#Jean-michel roget

[ygo-colors]

Jean-Michel Roget - Arc V

[idiottimetraveler]

Hey, love your work! For the 5ds world, if Sayer doesn't show up, would Akiza instead be under the control of Roget? Just to give him more people to control (and have an excuse for her to be in the Friendship Cup and meet the other signers there)?

Thanks a lot <3

That's a really cool idea! I wasn't entirely sure if I was gonna put in Sayer or a stand in for him, but that would be really interesting. Having Roget manipulate Akiza and maybe other psychics to serve him in return for protection, or having them be a special unit in security maybe?

Maybe Akiza accidentally hurt someone and Roget promised to excuse the incident if she would work for him in security. And while she starts working there she gets to meet either other psychics or she meets Sherry and Roget manipulates them into believing that Neo Domino would turn on them if he wasn't in charge. When the lancers come to the synchro dimension maybe he sends Akiza &/or Sherry to test them and eventually try to beat them in the friendship cup.

[watertribe-enya]

ygo5dsmonth/Week 2024 Day 6 - Awesomeness Across Infinite Earths

Rex: For your information, I won't fall over like a piece of cardboard if you push me.

Yuzu: (annoyed grumbling)

Wow, the two directors in the two cities sure are different, huh? Roget probably wouldn't last a week, scratch that, he wouldn't last eleven minutes in the crazy town that is Neo Domino. They attack you with real weapons there! Also he's scrawny as a broomstick and gets pushed arround by fouteen year olds.

@ygo5dsmonth-week

[muffinlovingbirb]

Avoid the Duel Chasers with 1 (one) simple trick: moan everytime you lose LP

[anthurak]

Roseknightshipping in ARC-V Ideas (using heavy AU/rewrite elements)

Imagining Roseknightshipping in ARC-V is really fun and silly thanks to the existing AU setting causing an apparent lack of Yliaster and a definite lack of Yusei Fudo. Meaning that all we really have to go off of is Aki’s and Sherry’s shared Rose/Flower/Knight motif and potential for mutually fucked up backstories.

So for my now-rapidly-snowballing ARC-V AU/Rewrite, I’m having Aki and Sherry show up to the Friendship Cup in Neo Domino as basically the ultimate wildcards. Their backstory is that they were both in the same fucked-up Boarding School/Duel Academy that was run by this timelines version of the Arcadia Movement and basically went through a whole-ass Revolutionary Girl Utena plot together before finally hooking up, blowing up the academy, feeding Divine to Black Rose Dragon and riding off into the sunset together.

And now they’ve entered the Friendship cup together as the big mysterious wildcard duelists who nobody is quite sure where they stand. Like they’re clearly not working with Shinji or any of the other Commons, but definitely want to make a lot of trouble for the Topsiders. Maybe Aki is using a retooled version of her ‘Black Rose Witch’ masked-persona, with Sherry possibly using her own take on a secret identity.

Aki and Sherry here both use the fully-expanded ‘Rose Dragon’ and ‘Fleur’ archetypes, with Black Rose Dragon and Chevaliar de Fleur as their ace monsters. Along with using Ruddy Rose Dragon and Baronne de Fleur as super-aces.

(Alternatively, in a similar vein to how Jack uses an alternate version of Red Dragon Archfiend in ARC-V, Aki could use a similarly retrained version of BRD. Say, ‘Black Rose Revolution Dragon’, for obvious reasons XD)

They also have a shared ultimate-ace that they summon when dueling together that is basically Baronne riding Ruddy Rose. It also uses their own flashy gimmick take on Synchro Summoning similar to Accel Synchro or Double Tuning that I admittedly haven’t fully thought out yet. Thoughts so far is that it’s a ‘Hybrid Synchro’ method that uses two Synchro monsters that are both also tuners.

Either way, it’s definitely meant to be a VERY unsubtle metaphor for lesbian sex and both Aki and Sherry being switches XD

Ultimately it’s revealed that the Roseknight duo’s motivations are that Jean Michel Roget was the one behind this version of Arcadia, or at least co-opted/bankrolled them as part of his plan to take over Neo-Domino and betray Academia (somewhat paralleling how Arcadia in 5Ds was trying to oppose Yliaster), and Aki and Sherry are here to completely wreck his shit. Which they do in epic fashion during the climax of the Synchro arc (probably replacing Reiji’s/Declan’s duel with Roget in this version of events) before also feeding him to Ruddy Rose Dragon and mysteriously vanish into the night.

