#yami marik is ace

[sesshy380]

I love Deathshipping. LOVE IT. However...I have this weird headcanon about Yami Marik.

Yami Marik is an Ace.

Why? Because he was created from negative emotions.

Upon his return, he has a hard time understanding 'attraction'. Arousal, sure. Things rise when they rise (though he's still trying to understand why). Attraction, kinda. He knows he likes being around Ryou (the creampuff that he is), and that's about it. The idea behind it baffles him. He doesn't always look at Ryou and go 'OMG, I wanna bang him into next week', he just looks at him and wants cuddles (because who wouldn't want Ryou cuddles, right?). He never thinks about anything leading to sex, that just happens on it's own. And there are times when things lead that direction, he gets uncomfortable and asks Ryou not to (which Ryou totally respects that and backs off).

idk, maybe I'm just weird 🤷

#ygo #yugioh fandom #deathshipping #headcanon #yami marik #yami marik is ace

[acetier]

hey y’all i’m back on my bs :^)

#yugioh #yugioh dm #battle city #winged dragon of ra #yami marik #ryou bakura #yami bakura #mokuba kaiba #seto kaiba #yami yugi #battle city brainrot got me good #me drawing yami marik: :) #me drawing ra: :( #i once again can't be bothered to draw all those duel disks lmaO #ace draws

[quattrofan98]

I was at Pride Parade near my town yesterday :333 It was so much fun! I met many cool and nice people B) We are celebrating <3333 Happy Pride Month everyone!

#marik ishtar #ygo dm #ygo #yami marik #happy pride 🌈 #ace pride #asexual #nonbinary

[hereforthefunnyguys]

okay okay marik ishtar getting psychosexual in the club brain time. (Sorry in advance for the bigass text block. also if you are an ace/aro marik truther then A) I can see it but also B) this is very much not that. be forewarned.) I know things along these lines have been said before, but I truly cannot picture him being some kind of crazily sexually/romantically liberated flirt like you see a lot in fanon. Feel free to argue with me if you want in the reblogs or comments or whatever I am not sure about what I'm saying here. (+1500 words of Help Me under the readmore!)

He grew up underground, with no one else around but his abusive highly religious dad, personal manservant/extremely protective brother figure, and what seems to be the only even somewhat normal family relationship he has with his sister that's almost as isolated and frankly seems moderately socially awkward outside of telling mysterious prophecies. I do not think he was not getting Helpful and Informative Sex Ed, to say the least, and also if/when he started going through puberty he would have functionally nowhere to project those urges. Maybe he can get a crush on a particularly well-drawn wall carving or statue idk but the point is that he doesn't have any actual human reference for what the feelings mean other than his immediate family which is a uhhhhhh different and much more uncomfortable conversation!

Also, even when he and Rishid finally get out of there and start up the Ghouls, I don't think Rishid would bother with telling him about sex and romance as he gets older - if anything, he would be less likely to tell him, because if there's one thing Rishid would want to do as little as possible, it would be to allow more opportunities for Marik to act out in more "depraved" ways - I mean, come on, the guy already forces people to commit suicide, brainwashes them to fight in death matches, and do weird little dances in public for his entertainment (I know that one isn't as intimidating as the other ones, but I do think it's important to establish the sheer level of pettiness and self-indulgence he's at by this point.)

We've already established by this point that his ability to empathize and sympathize with other people is currently somewhere at the bottom of the Marianas trench, assuming he may not have had low empathy before then, which he might've judging by how he treats his siblings (diversity win! the arc villain has low-functioning empathy!), though that may also be due to being the "favorite" and getting what he wants all the time and not being raised to consider them real people on par with him and his father. But I digress. I do think Rishid would be at least considering the ways that those behaviors would intersect with teenage hormones, to say the least (plus the whole Yami Marik thing, which I'll discuss. Later.)

But by contrast, I don't think it makes sense to say Marik's completely innocent to the concept - he may be a very socially isolated 16 year old, but he's still like. a 16 year old. He regularly pries inside of peoples heads to manipulate them, and if you go by anime canon, he is definitely aware of very strong romantic feelings (and therefore possibly sexual ones, though maybe not? arkana ace king ig) in the form of arkana/pandora's little anime lost love scenario. Also, I think its fair to assume a Good Number of the Ghouls would possess sexual or romantic feelings as well. However. However. I am going to go out on a limb and say that learning about sex from people's personal fantasies is to sex ed what learning about how to cook from Hell's Kitchen is to chef college; everything you absorb is overdramatic, unrealistic, extremely emotionally charged, and often involves a surprising amount of violence and degradation for a day-to-day activity.

