The Way Astral Develops Emotions Through The Show Is One Of My Favourite Aspects Of Zexal (if Not My

YGO Zexal Keyswap AU (AKA an excuse for me to engage in Aztecshipping) (I only thought this out through the WDC arc and even then there's still gaps-)(thanks to my friend usagi for helping me fill in some of these gaps)

(This is a long infodump, look out-)

-While looking for the interdimensional portal, but before adding Kazuma to the team, Byron and Faker made a trip out to a hypothetical location where they thought it would be. Faker didn't find what he was looking for, but Byron did get the Emperor's Key, so that's neat.

-Upon returning home briefly to see his younger sons, Byron gave the Key to Michael, figuring he'd love this kind of artifact.

-(Michael did in fact love it. Little nerd.)

-Byron then returned to his research, and then vanished. Michael and Thomas then end up in the orphanage, with Michael safeguarding what items he has left to remember his father (The Aztec Mask Golem card and the Key).

-Flash forward a few years, Michael is thirteen now, and due to a chain of events I have not worked out yet, the Key is activated and Michael meets Astral.

-(Michael is overjoyed at the interdimensional alien tied to the Key, if a bit annoyed that Astral's amnesiac state means he can't tell him much.)

-Michael also already knows how to play Duel Monsters already, but Astral still tries to backseat duel.

-Insert some Number hunting at the orphanage here. Michael's 'starter' Number is Chronomaly Machu Mech, and the first one he gets off someone else is Shark Drake.

-Eventually, when Michael is fourteen, Christopher/V finally comes back to collect Michael and Thomas from the orphanage. After everyone is reunited at Heartland, Tron performs the rituals to place the crests on Thomas and Michael, then requests that Michael return the Key to him.

-Michael refuses, not willing to sacrifice Astral, and Thomas, realizing that his baby brother and his invisible alien friend aren't safe in this situation, creates an opportunity for Michael to flee by picking a fight with V.

-Michael flees with the Key, only to end up breaking down later because he's now completely separated from his family, so soon after he'd thought he'd have them all back.

-Enter the Tsukumos, who let Michael stay with them for a while while he sorts himself out. He and Yuma start making friends.

-Michael is also encouraged to start attending school due to his age, and he tests into the first year of junior high despite being old enough for second year. This means he's now in the same year as Shark and Rio. This won't be awkward-

--Oh, wait, the whole situation with Shark, Rio, and IV happens. Things get awkward with Shark and Michael having to share a class, especially since Michael can't ask his brother what happened.

-Michael also continues Number hunting, though he's now racing his own brothers and Kaito for Numbers.

-Meanwhile, Yuma has also been getting inexplicably better at duelling? Despite not having Astral to help him? Odd, but okay.

-We finally catch up to where the series would have started. Michael is now fifteen and in second year of junior high, and Yuma has started at junior high as a first year. Finally, Michael and Yuma can be at the same school-

-Yuma also starts getting a bit concerned about the Key and Astral, but doesn't say much about why.

-Number hunting continues. Kaito has a WTF moment when he realizes that the guy scrambling for Numbers is Chris's younger brother

-WDC starts! Michael gets himself entered just fine, Yuma is also remarkably on the ball with entering!

-Michael and IV have at least one run in, then late on the second day Yuma and Michael witness V kidnapping Haruto. Michael only admits that the kidnapper was Christopher before he uses his crest to warp back to the Arclight family hideout in hopes of talking them down.

-But...Yuma is here. Wasn't he with Kaito a moment ago?

-Yeah. About that. Tron didn't like losing a pawn when Michael fled, and decided to just manipulate a new pawn instead of deal with an unwilling participant. And wouldn't you know it, Yuma happened to lose his father to Faker's betrayal, desperately wants to duel, and is kind of gullible, so Tron decided he'd make a good enough target, so long as he doesn't find out about the depths of the plan.

