Told @orpheusofthestars I wanted to draw Ryou with a Pokemon team for the @bakubangspeedrun and we talked shop until I ended up with this team for him! a few silly (ouchie) references in the choices:
Drifloon steals children like when Ryou playing Monster World stole children's souls
Shiny Phantump is his dead sister, Amane :)
Fills prompts 81. pokemon au & 184. what would Ryou's pokemon team be?
I have a bunch of different gender/sexuality headcanons for each of my favorite characters. For example, to me Sho is sometimes a trans man, sometimes a trans woman. It depends on my mood mostly
I've rewritten this description three times because my open tab of this empty post in another tab kept overwriting my saved comment. Anyway. I tried doing @bakubangspeedrun prompt 16 which is basically "go overboard on religious imagery" and in doing so three people have told me my attempt at stained glass esque jesus figure Change of Heart Ryou is giving trans flag colors, so
Some cool news for today: someone uploaded the uncut English dub of Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters to the Internet Archive!! They used to be all online, but got taken down, only 2 were avaliable for a while
Episodes 1-9 of the Uncut Yu-Gi-Oh Dub breifly produced by 4Kids Entertainment and distributed by FUNimation in the early 2000's.Episodes 1-
For those that don't know: This was an attempt by 4kids to make an uncensored, more accurate dub of the show, released directly on DVD, with most of the same cast of the older dub. They didn't sell very well, so there were only 9 episodes released, but we have these at least (i believe the episode 10 in the link is an fan edit)
not proofread, just silly. ryou + ttrpgs for @bakubangspeedrun
warning for....... zexal spoilers ?!?!
All of the roles that Ryou's friends had taken for this campaign seemed to be slotting into very familiar patterns, though, despite his very best efforts to keep shifting things back towards the original setting and storyline he'd worked so hard on.
It just seems to happen naturally. Jounouchi and Seto both worked significant siblings into their backstories: Jou's sea elf warrior was ad-libbed offhand in an early session to be fighting for the sake of his sister, who had been injured in battle and lost her sight, and Seto had presented Ryou with a twelve-page backstory formatted to Monster World standards two weeks in advance, detailing his dragonborn paladin's desires to break a curse that had been set upon his powerfully psionic little brother.
(He'd managed to tie both of these things together by shoving a handful of antagonistic NPCs into a family, and had plans next Sunday to sit down for coffee with Shizuka and figure out characterisation on the blind sister - maybe even to finally give Jou's PC a proper backstory? A past life he didn't remember, or something else easy to just throw at Jou, maybe. Eventual enjoyment aside, the obvious reflections of reality were not lost on Ryou.)
Worst of all was the fact that he and Yugi had spent a whole weekend hashing out a way to homebrew kalashtar into something that would work both in the MW system and in the setting Ryou had painstakingly constructed, had figured everything out and gotten it as close to perfect as they could manage — and neither of them had realised what they'd truly devised until the end of session zero, when the NPC they'd constructed to take the role of both Yugi's warlock's patron and his dream spirit had appeared in a dramatic moment of great need and both Jou and Seto had looked stricken.
(Gathering that NPC's memories being a major ongoing quest was perhaps something he could have dropped, but then he'd have had no purpose for the memory-corrupted monsters he'd designed and statted - and besides, he'd already slotted those in as the supposed cure to the paladin's brother's curse —)
(It went just fine. He needn't have worried.)
Jou at least is definitely not doing it on purpose, and seems the most willing to take things in wild directions. His character even has a cool name, even if it is just an English word Jou was enjoying that week. At least he didn't just take the first syllable of his own name and slap a different ending on it, which is more than the other two can say.
Which is why he was strict over the phone with Malik when they were deciding on the character he'd play as while he visited Domino. Rather: the character they'd play as. Both Maliks were taking shared custody of this character, after much negotiating with their skeptical DM as to how that might work, when they both clearly wanted to take the aasimar cleric they were proposing in very different directions.
It takes some very careful manoeuvering, keeping that twist under wraps, but despite 'Kaito' and 'Shark' expressing their distrust and hesitance, kalashtar warlock 'Yuma' latches right on to Malik's little cleric, 'Shingetsu', even insisting on interplanar travel to rescue him when he's seemingly kidnapped by an NPC Ryou is uncharacteristically stumbling on a little.
