#Bracelet girls

[cocosnowlo-drawings]

Can’t just stop after Ruri and Serena now, can I? :D Here’s Rin, had a lot of fun with this

[tiredgremlintime]

HAPPY LULU/RURI AND RIN REUNION DAY

Here’s to meeting old and new friends!

[justanotherotakuandartist]

Got myself drawing again 👍

[firbetmakes]

Preview of the digital wallpapers I illustrated for the second @ygocookbookzine! I'm so happy I could work on the zine again <3 it's on Preorder until >> April 20th << so make sure to pick one up!

All 5 wallpapers are formatted for desktop, tablet, and phone sizes. So they'll look adorable no matter what ☆⌒(≧▽​° )

This idea snowballed alot but I can never resist a set of illustrations. All 5 of the Yu Boys and Bracelet Girls in reverse cafe outfits, with a fruit spin.

[bphantom01]

I loved this transition LMFAO

(Someone's jealous 👀🤭🤭)

+Ruri being rlly direct LOL & Serena being rather dumb abt relationships 💀

And then rin denying her jealousy XDDD

IM CRYING THIS SO GOOD

[entamewitchlulu]

this ruri rin event is soooo good the girls are so perfectly characterized ;w; i love how while they all have a lot in common due to being reincarnations of the same person, and have a lot of similar values and such, they're also so distinct and have such distinct voices.

You've got Yuzu, who's kind of big sister coded in a way, like she can take it and dish it out, but she's also caring and mature. She's a bit more on the reserved side compared to Ruri, being more reticent about her real feelings because of embarrassment, but she's not a tsundere. She's competitive, but in a friendly competition sort of way.

Ruri is a bit similar to Yuzu, but she's a lot more forward and up front about both her feelings and her random thoughts, being much more willing to just directly ask someone "oh so are you going out?" rather than dancing around the subject, and never holding back on saying how she truly feels about someone (which is almost always positive). She has no shame or embarrassment about saying how she cares about someone.

Selena is a wildly sheltered, one-brain cell jock who doesn't know what dating is, and she can be blunt but mostly just because she doesn't really get social graces. She's very headstrong and straightforward, and almost devastatingly honest, maybe even a little gullible (her upbringing certainly made her susceptible to influence). She's very pure, in a way, but she's quick to take responsibility for her mistakes and straightforward with others.

And then there's Rin, who is definitely the most reticent about her true feelings, covering them up with tsundere-esque dismissals and sometimes avoiding closeness (likely because her upbringing causes her to fear loss, so she holds things at arm's length in case they disappear). But she's also so much more like Yugo than I initially anticipated, she also has the same pure love of dueling and competition which is why they make such a good duo. Peas in a pod. She can be a bit childish in some ways, when she gets petty about not getting to be in the Friendship Cup, and she's less a big sister or a mom friend than she is the friend who struggles to hold onto the brain cell when she's with her other dumb friend, and i love that for her.

It's just so cool how unique they all are. I love Arc V. The character writing is so good.

[horrifyingsludge]

userboxes for the bracelet girls' decks!

[dailybraceletgirls]

[arc-of-smiles]

there are three paths only

[cocosnowlo-drawings]

Felt inspired to draw some elemental designs for the bracelet girls 💧🔥🍃🪽

[purpleleafsyt]

Decided to do warmups of the bracelet girls :]

[arcvmonth]

ARC-V Month is 5 days away!

[blastthechaos]

NGL Ray's plan of her sending her counterparts to watch over Zarc’s is kinda stupid, they don't need vigilance cause they're dimensions apart, unless someone really goes out of their way to try and join them all together, it ain't happening...and that's assuming her counterparts even want to stay near them, for all she knows they can just choose to fuck off (or they have to move for some reason) and that's it, they aren't watched anymore, great plan.

[peppermint-shamrock]

Bracelets

Four drabbles, one for each girl, about their bracelets. Written for Fandom Empire Prompt Tables 2024 - Prompt: "Shiny"

Read on AO3

Flowers

Yuzu held her bracelet up to the light, angling it this way and that. The light reflected off of it, bright when it caught just right – but for all that it was shiny, it didn’t shine the way that it had before.

The light she had seen wasn’t merely reflected; it had emanated from the gem on her bracelet. She was almost certain of that.

But Yuzu hadn’t yet managed to replicate it on demand.

That magic existed in the world wasn’t something she doubted, exactly, but it wasn’t something she ever expected to encounter, either.

What was going on?

Birds

“You’re always wearing that shiny bracelet,” a classmate said. “It’s lovely. Where did you get it?”

“It was a gift,” Ruri answered. She didn’t actually remember, but she had a vague feeling that that much was true.

“Oh? From an admirer, perhaps?” her companion asked with a teasing and eager lilt to her voice.

Ruri shook her head.

“From your older brother, then?” the other asked, not quite as enthusiastically as before.

“I think so,” Ruri said slowly, after considering it for a moment. “I don’t fully remember, but it would make sense.”

But it didn’t seem quite right, either.

Winds

The parts weren’t in perfect condition, but they were in far better shape than what Rin usually found.

They were also more than she could afford. But maybe she could sell or trade something to make up the difference?

Rin eyed her bracelet. People had told her it seemed too nice of a trinket for a Common to wear. If she was lucky, the shiny green gem or the silver band might be worth a lot.

But some inscrutable feeling stayed her hand.

Besides, she’d probably never get a fair price for it, when she didn’t know its true worth.

Moon

“Cowards,” Selena said, coldly glaring at her now defeated opponents.

She advanced on the trembling heap that she was ashamed to call her fellow students, and scooped up the shiny bracelet, taking back what was rightfully hers.

She was all the more pissed that this was what they had stolen. Oh, she would have been pissed if they had taken her deck or Duel Disk, instead, but that, at least, would have been a strategic theft.

But her bracelet? The one thing she had that wasn’t from Academia, her constant reminder that there was more out there?

That was unforgivable.

[raidraptorz]

Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V EEO Store Pop Art Merch

[pinkprimrose05]

What do you see for the future/post series for Yuya or like if the Yu boys and Yu girls all come back post series what would happen, would they be like sister and brothers, couples, etc.?

I'm in this funny position where shipping is a foreign battlefield but I'm still open to considering it as an interpretation in some cases. Let's tackle this gradually:

- The ones I always default to thinking of in a sibling context are Yuuto and Ruri (and Shun! Do not separate the Xyz trio please), Yuzu and Serena, Yuugo and Serena (squabblers extraordinaires), Yuugo and Yuuya (writers you had one job-), and... that's about it, yeah. These groups/pairs are the ones that sound like they'd have sibling energy the most to me (as someone with ample experience regarding The Sibling Experience).

- Fruit to me has the most potential to be a legit romance, and while Apple does too, I oscillate between the possibility of Rin reciprocating Yuugo's affection that way, or being too used to thinking of him as a brother figure and him just going through a puppy crush of sorts that he lets go of over time. It's one hell of a dilemma, let me tell you that.

- You may have noticed a distinct lack of Yuuri in all of these cases, and this mainly stems from the fact that I think he needs a lot of time to ease into a semblance of normal relationships with anyone. This cabbage has so much to unlearn and learn, but I believe he'll get there! Eventually!

(But not in the shippy way, I'm afraid. Yuuya makes him watch one of those sappy movies one time, and he proceeds to gag for ten minutes straights at the happy get-together at the end.)