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merryfortune · 3 years ago

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Suffering Again?! Merag, you are...

Clover and Violets 2022

Day 12. Healing

Title: Suffering Again?! Merag, you are...

Ship: not applicable | Rio/Merag

Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal

Word Count: 1,333

Rating: T

Universe: Alternate - Healin’ Good PreCure

Tags: Non-Consensual Object Insertion, Dubious Consent, Violence, Selfcest, Enemies to Lovers, Angst, Hurt/No Comfort, Chronic Illness

Rio’s eyes widened as she choked on her breath. She clutched her middle as Merag continued to ram the Mega Part inside of her. The jade obelisk pulsated inside of her as it was absorbed by her body.

“Take it, take it all.” Merag snarled, delight in her mouthless face, her eyes a vibrant magenta in her viciousness.

“Wh-Why are you doing this?” Rio murmured as she was brought to her knees by the pain.

It was the worst thing that she had ever felt. It ruined her right down to the very last atom of herself but it was a reckoning familiar to her all the same, draining her of her energy and her joy. She had come so far since leaving the hospital but every spark of pain that she felt as the Mega Part settled inside of her, reminded her all too much of when she had been struck down by that mystery illness.

Rio closed her eyes and tried to shut it all out. But as she clenched her eyes tight, it just brought her back to that accursed bedside. The warmth pouring through the windowsill, the very same sunset that burned around her and Merag right now. The flowers that sat in those translucent glass vases on the windowsill: there were two, two distinct clusters that Rio could remember the form of so well even now. In the first vase, the taller, was a bouquet of green, blue, and white and then in the other, smaller vase was just a lone flower. A purple rose.

A rose just like the one that Merag wore in the breast pocket of her blazer.

Rio gagged as she succumbed to her pain. She blearily opened her eyes again and she felt as though she had lost it all. Since… Since becoming Cure Glacée, she had become so arrogant regarding her own body. She was once weak, then she was strong, strong enough to leap over buildings and shatter boulders with her fist. She had magic, the ability to wield water and control ice.

She had gone toe to toe with that hateful, sneering Merag would render the environment a wasteland in the blink of an eye, all to carry the will and wishes of the Barians would ruin the world just because they could.

“Why?” Rio sputtered, crying.

Merag crouched down and she caressed Rio’s face. Her hand was blisteringly cold and Rio flinched. She snarled, “Because you are my very reason for being and if I am to succeed as an organism of my own, I must sever myself from you.”

“What?” Rio murmured.

“I remember now.” Merag said. “I remember who was my host before I was summoned by my King. It was you, Rio, you were my host.”

Rio tasted bile searing at the back of her throat. She threw up and Merag cackled at her misery. Eight, long years of her youth, Rio had lost to that illness. Unable to rest easily, exhausted by merely walking down the hall, dizziness and nausea. They thought it was everything under the sun but it had all come back in negatives but the doctors, her brother, everyone: they all knew that Rio wasn’t faking her illness but it still took a toll on her and everyone else around her.

And… And it was because of this heinous villainess in front of her?

Rio ignited with rage. Fury. Finally, she had someone to blame for her misfortune and troubles and it was someone so utterly deserving of such despising. Merag who had been there at every turn, from the very start, and it went much deeper in rot than Rio had initially suspected.

So, she lifted her chin and she produced her Elemental Bottle and her sceptre. Combining the two, Cure Glacée was reborn. Strong, purifying magic exploded off Rio as a blinding aura and it, she clad herself with the clothes of a doctor and a magical warrior.

“The icy wind that blows in harmony with the Tundra! Cure Glacée!” she announced at the end of her transformation.

The cold gale of her magic that blew in the aftershock caused Merag to leap back out of harm’s way. She scowled, hunched and with her arm out protectively, she hadn’t expected Rio to fight back, let alone transform but whatever, her eyes gleamed keenly with malicious intent. It wouldn’t be fun, actually, if her host just keeled over and died, succumbing to the power of the Mega Part, incubating what Merag had no doubt would be a most powerful foe to the very girl who hosted it.

With her cape fluttering in the wind and her heart pounded, Rio put on as brave a facade as she could. Cure Glacée grit her teeth and stumbled forward. The pain of the Mega Part pulsing inside of her had not subsided, even with borrowed power from the land of the Healing Garden but goodness, Cure Glacée was going to try as haggard as she already felt.

“Element of Ice!” Cure Glacée yelled.

Cure Glacée inserted a different Elemental Bottle than before into her sceptre, causing the white of its shaft to dye pale blue. Freezing cold energy gathered at the tip and with the flick of her wrist, she caused columns of icicles to rise up from the ground. She growled into it, giving rise to great shafts of ice but Merag deftly fled.

She rolled her eyes and thrust out her hand. Black ice rose in juxtaposition to what Cure Glacée controlled. It infuriated her, just how blind she had been. They were truly one and the same. Host and parasite. Only one could live, survive, thrive, and Cure Glacée was going to be that one. She felt so alive, heart racing, as she expended more and more of her magic.

Cure Glacée whipped her sceptre around over and over. The columns of ice rising up from the ground growing taller and taller, in direct correlation to her effort and her fury. Merag tried to nimbly hop away but they kept clustering. A pillar of ice rose up and scraped past her face, cutting her cheek and elating Cure Glacée.

It was all too euphoric to see Merag bleed. To see her pay for the pain that she had caused for Cure Glacée for far too long. Pain that Cure Glacée was going to end once and for all.

The forested meadow their encounter - an ambush - had taken place in had become a wonderland of ice. It glinted and gleamed in the oncoming dusk and Cure Glacée drew in closer to Merag and it felt so good, so righteous, to have her in her clutches.

“I may be your host,” Cure Glacée snarled, “but you are the insect I’m going to crush.”

“You are too soft, soft like snow, to crush me.” Merag howled.

“Am not!” Rio snarled but she faltered. She could feel herself falter, as though she were ice turning to water once again.

