#blind devoy

For @beybladeninja 's DTIYS

My character design enjoyer side avidly enjoyed my favs' designs from this au. Their colours and concepts are genuinely devine.

I started with Blindt, then Rurikawa and then the list increasing to 5 more with every design and character I wanted to draw, which I can't complete right now.

Just an example of why I'm late for deadlines, my goals aren't fixed lol, it keeps expanding inbetween the process.

1. Akira Yamatoga: This one happens in canon. Akira is a rising star in both the music and blading worlds, both of which Zac currently dominates. Akira is one of the few people that can challenge Zac in both fields. Zac is still more experienced however, and manages to convincingly defeat Akira in a battle (as far as music goes, we are never shown, but Zac probably stayed on top)

2. Orochi Ginba: I know they get along well in canon, but we are never shown how they met. Orochi is known for his hearing, being able to tell how close a bey is to bursting while in the crowd. Logically, he should be able to sense people’s heartbeats and breathing patterns. Zac puts up a fake personality because he cannot let people know his true intentions. Orochi senses his heartbeat accelerating and breathing getting faster when Zac feels threatened, but Zac might be able to play it off as excitement rather than fear

3. Valt Aoi: Another one that’s canon. Like Akira, Valt is a rising star that can take Zac on in a battle, but Zac can handle that. What makes Valt a threat is the exact opposite reason Orochi is a threat. Valt is oblivious to other people’s emotions. Zac needs to get rid of the threat without letting the public know he means to get rid of the threat, and Valt is simply too dense for Zac to do that. By the time Valt realizes what Zac is doing, everyone else already figured it out. Zac cannot get rid of Valt without letting his true intentions show very clearly

4. Joshua Burns: Joshua, like Zac, craves fame. Unlike Zac, Joshua is willing to sacrifice effectiveness for spectacle. Joshua throws the first round to up the tension so that when he wins, it’s more satisfying. If he faced Zac, Zac may or may not see through Joshua. If Zac does not, then Joshua loses the first round and Zac is caught off guard in the second. If Zac does see through Joshua however, Zac would freak out. Joshua is so confident he’s basically going “I can beat you with my eyes closed, and to prove it, I’ll put on this blindfold.” Zac would not be able to intimidate Joshua because Joshua’s ego is just that big. And to Zac, this means that Joshua is powerful enough that he can fight Zac while handicapped

5. Laban Vanot: Like Orochi, he’s too perceptive. Laban can look into people’s souls, and would be able to tell Zac’s not as pure as he presents himself. But since Zac is at worst, a massive dick, Laban probably wouldn’t care much. Laban doesn’t care about Kyle for example, despite Kyle being extremely shady. He only cares about Phi because Phi is downright evil and possibly not even human. I see Zac and Laban getting along after a while since Laban doesn’t want the spotlight

6. Hyde: Hyde is a showman, just like Zac and Joshua. Zac would see some guy that’s good at getting the crowd excited and would percieve him as a threat. Hyde and Zac have the same goal: Being the strongest while having fans because of it. Zac can handle losing if his image stays intact (look at his loss to Valt), but Hyde ridicules his opponents. Zac could not handle losing to Hyde because if he does, Hyde will taunt him on TV until Zac shuts him up in a rematch

7. Fumiya Kindo: Fumiya wants fame. That alone makes him a threat to Zac. Fumiya and Zac both tell the audience “look at how awesome I am,” albeit Zac is more subtle. Zac would probably deal with Fumiya like he dealt with Akira

8. Pheng Hope: Pheng, like Laban, can look into people’s souls. Laban can tell what kind of person someone is, while Pheng can tell what their current state is. This means that Pheng is more similar to Orochi, but replace “heartbeat and breathing” with “chi.” And ulike with Orochi, Zac cannot play it off as anything because Pheng’s perception of people’s states is even deepter than Orochi’s. But like Orochi and Laban, Pheng doesn’t care about fame so when Zac realizes that, he’ll stop worrying

9. Blindt DeVoy: Like Laban, Blindt can tell what your soul looks like. Like Laban, he does not care for fame. This would play out very similarly to how it would with Pheng since Blindt prefers to be away from crowds of fans

Delta: *Threatens Blind*

Blind: “Ooh~ 🖤”

Blind + Misfit

This looked so much better in my head 😅

For one, his bey is Diabolos. Lucifer, the Morning Star. Fallen angel. Satan. That Guy Who Lives In Hell.

Second, Arthur destroyed Delta. He completely trashed his mental state. He broke him, and that would have been the perfect opportunity for some Bad Decision-Making on Delta’s part. I can see how he very easily could have followed a line of logic like “This guy is overwhelmingly strong. I need to get closer to him to Learn More About Him to figure out how to beat him. As is, I clearly have no hope.” It would also be incredibly easy to appeal to Arthur’s Big Grandiose Narcissistic Streak, by groveling at his feet and begging to be accepted as a lackey, in order to dupe him/spy on him. That huge ego is a very exploitable weakness of his.

And then there’s also the low-key Greek alphabet theme going on with the HELL bigwigs’ beys. Arthur’s Apocalypse’s name is actually stylized as αpocalypse. Gwyn’s Genesis is γenesis. Blind joined HELL temporarily, SPECIFICALLY as a way to confront Delta, and his bey is Bahamut. However, Bahamut’s name is not stylized as βahamut. If Delta had joined HELL, and the bey naming theme had been kept up, his Diabolos could have been δiabolos. Spelled with...a delta. “Delta” is literally Delta’s NAME. But there is no delta letter in his bey’s name.

If Arthur, Blind, Gwyn, and Delta had all been on the same team together, with beys called αpocalypse, βahamut, γenesis, and δiabolos, that would have neatly utilized the first four letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, beta, gamma, delta.