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HEAR ME OUT on the kinda pilots Yuya is a kira but goes berserk in like a mikazuki kinda way Yuto is a setsuna but like in team fights hes definitely in the athrun role to yuya Yugo is a chibodee but also a mix of duo Yuri is an angelo Yuzu is a fa but also elle Serena is a marina with Kshatria not banshee Ruri is a suletta with aerial not calibarn Rin is a allenby with that berserk mode Zarc is a char… Ray is a loran but definitely has the amuro side beef

I thought I responded to this the same day you sent it, but I guess that was only in my head. Sorry anon! ><

But wow, it's pretty crazy how accurate these are! I can't disagree with any of them. There are so many Gundam series and characters to choose from that I admire how much thought you put into this. You're much more capable of writing a crossover than me, lol!

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ooo if you ever do write gundam fics I would be looking forward for it!! or would be cool but also if you wanted to do arc v gundam AU So far I can only think of yuri the same kinda of pilot Angelo is form unicorn

I do have a couple Seed wips, but knowing how slow I am, they probably won't be seeing the light of day in a while orz. Crossover territory is probably out of my range of ability though... I just can't see myself writing a good one haha. I think I get too fixated on details and consistency to be able to pull it off. But hey, never say never!

That Yuri and Angelo comparison has me cackling LOL

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Real I didn’t have a lot of interest in GQuuuuuux but seeing char in the updated animation def was worth it for me at least. AHHH ALSO YOUR TASTE!?? IMMACULATE youre so right about orphee i love the guy!! I never see anyone talk about him. Also ugh yes ZZ mentioned makes me so happy!! as silly as it is the moment I saw judau i automatically thought he’d be good friends with judai

Ah, it's a struggle for me because seeing Char is always a plus, but on the other hand I can't help but wonder if it's just Char-baiting to get more attention LOL. I hate to say it but GQuuuuuux feels like it's riding hard on the power of FOMO. That's the sense I've gotten from the Japanese fandom, at least, in terms of social media hype sucking in people who otherwise wouldn't even watch Gundam. I don't want to be too negative about it cause it's not out yet tho! ><

A fellow Orphee lover in the wild??? You have excellent taste as well... He is so underrated fr. The western fandom has nothing but horrible things to say about him, and it makes me so sad. He's such an intriguing character. To be honest I fell for the Black Knights as a whole WAY more than I was expecting to. I anticipated that I would like Orphee since before Freedom even came out but man, Ingrid and Shura? I LOVE THEM SO MUCH AAAAH. Trio of dripped out sadness right there. I want to post a fic for them someday...

I never thought of it, but Judau and Judai do have a similar energy! Though it's ironic cause Judau>>>>Judai for me LOL (I don't dislike Judai tho). I have a weakness for the genuinely good guy who has emotional honesty, what can I say. Judau just be hitting different from other UC protagonists.

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Lol sorry for asking about Gundam randomly I just get super excited to see Arc v fans that also like Gundam

No need to apologize! I've noticed there's an overlap between Arc-V fans and Gundam fans, surprisingly. Sorry for my previous wall of text — as you can see, I'm a huge fan lol.

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I just finished reading Noctifer.IM UTTERLY OBSESSED WITH HOW YOU WRITE THEM. AUGHHHU.Honestly obsessed and amazed how you write the arc v cast. I just wanted to thank you for such beautiful writing. YOURE BRAIN MAWH I LOVE IT. Also on a totally unrelated note seeing your Gundam seed profile pic 👀 I’m just curious of which Gundams you’ve watched? And your personal favorite characters and series. And if you watched or have any interest in the new Gundam GQuuuuux movie?

Thank you for the praise!! As always, I'm happy that so many enjoy my writing (and yurisere in general lol). Also thanks for mentioning the rest of the Arc-V cast as well! Yurisere is my forte, so sometimes I wonder if I grasp the other characters as well. It's good to hear that I do! Please stay tuned for more updates in the future :D

As for Gundam, it'd probably be faster to list the ones I haven't watched LOL. The Seed trilogy is by far my favorite, but Turn-A is my second favorite. Third is... X, maybe? Or maybe ZZ or 0079 (I'm horrible at ranking my favorites orz). The only ones I haven't seen are F91, Reconguista, Age, and the newer Build Fighter series.

