A freezing cold night and homeless Ted is not doing well. Either its not time for him to die and Tinky helps him out, my tired midnight brain is thinking giant goat would be warm. But could be anything.

Or one of our favorite characters takes him in for the night and helps him warm up.

Poor teddy bear I'm making myself sad because I'm very tired and cold and thinking of being out in the snow without my gear, and I have raynauds so I could cause damage to my hands just inside the house if I don't wear my gloves and socks. My feet change color and my fingernails are often purplish even when I do everything right.

Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! Vrains(with references to DM, 5Ds and Zexal)

Word Count: 3,634

Rating / Warnings: T / Minor Character Death

Tags of Note: Reincarnation, Soulmates, the DSOD Kaiba Died route

Summary:

Soulmates aren’t always romantic. They exist on a balance. Soulmates can find a way regardless of their understanding of their other half. They aren’t always in full understanding either, sometimes they aren’t even kind to one another at all, but they’re bound by just a sense of feeling regardless.

For one pair, it begins simple enough.

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A minor study on reincarnation.

Recoilshipping Week 2023: Day 3: Soulmates AU

Summary:

Near his place at the Duel Links gate of the digitized Den City square, Revolver hears a soft step of someone logging in.

This guest’s arrival must have chased the usual crowd away. But that was a good thing; it keeps them well out of the inevitable harm that Revolver brings.

Now it was comfortably void of the noise pollution he’s come so accumulated to lurking just outside of.

All except for one lone sound.

Music.

Or he’d label it as that if he were a more optimistic person.

In reality, it was… whistling.

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A first meeting between alike souls.

(also can be sequel to an earlier fic, like homecoming)

Summary:

Yusaku didn’t know what to think when he had pulled a faded blue hoodie out from in between his bed and the cracking bedroom wall. Cold and unwilling to leave the covers of his bed on yet another sleepless night, blindly reaching for the other blanket in a poor attempt to burrito himself further away from the world. He meant to grab the blanket that was kicked off to the side there, but settled on this instead.

For a second, he thought it was his and had sat up to pull it over his head. The color looks just a shade darker than the one he remembers in the low light. It was also a similar size, similar enough to the only sweatshirt he owned with a hood big enough to hide his hair.

But the two jagged slits in part of one of the sleeves that his fingertip grazed told him otherwise.

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Yusaku finds a hoodie that's not his and discovers he, in fact, has Feelings™.

Summary:

“Ok but actually, if this is a prank, I’m so going to hack some banned cards into their deck. I didn’t sign on the dotted line to be filmed, so these guys are getting one hell of a lawsuit-“

“Quiet,” Playmaker says suddenly, closing his eyes to focus. 

There was something in the background of Ai’s rambling, something melodious.

It’s… whistling. 

What’s even stranger is it’s… a melody he recognizes, but he can’t put a name to it or where he’s heard it. 

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Playmaker has a long overdue reunion with a lost family member. Inspired heavily by Duel Links.

*hides face* omg reading my tags

It’s just some Zexal post canon late night conversing, Kaito and Ryouga focus

I like to do conversation and character study kind of fics and they are the two my brain cannot stop churning over like butter

Summary:

Adjusting his bag over his shoulder, the last of his belongings that hadn’t already been mailed to his grandparents, Takeru walks a short distance towards one of the platforms. He keeps his eyes out still just in case someone is close by. 

Still optimistic for something from Yusaku, anything.

And… someone is here. The person on the other end that he noticed before. They are just… someone he didn’t expect to recognize.

Nor someone he would have ever expected to be here. 

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Ryoken sees Takeru off at the train station after he decides to return home.

Summary:

This was usually what he wanted. Them to finally get the sleep they deserved in their big, fancy bed. Ryoken and his mass of warm, comfortable things and Yusaku who could sleep anywhere and anyway.

Takeru could just… crawl back in and go back to bed, have the morning he always wants to.

But he couldn’t disrupt them.

Not when they needed their quietness.

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Polyamory through the lens of self doubt. Takeru just needs a little reminder.