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soft_focus) wrote2018-09-06 01:41 pm
soft_focus) wrote2018-09-06 01:41 pm
CANON HISTORY WRITE UP
Past
Reira was born in an unknown country that according to Himika Akaba had been ravaged by war for decades of time. While it's unknown what happened to her family, it's presumed they died-a theory that's only helped by the fact that when she was taken by the soldiers in the area as a child, she was alone in a ruined house, with an equally ruined stuffed bear.
For an unknown amount of time-presumably at least a year-Reira was forced to assist the soldiers with various tasks, and the trauma forced her to detach herself from all emotion in order to protect herself. As a side effect, she became able to obey nearly any order with absolute skill and zero hesitation-something that attracted Himika to her.
Himika would adopt Reira in order to use her as a weapon, intending to take advantage of the child's 'emptiness'. She would use a device to literally program dueling skill and technique into Reira, and it is following this that she was presented to Reiji as the 'ultimate weapon' against Academia.
(Reiji was kinda disturbed by this, go figure)
From this point on, though interactions were clearly awkward, it's implied that Reiji made an effort to show some form of approval toward her-something that started to elicit emotional response in turn.
Maiami Championship Arc
Reira was briefly seen attending the opening ceremonies of the tournament, holding her bear for comfort. She would later be more formally introduced as LDS' only participant in the Junior League of the tournament, facing Ayu Ayukawa. Initially afraid to duel at all, she would catch her mother's stare from the windows above, immediately locking into a robotic state and beginning her match. She would then duel within that state until drawing a card gifted to her from Reiji; upon realizing that he was watching, Reira grew more dedicated to the duel, and shortly after defeated Ayu using fusion summons. Reiji later praised her for the match, and in response to him placing his hand on her head, she became visibly at ease.
Reira continued to rise through the tournament, defeating Futoshi using Synchro Summoning. She also witnessed various parts of the Junior Youth Tournament that Yuuya participated in while standing at Reiji's side, growing incredibly nervous during Shun and Sora's match in particular; a match that Reiji told her to watch close, as the duelists involved were from opposing sides of the already waging dimensional war.
Reira would later be seen alongside her mother, while the Junior Youth Battle Royale was being conducted. The two encountered Shuzo Hiragi and the three children (Ayu, Futoshi, and Tatsuya) attempting to leave the stadium; after warning them that doing so during the Battle Royale would be dangerous due to the Solid Vision Holograms currently coating the surrounding area, Himika would observe that Tatsuya's final match would be coming up-a match against Reira. Her hand would clutch Reira's shoulder in this moment, causing the girl great distress-something the others noted and grew uncomfortable about.
Following this, Reira would experience her final match within the Junior Championship, dueling Tatsuya and defeating him using Xyz summons. Tatsuya would congratulate her, and from there remark that her ability to utilize multiple summon techniques within her deck was a skill comparable to Reiji himself. She would smile in return, and thank him, before returning to reunite with Himika.
Himika would prepare for them to meet with Reiji-however, instead they would find that Reiji had gone outside to conduct a duel with Yuuya, leaving the pair to watch.
Synchro Dimension Arrival
A few days after the tournament finish, Reiji would take the finalists of the Junior Youth tournament together in order to form the Lancers. He would introduce Reira as their final member, causing many of the members (whose ages ranged from 14 to 16 including Reiji himself) to express concern; not only that a child would be coming to fight in a war, but that she would become a hindrance. Though Reira briefly moved to leave, her brother would insist that her presence was absolutely vital, before going on to explain that they were travelling to the Synchro Dimension first instead of the XYZ dimension-the goal being to gather allies before conducting battle.
Using the combination of a constructed addition to their duel disks and the card 'Dimension Mover', the Lancers thus traveled from the Standard Dimension they were from, to the Synchro Dimension; however, they would be separated into groups. Reira herself would appear with Yuuya, Shingo, and Serena, and the group would quickly find themselves surrounded by law enforcement officers known as 'Security'.
The Security officers mistook Yuuya and Serena for Yuugo and Yuzu respectively-their appearance would frighten Reira into flight, but as the girl tried to run away, their path would be barred by Solid Vision 'Gate Blockers' (effectively Walls). With no choice but to duel, Yuuya would take Reira's hand and carry her along as he faced Security, attempting to comfort her. Reira would remain terrified however, fearfully asking where her brother was, and only watching as Yuuya seemed to lose.
Before they could be arrested, various D-Wheels would drive in; Crow Hogan and his allies distracting Security and taking all of the present lancers on their bikes until they could drive to safety. The group would be left at Crow's home, and Crow invited them in for the time being, introducing them to the three children that he had adopted.
Despite the children's attempts to socialize with Reira however, she would hold her bear and remain silent, keeping to herself and wishing for her brother. When Shingo and Serena chose to leave and search for him, she tried to join, but was held back by Yuuya-thus returning to sitting at the side in upset.
The next morning, Crow's friend Shinji would drop in to bring some supplies and treats for the children. Crow would ask Reira if she wanted to join the other children in snacking on the sweets-Reira however, hesitant and confused, would ask if it was an 'order'. While initially confused, Crow was able to quickly play along, telling her that it was; she could only eat candy if she washed her hands! She thus did so immediately, and began to eat.
Unfortunately, the potentially brightening mood would be soured as Yuuya and Crow entered an argument over which was more important in life; 'smiles' (entertainment, rather) or 'food'; as the two dragged Reira's opinion into things, they eventually began to duel over it, their arguing making Reira more and more uncomfortable as it went. The duel was such that it would cause Crow and the others to miss Security coming near to their location-the officers closed in, and moved to arrest all present over the age of 12. In this moment however, Tsukikage-one of the lancers, and a ninja hired by Reiji specifically-would successfully slip in and pull Reira to safety, bringing her to her brother.