Not that he has to play that role for long — Malik 'fails' his third death saving throw with an easy jostle of his knee. Old trick. Ryou's surprised Yugi didn't notice.
"Juuuust kidding!"
Malik - the other one, who will never pick some other name to identify himself as separate - pushes his hair back, eyes wide and wild, grin tearing his face in two, and introduces their PC again with a laugh long and loud enough that Ryou's upstairs neighbours stomp hard enough for them all to realise how late it is, and how disruptive it would be to shout.
Yuya. His style is more uncanny valley than anything. He's very good at pretending to be normal most of the time. But sometimes, he forgets. Sometimes, he grins too wide for his face. Or he forgets that people blink. Or he'll bend like he has no bones, contorting in ways that no human could ever do. He's.... harmless, mostly. Being in the presence of his true form has varying effects. People he likes will experience euphoria. People he doesn't like will laugh themselves to suffocation. Even in his disguised form, he tends to bring smiles to people's faces, and people he hates find it harder to breathe around him.
Yuto, who stands unnaturally still sometimes. Fixed in place like a gargoyle for hours without tiring. Yuto, who blends almost too well with the shadows, to the point where he's hard to spot even to those who know that he's there. Yuto, whose wounds cause pain to his enemies as well as himself. In his true form, Yuto is a storm personified. His allies, his true friends, they find themselves within the storm's eye. Safe. Protected. In a safe, calm space where they can finally rest, assured that nothing will touch them. His enemies, on the other hand, are battered by rain, torn at by the winds, and struck by lightning until finally they fall. Even in his human body, his allies are soothed by his presence, to the point where he's almost an anti-anxiety object. And when he fights his enemies, there is the distant sound of thunder.
Yugo, meanwhile, is in the bad habit of moving too fast. One moment there, the next over there, and then over yonder. He's also far too light on his feet, seemingly able to jump on nothing but thin air. And when he speaks or laughs, it's always a touch too loud, a touch too forced, like his enthusiasm is nothing but a guise. In his true form, Yugo is almost impossible to perceive, a being of light and wind that can only be spotted in the corner of your eye. He moves too fast to really be perceived. For those he loves, Yugo is the tender brush of a breeze to cool them off, and a soft, gentle light that illuminates their path. For his enemies, he is winds like razors, a shrieking gale and a blinding light that will tear you to shreds and scatter your pieces across his realm as a warning to others. Even in his human form, when he is a lot gentler, he still kicks up quite the breeze when those he loves are threatened, and he occasionally seems to glow, even in very dim light.
Yuri, for all that he is monstrous in other ways, is the most subtle of them in his eldritch abilities. It's mostly the scent. Thick, heavy, pouring into your lungs, making you weak and dizzy. It's also in the way he hunts with a single minded fixation, so focused on his prey that he neglects eating and sleeping in the relentless pursuit of his target. And... perhaps it's also in the way that he grabs things that should be too far away for him to reach, without ever moving his hands. Perhaps. Yuri.... he only loves one person. And even that's vague. But for them, Yuri's true form is the gentlest creature known. He wraps his vines, too many vines, really, around them, and pulls them deep within the tangle of his mass, where he can keep them safe from the outsiders. For his enemies... he digests them. Slowly. And painfully. It is not a pleasant way to die. As a human, he reflects this in his sadism and his willingness to play with his food. As for those he lives, they have no way of knowing thsi, but Yuri is very clingy naturally. Were it not for the conditioning and the soldier environment, Yuri would be eternally wrapped around his precious people.
Do y'all think the bracelet girls are also eldritch freaks?
also since me friend doesnt have a tumblr let me share his theories here. for context we are on ep 33 (yeah i know...)
Yuto is Yuya from the future, he keeps calling him Evil Yuya despite knowing his name. his other theory was also that 'evil yuya' was from a time line where yuya became emo which... killed me.
2. he thinks reiji has something to do with yusho's disappearance, or killed him.
3. he thinks yuya used the power of friendship to get the pendulum cards
4. and he gets a bad vibe from sora
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