#oc || musa vogel

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ITS THE DAY TODAY! The beginning of @ygoc-week and my rapid descent into publicly talking about some of my characters. Or, well, just the one, but it's a step!

So, since I've already blabbed a bit about her, allow me to properly introduce her into the fold! So, for Day 1: Introductions, allow me to present to you all Miss Music herself, Musa Vogel!

:D!! With a funky little ref sheet I tossed up from scraps I had saved. This woman, I stg, she has been rotting my brain for years now and she means so much to me. More of my rambling under the cut vv

I'm just, she,,,, her,,, one of the default responses I had to watching GX again back in like 2019 was "okay seriously where the FUCK are the Ra Yellow women why are they only Blue or Rei-" and as per my usual response to such questions I made an OC

She is one of the top students in Ra during their first year, academic and duelling rivals with Misawa for the top spot. Story-wise, she doesn't necessarily become relevant until second year, after Sho gets promoted and Kenzan is introduced, and hoo boy her introduction. For the narrative I have in my head, Duel Academy still has regular classes amidst all the duelling-focused ones, and it's in this music class Medici is forced to sub in for because Napoleon is ill that she emerges. Medici is so out of touch with the material he's teaching that, after answering and nitpicking several of his questions, he gets fed up and tells her to teach the class "if she's such a musical genius." Well, considering this is quite literally her life's passion, Musa silently stands up, walks to the front of the class, turns everyone to a certain part of their music, and has them play. actually, lemme get the silly written drabble I did for this-

(he wanted to sit with Judai, fyi)

LIKE THIS SHIT IS SO DUMB BUT SO IN LINE WITH GX HUMOUR TO ME??? and she's so silly without even trying, GOD she's very fun, I have so much fun with her, she is quite literally a living statue most of the time and she's so outta touch with the others around her it's amazing to imagine

me with her frfr (also if anyone wants to dm me questions about her and stuff please please PLEASE do I'd be so jazzed to answer and I might doodle a response too she's so fun to draw)

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And day two of @ygoc-week is where things truly begin to spiral!!

Happy day yall, and welcome to the first iteration of "Kay is a little insane when writing character backstories"! GX is not exempt from the rule unfortunately,,

I've mentioned in a previous post that Musa shares similar elements with Manjome lore wise, and I'll just cut to the chase on that one:

What if...instead of two shitty older siblings...there were THREE instead?

The ramble begins under the cut, CW: for psychological abuse, manipulation, implied physical harm and trauma

Musa is a member of the Vogel family, part of a large conglomerate of entertainment companies and, most notably, the global enterprise of Vanity Entertainment— a casino ring. She’s the youngest of four children by over half a decade, with her older siblings Ryland, Boris and Amano all already having made significant business moves at around her age and were successfully integrated into the franchise and its way of life. Under the influence of her parents, two hardcore business moguls and openly shifty people, she and her siblings were taught to play games to win, no matter what— bend the rules, hide details between the lines, never let them know your next move, or see weakness. Musa was the only one to find the moral flaw in what she was taught; she found it early, and she didn’t like it at all.

“But Mum, this is cheating! You can’t cheat in a game; that’s not fair and no fun!”

Simply put, the rest of her family didn’t approve of her having a conscience and ensured she knew that.

By her preschool days, she was considered the family scapegoat. Her siblings would treat her like a mini servant and tormented her until she became jaded, almost robotic. She couldn’t show her feelings because if she did, they would use it against her.

Never let them see your weakness.

She lived a life of straight obedience until something caught her eye, when her school went on a trip to the orchestra. The music was so powerful to her that she was crying the entire way home, both from the intense emotion she felt from the musicians and the fact she knew her family would disapprove.

And they did.

“Music? What a joke. You’re a Vogel, not some low-class noisemaker.”

“But I love it, I want to pursue it. Is that not enough? Is business not just a bunch of chances?”

“There is no profit in music, Musa—nothing to be gained.”