She felt her heart pound hard and fast. She panted, ragged. She de-transformed and a cold gust blew. The ice around them began to melt, giving Merag more freedom than she had before. Rio glared but she could feel herself weaken, the Mega Part was circulating inside of her, glowing and pulsating and it made her vision blurry.

At least for the second before Merag grabbed her face, gleeful and viscous, kissing her goodbye. Rio felt her lips blister as Merag was in such close proximity, nuzzling her face against her, as though they were lip to lip rather than mouth to lack of maw. And just as Rio felt as though she were burning so hot that she was going to turn nuclear, everything went cold.

Merag disappeared into nothing more than snowflakes into the wind. And there was no severance, no catharsis, at least not for Rio was brought to her knees again, clutching her stomach, as that Mega Part continued to infect her.

#femslash #femslash february #femslash february 2022 #selfcest #yugioh zexal #zexal #yugioh #merag x rio #rio x merag #kamishiro rio #merag (zexal)#meragcest #writing tag #clover and violets 2022 #clover and violets #drnd au but for selfcest i am a big brained queen

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baddyzarc · 5 years ago

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5/7 Ruins: Legend of the Cursed Royal Palace

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we like Vector. we’re not going to try to convince anyone that hes, like, a good person. Because he isn’t. But we do think he is a good character. Also we got the blog deleted while prepping this section so vector is cursed and we hate him

Vector is a spectacle. But he’s is a bit of an awkward character, at least for an Emperor. Unlike the rest of the Barian Emperors, who are morally gray at worst, Vector is pure evil for the sake of it. And generally, villains who are evil for no reason are considered weaker among the cast of villains. Yet he shines through in how yikes he is, and he does have one valid(ish) reason for his appalling behavior.

Vector’s story is one of the most fun out of the Emperors due to how unhinged he is. He is the only Emperor with a near-complete tale. But his story also mixes deeply into Nasch and Merag’s Legend, which creates some problems in how to organize this thing.

To begin, let’s go to his ruins.

Vector’s ruins are located in a dilapidated castle on his island.

Personally, I have nothing to say about this location since this post already did an in-depth analysis on it.

The advanced machinery and layout is interesting. It reminds of the Winchester Mystery House, but that's about it.

Vector’s story is divided into two categories. First is the story of the Legend of the Cursed Palace. This consists of only the text provided within the palace. The second is all the additional information we obtain through Vector’s memories, Nasch’s memories, and Abyss’ intervention. Because of this, Vector’s past is the most vast out of all the Emperors. But is is also the most confusing due to conflicting information.

The Legend of the Cursed Royal Palace is told to us by Rio, and it is rather simple.

Long ago, there lived a cruel prince in a palace. The prince was so cruel that everyone died. The end. Vector was a childish king who lacked faith in humanity. He executed anyone he doubted by beheading them as he watched. According to the legend, when he was “the last one standing” he took his own life by stabbing himself with his sword.

That’s all the information from the ruins. This legend gets complicated with the rest of the story, so I’m gonna recount it as briefly as possible without any additional analysis.

Starting all the way at the beginning, Vector was born as this little uggo peanut right here, and he was the herald of peace.

He came from two persons that are complete opposites of each other. One is a kindly mother who desires peace and the other is a ruthless warlord who wants war.

While sleeping in his crib, the Mythyrian Card “Number 65: Split-Decision Djinn - Judge Buster” fell onto him from the sky. Vector absorbed the Number into his body.

Years later, Vector’s father fell ill. Vector took over the kingdom, and he promised his mother and his citizens that he will bring peace to their kingdom. He did this by signing a peace treaty with the nations his father was warring against.

Angered by this, his father pulled out his sword and attempted to kill Vector with it. His mother shielded Vector with her body to protect him, resulting in her death. His father then collapsed from his illness and died on the spot.

Vector mourned for a brief moment before Don Thousand approached him. Don Thousand embedded the Over-Hundred Monster “Number 104: Masquerade Magician - Shining” in him to make him believe he killed his parents, thus saying the lovely line “You shall not be the prince of tragedy, but a prince of madness” and Vector followed suit, becoming cruel and sadistic.

An unspecified amount of time passed before Vector ran into Nasch, Merag, and Durbe.

Vector attacked Nasch’s kingdom with his fleet of ships and “Gorgonic Guardians”, which are Medusa-like monsters. Nasch counterattacks by using mirrors on them. As he was close to losing the battle, Vector performed a blood sacrifice to summon a god, which also happened to be Nasch’s Mythyrian Number “Number 73: Abyss Splash, the Roaring Waterfall Deity”. In order to purify Abyss, Merag sacrificed herself to summon another god, which is her Mythyrian Number “Number 94: Crystal Zero, the Princess of Polar Ice”.

Nasch gained control of both gods and used them to force Vector to retreat. Vector ran as Nasch and Durbe pursued him, destroying villages and kingdoms as he did so.

Eventually, Vector was cornered in a Labyrinth, where he tricked Nasch into sending his army to their death via a Shadow Game. Regardless, Nasch defeated Vector again.

Vector fled back to his kingdom this time. In a fit of rage, he murdered everyone in his kingdom. Nasch followed him to the palace and found Vector surrounded by the dead bodies of his people.

They had a final showdown; Vector lost once more. Upon losing and in Nasch’s words, “... those you murdered... dragged you into Hell”.

And that’s Vector’s story.

Now, the only thing that is up for debate is how Vector died. The Legend of the Cursed Royal Palace stated that he committed suicide while Nasch’s recount said that the souls of his victims killed him. This may be a plot hole, but in the prior episode, both sides of this story were mentioned. Vector had a nightmare where he was being chased by the restless souls and Astral mentioned that the mad prince took his own life. Vector originally denies Nasch’s recount of his death at first, but quickly the souls manifest (because they were dueling on the field where Vector held his executions) to prove that this scenario did happen. This means that the writers are semi-aware of the situation, but they don’t state which is the true fate.

Since it is unknown who scribed the legend onto the ruins, Nasch and Vector’s shared memories + the final scene in the Vector vs. Nasch Duel outweighs what is written in the palace.