Friendship Cup
After being reunited with her brother, Reira, Reiji, and Tsukikage would confront the Council of the 'City', the Synchro Dimension's seeming capital. Reira listened as her brother explained their purpose there, as well as the threat of the dimensional war. The Council would create a deal with Reiji, while also moving to take custody of the remaining lancers from Security Prison (a facility under Jean Michel Roger's jurisdiction, and not the Council, it should be noted). All of the former prisoners were to participate in the Riding Duel Tournament known as the Friendship Cup. Reiji would request that Reira also participate in the tournament, and as such, would spend much of her time in the City locked within her own room. The only exception was the time spent watching other matches-during these events, Reira would stand alongside her brother, anxious.
When it came time for Reira to duel however, she would grow scared-her opponent would be none other than Shinji. As Tsukikage and Reiji appeared to guide her to her match, she would instead flee, running into Yuuya's room not long after it had been unlocked through the bribed actions of a staff member. Reira would cling desperately to Yuuya, her head buried against him while Yuuya demanded Reiji explain what was going on. Yuuya would further demand to know why Reiji felt it so necessary to bring Reira there-only receiving the answer that she was vitally important, before Reiji asked Reira why she ran. Demanding that Reira be the one to speak, she would manage to admit that she didn't want to duel Shinji, as he had given her candy-Reiji therefore came to the conclusion that she didn't wish to turn her hand against someone who had been kind to her, and requested that Tsukikage duel in her stead.
Reiji began to leave the room at this point, causing a near panic attack as Reira feared she made him angry. She rushed out to rejoin him, crying his name and begging forgiveness, insisting that she would follow any order he gave from then on. Reiji however would quickly calm her, placing a hand on her head and stating that he was glad to hear her refuse the order-as it was a sign that she was developing a sense of her own self. He then offered her his hand, and the two walked back to the council room together.
Despite this, Reira grew fearful that Tsukikage would 'replace' her in importance, not completely understanding the source of Reiji's care toward her. Watching over Tsukikage's duel with Shinji, she prayed desperately for Tsukikage to lose, becoming relieved when he did so...and then quickly become fearful again when Reiji announced to the council that Tsukikage being brought to the Underground Trash Facility as all losers of the tournament were was 'just as planned'.
Following the last duel of the evening, Reira and Reiji would be invited to dinner with the Council, as well as Jack Atlas, the current champion. Jack would remark that he had looked forward to seeing Reira duel, noting that he saw himself in her eyes. He told her of how he had pulled himself up from the ground to the top in the past, telling her that if she had a goal to accomplish, she 'Must not falter!'
Reira would take these words to heart, and more importantly, realize how horribly she had acted (even if only in thought) toward Tsukikage. When she and Reiji met him later on the balcony to speak with him and receive update on the status of the lancers currently imprisoned in the trash facility, she would therefore apologize to him, before announcing that she desired to stand and fight against Academia and fight with the Lancers.
Since, however, she was 'too late' to do so in the tournament (as she put it), she asked Tsukikage to do one thing before returning to his post; specifically, she requested that he pass on a letter from her to him, where she took Jack's words and explained to Yuuya the reason why Jack had insulted Yuuya's dueling as he had. Telling Yuuya that he needed to fight from the heart and for what he personally desired, her letter would inspire Yuuya as well to fight on.
Friendship Cup Final Rounds
Following the last duels of the first round, Security officers sent by Roger attempted to lock down the Council and attending (Reiji and Reira, in other words), holding them hostage in a strategy that Roger referred to as 'King's Gambit'. They watched most of the Second Round duels together in this state, until the match between Serena and Yuugo-at which point Reiji abruptly challenged all of the guards present to a duel, ordering Reira to use the distraction as a way to escape and find Serena-she needed to get Serena to safety before she was brought underground.
When Reira arrived at the lift where Serena was being taken, Security had already arrived to take her as well. They knocked the men from the Trash Facility out, and dosed Serena with a nerve gas, intending to take her to Roger. Reira, in that moment, would challenge the three Security officers to duel-and in one move, defeat all three of them before rushing to get Serena to safety.
Serena and Reira were quickly joined by Tsukikage, who would help them escape easier by carrying Serena himself. They ran throughout the city as the next duel began, and observed Serena's bracelet reacting to Yuuya's 'berserk' state (a state of being caused by Zarc's presence within the boy). They moved through the sewers from here, attempting to avoid presence of not only Security, but also of Academia-as their forces were now also arriving in Synchro.
Despite being steadily exhausted by the constant running, when Obelisk Force duelists managed to corner the three, Reira insisted that Tsukikage go on ahead alone; she defeated the duelists with yet another OTK to assure him it would be fine, and the ninja took off to gather Yuzu (who was currently on the run with Sora). In the meantime, trios of duelists continuously replaced each other, and Reira grew more and more fatigued. As the stress began to build, she began to experience a PTSD episode, viewing the approaching duelists as the soldiers marching across the roads, causing her to freeze and falter in fear. Yuuya however arrived just at this moment, facing the duelists and holding Reira close to calm her down.
The victory was short-lived however; another team of duelists, led by Barrett, arrived-and though Reira attempted to face the Obelisk Force again while Yuuya was forced into a single-duelist match with Barrett, she was still overwhelmed by the PTSD. At this point, Sora arrived instead-but though he defeated them in turn, Yuuri-Yuuya's counterpart from Academia and the Fusion dimension-would come in with still more duelists. Pinning Sora with a Solid Vision monster, he would be stopped only by the arrival of Yuugo-the counterpart from Synchro-and after hearing Yuugo had defeated Serena earlier in a match, challenge him.
During the duels that were in progress, all four dimensional dragons would be summoned. Reira, reacting to the rage of Zarc brought forward through these dragons, would begin to scream and experience significant pain, particularly as the dimensions themselves began to react to the boy's 'berserk' states. Before any of them could begin to re-merge, Yuzu would finally arrive, her bracelet teleporting Yuuri and Yuugo out of the dimension. The Obelisk Force present would attempt to capture the girls at this time, only to be stopped by Tsukikage (who of course, had brought Yuzu in the first place) and forced to flee. Sergey would follow in on the chaos, joining in on Yuuya and Barrett's duel in order to claim Yuzu first-but while he defeated Barrett, the Academia soldier was still able to use his duel disk to teleport himself and Serena back to Academia. While Sora intended to chase after, Reira clung to him before she could be left entirely alone, and pleaded him not to leave. From here, Sergey would defeat Yuuya, and spirit Yuzu away to Jean Michel's headquarters.
