#tkb speaks

[thekatebridgerton]

You guys have probably been wondering why I haven't been posting lately and for once it's for a happy reason 😺

Good things have been happening in my life, so I've barely had time to be on Tumblr so frequently anymore. My job contract got renewed, I got a raise ( means my hard work been paying off.. but also that I need to work more). Personal life, I had my Eloise arc and got married to my very own Sir Phillip. In 2 years he went From long distance pen pal to real life husband 💘 and I just got back from my honeymoon which was the most beautiful experience of my life

Right now I'm trying to enjoy this peace while it lasts. The world is such a hard place and these moments of kindness and goodness are so precious to me. the younger version of me hoped for this for so long in her darkest times now that it's finally here, I'm realizing that it's all been worth it. Some day life may be different, but for today, and I hope for a long time to come, life has been going well. And I wanted you guys to know that I am currently, very grateful for all the good things around me.

And that means thank you to all of you too. For being part of the many things that currently bring me hapiness.

[jhonny]

"stop talking like that boy you're ruining my tboy swag" - yami bakura, probably

or, when both bakuras are trans but only one of them has perfected the trans voice.

+ bonus thief king (as a treat)

[romanceddawn]

Treasured Moments by deevotee| Rating: T

“You know, you could at least—” Yugi’s scolding is cut off by the other man pulling him by the waist into a fierce kiss. It takes his breath away just like the first time had and leaves all his thoughts melting into the feeling of being pressed up against his lover. When they part, he’s forgotten what he was going to say—which he suspects was Bakhure’s goal if the sly grin is anything to go by.

“I brought you something,” Bakhure tells him, letting him go so he can drop his backpack onto the bed. “Well…A few somethings.”

Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Yami Bakura/Mutou Yuugi, Thief King Bakura/Mutou Yuugi, Yami Bakura, Thief King Bakura, Mutou Yuugi, Yami Yuugi | Atem, Post-Canon, Yamis Have Their Own Body, Fluff, Established Relationship, Mentions of Fragileshipping

[nekucreates]

I'm reading the Yugioh manga and Marik's goal is to be the next king/pharaoh but like wouldn't it be cute if he really was inspired by stories of Thief King Bakura? Like yes, logically Marik wouldn't have heard of him/been allowed to read something on TKB even if records existed, but...consider...how cute it'd be. And how funny it is to accidentally end up partnering with TKB. I will never let go of this concept. Other people have suggested the same because it makes sense. (I know it ain't real, but we like to have fun here)

[jasmancer]

are the drag race girlies still getting lesbionic w the paula abdul lip syncs every once in a while. i must know for my health

[tony-andonuts]

Anyways thank god for vpns bc rewatching all stars 6 is distracting me

[bonjourxrenae]

I cannot express enough just how much of an impact TLT has had on the way I write certain characters, at some point they all just become Gideon Nav

[kathairoette]

Two of my favourite headcanons are:

- Atem likes "weird" pets. Scorpions, spiders, stuff like that. Cats and horses are his favourites, but "weird" pets are definitely a close second

- Atem's speech pattern varies depending on what language he speaks. If he's speaking Egyptian, his vocabulary is pretty formal, sometimes even with friends, because that's how he was taught to speak as a child, but if he's speaking Japanese, he sounds waaaaaay more informal than he does in Egyptian. He hasn't noticed he does this, and the only person who might notice is Yami Bakura/the thief king, because he's the only other person who speaks both languages

oooh I like the first one. Atem just having this little obsession with all the weird critters of the world... watching videos about spiders, listening to documentaries about ants... he might try to ask Yuugi if he's allowed to keep something like that at one point, but when he saw how Aibou's face paled he decided that he should probably go for the cat instead XD

