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warmup today is an elaboration on a cunty lil seto i doodled while drinking last night
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pen sensitivity glitched so i gotta reload the puter but i had no time for that
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So Sonic x Yugioh crossover has been on my mind alot so I thought it'd be fun making my own designs and take on how Yugioh characters would look like as mobians
These are season 0 designs, I will make DM versions in the future.
Yugi/Yami: Hedgehogs, because the spikey hair lmao, also hedgehogs are hella cute. Why they are different species of hedgehog and why Yami doesnt really look like a desert hedgehog is cuz... well... You'll see when I make Atem's design properly, now hes just copying Yugi's image.
Anzu: Blue crane, I wanted her to be an animal that is associated with dancing and most bird species do dance! Blue cranes also look very graceful and their dance requires quite the footwork!
Miho: Lilac rabbit, her nickname is ribbon and I immediately thought of rabbit. Who could have thought there was a lilac one in real life, tehee!
Katsuya: Carolina dog, I didn't realize how much Seto and Ryuji humiliated Katsyua in the anime with dog-themed insults I JUST THOUGHT HE WAS DOG-CODED, now I feel kinda bad...
Hiroto: Wolverine, I know he could have been a monkey instead based on that filler arc in the anime, but I'm basing most of these characterizations from the manga. Hiroto was certainly the hardest to assign a certain animal too, I tried with something that associates with his name more but ehhh. Wolverine works with his color palette, also they kinda cool, lanky but strong
The Kaiba bros: Puma, I definetly wanted to make Seto some kind of feline and I choose Puma because of their eyes, mostly their glare. It fits them so much hehehe. Mokuba was more an afterthought but puma works for him too
Ryuo/Yami Bakura: Japanese raccoon dog (tanuki), at first I wanted to make them normal raccoons but I also wanted to settle for something more regional in Japan, which is why I choose tanuki. While Ryuo isn't a theif, his counterpart certainty is
Shadi: African golden wolf, I wanted him to be whatever animal Anubis is and apparently it is not a jackal (common misconception lmao). Anubis is actually an african golden wolf that where historically misidentified as Egyptian jackal. Tho the ears aren't similar to Anubis at all, I still wanted to keep Anubis likeness in Shadi
Dark magician/Mahado: Pharao hound, well I think this one is pretty obvious, with Mahado being Atem's ever loyal servant and protector
Dark magician girl/Mana: Abyssinian cat, I wanted Mana to be some Egyptian cat and Abyssinian cats are just absolutely gorgeous. A very active, social and curious breed with lively enegy <3
this shit is something to me man. i love you
i like his weird ears a lil
little kuriboh thiefshipping i need you . come back to me
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Ryou Bakura (Character Design Analysis)
[For context: I have not watched full episodes of Season 0, nor have I watched The Dark Side of Dimensions, but I am on Season 5 of binge watching Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters}
I've seen how some people talk about the eye color inconsistency in Ryou's appearances throughout the series. And in my speculation, I think its because of different interpretations of Ryou's character in its entirety.
What to expect:
1.) Color Psychology: Throughout the Series
Season 0
Yugioh Duel Monsters
2.) His deck
control over utter power
3.) Cognitive Functions
Exploring INFP cognitive functions
4.) Synthesis
{I won't go deep into his lore, my primary focus here is character design}
1.) Color Psychology: Throughout the Series
Let's just say that a common thread throughout all his character designs is that he specifically has spiky, long, and pale hair.
⚪ White as a color
Represents an idea of vast, spaciousness. Almost like a blank canvas that you can easily project onto, as white itself makes colors bounce off of it by nature.
White on Ryou? it really makes him look "friend shaped" (approachable and almost innocent), a "cinnamon roll" as people call it.
What could the long hair mean for him?
Ryou is pretty much one of the only characters of the main cast with long hair (besides Duke Devlin) . I interpret it as more of an extension of his even-keeled temperament. Comfortable just going with the flow of things, letting things be as they are, open to go along with what others want but also maintaining self possession over their own appearance. It feels more like an emphasis that Ryou himself doesn't trouble himself with over emphasis on being presentable and overly efficient in any given scenario.
Season 0
The spiky, blue-ish, long hair and green eyes really lean into that
"I know more than I appear" pretty boy look.
It makes him look ethereal, intuitive, but may hold back a lot like there's something he knows that we don't.
What Would ⚪+🔵 Signal?
In Season 0, his hair is more of a pale turquoise color.
In my readings, a common symbolism of turquoise is:
Empathy
Compassion
Healing
Clarity
So, what would having light green eyes mean?
In this context, it makes characters look intuitive. Like you can project onto them and make you think "what you see is what you get" when in actuality the green is a form of armor, and they're reading you a lot more well than you read them.
When I think to examples of where this speculation is applicable, I think to Reze from Chainsaw man and Kurama from YuYu Hakusho
Brief summary, Reze pretty much appears almost as an angel of light, until you find out that this lady is literally the Bomb Devil who really showed up in Denji's life to acquire something of his, but ended up feeling genuinely attached to him.
