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Name: Yugo
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Occupation: Riding Duelist
Duel Information: Speedroids featuring Clear Wing Synchro Dragon of the Not Signers Series
PB and/or Description: It's Yugo. You know him. Blue and blonde hair, blue eyes, generally wearing a helmet and his hairstyle is probably more or less terrible helmet hair, no one knows.
Personality: Yugo's the type of guy who reacts first before he thinks-- something that's gotten him into plenty of trouble before now. An emotional type, he's really an open book when it comes to interacting with others on a personal level. If he's mad, he'll make it obvious, but if he's happy, then he's really happy. His dueling style with Speedroids reflects that, as he relies heavily on luck of the draw over clear and concise strategy... but thanks to it, he's adapted well to thinking on his feet.

However, this results in a one-track mind a lot of times for him, especially when it comes to his closest childhood friend, Rin. Ever since she's been kidnapped by Academia, he's been basically driving all over creation and more thanks to the power of the Clear Wing Synchro Dragon, that tends to warp him to unusual places, and has more than once ended up in an awkward situation thanks to it. But this also means that when he gets a grudge, he's very unlikely to let it go without good reason.

But, bless him, he is absolutely a good-natured type of guy, and he is absolutely stubborn. And he's going to stop at nothing to get Rin back. People who don't know him would likely think of his mannerisms as being dense... especially when he repeatedly mistakes certain other people for a certain someone, or makes choices without consulting... but really, he isn't, as he managed to garner enough knowledge from what he could get his hands on to build his own D-Wheel, despite his rather lower-class upbringing. (with Rin's help, of course, but he had to get a handle on the technical know-how.)

Notably, he gets really upset when people don't remember his name right, and he hates the pun of "fusion" and his name.
History: Yugo is from the Synchro Dimension-- specifically, he lives in the slums, where he grew up in an orphanage with Rin, his closest friendand possible love interest. There, they learned dueling together, and with his signature card, Clear Wing Synchro Dragon (which he had as long as he could remember), it was a source of enjoyment for him and the others in the orphanage. But Yugo... he's a boy who dreams big, and he keeps to those dreams. When he first brought up the idea of them building a D-Wheel themselves and taking the world by storm, Rin thought he was just being over-excitable as usual. But he kept bringing it up. As he grew up, his interest and passion for it only increased, as he grabbed any material he could on trying to figure it out.

Once Rin found him reading one of the books upside-down though (honest mistake) she realized he was going to stick to this, and decided to put in an equal effort to help. And help she did, between the meager allowances they had from the orphanage itself, scavenging attempts at the junkyard, and various other means, they tried their hardest to learn how to build and operate a D-Wheel. It was no simple task, and at times, there was a feeling that it was hopeless... but Yugo usually bounced right back to it. Nothing was going to stop him, and he knew in his heart that them finishing this D-Wheel would be the path to lead them out of the slums.

When they were 13, they finally finished the D-Wheel itself-- sure, it wasn't perfect yet, but it ran smoothly and had a working auto-pilot, which is very important for dueling! So Yugo, the excited boy he was, decided to enter into the first riding duel tournament he could, taking advantage of the more open relations between the Tops and the slums (Satellites)... without even bothering to discuss it at all or let Rin put it through more tests.

Needless to say, he didn't win, but he was very close in his effort. The D-Wheel itself held up, but at one point the auto-pilot failed-- it was only due to Yugo's very lightning quick thinking and instinct that he managed to avoid crashing mid-duel. The action did, however, overload his bike, causing him to have to forfeit... not that he didn't still try to keep going, of course.

However, the attempt and the skill he showed got the attention of someone who was watching the duel, having been participating himself: Yusei Fudo. He ended up approaching both Yugo and Rin after the duel was done, interested in their very obviously custom bike, and eventually learned about their history. How they've been living. How they built the bike themselves and learned everything they could themselves...

... Well, how can someone ignore the obvious dedication and talent they had towards this?

Yusei ended up inviting them to his garage, at the place he shared with Jack and Crow, in offer to help fix the auto-pilot system of the D-Wheel. After that point, Yugo and Rin would visit it more and more, working on improving the D-Wheel themselves, but also accepting the guidance from their elders. They got to know Ruka, Rua, Aki... everyone. And for a time, things looked rather bright.

But in the backround, things were happening. Roget had slowly established himself in the higher echelons of Neo Domino City for the past couple years, and had been making efforts to reverse the attempts to fix the gap between the slums and the wealthy. He integrated himself into the security force, ousting the current head of security, and introduced the wonders of Real Solid Vision to the world to gain their trust. But in turn, he strengthened the security efforts to separate those of the slums from the Tops.

It became harder and harder for Yugo and Rin to get around as a result, and at one point, Yugo had to escape with her on their D-Wheel from a particularly aggressive security member-- though they managed to get back around and tell Yusei and the others what had happened, and what's been happening. At this point, it was clear something was wrong, and Yusei went to go find out himself.

He never came back.

From there, things seemed to domino-- Jack decided to fight back against this by making himself the King once more to combat the effects that Roget had on the city, using his own influence to try to mend things. Crow disagreed with these methods, feeling that Jack only wanted to be King again. Aki tried to mediate, but it was to no avail. And Ruka vanished out of nowhere, causing Rua to go out repeatedly to try to find her, while causing trouble for the Security force in his own way.

And then Rin was taken. All Yugo knew is that the one who took her had a large dragon much like his, and he wanted nothing more than to find her again, which is when Clear Wing Synchro Dragon responded. ... Of course, wanting to find someone doesn't mean they'll be led right to them, and Clear Wing Synchro Dragon's warping power is sometimes not really perfect. Yugo was brought to so many places, but at one point, he was brought to the Xyz Dimension, where he spotted Yuto with his Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon. And Yugo, of course, jumped to conclusions, assuming that the owner of that dragon was the one who took Rin. They clashed, but they were interrupted.

From there, Yugo's been all over the place, sometimes reappearing back in Synchro, but sometimes appearing in various places in the 12 Dimensions, as Clear Wing Synchro Dragon tried valiantly to follow the trail of the one who took Rin.

... Until he ended up in Standard, which is where our story begins.
Abilities: BERSERK MODE. But also Yugo has a fancy dragon that can do trans-dimensional warping, and he's pretty good at riding a D-Wheel, having officially been doing so since he was 13 (much younger than he should've been allowed to). Has almost unnatural stubbornness.