#sayer 5ds

[mirpuzzle]

RarePair Week day 5 - Cards Psychicshipping

[dailyaki]

cross duel story beat one

[chaosmax]

NOTHING SAYER STOP APPEARING OUT OF THIN AIR LIKE THE GHOST OF FREAKING PAST

[anxso]

??? I swear Cross Duel is just using the same sprites from tag force and the WC games i feel robbed

[ctaylor108]

I sometimes wonder what Akiza would do if Sayer was still around. Like, would she go back to him despite the terrible things he did, or would she duel him to make him answer for his crimes? Especially what he did to her?

[stardust-revolver]

I asked Twitter to give me ygo characters to turn into furries.

Here are the results!

[inkblackorchid]

Me, every time Divine’s on screen: 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪

[dancingkirby]

Okay, one more post and then I swear I’ll stop procrastinating on my writing.

Back to Episode 42: It actually makes zero sense that Aki was on the Human Trafficking List o’ Doom??? She was Divine’s most powerful weapon and I don’t see him as wanting to share. And he had plans for her too! I guess it’s possible he could have been lying to her about the whole Operation Jeanne d’Arc, but if that was the case then why go to all the trouble with the Fortune Cup??

IDK, I actually think the dub did it better…blatant censorship aside.

[number-1-kuaidul-fanboy]

I’m noticing a pattern I don’t like

[oddchirithy]

Random screenshots from Cross Duel (Story 1)

[raskolnikov466]

Some drawings of sayer (yu gi oh 5ds) because I love this character.

[mirpuzzle]

"My home is where you are."

YGO ChocoBox Challenge | Prompt: Feeling at home Psychicshipping (platonic)

[moonlit-orchid]

I hate this man

But looks at Akiza

He was probably the first person to hug her in years

Akiza is a great example of the idea of someone being so alone that they fall for the very first person who shows them any sort of kindness even if that person is a walking red flag waving baby red flags

Aki and Divine

[chaosmax]

Haha Aki what if we were homies in a cult and escaped it together got therapy and help to get deprogramed from the freaky cult and managed to go back to a normal life? Haha what if

[teapartypenguin]

Fairy Tale Allusions in Yugioh 5Ds

So I was rewatching 5Ds and Akiza's duel against the knight dude got me thinking about the fairy tale allusions in her design and arc, and thinking about it more got me to realize that 5Ds actually has a lot of loose fairy tale allusions throughout it. So here are just a couple of the ones I noticed:

Akiza in general: Akiza's first duel of the series was already really heavy with the knight vs. witch symbolism. It also got me thinking about the "Princess, Witch, and Prince" theme from Revolutionary Girl Utena. A very basic rundown of what Utena says on it is that people will try to sort women into a box of good (Princess) or bad (Witch) based on how much they conform to the concept of what a girl should be like, a good Princess has to trade independence for protection from a Prince, any girl that doesn’t agree is a Witch. Problem is that no woman is ever just one of those things at a time, and Akiza definitely isn't. She is at first feared for her power, labelled the evil Black Rose Witch, and attempts to find comfort and safety in her "Prince" (Sayer). Only when she meets Yusei and the gang and finds acceptance from them and her parents do we see that she's actually a very kind girl. And even then, she doesn't go trading one Prince for another, she's never as reliant on Yusei as she was with Sayer and maintains her independence. Also just her deck in general carries the theme with fairy tale-like imagery (roses, knights, witches, fairies, and a dragon).

Akiza + Yusei: These two are basically Beauty and the Beast. I am a major faithshipping fan, but even if you take out the romantic aspects, it still fits. Yusei being Beauty and Akiza being the Beast for obvious reasons. The scene with Yusei waking Akiza in the hospital also gives major Sleeping Beauty vibes as well (this scene also owns my soul).

The rose imagery also still fits with both of them.

Yusei: He's Cinderella: he's a poor boy, goes to a ball that he wasn't supposed to go to (Neo Domino), has to leave at midnight (gets arrested), but leaves behind a "glass slipper" (the mark of the Crimson Dragon) that makes it so that the prince (Godwin) can track him down and give him another shot at freedom (not for altruistic purposes of course, but it still fits).

Jack and Carly: Scoopshipping are The Little Mermaid. The mermaid (Carly) falls in love with the prince (Jack), but for certain reasons, they cannot be together. Said mermaid makes a deal, by trading her soul, she gains legs (Dark Signer abilities + duel runner) which allows her a second chance to go after the prince. But the prince rejects her proposal (because she's undead and evil now), and the mermaid concedes. But being unable to hold up her end of the deal, she turns into sea foam and dies (turns into dust and dies).

Leo and Luna: Luna's deck already has a loose fairy forest type theme (and in the manga, has a Fairy Tale archetype). I want to say they're Hansel and Gretel. Has the same beats of two siblings getting lost in the woods (Luna with her spirit world adventure, Leo dueling Devack with "Closed Forest" up). But most of it comes from their duel with Devack, in which Hansel (Leo) stalls the witch (Devack) for as long as possible until Gretel (Luna) can kill the witch by pushing him into the oven (win the duel). You could also say that Luna's arc of freeing Ancient Fairy Dragon has elements of Rapunzel (saving the princess from the witch that locked her up).

Those are at least the ones I noticed. I doubt all of them were intentional but it's interesting when you make the connections. Let me know if there's any I missed because I'm not done with my rewatch yet and don't have anything for Crow. Feel like Team Satisfaction and Neo Domino City have Wizard of Oz parallels, but haven't got enough info to say how yet.

[tsunflowers]

as humans we naturally want to envision characters with human or humanoid appearances but it feels wrong to me to depict the sayer ai characters as humanoid robots. bc the point is that all of them are playing 5d chess with each other but have to manipulate humans into taking action for them bc their ability to physically interact with the world is limited. if sayer had a robot body it would only be one episode long