#(King of Thieves | TKB)

[corruptedbunny-multimuse]

[Subject: LOST KID??] [Roxy’s report of a kid wandering around at night and disappearing wasn’t a glitch. Chica and Monty have sent in reports of an unidentified child at night recently, but every time they go to confront the kid, he just vanishes. I’ve gone through their video logs AND surveillance videos, but there’s no match in the database. If anyone finds him during the day, DO NOT LET HIM OUT OF YOUR SIGHT.]

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((I’ve remade my FNAF AU!Kura’s art! Old art will be under Read More for comparison!))

[kati-mariposa]

Some Thief King Bakura to steam things up🔥😈 It’s my first time drawing him and I very much enjoyed it!

[edgycrouton]

omg im truly honoured that you like my theory!! definitely feel free to use it in your fic and please send me a link if you do!!

what i say: i'm fine what i mean: in the manga, it's said that Kul Elna was a village of normal people but in the anime, they say it was a village of thieves/criminals/people infected by darkness and i know that was 4Kids' way of justifying genocide to an entire generation of kids, but my theory is that they were all skilled architects and stone masons who were responsible for building the tombs and if those tombs were robbed, then the villagers of Kul Elna would get blamed because either you're crap at your job and you make shitty tombs, or you're the one who is robbing them. also, how did that underground altar get there? the entrance is in the middle of the village. there's no way it already existed and there's no way it could've been built without questions. i think that the villagers were commissioned to build the altar under the guise of it being a reward from their king and unknowingly contributed to their own demise.

[kujakumai]

we need those playlists. please. for the people.

I MEAN if you really want to be exposed to my wretched excellent taste in music, sure. some of these are kinda old and most of them are 8-12 tracks bc that's how I make character playlists and its the superior way stop bloating your mixes with 30 irrelevant songs

Atem

Kaiba

Kaiba (Cringe Edgelord Edition)

Kaiba (DSoD Specific Edition)

Jou

Bakura

Yami Bakura

Mai

Marik

Ishizu

Rishid

King of Thieves

kaibros

bonus extra self-indulgence round: thiefshipping, puzzleshipping. ultra super absurdist self-indulgence round: tongue in cheek post-canon-TKB-lives bakuras ''bodysharing divorce mix'' that only exists for my elaborate fanfiction

[sesshy380-rp]

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Kat smiled and lightly shook her head upon seeing her reflection. Her face felt puffier than it looked. The same could be said with how dirty it felt with all the dried snot and tears.

‘How ironic that my heart was stolen by the King of Thieves,’ she thought to herself. ‘Though I suppose it wasn't that hard considering I gave it to them willingly.’

She quickly washed her face then returned to sit beside Bakura.

“So, um…I’m not really tired at the moment. Do you mind if I keep playing my game? You can still hold me if you want.”

((@nb-lesbian-tkb))

[priestess-of-ra]

8. Favorite antagonist/villain ~

Yu-Gi-Oh Fandom Meme

I think we both know the answer to that.

He did not deserve any of the shit that happened to him. His family, his home, his everything was slaughtered by a monarchy whose only concern was power. They targeted a small, poor village with a bad reputation with the knowledge that there was nary a soul that would care if it just disappeared off the map one day. In his hurt, his confusion, his grief, he turned to the one soul who listened, who promised him everything and more if he would just cooperate.

It was a deal with the devil that he was too blinded by grief and vengeance to see.

And what did it get him? An eternity trapped with card game satan and the fragmented souls of everything and everyone that he loved, forever destined to become a cog in the wheel of zorc's machine of destruction. There was never a care for TKB. He was nothing more than a pawn. And it never dawned on him until it was far too late, if it even did at all.

I know that the most likely reason he never got his redemption arc is because the last arc needed to be rushed due to both harsh deadlines and Takahashi's hospitalization and illness. But if anyone deserved it, it's the King of Thieves. He was never a villain for the sake of being evil. He was a grieving man who was manipulated and used as a means to an end.

Plus he has some raw ass lines about justice in the sub, like the man knows how to verbally destroy people.

[corruptedbunny-multimuse]

He blinked, his eyes widening a bit. "Hey-- wait, no, that's not--!" Kura groaned. "Fine, I'll take your offer."