If anything, it’s possible that the tormented souls drove Vector to the tipping point of his madness, resulting in Vector taking his own life to escape them. Although, that is just my interpretation.

But from here, we can finally discuss Vector because he is just full of it.

Firstly, I want to talk about genetics. Specifically these lines right here.

I find this extremely fun because there are two things at play here. First is that Zexal specifically states that his cruelty derives from his father—on the other hand, his kindness should derive from his mother—and second is that Don Thousand is able to kick this into overdrive. I doubt that the writers were thinking about any of this when they made this story, but this is a fun observation that I noticed (but if they were, kudos to them).

Forcing some real-life concepts onto yugioh again, let’s talk about heritability. Heritability measures the variation between a trait of a parent (such as hair length, body size, temperament, ect.) and the traits of an offspring within a population of individuals. High heritability means that the phenotypes (physical characteristics) of the parents correlates to the phenotypes of the offspring, and vice-versa with low heritability. In humans, personality is a heritable trait, and in our species, one of the most heritable personalities is neuroticism. High neuroticism attributes to emotional instability and plays into emotions such as jealousy, loneliness, anxiety, anger, ect.

There are four other major personalities, but for this, I’ll focus on neuroticism. Honestly, you could put any trait here since any of them loosely applies to this concept.

Okay. So does this mean that Vector was doomed to a life like his father. His genetics oughta leaned him that way. But NO, no because humans are far more complicated than that, and genetics is not the only thing that affects a person's behavior. But it does influence it some, and this is the basis of it’s influence.

What this says is that within a population, (genetics + environmental influence) = variation of a trait. Some phenotypes are heavily controlled by genetics while others are not. A simple example is if you have tall parents produce an offspring who have the genes for being tall (assume that it is moderately controlled by the environment). If the offspring grew up in a poor environment (less food or something) it will be short relative to the rest of the “tall” population. But if the offspring grew up in a good environment (more food), then it will be tall relative to the rest of the population.

For the five different personalities in humans, each of them varies in how much it is influenced by genetics and how much of it is influenced by the environment (this is stingy since studying the effects of environmental influences on humans is very difficult and hard to replicate). But neuroticism is one that may have significant interactions between genetics and the environment.

But enough science, let’s go back to Vector. Vector is really fun because his situation allows him to exist on all of the spectrums. He went from incredibly kind-hearted and peaceful to just not. This is possibly due to his inherited neuroticism and the environment he was exposed to.

It is likely that the “current” Vector’s neuroticism is rather high. Scoring high in neuroticism means that an individual tends to have low emotional stability, which attributes to frequent mood swings, high irritability, insecurity, and emotional volatility. This trait is more complex than that, but that’s the general gist of it. Most of this could be seen when it comes to how he treats others and how others treat him.

With Vector, he hates it when other people mock him or control him. This is why he despises Nasch for being better than him and why he betrays Don Thousand for toying with him. He is someone who needs to be in full control of the situation; this could be because of his insecurity (like, he got really pissed when Merag gained the upper hand and began to insult him during their duel). Vector is also described as being incredibly untrusting of other individuals, hence why he kills anyone he doubts. These traits are similar to that of his volatile father, whom he also shares a similar vocabulary with when describing people they hate, or anyone against war.

On the other hand, scoring low in neuroticism means that an individual can handle stress very well. Often, they are calm and composed. This could only be seen in Vector prior to Don Thousand’s interference; i.e. when he was handling the kingdom after his father got ill. He also maintained his calm composure while his father scolded him and pulled a sword to kill him.

His mother was kind and his father was not; Vector likely inherited some mix of neuroticism from them. Kindness and evilness was always inside Vector. And this allows him to exist as the kind “Rei Shingetsu” and the cruel “Vector” depending on the environment he was exposed to.

So what were the different environments? I think it was the Mythyrian and Over-Hundred Numbers.

Genetics played a role in shaping the core of Vector (“the same cruel blood as the king is running through you” and all) but it was the environmental influences added onto his core. Here’s a simple graphic.

Vector is a baby who inherited his father and mother’s neuroticism (perhaps he has an intermediate; I do not know the mode of inheritance of this). The Mythyrian Number card pushed him hard into the low neuroticism section. The Over-Hundred Number pushed him into the high neuroticism section, and this was where he stayed until his death by Don Thousand.

What I’m getting is that the “gentle prince” persona is not the actual Vector, but a Vector under the influence of a Number Monster (albeit a kind one). You could say the same with the “Prince of Madness” Vector, that he is also a false Vector influenced by an evil Number Monster, but there’s some glaring evidence that this evil Vector is closer to the actual Vector than the kind one. I’ll get to this later when I talk about his Guardian.

It’s highly possible that a “Vector” untouched by the Numbers would have existed somewhere in the middle since his mother and father would be the environmental influences in that case (or maybe they would’ve pushed him to one side too). The closest we get may be the one at the very end of the show, where Vector is “not evil” but still a trickster, mischievous type of guy.

Overall, Vector is a character who had great potential for kindness, as stated by Don Thousand, but he also had the greatest potential for darkness as well. Don Thousand took advantage of this and gave Vector the environmental influence he needed to become the cruel, lovable character we know today.

I just think it’s neat that Vector has a plausible reason why he went from baby to killer.

Alrighty. So about those dang Number cards.

Both of these cards and their respective Chaos upgrades represent the two sides of Vector. “Number 65: Split-Decision Djinn - Judge Buster” to “Chaos Number 65: Split-Decision Demon King - Judge Devil” and “Number 104: Masquerade Magician - Shining” to “Chaos Number 104: Masquerade Magician - Umbral”. There is one specific play with these two that makes me enjoy Vector so much.

But before I get to that, I need to talk about the influence of each monster on Vector and his Guardian.

As stated previously, these monsters altered Vector’s personality. “Masquerade Magician” is the more obvious of the monsters. It’s a masquerade; it hides under a mask and fools people. That’s just a normal Vector. A neat factoid is that the “Shining” to “Umbral” at the end of “Masquerade Magician” is related to the reveal of Shingetsu to Vector. Shining obviously means light (hence the light-attribute) while umbral means shadow (hence the dark-attribute). Number 104 and its Number c104 were first played when Vector revealed himself to Yuma during the Sargasso Arc. Light to Shadow, Shingetsu to Vector.

