#arc v yuuri

[entamewitchlulu]

thoughts about the yuuri event so far

The main thing that gets me about this event is the realization that at Yuuri’s core, there’s something....strangely innocent about him. It’s proof that “innocence” in and of itself isn’t an inherently good trait. He's innocent like a badly socialized dog who just thinks its playing but was never taught how hard is too hard to bite, and is confused and just a little bit miffed that people are complaining when he hurts someone. Like, that's how you're supposed to play, right? Don't complain, don't you know how the game works?

Like, Yuuri knows he’s mean, at some level. Because that's how he's been treated his whole life. People tell him he's cruel, he's vicious, he's a monster. Clearly, that must be what he is then! So he'll keep feeding that expectation and be the person people think he is (cough cough zarc is that you cough cough)

He does take some glee in being a nuisance, in the reactions he gets from people. But because it's fun. That's part of the game! And he's so good at the game, obviously. He's the best at the game. He's the Strongest, after all. He genuinely seems confused by people holding a grudge against him, because as far as he’s concerned, that's just what happens when you're Weak. That's just how the game works, if you don't like it, you'd better just git gud! Only then do you have a right to say anything.

There’s not actually much active malice in it. He was raised to think this is the proper way for him to interface with the world and for the world to interface back. People are scared of him or angry at him, and that’s normal and natural, because he was basically taught to see everyone around him as a toy. he's the predator playing with his food, not out of malice, but just because that’s what strong people do, and that’s what he is: the strongest one. So when people start to challenge that concept, he’s just genuinely confused by it, and his response is always “well if you’d just won, if you’d just been stronger than me, then of course this wouldn’t have happened. But you’re weak, so that’s just what’s supposed to happen. Get with the program.” Obviously, no one else read the rule book and they're just butthurt. Just get stronger then, if you want to complain so much. 🙄

What Yuuri does isn’t out of an active cruelty or malice. It’s just the way things are, of course. And he doesn’t get why no one else understands that.

It’s innocence in possibly the most dangerous way possible, because how do you untangle that level of unhealthy thinking? How do you unpack the kind of childhood someone had to have in order to have swallowed this worldview down so matter of factly? It's terrifying, and it's fascinating.

[oddeyesarcpendulumdragon]

Yuuri slipped his way into the center of the page because he HAS to be the center of attention haha. Someday I'll get these out before 1am, but it is not today! Tomorrow we'll perhaps see our moonlight girl~

[takopaonthemoon]

ermmm scratches head. crossposting from twitter but here's my postcanon au for compilation's sake. school arc and college arc shenanigans for now.

you might never get a proper explanation for what's going on you just have to trust me

[omarwolaeth]

"Hey, hey; didn't I do good?"

I'm very out of practice drawing things in general,,,

[rabbitfolly]

so I made these arc-v stickers once

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[phantomknights]

Tumblr user phantomknights can you hit Yuri with the girl beams. For the transgenders (<-hcs Yuri as transfem)

who am i to deny the people what they want. one yuuri fresh off the trans ray (definitely not inspired by how a certain someone draws yuuri whattt nooo)

[enter-the-performapals]

@arcvmonth Day 5: Action Magic- Overpass

Alright, so I know the Dragon Boys Roleswap Shuffle is a pretty basic AU but I feel like I have an interesting take on it!

For the art today I wanted to draw Fusion!Yuya (hes gotta have some absolutely messed up anglicised name... Eia? Taking suggestions lol) being intimidating during the Xyz war, but it turned into POV: You're getting turned into a card. And stormy ambiance because Winter storms have been pretty crazy over here...

AU thoughts under the cut!

(Quick content warning for mental absue!)

Ive seen a couple of people theorise that Yuya, if roleswapped with Joeri, would still be happy-go-lucky but in a murderous psychopath kinda way. Personaly, I think the opposite.

In my idea of a roleswap, Yuya would be grow up as an orphan, desperately doing whatever he could to eventually get into Academia, which he does around ~10 years old.

Having pretty poor social skills, but still having a positive attitude, he'd make some acquaintances in the first month or so until he catches the attention of Leo Akaba.

Leo, terrified of what Yuya would become, decides to isolate him. While his peers are jealous that he gets special treatment, Yuya is over the moon and starts to see Leo as a father figure and idolises him, following his every move.

Around the same time, Fusion!Yuzu would be taken in Leo as well. Over time, Yuya would see how much better Yuzu would be treated than him, the way Leo doesnt let him too close to his replacement daugter, the hate that would occasionally flash in Leo's eyes when talking to him, and he would start to resent them.

Yuzu's no saint in this AU either, being coddled by Leo so much that she'd view herself above everyone else. She'd figure out how to manipulate Leo into getting whatever she'd want, and rub it in people's faces. She'd act perfect around Leo, but as soon as as shes away from him, she'd demean and undermine the people around her. And Yuya would be her favorite verbal punching bag- as hed also been selected specially by Leo-and save the worst insults for him. She'd probably be known as The Princess of Academia.

With hs confidence beingbeaten down by this version of Yuzu, shunned by his peers who are jealous that he was hand selected by Leo, and just knowing that Leo hates him for a reason he has no idea of, he'd just... mentally shut down. Spiralling into a deep depression.

He would never smile. Barely speak a word outside of duels, which he'd be ruthless in. His eyes would be cold and dead, other than occasionally showing flashes of an intimidating gold.

Of course, even though he knows Leo hates him, hed still do anything for the Professor, in a futile attempt to be loved and accepted by him. Hed be a major player in the war, and hed still kidnap Xyz!Rin and Synchro!Ruri

He'd still be the personality with the most amount of Zarc in him and at the end of the AU, standard!Yuuri would probably show him that he deserves to smile and that no matter what hes faced in the past, there will be people there to support him and be his friends.

