Stories set in the Oversaturated World, some silly, some less so.
Oppressive stillness dominated Agent Heartstrings’s office, and not just because the gym storage room had no ventilation. Both occupants stared at each other as the clock ticked. Finally, the agent sighed and said, “You know, I really thought this would be a simple assignment.”
Ditzy Doo rolled her eyes, arms crossed. “That only reveals the depths of your ignorance.”
Agent Heartstrings narrowed her eyes. “You really shouldn’t take that tone with me, young lady. Especially not now.”
Ditzy shrugged. “I really don’t know what you expected.”
“I expected you to help defuse tension in a multiversal war that happened to dovetail with one of your specialties.”
“Then you should have told me that from the start. All I got as a mission briefing was, ‘Hey Ditzy, want to take a break from being a magical girl?’”
“It was more in-depth than that,” Agent Heartstrings said flatly.
Ditzy threw her hands into the air. “Not by much!”
“Look, just…” The agent trailed off, sighed, and massaged her temples. “For the purposes of the after-action report, I have to ask. How exactly did you manage to antagonize every faction in the war in under an hour?”
“Soon after I got into the target universe, I met the local Rainbow Dash, and she asked me where I was from. Synchro Dimension, Fusion Dimension, Xyz Dimension.” Ditzy sneered as she dragged out the penultimate word. “I told her I was from the Card-Game-with-an-Actual-Resource-System Dimension.”
“Ditzy.”
“You told me I’d be taking some time off from being a magical girl. You didn’t tell me you were just sending me into a different anime.” Ditzy scowled off to the side. “Yugi-Hime may be a fun source of bombastic theatrics, but it’s a game design disaster.”
Agent Heartstrings held back a groan, if barely. “That doesn’t mean you can insult the locals like that. Is that what did it?”
After a few moments, Ditzy shook her head. “Not exactly. She didn’t really understand what I meant, so she challenged me to a duel, because of course she would. I asked if we could play without the dumb wrist-mounted hologram projectors. You know the holograms actually have mass in that world?”
That got a nod. “That’s how they’re fighting a war with them.”
“So dumb. Well, she just looked at me like I’d switched to a different language midsentence. Didn’t move for a solid minute. Then everyone nearby with a Duel Device, which was most of them, came charging in with death in their eyes. Dash tried to strangle me. I fell over, spread my wings, and booked it out of the universe.” Ditzy absently rubbed at her throat. “I think it may have been some sort of cosmic immune response to someone trying to make sense.”
Agent Heartstrings permitted herself an eye roll. “Something like that.”
“Hey, you’re the one who sent a Hocus-Pocus player into that pile of stupid.”
“Ditzy, it’s a big multiverse out there, and there’s a lot of stupid in it. If you start antagonizing the locals every time you hit some hackneyed contrivance baked into the local laws of reality, you’re going to be miserable and make everyone around you miserable in turn.”
“Fine.” Ditzy got out of her chair. “Maybe I should just focus on the GALAX-E Girls for now.”
“This isn’t a dismissal,” said the agent, “Everyone has some early mistakes in the Office of Parallel Timelines. And given your talents, it would be a tragedy to see you confine yourself to one worldline. But you need to have more of an open mind.”
Ditzy said nothing, fidgeting for a few moments before sitting back down. Agent Heartstrings let her mull it over until she could voice her thoughts. “It bothers me, seeing something that should just be fun turned into a weapon. It’s not just cruel, it’s really inefficient. It’s like all those movie and video game plots where they want to turn dinosaurs or zombies or something into weapons. You have guns and bombs and stuff. They do the job very well. You don’t need holograms of clockwork golems to punch enemy cities into rubble. It takes a really twisted mind to go through that many steps just to make a way to hurt people.”
The agent nodded. “There are extenuating circumstances there, but I understand. Still, that doesn’t excuse poking the soft bits of that reality. We don’t want another Anon-a-Miss on our hands.”
“No, ma’am,” Ditzy droned.