“Judge Buster” is more difficult due to its relationship as a Mythyrian Number. It is a monster who altered Vector to be as good as he can be. It is supposed to be a fair and truthful judge, the polar opposite of “Masquerade Magician”.

But this is where things get very complicated. Despite being Vector’s “good” card, it is no different than the Over-Hundred that infected him. From the perspective of his father:

Vector is a “cursed” child because he lacked any of the ruthless characteristics of his father. The way the Numbers “65” flashed on the screen is also similar to when other characters use or get possessed by a Number Monster. Vector was cursed, or possessed, to be a kind and gentle prince. In this case, despite being a very positive force on Vector’s life, the curse of a Number is still a curse. Eventually Vector loses his initial curse to inherit Don Thousand’s curse.

But the story of “Judge Buster” doesn’t end there. It continues into the story of Vector’s Guardian and it’s ascent into a Chaos Monster.

The Guardian of the Cursed Royal Palace is a very interesting one. Vector is unique because his Guardian is completely unrelated to his Mythyrian Number, unlike Jinlon and Abyss for example. Vector’s Guardian does not speak and can only be described as a feral, bloodthirsty beast.

This guy is based off of another card called “Minotaurus” or (“Battle Ox” in the TCG). Despite not being related to the Mythyrian Number like the other Guardians, Minotaurus is completely related to Vector’s story. It’s flavor states “A cattle monster with tremendous power. It mows down anything with a single axe swing.”

Now, there are several things to note here. An obvious one is that the Guardian is a Minotaur. In real life, the Minotaur derives from Greek Mythology. It is a beast that commonly resides in Labyrinths waiting for sacrificial maidens. With this detail, there is a direct connection to Vector’s story in two ways.

First is that Vector describes his palace as a “Labyrinth of Screams” and second is that he lured Nasch into a Labyrinth to kill him. Two very prominent settings in the Vector’s story.

Minotaurus is a deliberate choice made by the writers to tie this theme together, but this is just a neat easter egg. It is the actions of Minotaurus is what counts.

The other thing is that Minotaurus’ weapon of choice, its axe, is located on the execution slab where Vector beheads his enemies.

Finally, and the one that I think is the most interesting and peculiar, is that the axe has Vector’s Mythyrian Number embedded in it.

This is highly significant because if we look at all the other low-grade Emperors, their Mythyrian Numbers were abandoned when Don Thousand infected them (and they died shortly afterwards while Vector lived a part of his life with his Over-Hundred inside of him). In the end, most of the Mythyrian Numbers we see are held on a pedestal, or given some type of reverence in the afterlife.

Vector’s card has an axe going through it, like he was trying to get rid of it.

There’s a lot of assumptions to be made here with the most basic argument being that this detail bears no significance to Vector. BUT my theory is that the spirit of the card manifested to him at some point after he became a ruthless warrior. “Judge Buster” may have been trying to help him, or it was trying to convince him that the Over-Hundred infected his mind. Since Vector is a character filled with doubt and trust-issues, he likely ordered his executioner (Minotaurus or someone else) to behead “Judge Buster”.

(Also, Vector said he noticed that Don Thousand altered his memories “a long time ago”? It was never stated how Vector found out. I think that he may have gotten this critical information when “Judge Buster” manifested in his past life. Perhaps it told him everything that happened. This means that Vector known the truth about his fate since his past life, and given his slick shrewdness and foresight, perhaps)

So you know when I said that “evil” Vector is probably closer to the “true” Vector than the kind one? It’s due to his relationship with his Mythyrian Number. From this possible encounter in their past life, the end result is that Vector actively rejected the Mythyrian Number’s blessing to accept his cruel heritage, which is thoroughly reinforced in this scene.

In his duel against Nasch, Vector used “XYZ Discharge” to give Nasch all of his monsters to feint surrender after he found out about his true past. Vector immediately turned around and used “Trick Buster” to blow them up and kill Nasch while his guard was down. This move tells us everything we need to know about Vector. Vector knows of his two lives as a “good” and “terrible” person, and he chose to actively ignore them. The card “Trick Buster” could be seen as a combination of his two curses and what Vector got out of it. “Trick” comes from the trickster nature of “Masquerade Magician” and “Buster” comes from “Judge Buster”. Like with his past encounter with “Judge Buster” (which should’ve been able to repel the curse of the Over-Hundred) Vector rejected and executed his Mythyrian Number as he did with this new, possible redemption.

He made that choice. He made both of these choices on his own free will. This is a major reason why Vector is described as “evil for evil’s sake”. When given a chance at redemption after he “found out” about his true past, instead of rejecting the life that Don Thousand gave him, Vector staight up said he doesnt give a fuck if he was supposed to be a good person. It’s kind of incredible and I think that’s just,,, wow i love him.

And to add onto this fact, we need to talk about the Mythyrian Chaos Numbers, which is an oxymoron in the Zexal universe. “Judge Buster” and “Abyss Splash” (Vector and Nasch’s Mythyrians respectively) are the only Mythyrians who become Chaos monsters as well as being the only Emperors who use their own Mythyrian Numbers (Gilag doesn’t count due to raccoon-related shenanigans). This holds some discussion between these two, but I can’t really talk about it until I talk about Nasch.

However, what I want to say is that Vector chooses to use his Mythyrian Number. Although he randomly summoned it with a card effect, Vector plays his Mythyrian Number. Likewise in my discussion with Alito’s ruins, the Mythyrian Numbers have a purifying effect on the Emperors. It reveals their true, unaltered personalities. By choosing to use a Mythyrian and subsequently revealing his true nature, the cruel person we see is just how Vector is. His usage of “Trick Buster” backs this up. I don’t think it's a coincidence that Vector and Nasch, arguably the strongest of the Emperors, are also the ones who accept their Mythyrian Numbers yet still end up in Barian World. They are also the only ones that were able to Chaosify their Mythyrians, with Nasch performing a proper Chaos summon while Vector pulled into “Chaos Number 65: Split-Decision Demon King - Judge Devil” by luck.

