#(because this fic is based on a Disney cartoon for 12 year olds & at some point rigorous adherence to logically justification gets tedious—

[ckret2]

I don't really understand Bill's abilities. If I'm not mistaken, it was said that he knows lot of things because every image of Bill works like a camera through which Bill can observe this world.

And at the same time, he knows where long-forgotten treasures are buried and which lottery tickets you need to buy to win. And recently you said that Bill knows everything about humans, until the moment it is necessary that Bill did not know about something so that there would be a funny situation.

And also Bill can see the future. Is this how he was able to see where the treasure was buried and which tickets needed to be bought? Did he see in the future that a treasure would be found in some place, and tickets with such numbers would let somebody win money?

You don't fully understand Bill's abilities because they haven't been fully explained. It's on purpose. He's a mysterious guy with secrets and he doesn't sit around thinking about how his own abilities work. However, I've shared what you need to know in order to understand as much as you're supposed to about what he's done so far.

Yes, he knows lots of things because he's been spying through his eyes on earth for millennia. This is based on semi-canon info: Bill states this in the Bill Cipher AMA. ("JUST DRAW MY FORM ANYWHERE IN YOUR HUMAN WORLD- EACH IMAGE OF ME ACTS A PEEPHOLE FROM MY DIMENSION TO YOURS.")

He knows where long-forgotten treasures are buried because "long-forgotten" means the last human who knew is dead. He's not a human, he was around when it was buried, he knew about it at the time.

HOW he knew isn't explained because it isn't necessary—it's supposed to be weird and impressive that he knew and that he flung it out so casually—but it isn't hard to think up logical reasons: buried treasure has a whole lot of money in it, I'd think a few of those dollar bills could have been luckily angled to watch the treasure-buriers while they were drawing up the treasure map for where they planned to bury it. Or maybe the chest they used had an Eye of Providence on the iron lock and it could see where it was carried. Or maybe one of the people who buried it was wearing an Eye of Providence brooch. Doesn't matter. What does matter: if Bill knows about something old, it's because he has known about it.

When he's looking at the lotto tickets, his eye is bleeding and Mabel says he's looking into a higher dimension. Other places (definitely chapter 29, I don't recall if any of the other upcoming references have been posted yet) state that Bill can see into higher dimensions, which lets him see through solid objects (such as walls), but doing this makes his eye hurt/bleed. Therefore: he's looking through a solid object—the scratch-off surface—to see if the cards have winning numbers. This wasn't explained in chapter 20 because you're supposed to go "how tf did he do that," that was the goal.

"And recently you said that Bill knows everything about humans, until the moment it is necessary that Bill did not know about something so that there would be a funny situation." <- Now this here is what we call a joke about the writing process. I am not literally stating that Bill's powers are supernaturally controlled by the concept of comedy. I'm stating that, as a writer trying to craft an entertaining narrative, sometimes my decision to include a line is based less on "does this hold up to rigorous scientific & logical scrutiny given the internal rules we have constructed for this universe?" and more on "is it funny enough to balance out the fact that it's a little bit implausible?" I won't fully violate the rules of his powers solely for a gag, but sometimes it just ain't all that serious.

Here are Bill's 'sees/knows things he shouldn't' powers based on what has thus far been shown in the fic:

Knows a lot of random stuff; they're among the Lots Of Things he's observed over the millennia. This is based on semi-canon info.

Can (occasionally) see into "higher dimensions," which lets him see through solid objects, at the cost of pain and a bloody eye.

Can (constantly) see into the future; full extent yet to be explored in fic, but it's at least a few minutes. Please note that every time this has happened where we see it from his perspective, he LITERALLY SEES the future, visually, with his eyeballs. As in, he looks at the place where something is going to happen, and sees it happening there. (Places he's observed the future just off the top of my head: ch 2, 7, 18, 20, 27, 28, 34, 35—there may be others I've missed.)

Can see & hear things in the mindscape (ex: Dipper's ghost floating around) that other people (ex: Dipper's whole family) cannot

Can see in the dark (explicitly confirmed in ch 34 but he regularly hangs out in the dark startling people—ch 15, 20, 24, 26, 32)

[greenphantomqueenuniverse]

Lia’s Duel School - How I Got This Crazy Idea

Welcome to the opening of Lia’s Duel School for Aspiring YGO Writers.

This is a blog that I’ve had thought of for the past month or so, but at now, you must be thinking, “Why make a blog based on this crazy idea?”

It’s a long story, so sit by my side as the lights darken and the curtains pull.

(Ah memories...)