Lyra smirked. “And I’ll be sure to let my superiors know that not all collectible card games are created equal.”
Ditzy returned a grin. “I appreciate it.”
“And I’ll appreciate one of our most promising field agents acting like it. Dismissed.”
I've heard good things about Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V, but I can't imagine a certain ersatz planeswalker would like the idea.
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Sequel series are almost never better than the originals, too.
I was surprised she didn't mention the Pull-it-outta-my-butt card.
In more ways than one
But yeah, each dimension has its own rules, physics, and circumstances for existing the way that it does. It'd likely take outsiders some time to adapt. That being said, MtG rules over all others (sorry Lucky), because the resource/mana system helps everything make sense.
My little brother got into Yu-Gi-Oh recently, and he's tried a couple times to explain the different types of summons. My head still hurts from trying to comprehend it. And I'm an astrophysicist.
So what dimension was Rainbow Dash from anyway? While I prefer fusion summoning, I can see Rainbow being from the Synchro dimension honestly (idk why but I can use fusion cards just fine but every time I try using an XYZ card I get the effect timing wrong)
Ditzy should’ve said the Ritual Dimension and watched RD’s head explode trying to comprehend that. In all seriousness, as weak as they are rituals need more love and the first series really should’ve utilized them way more, it was the series based on ancient magic created an a bloody ritual involving mass-murder and the gods after all
This has so much in-universe applicability, it's insane.
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They did get more support over time but sadly most of it was totally broken and the monsters themselves ridiculously overpowered then banned or limited enough to not be useful.
For the record I have played MTG, Yugioh, Pokémon, and Score DBZ.
Mostly I keep my toes in to Yugioh/Poke for nostalgia and play MTG since it really is the superior game. Also less cringe considering that one season was played on autopiloted motorcycles, which is the definition of WHY!!! Entertaining yes sane no. That and while MTG does occasionally get a banworthy card Yugioh really just breaks it to break it so you have to buy the hot new thing.
Oh, this reminds me: FoME, have you seen this yet?
...wow...Speaking as Yugioh player I'd say I feel attacked...if Dizty wasn't right. I mean, I don't really play Magic though I've tried it and other Card Games before. Personally I just like the one I've got, but DAMN...can't argue with anime Logic, I tell ya. Plus I'd have asked the same thing of RD and not had wings to run for my little life. ...still, would LOVE to see their cute toy soldiers stand up to my 11K King of the Skull Servants punching their faces in! Limiter Removal? No, My Wightprincess discards from hand and your monster's attack is down by 3000-3600 attack points in damage step!! Plus my Skull King goes up 700 points!! YEET!!!
If any of you understood that, thank you, if not don't feel bad, even players of my own game aren't used to my Geezer-class deck!
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In the case of Rituals, I give you the Drytron archetype. 4000K boss monsters recurring resources, loops that make my head spin, and DAMN good artwork! Also, brutal truth, Dash would be zooming around on a Duel Runner/D-Wheel because Rainbow Pone go Fast...I defy anyone to tell me otherwise. Heck, instead of Rainboom, she'd be the first to Accel Synchro, though she'd call it something like, "Rainbow Synchro!!" Or, "Sonic Synchro!!" Hell, just for the Memes, "Sonic Rainboom Synchro!" ...and looking at what I just typed, I'd even be willing to bet she'd try to go with the last one first...and because the universe hates me, her synchro rings WOULD be rainbow colored for that summon.
With that in mind, you DID know the Tribute summon mechanic introduced in battle City was a Way to simulate the Ritual aspects needed to summon the God Cards right? I mean, it says in the hieratic text of Ra that it needs 3 tributes, which outside of ritual cards never happened in base Yugioh until Battle City. Early theories suggest the God Cards were not just prototypes, but incomplete as they hadn't had a ritual developed for them by Pegasus to make them summon-able in the base game. It was Kaiba's advanced format that allowed them to be summoned as we know them today. In that way, the Ritual Dimension, would be a world where the advances in summoning methods didn't happen. Or hadn't happened yet, and the game was likely still played like Duelist Kingdom Rules. Minus some of the straight up plot-conveniences like Kuriboh self-destructing on contact with enemy...they need a quick-play spell for that IRL!