Following the severe loss, the group would take a few moments to recover, Reira holding Sora as she attempted to calm herself down. Shingo, Gongenzaka, and Tokumatsu would arrive-with Shingo immediately telling Sora to get away from the girl (Sora, as far as most were aware, was an Academia soldier), before Yuuya explained the events of the last number of hours. Easing Sora from Reira, it would be decided that Sora and Tsukikage would chase after Sergey to re-capture Yuzu. Yuuya attempted to join, but was briefly held back when Reira asked him to stay with her. Despite this, she was entrusted to Shingo and Tokumatsu, while Gongenzaka and Yuuya chased after the others.
While attempting to return to Reiji, Reira, Tokumatsu, and Shingo, would encounter difficulties in the form of the Commons Riots. The people of 'Commons' were being led by Shinji to rebel against the upperclass alongside the people locked in the Trash Facility, and the violence of the riots triggered a stronger PTSD response within Reira; she began to mutter about how she would destroy all of those before her, before breaking free of the others to rush toward the crowd. Before she made it, Shun would come in and snatch Reira from the ground, holding her close until she calmed down as he told her 'this is not your fight'-the same words he had insisted upon when he argued against bringing Reira into the Lancers to begin with. Before relief could sink in, Security would come to corner the group, prompting them to duel their way out.
Shun would handle them easily, before using his Raid Raptors monsters to fly them out of the chaos. On the way to the stadium (where rioters could not enter), they would pick up Yuuya, Gongenzaka, as well as the other children, before landing inside the grounds. Reira would hug Reiji close once they finally reunited, and from there join in the fray to deal with remaining Security officers there. While she initially began to hyperventilate again, she would overcome the PTSD attack, defeating the duelists before her and smiling back to the Lancers (and Reiji) watching.
Yuuya would challenge Jack in this time, so Reira watched alongside the other Lancers as Jack and Yuuya dueled. As the Commons Riots began to heat up again, she and the lancers moved to split up between matters, with Reira and Reiji personally heading for Jean Michel's location after Sora managed to bring an announcement that despite successfully freeing Yuzu, Jean-Michel had managed to overtake them and kidnap her personally. They regrouped with Tsukikage and Sora, moving on with the former to chase after Jean-Michel. As the man lured them into a room, Reiji would realize it was a trap, pushing Reira out of the room as the doors closed. Tsukikage would reassure her from here, and shortly after they would force the door open with Sora's help by rewiring the key panel. They entered, joined by the other Lancers and protagonists to watch Reiji lock Jean-Michel into an impossible duel, only for the man to retreat and try another tactic...Opening a faulty wormhole. Though Reira would nearly be sucked in alongside most of the Lancers, Reiji and Sora managed to keep her from flying off, while Crow, Tsukikage, and Jack also avoided being sucked inside. The portal would destabilize and collapse, leaving them alone in Synchro.
The Raid of Academia
For a short time, Reira and the remaining lancers within the city would attempt to help in the efforts to rebuild the city. Shinji and Tokumatsu however would insist that they, along with Crow and Jack, go to face Academia as they had intended. They thus traveled there before splitting up somewhat, with all but Jack procuring a speedboat and making their way from the mainland in the Fusion Dimension to Academia's island location. They would catch up to Captain Solo's ship just as Yuuya was thrown overboard, with Crow rescuing him from the waters as Reira called out to the boy.
She would watch as Sora joined into the duel to help Yuuya win, and following the duel, notice Tsukikage holding some sort of screw-asking where it came from and later realizing it was a key part of the steering mechanism for Solo's ship, the boat now careening out of control and unable to follow after them. After Reiji explained to the others what they had missed in Synchro, Reira would insist that they now needed to make their way into Academia. She would listen in shock as Reiji explained that he had attempted to come here three years prior, managing to find scraps of information toward what his father-the leader of Academia and known as 'the Professor' Leo-was planning.
Once ashore, they would climb the sheer cliff leading into Academia's grounds, before being surrounded by Academia students. The group would split off in order to allow Reiji to move forward, with Sora and Reira going with him as the rest remained to fight the students.
Along the way to Leo's main location, the three would encounter Yuushou-Yuuya's father-and Asuka. In the same moment however, Yuuri would arrive, threatening to face all of them. Recognizing the threat he posed, Sora would activate a mechanism within the building's halls; shutting off the section they were in, and throwing Reira past the barrier with the others so that Asuka could safely duel Yuuri and stall for time. The siblings and Yusho would then encounter a set of students ordered to take them directly to Leo, and follow without complaint.
The very presence of Leo would begin to cause anxiety for Reira, but Reiji would calm her down even as the man explained about the truth behind his 'Arc Area Project'. He explained how there had been a time 14 years prior where the four dimensions were a single one, and how he had created solid vision in that dimension. Unbeknownst to him, this allowed the spirits of the duel monsters to manifest within the holograms themselves, and those sensitive to them such as Zarc would begin to be able to communicate with the monsters. Leo would continue to explain how Zarc, a rising duelist at the time, would be be pressured into increasingly violent duels after an accident where he injured his opponent with a monster attack. Zarc would grow insane under the pressure, convincing himself that the anger his monsters experienced was a desire to fight more as well-and using the power of his 'Astrograph Magician' fused with the four dragons personally, destroying everything around them.
As Leo told this story, the duels happening around the island would bring forward the four dragons themselves, and the growing rage would begin to trigger Reira's fear again, only intensifying as it combined with Leo's hate. Yuuya however would manage to make it to Leo's chambers, bringing some relief to the situation until Leo continued to explain the events of the Original Dimension. Having felt responsible for what occurred, Leo would construct four cards from the natural energies of the world-Wind, Birds, Flowers, and the Moon-before he could use these cards to stop Zarc however, his daughter Ray would steal them and face him herself. In defeating Zarc with the powers of the four cards, both Ray and Zarc would divide into four themselves, and the dimension alongside it. Reira listened as Leo explained how he had initially forgotten his life in the original dimension but recovered memories over time, coming to Academia and finding Serena there before determining that he could revive Ray if he found the girl's remaining counterparts.
