#zexalmonth2023

[zexalmonth]

Zexal Month 2023's coming up! From August 1st to the 31st, we’ll be celebrating our 7th Zexal Month! We're doing a Tarot theme!

All our prompts are based on the 23 Major Arcana! You can follow the written prompts or just draw something based on the actual arcana for the day!

For those who are with us for the first time, we have prompts with some suggestions attached to them. You can focus on characters, concepts or OCs, as long as it’s somehow Zexal related and we'll reblog it if it's tagged with #zexal month 2023. In addition to the daily prompts, we have a list of alternate prompts at the end of the list! We hope you have fun with it.

Week 1: Welcome to the Kingdom

1st: The Fool upright | Beginnings, innocence, spontaneity, a free spirit The king calls you all to introduce yourselves. Hello, fools! Who are you and how did you get into Zexal? 2nd: The Magician upright | Manifestation, resourcefulness, power, inspired action Duel monsters are the manifestation of the soul, so show us your favourite duel monster or card! Alternatively, show us your favourite Numbers Card! 3rd: The High Priestess upright | Intuition, sacred knowledge, the subconscious mind Music can do miraculous things to the subconscious mind. You can make something based on the soundtrack or themes/motifs you like. As a challenge, put on one of the Zexal soundtracks and try to make something before the song ends! Show it to us! 4th: The Empress upright | Femininity, beauty, nature, nurturing, abundance The empress summons you to talk about someone you truly care for. What makes your favourite character your favourite? If you have an OC, feel free to talk about them! Also, we love women, so if you want, show some female characters appreciation!

Week 2: Secrets of the Royal Court

7th- The Emperor upright | Authority, establishment, structure, a father figure All hail the barian emperors! Show us a piece about our favourite alien warlords and/or Don Thousand. You can also show us a non-barian Character as a Barian or something else Barian-related. Alternatively, an upright emperor also represents a father figure. Kazama? Faker? Tron? An OC or self-insert? Show us daddy issues something inspired by them! 8th- The Hierophant reversed | Personal beliefs, freedom, challenging the status quo The reversed hierophant means freedom and non-uniformity, so it’s dress up day! Put a Zexal character (or OC) in a new set of clothes they would/wouldn’t wear! Historically accurate clothes for Barians’ past lives? Mini skirt IV? Droite in her wrestler attire? Astral in a tutu? Just show us fashion!  9th- The Lovers upright | Love, harmony, relationships, values alignment, choices Time to spread the love! OTPs? OT3s? BROTPs? Character x Reader? Character x OC? The lovers card is all about ‘belonging’. What relationships do these characters have?    Draw us your ships, friendships or your favourite group of characters (Number’s Club, Sanyuushi, Arclights etc.) enjoying each others’ company. You can also show us the families of your favourite characters and create relatives for them if you prefer.  10th- The Chariot reversed | Self-discipline, opposition, lack of direction Sure, we have a “plot” but Zexal has lots of filler episodes and fun, zany detours! Show what sort of sports or hobbies the characters would get involved with in their spare time. 11th- Justice upright | Justice, fairness, truth, cause and effect, law Time to put a Zexal character on trial! What crimes are they charged for? What is the verdict? What is the punishment?  Feel free to get silly with this (Phoenix Wright, anyone?) or be as grim/morbid as you like. Will Vector finally pay for his transgressions? Up to you!

Week 3: Into the Woods

14th- The Hermit upright | Soul-searching, introspection, being alone, inner guidance As you are banished into the woods for your hot takes, you’re able to reflect on a long-forgotten friend. Make something based on your favourite obscure or minor character. Give those one-shot duelists some love! 15th- The Wheel of Fortune upright | Good luck, life cycles, destiny, a turning point Let’s just put your favorite characters on a game show. Can you imagine a Family Feud with Arclights vs Tenjos? Does anyone get lucky?  What sort of entertainment (outside of card games) do you think you’d see in Heartland City? 16th- Strength upright | Strength, courage, persuasion, influence, compassion Fight! Fight! Fight! In a contest of pure strength, who would win? Who do you NOT want to face in hand-to-hand combat. Who would you duel? If you want to keep yourself out of the fight, show two characters in a fight/duel! Bonus points if they haven’t canonically fought before.  17th- The Hanged Man upright | Pause, surrender, letting go, new perspectives A change of perspective! Is there any character you didn't like at the start, but ended up loving, or vice versa? Who is it and why?  Alternatively, what relationships do you wish we saw? What interactions did Zexal deprive us from? 18th- Temperance upright | Balance, moderation, patience, purpose Sometimes, your friends get on your nerves and you have to be patient with them. But it’s really hard when they’re mostly middle schoolers. How do you think characters would spend a Boys/Girls’ Night Out? What about a slumber party instead?

