#compasshipping

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Propaganda under the cut

[Ishizu Ishtar/Yami Bakura]

The YGO fandom is well-known for having a lot of ships, so let’s celebrate that!

When tagged, you’ll be assigned thirteen ships, one for each prompt below. Afterwards, tag some of your friends and assign them a list of ships to answer the same prompts with.

Try to have some fun with it, and look over some of the weirder ships available. Or just go for broke and dig into a pile of OTPs.

Protip: None of these have to be written as romantic.

TAGGED BY: @ariasune​

TAGGING: @patxaran​, @albino-yaoi​, @sockrelatedchaos​, @texasdreamer01​, @florence-midknight​, @suturmon​, @reaversface​ (and anyone else who’d like to, tag us if you do it!)

send a message if you want to do it and i’ll send you your ships!

Explain how you think their dynamic would work? - Rivalshipping (Seto/Yugi)

so full disclosure i love rivalshipping, like i love it so much. i think the dynamic would be really fun for the both of them. yugi's both a stellar duelist and also really down to earth so i think he would alternate between totally egging seto on during duels and designing kaibacorp stuff, but also knowing when to tell seto he was being a dramatic dick and it was time for them to TAKE A BREAK FROM THE CARD GAMES SETO AND SIT DOWN AND WATCH MYTHBUSTERS

seto would be really dramatically proving himself as the BEST BOYFRIEND EVER (TM) all the time because a) gozaburo did a number on him and b) he has to be the best (like no one ever waaaaas ~) and yugi's like it's okay, it's fine, you're good i promise. similarly, i think seto has spent so long being a parent to mokuba that he'd be the voice of reason for yugi like "Yes, I'm aware this is a new game but you can learn the rules later you're not playing with Ryou for another week, I swear to god Yugi let's go to bed or I will hire someone to DRAG YOU."

Explain how you think their dynamic wouldn’t work? - Azureshipping (Seto/Anzu)

i mean on paper it sounds like it would be an interesting pairing, like anzu teaches seto about the meaning of friendship and then immediately after, the meaning of boning in private cars, but i don't really think they had a lot of meaningful interaction that wasn't anzu yelling about yugi, so idk. or seto yelling about yugi.

i also have a feeling that they wouldn't be great together because they don't put a lot of importance on the same things and so they wouldn't be able to understand why the other gave so much of a fuck about card games or the pedanticism of chess (WINK), or about dance and having healthy relationships with other human beings.

Write a first kiss scene! - Danceshipping (Mai/Anzu)

Okay, so it's not like Mai meant to kiss her, honestly, it's just that fucking hell she wouldn't stop going on about friendship and the heart of the cards and Mai was getting one hell of a migraine and really the only option was to shut her the hell up—

And okay, maybe lips weren't the most ideal method of communicating "please dear god stop talking" but Anzu was really pretty and actually kind of sweet in small doses and Yugi wasn't the only one who stared more often than he would necessarily care to admit. Which, to sum up, is how Mai finds herself in a dark corner of Pegasus' mansion like a teenager (with a teenager) with her hands on Anzu's hips and tasting bubblegum chapstick. There's a brief moment of oh god I'm a gross lech before Anzu's hands flutter against her neck and tangle in her hair to pull her closer, laugh against her lips at Mai's stunned face and press again to run her tongue against Mai's lower lip.

It isn't until they hear something that sounds suspiciously like Jou yelling profanities at Bandit "No Seriously Bandit" Keith that they pull apart just far enough to press their foreheads together. Anzu's bangs tickle against Mai's cheekbones when she says, "Don't tell the boys."

And damn if that doesn't rocket Mai back to high school all over again, falling for the straight girl and misreading all the signs and her voice sounds hollow and out of sorts when she murmurs, "Yeah, of course."

Anzu chuckles. "Thanks. I mean, they all still think I'm straight and if Jou's going to shit a brick when I tell him, I'd rather wait until after the tournament, you know? When all the testosterone peters out."

Mai's so stuck on deciding whether they all still think I'm straight or shit a brick is the weirdest thing she's ever heard come out of Anzu's mouth that she doesn't quite register her exact words. "I—what?" A moment later, she's recovered enough to add, "What exactly would you tell them?"

The argument sounds like it's coming their way but Anzu doesn't seem to be in any hurry to untangle from Mai, and Mai can't say she really minds. Anzu smiles. "Oh, you know. About our special friendship."