The second one's interesting too! I'm assuming the Egyptian here is like, ancient Egyptian (It's called Coptic right? I could be wrong tho alksdj) so he'd definitely have to speak a certain way befitting of his social status. But since he was stuck with a bunch of teenagers in Japan, of course his speech would grow more loose XD TKB can be a fun addition too tho, esp if you include that one other hc where both he and Atem speak different versions of Coptic. TKB like, sort of knows what Atem's saying but the rest goes out of the window 'cause of the differences XD

But thanks for sharing anon! This was good food~

[bakawitch]

Yugioh au where everything is the same except that instead of Zorc Necrophades, Bill Cipher is the big bad demon that got summoned and tied to the Millennium Items. It would be utter chaos. Get ready for Biou, the version of Ryou that's possessed by a tkb possessed by Bill Cipher. Get ready for the Chaos Realm where everything is fucking insane. Gate of Darkness? More like Gate of Maddness. Yami never gets cured of pyromaniac murder goblin syndrome because of all the chaos magic infused in the items. Yeah, not even Yugi and friendship can fix that, everything is just too fucking weird. Yami Malik keeps getting beheaded outside of Chaos(?) Games and surviving them. Malik'll survive, but he might occasionally lose his head in a more literal sense due to all the Chaos Realm and chaos magic exposure his body went through. He's fine, though, I promise. Isis grew a third eye from her oracle-ness, Shadi is probably not even human, and Pegasus's eye just randomly develops a consciousness and the ability to speak. The Axolotl replaces Horakhty. Nothing makes sense.

[kujakumai]

hi so i just read a bunch of your old meta posts and i have to say you are so right. most correct yugioh fan on anything ever actually. particularly fond of how youre both a tkb analyzer and atem analyzer like yes 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Thank you!!! imo you cannot speak of Atem or TKB without the other they are v deliberate parallels. they gotta inform each other.

[antaresr]

So, I was rambling when my head remembered the prompt that @liberationwasboundtohappen proposed and my brain decided to do it.

So a post-canon where everyone is friends, with game nights and stuff like that, however Ryou every night has nightmares about the shadow realm, things chasing him, the hunger he went through, the hiding places he had to find.

Until he sees him, Zorc, Hunting him, chasing him, cursing him, he hides and finds some water that he drinks, and his reflection is not his pale face with soft eyes, it is a sharp face with terrified eyes, a scar running down his right cheek, large and calloused hands, Ryou is not dreaming of his memories, Ryou does not have nightmares.

Ryou is watching TKB being hunted by things and by Zorc.

He wakes up with a scream when Zorc finds TKB, and it just so happens that it had been a game night, his friends wake up because of his scream and ask him what the hell is going on.

"The spirit of the ring, the thief, he, oh god, I think he's dead."

"Well old man, it's old news, it's been years since that" Jounouchi tells him patting his shoulder, thinking Ryou is just having a breakdown from a bad dream.

"No, I just saw him, Zorc is there, with him."

"Like the giant thing with a dragon thing?" Honda shudders, remembering the past encounter with the dark god.

"I need to call Marik, I need to save him" Ryou hurriedly gets up from his bed, turns on his computer and calls Marik, when Marik answers Ryou doesn't even let him say hello. "I need to enter the shadow realm."

Everyone yells at Ryou for the stupid thing he just said, Marik who doesn't have all the information asks him if he had a screw loose.

"The spirit is in danger, Bakura is in danger."

Marik considers the information "Give me a few hours, I know what scrolls we need and I can find a quick flight there."

Marik hangs up, Ryou trembles in and drops into his desk chair, everyone looks at him like he's crazy for wanting to save the spirit that made his life miserable.

After almost 24 hours Marik arrives in Japan, he doesn't take a break, he goes straight to Ryou's house, everyone is still there, Marik takes out from his suitcase THE BOOK that started all this mess, he opens it directly to the necessary page and Ryou and Marik study the text.

And they realize that there is a problem.

For the spell they need someone who can speak ancient Egyptian and is a magic user, and only Marik can speak ancient Egyptian and only Ryou is a magic user, neither can enter the portal that will come out of the spell because they will have to stay outside to keep it open and stabilized as there are two people and not one.

