to merchandising lol. Wanna push a new HERO pack? Well I guess Aster's been the rival all along. For general marketing, it's Chazz or Zane depending on whether you feel Zane's "cool-ness" beats out Chazz's broad appeal for that instance. Sometimes throw Jesse in there, because why not. This is GX, there are no rules.

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For people who did not watch Yugioh GX, all of the following happened, except for one.

Which of these things never happened in Yugioh GX?

A person's life is sacrificed in exchange for the ability to top-deck Exodia

An accurate representation on the process to create the Philosopher's Stone

Vampires are revealed to be real shortly before the last one is killed

Seto Kaiba is one of the last people alive during an apocalypse

Winged Kuriboh destroys a laser satellite

A cat becomes the head of one of the school's dorms after the death of its owner

Card game reenacts childood trauma of choosing which parent gets to live

Two of the series' rivals engage in master/servant roleplay together

Za Warudo is summoned by a character who shares Dio's voice

I watched GX/results

Voting ended onJun 25, 2023

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OP here with the answer below the cut. Honestly, did not think this would get as many responses as it did.

I put the current results of what it looked like before the reveal under the cut as well both to keep a record and just in case Tumblr didn't cut it off soon enough for people who want to keep guessing.

And the answer is: Winged Kuriboh destroys a laser satellite.

I figured people who watched GX, even if they didn't know some of the more obscure events, would recognize that one was wrong.

As for people who didn't watch GX, yes I just altered an event that did happen in GX but consider... in the real version, the laser satellite is destroyed by the villain's digitized sister, Neos, and a dinosaur. And not a dinosaur card even, but the astral projection of a teen's dino-sona that he gained due to him having dinosaur dna from replacing one of his bones with a fossil.

Compared to that "Winged Kuriboh did it" sounds believable. Which is exactly why it did not happen. Congrats to @ris-d-deridex who figured it out for that exact reason.

If anyone wants an explanation, short rundown of the other entries below:

Adrian/Amon does sacrifice someone to be able to draw the Exodia cards. It worked pretty well too.

Amnael played an alchemy deck and the steps of the creation of the philosophers stone (nigredo, albedo, citrinas, rubedo) were played in the correct order in card form. At the end of that duel, he gave the winner of the duel a card "Sabatiel - the Philosopher's Stone"

Camula, a minor villain in S1 revealed herself to be the last existing vampire and got killed in the same episode.

During the Darkness arc in season 4, we see lists of names fading as the people get spirited away. At the top of a list of Kaiba Corp employees, we see Kaiba's name which does not fade to signal his disappearance before the screen cuts away. So Kaiba at least manages to be one of the last people remaining in Domino city, and we never get a confirmation that he was ever taken away. This one's a bit hard to spot, so I really don't blame anyone for not getting it.

One of the dorm heads did have a cat. He did die. And if we believe Chazz/Manjoume, the cat is the one who ended up with the job as the school never bothered to replace him.

Truman vs O'Brien, a duel where Truman attempts to break O'Brien's will by bringing up traumatic memories of when he was forced to choose which parent he wanted to save after a car crash.

Lets give it up for Zane/Ryo and Aster/Edo who played the role of Master/Servant respectively during the supreme king arc.

Finally, its a fun bit of trivia that pops up every once in a while but Dio shares a voice actor with Sartorius/Saiou (Japanese voices). Saiou plays a deck based on Tarot, with one of the cards he plays being "Arcana Force XXI - The World" and he hams it up as much as you would expect when it gets summoned. GX also came before the JoJo anime, so it's probably less that GX was making a JoJo reference, and more that the voice actor for Dio had the perfect audition tape.

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For people who did not watch Yugioh GX, all of the following happened, except for one.

Which of these things never happened in Yugioh GX?

A person's life is sacrificed in exchange for the ability to top-deck Exodia

An accurate representation on the process to create the Philosopher's Stone

Vampires are revealed to be real shortly before the last one is killed

Seto Kaiba is one of the last people alive during an apocalypse

Winged Kuriboh destroys a laser satellite

A cat becomes the head of one of the school's dorms after the death of its owner

Card game reenacts childood trauma of choosing which parent gets to live

Two of the series' rivals engage in master/servant roleplay together

Za Warudo is summoned by a character who shares Dio's voice

I watched GX/results

Voting ended onJun 25, 2023