when fanfic writers put in their author’s notes “this was so self indulgent” man i’m so happy for you. i hope so. i hope you had a blast making this. i love you
I really wish we'd gotten Ryou in Millenium World 😭 I wanna see him get separated from the gang and meet with TKBakura and fall for him and help him bandage wounds and show him gentle kindness. I want to see TKB slowly let down his armor around this pale stranger who is so kind to him, kinder than anyone's been to him in years. I want to see him flinch away from gentle touch before melting into it almost desperately, pulling Ryou closer because he feels so comforting against him and he needs that more than he thought he did
And I want to see Ryou struggle between his loyalty to his friends and his heart reaching out for the broken soul before him. I want him to see the spirits of Kul Elna and feel their pain and anger and better understand Bakura's motivations. I want to see him try so hard to get through to TKB, so tell him he's better than this and that this isn't what the people who loved him would want. I want to see TKB look at him so sadly and tell him "I've already laid this path out for myself, it's too late for me." I want to see Ryou fall apart as TKB melts into sand and curse Y!Bakura and curl around the pile of sand as he cries out his broken heart. I want the spirits of Kul Elna to feel his sorrow and his love, I want TKB to feel his love.
I want to see him as a real character who tries and fails and struggles and in the end is still there for his friends even as he watches the dust that was TKB fly away with the breeze. I want to see him mourn the loss of Bakura in his own weird way because they certainly weren't friends but they were close and something in Ryou will never be the same with him gone.
When you team up with the local evil loser to kill the pharaoh and after you brainwash multiple people and threaten the pharaohs life a few times all he's done so far is get one guy(1 guy) hospitalized and it was himself