But she was persistent, and they saw that. Thus, instead of removing music from her life, her parents gave her an offer—if she was consistently on top academically, she could pursue music in her spare time. They intended to exhaust her physically and mentally to the point of ruining music for her forever, but the stakes only fueled her passion further. Despite being at her breaking points for years, she put her mind into school and her heart into music, all the while still being subjected to the shame cycle and bullying of her siblings (especially since now they had something to hold over her head).

By the time she was to enter high school, she was a top scholar and the musical prodigy she was meant to be. However, by now, her parents had shifted their business plan to incorporate Duel Monsters tournaments into their gambling halls and needed a way to promote it to the world…

…in came Musa, who picked up the game quickly after they introduced it to her (even finding a lot of fun when she discovered her Divas) and proved to be the perfect pawn. Send her to school for the game, train her into an unbeatable champion, and use her as an attraction to get even more money from the scheme.

And while Musa is entirely aware of this plan, she is getting out of their reach by going to Duel Academia. She would be miles from them and free to enjoy her games and music peacefully. Or, so she would’ve thought if she wasn’t presented with a contract before she left:

“If you were ever to lose a duel, and we find out, you will be pulled from the academy, banned from playing the game, and we will lock you away in complete silence for the rest of your life.”

…she wouldn’t have believed it if it wasn’t written on paper, and they wouldn’t have put it there if they didn’t mean it.

…

She wasn’t allowed to leave until she signed the contract, so she did.

But she kept it in mind and, as she was taught, worked around it. She spoke to the Chancellor on the first day of classes and showed him the contract, offering him her clause: only duels she participated in at a duel field would be counted on her record. This allowed her to duel freely whenever she wanted without consequence, and only the data from her assessment duels would be reported to her parents.

And since she was a star pupil and quite the big deal, he agreed.

So, she spent about a year and a half in peace, somewhat, her losses never being disclosed to anyone and establishing her as “the Queen of Ra” with an undefeated record.

…until Asuka was converted to the Society of Light, and Musa was elected to try and break the brainwashing through a duel…in the stadium…

…and she lost because Asuka played dirty, using cards Saiou gave her.

As she approached Musa to welcome her to the Society, she was instead met with the most despaired look and spiteful sneer possible.

“...there is no light, not for me…you’ve just killed me, Tenjoin.”

Later in the arc, most likely after Manjome is freed, an incident similar to what he went through occurs for Musa. Her siblings arrive, unannounced, coming to claim Musa and bring her home. By now, she told the gang about what happened, and they’re quick to come to her defense, especially Kenzan, who is physically blocking Amano from touching her.

“You signed the contract, Muuuuusey~! There’s no way out of iiiiiiit~!”

“...actually, there is.”

“H–Huh??”

She put her foot down and told them that contracts didn’t matter on the island, but duelling did.

“I won’t leave unless you can defeat me in a duel, that simple. I will even take two of you at once.”

She immediately came to regret that moment of confidence on their way to draw up a contract for the challenge, realizing that while she could out-duel them, she in no way had the emotional strength to handle it. Her whole life was on the line, and she was against her tormentors; they knew exactly how to get a rise out of her.

“Then I’ll duel with you.”

“You– what?”

“You heard me, saurus. Let’s make it a tag duel, and I’ll duel with you. They don’t know a thing about me, but you and I are friends. I’m not gonna let you go into hell by yourself, Musey.”

“...they will make you sign–”

“And? What of it? The Musa I know ain’t scared of a piece of paper, saurus. If you can’t stand up to them yourself, lean on me and we’ll win together.”

“...and you are willing to take the risk?”

“If it’ll save my friend from going down, I’d do anything.”

“...alright.”

Something something they draw up a contract something something they sneak in a hidden clause that gets Musa emancipated from the family something something they duel and destroy both of her brothers with a cool and epic fusion monster (an idea i have in my head of a prehistoric music diva called Crescendo the Cretaceous Conductor) something something Musa cries for the first time in years and Kenzan nearly crushes her in a hug something something Musa is now in love haha whoopsie

In my mind there's an entire episode planned with the title "A Lesson in Duel Etiquette" and that alone makes me kinda hyped,,

SO, uh, moral of the story?? Fuck the Vogel family, all my homies hate the Vogel family.

