#VERSE | MAIN �� Ryou Bakura

[kitxkatrp]

Listening to a youtube video of how to summon a demon. "What an idiot. That method will just get you killed. Totally flagging this."

Also he's in a public cafe.

[hyaciiintho]

Season appropriate starter call | @ironbloodcd

There had been signs throughout the evening, some more easily ignorable than the others: The slight CREAK of the staircase when no one was on it, the random bump from down the hall as though someone were knocking into something, and the occasional feeling of a sudden chill washing over them as they settled in. Ryou had been on high alert with each and every sign the house gave off, taking note of each and every staple of a HAUNTING that occured.

And boy was he EXCITED.

"Did you hear that?" He inquired with poorly concealed excitement in his voice, shifting from their huddled position on the couch as the TV played something far from spooky in nature, per Yugi's request. Ryou, however, was dialed in. "It sounded as though it came from upstairs...!"

[kitxkatrp]

He froze right in his tracks, eyes widening as he stared at her--his little sister, whom he thought was innocently unaware of all the things that happened when she wasn't looking, all the things that happened in the dark--

He clenched his jaw tight, eyes filling up with tears and he brought his hands up to his chest as he struggled not to fall into that dark place in his mind. That would mean Bakura would have to switch.

She deserved to hear this from him.

"...How did you--" He swallowed thickly, lowering his gaze to the floor. "...I guess...I wasn't that good at hiding things from you. Yeah I....I've killed people. A lot of them. To get money. To defend myself. Or sometimes...just because I get angry and don't know what to do."

His hands clenched into fists and shook,

"...Everyone always looked at me like a monster....so in the end, I...became a monster. Father was right...I'm disgusting."

And now...he felt like he had harmed her just by her knowing this.

@kitxkatrp asked: "You should be scared of me." Ryou to Amane (woops )

"But...why?" The female asked in disbelief. "You're my big brother and I love you....Why should I be scared?" Amane lowered her head slightly, her gaze landing on his feet as she processed what he was saying.

She didn't believe her brother was scary person.... she couldn't believe her brother was a scary person. Even if all evidence pointed to it.

"....is...is it because you've killed people...?"

Her fingers curled on the edge of her shirt, clutching it as she addressed him.

[aromantic-character-showdown]

GROUP ONE!!

In this poll you will vote for who you want to STAY! The low two characters will be OUT and will NOT be in the main showdown!

Vote wisely!

[gingerninja8]

I imagine British Bakura to sound like if Ted Lewis spoke Fluent Japanese plus I’m not sure if Ted Lewis accent is fake according to British people I wonder how the 4Kids dub would handle British Bakura he will probably be considered a foreign exchange student and if the topic of English comes up maybe it would be change to English Literature or be changed into French or Spanish since the dub whitewashed the Yugioh verse to be from America I imagine jokes about Bakura stealing the items is due to him having British blood in him and the topic of his dad owning a museum would come up since Egypt and Britain have a lot of history meanwhile the Ishtars like Ishizu would hate it as well

I'd say a fake accent just because he's an American putting on a British accent.

At best it's a London accent, but easily just what Americans seem to think we all sound like. If you look up the comedians Peter Kay, John Bishop, Sarah Millican, and Jason Manford, you'll hear 4 different accents, but they're all British. Honestly, after hearing them, just imagine the Bakura's talking like them.

As for the topic of English, I remember watching Tokyo Mew Mew that had a character that was American or something. She spoke in English to the main characters. In the English dub, 4Kids made her Spanish. I'd assume they'd do the same with Ryou. Maybe they'd just switch it around, make him half Japanese.

There is definitely a joke about thieving Brits in there.

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

20 Questions for Writers

Tagged by @cxttlefishcxller, thank you my friend!

I really wanted to tag Pix, but I can’t seem to remember your blog’s URL. ;;;

Note: I am unsure if "fic" here indicates fanfic or also includes original fic, but I assumed fanfic for some reason? Meh, most of what I write is fanfiction anyways.

Also, this got really long....

How many works do you have on AO3?

So, I don't really have many fics posted on Ao3. I have like. Three, I think? I'm working on moving them over! I just only want the Rewritten Better Versions on Ao3.

Update: It's 4! I forgot I put the Ruby Gloom fic up there hoping someone would adopt it.

(Fanfiction.net has 33, for comparsion.)

What is your total AO3 word count?

...How does one find that out without manually adding the numbers up....????

Edit: I found the Statistics page. It's 35,853

Fanfic.net would be over 300,000 though.

