Yu-Gi-Oh GX fic research update #5 – Once Upon A Time In Dark World.

This time I am going to talk about the guys past lives in my fic. And what I mean by pass lives, I don't mean what their lives were before Duel Academy, but what their lives were when they were alive in Dark World, when Jaden was the Supreme Prince and Yubel wasn't turned into a duel monster. So let us start with the most obvious guy first.

Jaden Yuki – The Dark King

• We know that Jaden is the Supreme King and he seems to be the supreme ruler of Dark World. He's best friend Yubel was turn into a duel monster in order to protect and guard Jaden. Well from what I can tell, he had a good and healthy childhood as the Supreme Prince, other than seeing Yubel being turned into a monster I don't see any form of trauma. But Zure, the Knight of Dark World, recognized Jaden before he tuned into the Supreme King in the anime. So given that as a clue, the Jaden in his past life became dark in a sense after his father died and he became king or sometime before. And during that time I can also guess there were a lot of battles and duels like all medieval times. So this is where I will start my back story plot in my fic.

Zane Truesdale – The Vampire

• Why did I choose Zane's past life in Dark World to be a vampire, well Zane has that vampire Goth vibe to him. And my version of a vampire is as follows.
  - Vampires cast shadows but they animate and move on their own.
  - They have reflections in mirrors an other reflective surfaces but they show the vampire's darker side of their personalities.
  - Instead of being tied to their place of burial, they are tied to something like an emotion, smell, sight, etc.
  - The sleep like normal people do, but it is a deep sleep with vivid and/or realistic dreams.
  - Instead of a blood lust they have something simpler called and essence lust. In essence lust the site, smell, touch, taste, sound or mention of an unique essence will trigger the vampire to go into an uncontrollable frenzy.
• So can you see Zane acting like this. I can and I am still trying to figure out how he became one. But there are a few things you should know about Zane's past in Dark World.
  - His father is the one that help create the magic that turned Yubel into a duel monster.
  - Jesse is his half brother.
  - Zane is being hunted down by Jim.

Jesse Anderson – The Demon

• Other than being related to Zane, the blue hair did it for me because both of them almost have the same color hair, Jesse and Zane have the same mother. Jesse's father on the other hand is a demon. Like some rape stories from the middle ages, the poor woman is raped by a demon and gives birth to a demon child. Like the wizard Merlin who's mother was a nun who was raped by the devil or a demon and that is how Merlin got his magical powers. So that is what I am planning on doing to Jesse. He will have a natural knack for black magic and he teaches it to the heroin in the fic.

Atticus Rhodes – The Unseelie Fey

• It is Atticus' uncanny ability to charm the girls, be unpredictable, creative and have this unnatural knack to see the bright side of things that made me give him the part of the fairy prince in this fic. And before you say Atticus being a fairy is silly and girly think again. Not all fairies are like Tinkerbell from Peter Pan or like the fairy godmother from Cinderella. Fairies can be dark an evil as well. Kidnapping people and babies and replacing them with fakes via fairy magic. Like Oberon and Puck from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer's Night Dream, they are dark and mischievous creatures who think they are better than humans and will often makes deals with humans. And same to with Atticus, he will teach fey magic to the heroin of the fic.

Jim “Crocodile” Cook – The Witch Hunter.

• I have Jim as a twisted and corrupt priest who goes from village to village, town to town and city to city to get rid of witches, demons, vampires and other monsters to protect innocents from evil. He loves his job to much and what I mean by twisted and corrupted I mean he drinks, sells indulgences so people can go to heaven, steals money, lies, steal and smuggles items of value, has sex, etc. His religious views that he shows is only for show and he doesn't believe in any of them and his vows of poverty, chastity and charity are always broken and he has an unhealthy obsession with witches especially the witches' sexual backgrounds and relationships.

Tyranno Hassleberry – The Weredragon

• I made Hassleberry into a weredragon for a couple of reasons. One, he has traits of a werecreature when his dinosaur DNA kicks in and two, the closest things to dinosaurs in medieval times there were in fairytale were dragons. We all no Hassleberry isn't stupid, if it wasn't for him not being from a rich family he would have been an obelisk blue, and in history and myths dragons are always smart even though animistic which fits Hassleberry perfectly. So he will know dragon magic and will teach the heroin as well, but he will also be an ally to Jim as well. Why? I am not saying... yet.

So this is the bare bones of the guys' pasts in Dark World. All of this is still in the ruff stages but I am still taking notes yet.