Notably, Sherry and Aki don’t really ‘join’ the heroes following the events of the Synchro arc. Mostly because I made them a just a bit too OP and having them stick around makes thing a bit too easy for the heroes. I mean Sherry runs Baronne for Ra’s sake!

Instead, in this version of events Aki and Sherry are meant to show up, be awesome/hot, kick ass, make every girl in sight start questioning her sexuality, leave and refuse to elaborate. And then make a triumphant reappearance in the final battle to help beat down Zarc.

Again, it is honestly kind of funny just how EASILY you can make a whole-ass Utena-AU with Sherry as Utena and Aki as Anthy:

Sherry LeBlanc is a new student at the prestigious/mysterious/overlydramatic ‘Arcadia Duel Academy’, gets into a duel with some seemingly random asshole, kicks his ass, and suddenly finds herself engaged to the mysterious ‘Rose Bride’; Aki Izayoi and just like that we’re off to the races. Just replace ‘sword duels’ with ‘Monster Duels’ (though Sherry can still do a bit of swordfighting, as a treat) and maybe have Sherry driven to be a Knight rather than a Prince, and we’re set XD

I mean if you think about it, Aki is kind of PERFECT as an equivalent to Anthy? Rose-themed, mysterious powers, super-traumatic past, manipulated by a total scumbag, the true ‘power’ at the center of the academy that everyone is fighting over, she even has a secret identity!

Heck, because we’re in the Synchro-verse, we can easily switch out RGU’s fixation on cars for 5D’s fixation on motorcycles! Maybe not with Sherry or Aki actually turning into a motorcycle, but maybe Black Rose Dragon can do that instead?

As for more specific/random character interactions, ideas and headcanons;

In the present of the show, Aki ends up playing a key role in Rin’s new arc/role/focus as the Synchro-protag and wielder/partner of Clear Wing Synchro Dragon (for a reminder, in this AU, Yugo got kidnapped by Yuri/Academia instead of Rin) as an older, more experienced rival/mentor figure. Essentially paralleling Jack’s role in Yuya’s arc.

Like Rin’s route in this version of the Friendship Cup at first has a very similar trajectory to what Yugo did, with Rin dueling Celina and pulling off a win via Clear Wing evolving into Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon much like what happened with Yugo. Only for Rin to then go up against Aki and get completely trounced, forcing her into some character development.

Specifically; Rin goes into her duel against Aki riding high off her previous victory, believing that Crystal Wing combined with Windwitch – Snow Bell is unbeatable. And in fairness, a Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon with effect-destruction protection IS pretty hard to deal with.

Only for Aki to slap down Mark of the Rose to take control of Crystal Wing. Which incidentally, is visualized through a rather homoerotic sequence of the spirit of Black Rose Dragon basically seducing Crystal Wing XD

And if that wasn’t bad enough, after blasting Rin with a direct attack that drops her lifepoints nearly to 0, Aki proceeds to get around having to give Crystal Wing back next turn by using CWSD as synchro-material to summon Ruddy Rose Dragon. Which to add more injury to injury, banishes Rin’s entire graveyard, including Crystal Wing, plus all the Windwitches that Rin was going to use for her burn strategy. Leaving Rin with quite literally NO way of dealing with the 3200 ATK Rose Dragon.

On her next turn, Rin tries to restart her burn combo using Windwitch – Winter Bell, which she also summons in defense to buy time. Only for Aki to use Thorn of Malice (which has been retooled to work with any Rose Dragon) to give Ruddy Rose Dragon piercing damage and finish Rin off.

Later, Rin as well as Celina end up running into both Aki and Sherry, leading to Aki giving Rin the character-development advice she needs. As well dropping cryptic, mysterious and juicy hints regarding her connection with Black Rose Dragon that parallel Rin’s developing bond with Clear/Crystal Wing, which actually parallels some additional advice Jack gives Yuya.

In this setting, it turns out that both Aki and Jack have variations of their Dragon Signer marks, but rather then representing them being chosen by the Crimson Dragon, they instead represent the bond each of them have with their respective dragon partner. Which is made even more interesting by the fact that Rin has had her own mark ever since she summoned Clear Wing for the first time, while Yuya has had a mark flickering on and off for some time now.

