[CHAR] Yu-Gi-Oh!: Perils of the Night

[Double]

Toby

Character Name: Tobias "Toby" Westen

Description:
He's an athletic teenager of about 17 years of age, standing at a slightly above-average height of 6'1" and weighing at just around 200 pounds or so. He's got dark brown hair that he either combs straight back or has parted to one side. Not that his hair is always visible. It's pretty rare to find him without his signature baseball cap featuring the logo of his high school team, the Tigers. Outside that he'll either be wearing his school clothes or maybe one his old jerseys paired with blue jeans or the like. In colder weather he has a brown denim jacket he's been known to occasionally wear to stave off the cold.

Personality:
Terrible sense of priorities. No respect for authority. Self-entitled jackass. You know, the typical teenager crap. But there is something a bit more buried underneath all that. Sure, he's just some idiot kid, but he's an idiot kid who is seemingly incapable of backing down. Does this land him in trouble? Oh absolutely. And yet it also lends itself well to someone who's job at the end of the day is stand up against the scary monsters so that they won't hurt any innocent people. He's also competitive... very competitive. Probably has something to with his athletic background, but the point is, he absolutely hates losing. Any loss suffered is typically met with a raw determination to get payback.

Background:
Toby only ever had two great loves in his life: Baseball and Duel Monsters. Well for the former he was recently cut from the team at his school. He got in one too many arguments with the coach, who Toby insists hates his guts for some unknown reason. The truth is that his competitive nature made him difficult to work with but like hell if he was ever going to admit that. But for the latter, Duel Monsters has essentially become Toby's surrogate replacement for baseball since he can no longer play for his school. Toby's competed in a local or two, but nothing major beyond that. He's still relatively new to the game, and so his deck and collection of cards is still rather limited. He plays a decent deck but often finds himself hurting for cash to buy better cards. Still, he at least knows how to work with what he's got, such as it is. At one point it was a Structure Deck that was originally given to him by a friend to help him get into the game. Toby has since made some modifications, namely the addition of some extra Felgrand and Red-Eyes Monsters. Also, Toby's relative inexperience in Duel Monsters means he has not even so much as met any factions, much less joined one.

Deck List

Main Deck (40)

Monsters (23)
Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon x1
Red-Eyes Wyvern x2
Red-Eyes Retro Dragon x2
Paladin of Felgrand x2
Guardian of Felgrand x2
Felgrand Dragon x1
Divine Dragon Lord Felgrand x1
Dragon Knight of Creation x2
Arkbrave Dragon x1
Decoy Dragon x2
White Night Dragon x1
Evilswarm Zahak X1
Keeper of the Shrine x2
Kidmodo Dragon x1
Card Trooper x2

Spells (11)
Ruins of the Divine Dragon Lords x1
Return of the Dragon Lords x1
Dragon Ravine x1
A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon x1
Trade-In x1
Foolish Burial x1
Hand Destruction x1
Reinforcement of the Army x1
The Warrior Returning Alive x1
Nobleman of Crossout x1
Terraforming x1

Traps (6)
Dragon's Rebirth x1
Burst Breath x1
Needlebug Nest x1
Breakthrough Skill x1
Call of the Haunted x1
Oasis of Dragon Souls x1

[King Cosmos]

Claire Turner

Name: Claire Turner

Gender: ♀

Personality: A wanderer at heart, Claire likes to think of herself as the type of person who doesn’t stick around one place for too long, but who leaves lots of memories and stories in her wake. She tries to be assertive and confident with people she hasn’t met, forward and hopefully with an easy charm that makes people like her. She tries to pursue what she wants, not letting the opinions and concerns of others hold her back and hopes that it comes across as decisive rather than selfish.

Enigmatic; or at least she wants to be. Claire knows more about the people around her than they know about her and that is entirely intentional; part of it is asking questions, being friendly and getting people to talk about themselves, but it is also a deliberate desire to be secretive and dodge any return questions, but in a teasing way that plays up the mystery around herself. The ties in to Claire’s aloof nature; she had an easy time dealing with other people socially, but prefers to avoid attachments. She doesn’t keep friendships, at least not for long ad tries to keep her distance from people.