Because of his denial of the Mythyrian Number despite being aware of its existence, Vector is the only Emperor that isn’t described as heroic in his legend. By being an active participant in his descent into Barian World, Vector cannot have a heroic legend like the others. He is simply a vile person who likely deserved his spot in Barian World.

Now that we got that down, why did Vector end up in Barian World despite being his “true personality”? A simple answer is that Barian World represents Hell, and Vector deserved to go there. However, it’s repeatedly stated in the show that Chaotic persons end up in Barian World, not bad persons.

And Chaos is complex due to the range of characters it goes through.

Like, this is a massive list of personalities, and they are all canon Chaos creatures.

And if you haven't noticed, I haven’t discussed the Cursed Royal Palace’s duel yet. This is because it occurred between Black Mist and Astral, and it has little relevance to Vector himself. However, that battle ties into the complexities of Chaos that I will continue with Nasch and Merag’s Legend, as well as the rest of Vector’s story.

Bye.

#long post #tw long post #zexal #vector #barian biology #dyzarc diet #dyzarc writes #sory for the length #blog shouldve stayed deleted #this one went on a weird tangent

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higuchimon · 5 years ago

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[fanfic] Dreams of What Was

Durbe. Durbe. Durbe. Wake up. You’re having a nightmare.

Durbe jerked up, stone fingers clutching at the soft blanket he’d pulled over himself when he’d retired for sleep.

Sleep wasn’t necessary for Barians. But it gave them time to rest their minds, which they did need now and then.

His eyes darted this way and that, hoping against hope for that voice to sound again, to hear Nasch as he had so many times. Then there would be an amused laugh and Merag would enter from somewhere as well.

Then the real nightmare, the one where they’d vanished and not been seen or heard from in over ten human years, would be over.

But they didn’t come. He heard nothing at all. Slowly Durbe let out a deep sigh.

I know I heard him. It wouldn’t be the first time. In the first handful of months after their disappearance, he heard and saw them everywhere, only they were never there.

A silent sigh, then he did what he always did when he woke from these dreams. He closed his eyes and extended his Barian senses, those that went beyond what sight or sound were. Try as he might, there wasn’t a hint of anything there. Nothing and no one.

No Nasch. No Merag. Just the castle that held only the other Barian Emperors.

Durbe sighed and pulled himself to his feet. There remained work to be done, and he was the one to do it.

Whatever he’d heard, it was just a dream.

Just a dream and nothing more. Kamishiro Ryouga peered out at the world, decided he didn’t want to deal with it today, and tucked his head under his pillow.

It wasn’t the first time that he’d had that dream. At least he didn’t think it was. He couldn’t remember the dream itself and most of the time he didn’t even think about it. It simply existed in the back of his head, a vague sensation that there was someone out there who he missed and who missed him.

Someone who wasn’t Rio. She was the only one that he’d ever told this to. She didn’t have any more answers than he did – and now she had no answers at all. He wondered sometimes if the dream had been a warning about what would happen to her.

Probably not. The dream wasn’t a warning dream. He remained certain of that, at least.

He pushed the thought out of his head and tried to get back to sleep. A tiny part of him thought about doing his homework before he decided he couldn’t be bothered. Going through his deck was a lot more attractive – even if he didn’t really want to do that, either. Dueling didn’t have the spark it once had, not since – well, not since that whole mess with IV.

He wished he could remember the dream. Whoever that person was, they had to be a lot more interesting than anyone he knew now.

Who wouldn’t be?

The End

Note: You know, looking back at this, I now have this idea for a soulmate AU, one of those where the soulmates share dreams. Just imagine that for Durbe and Nasch. Anyone interested?

#fanfic #higuchimon writes #ygo zexal #durbe #nasch #kamishiro ryouga #durbe x nasch #nasch x durbe #tomoshipping #zexal week 2020

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seven-spirits-of-light · 4 years ago

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General: No God-Modding obviously. Please don’t hate on the characters as they are all Originals. Mun is +20 years old, if you want to reach me, please send an ask or hit me up on my main blog ask-genie! Please note that ask-genie is also the blog that I will be following back from!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shipping: Each character has a canon Zexal character I ship them with. Avina x Nasch/Shark Vance x Merag/Rio Larissa x Alito Matilda x Dumon Seiko x Girag SongLi x Mizar Eshra x Vector Natalia x V/Christopher Sophia x III/Michael Lady Gothica x IV/Thomas Missi x Kaito Lady Elsa x Astral Yuma x Nora I prefer to single ship them, meaning a character only has one blog character they’re in a relationship with. SHIPPING IS NOT REQUIRED FOR INTERACTION!!! My characters are more than happy to interact with their ‘partner’ characters in a purely platonic way. For example, Nora can interact with multiple different Yumas simply as friends and not romantically. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Format: I’m not horrifically picky about formatting. I use more of a story-telling style, I guess you would call it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NSFW: I am fine with NSFW such as smut and gore, but I would prefer to discuss gore RPs before hand. I WILL NOT RP SMUT WITH ANY UNDER AGE ROLE PLAYERS, YOU MUST BE 18 OR OLDER!! If I find out you are under age, I will block you immediately. I don’t mess around with that, y’all. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Triggers to Tag: I make use of the #suicide, #murder, #gore, and #nsfw tags. If there are any you would like me to add, please tell me!

#rules #rp rules #yugioh #yugioh zexal #zexal #OCs

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city-writes · 6 years ago

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16 or 32 for Shark x Durbe please! And extra laughs if it's Rio or Vector that caught them and they're yelling 'I've gone blind'! XD

thanks for this! this was alot of fun to write! i might have stayed up until 3am writing this and i have to get up at 7am rip me

Send me a number and a pairing!

Read it here on AO3!

