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[blackwingedassaultdragon]

Hey all, figured I'd finally post about my Yami Seto AU publically! Essentially, this boils down to "what if Kaiba had the Rod instead of Marik?". I also extended it to "what if the Priest was based on Sobek instead of Set?"

Below are some thoughts I made about 2 months ago. Beyond the cut is mature content, and while nothing explicit is shown, I highly discourage minors from engaging with this post.

CW for implied vore/cannibalism and eating disorder. Mind control as well, but this is Yugioh after all.

Here are my original notes, plus a micro story laced in. The final paragraph is a direct copy of a spell from Unas's tomb.

And then here, I went through the Wikipedia article for Sobek and highlighted some key points (due to the 10 image limit, I left some minor things out).

I've poked fun at myself for this, but one could easily say this is like a "Hannibal meets The Mask" AU. I wanted Seto's Yami to be almost the exact opposite of him. Even down to clothing. While Seto normally wears long sleeves and tight-fitting clothes, Miso (both having come from a hot climate and not being ashamed of his body) absolutely hates these and wears more exposing clothing. He used to tear and rip up Seto's clothes, but eventually learned to respect his descendant's odd fashion choices.

As for his design? I have a mostly concrete idea for it. This is the most recent sketch I've done. Dated March 25, 2026.

What I attempted here was Miso's design and what he would actually look like (for those unaware, the Yamis only have a different visual design for the audience. In universe, they look exactly the same as the host).

This is all still a big work-in-progress. I have gotten a few suggestions to write this as a fic, but I struggle to figure out how to do that exactly. I kinda thought about taking my original micro story and expanding it more. Maybe include backstory as to how Seto acquired the Rod (which I have a plan for).

Thank you for reading this far. I'm aware of just how... strange this makes me look. Hopefully this was at least somewhat interesting. I look forward to any thoughts or ideas you may have! While this is personal to me, I am very open to suggestions.

[blackwingedassaultdragon]

frick man what am i doing i should make dartz a bunyip

[blackwingedassaultdragon]

finally got around to making refs! first up was seto of course. been so happy with his design, especially since i streamed it a while back (as a reminder he is an eastern water dragon!)

(alternate version under cut featuring scars)

[blackwingedassaultdragon]

AU Species List

Still a work-in-progress, not every character is listed yet. Currently this will only focus on the original series + manga.

Bold = decided.

- Yugi Muto - Ryukyu spiny rat

- Atem - desert hedgehog

- Téa Gardner - cat (Birman)

- Joey Wheeler - dog (mutt/retriever)

- Tristan Taylor - donkey (species tba)

- Seto Kaiba - eastern water dragon [ref] (scars cw)

- Mokuba Kaiba - thorny devil

- Bakura Ryou - Welsh mountain sheep

- Bandit King Bakura - Barbary ibex

- Solomon Muto - undecided (rodent)

- Maximillion Pegasus - American paint horse

- Shadi - (undecided)

- Marik Ishtar - Egyptian vulture

- Ishizu Ishtar - undecided (bird)

- Odion Ishtar - Egyptian cobra

- Duke Devlin - Japanese raccoon dog

- Mai Valentine - harpy eagle

- Bandit Keith - raccoon?

- Rebecca Hawkins - rabbit (species tba)

- Weevil Underwood - Japanese weasel

- Rex Raptor - Philippine crocodile

- Mako Tsunami - seal? sea lion?

- Noah Kaiba - green peafowl

- Gozaburo Kaiba - common pheasant

- Dartz - Bunyip

More tba

[blackwingedassaultdragon]

this gonna sound kinda dumb but i always forget that i always draw them anthro. in my minds eye they look like that 24/7 and when ihad a scenario pop up that i draw them normally (ie human) my brain lowkey did a factory reset because like. what do u mean they're always like that

[blackwingedassaultdragon]

genuinely don't know how popular this idea is which is why im scared to tag it but i think seto age regresses. not consciously but it just happens out of extreme stress. like temporary in the headspace of pre-adoption (9-11? can't remember if it's 12 in all versions bc i swear one version hes adopted at 10)

i have this thing built around it which for the sake of not embarrassing myself i won't post the whole thing but like. it happens often enough to where mokuba recognizes the signs and once seto "snaps back" if he's around anyone other than mokuba he gets extremely embarrassed and angry about it bc he hates it every time it happens. but when he's in that headspace he's genuinely happy Ok . Blows away like a tumbleweed

[blackwingedassaultdragon]

oh yeah should probably talk about my cartoon animal au here ^_^ my ideas for their species so far. for tristan, i might make him a przewalski's horse but i have this self rule that i can't make people the same animal unless they're family (ignore the fact that the different kaiba sets are different i promise it's relevant and ihave reasons). i threw up the idea of pegasus being an orca as a joke but im so stumped about it tbh

more ideas tba! im mainly theory crafting in my server atp

[travisulrich]

Dancing about with cup in hand, Travis was having fun. Taking his break for yet another drink, he slugged all of it back and yelled, though it wasn't loud enough to out do the music. "WOOO!"