From Seed, my favorite was Lacus UNTIL Orphee came along in Freedom. My god he is so misunderstood (they both are tbh) but I really love his character. He's evil but had no choice in anything. You can see how stressed and unhappy he is vying to be worthy of his own life despite his exterior. And I love the imagery of him being the sheltered prince in the rose garden, waiting for his princess to find him. Good shit right there. Aside from that I really love the main three boys too ^^. From the other series, I'd say Kihel is my favorite from Turn-A, and Char and Judau from their respective series too. Honestly I have a lot of favorites LOL.

To be honest though, my interest in GQuuuuuux is pretty low. I didn't go see the movie, and I probably won't be watching the series weekly once it comes out. Maybe sometime down the line I'll watch it, but... it's just not really grabbing me. I think the base concept is interesting as an AU of 0079 though. Probably doesn't help that I was not a fan of Witch from Mercury, like, at all too. I'm cautious, but it's not a hard "no" either.

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yeah, i saw that viral post on twiter (or x bleh) about ao3 thats got everyone freaking out. i think its warranted considering how the election went and the things americans have already lost that they never thought theyd lose but people are awful to only ask about that and not how american peoples lives are gonna be affected by these new policies. sorry you had to go through that. i agree screw those people who only care about ao3. just know that many of us care about you and wish for your safety. be careful out there and prioritize your real life over updating. the situation sucks

Sorry I didn't reply to this when you first sent it, but yeah... We'll see how things go. And thank you for the well wishes, I appreciate it!

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So, I've gotten some messages from people. 8 in total. A DM on Twitter, 3 DMs here on Tumblr, and an ask. All burner accounts/anonymous. Though it's a small fandom, my stuff gets a lot of traction and I tend to respond to all comments I get on Ao3, so I assume that makes people more comfortable about contacting me directly.

They all asked me two things: if I live in America (because I don't talk about my private life publicly at all), and, upon answering in the affirmative, what's going to happen to my fics. "Will you still post fics?" "Will you still draw and write?" "You won't delete your Ao3, will you?"

Do you hear yourselves?

Those are the first questions you ask. Not any sympathy about this election, not any concern about my wellbeing, not any well wishes and hopes that I will be okay. No. Your first concern was about the damn content I provide for you. Because apparently having your fics is more important than our rights being taken away. I know none of you are American; I've gotten a couple DMs from people who are, and they are the exact opposite. I know you've seen the posts. Hundreds have committed suicide already. Lists of what Project 2025 entails are everywhere. People are already losing their jobs because of the new tarriffs policy that isn't even in place yet. The list goes on.

Since you don't give a fuck, I'll tell you now: yes, I am fortunate to live in a blue state, albeit in a red pocket with a shit ton of Trump supporters and a big military/law enforcement population. Add being a woman and black on top of that. But many others in this country aren't so fortunate. Many are trapped in the hells of conservative America.

You don't care to know that, though. Because you would have asked.

I don't want Ao3 to go, either. I love Ao3. But when your first words to me are concerns about the content I make upon finding out I'm American, I don't care if you can't read my fics anymore. I don't want people like you reading what I create out of passion. You don't see the person on the other side; only a machine churning out content for you.

I blocked you all without remorse.

You cannot act like you care about your American content creators, mutuals, or friends if your only concern about this election is, "Will the fics be okay?"

Screw your fics. You don't give a shit about the people writing them.

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serena doodle

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Serena with accidental thigh-highs :0

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Excerpt from Nepenthes.

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posted this a while ago on twitter for the ocg thingy and forgot to do it here. slightly edited.

