#ygo pkmn au

[unreal]

thinking about YGO/PKMN crossover like . Kaiba would still run a tech company and the pokeballs he/his team manufacture are definitely called KaibaCapsules. Not only to keep the KC logo going but also--

[cyberdragoninfinity]

You said Yuya should be a Pokemon Trainer, so I gotta ask what Pokemon you think he'd have on his team.

I think he'd have a Flygon bc its red and green and also has goggles

oh you KNOW i've been thinkin about Arc-V Pokemon teams BIGLY AND A LOT here's my personal spread for Yuya:

I LIKE FLYGON FOR HIM, I SEE IT but personally I think I'm gonna give a shiny one to Yugo (it reminds me a lot of clear wing lol) and I dont like to double up in the same series, so I wanted to give myself a challenge >:3c

reasonings:

Zygarde 20%: i think it's fun giving him one of the 'incomplete' Zygarde forms since he himself is an incomplete piece of Zarc

Tyrantrum: He needs a terrestrial Dragon type, huge, since Odd-Eyes is the only dimensional dragon who doesn't fly... Odd-Eyes is also very dinosaur like to me :^) Plus the king motif and it's even red too!!

Delphox: challenging myself to give at least all of the yuboys a fully evolved starter, and I really like delphox for Yuya...invokes stargazer and timegazer magician and all the other Spellcasters in his deck, the showmanship of fire, powerful supernatural abilities. also yuya with a fennekin is SOOO cute

Hippopotas: Hip Hippo, of course!

Gengar: he needs something smiley, and Gengars got that prankster mischief energy that I think could play nice on a Yuya team. Plus it being a spooky purple ghost for the purple Zarc Energy. Mega Gengar is even stated to be able to travel to other dimensions <3

Roaring Moon: for Awakened!Yuya and Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon, monstrous violent dragon that bares a striking similarity to another Pokemon from another region, another world...hmmmmm who does that sound like.....

[aster-pkmn-irl-real]

more notes under the cut in case you want lore. it's supposed to say 'spell & trap zones' i was just rushing when adding in the notes. idk what tumblr will do to the quality so maybe click on the images

plot

duel disk is based off of the d-pad model from zexal and the standard duel disk from arc v. i used rio and kaito's duelists for the most inspo

lowkey if you weren't here pre-redux this is a really good hint as to plans for @aspens-dragons lmfao

number hunter! works with kaito.

they are colleagues and brothers and best friends and mortal enemies and partners (like in the two guys who open a diner together but ten years later one of them wants to turn it into a chain and one of them wants to stay small and they part ways way. you understand.)

got involved with barian bullshit at a relatively young age [see below]

when he was about 11, he was a close friend of kite tenjo, and by proxy haruto tenjo, which eventually led to him also frequently hanging out in dr. faker's lab. not in like a child labor way, in a aspen is a fucking nerd and accidentally overheard something about parallel universes and refused to leave lmfao.

at some point [roughly 2-3 years, age 13-14] after the disappearance of byron arclight and kazuma tsukumo aspen started helping out with faker's plans; at one point, faker DID manage to open a second portal to barian, but it was unstable and vector wasn't there this time. as a result aspen, in true rotumblr fashion, fucking fell into barian.

he came back about 2-3 years before the WDC, around 15-16 years old, super fucking traumatized, with no idea what traumatized him and a card!! galaxy eyes cipher dragon.

in the time between then and the WDC he reconnected with Kaito obviously, but also restlessly improved his dueling skills; he went through the same training that kaito, droite, gauche, and various others did to be number hunters and well. hes certainly a number hunter. it was at this point that aspen became aware that he 'came back wrong' but he could never tell if he really came back wrong or if he'd just grown. it was also at this point that he and kaito saw each other as more rivals than friends, partially because of this, but also because they were both galaxy eyes users.

in all honesty, aspen doesn't know why he wanted to be a number hunter. he was never particularly invested in dueling before he fell into barian, but once he returned he found that he never felt the same sense of being alive outside of a duel. being a number hunter was a way of doing that.

additionally, as one of the few people aware of what happened to arclight and tsukumo, he felt that being a number hunter was the only way to find out what happened to him. despite caring about haruto, he really had nothing to do with his motivations to be a hunter.

post wdc arc i think he and kaito are on better terms mostly because haruto is not fucking dying

i think with the barian arc he is barely involved until mizael shows up and now it's like. 'ah fuck ANOTHER galaxy eyes? i have ANOTHER guy on my hitlist AND he's a barian? epic!!"

