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Happy they made it to Duel Links!

anything on melami?

Here's everything else of her that I haven't posted yet

General images

Close up from the games cover

Close up of special edition's box art

And her character sheet

I’m going to be honest and say this is my favorite version of Aoi-

Here’s Blue Maiden from YuGiOh VRAINS! This is based on a sketch I made around three years ago (yes I just finished this recently; ADHD’s got some mean hands).

More things under the cut:

Here’s the transparent PNG version (everyone is free to use it for whatever they need), a W.I.P, and the original sketch itself 👍

Hello, my name is Aya, I am 26 years old, currently living in the northern part of Gaza City, and I am a mother of two children. My oldest is my daughter, Sanaa, who is 5 years old, and my youngest is my son, Wasfi, who is 3.

Since the morning of October 7th, 2023, our lives have been turned upside down. We have lived through the hardest days of our lives, facing displacement and homelessness. We have been forced to leave our home more than ten times since the war began. We would leave without knowing where to go.

We sought refuge in schools and relatives' homes, hoping we could return home and that this nightmare would end. But our house was bombed, and our dreams were destroyed. We became homeless and displaced.

Every day, we wake up to the sound of bombs and rockets. I lived in constant fear and terror with my children, especially when my family's house was bombed while we were taking shelter there.

We are experiencing a real famine in Gaza. I’ve gone to bed with my children many nights without dinner because there is no food available. We have had to eat animal and bird feed due to the high cost of flour just to fill the hunger of my young children. Even after eating it, we all suffered from diarrhea and severe stomach pain. My children developed rashes on their bodies due to the spread of viruses and the accumulation of garbage. There is also a severe shortage of water, and even when we find it, it's not safe to drink.

My children cry, asking for vegetables, fruits, and eggs, but we can’t afford them because we have no income. The gas shortage has forced us to use fire for everything—cooking and baking—using plastic and pipes because firewood is so hard to find.

My children also developed jaundice, and I struggled a lot to get them better because there was no access to vegetables, fruits, or medicine. I even feared that my son might have developed polio because he already had leg problems before the war, and they worsened due to malnutrition.

Winter is coming, and we have nothing for it. I need clothes and shoes for my children to keep them warm, but I can’t buy them because they are so expensive.

For this reason, I beg of you and hope that you can support me, even with the smallest contribution, so I can provide my children with the most basic necessities of life.

I was displaced with my children to my family's house, tears in my eyes. On the way, Salah Al-Din Street was bombed, and the Israeli occupation committed horrific massacres. By the grace of God, we survived for the first time. We lived in terror and fear. A few days later, my family's house was bombed, and we were pulled out from under the rubble, miraculously surviving for the second time.

When my husband heard the news that we had died, he came to bid us farewell, only to find us alive by God's grace. We returned with him, but as the situation worsened and the fire belts in our area increased, we started to flee again and again, not knowing where to go next.

I beg of you to share my story and help me continue to live.

RANT: My Actual Opinion on Melami Goldmine (As well as a character study)

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This is not a Rain Code meme-post, but rather a small vent about Melami Goldmine. More details will be below the cut.

I’m not sure if it’s too soon for me to say this, but I assume to have built a reputation here based on how much I talk about Melami. I make sure to talk about and feature her in every Rain Code post of mine, as many of you have probably noticed. But is the affinity that I have for her actually genuine? I want to talk about that today.

First, I want to start off my speech by mentioning what we see from Melami when we first meet her. Back then, we saw Melami as a cheerful, outgoing girl who heavily liked clothing and reading people based on what they wear. Of course, she also had her Spiritism Forte, which would have most likely been one of the most effective Fortes in the game had it not been for its numerous restrictions. But we always saw that as nothing but an added quirk to her character, and nothing more.

However, this is where I want to begin my insight on her actual character. Now, this could just be my way of seeing things, but I wonder if I’m the only one here who sees her as a sort of cryptid.

Like think about it for a minute; A good portion of her actions don’t make sense at first, she doesn’t perceive life, death or clothing the same way that everyone else does, and she always knew more than she let on, beyond the outgoing girl that we initially perceived her as.

Of course, while Melami is not nearly as creepy or as foreboding as Vivia, she still had some degree of oddity to her that set her apart from the other Master Detectives, just enough for the player to think, “Yeah she’s definitely hiding something” in a doubtful manner. She had something off about her compared to everyone else in the game, and that’s saying something considering the colorful cast of characters we were given.

Like, not even the Gumshoe Gabs revealed much about her upbringing or how her Forte influenced her as a child; Much of it was left to the player to figure out for themselves. In retrospect, there was a delicate mixture to her between benevolence, glamour, extroversion, relevance, and mystery. It was a beautiful sight to see.

I don’t know, I just found it really cool how Kodaka explored on such a unique personality throughout the course of the game, especially in the more vital events that happen in the later chapters. Of course, I’m not gonna spoil anything, but damn; She was just, really really cool. That’s the only way I can summarize her, honestly.

Am I looking too deeply into this? Probably. But I suppose that’s what happens when you really like a fictional character. In any case, I’ll post another collection of Rain Code memes sometime in the future; I’m actually close to gathering 10 memes. So uhh yeah, look forward to that and thank you for listening to my little rant.

I think my favorite part of Rain Code was when Melami stepped in to save Yuma and said “It’s Melami Time” then started Goldmining all over the Peacekeepers.

These are all the Rain Code memes I’ve made for now. If I have any more in mind, I’ll be sure to do a separate post for them in the future.

I remember having a great laugh seeing memes like these after I first finished watching a full playthrough of the game. I’d love to contribute to that experience for other people 😄👍

Melami Goldmine - Master Detective Archives: Rain Code

(More details under the cut)

Based on one of Rain Code’s loading screen facts that says Melami has created her own designs for the WDO uniforms that the organization rejected.

It made me think about earlier today: “How would Melami look like in casual clothing?”, and: “How would she look like designing her own clothes on a drawing tablet?”. I’m glad I got to draw my ideas before I lost interest, as the world always benefits from having more Melami.

It’s a head-cannon of mine that Melami designs clothing at least as a pastime, if not as an actual job (with her career as a Master Detective being more of a side gig/second job for extra revenue). I’m also glad I got to draw something based off of that head-cannon 😁

Also! The second drawing has a few details, the first one being that Melami having glasses and drawing tablet is based on me also having those things. I can imagine Melami wearing glasses for when she needs to design something, as I highly doubt she has the exact same eyesight I have.

I also added the little pose she does with her arm, something that I noticed in some of her images. I suppose that’s her default pose? 😅😂

Alright, that’s all I’ve got for now! Have a great day, everyone! 👋😄

Rainy day - aka more background practice

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