It also ties neatly into the simplest version of the formula for getting people emotionally engaged with your characters: or how to build the moment in which your character starts moving from their initial state to the state in which they'll start changing their own lives.
First, you figure out the one important thing the character believes that they're wrong about. There's usually a core misperception that they haven't examined. Once they're forced to engage with it, it'll start to change everything about their perception of the world they're inhabiting and/or the people in it.
Then, as V.E. says, you identify the character's great desire and their great fear: the thing that character wants more than anything, and the thing or situation that terrifies them, and that they'll go to any lengths to avoid.
And having identified these two objects or situations, you build a situation in which the two forces will be in close, direct opposition to one another... then drop the character down in between them, and squeeze. Those two opposing forces become the jaws of a vise... and you crank the vise more and more tightly closed until the character has no choice but to acknowledge those opposing forces, and start (even in a small way) to deal with the pressure being exerted and push their way through.
This does not have to be, initially, a great climactic moment. In fact, it works better if it's not. It's more effective if your character has a brief low-intensity brush with these conditions-in-conflict early on. That way, when your big resolution scene comes along about two-thirds or three-quarters of the way along through the story arc, you'll have set up a resonance between that earlier hint or intimation of what's to come, and the really big blowoff. Your readers will recognize the resonanceâthe throb of tension between the two occurrences, like the vibration of a plucked stringâand will find satisfaction both in the true resolution having been partially telegraphed earlier, and in how it's now being experienced and resolved in full.
This approach also allows you to set up more minor resonances between the realization of the conflict and its final resolution. These can serve to bind the structure of the work more closely together: to make it look (and be) less like a series of loosely strung-together plot events, and more like a unified whole, in which ripples of story business flow backwards and forwards, interpenetrating and influencing one another, and hinting at the big one to come.
But none of this can happen until the paired and opposing what-do-they-most-desire, what-do-they-most-fear axes have been defined. So that's a subject it's smart to spend some while thinking about (and for all your characters, not just the major ones), to be sure you're getting it right.
It's not unusual to get the wrong answers, or merely superficial ones, while you're still working out what's actually going on with the characters. So take your time. Eventually you'll find a set of answers that feel unquestionably right... and you can then nail those down in your notes and get on with making the kind of "good trouble" for your characters that will see them made complete.
Something I feel like not enough people talk about with Aki in regards to the time skip between the end of the Dark Signers arc and the beginning of the Ghost arc is how she bounced back so quickly to trusting people.
Like. Yes! Sheâs happy, sheâs made friends! Her future is getting brighter!
How does- How does she go about learning boundaries with them? How does she learn how to connect with others?
How does she go from being fresh off of learning that what her relationship with Divine was bad, to learning to be comfortable and adapting to being with new people?
Basically, I would have loved to see a period of awkwardness and emotional unbalance with Aki and her friends because she desperately does not want to fall back into her old habits and what she had with Divine, but she also feels like she has trouble connecting with the others, like Jack and Crow.
I just think of those first few months that first she doesnât know how to reach out, if sheâs still welcome or wanted. Sheâs hurt people, yes, sheâs changed, she believes in her friends, but does she believe in herself? She- Does she deserve to have nice things right now? Who does she talk to about any of this?!
She realizes how small it started with Divine.
âTell me whatâs on your mind, I want to be here for you, Aki. I care about you.â
Gimme more communication between Aki and others, them very clearly seeing somethingâs wrong, but knowing how to address it with her.
I think too much about missed opportunities with Aki lol, like yes, sheâs not the main character but sheâs still my favorite. :â)
No really, because like where is the internal struggle? Like she knows Divine is in prison and physically away from her, but a part of her just screams danger even if it's coming from her friends? Even though everything is a green flag from Yusei but she can't get herself to be fully open since the last time she did she was used for her powers? She has self-destructive behaviors and dialogue that wouldn't have been cured in 6 months time?
