I'm here to kick ass and play card games

And I'm all out of cards. BLOG UNDER CONSTRUCTION {[ Yugioh AU Ask Blog penned by Varian ]}

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Guess who finally remembered his username and password

This guuuuyyyyyy

Also guess who finally came out online and chose a name he liked

Hi, if you followed post hiatus and are new, I’m Varian and I have a lot of blog construction to do. Unfortunately it’s gonna be hard to get it done because my computer is still broken, but I have an ipad now so I can officially get back to drawing puzzle family stuff. So, quick announcement as well as some info for newcomers until I finish construction:

This blog is converting permanently and fully to an ask blog for a yugioh au where Atem is given his own body and he and Yugi got married and adopt baby Judai

I’m weird and prefer the original Japanese for the yugioh anime’s so I’ll be using the original names before 4kids got their hands on it and basing things off the original Japanese dub so some things(other than the obvious au stuff) might be different

Before I go any further I will say this blog is NOT spoiler free

Other than the au being in place, everything is mostly the same, and I will post a thing on Atem’s return to life once I finish the comic, but just take note that I consider DSOD cannon in this au

I also consider Bonds Beyond Time canon, and the final “lost” season of GX that 4kids never dubbed will come into play as well

Since we’re never really given ages for the kids but they are indeed in highschool at the start and end of the series and graduating in DSOD— as well as taking into account that their home city is japan based and as such uses the japanese school system, I’m gonna put them at 16-17 for the series and 18 for DSOD with Atem being a year older than the friendship crew, Yugi and Atem will be 23 and 24 when they get married, then 25 and 26 when they adopt Judai

The puzzle family live with Yugi’s mother and grandpa at the shop, Yugi and Atem have taken over the family game shop, but they still duel in tournaments now and again and indulge Kaiba whenever he shouts at them to duel him :P

I think that might be all the basics, so I’m gonna pin this and get to drawing and blog construction

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Genuine question since ive finally found this blog again and its feeding my gx muses. But how would Atem and Yugi react to Judai's scars or hearing about what happened in duel academy. Or would Judai try hiding it from them?

It’s been a really long time since I’ve been active here due to irl stuff, so I’m very very sorry it took so long to answer this question!

Atem and Yugi already have a vague idea of what’s going to go down at the academy, having met Judai twice already from the future. Unfortunately to avoid anything getting thrown out of whack, they can’t interfere too much, but in my au for the second half of season 3 they actually end up going to the other dimension with the group!

Since I don’t know when I’ll be returning to the blog, I’ll say this: Atem actually ends up ‘dying’ in the other dimension. I haven’t settled on how, but it will be before Judai becomes the Supreme King. Yugi, on the other hand, I do have plans that I won’t spoil just yet.

The two of them are always worried about Judai after sending him to duel academy, keeping in contact with headmaster Samejima on the goings on there. Were it not for fear of both screwing up the timeline and unintentionally sparking Judai’s old guilt and feel of being ‘cursed’, they may have pulled him from the academy in an attempt to keep him safe. Since they couldn’t, they instead did as much for him as they could in the background, and tried to help him as much as possible after he graduated, despite his decision to leave home to travel the world.

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I wonder what a Neos and Rainbow Dark Dragon would look like…

I mean… Most of the other heroes got an Evil Hero version of their fusions…….

Maybe I’ll try designing one. It would be good for a thing I wanna do eventually with King >:3c

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He boof

Prrrrrooobably not gonna do anything else with werewolf (weremanedwolf? @-@) Judai but he was fun to draw! He’s mostly for a rp verse with me and some friends xD It was my first time drawing a maned wolf too, so it was a good learning experience

Also before anyone says anything: The colors of his fur are intentionally clashing. I meant it to be a sort of chaotic mix between him and Yubel.

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So my friends and I came up with an idea for a werewolf Judai

He’s a maned wolf for reasons

Have some sketches while I work on art block :P I’ll do a fully colored one later on

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So I haven’t watched arc-v yet but my friend has been telling me the basic summary to help me prepare to watch it and he sent me a video on a theory that Yuya Yuto Yugo and Yuri are fusions of Zarc with Yugi Yuma Yusei and Judai respectively and

My heart

Is not okay

Cause if that theory holds true that means that after everything he overcame Judai’s ultimate fate is to fall to his darkness once again

Edit: this also throws a wrench in some “future” comics I wanted to do with immortal Judai, but I’ll just have to bullshit a way around it

That’s what I do best after all -w-

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Something short, but part of something that’s gonna be way bigger :3c This may be my most ambitious project yet, so I don’t know when it’ll be finished, but I’ll be working on it!

