contents: fluff. established relationship. you always sleep better when you're with him. 600 wc.
It’s been long since darkness cloaked the firmament and Sylus is absorbed in the tranquil silence of his studies overlooking documents and official records. A common routine given his atypical profession in dealing with illegal weaponry and other business practices that caught his interest. His fingers idly tapping against the armrest come to a halt when faint footsteps reach his ears. The sound draws nearer and closer with each pace and the corner of his mouth tugs upward into a smirk while he waits in anticipation.
“Kitten, shouldn’t you be in bed where I had left you?” Sylus meets your heavy-lidded gaze and registers your appearance as a cashmere blanket wraps around your shoulders and your hair tousled from what seems to be troubled sleep. Despite his question, he beckons you with a gesture and you settle across his lap, your body turning in towards him to nuzzle your face into his neck with your arms coiling around him. He gently shifts your weight closer to him for a more secure hold and lays a sweet kiss on your head once your movement stills.
“You’re more comfy… way more comfy. I prefer this much more.” You hum and return his kiss by brushing your lips against his skin. He can feel you ease into him as he studies your adorable sleepy face and his heart swells with so much love and tenderness for you. He loves it when you seek him out even when you've spent the entire day together and still can't get enough of him.
“Is that so? I suppose I’m more comfortable than a bed, huh?” He strokes your hair, lulling you deeper into your drowsiness and you can only muster a noise of contentment. He wonders if he can emulate the same sense of comfort you provide him when he’s resting his head on your lap. The sweet and intimate sensation of your fingers caressing through his silver locks with the lingering scent of your perfume makes everything seem right in the world even if just brieftly. “You know I can’t work when you’re in my lap like this. I have too many distractions that way. You and the cute way you snore.”
You grunt softly. “I do not snore… do you really want me to leave?” You slowly unravel yourself from him with a small pout on your lower lip, and he softens with the realization that maybe he shouldn’t have teased you when you’re laced with sleep. You feel something warm against your forehead through your bleary eyes, and he can’t have his darling feeling unloved and unwanted by mistake and he intends to remedy that. His hand reaches up and moves your head back where it was moments ago and you are pliant under his touch.
“Now, I didn’t say you had to go anywhere. Stay here with me. I promise you won’t get in the way.” Sylus cooes you gently, his hand smooths along your back and he rests his cheek against your hair as he savors the feeling of having you in his arms. “I love you, sweet kitten. Sleep now. I’ll hold you until you do.” You murmur you love him back and for a few minutes, there’s nothing but silence and the steady rhythm of your breathing as your consciousness begins to drift.
Sylus gazes down at you with a fond and affectionate expression, whispering quiet reassurances that he hopes will reach you in your dreams. He resumes skimming through the paperwork he was doing before, his actions slower and deliberate so as not to wake you. Although his focus has shifted, he enjoys having you here with him like this and he could certainly get used to it.
The fact that Sylus is a programmer/engineer is just so fckn hot to me. Like thinking about it legit makes my pussy tingle.
I guess b/c intelligence = attractiveness. I also like that it adds a bit of a nerdy aspect to his character, b/c in this household you best believe we stan nerds. Especially when it's paired with being a big towering gorgeous biker with a sultry baritone made for ASMR, and who would conquer whole planets and hunt evil intergalactic overlords for sport, and is the most wanted criminal in the history of the galaxy with a 9 billion dollar bounty and an evol capable of reducing full grown men into tiny particles with a simple flick of his wrist yet is a total sweetheart and loverboy and king of consent to his girlfriend for whom he will sing and bake cupcakes and read poetry in bed an- (//fade to black as I keep yapping for an hour about what a fine specimen of a male Sylus Qin is//)
was gonna leave my comment in the tags but tbh i’m silent enough about this as it is.
seeing stuff like this is so upsetting because these terms were well known and widespread in the ace community but because of exclusionists many people stopped using terms like this because they felt uncomfortable and unsafe.
i loved these terms when i was in highschool, i loved the feeling of community, but i lost that because i didn’t feel comfortable openly and proudly calling myself asexual.
they’ve hurt so many people and damaged our community badly and i will never forgive them for that. we deserve to use our own terminology and feel safe within our community.