Basically, it’s all meant to imply that Black Rose Dragon and Red Dragon Archfiend are similar to the four Dimension Dragons as powerful monster spirits in their own right, and hint as to what might come later for the characters.

Also, the whole meeting definitely starts with Rin and Celina accidentally walking in on Aki and Sherry making out and the OTHER half of the conversation comprises of Rin and Celina learning that girls can like girls. After the whole discussion, Rin has a whole HOST of new thoughts weighing on her; how to improve as a duelist, this strange bond she has with Clear Wing, and also girls might be hot now?

Meanwhile, all that Celina is thinking comprises of ‘Holy shit, girls are hot’, ‘How long have girls been hot?’, ‘Holy shit all the girls in my deck are hot’, ‘I want to make out with girls now’, ‘Can I smooch the girls in my deck?’, ‘Hey Rin do you wanna make out?’ and ‘Oh shit I said that out loud, didn’t I?’

Needless to say, things get a bit awkward XD

[bloomboxygo]

YGORarepair week Day 2: Duettoshipping!

@ygorarepairweek

Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you. I invented a ship name for two Monsters who had no fanwork together. Until I came along.

I'll briefly present myself with this: I am the author of "A Blossoming Legato", an ARC-V what-if focusing on Duel Spirits and Bloom Diva as Yuzu's spirit companion. However, that relationship is entirely platonic, so I strongly doubt it counts here. So... I made a ship up as I feel, based purely on handholding to heaven, that Aria the Melodious Diva and Sonata the Melodious Diva have a strong bond together. I presented my first work on ARC-V Month, the link to that will be in the comments. Right now, here's my entry in the Hurt/Comfort category (with a slight amount of Kiss).

If you don't recall some events of the anime that are mentioned there, those are changes I made to my fic. Don't worry, they'll be few.

Also I usually make these side things a chapter of Arias of Florescence, the spinoff series, but this... Is really short. Maybe I'll include it as part of a chapter, I dunno.

Comments and criticisms are appreciated, as always!

The Conservatory… One of many places in the Duel Spirits’ World, but one which was distinctly home for the Melodious Monsters, dear companions of Yuzu, who would support her with all their grace and singing prowess whenever they would be called to the Stage that is the Duel Field.

However, ever since Yuzu was thrusted into her misadventures across the dimensions, there would be many happenings in which the Monsters simply had no control over, only being able to know through Bloom Diva’s words, who became Yuzu’s Duel Spirit. Some moments were quite hard to bear for the Monsters, especially the ones they couldn’t understand.

One such moment was shortly after Yuzu was saved by Yuya from the clutches of the mad Jean Michel Roget, which was relayed from Bloom Diva and sparked great joy amongst the ensemble. Said joy would be brief, however, as a violent shake in the Portal which led Bloom Diva to Yuzu’s mind, prompting the Choir to rush to her aid as she, unbeknownst to the Melodious, was separated from Yuya and the others once again because of a wormhole which brought her to the Fusion Dimension.

Great worry and incredulousness filled the usually calm air of the Conservatory, and the Melodious could only pray for Yuzu’s fate, trying to steel themselves with hope, knowing at least that the presence of the portal meant that she was still with them.

However… Aria the Diva, one of the eldest members of the Ensemble, struggled to cling on to hope, as she separated herself from the others to try to soothe herself with silence, perhaps trying to find inspiration to sing… But she just couldn’t do it. She attempted to breathe deeply, to maintain a graceful and upright posture, preparing to sing… But it only ended in an exasperated sigh that brought her to her knees, without the energy to even cry.

Sonata slowly came up to her and reached her, having an educated guess of why she was like this: the Melodious had fought many Duels these last couple days, with few wins and more losses which got harsher and harsher for Yuzu, leading to her apparent demise at worst. With that, Sonata addressed Aria with this approach:

“Yuzu’s fine now. Much worse happened to her, and we all got through that together. Bloom Diva’s with her so rest assured… She’ll be fine.”

“I-I’m…”

Aria could only mutter that in return, and Sonata sat down in front of her and listened to her somewhat unsteady breathing. Without saying even a word, the azure Diva merely lent her hand forward for the bronze Diva to gently put hers forward, and she put both, reaching for her companion’s comfort. Sonata was as willing to meet both her hands with Aria’s as she was to listen to her, at her pace.