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Judai that’s not how that works

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Yusei’s making a cameo in the next video~!

Honestly I feel like these two would be quite the duo if they had ever met for longer than a movie

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I had a thought, and I’m working on another video with this thought

Considering Judai didn’t immediately become the supreme king after his friends died and Sho left, do you think he knew what was happening to him and was fighting it?

Imagine, his mind has just gone through a huge mental fracture, and he’s discovered this side of himself that is obsessed with power (or perhaps so scared of losing that he obsessively works to become the strongest and most feared), but he says nothing of it to Austin and Jim because in his mind he’s already hurt his friends enough, he doesn’t need to saddle them with this now. So, he fights it on his own, he keeps quiet and pushes that side of him away.

But it doesn’t work, and he’s terrified that he’s going to hurt the few friends he has left, so he runs off on his own. Eventually he gives in, his will too broken to fight back against this new side of himself, and sinks further and further into his own darkness as the Supreme King takes hold.

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Finished product! I have a ton of sounds that I wanna do videos to, so while I work on plot stuffs I’ll be doing these on the side

For now, have some angst cause I’m still not over season 3

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Another quick little sneak peak of the thing I’m working on. I may start putting these sneak peaks onto patreon, I’ve been trying to get that up and running and get consistant on posting there.

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I haven’t disappeared again I promise, I’m practicing video editing for a few upcoming projects while I try to get through my art block

This one is for an upcoming tiktok video! It’s not gonna be on my normal astrologicalarcana account, it’ll be posted on a new account: heregoessomething

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I remember that in your headcanons post, that Judai forgives Sho for snapping and saying that all the rumors are true but... What if Judai still forgives Sho, but he doesn't accept Sho's apologies because he believes that Sho is/was right? That Judai doesn't think Sho should be sorry/was in the wrong because Judai believes that the rumors *are* true. That he is really cursed and it was just time that his friends (Sho) realized it?

I apologize for not answering this sooner, I’m a bit of a mess when it comes to what blog I’m on and when

Honestly that’s an incredibly good point. Rather than answering Sho’s apologies with “I forgive you” he’d probably instead say “You don’t have to apologize.” Of course, Judai seems to often try to shoulder all his problems alone for fear of burdening others, so he probably wouldn’t ever actually speak up about believing that he’s cursed knowing that it would just make his friends worry and Sho feel even more guilty.

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So about the monsters being real in the Shadow Games and other worlds…

Ive been wanting to do a ref sheet for scars for the characters on this blog for a while, and I decided to start with Judai. The wing scars and purple blotches are personal headcannons about Yubel manifesting parts of their body onto Judai’s like they did with Amon, Martin, and Cobra.

My handwriting is bad, so let me put captions below:

Top Right: Lightning scars from Hamon (phantasm)

Center Left: Wing scars from Yubel (NOT CANNON)

Center Right: Thorns from Yubel

Lower Left: Bite from Venominaga

Far Right: Purple spots from Yubel (NOT CANNON)

Bottom Right: Burn from Red Eyes Darkness Dragon

EDIT: ALSO something important I forgot to mention, if you see any of my art posted on @ofgalaxiesandstars that’s me!! OfGalaxiesandStars is my multimuse rp account, and I write as Judai on there so some art of him will pop up there too

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Okay but no one can convince me that Judai and Yugi did not have at least a broken or cracked rib or two in Bonds Beyond Time like

Yugi had buildings and debris falling all around him and probably on him at least a little, there was way too much debris for him to avoid all of it

And Judai took a full force attack from Stardust Dragon that Neos couldn’t block that threw him back so hard into a brick wall that it broke

Judai at the very least should not have gotten out of there with ‘just a scratch’ if I recall the subbed lines correctly.

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Y’know it dawned on me that Judai probably actually has an excuse

I don’t know why it never occurred to me that his physical resistance, stamina, strength, and dexterity probably got a big buff thanks to fusing with Yubel

Still though, that blast was rough

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So for the nuzloke I mentioned before me and my friends are playing as Jaden(played by me -3-), Joey, and Kaiba

And in true to character fashion, Kaiba’s already beaten two gyms, Joey’s not far behind, and Jaden’s just trying to have fun whilst desperately keeping his Pokémon alive

Also my friends put Joey and Kaiba in skirts

The first comic is gonna be amazing

EDIT: Also, our rivals are Chazz, Yugi, and... Squid..?