Does Divine attempt to make any contact with Aki even though he's likely in solitary confinement? The dude either was money laundering or had connections with having Arcadia in a skyscraper and in very expensive clothing. Surely he had to have connections somewhere and remind aki that even though he's in jail he can still track her down to intimidate her? (I'm still so mad that we never got an Aki vs Divine duel on screen when she does break away from arcadia).
Like does she have a sort of survivor's guilt with Toby and Misty or even any of her other fellow members of Arcadia that she was able to seek stable help through her new friends but is basically alone?? As far as I'm aware she's the only psychic duelist in 5ds in all of Neo Domino that's alive or not in prison? Did all of the other Psychic Duelists die in the building collapse of Arcadia? Because surely Aki wasn't the only one in that entire skyscraper??? Are there any psychic duelists that aren't part of Arcadia? I'm excluding the games because I personally haven't played them and I'm not knowledgable on them.
While I understand she needed to go back to DA for plot purposes, but she did create property damage with her powers and endangered other students from her powers. This was before all the DS stuff so their memories wouldn't have been wiped from that. Like. Even though her father is in a position of power, my understanding is that DA is a private school rather than a public school so they can expel and kick out whoever they want. So I want to know the conditions that she was even allowed to attend duel academy again, let alone any bullying she faced? Since she may have been gone for a few years but really anyone who was watching to Fortune Cup would've recognized her??? Especially the principal, like wouldn't he be mad that the student who caused structural damage out of anger, put other students in danger, dropped out the middle of the night to just disappear in thin air to join a dangerous cult comes back and goes 'sorry for everything but I want to come back and I promise to be good this time' ???
And does she ever use her powers in a non-combat situation either? like does she summon Black rose dragon to feel the petals of her dragon? Can she even use them outside of a dueling setting or does it drain her energy too much? Also, is seeing duel spirits part of a new power and does that make Ruka by extension a psychic duelist in the making too? Or is that something Ruka just doesn't have yet? Or is psychic dueling apart of a spectrum that has been just barely studied? or is seeing duel spirits a different ability that has zero connection to that? If that's the case then why can aki see duel spirits???
I love my sweet girl aki but this series does frustrate me. There are so many questions I have that will never be answered because all of the development went to everyone else alas.
divine was EXTREMELY creepy to aki, and it probably wasn't explored more because it's kids anime at the end of the day (thank god).
also aki possibly could have been a victim of a human trafficking due to arcadia's shady ass motivations
crow's facility stays might have been even more brutal than yusei's
yusei wasn't adequately distanced from the idea of suicide by the time show ended (ark cradle - he was more worried about his friends following him, while he was ready to die)
everyone from satellite was basically homeless until halfway throught the show
crow said it himself, "if it weren't for kiryu who kept us occupied with a gang stuff, we would have probably succumbed to drugs/alcohol/thefts" ("would have become garbage")
and if we talk about kiryu - his facility stay most likely takes the cake (if suicide was a merciful fate back then)
lua and luca's parents have no idea that their child died at one point
I would also would like to add with Aki and Divine.
Even though she was on a list to be sent out across the world because is she incredibly strong, I don't think he would've sent her out. She had a direct connection to the Crimson dragon via her mark, plus the pain it caused her. He was concerned about the crimson dragon being resurrected by Illyaster, so why would he send out his most prized fighter, who clearly has a connection to a deity that illyaster wants to revive, by herself in a remote part of the world as a mercenary-for-hire? Personally I think he would've faked her death to keep her by his side and that list is part of that paper trail. Primarily if Illyaster can't get their hands on Aki, then the Crimson Dragon can't be resurrected. It's also far harder to escape an abuser if you're considered legally dead. After all Divine pinned Toby's death on her and she didn't even know it. All she knew was that Toby died but it wasn't by her hand, and didn't even consider Divine pinning that on her until maybe after he was supposedly dead. She, during the Fortune Cup, likely relied on Divine for shelter, money, food, getting healthcare, forms of ID to prove you are yourself, clothing etc. For all we know, Divine forged documents on Aki's behalf even though her parents were still alive.