I remember ppl - even other ace ppl - saying the card suit thing was “cringey” and “straight ppl aren’t gonna take us seriously” (sounds familiar?) So i guess the community wound up abandoning it. We were also having severe issues at the time with aces being stereotyped as “childish/immature” for associating things like cake, dragons, and space with asexuality, plus in general as most aces just don’t “get” allosexual things in media and irl. We were starting to be viewed as ignorant, virginal, childish, losers, etc. I haven’t seen an ace-cake thing in a good while now.
This was the infancy of exclusionary influence on us. I didn’t realize it did more damage than just closeting us. Whole symbols and terms have been lost. Community has been lost.
I remember three-four years ago I got myself into the ace community on Insta, and I came across these terms. People in these circles would talk about cake, space, dragons, and the black ring on the middle finger. Then, a year or two later, ace content fizzled out (I thought it was Insta’s algorithm figuring out that I knew all this and didn’t bring me the old stuff) and young aces had no idea what any of these were - including the black ring. Finding out young aces had no idea what the black ring meant nearly snapped my heart in two - I proudly wore the black ring, I drew characters with it, and it was my quiet way of communicating to others what my sexuality was. I was baffled at the lack of knowledge - and it turns out that exclusionists got their hands into our community and snuffed us out.
Anyways, we need to bring this back. I thought the card suite thing was cool, it taught people the different ways people can experience attraction, I loved making jokes about preferring cake, I loved wearing the black ring and talking about it with my fellow queer people at my highschool QSA club.
I’m sorry, people don’t know about the cake or ring anymore? I remember being welcomed with spams of cake gifs, photos, and MS Paint drawings. I also distinctly remember that the block solo ring in the midle was meant as reference to the Ace of Spades (black, solo, middle of card). Only thing I didn’t know was that other aces could represent a more refined nuance. Let’s see if we can get this all rolling again.
Welcome to anyone who is interested in helping with the culture revival.
This is the exact reason I started my #ace positive and #aro positive tags. I remember learning about asexuality and thinking it was cool, but not for me (yet). I remember ace visibility day where people would post selfies with an ace card to signify their orientation like in the original post. I remember going through the tag and following every ace blog I could find, turning notifications on and scrolling through their blogs endlessly to learn more about it. I haven’t gotten a notification for any of those blogs in ages.
Going through all those blogs and seeing validation, learning more things about my newfound orientation was so incredibly as a questioning and unsure 15 year old. It’s devastating to me that this community has fallen quiet so much. So I started my tags, hoping to spread some more positivity and maybe inform people. This community is full of incredible people and the fact that so little of them remain, it heartbreaking.
Check out my tags if you ever need to. Maybe I’ll add more tags to my list to do whatever I can in support
The guys and and Ryou commiserating post-final duel
Yuugi: how’s the recovery been going? I can’t imagine the extra stress from the starvation and physical abuse Bakura put you through on top of everything else.
Ryou: it’s so kind of you to ask. I’m managing; I think my knowledge of the occult has helped me.
Honda: …beeecause you can like, spiritually come to terms with the afterlife?
Jounouchi: Because you know what kinda garlic’n’salt’n’shit to use to stop another possession?
Ryou, blinking: no? Because I knew it might turn out that way.
Jounouchi: what.
Ryou: oh come on, Jounouchi. You’re not truly an occultist if you’re not comfortable with the fact that you might get possessed by something evil. You’re a gambler, it’s not too different from a bad dice roll.
Jounouchi: what.
Yuugi: no he’s right, Jou. Only bitches and posers dress like this (or deal in the occult like Ryou) without fully accepting things might get spooky. I just lucked out with Atem.
