In light of what happens literally two episodes later, during the first and ONLY time Aki gets to participate in a tournament turbo duel: I am in pain.
aki izayoi / akiza izinski from yu-gi-oh 5ds
So… about season 3 Aki.
Ok harsh contrast to my previous, excited post, but I did say I had more to yell about episode 75 and I need to get this off my chest anyway. Plus, I remember mentioning in a post that I need to talk about season 3 onward Aki anyhow, so might as well do that now! I am thinking Big Thoughts and I need to Scream.
Long, incoherent, unhinged rant incoming because I have 100 things to say and 100000 screenshots to post, but I am also tired and my brain is mush.
A million years ago I did this for a lil zine @projsakuraygo
Ok. Ok. Look. I don’t care where you stand on Roseknightshipping in particular, I don’t even care where you stand on 5Ds shipping in general, but you cannot. You cannot tell me there’s anything remotely straight about this moment. Like, this cannot have been an accident.
Screenshot funnies pt. 3, featuring Aki
(Feel free to use as icons.)
Also, while I’m on the topic of episode 67.
Please tell me I’m not the only one who expected this scene to be a setup for Aki to duel the vice principal. Can you imagine?????
Decided to have some fun tonight and rooted through my 5Ds screenshots.
Here are some wonky, low-res, occasionally off-model 5Ds faces for everyone to enjoy. Feel free to use these as icons.
One of the best sequences of the Ark Cradle arc, now for everyone to see. Yusei’s faith and bonds with his friends will always pull through!
aki izayoi / akiza izinski from yu-gi-oh 5ds
Can we talk about the fact that Aki and Yusei are both at their lowest point in this duel? Aki just lost Divine and what she thought was her home, the place she belonged—and Yusei is still spiralling from his recent duel with Kiryu, not to mention he’s still injured! They’re both having a crisis of faith, they’re both at emotional rock bottom, both shaken to their foundations and here they are, duelling about it because neither of them knows what else to do! Aki’s modus operandi up until this point was to let Divine make every decision for her and duel her anger out at whatever target happened to be present and Yusei, here, is just this once doubting his usual “our bonds will save us” mentality because he just faced off against a person he used to trust with his life, who’s now dead set on ending that life! They’re coming from completely different angles, yet the parallels are still there and they’re driving me up a wall!
happy international woman’s day
commission for @inkblackorchid
i like her a bit unhinged actually <33