Rio Week

An event themed around Zexal's Ice Queen, Rio Kamishiro/Merag!

[rioweek]

Hello everyone! Here's the prompt list for the Rio Week 2025 event, happening this November! The list is going up now to give everyone time to look over the prompts!

With thanks to @soogymoogi for making the above banner!

And now, here are the prompts with a fancy graphic I made! (with thanks to everyone who offered out of the kindness of their hearts to make this for me, I now have infinite levels of respect for artists!)

(graphic design is my passion, never ask about my war with the color megenta and the fonts to make this possible)

The prompts for Rio Week 2025 are!

Day 1: Role Reversal/Roleswap. Modern. Alternate Universe.

Day 2: Fire and Ice. Shadows. Visions.

Day Number 103: Free day! (the pun was too easy to pass up)

Day 4: Red string of fate. Rings. Lingering.

Day 5: Angst/Fluff. Domestic. Bad end.

Day 6: Bonds. Identity. Past lives.

Day 7: Wings. Freedom. New adventures.

Remember, this event will be hosted from Tuesday, November 11th, 2025, to November 18th! Submissions can be turned in late, there's no strict deadline! Just @ me when you're done here on Tumblr or let me know via an ask to check a website for a submission and I'll link back to it here!

In the run up to the end on each day of the week before it starts, I'll be doing another post about each of the prompts, just a little promo paragraph about what the intent is and potentially some inspiration for anyone struggling with an idea!

If anyone has any questions about the week or submissions, my inbox is open for one and all!

To anyone who wants to try, best of luck and I'll see you closer to November! Stay chill!

[iii-week]

Interest Check: III Week!

Yup, I'm considering doing a week for the youngest of the Arclights! Prompts are still in progress, but right now I'm aiming for February 25-March 3, 2026, so that the finale can line up with III Day.

Please like or reblog if this appeals to you!

[cyberdragoninfinity]

FIRE AND ICE AND EVERY VERSION OF YOURSELF IN BETWEEN 🔥❄🔥❄

(absurdly late piece for @rioweek, playing with like three different days' prompts lol <3 i love you rio kamishirokastle and your identities that splinter and shatter like glass 💙🩵)

[rioweek]

DANAAAAAAAAA HOLY SHIT

I am going to gnaw on this for weeks, GOD.

[emeraldhypothesis]

That

That's a line Merag says in the dub

No shot she's coming as a standalone event?

Merag truthers WE RISE I TOLD YOU ALL SHE WAS COMING TO DUEL LINKS AND NOT AS AN ALT STYLE WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE

[rioweek]

We take those wins, thanks to Konami for the late submission to RioWeek! /s

[scattered-irises]

@rioweek

Day 3: Free Day

I was suddenly struck by inspiration after watching Chrono Story. I was heavily inspired by Rgveta’s splendid drawing of Elluka. I love how they also subbed the song for us!

Perhaps, had Merag lived, this was what she would have looked like older.

Thank you so much for hosting Rio week! I used to think and write about her all the time. It was really good to have this opportunity to revisit her like an old friend. She is as fun to work with as ever!

[rioweek]

Wow! She looks great!

Thanks for taking part! Your art pieces were always a delight to see the notification ping for. I'm glad you enjoyed having a chance to visit MeragRio again! Still not sure if I'm doing this again next year, but would love to see your art for it appear if you do!

[devilchiara]

I managed to crunch something out for @rioweek!

Bet catching up to twelve years of come will make you develop the mother of all headaches...

I'm sorry I missed basically all the event, I wanted to partecipate but I was busy :(

[rioweek]

It's OK Rio, Pendulums took a while for me to get too.