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ive been a fan of yours for a while and i gotta say, i think you have the best grasp of yurisere/predatorshipping in the fandom. you actually take their characters into consideration and acknowledge their complexity as two stunted individuals who are very different but similar instead of diminishing them to memey single-trait characters. its amazing how many other other fans reduce serena to only "edgey mean girlboss" and yuri to only "nasty psycho" and then call any other version of the ship than constant hate fucking, backhanded affection and beating each other to a pulp "wrong". very tiring how only a handful of us dont like that to be the only thing they ever do

btw, your fics on ao3 are a godsend. judging by your stats im definitely not alone in loving how you write yurisere. thank you for doing the lords work. cant wait to see more updates

First of all, thank you for the high praise! It's the second time this week I've been told something similar, lol!

Though I will say anon, the rest sounds pretty charged towards something or someone particular in the fandom, so at the risk of aggravating some current stuff I don't know about...

Yeah. I agree. A lot. You pretty much summed up my thoughts perfectly.

"Edgy mean girlboss" and "nasty psycho" for Serena and Yuri respectively is... extremely accurate, lol, to the point where I kinda have to laugh bitterly for how pervasive it is. Like, I know they both got shafted hard by canon, but it's a bit annoying when so many people override Serena's multifacetedness to fit the girlboss mold and accuse Yuri of being one-dimensional. I'vs seen some even get strangely angry at the prospect of him not just being the sadistic plant guy. I just don't think him only being that is true. Then again, I'm a staunch defender of the assessment that most of Yuri's character is shown, not told.

Unfortunately, the fanon interpretation of characters overriding canon is something that happens in pretty much any fandom, so there's not much we can do but ignore it and find like-minded people. It's super annoying, but it can't be helped. There's also a broader phenomenon of prioritizing tropes and meme-y dynamics over actually appealing characters, so there's that too.

Since we're all waiting for more canon interaction, I'm definitely in the minority in that I don't think Yuri and Serena's interactions in Duel Links will be a pure hostility fest the entire time. I've also gotten accusations over the years that my Yurisere writing is objectively "wrong" for a plethora of reasons, many of which you stated above, so... there's THAT, too.

At the same time though, that isn't to say Yuri and Serena would never fight or bicker or even be mean to each other — I never expect them to be completely nice and friendly to each other right off the bat. And people are free to write and draw whatever they want — I want to express my disagreement and only that here — so if I don't like it, I ignore it. The people who don't fall into fanon have a much more appealing, deep, and romance-forgiving interpretation of yurisere to me, so I just focus on that!

Anyway, thank you once again for being a fan of my writing! I'm honestly surprised at the following for my current fics on ao3. The Arc-V tag doesn't get much engagement despite being updated every day. It's always great to know there are others who enjoy and share my idea of Yurisere, so to anyone lurking: don't be afraid to reach out!

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what's your favorite thing about yurisere?

Anon, I have am SO sorry this was sitting in my inbox since May and I never saw it until now. For some reason, I don't get notifications for asks... ;-;

Anyway, it's hard to pinpoint what my favorite thing about yurisere is, just because there's so many things about it I do like. I love the blue-girl-pink-boy aesthetic (moreso purple in Yuri's case) and think they look really good together. I love how versatile the ship is; you can examine all the gaps canon left and piece together different paths in which their relationship would develop all according to their personalities. I love their similarities and differences as individuals and how those would come together. They can go between bitter and sweet depending on the time. Amongst other things, of course.

But if I had to choose a favorite, it would probably be how their respective backstories form their dynamic as a ship. Them growing up on a restrictive island together yet never knowing the other because a third party kept them separated, and likewise, deeming Serena too precious and Yuri too dangerous for them to ever be with each other. I'm a huge sucker for that forbidden element! And that backstory has caused the both of them to have a "gap", so to speak. An area of their life that isn't quite filled. It's more obvious that Yuri would have turned out very different if he had someone who never feared and hated him, but it's less acknowledged that Serena would also have someone recognize her strengths and give her a true challenge (and possibly distract her from constantly vying for Leo's attention :0). Serena is pretty fearless and Yuri likes giving out praise, so it stands to reason that they would fill those "gaps" in each other. And if you go the enemies to lovers route, you get to see them realize what they've been missing their whole lives, which I really like.

Also, they're hot and unbeatable together and it'd be good to see them fall in love. That's the easy, shallow answer, lol.

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