Kurama (YuYu Hakusho)
Kurama just like Ryou, has the whole "pretty boy with a demonic side" trope. They both appear gentle, kind, but have a struggle between two "truths" that live within themselves, but in the end they still choose to have compassion for others.
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To combine both aspects together
Pale turquoise hair + green eyes,
creates a character who puts an external focus on other people, hell, Ryou puts others way above himself a lot of times, and he also knows too much and perhaps sees too much but keeps it to himself. Which creates a constant push and pull like waves but inside his own psyche, which is why, even as a "soft looking character" like Ryou, I do believe that his favorite card being "Change of heart" do fit him as a character (besides the whole Yami Bakura situation) I think he's the type of character who is able to hold two contradicting truths simultaneously without losing his core self.
Which is its own mental toughness on its own despite presented as almost fragile.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
(Dark) brown eyes make him look grounded, like a familiar friend who you can almost instinctively trust. It shows the side of his personality that he's usually the one just tagging along, going with what everyone wants to do, and generally just enjoy the concept of just "being there" with other people. It very much leans into the idea that he himself does not occupy much space socially or interpersonally.
Hell, in that cave scene where they were running from a "boulder" rolling towards them, he kept chanting both in the Japanese and English version "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry" as if he immediately just blames himself for anything bad going on even if its not even founded in the reality of the situation.
I feel bad for the fact that while its true he is within Yugi's friend group, I don't think anyone has really gotten to a first name basis with him, better yet, I don't think anyone really remembers to think "how's Bakura doing?" in just a normal day within their lives.
2.) His deck
In the Duel Monsters series people commonly know, the first time we encounter both Yami Bakura and Ryou Bakura is literally in his moment of showing his favorite card, that being "change of hearts"
It's not a direct pressure of power like how Kaiba pressure plays using strong attack stat monsters, but in that same episode, he uses alot of cards that forces your opponent to react to you, instead of directly attacking them via strong atk monsters.
Its a kind of "disruption deck" where the game is not just about "who has the higher attack stat" anymore compared to most duelists in Yugioh, but how much you can attack them indirectly. Whether mentally or psychologically.
Which reminds me of how he influences the show's story,
indirectly.
3.) Cognitive Functions
Ryou Bakura being INFP
(Fi-Ne-Si-Te)
Dominant Fi (Introverted Feeling), would mean that he feels through things to ask himself is something is alright, correct, or when he should step in as a dominant way of living and seeing the world.
(Ne and Si...I might leave this blank for now until I find more things about Ryou)
You can argue that his inferior Te (Extroverted Thinking) shows up in the fact that (yes, the millenium ring comes right back to him) but boy does he CONSTANTLY WEAR IT. I'm not sure if it just magically appears on his neck even if he tried throwing it out, but based on the anime (most people know and watched) he voluntarily puts the millenium ring around his neck, but seems to be okay with Tristan throwing it away if it "makes him act weird".
4.) Synthesis
With every variation of Ryou Bakura, even in the tiny tidbits I see from The Dark Side of Dimensions, he is someone who:
is self sacrificial
puts other people first
easy to get along with
a lot more perceptive than he appears
self possessed despite his attention to others
has a strong inner core
I get the feeling that this part of Ryou that puts over emphasis on other people may come from the fact that in his life he probably has no one actually asking him, "how is he doing?" so he focuses on other people's well being instead (plus the fact he does seem rather lonely, often *is* alone socially, and lives all by himself.)
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We see Yami Bakura a lot more than Ryou Bakura in the duel monsters series 😭 don't get me wrong, I enjoy Yami Bakura doing his shenanigans, but I also feel like Ryou deserves a lot more love. (I plan to read the manga of yugioh only after i pick up Season 0) oh well, atleast with so much yugioh content, technically you'll still see more of Ryou in small doses in each series...
I wanted to include the dark sides of dimensions version of Ryou Bakura but I cant currently watch the movie.
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"game of 58 holes" / "hounds and jackals" an ancient egyptian race game! there are two players, one plays 5 dogs figures (ears down) and the other plays 5 jackals figures (ears up) want to play?
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fic so good got my grown ass at 3am reading giggling and kicking my feet under the sheets; early chapter(s) doodles of The Last Puzzle by @tenderwulf
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I just now realized this was still in my drafts and i never posted them so heres some more the last puzzle songs (still mostly tendershipping sorry puzzleboys) part 2
let me go - otuka
A Girl Is A Gun - Lllyric?
Bad Dream - ThxSoMch
The Unknowing - Jfarrari
BITTER - ThxSoMch (feat. Max Fry)
EVERYTHING I'VE EVER WANTED - Tiffany Day (this ones for yugi here have some crumbs)
Safe - NewDad
First Love/Late Spring and Francis Forever by Mitski (mitski was gonna worm her way in here eventually)
Sarcasm and Don't You Dare Forget The Sun- Get Scared
Apologies for the tonal whiplash throughout this whole thing the tendersillies are just like that
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