Leo would reveal the device he created for this purpose, powered by the life energy of those he sealed into cards, a sight that caused Reira's condition to worsen. He would explain that using the device he would merge the four girls back into Ray and bring the dimensions together into one-refusing to allow this, Reiji and Yuuya would challenge Leo to a duel, but as Leo pressured the pair, Zarc would begin to rise up within Yuuya. The immense anger and hate surrounding them would finally become too much as Yuuya entered his berserk state, and Reira would pass out, being cared for by Yusho for a short time. Yusho however would quickly terminate the duel and force it to end without result, pinning Yuuya to a pillar to keep the possessed boy from hurting anyone and passing Reira to Reiji in order to run in search of Yuuri (more specifically 'to Stop Zarc', as Yuuri and Yuugo were the remaining counterparts in play).
While in her slumber, the girls would disappear into 'ARC-V' (The Fifth Dimension within the device), beginning the process of becoming Ray again. Ray's spirit would come in contact with Reira, and upon waking, Reira would be able to hear and speak to the spirit. She told Reiji that Ray wished to be revived so that she could stop Zarc, whose own return was now inevitable. Reiji countered her on this, asking if Reira desired for everyone-especially the girls-to disappear. While unable to offer a stronger defense than Reiji obtaining his 'real sister', she challenged Reiji to a duel, determining that she was therefore the only one acting in Ray's own interests now. Though she held her ground impressively, Reiji managed to come out on top. He would, however, acknowledge and show respect for the girl's will, holding little against her. Before they could choose an action to take from this, the wall beside them would be broken down as Yuuri and Yuusho arrived, their duel taking them back to the others. Yuuri would defeat Yuusho and turn him into a card before Yuuya's eyes, and though Yuusho's dueling briefly brought Yuuya to his senses, the seeming death of his father would turn him over again. (During this time, as Yuuya spoke to himself, Reira would learn that Yuuya had already absorbed Yuuto some time ago-Yuuri, on that note, had by this point absorbed Yuugo). The rage would cause Yuuya to break free from his binds, and the shockwave would knock Reira to the ground, before they watched as Yuuya and Yuuri dueled.
Though Reira worried about the incoming revival of Zarc, Reiji insisted that Yuuya would overcome it, and encouraged Yuuya to win as the boy regained himself. Part way through the duel, Reira would become unable to hear Ray-as Leo isolated the room within a dome of energy, to become separate from the growing 'Arc-V' dimension that was now covering Academia and pulling other portions from the dimensions into it. She, Reiji, and the arriving Sora and Edo, thus tried to join in the duel and help Yuuya, only to be prevented by Yuuri himself. They thus watched as Yuuya struggled on alone, doing their best to encourage him to win without giving into the control of Zarc.
The Battle Against Zarc
It would be for naught however, as the very act of 'pressuring' him to win forced him to spill over in his moment of victory. Yuuya would absorb Yuuri and therefore Yuugo, and Zarc would become whole. Zarc would bring forward Astrograph Magician again and fuse with the dragons, reviving the 'Supreme King Dragon Zarc' into the world. As the resulting destruction and slowly fusing dimensions broke the isolation dome, Reira would hear Ray again, and hurriedly tell Reiji that they needed to go back inside where Leo was. The two ran through the warping Academia, witnessing ghostly apparitions of humans from the other dimensions as the integration became stronger. While searching for her however, Reira would be told by Ray that Leo was now trying to use the recovered energy cards to fight Zarc himself-he was heading for the battle field now, and did not intend to let Ray fight Zarc again.
Reira hurriedly begged Reiji to thus go after him, and save Leo's life, claiming that he would never be happy again if he allowed Leo to sacrifice himself. Reiji agreed, and told Reira to stay where she was while he left to return to the location of Zarc. While Reira would intially try to follow him instead, Ray would urge her onward, guiding the girl to her location at the core of the dimension creating device; she would meet with Ray's spirit there, only to hear that Ray still did not have a body, and would not have one in time to face Zarc. Reira would offer to carry Ray's spirit within her body then, so that they could fight Zarc together. Taking Ray within herself, she would run toward the battle field again. Tsukikage would appear along the way, helping her up and carrying her to the duel with greater haste.
Arriving at the battlefield, Tsukikage would move to help Reiji and Leo avoid certain death from Zarc's crushing blows, while Reira would arrive and cast aside her sweater and hat, allowing Ray to speak and declare her presence. They would recover Leo's energy cards using the effect of their own magic card, and bring them forward to activate against Zarc one by one-reducing his lifepoints and casting away the many dragons and bonuses he had gathered by facing all of the other duelists present.
In doing so, Yuuya was able to revive from within Zarc, and fight back for control. From within Ray, Yuzu would also call out for him, helping him to finally gain enough control over his actions to turn the duel more in Reira and Ray's favor. They were at last able to defeat him, reducing Zarc's lifepoints to zero and allowing the magic of the Natural Energy Cards to take effect.
As a result however, history threatened to repeat itself; Zarc attempted to split Yuuya and the counterparts back into four, an act that would not only break apart the slowly merging dimensions, but leave most of them without memory of what occurred and risk history repeating itself (particularly since Zarc's power was inherently connected to the four boys and their dragons). Reira therefore cast Ray out from her body and forced Zarc's spirit into herself instead, hastening the effects of the Natural Energy cards. She prevented the dimensions from completely dividing (Though as they had been during Zarc's battle, they were still primarily separate), and additionally succeeded in keeping Zarc away from both the counterparts and the dragons he drew power from, reincarnating as a single infant to keep Yuuya from suffering the same fate once again.
