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Why am I doing this FOURTEEN FUCKING YEARS later? idk it sounded fun at the time.

Gonna see how many of these links can be the Dreamwidth copies instead of (or maybe along with) the Livejournal originals bc there are a lot of deleted accounts and missing comments over on LJ (including like. one of his main CR alksjsks)...

Also gonna see how much not-Kiryu-but-needed-for-context stuff I can include here...14 years is a long fucking time.......

also I lost all my notifs in the email i used for the majority of my time in game ahahahahaha...wish me luck!

also i'm gonna note that I uh pretty much had no idea what the heck i was doing with this guy for the first couple of months at least so a lot of my early threads/posts are messy and dumb. it is what it is. honestly C&C as a whole was still kind finding itself back then too, so...


Some relevant links:
Network tag (DW) || Network tag (LJ)
Logs tag (DW) || Logs tag (LJ)

Alastair network tag (LJ) || Alastair network tag (DW)
Saitou network tag (LJ)
Bakura & Other Bakura network tag (DW)

Starscream network tag (LJ)
Soundwave network tag (LJ)
Shockwave network tag (LJ) || Shockwave network tag (DW)

Yuusei network tag (LJ)
Crow network tag (LJ)
Kaiba network tag (LJ) || Kaiba network tag (DW)
Ruka network tag (LJ) || Ruka network tag (DW)

Cavil network tag (LJ)

Comments

September 2011

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(09/02) Rose Lalonde network || LJ link
(DEATH IS ALWAYS A RELEVANT TOPIC and i'm so mad at myself for not responding to this alkjsks)

(09/02) Bakura's Birthday log || LJ link

(09/05) Katurian network || LJ link
(one day i will stop crying about the things i didn't tag.....today is not that day alksjks)

(09/07) Vector Prime network || LJ link
(plot post; idk bakura's his friend & alastair's also in here, and also he's a cybertronian, so kiryu probably paid a little more attention to this post than some.)

(09/07) The Fallen network

(09/07) Lust network || LJ link
(yeah...idk if i ever tagged Lust with anyone ever, but since she was one of the few who was around forever, kiryu would have been vaguely aware of her. also, posts about being around for years were kind of relevant to his interests, esp at this point.)

2020!Katurian comes back in time to kill some villains plot which i was not involved with but it's incredible nai ilu

(09/15) RINZLER ARRIVAL!!! || LJ link
(HE GETS ALL CAPS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS EVEN THOUGH I DIDN'T FUCKING TAG HIM BECAUSE HE'S JUST THAT IMPORTANT!!!)
(s-sob i even asked the mun about forth-walling too....idr if i was just. too burnt-out to tag anything or if i ultimately decided kiryu would rage in the privacy of his own suddenly-much-more-empty apartment but. cries. i never did tag him. I'M SORRY RINZLER I LOVE YOU AND KIRYU LOVES YOU AND TBH THAT WAS JUST TOO WEIRD AND ANNOYING FOR HIM SOB.)
(ahahahaha bakura and alastair tagged it though.)
(anyway, for the record, KIRYU WAS FUCKING OBSESSED WITH TRON. he especially loved Tron: Legacy aka THE MOVIE RINZLER IS FROM. HE WAS OBSESSED. HE WENT TO SEE IT WITH FRIENDS & SHOCKWAVE WHEN IT CAME OUT, HE HAD ALL SORTS OF TOYS, HE HAD THE FIVE-DISK BOX SET (THANKS BAKURA). HE PROBABLY PLAYED MUSIC FROM THE SOUNDTRACK DURING SETS AT DANCITRON. IF THE GAME WAS OUT AT THAT POINT, HE FUCKING HAD THAT TOO. you know the star-struck reactions people had to like. Darth-fucking-Vader and James Bond? THAT IS KIRYU WITH FUCKING TRON. he knew very little about most of the franchises that passed through the City BUT HE KNEW TRON. HE COULD RECITE THAT FUCKING MOVIE BY HEART. IN ENGLISH.
AND I DID NOTHING WITH IT LMAO. o(TヘTo) )
(anyway, it's probably better (for Rinzler) that i didn't tag this, bc i can only imagine that kiryu's reaction would have been some combination of rage and general star-struckness, and also a healthy dose of wtf do i do my favorite fictional character is here and he's not fictional anymore. but he was. tbh kiryu kind of. did not like the idea that they might all be fictional characters and tried to avoid it when it popped up, so actually. pretending he didn't see his favorite fictional character suddenly. uh. right there. wasn't. wildly out of the realm of possibility.)
(............i really should have tagged him though. ALKSJSKSJS.)

