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pendulum-sonata · 6 years ago

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Chapters: 5/6 Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Serena/Yuri (Yu-Gi-Oh) Characters: Serena (Yu-Gi-Oh), Yuri (Yu-Gi-Oh) Additional Tags: Drama & Romance, Forbidden Love, Tanabata, One Shot, Alternate Universe - Mythology, Predatorshipping Week 2019, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Belligerent Sexual Tension, First Meetings, Predator/Prey, Fairy Tale Elements, Chinese Mythology & Folklore, Marriage Proposal, Language of Flowers Summary:

I decided to join these two prompts, because the plot bunnies visited me :P

(there's a mild violence in this chapter, but it only implied, still, don't like it, don't read)

There was once a queen who wished to be a mother so desperately that she took ill advice and made a deal with the good neighbors of the forest…

“For half a year, at night you shall fill a bowl of milk to bath under the moonlight and a drop of your and your husband’s blood from the wound of a rose thorn, on the following spring I shall grant you a child.”

“EVERYONE REJOICE!!! FOR THE QUEEN HAS FINALLY BORNE A HEIR!!!”

There was commotion in the castle, the rulers had opened the doors and allowed the townsfolk to join the festivities, everyone was served generous amounts of food and an equal amount of mead, and it looked like the cheers would last well into the night.

How fortunate it was that the prince had been born on the same day as Spring started?

“No…no… no… no… no…” The queen dropped to her knees, tears streaming down her face; how could this be? After the happiest month of her life, where she had nurtured and loved her child, where the child had been blessed by every person in the kingdom, where the King had showered them both of love.

The was gurgle coming from the crib, and slowly, very slowly the queen peaked into it, hoping that maybe the moonlight was playing tricks on her.

Purple eyes, with slit pupils fixated on her presence again, with sharpness that no baby ought to have, and with features more delicate and beautiful than any human she had seen… his skin was so pale that it almost glittered when bathed under the moon.

As if realizing her horror, the baby laughed.

This was not her child.

It is always a sad day when a queen dies, specially leaving behind such a young child behind.

The bad tongues say that she jumped from the balcony of her chambers.

Before long, the king remarries and the child wins a stepmother.

"Yuri, your tea is ready."

He turned from his place on the balcony to face the inevitable. The king was not in the castle, there was no falling star to wish upon, he had nothing now, nothing.

"Come here, my dear. Have some tea with me," said the queen. He simply stared at her, his stepmother. His eyes shifted to the small table in front of her, upon which a teapot and a cup sat innocently. "Do come and sit down. It is a special blend of mine. I made it especially for you."

He had been afraid of that. A ghost of a smile graced his lips. "How kind of you, mother."

"Good boy," the Queen cooed with false sweetness. He sat down before it. Boiled water and dried plant matter. It looked like any other tea.

It smelled like death.

"Now,” she said in a whisper. "Drink up, before it gets cold."

His finger passed slowly through the border of the cup and to the handle, he raised it to his lips and then stopped, he set his eyes on her, and If his stepmother had cared the slightest, she might have noted the sadness pouring from them, birthed from the pit of his stomach. She did not, of course. The queen just flinched when those eyes set on her.

"Is something wrong?"

"Why do you do this, mother?" He barely raised his voice.

"What are you saying, my boy?"

His eyes prickled and trembled, sometimes he looked at himself in the mirror, trying to see what everyone else feared so much about them.

"Is it my eyes, my hair, my skin? Or is it something else? There must be something I have done wrong, something I have done to make you all wish the worst for me. I can see it. You, father, my deceased mother, the nobles, the servants —all of you, when I have been naught but living—tell me, what did I do?"

Somewhere in the back of his mind he knew those words were too articulated, too wise for a child his age.

"Whatever are you talking about, my dear? I merely want to serve you tea."

That was it, his final act of desperation. Yuri felt his breath leave him. So this was it, then...

It was not as if he had any other choice, he raised the cup to his lips.

And slowly, drank the poison to the last drop.

“Why didn’t he die?!”

Yuri awoke to find himself laying into cold grass, covered in snow, somehow around the snow tiny buds of flowers where growing and rather than feeling cold, his skin felt warm, almost boiling.