a lot of his dynamic with mizael involves attempting to interrogate him about what happened to him in barian during their duels. partially cause he did get his galaxy eyes from barian.

i dont actually know for sure what happened to him in barian.

my serious idea is that he tumbled into the barian sea and accidentally encountered don thousand. considering aspen was very young and scared and vulnerable it's very possible that don thousand saw him as an opportunity akin to vector later on and used him a a potential little hot guy until he got bored, and that is how he got his galaxy eyes.

my joke idea is that vector found him. which. yeah. its vector. and gave him the galaxy eyes just to fuck with mizael later on.

and thats it

i think he duels mizael with kaito on the moon and loses BUT. he plays a trap or quick-play spell that makes it so you take the damage from a direct attack and the original target gains LP equal to the damage you take. so like hes dead too. and then comes back with everybody else

miscellaneous

i think he'd probably have an arc v counterpart bc kaito did and in an arc v verse his ace would be galaxy eyes photon dragon. bc we love parallels

i think he thinks yuma is an annoying little shit but at the same time he wishes he could be that excited to be alive

he thinks astral is weird. not cause he's an alien that lives in yumas necklace he just thinks he's strange but like he's not allowed to judge cause look at him

when he and kaito's conversations are more than just silent glances he gives him shit about his outfit. "real subtle, tenjo" "at least im not a whore."

[meistoshi]

actually no my fyp has me remembering my Things &, to tack on another thing to my wishlist thing: my non-main verses. whether that's either of the baseball verses, baldur, 1p, spiderverse, secret fifth(sixth???) thing-- chewing on the bars of my enclosure for an excuse to do anything w those verses

[sage-nebula]

i have always imagined jou's pokemon team to include a shiny charizard becase red eyes, so this makes me extremely happy. why does he call her akane and who else have you imagined for his team? i'm so curious

We had the exact same thought! A long, long time ago when I developed a team for Jounouchi my first thought was to give him a shiny charizard because of Red-Eyes. It’s so perfect, there’s no way I couldn’t. ♥ Anyway, I chose the nickname “Akane” for her because Jounouchi is Japanese and “aka” means “red,” but I’ve now realized that I was being a foolish fool and missed the most obvious—he should call her “Akame,” rather than “Akane.” While “Akane” is a more normal name, “Akame” is a more direct translation of Red-Eyes, given that it can be written with the following kanji:

赤 = Aka = “Red”

目 = Me =  “Eye, class, look, insight, experience, care, favor”

These two kanji together literally form “red-eyes” (meant to mean “bloodshot eyes” but whatever), so it’s perfect, especially since it sounds close enough to “Akane” to work. It’s a play on the name and a play on words and it’s the perfect nickname for his shiny charizard (who didn’t originally have red eyes as a shiny charmander, but whatever).

Anyway, I always imagined Jounouchi’s full team to be something like:

(Shiny) Charizard — Akame: As discussed, he has a female shiny charizard named Akame. She was his starter, and was actually passed over by other kids because her yellowish scales looked “sickly” compared to other charmander who were “normal” colored, and so no one wanted her. (Because after all, in-universe shinies don’t seem to be prized; it’s just in the real world that game players care about them.) Jounouchi, used to being passed over and thought of as undesirable, felt a strong draw to her, and so he chose her without a second thought. She’s been his most loyal partner ever since. (I imagine she could also mega evolve into Mega Charizard Y, to keep the black scales and red eyes even after mega evolution.) 

Aegislash — Masamune: Jounouchi has numerous cards that are associated with swords: Shield and Sword (which aegislash is a perfect representation of), Flame Swordsman, Swordsman of Landstar, and so on. And when he played Bakura’s TRPG Monster World, his character was a warrior who wielded a sword in hand. I feel that, given that Jounouchi is associated with swords numerous times throughout the series, a pokémon like aegislash is really fitting for him, particularly since aegislash’s form changing throughout the battle makes it an unpredictable opponent, and this rather fits Jounouchi’s battle style since he tends to adapt and battle on the fly. Finally, the name Masamune comes from Gorou Nyuudou Masamune, one of (if not the) most famous swordsmiths in Japanese history.

