#Jim beyblade

[ashxketchum]

V-force content from Beyblade World has now been uploaded to the Drive.

As mentioned before, the above link will feature all the content uploaded on the Beyblade World website that is permanently shutting down on 31st March'23.

Content from Season 2/V-force has now been added, including character art, representative episode screen grabs, DVD art, calendar art and character style sheets. Additionally, there is a doc which features all the textual content like character profiles and episode summaries in Japanese.

This took more time because unlike Season 1, they've uploaded multiple representative episode grabs for this (the folder has more than 200+ images) so it was a very time-taking and monotonous process. I fear I may not have enough time to get done with everyone's favourite child aka G-revolution before the site shuts down because of course, it has similar if not more amount of content.

Sorry, I'll definitely try my best to get everything though!

An example of what you can find in the archive:

[johannepetereric]

THEY DIDN’T HAVE NOTEWORTHY BIT BEASTS ALREADY?!?! BUT KANE HAD COPYCAT-DRAGOON MOVES!!!

ig that explains why Wikia says these four wield the Cyber Bit Beasts

[iorihimee]

MAYBLADE 2023: DAY 6 - RESTRAIN

[poda-venna]

Headcanons: Team Psykick

I find the team very underrated and it appears to be the least appreciated out of all the major teams in the series. Potentially, I was able to create a couple of headcanons for them and yes, they deserve some!

→ Meeting and team formation

The Psykicks met four years before the cyber incident. Kane was on a trip to Tokyo, and met Salima in the park where she was Beyblading with some bladers. Kane challenged her for a battle, and it ended in a tie. They become friends.

Kane had already known Jim by that time. He met him in a similar fashion, but with science and mechanics involved in it. They both are the brainy brats of the soon to be formed team, and discussed long about repairing beyblades and so on.

Salima and Kane together met Goki the next day in the same place in the same way. Kane introduced Jim to them and that's how they decided to form a Beyblading team with the four. Despite living in different regions in and across Japan, every year they meet to travel.

→ Post-cyber incident

They wanted to embark on a new journey since the battle tower incident altered a small part in their peaceful life. They'd want to start everything afresh and forget the bad things. However, Kane suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and couldn't get over the misery by the time world championships ended. He felt that he didn't deserve his teammates. He didn't get enough opportunities to excel in Beyblading that particular year and went on a couple of counselling sessions to the psychiatrist dealing with his case.

Jim felt incredibly ridiculed and lost his hope. He is considered to be the weakest by none other than himself. Goki is the most sane about it and Salima is the comforting hen. Yet, she is feeling very bad for them, especially for Kane. She never thought that a mentally strong person like Kane is feeling extremely down.

Nevertheless, they get over their misery soon enough.

→ Personal space

Goki and Kane often take the responsibility to take the lead, especially the latter but Goki tends to guide him during certain occasions. Jim is the youngest and he needs to be taken care of for most of the time. Salima is the one who often acts like the mother Hen to the team and controls them whenever fights and arguments ensue. However, Kane also takes turns to stop such things.

Goki and Jim are often together, and similarly the case for Kane with Salima. Goki and Jim gel well with each other and they often beybattle. However, Jim ends up losing most of the time but he is not angry with him every time. They are cool and fun bros.

Kane and Salima share common grounds, loyal and have immense trust on each other. Overall they have a mutually healthy and good relationship. He taught her to not worry about winning or losing, but just enjoy battling. She has feelings for him and loves his company. She is emotionally dependent on him and often finds him her comfort person.

They have a relationship which is a bit above friendship, marking the possibility of them getting romantic overtime.

Goki and Jim quarrel during some occasions, and it becomes a hard time for the other two. Regardless, they remain

→ Travels

All the four contribute an equal amount of shares but however, Kane often takes the responsibility for bookings - be it train tickets, flight tickets, bus tickets, cabs, rooms, dorms, tables, etc. Jim looks for points of interest. Goki and even Kane do both. Salima doesn't contribute much in this but invests her time on shopping complexes during their tours.

Jim has the lightest baggage, whereas it is heavier for Salima and Goki. Kane stays in the neutral good.

They book two rooms - one for the guys and one for Salima. However, Kane sometimes stays with Salima and she doesn't mind it either.

