[By taking their shirts off? Wait, Atem thought Marik liked Ryou, where the hell is this going, please tell him this isn't about to turn into extra weird cult stuff, that is a hard "no" from him--
--but all of that flies right out the window when Atem sees the scars. His eyes go wide, and he lets out an honest to god gasp. (The snakes all hiss at once.) That's not a tattoo. He knows what tattoos look like. This is something else.]
Those are--!
[Not "the Egyptian God Cards." Not "words I can read," although he can, they form in his mind even as he looks at them.]
...those are burns, aren't they.
[It's not said like a question. Receiving those...that must have hurt a lot...he knows what it feels like, now, to experience something like that.]
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--but all of that flies right out the window when Atem sees the scars. His eyes go wide, and he lets out an honest to god gasp. (The snakes all hiss at once.) That's not a tattoo. He knows what tattoos look like. This is something else.]
Those are--!
[Not "the Egyptian God Cards." Not "words I can read," although he can, they form in his mind even as he looks at them.]
...those are burns, aren't they.
[It's not said like a question. Receiving those...that must have hurt a lot...he knows what it feels like, now, to experience something like that.]