♦♕ King of Games♕ ♦

 “We’ll go out to dinner once I’m done with work, how’s that?”

     ???        “Tem?”

 I personally like to think Yuugi is the real KING of Darkness, not Atem.  Atem had darkness thrust on his shoulders when in truth he never wanted anything to do with it. He’s a person of light, of passion and devotion. Idunoitsreallydumb but it feels to me more like it was something grafted onto his soul. I’m not saying he can’t control it! Or that the shadows bend to his will and the light of his power like no other, but it’s something he had to learn to become familiar with. At one point (when we first meet him in the series) he’s CONSUMED by darkness and negativity. He CAN’T handle it.  Until he meets Yuugi.  Yuugi isn’t abrasive toward anything really, he doesn’t order others, or demand. He asks. And to me, Evil and negativity isn’t something you can bully into submission, you have to coax it, work with it. BEFRIEND IT TO WORK IN HARMONY.  It just makes a little more sense to me that Yuugi as a person is able to not just ask for the help of darkness, but he’s PROTECTED by it (again, check back to when Atem was Yami and just murderin people for hurting his ‘host’ (which for a hc within a hc I think was also him mimicking a certain wizard who left an imprint even on his broken mind).).  I think Yuugi is the King of Darkness because he communes with it, understands it, and empathizes with it and those lost completely to it too (like he does everything).  But I’m dumb legit and this is just be rambling about my tiny mall goth

     Ooc: Oh my Goodness, thank you so ding dang much! I really appreciate that Much to my own surprise (and probably most of my partners) Puzzleshipping isn’t my OTP! Well, it is, but also not. I honestly have a ton of fun writing it, and my long time friend @nefertemu can always get me really passionate about any of our threads (SERIOUSLY GO FOLLOW THEM THEY’RE AMAZING!), but Rivalshipping is actually my favorite to read and plot with.

   Yuugi beamed wide enough it left him feeling near exhausted. Even if it was only a single day they BOTH deserved a vacation. They weren’t kids anymore, but that didn’t mean they had to completely grow up!  Slinging arms around Joeys chest Yuugi couldn’t stop himself from trying to squeeze Joey with just as much vigor and strength as the other did him. He came up a bit-- short.  “We can go right now if you have the time! Or you could stay over any we could head out in the morning, I never new Domino had such a HUGE zoo! There’s a bird canopy, and a HUGE reptile house, and you can hold an OWL! A REAL OWL, JOU! They do these rescue education things, they have one named Peanut that likes to hug. Jou. It. HUGS. GODS IT’S SO DAMN ADORABLE!”

     It did take a moment to gather his thoughts, his mind was going a mile a minute. Putting possible scenarios only to tear them apart moments later. Was this childish? It felt childish, why would Jounochi want to go to a stupid zoo...  But, no, the blonde wouldn’t think it was stupid! Or at least, he’d pretend not to if he did, but Jou was a bad liar, just like he was...  Yuugi noted how dry his mouth felt.  Since when was he this nervous around his best friend.  “I uh, got some tickets to the Domino Zoo. It’s dumb, but I’ve never been as long as I’ve lived in the city.” Which WAS his whole life...at least, since he was eight.

 Biting his lip he rocked back and forth on the heels of his sneakers.

     “NOT THE HAT!”