This was put into motion because Atem came from a place of power and privilege, and that meant that anything he needed would be given to him, even if it was carved on the backs of living people, of children! Because Marik...Marik's a Tombkeeper, someone who'd been given a great destiny and sacred texts handed down from ages past, but he doesn't look any older than Yugi, than anyone else. He looks like he should be in high school, not carrying around a dead king's destiny carved on his back! If anyone had done this to Jounouchi...to Anzu...
Atem's mind is awhirl, the empty, dark place in his heart (that's smaller now that his name is no longer lost to him and now that he's in a living body but which is still there) lapping at the shores of his mind. He can't help it -- his snakes' eyes go glazed, and he gives a humorless laugh.]
Heh heh. Heh heh heh...I'm sorry, it's not funny at all!...
[hey uh is the pharaoh entirely sane? that laugh makes it sound like he kinda might not be.]
But I was just thinking...if I did get my memories back, and I found out who ordered your family to live underground, without going outside, and to keep the secret to my memories this way...
...then, I'd never forgive them!
[Judgment, judgment is called for, here -- a trial of shadows -- but what penalty could be inflicted that would equal three thousand years of suffering?]
Heh heh...I bet they wouldn't be expecting that...
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So. It's what he was afraid of, after all...
This was put into motion because Atem came from a place of power and privilege, and that meant that anything he needed would be given to him, even if it was carved on the backs of living people, of children! Because Marik...Marik's a Tombkeeper, someone who'd been given a great destiny and sacred texts handed down from ages past, but he doesn't look any older than Yugi, than anyone else. He looks like he should be in high school, not carrying around a dead king's destiny carved on his back! If anyone had done this to Jounouchi...to Anzu...
Atem's mind is awhirl, the empty, dark place in his heart (that's smaller now that his name is no longer lost to him and now that he's in a living body but which is still there) lapping at the shores of his mind. He can't help it -- his snakes' eyes go glazed, and he gives a humorless laugh.]
Heh heh. Heh heh heh...I'm sorry, it's not funny at all!...
[hey uh is the pharaoh entirely sane? that laugh makes it sound like he kinda might not be.]
But I was just thinking...if I did get my memories back, and I found out who ordered your family to live underground, without going outside, and to keep the secret to my memories this way...
...then, I'd never forgive them!
[Judgment, judgment is called for, here -- a trial of shadows -- but what penalty could be inflicted that would equal three thousand years of suffering?]
Heh heh...I bet they wouldn't be expecting that...