#pallotdip

(Even things like the Zexal morph? He had predominant control, and Astral was a glorified voice in his head. And, this could be inaccurate, but I remember it even being to a point were people lowkey treated Z forms with the vibe as if they just?? Were Yuma?? Maybe that’s more a fanon thing I am misremembering cause I haven’t watched Z1 in a spin, but you get the gist)

Though I know the central issue is that Astral’s character was written in a poorly handled way for what was supposed to be and advertised as the Secondary Main.

Astral was reduced to being the “ghost duelist” for nigh the entirety of the series. They forced him to not be able to really get to know anyone else. Yuma alone could interact with him, see or talk to him. He had no development that wasn’t attached to Yuma, and even with Yuma his development got still snuffed or overshadowed a lot.

There was even some plot device with the pendant having some invisible or implied tether? So Astral couldn’t physically remove himself from a certain radius to the pendant and/or Yuma -

(mentioned in that filler montage episode where Kite keeps freezing time to check all the places the two have dueled, but then again, an earlier episode where Yuma lost the key and reminisced about his dad also maybe contradicts this, so idfk)

Anyway - That contributed a lot to Astral’s entire character falling flat and often being codependent. And, at worst, horribly stilted and one-dimensional. Yuma had all these other explored relationships, with different sets of characters, but Astral didn’t and couldn’t.

Number 96 was probably the closest thing we got to Astral having that. And in the end that in itself was. . . not much, to say the least. Lol

But yeah I think if Astral had someone else to bounce off of, it would have broken ground for a lot more in-depth things to be fleshed out for him.

Speaking of the goo ink boi;

2.) You give all basically all season 1 villains redemptions. Give Shark like nineteen. Even make Don Thousand and Eliphas sympathetic. Topping it off with a cherry of Vector redemption (??!).

But don’t throw a single, gosh-darned bone Mist’s way. That is pure disrespect.

And that is all I am gonna say on this because GOSH this is already long!

Mostly no

AGHSDJK-

I do utterly believe that 96 would find it hilariously barbaric and barbarically hilarious that humans wear the skins of animals as fashion, and would follow that trend pseudo ironically but not really ironically. And would rock the heck out of it, no less.

But, what you have to understand is, this character has been one of few in existence that fully grew up with me and became a true, legitimate, comfort character. Alongside Astral.

Thereby my perspectives of them, between who they are as per existing in my brain and who have been beside me since I was a teenager - are starkly different to what you see when those characters appear on the screen of your computer.

Now I stated how I know the show would do him as a human, here’s how my long beloved version of them exists as a human. To me.

His style sense of style would not be a Vector-esquestraight outa the gate ready for runway. Mist would go through all those preteen stages of thinking “I am going to wear this this and this and will be flawless in that combination” But in actuality would be *insert any pic of me/you/anyone in that stage of preteenhood thinking we look hot to trot*.

All it would take though was one comment from someone offhandedly mentioning his “trash core” look for them to become Astral for a week and go into heavy research mode on how to successfully edit up their wardrobe. They are trying, okay. And he gets it eventually!

The actual clothes themselves would have gender fluidity, some days feeling a more masc style, some more fem, and a lot androgynous. And once again, Mist rocks all of the looks.

As for physicality, I imagine his hair would take on juuuust a touch of the purple hue surrounding their alien form. Their swoops would also curl more dramatically towards his face, one of the strands even acting like bangs near their right eye.

I’ve always gone back and forth on whether he lets his heterochromia show in their human form, at this point I’ve kinda decided that that may also be something they can choose to have show or not. afgshjdkf

Some day in the future I am going to sit down and actually commit to a full body of them as human, not just a vague vision behind my eyes. Some day. XD <3