I'm going to say Marik then is Aware of sex, but doesn't fully "get" it. Like. It makes him uncomfortable to think about it for too long, and in general, it's just something Other People do. It's something he can use to get close to people (sign that says ASK ME ABOUT FEMME FATALE MARIK ISHTAR PROPAGANDA), but its not really something he fully accepts as something he would do just for the sake of it. He's aware of it, but it's still a moderately alien concept to him, at least that's how he would think about it.

Additionally, I don't think his vision of romantic love is going to be any better. In between societies massive effort to romanticize (ehehe) those specific feelings as the end-all-be-all of affection and the fact that, again, he didn't really grow up with anyone (and still really doesn't have another outlet) other than his dad and siblings as who he "loves" - I do think he loves his siblings, and, tragically enough, probably his father as well. (Thats something else people ignore a ton. We as The Audience do not like Peepaw Ishtar but Marik himself has NO clue what he did was wrong or bad or unforgivable. If anything Marik considers himself the problem for not being able to take it. But that's another convo. God I'm going all over the place today.) Anyways what I'm trying to say here is that Marik probably sees romantic love as something that's present and he should Want but doesn't quite fully understand the emotional implications of it or investment necessary to make it work. If anything he would know less about romance since while old Egyptian myths do mention sex and sexuality with fair regularity - albeit not with much that would help a clueless 12 year old that associates said myths with his imprisonment and doom - there is very little talk of True Love in there. The fact that his knowledge of marriage extends to "my mother died a horrible painful death in childbirth having me and my dad didn't really care" probably is not helping matters!

Also tying this all together is the fact that Marik seems to have a Fraught and Uneasy relationship with his own body, to say the least. Like. I'm just going to go out on a limb and say he seems to consider it just another damp, dark prison he's stuck in, one that has done nothing other than provide an easy way to hurt him and keeps him tied to the Tombkeeper legacy. And who wouldn't? The guy has a massive scar carved into his back permanently reminding him of how trapped he really. Additionally, that's another barrier to intimacy, since there's no way on Earth he's letting anyone touch his back without an INSANE amount of trust - I imagine even Rishid is somewhat suspect in allowing him to touch his back.

The only time he seems really happy is when he gets to extend his mind outside of himself, into other people's brains and giving him a sense of power in an otherwise very controlled life. So that's definitely one barrier there! How do you even begin trying to make your body feel good when all your body has felt like all your life is completely awful? Especially when it would involve letting another person have access to it in a very vulnerable state??? Nuh uh no way thank you sir but we're staying repressed forever and shoving any and all Perverse Urges into a box deep deep in our Mind Room and ignoring them until we die, which we never will because we're Special. This is to say nothing of the fact that one of his tombkeepers duties is theoretically to procreate and create a new generation of keepers which is. Wow. Another conversation entirely but for our purposes means that he already is not going to have a good relationship to that! (Bonus points if it turns out he's homosexual. I'm not saying he is gay, but layering the Problems with "not attracted to women" would be an interesting intersection.)

Anyways the cherry on top of this miserable sundae is the Existence of Yami Marik, the Good-Times Ruiner. Point number one: in between the weird sadomasochism thing he has going on and the fact that he seems significantly more physically and emotionally liberated than Marik, I think it would be fair to call him a moderately sexualized character, though not a straight-up succubus (yes I am aware the term for men is Incubus. quiet).

Point number two: Yami Marik is generally seen to represent Marik's repressed urges and grudges, so we can pretty easily make the assumption that Yami Marik being sexualized comes from an attempt to absolve Marik of such uncomfortable distractions. So there is the thought there that he considers his sexual urges on par with or at least related to his violent and vengeful ones.