Week 4: Exile

21st- The Devil reversed | Releasing limiting beliefs, exploring dark thoughts, detachment Show us your villains or your favourite character(s) as a villain. Does their deck change as well? 22nd- The Tower upright | Sudden change, upheaval, chaos, revelation, awakening Show us your favourite punching bag hurting emotionally (whether from a death, tragedy, breakup or something else), in physical agony, or just having a good cry. Zexal is no stranger to angst, after all (we got how many death montages at the end of the series?).  If there are triggers or graphic themes/visuals, remember to tag them! 23rd- The Moon reversed | Release of fear, repressed emotion, inner confusion Some parts of Zexal were confusing and some plot points were forgotten. What do you wish you could have seen MORE of? Alternatively, is there something you didn’t like in Zexal? What and why? Show us what you would have preferred/thought was interesting! Explore a scenario that could have drastically altered Zexal. e.g. What if Kaito died of space cancer at the end of season 1? 24th- The Star upright | Hope, faith, purpose, renewal, spirituality Let’s change the tone of this week. Zexal is full of mythology and spirituality. Show us some of your favourite themes/lore in the show!   25th- The Sun upright | Positivity, fun, warmth, success, vitality The sun represents warm feelings as much as it represents treasure/wealth. Give your favourite character a cursed weapon or treasure. How do they react? What do they do with it? If you want a challenge, grab an image of Yuma’s room and pick a treasure/object. Draw it and/or give it a story. III definitely would love to hear you talk about it! 

Week 5: Court of the Dead

28th- Death upright | Endings, change, transformation, transition How’s the future for Zexal characters? Show us what you think a Zexal character (or several) are doing post-series or how they look when they grow up? 29th- Judgement upright | Judgement, rebirth, inner calling, absolution Zexal ended a long time ago but it’s time to give it a bit of new life. It’s crossover day! How would a Zexal character look/act in the world of the fandom you're into now (or vice versa)? 30th- The World upright | Completion, integration, accomplishment, travel Scenery appreciation! (Tell us what’s your favorite location in Zexal). Alternatively, show us a location where the Zexal characters you like would go on vacation or for an adventure. 31st-  The Deck Summarise your Zexal Month 2023! What did you like? What didn’t you like? Any shout-outs you want to give?  

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Alternate prompts

As per usual, alternate prompts are meant for ANY day and you can do as many or as few alternate prompts as you like. I can’t stop you if you want to do prompt 10) thirty-one times during Zexal month. 

Holding back/recklessness

Manipulation/poor planning

Dreams/delusions

Age-swap/younger days

Insecurities 

Parallel worlds / Fused world

“But there is only one bed…”

“Can you explain why I have to bail you guys out of jail AGAIN?”

A heist!

Middle school/High school AU

Lunchtime shenanigans

Fantasy/Fairytale AU

Hygge: A very strong feeling of cosiness, of a special moment, alone or with friends, where you feel utterly content, secure, reassured, comforted, and even kinship if you’re among loved ones. 

Verschlimmbessern: To fix something but only make it worse

Backpfeifengesicht: A face badly in need of a fist.

Body Swap/Soul swap

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As usual, feel free to do whichever prompts you like in whatever order you want. These prompts are a guideline, rather than a hard rule, and you can make art, write fanfiction, make amvs/animatics or just talk about it! Just do what you can manage! No need to do all of them if you don’t want to.

Also, we have a new mod on the team to join me and Iris. Welcome mod Fla!

We can't wait for this August to see what you share with the fandom! Please share this around and spread the Zexal love!