After a charater arc duel where he breaks down after defeat and vows to become a better person, Leo would have an angry rant about him being useless tool to the reigime and a worthless demon child that he never should have taken in and expunge him, where then hed fuse with Yuuri.

My thoughts for his deck would be something similar to Sergey's deck, but instead of humanoids theyre animals (like the performapals) in a very old, black and white, rubber-hose style constricted with vines, chains and locks to symbolise a trapped but not lost sense of innocence.

If youve read this far, thank you so much! Let me know-either by dropping me an ask or putting it in the tags- if youd like to see more of this AU, because Boy Howdy have I thought about it In Depth. Thank you for reading!

[cellis-ygo-art-gallery]

Drew this based on the rp I have with @breakinberserk

[oninatsumi]

It's been 9 years since Yuri of the Cold Smile and its Arc-v's 10th anniversary this year. My whole life during arc-v's OG airing was a circus.

[entamewitchlulu]

Putting this as an aside to my last post, but I think this also explains why, out of everyone he interacts with, Yuuri's conversation with Dennis is much different than it is with everyone else.

Everyone else starts the conversation with antagonism, and Yuuri replies gleefully - because yes! This is how the game starts! You are mad at me or scared of me, and I provoke you back until you're so mad you have to fight me, and then I fight you and I show how much stronger I am than you and I win! :)

Dennis, though, is the only character to immediately be happy to see him. To meet him with genuine care and compassion and a desire to see him as a friend. Yuuri doesn't tease Dennis the way he did the others, because I think it throws him off guard. Like hang on. That's not how the game goes. You're doing it wrong and I don't know what to do with this.

It also seems like probably in the past, Dennis had never talked back to Yuuri either. "Are you sure you want to take that tone with me?" A warning that implies to me that up until now, Dennis has always been accommodating. Things are going off script. Yuuri is warning him to get back on track. And this time, Dennis ignores him.

Because it seems like out of the entire cast, Dennis was the only one to get just close enough to Yuuri to realize that there might actually be a person underneath that dirty laundry pile of neglect, abuse, conditioning, and poor coping mechanisms, enough to even now think that whatever relationship they had in the past was enough to call him a friend.

And to mention Dennis too, from both the show and what we got from his event in Duel Links, Dennis thinks that he himself is the worst person ever who didn't deserve to be forgiven at all. But then everyone did. Every single person he hurt forgave him nearly unconditionally. So in Dennis's logic, if even he can be forgiven.... surely Yuuri's not beyond saving either, right?

And Yuuri....doesn't know what to do with this. So he gets touchy. He gets more irritable with Dennis than he does with anyone else. He loses his lighthearted "oh i'm such a stinker hehe" energy because Dennis throws him off balance. this isn't right this isn't how people are supposed to talk to him what do you mean actual human connection that's not real, this is a game, it's just a game, it's always been a game, what are you doing

I think deep down Dennis coming to Yuuri with genuine compassion scares Yuuri. Because no one's ever reached out to him like that before. That's not how he's supposed to be treated. But if he can be treated kindly...if people can care about him...

then does he even know who he is anymore?

[hotdogshipping-miwa-enthusiast]

In light of Yugo being added to DL I feel like sharing something from a while back,

So I like to watch both sub and dub ygo, sub for the plot and dub for the memes, and in the Arc-v dub because yugo and fusion sound nothing alike we get glorious names for yugo like nogo, pogo, yoyo, and i believe at some point yogurt.

The main point being

I so badly want a stupid tag team event where you duel yugo and yuri but instead of d-wheels, they are on a pogo stick,

A single completely normal pogo stick

Because imagine the hilarity of trying to duel while keeping in sync on a pogo stick, the banter would be lovely, especially because Yuri would absolutely refuse to be helpful.

"Yuri for the love of god just jump!" "Sorry yugo we agreed you would drive~" "I THOUGHT WE WOULD BE ON A D-WHEEL!-"

A solid event I shall never see and it breaks my heart

[takopaonthemoon]

redraw of that one panel from the arcv manga with special creative liberties taken.

did you know in the original japanese version of the manga, yuri speaks almost entirely in keigo, where it's extremely polite and courteous. it's different from his more casual and demeaning "treats everyone the same" speech pattern in the anime. however, one of the few times he purposely uses a rude and vulgar speech pattern (even worse than yugo's, in fact) is during this line. the more you know!

[higuchimon]

Yuuya has Yuuri, a trained soldier as well, and one who would gladly stab someone (& has probably been itching to stab people for a long time). I have no idea how that would affect any rankings, though.

I spent way too much time thinking about this but here's how I would rank who I think would win in a brawl, yugioh protags edition:

1) Yudias (alien warrior, has eye lasers)

2) Yusei (canonly can fight, built like a pit bull)

3) Judai (weirdly superhumanly strong, probably would fight dirty, WILL bite to draw blood)

4) Yuma (fast, good at dodging, probably would also fight dirty if needed)

5) Yugi (weak, but has stamina from running around Domino City and the Horrors)

6) Yuga (tiny, but has the unhinged confidence that only young children have)

7) Yuya (high stamina but mostly for showmanship, would mostly flail around if he can’t dodge, and his dodging is mostly fight choreo/acrobatics which take up a lot of energy)

8) Yusaku (gamer)

[phantomknights]

nasty little freak

[cellis-ygo-art-gallery]

A small drawing based of the fanfiction I'm currently writing with them.

[melodiousmyra]

The party of the wrath of the yu boys

The fourth dragon is here. Time to get the party started.