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Bakura and Marik - Lost Innocence

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Not exactly thiefshipping and not exactly citronshipping (though Tae may see it otherwise lol)

Hard to imagine these guys turn out to be villains at some point. Can't get over how tragic their back story is. Bakura's whole village being sacrificed for millennium items and having to see the whole thing happen right in front of him. Marik being abused his whole childhood, having his back carved, and unwillingly killing his own father. All of which trace back to the Pharaoh.
I feel like I have to defend myself saying I don't hate Yami or Yugi or any of them, but I just can't totally blame them for wanting revenge so badly. While I do think that their actions towards the Pharaoh aren't exactly justified, I can't blame them completely, and at the same time I can't exactly look at Yami's intentions as all that great either nor look at him as a good Pharaoh. I mean yeah it's a fictional story and whatnot, but let's be honest if the story was being told through either Bakura or Marik's POV they'd be looked at as the heroes and Yami and the rest of the gang would be the villains. Maybe that's just me. But I would rather see an anime based on that rather than just constant new YGO series with new characters in it.

Bakura and Marik (c) Kazuki Takahashi
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An AU from their perspective would be amazing! I say AU because if they were the protagonists I would want them to win 😁 hopefully in a way that doesn't destroy the world or something haha perhaps their objective would change over the course of the story.

I find that the best villains are the ones we can understand. The ones who could just as easily be the heroes, if we saw the world through their eyes, or who could (or do) become "good guys" (like many anti-heroes...like Loki and Bucky in the Marvel universe, who play different roles at different times). Villains we can sympathize with and relate to. Villains who are truly pure evil are flat and boring, just like heroes without flaws are flat and boring. The best characters live in the moral grey.
Often the heroes of a story are only heroes because we see things from their perspective.