#suckershipping

[iamallyetnotatall]

After all these years, I have finally done it. A Pacific Rim AU. It just kept getting longer but I was just having too much fun (and there was just so much backstory lmao).

Thank you @tanaisokay for letting me borrow the names for Tristan's sisters!

And this is dedicated/inspired by the wonderful @bakawitch who coined the ship name for Suckershipping. Ever since you brought them up forever ago, they've been in my head waiting for an excuse to be in a fic.

And I got to name Spyroshipping! That's always fun! Also, these are the two ships in this fic have their first official relationship tags with this fic!!! I've never been the first for a ship before!!! (On AO3).

Day 5 - Crossover Main Ship: Suckershipping (Thief King Bakura x Tristan) Minor Ship: Spyroshipping (Ryou x Joey x Atem)

Cheers 💖

[bakawitch]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. spread the self-love ❤

Soooo technically, I have less than 5 published fics, but I'm just gonna mix in a few wips XD

1. Killer Cream - love it to bits, but stuck in a horrible, horrible editing/writing hell

2. Mon Chéri Roux - the Miss Mouser fic! I dunno why, but it has a real light novel feel to it, I really like where it's headed right now, but I still want to polish it a bit more before publishing.

3. Eternal Return - the suckershipping long fic 🤭

4. The Moon Prince - I did so much bindge writing for this on my trip, but I've slowed down quite a bit. I still really like the concept, though, it's super self-indulgent XD

5. The unnamed fae conspireshipping fic - one day you will be more than just a bunch of disorganised scenes...

[komaedamizuki]

i made Arthur as a "what if" type of character but now I'm wondering if

maybe

i should make him part of the kelseyverse

it seems like it would be fun to explore but also his existence throws things off

[bakawitch]

DON'T THINK ABOUT THE MLB YUGIOH AU WITH SUCKERSHIPPING AND CLASHSHIPPING DON'T THINK ABOUT THE MLB YUGIOH AU WITH SUCKERSHIPPING AND CLASHSHIPPING DON'T THINK ABOUT THE MLB YUGIOH AU WITH SUCKERSHIPPING AND CLASHSHIPPING

TOOO LATE!

Not me randomly starting another ygo crossover with Zodiac only kwamis... Tkb gets the snake, Honda gets the ox, Yamima gets the rooster, and Atem gets the dog. Atem and Honda are in the hero team, Yamima is with the villain team, and Tkb is somewhere infuriatingly in-between. Heheh I really wanna draw this...

[bakawitch]

Quick doodle of the main characters for the au with some fun little lore droplets! The three shorties and their one tall person lol. I believe in Atem with his hair down supremacy, so I had to look up pictures with his hair drawn specifically down for inspiration online since I had no idea how I wanted to go about it. I also drew Risa in the Domino High uniform because I want her to attend the same school as the others for narrative convenience.

[bakawitch]

Suckershipping au where tkb is a crime boss stupid in love, and Honda is a cop trying to shut his operations down. Unfortunately, Bakura likes the challenge a little too much and keeps pulling off bigger and riskier operations to spite him. Tkb gets arrested by someone else, and after Honda finds out that the other detective is just a mole for a different criminal organisation, he ends up breaking Bakura out of jail. He's offered a position under the criminal organisation because Bakura really likes him, and he doesn't really have any options since he's technically also a wanted criminal now. At first, he declines, but after he sees the rival criminal gang progressively corrupting the police he ends up joining. They probably end up together at one point, but idk how the rest of the au would go lol

[bakawitch]

Shit... the hero au is also shifting from gemshipping to suckershipping XD

It's okay, it's okay, this is probably for the best. I'll leave Ryou out of the tkb mess for now. He'll just have to make due with the other horrors

[bakawitch]

Suckershipping for the meme?

AHAHAHAHA YES!!! A MONSTER OF MY OWN! XD

Ship It

What made you ship it?

My own silly little train of thought! Originally, I was just coming up with scenarios for an au fic that centres around Atem, Risa, TK, and Honda, and the way their relationship progressed in my head, it sort of ended up shippy? Like they somehow became a duo in the progression of the plot, and they just somehow ascended into a couple without me realising.

What are your favourite things about the ship?

Their dynamics are really fun to explore. I've always interpreted Honda as a stickler to the rules who cares about doing things right (since he's a member of the beautification committee and I have vague memories about him wanting to be the student council president (might be untrue)) and TK is obviously in opposition to that. I love relationships that develop through differences, and that's probably the reason I put them together as a duo in the first place.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

This ship is highly unpopular to begin with, so I don't know. The ship itself is an unpopular opinion lol. Anyway, in the au they were originally developed in, Jonouchi was absent from Honda's life due to various reasons. His and TK's friendship/partnership kicked off because, in a way, TK reminded Honda of Jonouchi. They're both troubled crass guys who have some trouble staying on the right side of the law, and since I see Honda as a guy who likes fixing things I feel like under the right circumstances they could have been friends or something among those lines.

