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baddyzarc · 4 years

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it always fascinated me whether, either by accident or on purpose, the Arclights seemed to have a connection to the Barians Emperors (bar Nasch and Merag due to plot reasons) via the color they glow when they become—for the lack of a better word—aroused.

I might be stretching for some of these and the glows could be like, stock-image stuff, but eh, I've been creatively-drained lately due to skool and I wanna write

I found some fun connections between the groups, and it could work especially since the Emperors were the ones who gifted the Arclights with the crests, therefore it could be possible that by giving them the crests, the Arclights "adopted" or inherited parts of the donor's personalities. The show doesnt explicitly state what happened here (although the dub attributed this whole scheme to vector which is,,, hella funny for unintentional reasons,,,) but through fearsome foursome dialogue, we can assume that the Arclights are known to Barian World so the kids must've been slightly more involved in Barian World.

The most obvious connection to me is Trey because you know

This whole thing.

I'm 99% sure this isn't historically accurate, but let's pretend. At first I thought the gladiator garb was random (since Trey was the only one who did this, we can't gauge what the writers were going for) but it makes a lot of sense if he were to inherite his powers from Alito, who was a gladiator in his past life. When his powers was enchanced through Tron, it revealed the depths of what Alito gave him. Just, gladiator vibes but it's cool though.

Michael's crest is orange but when he gets hella angery, he glows the same reddish tint as Alito, so this still falls in line with my theory. They also share a lot of things in-common, including being the first of their group to befriend Yuma. Both originally came on as kind and devoted to Yuma and not evil, then went full evil for a good chunk of time, both due to circumstances—either through Don Thousand or the enchanced crest. They were also the first of their group to help Yuma after snapping out of their rage state: Trey when he came back to fight Erazor and Alito deciding they should team up to fight Don Thousand. (They also fell into a coma after being defeated by Yuma for different reasons but I don't think this counts for anything). The gladiator stuff sells it for me though.

Then there's Christopher. He glows the same color as Durbe, who is the leader of the Emperors in the absence of Nasch.

The likeness isn't as clear as Michael aside from certain traits. They're both smart (this is up for debate don't @ me) and take on the leader role of their group (after Tron skedaddled for season 2). They're stoic, calm, hot, have intimacy with certain spaceships and a book, etc...

Something I found kinda interesting is this

Durbe was the first we see to wear a bracelet to control his Barian powers on Earth, and according to Michael, Quinton made the bracelets in order to control their crests. I thought this was a neat tie-in since Durbe gave the rest of the Emperors the Barian Sphere Field cubes to use while Christopher ultilized the Crest Sphere Field during the duel with the barians.

Chris and Durbe has the least relation though, so that's all I have to say.

Tron is weird because he has two glows, which corresponds to both Vector and Mizael. This makes sense since he does have properties from both. If my memory is correct, the purple one only appeared during duel against Yuma (maybe the one before it during a dream sequence but idk), while most scenes gave him a yellowish outline.

The show portrays Vetrix as sadistic but sly like a fox. This half came from Vector, from how he tortured Hart and Kaito and Droite and his kids mentally. He's heartless, and he isn't afraid to let the world know this. Like Vector. On the other hand, what I think he inherited from Mizael is that "Barian Superiority" complex. Tron said he only trusts barians because they saved him (unrelated, but I think it's funny that he desired Shark, a barian, to fight for him like no tomorrow but then straight-up hospitalized Rio, also a barian), and the only other Emperor who bears this trait is Mizael. Most of the others are like "cool, we barians" but Mizael is proud of the fact and despises humans because of it.

I like to think that Mizael was supposed to give Tron the crest in order to ensure he stays loyal to the Barians, but then Vector shimmied in and infected him with his own powers, thus amplifying his lust for revenge and destruction because Vector would.

Vetrix and Mizael also have big roles in the growth of Kaito's character, where in one it allows us to Kaito's vulnerable side (Hart plots) and the other his compassionate (Galaxy-Eyes Master plots).

And although this has to do more with Thomas than Tron himself, Vetrix's Vector half made him torment and chase Shark around for seemingly no reason (as far as the audience knows at that point in the show).