What fandoms do you write for?

Actively: Teen Titans and Pokemon! I also started a Ruby Gloom fic and almost-entirely-outlined but never-fully-wrote a Steven Universe fanfic. (Well, I did finish the Ocean Gem scene from Lapis's POV. Does that count?)

As far as RPing (you did only say "write for", after all!): - Teen Titans (Dove's main verse, which is part 00's show and part 80's comics) - Steven Universe (my Lapis blog was kinda active for awhile and though my Blue Diamond blog never saw any actual roleplaying, I did write a lot of headcanons!) - Yu-Gi-Oh! (Ryou Bakura, like Blue, was never roleplayed except once on rabb.it but I wrote scattered heacanons) - DCAMU (Raven, of course! Would love to get some actual rps going with her again. But alas. The Horrors.)

What are your top five fics by kudos?

So, kudos is specific to Ao3, and I don't have a lot there. Apparently, uhh.... the only fic that has any kudos at all is the 14 on Unforeseen and Unforesaken.

....I was going to say "But on fanfic.net..." Except fanfic.net doesn't have a comparable feature. {lD;;

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I really should! I just. Keep forgetting to check my email. I would, given the time and attention spoons and a computer that actually stays connected to the internet for longer than 15 minutes at a time...

What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

It's not done yet. But it's going to be the final chapter of DDD. Dove literally asks, "I killed five people. Do I deserve to die?" It's... going to be Intense and come with a few content warnings because it's HEAVY.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

So far? Uhhhh........ I mean, A work of Magic (Pokemon fic) is pretty upbeat so far. The story basically BEGINS with Jess wanting to raise a Misdreavus and Mismagius (and finding them); Murky hating his flock (and he's with a trainer now so he's away from them); Missie being abandoned (but then found by a trainer who loves her!); and Mistress's arc is in the works (ha) but it's already begun (she's mad about her species being hated for their reputation but Jess doesn't care about that). It's going to be ALL happy endings.

I think, in the published stories, it might be between Mystery Sickness (Raven heals from the titular sickness and everyone's happy!) or Missing: Raven (wherein the titular missing Raven returns and everyone's happy!). In my unpublished fics though... Fire and Flight is going to end with Dove and Srentha getting married, and that's a really blissful scene for them, of course. This is hard actually because I don't like NOT-happy endings! They mostly all do except the ones that have direct sequels (DDD and Something Special).

Do you get hate on your fic?

Oh my stars, I USED to! Dove's core concept - "Raven's sister" - made SO many people mad! Keep in mind, I started sharing my stories in 2005 or 2006. Writing a character that fit arbitrary criteria that everyone else except me somehow knew was a !!SIN!!. (Two exclamation points for Mercymorn vibes are, in this case, intentional.)

One of the first things I shared was Dove's character bio. And people almost always said things like "She's a Mary Sue!" Simply because she was related to Raven. Or "She has too many powers!" (And Raven canonically has a new power like every 3 issues in the comics; what's your point?) People also said I wasn't allowed to make Dove like J-Pop because I also liked J-pop. Which is. Like. ??? H u h ? ? ? ???

It didn't make sense to me then and it doesn't make sense to me now.

I don't think I've gotten any hate in the past 10 years or so, though. Though I personally consider it equivalent to hate when someone goes to my Teen Titans stories and, in a review on that Teen Titans fanfic, without commenting on anything whatsoever regarding the content of the Teen Titans story, asks me to update the Ruby Gloom fic.

Fuck off.

(I got Really Painfully Disappointed when I saw that email that someone reviewed DDD! The first review on that story in YEARS! A story I've poured my heart and soul [and a little bit of my own mindscape experience] into creating! Only for it to be someone begging--on the WRONG DAMN STORY-- for me to update something I already explicitly said I was no longer writing.)

Do you write smut?

Not really. Not often. Not well. I mostly just have outlines. And there are like. Five scenes outlined. Brief scenes. (99.5% of the time, I don't care about smut at all. It's just not fun for me unless I am REALLY in EXACTLY the right mood to have fun with it.)

Do you write crossovers?

