Many showed different faces when doused in alcohol, but Bakura Ryou was perhaps one of the few who showed his true self then.

Now he's at the Kalos League, and further than he's ever come before.

I live to dance, not to fight.

It is a balancing act, between Bonnie and the beam, and Bonnie loses the initial bout.

[gen] Xerneas and Yvental won't stop resuming their battle until they're destroyed beyond rebirth.

[Pt] The Distortion World tosses her into a graveyard. That's actually more telling than she realises, at first.

[pre-DA] Judai's parents had hoped pushing him towards Duel Monsters would protect him. It didn't; it just made him suffer.

[AT, The Shields Fall First series] It's not easy, erasing a person. Especially without a time machine. At least one of their target thorns haven't won a grand tournament and told the whole world their name.

[side-story to Cycle of Four] The world has changed and pokemon have changed along with it. Humans need to change as well, but they think too much. Of course, they were also the ones who've tried to destroy it countless times and this is the end result.

They grew up the same, two orphans abandoned by the world. But they had two different wants.

[Dartz Arc] He remembered little things.

Even if Sora wanted to stay in the paradise that was Miami City forever.

And Ryouga was addicted to it.

It started off as the simplest way to abate curiosity, and extended into a search for strength that was, in the end, far too narrow-minded. But wisdom didn't come from books after all, but from experience.

Juudai didn't become the legend of Duel Academia overnight.

[WC2011] He's the sort of guy they cleaned out of Crash Town. She's the girl who did the cleaning, and she cleaned him and his team out of the Championships too. So why does he challenge her whenever she goes to the mountain pass? And why does she always accept? [fem-player/Hermann]

Duel Academy was quite quiet in the winter break, despite how it was the rest of the year.

She wondered if those bodily parts called nerves were also a myth, or just misunderstood.

[Rebellion] She was the one who best knew time did not last forever.

It took a few worlds, a few tries, before she gave up.

That was Madoka, after all.

Kyubey wasn't all that interested in her (Sayaka). It was Madoka. And Mami was more interested in Madoka too.

Her wounds healed quickly, but that just meant it hurt all the more.

The Incubators were the cats; the Puella Magi were the mice.

[AU] There was no such thing as magic. There was only science.