#Mai Valentine/Aileen Rao

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

Round 6: The Final Round

Propaganda under the cut

Pairing 1: Pompshipping (Miho Nosaka/Seto Kaiba)

Propaganda: HEAR ME OUT. Miho has blue-ish white long hair. Kisara has blue-ish white long hair. Yugioh DM is NOTORIOUS for having long-dead characters have mysterious modern day dopplegangers (that’s the whole plot!!!) so why not like this? Miho is a gold digger who’s on the lookout for her perfect prince. Kaiba fills that role perfectly: young, rich, successful, handsome— what’s not to love? She latches onto him and they are both confronted with the fact that they’re both terrible people actually, and somewhere in there, real feelings sprout and they have to struggle to navigate it

Pairing 2: Beautyshipping (Mai Valentine|Mai Kukaju/Aileen Rao)

Propaganda: love a good f/f rarepair and also two powerful ladies. aileen is a model who is so good at games that kaiba decides to make her a game master, and mai is introduced as being a powerful duelist who wins a lot. they could make each other worse. | i really like them both and like to see my faves together. and i like the idea of two women who are both very independent being in a relationship together because it could be done either as a sort of rivalry romance where they're both trying to one up each other OR it could be a very soft thing where after a long day having to do everything for themselves, they have someone safe to come home to who really gets them. really depends on where in each of their stories you have them meet, i think.

Now, let’s keep things civil. This is a silly poll where we can share why we love our overlooked ships. There’s no need to be nasty to prove your point. Bashers will be banished to the Shadow Realm.

[garbagesludge]

I have a vision idk if anyone would understand but like..... them.....

[riddlerlesbian]

@5daysofygofemslash - day four: sparkle & shine

i can have a meme trace, as a treat. this is my favorite from this week!

this is the meme if you don't know

[unfriendlyamazon]

sneak preview of the judging panel for domino drag race

[dominodragrace]

Our lovely panel. Keith gets a seat because the build I'm using had five and it was too much work to adjust.

[wyvernseeker]

I swear to God, it's thanks to people who only watch the Abridged Series really putting forth such bullshit ideas that Téa only makes friendship speeches (only does that twice) and is nothing but a damsel in distress (actually very proactive in both series).

And don't get me started on those forsaken by the gods of Egypt idiots who show Mai no respect and treat her as if she's a jobber and only important because she looks pretty. Girl's witty and talented.

I swear, the Abridged Series has brought forth some of the worst people into the fandom.

What Your Favorite Yu-Gi-Oh DM Girl Says About You

[Main Girls Only] [GX]

Anzu Mazaki/Tea Gardner (reposted): Decades of her being called “the friendship slut” have hardened your skin into diamond armor. You’re something of a purist for DM, and have almost definitely read the manga. You probably enjoy shipping her with some stripe of Yugi or Atem. You’re very prideful of the fact that she technically has a perfect win record, and mention this fact at every opportunity whenever someone makes fun of her. You have a wary relationship with yaoi shippers.

Mai Kujaku/Mai Valentine: You are very defensive of Mai’s win record. Mai is the coolest and nobody else can fight you on this. Whenever she’s mentioned in post-DM material, you feel an immense sense of vindication. It sometimes gets on your nerves that she’s the most overtly “sexy” character in the original series, but you’ve learned to live with it. You have very complicated feelings about the Doma arc. You are probably a Polarshipper, but you can go a lot of ways.

Ishizu Ishtar: You think this show about Egyptian stuff needed more Egyptians and consequently were very happy. You either really like or really dislike Kaiba, but no matter what, you definitely laughed when she pushed his shit in. Mostly, you just think she’s really pretty. Someone put the brainbug of her ending up with Mai in your head and it won’t leave. You appreciate a character who acts like an adult, and really want to give her a hug. 

(Note: all of the above also applies to Isis, except you also like Millennium World.)

Shizuka Kawai/Serenity Wheeler: You empathized with her a lot growing up. You actually like the filler arcs, but you weren’t big on the love triangle subplot. You’re very angry when people dismiss her. There’s roughly a 70% chance you have considered Silentshipping at some point. You’ve created some very elaborate AUs. You were very mad when you discovered the scene where she dives into the ocean was an anime addition.