The queen kept berating the servant, who was holding a shovel in his hand, hung his head in shame.

Shame for killing a child, ha.

Yuri felt something coil in his body when he remembered: the queen, his mother tried to poison him and then she was going to bury him in the gardens?

Both of them had their backs turned, and the snow helped to muffle the sounds of his steps…

He was going to return the favor to them…

His tongue licked his lips at the thought, and from that day onwards, something changed forever in his eyes.

.Ah, he understood now. He understood perfectly. Yes, that was how they had seen him all this time...very well! A monster they wanted, a monster he would be.

And as his laughter continued to ring out, as his would-be murderers torn to pieces at his feet, he did not realize that maybe, just maybe, it sounded like a child's sob.

Years passed.

Seasons came and went.

He was fourteen years old now. A beautiful boy, but it was a terrible beauty. Like that one of a sleeping dragon with its luscious scales that might be beautiful before it opened its eyes. He had those awful, enticing and hungry eyes. They gleamed as if he was a predator cornering his prey. One could not meet them without recoiling.

When he smiled, his lips curled as though he was allowing a brief indulgence before smiting whatever was unlucky enough to cross his path.

Yuri cut a rose.

He was tending to his rose garden. It was located in a secluded area behind the castle near the woods, filled with large, luxuriant flowers. And none could explain the strange ominous feeling that came over even as one was lured by their beauty. People would feel that the great sharp thorns elongated to cling to their sleeves, or that the flowers had a sinister resemblance to a throbbing heart.

Alluring yet repelling, much like him, actually.

"You will soon be of age," his father had said. "And it will be time for you to take a wife." Then the man had suggested that he start to court some of the noblewomen.

Yuri had barely resisted plunging his fork into the king's hand, and he might have imagined himself doing so, when he plucked another rose.

They were beyond help, especially in this cold winter and wouldn’t survive it, it was better to cut them now than let them wither in its stems.

He imagined presenting this rose to the average female in court.

"For you, my lady." The besotted female would take it with a blush, a giggle or two, maybe bat her eyelashes—to drop it immediately afterwards, perhaps in shock at the icy, blackened edges of the bulbous blossom, its decaying scent.

Ah, but his chosen lady, the woman that fulfilled his requirements, she would not, would she? She would lay it in her hand, unflinching, even as its petals spilled out between her fingers like the remnants of a dead heart or the seeds of a plush pomegranate.

Such magnificence, if it existed at all, did not belong beside him. It belonged in dreams, places he could not reach, and bitterly Yuri tossed the flower away, knowing that there was no happily ever after for a wicked child like him.

He must be very bored, for his thoughts to stray like that…

He stilled

Something moved at the edge of his vision. Yuri turned toward the woods, eyes narrowed.

A figure on horseback made its way the hidden road through the woods and by his garden. The courtiers knew not to intrude on his personal space. They usually stayed away from this direction, unless they were stupid, lost, or suicidal. Friend or foe, this visitor would have to have a good excuse or meet the business end of his shears.

He came out from behind his rosebush, and prepared to surprise the unwanted visitor.

"Good evening," said the visitor, and Yuri almost stumbled in his voice when he realized it was a woman, Yuri lowered his shears, intrigued.

"Good evening," he said back, biting on his tongue, no it was not just a woman, it was a girl, around his age most likely, she was wearing all leather and a thick cape made for winter, a long braid of hair rested on her shoulder.

"Can you tell me how to get to the front gate?" said the mysterious girl. "I'm not familiar with these grounds." She had gotten down from the horse and Yuri confirmed that she could not be much taller than himself either.

"You must have come from afar," Yuri said. ‘To not recognize who I am.’

"Well, me and my family have been traveling for some time. It's been long since I've been here."

The girl did not elaborate. Instead she appeared to look around her surroundings, which, other than the small rose garden, consisted of only the wild and unkempt shrubberies that typically marked the abandoned recesses of a land. She pointed to the roses. "Little weird to have a garden here, isn't it? Are you the gardener?"

He raised an eyebrow at the change of topic but said, "Yes."

