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a funny thing about having a Problematic Blorbo is that you'll periodically come across a post along the lines of "um let's not forget that [Blorbo] is a bad person..." listing their various crimes, and if you have a modicum of intellectual honesty you find yourself nodding along and saying yeah it's true... but it's the greyness of their character that makes them so compelling... At the same time though you have a little Saul Goodman in your ear going "your honor in their defense: who cares like omfgggg who caresssssss like come onnnnnn"

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( frostwnd Ryou) "I didn't know where else to go..."

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"...what are you running from?"

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( frostwnd Ryou ) "Do you want the truth or a lie?"

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"The truth, always."

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"Yuugi..."

Honda sighed. He recognized this. His older sister would also lock herself away and wouldn't eat when she was upset.

"You've got to eat something, Yuugi. It's not good. You'll make yourself sick."

Yuugi hesitated for a moment before answering.

"Thank you, but, I'm not hungry. You can go ahead."

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I do admit I have a soft spot for revolutionshipping.

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"Think they'll ban me for touching them?"

Swoons into his arms.

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"I hate you. With all of my hate."

"What's this? Are you jealous?"

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"SHUT THE WHORE YOUR MOUTH!"

"But I can do it even to this day."

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unfair! I wish to also free my nipples!

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they can't ban me! I'm a king!

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Do my male presenting tits get me banned?

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Anzu sighs heavily. "I don't want to sound like a whiner..." She's pouting a bit, looking definitely disgruntled. "If I tell you...will you /promise/ not to tell Jounouchi?" She really didn't want to be teased.

He winked.

"I promise, I promise."

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"Oh absolutely. You see, I didn't know how to read when I was younger. I had to be taught how to read both hieroglyphics and hieratic text. Hieratic was the language of the holy class--so when I began practicing how to read and cast with it....you can see where I....struggled. I was already six, after all..."

He gave a small, wry smile.

"Plenty of...mistakes happened...."

Apprenticing in spell casting... what a time that must have been. The spirit in the back of his head snorts at how easily his attention was captured by it.

"Were there certain mistakes that were common? I can imagine that with say, sigils, there must have been ways they were drawn wrong repeatedly, such as when certain words are often misspelled in a specific way?"

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He was also...unsure why the other was apologizing.

Sure, the other had done plenty wrong, and had plenty of ill intentions, but that didn't mean anything, since he had already apologized for his actions. There was no use in groveling--Atem never liked it when others groveled at his feet.

Surely, a discontinuing of those actions were enough.

"You're useful in keeping me company." He finally said. "It is...quite lonely to be someone without a known future. I know that myself. Perhaps, while we both look for whatever path suits us, I can keep you company as well."

He paused for a moment, lowering his head a little. "I...wouldn't say it's...obligation. I just....if someone is helping me I--want to try to be useful. It gives me a reason to still exist. Because right now I--don't really have one."

And when his attempts at doing things the normal way had been shot down by the world over and over again, his own health and mind playing tricks on him and causing him to lose any security he ever gained for himself, it was probably obvious why he felt this way.

"....I'm....sorry...I..."

He didn't know what he was apologizing for.

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"By technicality, it would be--but such magic is usually considered 'dark' magic if it aligns with the dead."

"For example, the Evil God of the Undead." The one who Ryou knew too well. "He is still considered a god, but an evil one. Monsters can still be divine. Divine doesn't mean good. Merely immortal."

Hm, that made sense, and was certainly in line with things Ryou had read- he supposed he more wanted to hear how the other thought rather than the technical answer, so he nodded.

"Surely... there aren't gods that are benevolent. Would what would be traditionally called 'dark' magic through them still be called divine?"

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I’m running a role-swap AU over on my rp blog so it was time to do some art for it! Honestly I’m really happy with the result and tried a bunch of new things! Yuugi has both the eye and seal on his forehead because if the seal pushed Atem away like it did to him in canon, Yuugi is now alone with the darkness/Zorc’s influence in the Puzzle. I don’t believe the seal would negate those powers if used together and not to fight it. More power is a good thing right? 8)  Credit for the idea goes to @nefertem

See below the cut for a comparison with the old art! Three years and anatomy courses really do make all of the difference. 

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I can see why Anzu had feelings for you, Atem! You're so beautiful and brave, your purple eyes are beautiful and your muscles are hot! (I'm not flirting by the way)

He smiled gracefully, imperiously. The smile of a Prince who had been confessed to by many a handmaiden in his day.

"Thank you for your words. They are very kind. I cannot accept your feelings, but I am grateful for them anyway."