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Arc V Month Day 30: Next

“Ladies and Gentlemen!!”

Mind all my postcanon headcanons all go by ‘they separated’.

And with that!! Let’s get on with it!

1. Standard and Xyz gangs go back to normal school, while the others are homeschooled. With Yugo and Rin seemingly never having attended school of any kind and Yuri and Serena being taught more military and strategy than school subjects, it makes more sense to me.

2. In postcanon Ruri and Yugo become great friends. They tend to wander off together only to turn up later after the others have searched for them in a panic, smiling and wondering why they’re so frassled.

3. Rin and Serena form a weird rivalry where people don’t know if they actually get along or not. Sparring(fistfights) may or may not happen at times.

4. Reiji recruits Rin and Yugo to make a Riding Duel and D-Wheel learning course and use it with LDS and You Show. LDS would be more competitive and technical and You Show would be aimed more to the entertainment aspect of it.

5. Yuri turns the front grassy area of the Sakaki household into a small jungle in the span of a year. No one knows how he managed it and no one dares to ask.

6. Shuzo adopts all girls and Shun, he can often be seen crying over how many wonderful children he has now and how proud he is of all of them. Yoko does the same and is also overjoyed over how many cute sons she has now.

7. Rin and Yugo are Not Used to living so far apart so for the first few weeks or even months, they have so many sleepovers at either of their new homes. At first the others are thrown off or completely caught off guard by the other suddenly appearing in the morning(either of them barging in at night with no one knowing cause they got lonely at night is not unusual), scaring the shit out of them. After a while they get used to it though.

8. Masumi meets all the bracelet girls, and says after that even if they share a face, Yuzu is still her only rival. Yuzu may or may not have gotten a little teary-eyed at that.

Day 30. Post-Canon headcanons/thoughts:

I have a few headcanons for the characters after the events of the series. I already mentioned a few of them in a previous prompt, but Yuya and Yuzu start dating not too long after the finale. The other counterparts soon follow suit, although it takes awhile for Yuri and Serena to develop feelings for each other. Much like Yuya, Yuzu regains more of her memories as Ray. It’s only a few pieces and feelings at first, but she is soon able to remember much of her previous life. It does take her awhile to process everything, especially when she was in kind of a limbo spirit state with the other girls after Zarc was defeated, but with the love and support of Yuya, Gongenzaka, Sora and Shuzo, she is able to accept that she is both Yuzu and Ray at the same time. She also takes the time to rework her deck from the ground up to represent all of the Bracelet Girls. It is challenging since their archetypes aren’t designed to play together like the Dimensional Dragons are, but she is able to pull it off and eventually becomes a pro duelist as well.

Dennis sets up his own You Show Duel School in Heartland and he effectively becomes the head teacher. Kaito sometimes joins in to help him with lessons, but he’s also busy helping to take care of his younger brother Haruto. He doesn’t like being too far away from his family after the dimensional war. Ed also joins the school to learn more about Entertainment Dueling, but his main priority is to help rebuild Heartland. It does take a long time for Heartland to be restored and even afterwards, no one in the Xyz dimension feels comfortable seeing Fusion monsters or Polymerization. The scars of the dimensional war run deep, but they are able to enjoy dueling thanks to Yuya and Dennis. Dennis does enjoy meeting up with Yuya, but he is nervous to be around Yuzu at first. He still feels guilty over what he did, especially with Ruri. Both Yuzu and Ruri try to reassure him. Even though they are fused together, the counterparts feel at ease about it. They were originally the same person, so staying fused together with Yuya and Yuzu feels natural for them. It still takes awhile for Dennis to not feel a flood of guilt whenever he sees Yuzu. I don’t think that Shun completely forgives Dennis for kidnapping his sister and starting the Heartland invasion, but knowing that both Yuto and Ruri are still alive still helps him to feel more at ease. They can’t live together in one dimension like they used to, but they aren’t gone forever either. Seeing Dennis’ determination to help make the kids in Heartland smile and teach them the values of Entertainment Dueling does help Shun to be more comfortable around him and he agrees to some demonstration duels for Dennis’ students from time to time.