History: Claire is a normal girl from a relatively small town in the Northern prefectures of Japan. As a kid she was fond of sports, very energetic and had more in common with the boys her age than the girls, but as she got older and her friends started to take their sports more seriously she drifted away from them. Instead she developed more of an interest in nerdy hobbies and took a liking to sci-fi, fantasy and anime; in particular she became interested in the game of Duel Monsters after watching the shows in middle school. Luckily, her school had a club for the game that was fairly popular and after playing a few games with a borrower deck she started buying packs and made her own. As you’d expect from a first attempt, it was pretty bad and she lost a lot of game, but her new friends were helpful and helped her to improve both the deck and as a player and she ended up becoming pretty good at the game; one of the best in her small town at least.

Aside from the card game, after moving to high school Claire developed an interest in engines and mechanics; particularly motorcycles, something inspired by the fact that the older brother of one of her friends had bought and was repairing an old motorcycle in their garage. The fact that she had a crush on the brother had nothing to do with it, she swears. Clair offered to help him, despite not knowing anything about it at the time, and although it started as an excuse to spent time with him, she developed a genuine interest in the subject.

As a teen, Clair started to have strange dreams; dreams about monsters and things in the shadows that were sinister and malicious. At first they were like regular nightmares, indistinct and scary, but over time they became clearer; clear enough that she began to recognise some of the monsters in her dreams as coming from the game of Duel Monsters. She thought nothing of this, dismissing them as the product of an over active imagination, until she started to see things in real life too. Shadows out of the corner of her eye that were gone when she turned to look, silhouettes in the dark that might have been something inhuman, bumps in the night that no one else heard. The nightmares continued to wear away at her and now it seemed like they had followed her to the waking world too, something she knew she could never tell anyone.

Not without being called crazy.

It all culminated in one night, a couple of weeks after her graduation from high school, when one of her nightmares decided to show themselves to her, plain as day, as she was walking home one night. Claire tried to ignore it, it wasn’t real after all, monsters couldn’t be real, but when it came close enough that she could feel its breath on her face, smell the musk of its body and its claws pricking her skin? It had to be real.

Claire ran that night. Ran all the way home, to gather her belongings and what money she could and her Duel Monster deck for some instinctive reason and packed her bags. She ran to her friend’s house, to their garage, and let herself in with a spare key to take the motorcycle she had helped rebuild. She ran to the open road on a stolen bike without telling anyone where she was going, in fear of the monsters that had been stalking her for years by this point and who no longer seemed content to staying in the shadows.

Deck(s):

Metalfoes

Monsters (22)
3x Metalfoes Volflame
3x Metalfoes Goldriver
3x Metalfoes Silverd
3x Metalfoes Steelen
1x Metalfoes Vanisher
3x Metalfoes Melcaster
3x Metalfoes Bismugear
3x Baobaboon

Spells (10)
3x Painful Decision
1x Pot of Riches
2x Parametalfoes Fusion
2x Metalfoes Fusion
2x Fullmetalfoes Fusion

Traps (8)
3x Metalfoes Counter
2x Metalfoes Combination
2x First-Aid Squad
1x Fists of the Unrivalled Tenyi

Extra Deck (15)
1x Metalfoes Crimsonite
2x Metalfoes Orichalc
1x Parametalfoes Azortless
2x Metalfoes Mithrilium
2x Fullmetalfoes Alkahest
1x Number 17: Leviathan Shark
1x Amphibious Swarmship Amblowhale
2x Heavymetalfoes Amalgam
1x Heavymetalfoes Electrumite
1x Duelittle Chimera
1x Beyond The Pendulum

[The World]