“I’m… So exhausted…

I’m exhausted because we’ve all performed a lot… I’m exhausted because our Maestra went through so much… At this point, will we be able to end this war…? Will we be able to even fight?”

Sonata completely understood her companion’s plight, having performed alongside her as recently as last night, a Duel against Barrett to save Yuya which ended up in a curbstomp courtesy of Sergey, as his Earthbound Servants annihilated their fused form, Schuberta. They didn’t have much time to rest at all after this…

“Aria… I’m worn out too.” Sonata responded. “We’ve gone through so much… The most we’ve ever had to endure in our lives. But we’re still here, despite everything. You’ve also come this far with us, I know you’re strong.”

“No… I’m not strong enough… Not strong enough to reach Yuzu!”

Hearing that from Aria, Sonata was slightly surprised. Only slightly as many of the Melodious members wanted to properly meet Yuzu and talk to her. So far, only Bloom Diva could. After that brief thought, Aria continued to speak up.

“It all seemed to be over! Yuzu got finally out of that accursed Roget’s claws and it seemed she could finally be truly happy again, but no! Fate just has to make this ordeal endless! Fate’s just making her suffer! I want to support Yuzu, I want to tell her personally about how I… No, all of us want only the best for her! But I don’t know what’s happening anymore and I-”

Sonata quickly sang a low tune to lower Aria’s rambling slowly. It all worked as their years of singing in sync paid off and Aria’s tune matched Sonata as it became more peaceful, but weary, until it became quiet. The azure Diva knew of this about her companion: her insecurities were always stuck in her somewhat, like an old scar, that the bronze Diva didn’t even remember when it came. But Sonata would always be there for her, and while this was slightly different, she knew how to alleviate Aria’s plight.

“You can tell Yuzu through dueling, Aria. And if I’m called beside you, I’ll help you with all my heart.”

“With dueling…?” Aria then quickly thought and somewhat recomposed herself: “Right… Dueling. Forgive me, I was so caught up in all of this that I… I kind of forgot about it. Our last Duels were so chaotic that I hardly even got the idea of it… But will our Maestra even duel?”

“Of course, Aria!” Sonata then brought the portal to Aria’s attention. “As long as that portal’s still there, Bloom Diva’s with her. As long as Bloom Diva’s with her, she’ll be fine. As long as she’s fine, she will fight and she WILL duel. She’s promised this to everyone, because she’s there to save her friends lost to Academia.”

“And… As long she she will duel, we will perform with her!” Aria suddenly flared up a tiny bit and met Sonata’s warm gaze with a determined one of her own… Only for that to immediately mellow down as she let her head fall to the side, squarely on Sonata’s chest. The azure Diva gently patted Aria on the head as she apologized.

“Of course… That was obvious! Forgive me… How could I have said such foolish things?”

“You didn’t say anything foolish, Aria. You were just tired, that’s all.” Hearing that from Sonata, Aria detached from Sonata’s chest to meet her gaze with hers, and her shoulders with her hands. She couldn’t help but chuckle a little bit, having calmed down.

“Well… There’s another occasion of me needing help… I thought I’d gone over it, but it seems not! Then again… I know you’re here, and I can’t thank you enough for it!”

“It’s never wrong to ask for help, Aria!” Sonata warmly responded. “You’ve also helped everyone a ton, too… We’ll be there for one another until the end, this I know.”

As Sonata gently lent her hands on her, Aria ran out of words to say, as she knew that were the case. Maybe all she needed was some comfort from those who cared for her, and the ideal one came to aid. Maybe… Simple warmth to contrast these cold, tiring misadventures.

And so, Aria pushed herself forward to meet her lips with Sonata’s, and the other happily obliged, resulting in a tender kiss between the two divas as they thoroughly embraced one another, their arms reaching the other’s back for a warm hug. The two had performed together so much, especially in these tiring times, and it was easy to see how they simply needed each other to revitalize themselves, so they could sing to their heart’s content until the end.

“Feeling better, Aria?”

“Yes, I am… I especially feel better when you do, Sonata!”

Sure enough, as they were finished with the kiss, both Melodious found themselves in better shape than before… A thing which Shopina also noticed.

“I am grateful that you feel revitalized, you two!”

“ACK! Shopina?!” Sonata hastily exclaimed as both felt flustered. “My apologies, but were you watching us?”