Jim loves to click photos of everything and literally everywhere they go, he doesn't get satisfied without this hobby. Kane is more invested in the informational aspect and he loves museums the most. He won't leave the place without gaining knowledge. Jim loves the same too but sometimes, he likes places associated with sceneries (for photos and shit). Goki doesn't have specific preferences. Salima likes botanical gardens, coffee and tea estates, and places with street shops and others.

Salima often cooks if they are staying in tents or cottages. Goki helps her at times.

During their travels, they encounter several beybladers. Kane usually fights them and Jim analyses the battles. The others fight when they feel like.

Kane maintains a book to record all their travelling days. Sometimes, Salima wants to sneak into it but Kane doesn't allow that, as it's his personal diary.

[idontthinkimokaymentally]

Hello there Jim fans.

[moonandblossoms]

People should just STOP saying that Salima was the only one who handled things better during the psykicks arc while Kane was (some insert slur here). We need to accept it. Kane did think in the wise way. Instead of just forfeiture of the match, he just decided to use the blade without releasing the bit-beasts. Not the best decision, but let's face it. Imagine what would've happened if Salima tried to steal the bit-beast and hand it over to Rei. Over a period of time, the scientists and Dr. B would find her out, and that would cause too much of disputes among the team. The relationship with her teammates would've been hampered in many ways and it's just that Kane, as the CAPTAIN doesn't want to sever the connection among his teammates. The team started to destroy, like how Goki and Jim sided to use Cyber bit beasts whereas vice versa for Kane and Salima. He doesn't want to make things worse than it already is. Simple as that, some peeps don't care about her bond with her teammates. Rei is already the priority for ya all. From Kane's perspective, he tried not to make the situation a 10x worse.

For me, the psykicks deserve loads of love equally ❤️ I respect each of them for their role and contribution to the show. Thank you Aoki for gifting them to the Beyblade franchise.

[blossommoonwrites]

KATY YAMASHITA: Mayblade 2024, day 4 - Genderbend

Genre: Fantasy/Humor Setting: Kane's dream, Melbourne, Australia Characters: Kane Yamashita, Aria Yamashita (Kane's mother, OC), Goki, Jim, Salima Pairings: Mild implications of Kane/Salima Rating: T+ Summary: Kane wakes up to find himself as a girl. Warnings: Little mentions of nude stuff like body parts.

[Header by @/saradika]

FFN | AO3

The teen woke up from her long night's sleep. Her eyes were droopy, her hair messy, and her vision blurry. After a few seconds, she opened her eyes wider. Her jaw dropped after a sudden change of surroundings. Her room was painted in fancy green and pink colors with the ceiling painted in lavender. Her nails were painted. Her chest felt heavy all of a sudden. Her hair was long, lasting till her waist. She gasped and recognized her voice was feminine. She is a transformed girl. She screamed from the bottom of her heart and hushed to the mirror. She was shorter in height and is a girl now. Last night, she slept as a guy. All of a sudden, she woke up as a girl. How?

"No, no, no…. This… can't be. I am shorter, I have wider hips, I have boobs, and my voice has changed. Does this mean… I'm a girl now? No way!"

She hurried to her closet. Her wardrobe is feminine, with added accessories, make-up, face packs, different combs, and a line of lady perfumes. Colorful, floral, and vibrant Kimonos were hung on the clothing line. There were colorful rubber bands, clips, headbands, sashes, and an endless list of girl stuff. She opened her records to check her name. It's written 'Katy Yamashita'. He is a guy named Kane Yamashita, a medical student in Australia. Now, Katy Yamashita is also a medical student.

She opened the albums, and shockingly, there were pictures of him being a girl. His traveling vlogs had photos of him being a girl with his friends. With Jim during the world championships, she was spotted as a tall girl next to him. With Salima, they are seen shopping in the girls section in stores. She checked her school and college IDs, birth certificates, documents, and everywhere it was written, Katy Yamashita. Everything was bizarre… she hated this. There is no proof of him as a guy now. She checked her college stuff. Her rough notes were fancy-ish.

She checked the calendar, and she is still on vacation. She has a week to go. So, he's turned into a girl just this morning.

