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Arc-V AU 5Ds Characters

Yusei: Yusei is living in the tops with his parents working as a scientist on the momentum reactor. He does a little bit of dueling for fun but doesn't think he's very good at it. He's a big Jack Atlas fan boy. And he'll play an updated version of his deck.

Akiza: Akiza is the poster child of an Arc-V version of the Arcadia Movement. I don't know if I'll have divine or not in this au, but regardless Akiza is currently being manipulated and will appear at the friendship cup. She'll get some therapy eventually, and she can beat up some fusion soldiers as a treat. She'll probably play an updated version of her deck maybe mixed with some aromage/aromaseraphy cards.

Leo & Luna: Leo & Luna are mostly stuck in their apartment having never met yusei or the rest of the signers. Sometimes they'll sneak out and hang out with Max. They'll watch the friendship cup and meet the other signers. Leo will probably just use an updated morphtronic, Luna will use her new cards and maybe the naturia archetype.

Bruno: I don't really have to many ideas for Bruno yet but I like him. He could maybe work with Yusei at momentum.

Arc-V AU/Rewrite

I've kind of had this idea for a while for an AU/Rewrite of Arc-V wherein there were the protagonists and a few other characters from the previous shows appeared. I've seen a lot of really good fics with this premise or a similar premise and thought it would be fun to do it myself. It's mostly just a few ideas for a basic plot outline and some ideas for characters.

The basic premise is that Leo Akaba wants to use the legacy characters to fight Zarc or something after he recombines the dimensions. And Declan finds out about this so it ends up being a race to find said duelists. However all of the duelists have lived different lives and are going to be at least partially different from their original versions.

I don't know if this will be a full rewrite or if there will be a jumping off point. Also I'll probably use dub names because I originally watched the dubs.

Characters that will be present:

Dm: Yugi, Kaiba, Joey

GX: Jaden, Jesse, Chazz

5Ds: Yusei, Akiza, Leo & Luna

Zexal: Yuma, Shark, Michael

Characters that I might include:

Dm: Bakura or Mai

GX: Jim

5Ds: Bruno

Zexal: Rio

Arc-V AU: DM characters

I'm going to expand on my previous post and go over the characters series by series starting with DM! (Just note a lot of these ideas are fluid.)

Yugi: Yugi is going to be very similar to how he was in the early manga and season 0. He goes to a normal highschool and than an after-school duel school (yushow?) In the standard dimension. He carries the box of the millennium puzzle in his backpack as he never finished it because Joey threw the last piece away. Because of this Yugi (provided he doesn't go to yushow) has no real friends and lacks a lot of confidence in himself. He'd probably play an updated Silent Magician & Swordsman Deck.

Joey: Joey is also going to have similar Characterization to the early manga and season 0. He lives in the standard dimension going to the same school as Yugi and doesn't duel. He's just generally a delinquent. (He will get better and eventually become a good friend similar to DM). He'll eventually play some sort of deck involving Red Eyes Black Dragon.

Seto Kaiba: Of all the DM characters I'm definitely including, Kaiba is going to have the most differences from his cannon versions. I have two different ideas for him. Option 1 - He doesn't get adopted (Gozoburo & Kaiba corps by extension don't exsist) and has to do his best taking care of himself and mokuba making a living by doing odd tech jobs and dueling. Here he would probably use a Blue Eyes Synchro deck. Option 2 - He got adopted by the Akaba family and went with Leo to the fusion dimension to create Duel Academy. Here he would use a Blue Eyes Fusion deck.

Bakura: I'm not sure if I'm putting Bakura in but if I do, he'd probably be pretty similar to how he was in DM but without the millennium ring and being Yugi's friend. Or he'd have the millennium ring and be one of the few people who knows what's going on, acting like the cryptid he is.

Originally I didn't have much of an idea for Tea or Tristan in the AU which is why I didn't write about them. I really love Tea though and it would be wrong to seperate their friend group more than I have, so Tristan can come along for the ride!

Tea: One of Yugi's only friends, she didn't sign up for a multi-dimensional war but by god she's going to support her friends with pep talks (and maybe some dueling) all the way. Honestly I would love to see the interactions she has with the non DM characters. She is definitely adopting like half the cast. I feel like she'd also enjoy the concept of action duels and duletaining a lot, so I'll definitely give her at least one (probably more) important duel(s). I think she'd be playing a dark magician girl deck or maybe a different spellcaster or fairy deck.

Tristan: He's definitely going to be friends with Joey and start off as a bit of a delinquent like the orgional manga but grow to become a better friend for the rest of the DM gang. He's absolutely going to throw hands with the obelisk force at one point or another. For a deck I think I'd maybe give him a warrior deck of some sort if he ever duels.

Arc-V AU: DM characters

I'm going to expand on my previous post and go over the characters series by series starting with DM! (Just note a lot of these ideas are fluid.)