"Why are you cutting them? Seems a waste." Her head tilted as she asked this, looking down on the roses, for a couple seconds Yuri saw a mist passing through her eyes, falling on the flower’s spell, but she shook her head and kept staring at him, waiting for an answer.

He twirled a rose between his fingers, to show her how much frost accumulated in the petals.

“They will die soon,” He was just sparing them of longer suffering.

“They could be saved if you put them in a vase with water though.” She said it as if it was the most natural thing in the world.

“Do you want them?” He asked incredulous, and she simply shrugged not really looking all that enthusiastic about it.

“You are a weird girl.” He said, feeling his mouth form a pout.

“I’m not the one doing gardening in the middle of winter.” She said and leaned towards him in an almost challenging pose.

In that moment, Yuri decided that he would make her realize why that was a bad idea and closed the distance between him and got far more into what was acceptable on personal space.

“Do you really not know who I am-” He whispered, but before he could even finish to his question when he felt something hard smash against his face, he heard – and she too probably – a crack on his nose, and he felt the blood coming out in gushes from his nose.

"You...dared...to hit me...!"

"YOU jumped me!”

"You're going to die,"he snarled, pressing his palm into his nosebleed and getting up. He was going to absolutely murder this girl! No one had managed to lay a hand on him for years—no one had dared—and—and—

He was not impressed, damn it!

The worse thing is that he knew that the effect was ruined by the slight slurring of his words and the girl just watched him warily.

"Don't make me punch you again." She said, her eyes narrowing.

She picked the roses that he had dropped on the snow and held them in her hand, perusing over them as if they were a weird specimen.

In a way he supped they were.

When he finally felt the blood dry and he wiped himself clean as best as he could, he took the rose from her hand.

Only to place it on her hair.

“May I ask your name?”

“Serena.” No title or family name was granted, which was obvious considering what just happened.

He took a few steps back and he was marveled by how stunning she looked with his roses, almost as if they were made for her, to weave a crown of roses only for her.

In what was the most humiliating day of Yuri's life, he had been taken by surprise, punched, and threatened. A little slip of a girl had done more to him in less than an hour than most hired assassins could do in a whole night.

It was the most fascinating day he had ever had.

#arc v #yugioh arc v #predatorshipping #predatorshipping week #my fics #yay another long piece... sort of #long post

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digiandromeda · 7 years ago

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I’m looking for Arc V doodle prompts

Send me anywhere from 1 to 2 people or a ship from the 1st & 2nd list below and a number (or 2) from the 3rd list and I’ll draw a quick doodle based on, or inspired by, the corresponding prompt(s)!

-I'm keeping all of the characters relationships Canon. Including characters I'm bringing in from past Yu-Gi-Oh's.

-Characters with an * by their names do not appear in Arc V but they are important people to at least one of their series respective Legacy Characters. So, I thought it would be fun to include them.

- Ships with a ^ by their name are ships that have heavy ship tease in canon and therefor don't make me feel like I'm going against it. (Also, they just seem interesting)

Characters:

Yuya, Yuzu, Yoko, Yusho, Gongenzaka, Ayu, Reira

Yuto, Ruri, Shun, Allen, Sayaka, Kaito, Haruto Tenjo*

Yugo, Rin, Jack, Crow, Carly Nagisa*

Yuri, Serena, Sora, Dennis, Edo, Asuka

Zarc, Ray

En, Core, Kilo, Watt, unnamed Cats (I'm calling them De and Light)

Ships:

Fruitshipping, Smileshipping

Appleshiping, Scoopshipping*(^?)