Kisara: You desperately want to know her real backstory. You’ve read and watched her scenes exhaustively to work out every minor facet of who she is. You sometimes pull up artwork of her and just… stare at her. You wish Millennium World had been about twice as long. You’re very insistent on the differences between Blueshipping and Mizushipping. You’ve read or written at least one fanfic where she shows up in the modern day.

Mana: When the truth came out that an actual, human version of Dark Magician Girl existed, you were giddy for about a week. You know she’s not around a lot, but you don’t care. You really wish Millennium World hadn’t been cut short, because you want to know the deal with her getting the Millennium Ring was. You’ve read or written at least one fanfic where she shows up in the modern day.

Miho Nosaka: You are a Toei/Season Zero purist without shame. You heard that there was a whole other girl character in the show, and your head danced with possibilities, and then you found out she was an airheaded, childish mess of a person, but that just made you love her more. You know that 40% of her reason for existence is to be a girlfriend, but disagree on whose girlfriend she should be.

Aileen Rao: You are to Miho fans what Miho fans are to everyone else. You heard there was a cool Indian lady villain and that was that. You’ve talked someone else into playing Raijinhai. You are probably very happy I acknowledged she exists.

Rebecca Hopkins/Rebecca Hawkins: You’re not too happy that her first appearance gives a lot of people the worst impression of her. You’ve had to defend the later DM filler arcs on a number of occasions. You’re not against her and Yugi, but you really wish that the love triangle had been left out. You find American characters in anime really funny. 

Vivian Wong: You know she makes people mad, you know she’s arguably the least popular girl, you don’t care. In fact, that drew you to her out of spite. You really like Chinese girls and martial artists in any media. You saw that the final shot of the anime’s last ending is her and Mai teaming up, and a thousand fanfics danced before your eyes.

Sera: You read the absolute hell out of Transcend Game before DSOD came out, and actually understood what was going on. You’re disappointed she wasn’t in the movie that much, and that her badass avatar didn’t stick around. Still, anyone who tries to beat up Kaiba inside his own brain has your vote. You were immensely happy when she showed up in Duel Links.

Dark Magician Girl: You made up a whole personality in your head for her, and weren’t satisfied by Mana. You really liked the Doma arc. Even you aren’t sure how it works when you ship her with Yugi, but you don’t care; you’ve had a crush on her since February 8, 2003, and it will never die. You own at least one copy of her card in real life.

[thewittyphantom]

I was working on a Toei anime-based fic when suddenly my mental voice for Aileen Rao turned into Mai’s second voice, and that got me thinking about more wacky and obscure pairings! Here we go! XD

Aileen/Vivian: Modelshipping cause Idolshipping’s taken and they’re both models turned gamers (Vivian is in the dub, anyway). Aileen/Mai: Griffonshipping cause a griffon has the body of a lion and wings of an eagle, Aileen has a pet tiger, and in mythology a tiger was a griffon’s equal in swiftness. (And I couldn’t find any mythological beings with just wings and a tiger’s body.) Aileen/Ishizu: Tigershipping, named for Aileen’s tiger and how they’re both smart and confident who strategize and wait rather than rely on luck or brute force. Aileen/Yami Yugi: Creviceshipping, named for Aileen using words to get into the crevices of people’s hearts, which Yami Yugi also does in his game with her. Aileen/Seto Kaiba: Winshipping, named for how neither of them had lost a game before encountering Yugi. I wanted queenshipping cause Aileen calls herself the Game Master queen but that was taken by Vivian x Miho. Oh well XD Aileen/Joey: Energyshipping, since the fighting game they played at Death-T revolved around energy points. Aileen/Tea: Bouquetshipping: Named for the bouquet of flowers Tea gave Aileen cause she admired her that much ^^

[ct-offical-sexyman]

Welcome back to CJ’s Lists of Random OC Stuff

This one is for Ghost/Shion’s Duels throughout the series:

Shion Chiba VS Rex Raptor (forfeited to Raptor due to getting a call that their mother had hurt herself at work - Pre Duelist Kingdom).