Point number three: You would have thought that at least partially realizing this by the end of Battle City would result in Marik realizing he should stop repressing his emotions. But it won't! Because that's not how that Highly Functional Ishtar Brain works! It goes "I now associate sexuality with one of the worst and most publicly humiliating and traumatic times of my life, so I now consider it an Active Problem to get rid of instead of just a uncomfortable quirk of mine." So no actually I think he would be getting worse! Someone send him to a therapist please or at least figure out a way for him not to simultaneously hate himself while still hating everyone else More.

anyways tl;dr: Marik ishtar knows about an extremely warped version of sex but good lord he is repressing it fifteen feet underground. Again feel free to argue with me if you want I'd like to hear other opinions. Anyways hope yall have a nice day and thanks for reading thru all of that!

#In summation: kazoo cover of paradise by the dashboard light plays while Marik miserably stares into a mirror with smudged eyeliner. #Marik ishtar #malik ishtar #yami marik #yami malik #ygo #yugioh #yu gi oh #if nobody likes this I will be Very Sad jk it just means ill post more about it. Well I will be sad but also Filled With Determination. #my stuff

[sarahg-fanarts99]

✨Samara + The Winged Dragon of Ra✨

✨ I decided to cosplay Samara as the Winged Dragon of Ra, Yami Marik's ace card, because it has always been my favorite among the three Egyptian Gods.

This is the explanation of my drawing for a Collab made by Roxy about our Oc cosplaying an Ace Card of their S/O.

#sayuriart #samarayumeko #yugioh #yugioh oc #yugioh 5ds #yugioh fanart #the winged dragon of ra #egyptian god card #autistic artist #yugioh art #original chacacter

[sistervirtue]

i love analyzing how deck builds play into characters personalities like yugi using a silent archetype deck that focuses on monsters that combine or summon each other represents how he draws strength from his friends plus of course the silent magician/swordsman which gain atk over time (at least in the anime lol) representing how he’s grown to be strong enough to be on his own without atem helping him. plus side note about the silent magician archetype is that while they’re all depicted as women they all use masculine terms and language which is yet more proof for my yugi muto transgender agenda… then you have atem’s dark magician deck which is heavy on effect monsters and spell cards that allow him to get his most powerful cards out as quickly as possible in contrast to yugis strategy of allowing his cards to gain power over time. atem also notably uses a combined dark magician and dark magician girl attack on yugi in their final duel that yugi counters with the strength of silent magician, countering the idea that atem (as dark magician) and him (as dark magician girl) are stronger together than they are apart, since dark magician girl is dark magicians pupil and yugi feels that atem has taught him everything he can teach and his continued presence would stifle both of them… i love yugioh

NO LITERALLY.....kazuki takahashi said that the duels represent "conversations between hearts" and when you look at it that way they have so much more meaning.... again im always on that ishizu shit but the way you can glean what sort of future she saw from her dialogue

and then

which entirely recontextualizes her deck. i think the fact she spends so much time during it talking about her vision and how its tailored to kaibas deck makes it easy to overlook but i think the fact in later things like duel links "exchange of spirit" is her ace card really hammers it home.

the two biggest cards in that duel from her were "exchange of the spirit" which she describes as "the living will die and the dead will rise", as well as "blast held by a tribute", which sacrifices a tributed monster in order to destroy the monster being tribute summoned. with this in mind the outline of a plan that involved taking yami marik out along with herself becomes clearer-- which again, calls to how shes meant to parallel kaiba in a way. her perfect composure is that of a soldier grimly going to war

and dont even get me started on rishid v joey. the mental eelness.

#yugioh

[drinkitfrommymouthsuou]

💝 My Wishlist

(outofroses: okay, so I am not entirely sure how this works but here we go)

Ouran High School Host Club:

Yuzuru Suou (father)

Anne-Sophie de Grantaine (mother - he would cry)

Shizue Suou (grandmother)

Ranka Fujioka

Yoshio Ootori (best friend's father)

Haruhi Fujioka (shipping and nonship - especially early in the relationship when they are learning each other's idiosyncrasies)

Kyoya Ootori (shipping and nonship - Ace/Non-Ace Ship (though I love every version of their relationship - from "normal" to queer platonic, friendship, etc. I do like the idea of Kyoya being ace while Tamaki is non-ace, but demiromanitc in nature)

Hikaru Hitachiin (nonship/ship) I’ve shipped them before, but I rather enjoy explore a deeper level of friendship. Hikaru deeply respects Tamaki and is incredibly loyal to him. So it would be fun to explore them settling those big emotions and understanding they’re there for each other.