Katy went downstairs to see her mother in the kitchen. She was preparing a sandwich for breakfast.

She gulped thickly before calling her, "Mom?"

"Kanemi! Are you back home?" Aria turned back. But, it happened to be an unfamiliar girl, yet somehow familiar.

"Girl, who are you?" she asked.

"Mom, you won't believe this, but I'm your son Kane. I've been transformed into a girl this morning. Can't you identify me? I'm the female version of your son. And, I'm still your son."

Aria was alarmed by the sight. She panted and collapsed on the floor. She felt giddy.

"Mom!" Katy held her mother's shoulders. She bought some water and sprinkled it on her face. The middle-aged woman regained consciousness in a couple of seconds.

"I can't believe this, I need proof."

Katy took her mother upstairs and showed the documents and ID cards. Aria also saw some of the photos Katy clicked with her friends. Aria found it bizarre.

"No way, you are supposed to be a boy. Well, do you go by Katy?"

"Yes!"

Aria scratched her head. Her husband was out of the station for some work. Even her team previously Psykick was identified as the only team with two girls and two guys in the history of beyblading so far.

"Mom, I want to"

"Turn back to a guy, right?" Aria completed the sentence.

"Yes! I would never mind if I were born a girl, but I'm supposed to be a guy!"

"Well then, sweetie. Freshen up and have your breakfast. We shall discuss this. Do not panic, we shall discuss this."

Katy's cheeks turned red after hearing the word bath.

"Mom, I've never seen a woman's body! I still have the same mind and heart as a guy! How shall I take a bath?"

Aria thought of an idea, "Do one thing. Close your eyes and soak yourself into the bathtub. Is that fine?"

Katy seethed and yelled, "Then how can I wear my clothes?! I need to wear my inners!"

Aria chuckled and said, "Just close your eyes and do them. There is no other choice."

"Dammit!"

In half an hour, Katy stepped outside the shower room. She was dressed in her lime green robe.

"Sheesh, this is annoying. My hair is falling on my shoulders. I get too much hair fall. It's stuck everywhere on my neck and arms, eww. This is gross man!"

Katy rubbed her blue hair with her towel. She felt uncomfortable and disturbed when the hair was all over. After getting dressed up, she went downstairs. She wore dark navy jeans with her pastel green full-hand cold shoulder top. Aria had informed Katy that her friends were coming to see her. Otherwise, she'd wear her comfortable clothes at home.

"Mom, I'm hungry."

Aria turned to see her. She couldn't believe her eyes. Her daughter was beautiful. A smile was planted on her face. "Baby! You are so cute!" she pinched her cheeks.

"Mom! I'm serious! I want to become a guy! Please!" Katy was frustrated.

"Alright, baby. You must be hungry. Have some food now," Aria gently dragged her to the table. She made soba noodles, which were her favorite, with the vegetable sandwich. Amidst all the frustration and anxiety, Katy ate them and devoured them to her heart's content.

After the breakfast, Aria took Katy to her room. She was thinking of some ideas and suggested she had to be taken to a doctor. Katy refused the idea.

"Mom, it won't work. This must be some sort of magic. How would I transform into a girl? And, I hate my chest feeling heavy! I'm not used to this!"

"Oof, cool down. There is always a solution. Let's think. You need to cool down, baby."

After minutes of discussion, they couldn't come to a proper conclusion. Katy was lying on the wall in a corner. Aria received a phone call from Salima. She connected to the number, "Ah, yes Salima. Oh? Okay. Cool, you've reached Melbourne Airport. I'll be expecting you guys in no time then. Reach safe, guys!"

Aria disconnected the call.

"Now what? They're coming home soon!"

Their house was just half an hour away from the airport. Goki, Jim, and Salima reached the place in no time. Katy ran upstairs out of embarrassment.

"Babe, where are you going?"

"Mom, I can't bear this embarrassment!"

Aria dragged her down, "Listen, let's explain this to your friends. They'll understand."

Katty was forced to sit inside the living room. Her friends entered the house.

"Hey," Jim went to her.

"Jim! Just don't come near me!"

"Well, how do you know my name? Who are you?"