He also mentioned to Aki that she'd be a modern Joan of Arc. If you know anything about Joan of Arc, yes she helped end the Hundred's Years War and essentially helped the French beat the English. Practically a national heroine to France. Though, she was burned at the stake for the crime of hersey. Which if Aki stayed along Arcadia's teachings she probably would've met a similar fate of dying as a martyr for Arcadia Movement.
He also installed a trigger word in Aki to duel mercilessly without her inhibitor or conscious mind, so it's very likely that Divine got her in a hypnotic state to install that phrase AS a trigger word for her to go berserk and likely a "kill switch" to get her to stop at some point before her duel with Misty. More than likely, she doesn't remember being in said state for that phrase or remember much of what was going on when that phrase was muttered.
Oh and Divine electrocuted a child to death for not being "useful enough" (sub only, dub is having him perpetually moved around to where even Divine doesn't know where Toby is or if he's even alive)
Divine in some of his sprite renders, also has a watch with his shirt and tie so it's likely that either a) Arcadia has multiple streams of income to afford such luxuries or b) committing tax fraud/money laundering.
Misty also died in a car crash in the dub, but drove off a cliff in the sub from grief of Toby dying before becoming a dark signer. Implying that before Toby's death, their parents are either both dead and/or No contact and very likely had custody of Toby (think Lilo and Nani from Lilo & Stitch, but was already mid modeling career based of the little footage we do see in series)
I know I'm grasping at straws but, canon alas, shifted away from arcadia post DS arc.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Yusei's Dad/Yusei's Mom, (past) hideo izayoi/setsuko izayoi
Characters: Izayoi Hideo, Bruno | Antinomy, Ushio Tetsu, Yusei's dad, Yusei's mom, Izayoi Aki, Fudou Yuusei
Additional Tags: body horror-implied, human experimentation-implied, Angst, Heavy Angst, Yusashi is a good father figure, Hideo is not, Hideo has a drinking problem, Lore - Freeform, Angst and Feels, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Yusei has good parents who love him, aki isn't refered to by name but is present, Arcadia is hella shady, Soul Eater AU, will fix tags and title later im so tired, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
Series: Part 1 of Side stories: Soul Eater AU
Summary:
You never know what one may find in the dumpsters near the Eastern Gate joining Satellite Bay, only steps away from the Eastern Shore subway Station. For one, it's never a good thing.
This post. This fucking post. I cannot believe after nearly 7 years its still going around. Let alone ON MY OWN DASH! A kid born on the day i posted this would be entering 2nd grade right now.
âThis post. This fucking post. I cannot believe after nearly 7 years its still going around. Let alone ON MY OWN DASH! A kid born on the day i posted this would be entering 2nd grade right now.â Â
Reblog to keep giving the nebulous second grader thier bread for many more years.
So i was briefly exposed to this poem in an art history seminar on the Victorian Era a few months ago, and because I am totally normal, all I could think about was how well it fit Aki on at least two layers. One: the entire linking of Maud with flowers, especially the rose, for obvious reasons works so so well. Especially the title âQueen Rose of the Rosebud Garde of Girlsâ makes so much sense. And the second layer is a little deeper but also totally supported by my own confirmation bias. Maud is described to be deceptively beautiful but incredibly cold looking, with a stern expression and a complexion that makes her appear almost dead. I havenât read the entire poem down to detail but from what I could gather, the lyrical protagonist falls in love with her (and grows increasingly obsessed) after a disagreement between their fathers lead to his fatherâs death, so at the beginning he tries to get back at Maudâs father through her, but ends up being bewitched by her in the process, eventually dueling and killing her brother etc. etc. itâs all very Victorian. Maud is mostly passive in this, never actively described to do anything and yet she is said to be both the best thing in the lyrical protagonistâs life while at the same time being his demise.