Love Mod Pyra

#Zexal #ygo zexal #yugioh zexal #zexal month #Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal #zexal month 2023 #Zexalmonth #zexalmonth2023

[itsana004]

Zexal Month 2023 - Day 2 - Favourite Number Card

"I summon Number 86! Heroic Champion Rhongomyniad!"

My boy was robbed!!!! I REPEAT

MY. BOY. WAS. FREKIN. ROBBED

@zexalmonth

#zexal #ygo zexal #yugioh zexal #gauche zexal #nistro zexal #zexal month 2023 #day 2 #please don't let this flop #it took me a week to make this please- 🙏 #zexalmonth2023 #zexal month #my art tag

[ruikamo]

Since the prompts for @zexalmonth are based on tarot cards (which is super cool) I thought it would be fun to draw them like cards too! I tried to emulate the stats in the Anime with the frame. Also I don't think anyone would want to but you could theoretically use them as a phone background because of the canvas size!

Todays Card is "The Empress"! I wanted to draw Rio, because she has one of my favourite Yu-Gi-Oh! Designs ever. I also like how she and Shark look related without being copies of each other. I debated wheather I should do color or black and white but I feel like it's more dramtic this way^^ I hope you like it! #zexal month 2023

#zexal month 2023 #zexalmonth2023 #yugioh zexal #zexal #zexal month #yugioh zexal rio #rio castle #rio kamishiro #yugioh #yugioh fanart #yugioh tarot #ruikamoart #fanart

[thesilverlock]

| 𝑍𝑒𝒳𝑎𝑙  𝑀𝑜𝑛𝓉𝒽 |

Hygge; - ’A very special moment (...) where you feel utterly content, secure, reassured, and comforted (...) amongst a loved one. ’ 〖 Jey / Astral 〗

This fanart was more so on a whim, I wanted to draw a more fluffy and happy golden kind of just for the sake of it lmao Luckily there was a prompt that befit that!

Hope you all have a very nice rest of Zexal Month! Thank you for another great one! 🩵✨

@zexalmonth

#| saved ✧ | #| astral ✧ | #zexal #yugioh zexal #astral (zexal) #astral yugioh #| my art ♡ | #| my oc ❦ | #| goldenshipping ✧◦༌ | #(( I was trying to experiment and do something different with the rendering and you can’t even tell lmFAO )) #zexal lmonth #ZexalMonth2023 #zexal month 2023 #(( I saw trees where the leaves had already changed a few days ago at a park and got inspired ✨ I am so ready for fall aksjhdhj ))

[voicesofchaos]

Zexal Month - The Emperor

I am going to be very simple for this one. To honor the Barian Emperors I am going to post more recent cards that everybody might not be aware of that pay tribute to them and have amazing art! I am showing restraint here and posting all of Shark's newer cards like N.As.H. Knight. @zexalweek

#Zexal Month #Zexal Month 2023 #ZexalMonth #ZexalMonth2023 #Yugioh Zexal #Zexal #Barians

[thesilverlock]

| 𝑍𝑒𝒳𝑎𝑙  𝑀𝑜𝑛𝓉𝒽 |

The Royal Court; Day 9 - ’The Lovers’ 〖 Jey/Astral 〗

If I am enabled to gush about my one and true ship, I certainly just have to sdghfjk Goldenshipping is my silly little obsession ;v; I lobv themm. OC x Canon or not, they are the truest otp of my heart 💙🩵🩷💜 cringe perhaps I may be, but free~

@zexalmonth

#zexalmonth2023 #zexal oc #zexal #astral (zexal) #astral (yugioh) #astral ygo #yugioh zexal oc #| saved ✧ | #| my art ♡ | #| my oc ❦ | #(( I ended up rushing parts of it and I think ya can tell but sghjfk but! I like it! ^^ (for now lmao) )) #| goldenshipping ✧◦༌ |

[thesilverlock]

| 𝑍𝑒𝒳𝑎𝑙  𝑀𝑜𝑛𝓉𝒽 |

EXILE; Day 22 - ’The Tower’ 〖 Jey / ᶜᵒᴿᴿᵘᵖᵗ Astral 〗

SURPRISE! A sequel, with a twist! Dark side of the Lovers card~ Doubling this with my Year of OTP prompts too! Kinda a clash of “You’re the only one I could turn to for help” and AU of Choice!

