how would you write a female rival?
(this got a little long so I'm gonna have this under a read more thing)
so just as a disclaimer i'm not the greatest writer, but I would say in the context of ygo have her get a good amount of duel time at the very least (and win a high portion of those duels). i mean, that should probably be standard for a rival, male or female, but i still feel like it's important to mention just because it seems like more female characters in ygo than not seem to either not duel as much as other characters, or lose more than win. granted, i've really only seen DM and GX at this point, so i don't know too much or remember too much about the other ygo female characters and their win/loss ratios and whatnot, but yeah. if she's a rival, she's gonna have to be a pretty darned good duelist no? lol second is i'd just have her have a solid personal goal, something she's working towards and something that gives her the drive to be a great duelist. so that in turn would give her the reasoning (for lack of a better word) to be a rival to the protagonist. like i guess everything that goes into writing a good, solid character, put into the character here. give her struggles, give her high moments, low moments, moments where she has to make a big decision that may affect her life or how she duels or approaches dueling, and perhaps even have to work in tandem with the protagonist to do things. or get the protagonist out of a bind in some way. things to prove that she can hold her own, you know? i mean, i really think of asuka/alexis from GX in these scenarios because like she seemed to have a good amount of potential in the beginning but then later on we see her constantly calling for judai/jaden when she's in a tough spot (the scene in particular i'm thinking of is when she gets trapped in that hole that fills up with water when they're looking for Professor Cobra/Viper in s3). and not to single her out because other characters did this with judai/jaden, too, not just her, but in the context of this i just wanted to mention that. this is getting kind of long lol so i'll wrap it up here, but yeah. generally have her duel a good amount, win a good portion of said duels to establish her as a good rival, give her a motive and purpose that's her own, be capable of handling tough duels/situations, etc etc.