“No, I just arrived here… I knew you would reach one another for comfort, so I let you be… Until now.” Shopina’s tone grew more serious, prompting Sonata and Aria to rise to their feet, and the bronze Diva to ask:

“Until now? Are we called to perform?”

“Indeed we are, Aria! Let us get going!”

That signal from Shopina meant that Yuzu was to Duel once more, and they all hastily returned to the main hall, but not before this quick exchange started from Aria.

“Well… I guess it’s time! I wonder if I’ll be called to perform!”

“Well, if you aren’t, I’ll simply sing it for you, Aria!” Sonata warmly responded. “After all… We’re all in this together!”

[infinity-squared-comics]

Yu-gi-oh Arc-V/Persona 5 AU: Part 4

Shay Obsidian- Codename, Rebel. Wielder of the Justice Arcana

A radical activist and a friend of Yuya's late brother, Yuto, Shay was sent into a dark spiral after The Accident. Obsessively pursuing Jean-Michel Roget, a corrupt police commissioner that he and Yuto had clashed with many times before.

In an attempt to help his brother's friend, Yuya and his friends went after Roget, eventually leading to a climactic battle within his Palace, where Shay had stumbled in by accident. Seeing Yuya and his friends hurt so badly, Shay's anger and strong rebellious spirit were able to awaken his persona, Icarus.

Icarus is a persona that specializes in gunfire and large artillery barrages, wielding nuclear type damage.

1-2-3-4-S

[its-to-the-death]

Yu-gi-oh Master Duel Showdown Round 2

Jean-Michel Roget (Arc-V) vs Rin (Arc-V)

Ancient Gears vs Windwitches!

[baddyzarc]

Police State - Arc V Op 3: Unleash

[fyeahygocardart]

Ancient Gear Howitzer

[daddyzarc]

Hes mine now

[pendulum-sonata]

About Roger...

Not sure if this counts as some sort of mini-analysis because it’s more of a late realization that came as I was thinking that some people think that his off-screen death was “easy” and dunno, I guess they wanted to see him punished onscreen? 

Because he was such a well-written scumbag that at the end we were all rooting for his demise, but I mean more like, I don’t think I ever heard anyone even refer to him as a “problematic fave” or anything even as a joke. He was irredeemable to the point that the only believable reason many find for him not dying on-screen or getting carded or something, it’s because censorship and the like. 

But that’s not the only reason, Arc V needed to stay consistent in the central themes of the series revolving entertainment dueling and bonding with people, by that logic they couldn’t have any of the Lancers and much less Yuya to card him or anyone else, for some of you it may be easy to say: “But, he really did deserve it and it’s not like they were suddenly going to card people willy-nilly.”

Well, no, obviously, but it would mean that it would have made it okay for any of them to card Dennis, or the Doc, or Leo, because doing that with Roger would have set up the precedent of “it’s okay to card people, if they deserve it.” and it’s also the reason why the Doc’s carding had to be done by Leo rather than any of our heroes.

And at the end? Roget died a miserable death anyway, crushed between dimensions and brought only by himself because he refused to accept defeat, so imo, it’s even poetic in a way.

Because all the villains of Arc V brought their own misery onto themselves on one way or another, so what would be more fitting than their fall or defeat to be brought by themselves too?

[entamewitchlulu]

Mom and dad: I’m so tired. Nothing I do works anymore. People boo me when I duel now because I won’t duel aggressively like everyone else, even when I’m winning.  It’s my fault that dueling’s turned into this. My manager dropped me and I’m getting close to getting cut from the circuit again, even though I have more wins than losses.  I don’t think I’d be able to do this if Ray wasn’t here.

oh yea by the way new dispersion chapter dropped today

[morningmoon]

Guys, I found the bit of the finale that explains Roget! (also Barret died on his way to his home planet)

[pdutogepi]

Reiji has just put in place a combo that makes Roget instantly lose every time he rejoins the duel. Eternally. This is glorious.

[authoratmidnight]

My first ARC V fic in a while and it’s about, of all characters, Roget. lol

It’s been sitting as a wip in google docs for like a year so I decided to finish it up and post it. 

Roget was nowhere.

Well that wasn’t entirely true, he was stuck in the void between dimensions, which meant he was somewhere.

Or, what happened after Roget got sucked into the void between dimensions at the end of the Synchro arc.