Allow me to debut my newest undercurrent obsession au~

Basically "what if sh!t went down and Astral became fully corrupted”. Put loosely ssfdgfh. More on that in due time~

But right now I can at least answer this; How does Jey fit in to it?

Well, Astral kinda needs Jey to plain survive because these dark energies are not 'settled'. The corruption will overwhelm and kill Astral if left alone. It needs monitoring and regulating so that the Imbalance doesn’t cause a fundamental breakdown. (hello necessity for the literal Son of Balance~)

As for Jey himself — we know that once you have his loyalty (especially love), nothin' else matters. He’s not ever been fully committed to Astral World, and is sure no stranger to rebellion. And then you’re going to have the person he cares about most in the world ask him to run away together, and leave all else behind…in smoke~? It’s not even a choice.

So there you have it. New villain(?) power couple in the house yo.

@zexalmonth

#Dark Astral #| astral ✧ | #Eclipsed Astral #| my art ♡ | #| my oc ❦ | #zexal #| saved ✧ | #zexalmonth2023 #zexal oc #| goldenshipping ✧◦༌ | #yearofotp #(( So full disclosure ; I made a big dumb. #I somehow mixed up the meaning to yesterday’s prompt with today’s. jSHDGFG #I thought *The Tower* was for the villain AUs 😭 #(( BUT BY THE TIME I checked and realized - I was already done... #Cause I’d planned this whole thing with the Lovers card and this to be the same image - but one as evil and one as good #and put the background together to match The Tower’s card and everything 🫠 #jhsgdhsj Oh well~ )) #(( that gif is also supposed to be Way bigger and HD but tumblr hates me )) #| Starless AU | ✶ º ༌

[ruikamo]

The Magician is todays card of @zexalmonth! We were asked about our favourite Card and honestly I don't really have favourite Cards I think... I tend to just like the Decks of my favourite characters...

However I wanted to draw gagaga girl because her design is so cute! She also fits the Magician card quite well I think. (I guess gagaga magician would've been even better but I just really wanted to draw her!) #zexal month 2023

#zexal month 2023 #zexalmonth2023 #yugioh zexal #gagaga girl #ruikamoart #yugioh #yugioh card #yugioh zexal fanart #zexal month #yugioh tarot #ygo #yugioh gagaga girl #tarot #fanart

[ruikamo]

We're slowly reaching the end of @zexalmonth. Today's card is Judgement and the prompt was about crossovers.

I didn't draw a card today because I had this idea for a crossover that I REALLY wanted to do but it just didn't fit on a vertical format.

Kind of funny how in the prompt it says that zexal ended a long time ago and to bring it a little bit of new life we should think of crossovers with fandoms we're into at the moment... And the thing I'm into is a band that disbanded over 50 years ago... mission failed I guess? ^^'

This was so much fun though! I tried to kinda match the expressions and hand poses (though I had to switch George's cigarette for a duel card because shark is too young to smoke XD)

Is there an award for the most random crossover? Because I feel like this would be a contender...^^

If you like, tell me which Beatles Songs would fit the characters the best! #zexal month 2023

#zexal #zexal month 2023 #yugioh zexal #zexalmonth2023 #ruikamoart #ygo zexal #yugioh #yugioh yuma #yugioh astral #yugioh kite #yugioh kaito #yugioh shark #kite tenjo #kaito tenjo #reginald castle #yuma tsukumo #beatles #yugioh fanart #paul mccartney #john lennon #george harrison #ringo starr #the beatles #fanart

[ruikamo]

Todays card for @zexalmonth is the Chariot. We were suppoesed to imagine what kind of other hobbies the characters would have and I think something like ice skating would fit Tori quite well!

I enjoyed drawing the pose for this one very much. I hope you like it.