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birds of a feather flock together

This is a reimagined redraw of a real old Musa piece I did when I first made her years ago, and it's something I think about a lot with her. Because she is very much bird-themed---a bird kept in a cage for so long that she didn't quite know how to leave it until someone was willing to reach in and teach her to fly again.

She also adored birds for their songs and freedom, both of which she wanted to do but couldn't because she was kept in her cage.

Once she's let out of it, she's determined to give other birds their freedom, too. In the future, she'll be a foster mom to many abandoned and/or injured birds, and she will sing with them.

bonus lil' doodle

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Ah yes, at last, the day my brain insisted I prepare for, given what the prompt is!

Day 4 of @ygoc-week focuses on Relationships!

And, well, while there are several options to choose from when it comes to Musa's relationships, from her friendly rivalry with Misawa to her almost sibling like relationship with O'Brien to the eventual unofficial adoption by Cronos to even the absolute dumpster fire that is her thing with Asuka or Manjome...

...but I think we all know where this is going.

Thus, allow me to introduce the source of my Musa brainrot, the absolute peak which is: Leadershipping.

because what else is meant to happen when the emotionally stunted meets the emotionally vocal? the introvert meets the extrovert?? the touch-starved meets the physically affectionate??? the "what do you usually do while I'm gone" meets the "wait for you to come back 🥺💞"????

Strength and Temperance.

And now imma gush about it under the cut so have fun with that-

Okay for one, the fact he calls her Musey.

At first shes super adamant about him not calling her that, but it sorta just slips out anyways, and it isnt until her siblings arrive that Kenzan realizes "shhhhhit have I been triggering her this whole time" and starts calling her Musa.

But now its WEIRD because shes gotten used to him calling her that, and the nickname isnt really associated with her siblings anymore, it's with him.

So in their tag duel, one of her brothers calls her Musey, and she glares at him like "you're not allowed to call me that" but when she makes a good move and Kenzan excitedly grins at her like "atta girl, Musey!" and her brothers get pissy like:

"Hey, dont call her that, scum!"

"Actually, no, he's allowed to."

"WHY HIM?"

"Wait, I can?"

"Yes, I like when you do it. It sounds much nicer when you say it."

"HAH! TAKE THAT, I MADE YOUR INSULT INTO A GOOD THING >:D!"

and eventually he slips into even more nicknames, spanning from "my muse" to "songbird" and the like,,,

And while Musa doesnt really use nicknames, she DOES have a thing where once you pass a certain point in her head, she'll use your first name.

So after the tag duel victory and shes being squeezed to death in a victory hug, she just gently hugs him back like "Thank you, Tyranno..."

And he starts internally screaming-

BUT

But

This shit goes CRAZY once season three rolls around, because uh

Well

First off, the zombie stuff is a thing, and Musa hangs back to help organize the home base, but before the others leave she calls for Kenzan and places one of her cards in his hand "for emergencies, bring it back to me" and whatnot.

He nods and places it in his deck like immediately, hes still doing it as they walk off, and Musa's standing there watching them leave, and then Fubuki fucking Tenjoin shuffles over to her smirking like ">:)c well well, the queen of Ra has just given her champion a token of her affections~" and shes like "...nuh-uh-"

And when everyone gets back she just not so subtly sets aside an extra plate to give him since she knows he'd be hungrier and "it is a good contingency in case we need physical support, he is the strongest among us." And Fubuki just gives her this LOOK but she does NOT care because Kenzan's like "awww, Musey, you flatter me, saurus-"

But it ain't all good times in this neck of the woods, no SIR

Since

Well

You dont expect the loss of the emotionally vulnerable woman's emotional support (among three of her other companions) to go over well right-

Like shes already in a tizzy because the others are dying right? But like the second Kenzan dies she just completely shuts down, and somehow his bandana flutters down in front of her and its just

God its game over man

If Obrien and Jim didnt show up Musa wouldve torn Judai to SHREDS, the pure banshee scream of despair she let out was something no one wouldve expected out of her, it actually caused some of the others to flinch.

