So, VRAINS fandom, I have a surprise in the making! :3c
I’m in the process of creating a visual novel dating simulator, featuring the disaster trio in a high school setting, where the card game isn’t in the focus and only a handful of canon elements have been used.
The game takes place during one year of high school; the first for Yuusaku and Takeru, and the third for Ryouken. You choose to play as either of the three, with each of them having their own unique route. All three have the option during the story to date each other, as well as one more exclusive character each, but it’s possible to play the game without romance at all (no complete escape from the friendships, though, lol).
There are events that overlap between their routes, but they don’t play out the same necessarily, leaving room for new material to discover on replays. Events don’t always play out in the same order, either.
In case it hasn’t been clear, it’s a game for multi-shippers. I wouldn’t recommend it for the ones who might have one or more of the 6 ships presented as their NOTPs, since the options leading up to the ships aren’t always crystal clear.
Also, this will not be a project for profit, and will be available on PC and Mac (hopefully, also on Android, but no promises on that one). Because of some suggestive as well as darker themes, it’ll have a 16+ rating, but proper content warnings will be present at release.
When’s the release, you might ask? Who knows, I rely a lot on public domain assets, but this is still a one person project, meaning I’m alone with the art, script, design, programming and building. With the magnitude of the game’s estimated size, it’ll take time (especially since I’m far from an expert in coding and English isn’t my first language). But at the very least, I hope to release a small demo in a few months.
I hope you’ll enjoy it when it’s finally done! ♥♥♥
See ya in future updates!
/Tara
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No, fridges are not hiding spots (332 words) by Wayfinder_Rinku
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ai | Ignis/Fujiki Yuusaku, Ai | Ignis & Fujiki Yuusaku, Fujiki Yuusaku & Lightning, Ai | Ignis & Aqua & Earth & Flame & Lightning & Windy, Ai | Ignis & Lightning
Characters: Ai | Ignis, Fujiki Yuusaku, Lightning (Yu-Gi-Oh), Aqua (Yu-Gi-Oh), Earth (Yu-Gi-Oh), Windy (Yu-Gi-Oh), Flame (Yu-Gi-Oh)
Additional Tags: Genderbending, Year of the OTP Prompt Event 2023, no beta we die like the ignis, Post-Canon, Not Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links Compliant, i played fast and loose with the prompt, Author Is Sleep Deprived
Series: Part 10 of Year of the OTP
Summary:
Yusaku looks for Ai, Lightning and there is a fridge.
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Break the path and walk alone...
Artist: @nanoseven-art
Full version here
Writer: @tarashima
Status: Complete
Rating: Teen and up
Characters: Fujiki Yuusaku, Ai (VRAINS), Dr Kougami
Ship(s): Kusanagi Shouichi/Kougami Ryouken
Content Warnings: mentioned of child abuse and kidnapping, emotional manipulation, non-explicit mentions of suicide
Summary: Kusanagi wants to find the truth for the sake of his brother and Yuusaku. Ryouken wants to fulfil his father’s mission. But from the day they met as children and until they met once more as adults, a middle ground try to emerge, ignoring their current stances on opposite sides. The fruits of attraction couldn’t have had any worse timing with their maturing, as the present catches up with the parallel road Kusanagi and Ryouken have built for themselves. Now, they have to either defend as well rebuild the damages, or accept its destruction for the sake of saving the world.
This is a canon-divergent fic of season 1 of VRAINS, where events don’t necessarily play out in the same order, or have been tweaked slightly to fit a new narrative.
Available on AO3
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White Salvation - Chapter 1
(Note: this is an AU of Bacon Saver)
(links in the notes)
Rating: General Audiences
Words: 980
Category: Gen
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS
Relationship: Ai | Ignis & Fujiki Yuusaku
Characters: Fujiki Yuusaku, Lightning (Yu-Gi-Oh)
Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Alternate Universe - Post-Canon, reviving the dead and other extreme sports, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, there might be duels in this one but i won't be fully writing them out
Winning the duel against Ai didn’t matter when Yusaku was the one who lost everything in the end. So, no, Yusaku couldn’t go back. He couldn’t go back to the Kolters, he couldn’t show his face to Takeru, he couldn’t see the Zaizens. They all got what they needed from him, and his part in their lives was over. There was only one person who needed him now.
Ai gave up his life for Yusaku. Ai lost his life so Yusaku could keep his. Because Yusaku would give his life for Ai, and Ai knew that. And Ai couldn’t live in a world without Yusaku.
The problem was, Yusaku couldn’t live in a world without Ai, either.
Every duel comes to an end.
And with every duel comes a victor and a loser.
It’d been ten years since Yusaku ever lost a duel, and this one didn’t break that record. He wished it did.
Kneeling on the ground, arms empty, alone. Tears streaming down his cheeks. He wanted to scream. He wanted another chance.
Ai gave up his life for Yusaku. Ai lost his life so Yusaku could keep his. Because Yusaku would give his life for Ai, and Ai knew that. And Ai couldn’t live in a world without Yusaku.