The night is young, and the king of The Land of Poseidon is wide awake. “Meet me at the stables,” he whispers into the ear of his right hand knight in passing in the great hall after a council meeting. There is no verbal response from the knight, only a subtle nod that sends all too much of a thrill through the young king.

They dare not risk getting caught with one another in the castle; several councilmen had voiced their concerns at the previous king making an outsider the prince’s personal knight, and should they be found out the council just might consider it grounds for the knight’s expulsion. Not even the princess knows, not because they consider her untrustworthy - they don’t by any means, they each trust her with their very lives - but should they get found out, they don’t want her being dragged down with them.

It’s dark now, the sun fully gone from the sky, and the two meet each other in a near empty stable, the only occupant being the knight’s loyal steed, who stirs at the sudden appearance of its rider. With a few shushes from the knight, and an apple from the king, the horse is quelled, and makes no further sound.

Durbe is closing the gate to Mach’s stall when he feels hands around his waist, slithering up his linen shirt, immobilizing him where he stood. “N-Nasch…” Nasch’s lips are hot on his neck, hands warm against his chest, the cool air in the stable making him shiver against the contrasting temperatures. Nasch’s body is warm against his, and every shift, every subtle move he makes invites the cold in to invade where that warmth once was. Through the pleasureful haze that clouded his thoughts, Durbe has half a mind to pull the both of them down into a nearby haystack to try and keep some semblance of warmth from escaping them.

Nasch sucks at a tender spot on Durbe’s neck, causing the knight to cry out, startling Mach in the process. The two of them hush the horse again, and Durbe takes this opportunity to pull Nasch close to a hay pile. He then pulls the kings face gently, closer to his own, and meets their lips together. The action starts off chasté, but soon Nasch swipes his tongue against Durbe’s lower lip, eliciting a small gasp from the knight, which more than enough entryway for the king to slip his tongue into the knight’s mouth, the two of them kissing each other heatedly.

Durbe isn’t sure who initiates it, but soon they’re both lowering themselves down to the haystack, Durbe’s back pressed flushed against the straw material with only minimal discomfort. Durbe’s arms are around Nasch’s neck, and Nasch’s hands are performing separate tasks. One is holding the king up, stabilizing him while the other is travelling back into Durbe’s shirt, resuming what it had been doing before Mach interrupted them, tracing up and down Durbe’s torso, before finding itself at his nipples.

A whine escapes Durbe as Nasch toys with a nipple, and one of his hands goes into the king’s hair, his fingers lightly tangling themselves his purple locks, breaking the kiss as he gently pulls Nasch’s head back to expose his neck to him. Durbe then goes in for the attack, peppering Nasch’s neck with kisses before returning the favor from earlier, sucking at Nasch’s neck in return, at a low enough point that his armor will hide the bruise.

They’re both panting heavily, Nasch rolling his hips into Durbe’s. The move causes Durbe to moan against Nasch’s neck, sending a shiver down the king’s spine. Nasch then pulls himself free of Durbe’s hold, and begins to pull up at Durbe’s shirt. The knight quickly obliges the action, shifting his arms so that Nasch can pull the shirt over his head. The straw from the haystack feels more prominent against his back, but Durbe tells himself that soon he wont even be feeling it anymore, that soon he’ll be feeling something much better than that.

They’re back at it again, kissing one another, Nasch’s hands unabashedly exploring Durbe’s chest now. Durbe’s about to return the favor in kind, his hands going to the hem of Nasch’s linen shirt when–

“To think, you’ve both somehow perverted horse stables for me forever.”

At Merag’s voice, the two young men startle, fumbling over each other in an attempt to save face, but to no avail. Durbe is red as a beet, spluttering all sorts of choppy excuses as he pulls his shirt back on. “It’s not– we were just– you aren’t–” Nasch however, finds it in him to stand and meet his twin eye to eye.

“You’ll tell no one about this.”

“Who would possibly want to know, aside from the horses in the stables on the west side of the castle, in case you plan to sully their stable with your perversions too.”

Nasch practically growls at his sister, but does not get to retaliate, because Durbe finally speaks a coherent sentence. “How did you find us?”

Merag folds her arms, smirking mischievously, “Unlike you, my brother is not known for his subtlety. He made it all too obvious he was whispering to you after today’s council meeting. The councilmen probably took it as the childishness of boys, but I could tell Nasch was up to something. So I followed him, but stayed inside, watching from a floor up as he met you here. It was only when I heard Mach startle that I decided to come down for myself to see what you both were doing.”

Nasch nearly glares daggers at Mach, but restrains himself, telling himself its not the pegasus’s fault they got caught, but his own.

“I’m not going to stop you,” Merag says, “and I’ll try my best to protect you both, but I’d find someplace better than a stable to do this in.” Durbe and Nasch both mutter their thank yous, Durbe now standing up himself. The mood is now gone, and whatever plans they had are now ruined. “Now I’m going to go make late night prayers to Abyss.”

Nasch frowns slightly, tilting his head somewhat. “Why at this time of night?” Durbe’s curious too, and awaits Merag’s answer. She looks torn, as though she doesn’t want to tell them the reason why, but whatever qualms she has about it are gone as she then opens her mouth and speaks.

“Because perhaps if I pray enough, Abyss will free me of the blinding image of you two going at it in a stable.” She smirks then and walks off, leaving both Nasch and Durbe red from embarrassment.

#asks #Krys writes #aurasoulhikari #Zexal #Tomoshipping #Ryoga Kamishiro #Durbe #Rio Kamishiro #I'm not good at kisses but I did my best!

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zexal-shipping · 2 years ago

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two things please.

1, Zexalcest for zexal form x zexal form since that one seems to have been forgotten from past lists

2, can you add ultimateedenshipping for Ryoga[Nasch]/Zexal II 100% named after the doujin

Thank you!

Ships added, thank you.

We also added a note about Ryoga/Nasch (and Rio/Merag) ships. There was no distinction between them in the other lists, so it's assumed they're used interchangeably, unlike Vector/Rei, for example. If people want to specify Nasch or Merag ships, they can do that. In this case, the ship is written as "Ryoga [Nasch]".