So naturally she's wearing the bandana for the rest of the season and when everyone makes it back in the end Musa's too busy making sure Sho is alright and also very awkwardly but affectionately hugging Jim and O'Brien before Jim nudges her like "Oi, Musey, lookit-" and Kenzan is there and now shes crying and HE'S crying and runs over and scoops her up in a spinny hug and just

It was the first proper ship art I drew for them, because I'm ill, all of this art is relatively old but fvakdndjaldnhsix I have mORE SKETCHES THESE TWO ARE LOWKEY WHAT SAVES ME FROM ART BURNOUT-

But yeah, this is super incoherent but I do not care, they are just,,, super sweet. The slight slowburn, the mutual "they're so awesome and cool why would they ever like me back", the genuine friendship, the fact Kenzan lowkey has guard dog energy around her. Ugh, I'm weak. I'm weak. I push them together like dolls.

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Woop, @ygoc-week Day 3! And where I'm legally required to say that yes, Musa does use the same archetype as a canon character,, But, in my defense, I'm a sucker for pretty women in big floral dresses, and the idea of stone-faced monotone Musa having abunch of cutesy fairies as her monsters amuses me greatly. SO! She's a Melodious user, her deck is built with support for Fairy/LIGHT monsters, and she is a heavy Spell user. I've made up a mock version of her deck to play with in MD and it is my favourite deck to use,, She is also meant to represent the same kind of duelist Misawa and Ryo are, who actually plan for duels, have proper strategies and, well, use more than one copy of their monsters in their deck.

(It always bugged me that more characters didn't do that) But, I digress. On a much lighter note compared to yesterday's prompt, here she is with her ace (Bloom Prima the Melodious Choir)!!

plus an additional version-

POV: You're Tyranno Kenzan and the boss music just started playing

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IM IN THE MIDDLE OF AN EXAM CRUNCH SO I CANT MAKE A PROPER POST YET BUT

TODAY IS MUSA DAY!!! HER BIRTHDAY IS THE 13TH!!! HAPP BIRTH TO MY DAUGHTER!!! 🎉

Have this old messy sketch for now :>!!

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tumblr mobile posted my stuff before i could add the art so IT GETS A SEPARATE POST IG- Musa when she's achieved Peak Music Nerd™

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okay i've been vibing with this stuff in my head for too long, I'm embracing it, my turn to ramble, gx oc community

Leadershipping [Musa/Kenzan] in the FUTURE!

Musa has a somewhat different path than she planned. Instead of being a global superstar musician, she ends up building a career as a composer, writing songs for several known stars and even helping some former DA students have instrumental intro tracks as professional duelists and coordinated music for dueling idol performances. And while that is her main job, during the school year, she is one of the teachers at Duel Academy, having taken up the position since she graduated. She teaches a music and choreography class to expand the education past duelling while incorporating it as an aspect, as her course helps set up students who want to go into pro duelling or duelling performances.

Tyranno, on the other hand, has dueling as a secondary part of his job as a paleontologist, where he collaborates with more technologically inclined people to use prehistoric data to recreate more accurate images of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. He travels a fair bit away from Academy Island in short bursts, because he can't stand to be away from Musa for too long. And when he is at the Island, he helps with her class, namely as the physical coordinator.

But that's way in the future, up in their mid thirties! how'd they get there?

Well, an important note to make at first is after the events of the third season, Musa and Chronos had gotten much closer, to the point he grew incredibly protective of her. While he treats a bunch of the main cast like they're his own children, it became far more evident with Musa, so much so that by the time she was to graduate with a majority of her peers, he approached her a few days before, asking if she would be willing to be properly adopted as his daughter.

Naturally, she said yes. And as they were announcing the names of the graduates, Chronos purposefully saved Musa for last so he could call her up as "Musa de Medici."