It still takes awhile for the City to be completely rid of the Commons and Tops structure of their society, but it is a much better place now that Roger and the Council are long gone. Chojiro goes back to helping kids enjoy dueling and his presence really helps both sides as they struggle to rebuild their society. Crow of course also helps with entertaining the kids, but he always takes extra care of Frank, Amanda and Tanner. They want to become strong Entertainment Duelists as well. Jack also helps with rebuilding their society. He is the former King, but he is still admired and respected throughout the City. Chojiro eventually decides to make his own You Show Duel School with both Jack and Crow as teachers. They eventually become friends, but their relationship is different from how it was in 5D’s. Yuya also comes by to duel both Jack and Crow and just hang out together. Jack does eventually meet with the Arc V version of Carly and they become a couple as well.

Leo effectively abolishes Academia. There are still students left there during the finale, but the school is still in ruins after the battle against Zarc and Leo is no longer focused on reviving Ray, so Academia no longer exists. He also decides to remain in Fusion instead of living with his family in Pendulum. After everything Leo did, he didn’t think he deserved to be with them and he obviously didn’t want to be in charge of another school again. He wanted to spend his time being a scientist again and learning more about the four dimensions. Reiji is perfectly okay with this. Even though Reiji is no longer carrying all of his anger and hatred towards his father, he also doesn’t feel comfortable living together with Leo again. Reiji devotes himself almost entirely to raising Reira. He still runs LDS, but he also doesn’t want Himika to raise Reira. Even though she felt guilty for how she treated Reira before, Reiji didn’t want to risk Himika having a negative impact on her again, so his time is divided between raising Reira and his duties as the CEO of LDS. Yuya does help out as an honorary big brother to Reira and Reiji gives her a new teddy bear to comfort her as well. Asuka, along with all of the other Fusion You Show Duel School students, decided to take over Academia and rebuild it from the ground up. It takes quite some time for the Academia mindset to be completely erased from Fusion, but Asuka is able to show these former child soldiers that dueling can make people happy instead of causing destruction. Sora is happy to see Academia change from a prison to a fun school, but he prefers to live in Pendulum and go to the original You Show Duel School. That is where his first real friends live after all, so he decides to move there permanently and lives right with Yuya and his family.

Shuzo insists that Yusho becomes the head teacher at You Show again, but Yusho doesn’t want to take over the position after his friend had done such a great job in his absence. They decide to run the school together, although sometimes Yusho goes to Fusion to check on Asuka. He doesn’t leave for too long. Being apart from Yuya and Yoko for all those years was quite hard on him as well, but he also doesn’t want to abandon all of his students in the Fusion dimension either. Gongenzaka is still focused on improving his Steadfast dueling, but he’ll still frequently come over to You Show to help out. They have a lot more people interested in their school after Yuya defeated Reiji, so the school is often quite busy. Yuya enjoys traveling to different dimensions and meeting up with all of his friends, but nothing makes him happier than being right alongside Yuzu. They can be dueling, talking or walking quietly, but Yuya will still have such a bright smile whenever they’re together. That is a big reason why it doesn’t take long for them to officially become a couple. Yuya is busy with being a pro duelist, having matches against both Yusho and Jack from time to time and Yuzu has to work on her own efforts to become a pro duelist, but they always make time for each other. They never like being away from each other for too long though. They give each other hugs after they’ve been away for more than a day. Gongenzaka often joins in because he loves seeing his two best friends be so happy together. After they’re older, Yuya and Yuzu eventually get married and become an Entertainment Dueling couple. Yuzu has to take time off when she becomes pregnant, but with so many loving friends and new grandparents to help them out, it isn’t too long before she duels right alongside Yuya again. Their children grow up admiring both their mother and father, hoping to make people smile with their own dueling styles in the future.

Well since it’s the last day of the month and it’s Arc V Sunday, and I’m only half sober again then I guess it’s time to answer the rest!! Yaaay!!

23. Favorite duels

fOR SURE. Yuya vs Jack…. like each version, nlg. Yuya vs Yuri (this one is GOD TIER), Yuya vs Shingo pt 2, and Yuya vs Dennis are my favorite duels!

24. What you’d like to see in the future (arc v video games, movie, other continuation, etc.)

I would LOVE to see a proper Arc V game but I highly  doubt that will ever happen, I already pitched my idea before so (i can’t find my own post rn cuz drunk buzzed but like the ideal would be an arc v game with separate routes, one for each of the boys, with yuya’s being the true route, etc etc, come talk to me about this if ya want)…. hire me konami? i’ll be waiting

I’d love to see an Arc V post-canon OVA of any sort I will just eat the whole thing up idc

i think the closest we’ll ever get to post-canon material is maybe a crossover movie with the other “2nd gen” protags (but i only will care about yuya in it anyway so)

25. Most surprising twists

*lays down* oh man….. i can’t handle thinking about this rn. zarc & ray. holy shit.

