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Before coloring

I was too lazy to color the full thing

Toshio: I don't think he'd be doing well. At all. All things considered he would probably be Meru's and Yuris' brother, and considering *gestures at Meru* he either comes down with a depression or gets very violent towards everybody. Though I think the interesting thing with him would be to see how he and Edo interact considering the way arc c Edo is. Would they still be friends? Maybe their friendship never bloomed here, or it bloomed in a different enough way. Either way I think he'd probably still be the Supreme Commander who avoids coming home because dueling keeps his mind away from thinking that he failed his brother. On that note, I wonder how his relationship with Judai would be, considering how in his stories Toshio has the public role that Judai has here, in a way.

Hayato: He's simultaneously better and worse. Less "there is something deeply wrong with him" and more "there is something wrong with him but its' actually quite clear and on the surface and we love him for that". He'd be quite similar to Kiki I imagine, except it's even harder to hold him back. But also I think there would be a massive avoidance issue with him where he never wants to confront any issues if he believes it'd hurt too much (shoutout to Yusho teaching him "an entertainer knows which emotions to show to the public and which to keep private").

Adler & Max: Given that we haven't seen that much on the Synchro side of the character roster, it's hard to say for either of them, but I don't think they'd be very different. Adler is still the same overworked depressed guy except now he has More kids to take care of, and Max is still running around the City and scamming the Tops. Maybe his relationship with Jack would be more complicated, considering there's also another sibling in the mix now.

Luci: Like with Adler and Max we haven't seen that much of the XYZ group, but I think he'd be even more of a recluse here. Not going the "he joins Fusion" route like in RftA, he'd probably primarily keep to himself, mostly just staying with his brother and not particularly inclined to participate except the occasional task that isn't related to dueling. At most he'd try to keep the surviving kids entertained, but he's not that good at it, or alternatively considering the way people think about his skills he would comfort the survivors by telling them about the dead/carded (even if it's a lie).