Everyone lost their minds.

Especially Tyranno after Rei nudged him and pointed out he was now dating a teacher's daughter.

^ him immediately after she said that

Since Musa was a year above Tyranno, despite them being the same age, there was a fair bit of discourse over their relationship as she was working as a TA for Chronos initially in her career. A LOT of the students were both either giving her shit because they believed she would buff her boyfriend's grades or there was something sick going on--- until they saw her graduation photos with Judai and the rest of the gang, and the fact she explicitly scheduled it so she would never assist in any of Tyranno's classes so never even SAW his grades until he showed her. His smarts were entirely his own and she would only ever bring them up as a means of saying "stop calling Tyranno dumb, he's the top of Ra for a reason."

That being said, because Musa was still living in her room in the Ra dorms, now converted into a bit of an apartment/office combo, he *did* get special access to it, purely because it was how they'd get to her room. When she was extra busy with schoolwork, he'd help her take care of chores and meals so she could focus.

Tyranno's grad duel was against Musa, naturally, and he asked Rei to help him plan a surprise, where at the very end of the duel, regardless of how it ended and when they shook hands, something with the confetti would malfunction and shoot something out towards them. He catches it before it hits her in the face, and when the stun wears off, she turns to him, talking with Chronos, who came running to confront him about this.

He holds out the ring box he caught, and Chronos fucking SCREAMS before covering his mouth, and Tyranno just smiles and tilts his head like, "Soooooooo, can I?" And Chronos takes a quick look at Musa before nodding.

Then Tyranno immediately grins like "cool!" and turns around to kneel and grab her hand.

"Now that our school days are history, Musey, how's about we start the next track of our lives on a high note?"

"I...you...right now?"

"We don't gotta do anything official right away, there's still a lot to be done, but there's one thing I know I want my future to hold-- you, saurus."

"...Tyranno..."

"Musa..."

"..." *She drops to the floor and hugs him.* "I cannot imagine a future without you beside me. Of course, I accept."

And those two stay engaged for at LEAST five years. There is absolutely no rush for a wedding, especially as they are both settling into their respective post-secondary schedules. Tyranno was off to university for an undergrad in archeology while Musa was still working as a TA, so they were long-distance for a good while.

And because Yugioh technology is a little more advanced and its shown they have video call capabilities, they absolutely call each other as often as possible. Oftentimes one will end up falling asleep and the other will watch them :,>

Once Tyranno gets his degree and the position within a large virtual tech company as the resident archeologist while chipping at his doctorate, he's got a looser schedule and able to zoom back to Academy Island, pick up Musa, and they start to get established on the mainland, buying a house on the coast and finally, FINALLY getting married within their mid/late 20s

They write a lot of letters too, like, a LOT of letters, just because they like the idea, and they each have a little box with all of their letters from each other

Their wedding was a small, intimate affair with the gang and their respective families in attendance along with some of their coworkers. Tyranno 100% started sobbing the second Musa came out with Chronos, who was also crying, and the ceremony went off without a hitch.

However, Manjoume (like a fucking idiot) tripped over his feet at the reception and crashed into a table. The whole thing is somehow so genuinely funny to Musa that she's able to laugh for the very first time in her life. She's in a stable enough environment with a new understanding of her emotions, and she can find the cue to laugh. It's squeaky and awkward, like an old rubber duck, but it is the most ADORABLE thing Tyranno has heard in his life, and he will not shut up about it for the rest of the night.

Their first dance song is Hello Hello by Elton John and I do not CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS!!! Musa can be silly goofy on her wedding day because I say so.

The two do eventually have kids, likely in their late 20s, and they end up with two biological children and adopting Musa's niece, so three kids total, more on that later ;>

I have a lot more thoughts on this stuff but I needed to get the basics out. Before the inner cringe gets me to chicken out.