Fallenangleshipping, Sanctuaryshipping^

Predatorshipping, Sora x Asuka^ (I'm on the fence about how canon their ship tease is but this ship promises fun and interesting ways to showcase their character development)

Prompts:

1) Sunburn

2) fireflies

3) barbecue

4) Beach Umbrella

5) Light

6) Dark

7) Dream

8) Memory

9) Misfortune

10) Smile

(More Prompts under the cut)

11) Silence

12) Blood

13) Cat

14) Tears

15) Happiness

16) Under the Rain

17) Flowers

18) Night

19) Stars

20) Hold My Hand

21) Eyes

22) Water

23) Family

24) Childhood

25) Breaking the Rules

26) Keeping a Secret

27) Magic

28) Multitasking

29) Obsession

30) Mischief Managed

31) I Can't

32) Mirror

33) Broken Pieces

34) Drink

35) Heal

36) Out Cold

37) Spiral

38) Seeing Red

39) Food

40) Safety First

41) Puzzle

42) Solitude

43) Relaxation

44) Ice Cream

45) Vacation/Trip

46) Books

47) Cooking

48) Cleaning

49) Dog

50) Winter

51) Sleep

52) Music

53) Forgiveness

54) Stress

#arc v #yugioh arc v #yuya sakaki #yuzu hiragi #yuto (arc v)#yugo (arc v)#yuri (arc v)#fruitshipping #appleshipping #fallenangelshipping #predatorshipping #sora shiunin #prompt list #my arc v doodles

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chromsai · 7 years ago

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saw you tweet about twewy arc v au so i gotta ask what characters you perceive as who and how you reimagine plot points to accommodate the theme of arc v

oooohh man you can go so many ways with this it’s not even funny

(cut for spoilers for both arc v & twewy)

there’s the obvious one where yuya takes the role of neku, he doesn’t remember anything except that he admires yusho (CAT). in the first week he pairs up with yuzu (shiki). after the first week, yuzu becomes the thing most important to him so she becomes his entry fee for the second week. in the second week, he forms a pact with snarky yuri (joshua), and in the third week he makes a pact with shun (beat) (yes, ruri would take rhyme’s role). you could pretty easily reimagine character motivations, backstories, and plot points to accommodate for twewy’s plot. as for accommodating for arc v’s themes, that’s a bit harder but you could do it, pretty much you’d just have to make sure yuya’s not the same kind of emo that neku is.

another way you can envision this au is using zarc as the main character in neku’s role. this is a bit more interesting because you can easily fit zarc as a recluse that slowly warms up to people. 2 variants with this au would be:1) (the more obvious au) zarc pairs up with ray in the first week (or a ray counterpart, it doesn’t really have to be her exactly) and ofc ray gets him to open up more by the end of the week, and then she becomes his entry fee for the second week, and so on...or the option 2) (the more interesting one, imo) zarc pairs up with yuya in the first week, yuya gets him to open up by the end of that week and becomes his entry fee for the second week (cries), and in week 2 zarc pairs up with ray (*has* to be ray for this au for sure tho, not any of her counterparts). of course, over the course of the week, zarc begins to remember that ray killed him, later on he thinks someone else killed him (idk, probably leo or smth), then he realizes nope it really was ray who killed him so zarc could become her proxy., etc.

but here me out on this last one (i mean i could go on, twewy aus are fun...)

a predatorshipping twewy au: yuri takes neku’s role as the recluse, “anti-social” kid who doesn’t get people and doesn’t make friends. he has no memory, no family or friends. he meets and partners up with serena in the first week (you can even make it so that her backstory is similar to shiki’s: serena actually looks like yuzu to everyone in the UG. when she was alive, she and yuzu were friends but she always envied yuzu because yuzu always had the freedom to do whatever she wanted with her life while serena didn’t have that due to Leo keeping her locked up in Academia her whole life, so serena always kinda wished she could take yuzu’s place in life...). again, serena gets yuri to open up and make friends and ofc she becomes his entry fee for the second week, etc. make up more details from here for this...

these are all just basic ideas for arc v twewy aus. i don’t really have any of them super well fleshed out yet but ohhhhh boy i think they have a lot of potential...

#absterra #ask #reply #refia #spoilers #arc v spoilers #twewy spoilers #arc v twewy au #aaaaaaa i love twewy aus

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eightchgee89 · 7 years ago

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Arc V Stories

So now that ‘Blonda Blues’ is finally finished maybe I can finally truly focus on my other story projects, like ‘The Sakaki Family Album’, which I first posted last September. And other Arc V-related stories.

I was working on the second chapter a couple months ago, but no matter what I write or edit, I just can’t get it right, so I don’t want to post it. I’m starting to think I should scrap the original idea I had and make something new for chapter 2.