Luna

Character Sheet

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Character Name:
Luna Abbott

Age:
16

Personality:
A chaotic girl who doesn't know the meaning of the words "calm down," Luna tends to be the type to take things too far in every situation. This has manifested in the past in various ways, some of which are:
1. Punching her second-grade "boyfriend" in the neck when "breaking up" with him because he "cheated on her" by hugging another girl. (That girl was his cousin. Luna did not forgive him.)
2. Inventing a tarot system using regular playing cards in order to attempt to divine the answers to a yearly test in fourth-grade that would occur the week after she "figured out" the "magic." (This somehow succeeded and she still occasionally uses the "magic cards" to try to figure out how to handle important things.)
3. Breaking a handheld video game system's screen by headbutting it when in last place in a racing game. (She finished in fourth place.)
4. Winning her sixth grade track-meet because another student made her mad by stealing her water-bottle. (Nobody knows why this was her response to that particular "offense.")
5. And countless other examples.

She's a hardheaded almost-narcissist who loves gambling and picking fights, whether they be literal or figurative, and tends to win those she starts. She's regarded by her schoolmates as either "really cool" (which is only said under duress about half the time) or "a total loser," depending on which group of students you ask. Adults tend to (rightfully) consider her a troublemaker and a slacker, the latter of which titles she wears with pride.

The last thing of note about Luna is that she considers herself a "punk" and tends to listen to music that correlates with that self-given descriptor, usually at a loud volume from headphones that she always wears around her neck but rarely on her ears. Her phone, mp3 player, and headphones are some of her most prized possessions.

Background:
Luna has grown up in a middle-class household and rarely wanted for anything. When she did, it was usually because she was in trouble with her parents, which was relatively often, actually. She lived most of her life in a town near Old Domino City, but as of her 15th birthday, she and her younger brother (12 at the time, currently 13) have been living with their aunt and uncle in an urban town just outside the city she grew up in, a fact that she both hates outright and hates to think about.

A week before she began living with her aunt and uncle, her parents were killed by a drunk driver. Their car was totaled, but for unknown reasons their bodies were never found. The police have never publicly released a report on what happened to them, other than that they were presumed dead. After a week of packing for her and her brother, the two moved in with their mother's brother and his wife on Luna's birthday, a day that now only reminds her of her parents.

Recently, her brother has gotten her into Duel Monsters, a card game that he greatly enjoys. To be blunt, the main reason Luna started playing, aside from it being an escape from her life that she could enjoy with her brother, is that her new school has a rather large "underground gambling ring" where the main attraction is playing Duel Monsters for prizes. So far she's used her brother's deck to win a rare structure deck for herself based around the Egyptian Gods from the show. However, she lost a good half of these cards in subsequent duels and has had to try to rebuild it from its damaged state. This has resulted in her current deck being quite different than it began, but with help from her brother who is much more knowledgeable about the game she's managed to craft something relatively usable.

Two days ago, she packed up her portable video games, her phone and mp3 player, her headphones, a few changes of clothes, and some money she stole from her uncle's wallet, and has run away from home for the second time since her parents' death. Her brother was unaware of this, but she left him a note; at least he gets treated decently by their guardians, unlike Luna. The last thing she grabbed was her incomplete Duel Monsters deck, in the hopes that its popularity would mean opportunities to gamble if she needed more cash.

Soon to be Deck List

Main Deck: 60 Cards

Monsters: (27)

Alice, Lady of Lament (1)
Angel 01 (3)
Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (1)
Cyber Jar (1)
Double Coston (3)
Giant Germ (3)
Holding Arms (1)
Holding Legs (1)
Juragedo (1)
Lilith, Lady of Lament (1)
Loris, Lady of Lament (1)
Malice, Lady of Lament (1)
Proof of Pruflas (3)
Reactor Slime (1)
Scapeghost (1)
Tellus the Little Angel (1)
The Wicked Avatar (1)
The Wicked Dreadroot (1)
The Wicked Eraser (1)

Spells: (23)