On a side note, does anyone else feel like people are too hard on Tori? Yes she might be a very passive character, but I think for someone who doesn't really duel she is still quite involved in the action and of course super supportive. I guess it's not the best writing of a female character (which we experience quite too often sadly with yugioh) but I think you can critizise the writing without being mean to poor Tori XD (sorry for the little rant) #zexal month 2023

#zexal month 2023 #zexalmonth2023 #yugioh zexal #ruikamoart #yugioh #yugioh zexal tori #tori meadows #fanart #yugioh fanart #zexal #ygo zexal #tarot #yugioh tarot

[ruikamo]

Alright! todays card for @zexalmonth is the Hierophant and the prompt is about Outfits and Outfits changes.

With how much Quattro talks about fans and stuff like that I just knew I had to draw him in k-pop/singer inspired attire.

Honestly without context the cards I'm drawing look sooo random ^^' But I'm having a lot of fun with them. I think it would be cool to print them out for myself.

Hm too bad the hirophants numer is 5 not 4... #zexal month 2023

#zexal month 2023 #zexalmonth2023 #yugioh zexal #yugioh #yugioh zexal quattro #yugioh zexal four #kpop #yugioh zexal fanart #yugioh fanart #zexal #zexal month #thomas arclight #ruikamoart #tarot #yugioh tarot #fanart

[barian-run-amok]

ZEXAL MONTH 2023 - 14th Day

@zexalmonth

the fuzzy bunny sensei that cuddled me very nicely & the feral rabid hare sensei that bit my ass and hissed at me

#i swear this is the last zexal month sensei i'll be doing #i swear. for eel. on cod. #ygo #yugioh #zexal #yugioh zexal #ukyo kitano #mr kay #zexal month 2023 #zexalmonth2023 #art #pixel art

[itsana004]

Zexal Month 2023 - Day 1 - The Fool

Hello everyone, I'm Ana

Yeah that's all you have to know about me

@zexalmonth

#zexal #ygo zexal #yugioh zexal #droite #dextra #dolowa #droite zexal #dextra zexal #zexal month 2023 #day 1 #zexalmonth2023 #zexal month

[ruikamo]

Todays Card of @zexalmonth is "Death"! And the prompts are all about the future! When zexal month started I thought I didn't have any OCs... BUT I went through my old zexal week posts from 2019 and found this one!: https://ruikamo.tumblr.com/post/186232279915/zexalweek-5 She's supposed to be the future daughter of Yuma and Kotori, so she fits the prompt perfectly ^^ I'm glad I was able to draw her a little bit cuter than the original drawing :) She STILL doesn't have a name though... Help me out if you have any ideas ^^ #zexal month 2023

#zexal month 2023 #yu gi oh #yugioh zexal #zexalmonth2023 #zexal #zexal month #yugioh oc #yugioh zexal oc #tarot #yugioh fanart #ruikamoart #yugioh tarot #tarot cards #fanart

[voicesofchaos]

Zexal Month - The High Priestess

Fell behind on Zexal Month as this one took some time and you know life is complicated. So in the past I made a super long remix of Zexal Sound Mix which can be listened to HERE. So this year I wanted to scale down to a shorter remix. So I decided instead of focusing on the awesome background music in Zexal itself, I wanted to celabrate how awesome the music in Duel Links is and how much it pays respect to the original music! So please enjoy this short medley of Zexal music in Duel Links! @zexalmonth

#Zexal Month #Zexal Month 2023 #ZexalMonth #ZexalMonth2023 #Yugioh Zexal #Zexal #Music #Youtube

[thesilverlock]

ZEXAL MONTH; Day 1 - ’The Fool’ 〖 hello hi~ 〗

Hello all~! I am Blue, your local glow bby & ink boi obsessor, oc fanatic-er, and occasional Zexal Meme-er. I make fanart, write a little, chat with a few awesome peeps on discord, and mentally am something to do with this show constantly. Been swimming in a long simmering Zexal Soup for about the full 12 years now. Finally got back properly into the online community in 2018! We don’t talk about before lmao Very happy and excited to be a part of another great Zexal Month~! 💙🩵✨ These days you’ll find two moods on this blog, pretty much summed up here;

@zexalmonth

#(( a bit quick on the draw but I’m on European hours and ahead of everyone and I was excited afgshdj )) #Zexal Month #ZexalMonth2023 #(( genuinely can’t recall if that “Sailor Yuma” has ever seen the light of day on this blog LMAO )) #(( HAPPY ZEXAL MONTH~! ))