(09/19) Eridan & Rose network || LJ link
(ICly explaining the quadrants...complete with pictures...incredible...)
(hONESTLY? kINDA BUMMED I DIDN'T TAG THIS. BC KIRYU HAS A FUCKING MOIRAIL. HE WOULD ABOSLUTELY SEE HIMSELF AND SAITOU IN THAT DESCRIPTION OF MOIRAILS LMAO.)
(and also himself and yuusei in the kismesis one EXCEPT NEITHER OF THEM ACTUALLY WANTED THAT SO. YUUSEI IS ANOTHER MOIRAIL CANDIDATE INSTEAD LMAO.)
(no but. for real though. it's no surprise that kiryu just pirouetted off the fucking handle anytime saitou was no longer around (at least, for a little while), bc saitou was the one keeping him grounded. GESTURES AT THIS POST. THEY'RE FUCKING MOIRAILS.)

(09/20) Log with Not!Soundwave || LJ link
(imma just call bruno that until he fucking admits who he is in public lmao)
(sadly, we uh did basically nothing with this log. sad day.)

(09/21) Alastair network || LJ link
(honestly...i'm slightly amazed that this thread is so long...even if it is with alastair. ALASTAIR BRINGS ALL THE KIRYUS TO THE YARD lmao.)
(oh right, this is the thread where i mentioned him noticing all his shit was gone bc rinzler haha.)

(09/24) Blue Beetle network || LJ link
(again, vaguely interested in people who have been around longer than he has...bc there's not a lot of them left haha.....)
(HONESTLY. I KNOW I WAS BURNT OUT BUT. I REALLY SHOULD HAVE THROWN HIM AT LIKE. BLUE BEETLE AND SELINA AND IDK TIM AND STUFF. BC THEY WERE AROUND FOREVER AND REMEMBERED EVERYTHING AND THAT'S LIKE. SAFE. YOU KNOW? also BB here kind of understood kiryu's woes about certain people constantly coming and going through the city like a revolving door coughyuuseicoughcrowcough bc his girlfriend kinda. did that a lot lmao.)

(09/24) Mother Squirrel network || LJ link
(I ALSO FEEL LIKE A I SHOULD HAVE TAGGED THIS GIVEN THAT KIRYU WAS IN A LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER MAN. FUCK AT THIS POINT IT'S BEEN OVER A YEAR LMAO.)
(however, i never played Kiryu as...caring? all that much about what other people thought about his bisexuality or that he was dating a man or any of that. like, we had three flavors of queer in the HT10 apartment: Bakura, who started out in the closet and was kind of nervous about being gay the whole time; Alastair, who was out and proud but kind of had a chip on his shoulder about it; and Kiryu, who just was and really didn't give a shit about what other people thought.
Like, he knew that plenty of people were uncomfortable with queerness and kissing his boyfriend in public might even be dangerous (see: the coming-home-from-Peru log, where he does actually show some awareness that the cabbie might not appreciate two guys kissing in the back seat), but his overall feelings about it were basically "why does it fucking matter".
Now, i'll admit, i tend to play most of my characters this way, and that directly reflects my own experiences with my own sexuality. but I also tend to play characters for whom i don't think this sort of attitude is unreasonable. don't forget, kiryu is from a "future" time (actually probably the 2020s tbh) and also an anime which focuses on the bonds of friendship conquering all and whatnot. i think it's totally reasonable that it would be more of a non-issue in 5Ds world.
It also helps that a good chunk of his major CR also didn't care, were also queer, or both. And also he's a DJ at a synthwave-themed nightclub. I mean. Lotta the folks frequenting Dancitron were probably queer i'm just saying.)
(anyway, Bakura responded to this--oh, and Himuro, who's wlw at least i guess? damn, their whole floor has just. always been super queer, even the girls. incredible.)