The problem was, Yusaku couldn’t live in a world without Ai, either.
How was Yusaku supposed to go back to everyone like this? Empty-handed, alone? Yusaku came to this duel to save everyone, to save Ai, and he failed. He couldn’t save the one person who mattered most. Winning the duel didn’t matter when Yusaku was the one who lost everything in the end.
So, no, Yusaku couldn’t go back. He couldn’t go back to the Kolters, he couldn’t show his face to Takeru, he couldn’t see the Zaizens. They all got what they needed from him, and his part in their lives was over. There was only one person who needed him now.
Ai.
Bringing himself back to life, Yusaku logged out. If anyone came looking for him, he couldn’t be here. Not until he found what he was looking for.
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When it came to virtual worlds, there were multiple dedicated to dueling.
The world Yusaku was more familiar with was Link Vrains. This was the world he frequented as Playmaker. The world he saved multiple times, from the Knights of Hanoi and from Lightning. The world where he was known as a hero. And yet, it was all anonymous. The number of people who knew his true identity could be counted with his fingers. No one else knew who he was, or anything about him.
That was always how it was meant to be. Yusaku never dueled to make friends. He only dueled to serve his own purposes.
The name Playmaker was known throughout the world of Vrains. Everyone thought he was a hero. And that meant Yusaku would have to shed this persona. He had to return to square one. Working on his own, with an unknown name.
If he logged in as Playmaker, everyone would see him. He couldn’t let himself be found. Not until he found what he was looking for.
Making a new account on Vrains, unlinked to Playmaker, was easy enough. He couldn’t let the avatar look too much like himself, or too much like Playmaker. He made the hairstyle different, made the hair a different color as well (mostly pink, with some purple streaks). Made his skin paler in color than Playmaker’s was. He gave the avatar one green eye, one yellow eye. The outfit was plain, a dark hoodie with dark sweatpants.
The last thing his avatar needed was a name. That was simple, too.
Linking with... 06…
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06 landed on top of a building in Vrains with practiced ease.
Vrains... this used to be a battlefield. A place to fight for answers, to get revenge. A place to fight for peace, for coexistence.
Now, 06 hoped, it was a place to heal, to find someone important.
After locking Cyberse World away from the Knights of Hanoi, Ai had been on the run in the main part of Vrains, running to keep himself, the other Ignis, and his homeworld alive. That's when a way out was provided, a trap Ai was all too happy to let ensnare him. Then Ai was treated as a hostage, bouncing between the real world and Vrains. But the fact remained: Cyberse World was hidden deep in Link Vrains. That was where Ai and the other Ignis had lived.
The only problem was, 06 wasn't sure where to find the Cyberse World. But he did know how to find the Ignis' last base of operations: Mirror Link Vrains.
And that's where he expected to find answers.
He'd already hacked himself a hoverboard before logging in. Now, the hoverboard appeared in the air in front of him. 06 jumped on the hoverboard and made his ascent, away from the main hub of Vrains. He couldn't risk being spotted. Thankfully, he programmed this hoverboard to be fast. It didn't take all that long to make it back to the entrance of Mirror Link Vrains.
What he was expecting to find here, he wasn't sure. A clue to Cyberse World? A clue to bring back Ai? Nothing?
Mirror Link Vrains was big, but if 06 was expecting to find anything, it was bound to be at the castle. That was going to be his first stop. If he didn't find anything there, he'd keep looking around, but it was more efficient to head there immediately.
"Yusaku Fujiki, right on schedule."
06 stopped dead in his tracks. He knew that voice. He whirled around to face the speaker.
And there Lightning stood.
"There's no need to look so shocked," Lightning huffed, crossing his arms. "You know I am gone from this world. You know I left a message for Ai. I just happened to leave a message for you as well."
A message? From Lightning? That wasn't what 06 came here for. There was nothing Lightning could tell him that he wanted to hear.
"I knew you would come here," Lightning went on. "I knew what the simulations led to, and I knew Ai would get my message. And, of course, he would refuse to let you sacrifice your own life for his. He couldn't live without you. But you can't live without him, either, can you?"
06 turned on his heels and started walking. He didn't need to hear this.
"What if I told you there's a way for Ai to come back?"
He stopped.
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This whole time we've been like, we don't have any subsystems, we can't imagine having a subsystem, but...
I'm starting to think we might have one after all.
Not the Jadens, no. I know we have three Jadens but I think they're all separate, they all have distinct sources (s3, s4+, and an arc v au) whereas...
I think we might have a subsystem of Yusakus. Because I'm very sure there's a third one now and one of them is our little, but the other two aren't super distinct. It's moreso a case of "i'm not playmaker and i'm not little yusaku but i know i'm yusaku fujiki the character".
We've dubbed the newly found guy Yuusaku. He really didn't like any other name besides his own but we already have a Yusaku....
They're all just like. Not extremely distinct. Even Yusaku is an age-slider (but I don't think his range of ages is 15 years!!!) and the other two are both 21 and idk how to explain this
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