Reira is taken from the 'in between' moments of this; the void of time that exists between when she was reincarnated and when reality was forced to sort itself out from her actions.
Reira was born in an unknown country that according to Himika Akaba had been ravaged by war for decades of time. While it's unknown what happened to her family, it's presumed they died-a theory that's only helped by the fact that when she was taken by the soldiers in the area as a child, she was alone in a ruined house, with an equally ruined stuffed bear.
For an unknown amount of time-presumably at least a year-Reira was forced to assist the soldiers with various tasks, and the trauma forced her to detach herself from all emotion in order to protect herself. As a side effect, she became able to obey nearly any order with absolute skill and zero hesitation-something that attracted Himika to her.
Himika would adopt Reira in order to use her as a weapon, intending to take advantage of the child's 'emptiness'. She would use a device to literally program dueling skill and technique into Reira, and it is following this that she was presented to Reiji as the 'ultimate weapon' against Academia.
(Reiji was kinda disturbed by this, go figure)
From this point on, though interactions were clearly awkward, it's implied that Reiji made an effort to show some form of approval toward her-something that started to elicit emotional response in turn.
Maiami Championship Arc
Reira was briefly seen attending the opening ceremonies of the tournament, holding her bear for comfort. She would later be more formally introduced as LDS' only participant in the Junior League of the tournament, facing Ayu Ayukawa. Initially afraid to duel at all, she would catch her mother's stare from the windows above, immediately locking into a robotic state and beginning her match. She would then duel within that state until drawing a card gifted to her from Reiji; upon realizing that he was watching, Reira grew more dedicated to the duel, and shortly after defeated Ayu using fusion summons. Reiji later praised her for the match, and in response to him placing his hand on her head, she became visibly at ease.
Reira continued to rise through the tournament, defeating Futoshi using Synchro Summoning. She also witnessed various parts of the Junior Youth Tournament that Yuuya participated in while standing at Reiji's side, growing incredibly nervous during Shun and Sora's match in particular; a match that Reiji told her to watch close, as the duelists involved were from opposing sides of the already waging dimensional war.
Reira would later be seen alongside her mother, while the Junior Youth Battle Royale was being conducted. The two encountered Shuzo Hiragi and the three children (Ayu, Futoshi, and Tatsuya) attempting to leave the stadium; after warning them that doing so during the Battle Royale would be dangerous due to the Solid Vision Holograms currently coating the surrounding area, Himika would observe that Tatsuya's final match would be coming up-a match against Reira. Her hand would clutch Reira's shoulder in this moment, causing the girl great distress-something the others noted and grew uncomfortable about.
Following this, Reira would experience her final match within the Junior Championship, dueling Tatsuya and defeating him using Xyz summons. Tatsuya would congratulate her, and from there remark that her ability to utilize multiple summon techniques within her deck was a skill comparable to Reiji himself. She would smile in return, and thank him, before returning to reunite with Himika.
Himika would prepare for them to meet with Reiji-however, instead they would find that Reiji had gone outside to conduct a duel with Yuuya, leaving the pair to watch.
Synchro Dimension Arrival
A few days after the tournament finish, Reiji would take the finalists of the Junior Youth tournament together in order to form the Lancers. He would introduce Reira as their final member, causing many of the members (whose ages ranged from 14 to 16 including Reiji himself) to express concern; not only that a child would be coming to fight in a war, but that she would become a hindrance. Though Reira briefly moved to leave, her brother would insist that her presence was absolutely vital, before going on to explain that they were travelling to the Synchro Dimension first instead of the XYZ dimension-the goal being to gather allies before conducting battle.
Using the combination of a constructed addition to their duel disks and the card 'Dimension Mover', the Lancers thus traveled from the Standard Dimension they were from, to the Synchro Dimension; however, they would be separated into groups. Reira herself would appear with Yuuya, Shingo, and Serena, and the group would quickly find themselves surrounded by law enforcement officers known as 'Security'.
The Security officers mistook Yuuya and Serena for Yuugo and Yuzu respectively-their appearance would frighten Reira into flight, but as the girl tried to run away, their path would be barred by Solid Vision 'Gate Blockers' (effectively Walls). With no choice but to duel, Yuuya would take Reira's hand and carry her along as he faced Security, attempting to comfort her. Reira would remain terrified however, fearfully asking where her brother was, and only watching as Yuuya seemed to lose.
Before they could be arrested, various D-Wheels would drive in; Crow Hogan and his allies distracting Security and taking all of the present lancers on their bikes until they could drive to safety. The group would be left at Crow's home, and Crow invited them in for the time being, introducing them to the three children that he had adopted.
Despite the children's attempts to socialize with Reira however, she would hold her bear and remain silent, keeping to herself and wishing for her brother. When Shingo and Serena chose to leave and search for him, she tried to join, but was held back by Yuuya-thus returning to sitting at the side in upset.
The next morning, Crow's friend Shinji would drop in to bring some supplies and treats for the children. Crow would ask Reira if she wanted to join the other children in snacking on the sweets-Reira however, hesitant and confused, would ask if it was an 'order'. While initially confused, Crow was able to quickly play along, telling her that it was; she could only eat candy if she washed her hands! She thus did so immediately, and began to eat.
Unfortunately, the potentially brightening mood would be soured as Yuuya and Crow entered an argument over which was more important in life; 'smiles' (entertainment, rather) or 'food'; as the two dragged Reira's opinion into things, they eventually began to duel over it, their arguing making Reira more and more uncomfortable as it went. The duel was such that it would cause Crow and the others to miss Security coming near to their location-the officers closed in, and moved to arrest all present over the age of 12. In this moment however, Tsukikage-one of the lancers, and a ninja hired by Reiji specifically-would successfully slip in and pull Reira to safety, bringing her to her brother.