Kura blinked in surprise, his anger dissipating as it was replaced by confusion. He looked around, before looking at the older man. "Is this a trick or something?"

[necrostar]

Anonymous asked:

👤

Send 👤 and I will write more about an NPC in my muse’s life

So let's talk about the King of Thieves.

I write two versions: NPC TKB and PC TKB. Everything in this post talks about NPC TKB.

The King of Thieves died when he was young; only 16 years old according to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Character Guide. He watched everyone he ever knew die, had to scrape by and survive by stealing and killing, was desperate to avenge his people.

To keep things brief, he also contacted and contracted with Zorc, way before he got stuck with him in the ring. It was a last ditch effort thing. Found out about Zorc through one of his escapades, where he just so happened to find depictions of Zorc on a wall in a long forgotten tomb he was robbing that day. He's illiterate, he couldn't read. So he kinda just tried what he knew from watching local priests back in Kul Elna and just kinda hoped for the best.

And Zorc never turns down an opportunity to exploit the desperate.

The rest, as they say, is history.

[occultiic]

♔ : Finding your muse wearing their clothes (For TKB yes?)

Nonsexual intimacy ☆open☆ {ooc: aww of course! A little Gemshipping never hurt 💙}

Ryo a week back had made a wearable replica of the red coat Bakura had worn thousands of years ago. He had spent hours of sewing and adjusting to make it just right as a holiday gift for the former King of Thieves. Of course, the King deserved the best of materials and threads. He'd even used some gold thread to put Bakura's name in it on the inside.

What the occultist hadn't counted on was just how comfortable that coat would be. He'd put it on with the intent of wearing it just long enough to get warm, but fell asleep without even realizing.

The apartment door opening made Ryo startle awake and he sat up sleepily and rubbed his eyes. "I can explain," he said quietly to the thief. He wasn't afraid of any repercussions of the action at all, however.

[yuusaris]

Fanfiction ask: 51 and 61- your choice for the fic on 61! :)

51) Does what you like to write differ from what you like to read?

Yes and no - I'm becoming more open to them to things currently, and I find I'm more open to writing spooky things than I used to be. My tastes are in the middle of a change, xD.

That being said, I find I like to write ambiguous relationships more than I like reading them. Must be the romantic in me.

61) In [insert fic], what’s your favorite scene that you wrote?

Ooh, you're nasty making me pick, xDDD.

Ah... ffuck, lemmie check my AO3, I've got lots, lmao.

I think I'm gunna go with one from A Different Form, A Different Time - because I wrote one out that I feel had everything I wanted to convey in it.

So, it's in Chapter 2, TKB and Atem are supposed to be fighting, but Atem just keeps trying to reach across the aisle - Atem is 16 here, Thief King's at least in his early 20's - about what happened, apologizing, taking on the blame and responsibility himself, something he always does even when it's not his job and not his place. He's already doing the thing that he'll do to TKB's soul when he dies.

And TKB is trying to shut him up about it, points out that Atem's a child to get across that Atem is so unrelated that apologizing means nothing, and then just ends up reminding himself that he's trying to murder a child and he gets fucked up for a second.

I wanted to depict a Thief King that wasn't the swaggery gung-ho we see in Millennium World, because Millennium World is a game, not a truth, being controlled by a ghost puppeteering the shell of his old body, brainwashed by isolation, cultivated by a dark God. I wanted the fight to be bad and awkward because neither is actually prepared for this confrontation because you never truly are prepared to see your enemy as a person, let alone one who could care about you.

So Thief King has to back up, breathe, reassemble himself, the situation he's in and what he's trying to do because that realization, murdering children who took no part in what was being demanded, hits. Just slightly. The knowledge that he's killing someone who had no idea, who didn't ask, and the only person who has proven to give a damn about his people other than himself.

Throughout this chapter, Atem's name is being continuously mucked with and blacked out with some letters being visible. The scene is a memory, one told from Yami slowly getting flashes back and losing pieces again, remembering how the shadows and the Puzzle impacted his sense of self. Connection to TKB has been the anchor for that name, that identity, that person, and as that falters, as the divide widens, his name becomes more and more lost.

And then, when we get -

“I’m here to kill The Pharaoh.”