Shion Chiba VS Ryuichi Fuwa (won - Duelist Kingdom)

Shion Chiba VS Bandit Keith (won and Ghost punished Keith with a Penalty Game for cheating - Duelist Kingdom)

Shion Chiba VS Joey Wheeler (lost, intentionally, doing so after hearing about Wheeler’s sister - Duelist Kingdom)

Shion Chiba VS Rex Raptor (won and gained Raptor’s Dark Driceratops as a result - Battle City)  

Shion Chiba VS Aileen Rao (won and gained Rao’s Windrose the Elemental Lord as a result - Battle City)

Shion Chiba VS Mai Valentine (won and gained Mai’s Harpie's Feather Duster as a result - Battle City)

Shion Chiba VS The Clown (won and gained The Winged Dragon of Ra as a result - Battle City)

Shion Chiba VS Yami Marik (Eliminated from the tournament under the guise of cheating when Shion’s older sister, Nagisa secretly sabotaged the match - Battle City)

Shion Chiba VS Crump (won... it was not hard - Virtual Realm)

(Will Be updated if I think of anymore)

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

Round 3: Poll 7

Propaganda under the cut

Pairing 1: Beautyshipping (Mai Valentine|Mai Kukaju/Aileen Rao)

Propaganda: love a good f/f rarepair and also two powerful ladies. aileen is a model who is so good at games that kaiba decides to make her a game master, and mai is introduced as being a powerful duelist who wins a lot. they could make each other worse. | i really like them both and like to see my faves together. and i like the idea of two women who are both very independent being in a relationship together because it could be done either as a sort of rivalry romance where they're both trying to one up each other OR it could be a very soft thing where after a long day having to do everything for themselves, they have someone safe to come home to who really gets them. really depends on where in each of their stories you have them meet, i think.

Pairing 2: Visionshipping (Isis Ishtar/Mai Valentine|Mai Kujaku)

Propaganda: No propaganda was submitted

Now, let’s keep things civil. This is a silly poll where we can share why we love our overlooked ships. There’s no need to be nasty to prove your point. Bashers will be banished to the Shadow Realm.

[cartoonus-maximus]

What I came up with, by the way:

(ships for characters that I think would/should date)

Angershipping – Diva / Aigami x Marik Ishtar x Yami Marik

Authorityshipping – Gozaburo Kaiba x Ms. Chono

Cadmiumshipping – Priest Karim x Rishid Ishtar / Odion Ishtar

Chikashipping – Father Bakura (either main anime or DSOD movie) x Mama Mutou (supposedly 'chika' means 'parent' or 'parental' in Japanese ; I don't know if that's true but it sounds good)

Complimentaryshipping – Anzu Mazaki / Tea Gardner x Seto Kaiba x Vivian Wong

Convictshipping – Jiro the Yellow Spider x Tetsuo Sasaki the Hedgehog

Coyshipping – Mai Kujaku / Mai Valentine x Ms. Chono

Grimshipping – Seto Kaiba x Vivian Wong

Lashshipping – Vivian Wong x Yami Marik

Opportunshipping – Ms. Chono x Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen / Aknamkanon (meant to be a shortened version of opportunist; mostly inspired by the concept of, if both of these characters coexisted in the same place and time, I think Chono would be vying to marry this rich foreign guy like her life depended on it)

Otoushipping – Father Bakura (either main anime or DSOD movie) x Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen / Aknamkanon

Pageantshipping – Kaoruko Himekoji x Miho Nosaka

Parentshipping – Mama Mutou x Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen / Aknamkanon

Purpleshipping – Miho Nosaka x Risa Kageyama

Sameshipping – Father Bakura (DSOD movie) x Father Bakura (main anime) (because they're, y'know... supposed to be the same person. But I think it's funnier to assume they're two different people and Bakura has two archeologist dads. And neither of them are good at keeping their son away from a cursed artifact.)