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i have been enabled and it'll be good prep for ygo OC week sooo

yes, yes i do /lovingly

Musa Vogel (GX OC) Headcanons!🍃🎻

She is constantly listening to music. Like, yeah, it's 2006, and technology isn't super crazy, but BLUETOOTH HEADPHONES WERE A MID-2000s INVENTION; she continually has an earbud in her left ear. Usually, she's listening to orchestral music and walks around with her own soundtrack, but depending on her mood, she'll switch genres.

She doesn't laugh. Like, she's physically incapable of laughing. It's mainly because of something in her nervous system but also for lore reasons; she just never has had a reason to laugh or really feel humour. She's plenty capable of smiling and comprehending jokes, so when she does find something funny, she usually smirks and rolls her eyes. It's an infrequent occurrence (and it makes Kenzan's day when he succeeds).

She's deathly afraid of and allergic to cats (again, lore) and is very much scared of Pharaoh. The gang has been trying to get them to get along, but it has not been working.

Musa speaks in a monotone, almost robotically formal voice typically. Still, while performing a song or duelling, her voice projects like a theatre actor, and she sounds like a completely different person.

The only reason she's friends with Judai and co. is because she caught Kenzan's attention by doing what she does best: correcting the teacher /hj

TL:DR -- Cronos was trying to teach a music class, he is entirely unqualified to teach music, Musa kept correcting all the stuff he wrote on the blackboard, he got into a fit and went "well if you're so smart, why don't you teach these kids?", she got up and went to the front, pulled a conductor's staff from her pocket, had the class play one line, stopped them, and corrected several small details about how certain people played before managing to have them play the first line successfully. Cronos was dumbfounded.

Kenzan keeps trying to talk to her for a week after that, she ignores him because social interaction who, eventually he and the boys catch her playing her violin by the cliffside, she catches them watching, challenges Kenzan to a duel so they leave her alone, she wins, but she figures "well, you ruined my practice time, so I suppose I could spend my time with you instead for your trouble."

She's been stuck with them since /lh

It takes her a while to become comfortable with people (and their antics) because of how isolated she was as a child. Between her family's interference and her packed schedule, she didn't have time for friends, and no one was ever, well, genuinely nice to her.

So, naturally, when the pure-of-heart emotional dino boy comes and compliments her music and makes her feel welcome, she's gonna get attached-

She has a habit of drumming her fingers on surfaces when she's trying to focus, and also basically plays air piano as a stim.

She likes to collect antique jewelry and porcelain statuettes of birds and fairies, and has a small music box she keeps her collection of rings inside.

She loves birds. Like really loves birds. They are her favourite animal without question, and she is very much a bird charmer. One time, Kenzan caught her playing and having successfully gathered a small crowd of birds around her-- the others didn't believe him.

She has cold hands and frequently moves them to keep them warm.

She has a perfect attendance record (nerd).

She also had a perfect winning streak for her first year and a half at the academy...then the arc happened. I'll elaborate some other time.

While she used a Melodious-based deck (because music fairies epic) primarily, she has a few vanilla monsters in her deck, SPECIFICALLY INCLUDING:

THE ONE WITH HER NAME IN IT LMAOOOO she's so silly

Despite her hardened exterior, she is a supportive and caring person: her approach to being friendly is linked to her love languages [acts of service and words of affirmation], and she'll try to give practical answers first.

She likes to play music in precarious situations, like by the cliffs, high in the mountains or on a rock in the ocean. Why? The rush, the adrenaline, it's the closest feeling to feeling something she'd known until becoming friends with the gang.

Which, FYI, it is a very mixed bag:

She's closest to Kenzan, obviously; they're stupid close (and in love, but shhh)

But, her other closest friends are Misawa, Fubuki (shockingly) and O'Brien when he comes around

She gets along well with Judai and Sho, to the point where Sho actually kind of sees her as a mentor figure, too

She and Asuka have a...somewhat strained relationship after the Society of Light arc

Ryo and Edo are people she considers rivals and frustrating in their unique ways

Jim and Johan are both fine; they're her friends too, especially since they can talk about her passions with her

She's surprisingly protective of Rei, and Rei admires her quite a bit

She would've killed Amon if she had the chance.