Aria explained the scenario to them, "Well, I'm not sure how but Kane has transformed into a girl, out of the blue. Please, we haven't done any surgeries for him. The last time I saw him as a guy was just yesterday night. We're so confused."

Salima and Goki dropped their bags and ran to her. Salima grabbed her shoulders and asked. Her cheeks were red out of embarrassment. She has been crushing on Kane for years, which he doesn't know.

"Baka, does that mean you'll be a girl forever? How come did this happen to you? Are you hiding something from us?" Salima yelled at her.

"Salima, I promise! I have no clue!"

Salima checked her phone to see the photos she clicked with Kane. And, Katy has replaced all of them.

"W-What's the meaning behind this? Does that mean you know how a girl's body looks? Have you seen yourself without clothes? You still have the mind of a guy, and yet you've seen yourself like that, right?" Salima squeezed Katy's shoulders vigorously.

"Kane, does that mean you are more or less aware of how my body looks?" her eyes widened out of embarrassment.

"Salima! What should I do about that? It's not my fault!"

"Baka!"

"Salima! Don't argue with her!" Goki shouted.

"Yes! We shall solve this!"

"Stupid, Kane, baka!" she yelled. She smacked his head.

...

"Salima, no!" he woke as fast as a thunderstorm. Suddenly, he noticed that he had reverted to his old self. The tall, muscular guy called Kane Yamashita. He checked the mirror, and he was the same old guy. The date was the same as it was when he was a girl. He checked his IDs and documents. He can see his actual name written. He sighed and lay on the bed, "It was a dream, after all."

[y2k-radio-cannibal]

YTV Channel Guide (Canada)

(These are the shows that I tuned in to growing up)

Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

Aeon Flux

All Grown Up!

The Angry Beavers

Animorphs

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Art Attack (Unsure)

Bananas in Pyjamas

Beasties: Transformers (Beast Wars)

Beast Machines: Transformers

Beyblade

Big Teeth, Bad Breath

Bobby's World

The Big Comfy Couch

Big Wold on Campus

Breaker High

Bump in the Night

Camp Cariboo

CatDog

Danny Phantom

Daria

Dexter's Laboratory

Digimon

Doug

Dragon Ball

Dragon Ball Z

Earthworm Jim

The Fairly OddParents

Flipper (1995)

Freaky Stories

Garfield & Friends

Goosebumps

Hey Arnold!

Hit List

I Am Weasel (Unsure)

InuYasha

Lassie (1997)

Madeline

Medabots

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

Mona the Vampire

Monster by Mistake

Monster Rancher

The New Addams Family

Once Upon a Hamster

PJ Katie's Farm

Pokemon

The Powerpuff Girls

Radio Active

ReBoot

Rocko's Modern Life

Rugrats

Samurai Jack

Samurai Pizza Cats

Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephan Show

Short Circutz

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series

Stickin' Around

Student Bodies

Sweet Valley High

System Crash

Teen Titans

Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

Uh Oh!

Video & Arcade Top 10

Watership Down

Weird-Ohs

The Wild Thornberrys

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

X-Men Evolution

Yvon of the Yukon

Zoids: New Century

Complete Programming List

Snit Station

The Zone

[sonicasura]

More Potential Highlights of Jim using his Alien Form.

1. Nari and Pesky Dust flying through the air and making the small children of Arcadia believe in fairies, specifically the tooth fairy.

2. Blinky or Aaaarrrgh sneakily picking up pieces of Swampfire and chomping the delicious bits of Jim's plant alien.

"Guys"! Shouts Jim 😥

"Eh, sorry" 😅

3. Gravattack using his powers to entertain kids, both human and Troll whelps. A fun activity at the Arcadia Observatory is having the kids make abd paint their own planets out of round styrofoam and levitating them so kids could understand planets and their orbits.

4. Jim using Gravattack to launch his allies, Kanjigar, at enemy attackers only to pull them back to safety.

5. Toby and Jim as Terraspin trying to work out a power move were Toby can ride on his friends back weilding his Warhammer.

