For My Yu-Gi-Oh Digital Pet Keychains, I Created Designs For New Pets Based On Some Of My Favorite Characters

For my Yu-Gi-Oh Digital Pet keychains, I created designs for new pets based on some of my favorite characters that never got a digital pet in canon. While it’s pretty obvious that Ryou’s pet was based on “Change of Heart” and Yami Bakura’s pet was inspired by Diabound, I thought I’d break down the design for Yami Malik’s pet design in a little post.

In general, I wanted the new pet designs to resemble their “owner” characters to some degree in order to make them recognizable, but I didn’t want them to just be a “chibi” version of the character in question. While U2 is basically Yugi’s hair but alive, Peachy doesn’t look like Téa at all, and Joey’s Joe is very abstract!

For Yami Malik, specifically, I wanted a design that called back to his decapitation illusion in his duel against Mai as shown in the manga. My first idea was to make him pineapple-themed, actually! I thought it would be funny with his wild hair. My first attempt looked uncannily like Bonz, and my second resembled a character from Shaman King??

I started incorporating the black star that marks a special immortal digital pet into the design as a reference to the sennen eye that glows on his forehead. Soon enough I ended up at my final design, a golden bomb with a short fuse. It carries the symbolic representation of Yami Malik as a sort of time bomb ticking in the back of Malik’s mind, it looks a bit like a head lacking a body with the nub the fuse sticks out of, and it’s wildly destructive by nature.

As for Yami Malik’s “mind room”, I expected it would be something like a prison in the back of Malik’s mind. I had some inspiration from Homestuck, where a character is trapped on a desolate and barren planet near a black hole that will soon reach it. I based the black hole in the upper right on that awesome first photograph of the black hole that was all over the news earlier this year, as well as on a rendering of a black hole simulation.

I added in Ra’s Sphere Mode as a false sun, signifying Yami Malik’s pursuit of power and destruction. And the purple planet, far away but still always visible in the sky, is where I imagine Malik’s soul room to be.

And in the back, the pet breaks through the fourth wall to escape the impossible prison planet it was trapped in, just as the black hole starts ripping chunks out of it! He’s free now, so watch out!

Thanks to everyone who has been leaving nice comments on my designs and supporting them with purchases! Designing these little friends and their soul rooms has been a lot of fun!

😃 I'm glad you like it!! Enjoy!!

(Any weird gaps in your memory are totally unrelated to this purchase and are not covered by the warranty)

HOORAY! I finally got a Millennium Ring thanks to @vaguelygenius​ and their shop HERE! :D

The details are so amazing, and can’t believe how light it is (perfect for wearing as a necklace and when I cosplay Ryou)! I can not wait to start spray painting it gold, and I am so happy to have it in my collection - thank you again! 

New Year, New Friend?

I'm back in town, so keychain orders are being shipped out quickly again!

Thanks to everyone who's bought one, particularly those of you that left kind reviews! Hoping your new buddy/buddies are bringing you lots of luck in 2020!

3D-Printed Millennium Item sales continue as too!

An excellent Ryou!! I hope you had a blast at the con, even if everyone thought you were your own evil twin!

(((Well, here is my Spell Checker’s cosplay of myself (Ryou Bakura). Featuring the Millennium Ring 3D printed by @vaguelygenius and painted by me following their wonderful directions. I am sorta okay with the wig. I prefer @distracteddream cosplay wig but it’s still sold out. One problem was that everyone thought I was YAMI BAKURA!!!! Bugger all. Look at the bags under my eyes. I have no batwings in my hair. There isn’t tons of eyeliner. Whatever, everyone said I reminded me of their childhood, asked how many Millennium Items I’ve stolen so far and offered my their souls. As Ryou Bakura, I just wanted someone to go get a pizza with.)))

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