:  Yue's Cards II :

Hopefully, you have read about the Cards and Clow Hierachy in
the Yue's Cards (the first piece of it). Otherwise, all this babbling you
are going to hear is going to seem like nonsense.

The cards were split on how I believe it to be split. I know some of you
will think otherwise and here I am going to cover the 'otherwise' portion as
well. I have consulted sources after sources and rethought several incidents
of the CardCaptors episodes and Card Captor Sakura manga events to come
up with it. I founded this the best out of all the stacks of Yue cards I
could configure.

The authenticity of this split of deck between Cerberus and Yue:

As a friend likes to put it, I have just turned into the devil's advocate.
In more general terms, I am going to question my own idea of how
to split the cards between the two guardians.

There may be a various interchanges between what cards belong to
Yue and what cards belong to Cerberus. Also, there is the biggest assumption
that the number of cards under Yue and Cerberus are equal. Otherwise, it must
have been done on a more complicating base-- by the strength and potential
of each card. However, we do see a slight possibility that CLAMP did not
intend the cards to divide any way particularly or that the cards are
supposed to be divided unevenly. Even Yue's and Cerberus' power
and influence level is not a guarantee that they are totally equal.

Why? : Count how many cards are present in the manga series!
Why? : Remember what I said about Yue's powers are able to change.
Why? : If we actually tried to, we 'can' find all the legitimate ways
for every card to be Yue's card. It is the same for Cerberus. The
only thing official is that some cards work better under one
guardian than the other. Let us not get that technical.
Why? : CLAMP and friends may not have had the intentions to
split the Clow / Sakura cards.

The Void and Hope Card from Movie Two

To begin, the Void, also known as Nothing, Card and Hope Card
are cards that possibly balance the deck between Cerberus and Yue.
There is also the thought they belong nowhere at all.
But...

What if The Void belonged to one of the guardians? And how about
the Hope Card? Then how do we divide them?

Yue will probably have the Void Card, whether he does not like
the card's doings or not, the Void Card is with him! In the Movie Two,
the Void Card makes Sakura's cards revolt or disappear. The Void
conceives in darkness and lets these disappearance happen--
until Sakura's team finds out about this Void Card.

Generally speaking, the Void Card is lonesome and desires to be
with its friends. It feels abandoned or possibly betrayed-- similiar
feelings that I believe you can also describe Yue with when you
were introduced Yue in the Final Judgment. Obviously in Movie
Two, Yue has changed from his old self.

Now, the Hope Card is harder to say. It is a pure Sakura card but
will probably have stay governed under one of the guardians, if not both.
Hope Card is like a companion of the Void Card. It is like how the Light
and Dark Card act like sisters-- cannot have one without the other.
It is kind of like Yue and Cerberus as well-- cannot have one and not
the other. Hope Card has a brighter, cheerful aspect-- basically
filled with optimism and energy. I give this card to Cerberus.

The Other Ways to Arrange Yue's stack of Cards:

From all I know, there could be 600 ways to arrange the deck. However,
it depends on the individual's reasoning to ultimately divide the cards.

Cards that I was pretty sure that is not Yue's:
I hope these are self-explanatory.

Light, Fiery, Earthy- These are the cards that were needed to awaken the
true form of the big Cerberus! Also, they were mentioned to be governed
by the sun guardian Cerberus to begin with.

Sweet- In the flavor sense, Yue does not eat. Yue does not
have a monstrous sweet-tooth-- like you-know-who.

Bubbles- In the episode version, Clow used to bathe Cerberus using
the bubbles card. Since they mentioned nothing on Yue bathing with the
Bubbles Card, I would assume that Bubbles most likely belongs to Cerberus.

Cards on the controversial, disputable sides:

Thunder- However, Thunder's animal (physical and actions) characteristics are
closer to Cerberus. Thunder is also, in some way, comes from the Light Card. Also,
Thunder brightens up the illusionary night and can pour into flames.

Thunder is very close to a weather type of card. The Storm Card
is the more specific type. Also, Yue's magic has more of a background with
Thunder than Cerberus. I say this since Yue's arrows seem to have some
thunder characteristics. Thunder is also very close as an elemental card.

Libra- Libras represents the judicial government system-- the justice court.
A court consists of a jury, prosecutor, defense, and etc. But most of all it
consists of the judge above. Yue was the Judge of the cards. Yue also
is the voice of reason.

Shot- This card has features of the arrow card. And Yue is the one
that shoots the arrow, is he not?

Voice- As I keep repeating myself, Yue is the voice of reason. He only
speaks when necessary and hints solutions to Sakura. Examples are
when Yukito thought up of ice shavings during the Water Card attack,
when Yue finds the Void Card and speaks to Sakura when she is
troubled, and during the teddy bear episode.

Flowery- During the beginning of time, farmers and agricultural
workers utilized the moon and its earth's natural plants to detect
their times and intervals of harvest. Also, plants are greatly
influenced by the moon when it comes and goes.

Special Note:

I did not intentionally try to copy the idea of splitting the cards.
Ever since Moon Glaciers came off the ground, people had been asking me to
write on several topics and this happened to be the result on when I tackled
this particular question on the splitting the cards. Reminder, there is not a truly
official way to divide the cards. It is by your personal intuition and speculations.
Therefore, if you ever see another place about these cards and the guardians,
you will see differences and similarities in interpretations and the division of
the deck. It took a lot of thinking and resources to compile this.

If you have any of your own ideas on splitting the deck of cards, please
contact me. I will post and credit any new ideas, links, and etcetra related
to this challenging topic.

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