And this dood. Quattto, I think it's obvious what he got from Vector. The sadism, the cruelty, whatever that was idk it freaks me out I have a phobia of death by machinery I don't like thinking about this.

Most likely Thomas was the one who inherited Vector's nastier traits, and his hatred for Shark. He's shown to be cruel because he finds it fun, and for both Thomas and Vector, they hurt people solely for entertainment. They also have the whole "Ray Shadows" and "Fanservice" thing going on, where they hide their monstrous personalities under a positive mask. Might be a bit of stretch, but both were shown to be kinder when they were young. Circumstance and the crest made Thomas cruel, while Vector became and stayed cruel because of Don Thousand (this is weird bc Vector knows he was brainwashed but prefers being evil anyways). Thomas hurt Rio to get to Shark, Vector killed Merag to get to Nasch. There's a lot if we compare their relationships with Shark.

Furthermore, and this may also be one of those stretches, but the flags on Vector's ships feature a cracked skull with a jagged streak running across the eye. To me, it reminds me of IV's scar (which he acquired after hurting Rio (merag) for Tron (also vector) this is a big circle I have something here but I can't, connect, it,,,) Plus Japanese "4" = death and death = skull

Furthermore, Thomas was used to awaken the Barian Rage within Shark, and if Thomas had parts of his personality as Vector, it could be said that Shark's inner Barian could be responding to the negativity of Vector through Thomas, hence why Tron used Tombo as bait. Or maybe it just worked out like that.

Lastly, I like to brush up on something else. It's safe to say that the Barians are loyal to Barian World regardless of whether they were originally meant for Astral World or not. After acquiring their true memories, they still fought for Barian World and straight up stated this multiple times, particularly Mizar and Alito. Likewise, the Arclights bore these loyal traits. Trey, Quattro, and Quinton were loyal to Tron even after all the shit he gave them. They were also loyal to their counterpart in the second season (Yuma, Shark, Kite) and defended them with their life. During the Barian Onslaught, Quattro died because he was super loyal to Shark and believed he existed in Nasch despite the evidence. Trey and Quinton died in order to make sure Kaito and Yuma got to their destinations safely, and they knew that would be the outcome. Tron was loyal to his cause of revenge, then to Earth during the final boss duel.

OK.

But something's missing. Not Merag and Nasch because they weren't there during the Tron-Emperor fiasco.

Oh, yes GilRag

If the Arclights and Barian have a 1:1 matchup, who does Gilag represent

Obviously it's

the dog

See, the dog is obviously the best Arclight (this is NOT up for debate) and if you take out Nasch, the best Emperor is Gilag for reasons. This aligns. Checkmate.

Also the raccoon. The dog is furry, the raccoon is furry, gilag is furry, it makes sense okay.

So there we have it, each Arclight corresponds to an Emperor after inheritancing the crest, good night

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worstpossibledokis · 7 years

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Embarrassing

I really enjoyed doing the random word ficlets for Ryoga so figured I’d do a bunch for Kaito. This time I got 7 random words from the generator, the middle one really ended up ridiculous and yeah I couldn’t take that one seriously. Just a small collection of random word inspired Kaito interations.

Prompts: Guilt, Brother, Fix, Erotica (omg why), Encryption, Devout and Biter

“You’re embarrassed by your embarrassing older brother who needs to stop hanging around with that embarrassing sap of a duellist and equally embarrassing sap of a Barian King.”

Guilt

“I don’t need your help, Kaito. I can do it myself.”

Haruto is duelling Yuma.

(Haruto is beating Yuma.)

Kaito folds his hands in his lap and tries not to interfere. Haruto has to grow up. He can’t baby him forever. He has to let Haruto to things for himself. It’s easier said than done. If nothing else, Kaito wants to tell Haruto about his misplays. He wants to warn him about Yuma’s traps.

He wants to warn Yuma not to rush in when he can plainly see Haruto has a face down but if Astral couldn’t get that through his head, no will ever will.

But if Kaito can’t watch over Haruto, can’t teach him and help him and baby him, what can he do? What’s his purpose in life if not to be Haruto’s doting big brother? He’d never really wanted to be a hero. He didn’t want to be a duellist really. Not a pro duellist anyway. Haruto is all he’s ever really thought about.