They need a third one to enter.

They explain what is going on to the others, they all look at each other because why the hell would they sacrifice their life for the guy who was willing to kill them in the dark RPG? Jou and Honda refuse, Anzu apologizes but says she won't do it.

"You guys couldn't anyway, the shadow realm would kill you quickly, you weren't carriers of the sennen Items."

"I'll do it" Yugi straightens up, more serious than anyone would expect.

"You can't be serious" Jou grabs him by the shoulders and shakes him off.

"Yugi is too dangerous, you heard Ryou about the stuff in there" Anzu tries to talk some sense into him, she won't lose her best friend, she'd rather do it herself than let him go alone.

"It's just me left, I don't speak Egyptian, and I don't know how to do magic, but I used the puzzle, I'll survive."

"I won't ask you to do that, I'll find another way and bring it..."

Yugi doesn't let Ryou finish "No, I'll do it, I owe it to him".

No one understands why the heck Yugi says that, but he doesn't have to explain to them the times that The spirit of the ring, Bakura, kept him safe, Yugi will pay his debt, he will save Bakura, he will bring him back.

And if he can't save him, then at least he won't let him die alone.

[iamallyetnotatall]

A casteshipping (TKB x Atem) that becomes heartshipping (Ryou x Yugi) reincarnation/soulmates-esque plotbunny I'm probably never going to write out:

Bakura and Atem die as per canon and are tied to the Ring/Puzzle respectively. Except no Zorc. It's just two guys in their items.

New 'reincarnations' of them are born. These people are drawn to the items and are always in search of them. Bakura and Atem can speak to each other telepathically if the items are close enough to each other. They can't speak to their hosts, but they can influence them somewhat mentally.

Bakura tries to influence his hosts to kill the Puzzle host, and Atem tries to influence his hosts to run from the Ring host. It's a giant game of cat and mouse. Bakura is still just so angry and wants to kill Atem over and over (even just his hosts).

There's so much hate and rage that turns into a weird sort of game? Trying to escape or chase the other? It's fun and weirdly foreplay like.

Eventually they make it to Ryou and Yugi and suddenly they can talk to their hosts, but have no means of influencing them. Ryou and Yugi decide to be friends, despite their haunted items telling them not to.

Then they smooch and find a way to free the spirits tied to the items. Bakura and Atem realize their latest reincarnations may have the right idea about how this relationship should go and walk off into the light holding hands.

The end.

[romanceddawn]

trapshipping that starts with fragile and bound, but when they reveal their relationships to their friends all of them are confused and saying, "huh i thought yugi and atem would be together?" and "nah, i thought yugi and bakura" and "guys i fully thought bakhure and atem were already fucking"

all of this has the four of them really re-evaluating their relationships and having to have a group discussion about it because it's affecting their love lives, so there's just a big weird kind-of argument where no one wants to openly admit that yeah they all had crushes on each other. the first one to break is bakhure who's beyond annoyed and just goes "this would be a lot fucking easier if we could just all be lovers" and the rest of them are like 'wait a minute..."

[nekucreates]

I keep cycling through Yugioh ships consisting of Yami Marik, Yami Bakura, Marik Ishtar, and Ryou Bakura. Like last week I was obsessed with Tameshipping and new it’s Citronshipping annnnd ahhh. There’s too many of these ship dynamics to draw 😵‍💫 they’re so shippable and there’s so many things to explore and ahhhh. I cannot possibly draw all these ideas.