6. Skrael threatening to freeze Steve for being a nuisance only for Jim to turn into Alien-X and giving a warning look.

7. Jim using Big Chill to create a winter wonderland in summer Arcadia, including an ice rink.

8. Jim as Echo-Echo acting as base to one of "D.J Klebs" concerts (like the Loudred from the Detective Pikachu movie)

LMAO So accurate.

Pesky Dust and Nari tend to do this quite a bit. One, it's a lot of fun. And two the look on kids' faces seeing them is worth it. If there was an influx of fairy princesses/princes then it's obvious why.

Jim just stares. He does have to clean up the pieces or damage from his forms so the Swampfire fragments being troll food is a bizarre way to do it. Also Canon Troll Jim was definitely tempted to try a piece but decides not to make the situation even weirder.

He absolutely does both with Gravattack! Kids love it whenever Jim can perform a show for them. If he has a bit of extra time, sometimes he'll perform little skits with origami. Paper dragons that float around to a paper chicken sitting on a parent's head.

When it comes to his allies, Gravattack is great at keep away. He made sure his friends knew when he's about to pull a gravity style team attack as Jim rather not have them unheroically bonk their head. If someone can't get out of the way in time then he pushes the threat away.

When it comes to combo attacks, Toby and Jim brainstorm a LOT. With Terraspin they decided to take a page from Mario and Luigi RPGs with the 'Bros Attacks'. One such example is Toby spinning alongside Jim as he holds his hammer out. Basically like a Beyblade but with a hammer taped to it.

Jim gives Skrael an alternative to get back at Steve without freezing the guy solid. If he's being annoying then toss a snowball at his face. That or dump ice cubes down Steve's shirt. Why freeze him solid when you can be a petty gremlin?

Jim does this if Arcadia gets hit with an unbearable heatwave. While Big Chill brings in the snow, Articguana sculpts various ice structures for a city wide snowball fight. He usually handles clean up once everyone has their nice cold fun.

He absolutely done a few D.J Kleb concerts as Echo Echo. Jim practically fits in the club scene and is often testing sound equipment. If Echo-Echo can't get a sound out from a certain instrument, record or item then it's confirmed broke.

One time he did mess with everyone by transmitting dumb puns and jokes through the loud speakers. You can say his Echo-Echo has a bit of gremlin to it.

[fandomstars]

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[azikarue]

MayBlade 2023 : Day 20 : Scars

Salima, Goki | FFN Rating: K+ | FFN Link ❖ Sometimes Salima spent her nights awake.

It was easier explaining it to Goki when they were somewhere new and exciting. Those times, he’d buy that she was thrown off by the timezone or the different constellations swimming in the sky above their heads. He’d lay awake with her on occasion, sketching the scenery and planning their travels, always tactful enough not to mention her clipped, one-word responses.

When she was home, it was different. There was no hiding when she had to throw open every window to feel like she wasn’t suffocating, choking on guilt and long-gone power and desperation. Goki was unerringly kind about it and so gifted with reading her that he knew when to step in and when to pretend like he didn’t notice a thing.

And those were just the nights Salima didn’t sleep at all. Others she started out asleep, only to be woken up by dreams of mechanical roars and sharp, gnashing teeth. Her heart would beat like she’d just run a marathon. When her eyes snapped open, her face would be wet from tears she remembered crying that day in the battle tower.

The taste of her tears would bring back memory after memory. To cope, she would call Kane and listen to his steady voice, unmarred by a crazed bitbeast. Or she would call Jim and get him to tell her all about his latest project until her heart rate returned to normal. Most often, she would sit outside and breathe in the clean air, trying to convince herself that she was whole without whatever pieces of her Cyber Driger kept.

Wielding a cyber bitbeast was like being shackled to a wild animal: scary, unpredictable, thrilling.

Life after one was the same, except Cyber Driger was heavier as a corpse than he’d ever been living. Back then he steered her from just behind her eyes, a driving force that quickly took her over. Now she had to find her own way and carry the weight of her actions on her own shoulders.

It was exhausting. And more than enough to keep her up at night.

“You need to let it go,” Goki advised one night while keeping her company on a hostel roof. He had his sketchpad out and was doodling the view across the street. “You can’t let it eat you up inside forever.”

“I can’t just forget what happened,” Salima snapped. She knew she should feel bad about it, but her head ached from lack of sleep and throbbed in time with her racing heart.

