Wanted to make a little post about my Yugioh hetero ships because I feel like I don't talk about them much. And then the post wasn't little, oh well. Mostly Trustshipping and Polarshipping rants.
Peachshipping is a bit of a foregone conclusion for me. It's intuitive and I think they work so well together and are good for each other. I use it as a world-filling background ship a lot because it's just so... obvious to me? And wholesome, don't forget wholesome. It's sweet, it's positive, it's healthy. I don't have a strong grasp on either character which is why I haven't written it, and I don't feel passionately about it, but I do support it.
Blueshipping was the very first ship I ever wrote in my very first fanfic ever, and while I do support the ship, I haven't written it since then. There is implied past Mizushipping in Rock Bottom, but Kisara still dies like canon, so tragic ending and Seth is rekt. Like Peachshipping, this one is a no-brainer for me, it just only exists when Kisara gets to live/come back, because otherwise it's pure angst and tragedy.
Trustshipping is in the future for a current unfinished fic but I haven't actually written it otherwise. Currently working on a one-shot wip with my husband for it though. This is one that I do feel quite passionately about because I think Ishizu is one of the few people that even has a chance at getting close to Kaiba, in terms of purely canonical characterizations. And in terms of non-pure canonical characterizations (aka the fun stuff), there's even more potential for passion and romance. I think they've both had to grow up too fast, take care of their little brothers, deal with abusive fathers, make difficult decisions, and be forced into a role that they didn't ask for/weren't ready for. There will be understanding, patience, and compassion there, mostly just from Ishizu but you get the idea. The dragon doesn't want to be tamed but gradually realizes the benefits of the arrangement. She's strong-spirited in a quiet way and she won't let Kaiba treat her poorly. People might think she's Kaiba's trophy wife at first, being exotic and beautiful, but I think she can absolutely hold her own with poise, class, and wit. Whenever she has to go to a snobby social event with him, people will gradually realize that he didn't tame her, she tamed him. Ishizu the dragon-tamer. He is her dragon, she is his queen. She's not a trophy wife, she's not a gold-digger. Neither of them are a prize to be won. This is a partnership, and if you ever disrespect one of them in front of the other, you will be flayed with their words. She will also absolutely have her own career in Egyptology/Archaeology which helps to discourage the conception that she married him for any reason besides her love for him.
Polarshipping is another one that I think I've only written once, and it was in the context of Ettushipping, but I stan it quite hard. I won't shut up about it anytime Mai and Joey are in a scene together when I watch Yugioh with my husband. ("Omg look at the way he smiles at her! And look at the way she looks at him! And OMG he would die for her, this boy is too pure!!") I think I've used it as a background ship before a couple times maybe? But I love their canon storyline together and their dynamic (and I can even appreciate what happens for them in Season Four, even though that season kinda ruins Mai and does her all kinds of dirty, Joey's determination to help her despite her turning on them, despite Tristan saying "you're better off letting her go because I don't want to see you get hurt again", is one of the sweetest things and Joey is such a puppy and once they finally get together, I hope Mai understands what a Good Boy she has and absolutely spoils him). I do feel strongly about them and I want to write them at least one-shot at some point.
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*on rocking chair*
I remember Silentshipping being one of the biggest ships. I jumped on. Because I loved Kaiba. Thought he & Joey should be family. But felt them more like brothers, given my own connection with my brother & how they were our respective faves.
My earliest hope, in Duelist Kingdom, before I had internet at all, was for Kaiba and Mai to get together, the 2 I related to the hardest. Joey and Mai looked like they would be the kind to fight too much for my liking. But damn did I always admire Joey's loyalty, humor, bravery, and tenacity after his failures.
Slowly realized my absolute ultimate headcanon/ship for Kaiba, was "no one." "I dunno. I just can't see him being into that. With anyone." (Psst, we now call that "asexual.") Slowly realized that Joey and Mai don't fight too much, they fight exactly the right amount, but love so hard, and need each other.
Still liked Kaiba with Serenity purely to get some semblance of progenitive family going, and make him family with Joey, who would then be with Mai. Therefore linking my fave 3.
Nowadays, I have Ettushipping. Which is what I'd wanted all along.
You know those posts about how manga Jounouchi is responsible for fixing a lot of the gang’s problems with good old fashioned beating the ever-loving shit out of people? And how this got edited out of the anime for some reason. Like that time that, instead of beating up Kemo/Saruwatari to get into Pegasus’s castle as a group, Mai flirted with him and then hit him with her bag.
Well, okay, the problem is, even though I think the anime botched things by making Jounouchi not a powerhouse of poorly directed violence, I kind of like Mai flirting with people to distract them before they get their ass handed to them.
What I’m saying is that Mai and Jounouchi should team up together to sexily distract and beat the crap out of people respectively (although sometimes they switch jobs). A super secret agent team of sexy distractions and violence. Imagine the infiltration/espionage hijinks. And much of the time they’re supposed to be very subtle and secret about it but instead they just make passes at everyone and then knee them in the gut.
And, now, okay, imagine Kaiba as the long suffering person who gives them their assignments. I just- want Kaiba to suffer them really badly :v
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If I never get the rest of the context out, you have to know, that when Seto finally comes home in the middle of the night after working too late, it's Joey, the chivalrous light-sleeper, who gets out of bed, to let him into the middle, to snuggle between him & Mai, cuz the man runs cold. 💙💙💙
I keep hearing this on the radio, and I keep thinking of Seto & Mai, about their mutual secret crush on Joey.
But then last night, I realized they only ever say "friend," and Seto & Mai [in And You?] are already married, but then I made myself sad - Cause I fell in the hole, in the hole, in the hole...
"I'm sorry you felt that way... But you t'ink you're any better off now?! Ya still taking backseat! Only now it's to some loony who promised ya power!"
Mai: “'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, If I could just see you tonight.”
Joey: “But I would walk 500 miles, And I would walk 500 more, Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles, To fall down at your door!”
Seto: ???
I got nothin???