- His name is blacked out fully now and any other time it comes up. The decision made, Thief King has resolve and he's back on his shit. It's not about Atem as a person, it's about Atem as a symbol, as a Pharaoh. He's here to kill The Pharaoh, and he will kill The Pharaoh no matter who The Pharaoh is.

And then still makes the point to comfort them both. To tell Atem that it's not him who sinned, to tell himself that this is wrong but needed, trying to absolve Atem of any personal duty and himself of any personal guilt. As Pharaoh he must pay - as Atem, he's a naive child. As King of Thieves, he has a duty. As whoever he was - we never got his name - he didn't want to do what others did to him.

But he will try. He will fail. That cycle will last for millennia.

Shout out also to the line A harsh voice that, when he focused, said his name like a knife against a whetstone, the vaguest I've ever been about someone masturbating about someone else.

[stealtharchaeologist]

OH MY GOD YOU FOUND IT. YOU FOUND THE SCENE.

This is THE SCENE that made me start liking Ryou Bakura. LET ME EXPLAIN

Prior to playing The Falsebound Kingdom, I was only familiar with Ryou from the first couple of seasons of the English anime (yes, the 4Kids dub), and a tiny, TINY bit of the manga (when he runs crying after failing Bobasa's test). My favorite character was Yami Bakura, and all I knew of Ryou was, basically, he was a pathetic, timid coward whose only purpose was to stand in YB's way. I found him annoying, basically.

This was the mid-aughts, when the manga wasn't even finished yet! I was like, 11 or 12, just discovering fandom on the internet, and had found out that the final arc of YGO was taking place in ANCIENT EGYPT! I was SO excited! So I had found this incredibly sketchy scanlation site and every week, when a new chapter came out, I would sit there for like a half hour as the images loaded on our incredibly awful dial-up connection.

Yami Bakura WAS my favorite character. But I was discovering Thief King Bakura and falling head over heels for him. I'm not sure that I had admitted I liked TKB more yet, but I was there. (I also, at the time, was discovering the Queen's Thief series and Jing: King of Bandits, and therefore decided that I very much liked fictional thieves in general.)

So I somehow procured a copy of The Falsebound Kingdom and was playing it, Yugi version first because I have always hated Kaiba, and we finally find Ryou, and I'm like *rolls eyes* okay, whatever, and then he says all this. And I'm like "...???" And he SUCCEEDS. And I'm like "?!?!?!"

Wait, so Ryou can be a badass thief, too?!

And as I continue playing the game, Ryou proves himself to me. He ends up being my strongest duelist besides Yami, and the fastest by far. My entire strategy started to revolve around sending the majority of my army through the middle of the battlefield to take the enemy head-on, while Ryou, with his incredible speed, ran around the edges and started attacking the enemy fortress from the back. Then, by the time Yami and the rest got there, the leader was so weak that they couldn't stand up to Yami at all.

All along, I am becoming more and more fond of Ryou.

Then the Big Bad of the game decides to mind control Joey, Tea, and Ryou. And I'm like, "Ohoho, Yami Bakura isn't going to like that."

It's all very dramatic with Yami (or maybe little Yugi?) rescuing Tea, and Mai saving Joey, and we finally find Ryou again but it's not him. I was right, Yami Bakura was displeased. However, he saw the game we were all playing and decided he wanted to sow some chaos.

Cue the hardest goddamned level in the game.

Mind, up until this point, I had beaten every level in one or two attempts, three at the most when I was being dumb about something. But trying to catch up with Yami Bakura and defeat him before he burned our castle to the ground (with everyone inside) was insane. I probably went through 20+ attempts, pulling my hair out, just trying to find a single monster that was fast enough to get to our castle first.

I finally realized that the key... was Ryou. It was his monsters that were so fast. They were the only ones who stood a chance.

Even with Ryou's best monster, Ansatsu, leading Yami's party, it took like three attempts to catch Yami Bakura. But boy, when I caught him, I absolutely crushed him with Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl and I loved it.

Ryou wakes up, and says meekly that he hopes he didn't cause too much trouble. Yami replies, "We're just glad to have you back." I'm like, damn straight. At that moment, if I never saw Yami Bakura again, I would be happy.

That game literally flipped how I felt about Ryou Bakura and Yami Bakura. That game is THE reason I like Ryou as much as I do. From that moment on, I paid more attention to him and found all his little charms, how incredibly brave and loyal he is, and how goddamned weird he is, too.