#ask #darkxyzduelist #yugioh zexal #zexal shipping #zexal shipping list

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checkurselfb4umachuwreckurself · 7 years ago

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“I immediately regret this decision.” for Rio x Misael

23: “I immediately regret this decision.”

Therewere plenty of mistakes a human could make. Choosing the wrong sandwich, sayingthe wrong name, forgetting where your keys are. But Barians get two life times.Three, if you count the time they stay in Barian World with other Barians. Thatwas surefire for them to screw up infinitely more times than an average person.

Mizaelrubbed his human temples, unused to the new anatomy. Sure, Alito and Giragdrove him crazy, but never to the point of physicallyhurting his head. “I immediately regret this decision…” Mizael groaned, tugginga bit on his blond hair.

“Lightenup,” Merag said, handing him another outfit over the dressing room door, “I’mjust trying to make you look more like a human and less like a prissy stableboy. That’s how she got him to go to the Heartland Mall: by asking around andconfirming that Mizael stuck out like a sore thumb. Somehow even more thanGirag, who wore angel wings for pete’s sake. She went to open the unlocked- didMizael not know about locks yet?- door “I’m trying my best to accent your hair,can I sneak a peak-”

Mizaelwas stuck in his shirt, the long sleeves dangling, and his hair a frazzledmess. Merag stared, seeing the discombobulation turn to her with a small painedwhine.

As muchfun as it would be to leave him stuck and desperate, Merag didn’t want a sillylecture about “friendly bullying teammates” from Durbe again. She walked in,locking the door behind her. “Easy easy,” she said, tugging at the sleeves, “ifwe hurry, we’ll be able to check the shoes before we have to go home.”

#Mizael knows nothing about human conventions like zippers and long sleeves he's doomed on his own #Heckling ZeXal #Vinchecks

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sirdurbe · 7 months ago

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#mine #meme #funny #yugioh zexal #kamishiro ryouga #nasch #kamishiro rio #merag #durbe #durbe x ryouga x rio #durbe x merag x nasch #tomoshipping #holyiceshipping #avengeshipping #kingdomshipping

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sirdurbe · 1 month ago

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@goakizaizinski asked me ages ago about my zexal ship opinions and i forgot to answer, but since it's on my mind, here are some of my thoughts (which are mostly durbe-centric because, duh)

first, durbe/nasch. atem/mahad was my bread and butter when i was super into dm, so i'll always have a fondness for this pair -- and yet, at the same time, i find more and more that i prefer it unrequited on durbe's end if it's just the two of them. i guess i just like being mean to durbe? 😂 but it also means i can use yūma/shark as a plot device to push durbe and kotori together. (i'm pretty lukewarm about yūma/shark outside of this express purpose. it's totally fine, i just don't have strong feelings about it.)

"durbe and kotori?? did they interact even a single time???" yes, actually, and i haven't been the same since. they have archlord kristya in common and durbe's deck can natively go into fairy cheer girl, which was a very popular option during star seraphs' heyday in duel links. case closed. nah, i really don't know how to explain this one? it kind of blossomed from my generally negative feelings toward kotori/yūma, which...... i'll try to keep short, because ship bashing isn't my thing, but kotori/yūma in canon is all give and no receive on her part and it's genuinely really sad. the way she identifies astral as yūma's most important person right after she confesses her feelings to him is just,, ouch. like it literally feels cruel when it's clearly not meant to be. and it's not meant to be because women being unilaterally dedicated to men who pour their own emotional energy into other men is regrettably common, not just in yugioh, not even just in anime or media. but i digress. durbe and kotori are both nurturers in very different ways and i think letting them both experience that would be really good, because neither of them is used to being on the receiving end of that kind of care. plus durbe is borderline comically serious and kotori can be such a silly birb, i think they'd make a fun pair 🩷

since we're already touching on big ships. yūma/astral. eh. the irony is that i actually started watching zexal for them. i do more or less consider it canon? but not in a way where i care all that much about it. part of it's that i find yūma to be the least interesting part of zexal, which i hate to say because i also feel that the story generally benefits from how unremarkable he is -- he's supposed to be this more or less normal kid who has no stake in these interpersonal and interdimensional conflict, he just has a huge heart and wants to help people. i also just... don't remotely buy that astral's maturity is on the same level as a 13-year-old's. (it's really funny to me that the same people who get up in arms about age gaps have no issue with these two. they have an even bigger gap than atem and yūgi. it's almost like they're hypocrites or something... 🤔) obvious disclaimer that i'm not remotely suggesting it's ""immoral"" to ship this -- ships can't be immoral -- i just personally don't because of the huge maturity gap from my pov.

i made this post to talk about durbe and the twins and got sidetracked. durbe/merag. s tier. god, i love holyice more and more every day, i swear. i like it by itself and i like it as part of a throuple with nasch, whereas durbe/nasch i prefer as one-sided except in the context of durbe/nasch/merag. i need to get around to publishing something with these two asap. i wish i had more words but my brain genuinely just goes !!!!!!!!🩷🩷🩷 can't wait to subject everyone to my hyper specific headcanons.

all of this also applies to durbe/rio, though i actually like durbe/ryouga a smidge more than durbe/nasch, whereas durbe/merag and durbe/rio are about the same? maybe it's that both incarnations of rio get less focus than her brother and as such, don't feel as distinct in their dynamic with durbe, in spite of how much i like to play with her both being and not being merag. durbe and ryouga are really petty and that's funny.

i quite like durbe/mizael and i've been kicking around the idea of durbe/thomas. i like kaito/chris despite my apathy towards kaito, but i supremely don't care about kaito/mizael. have i forgotten any big ones?? kotori/cathy and kotori/anna are fun. astral/96 was my old stomping ground and i still have a soft spot for it. i like 96/akari and astral/akari, too. yūma/96 is okay but inferior to other 96 ships. i only like 96/vector when vector isn't an uwu innocent victim and vector/yūma when it's properly fucked up. yūma/fūya, yūma/kaito, yūma/michael and michael/kotori are cute. michael/astral and especially michael/mizael seem fun in my head. i want to see fūya/anna explored more, too, i just don't care to do it myself.