(09/25) Not!Soundwave to Dave & Jade thread || LJ link
(Bruno finally coming out and telling someone that Gamzee murdered him; kiryu probably didn't see this though.)

(09/26) Astral arrival!!! || LJ link
(sadly i'm pretty sure kiryu never interacted with astral (or yuma) and that is all on me and my burn-out sigh. but i loved them and stalking the two of them in-game genuinely got me to give zexal another shot (eventually), and now it's my favorite YGO and has been uh pretty much since i got into it for reals. so thanks you two for being awesome <3 )

(09/26) GLaDOS rearrival || LJ link
(mostly just marking it bc the first GLaDOS was very good friends with the Decepticons, so Kiryu would've definitely noticed her coming back (she helped him rob that bank after all!))
(oh i can tell corny was struggling a lot like i was too bc shockwave isn't in here and they were like. besties lmao. :( )

(09/27) Ruka network || LJ link
(of course, this one is locked from Kiryu, bc of course it is lmao. so this is just for my own records. anyway, this is when she announced that she lost the eye that's missing in her DW icons.)
(that said though...isn't it kind of pointless to lock shit from kiryu if you're not locking shit from his boyfriend who has kind of a big mouth LMFAO.....)

(09/28) Slipstream network || LJ link

(09/29) Daniel network
(daniel what? from what? IDK. but he's one of 2020!katurian's victims, and he's also talking about death and dying so. you know. oh also he knows bruno i guess. /quietly shoves kiryu at this from more than a decade in the future hnnnnngh...)


spam post re: employment
(i'm really glad i actually commented on this tbh bc apparently I KEPT ADDING STUFF TO WHAT KIRYU DID AT DANCITRON LMAO. tbh as current me has been going through this, i kept thinking it was a shame i didn't have kiryu get into bartending--BUT IT TURNS OUT I HAD SIMILAR THOUGHTS AT THE TIME LOL.
past me --> o/\o <-- current me
i think this is the only place i mention it (like, i'm pretty sure kiryu himself never mentions it in the uh like three threads he has between now & january cough), but i'm going to keep it. and i'm also going to say that it's not unreasonable for him to have added this to his skillset since he told Trowa what he does back in April. considering that was six months ago, and he could have easily been learning in the background since before that too. i mean, he's been working there for at least two years at this point; it's totally reasonable that he'd want to learn more than just DJing.
anyway, i'm glad i had this thought and wrote it down bc now I can say that he also knew the Dancitron-exclusive drinks Starscream came up with way back when, and he can carry that knowledge with him ;; )
(ETA -- so it turns out i also mentioned this in this character survey thing that I did in FEBRUARY 2011 (it's near the end), which, you might have noticed, is like six fucking months before this spam post and also before that one thread with Trowa. so yeah, this was a thing i had him doing in the background for quite some time. o/\o )





hahaha spotted my tom riddle account floating around. HE'S COMING. he did not help me make activity with kiryu, but at least i felt slightly less fail, actually tagging around with someone again lmao.

also, entirely unrelated, but i realized last night that uh guess what started airing in early 2011? THAT'S RIGHT! CARDFIGHT!! FUCKING VANGUARD!!!!! so uh you know what should have been SUPER popular with the former YGO fans in a universe where the YGO animes and mangas don't and can't exist anymore? yeah. SHOULD'VE REALIZED IT AT THE TIME TBH SORRY FUTURE CFV CAST.