Retrospectively one could assume that both of these things are not inherent to her character and just qualities assigned to her by the men in her life. In the Victorian era there was almost a popular belief that there were two opposing kinds of women: femmes fragiles and femme fatales, the first kind being dependent and almost sickly but on the other hand sweet and kind and docile, while the femme fatale as in popular media today is independent yet violent and oftentimes promiscuous.
Itâs an interesting duality that I see in Aki in a way (helped by the image of roses, yâknow, theyâre beautiful flowers with delicate blossoms but also piercing thorns which the show uses actively to characterize this duality in Aki) , but in a way where it has always been decided for her instead of by her. Sheâs violent at the start because that is the side of hers that is fostered by Divine and towards the end of the show her caring nature shines through instead. Interestingly enough though, she is less independent when in her âfemme fataleâ stage, which is really just her anger and pain towards abandonment as a young teen not being dealt with properly. She was never a true femme fatale to begin with and neither has she ever been and will ever be a femme fragile. Sheâs just Aki, with both all the hurt sheâs had to experience but just as much all the times she got to experience genuine happiness, a lot of which comes from being taking care of by and caring for her friends.
There are a lot more thoughts in my brain about how women were characterized in literature throughout the decades, using the image of the rose â a sort of de-humanization of the woman and at the same time a personification of nature as woman. We talked about this extensively in another seminar on nature songs but that would exceed ALL limits on this post.
So instead just take this little drawing I made of my Queen Rose. She enables me to do things in my art I never knew I could do.
I was gonna try to keep my mouth shut, but I can't. I just can't. I have to go on another Aki rant because I feel like I'm going to explode. It's about this scene:
This drives me insane and I'm putting this under a readmore. Expect incoherent screaming, all ye who enter here.
Ok. Ok. I have so many issues with this scene. Specifically, with the way it develops later, when Aki's busy trying to figure out how to save a child from being swept up by a storm:
And I just. Look, I think the fact that I already wrote a fic that basically completely turns Aki's reaction here on its head should basically tell you everything. But! But. Allow me to defend why I think this whole scene is one big heap of horseshit, with a bit of analysis of canon and actual evidence to back up my claims and shit.
The thing is, I have seen people give this scene a charitable read. I've seen people be happy for Aki to enjoy freedom from the psychic powers that have given her so much trouble in her life. And the thing is, if this were season one or season two Aki, I would be completely on board with that take. Unfortunately, this scene is preceded by the pre-WRGP arc. But more on that below.
Moreover, I can make an educated guess about what they were going for here (in terms of messaging, because this is a kids' show at the end of the day and messaging is something you have to be properly concerned with when it comes to these). I can imagine it running somewhere along the lines of "you don't need special powers to be a hero". Or even "you can grow past the hurt and/or the mistakes in your life and still become a good person or even a hero". And really, I wish I could believe that take. It's just. The writing simply doesn't add up. I wish it did, but it doesn't.
This is where we get back to the pre-WRGP arc. And not just that, actually, but the timeskip between the dark signers and pre-WRGP arc, too. Because the thing is, the last time we have seen Aki in anguish about her powers on-screen by the time the episodes above (108-109) arrive was during the DS arc, during the duel with her father, which happened during episodes 40-41. 40. to. 41. This was over sixty episodes ago at this point. And after that, that's it. As far as the DS arc is concerned, Aki's conflict about her powers is resolved the second she controls them for the first time when her father tries to interfere in her second duel against Yusei.
(Yeah, remember this moment? That was literally the last time we saw Aki in conflict with her powers.)
And I know some people would argue "but what about the dark signer duel with Misty?". And yes, I get it. Misty does accuse her of having murdered her brother with her powers and Aki gets incredibly (understandably) upset about it. But the thing is, we know that's fake, and during the duel, Aki knows that, too. She goes as far as insisting that there were no casualties at the duel where Misty thinks Toby died.
(Yes, I have screenshot proof for literally every dumb little thing in this show, why do you ask?)
