#coffee rambles about syrus for the 420th time today

[iced-coffeebean]

Ooh no worries, I gotcha

So, What exactly caused him to be a Kaiser of Darkness? 👁👁

I'm not gonna lie, I have it somewhere in one of my chats but I can't find it right.

I told a break from YGO in like November?? And I've been snorting lines of Hetalia (again) till like a week or so ago? Now I'm in both fandoms at the same time.

So I might have forgotten or I might fuck up the details but this is what I remember:

(Sorry for any and all grammar or spelling errors 😭😭)

Season 4, you have Trueman/Mr. T. He wants an easy way out. Rather than personally going after Jaden himself, he thinks he should instead send one of the strongest duelists in the Academy after him to make things easier if possible.

Zane was the king of all these peeps and his deck was incredibly difficult for people like Jaden to even beat considering he tied with him. Since Zane handed down the Cyber deck to Syrus, he decided to target Syrus.

Syrus... Poor poor little Syrus.

HIS WEAKNESS TBH IS HIS LOYALTY TO PEOPLE. IF HE CARES ABOUT YOU, HE IS WILLING TO DIE FOR YOU.

He's trying so hard to reconnect with Zane that he's willing to do anything to make sure he's safe and okay. Trueman and Darkness take note of this and decide that if he does what they say, they will make sure nothing happens to him. But he if he says no, they would do something to him.

So, he joins their side and is pit against Jaden. And they especially find this wonderful since Jaden and Syrus are like VERY CLOSE FRIENDS. Like LITERALLY THEY JUST HAD THEIR MOMENT IN PRIOR EPISODES (The whole pep talk yk before the Makoto duel)

So they find this GREAT because Jaden would NEVER hurt a friend, let alone someone as close to him as Syrus is. And it would be kind of painful for him cause he practically helped shape Syrus into the person he is, so seeing him stray into a different path like this would make him LOSE HIS SHIT.

In this AU, rather than Sorona, taking out the other students and sending them to that one hell hole (you know what I mean, the place where they were all living their personal hells and stuff), it's Syrus

I'm also basing this off a mostly dub/not original translation, where in the all the dubs (basically any lang vers of the show that isn't the OG Japanese version) you have Season 3 going on. Dark World stuff. Syrus is like dreaming in that cave and shit. Jaden in the dream says something along the lines of "If something happened to you, I'd probably act out even WORSE-" (referencing to Jesse getting taken away and becoming evil)

So I'd think when they met up in Season 4 in this AU, Syrus would be like "You said you'd do ANYTHING to make sure nothing happens to me. Is that true?"

So during Season 4, yk where Jesse and Jaden duel Yusuke?

Think of them having a moment like that. Or a duel like that. That would be like the ULTIMATE moment.

SOMETHING LIKE THAT

I SWEAR THIS MAKES SENSE TO ME I SWEAR

I'd imagine that if Syrus hesitates to do the orders he's told to do, he gets like nightmares or mental thought flashes (?) about bad things happening to Zane, to make sure he doesn't flake out.

IM SO SORRY IF THIS DOESNT MAKE ANY SENSE I SWEAR IT DOES TO ME 😭😭😭

[iced-coffeebean]

Your reminder that Bonds Beyond Time took place in post canon for GX so Paradox technically speaking punt the shit outta Syrus for that Cyber End card

Most people were like "oh no not Zane!"

Y'all-

I get Season 4 wasnt dubbed so some people dont know about Syrus getting the Cyber Deck but at least look it up to make sure 😭