LOOKat all the care Yuma puts into just saying Astral’s name.
Eachsyllable of that name is precious to him.
Yuma straight up travelled to the afterlife and battled GOD, and won, for the right to say that name to the person it belongs to again.
And he is absolutelycherishing the fact that he can say it right now.
Yuma doesn’t give a damn that he’s in excruciating amounts of pain at this moment
Cause right now, he’s doing the one thing that he considers to be his very definition of happiness:
Being able to duel with Astral again.
They met because of duelling, they conquered hundreds of obstacles by duelling, they straight up bonded through duelling.
The two of them side-by-mother-freakin’-side throughout all of it.
AND WHAT WAS ASTRAL’S RESPONSE TO ALL THIS?
THE SAME PERSON WHO ORIGINALLY WAS BORN AND RAISED TO BE A SOLDIER FOR THE ASTRAL WORLD
THE SAME PERSON WHO ORIGINALLY HAD NO CLUE ABOUT HUMAN EMOTIONS
THE SAME PERSON WHO CAN CANONICALLY HEAR YUMA’S TRUE EMOTIONS AND THOUGHTS, REGARDLESS OF WHAT YUMA VERBALLY SAYS
Astral can straight up read past Yuma’s words and see the emotions tied directly to them.
And when you consider the fact that right now they are facing off against an enemy, that’s big.
Ofcourse neither of them is going to step up and say “I love you” in a moment like this, because they don’t need to say it with words.
They are saying it through their
GOD
DAMN
ACTIONS.
In honor of @zexalmonth I thought I’d take my favourite scene and break it down even further.I’m not super big on following prompts in any specific order, I just kinda do what I feel like when it’s appropriate.
Ehh, let’s call this the “my response to what’s my favourite episode but in honesty it was really just this one scene, and here’s more proof as to why Yuma and Astral are my OTP for the shipping prompt. Oh yeah, let’s add favourite characters prompt too while I’m ahead.”
So for anyone who might have been wondering about why Yuma’s mouth moved in the way that it did, (like myself) I was bored enough to figure it out.
Astral(アストラルAsutoraru)
For English speakers, we’re able to distinguish between L sounds and R sounds, but for Japanese speakers, that’s not entirely doable. Same with B and V, hence why Vector sometimes sounds like Bector in the sub.
Meaning Yuma is sounding out “Asutoralu” in this scene in specific.
After double checking on Google Translate, I can definitely say that the ‘su’ sound is, for the most part, silent, or at least the ‘As’ sound takes precedence (I don’t actually speak Japanese, please don’t sue me.)
The end result is as follows:
As-
-to-
-ra-
-lu
Oh my god, just look at how much of an open book Yuma is in all of this!!
As - He’s uncertain, even tentative, after just hearing Astral’s response.
to - The emotions are too much for Yuma to take in, he’s exhausted from the pain and the journey to Astral World.
ra - But still there’s joy! His heart is soaring from being with Astral again!
lu - And at this moment, Yuma has forgotten about the pain. He is at ease. His most precious thing is right there beside him.
And then he smiles!!!
Yuma smiles after hearing that Astral understands the emotions.
Imagine if you loved someone who you weren’t even sure could understand what that emotion even was.I’d be smiling from ear-to-god-damn-ear if I found out that they understood what my feelings encompassed.
day 24 and 25: I unfortunately never got into the cards so I don’t own any.
Buuuut I mainly got into the ships, and I have alot of ships.
So I’ve watched the dub of DM and I was a peachshipper and revolutionshipper growing up. They stuck with me the most as a child. Seeing the deleted scenes of Téa trying to figure out her feelings for Yugi and Yami really infuriated me. I still do not understand why 4KIDS was deathly afraid of building characterization for these characters. When I revisited this series through YGOTAS, thiefshipping is intriguing. Personally I see Yami and Yugi more as brothers rather than a pairing, but I felt a similar with Prideshipping but now it grew on me.I will admit that some of the puzzleshipping art is really cute. Encourageshipping was a ship I never knew I was apart of until I found the name for it about a year or so ago lmao.
I haven’t watched GX but Spirit/soulshipping looks really cute, and I’m a sucker for Fiancéshipping ngl.
I’m currently binging 5ds and I am an absolute SAP for Faithshipping. The tension in season one from these two was the reason I fell in love with these two. The sheer fact that he not only helped her, he told her that he needed her. (Martha did embarrass him in front of Aki’s father because even she knew that he fell hard for her). That’s what really sold it for me. Aki’s arc of getting her D-wheel license, y’know.. the roller skating scene. I justed want more. I’m dissapointed how she was casted aside after the dark signers arc. It felt like unresolved tension between these two. Jack and Carly was also a pairing I fell in love with, he practically confesses to her at the end of their duel! I really hate how they treated Carly’s character development at the end of the dark signers arc.
Zexal, there wasn’t a lot that I remember but I really did like Skyshipping! I know it feels clichéd and forced at times, but the last episode she did confess and well he didn’t give any indication of rejection. Keyshipping feels alot like puzzleshipping, but keyshippers do make good arguments with the screencaps and meanings portrayed in the show.
I haven’t watched alot of ARC-V but I’m a sucker for fruitshipping, and their counterparts being shipped together. Rin and Yugo? Absolute cuties. Yuto and ruri? Blushy dorks, I love them. Serena and Yuri? Power-hungry couple that (fights on the same side) together stays together.
I haven’t watched VRAINS or Sevens, so I can’t say!
… who had gone through many stages of classic angst romance. From first cute meet, tragic separation, bitter reunion, and then reconciliation and happily ever after ending. Yeay.
While pairs that I like and find interesting :
1. Keyshipping (Astral x Yuma)
It’s canon and no one can convince me otherwise.
2. Tomoshipping (Shark x Durbe)
Of course I can’t forget this compromising position.
Indeed Shark’s knight who always come to rescue, right?
3. Foilshipping (Yuma x Vector)
Alternate name = Rollercoastershipping
4. Decisionshipping (Mizael x Durbe)
They are literally the sanest Barians before Nasch and Merag come back. And how they hold each other back whenever Vector doing something that get on their nerves.
5. Blackmistshipping (Black Mist x Astral)
I will never get over the “possess your body” part.
6. Sharkbaitshipping (Shark x Yuma)
Their whole dynamic from the start to the end of the series is *chef kiss*.
7. Dokidokishipping aka Photonshipping (Kaito x Yuma)
Seriously, we need more of this ship.
8. Seraphshipping (Alito x Yuma)
The “imagining Yuma as angel” part and “meeting you was hot” is truly iconic.