I did once! Unfortunately that was the only time I ever felt shame, because I thought it was Too Self-Indulgent and for some reason decided it was silly. Pokemon and Teen Titans. Dove gets a transportation spell wrong and ends up in the Pokemon world, and accidentally catches a Misdreavus. (Because what else would I write about in the Pokemon world? XD) I had this really fun idea about the ghost getting stuck in Raven's mindscape and Dove has to go in there to retrieve it. But I simply didn't have any idea where the story was going and lost interest. It's the only story I've ever deleted, and I regret it so much. I lost the flashdrive that had the original file on it and all the notes for that scene, too. u.u

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge. Although, let's be real, the idea that "Raven has a sister named Dove" is Very Far from Unique. Stories like that were all over 2000's fanfic.net. (I named my Dove independently and refuse to change it. It Has MEANING for mine, okay!)

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not to my knowledge?

Have you ever co-written a fic?

Most of the process! Sort of. A Work of Magic (my ACTUAL Pokemon fanfiction) is going to involve my best friend's trainer character as my trainer character's traveling companion! Eventually. Assuming I ever publish enough of the story to solidify Jess's team first....

That's also assuming rping doesn't count, by the way. I assume you mean fic as in "fanfiction specifically". But if RPs count, I have co-authored a GREAT many fics! In fact the first 5ish years I was roleplaying, it was in a chatroom specifically for Teen Titans OCs!

What's your all-time favorite ship?

This may be cheating, but my VERY FAVORITE ship is actually my OCxOC ship, Dove and Srentha! Secretshipping! My babies. The first romantic interest/couple I ever actually cared about.

If it HAAAAS to be a ship of characters within the realm of canon... JeriRae is probably the one. Though Lapidot was a contender for awhile.

I also really liked the OCxRaven ship in my favorite Teen Titans fanfiction... before I reread it at an age where I realized it's Weird to ship a 25 year old man with a character that the story states "hasn't even reached her sixteenth birthday". Their dynamic would be REALLY exciting if it wasn't a little creepy.

What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Honestly? All the smut scenes. I write at such an agonizingly slow pace as it is, but when I'm not actually In the Mood For Smutty Things, I'm actually mildly s*x-repulsed and when I'm not repulsed, I am simply Disinterested, and I'm not going to write it if it's Not Interesting.

What are your writing strengths?

Characterization so every character feels unique and alive! Maybe dialogue, as a subset of characterization and also sounding Pretty Natural? Using descriptive words that paint vivid pictures and echo vivid sounds and evoke powerful emotions! I've gotten my writing to a place where it generally flows very well, syntax-wise. Immersive descriptions of sensory experiences (especially tactile and auditory). Being able to get into the character's head and write the scene As They See It without using first-person. Character growth and developement is a Big Thing. I'm also learning to write better metaphors! (Still learning quite the right places to wield them, but I used to use a ton of hyperbole and modifiers that kinda killed the mood. I'm getting WAY better at them now though!)

Also, fic-specific: Hella headcanons! Especially for something I'm really interested in, like Azarath or how Raven's powers work. My analytical mind combined with the joy and perpetuity of hyperfixation means I analyze a LOT of little details in canon.

I can take a line that only briefly mentions a "magistrate of food production" and extrapolate an Entire Aspect of Society. (They have people in charge of food production! It's an organized aspect of society! It's HIERARCHICAL. "Magistrate" means he's judging things; he's not the only one calling the shots! It's PRODUCTION, which means it's not all foraged! They have a whole system for it; it's REGULATED! And I'm just now, at this very moment, thinking "holy shit, what did they do when the magistrate of food production fucking PERISHED"... not like that was the most important part of that scene. But. I never considered that before. Food is pretty important. I actually need to gnaw on this for awhile.)

What are your writing weaknesses?

Humor and fight scenes. Also fluff and smut, but I don't really enjoy writing those. There may be Occasional Fluff, especially in secretshipping scenes with Dove and Srentha, and usually it comes out pretty sweet, but it's always wrapped in Actual Story. And smut just. Doesn't really have any place in my writing. I've outlined a few things, "fully written" one singular lime scene. (It might eventually someday possibly conceivably become more than a lime. Maybe.)

But humor? I absolutely suck at that. My Pokemon fanfic has some humor elements, and sometimes the character narrating the scene via limited third person or omniscient makes a dry comment, and I appreciate dry humor. But humor just isn't... something I gravitate towards naturally. And when I do, it's dry and subtle and understated.

I tried to write a funny moment into DDD where Dove tries doing laundry with her powers, they go out of control, she gets the clothes mixed up and because Dove isn't from Earth and didn't know they have to stay separate in the washer, the whites and colors get mixed, and so Beast Boy laments his clothes turning pink. The scene ends with Beast Boy teasing her and saying he'll just get revenge, and Robin says, "So everyone except Dove: Watch for trip wires." It feels SO out of place in DDD. (You know: The story where murders happen and Dove has a breakdown.) I was going for "Break the dramatic tension with humor". You know. Comic relief. I'm not sure how well it worked.