And Manjoume...how do I put this...

They came from stupidly similar backgrounds and started out super tense because of it, but once her entire arc got settled, they developed some sort of socially awkward solidarity.

He was the first to confront her about Kenzan and told her to stop being so obvious about it and get it over with.

She merely blinked at him.

Oh! Most importantly, she and Cronos are surprisingly close, too. To the point, she actively acknowledges him as a mentor, and he's actively involved in checking her well-being post-arc stuff.

Her favourite food is plain rice, but precisely because there's a lot of room for customization. She believes in liking the base version of foods best since they're the canvas for trying new flavours and recipes. It's the same case with things like ice cream and pizza and such.

As per a special request funded by her parents' staff, her room in the Ra dorms is entirely soundproof.

She wears a robe to bed and while relaxing (rare but less so when she starts being more social); it's pastel green with fake feather trimming.

She also LOVES the colour green. Like most of her school supplies and accessories are some soft shade of green.

This turned out so much longer than i planned, whoops-

also i'm super ill about her dw about it :) <3333

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Leadershipping (oc x canon)

Headcanons 🎻���

Because screw it, something to make me feel better for Crimbus-

As per my headcanon that Kenzan started to cook meals with Kabayama (or Prof. Sartyr, aka the Ra dorm head teacher) after their duel; he often has Musa joining them since she's also used to making her own food. Through this, they learn each other's flavour profiles and occasionally make each other snacks or entire meals just because----most often, Kenzan brings Musa something to eat while she's studying.

Even before they were romantically involved, Musa was the most effective method of snapping him out of dino mode. None of the others know why that is.

Musa is actually a bit of a Mai fangirl, and implies as much while the gang is in Domino City in Season Two. This enthusiasm was met with even MORE enthusiasm from Kenzan and the two would be talking tidbits about Battle City whenever he wasn't preoccupied arguing with Sho.

"You were in a tag duel on top of the same building Mutou-san and Kaiba-san did?" "YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I SAID WHEN WE GOT THERE, SAURUS!!" "I'm quite jealous...what I would not give to be where Kujaku-san dueled..."

More under the cut because I get kinda rambly,,

While he was still trying to get to know Musa, Kenzan would make many amateur mistakes during their music class JUST so she would talk to him.

Musa has a stim where she taps her fingers on whatever surface she has nearby, and sometimes she gets into a deliberately complex rhythm when she's trying to calm down. If Kenzan is around when she's tapping, he will slowly start tapping back a counter-rhythm that'll get slower until she adjusts to the beat and settles.

In contrast, since Kenzan is a bit of a biter and she noticed he chews on his pencils a lot, she got him a bag of those bigger attachable erasers to nom on instead of the actual pencil.

Though Musa is not one for too much PDA, she has gotten used to Kenzan having an arm around her by the time they're dating and will lean on his shoulder if he doesn't while they're standing together until he does.

They've developed a habit of whistling to get each other's attention, half because Musa has exceptional hearing and half because Kenzan's dino instincts are similar to dog instincts, so they listen for it above all the other noises.

Kenzan takes pictures of any birds he finds outside or hanging out elsewhere to show Musa and get her rambling about them.

During the zombie arc, they exchanged cards and kept the other's in their decks "in case of an emergency;" Musa has a copy of Black Stego, while Kenzan has a copy of Solo the Melodious Songstress.

[Rei and Fubuki tease the hell out of them about this]

">:3 Sooooo, our dearest Queen of Ra has bestowed a token of her affections to her champion~ What a bold move, Musa-chan~!" "...what on Earth are you talking about? It was nothing like that."

"Oooooh, you guys traded cards to put in your decks so you have a part of each other everywhere you go?? That's so cute!!" "W-What?? No!! It was a precautionary move in case something goes wrong!! Yeah, that's it, saurus."

