#thiefship

[artistotel]

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[cyberendlessdragon]

forgot to post this hee hee thiefshippers i sprinkle moldy bread crumbs on my front porch for you pspspsps

(original concept by alliebirb thank you comrade o7o7o7)

[nolifepoints]

anyway it would be a lot of angst and I would need to go through all the Kul Elna stuff and figure out what I really want for TKB/Y!B, because he has been hurt in ways that nothing can ever make better and which canon didn’t really take seriously enough for my taste (maybe “seriously” isn’t the right word, but it just feels kinda like... “welp, that happened but what is anybody supposed to do about it and anyway now we are fighting an evil god”)

but also, thief is just... fun... it’s so fun... I wanna make it fun too

[ronkeyblue]

Ah, the return of the evil married couple! Back for more sweet Ass Kickin'!

[artistotel-archive]

“do you have a crush?”

“no”

“ooooh come oooon i know you doooo, who is it, tell meee”

“....you dont know him.”

hint: it’s marik, obviously

MY ABSOLUTELY FAVOURITE BOYS THAT I DONT DRAW ENOUGH

[the-cryptographer]

tbh, the only thing I’ve ever seriously wanted out of thiefshipping fandom is Isis and Rishid being 1000% done with Bakura’s shit.

[nolifepoints]

so one of the AUs I can’t do yet is thiefship but, ugh, my brain is into it right now

I love Malik and I have a fondness for Yami Bakura too although he’s a difficult character for me to work with because canon absolutely did not use him to his fullest potential and also makes it hard to tell where he falls along the continuum of Thief King Bakura to Zorc

but I like them together, and I really want to explore a post-canon AU in which Y!Bakura/TKB returns with a body of his own (for as yet undetermined reasons) and has to face the reality that his previous goals are simply not possible anymore, he has no real place in this world, and he spent all his time here intentionally hurting everyone around him- with the exception of, for a brief period, Malik

the way I see Malik post-canon is similar in that he had a “purpose” which doesn’t exist anymore, but his was something he never got to decide for himself; decisions other people made traumatized him and stole his life, and now he gets to actually do what he wants to do, so it’s an entirely different kind of feeling for him (if scary in its own ways)

I pretty adamantly don’t want Bakura (which is reincarnated TKB/Y!B for the purpose of this post) in Ryou’s life longterm because, like, that abuse was just too deep and personal, and while I can see Ryou potentially giving in and making room for Bakura in his life, I also don’t think Ryou’s ever been capable of focusing on his own safety and best interests or reaching out to others when he needs help where Bakura is concerned; for me, his loneliness and curiosity and morbid fascinations are likely to get the better of him if he tries, so I think it’s probably better that Ryou just draws a line also I want him to be angry... I want him to care enough about himself to say no

so with Ryou out, Malik is the only person Bakura really has to turn to, and I think... Malik could be frustrated and upset about how things ended and be kind of like “we were using each other from the moment we met, what makes you think I need you for anything now”

but also, Bakura has always been magnetic and dauntless and fun to be around, and he’s never asked Malik to be sorry for anything or pretend the world isn’t a cruel place, and maybe Malik understands wanting to burn it down sometimes (even if that’s not the decision he made, and not a place he ever wants to go himself- because whatever this world may be, he gets to experience it now)

and I don’t know if they’re ultimately good for each other in the sense that, like, they did enable each other’s worse impulses during canon and I want them to be able to move beyond those impulses after everything is over, but I feel like... in certain circumstances, they could be

[nolifepoints]

powerful thief energy