Friendship Cup
After being reunited with her brother, Reira, Reiji, and Tsukikage would confront the Council of the 'City', the Synchro Dimension's seeming capital. Reira listened as her brother explained their purpose there, as well as the threat of the dimensional war. The Council would create a deal with Reiji, while also moving to take custody of the remaining lancers from Security Prison (a facility under Jean Michel Roger's jurisdiction, and not the Council, it should be noted). All of the former prisoners were to participate in the Riding Duel Tournament known as the Friendship Cup. Reiji would request that Reira also participate in the tournament, and as such, would spend much of her time in the City locked within her own room. The only exception was the time spent watching other matches-during these events, Reira would stand alongside her brother, anxious.
When it came time for Reira to duel however, she would grow scared-her opponent would be none other than Shinji. As Tsukikage and Reiji appeared to guide her to her match, she would instead flee, running into Yuuya's room not long after it had been unlocked through the bribed actions of a staff member. Reira would cling desperately to Yuuya, her head buried against him while Yuuya demanded Reiji explain what was going on. Yuuya would further demand to know why Reiji felt it so necessary to bring Reira there-only receiving the answer that she was vitally important, before Reiji asked Reira why she ran. Demanding that Reira be the one to speak, she would manage to admit that she didn't want to duel Shinji, as he had given her candy-Reiji therefore came to the conclusion that she didn't wish to turn her hand against someone who had been kind to her, and requested that Tsukikage duel in her stead.
Reiji began to leave the room at this point, causing a near panic attack as Reira feared she made him angry. She rushed out to rejoin him, crying his name and begging forgiveness, insisting that she would follow any order he gave from then on. Reiji however would quickly calm her, placing a hand on her head and stating that he was glad to hear her refuse the order-as it was a sign that she was developing a sense of her own self. He then offered her his hand, and the two walked back to the council room together.
Despite this, Reira grew fearful that Tsukikage would 'replace' her in importance, not completely understanding the source of Reiji's care toward her. Watching over Tsukikage's duel with Shinji, she prayed desperately for Tsukikage to lose, becoming relieved when he did so...and then quickly become fearful again when Reiji announced to the council that Tsukikage being brought to the Underground Trash Facility as all losers of the tournament were was 'just as planned'.
Following the last duel of the evening, Reira and Reiji would be invited to dinner with the Council, as well as Jack Atlas, the current champion. Jack would remark that he had looked forward to seeing Reira duel, noting that he saw himself in her eyes. He told her of how he had pulled himself up from the ground to the top in the past, telling her that if she had a goal to accomplish, she 'Must not falter!'
Reira would take these words to heart, and more importantly, realize how horribly she had acted (even if only in thought) toward Tsukikage. When she and Reiji met him later on the balcony to speak with him and receive update on the status of the lancers currently imprisoned in the trash facility, she would therefore apologize to him, before announcing that she desired to stand and fight against Academia and fight with the Lancers.
Since, however, she was 'too late' to do so in the tournament (as she put it), she asked Tsukikage to do one thing before returning to his post; specifically, she requested that he pass on a letter from her to him, where she took Jack's words and explained to Yuuya the reason why Jack had insulted Yuuya's dueling as he had. Telling Yuuya that he needed to fight from the heart and for what he personally desired, her letter would inspire Yuuya as well to fight on.
Friendship Cup Final Rounds
Following the last duels of the first round, Security officers sent by Roger attempted to lock down the Council and attending (Reiji and Reira, in other words), holding them hostage in a strategy that Roger referred to as 'King's Gambit'. They watched most of the Second Round duels together in this state, until the match between Serena and Yuugo-at which point Reiji abruptly challenged all of the guards present to a duel, ordering Reira to use the distraction as a way to escape and find Serena-she needed to get Serena to safety before she was brought underground.
When Reira arrived at the lift where Serena was being taken, Security had already arrived to take her as well. They knocked the men from the Trash Facility out, and dosed Serena with a nerve gas, intending to take her to Roger. Reira, in that moment, would challenge the three Security officers to duel-and in one move, defeat all three of them before rushing to get Serena to safety.
Serena and Reira were quickly joined by Tsukikage, who would help them escape easier by carrying Serena himself. They ran throughout the city as the next duel began, and observed Serena's bracelet reacting to Yuuya's 'berserk' state (a state of being caused by Zarc's presence within the boy). They moved through the sewers from here, attempting to avoid presence of not only Security, but also of Academia-as their forces were now also arriving in Synchro.
Despite being steadily exhausted by the constant running, when Obelisk Force duelists managed to corner the three, Reira insisted that Tsukikage go on ahead alone; she defeated the duelists with yet another OTK to assure him it would be fine, and the ninja took off to gather Yuzu (who was currently on the run with Sora). In the meantime, trios of duelists continuously replaced each other, and Reira grew more and more fatigued. As the stress began to build, she began to experience a PTSD episode, viewing the approaching duelists as the soldiers marching across the roads, causing her to freeze and falter in fear. Yuuya however arrived just at this moment, facing the duelists and holding Reira close to calm her down.
The victory was short-lived however; another team of duelists, led by Barrett, arrived-and though Reira attempted to face the Obelisk Force again while Yuuya was forced into a single-duelist match with Barrett, she was still overwhelmed by the PTSD. At this point, Sora arrived instead-but though he defeated them in turn, Yuuri-Yuuya's counterpart from Academia and the Fusion dimension-would come in with still more duelists. Pinning Sora with a Solid Vision monster, he would be stopped only by the arrival of Yuugo-the counterpart from Synchro-and after hearing Yuugo had defeated Serena earlier in a match, challenge him.
During the duels that were in progress, all four dimensional dragons would be summoned. Reira, reacting to the rage of Zarc brought forward through these dragons, would begin to scream and experience significant pain, particularly as the dimensions themselves began to react to the boy's 'berserk' states. Before any of them could begin to re-merge, Yuzu would finally arrive, her bracelet teleporting Yuuri and Yuugo out of the dimension. The Obelisk Force present would attempt to capture the girls at this time, only to be stopped by Tsukikage (who of course, had brought Yuzu in the first place) and forced to flee. Sergey would follow in on the chaos, joining in on Yuuya and Barrett's duel in order to claim Yuzu first-but while he defeated Barrett, the Academia soldier was still able to use his duel disk to teleport himself and Serena back to Academia. While Sora intended to chase after, Reira clung to him before she could be left entirely alone, and pleaded him not to leave. From here, Sergey would defeat Yuuya, and spirit Yuzu away to Jean Michel's headquarters.