Do you like the ship name? What ship name do you think would be better? - Vaseshipping (Atem/Mana)

at first i thought it was an obscure fandom reference and wasn't sure why it was appropriate, but then i read that it was attributed to something mana says in the manga and idk i think the ship name is pretty cute

isn't it a reference to how they used to hide in vases when they were little? i think it fits, although i haven't seen much work for it (and maybe that's just me in our corner of the fandom)

Quick plot a quick AU for this ship~ - Puppyshipping (Seto/Jou)

jou really really needs money and that is the ONLY REASON 100% that he's sunk so low as to ransack that creepy-ass, probably-haunted, abandoned mansion on the top of the hill and honestly he doesn't really know why no one's tried it yet before; seto kaiba takes it upon himself to instill some goddamn manners in jounouchi katsuya even if it's the death of him. or, it would be, if seto kaiba wasn't already dead.

or

the kaibacorp pr team gently suggests that seto maybe go do things with boys his age, like maybe make a friend, please dear god just exchange hellos with someone the tabloids are coining the term "kaibacorpse" we're begging you, so seto deigns to join the archery team—and it's just the precision and accuracy and intense training regime seto enjoys in all (one) of his relaxing extracurriculars and everything would be FINE if only the idiot in that D&D club that meet across from the archery range would stop fucking LOOKING AT HIM through the windo

Do you think the fandom captures this ship well? - Corruptshipping (Set/TKB)

okay so for starters thanks @ariasune​ for sending me down the fucking tumblr rabbit hole for this pairing, like i needed any more fic ideas and general fandom angst. i mostly came across some awesome fanart that would only half-load (hell yeah i picked my week in the wilderness as the prime time to finish an online meme challenge).

yeah, maybe it's just because i looked on tumblr as opposed to FF or AO3, but i've always liked the ship and am always looking for more corruptshipping. i think fandom's done it justice (there's in particular one comic that makes me FEEL THINGS but it won't let me link for some reason because fuck toronto internet apparently.)

Quick plot an epic, heartrending, multi-chaptered monster fic for this ship~ - Trashshipping (Y!Marik/Bakura)

ahahahahahahahaha well actually

Write a fight scene! - Puzzleshipping (Yami/Yugi)

this is the least-fighty fight scene i've ever written, lol

He dreams of it, sometimes.

Of dark, sinewy hands, wrapping around his-not-his ankles, dragging him-not-him screaming into the shadows. He dreams of chasing after them, after the shadows and after him-not-himself, of catching arms just like his by the wrists and digging his feet into ground that fades to smoke all around him and pulling him-not-him to safety. He dreams of pulling them home, of biting and kicking and spitting blood until they both stumble over the threshold together, together, never apart, never alone, never again—

It's never who he expects, at the ends of those hands, at the end of every dream when their threshold dissolves into smoke all around them and drowns them both. It's never Bakura, dark-eyed and ravenous, or Malik, oozing spite and shifting form, who come for him-not-him and rip them apart. He dreams of a man all stitched back together and a jackal dressed as a judge, of a beast who is crocodile and hippopotamus and lion all together with a mouth that glistens like wet, wet blood, of hands that reach into his-not-his chest for his-not-his beating heart and smoke that fades to feathers the longer he screams.

He dreams of it, sometimes, and wakes up shaking, palms pressed over his eyes until the feeling of fingers digging in his chest passes.

Describe how they show affection - Dragonshipping (Jou/Yami)

i would imagine that jou would be super awkward because yugi was like his first boy-crush but yami was like his baby-gay awakening because this was like, BAMF-yugi (although i will fight everyone because yugi mutou can definitely be a dom, fucking fight me) so i'm envisioning lots of stilted shoulder-pats and high-fives and an attempted hug that ends up becoming a hellishly painful handshake that gives yami a migraine because yugi just cringes so hard in his soul room watching these two assholes

and so he's caught between being awkward because it's a dude and also because it's yugi but also NOT yugi and meanwhile yami is like "fucking hell he's really cute but i shouldn't do anything because it's your body and that's inconsiderate" and poor yugi's just like WOULD YOU TWO PLEASE JUST FUCK ALREADY

Write a goodbye scene! - Mizushipping (Set/Kisara)

Set has always had the sneaking suspicion that he was being watched.

Which, granted, in the pharaoh's court was never a terribly difficult thing to imagine, but all the same, he can't seem to shake the feeling of eyes at his back. Akhenaden has shown a marked interest in his position as High Priest in a way that Set is hard-pressed to describe as anything but skin-crawlingly disturbing, though he can never prove it, though their eyes never meet across the court and their distance is always respectable. Instead the eyes he meets across the throne room are blue, are warm, are smooth coursing Nile at the height of the flood, make him feel content and calm and sure. Across the room, he watches Kisara watch him as she dances for the court and knows he is safe.

