Save your excuses!

What an inconvenience.  He had an important phone call coming up, so he’d have to make this quick.

“If you wish, Serena, I’ll duel, but you really should understand that others will not be so accommodating when you rush in and demand answers to questions you may not want to hear.”

Finally, the hard lines of anger began to vanish from her face... for now.

“You misunderstand me,” he let Serena grab him without protest, moving with her hands.  He didn’t need to fight it at this moment.

“How would dueling guarantee any more truthful of an answer than my words?  In fact, I consider you an important asset.  Your experience with the inner workings of the Academia are valuable.”  The way she spoke, the way she walked, everything was a fascinating insight into the way the Academia worked.

At Reiji’s naivety, she scoffed, a satisfied smile playing along her lips as she explained “Hmph. That’s easy. The loser loses everything, after all - the right to lie and deceive included.”

Hmm.  Reiji glanced up from his desktop computer, thinking to himself that he would have to rearrange his security if Serena was able to get in without him being alerted first.  It wasn’t that he minded the other too terribly much, rather that if she could get in, so could any member of the Academia with enough training.  Not a pleasant thought.

“Serena,” he greeted, “Perhaps we can forego the duel for now if you tell me what the problem that needs resolving is.”

Oh, how she hated Reiji’s unruffled calm, how he wasn’t even taken her indignation seriously!

“Are you trying to say there’s no point in dueling me? You think I’m that easy to defeat?!” By now, Serena was fuming and she strode across the room, grabbed Reiji by his scarf, yanking him close as she bared her teeth at him.

As Yuzu followed her to the courtyard, she gave her Fusion counterpart a questioning look when she asked her about her deck. She didn’t remember anyone giving her an Ancient Gear deck. She was allowed to keep her deck when she was brought here. 

“My archetype is Melodious and nobody gave me this standard deck. Why do you want to know? Is it bad if I use my own deck at Academia?” Yuzu asked. 

“On the contrary,” she said, and the twitch of her lips was almost predatory.

“It makes you less vulnerable to standardized dueling patterns from the enemy's side- if your deck recipe is complex and efficient, that is.”

After all, personalized decks were privilege and badge of shame alike, depending on whether one was considered too skilled or too unskilled to wield the decks used by the bulk of the army, and Serena had never quite confirmed what category she belonged to, a thought piercing and enraging her simultaneously.

No. It couldn't be the latter if she'd been assigned her own student. What about Yuzu, though?

Serenadeshipping = Selena x Yuzu

Named so because  the Japanese name for Serenade the Melodious Diva is Serena the Melodious Diva.

kitameguire:

Once Yuzu was done checking out her new uniform in the mirror, she grabbed her deck from the bed and began to follow Serena.  “Where are we going Serena?” Yuzu asked.

“To the training grounds,” she stated, not letting up in her fast pace. The very moment the words had left her mouth, however, a different thought occurred to her, and she abruptly stopped in her tracks.

“Actually, I've changed my mind. We'll be dueling in the courtyard.”

Her watchdogs would be breathing down her neck at every muscle twitch, no doubt. But if supervising Yuzu's training yielded her laxer regulations and more freedom of movement, her spite alone commanded her to deliberately pick a spot she'd been forcibly removed from in the past.

Not bothering to offer an explanation for the sudden change of plans, Serena headed in the opposite direction.

“What’s your archetype, Yuzu? Did they give you the standard Ancient Gear deck?”

[I’ve been meaning to give a status report forever, but I didn’t want it to become too bleak and pessimistic, but now that things have become a bit better for me, I believe, I am ready to give it a go. So… thing is, my health has been REALLY bad for the past months, probably worse than it has ever been – and yes, I did see this coming back in April, but I wasn’t taken seriously. So I kept getting worse with every month to pass, and given how I’ve also been turned away by ‘professionals’  on multiple occasions and refused treatment for being 'too ill’, I couldn’t be honest about how urgent my health problems truly were to the professional I’d turned to as my last resort, meaning… “Come back in a week, then in two weeks, then in a month, then in another two weeks, so we can talk more about maybe actually starting your treatment sometime… after another talk with results that don’t do anything for you.”

It was bad.

And no, I’m still not even back to the shape I was in before the April setback, but at least, my treatment finally started about a month ago and I’ve been feeling the first positive effects for about two weeks now, as I finally got meds that’d get rid of at least most of the horrible chest pains I’ve baaaaasically been having all day when I was particularly unlucky, but definitely for multiple hours and every day.

In this context, I don’t think it is necessary for me to go into detail about why I haven’t been able to RP and why I haven’t been responding to any messages as quickly as I used to, though I will apologize for not having been open about this sooner instead of simply disappearing.

I do want to go back to RPing as Shun and Ruri – and also as Serena, and it is important to me to emphasize on that. As my concentration is still crappy as hell, though, (given how getting rid of the chest pains was just one of many necessary steps) I cannot give an realistic estimate for WHEN I will be able RP regularly again or for when I’ll reach a specific point in my recovery that’d allow me to [sucessfully do thing X], and I also don’t want to make any promises I cannot realistically keep.

For that reason, I will simply say that I’ll be doing my best as I focus on getting better. Whether that means one reply per week or none at all for another month or two (or maybe more, should my condition improve or I just have a good day in general?), I can’t say and I’m not going to guess either as I don’t want to disappoint anyone - first and foremost myself. 

But yes, I am still here and I am still trying – and no, my love for Shun and Ruri hasn’t changed in the slightest and I do miss RPing a lot.

「kitameguire and warriorxprincessxserena」

“Let’s swap clothes!”—– [Hiragi Yuzu]

“I see. So you’re willing to be my double?” —– [Serena]

Hi hi! Do you like ninjas? Do you like card games? How about assassins? Or perhaps bodyguards are more to your liking?

Then boy do I have the muse for you! Reblog if you’d like to rp with a canon divergent Fuuma Tsukikage from YuGiOh Arc V.

Verses include: canon (diverging from season 1 onwards), post-canon, Fate (Assassin), and Fractured Heroes.

Pajamas 

Casual clothes 

Suit 

Dress 

Swimsuit 

Suit of Armor

Highly formal wear 

Any sort of costume 

Athletic clothes/uniform 

Maid outfit 

Warm weather clothes 

Cold weather clothes 

Bathrobe 

50’s style clothes 

Something from their past 

Your muse’s clothes 

Ratty old clothes 

Work uniform 

School uniform 

One Week of Arc-V

Premonition: What do you think will happen in coming Arc V episodes / season?

↳ Yuri and Serena’s Fateful Meeting

Yuzu went to find a place to change into her uniform. Once she was finished, she neatly folded her other clothes on the bed to show Serena. “So how do I look?” Yuzu asked.

“Better,” she said, a hint of a satisfied smile playing along her lips, for Hiiragi Yuzu now actually began to look the part she was to fulfill. More than that, the uniform was a perfect fit, no additional folds and creases to suggest her ability to move freely was obstructed in any fashion, and from the ease in her arm and shoulder movement, it was safe to assume that the jacket wasn't too tight either.

To think that their bodies were alike even underneath their clothing... it was a strange conclusion to be drawing and yet the only probable one.

“In any case, we can actually get started now. Take out your deck, Hiiragi Yuzu, and follow me outside. I need to determine the exact level of skill you're at, so I can plan your training from there.”

Having regained permission to at least wander the grounds of the castle freely as a part of her and the Professor's agreement, Serena didn't intend to waste a single second she could be savoring the sliver of freedom she'd earned.

Sparing no glance to make sure Hiiragi Yuzu was actually following her, she turned to exit her room and headed straight for the castle grounds.