*meanwhile in Aaru*
Atem: …fuck I’m gonna need to add a fifteenth protection spell on him aren’t I
Post-series Ryou who feels like he's going to die because he's so empty and lost without his Yami. There's literally holes in his chest where he used to be and they can never be filled again.
Yugi and the others are so worried about him they try to cheer him up by giving him a pet rabbit.
At first, Ryou pretends to be angry, chiding his friends because a rabbit is a massive responsibility and now he has to do all this studying and buying of toys and food and rabbitproof his whole apartment...but he's actually excited on theninside. Because now he has a reason to actually think about something other than the Ring.
Except the baby bunny, who's fluffy and white and angry because he's scared and doesn't trust humans due to being mistreated by his original owner, won't stop reminding Ryou of his Yami.
So he names him Bakura, even if it might seem very odd to anyone else. Yugi nicknames him Bunkura to minimize confusion!
At first, Bunkura is very difficult. He is a lot to handle. Moreso than most books and websites make rabbits to be. But as the days pass and Ryou devotes all of his empty days to trying to bond with him and learn how to read his body language, they eventually start to trust one another. It takes awhile for them both to open their hearts up again, but when they do, they form a close bond.
Ryou never expected to have a rabbit but he's very glad he does now.
And then the spirit Bakura comes back one day. Because of course he does.
wouldn't it be cute if, before Ryou could hear Yami Bakura's voice, he could manipulate the ring in order to talk to him? like answer yes/no questions or guide him to an object or series of objects that could convey a message.
I feel like if Yami would have, Ryou would've actually grown really fond of him this way 😭 like that's his nice little ghost friend that's with him all the time that patiently answers all his questions!!!!
and then when he finally does start hearing Yami, he'd be excited instead of scared! He finally gets to "meet" his ring friend omg!!!!!
Happy New Year, @iamallyetnotatall ! I was your secret santa this year for the @super-secret-conspiracy gift exchange!
The prompt was holiday movie, and unfortunately, all I could think of was the nutcracker XD So here's Rat King Bakura and Nutcracker Ryou! Happy Holidays! ＼(^^)／
Now I’m gonna keep it conspiresippy so Malik will be our Clara. And I’ll take inspiration from the best adaptation of nutcracker: Barbie in a nutcracker.
So it starts with Malik at his older brothers house ala Christmas party that they’re putting on for his sister and her coworkers so he’s very much not into it. His sister arrives and is like hi Malik here have a gift, and of course it’s our little guy nutcracker Ryou and Malik is like Owo.
Cue later that night when the rat king Bakura comes along. He’s here for Ryou (for some reason). But Malik is like no he’s my little guy go away (this is surely a dream so Malik ignores the fact that a little rat guy is talking to him and his nutcracker is now alive). So RKB uses some sort of mysterious rod to turn Malik little and Ryou has to help him but is also very clumsy. In the end Malik beats up RKB who retreats.
Oh no Malik is little whatever should he do? Well here’s the dark magician ornament here to be like you gotta find the sugar plum pharaoh who will help turn you normal. In fact your friend there has a guide. And turns out Ryou has the ring with him that starts to point around when Malik holds it. So off they go
While traveling along we of course get to see yami Bakura who is a bat. Our silly little bat guy with the rat guy. He reports on their statuses.
Along the way they run into Yami Malik aka (insert your choice of name here) who is not quite a resistance force but more of just a small group with his ghouls that were chill for awhile until that darned rat stole his rod! So he’s willing to help them as well and points them in the right direction and gives them supplies after his dance number. Think of him as like a mother ginger from the original ballet.
Of course during this we also get Ryou’s backstory because it turns out he knows the rat king! And Malik is like you were lovers?! And Ryou is like yes but no but yes. Ryou was someone who worked in the palace and had the ring given to him. One day someone (gee I wonder who) introduced a horrible power to RKB who got corrupted and demanded the ring from Ryou. Ryou refused and fled but was cursed because of it. He wants to save his little rat man and asks if Malik wants to help. Malik wants help but ohggg feelings does Ryou like him back or is he just using Malik hnnnnn
So they’re going along and they get to the inevitable place where the sugar plum pharaoh is supposed to be but turns out they’re actually lost because Malik can’t seem to get his feelings in check. And the ring is just spinnin out of control. Thus a trap! Yami Bakura is here to grab and burrito Ryou away. Rrito if you will. There’s a moment where RKB has a monologue to Malik via magic and they have a pas dé deux that’s ripe with sexual tension.