“I didn’t say to forget.” He looked just as concerned for her as she’d felt for him when they were locked up together in the battle tower. “It’s not normal to launch a beyblade and have the bitbeast inside hijack your brain. You didn’t know what would happen – you need to forgive yourself for it and let it go.”

Salima felt the overwhelming urge to cry, so she buried her face in her knees.

She’d had a pretty good idea what could happen by the time she’d picked up Cyber Driger. It was stupid to think that she would be any less susceptible to the power of the cyber bitbeasts than Jim and Goki. She wasn’t better than they were and the proof was in how the rest of her friends were already over the ordeal.

Goki didn’t wake up at night, fighting off invisible forces; sleep was the solace it should be, for him. As for Kane and Jim, when she’d spoken to them last, they’d asked if she and Goki were planning on returning for the World Championships because the two of them were competing together. Goki had given a firm no on Salima’s behalf, because she couldn’t get words past the sudden panic squeezing her throat shut.

She didn’t know how to forget and she didn’t know how to let it go or move on. All she knew was that returning to Japan to face the Bladebreakers and masquerade as an upstanding member of the beyblading community filled her with too much shame to bear.

“Salima?” She felt Goki’s hand on her back, gentle and reassuring. Patient, even. Like he wouldn’t press, but thought she needed to talk.

“How are you so okay?” she asked, voice wavering with bottled up emotion. “You, Kane, and Jim – how did you put it behind you so easily?”

She hadn’t planned on opening her mouth, but there was something about the anonymity she felt with her eyes screwed shut and a city where nobody knew her all around and Goki’s strong presence by her side, that forced her thoughts past the knot in her throat.

Goki let out a long sigh. “I wouldn’t call it easy. Some days I can’t even look at myself in the mirror,” he admitted, running his hand over her back in firm, slow strokes. “And I can’t speak for Kane and Jim. I couldn’t compete in a Championship right now, but maybe that’s what it takes for them to feel better – proving that they can compete honestly on the biggest platform there is.”

Put like that, Salima could kind of understand, even if the thought of standing in the spotlight right now made her feel sick.

“For me, it gets a little easier with every kid we teach,” Goki continued. “It feels like I’m helping them discover the true spirit of beyblading, maybe keeping them from making similar mistakes to the ones I made. You know what I mean?”

Salima turned her head toward Goki, resting her cheek on her knees.

“I do.” There was a reason she and Goki were the ones who’d headed straight for the open road. Teaching kids and seeing that spark of joy on their faces when they launched their beyblades – the same spark that the cyber bitbeasts did their best to replace with the hunger for domination – those were the moments that she felt closest to her old self. “But I still have nightmares. Sometimes I can even feel Cyber Driger’s claws, like it never left.”

She was almost whispering by the end of her admission.

Goki’s brow furrowed thoughtfully.

“Cyber Driger was holding on tight when it was ripped away.” She could feel him shiver as he thought back to that day. “Those power injections made it too strong to resist and you shouldn’t have been able to, but you did anyway.”

He was looking at her with something akin to admiration and she didn’t want it.

“Goki—”

“I heard the scientists talking – saw their readings,” he said, cutting her off. “Cyber Driger pushed you past your limits, Salima – it makes sense that your scars are deep. You should be proud of yourself for fighting.” He looked off into the middle distance, no longer willing to meet her eyes. “I wish I’d been able to.”

Salima’s chest ached at the shame in his voice. She sat up and said, “They weren’t designed to fight against.”

If she wasn’t allowed to beat herself up over it, then he wasn’t either. She remembered Dr. B and his scientists being so sure that she’d be hooked as soon as she got a taste of the power they had to offer. For all their talk of mental strength being necessary to wield the cyber bitbeasts, they were still counting on the fact that their reckless creations would be strong enough to bend her team’s will to their own. She and her friends were never meant to be in control.

“I’ll work on accepting that if you will.” Goki offered her a small smile and she realized, belatedly, that she’d played right into his hands. “Then maybe we can both move on.”

“I’ll try,” Salima sighed. “I think I feel a little better just talking about it.” Even as the words left her lips, she was surprised to find that they were true. Maybe healing had to come in baby steps.