Kaoru Hitachiin (nonship/ship) same as Hikaru; I’ve shipped them before. Kaoru is very deep, and is so similar to Kyoya. He also respects Tamaki, and probably undesatnds Tamaki’s emotions better than Tamaki does lol.. i.e. the carriage allegory)

Hani and Mori

Renge (pleeeasseeee bring her to me! lol best friends!)

Eclair Tonnerre (would ship, ngl lol)

Umehito Nekozawa

Jean-Pierre (Tamaki's childhood best friend from France; featured in the DS game)

Fruits Basket:

Kyo Sohma, Yuuki Sohma, Shigure Sohma, Haru Sohma, Hatori Sohma, Aya Sohma (fricken adores this dude), .....all the Sohmas! Ouran and Fruba mix very well.

YGO:

Seto Kaiba (we are rich, boi~), Marik Ishtar, Yuugi, Yami, Atem, Joey, etc. YGO also mixes well with Ouran. (YGO verse available soon).

(.....more to be added......)

#⚜ his jester | salem #💝 If Wishes Came True | Wishlist #mobile tbt. #tw shipping

[apathetic-theme-song]

(a mindful of) wicked designs

Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Yami Bakura & Yami Marik, Yami Bakura & Marik Ishtar Characters: Yami Marik, Marik Ishtar, Zorc Necrophades, Yami Bakura, Rishid Ishtar | Odion Ishtar, Ishizu Ishtar Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Demons, Blood and Gore, Injury, Dissociative Identity Disorder, ace/aro character, Nonbinary Yami Bakura, it/its pronouns for Yami Bakura, Childhood Trauma, Past Child Abuse, Past Character Death, Yami Marik Has Own Body, Yami Marik's name is Saif, Yami Bakura Goes By Zorc Summary:

Marik Ishtar's life has been tough. Tough enough to need a protector in the guise of his alter, Saif, who finds a mysterious shrine in a forgotten basement one night. Accidentally activating the shrine opens Saif up to a whole new world of trouble in the form of the Dark One, a gorgeous but ill-tempered god who has been sleeping for nearly two decades. And now, it wants his help.

Read on: AO3 | FF.Net

#moth writes #yami bakura #yami marik #zorkura #yugioh #gonna try using this as a catch-all for updates #update: chapter 4

[hopefulstarfire]

Hi hello first day of pride and my yugioh oc stuff is still taking over my life. So uh yeah have some sexuality / gender hcs for both my ocs and for the Canon characters bc why not

OCs

Kat: Pan

Maddox: Bi, preference for men

Iris: Demi bi

Nana: Poly lesbian

River: Nonbinary achillean/gay

Mason: Bi

Meredith: bi, could be poly

Chelsea: Bi

Vance: Straight with bi wife energy

Wes: Trans aroace

Josie: Straight

Bo: Straight

Evangeline: Straight (100% homophobic and none of us miss her)

Faye: Trans bi

Hina: Pan

Lorelai: Ace bi

Cillian: Queer

Canon

Yugi: Questioning gender, bi.

Yami: Trans, pan.

Joey: Bi.

Téa: Bi.

Tristan: Originally identifies as straight, later realizes he's gay.

Duke: Trans poly bi.

Miho: Poly bi, not entirely sure gender.

Ryou: Nonbinary queer (still figuring out things for himself!)

Bakura: Demi.

Tomoya: Bicurious.

Serenity: Still questioning on both aspects, finding herself really.

Mokuba: Transmasc and or nonbinary, aro.

Seto: Demi bi.

Solomon: Straight, but a proud grandpa and ally.

Arthur: Trans bi.

Rebecca: Originally identifies as straight, later comes out as a lesbian.

Mai: Pan.

Ishizu: Lesbian.

Marik: Nonbinary he/they, pan.

Rishid: Gay.

Maximillion: Genderqueer, bi but probably will never be romantically involved again.

Cecelia: Bi, probably could have explored more about herself if she'd had more time.

Noa: Aroace, honestly could see coming out as Trans.

Raphael: Demi.

Alister: Demi.

Valon: Disaster Bi, does not give a fuck what pronouns you use for him.