-Yuma got to learn to duel, is promised he'd find out more about what happened to his father, pretty much everything he wanted. Tron also convinces Yuma that the Key is influencing Michael like what the Numbers do to most people, so Yuma is convinced that he needs to help Michael by getting the Key.

-(The only thing keeping Yuma from just grabbing the Key sooner is the fact that Michael keeps it physically on his person as much as humanly possible, a habit picked up in the orphanage since leaving your stuff laying around there was a good way to get your stuff stolen.)

-How did Yuma get there before Michael did? Turns out, Tron decided to crest Yuma too, on the promise that it would let him control Numbers safely and protect him from having his soul taken by people like Kaito. Which was true, but conveniently left out what would happen if he lost while controlling a Number.

-In any case, Yuma, IV, and Michael all spend several minutes trying to convince each other to leave and back down before Kaito finally shows up via Orbital hangglider and forces a duel

-Insert Michael and Kaito VS IV and Yuma duel here. Yuma's signature Number is, of course, Hope.

-Duel ends, IV and Yuma flee, Haruto is returned with Yuma never being told what Tron wanted with Haruto in the first place. Tron claims his plan was simply to try and lure in Faker.

-Michael and Astral are horrified at finding out about Yuma, and end up sheltering with Shark for the night instead of returning to the Tsukumos. It's a good opportunity for Michael to talk to his classmate about what's happening/ask Shark about his interactions with IV and Yuma.

-(Shark got Leviathan Dragon instead of Shark Drake BTW. Michael still has Shark Drake, and IV was tasked with delivering Leviathan Dragon since Yuma wouldn't have wanted to hurt Shark.)

-The next day, Yuma contacts Michael and asks to talk. Talking turns into Yuma trying to get the Key in an attempt to save Michael from its assumed influence, which leads to a duel.

-Yuma finally tells Michael what Tron's been telling him and how he just wants to help/find out what happened to his father, Michael in turn tells Yuma the truth about what Tron wants/what the crest will do if Yuma loses while powerful Numbers are in play.

-They then find a way to loophole the duel's end so no one goes comatose, probably by having Yuma replace Hope with a Number not powerful enough to trip the crest.

-Flash forward a bit to the finals! Michael ends up having to face IV during the course of the finals, during which Tron taunts both of them at once. Michael wins, but is upset knowing his brother will go comatose.

-IV's last message to Michael before leaving is to tell him to keep going.

-IV: "Give Tron hell, Michael, Astral."

-Yuma saves Shark from Tron's influence as per canon, thus revealing that he's defected from Tron's side and knows what's truly up. (Tron's intention was for Shark to beat Yuma and let Yuma be cast aside once his role was done.)

-Michael and Yuma end up facing off one more time before the final. No playing around or loopholes this time, winner faces Tron and they both know it.

-Michael wins, and ends up crying as Yuma goes comatose as a result. However, Yuma does give Michael two new cards before slipping under: his signature monster, Hope, and Chronomaly Atlandis.

-Finally, Michael faces Tron and he's not happy. His brothers and Yuma are in comas, so many people have been hurt by Tron's scheming, and all Michael ever wanted was to have his family back.

-They duel. It's a mess, with Tron and Michael both giving their all, and culminates with Michael and Astral going Zexal.

-(Their Zexal form takes a lot of visual cues from Michael's gladiator outfit from the canon Yuma vs Michael duel, btw.)

-Michael wins, and when Faker takes all the Numbers, Michael attempts to save his father from being dragged in.

-Tron, realizing how far he's gone, releases all the affected souls and lets go of Michael, letting himself be dragged in to at least let Michael live.

-Seeing his father be taken away by Faker for a second time utterly breaks Michael. He decides to enact vengeance on Faker himself, storming off to the tower in a fit of rage, only to be intercepted by Yuma.

-After the breakdown plays out, the two decide to go in together to face Faker.

-Shark and Kaito end up turning up too, with the four all tag teaming against Faker.