26. Favorite summoning type

pendulum. i’m a pendulum hoe. i wear my pendulum every day. i’m starting to save up for a tatt. i love pendulum summoning and everything the pendulum represents.

27. Favorite Action Field

plain plane lol jk more like plain pain i love the flashyness of…. the one during yuya & reiji’s first and last duels. haha

28. Favorite overall character arc

like by now you’d figure it’s yuya and well it IS, yuya’s character arc is a fucking TREAT to watch thru, what else did you think i’d say? zarc? oh yeah man definitely

you know, one of my favoirite ways to rewatch arc v is keeping zarc in mind all throughout, and seeing this story almost as a redemption arc of his own. because that’s what it is, really. that’s what all the foreshadowing and build up leads to: the reveal that yuya is zarc. and that zarc is yuya. the two are one and the same. the show has been alluding to it since episode one. and watching it as a redemption arc for zarc is additionally interesting considering the fact that yuya is what zarc could have been, what he wanted to be, and then inversely zarc is what yuya could have been, what he is fighting against being for this whole time. it’s wonderful to see that throughout. zarc is yuya, yuya is zarc. yuya doesn’t accept this at first, but neither does zarc, but they both do, explicitly so, in the end. this is the story of an entertainer who was pushed to the very edge and was given a second chance through one of his second lives and even so, even if his second life redeemed him, it’s him but it’s also someone entirely new: the person who we would have been if things were just different.

i love this.

29. What Arc V taught you/what themes resonated with you?

oh man there are a lot. i saw/read through @blueeyeswhitegarden‘s discussion of this prompt, about one of the most valuable themes being of self-acceptance. (y’all should visit their blog and read it!). i agree wholeheartedly.

besides the realization of self-acceptance, for me, one of my most favorite themes of this show is healing: both inwardly and outwardly. i love that arc v doesnt try to mince truths: healing is not an easy, perfect, or entirely pleasant process. in healing, in accepting consequence and coping with it, people will get hurt and things and people will be lost. loss happens- it’s a natural part of life. when we lose something or someone important to us, we cannot go back entirely. lives change, but our hope is that it will be for the better, that we’ll learn from the loss and grow. i also love that arc v makes it very clear that there are certain things that are lost that are permanent and some that are not. but even when that loss is permanent, it’ll take time and effort, but there will still be another reason to smile, for our futures, and for the sake of those that would have wanted to see us move on. we owe it to ourselves to find a reason to smile, and from then on we can help others smile too.

30. Post-Canon headcanons/thoughts

i have plenty of post-canon headcanons, but one i really love is thinking that since now zarc’s spirit is at peace, even though yuya’s connection to zarc will never fade, zarc’s spirit remains alongside reira, watching over her as she grows up, almost like a loving protecting spirit, making sure she smiles forevermore…

any time i have post-canon thoughts about any yugioh, they are ALWAYS in the context of not the actual canon, but of my own internal canon universe in which all yugioh series take place in the same timeline, so that’s the context to take these headcanons in

Yuya and Yuzu both begin to awaken to the same kinds of powers that Zarc and Ray had, and they help each other learn how to use them. 

Reiji is the first person they confide in after each other when they start to realize their growing powers.  Reiji then helps them learn how to control them by creating special Action Fields for them to practice, so they don’t have to worry about getting out of control

For a while the counterparts can only switch back and forth in control internally, meaning that the only thing that changes outwardly is their personality, and otherwise they look like Yuya or Yuzu.  Later however, they learn how to completely swap, so that the other counterparts’ appearances come to the surface when they’re in control.

this later turns into an ability to temporarily separate into projected bodies, with varying levels of substantiality.  They can do it for longer periods and more solid bodies the more they practice. Despite this, they are always connected, and if one of them gets hurt the others do too, and are capable of speaking telepathically to their group.

Furthermore, if they completely synch up, they can temporarily, to varying degrees of success, slip into Zarc and Ray’s original forms, memories, and thought patterns.

Reira begins to develop clear signs of having the same powers as Zarc from an incredibly early age; luckily by this point the counterparts have learned how to best use theirs, so they can help Reira learn to use them properly and without hurting themself.