Card Advance (1)
Chain Summoning (1)
Change of Heart (1)
Divine Evolution (2)
Harpie's Feather Duster (1)
Magical Mallet (2)
March of the Monarchs (2)
Monster Reborn (1)
Monster Reincarnation (1)
Mound of the Bound Creator (1)
Raigeki (1)
Soul Crossing (2)
Swords of Concealing Light (1)
Swords of Revealing Light (2)
Terraforming (1)
The Dark Chapel (2)*
Upstart Goblin (1)

Traps: (10)

Draining Shield (1)
Evenly Matched (1)
Metal Reflect Slime (3)
Mirror Force (1)
The Golden Apples (1)
Ultimate Divine-Beast (2)
Waboku (1)

Extra Deck: (4)

Underworld Goddess of the Closed World (1)
Egyptian God Slime (3)

Current Deck List

Main Deck: 42 Cards

Monsters: (19)

Alice, Lady of Lament (1)
Angel 01 (3)
Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (1)
Cyber Jar (1)
Double Coston (1)
Giant Germ (3)
Juragedo (1)
Lilith, Lady of Lament (1)
Loris, Lady of Lament (1)
Malice, Lady of Lament (1)
Proof of Pruflas (2)
Reactor Slime (1)
Scapeghost (1)
The Wicked Eraser (1)

Spells: (16)

Card Advance (1)
Divine Evolution (1)
Harpie's Feather Duster (1)
Magical Mallet (2)
March of the Monarchs (2)
Monster Reborn (1)
Monster Reincarnation (1)
Mound of the Bound Creator (1)
Raigeki (1)
Soul Crossing (2)
Swords of Concealing Light (1)
Terraforming (1)
Upstart Goblin (1)

Traps: (7)

Draining Shield (1)
Evenly Matched (1)
Metal Reflect Slime (2)
Mirror Force (1)
The Golden Apples (1)
Waboku (1)

Extra Deck: (4)

Underworld Goddess of the Closed World (1)
Egyptian God Slime (3)

Unique Card

*:
The Dark Chapel
(Field Spell)
This card cannot be destroyed or banished while on the field. While this card is on the field, "The Wicked Avatar," "The Wicked Dreadroot," and "The Wicked Eraser" are also treated as DIVINE Attribute and Divine-Beast Type while in the hand, field, or GY. Once per turn, when this card is activated and again during each of your Standby Phases, choose either the first or second of the following effects; You may use that effect this turn. Your opponent may use the other effect during their turn.
1. You may Banish the top card of your Deck, face-down. If you do so, you may Normal Summon an additional Monster.
2. Once during this turn, you may Banish the bottom two (2) cards of your Deck, face-down. If you do so, you may Special Summon a Monster that requires a single Tribute to Normal Summon.

[Randomguy]

Aile Schulze

Name: Aile Schulze
Age: 18
Gender: Female

Personality

A serious girl who is calm and collected most of the time. Her teachers often described her as responsible and mature, but at the same time almost always had an addendum of 'don't get along with her peers'. The type of girl who would absolutely remind the teacher that they had homework. Despite everything, however, pretty much everyone knew that if you wanted to get things done, you go to Aile, and as she took her duty as the Student Council President seriously, even her biggest detractors begrudgingly tolerated her. She also has a high expectation of herself and of others, sometimes to an uncompromising degree, which led her to butt head with others. An infamous incident was Aile breaking up with her first boyfriend over organizational matters. She did not think that he was doing his job well enough as the student council's secretary, and thus removed him from the position, leading to an argument. Of course, most people considered her actions to be extreme, but she was a true believer in 'if things are worth doing, they're worth doing well', again sometimes—or perhaps most of the time—to her detriment.

Background
Born to the Schulze family of the Wohnglück conglomerate, Aile spent her childhood attending the best tutoring money can afford. From academics to etiquette in high society as well as artistic pursuit, Aile grew up with her entire day's schedule full of these tutoring. The Schulze family is descended from old German nobility, and they maintain a noblesse oblige look in regard to their company. In short, they are at its core a business passed down in the Schulze family though its heirs are expected to dedicate their lives to the company. Aile, is of course, no different in this regard, she has been brought up as an heir to the massive conglomerate with all the lessons and strict upbringing that come with it.