[philistiniphagottini]

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HAII!! HELLO!! ahh,, the reply to my last ask was so refreshing and such a relief.. thanks alot for the kind words !! <3

To the other thing touched on, I've been nonstop thinking about the "one-bed room left for tonight at an inn/a motel" trope with assistant!Reader and their boss tkb..

just how the whole situation would bloom, and how chaotic yet endearing it would all be, And I was wondering if i could request just that? It doesn't need to be suggestive ! just an awkward, agitated tkb who slowly gives into the idea of sleeping in the same bed as his assistant- and bashful/hesitant Reader throughout the entire thing would be so awesome ! > <

(we can also further chat about my little idea in dms o o!! and remember, you don't have to accept how anything if this writing trope makes you uncomfortable thats fine! remember to stay hydrated and take it easy! <3)

Hello! Thanks for dropping by again, I love your requests and asks so much. Thank you very much for your kind words, I hope you enjoy this piece

cw. fluff

"What is this?"

Your shoulders jumped up to your ears at the sound of Bakura hissing through his teeth. Your eyes nervously darted towards the tall man standing beside you, a scowl etched into his features and arms crossed over his broad chest. He shot you a disapproving look as a nervous laugh bubbled up your throat. You flicked a stray piece of hair out of your eyes as you forced a smile onto your face despite the daggers he was glaring at you.

"It’s our room for the night" you answered, trying, and failing, not to sound too meek.

The pinch between Bakura’s brow had yet to ease as his eyes scanned the pathetic state of the room. You had one job. Secure a room for the night while he tended to the horses outside and stashed the goods from the recent heist. After days of trudging through the harsh desert climate, this small town’s inn was like finding an oasis. Unfortunately, though, this was the only room the innkeeper could spare. A small, dimly lit room down the end of the corridor that could barely fit one bed in it. One, singular, sad looking bed. This was unacceptable. An irritated sigh blew past Bakura’s lips, a frown still tugging at the edges as the puff of warm air blew wisps of his snowy, white hair off his sun kissed skin. He suddenly spun on his heel, intent on marching back the way he came to go seek the innkeeper.

"Where’s that old fool of an innkeeper?" he asked, the sound of his sandals scuffing against the creaking floorboards echoing back down the corridor.

You were quick to chase after Bakura, hands shooting out to grab at the long sleeves of his robes. He paid you no mind as you tried to slam your feet into the ground and halt his advances. You were barely even slowing him down.

"Boss wait!"

"I just want to talk with him" Bakura stated.

You shook your head frantically. "No, you don’t just want to talk."

If Bakura got his hands on that poor innkeeper, he was going to throttle him. He’d be doing the talking with his fists.

"Listen for a sec, Boss. Just calm down."

To your utter surprise, he actually listened to you and stopped dead in his tracks. The sudden stop almost made you trip over your own feet and slam right into his back. You were able to catch yourself and keep upright. A sigh of relief blew past your lips as Bakura gave you a cursory glance back at you, waiting for you to keep talking. Your mouth felt dry as you swallowed thickly, scrambling around your brain to pick the right words.

"It’s not as bad-"

"Yes, it is" Bakura interjected.

"It’s all they had left" you tried. "And…"

Bakura’s eyes narrowed. "And?" he prompted with a spit of venom in his voice.

You tugged on the long sleeve of his robes. "And it’s just for one night."

Bakura opened his mouth to speak but feeling a little annoyed and petty, you decided to cut him off.

"Boss, do you really want to try and look for another inn?" you said. "We’re tired. We’ve been travelling for days. Just please try and be cordial and suck it up for one night."

Bakura seemed to be considering your words as his gaze flickered over you. It was hard to not shake like a frightened lamb under his intense stare but you held strong. Your argument was sound. You were both exhausted from travel. You obviously wanted somewhere decent to sleep tonight. You didn’t want to spend another night out in the desert and wake up in the morning with your face buried in the cold, unforgiving earth. After a long moment of holding his intense stare, he finally relented. He retrieved his arm from your grasp, an annoyed look crossing his features as he rolled his eyes.

"Fine. Just for one night."

The tight knot in your stomach finally started to dissipate and your heart could ease of its frantic pace.

"Thank you, Boss."

He grunted in reply and allowed you to lead the way back to the room. As he fell in step behind you, gaze locked onto the back of your head his mind started to drift. A smirk crawled over his lips.