[bakawitch]

Guys- It's done XD

My first official contribution to this new ship from my fever dream

Kudos to @iamallyetnotatall for reinforcing my fav ship name for them

[bakawitch]

Behold this old wip I'm probably never gonna finish from the suckershipping/aroace Atem au! The sketch keeps throwing me off, and I can't focus on fixing it, so I'm probably gonna have to redraw the whole thing lol

[bakawitch]

How shipping in ygo dm started for me and where it's at right now:

Puzzleshipping - yeah, I just went with the standard most obvious option at first

Blindshipping - kind of a continuation of the first one

Thiefshipping - my friend was really into it, and I kinda got dragged along, but I don't ship them as hard as I used to 😅

Puppy/Violetshipping - I don't even remember how I stumbled in there, but I also don't ship this as hard as I used to, maybe a bit more than thiefshipping though

Deathshipping - now this is where it started getting good. I latched onto as hard, if not harder, than Puzzle/Blindshipping and I tore through fics about them at a concerning, dare I say near obsessive rate. I was introduced to deathshipping through thiefshipping media, but I didn't really start shipping them until I read a fic specifically dedicated to them because in the thiefshipping fics I read in ye olden days Ryou always seemed not as into the whole relationship thing as Yamima.

Tendershipping - ah, yes. My original actual brain consuming obsession that made me start binding fics for myself. Also, the reason I read the full manga series back to back because everyone online said that they have even more interactions in there. I very specifically remember the fic that introduced me to tendershipping (although I completely forgot the title, and I haven't a slightest clue which platform it was on). It was a deathshipping fic where Bakura played the role of Ryou's crazy stalker ex. He was the villain in the fic that Yamima got to save Ryou from. This ultimately got me acquainted with the idea of Ryou and Bakura being together and I just kinda fell down the rabbit hole from there.

Conspireshipping - it was bound to happen with the fics and art I was consuming lol...

Gemshipping - technically an extension of the tendershipping thing that somehow ended up outgrowing its original instigator but also weirdly enough spurred on by another deathshipping fic that was going towards a rustshipping endgame.

Rustshipping - I mean it did kinda happen...

Caste/Kingshipping - I genuinely have no idea how I got here. One day, I just thought "I like enemies to lovers but prideshipping isn't exactly for me... who else could Atem be paired with?" BANG. THIEF KING. (All the fanart circulating probably didn't help lol. I didn't fell into this shipping hell hole as hard as I did with gemshipping, but it turned out it just needed some time to fester because by now those ships are equally my favourites XD

Rubyshipping - If you know, you know. (I mostly blame Iams for this XD) But those three are literally my favourite characters, and how I haven't thought about putting them in a single ship faster is completely beyond me.

Honourable mentions that I just ship cause XD:

Suckershipping - my absolute beloved

Yuumeishipping - how many characters are too much in a ship...?

Clashshipping - clawing my eyes out clawing my eyes out I NEED MORW OF THEMMMMMMM

BAKUSHIPPING - BECAUSE OF COURSE

Monarchshipping - hehe my sillies

Widowshipping - Because they deserve a second chance at love XD

Lilacshipping - saccharine sapphic goodness

Buddyshipping - because of Evening The Score... it's.... it's really good, okay? I'm not crying you are

Divulgeshipping - in all it's messed up glory

Leechshipping - sometimes, the mind wanders to darker places, I guess

Endshipping - I have no excuse for that one...

Eschatonshipping - I also have no excuse for that one....

COINSHIPPING - THEY'RE SO CUTE TOGETHER

Sunriseshipping - there is a dedicated fanfic for this

I ship other things too, but these are the ones that I could think of right now, I haven't even gotten through half of my totally existing list XD

[bakawitch]

Me @ me: wild west caste/kingshipping au when? Horror circus au when? Post apocalyptic fractureshipping au when? Anzu tkb friendship fic when? SUCKERSHIPPING WHENN???? LILACSHIPPING WHEN??????!!!!????

[bakawitch]

Okay I have some ideas:

Thief King Bakura X Honda Hiroto

Balconyshipping

Suckershipping

Punchshipping

Suspicionshipping

Nosaka Miho X Kageyama Risa

Enchantshipping

Bewitchshipping

Purpleshipping

Lilacshipping

Which of these sound the most fitting?

Had a weird dream last night, and now I'm drafting an aro/ace Atem centric fic with a side of Morishipping (couldn't find what tkb x Honda Hiroto is) and Kageyama Risa x Nosaka Miho and some Azureshipping. If anyone knows what these ships are called, please let me know (or if you have literally any ideas what they could be called) XD