an anon also asked for this so I’ll do it for both of you here~
my beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world fave: YUYA OBVS
my trash-shit fave: Hi Shun and Sora and Reiji
my I love to hate them fave: Jean tbh
my I hate to love them fave: DENNIS WHY
my I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire non-fave: The entirety of the Executive Council
my I didn’t care about them either way at first but the fandom makes such a big deal about them now I can’t stand them non-fave: no one, honestly
my I could take them or leave them kinda non-fave: Shinji
my I will go down with this ship and I won’t put my hands up and surrender, there will be no white flag above my door. I’m in love and always will be fave ship: Pendulumshippp also Lustershipping
my dirtybadwrong fave ship: Probably also Pendulumshipping tbh
my they’re cute together and I dig them but I’m not all that terribly invested kinda fave ship: Reira/Tatsuya
my I didn’t care about this ship either way at first but the fandom makes such a big deal about it now I can’t stand it non-fave ship: Serenadeshipping or whatever Yuzu/Selena is called tbh I mean yeah Selena’s head over heels in gay for Yuzu but I don’t like it and it kinda shoved Lustershipping out of the picture which bugged me.
if i met you, i would definitely hug you so tightly that you would have to kick my leg and tell me to stop my excitement =))). Then I would talk and talk about card games, maybe I'd talk too much to your liking. I'd talk about your stories and card games and legend of zelda :D I'd ask you for your signature, too. Yes, your signature sounds good.
Awww, that would be awesome~ I wouldn’t mind the hug XD Ah, goodness, I don’t think I’m cool enough to be giving signatures though ^^;
if you're still accepting request, is it okay for me to ask for (there are too many ships i can't choose) fruitshipping? I hope the prompt doesn't sound vague: Sometimes, just sometimes, you have to call your best friend out.
Title: Don’t Make Yourself Smile
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh Arc V
Pairings: Fruitshipping
Characters: Yuya Sakaki, Yuzu Hiragi
Timeframe: before the series
Request for daphneduzie
This is super late and reminder that requests are closed so sorry about that! I’m not sure if this is what you were looking for but this is what happened. ^^;
“Yuya.”
He wasn’t paying attention to her, humming as he walked down the sidewalk in that bouncy way of his, swinging his school bag back and forth, back and forth.
“Yuya.”
And still he ignored her—and this time she was one hundred percent certain that he was ignoring her because she had said that really loudly and she didn’t care how engrossed he was in his walking and humming, he knew better than to space out when she started using that tone.
Yuzu clenched her jaw. She picked up her pace so that she was outstripping him and then stopping right in front of him, hands on hips and shoulders squared, feet planted. He couldn’t very well just walk around her and continue to pretend that he wasn’t noticing, so he stopped, making an attempt at half smiling at his friend as though he was confused.
“Yuya,” she said again. “Don’t ignore me, mister.”
“Oh, hey, sorry,” he said. “I was spacing out…is something up?”
That damn smile. That fake one that he plastered on when he wasn’t feeling well but for some terrible reason he thought he had to just keep smiling anyway so he would paste that big, dumb, not-real smile that made her stomach turn because it was wrong. Yuya was supposed to smile, but not like that.
“Stop,” she whispered. “Just…please. Stop.”
“Um…I did stop. Walking, I mean. Is that what you meant? Sorry, I guess I’m confused…”
He laughed—and it was that fake hollow laugh that he did to try and make himself feel better. As though pretending that he was happy was enough to fool himself. Stupid. It wasn’t even enough to fool her.
“No, Yuya. You know what I’m talking about.”
His smile faltered a bit. She felt her heart clench as she caught the tiniest hint of Yuya’s distress beneath that smile. But he just tried to stretch the smile out wider.
“Are you worried about me or something? I mean, I just lost one duel; it’s not the first or the last I’m sure…”
“Yeah, but most people don’t laugh about your father after they beat you,” she whispered.
Yuya flinched. He smiled again, but it was the shaky one this time, the one he made when he was starting to lose his composure and was trying to pretend to the world and himself that he wasn’t.
“H-hey, it’s fine. I mean, they’re not the first ones to poke fun at it, you know? It happens. I don’t really mind.”
“Yuya,” Yuzu whispered, and he stopped babbling.
He met her eyes then. Still smiling, but it was starting to slip.
“Yuya,” she whispered again, feeling tears prick at her eyes. “Don’t do this to yourself.”
“I…I’m not…”
“You don’t have to smile. Okay? There’s no rule that says you have to smile and be happy all the time. Please. Just…just for a moment. Just stop trying so hard. You’re…you’re going to hurt yourself like that and I—I don’t want you to get hurt…”
Yuya swallowed. He tried one last smile, but it was the broken one, the one where he knew that he had lost his mask completely and he was trying to pull it back together but he knew it was too late.
“I…I’m fine…really, Yuzu, I’m fine…”
Yuzu reached up and gently took his face in her hands.
“You don’t have to be,” she whispered. “You don’t have to be fine all the time. No one does. Please Yuya…for me. Just this once, don’t make yourself smile when you don’t want to.”
Yuya swallowed. His smile fell completely. And then she could see it, the dullness spreading through his eyes and the tears bubbling in the back and his hands were coming up to try and pull his goggles down and hide it, but she slipped her arms around him and drew him close to her instead, rubbing his back gently and whispering soothing sounds into his ear as his shoulders started to shake and the tears rolled down his cheeks and onto her shoulder.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay. It’s okay.”
She squeezed him tighter, trying to imprint the feeling of this moment on her soul. Yuya—her beautiful, wonderful, smiling Yuya—so small and uncertain in her arms.
“Don’t do this to yourself anymore,” she whispered. “Please. Don’t make yourself smile if you don’t want to.”
“But I…”
“Promise me. If you keep doing this to yourself, I’ll smack you. Got it?”
He chuckled through his tears, and then she felt him nod as his arms came around her shoulders.
i half-hope that you'll do a shipping challenge for other ygo series then i realise -- my god, it's not like they have fewer pairings than duel monster.
Haha, yeah, I currently have NO plans to take on the other lists, one was probably too much ^^; Also the spin-off lists tend to be a lot more murky in terms of official names, as not everything was officialized by the blogs that tend to run those sorts of things.
But if there are any specific ships from those lists that you would like to see me tackle, I’m usually able to take requests! (no promises this month, though, NaNoWriMo takes first priority)