Scrafty — Gaki: Scrafty, I feel, is a good representation for Jounouchi’s early days in Hirutani’s gang, given that scrafty is supposed to be a representation of punks and, well, chinpira (at least in pokémon form, because we all know that Team Skull are the human chinpira of the PokéWorld). Akame was Jounouchi’s starter, but I feel that this scrafty—originally a scraggy—would have been his second or third pokémon. “Gaki” means “brat; twerp; urchin; little devil” in Japanese (and is actually harsher than “jari,” so I feel that kind of says something about how Jessie and James refer to Ash & Co., that they use “jari” instead of “gaki” in Japanese), and I like to imagine that this pokémon started out by routinely trying to steal food and other things from Jounouchi, hence Jounouchi chasing him off while calling him a “punk” or “brat.” Eventually Jounouchi caught him, and tried to name him something nicer, but by that time the then-scraggy wouldn’t respond to anything else and so the name stuck. I imagine we could easily just translate this to “Punk,” and that might be easier for English readers, but in the original Japanese it’d be “Gaki.” (And it’s fitting, anyway, since this little one has a Naughty nature. So just—Jounouchi: [holding Gaki up] “Stinky.”Yuugi: “No! Don’t be mean!”Jounouchi: [swinging Gaki back and forth] “Stinky bastard man.”Yuugi: “No!!”Honda: “Naughty boy. Brat ‘mon.”Yuugi: “NOOOO!!”Jounouchi: [sends a picture of Gaki under a laundry basket with a book on it] “pnshd 4 stealin my riceball wen i lookd away 4 1 sec crimes”Yuugi: “NOOOO BABY BOY”Honda: “I have no sympathy for this prisoner.” 

Whimsicott — Migawari: a.k.a. Scapegoat! Scapegoat is one of my favorites of Jounouch’s cards that he uses, because they’re just so cute, and he tends to use them in pretty clever ways, I feel. Thus, it feels only natural to represent that on his team, particularly since it gives him some more type variety as well. (And I mean, that fairy-typing in particular could make Migawari here his li’l dragon killer.) “Migawari” means “substitute; sacrifice; scapegoat,” so he’s pretty clearly named after the card, here (even if, in this universe, those cards don’t exist).

Golurk — Jinzo: It’s another ghost-type, and again, Jounouchi is not fond of those—but it’s also a gentle giant and Jounouchi probably wouldn’t even realize it’s a ghost-type at first. Jinzo is probably Jounouchi’s most memorable monster after Red-Eyes, and so I feel it needs a representation on his pokémon team. On the extra plus side, “jinzo” is an actual word in Japanese that means “artificial; man-made; synthetic; imitation,” so I don’t even have to get creative with the nickname. Jinzo is Jinzo in every incarnation.

Silvally — Mikata: So I hesitated a lot with this one, because Type: Null and its evolution silvally are really special pokémon, in the sense that you can’t readily catch them in the wild. However, I ultimately decided that silvally was the right choice for a few reasons.First and foremost, Jounouchi gets his hands on quite a few rare cards throughout the duelist arc through strokes of fortune and victory. Although he has just started out, by the time he reaches Pegasus’ castle he has already obtained the Red-Eyes Black Dragon through a duel with Ryuuzaki, and Jounouchi later says that it’s one of the most valuable items he owns, period. Over the course of Battle City, he manages to win cards like Insect Queen and Jinzo, and again, these are specifically stated to be rare and valuable cards. Jounouchi didn’t seek these cards out, nor did he buy them, and so I think it’s possible that he’d obtain Type: Null in a similar kind of way—that he’d get it from a trainer who didn’t want it, or rescue it from Aether Paradise scientists, or what have you. How I’m not entirely sure (hell, maybe he even befriends Gladion and Gladion gives him one? Who knows), but I don’t think it’s out of the question considering how Jounouchi gets his rare cards in the YGO canon.Secondly, during Battle City, Bakura makes an observation that Jounouchi’s cards are all grotesque, and Jounouchi gets offended, saying it’s not like he wanted them (though Bakura cheerfully says that he loves grotesque things lmao). Type: Null’s appearance is … a bit disturbing, to say the least, given that it’s a chimera that has been spliced together, and that huge control helmet it has to wear. So again, I think it fits with the theme of the cards that Jounouchi got over his time as a duelist—the ones he won / was gifted, that he didn’t specifically seek out, but kept and treasured anyway, no matter how “grotesque” they were.Lastly, I feel that Type: Null / silvally really represents Jounouchi’s own growth over the course of the series. Type: Null, when first born, was forced to wear a control helmet to restrict its power because it was prone to violent rampages and outbursts that severely endangered others. In fact, not only was it forced to wear the helmet, but all members of its species were cryogenically frozen save for the one Gladion stole. However, over the course of bonding with its trainer and coming to understand friendship, Type: Null evolved into the much more beautiful silvally. The control helmet was removed, it realized its full potential and power, and, again, the rough edges of its appearance were worn away and it became much more beautiful.In a way, Jounouchi undergoes a similar transformation over the course of the manga. When we first meet him in the beginning of the series, Jounouchi feels isolated and alone despite his friendship with Honda, he has no hopes or dreams for the future and scoffs at the idea of having any, and he’s so miserable that he channels this through bullying and violence. He’s not as bad as he was pre-canon, given that he had at least chosen to leave Hirutani’s gang even before we meet him, but he’s still in pretty rough shape. But when Yuugi defends him from Ushio and offers him friendship, for the first time Jounouchi sees an opportunity for something different, something better. And in his own words, when he returns the piece of the Millennium Puzzle he stole, “for the first time in [my] life, I started to like myself a little.” Jounouchi’s initial change is substantial, but his full character development doesn’t happen overnight. Early on in the series he’s still getting into fights that Yuugi questions him about, and he has trouble controlling his emotions even into the third volume (see: his outbursts during Death-T), which speak to the abuse he’s suffered throughout his life and the way that trauma has developed him. But as the series goes on, Jounouchi heals more and more, and truly goes into an admirable, beautiful hero. Much like how Type: Null evolves into silvally through friendship, Jounouchi develops and grows into a much better person thanks to the bond he has with Yuugi. (Something that can be shown, but can’t be seen …)So I think that silvally is a fitting final pokémon for Jounouchi, particularly since evolving a partner via friendship is precisely the type of thing he could do, even accidentally (and arguably even something he did, because Yuugi’s own growth is a result of his bond with Jounouchi, too!). “Mikata” means “friend; ally; supporter,” which I feel fits with the theme that Gladion himself chose when naming this species.

