#atekai

[synesthesiakalaka]

[ayma-nidiot]

Seven hours spent on this piece so far. I can’t wait to start painting it!

[yamidiabound]

accidental double date or something

[bakugouisabitch]

I know you mentioned you didn't ship it, but have you considered a friendship slowburn between Seto and Malik as they tried to figure out a way to bring back Atem and Bakura 👉🏻👈🏻

omg omg okay headcanon time !!!

(I do actually hc that Malik HAD some sort of crush on Seto back in Batle City but I’ll  get to that later)

Now,

in reply to your actual ask because I have a tendency to digress and I’m fucking sorry:

The hc of both Malik and Seto working on bringing back Bakura and Atem: Hell yea I love that.

We need more fics of these two as couple (Atem x Kaiba and Bakura x Malik) 🌝

The whole idea is just so funny to imagine how these two mere God-complexed mortals (Seto and Malik) with a constant desire to be on top of the world would manage to literally defeat Death just to bring back that one person that means the most to them. (Kaiba literally does that in DSOD lmao).

Like, even if I know that BakuMali has much less in canon than what Atem and Kaiba have, I can see the similarities there (and it’s funny to venture into that in the fanon way).

Both Seto and Malik look in some way up to those ghosts that waltzed into their lives and decided to call the shots.

Both look at them with some sort of disdain and/or mistrust but at the end they’d rely on them during difficult situations.

Both get sort of a life lesson experience from those ghosts.

Both Atem and Bakura would keep these boys’ asses in check imo - Seto’s and Malik’s respectively. (Actually in BakuMali’s case i think it’d be even more “pure” because Bakura has such a strong will and that’s exactly the kind of person that would save Malik)

And - if we’d follow your hc - both getting over their immense ego to bring back that one person that marked their life. Fuck, that’s beautiful.

Now - picture these 4 on a double date: THE SHENANIGANS 🔥🔥🔥

Hc about Malik and Seto under the read more 🌝

I do actually hc Malik having a kind of a fanboy crush on Seto when he watches him from afar in battle city!🌝 

But once he gets to know him as a person I can see that slowly fading away (I'll explain later why). I hc him crushing on that “image of Kaiba” that he always projects on the outer side. Seto looks confident and powerful and always sure of himself, like, there is no flaw in his position on top of the world and he gets everything he wants. And Malik digs that ofc. Also - what I can gather from canon - Malik is impressed by Seto. (Not to mention how polite-friendly he greets him when he talks to him through one of the ghouls for the first time, like, he has been waiting to finally meet “Kaiba-kun”) Seto being an actual wielder of one of the God Monsters has Malik obsessing over him. There’s a part on the sub where he really questions it (still gotta do the reread of that part in the manga. I might know more once I get there):

Kaiba man....................

Also, Seto straight out yelling “Fuck destiny! I decide my own future!” How can Malik not crush on that??? This is exactly everything he dreamed about as a child (literally going from slave to king = fuck what destiny wrote down for you). Not to mention Seto’s constant desire to beat down Atem sdfghjklsdfj Malik definitely digs that.

Anyway we all know Kaiba is babey and he mostly builds that strong facade because of his insecurities and to cover up all the pain he’s been through (mmmm reminds me of smn🤔 Malik). This is why I imagine once Malik really gets to know Seto, he realises they have much more in common than he initially perceived. Like, I could see Malik feeling a bit “let down” once he realises ‘Kaiba man’ was all just a facade, BUT

if he‘d ever get a chance to venture into his actual backstory and see how that young boy changed an entire Military-based company belonging to his monstrous Stepdad into something that fits his own interests, and how after so much pain and trauma he still works on always being on top and get the best for Mokuba and himself ..... he would look up at him with admiration. This is where I imagine that fanboy crush would fade away, being replaced by a bigger sense of respect for the young CEO.

(Btw, I wrote that mainly from Malik’s pov because I'm more into him as a character than Seto. Tbh with you, I haven’t thought much abt Seto’s pov here. But I’m assuming that Seto might not really have any particular interest towards Malik - as arrogant as that sounds - except for him being a God-wielder. But @ Seto-fans: pls correct me if you think I’m wrong lmao)

[ayma-nidiot]

Yay, I made a thing :D

[ayma-nidiot]

Can’t wait to cosplay as Kaiba at Sugoi Expo with this

[ayma-nidiot]

So I am going to do my first traditional acrylic painting in, like, 5 years. The painting will be 30"x40."

This is a photomanip of what I plan for it to look like (i.e. no I didn't hand draw this). It will be inspired by my favourite anime, .hack//Sign, namely the insert song "In the Land of Twilight, Under the Moon." It will be from an important scene in my Prideshipping fic, In the White Light. I am hoping (gods willing) to have Eric Stuart and Dan Green sign it right under that last line of Japanese text.

[ayma-nidiot]

Aaaand after like, three weeks, I'm finally done with my latest comic project, depicting the end of this chapter (plus the beginning of the next one) of my five-year-old Prideshipping fic, In the White Light. As with all my comics, this is read in right-to-left manga style.

And already I am planning out my next one. Let's just say that it will not be safe for Tumblr and I will upload the NSFW pages to Pixiv, where all my pr0n goes, apparently. :D