But I was trying to organize the one-shots I already have saved to my computer since I’m trying to post them in chronological order. Plus I have plenty of one-shots that I still need to transfer from paper to digital. So I haven’t forgotten about it, I’m just very scatterbrained.

Plus I want to write a Predatorshipping story/series of one-shots, and I’ve got a few of those written. Plus there’s my sad story about appleshipping that I have bits and pieces written for. I have lots of ideas and little to no discipline anymore. Help me.

But anyway, yes. Things are in the works. :)

As always you can check out my fanfiction profile and/or my A03 profile to check out any Arc V one-shots I have already posted in the meantime ^_^

#Arc v #ygo arc v #updates #smileshipping #appleshipping #predatorshipping

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seasaltmemories · 8 years ago

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If you're still doing them, Predator, Janus, Prodigy and Classical for the extra dramatic asks (feel free too choose if it's too much ☺)

everything under the cut

Predatorshipping

Who would sell their soul to the devil to save the other.

Serena

Who would become a stalker, in the right (wrong) situation.

Yuri

Who would pine away in silence their entire lives without confessing their love.

Serena

Who would leave their friends, family, and life to move overseas to be with the other one.

Both since they feel they have little attachments

Who would be the most worried the other might cheat on them.

I don’t think either of them would figure the other the cheating type

Who would run into a burning building to save a stranger while the other calls 911.

Serena would run while Yuri calls

Who would haunt the other after death and chase away other suitors.

Yuri

Who would stand up at the other’s wedding and say they object.

Yuri, maybe Serena if she got the sudden impulse

Who would write long, beautiful poems for the other.

Neither, that’s too cheesy for both of them

Who would love the other no matter how evil the other became.

Yuri, morality isn’t very important to him in the first place

Who would be the most likely to become an addict (gambling/drugs/etc.).

Yuri

Who would propose in a grand gesture of some kind.

Neither would want something over-the-top

Who would go berserk at harm or death befalling the other.

Serena

Who would spend too much money on expensive gifts for the other.

Yuri

Who would fight an impossible battle to give the other time to escape.

Serena

Who would be able to spend centuries in misery waiting for the other to be reborn.

Yuri

Janushipping

Who would sell their soul to the devil to save the other.

maybe Dennis as a sort of repentance thing

Who would become a stalker, in the right (wrong) situation.

Ruri maybe as she plans to get revenge for the whole, ‘set up my kidnapping’ thing

Who would pine away in silence their entire lives without confessing their love.

Dennis, especially bc he thinks he doesn’t deserve to confess after what he’s done

Who would leave their friends, family, and life to move overseas to be with the other one.

Neither, besides the fact I mainly define their relationship by the pain it brought, I think both of them value their other relationships just as much as their romantic ones

Who would be the most worried the other might cheat on them.

Ruri with how flirty he can be

Who would run into a burning building to save a stranger while the other calls 911.

Both are the type to call

Who would haunt the other after death and chase away other suitors.

Neither unless it was kinda like the other’s “memory” that haunted them

Who would stand up at the other’s wedding and say they object.

Neither

Who would write long, beautiful poems for the other.

I think while he was undercover Dennis wrote one that may or may not have been sincere

Who would love the other no matter how evil the other became.

Less in a “I’ll stand by you regardless of what you become” way and more in a “regardless of what you become or did a part of me still loves you” applies to both

Who would be the most likely to become an addict (gambling/drugs/etc.).

Dennis

Who would propose in a grand gesture of some kind.

Dennis

Who would go berserk at harm or death befalling the other.

Neither

Who would spend too much money on expensive gifts for the other.

Ruri

Who would fight an impossible battle to give the other time to escape.

Again Dennis in a sort of repentance fashion

Who would be able to spend centuries in misery waiting for the other to be reborn.

Neither

Prodigyshipping

Who would sell their soul to the devil to save the other.

Both of them have the guts to take on the devil, but Reiji would go the extra mile and try to cheat him out of his own deal

Who would become a stalker, in the right (wrong) situation.

Honestly the fact that a good chunk of his role in the story is sitting in a room and observing the situation, there are plenty of jokes about Reiji being one already

Who would pine away in silence their entire lives without confessing their love.