Her relationship with the rest of her family, is of course, more professional than the warmth provided by a conventional family, with many being people of importance in various sectors and family politics a commonplace occurrence. With her father being the sole exception. A former philanderer and rebel in his youth, Aile's father, Joshua Schulze tried his best to be laxer with his daughter and provide her with a more normal childhood, in particular introducing her to various games from chess, tabletop, and video games, and of course, duel monster—to the consternation of the rest of his family, in particular, his mother—at least until Aile was five years old. In a tragic course of events, both Joshua's mother and wife died in the span of a few months. His mother on a plane accident and his wife from an illness. As he took over the conglomerate, Aile began to see him less and less often, eventually the only times Aile would interact with him was through phone calls or emails amidst his supposedly busy schedule.

By the time Aile graduated from middle school, she got into an uncharacteristically rebellious phase and decided to attend high school abroad. After a heated exchange with her father (over a call, of course), she had permission, to attend school in Domino City, where an old friend—though apparently they’ve been estranged for a while—would act as her guardian. While Aile agreed, she had also managed to wrangle the concession of her living on her own. And so her new 'independence' life (as much as one can be independent as a teenager whose living cost is still paid for) begins. While living without the constant lessons and tutoring was nice, after a few months, Aile was starting to get restless at suddenly having too much free time. She eventually took to do some tutoring for middle school kids as well as joining the student government, eventually becoming the student council president as a first year. A feat that she repeated in High School.

In her 3rd year of High School, she found out that her father had gone missing on a business trip. After looking deeper into it, she had found the circumstances to be off, but further inquiry was blocked by the Wohnglück conglomerate. Her trail of investigation ultimately led to her guardian in Domino City, William Burke. William eventually revealed that her father, as the head of the Wohnglück conglomerate, was actually part of the secret society the Conspiracy, whom the conglomerate had been backing for a while now, and he had gone missing while conducting some business as a Conspirators. William himself was a member of their rival society, the Duelist Society, finding out Aile’s father's involvement with the Conspiracy was what led to their original estrangement.

What William had told her confirmed most of what she had found out from her own investigations, as well as giving better context to the situation. Aile’s current hypothesis was that the Conspiracy was responsible for her Father’s disappearance in a secret experiment that had gone awry. And so, to get to the truth of the matter, Aile was inducted into the Duelist Society through William.

Deck

Monster
Noble Knight Medraut x3
Noble Knight Custennin x3
Noble Knight Brothers x3
Noble Knight Iyvanne x2
Noble Knight Borz x1
Noble Knight Gawayn x1
Noble Knight Drystan x1
Noble Knight Artorigus x1
Ignoble Knight of Black Laundsallyn x1
Gwenhwyfar, Queen of Noble Arms x1
Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring x3
Effect Veiler x3

Spell
Reinforcement of the Army x1
Called by the Grave x1
Camelot, Realm of Noble Knights and Noble Arms x3
Noble Knights of the Round Table x1
Heritage of the Chalice x3
Noble Arms - Clarent x1
Noble Arms - Arfeudutyr x1
Noble Arms - Caliburn x1
Noble Arms - Gallatin x1
Noble Arms of Destiny x1
Noble Arms - Excaliburn x2

Trap
Until Noble Arms are Needed Once Again x2

Extra Deck
Artorigus, King of the Noble Knights x2
Sacred Noble Knight of King Artorigus x2
Sacred Noble Knight of King Custennin x2
Ignoble Knight of High Laundsallyn x1
Knightmare Unicorn x1
Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights x1
Ferocious Flame Swordsman x1

[Digmata]

The One Who Walks Between Light and Dark

Character Profile

"If I can be anywhere else, I wouldn't be standing here before you."

Theme Song

https://youtu.be/Gw65jr-tAjw?si=wJO26O5FWKLNvmvu

"But we only play the cards in our hands."

