Year of the OTP 2025

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• Swords, Grief, and Shared Clothes by darkest_absol

  Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  07 Feb 2025

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  • III | Michael Arclight/Tsukumo Yuuma
  • III | Michael Arclight
  • Tsukumo Yuuma
  • Sharing Clothes
  • Grief/Mourning
  • Year of the OTP 2025
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Crushes

  Summary

  III remembered to bring his sword (and his totally not obvious crush) but not a change of clothes when he went to go bodyguard Yuma.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Year of the OTP 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,113

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  4

  Kudos:

  13

  Hits:

  141

• Endless Forgiveness by darkest_absol

  Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  03 Mar 2025

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  • III | Michael Arclight/Tsukumo Yuuma
  • III | Michael Arclight
  • Tsukumo Yuuma
  • Vector (Yu-Gi-Oh)
  • Apologies
  • Vector is a little shit
  • Autistic Michael Arclight
  • michael arclight is guard dog coded
  • III Day 2025
  • Year of the OTP 2025
  • mentioned Tomoshipping
  • Post-Canon

  Summary

  Michael wants to apologize for his actions towards Yuma during the WDC, but doesn't know how.

  (Vector just wants to torment a classmate.)

  Series

  • Part 2 of Year of the OTP 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,146

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  16

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  180

• Capture the Flag (Capture Your Heart) by darkest_absol

  Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  13 Mar 2025

  Tags

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  • III | Michael Arclight/Tsukumo Yuuma
  • III | Michael Arclight
  • Tsukumo Yuuma
  • Astral (Yu-Gi-Oh)
  • Nyasper | Espurr
  • Mystery Dungeon AU
  • Crushes
  • mentions of the pmd explorers plot
  • Year of the OTP 2025
  • that ponyta is in love your honor-

  Summary

  Michael moves to Serene Village and ends up attending school with Yuma.

  Series

  • Part 3 of Year of the OTP 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,793

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Kudos:

  7

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  88

• When a Wolf Forms a Pack With an Underdog by darkest_absol

  Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  18 Nov 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • III | Michael Arclight/Tsukumo Yuuma
  • IV | Thomas Arclight/Kamishiro Ryouga
  • III | Michael Arclight
  • IV | Thomas Arclight
  • V | Chris Arclight
  • Droite (Yu-Gi-Oh)
  • Mizael (Yu-Gi-Oh)
  • Tsukumo Yuuma
  • Durbe (Yu-Gi-Oh)
  • Kamishiro Rio
  • Vector (Yu-Gi-Oh)
  • Kozuki Anna
  • Mizuki Kotori
  • Alternate Universe - Hunger Games Setting
  • Year of the OTP 2025
  • Hunger Games-Typical Death/Violence
  • Mentioned arson
  • this is going to end tragically jsyk
  • human!eliphas
  • blink and you'll miss it vkai
  • human!barians
  • past!hellshark
  • the hellshark did not meet a happy ending
  • human!Astral
  • Background HolyIceshipping
  • Blood and Injury

  Summary

  Michael is expected to kill everyone in his way of victory, including that nice District 12 boy.

  Series

  • Part 4 of Year of the OTP 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  32,554

  Chapters:

  7/?

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  10

  Kudos:

  16

  Hits:

  325

• when love leaves its mark on your lungs by darkest_absol

  Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  27 May 2025

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  • III | Michael Arclight/Tsukumo Yuuma
  • III | Michael Arclight
  • Tsukumo Yuuma
  • Hanahaki Disease
  • Post Hanahaki Disease
  • Disabled Character
  • hanahaki fucked up michael's lungs and he's coping questionably
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • established aztecship
  • Year of the OTP 2025
  • no beta we die like kaito tenjo on the moon

  Summary

  Michael confessed in the nick of time, but the damage to his lungs remained. Good thing Yuma's there to help him.

  Series

  • Part 2 of Aztecship Hanahaki AU
  • Part 5 of Year of the OTP 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,034

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  6

  Kudos:

  7

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  75

• i was born in that summer when the sun didn't shine (i was given a name that doesn't feel like it's mine) by darkest_absol

  Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  04 Jul 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • III | Michael Arclight/Tsukumo Yuuma
  • III | Michael Arclight
  • Tsukumo Yuuma
  • Cuddling & Snuggling
  • Fluff
  • Year of the OTP 2025
  • michael arclight has brief eggy nb thoughts
  • but that's not the point of this fic and he'll deal with that later
  • Name Reveal
  • Post-Canon
  • established aztecship
  • tron's a+ parenting
  • no beta we die like kaito tenjo on the moon

  Summary

  III decides to trust Yuma with his real name.

  Series

  • Part 6 of Year of the OTP 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,044

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  8

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  118

• when you give a guard dog a sword by darkest_absol

  Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  12 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • III | Michael Arclight/Tsukumo Yuuma
  • III | Michael Arclight
  • Tsukumo Yuuma
  • Ficlet
  • Character Study
  • michael arclight is guard dog coded
  • Year of the OTP 2025

  Summary

  III would do whatever it takes to protect Yuma, even if he has to dirty his hands to do it.

  Series

  • Part 7 of Year of the OTP 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  250

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  1

  Kudos:

  8

  Hits:

  78

• To Face Yourself by darkest_absol

  Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, Persona 4  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  13 Sep 2025

  Tags

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  • III | Michael Arclight/Tsukumo Yuuma
  • III | Michael Arclight
  • Tsukumo Yuuma
  • Kamishiro Ryouga
  • Kamishiro Rio
  • Astral (Yu-Gi-Oh)
  • Mizuki Kotori
  • Alternate Universe - Persona Fusion
  • zexal characters in persona 4
  • shadow michael is an icon
  • Year of the OTP 2025

  Summary

  Michael has no idea what exactly is going on, but he knows that thing cannot be him.

  Series

  • Part 8 of Year of the OTP 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,515

  Chapters:

  1/2

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  7

  Bookmarks:

  3

  Hits:

  81

• Sharing Warmth by darkest_absol

  Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, Promare (2019)  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  15 Nov 2025

  Tags

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  • III | Michael Arclight/Tsukumo Yuuma
  • III | Michael Arclight
  • Tsukumo Yuuma
  • burnish au
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Fluff
  • Autistic Michael Arclight
  • hiding one's burnish nature as a possibly heavy handed metaphor for autistic masking
  • there are two beds but yuma wants to cuddle anyways
  • Year of the OTP 2025
  • mildly jealous iii

  Summary

  The power is out, and III is a living radiator.

  Series

  • Part 9 of Year of the OTP 2025
  • Part 2 of Zexal Promare AU

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,285

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  4

  Kudos:

  3

  Hits:

  46

• don't forget those who are lost (but also don't forget yourself) by darkest_absol

  Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  06 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • III | Michael Arclight/Tsukumo Yuuma
  • III | Michael Arclight
  • Tsukumo Yuuma
  • zexal characters in gx!duel academia
  • implied hellshark
  • Year of the OTP 2025
  • grieving a missing person
  • yuma's misguided attempts to help

  Summary

  Yuma follows a Duel Spirit to the abandoned dorm.

  Series

  • Part 10 of Year of the OTP 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,893

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Kudos:

  6

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  94