Both bc they are emotionally constipated dorks who take plenty of physical and metaphorical shoving to get anywhere in their relationship

Who would leave their friends, family, and life to move overseas to be with the other one.

Serena but more bc she views Reiji, Reira, and the Lancers and co as her new home

Who would be the most worried the other might cheat on them.

Reiji in a more “imagines the worst case scenario until he realizes how illogical it is” way

Who would run into a burning building to save a stranger while the other calls 911.

Serena runs, Reiji calls

Who would haunt the other after death and chase away other suitors.

Neither, they’d want the other to move on, but in a Hostage vampire AU I’ve played around with, Reiji was married to Serena in the Victorian Ages, and she was a vampire hunter whose work ended up resulting in her death and the transformation of Reiji, and so he spends a good 115 or so years grieving and dealing with the emotional scars of that, even after developing feelings for Shun he still is kinda haunted

Who would stand up at the other’s wedding and say they object.

Neither, maybe Serena on a sudden impulse

Who would write long, beautiful poems for the other.

Neither bc as you can see, that involves having feelings which is dangerous and bad says the two emotional ppl

10. Who would love the other no matter how evil the other became.

Neither, they have too strict personal morals, if anything for them it would show their love by facing down the other, though in the AU for Heroes and Villains where they end up on opposite sides, I see Reiji as not being as ruthless as he could

Who would be the most likely to become an addict (gambling/drugs/etc.).

Reiji

Who would propose in a grand gesture of some kind.

I don’t think the proposal itself would be grand, but I can see the announcement from Leo Corp being grand just bc of how things go when run by a big corporation

Who would go berserk at harm or death befalling the other.

I an a sucker for Reiji having a quiet rage kind of thing

Who would spend too much money on expensive gifts for the other.

Reiji

Who would fight an impossible battle to give the other time to escape.

Both, Serena bc of her nature, Reiji bc of how important Serena is to Leo’s plans (though like hell Serena wouldn’t join the fight)

Who would be able to spend centuries in misery waiting for the other to be reborn.

Reiji

Classicalshipping

Who would sell their soul to the devil to save the other.

Both of them have the guts to take on the devil, but Reiji would go the extra mile and try to cheat him out of his own deal

Who would become a stalker, in the right (wrong) situation.

Honestly the fact that a good chunk of his role in the story is sitting in a room and observing the situation, there are plenty of jokes about Reiji being one already

Who would pine away in silence their entire lives without confessing their love.

Reiji

Who would leave their friends, family, and life to move overseas to be with the other one.

Neither, family, responsibilities, dreams, and their platonic relationships are just too important

Who would be the most worried the other might cheat on them.

Reiji in a more “imagines the worst case scenario until he realizes how illogical it is” way

Who would run into a burning building to save a stranger while the other calls 911.

Yuzu runs, Reiji calls

Who would haunt the other after death and chase away other suitors.

both would want the other to move on

Who would stand up at the other’s wedding and say they object.

Neither

Who would write long, beautiful poems for the other.

I think Yuzu might do a short cute message that embarrasses her but Reiji thinks it’s a masterpiece

Who would love the other no matter how evil the other became.

I think Yuzu would try to pull an episode 140 on him

Who would be the most likely to become an addict (gambling/drugs/etc.).

Reiji

Who would propose in a grand gesture of some kind.

while the proposal itself is private, I can see the announcement from Leo Corp being grand just bc of how things go when run by a big corporation

Who would go berserk at harm or death befalling the other.

I am a sucker for Reiji having a quiet rage kind of thing

Who would spend too much money on expensive gifts for the other.

Reiji

Who would fight an impossible battle to give the other time to escape.

Reiji bc of how important Yuzu is

Who would be able to spend centuries in misery waiting for the other to be reborn.

Reiji

#seasalt talks #thanks for the ask!!#little shit #my precious moonlight daughter #sad clown #bird princess #mr keikaku #rose colored melody #sorry if some of these turned out kinda lame #but my portrayal of a lot of these ships sometimes veer in a different direction #dixdafne #ya5

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