Title: Source of Light
Characters: Juudai, Johan
Chapters: 1-1||Words: 500
Genre: General||Rated: G
Challenges: Diversity Writing: YGO GX: A83, finding something; GX Month 2021, day #24, Exchange of Light & Dark
Notes: Beware of headcanons.
Summary: Juudai can tell when someone's been affected by Light or Dark. So what's that he's feeling from Johan?
He could see it in them now. Little sparks, or little flickers of shadow, or something. But it was something he knew, now that he knew who he was.
Fubuki and Yuusuke still held tiny shards of darkness in their deepest hearts. That wasn't so bad, as long as they didn't let it overwhelm them. He trusted that they wouldn't. They'd carried Darkness for so long, it only made sense that they would still have bits of it left in them. Fubuki seemed to counter it with his devotion to the ocean and his music, while Yuusuke worked to control it in a more direct fashion. He wasn't as good as Juudai was when it came to working with shadows, but for a human? He was awesome, and Juudai made sure to let him know on a regular basis.
Saiou and everyone who'd been in the Society of Light also had bits of light that clung to them. None of them had it to the degree that Yuusuke had shadows - though Saiou also had darkness clinging to him. But he was the only one who'd truly been touched by both Light and Darkness. Those who'd been taken by shadows weren't quite the same as those who'd been swallowed by the Light. Sometimes Juudai really wanted to ask how Saiou dealt with that, but from what he could tell, Saiou wasn't really good at talking about what happened in the past. So he left it alone, for now at least.
But something was different about Johan, and Yubel. He wasn't sure what to think of it. It felt like Light, but it wasn't the Light of Ruin at all.
So he relaxed near Johan, his eyes closed, and slid into that other mindset, the part of himself that was the Gentle Darkness. He didn't do this often, since he didn't need to. But now he let himself be aware. What he felt was Light. At first he was wary, but that passed. This Light was warm and gentle, strong and supportive. It matched him as nothing else did, and it came from both Yubel and Johan.
Oh. He knew. The Gentle Darkness would forever recognize the other forces that made up the universe - the Darkness of Nihility, the Light of Ruin, and -
The Light of Hope. Here it sat, incarnate in Johan as the Gentle Darkness incarnated in him. The companion that he'd almost forgotten, it had been so long since the two of them had seen one another.
Johan glanced towards him. He didn't need his mortal eyes to see that. Johan smiled as well, and the Gentle Darkness smiled back. He could feel it in Yubel as well - a legacy of the time when Yubel used Johan's body, but something else as well. That he wasn't sure about, but it didn't feel wrong. He let himself slip away again, returning to the way he thought as a human. Perhaps he'd bring it up another time.
The End
Notes: I have a lot of headcanons about who is the Light of Hope. It depends on what I want for any given fic. SO the fact Johan is the Light of Hope here doesn't mean that holds true across all of them.