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insaneladybugThe Japanese fans love Radley and fanart definitely exists! Squeeee. I found a bit on a site called Zerochan, and it said it came from Pixiv. So I went there and have been turning up a ton! There's some tagged under his Japanese version name Ramon, and much more tagged improperly and viewable under Kalin's tag or even random pairing tags! People will post picture sets and sometimes include one or two of him. I am just utterly delighted!
The downside is ... I must have more, lol. Now that I know it exists, I am desperate to keep finding it! It's just so delightful to see other fans drawing him too. A lot of art is him solo, but there's a lot of him with Kalin too. Some artists make doujinshis about them. They're shounen-ai 99% of the time, but most of what I've found for them is so cute and could really look friendshippy too. A friend is translating one now showing little vignettes of how they grew close over time after Crash Town. I am just loving it! I knew I couldn't be the only one who found their relationship intriguing to explore.
I just don't understand why the American fans seem to show no interest in making fanworks involving him. I've seen that there is certainly interest in the character; people like what I'm doing with him and agree that canon underused him. I would love if I could kick off a revolution of fans interested in writing and drawing about him. Probably won't happen, especially so long after the series originally aired, but it's a nice dream anyway.
I keep thinking there must be fanfics of him somewhere, maybe improperly tagged since I can't get FF.net to add the Crash Town characters to the filter. I'm going to try exploring that idea soon. I did find one fic where he played a bit part.
Over the Nexus is going well. I beat it and I'm loving just wandering around and dueling Radley when I want. Fics are also going well; I'm just wrapping up a very involved and intense one with flashbacks of how Crash Town got the way it is during the canon arc, or more specifically, Radley's backstory and what happened to him and the Bunch in Crash Town. It also includes a present-day story with Kalin trying to get through to a comatose Radley after he was tortured in the mines. I have a oneshot and another multi-chapter waiting in the wings for after that. The multi-chapter will be a nice supernatural mystery and have some crossover elements with YGO Classic. I may also write an AU fic of "What would have happened if Yusei and Kalin had taken Radley with them when they left the mines." Normally I don't like writing AU, but I keep wanting to explore this concept. I wrote up an outline for it on dA and still want to write the actual fic.
The downside is ... I must have more, lol. Now that I know it exists, I am desperate to keep finding it! It's just so delightful to see other fans drawing him too. A lot of art is him solo, but there's a lot of him with Kalin too. Some artists make doujinshis about them. They're shounen-ai 99% of the time, but most of what I've found for them is so cute and could really look friendshippy too. A friend is translating one now showing little vignettes of how they grew close over time after Crash Town. I am just loving it! I knew I couldn't be the only one who found their relationship intriguing to explore.
I just don't understand why the American fans seem to show no interest in making fanworks involving him. I've seen that there is certainly interest in the character; people like what I'm doing with him and agree that canon underused him. I would love if I could kick off a revolution of fans interested in writing and drawing about him. Probably won't happen, especially so long after the series originally aired, but it's a nice dream anyway.
I keep thinking there must be fanfics of him somewhere, maybe improperly tagged since I can't get FF.net to add the Crash Town characters to the filter. I'm going to try exploring that idea soon. I did find one fic where he played a bit part.
Over the Nexus is going well. I beat it and I'm loving just wandering around and dueling Radley when I want. Fics are also going well; I'm just wrapping up a very involved and intense one with flashbacks of how Crash Town got the way it is during the canon arc, or more specifically, Radley's backstory and what happened to him and the Bunch in Crash Town. It also includes a present-day story with Kalin trying to get through to a comatose Radley after he was tortured in the mines. I have a oneshot and another multi-chapter waiting in the wings for after that. The multi-chapter will be a nice supernatural mystery and have some crossover elements with YGO Classic. I may also write an AU fic of "What would have happened if Yusei and Kalin had taken Radley with them when they left the mines." Normally I don't like writing AU, but I keep wanting to explore this concept. I wrote up an outline for it on dA and still want to write the actual fic.