-The gang wins, enter the second half of the series with the Barians. The only thing I have planned for the back half so far is Alito shows up and starts trying to flirt with Yuma, resulting in Michael getting jealous for 'some reason'. (He is oblivious to just how he feels about Yuma.)

YGO Zexal x Ben 10 AU concept

Here's is one of various drawings of my project of a crossover AU between Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal and Ben 10. In this universe, Yuma is a half-anodite plumber and Astral is a Naljian.

If you have any idea of lore, leave in the comments, I will read it don't worry.

@tragicvampireromanceisland following up on your previous Disear comic

💚💜 An in-between-of the two panels XD

Here's where I got the audio btw lol

YGO Zexal x Ben 10 AU: Shark and Rio

The 4th drawing of my AU ( Omnizexal) is here, now presenting the Kamishiro siblings as Aliens:

Shark as a Piscciss Volann: I decided to make him more shark-like, but retaining the traits of a common member of this species

Rio as a Necrofriggian: for her I took another path, since Big Chill's design in Omniverse sucks, I decided to inspire in another artists works to make a more UAF like design for her, and she looks like those mikd'ity necrofriggians that appeared in UA

Casey Jones looking after some Kids who wears Masks and are Outcasts just like him probably...

(I could add More Masked Characters from Cartoons and Video Games but that would take Too Long...)

the arclights go on splash mountain

Thinking on show you guys some of the designs that I did for this AU, like the akumatized Galar gym leaders

Back in 2020 I did a Miraculous x Pokémon Swsh AU and since there I've been working on it. There, Marinette and her friends go to the Galar region to learn about it and watch the gym challenge, everything goes well until they discovered that Hawk Moth was also there, looking for mysterious relics that would cause/stop an apocalypse

I was heavily inspired by the 2nd and 3rd seasons of miraculous, other fanfictions also helped me to get an inspiration for my story like Scarlet Lady AU (@zoe-oneesama) and CN Akuma's (@10bendog), I'm very happy to talk about it here because it's a project that I've been working for 4 years and now I have the opportunity to talk about it

The links for read it in Portuguese:

Wattpad:

Wattpad

Miraculous World Galar: A Lenda Da Espada E Do Escudo

Uma viagem inesperada para a região de Galar acaba virando a vida de Marinette e seus amigos de cabeça para baixo, agor...

AO3:

English version is also available in AO3

The arclight family in Ben 10 omniverse style ( or at least I tried):

I Finally finished my drawings of how the Arclights would look in Omniverse artstyle, who are also their human designs in my YGO Zexal x Ben 10 AU since here they're aliens ( lenopans to be more specific, and these aliens can shapeshift so...):

V / Quinton ( Christopher):

IV/ Quattro ( Thomas):

III/ Trey ( Michael):

( his Bill Chipher t-shirt lol 😆)

And Finally Vetrix/ Tron ( Byron):

Some explanations about MWG ( Miraculous x Pokémon Swsh AU)

Since October I've been talking about this AU and there's some interesting things to say about the lore:

• Basically it takes place between season 3 and 4, so Marinette is already the guardian here but she don't know so much about what what she does now.

• For Swsh events, it takes place between the events of the mainstory of the game with some alterations: Rose is desperate on solving a millenary problem of the region that involves the king's legend and to stop Eternatus from start the darkest day, he needs Leon's help for complete his plans, but these plans are way more twisted than the rest of the cast would imagine...

• Gabe wants to find the legendary relics that's supposed to be there, he believes that they would have power to stop/start an apocalypse ( and obviously he would use them to take the miraculous of Ladybug and Chat Noir)

• And Yes, Galar has a Miracle Box containing its own miraculous, but it's location is a mystery ( for now)

• Despite not being in the League, Marinette and her friends are actively watching the matches between the Gym Leaders and sometimes even interacting with them

And I think that's was all that could say about it for now, I love to talk about this AU and was basically my life in this 2 months ( September and October), I'm so happy to return with this project after 4 years ^-^