Character Name: Henry Palmer
Age: 20
Occupation: College Student

Personality: A guy who lives in the moment, uncaring of the future and not bounded by his unknown past, Henry is the type of person who will give his all on whatever task was presented to him regardless if he's actually interested or not. Those who know him even in passing would describe him as an incredibly blunt person who won't hesitate to speak what was on his mind regardless of the situation. This makes him come across as insensitive.

Despite that however, Henry is a responsible person especially when other people placed their trust on him to the point that he placed their well being above his personal situation.

Background: Henry Palmer was an orphan who was raised by an old man that he saw as his grandfather and only family, aside from that uncommon family he lived his mundane life beneath the notice of almost everyone. When he reached his thirteenth birthday, his grandfather offered him to tell the truth about his parents but he declined believing that knowing about them won't change a thing about his life.

Things got bizarre during his high school days, he would receive cryptic messages, gather the attention and protection of suspicious people and his grandfather insisted that he should improve his dueling skills for his 'protection'. He thought that the last portion was weird but he decided to humor his grandfather until his demise to old age. During his first year in college however a mysterious woman claiming to be a 'servant of his family' visited him and claimed that his 'true' family was searching for him. He tried to shoo her away but when she broke his door it suddenly occurred to him that he had no choice in this matter.

Deck

https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=14820466

Monsters [27 Cards]

Fabled Ashenvail x2
Fabled Dyf x2
Fabled Grimo x2
Fabled Gallabas x2
Fabled Kushano x2
The Fabled Catsith x1
Fabled Ganasha x1
Beigiie, Vanguard of Dark World x2
Broww, Huntsman of Dark World x2
Brron, Mad King of Dark World x2
Scarr, Scout of Dark World x1
Grenn, Tactician of Dark World x1
Snipe Hunter x1
Chaos Sorceror x2
Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World x2
The Chaos Creator x2
Chaos Emperor Dragon, Envoy of the End x1\

Spells and Traps [13 Cards]

Dark World Dealings x2
The Gates of Dark World x2
Charge into Dark world x2
Card Destruction x2
Fabled Treason x1
Solemn Strike x2
Solemn Judgement x1
Solemn Wishes x1
Metalmorph x1

Extra Deck

Fabled Ragin x1
Fabled Unicore x1
Fabled Leviathan x1
Fabled Andwraith x1
Star Eater x1

[Kero]

GAMBA GAMBA GAMBA

Name: Lucy Mallory
Age: 24

Personality:
“You’re right, I could win right now with a single direct attack. You’re out of monsters, you have got no traps to speak of, and no spells left… Right now, if I want win, I tell Miss Judge to slap you for 1800, and that’ll be it…”

“...”

“NO, LET'S LET FATE DECIDE!"

"I FLIP SUMMON DICE JAR!”

“COME ON, THROW YOUR DICE! LET’S SEE WHO’S HEAD WILL BE ROLLING TONIGHT!”

Lucy is the type of person that views just about everything in life, and life itself, as nothing more than a game. You pick your move, you play your card, and you wait to see if life has some sort of response. As a result, she has a hard time bothering to care about things outside of herself. If another person can’t get her something she wants, or they aren’t even fun to be around, why waste time sticking around them, you know?

As a result of her perspective on life, alongside her selfish tendencies, if given an opportunity to do so, Lucy can and will take entirely unnecessary risks just for the sake of seeing what might happen. If it’s something that she knows will seriously fuck her over, her selfishness will more than likely steer her away from it… but that’s extremely infrequent, as what she considers too risky and what others consider too risky are on entirely different spectrums, once again a result of her mentality.

A selfish gambler who sees life as nothing more than another game to be played at the table.

Backstory:
Despite the way she acts, Lucy’s background is… actually nothing notable at all.

Though, perhaps, that in it of itself is why she acts this way.

