so i been thinking...ryou's going to burn out of everything happening lately and just...i KNOW were temp was supposed to be chill and he's still gonna be chill but...also i feel like there's a lot of stuff he's going to be trying to kinda not acknowledge rn.
But either way works for me! and if Atem can't understand why Ryou's angry then Ryou is gonna take A Walk to cool off for a while. But still snap at AM like an unmuzzled rabid beast because that's pretty fucked up
But Ryou is so tired of seeing people he cares about make decisions that are morally questionable and also people telling him to Get Over It And Stop Being Good Already
daniel death, after-AU death in March, parasite death, post-naga-temp death, kid event death, now this death, plus his canon death and future canon death, local man just won't stop fuckin dying
"Fine. I'll minmax the game then. Surely that won't hurt anyone's feelings. Be right back, flipping a coin to decide which god to pledge to. It's JUST A GAME, right? You want the best boons!!!! LET'S PLAY THE FUCKING GAME"
oh if he finds out that one he's going to just. like. look, he really, really loves Atem and doesn't like the cavalier way he treats death. it's going to really hurt him, right in the heart. he doesn't want Atem to die!! It hurts!
....honestly, marik might be a good person to talk to about the self-sacrifice streak, since "stop with the trying to kill yourself" is a thing that ATEM helped teach him
seriously though like......post event please sit him down and have a talk about the person he thinks the people around him want him to be vs the person they actually want him to be.
honestly i'd be down for that conversation between him and Ryou! but there's gonna be some rough edges to buff out at some point, because the thing is like
Ryou can't be mad at Atem to his face, for very long, because he's in love with the dude, and he's an honest little son of bitch that really doesn't get why it's hurting Ryou's feelings
but! he talked to yugi about the bad things that had happened to him, and yugi agreed to eat, and he's really really trying to trust ryou with the woundtake power (and is doing better about it lately honestly since it hasn't gone belly-up yet)
(what do you mean what yugi needs and wants isn't atem shelving everything else but 1 relationship so that they can escape ryslig and stop yugi from having to eat or, barring that, make him eat, and also make himself as scary as possible so people know not to hurt his friends)
look if Atem gave him something so well thought out and tailored to his interests, then Ryou would make out with him right then and there, and then wear it all the time and tell people about his awesome D10 collar
but he's extremely shook up over the Cube bombing and he's not gonna say anything about it because 1, friends and 2, after the way people responded to him on Aunamee's post, he's pretty sure that his opinion is in the minority, and that he should Shut Up.
whatever timing works -- atem can have been gone from the apartment for less than a day but long enough to be suspicious, and ryou can ask, or we can leave it for later
it........also might......lead to atem expressing that his reasons for doing it were that am's hurt people he cares about, and ryou's one of them, and if ryou is like "I DIDN'T WANT YOU TO DO IT" atem might be like "no, but i won't let anyone get away with hurting my friends forever, and the other monsters need to know it"
this conversation is going to inform the conversation they have soon. :') Ryou didn't make Atem promise not to go after AM, he just told him he doesn't WANT him to.
yup! and atem promised that he'd do the same thing for ryou that he'd do for anyone, and that when he went after AM, he'd be ready, and wouldn't let himself get hurt so bad ryou had to take his pain
HONESTLY HE'S PRETTY HAPPY WITH IT, HE GOT IN, GOT OUT, AM'S NURSING SALT BURNS, IT'D HAVE BEEN BETTER IF AM HAD DIED AND LOST A MURDERCOMPUTER MEMORY BUT HE'D GIVE HIS PERFORMANCE THERE A SOLID B+
i know we got stuff already but look. LOOK i will definitely jump in your inbox with this. ryou needs. a friend. his friend. bestie pls give him strength through headpets
that is totally fair!! <3 personally i'm excited for Ryou BURSTING INTO A PILLAR OF LIGHT AND THEN DISAPPEARING in the one thread lmao. but i am also super patient. everyone puts up with my "speed" and that's awesome!
bury the bones, just, wreck the lucky 38's landscaping
priest seto: i'm going to fucking kill you a second time
Ryou: But
Everyone: DON'T BE A PUSSY
it's AM so it's a boner death by definitionthis is probably not the time for ryou to find out atem offered that life to yugi last month"...this is sending the wrong message, I think"
only destructive criticism need apply in this houseATEM YOUR CHOICE OF TARGETS,