Silkshipping – Insector Haga / Weevil Underwood x Miho Nosaka

Tyrantshipping – Yami Marik x Yami Yugi x Yugi Mutou

Uneaseshipping – Risa Kageyama x Yami Bakura

Updoshipping – Miho Nosaka x Ryuji Otogi / Duke Devlin

Vampshipping – Risa Kageyama x Vivian Wong

Winnershipping – Kaoruko Himekoji x Seto Kaiba

Witchshipping – Mana / Dark Magician Girl x Risa Kageyama

(ships for characters that I think would be friends if they ever interacted, or like one party has a crush on another or something)

Aeroshipping – Priestess Isis x Shizuka Kawai / Serenity Wheeler

Bodiceshipping – Anzu Mazaki / Tea Gardner x Mai Kujaku / Mai Valentine x Miho Nosaka

Boltshipping – Mai Kujaku / Mai Valentine x Yami Yugi x Yugi Mutou

Cheekshipping – Mai Kujaku / Mai Valentine x Mana / Dark Magician Girl

Choreoshipping – Aileen Rao x Anzu Mazaki / Tea Gardner

Creepshipping – Vivian Wong x Yugi Mutou

Cuffshipping – Vivian Wong x Yami Yugi

Demureshipping – Cyndia / Cecilia Pegasus x Shizuka Kawai / Serenity Wheeler

Englishshipping – Arthur Hopkins / Arthur Hawkins x Ridley Sheldon the Dollmaker

Eyelinershipping – Player Killer / Shadow Duelist / Panik x Ryuji Otogi / Duke Devlin

Fangshipping – Amelda / Alister x Critius (I wanted to do Clawshipping for Hermos x Valon and Eyeshipping for Raphael x Timaeus, but those were already taken)

Glowwormshipping – Insector Haga / Weevil Underwood x Leon Wilson / Leon von Schroeder

Gyneshipping – Insector Haga / Weevil Underwood x Princess Mary / Edina (gyne is a word for the queen of an insect hive)

Headbandshipping – Keith Howard / Bandit Keith x Ryuji Otogi / Duke Devlin

Horrorshipping – Player Killer / Shadow Duelist / Panik x Risa Kageyama

Ironshipping – Rishid Ishtar / Odion Ishtar x Yami Yugi

Joseishipping – Anzu Mazaki / Tea Gardner x Mai Kujaku / Mai Valentine x Shizuka Kawai / Serenity Wheeler

Ladyshipping – Miho Nosaka x Queen Iore

Lenseshipping – Insector Haga / Weevil Underwood x Rebecca Hopkins / Rebecca Hawkins

Lostshipping – Cyndia / Cecilia Pegasus x Kisara

Lovelyshipping – Miho Nosaka x Priestess Isis

Macabreshipping – Risa Kageyama x Yami Marik

Patershipping – Father Bakura (main anime) x Lord Ironheart

Repulseshipping – Imori x Risa Kageyama

Riteshipping – Anubis x Pharaoh Atem (like death rites or something)

Spookshipping – Ghost Kotsuzuka / Bonz x Imori

Talonshipping – Hermos x Mai Valentine

Tangoshipping – Aileen Rao x Johnny Steps

Thrillshipping – Risa Kageyama x Ryo Bakura / Ryou Bakura

Thugshipping – Aileen Rao x Ryuichi Fuwa (I tend to think of them as Kaiba's hired thugs)

Uncovershipping – Emperor Dartz x Father Bakura (main anime)

Wisdomshipping – Priestess Isis x Sera

Youthfulshipping – Miho Nosaka x Rebecca Hopkins / Rebecca Hawkins

Putting together YGO ships and coming up with names for them for my own amusement atm.

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

Round 1: Poll 27

Propaganda under the cut

Pairing 1: Beautyshipping (Aileen Rao/Mai Kujaku|Mai Valentine )

Propaganda:   love a good f/f rarepair and also two powerful ladies. aileen is a model who is so good at games that kaiba decides to make her a game master, and mai is introduced as being a powerful duelist who wins a lot. they could make each other worse. | i really like them both and like to see my faves together. and i like the idea of two women who are both very independent being in a relationship together because it could be done either as a sort of rivalry romance where they're both trying to one up each other OR it could be a very soft thing where after a long day having to do everything for themselves, they have someone safe to come home to who really gets them. really depends on where in each of their stories you have them meet, i think.

Pairing 2: Revolutionshipping (Yami Yugi/Anzu Mazaki|Tea Gardener)

Propaganda: No propaganda submitted

Now, let’s keep things civil. This is a silly poll where we can share why we love our overlooked ships. There’s no need to be nasty to prove your point. Bashers will be banished to the Shadow Realm.