It's only after Misty keeps pushing and backing her into a corner during their duel (and literally gaslighting her) that she begins to believe Misty's version of the events. Which is why this doesn't "count" as Aki being in conflict with her powers the way her second duel with Yusei does. At least not to me, feel free to debate me over this if you wanna.
Okay, but what am I driving at here? Fair question. Let me hop back to after the dark signers' defeat.
So, we know there's a half-year timeskip between the DS and the pre-WRGP arc (which was allegedly enough for NDC to connect the city and Satellite, deal with all the social issues that entailed, and also build a giant duel network, which I will never believe but I digress). Unfortunately, what exactly our main characters did during that timeskip is never addressed, it's just kind of there to segway immediately into the WRGP setup. So the only thing we can do is guess at what they got up to based on where they are as people by the time we get back to them during the start of the pre-WRGP arc. So where's Aki at when we see her again after the dark signers' defeat then?
Oh, she's attending duel academy again now! That's nice. So that probably means the student body isn't scared shitless of her anymore and she's not being ostracised anymore.
Wow, she's an exceptional student! That means she must be a really good duellist. So she got the hang of her powers, then?
...Ah.
Do you start to see my problem? Past the DS arc, we are not being given any indication that Aki is still struggling with her powers or still resents them or herself like she used to. You could be forgiven for thinking that she's healed in the meantime. She's fine. She has accepted herself and can now use her powers safely. Which makes her later claiming "she no longer needs that cursed power" a bit... hmmm. And another thing. The fact that she refers to it as "cursed" rubs me the wrong way. After the defeat of the dark signers, she literally never does that even a single time before the moment in the hospital during the storm. (I'd post all the screenshots to prove it here but for one, tumblr doesn't allow it, and for two, I hope you'll believe I did my due diligence without it.)
And it just irks me. If the powers are still a "curse" to Aki by episodes 108-109, why give us the moment above?
And why give us this moment, where she saves Sherry, Yusei, and herself with those powers?
And why give us this moment, where she literally uses her powers at a public event to protect people, and is evidently not cussed out as a witch for it? Neither of these moments do anything to indicate that Aki still hates her powers. They don't indicate that she sees them as a "beast of burden" or necessary evil of a sort, either. On the contrary, I don't think it would be too out there to claim all these moments make her look rather badass. Like a small celebration of "hey, now she can finally use these powers for cool and not evil things!".
Yet, somehow, we still end up with episodes 108-109, where the writers expect the audience to buy that Aki was secretly still hoping she might eventually be rid of these powers after all. And maybe this would be easier to swallow if there weren't also the fact that they later literally go back on it to add to this confusing mess. Because the thing is, we all know the finale scene after the three-way duel with Sherry where Aki protects them with her powers (which have suddenly reappeared, aha!) again and also finds out she can use these powers to heal. So not only is the framing of Aki suddenly being glad to have lost her powers extremely weird, it's also temporary anyway!
So my question is. What was the point. What was the point of all this if the writers ended up going back on it anyway? Because I want to believe there's a reasonable, charitable explanation that also makes sense with what they show us in terms of Aki's characterisation past the DS arc, but if there is, I cannot for the life of me find it. If anything, this whole thing feels like it completely contradicts itself.
First, they tie up Aki's conflict with her powers with a neat bow after she manages not to hurt her father anymore. Then, they launch into the pre-WRGP arc and blatantly tell us that she can now control them. No questions asked. Indisputable fact, and we get nothing that contradicts that, either. Then, we get a bunch of setup showing her using her powers, too, and what's more, we get other significant players in the cast taking notice of it, too, as though it might become relevant. Because Sherry isn't the only one who gets curious about Aki's powers.
(I will never understand how Placido's hood works together with his horn-thingies and have stopped trying at this point.)
The literal, central antagonists of season 3-4 also take notice of it. Like that means something. Like it'll come up again later. But, well. We know it doesn't.