With Yuma thoroughly beaten, and somehow looking excited by it, Haruto folds his arms on Kaito’s knees and gazes up at him. Kaito smiles. He proud of him. He’s an incredible duellist already. He pats Haruto’s head lightly.

“You next,” Haruto says. “Duel me?”

“Haruto, I can’t duel you-”

“If I can beat you, or even just hold my own, then I can prove that I’m strong enough to protect myself and you won’t have to worry anymore, right?” Haruto argues, glaring up at him tearfully. Kaito frowns and Haruto stands, fists clenched at his sides determinedly. “I can do it, Kaito. Because of me, because I couldn’t protect myself, you work so hard, made yourself sick. So sick that you- up there- I won’t be a burden anymore, I promise!”

“Haruto…”

Kaito pulls Haruto into his arms, holding him close and wrapping him up tight. Haruto thinks it was because of him? He’s been holding this inside him? His poor sweet Haruto. Didn’t he understand? It’s an older sibling’s duty to look after their younger sibling.

Brother

The downpour comes out of nowhere. Of course, it’s the one day Kaito is without Orbital.

They’ve been here before though. Just like last time, Chris grabs Kaito’s wrist, flashing a smile and pulling him into a breathless sprint. Kaito’s shirt is going transparent and Chris’ trousers are clinging to him. Chris pulls him down a side road and Kaito follows without question.

After a moment shaking themselves off, at least a little, Chris leads Kaito inside. The doorman glances at them - and their dripping clothes - suspiciously and Chris makes Kaito sign a guestbook before doing the same and leading him up the stairs of few levels.

They end up in an apartment. It’s a bit messy and covered in what look like broken children's toys. Mostly with some robotic elements. Does Chris have a secret workshop here?

A clean white shirt and black trousers are thrown in his face and Kaito blinks. Chris is already changing out of his shirt, throwing it in the laundry basket and pulling on a blue t-shirt.

“Are you eating properly?” Chris says as Kaito changes into the clothes handed to him. “You’re looking thin.”

Kaito frowns and glances back at him, shirt still in hand. He thinks he is. Haruto makes him and Faker have dinner together. Yuma insists he meets with Ryoga at least once a week and they go out for lunch. Kaito finds himself looking anywhere but Chris, glaring down at the shirt to realise it had Thomas’ name sewn into the collar. It’s Thomas’ shirt. Chris is putting him in Thomas’ clothes?

And then it hits him. They’d undressed in front of each other and thought absolutely nothing of it. All Chris found to say about his body was that he looked underfed? He sighs and pulls on the shirt, buttoning it up slowly.

The giddy young days of teenage romance are well and truly over for them, aren’t they?

“You and Haruto should come over to the house,” Chris says. “I’ll drag Thomas from his here and Michael away from Yuma. We should all have dinner together.” Kaito frowns and Chris smiles. “Didn’t I tell you back then? I always saw you and Haruto as my younger brothers too.”

“Have you ever told Thomas this? That might be one of the reasons why he hates me so much.”

Chris frowns thoughtfully. “Huh. That does sound like the sort of thing he’d have a tantrum over, doesn’t it?”

Fix

Orbital has always served him loyally. Ever since Kaito had first created him to help look after Haruto. Orbital has always been, for all intents and purposes, his best (his only) companion (friend).

For all his life, Orbital has protected him and Haruto. He’s gone above and beyond to save them and protect them. Even putting his own life on the line for them. Orbital would have been dead and alone on the moon with him if it hadn’t been for Yuma.

It’s the least Kaito can do to make sure Orbital runs properly, to make sure he’s in the best condition he can be. Orbital has been complaining about his arms not working properly, so Kaito gets inside his body work to have a look. He doesn’t know what Orbital’s been up to but it’s a mess in there. He’s sure it didn’t look this bad when he patched him up after the moon incident.

Kaito let’s out a puff of breath and sits back. This is going to take a few days at this rate.

He fumbles for his tools and a soldering iron is held out to him. He tilts his head and finds Thomas standing here. He frowns but takes it slowly with a muttered thanks. Thomas sits in the chair next to his workbench. Kaito considers asking him to leave so he can work in peace, but Thomas doesn’t say anything so Kaito carries on.

“Do you… know what a transistor is?”

