you won't make yourself a name if you follow the rules

here, the earliest of several parts first seeing the light of AO3 today of a series I haven't been actively writing since 2017 but really wish I'd gotten a lot farther with

this is the one where Mutou Yuugi is a cis girl, Yami Yuugi is a trans girl, Yuuki's and Anzu's parents are all queermisic as hell, and I need to make much better use of AO3 freeform tags

lies in the darkness (642 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Atem & Mutou Sugoroku | Solomon Moto
Characters: Yami Yuugi | Atem, Mutou Sugoroku | Solomon Moto
Additional Tags: Prose Poem, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Series: Part 1 of Daughter of the Sun
Summary:

Fractured as the watcher was,

the watcher never lacked for opponents:

courage played against loyalty,

or

intelligence against faith.

Sometimes the watcher set up tournaments

in which all the parts of the watcher competed;

the winner was never the same twice running.

naraht

Yuuki finally managed to move her head, only to see Jounouchi and Honda on the ground and Ushio walking away—but in her hand lay the last piece of the puzzle, and the puzzle itself was in her backpack, only a few tens of centimeters out of arm's reach.

She had to solve the puzzle. Only a few more centimeters. Her wish would come true when she solved the puzzle. Only a little farther—

The puzzle piece snicked into place.

A golden glow, and the world fell away.