Sorry, this has been my Yugioh theory corner, thanks for reading and have a great day!
I expected you to help diffuse tension — Did you want defuse there?
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She never actually dueled anyone, so she was never subject to the protagonist topdeck.
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It's relatively straightforward.
Fusion: Put together the listed components using a spell.
Synchro: Put together the listed components, adding up their levels.
Xyz: Put together the listed components if their levels all match.
Link: Put together a number of listed components equal to the Link Rating; other Link Monsters count as a number equal to theirs.
And then there are Pendulums, which are just a whole pile of bull-honkery on their own.
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I was originally going to say that Dash was the designated protagonist, but she does work very well with card games on motorcycles. Given an ace monster named Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon, the local Ditzy may be the Yuya equivalent. She is a Dash recolor, after all. (This naturally means that Indigo Zap is from the military-academic complex, and Lightning Dust works as the grim figure in black. I suppose this means they were all originally G1 Firefly. )
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A good rule of thumb whenever you find yourself in an unfamiliar situation, really.
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I have, and it is glorious.
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I did, yes. Thanks for the catch.
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Actually, that whole tributes replacing ritual summoning to make the Gods cards useable is a fan theory that was never confirmed by the show nor creators. The real reason they did that was to introduce tribute summoning to the anime to show to potential new players how the game actually played, as opposed to the make everything up method of season 1
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Huh, yeah that DOES make more sense, though I DO like the fan theory as it ties into the natural progression of summoning methods leading to Synchro summoning thanks to Kaiba. And then, from Yusei's era we eventually hit Xyz summoning...then the Cluster that was Arc-V, and then we get to Link...though VRAINS was one of those series I just couldn't get into. LOVE the mechanic, mind you, but MAN was the plot a bit...well...Ok, point blank, I did NOT like the protag and the other characters were either bland or irritated me! Only one that didn't that much was Ai, and HE got the villain treatment later, so...yeah.
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That’s fair. You do need to develop cognitohazard training to survive Derpibooru.
Arc-V was great...in the first arc, then we had the overlong Synchro arc, an abbreviated XYZ arc, and a finale where Yuya had to duel friends in multiple dimensions to destroy the Big Bad for good by making a baby smile.
And VRAINS...ugh, VRAINS. On top of everything else, HORRIBLE Broken Aesop.
Season 1:
Cyberterrorist: We've run the numbers, and humans and AI cannot coexist, so I'm going to blow up the Internet to destroy all AI!
Protagonist and AI buddy: You're wrong, humans and AI CAN coexist, and we'll prove it by beating you!
*They do so*
Season 2:
Evil AI: We've run the numbers, and humans and AI cannot coexist, so I'm going to take over the Internet and kill all humans!
Protagonist and AI buddy: You're wrong, humans and AI CAN coexist, and we'll prove it by beating you!
*They do so*
Season 3:
AI buddy: I've run the numbers and it turns out everyone was right, humans and AI CAN'T coexist, so I'm going to inexplicably turn evil, defeat most of the insignificant side characters I MEAN our friends, and steal their souls I MEAN consciousness data, and force you into a duel where either you defeat me, which will kill me and save our friends, or I beat you, then I kill myself in order to create a new race of androids who shall go into the world and do whatever they want, I won't care since I'll be dead.
Protagonist: Wait, what?
I'm not sure how familiar you are with Arc-V, but Ditzy's perspective in this chapter mirrors the protag Yuya's pretty closely - the part where there's an interdimensional war being fought via a children's card game that's meant to be fun and enjoyable, and that this is wrong, is the major emotional throughline of the series. Odd-Eyes indeed...
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and yet, I am now at the end
staring into that nothingness
regretful of the pace I have set
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If you wish to explore further, weary traveler, remember that you can always contribute your own wanderings in the forum thread.
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How do you think she learned it in the first place?