Instead, she suddenly loses her powers out of nowhere (and we are never given a reason for it, either, which does nothing to make this writing decision seem anymore understandable). And, look. The thing that upsets me most about this isn't even the fact that it feels a little inconsistent with Aki's character post DS arc. If that were the only problem, I could still suspend my disbelief far enough to go along with the idea that she secretly still hated her powers quietly in the background and wanted them gone anyway. What really pisses me off is that it reeks of zero setup and knee-jerk decisions in the writing room ten miles against the wind. If they wanted us to believe Aki's glad to be rid of her powers, why give absolutely no indication that she's at odds with them past episode 41 anymore? Why let her state outright that she can now control them? Why show her on several occasions using them to her own and other people's benefit, the way a hero would? And if her powers are supposed to vanish and it's supposed to make sense, why is there no reason for it? They already used cyborg timetravel at that point, they could have literally come up with any nonsense related to that and it would have probably made at least more sense than just letting her powers vanish for no reason at all. Also, if the message behind all this is supposed to be either of the things I mentioned way aboveâif the idea the audience is supposed to be getting is either "you don't need special powers to be a hero" or "your past and/or your mistakes don't define you and you can heal and grow past them"âwhy reintroduce the powers, which, in this reading, would be a symbol of Aki's pain, of her mistakes and her dreaded past, at the very end, during the finale, then? It just doesn't add up, and it frustrates me to no end.
The writers wanted to make the moment Aki realises she can help people (well, one person, a child) without her powers seem triumphant so bad, but every time I watch it, it just completely falls flat for me. This isn't a triumph, this is a hot mess of bad writing decisions. All I'm saying is, if they wanted me to buy that Aki would be happy about losing her powers here, they were missing a hefty amount of setup and also shouldn't actually have given them back to her during the finale (no, not even as healing powers).
Moreover... I'll freely admit I also have a personal problem with this scene. I've seen this show and these episodes several times by now, and during my last rewatch and my current one, something about this scene has been creeping up on me, and I think I've figured out what that is now. So I talked about the possible message behind this scene already, and the reading I've given so far was fairly forgiving. But the thing is, there is another reading that has occurred to me that I can't unsee anymore. As much as you could make a valid case that this scene is trying to say that people don't need to be special to be heroes and save others, that past mistakes don't define us, and yadda yadda, there's also a much, much less pleasant way to interpret this scene: "You're better off if you don't stand out." And I'll freely admit, this interpretation probably occurs to me specifically because I was considered a "weird kid" at school, singled out by bullies, and avoided by "popular" kids (take a wild guess why I relate to Aki so much!). And over the years, you learn to downplay that "weirdness" because you become desperate to be accepted by someone, anyone. And given everything the show gives us about Aki's relationship with her powers, it'd make sense that this idea would be buried somewhere in her head, too. It's better not to stand out. Don't be weird. Sand down your edges so there's no chance people could get upset about them. You're better off being whatever everyone else considers "normal" than being whoever you are. It doesn't matter if this is a part of who you are, just become someone else. Someone who's easier to accept. Who's easier to love. You don't need your "weirdness".
You don't need this cursed power.
You know, the "cursed power" that Aki had from the beginning of the show, that was a part of her for years, and that the show didn't give any indication could vanish. The power that we were led to believe would just be there forever, because it was simply a part of Aki, not a conscious thing she (or the narrative) could choose. The power that we were, for all intents and purposes, led to believe she had mastered and maybe even accepted along the way. But sure, let's get rid of that. It's better if she's """normal""". And more convenient for the writers, too! After all, if she doesn't have powers anymore, they can't cause plotholes (of which the WRGP already has enough) and can't possibly give Aki any more badass moments, which makes it that much easier to sideline her. And let's package this weird, shittily set-up moment in a message about how she's better off without her powers anyway. She's happy! It makes complete sense that she's happy. She's finally normal like everyone else. Ignore the way people who might relate to the character could possibly interpret this moment differently. And ignore how none of the writing surrounding this moment makes sense.
...Sigh.
