YU-GI-OH!: Alliance Of The Duelists

I have probably mentioned this once or twice, but Yu-Gi-Oh! is my favorite anime of all time. I have religiously watched the series (at least, up to 5D's; tried Zexal and it wasn't for me, and Arc-V just looks...stupid.) I play the card game off and on. I've read the manga. And now the next step...writing a story where Yugi passes the torch to a new hero.


A few details:


1. The main character is female. We have had female duelists in the franchise before, but I was always curious as to what would happen if one was the main character. And so I created Yuki Sato, a sixteen year old girl whose mother Yumi was a professional duelist. Yuki struggles to outlive her mother's legacy, and deal with her feelings for the new kid in school, Seth Kaiser...whose father was the duelist her mother beat to become champion!


2. Twists and turns. I take the formula that YuGiOh! has rolled with in all its incarnations and try to put a new twist on it. The rivalry between two duelists? There's a romantic undercharging. The main threat? A god who feeds on despair and strife-antithesis to the themes of love and friendship that drove the main series. The magic? Drawing from more sources than Egyptian mythology.

3. Old and new cards. The fun of writing a YGO story is the duels-what deck each Duelist has and how they manage to pull off victories. You will see classic cards, as well as some cards I created. Don't worry-it won't be totally OP.


4. You WILL see many characters from YGO Classic. As I stated before, the major threat in this story is Reshef-the God of Despair. He travels through dimensions, conquering worlds by infecting their inhabitants with misery, and is helped by his cult, the Hand of Discord. They have entered Yugi's world, and the breach between dimensions draws in Yuki and friends.


5. I'm not going it alone. My good friend John Hall approached me and asked if I wanted to do a YGO story; I was more than happy to oblige. He suggested the Ragnarok items-the opposite of the Millenium items, based in Norse myth. I created a character for him. (If you haven't noticed, we work best when we bounce off of each other.)


So yeah, this will be a side project while I work on Magnus Rex and Absolution. And I'm gonna enjoy every minute of it.


Once again, it's time to duel!