"I don’t think you’ve ever snapped at me like that before" he mentioned.

You felt your cheeks flush from embarrassment at his words. He was right. Though you did get annoyed with his antics on occasion, you rarely voiced your displeasure. But tonight, your patience was hanging on by a thread and you may have crossed the line a little just to sway him in your favour. You awkwardly cleared your throat.

"Please, I’d prefer if you don’t mention it again."

Bakura chuckled, causing a disgruntled noise to claw at the back of your throat. Oh, that laugh told you that he was definitely going to bring it up again. You arrived back where you started, staring through the open bedroom door to look once more at the small, humble room you’d be staying in for the night. You both hesitated to be the first to go in. You could feel your heart start to flutter wildly in your chest again, but for a different reason now. So, you were really going to be sleeping in the same bed as you boss. Part of you was mortified. Yet another, secret part you kept deeply buried was elated at the thought. You could barely feel the tips of your fingers as they tingled with numbness, nails catching in the palms of your hands as you tried to reign in your spiralling thoughts. You only snapped back to attention when Bakura made the first move.

"I suppose there’s no room for you on the floor, is there" he noted as he stepped forward.

Your eyebrow twitched. "You wound me. Do you despise occupying the same space as me that much?"

Bakura was a little caught off guard by your statement yet it didn’t show on his face. Whatever response he was going to give he immediately bit his tongue and swallowed his words back down his throat. He was not about to admit that seeing that flash of hurt cross your eyes for a brief second actually made his heart drop right into his stomach. Instead, he snickered under his breath.

"You have your uses" he replied.

You were too tired to mention that his response was probably one of the nicest things he had ever said to you. You waited for Bakura to pick his side of the bed, the springs creaking loudly as he flopped down. All complaint seemed to have left him which should have made you happy. But right now, you were kind of terrified. Was this the preferred outcome? Yes, most definitely. But were you ready to actually sleep next to the person you had developed strong feelings for? You bet your bald ass you weren’t ready for that. And Bakura’s blatant staring was not helping your plight as your limbs seemed to lock up and you couldn’t even make it past the threshold of the door. You only came back to your current plane of existence when Bakura cleared his throat loudly.

"Well?" he prompted.

"Uhhh…"

Bakura rolled his eyes so hard they almost disappeared into the back of his head.

"Are you planning to stand there all night like a brain-dead idiot? Or are you joining me?"

Right. It was probably best not to stand there in an unknown inn with the door wide open. And given how infamous Thief King Bakura had become, you never truly knew where enemies could be lurking. With that thought at the forefront of your mind you quickly shuffled into the room, locking the door behind you before waddling to your side of the bed. The lone flicker of a candle wick perched on the window sill was the only light source that was offered as the rest of the room was bathed in pitch darkness. The mattress creaked from your sudden weight as you rolled into bed, only stopping once your back suddenly brushed against the man beside you. You flinched when you felt his foot wedge between your bodies and he shoved you further away. A noise of protest fell from your parted lips as you almost tumbled out of bed.

"Stay on your side" Bakura hissed into the darkness.

"Sorry" you whispered back. "This bed is small. Can you move just a little?"

"Do not intrude upon the sanctity of my leg space."

You sighed deeply as you flopped heavily onto your back, darkness swirling in your vision as you stared absentmindedly at the ceiling.

"Have I ever mentioned that you’re an ass?"

Bakura hummed. "Several times."

"Ah, good. Then you won’t mind me saying that you’re being an ass right now."

The mattress creaked as Bakura shifted, his sharp gaze landing on your figure beside him. There really wasn’t a lot of room between you both now, your shoulders only a scant few inches away from brushing against his. He stared at the side of your face as the light from the flickering candle light danced along your skin and bathed your face in a warm glow. He tilted his head curiously. Huh. Did you always look like that? He shook his head before a soft laugh stirred in his throat.