Her childhood was nothing besides standard, except, perhaps, for her difficulty when it came to holding friendships. Through kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school, she always remained somewhere around the middle of the pack. Like any other child, if she had applied herself, she likely would have managed to move past the pack and done better, but that simply didn’t interest her.

At the end of the day, it was just a matter of working out how much work she’d be getting throughout the year, and seeing where she could afford to slack off and where she couldn’t. After all, why waste time on something you don’t even care for?

It was a trait that caused a good deal of friction between herself and her family. Lucy was a constant point of frustration, and had she not gone off to college on a whim, might’ve inadvertently driven her family apart. Not that she really cared. She might’ve heard something about her parents making a new kid…? But it’s kinda whatever, now.

After all, once she moved out, they barely even talked more than once a year.

Regardless, much like her earlier school life, college wasn’t really anything special either… The school itself, that is.

You see, while Lucy found herself using the same old strategy for schoolwork with about the same effectiveness… She found herself thrust into one of the great pleasures of life that her family had tried to steer her away from.

Gambling.

It also coincided with her introduction to duel monsters… in the form of gambling, of course. And, of course, it was no surprise that she cheated at every opportunity. Drunk and smashed as most ended up at those kinds of parties, it was plenty easy to slip things by, no matter the game being played. Suffice to say, her out of school college life was a bit hectic. But like all games, it’s gotta end eventually.

And end it did.

Lucy graduates, and finds herself drifting...

What game of life will catch her eye next?

Deck List

Main Deck:

Monster Cards:
2x Time Wizard
3x Dice Jar
3x Sasuke Samurai #4
1x Snipe Hunter
3x Gambler of Legend
2x Twin Barrel Dragon
3x Miss Judge

Spell Cards:
3x Cup of Ace
1x The Claw of Hermos
3x Dark Sanctuary
3x Second Coin Toss
1x Dangerous Machine Type-6
1x Roulette Spider
2x Dicephoon

Trap Cards:
2x Fairy Box
2x Ordeal of a Traveler
2x Skill Drain
1x Lucky Punch
2x Head Judging

Extra Deck:
1x Time Magic Hammer
1x Time Wizard of Tomorrow
1x Number 39: Utopia
1x Gagaga Cowboy
3x Number 85: Crazy Box
1x Castel, the Skyblaster Musketeer
2x Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon

[VarionusNW]

Anthony Arden

Anthony Arden

21, Male

Appearance

Messy dark hair partly covers a plain and dour face framed by square glasses. His frame is that of relatively average build, though he's relatively tall, sitting around 6ft2in. He's in shape, but not exactly fit, active but not the type to deliberately work out. He is usually seen in a beat-up old bomber jacket, plain colored button-ups, a belt, jeans, and worn-out sneakers, a style he rarely deviates from or accessorizes on top of.

Personality

Anthony is a strange young man. A first impression might reveal him to be terse, cold, potentially even, mechanical, manipulative, and calculating. Others might describe him instead as insightful and friendly, though a tad too fond of rambling for his own good. He would agree with both evaluations, they're both aspects of the complicated system of factors that lead him to be who he is. That's how he views most things, in terms of elements that add up into wholes, with each part having a function towards the purpose of the thing, and a reason they were put there in the first place. People follow that rule the same as his bike, or his decks, just in a more roundabout fashion. He deeply enjoys the process of learning how things worth, and training his intuition on further data such that he can improve his understanding of the world. Knowledge is very much power to Anthony. He's a good-natured kid, ultimately, not yet losing his positivity despite the loss of his father and his mother's distance, though those elements of his personality are often guarded from most that he meets. He reserves that positive mood for his close friends and the fellow duelists he takes under his wing.