Thomas picked a transistor from Kaito’s tool box and hands it to him. “You think I could live with Chris and Tron if I don’t know stuff like that?”

Kaito supposes that makes sense. Having an extra pair of hands while Orbital’s are out of commission isn’t a bad thing. It’s only when he’s without Orbital he remembers how much he needs him. And if Thomas is here to help him look after his loyal friend, he supposes he can’t complain.

(He could but he’s not going to since Thomas isn’t for once.)

Erotica

When the words ‘this is the most humiliating thing I’ve ever done’ slip out of Ryoga’s mouth, he has Kaito’s undivided attention. Far be it from Kaito to take pleasure in the arrogant asshole doing anything humiliating, but he’s curious. Just what is Ryoga up to?

Rio hands him his headphones. He’s sure Ryoga thinks he looks cool but Kaito thinks they’re ridiculous. Kaito tilts his head as Rio presses play. Vector is grinning, Alit has an odd knowing smile, even Durbe’s lips are curved in a small smile while Mizael looks disgusted and Gilag is pointedly focusing on that idol on his show. Obviously the Barians are up to something.

Yuma looks lost. They’re up to something above Yuma’s head then.

Ryoga folds his legs on the couch, hands gripping the cushions. Kaito tilts his head, watching curiously. The others are watching with various levels of discretion as Ryoga glares at the floor. Yuma and his friends seem as lost as Kaito, although Michael looks a little put off. Something to do with Thomas then.

It’s subtle. Ryoga’s eyes are narrowing, knuckles going white and face slowly growing redder. Until finally, he snaps.

“I can’t!” he cries, throwing off the headphones. “I can’t take it anymore! I can’t do it! That’s torture.”

The others are laughing, mostly, and Ryoga stomps off. He’s grumbling about hating them all and why does Rio even have that? Yuma reaches for the headphones but Durbe snatches them away with a firm no.

After a moment, Kaito takes the headphones. Rio laughs, warning him against it and Mizael mutters about it being one of the strangest things about the modern world. But Kaito puts on the headphones and nods at Rio, who presses play. Kaito frowns at the voice in his ears.

“Is that Thomas?” he says. The Barians and Michael nod. It’s an audio book. He frowns slightly. “Is this that book everyone was talking about? Thirty...” They nod. “That controversial one with all the-” Another nod. “Wow.” He frowns, listening for a moment longer to Thomas’ narration. He could understand why Yuma isn’t allowed and why Ryoga had stomped off. Hundreds of years old and he was still an awkward teenager. He shakes his head and lowers the headphones. “That’s really badly written.”

“Isn’t it,” Rio agrees.

“The sexiest thing about it is his voice,” Vector says and they all nod and laugh as Yuma looks wholly confused.

Encryption

If there’s any proof Astral is a genius on par with Kaito himself, it’s the secrets left in the Emperor's Key. Yuma is letting him investigate the Key further. Now Astral has returned to the Astral World, it’s important they figure out what else the Key can do.

They’re in the pocket dimension within the Emperor’s Key. The airship remains. Yuma floats after him across the key’s body, to the inner sanctum where Astral once investigated the Numbers. The mechanics are still there, even if the Numbers are no longer there.

“It’s weird,” Yuma whispers, floating around behind Kaito. “Being here without Astral… Don’t you think?”

Kaito frowns, glancing at him over his shoulder. Yuma is playing with the gears around them. It is. It’s very weird. Astral had been a part of their lives for such a relatively short amount of time, but he changed them all so much.

“When you came in here,” Yuma says. “You would have beaten him. You would have taken his Numbers. Astral would have disappeared.”

“I’m… glad I didn’t,” Kaito says.

The Key’s mechanics make no sense. Kaito runs his fingers over them, trying to figure out some sort of pattern. Some sort of words. Anything. It doesn’t make sense. He might have been able to best Astral in a duel but Astral is certainly getting payback now.

“I miss him,” Yuma says.

Kaito nods. “He’s make sense of this Key. Here, you were a part of him every now and again, you have a look. And if you tell me it says something about hope, wishes, friendship or kattobing I will leave you locked in this key to be some poor unfortunate soul’s duel adviser a hundred years from now.”

“Do you really think I’m good enough to help someone else duel now?”

