You are asking a three year old girl to protect the spirit world all on her own.
I totally get the part that she’s going to be a future Signer and you’re her dragon, but come on. There are plenty of other people to pick from who can see spirits that can protect the spirit world and are much stronger and older. Hell, ask Judai to protect the spirit world because he’s your king. It’s his job to protect you, not Ruka’s.
Honestly, I would just leave out the part of the spirit world being in danger from Earthbound Gods and just let Ruka be a Signer who can see spirits. If what I remember about 5D’s is right, Ruka doesn’t do much anyways and the spirit world isn’t in that much danger as Ancient Fairy Dragon is making it out to be.
I get the feeling this could’ve gone in an interesting direction had Tomioka kept going on as head writer. Maybe see why Ruka ended up with that big a tie to the Spirit World, and have the whole “Rua brought me back” thing expanded on to maybe even give him his birthmark a lot earlier than they did. Would’ve been good to see the Spirit World with 90% less monkeys, at least.
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Ruka
Oh God, where do I begin? It’s kinda hard to give a proper character study on Ruka because, ultimately, she wasn’t all that important to the centre story, but let’s at least try.
Ancient Fairy Dragon - Her signature monster, and protector of one of the Spirit Worlds that Ruka agreed to aid her in. Field control and swarm to aid in manipulating the situation. But with so little duelling from her, it’s hard to make much out from this or her deck.
Rua - She really did seem to have a dependency on her brother to do a lot of the legwork, though initially it did make some sense as she became worn down extremely easily, which frequently left her housebound. The problem came later when she became physically tougher (or so it seemed) and still had this need for Rua to do the legwork for her. Suggesting an unwillingness to really apply herself which I truly hope is just down to her being unused to it.
Spirit World - This was the core of her story, and not that well done. Aged 3, she agreed to aid Ancient Fairy Dragon in protecting this particular Spirit World, but the magnitude of the responsibility was more than she could take at the time, and she ran away from it. In the eight years that followed, it succumbed to a severe rot and decay and she finally had to step up and work to protect it. Or at least that’s what the Fortune Cup Arc suggested, seemingly being almost completely rewritten into something out of Njarnia (and no, that is not a typo) during the Dark Signer Arc. Really felt jarring even the first time with only the core of her needing to be there to protect it being retained, and even that element was apparently discarded afterwards. This could’ve made for a compelling character development. What a waste.
Her Future - Studying……something, and doing……things. ‘Nuff said.
Talk about wasted potential here, almost as bad as with Aki who dropped from a higher starting point, hard to say which is worse.
Here, enjoy this picture of Bruno and the twins.
If you don’t love the twins i’m so disappointed in you
So weird seeing Yusei look so evil when he’s possessed by that Stardust miasma…
…Yet he looks kinda awesome. Should’ve happened more in the anime haha. Maybe more around the time of Z-ONE=/?=Yusei?
(Also, interesting way to use poncho!Yusei from Crashtown, manga. Also also, glad that Kinomiya somehow found his way in [I wonder if he ends up dueling Aki here…]. Alsox3, Ruka might be my favorite character in the manga lol. “B-O-R-I-N-G!”)
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