I’ve been a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh since I was 10-11. I was a big fan of Ancient Egypt at the time, and when I learned of Yu-Gi-Oh having basis on the kingdom that was born from the Nile River, I fell in love with it at first site. I remember asking my father to get me a pair of Yu-Gi-Oh sneakers with little Millennium Puzzle zippers that I would wear to school practically every day, asking my aunt for a Pegasus Starter Deck because I loved all the cute Toon Monsters (although if I were to play a deck these days, I’d go for Gravekeeper’s with a Dark Horus card beacuse it’s my favorite monster ever) and watching in fear watching Yami Yugi vs Yami Bakura in the Duelist Kingdom anime when the souls of the characters were trapped in their favorite Duel Monster Cards.

This love expanded when I found about fanfiction when I was 12. There, I wanted to write stories like how I always dreamed of for all to share. Of course, my drafts were...pathetic, but I still kept watching the anime, writing my stories and reading fanfics, under the name of Green Phantom Queen

(And yes, I know the card is “Green Phantom King” but after learning about the mythology of the Morganna, I rolled with it.”.

It was around this time that I learned of the fanfiction.net writer, Cyber Commander (who now goes by the name of 0ccam’s Razor) whose Yu-Gi-Oh story: Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Messiah kicked me into writing my first ever duel fic that would be what I defined myself under: “Between My Brother and Me”, the title of an old fanfic series I once planned that was a Pokémon/Yu-Gi-Oh crossover in which Valon was actually the older brother of May and Max and the two set off to find him.

Of course, I was 13 at the time, but three to four years later, I became a better writer and the plot of that became, “May and Max decide to go to Domino City for vacation before May goes to the Johto Region and get entangled with the Waking the Dragons Arc” (which is currently going into a rewrite that I totally need to update...)

Years passed, college and life happened, going to Burma with my mom happened when I was just 22 for only three weeks, and I wasn’t writing due to lack of internet connection. But I STILL had a desire to.

So in 2017, I started again. Using my phone and an Internet card to write as much as I could. I had already planned on a collection of Pokémon/Yu-Gi-Oh crossovers with an added twist: the characters existed in an universe where ALL characters, regardless of what series they came from all existed in some sort of community. So you can have Seto Kaiba still running Kaiba Corp. while Team Satisfaction cleans up Duel Gangs in Satellite, or Yuma Tsukumo and his friends go to school with Judai Yuki along with (human) Pokémon characters playing Duel Monsters and getting into crazy adventures.

But, the thing is, while the crossover aspect got my brain fired up, I still wasn’t ready to make the plunge into this blog yet.

And you may be asking, “What changed your mind?”

Well, you’ll be surprised at what happened next.

Come June/July 2018. I have just learned that the Philippines has uploaded a cartoon known as Legend of the Three Caballeros, an action-adventure oriented cartoon series where Disney’s Three Caballeros (Donald Duck, Jose Carioca and Panchito Pistoles--or Gonzoles in this case) were tasked to stop the evil Lord Felldrake by teaming up with Xandra, Goddess of Adventure in fighting strange monsters all around the world.

And by coincidence, one of the episodes had our heroes go to Peru and enter the Nazca Realm.

Someone on the comments section of that video (which has sadly been removed) commented on how the Nazca Lines IMMEDIATELY brought back the Earthbound Immortal saga of Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds, one of my favorite arcs due to its supernatural elements and how freaking dark it was. The Dark Signers already existed in my Pokemon/Yugioh crossover verse (with each and every Dark Signer a Pokémon character whose role is to cleanse humans of sin and await the day that the open the “Gates of Hamunaptra” in Satellite) and a thought of “What would happen if Disney characters became Dark Signers” entered my head, resulting in the story known as “Legends of the Three Caballeros: Dark Signs of the Sun”: in which the Three Caballeros fight off against the Dark Signers in a Kingdom Hearts like adventure through the use of Duel Monsters.

Published at the end of August, I have been amazed to find people so interested in this story. But...why?

Was it its novelty? It is the only fanfic of a Disney/Yu-Gi-Oh crossover that involves dueling.

Was it the writing? I wasn’t sure about that, seeing as I had a few reviews from ACTUAL readers rather than spam.

I thought and thought about it for a while, and then lightning struck.

I may not be able to understand WHY it was becoming so popular, but perhaps I could use it as a stepping stone to help others get into writing duelfics.

After all, when it comes to Yu-Gi-Oh, we come for Duel Monsters and the epic battles first.

So with this, I announce that Lia Duel School is open and anyone and everyone willing to follow me in a curriculum based on writing will have a blast as they understand what it takes to make a story such as this.

And who knows? Perhaps one day I’ll be reading fanfics in the future by these aspiring writers.

So, what are you waiting for? Grab your notebooks and pens, get that internet up and running, and get set to learn all there is about the Art of Duelfics.

Next time: The definition of a Duelfic comes first.

See you then!