Following the severe loss, the group would take a few moments to recover, Reira holding Sora as she attempted to calm herself down. Shingo, Gongenzaka, and Tokumatsu would arrive-with Shingo immediately telling Sora to get away from the girl (Sora, as far as most were aware, was an Academia soldier), before Yuuya explained the events of the last number of hours. Easing Sora from Reira, it would be decided that Sora and Tsukikage would chase after Sergey to re-capture Yuzu. Yuuya attempted to join, but was briefly held back when Reira asked him to stay with her. Despite this, she was entrusted to Shingo and Tokumatsu, while Gongenzaka and Yuuya chased after the others.
While attempting to return to Reiji, Reira, Tokumatsu, and Shingo, would encounter difficulties in the form of the Commons Riots. The people of 'Commons' were being led by Shinji to rebel against the upperclass alongside the people locked in the Trash Facility, and the violence of the riots triggered a stronger PTSD response within Reira; she began to mutter about how she would destroy all of those before her, before breaking free of the others to rush toward the crowd. Before she made it, Shun would come in and snatch Reira from the ground, holding her close until she calmed down as he told her 'this is not your fight'-the same words he had insisted upon when he argued against bringing Reira into the Lancers to begin with. Before relief could sink in, Security would come to corner the group, prompting them to duel their way out.
Shun would handle them easily, before using his Raid Raptors monsters to fly them out of the chaos. On the way to the stadium (where rioters could not enter), they would pick up Yuuya, Gongenzaka, as well as the other children, before landing inside the grounds. Reira would hug Reiji close once they finally reunited, and from there join in the fray to deal with remaining Security officers there. While she initially began to hyperventilate again, she would overcome the PTSD attack, defeating the duelists before her and smiling back to the Lancers (and Reiji) watching.
Yuuya would challenge Jack in this time, so Reira watched alongside the other Lancers as Jack and Yuuya dueled. As the Commons Riots began to heat up again, she and the lancers moved to split up between matters, with Reira and Reiji personally heading for Jean Michel's location after Sora managed to bring an announcement that despite successfully freeing Yuzu, Jean-Michel had managed to overtake them and kidnap her personally. They regrouped with Tsukikage and Sora, moving on with the former to chase after Jean-Michel. As the man lured them into a room, Reiji would realize it was a trap, pushing Reira out of the room as the doors closed. Tsukikage would reassure her from here, and shortly after they would force the door open with Sora's help by rewiring the key panel. They entered, joined by the other Lancers and protagonists to watch Reiji lock Jean-Michel into an impossible duel, only for the man to retreat and try another tactic...Opening a faulty wormhole. Though Reira would nearly be sucked in alongside most of the Lancers, Reiji and Sora managed to keep her from flying off, while Crow, Tsukikage, and Jack also avoided being sucked inside. The portal would destabilize and collapse, leaving them alone in Synchro.
The Raid of Academia
For a short time, Reira and the remaining lancers within the city would attempt to help in the efforts to rebuild the city. Shinji and Tokumatsu however would insist that they, along with Crow and Jack, go to face Academia as they had intended. They thus traveled there before splitting up somewhat, with all but Jack procuring a speedboat and making their way from the mainland in the Fusion Dimension to Academia's island location. They would catch up to Captain Solo's ship just as Yuuya was thrown overboard, with Crow rescuing him from the waters as Reira called out to the boy.
She would watch as Sora joined into the duel to help Yuuya win, and following the duel, notice Tsukikage holding some sort of screw-asking where it came from and later realizing it was a key part of the steering mechanism for Solo's ship, the boat now careening out of control and unable to follow after them. After Reiji explained to the others what they had missed in Synchro, Reira would insist that they now needed to make their way into Academia. She would listen in shock as Reiji explained that he had attempted to come here three years prior, managing to find scraps of information toward what his father-the leader of Academia and known as 'the Professor' Leo-was planning.
Once ashore, they would climb the sheer cliff leading into Academia's grounds, before being surrounded by Academia students. The group would split off in order to allow Reiji to move forward, with Sora and Reira going with him as the rest remained to fight the students.
Along the way to Leo's main location, the three would encounter Yuushou-Yuuya's father-and Asuka. In the same moment however, Yuuri would arrive, threatening to face all of them. Recognizing the threat he posed, Sora would activate a mechanism within the building's halls; shutting off the section they were in, and throwing Reira past the barrier with the others so that Asuka could safely duel Yuuri and stall for time. The siblings and Yusho would then encounter a set of students ordered to take them directly to Leo, and follow without complaint.
The very presence of Leo would begin to cause anxiety for Reira, but Reiji would calm her down even as the man explained about the truth behind his 'Arc Area Project'. He explained how there had been a time 14 years prior where the four dimensions were a single one, and how he had created solid vision in that dimension. Unbeknownst to him, this allowed the spirits of the duel monsters to manifest within the holograms themselves, and those sensitive to them such as Zarc would begin to be able to communicate with the monsters. Leo would continue to explain how Zarc, a rising duelist at the time, would be be pressured into increasingly violent duels after an accident where he injured his opponent with a monster attack. Zarc would grow insane under the pressure, convincing himself that the anger his monsters experienced was a desire to fight more as well-and using the power of his 'Astrograph Magician' fused with the four dragons personally, destroying everything around them.
As Leo told this story, the duels happening around the island would bring forward the four dragons themselves, and the growing rage would begin to trigger Reira's fear again, only intensifying as it combined with Leo's hate. Yuuya however would manage to make it to Leo's chambers, bringing some relief to the situation until Leo continued to explain the events of the Original Dimension. Having felt responsible for what occurred, Leo would construct four cards from the natural energies of the world-Wind, Birds, Flowers, and the Moon-before he could use these cards to stop Zarc however, his daughter Ray would steal them and face him herself. In defeating Zarc with the powers of the four cards, both Ray and Zarc would divide into four themselves, and the dimension alongside it. Reira listened as Leo explained how he had initially forgotten his life in the original dimension but recovered memories over time, coming to Academia and finding Serena there before determining that he could revive Ray if he found the girl's remaining counterparts.
