#priest mahaad

[copperdaisy]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Text Post Meme #4/?

[magiciansunionize]

Oh, sorry, no we put your boyfriend in a Duel Monsters card, no-- no wait, yes his undying loyalty lives on forever- yes he can die for you again and again as a symbolic manifestation of how much he longs to serve you- yes you can tribute him but why would you do that that's mean. He'll die for you on his own.

[sealed-ante]

Absolutely STUNNING #headdresshipping art by @wisyhana!! 🔥🥵

Based on my A03 fanfic: "In this world and the last." Huge shout-out to @evercatsstarlight for putting the commission request together 🙏🏽🤍

Here's a link to the fic for those with an interest: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37670596/chapters/94039999

[worldendercharles]

is this anything?

[chronophobica]

i am so devoted to you that i will follow your soul across the centuries even as you are reborn and remade and forget who i was to you before, and i will love you and protect you all the same even until i am nothing but a shadow of what i once was, a monster who knows nothing but to attack if only in your name and soul that is so familiar a shape to me

[metatemu]

Atem without the furrowed eyebrows. All of them are with his friends.

[peridot-tears]

Remember when the anime decided to make the ancient incarnations of the Dark Magician and Ishizu Ishtar an implied romance and never addressed it again?

[shadowbrightshine]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39312774/chapters/98378277

This is "past the card games, at least for now" a yugioh Egypt post Canon fic where Yugi stayed behind in Egypt with Atem after a year in the modern world alone.

I don't know how make it do the click on it thing the other posters do.

So the ao3 in my name isn't for nothing.

I'm the one who made this and several other fics, but I lost motivation.

Well after a year I've posted a new chapter to this little thing.

(Yes I'm one who wrote the Dsmp fic "I won't Let him Near You", and I miss it sometimes)

Let me know what you think. Maybe now that I have a social platform my motivation won't die as fast.

[teatitty]

I know Atem annoyed the fuck out of everyone in the afterlife. I know he was up there just pining for Yugi every single day like "do you think he misses me?" "my pharaoh it's only been five hours" "[voice cracking] what if he's l o n e ly" and within 2 days he's caved to the pressure and going "I'll only take one look. Just a little peek to see what he's up to"

Mahaad and Priest Seti [I refuse to call him Seto fuck you] are staring directly into the camera while Atem is looking at the gazing pool sighing like a forlorn lover and kicking his feet back and forth. If anything Kaiba showing up to duel him was a welcome break for everyone he finally had a worthy distraction -- ah fuck now he's crying because Yugi didn't come too you just can't win with this guy

[game-weaver]

is there any other muse in this fandom you’d like to RP?

Meme

(( So in the (far too long) time I have rp'd in the YGO community I've written Yugi and Atem (a couple variants) and Anzu once (a loooong time ago).

So out of the characters left....Hm, I've debated Mahaad before a long time ago, and I've dabbled very briefly with Priest Set purely on discord for fleshing out the history behind my Atem. They are both pretty fun characters but I dunno if I'd be confident enough to write either here lol. ))

[mahoushojoumonster]

@dragontamer05 liked a thing

“Wow!”

It’s not uncommon for the apprentice to sneak her way out of the palace. At first, it was a dare from the Prince. He didn’t think she could do it. Then, it became a convenient way to skip out on her lessons and meditations, because the priests weren’t really supposed to leave the palace grounds either, so Mahaad couldn’t (or at least wouldn’t) follow her out.

These days, it’s to escape the weight of what’s to come. Mahaad has been pressing on her to work harder, Set has her drilling her physical training harder than ever before. The expectations are stifling, especially when the remainder of her time is the chores she is meant to do as a servant.

And so, she’s outside the walls as the sun is rising. It will be at least a little while before anyone is sent out after her, and she can see the markets already beginning to fill. But that’s not what has her attention.

What has her attention (and enraptured it) is a woman not too far away, with pale skin and hair and the most piercing of blue eyes. To Mana, it is nothing short of beautiful, and she can’t help but stare at the woman who looks so different to everyone around her.

[copperdaisy]

Having one of those nights where I want to dump these three fuckers in a jar and shake it. Not for any particular reason; I attempted to take a nap earlier and it failed and now I have turned to mayhem. And I may or may not have turned on the playlists I have for two of the three. That probably contributed to it.

I know that I have mentioned how I have written things with Seth off and on for the past 20 years, but the same can be said for Thief King Bakura. I only started practicing with Mahaad a couple of years ago. This is mostly due to RP reasons and how the cast got divided up between myself and my longtime friend/RP partner when we first started playing in the canon. I took Seth and TKB, friend took Atem and Mahaad.