Reira also has other powers that spurt out in bursts every now and then, coming out in flurries of natural powers like bursts of wind or flowers blooming when they grab them, or even making temporary portals from one dimension to the next.

it’s like caring for Jack-Jack honestly. Reiji is Tired.

Things are very tense in the Akaba household, as no one really knows what to do with Leo or if they can even properly prosecute him for what he did.  Eventually Leo fucks off to where no one can find him and no one wants to.  

Reiji continues to run LDS even though he secretly hates doing it, because he can’t find anyone he trusts enough to dump so much powerful tech into their lap.

Himika’s sudden care for Reira was actually rewritten into her by Reira as a defense mechanism for when they came back as a baby after they rewrote the universe, but it unfortunately starts to break down after a while and while Himika doesn’t hate Reira and does feel at least sort of guilty for what she did to them, she’s still clearly not proper mother material for them.  Reiji eventually gets so stressed and nervous that he moves out, leaving his parents to do whatever the hell they want as long as they stay out of his life now.  

Reiji buys a house in the same neighborhood as Yuya and Yoko, but ends up crashing at the Sakaki place more often than not because he often needs help caring for Reira

Yoko is the best godmama to Reira ever.

LDS helps with a lot of the funding and materials for the restoration of Heartland, and Reiji uses a lot of lobbying money to help support proper governmental diplomacy between the now connected dimensions.

Now that there are permanent portals between dimensions, there needs to be some kind of regulation.  Reiji acts very quickly to make sure the portals stay out of corporate hands, with help from Crow and Shinji in Synchro.

Reiji also helps fund deprogramming and therapy for the students of Academia.

This kid is pretty much running himself ragged raising Reira and trying to mitigate the fallout of everything that’s happened.  He feels responsible even though everyone tells him he really isn’t, at least, not just him.

Speaking of Synchro, after the Council stepped down, the only thing that really prevented the power vacuum from eating the city alive after the Lancers left was the alliance between Jack, Crow, and Shinji.  With some work and the help of all of the allies they all made, including support from the other dimensions, XYZ formed a new, democratic council with rotating delegates.  All Commons people were finally granted full citizenship.  There’s still a debate about whether or not to disband Security, which will likely take a while. Not everything’s perfect, but they’re trying.

Dennis stays in XYZ and never, ever returns to Academia.  He meets Shun and Ruri’s parents during the restoration and gets really broken up about how he was responsible for their losing Ruri.  To his surprise and Shun’s immense chagrin, he sort of ends up getting unofficially adopted by Shun and Ruri’s parents, who don’t blame him for what happened since he’s a broken up kid and are like “ok time to Protect”

Asuka stays on at Academia for a while to help with therapy.  Yusho also finds himself there quite a bit to assist.

Sora moves in with Yoko and Yuya – he intended to try and slip off but Yoko snatched him and told him in no uncertain terms that he was going to stay with them. He cried a lot.

You Show school is practically overflowing with students who want to join now, and Shuzo ends up having to hire a bunch more teachers and is able to expand the school. Yuzu works as a teacher for a while before Shuzo encourages her to pursue whatever dreams she really wants to.  She joins the pro dueling circuits with Yuya, where they start really wowing the crowds when they all do their counterpart-switching schtick as part of their Entertainment acts

Day 29. What Arc V taught you/what lessons resonated with you?:

There are quite a few lessons in Arc V that really resonate with me. One major aspect of the series is the importance of self-acceptance, especially in relation to the emotional healing process. As I mentioned in the previous discussion prompt, this was a big aspect of Yuya’s character arc. He was able to reach out to more people with his dueling, including Academia soldiers, once he realized his own dueling style and by extension developed a stronger self image. Yuya’s duels were always entertaining and fun to watch, but being genuinely happy, as opposed to laughing his pain away, and dueling more as himself instead of dueling like he though his father would proved to be much more effective. He was able to make more people smile because he was genuinely having fun right along side them instead of just putting on a mask to cover his true feelings. That’s why his comment about how he can’t make Zarc smile without being happy himself was so huge. Yuya finally understood being himself and being honest with his emotions were key in connecting with other people.

This theme is present with some other character arcs too. Sora’s redemption was complete only once he truly accepted that he was their friend instead of remaining loyal to Academia. Dennis was still set on playing the villain during his duel with Yuya, but he embraced his true self as an Entertainment Duelist right when Yuya picked up on his behavior. As a result, Dennis became the new Entertainment Duelist teacher in the Xyz dimension to help both himself and the people in Heartland to heal from the dimensional war. Zarc buried his true dream, and by extension his true self, in the original world in order to appeal to the crowds. That was a major factor in the original world’s destruction and led to the events of the series as well.