Yugi: Yugi is going to be very similar to how he was in the early manga and season 0. He goes to a normal highschool and than an after-school duel school (yushow?) In the standard dimension. He carries the box of the millennium puzzle in his backpack as he never finished it because Joey threw the last piece away. Because of this Yugi (provided he doesn't go to yushow) has no real friends and lacks a lot of confidence in himself. He'd probably play an updated Silent Magician & Swordsman Deck.

Joey: Joey is also going to have similar Characterization to the early manga and season 0. He lives in the standard dimension going to the same school as Yugi and doesn't duel. He's just generally a delinquent. (He will get better and eventually become a good friend similar to DM). He'll eventually play some sort of deck involving Red Eyes Black Dragon.

Seto Kaiba: Of all the DM characters I'm definitely including, Kaiba is going to have the most differences from his cannon versions. I have two different ideas for him. Option 1 - He doesn't get adopted (Gozoburo & Kaiba corps by extension don't exsist) and has to do his best taking care of himself and mokuba making a living by doing odd tech jobs and dueling. Here he would probably use a Blue Eyes Synchro deck. Option 2 - He got adopted by the Akaba family and went with Leo to the fusion dimension to create Duel Academy. Here he would use a Blue Eyes Fusion deck.

Bakura: I'm not sure if I'm putting Bakura in but if I do, he'd probably be pretty similar to how he was in DM but without the millennium ring and being Yugi's friend. Or he'd have the millennium ring and be one of the few people who knows what's going on, acting like the cryptid he is.

Hi! I love your ideas for the signers! Do you think that Yusei and possibly one or both of the twins would get an invitation to the Fortune Cup? Cause that would be awesome to see! Also, would they meet Akiza and possibly the rest of the lancers?

Speaking of, how would the rest of the legacy characters interact with the Arc V characters? How would they meet? Would they all switch sides to the Lancers or some stay villains the whole time?

Sorry if this is a lot. All the ideas you gave have intrigued me so much and I can't help but ask questions!

Sorry this took me a while to respond to.

I think that it would be a fun homage to the origional to have Leo or Luna duel in the friendship cup, I think it would also be super cute to have Max cheering the twins on.

As for Yusei think it would be kind of funny if he got into the friendship cup via a lottery win or something and he couldn't really turn it down, not sure if that's what I'll do, or if he'll competing in the friendship cup at all, but it's a start.

They'll definitely end up meeting Akiza & the lancers (as well as Crow and Jack) at the friendship cup in some capacity.

I'm still working on how each character will fit in but generally the lancers will meet the legacy charcters in the dimension their from or in the first arc. I also actually think that's a really cool idea to have some of the legacy characters stay villains the whole time or almost the whole time but I don't have that fully thought out yet either so I'll probably write more about that in the future.

& No worries I really like getting questions it can help me go over and somewhat organize my thoughts, or give me new ideas!

Arc-V AU Zexal Characters

Yuma: Part of the xyz resistance against the fusion dimension. Before the invasion he was probably one of Yusho's students, and likely a friend of Lulu. He has an absolutely no carding policy and trys to make others not card. I'm not sure if I'd want him to come to the standard dimension early on or wait more. I'll probably write more about him later, I still need to figure out a lot of stuff like what I'm going to do with Astral. He'll play an sligtly updated version of his deck.

Shark: Teamed up with Yuma in the resistance, although he's a bit more hesitant to work with other members compared to Yuma. He is definitely willing to card someone from fusion if he thinks they deserve it. This is especially true if Rio gets carded. He definitely sympathizes with shay as an older brother. He'll just play a slightly updated version of his deck.

Trey/Michael: Finishes out the little trio of him, Yuma, and Shark. His mental stability is relying soley on Yuma at this point as Thomas, Chris, and Byron have all been carded (sorry). He's one nervous wreck away from sword fighting and/or carding people left and right. He's my favorit zexal character so he gets to be traumatized/affectionately. He's just gonna play a slightly more modern chronomally deck.

I might include some other characters like Alito, Vector, Rio, etc.

Arc-V au Short

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63834292

I finally got around a short for the Arc-V au. It's a little story from Michael's pov after the invasion.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Johan Andersen | Jesse Anderson/Yuuki Juudai | Jaden Yuki Characters: Johan Andersen | Jesse Anderson, Yuuki Juudai | Jaden Yuki Additional Tags: Light Angst, Reflection, Alternate Universe, Pining but they don't know each other, No beta we die like half the cast in season 3 Summary:

Jaden and Jesse both take a minute to reflect and maybe mourn that which they've never had. (Part of my Arc-V AU)

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Happy 3/3 to all who celebrate! As much as I love Michael I don't draw him very often, and I didn't have the time to clean up the sketch so it didn't turn out the best. Regardless happy birthday to Michael 🎉