After wearing his bandana for so long during the Yubel arc, Musa got used to having one on and felt weird without it. So for Christmas he made her one, in his most obvious act of courtship to date. With embroidered music notes. (because his customizing of his jacket has me convinced he can sew) She cried on the spot. /pos

They have candid pictures of each other as their phone wallpapers.

They are 100% the type of couple coordinating their outfits without trying to. Like they keep to their own aesthetics, and yet they match.

And a lot of these next ones are connected, so, spacer :>

Because Musa is dense as a rock when it comes to flirting, she occasionally tells Kenzan about "strange encounters" with other male students telling her random things, only for him to tell her they were pick-up lines and ask for the students' names. For reasons :>

And if any brave soul tried this while Kenzan was there, they would almost immediately cower away because, dear god does that boy have the most terrifying guard dog energy.

He also uses this to his advantage since Musa is about as straightforward as it gets, always saying how much he loves her and her quirks in oddly specific ways. He is also very vocal about it.

On the other hand, Musa values Kenzan's opinion a LOT, and her best display of affection outside of her gifting/acts of service is to ask him questions about things. What he's currently working on, how his day is going, if he noticed anything interesting, and opinions on stuff going on; she likes to know his feelings and uses that knowledge to better help him or cater to his wants.

...which is exactly how she learned about his leg pain and migraines, which causes her to check the weather far more than any sane person would so she can make him tea to soothe the pain.

He HAS tried to pull off a grand gesture or two, most notably when Musa got the Asuka treatment and another suitor straight up tried to claim they were engaged (despite Musa literally not even knowing the guy)--- Kenzan challenged him to a duel, absolutely wrecked him, all the while debunking every fake claim the guy made pretending he knows Musa and thus proving how well he knows her.

"...he actually remembered all of that." "Ahhhhh, my heart!! Musa-chan, you're so lucky, that's so romantic of him!!" "...yes, I suppose it is. &lt;3"

....yeah, I'm ill about them, I'm well aware, leave me alone /lh /nm

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musa's on the brain, thinking of her makes me so giddy

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in an GX oc mood, have my girlie

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And here weve reached a bit of a roadblock.

I had no clue what to do post Day 4 of Yugioh OC Week because, well, the prompts were kinda lost on me, especially since I haven't watched VRAINS yet. But! I've come up with a solution, and that requires a wee bit of Kayverse History.

I have my ocs (of which there are nearly 100) separated into separate universes based on what main fandom/storyline they follow. Naturally, Musa's by herself in the GX part of that, but it wasn't always that way.

Between her original inception and nowadays, there was a solid two or so years where I considered her a Gen, meaning she was in the primary canon universe where most of my general ocs were-- aka the guys with no specific universe aka were originally all Total Drama ocs.

However, those guys also often ended up in killing games.

And considering Musa's lore already had the typical narrative beats for an Ultimate, for a combo of Days 5 and 6, we'll be doing a universe swap, which is, ideally, Musa's ideal self in my Danganronpa fangan canon.

Introducing, Miss Musa Vogel, Ultimate Conductress! One of the (un)fortunate contestants in the Trial of Kings reality killing game show!

Babbling about AU stuff under the cut :)c

And literally the third youngest in the cast now but somehow maybe the third most mature. Wild.

As an Ultimate, her avid schooling and perfectionism paid off, where instead of going to Duel Academy, she was accepted into a fast track university program for music. She's successfully cut her family out of her life, and, by the age of 18, is making a name for herself in the music industry as a conductor and composer for large cinematic and theatrical releases.

Only to become big enough for The Producers™️ to look at her and think "yeah, let's throw her into the killing game show!"

She may not have any friends her own age in this iteration, because they are both too hyper for her, but by GOD if she wasn't in good company with some bomb ass people.

Case and point:

Her adoption via the overeager archeologist and their no-nonsense jeweller fiancé.

And also an entirely separate adoption by the Ultimate Opera Star, which, they both deserve I think.

So, at least she's in good hands!!

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i say this as i'm typing up a headcanons post for her and kenzan whoops

musa's on the brain, thinking of her makes me so giddy