Leo would reveal the device he created for this purpose, powered by the life energy of those he sealed into cards, a sight that caused Reira's condition to worsen. He would explain that using the device he would merge the four girls back into Ray and bring the dimensions together into one-refusing to allow this, Reiji and Yuuya would challenge Leo to a duel, but as Leo pressured the pair, Zarc would begin to rise up within Yuuya. The immense anger and hate surrounding them would finally become too much as Yuuya entered his berserk state, and Reira would pass out, being cared for by Yusho for a short time. Yusho however would quickly terminate the duel and force it to end without result, pinning Yuuya to a pillar to keep the possessed boy from hurting anyone and passing Reira to Reiji in order to run in search of Yuuri (more specifically 'to Stop Zarc', as Yuuri and Yuugo were the remaining counterparts in play).
While in her slumber, the girls would disappear into 'ARC-V' (The Fifth Dimension within the device), beginning the process of becoming Ray again. Ray's spirit would come in contact with Reira, and upon waking, Reira would be able to hear and speak to the spirit. She told Reiji that Ray wished to be revived so that she could stop Zarc, whose own return was now inevitable. Reiji countered her on this, asking if Reira desired for everyone-especially the girls-to disappear. While unable to offer a stronger defense than Reiji obtaining his 'real sister', she challenged Reiji to a duel, determining that she was therefore the only one acting in Ray's own interests now. Though she held her ground impressively, Reiji managed to come out on top. He would, however, acknowledge and show respect for the girl's will, holding little against her. Before they could choose an action to take from this, the wall beside them would be broken down as Yuuri and Yuusho arrived, their duel taking them back to the others. Yuuri would defeat Yuusho and turn him into a card before Yuuya's eyes, and though Yuusho's dueling briefly brought Yuuya to his senses, the seeming death of his father would turn him over again. (During this time, as Yuuya spoke to himself, Reira would learn that Yuuya had already absorbed Yuuto some time ago-Yuuri, on that note, had by this point absorbed Yuugo). The rage would cause Yuuya to break free from his binds, and the shockwave would knock Reira to the ground, before they watched as Yuuya and Yuuri dueled.
Though Reira worried about the incoming revival of Zarc, Reiji insisted that Yuuya would overcome it, and encouraged Yuuya to win as the boy regained himself. Part way through the duel, Reira would become unable to hear Ray-as Leo isolated the room within a dome of energy, to become separate from the growing 'Arc-V' dimension that was now covering Academia and pulling other portions from the dimensions into it. She, Reiji, and the arriving Sora and Edo, thus tried to join in the duel and help Yuuya, only to be prevented by Yuuri himself. They thus watched as Yuuya struggled on alone, doing their best to encourage him to win without giving into the control of Zarc.
The Battle Against Zarc
It would be for naught however, as the very act of 'pressuring' him to win forced him to spill over in his moment of victory. Yuuya would absorb Yuuri and therefore Yuugo, and Zarc would become whole. Zarc would bring forward Astrograph Magician again and fuse with the dragons, reviving the 'Supreme King Dragon Zarc' into the world. As the resulting destruction and slowly fusing dimensions broke the isolation dome, Reira would hear Ray again, and hurriedly tell Reiji that they needed to go back inside where Leo was. The two ran through the warping Academia, witnessing ghostly apparitions of humans from the other dimensions as the integration became stronger. While searching for her however, Reira would be told by Ray that Leo was now trying to use the recovered energy cards to fight Zarc himself-he was heading for the battle field now, and did not intend to let Ray fight Zarc again.
Reira hurriedly begged Reiji to thus go after him, and save Leo's life, claiming that he would never be happy again if he allowed Leo to sacrifice himself. Reiji agreed, and told Reira to stay where she was while he left to return to the location of Zarc. While Reira would intially try to follow him instead, Ray would urge her onward, guiding the girl to her location at the core of the dimension creating device; she would meet with Ray's spirit there, only to hear that Ray still did not have a body, and would not have one in time to face Zarc. Reira would offer to carry Ray's spirit within her body then, so that they could fight Zarc together. Taking Ray within herself, she would run toward the battle field again. Tsukikage would appear along the way, helping her up and carrying her to the duel with greater haste.
Arriving at the battlefield, Tsukikage would move to help Reiji and Leo avoid certain death from Zarc's crushing blows, while Reira would arrive and cast aside her sweater and hat, allowing Ray to speak and declare her presence. They would recover Leo's energy cards using the effect of their own magic card, and bring them forward to activate against Zarc one by one-reducing his lifepoints and casting away the many dragons and bonuses he had gathered by facing all of the other duelists present.
In doing so, Yuuya was able to revive from within Zarc, and fight back for control. From within Ray, Yuzu would also call out for him, helping him to finally gain enough control over his actions to turn the duel more in Reira and Ray's favor. They were at last able to defeat him, reducing Zarc's lifepoints to zero and allowing the magic of the Natural Energy Cards to take effect.
As a result however, history threatened to repeat itself; Zarc attempted to split Yuuya and the counterparts back into four, an act that would not only break apart the slowly merging dimensions, but leave most of them without memory of what occurred and risk history repeating itself (particularly since Zarc's power was inherently connected to the four boys and their dragons). Reira therefore cast Ray out from her body and forced Zarc's spirit into herself instead, hastening the effects of the Natural Energy cards. She prevented the dimensions from completely dividing (Though as they had been during Zarc's battle, they were still primarily separate), and additionally succeeded in keeping Zarc away from both the counterparts and the dragons he drew power from, reincarnating as a single infant to keep Yuuya from suffering the same fate once again.
Reira is taken from the 'in between' moments of this; the void of time that exists between when she was reincarnated and when reality was forced to sort itself out from her actions.