Thanks for drawing it! I'm glad you were able to make time to participate. :)

[cyberdragoninfinity]

It's been three months since Astral used to the Numeron Code to make the world right again, and a pair of icy hands still weigh on Rio's mind.

the mechanism of raynaud's phenomenon is a short fic about rio and merag, written for @rioweek Day Six: Bonds. Identity. Past lives. (mega belated but WHATEVER!!!) 💙 i like it and i hope you do too! You can check it out --> [HERE]

[kuriboo]

Taking the Plunge

Rio Week Day 7 - New Adventures

Rating: General Audiences Fandom: Yugioh Zexal, Yugioh Vrains Characters: Kamishiro Rio, Sugisaki Miyu, Aqua Relationships: Kamishiro Rio & Sugisaki Miyu, Sugisaki Miyu & Aqua Words: 796 Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Future, Alternate Universe - Post-Canon, Post-Canon, Developing Friendships

It didn't matter who Rio talked to in this city, which parts she ventured to. One of her many reputations always preceded her, everyone always had some sort of expectation for who she was, and she felt trapped in it. How was she supposed to move forward when everyone dragged her into the past?

Posted on ao3 here

Thank you @rioweek for hosting a wonderful event! Rio deserves all the love :)

[rioweek]

Lovely little story! Thanks for making it. :)

[ragnafinite]

missing from the mirror

Rated T // Tags: IV & Rio, Merag/Rio, additional tags in chapter notes

Seven semi-connected (but non-chronological) fics for @rioweek, each 103 words long and touching on her relationships with IV, Ryouga, and, most importantly, herself.

[rioweek]

Been keeping up with this as it was updating and every day it was a treat to see this! Thanks for partaking, this was lovely!

[imaginarystormz]

Busy week, but I had to do something for @rioweek! This one was an idea for day 6 (past lives, identity)

[rioweek]

Oooooh lovely work! Great stuff!

[rioweek]

Well, I'm gonna be real, I did not think we'd get this far.

I'm putting this up early, probably should give it a day, but I just finished putting up the posts to mark the final day of RioWeek (and hawked it on Discords, whew advertising is exhausting),

I don't have anything big or introspective to say- this was a bit of a spur of the moment decision to make the event, I think it went well, and I'm very thankful to everyone who participated or looked at all the pretty art and cool fics that were made. I did have one final surprise though, and that is this:

With thanks to @eleanorose123 for handling the commission side of things, I got this made to either console myself if no one partook but myself or so anyone who did take part could look at the art and go "Yay." Fortunately, it's the latter.

Thanks again to everyone who partook. I hope you had fun working on your prompts.

See you around! I'll share anything cool Rio or Merag wise that I see and as I said previously, late submissions are welcome- just throw me an @ or wait for my bloodhound senses to see it because I check tags very regularly.

[rioweek]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It's time for a new future for both Rio and Ryoga. New horizons await that will separate them, but it's not a bad thing to chart your own path. They're still going to annoy each other to death though, no matter how far apart they are. For Rio Week, Day 7- Wings. Freedom. New adventures. Title from Red vs Blue.

My final entry for RioWeek! Ended on a bit of a sappy good ending.

[rioweek]

RioWeek Day 7!

Holy smokes we made it to the final day.

Today's Prompts are:

Wings.

Freedom.

New adventures.

Please @ this account if you post anything here, or message if you post off-site!

[irisgoesgardening]

I fell head over heels for my friend’s gothic fic about Rio! It’s about the lack of a secure identity one has when one’s spirit is constantly thrown about by the whims of others…

[scattered-irises]

@rioweek

Day 6: Past Lives

I hope this slightly early piece counts! I loved this fic so much I wanted to draw a cover for it!

[rioweek]

You're all good! Super acceptable! Thanks for sharing it! :)

[rioweek]

RioWeek Day 6!

Day 6 is live! Today's prompts are:

Bonds

Identity

Past lives

Please @ this account if you post anything here, or message if you post off-site!

[rioweek]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It's the night after Yuma beat Astral and the Seven Barian Emperors cheated death yet again, and it's time for the first sleep of the rest of their lives. Ryoga's taking it poorly. Or Nasch is. Either/or, really. For RioWeek Day 6- Bonds. Identity. Past lives. Implied Kingdomshipping.

My entry for RioWeek Day 6!

[rioweek]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

In a world where the Barians win the war before the first shot is even fired, Kotori prepares to leave Heartland and a blood-stained past behind. The only thing holding her back is her infatuation with a mysterious woman named Rio- and she doesn't like her caged bird trying to fly away. For RioWeek Day 5- Angst/Fluff. Domestic. Bad end. Title comes from "The Rot//Rot" by Inuday.

My entry for Day 5!