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

Round 4: Poll 4

Propaganda under the cut

Pairing 1: Coinshipping (Miho Nosaka/Anzu Mazaki|Tea Gardner)

Propaganda: girlie girl x tomboy 4 the win

Pairing 2: Beautyshipping (Mai Valentine|Mai Kukaju/Aileen Rao)

Propaganda: love a good f/f rarepair and also two powerful ladies. aileen is a model who is so good at games that kaiba decides to make her a game master, and mai is introduced as being a powerful duelist who wins a lot. they could make each other worse. | i really like them both and like to see my faves together. and i like the idea of two women who are both very independent being in a relationship together because it could be done either as a sort of rivalry romance where they're both trying to one up each other OR it could be a very soft thing where after a long day having to do everything for themselves, they have someone safe to come home to who really gets them. really depends on where in each of their stories you have them meet, i think.

Now, let’s keep things civil. This is a silly poll where we can share why we love our overlooked ships. There’s no need to be nasty to prove your point. Bashers will be banished to the Shadow Realm.

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

Round 2: Poll 14

Propaganda under the cut

Pairing 1: Beautyshipping (Mai Valentine|Mai Kukaju/Aileen Rao)

Propaganda: love a good f/f rarepair and also two powerful ladies. aileen is a model who is so good at games that kaiba decides to make her a game master, and mai is introduced as being a powerful duelist who wins a lot. they could make each other worse. | i really like them both and like to see my faves together. and i like the idea of two women who are both very independent being in a relationship together because it could be done either as a sort of rivalry romance where they're both trying to one up each other OR it could be a very soft thing where after a long day having to do everything for themselves, they have someone safe to come home to who really gets them. really depends on where in each of their stories you have them meet, i think.

Pairing 2: Ringshipping(Thief King Bakura/Mahad)

Propaganda: No propaganda submitted

Now, let’s keep things civil. This is a silly poll where we can share why we love our overlooked ships. There’s no need to be nasty to prove your point. Bashers will be banished to the Shadow Realm.

[riddlerlesbian]

vote beautyshipping here

if you do and send me a screenshot of it, i'll write you a drabble or if you're willing to be very patient, i'll draw something for you

[yugioh-rare-pair-poll]

Round 5: Poll 2 (Semi-Finals)

Propaganda under the cut

Pairing 1: Snareshipping (Katsuya Jounouchi|Joey Wheeler/Ryuji Otogi|Duke Devlin)

Propaganda: They would make an amazing couple and would definitely get married | They plague my mind every waking moment. Their chemistry is insane and theyre both so hot. | They look cool together n have that playful sorta rival dynamic. Also dog costume dont forget that XD

Pairing 2: Beautyshipping (Mai Valentine|Mai Kukaju/Aileen Rao)

Propaganda: love a good f/f rarepair and also two powerful ladies. aileen is a model who is so good at games that kaiba decides to make her a game master, and mai is introduced as being a powerful duelist who wins a lot. they could make each other worse. | i really like them both and like to see my faves together. and i like the idea of two women who are both very independent being in a relationship together because it could be done either as a sort of rivalry romance where they're both trying to one up each other OR it could be a very soft thing where after a long day having to do everything for themselves, they have someone safe to come home to who really gets them. really depends on where in each of their stories you have them meet, i think.

Now, let’s keep things civil. This is a silly poll where we can share why we love our overlooked ships. There’s no need to be nasty to prove your point. Bashers will be banished to the Shadow Realm.

[thewittyphantom]

I think my favorite non-Dueling Shadow Game is the jigsaw puzzle with Ms. Chono. It’s really interesting to think about! In the manga it was one-player and in secret, which made me think ‘why didn’t Yugi do that more often’, in the Toei anime it was two-player and was a cool expansion of said puzzle with themes related to the episode, the punishment was cool/creepy, she vowed to return afterward, and Chono was one of the very few female villains in the first series. (Others are Kaoruko Himekoji, Aileen Rao, Blue the hired Death-T gun, and the Kageyama sisters, who were all Toei-only. And early/season 4 Mai, I guess, but she reformed.)