And as a final pick, if Jounouchi had a legendary pokémon that decided to watch over him / pick him as a chosen one, I think that legendary pokémon would be Victini. Not only is Victini a fire-type (and Jounouchi is very often associated with fire), but Victini is also the victory pokémon, and is actually rather lucky (which Jounouchi’s life/dueling deck is based around). Stories sounding Victini say that its trainer always wins, and while Jounouchi does not always win and while pretty much all of his victories do hinge on his impressive skill, it’s worth it to note that Victini’s ability is “Victory Star,” which gives a 10% accuracy boost to its attacks. Considering Jounouchi’s deck is luck based, and that the luck usually turns in his favor, I could imagine that he had a guardian deity giving him a 10% boost whenever he used cards like Time Wizard or Graceful Dice. So if he had a legendary pokémon watching over him, I think this little patron saint of luck and victory would be the one. (Additionally, the kanji for Jounouchi’s given name, Katsuya, contains the character 克, which can mean “to skillfully overcome” and can be used in words meaning victory, so. Victini is certainly fitting in that respect, too.)

Thanks for asking!

[bloodybonesnbruises]

Seto just has his BEWD out at all times and brings her into stores and if anyone asks he unironically says "sir, thats my emotional support dragon"

     100% Seto would take that BEWD out with him EVERYWHERE. No place he would be without her–maybe work since she would be distracting as hell or he lets Mokuba take her for walks when she gets really wild. And if somebody tries to tell him to take her out of the store even after telling them she’s his ESD, they will be met with a very angry Seto. Nobody tells Seto Kaiba where he can and can’t bring his precious bby.

[melemeleprince]

[kaibacorpintern]

there’s a million and one good reasons for a ygo x pkmn au, but above all else is Seto Kaiba saying, with every ounce of Blue’s sarcasm, “Smell ya later, Yugi” as he gets into his KC helicopter to fly over Victory Road

Me, who has never played a Pokemon game: oh yes girl. I completely agree

[xamaxenta]

UHhhhhHhHhh POKEMON YGO GX AU IM SO KEYED UP

WHAT WOULDNTHEY HAVE???

