#yugioh tkb

[discords-morgan]

I've had this one (1) fic idea turning in my brain like my head's a microwave for like. Six months and I just had a lightning strike of an idea for it and I fear I won't be able to keep writing my novel properly until I get this out first soooooooo

Homies and homos how do we feel about past Atem/TKB........

EDIT: y'all I just realised this is what the casteshipping y'all talk about sometimes is I'm so dumb one day I'll learn all the names

[deadsirius1216]

THE SILLIES (a brother au:3)

[micheladee]

LOOK AT THIS TKB I C0MMED @koutone TO DRAW FOR ME!!

I've had this fic idea where Thief King Bakura sneaks into the royal palace under the guards' noses, finds the noble baths, and takes a moment to relax.

What would happen if a certain noble catches him?

The way Luisa draws TKB and Diabound as a little snake is my favorite ever.

[alliebirb]

she with the dragon blood

[vranias]

but my peace has always depended on all the ashes in my wake

#2. Arsonist's Lullaby - Hozier

your honor i must pronounce him valid, i fear

[superspecial-awesome]

Tkb pain and suffering collection feel free to add

[mxrtified777]

gaahhhhhh citronshippies

[madrevolting]

(thinking really hard) um... ryou and yugi in those illuminati era outfits

[koutone]

thief doodlesss

[puzzl-d]

Yu⭐︎Gi⭐︎Oh X Prince of Egypt

A set of screenshot redraws from Dreamwork's The Prince of Egypt (1998, Chapman, Hickner, Wells) ft. Atem and Bakura.

During the destruction of Kul Elna, Bakura's mother manages to hide her son in a basket and send it down the Nile. It streams into the pharaonic palace just when Atem and his mother are bathing and Atem's mother picks up Bakura, adopting him as her own. Atem and Bakura grow up as close brothers though Atem as the crown prince is under significantly more pressure than Bakura who doesn't have Egypt's future fate on his shoulders.

After a celebration to promote Atem into prince regent, Bakura follows a woman who snuck into the palace and when he confronts her down in the city, she reveals to him that he was born in Kul Elna. Though Bakura initially rejects her, the idea doesn't leave him and finding a mural in the palace, the truth and past are revealed. Unable to continue living under such cruelty but equally unable to change it as he is, Bakura decides to leave the palace and therefore Atem.

Atem tries to hold him back, terrified to lose his closest confidant, but Bakura is disgusted with him and all that he and the pharaonic lineage stand for. He turns his back on the palace and runs away deep into the desert. There he meets the mysterious woman again, finding out yet more about his history and the Millennium Items.

When Bakura returns to Khemet with the Millennium Ring, it's out of righteous fury to avenge the souls that were lost in Kul Elna. By then though, Atem has ascended to Pharaoh and while at first he's happy to see Bakura back, when he finds out his plan even the last remains of their once relationship is shattered.

Additional thoughts and references under the cut!

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I've been sitting on the screenshots for this redraw for almost exactly a year according to my drawing file. Didn't really work on them until this weekend though. Now that I did though, it was 100% worth it, both as composition and background practise and because it just works soooo well as a yugioh AU!

The brotherly relationship between Rameses and Moses from PoE could really enhance the drama of Atem and Bakura's relationship, and Bakura's righteous crusade fits to Moses' brilliantly as well. Though I think in this case it would be Atem who reaches out to Bakura instead of Moses to Ramesses.

Rejection and a final breakup between the two might still happen regardless. Though if Atem has chance to find out about Kul Elna and the history of the Millennium Items, coupled with having had a previous relationship with Bakura? Maybe they're able to create a happier ending after all :)

Reference screenshots (don't mind the quality <3):

[bradbradleyart]

[respectfullytrash]

Clothes Swap 🤪

[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)

[milliekou]

Chibi commission for @ask-little-egypt ‘s OC, Mar and TKB 💜

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[qixzel]

I want the same thing everyone wants (ygo post-canon where everyone who got dunked on during the main plot gets a second chance at life) I just want it in my own special way (TKB is a butch)

Obvious inspiration for TKB's hair taken from the fabulous @ploppymeep

[yugiohmangaoutofcontext]