#tornshipping

sotf launching this poly ship

Marik: Love you, Bakura.

Yami Bakura: Love you too, Marik.

*Silence*

Marik We both love you as well, Ryou.

new angstshiping sketch! :D full on twitter and bluesky😌

tornshipping if you squint

Summary: Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Ryou learns this the hard way when he becomes the vessel for Zorc's power. A canon rewrite where Bakura wins.

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Chapters: 17/? Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Bakura Ryou/Yami Bakura/Marik Ishtar, Bakura Ryou/Yami Bakura, Yami Bakura/Marik Ishtar, Bakura Ryou/Marik Ishtar Characters: Bakura Ryou, Yami Bakura, Yugioh: Duel Monsters Cast, Zorc Necrophades, Marik Ishtar, Bakura Amane, Dark Necrofear Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Bakura Wins AU, Character Study, Ryou Bakura Centric, Alternate Character Interpretation, Unreliable Narrator, Mental Health Issues, Corruption, Canon Rewrite, Canon - Manga/Sub, eventual tornshipping, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Skippable Smut, Canonical Character Death, Rating May Change, Animal Death, Unhealthy Relationships, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, Sennen Items | Millennium Items, Choking, Dissociation, Psychological Horror, Minor Character Death, Smoking, Blood Drinking, Self-Harm, Consent Issues, Non-Explicit Sex, Heed the violence warning, Exactly What It Says on the Tin, Slow Build, Yami No Game | Shadow Game (Yu-Gi-Oh), Obsessive Behavior, not DSoD compliant, Blood and Violence, Suicide Attempt, Murder, Horror, Love Triangle That Ends In Polyamory, Season Zero Vibes, Eye Trauma, Cannibalism, Soul Rooms (Yu-Gi-Oh), Minor Ryou/Zorc Summary:

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Ryou learns this the hard way when he becomes the vessel for Zorc's power.

A canon rewrite where Bakura wins.

Malik doesn't leave the cabin or its garden for safety reasons (eldritch fae who are definitely not as kind as Ryou), but he often wishes he could because Ryou wanders off into the foggy woods very often and despite knowing that the cat sith can take care of himself, he still wants to be there and protect him.

One day, while Ryou is out doing whatever, an eldritch fae enters Ryou's cottage and corners Malik, trapping him in a dead briar. Malik is very confused because he thought these type of fae specifically needed to be invited in, and they stayed away from Ryou's cabin by default. Fortunately, before anything bad could happen to Malik, Ryou arrives just in time and asks the fae to stop what he's doing. He explains Malik's situation to it and the fae reluctantly let's the human go. Ryou then introduces the unfamiliar creature to Malik as Bakura, his husband.

Malik is obviously shaken about his crush already being married (+the attack) and he becomes very conflicted about his feelings towards Ryou. Bakura stays for a while, and him and Ryou go out together at night, leaving Malik alone in the cottage with his thoughts. Bakura's presence becomes more prominent, and Ryou stops spending as much time as he did with Malik. While Bakura is out one time, Malik and Ryou get into a fight that ends with Ryou running off out of anger. To Malik's confusion, only a cat returns.

When Bakura returns, he explains that as a cat sith, Ryou has the option to shape-shift nine times before ultimately being stuck as a cat forever. He usually does this when he's upset, and Malik finds out that this is his fifth transformation. Bakura asks what Malik did to anger Ryou, but Malik doesn't really want to confess to Bakura since the argument was about him and Ryou's relationship. From that day on, it's Malik, Ryou the cat, and Bakura in the cabin. Bakura tells Malik that a transformation for Ryou can last up to decades depending on how upset he is, which causes the human to feel very guilty and regretful about the situation. Since Ryou doesn't talk now, Malik is forced to engage in conversation with Bakura and comes to realise that he's not as much of Ryou's evil husband as he thought so. Some stuff happens, and Malik eventually apologises to cat Ryou for what he said after him and Bakura develop a fragile friendship. Bakura might be seducing Malik for lols at this point to entertain himself and Ryou.

In the 'finale', Malik gets attacked by a changeling in his shape (Yami Malik), and after the weak creature somehow incapacitates Bakura, he's forced to find a way to defeat it in Ryou's absence. Malik gets pricked by something weird in the forest, which gives him enough power to disarm (literally) the changeling. Ryou jumps in at the final moment in his human form to save Malik from being driven mad by the fae magic in his body and stops whatever evil plan the changeling had going on in the background (possibly a summoning of a fae version of you know who).

Malik has a heartfelt conversation with the still alive changeling about purpose in life and what not, Bakura and Ryou thank him for his help in the best way possible *wink wink*, and a gate finally opens back to the mortal realm. With a heavy heart, Malik returns to his world, leaving his partners behind.

The earth isn't flat it's a circle