Devout

Mizael and Thomas would appear to be friends.

Kaito found it quite a surprise when he first sees them. Thomas and Mizael walking together, dressed up nicely as they head towards the gates of the Kamishiro mansion. They seemed to be talking rather animatedly. Neither looked grumpy or haughty for once. Kaito doesn’t think he’s seen either of them looking so a peace before.

He doesn’t think much of it. It’s odd, he didn’t think they’d be each other’s type, but there’s nothing offensive about it. He doesn’t think about it much at all until one day when Mizael is lying with his head in Kaito’s lap, both pointedly ignoring each other and the position, that he notices a cross around Mizael’s neck.

Kaito frowns and reaches for the cross, taking it absently in his hands, turning it over slowly in his fingers. Thomas’ name is engraved in script. He knows why. He knows the name engraved on Thomas’ cross isn’t his but a woman’s. Chris never said if it’s their mother’s but Kaito assumes it is. He can’t imagine Thomas got it from his father.

“Thomas been teaching you about religion these days?” Kaito says.

Mizael nods a little, touching the cross. “He is surprisingly principled for a man of his… outward attitude. It’s… something I understand. The world these days, there is so little belief. So little… magic, I suppose it would be called still. Having Thomas show me there are still people who believe in something more is rather therapeutic.”

“That certainly makes sense,” he says. “Do you believe what he believes?”

“I’m not sure,” Mizael replies. “I find the principals of his faith make sense. And there is something reassuring about having a community who believes as you do, and believing there is someone otherworldly watching over you. However, having died and experience what I did as a Barian and with Don Thousand, I’m not sure I can believe that. Many of things I once believed in became lies. Why wouldn’t anything else I put my faith in?”

“I’m here,” Kaito says quietly. “I’m not a lie.”

Mizael wrinkles his nose and sits up. “That’s enough of that. You’ll embarrass Haruto.”

“I’m fine,” Haruto calls from where he’s watching TV.

“No you’re not,” Mizael says, getting up and stalking off. “You’re embarrassed by your embarrassing older brother who needs to stop hanging around with that embarrassing sap of a duellist and equally embarrassing sap of a Barian King.”

Biter

“If you don’t let go, I’m going to bite you,” Ryoga snarls.

“Do try,” Kaito replies, gripping Ryoga’s wrists tighter. “I’ll put my hand inside your chest again.”

Both are empty threats. Durbe is sitting nearby, duelling quietly on a tabletop with Haruto. If there was any kind of actual threat, Durbe would have stepped in. Kaito learnt his lesson not to get into fights with Durbe very quickly. But Durbe sit quietly with Haruto, ignoring their squabbles.

They’re in Heartland Park’s abandoned cardshop. It was for Mr Heartland’s duellists. Kaito hadn’t realised it was still being stocked until the Arclights came sauntering out with lots of new rare cards and Faker said he’d given them permission to raid the place. Ryoga and Kaito headed down the next morning with Haruto and Durbe.

Unfortunately, the cards they play are in the same pack for the first time in their lives. Not just general support, but Shark and Galaxy monsters in the same packs. And there’s a new Rank-Up Magic they’re both after.

There’s a sharp pain in Kaito’s hand and he jerks back.

Not such an empty threat then.

“You actually bit me?! What are you, five?”

“I wonder why your mind instantly goes to V when it comes to biting?” Ryoga laughs, gnashing his teeth. “Something you want to admit to, Kaito?”

“You-”

Ryoga lunges for the last pack on the counter only to pause. It’s gone. The pack is gone. He frowns and Kaito scowls. Plastic rustles and they turn. Durbe and Haruto have the pack, spreading out their treasure on the table top.

“Look, Kaito, Shark,” Haruto laughs. “Look at how many rare cards I got. Durbe must be my lucky charm. Is this the Rank-Up you guys were looking for?”

“I think it is, Haruto,” Durbe says with a smile that reminds them a just little too much of Vector. “Make sure they give you everything you want for it, won’t you? You have to see who deserves it more.”

#Zexal #kaito tenjo #Ryoga Kamishiro #haruto tenjo #mizael #and others like chris and thomas is in like half but curse you limited tags #yuma's there too a lot #i really like doing this random word generator stuff #my zexal fics #random word ficlets

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