So Malik is now stuck but luckily the little fairies (the yugitachi) are here to help! So wheeee Malik gets to quick travel to the palace. Yatta!
And look he’s not alone! Turns out yamima saw yami Bakura and his shenanigans and staged a coup. So while the main forces are distracted he snuck inside the palace.
But before they can make out Malik has to find his Ryou! Who’s been subjected to rat king Bakura’s monologues of how could you leave me? All I want is for us to be together! Now it’s possible! Because turns out rat king usurped the old ruler because surprise. Ryou lied about his backstory and turns out rat king was the worker and Ryou was the prince and they did like like each other but that bastard papa Bakura wasn’t going to have that and order rat king to be executed for being gay for trying to court his son.
And thus before that rat king Bakura made a deal to overthrow the king and unleashed the curse upon the land. Oops
But Ryou is like no this isn’t you! What happened to my little rat man? You used to be so sweat. And RKB is getting swayed so here comes shadowy creature Zorc to be like no he’s totally lying to you take the ring while you can! But rat king can’t. So Zorc magics Ryou into a room.
And thus Malik finds the room and boy is it nice in here and oh turns out this was Ryou’s old bedroom. So Malik can see from the context clues what Ryou’s backstory is yet there’s no Ryou where is he?
Much like Barbie in a nutcracker Ryou is in plain sight. Here he’s trapped in a mirror and Malik does the thing where he presses his hands up against it and can tell Ryou’s there. And like in return to oz Malik pulls him out of it. They have a moment
And that moment is cut short cause yamima is like let’s go somethings happening outside
And yep rat king has his rather intense fire going on for shadow magic. Ryou then confronts him like if you truly want the ring then you can have it just come back to me my little rat man! And rat king conflicted! He does miss his Ryou!
And for a moment it looks like it works, but alas here’s Zorc to ruin everything. And batkura grabs the ring from Ryou.
And oh no magic is happening! Because surprise batkura is actually part of Zorc! Cue ballet fight with Malik grabbing the rod and doing a whole thing. Ryou takes a hit for him and yamima helps. And eventually Zorc is beat back yay! But oh no Ryou down!
Malik is like no my Ryou! You can’t die! And Ryou’s like it’s ok Malik I saved you and my little rat man. I can join my papa now. And Malik is like the hell you are! And something something using the items something something power of love yay! The curse is broken! Ryou is back to normal! And maybe rat king Bakura? But I like the idea of him being a feral little rat guy that Ryou loves regardless so put a working pin on that.
And so they all dance together and Malik and Ryou share an almost kiss and Ryou is like stay here with us Malik and Malik is like of course my life fucking sucks! Here I get three boyfriends and a castle pamper me!
But alas here comes Atem to ruin everything. Cause turns out he’s the sugar plum pharaoh who was told by the Yugi tachi that there’s a human trying to get home! So Atem is like hi there you wanted to go home zap!
Cue rat king Bakura and yamima beating Atem up as Ryou cries that his mans is disappearing.
Thus Malik wakes up and is like Fuck I can’t have anything can I. Oh well at least I have my nutcracker. But uh oh where my nutcracker
Here’s rishid to be like good morning Malik what are you doing crawling on the floor? Malik is like I’m trying to find my little guy! And here’s Isis clearly giving directions to someone and Malik is like isis where’s my little guy-
And Owo here’s normal Ryou. With his papa. And Isis is like here’s my coworker and his son they just got here this morning.
Malik is like 👁👄👁 and Ryou is like hewwo Malik I’ve heard all about you by the way do you like animals here’s my pet rat 🐁.