However, looking over my fic planning notes, I see that I don't have much of anything involving Bakura on the docket. I know that he will be one of the antagonists in the Night at the Museum crossover but there are so many moving pieces in that project that it is still very fluid in development. (My writing skills being MIA right now are not helping.) Not that I have much planned with Mahaad right now. It is currently limited to a "headdressshipping if you squint" idea with the set trimmings of omegaverse with a large portion of the trope nixed and no actual smut included. Meanwhile there are like six WIPs that are Seth centric. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Though I do have that barely formed inkling of an idea where Seth, newly made Pharaoh of a kingdom in near ruins who has had zero time to grieve personal loses, begrudgingly finds an ally in Thief King Bakura - the host. Who survived the de-Zorcening because I said so. Just uh. Have to figure out how to make it all make sense, given how unforgiving Seth is in general. Not like Bakura-the-host had much say in things, and what tiny glimpses of him we get to see in canon seem to imply that he is not a third as feral as Zorc!Bakura is so... hm.

[moldysourlemons]

Ooo, this makes me really curious about how the girls would react if Yugi has the puzzle in this universe! Do you think that Yami would go easy on the girls since Yugi still cares for them, or would he go ham because of how badly they end up treating him?

Atem's story is a bit different in my fanfic. Priest Seto loses to his father and is corrupted by Zorc. Zorc is undefeated. Priest Seto has Kisara (who became one with the Blue Eyes White Dragon) kill Atem and Mahaad (the Black Magician). Seto usurps the throne of the now destroyed city, though there were -- luckily -- a number of survivors.

Many people were upset that the Pharaoh was killed and didn't want to accept Seto, but they were scared of him and were more concerned with the fact that the Sun, Ra, is dead and their houses and families destroyed. (This world follows more closely to actual Egyptian mythology, so Ra is actually the sun) Three magicians, however, decided they would do something about their lost king. They performed a ritual to revive him, which works, but also curses Atem so he can't return to the afterlife if killed again (he is not trapped in the puzzle and does get to keep his memories). By Atem's power, a new city is created. The people are happy at first, but then mania arises as they struggle to gain food without sunlight and are slowly picked off by monsters spawning in the darkness. They begin to believe they've angered the gods by abandoning their city and bringing Atem back from the dead, so they kill him. But, because of the curse, Atem is left to roam the Earth (Earth canonically being the god Geb) as a ghost.

3,500 years later, in the early 2500s, the goddess Aset (Aset is the Ancient Egyptian name for Isis) feels sorrowful for Atem after three thousand and a half years of watching people die in horrid ways, unable to interfere. So, Aset goes to Meskhenet and Taweret and asks them to give Atem a second life. They comply with the request and Atem is reborn with a new family. His new parents name him Kenji. Two years after, his parents have Yugi. In this world, Yugi is Atem/Kenji's younger brother. The gods still claim Kenji to be the rightful king, so they give the Millennium Puzzle back to him (the gods have been keeping hold of the Millennium Items).

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Kenji likely wouldn't immediately know that Yugi is being mistreated. He would be curious why Yugi would join a literature club despite not being into literature, but Yugi would lie and tell him that he thought he should read more, so Kenji would brush it off. Yugi doesn't want to paint a bad picture of the girls because he does like them and considers them his friends. Kenji loves Yugi to death and is very protective of him as a brother, so Yugi always tells Kenji that the club members are super nice and fun to be around so Kenji doesn't hate them.

Kenji would be furious if he were to find out how the girls treat Yugi. But, he wouldn't act on this anger because he can tell Yugi likes them and Kenji would never forgive himself if he made Yugi upset. He would, however, give them nasty glares from a distance. He would also forgive them if they clean up their behavior.

[sealed-ante]

Another stunning #sealshipping commission by @wisyhana!!! Many thanks to @evercatsstarlight for putting the commission request together 🙏🏽

Artwork based on my A03 fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37670596/chapters/94039999

[worldendercharles]

So uh. Sealshipping amiright

[the-cryptographer]

Not really ao3 worthy at this point (I'd like to edit and contemplate a second chapter), but here's a little something I wrote for the most important day of @rainstormcolors YGO Super Rare Pair Week.

Atem/Haga & some cracky dimensional travel to the Insect Queen's Lair.

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“You can’t be serious about going back in there?!”

