Monday, February 14, 2005

   [FANART// APE #2: interlude during battle city]

my friend and i talked last night; and a part of the conversation went like this: friend: so, are you still drawing fanart? me [excited]: yeah! i still draw when i can. friend [in a suspicious tone]: you're drawing those pictures, aren't you? [evil] kukuku... me: what are you talking about?? friend [tries to shrug it off]: well, you know -- me [catching on]: whoa! if that's what you're thinking, then NO! i don't draw anything offensive to post on MyO, i try to keep it PG-13!! friend [laughs and bargains, rubbing hands together]: how 'bout PG-18??? PG-18 is better!! me: ... is that how my friends really see me? i'm utterly speechless...*sweatdrops* u_u anyways, so far i've gotten mixed reviews on my 1st APE pic. most are positive (thx!!) while a few of them are negative (well...at least i got you to hate it enough to comment ^_^;;). it's interesting when people say they hate it because they hate mai. ^_^; personally, i think mai is all right, maybe a little too arrogant & has a horribly annoying dubbed voice during the 3rd season, other than that tho, she's OK. everyone's entitled to their opinions, i guess. but honestly, for APE i've to draw charas whom i don't like that much either, just to be fair to the entire YGO cast. you'll see what i mean next time, lol. well, moving on, as promised, the pic for the 2nd YGO alternate couple is posted; and this week the lucky couple is...shizuka/serenity x malik! :D admittedly, this pairing is pretty unlikely in the anime as shizuka & malik barely interact with each other. even so, don't you think if smtg like this were to occur, it definitely would spice up the battle city arc (that's otherwise filled with series of dragged-out duels and the charas' ceaseless ranting)? think of the possible romance, angst, plot twists & love polygons that could have taken place! XD *imagination running*... * * * * * ...anzu wakes up on kaiba's battle city island the morning of jounouchi & malik's duel to find shizuka missing. she alerts jou & company and everyone goes on a frentic search on the island for shizuka. tension & fear mount as it nears noon, when shizuka is still missing and the time set for jou's match with malik is approaching. jou becomes increasingly irritated; to find an outlet for his frustration, he starts to accuse the older kaiba of kidnapping his sister (among other things). seto returns the accuse with some disrespectful jests, thus infuriating jou even more. yugi & others immediately hold jou back, assuming he'll launch out & attack the CEO. but seto only snickers at the ruffled jou & calmly points out that he wouldn't do such a thing since he "has his eyes set on yugi only". (which is true! no no! not in THAT sense!) everyone 'sweatdropped' at seto's comment and to change the topic, anzu suggests the group to keep looking instead of standing around fighting each other. running out of places to search, the group arrive at the floor where the ishtar family is staying. at the end of the dimly-lit & eerie hallway is malik's room (if you will, imagine the lighting affected by the evil magnetic forces - or chi? - of yami malik). (um, maybe they should have started the search HERE in the 1st place?) uncomfortable of the creepy atomosphere, everyone approaches the door to malik's room slowly. adrenaline running, the duelists yugi, seto & jou were on especially high alert, their hands grasped tightly around their duel discs. suddenly...BAM! the door to malik's room opens and two shadowy figures emerge from the room. (gasp!) the two persons begin to walk toward the group, apparently too involved with each other to notice there are others standing down the hall. jou, the leader in front, squints his eyes to try to make out who the persons are. meanwhile, everyone remains silent, holding their breath, hands tightened into tense fists, ready to attack. "s...shi...shizuka?" at jou's shaky voice, everyone looks at each other quizzically and then looks up at the two approaching figures...lo and behold, it's the missing shizuka & the villain malik! thinking it was malik who had kidnapped shizuka, the lovesick honda & otogi leap forward to try to rescue shizuka out of malik's dangerous grasp. but SHOCKU! the two guys freeze in mid air and everyone jawdrops when they realize shizuka & malik have their arms intimately wrapped around each other; and instead of the usual purple 'jaki' malik always emits, the couple is enveloped in an pink aura of love & bliss..."WTF is going on??!!"-- * * * * * now, wouldn't that be fun? XP plot yumminess aside, the two would also be (somewhat?) compatible with each other, even if it's a little far-fetched: SHIZUKA MALIK naive experienced (umm, yeah) worships her older brother needs to be worshipped appears weak but is emotionally strong appears aggressive but is emotionally fragile has an 'abusive' father & a tragic childhood (once) threatened by darkness, whether it's the blindness of sight or shadows of the soul personally, i particularly like the last similarity they share, so maybe in an alternate universe, if shizuka & malik were to meet and were allowed more opportunity to interact, feelings could have developed and shizuka might have been able to soften malik's heart, altering the outcome of the battle city arc. then again, a fangirl can dream on. ^_^;

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