“You’d feel even better with a good night’s sleep,” Goki pointed out.

She should’ve known he wouldn’t let her get away with the sleepless nights without commentary forever. Unfortunately, her nightmares came and went as they pleased, no matter how exhausted she was. Something about Kane and Jim competing had brought them back full force. If the nightmares didn’t disturb her, her brain buzzing, trying to figure out what it all meant, would.

When she told Goki as much, he simply shrugged out of his jacket and balled it up. “Here,” he said. “I’ll talk so you aren’t alone with your thoughts. You, try to get some sleep.” He set the makeshift pillow on his lap and motioned for her to lay down.

“What, right here?” Salima asked in disbelief.

Goki chuckled. “Does it make a difference if you can’t sleep anyway?”

“I guess not,” she admitted. If she hadn’t found solace back home, in her own bed, familiar and comfortable, maybe it wasn’t where that mattered. Without another word, she laid down on the rooftop, tucked her knees up under her sweater and pillowed her head on Goki’s jacket.

He went back to drawing, but this time he kept up a constant stream of one-way conversation. He told her what he was drawing, explained what he knew about the architecture, told her how frustrating it was when the light changed as the sun sunk lower.

Between the scratching of pencil on paper and the steady rhythm of his voice, Salima’s eyelids, finally, began to droop.

[cyberslasharpie]

Still trying to get used to tumblr again, here’s a temp pinned post until I get sorted out. 😂

Hi, I’m Maxi! They/she, 21+

This is a side blog, if I follow you it’s from my main @thetictactician (that account is mainly ffxiv and non-fandom oc content)

YGO centric stuff here but I might be inclined to rb or post stuff from similar-ish franchises like Beyblade. :3

All art I post is my own and drawn by me unless explicitly stated otherwise on said post.

There will be OCs here. I’m not ship heavy but OCXcanon will be present (mostly MaixTomo and other lesbian ships!! 😘)

I’m very vanilla, there won’t be anything spicy here. Not into that with these kinda fandoms at all. (Yeah ok the Harpie Ladies have sexy outfits, but I mean like intentional sexual content not just outfits lol.)

I do like quite a few (not oc) ships but I’m not majorly into any so I probably won’t be drawing them myself.

I love DM, ZeXal, GX and VRAINs (not finished watching VRAINS yet tho)

I like 5Ds and Arc-V but only surface level simply because I’ve not watched them yet. I will. One day.

I predominantly use sub/jp names bc that’s the language I watch in. Only know dub names from the DM era and some GX from childhood/ Yugioh abridged LOL

Fave charas include Mai, Anzu, Ishizu, Mokuba, Kaiba, Karen & Jim, Asuka, Manjoume, Yuuma & Astral, Anna, Cathy, Kotori… uh yeah anyway there’s more but then I’ll be here all day

This got long and rambly fast so I’ll stop here. 😂

[johannepetereric]

Salima here sounds like a softer Chi-Yun. Are we recycling Oliver???

[imacreepercat]

The things I name my Pokémon used to be weird like Katie pidgey and now it’s weird in the way I named a crougunk slippery Jim

And I have an entire group of whoopers named after soup Ingredients and just one quagsire named soup

In my boxes theirs things like a beyblade tuning fork (it was gonna be tuning spork but letter limits) boulderbud tailmore davybones facehugger and the one and only Cocaine

This is not all of them and this is just in Pokémon platinum

[poda-venna]

Nvm this is just a mini vent but I can't really digest the fact that Salima is more popular than Kane, at least on Tumblr. I can understand the appeal behind her because I like her too and she was my favorite back then. However, I don't really understand why people always like to singulate her from the team and put her with other characters or try to corner her teammates, except her.

I am always a bit hurt to see that the boys don't get enough love like her. Unlike in other anime fandoms, the girls do get special attention without getting slandered (bc other anime fandoms have fifty percent misognysts) but I wish unpopular male characters in the show also get a better platform from fans.

[meowstix]

i know i've said this before but i really keep thinking about it. fucking wild how nobody ever found out about zagart's connection to psykick iirc. like i know gideon was in direct contact obviously but that guy's fuckin dead so