... all because he's a little bit like Thief King Bakura. 🥰

[corruptedbunny-multimuse]

((fuck it, Mobian Bakuras.))

[super-lovely-collection]

Thief King Bakura “Says” Post Part 23

I think it’s pretty impressive, that he can memorized all the traps once he robs it!

*scanned/edited by me*

[millennium-rings-spirit-archived]

BITE (Thiefy. deisbookofdemons)

The prisoner hissed with pain, holding his hand on his neck. “What the hell just bit me?!”

[necrostar]

The look on his face must've said everything Atem needed to know. Blue eyes widened as far as the could go. Pupils became pinpricks. His jaw was practically on the floor. The King of Thieves had... lied to him? Zorc... lied to him? Every soul, every thing he was ever told... was a lie?

His entire existence was based on a foundation of lies and deceit.

Bakura hadn't heard or felt a silence so thick and deep in his entire.... god knows how long of existence. So many emotions were kicking at the doors, and they were giving. His nearly vacant, disbelieving thousand-yard stare betrayed everything. His confusion, his hurt, his disbelief. Here he had thought that... that... Why was he even believing a word that came out of Atem's mouth? He could be lying to him for all he knows! Yet, this feeling of betrayal, this visceral rage, the feeling of being caught in the biggest lie of his life. Someone knew. Someone knew and didn't breathe a word. Who knew? Who had been blindsided just as he did?

He'd retreated so deep inside himself to sort out what was going on that it barely registered that there was something... wet on his face. Very, very wet. What was on his face? Why was there so much of it? Why was his vision so blurry. His right hand, trembling, wiped his cheek to get a sense of what was going on. Are those... tears? Whose tears are those? Is it his? Is he crying? Who's crying? 

"Who... is Aknadin?" Bakura choked out, still not quite able to register that he's the one who's crying. TKB is crying. The souls of Kul Elna are wailing. And Zorc? He's sitting back like the smug motherfucker he is. "How... why did you... not say anything to me?" The heartbreak, the betrayal. His tone captured the emotions of someone whose best friend just stabbed them in the back without a care. How could he have known and not breathed a word? Why did he let this go on for so long?

"So he doesn't remember then." He corrected himself, noting the way it was talked about. "I did not issue that command. I wasn't acting Pharaoh then, and it wasn't my Father either...it was my Uncle, Aknadin who issued that command behind my Father's back." He stirred the straw in the drink.

"But my Father covered it up, which means he was ultimately just as responsible for it. I didn't find out until I met the survivor of Kul Elna what had happened. My entire court that knew about it lied to me, or I would've given you my head ages ago."

How else was he supposed to atone for something like that? His Father had died, his Mother had nothing to do with it and died the night he was born, and Aknadin...

Death hadn't been swift enough for that man.

"Aknadin is dead," he confirmed. "...but...if you still wish to continue your revenge, I will take on all of it. It was my family that did it, therefore it is my responsibility."

[kujakumai]

Not a fan of casting aspersions on the idea that Kul Elna were in fact thieves or suggesting it was made up by the monarchy. The real-life craftsmen villages they were based on had an entire tomb-robbing subculture with fences and a system to avoid detection. I do not think there's any reason to disbelieve that theft was happening, and I think to scrub it clean does them a disservice, for three reasons:

They were poor while the wealthy who left them behind were burying themselves with piles and piles of riches. Of course they stole them. They had every right to steal them. Stealing in such a situation isn't an immoral act we need to excuse or justify. I hope they stole them.

Kul Elna doesn't need to be full of angels or paragons. They were 99 whole human beings with messy, complicated lives like all human beings. Some of them were probably dicks. If every one of them was a hardened habitual criminal, it wouldn't matter. They were people, just ordinary people, and what happened to them was an atrocity.

TKB's declaration that he is the King of all Thieves, that he can steal anything he can see, to dedicate himself to such a craft with the skill and intent that he does, is simultaneously a victorious reclamation and a great act of love and legacy, and I would not take it from him. He has already answered this question for us. He (that is, we, them) is a thief, no matter what else you call him, no matter who tries to punish him for it, and he is proud, even, to be the greatest damn thief there ever was. So what then, he asks, are you going to fucking do about it?