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inkblackorchid:

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!