Background

background

Anthony was the second child of Mari and Tony Arden, a successful scientist and a "professional odd-jobber." He always found himself in the shadow of the people around him: his mother's scientific achievements, his sister Gwen being something of an academic savant, and even his father being somewhat successful at high level Duel Monsters tournaments. Tony never held down a job for much longer than a few months, but he was at least an ever-present force in Anthony's youth, teaching both children how to play the game he seemed to love so much, as well as generally being a source of positive advice. The kids practically grew up between home, science labs, and card shops so that their parents could avoid leaving them alone. It was a fairly loving childhood, as far as Anthony was concerned.
On Anthony's 14th birthday, his parents got into an argument, as far as he knew for the first time, and by the end of the hellish day were already planning the divorce. The assets were split by the end of the week, and it was decided Anthony would stay with his mother, and Gwen demanded to go with their father. Being 16, they let her. Anthony protested that he wanted to stay with all of them, but his Father was fairly clear that he needed to stay with her, there was no choice.
Anthony loved his mother, of course, and with her help focused more heavily on his academics. He only got back into Duel Monsters after Gwen started calling him again after about a year of near silence, essentially threatening him into playing again, and sending him several of their dad's old decks. The calls became nightly, discussing strategies and new releases. She sometimes even sent packages of cards, with him always beaming with excitement at what new tools he had to play around with. He eventually started doing what his sister and father had for him at the local card shops. He played for fun, and started teaching newer kids how to play. It was his little sanctuary, the card game, a reminder of the good times, and he wished to spread that joy to as many others as possible, and maybe win a few games thanks to the analytical eye that had been sort of trained into him. His life was finally steady again, at least for another few years.
Anthony eventually started college, and did his best to balance his hobbies with constant classes, but he was wearing a bit thin. His father, who rarely talked on the phone, mostly letting Gwen do the talking, hadn't been responding to calls, and as the weeks wore on, there was rarely a sign of Gwen either. Eventually she broke the silence and told him that their father was missing. No one had seen him for weeks. Anthony's mother seemed to already know, seeming dour when he went to her lab to talk to her. She sat and consoled him for a while, seeming rather in need of consolation herself. When the conversation fell to complete silence, she handed him a small bag, keys to the former family home, his dad's old motorcycle's key, the key to a safe of some sort, and some cash. His mother specifically warned that he should only use the safe key if he absolutely has to. Only as a last resort. After that, he was escorted away from the premises, and has barely heard from his mother outside of short, impersonal phone calls. With Gwen's calls also reduced to nearly zero, Anthony was suddenly and completely alone.
That was a year and a half ago, and ever since he's been slowly fixing up the old motorcycle, and wandering through the haunting remnants of that old house. In the basement, a large dark-green safe sits, almost taunting him. He tries to avoid thinking about it. He hasn't spent much time dueling in the last few months, but is now finally hoping to jump back into it, to find that sanctuary once again.

Deck List

deck list

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1x M-X-Saber Brightsoul*
3x Rescue Cat
3x Summoner Monk
3x X-Saber Airbellum
2x X-Saber Pashuul
2x XX-Saber Boggart Knight
3x XX-Saber Darksoul
3x XX-Saber Faultroll
2x XX-Saber Fullhelmknight

2x Book of Moon
1x Change of Heart
2x Gottoms' Second Call
1x Harpie's Feather Duster
1x Monster Reborn
1x Saber Reflection
1x Snatch Steal
2x Twin Twisters

3x Gottoms' Emergency Call
1x Reinforce Truth
2x Saber Hole
1x Titanocider

1x Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1x Clear Wing Synchro Dragon
1x Colossal Fighter
1x Crimson Blader
1x Goyo Chaser
1x Goyo Guardian
1x Naturia Barkion
1x Naturia Beast
1x Trishula Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1x Stardust Dragon
1x X-Saber Souza
1x X-Saber Urbellum
1x XX-Saber Gottoms
2x XX-Saber Hyunlei

Custom Card

M-X-Saber Brightsoul EARTH
Level 2
[Beast/Tuner/Effect]
You can treat this as level 1 or 3 for the Synchro or XYZ summon of an "X-Saber" monster.
If this card is sent to the graveyard: Add 1 "Saber," or "Gottoms" card from your deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "M-X-Saber Brightsoul" once per turn.
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