Haga’s question came out in a deranged screech. And Atem leaned back and away from the gnash of his teeth. The putrid cowardice of his being.

Disdain was an uncomfortable feeling, like something slimy on your tongue. Atem got angry to cover the taste.

“You would leave your friend behind?!” he demanded. “In the depths of that hive?!”

“The bugs have probably torn him to death already!” Haga protested.

His brow scrunched. His beady black eyes looked very large, magnified behind the lens of his glasses. They were the same gold frames with the scarab as he’d wore in Atem’s dimension. Or Yuugi’s dimension, maybe. Atem wondered where he’d gotten them, and where he’d gotten that brown jumpsuit he was wearing.

Before Atem could ponder on that more, he realised with sudden horror that there were tears beading in Haga’s eyes as well, enlarged by the lens.

“That wasn’t what I asked anyhow!” Haga hissed. “He’s not your friend in there! You’re the one that shouldn’t be serious about it?!”

Atem crossed his arms over his chest, looked into Haga’s face for some betrayal – something underhanded waiting to be uncovered.

“Jounouchi liked Ryuuzaki,” Atem said. A friend of Jounouchi’s was a friend of his. And Ryuuzaki was Haga’s friend. Which make them unfortunate friends-in-law.

“Jounouchi?” Haga sneered. “That bleach-blonde thug thought he was better than us. As if his ugly face wasn’t just as unpopular with the girls.”

“Girls?” Atem blinked.

“Feh,” Haga spat. “It was just Ryuuzaki and me back when- Just don’t act like you care!”

He stomped off. Only as far as the other end of the cave, thank Ra. They didn’t need to draw unwanted attention.

Though Atem suspected it wouldn’t matter in the end. This place stank like dung and honey, sweet and rotten. No corner untouched by those insect monsters, the Korogashi. It was empty for now, but he and Haga would be found eventually.

Atem tried to summon his Ka – Black Luster, the three Gods, Mana and Mahaad, Exodia. But he couldn’t get his Ba to manifest.

He wondered if he’d have been able to with one of Kaiba’s duel disks.

Thinking about Kaiba made Atem angry again. Angry and infuriated and a little heartsick. Even if Atem himself was stuck in this hellish dimension, he hoped Kaiba had made it back home safely to Mokuba. He hoped Kaiba hadn’t just splintered and fragmented the entire fabric of the universe, like an amateur jeweler getting overenthusiastic with a diamond and a pair of shears.

Yeah, big fucking thanks to your stupid boyfriend~ It was impossible to tell Priest Set’s sneer from Insector Haga’s.

“He’s not my-!” Atem reared on his companion. “Don’t talk about him like that!”

Because no matter how frustrated Atem was with Kaiba, Kaiba had thought everything and the whole universe was worth risking to come see Atem again. Not Yuugi, and not the Pharaoh, but Atem as a person. And Atem wouldn’t let anyone else call him stupid for that.

The world winked out and then winked back in with a flash of blue light.

It was still the cave – the borough of these insects. Dung and honey.

“What did I do?!” Haga whined.

He was looking at Atem like he hadn’t even said anything. Maybe he even hadn’t.

Atem let out a groan of frustration. The problem was he didn’t know. Haga took advantage of things like this. Made doubt yourself. Made you trust him before he turned on you.

“Oh, you mean Jounouchi?” Haga sneered. His eyes narrowed with sudden sadistic focus. “Did you ever show him that costume then?”

Haga pointed at Atem’s forehead and laughed, an ugly nasally thing. And it took Atem a moment to realise he was pointing to the golden eye of Wedjat.

Atem looked down at his white and purple Pharaoh's robes, from the dimension he’d come from. As foreign to Haga as Haga’s own brown jumpsuit was to Atem.

“So you never did show Jounouchi, your precious ‘friend’?!” Haga laughed. “I guess you knew he’d think you were worth as little as us, if he knew you were an Egyptian mythology otaku! Or do you also think you were better than us, Yuugi?”

Haga let out a derisive snort.

“Let me set it straight for you!” he shouted. “Dinosaurs are better than pyramids any day of the week! And bugs are better than both of them!”

Atem felt a little deflated. He was never going to understand why dinosaurs and bugs and pyramids were worth shouting over like this but-

“I’m not Yuugi,” he said.

“What you have a character name for your Live Action Role Play?” Haga mocked. “You have to be cuter to get me to call you Cleopatra~”

“No, I’m not Yuugi,” Atem insisted.

Haga blinked. Readjusted his glasses. Blinked, like maybe in the dim light of the cave, through the fog of these different dimensions, he was seeing for the first time Atem’s coiled hair and dark skin.