When Akhenaden's marked interest surpasses disturbing and sets off steadfastly in the direction of sheer anarchy and blatant treason, the eyes Set meets are blue, are cold, are Sopdet sinking behind the horizon in the dawn sky at the end of the new year, make him scared and frantic and so, so alone. An arm's length away, he watches Kisara watch him as she bleeds out across the floor and knows, again, he is safe.

-

Seto has always had the sneaking suspicion that he was being watched.

Which, granted, in the KaibaCorp main office was never a terribly difficult thing to imagine, but all the same, he can't shake the feeling of eyes at his back. Pegasus has shown a marked interest in his position as CEO in a way that Seto is hard-pressed to describe as anything but warranting a call to Child Protective Services, though he can never prove it, though their eyes never meet across the boardroom and their conversation is always pleasant. Instead, the eyes he meets across his desk are blue, are laminated ink and holographic glaze, are power and success in the heat of a duel, make him feel content and calm and sure. Shuffled between his fingers and tucked into their slots, he watches the Blue-Eyes White Dragon watch him as it vanishes into his briefcase and knows that he is safe.

Quick plot a post-canon one-shot for this ship~ - Disturbshipping (Y!Marik/Shizuka)

shizuka started losing her eyesight before she ever really started getting involved with/caring about her appearance and so jou indulges the veritable legion of mirrors she keeps bringing home—not even to look at herself, but just to know that she can, that she can see anything she damn well wants. which is all well and good until one day shizuka looks in the mirror and sees someone looking back. someone who, she thinks, looks awfully like jou's new friend and introduces himself with the same name and seems nice enough, always says good morning and asks how she is and compliments her hair barrettes and asks, occasionally, if she could please get him the fuck out of this thing?

or

jou gets shizuka an internship at the domino museum and it's really nice and isis ishtar is SO COOL and SO SWEET and shizuka's life goals tbh and everything is going great except the one part when shizuka reads some old egyptian scroll out loud (and she knows she SHOULDN'T, i mean, she watched the mummy and everything) and may or may not have accidentally summoned a demon? or something? except he looks an awful lot like her boss's brother and doesn't really seem as keen on harvesting her organs as she had expected and is really actually quite sweet when he stops crying blood to try to make her lose her lunch.

Write a confession scene! - Compasshipping     Bakura/Ishizu

"You're despicable."

It's not the most impressive insult she has in her arsenal, Bakura knows, so he doesn't bother looking up from his book. "Mmhm.”

"You're cruel," Isis adds, working herself up to it, "you trade lives like cards in your damned deck, you have no concern for anyone but yourself, you stew in your inequities and plot a senseless revenge against children who have nothing to do with what happened in the past."

"Go on."

"You're rude," she spits, "and shameless and spiteful and so full of hate. You're poisonous, Bakura, and you're ruining my brother and digging in your claws and dragging him down with you when he needs to move on."

Bakura unfolds from his seat, lanky and sinuous and smooth, and though the body he inhabits is small and slight, Isis can feel him looming. He stands with her toe-to-toe and Isis does not flinch. His hands bracket her arms, fingers curling around her jewelry, and his voice is low. "Tell me I'm not good for him."

"You're not!""

"Tell me I don't make him feel alive," Bakura presses, "tell me I don't give him a reason to get up in the morning that isn't to follow his simpering pharaoh to class and drown in his own rage day after day. Tell me I haven't made him strong."

"He's strong in spite of you, Bakura."

Bakura hums under his breath and traces the bracelet's edge. Isis shivers. "Tell me you would rather I left him to rot in a tomb of his own making, in a classroom instead of a crypt, under the weight of the pharaoh's words on his face and carved along his spine. Tell me you would rather cull him of his birthright to keep him safe than let me keep him entertained. Tell me his own sister would have me put him in chains again."

Isis says nothing, feels curious fingers trace up her arms and tap a drumbeat against her collarbone, against the Sennen Tauk around her neck.

"I thought so."

FREE CHOICE - Powershipping

honestly couldn't think of any other little short prompt to write on this one so i’m just going to ramble. i hadn't really ever considered powershipping until this prompt, but it sounds like it would be a real blast to witness, because they're both manipulative, powerful, damaged little boys and the relationship would be such a shitshow of posturing and drama and constant missteps of "what do you mean i'm being an ass, i was trying to pay him a compliment" but i think there's a lot of opportunity for them to bounce their shit off one another and actually have a decently healthy relationship.