And fight scenes? I can imagine Some Things Happening, but it's always in brief snatches of moments. I can't follow the flow of a fight in my head. I mostly describe it in snapshots, because I don't enjoy fights much. I don't enjoy physical training or sports or martial arts or war stories. I even zone out during Teen Titans (My #1 Hyperfixation) episodes when they're fighting. I don't enjoy writing them and I don't enjoy content of them, so I kind of just. Can't even figure out how they work. Solution: Slap a few serviceable moments together and call it a day. It's not a skill I intend to polish beyond "just get it over with so I can get to the COOL part". Cool, subjectively, being the part AFTER the fight.

I will say that I GREATLY enjoyed both the process of writing and somewhat enjoyed the result of the DDD climax battle! Chapter 20, the largely-abstract battle between Raven and Dove in Dove's mindscape. I absolutely LOVED playing around with how an empath and a telepath would wage war when they're LITERALLY INSIDE SOMEONE'S MIND! I didn't have to coordinate hits and weapons in my head; it was all abstract, emotional, redirection stuff that DOES capture my imagination!

But how often am I ever going to write an empath and a telepath fighting in a mindscape? It's the only battle scene I've ever written that I'm actually HAPPY with. (....event-wise, anyways. Not at all happy with the rhythm/prose/style. I like What Happens in the battle, not How It's Written. But the thing about not enjoying, and thus not practicing, a thing is that I'm not going to be good at it even when I really want to be.)

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I kinda do that already! Though most of it is in a conlang... Not sure if that counts. (I don't think I've published it anywhere. But if you've ever seen the scene I posted on dA that ends in "May your spirit soar free"? I hadn't done it at the time, but I now know how that's written: Phiareh se-o a'erentha.) Names come into play for character!Zira, particularly Ciraen and Zirane, and Leyla and Dove both have "affectionate" names used to denote especially deep fondness and significance. I don't think I've ever written an entire CONVERSATION in another language though.

Oh, and I intersperse Rorek's dialog with Latin at the beginning of that story because I'm a dork for Latin and he's supposed to have been ripped from the past and is ~magically~ learning English. It's a transition.

Anyways, I think it's fine but I think people should try to find a beta who knows the language.

First fandom you wrote for?

Does "inventing a Yu-Gi-Oh! card" count as writing? Because if so, probably that. If not: Does imagining a species count as writing? Then Pokemon or Yoshi (both of Nintendo fame). As far as actually fully writing out the stories in words with the intent for them to be read as a narrative: that's 100% Teen Titans.

Favorite fic you've ever written?

What is my favorite star in the sky? My favorite leaf on a tree? Which tidal wave is the moon's favorite? By the gods, I can't pick just ONE. I love them all for the whole tapestry they weave, and my Current Favorite changes by the day. The most statistically common "Favorites" tend to be:

- Dove's Dark Discovery (because writing the mindscape scenes was SO DAMN FUN!) - The Final Journey (I'm writing about Azar and that's very important to me for private Nexus reasons, but it's also important to DOVE! And it's a classic Adventure Quest story with a twist of "she's still getting over the fact that she killed people") - Something Special About Srentha (perhaps my most coherent plot to date and headcanoning Azarathean history like CRAZY) - Growing Up Demon (Leyla's childhood scenes that don't fit elsewhere and she's very fun and very loved and it warms my heart A Lot-- some of the only time I enjoy writing slice of life, but is it really slice of life when your life is magic and demons?) - A Work of Magic is my favorite when I'm in Pokemon-hyperfixation mode or am just really appreciating warm-fuzzies and low stakes.

...

Holy fricking gods I'm tired. I read that last question as "first fic you've ever written" and. Answer under the read-more because I typed that all out and I Like The Answer, but it's not....... the answer it's asking for. {lD;;

Oh great gods, define "writing"! I was playing out stories with my PowerPuff plush figure things at like age 5. I made up characters and species for Pokemon and Yoshi when I was that age, possibly even younger! And I made up Dove at a VERY young age, considering I'm still writing about her at age 30: I must have been 10 or 11! I came up with her Core Concept veeeery shortly after getting into Teen Titans. I specifically remember playing pretend when Teen Titans was still airing; my oldest sister was playing Terra and I was playing Dove. We were playing toys with a spare Raven Bandai figure being Raven's sister named Dove (something about time travel and crossing a river in a boat made of legos?) the night Spellbound aired. That was... (checks internet) October of 2004!