my kaito apathy means kaito/ryouga doesn't do much for me, either. i like thomas/rio and vector/rio a little more than thomas/shark and vector/shark, but see the appeal in the latter pairs as well. i like @shifuto's astral/shark stuff even if i'd never think of it on my own. kotori/rio deserves more love -- too much of the content feels really performative for me. if i think of a ship i forgot i'll edit this.

i can't believe orbital 7 fucked. that's all

#mine #yugioh zexal #durbe x nasch #durbe x kotori #durbe x merag #durbe x rio

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sirdurbe · 7 months ago

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all the general questins + holysnowbird because i'm so <chinhands> about them

ship questions

(holysnowbird = holyice + snowbird, so durbe/rio/kotori)

1. Who initiated the relationship, and how did it go?

many years ago, durbe traveled – rather, was sent (different story) – to the united lands of poseidon specifically to proposition princess merag. the two quickly took a liking to each other despite neither being keen on the idea of an arranged marriage at first, but the sudden deaths of merag's parents prevented them from being wed, as the royal family were required every generation to give a child to the temple to live in service to the gods, and there was suddenly no other option besides merag, who in addition to her religious duties was expected to remain chaste.

this history together wasn't something they were able to talk about for a while, though. initially as barians, they didn't have their human memories, and even once those memories returned, the war and then vector's betrayal left them with no time to really discuss it. even once they were both revived by the numeron code... how do you begin a conversation like that? they both knew rio was no longer the woman durbe had loved, at least not entirely. she wasn't merag enough for durbe and she wasn't rio enough for kotori or anyone of her other human friends. and then durbe felt like he'd only ever failed her over and over again. for weeks going into months, there was just total failure to communicate.

it was kotori who picked up the pieces. in the immediate aftermath of the barians' revival, the seven of them rarely if ever left the kamishiros' mansion, unsure now of their place in the living world among the humans they'd threatened – and, in rio's (and ryouga's) case, intimately betrayed. kotori was the first to bridge the gap, coming by several times a week with dinner for them all (assuming, correctly, that they'd been living off takeout) and little gifts for rio, just small things like nail polish and bath products she remembered rio liked.

durbe was actually not pleased at first when rio eventually told kotori about their past, but did concede – because kotori pointed it out – that he may have avoided rio indefinitely (and vice versa) if she hadn't confided in kotori. and after a while, kotori's mediating became the three of them just spending time together.

all this to say: kotori initiated the relationship, in the end. she represents the present, and the future. things will never be the same again – and that's okay. this time, they'll be even better.

2. Did they have an official first date? If so, what was it like?

yes and no. i think a lot of the above conversations happened in places like parks or on walks because kotori didn't want durbe and rio staying cooped up inside as much as they'd been doing, and gradually these outings started having more of a date-like feel without "technically" being labeled as such.

eventually rio did leap at the opportunity to treat them both to an expensive dinner, because sometimes your patron god looks out for you and doesn't just make sure your spirit lives on when your coworker kills you (arguably for the second time), he makes sure the bodies he stuffs you and your brother's souls in are rich.

3. What was their first kiss like?

very sweet. a little awkward. kotori especially was so nervous, because she grew up thinking your first kiss was of utmost importance and therefore wanted it to be absolutely perfect – which always guarantees the opposite will happen, obviously. it wound up being pretty spur of the moment, despite all the planning kotori (and, let's be honest, durbe) would have put into it, but that just made it an even more beautiful and special moment. (rio so loves being right, too.)

4. Were they each other’s first anything (kiss, relationship, etc.)?

durbe and rio were not each other's first kiss, but they were each other's first real relationship back then – merag, obviously, couldn't date because of duties to her family, and durbe just had no real desire before her. kotori, like i said, had never had a kiss or a relationship before either of them. rio and kotori had never had sex, but durbe had – though, not in his most current body until them. (dying and coming back to life makes everything so complicated.)

5. What’s their height difference? Age difference?

durbe is around 18 months older than rio and two and a half years older than kotori. ...you know, give or take a few centuries. (see the above about dying and coming back to life.)

in canon, durbe is a bit taller than 5'4" (163cm). rio is around 5'3" (160cm), and kotori is around 5'2" (157cm). rio is really the only one i can see getting taller – maybe 5'6" (168cm) – durbe is a short king and kotori is, of course, a little bird.

6. What’s their relationship with each other’s families?

ryouga has absolutely made the joke that he'd love to just replace rio with kotori as his sister, and obviously he and durbe were already ride or die.

the other barians are fond of kotori; mizael takes the longest time to come around, but eventually he does. alit teasingly points out that he tried to date kotori before durbe did and durbe fires back with something along the lines of, "so that's what you were doing when i sent you to earth for a job. i see." (gilag says that's what he calls a self-ko.)

if mach was alive he would like durbe's girlfriends better than he likes durbe.

kotori's mother is a bit more complicated. she's incredibly keen on rio, seeing her as an excellent role model... but, of course, there's a lot more to rio than that polite young lady and honor student. that said, she's accepting of durbe in large part because he's close with rio, and i do think eventually mrs. mizuki gets everything re: the barians, astral, etc. revealed to her and comes to terms with it, though it's definitely a lot for her to deal with at first.

7. Who takes the lead in social situations?

either of the girls. anyone but durbe. never durbe.

8. Who gets jealous easier?

i think they're all pretty equal, with kotori being the most obvious about it, durbe being the least obvious, and rio being somewhere in between.

9. Who whispers inappropriate things in the other’s ear?

mostly rio, occasionally durbe. kotori would die.

#merryfortune #answered #yugioh zexal #durbe x kotori x rio #durbe x merag #durbe #mizuki kotori #kamishiro rio #merag #ship inspiration #headcanons #meekshipping #holyiceshipping #snowbirdshipping #holysnowbirdshipipng #thank you!!!!!!!

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