"I think it’s part of my charm" Bakura mused.

An exasperated sigh breezed past your lips as your eyes slipped close. Your body was finally starting to relax as your tired limbs sank further between the sheets. It didn’t feel as intimidating to be laying next to your boss when you couldn’t see him. His deep voice tickling your ear was actually kind of nice to listen to as the fatigue of the past several days was finally starting to catch up to you. You couldn’t help the fond smile that tilted your lips as a soft chuckle stirred in your chest.

"Yeah, I guess it is part of your charm."

Unfortunately, you missed the bewildered look that crossed Bakura’s face when you said that. He whipped his head in your direction so fast that the tendons in his neck threatened to pop. The tips of his ears itched as your words lingered in the air and buzzed around his head. Surely, he must have heard you wrong. He was tempted to ask you but it looked like you had already fallen asleep. So, his words went unspoken and he was left fidgeting all night long, trying to find a comfortable spot to lay in. It would have helped if his heart didn’t feel like it was trying to lodge itself in his throat as his pulse drumming in his ears kept him company for the remainder of the twilight hours.

[hereforthefunnyguys]

I wanna hear your Yu-Gi-Oh genderbend ideas so bad. Please tell me please 🥺🙏

okay okay so

I have a lot of half-sketched out designs and i have like none of them on hand one sec

Like in canon, Yugi starts out looking kinda immature both in dress style and also appearance - like, at the beginning of the story, she basically dresses in the normal domino high uniform and doesn't wear any fancy makeup + lets her hair down and all floppy. By the end of the series she has both grown up a little (e.g. a little taller, slightly more muscular, doesn't wear as much baggy clothing, etc.) and also has a much more obviously alternative fashion sense that only gets stronger as an adult. Hot Topic is shooting a new advertisement campaign with her as we speak. Also her hair is both a little longer + fluffs up a lot more since she's taking care of it now.

Atem, by contrast always has so. much. Hair. It literally comes down to her waist. Why, you may ask, did I give her so much hair? Simple i watched dbz and i know that hair length directly correlates to power level

Cut because this got So Long I promise it gets better as it goes on

Speaking of: Atem starts out the series as dressing extremely edgy and more sexual-undertone-y than Yugi because she feels the need to look as confident as possible, kinda like a cobra puffing itself up, plus seem what Yugi would consider "mature", which in her case equals "sexy and dresses in absurd amounts of leather." As the series goes on and she develops her own identity plus more solid evidence she doesn't have to be in Scary Evil Ghost Mode 24/7 she starts dressing more like herself, which is a little more like... practical than yugi? probably similarly feminine, just less goth-y and more regal. Like the princess of the universe has decided to bless your local game shop by showing up in full ballgown regalia.

She has a definite "warrior princess" type aesthetic and personality going on because she had to take the throne when everyone else really really wanted a male heir instead so she took over until she can find a "suitable husband" (spoiler: she never will)

Back to the modern day! Jonouchi and Honda are butch

I will not take arguments on this

Honda's just kinda always been like that and part of why she acts so tough and hard to get to know at first is because she's needed to be to cope with the bullying and ~social expectations~ of all that shit

Jonouchi was a sukeban and used to wear the long skirt + had long hair tied up in a pony-tail + in general just looked more feminine while being a street punk

I have the hc that then becoming more explicitly more masculine is tied to reinventing herself with a different identity, + accepting parts of herself she wasn't able to before + kinda comes with the whole concept of 'butch chivalry' which if i am completely honest she is not good at she is not chivalrous under no circumstances should Joey be your knight

Ryou has a similar thing to Yugi where she dresses fairly tame but it's to cover up for the fact that she fantasizes about dressing what she considers 'cool', which for Yugi was punk type clothing but for Ryou is more gothic lolita clothing. However she is way too shy to try pulling it off lol

Yami Bakura will not be contributing to this fantasy because she has the fashion sense of a racoon crawling out of a goodwill bin. Sad!