Arc V Month Day 29: release

Day 27. Favorite Action Field:

There are a lot of really great Action Fields in Arc V. Athletic Circus was really cool. It looked like such a fun area to bounce around in order to grab Action Cards. It was a perfect fit for Yuya’s dueling style and a fitting place for his first duel against Reiji. I also liked Entertainment Colosseum. It was like an upgraded version of Athletic Circus. It was brighter and a bit flashier with some more ways to move around the field. It was a great choice for the last duel and worked as a nice call back to the first duel Yuya had against Reiji as well. Both of these fields were just so colorful and were perfect fits for Entertainment Duels. They always looked like they’d be fun to duel in as well.

Prison Tower of Darktown was also really good. It isn’t as bright or as colorful as most of the other Action Fields are, but seeing such a different kind of a Action Field right away made it stand out more for me. I loved seeing Yuya move around the field with Whip Viper. Having the characters move around with their monsters made Action Duels feel so refreshing and it helped to make them so instantly appealing for me as well. They also showed how potentially dangerous having Real Solid Vision could be through this Action Field. Parts of a field could be damaged during a duel and falling from a huge height can still put the characters in serious danger. That’s why it was so intense to see Yuzu and the other kids from You Show hanging on top of a bridge that was slowly collapsing. There were other Action Fields that showcased how potentially dangerous they were as well, but Prison Tower of Darktown just stood out to me more considering it was the first one and it happened so early on in the series as well.

Wonder Quartet is such a great Action Field too. It basically had four distinct areas that covered a good portion of Miami City. Having an Action Field covering a large amount of the city and dividing into four different areas was really impressive. It was a fitting choice for a Battle Royal setting. Each area had their own challenges, especially the Fire and Ice areas. It made sense in-universe to create such a huge Action Field to protect the general public from the upcoming Academia attack. It created more tension as well given that most of the characters were further away from each other during the attack. Having such a huge Action Field with so many different areas really helped to make it stand out and it is easily one of the most memorable Action Fields in Arc V.

Day 28. Favorite overall character arc:

I really love Yuya’s character arc. At the start of the series, Yuya is full of insecurities, uses unhealthy methods of dealing with his emotions and has pretty low self-esteem. These personal conflicts made Yuya so much more relatable and complex than I expected. Over the course of the series, he starts to make progress with these personal conflicts. One of my favorite aspects of Yuya’s character arc is how he struggles with his setbacks, especially during the Synchro arc. While Yuya doubting his own strength to end the dimensional war and wondering what he needed to do to defeat Jack frustrated some fans, I always thought it was completely understandable and made Yuya even more relatable. Yuya always relied on his friends and family for emotional support and guidance, but he was primarily on his own during the Friendship Cup and didn’t have a lot of people he could talk to. Of course he was going to be depressed with any setbacks and question if he could accomplish his goals. Based on my experience, that kind of reaction can be pretty typical for people with low self-esteem. Even though Yuya struggled with these setback and self doubts, he still kept trying to push on through. It certainly wasn’t an easy process, but he never truly lost sight of his ideals in spite of all of the challenges he faced and all of his emotional conflicts.

The main goal behind Yuya’s character arc was for him to accept and embrace his true self. He tried to be more like Yusho during his duels. Yuya’s duels were still entertaining, but he was using his father’s dueling style as a way to cope with his disappearance, as well as a way to separate from himself if that makes any sense. Yuya often thought and addressed himself as Yuya Sakaki, the son of Yusho Sakaki. I don’t think he saw himself as his own person, which ties in really well with his low self-esteem and other emotional problems. Yuya always thinking of himself as the son of the great Entertainment Duelist Yusho Sakaki would help to give him a major confidence boost than if he just thought of himself as Yuya Sakaki the individual, especially with everything he went through even before the events of the series. Years of being bullied and dealing with the loss of his father really did a number on Yuya’s emotional health. I always thought that the series did a great job in showing how traumatic childhood experiences like bullying can be through Yuya’s behavior as well.

