#Jonouchi meanwhile is horrified that one of his closest friends is actually dating Kaiba

[liberationwasboundtohappen]

Euroshipping but Seto Kaiba literally starts getting interested in Ryou because he develops an interest in the Blue Eyes White Dragon. After DSoD (and he has his manga coloring don't @ me), he started gravitating towards light-aligned creatures to try to fight off the constant nightmares, using them in his imagination in a "Picture them in your dreams so that the dreams will be less scary" kind of way. The BEWD was the one he started imagining, and eventually his artwork of the dragon gets popular on instagram. Kaiba finds it, realizes it's Ryou, and then also realizes something else: This man looks like his favorite trading card. White hair, blue eyes, pale skin. Just like every other BEWD related thing Seto owns, he needs to have Ryou, too. He's normal, he swears.