Judai - can see him having Blaziken and greninja, solosis for glow neos, umbreon for neo spacian black panther and for laughs a Deoxys because neos

Manjoume - ooh like three aipom or an aipom a mime jr and zubat for the ojamas but in reality stuff like druddigon and garchomp for armed dragon

Asuka - of course she has a gallade and kirlia for cyber gymnast and blader

Misawa - gyarados kadabra and tropius, maybeee maybe kabutops or cradilly

Shou - magneton and charabug maybe beldum

Ryou - haxorus hydreigon salamence all the competitve pkmn

Fubuki - noivern and lopunny because lopunny reminds him of asuka

Edo - lucario, weavile, bisharp, zoroark, cofagrigus - all creepy or dark types because D HEROS

Johan - espeon duh and galar rapidash, braviary, torterra, incineroar, persian and copperajah because rheyre all his gem beasts - shiny rayquaza for rainbow dark dragon

Austin - houndoom, talonflame, alolan marowak just dark and fire typing for him works

Jim - tyrantrum, aerodactyl, cranidos, relincanth, regigias and feraligatr for karen

For fun Yubel - shedinja, froslass, mimikyu, yvletal and giratina - mythic beasts can be moltres zapdos articuno lmao

[merryfortune]

For the fic ask: 11, 13, 14, 19, 22 :D

11. fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year

i want to say Vrains but i got some real cash money writing just one fic for Pkmn Sword & Shield so its kind of a toss-up between characters I’m really invested in and my need for attention 

13. favourite writing song/artist/album of this year

i’ve been fucking obsessed with Sweet and I only discovered them/really got into them this year so Sweet

14. a fic you didn’t expect to write

probably Fizzy Feelings, an Uma Musume fic, because it stars characters who only really appear in the mini comics and approximately one entire mini comic between them so that’s some real dedication to obscurity. Also, Smilesaku. I roped myself into doing it literally one day after the event started.

19. any new fics to start next year

the ferret fic and the mlp au. mark my words. these multichapter, self-indulgent abominations wILL BE FINISHED AND WILL BE PUBLISHED IN 2020

22. events you participated in this year

JoJo Rare Pairs Week, Arc V Rare Pair Week, Smilesaku, Hugsaku, Slash Ryoken, Respectfulshipping Week, Cyberse Celebration, Femslash February, Kinktober, two YGO Mini Exchanges/Secret Santa type things, and whilst it hasn’t been hosted yet, I am ready and raring for Vrains Rare Pair Week.

I’ve been a very busy bee. But also RIP to the Fire Emblem Rare Pair Weeks, I would loved to have participated but some of the ships I wanted to write for her were wrongfully banned imho

[unreal]

I have a vision ,

[aster-pkmn-irl-real]

Pinned Post! (07/31/2024)

Hey, it's Aster (he/him)! This blog used to be an RP blog for Aspen from @aspens-dragons but I'm converting it into a hub of sorts for that blog and the rest of my PKMN IRL blogs!

General things to know about my blogs!

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In regards to @aspens-dragons: I've been feeling a little (more than a little) stuck with Aspen, and especially recently I haven't found him fun to RP. As a result, I've soft-rebooted him and his blog. Just figured it would be a good thing to share here!

Under the cut, I have descriptions of each of my PKMN IRL blogs!

i have a yugioh related blog that i am currently really excited about and also just generally really into yugioh rn so block #ygo if you dont wanna see those

@aspens-dragons Active -> #in-da-crater and #aspens-dragons

My very first Pokemon IRL OC! This OC has been just been soft reset (as of 06/05/24). Aspen is a junior at Uva academy in the STEM track with a secondary focus in Battle Studies.

@fruitbasket-gossip semi-active

A multimuse blog run by myself and three other mods! I play Mod Liechi (aka Ray), a student at BBA.

@stoked-sparksurfer Semi-Active -> #stoked-sparksurfer

A blog serving as Mod Liechi’s private alt/venting account. He goes by Lumen on this account.

@bb-quark-drive inactive -> #quark-drive

A blog following Ajax, an AU version of Aspen attending Blueberry Academy.

@photon-geyser inactive -> #photon-geyser , #moonraze maelstrom , #searing-sunraze

A slow eeby deeby blog following Irid, a character from ongoing playthrough of Pokemon Ultra Sun. This blog also frequently features Melanie and Kōnane, characters based off of Lillie and Hau. Warning for Body Horror.

@lacey-agate inactive -> #lacey-agate

A Lacey blog existing in the same universe as @fruitbasket-gossip! Not sure what else there is to say about it lol

@spirits-for-miles semi-active -> #spirits-for-miles

A blog for a character based off of an incomplete mono-ghost nuzlocke! Will discuss pokemon death, and also regular death.

@swimming-with-sharpedo semi-active -> #swimming-with-sharpedo

A blog for a PKMN irl version of Ryoga Kamishiro/Shark from YGO Zexal, not a faller, check pinned for more details.

[bio-fluorescence]

fuck... ygo pkmn au I Need It

[unreal]

I think Seto Kaiba's pursuit of Dialga would be an awesome series of events in a YGO/PKMN AU