This is also one reason why Yuya’s rematch against Jack was so huge for his character. Jack was the only person who could point out that Yuya trying to be like Yusho instead of himself was a problem since he wasn’t familiar with Yusho’s dueling or his impact in Standard. He only saw Yuya trying to be someone he isn’t. Finding his own dueling style was major turning point for Yuya. It was the first major step for Yuya to accept himself. He understood he had his own way of dueling and that created a more sincere form of entertainment that touched the hearts of nearly everyone in the City, including Jack. He recognized Yuya’s skills and happily embraced his defeat. Yuya was able to take what he learned from his experiences in the Synchro arc and put that to use during the rest of the series. By having his own way of dueling and thus started to embrace his own identity, Yuya was able to connect with other characters more effectively. That’s why he was able to connect with Ed and BB. He was able to better understand and accept his own identity, so he could better recognize and sympathize with the struggles other characters were going through as a result. He couldn’t see dueling as a form of communication before his rematch with Jack because that would require having a stronger sense of self-esteem than Yuya could have had during the first season.

Learning about Zarc was a major blow for Yuya’s self-image. Finding out that he is the reincarnation of a demon would hit Yuya pretty hard, but that was completely understandable. Yuya spent his whole life wanting to make people smile and was making progress with reaching out to more people with his dueling, so learning about what he was would be a huge blow to his self-esteem. During the last couple of duels of the series, Yuya had to come to terms with Zarc, what he did during the past and being one with his counterparts. Accepting that he was Yuya and Zarc at the same time was so huge. Instead of trying to distance himself from Zarc or what he did, Yuya took full responsibility, attempted to ease Zarc’s evil heart through his dueling and still see himself as his own person at the same time. One reason I really love the scene where Yuya remembers Zarc’s true dream is because it shows that Yuya is still a sensitive person. Being an emotional person was never presented as a flaw for Yuya. The problem came from how he used unhealthy ways of dealing with his feelings, which is just such a great message and I deeply appreciate that.

my answer hasn’t changed since last year!  It’s definitely the circus field from Yuya and Reiji’s two major duels!

At the risk of sounding like a broken record…it’s gotta be Yuya

there are so many incredible character arcs in this show, of course, and let me give a small nod to Sora, Dennis, and especially Reira for their very touching arcs as well.

But like. Yuya’s the main, so of course he has the most important, and the most resonating, arc.

I’ve never been quiet about the fact that I relate heavily to Yuya.  Especially at the time I first met him, I found myself feeling pretty trapped and like I had to fake a smile, fake being ok, for the sake others around me – and for myself.  I still get into those places, too, where I fake it, even as a detriment to myself, because I want to make sure other people are happy and not bothering themselves with me.

Yuya’s a lot of the same.  He fakes happiness so that he doesn’t have to deal with the consequences of not being happy.  He has a goal he wants to achieve, and he mistakenly thinks that he can achieve it being the current person that he is, without addressing the roots of his problems first.

It’s unfortunate that his coming of age had to come through an interdimensional war, but he really did come into his own power through it.  It forced him to reexamine his beliefs and values, to come out of his own head and listen to other people to compare to his own ethics system, and to confront head on the ways he held himself back before tearing down those obstructions and coming out a new and better person.  He really, really struggled, too.  There were steps forward followed by two steps back.  There were huge relapses that shook him and made it even harder for him to start going again.

But he always did.  He always got back up.

He’s grown so much, but I think the real strength of his arc is that, for all the progress he’s made, it’s still clear that he will always have more to learn.  He’ll keep growing.  He won’t reach a destination and stay there – no, that’s what he learned not to do.  He’ll keep on journeying, changing, and evolving, and now that’s a journey looked forward to with excitement rather than fear.

There are a lot of themes in Arc V that resonated with me.  I touched on them a bit in my post about Yuya’s arc already, but I’ll give a little more detail.

The main stated theme of Arc V is to “take a step forward with courage.”  That’s a concept that I have tried to add to my personal belief system.  Sometimes, all that you need to do is take that first step.  You just need the courage to take that first step towards what you want to achieve.  Because if you don’t even try to step forward even a little, you’ll never reach anything – but if you try? If you just start forward?  Then possibilities will open to you.

Then there’s the theme of being kind to yourself – take care of yourself, find happiness in yourself, and that happiness and kindness will spread to others.  You can’t fix anyone.  You can’t save people who don’t want to be helped.  But if you have confidence and strength built up within you, if you believe in yourself, take the time to understand where the other one is coming from, but speak from a place of happiness in your own self, then you can reach other people’s hearts.

No matter how bad your past is, you can heal.  You can recover.  And you can find yourself, as long as you have the courage to try.

Arc V Month Day 28: Miracle