I just realized that the whole gag of Ryou being constantly harassed by a crowd of fangirls does come off as much more uncomfortable once the genders are swapped and its instead a nervous teenage girl getting pursued by fifteen overly insistent male admirers doesn't it

hmmm.

Anyways I support Yami Bakura being exactly as weird and creepy as a girl as she was as a guy. Maybe spiders are living in her hair who knows

As the TKB (TQB?) (That makes her sound like some exotic barbecue technique) sauce comes back she starts regaining some fashion sense that is mostly limited to an attempt to appear Big

Trenchcoats galore. So many trenchcoats. Make it stop

Big fan of the invention of pants

Yami Bakura wears skinny jeans for the Edgy Aesthetique but TKB mostly wears either plain shorts or skirts still because literally who the fuck is gonna run and jump and thieve around in skinny jeans??? who???????

Speaking of back in Ancient Egypt TKB kept up a fairly androgynous image with the help of a lot of rumour-spreading and a lot of chest bandaging (she was cursed with backbreaker boobs. Not for long though as you see pharoah atem my deal with zorc necrophades included breast reduction surgery for the small small price of me sacrificing half of Egypt to the infinite void)

the reason for this was simply that the criminal element in ancient Egypt was probably not going to be intimidated or very impressed by a pompous teenage girl and it would have most likely been detrimental to her survival to come across as openly feminine while out on the streets esp if we consider the fact that she was probably at least as attractive as Ryou is

”I am bakura the angry teenage girl” -bad, makes it sound like I watch fullmetal alchemist and cry over my chemical romance yaoi vs. “I am BAKURA the ADULT MAN and KING OF ALL THIEVES” - makes me sound cool and mature and like a sexy arc villain in one piece

back to the modern day (pt 2)

Seto is interesting to talk about in terms of presenting as masculine vs feminine because on one hand she needs to come across as suitably “one of the men” in order to gain respect in the business world but also she needs to be feminine and ostentatious enough to gain attention as a celebrity + it tends to make businessmen suspicious if you act too much like a man because what if you get the crazy idea you’re on their level hahaha

eugh

outside of public presentation I don’t think seto cares that much about what she looks like but that doesn’t matter because her whole life is public presentation anyways

my gender is blue eyes white dragon - seto Kaiba, 1997

marik (malikah????) is a femme lesbian and is soooo. Sooooo. Something about it

something something I was denied personal possessions and a sense of independent self as a child so now I will make myself as constantly fabulous and eye catching as possible while flaunting my wealth in the process

A lot of people interpret her fashion sense as just “sexy bimbo Barbie doll” type stuff but honestly I think for her it’s just as much about appearing elegant and in control as much as it is about being attractive to others

Marik wears so much makeup because she has such a specific image she wants to project so she is practically sweating foundation half the time. Same thing with the absurd amount of foundation garments she wears, e.g. the bodysuits and leggings and push up bras and girdles and shit

i am not a fan of foundation garments b t w they are evil and i dislike them this has been a psa from yours truly

Yami marik is pretty much the manifestation of everything she doesn't want to be, so she has a disheveled appearance, torn up clothing, very "imperfect" look in general

kind of has a dominatrix vibe about her because what is yugioh duel monsters (1996) without vague bondage themes

I have a design idea where she just dresses in the foundation garments marik was wearing under her clothes that have gotten all tattered and dirty just for extra ~symbolism points~

Pegasus dresses in 1980s power suits WITH extra shoulder pads

picturing a leopard print minidress pegasus in my mind its a really good image

TKB is nought but a roguish lesbian fundamentally and the parts of yami bakuras soul that are made of zorc juice are in a constant fight to keep her from getting distracted from the mission by whatever somewhat attractive young woman that catches Bakura's attention

I'm. Running out of text

Tumblr won't let me text no more

There is no point in a genderbend au if you can't be weird about the genders in it btw

i forgor to mention I have five hundred pictures of thee guys made