Okay, I think I've let off enough steam. I just. Yeah. I'm sorry, but I cannot for the life of me view this scene in a favourable way and watching it today made me want to chew glass tbh. My only solace is that they went back on this trainwreck writing decision in the finale. Which, really, just makes this whole mess really, really pointless, doesn't it?
For anyone who stuck around this long, thanks for reading. Sorry if this got extra-rant-y. Idk man, I just think âitâs worth the effort to accept yourself as you are, even with all the bits you might not like at firstâ would have been a better message than whatever this turned out to be.
To hop on this post, I would've loved to see a different arc for Aki. One where she learns to accept herself and her powers/or at least build some turmoil with them, at Duel academy instead, without Yusei being around. I love Faithshipping but hear me out.
In the DS arc if memory serves, she was always having trouble in school at least with getting along with others. I know this is a magical children's card game. But I refuse to believe that she had zero ounce of anxiety or face any sort of bullying the minute she came back to duel academy. Some students would've had to remember that she was the Black Rose Witch, in a positive or negative light. Even with a memory wipe it wouldn't make sense, since she was BRW at the Fortune Cup and from my understanding wouldn't wipe Yusei's title of new king of Turbo duels from the public's memory? So it wouldn't wipe that title for Aki either sonce it wasn't under the influence of an Earthbound Immortal (however I could be misremembering here).
Especially since based on screenshots of flashbacks implied that she has at somepoint:
A. used duel monsters on others as young as 8 out of fear/frustration around other children her age, likely being made fun of
B. has been at least known to cause destruction at duel academy based off of a duel with an unknown opponent who has at least faced her once, and would've put her on a "do not enroll list" at some point for property damage, before skipping/dropping out. Which would've put extra pressure on her to be a model student or risk getting kicked out and blowing any chance she has at a decent education.
C. actively harmed another student using said cards(in the dub was explicited stated as Koda, but I don't really watch the dub because I can not take the dialogue seriously).
There should've been at least a mini arc of her falling into a sense of anxiety of losing control of her powers or at least still learning to control them more frequently in/at Duel Academy, and then be bullied/constantly bullied for it. Then challenges said bully to a duel out of anger/need to prove something. Has trouble controlling her powers in the duel at first but, this time, she has support from the twins at Duel academy to prevent her from falling into that cycle of isolation and hatred again, allowing her to gain more of a grip on herself even if she doesn't 100% control them. It would still have a bit of that build up if she was constantly judging herself hard for having psychic powers but not being able to control them consistently in canon, and then allow her to have the questioning moment of losing her powers. Ontop of it she doesn't have Yusei around to support her emotionally (during school hours), but her social supports being two children who look up to her so she has to rely on herself to not only win but to know that she can control her powers without it being a one time fluke.
I feel like this is an unpopular opinion, but more people should read incomplete/unfinished/in-progress fanfics.
Iâve noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say âand make sure to scroll down and click completed onlyâ or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics âbecause they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didnât realize this fic hadnât been updated since 2012â.
The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writerâs WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isnât the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while theyâre ahead when they arenât garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If youâre worried about reading something that hasnât been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.
Anyways, support your favorite fanfic writers by engaging with their WIPs.
#The journey of reading a fic while itâs updating is part of the fun!
Yes exactly this! I love subscribing to fics forgetting about them a bit and then being pleasantly surprised when they update again and they show up in my inbox. It makes me feel like Iâm a Charles Dickens fan living in 1830s London waiting patiently for his new chapter to be released via the daily paper.
[The artist, putting a simple cake next to a much fancier one: âAw man, that guyâs cake is way better than mine.â The Audience, gleefully holding up a knife and fork âHOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!â]
whenever I try to tag you tumblr straight up breaks on me on my end, I am so sorry if you keep getting tag notifications from me, I've been having issues with tumblr not tagging anyone on any of my accounts despite being active on here! anyway I love the series, these two are my favorites!
gummygunk
izzy806
yousharknotpass
titsay
andulkaphoto
jbbartram-illu
janainaart
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