And the oldest writings I have dated-- as in, writings when I actually wrote down the date I put the words on paper-- are Dove stories from 2005. But I know I was writing the stories down on paper about a year before I actually started writing the dates down. So at the VERY latest, I started "writing" fics in 2005.

I don't think I started Intentionally Writing Fanfiction, as it actually

I'm tagging: Under the singular condition that you actually want to do it! @mymixofmuses @orionsdestiny @sirenianheart @impulse-goblin 

+AND: Anyone else who sees this and wants to do it! Frankly I'm not sure who else writes. @monstrousgourmandizingcats, if it can be interpreted as original fic?

[kitxkatrp]

"I'm sorry, who is unhinged?"

We all know my Ryou Bakura is the most unhinged.

[hyaciiintho]

🌸｡*ﾟ+. @theunknownmasks | smol starter

"You're not real." The silveret breathed, having experienced the NIGHTMARE phantoms of his past more often than not. This would be no different, surely? "You're just... i-in my head." He insisted with fervor, fists clenched and eyes hard set. "Go. Away."

Clearly, he was feeling unwell again, was all. Nothing else made LOGICAL sense, after all, even with his feline companion hissing from the corner before FLEEING moments later into the safety of his room. Oh what a mistake he had made.

[kitxkatrp]

"You could also ruin me if that's what you wanted to do."

"The lands before me have long lain silent. Truly unfortunate that I seek to ruin it."

[briilliance]

@voidfcllen​

“Will you stop being such a ninny? It’s not like I killed him, I lightly stabbed his hand with a fork and well deserved it was. You know I disapprove of anyone touching my ring. We’ve known those idiots for far too long, that Jounouchi fellow should damn well know that by this point.

Plus, wasn’t he some sort of street gangster? If a fork can cause him to double over than your tiny shrimp of a friend as really rotten’d him out.”

Crossing his arms the spirit growled, annoyed at the stupid lecturing he was forced to listen to as they made their way back to his host’s home. It’s not like this would prompt him to apologize so Ryou was truly wasting his time.

“Are you done? Can we eat now?”

[0rainy0muses0]

☥ Ryou Tag Drop ☥

☥ IC,☥ Save Me From Myself: Ryou,☥ Verse: Change of Heart ~ Main,☥ Verse: Book of Life,☥ Verse: Gravekeeper's Servant,☥ Asks,☥ Crack

☥ OOC,☥ Save Me From Myself: Ryou,☥ Aesthetic,☥ Asks,☥ Character Analysis,☥ Crack,☥ Dollmakers,☥ Headcanons,☥ Music,☥ Musings,☥ Visage

☥ The Other Me: Yami Bakura

[kitxkatrp]

"--Of course." You, hold my leash? What a fool. There is only one man that holds my leash and it is certainly not you.

Good boy, Ryou. A voice dark and smooth echoed in his head. Ryou made no outward acknowledgement of it.

"In that case, care to share what you have in mind, Marik?"

[diisccvery]

8

[kitxkatrp]

Wholsum values

tagged by: @infinitexmuses

[hyaciiintho]

A certain spirit sticks the young albino's hand in a glass of water very carefully not to wake the man before disappearing. // I'm so sorry Ryou.

It's not until MUCH later that the silveret is startled awake, though, rather than a bed becoming wet, the glass is knocked over to DRENCH his entire floor. A swear is barely contained behind his lips, the same hand slapping over his mouth, sending him sputtering from the water still on it. Gracelessly he leapt from his sheets, a sense of PANIC washing over him as he quickly checked his bed-- nothing.

A sigh of relief escaped him, though it lasted but a second before IRRITATION came over him.

Who was responsible for this?!

"Not. Funny." He grumbled aloud, eying up his room with RISING suspicion.

[kitxkatrp]

What...the hell? Was this the afterlife? Was this his divine punishment? Being faced with and scorned by his own face? The thought made him want to laugh.

"...I never expected that my afterlife punishment would be getting insulted by my own face." He let out a soft, unhinged laugh and bent over a bit to hold his stomach. "That's it then...that's it...I really did die. Fuck. Fuck."

Was he some sort of spirit then

Would he turn into a demonic one if left too long? His spirit still longing for vengeance and the hatred that welled up inside of him each and every day too much for any good spirit to handle?

Well--

"If you're going to send me to hell, get it done and over with."