“You knew I wasn’t Yuugi!” Atem felt furious now. “You taunted me! You pretended to rip his soul apart, when he was trapped in the Seal of Orichalcos!”

“W-What are you talking about, Yuugi?” Haga said. “We haven’t seen one another since you destroyed my Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth at Duellist Kingdom… And that was before… um… There was a disaster… My brother’s pesticide business…”

Haga scratched the back of his head.

“How did I get here?” he asked.

It occurred to Atem that this might not be his Haga. That they might have come from totally disparate planes of existence, and were only meeting here briefly in this strange dimension.

Haga didn’t seem to be taking this well.

“How did I get here, Yuugi?!” he demanded. And when Atem had no answer for him, he flared up. “This is all your fault! If you hadn’t distracted me, Ryuuzaki wouldn’t have been captured by those-!”

There was a loud scuttling sound echoing through the caves. Something scraping the edges of the tunnel.

“Quiet!” Atem hissed. He lunged forward and pressed his hand over Haga’s mouth.

Haga might have made things difficult for Atem if he tried. Because even if he was a hair shorter than Atem, he was stockier, less lean.

But for some reason Haga didn’t make trouble. And, distracted by the problem at hand, Atem pressed them both towards the burough’s smallest darkest corner, where he thought they might be overlooked by their approaching assailant.

The Korogashi rolled its mound into the cavern, scuttled, pincers snapping.

They said the monster crushed its foes with the dung it rolled, but Atem didn’t thought it could have crushed them all by itself. These insects monsters were as large as people, or larger. Like holographs but solid. Like pain.

Atem closed his eyes, and tried once more to summon something from his Ba. Not even caring whose hand he reached, as long as it was someone’s. Then-

“Boh!”

Something popped into existence.

Atem blinked, and the first thing he saw was Haga’s eyes, wide as saucers. He followed them to the Ka he’d summoned.

“Boh! Boh! Boh!” Kuriboh said. Its eyes narrowed in determination. And it gave a salute, before bouncing off through the cavern.

Atem heard rather than saw the Korogashi turn and follow in pursuit.

He waited a moment in silence then, when he was sure the monsters had gone, became very suddenly aware of Haga’s lips damp against his palm.

Atem dropped his hand quickly and stepped back.

Haga seemed to come to himself, slapped Atem further away. His pale face looked very pink in the dim light.

“…Are you alright?” Atem asked.

Haga’s flush deepened, but he didn’t bother answering, or even meeting Atem’s eyes.

“Ugh! It doesn’t make any sense!” Haga cried.

“It doesn’t?” Atem said stupidly. Mostly because a lot of things weren’t making much sense right now.

He thought about the Kuriboh. He hoped it would be okay. Manage to escape the insects.

“Honeypot ants are one thing,” Haga was saying. “But dung beetles don’t live in colonies! They live in mated pairs! They shouldn’t be organised like this!”

“Right,” Atem said.

“Unless…” Haga snapped his fingers. “Insect Queen!” he said. “They must be answering to the Insect Queen.”

“…Right,” Atem said. He didn’t understand how Haga was reaching these conclusions but, well… Even if Atem couldn’t trust Haga, he definitely trusted that Haga knew more about insects than him.

And maybe that knowledge would be useful right now.

“These common bugs are one thing,” Haga was fretting, “but if the Insect Queen has Ryuuzaki… But could I betray my Queen for…”

Atem feel like he suddenly knew everything he needed. “You plan to go after Ryuuzaki?”

“That’s what I said from the start!” Haga snapped. “You’re the one that shouldn’t-”

“Then I’ll help you,” Atem said.

Even if the universe shattered. Even if this dimension was going to fade out like a dying star.

And who knew? Maybe Kaiba or Mahaad or Mana would still find a way to save them.

But even if this was the end of everything, helping two friends reunite wouldn’t be the worst way for Atem to spend his last moments.

“It seems I’m still able to summon low level Ka,” he said. “With my Ka, and your knowledge of insects, we can put together a strategy to rescue Ryuuzaki.”

He turned and started out the cavern.

“Let’s go,” he commanded. “We’ll plan as we move. I don’t work well if I’ve gone on the defensive too long.”

“Uugh!” Haga groaned. But he fell into step, running to catch up. “Who do you think you are bossing me around like that?!” he demanded. “Who put you in charge of everything?!”

“Atem.” He didn’t bother answering the question about who’d put him in charge. “My name is Atem.”