Dartz: He's like 10,000 years old. Gender is irrelevant to him for himself and others let's be honest he's more busy stealing souls at the moment.

Zigfried: Bi, larger preference for men.

Leon: Trans, questioning.

Vivian: Poly straight.

Mana: Trans lesbian.

Mahaad: Gay, possibly Trans and or intersex.

Rex: Trans, gay.

Bonz: Trans, bi.

Bandit Keith: Straight (derogatory).

Mako: Trans, bi.

Weevil: Honestly not a damn clue.

Roland: Bi

Marcus (Fuguta): Straight.

Gozaburo and the Big 5: All of those are homophobes. Crump might be bicurious but it is not something he would ever willingly admit around the board.

#yugioh #ygo #yugioh ocs #ygo ocs #kenz musings #you painted colors in my heart i could never replace

[ygoprideflags]

Ace flag but it’s color picked from Yami Malik!

#ygo #yugioh #yami malik #yami marik #queue #post #ace

[plumsaffron]

For more information - Yugioh Abridged Melvin'd by Little Kuriboh (Currently)

#Raymond Shields #Melvin Ishtar #Marik #Kay Faraday #Bakura #Shadow Game #Ace Atttorney Investigations 2 #Yugioh The Abridged Series #YGOTAS #Yugioh Meme #Ace Attorney Meme #Ace Attorney Memes #Yami Marik #Little Kuriboh #CardGamesFTW #AAI2 #Ace Attorney #Yami Bakura #PlumSaffron

[sesshy380]

Chapter 57 of Yu-Gi-Oh: Tangled Web of Fate posted to FFN!

To those new to the insanity, this is unfortunately one of those self-indulgent fics where the OC is central to the story, and ofc what's a self-indulgent story without an MC to pair with OC? Sorry peeps, Marik/OC pairing. There is a slowburn enemies to lovers taking place in the later chapters between Atem and Yami B.|TKB if that's of any consolation. Only canon that exists for this fic is Duelist Kingdom and Battle City arcs, with the occasional reference to Season 0 (I'm dub trash, deal with it). Ancient Egypt portion is entirely AU, as is the origins of the Yami spirits. No Yami/Hikari pairings due to the dynamics that I have placed them in. No card duels, because I suck at the game. Instead there are other game references, Ka summons, and magic. TW littered all throughout, but I try my best to mention them at the start of the chapter.

#ygo #yugioh fandom #yugioh fanfiction #long fic #ffn author #marik ishtar #malik ishtar #oc #female oc #yugi mutou #yugi moto #yugi mutoh #yami yugi #pharaoh atem #yami bakura #thief king bakura #yami marik #yami malik #yami marik is malik #yami marik is ace #deviates from canon post battle city #immortality elements so no perma-death for main characters #oc ship #slow burn enemies to lovers in background #i pansted more chapters than i care to admit #still pantsing #but with more thought

[kamydrawstuffs]

The first one is now my Desktop Background <3

(Thank you again, @selcric for these photo opportunities)

#Thiefshipping #Animal crossing #ac #acnh #animal crossing new horizon #yugioh #ygo #photo #background #desktop #marik #bakura #yami bakura #ygotas

[quattrofan98]

No matter what my headcanons for Marik/Yami Marik are, on this official art they're color scheme reminds me of the ace flag colors and I love it 🖤🤍💜

#yami marik #marik ishtar #ygo dm #ace pride #asexual

[lokh]

WOOF YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS THE END OF TURNABOUT DUELS...

but YEA the whole learning to lose thing would be super important and what better way to parallel it than with farewell my turnabout!! thanks to @preciousorgel for suggestin yami malik as engarde ;3cc

also bonus:

#turnabout duels #yugi mutou #pharaoh atem #yami yugi #yami marik #ygo #sorry for the inexcusably long post LMAOOOO #art #long post #comic #ace attorney

[acetier]

i went to a con recently and got inspired by artist alley so now i’m playing around with some charm ideas ✨

#yugioh #yami yugi #yami bakura #yami marik #the Three Yamigos #y!marik's hair is ridiculous #ace draws #acrylic charms #i’m back guys :’^D #(kinda) #sorry for the loooonnngg absence #these past few months have been A Time™ #all of my drawing time has been going into work projects #i guess this is a ygo blog now :'^D #as usual click for better koala-tea