DUEL 003: The Bored Spirit At Play

[fluffydeathdealer]

[To say that Bakura's been in a good mood lately is an understatement.

Thanks to the thief king, he has the eighth key that he needs once he gets out of here. It's frustrating being trapped in this place, but he's spent so long with the Ring's imprisonment that it's easy to cope with this. It's just a waiting game. It always has been.

It's said that the greatest enemy of the immortal is boredom. For Bakura, that's an understatement. There weren't many duelists around, getting rid of people wasn't possible with the curse upon this place bringing them back, and the problem with letting his darker instincts out was that in this place, there was no way to get away with it without word spreading too fast, or his victims recovering. How tedious! Even if he took their souls, this place would probably return them to their bodies before long. He couldn't even pursue the remainder of his collection, with Shadi not being accessible.

So for now, he's sitting on the ground in the courtyard despite the cold, working with a much more mundane hobby. He's making a marionette.

It's not quite finished, but it might look familiar... It looks a surprising amount like a creepier version of a certain young boy with ridiculous hair. It's symbolic! And it isn't the only one there. Hanging over the nearest doorway, waiting to fall down on anyone who opens the door to come outside, is a slightly more intimidating one...]

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[fluffydeathdealer]

Tch... I didn't think that you'd forgotten. I meant that I didn't want you to start acting all suspicious again. I like you better when you're not acting like I'm going to stab you in the face and eat your soul.

[Truthfully, he was a monster in stolen skin. He just happened to be one with a human side. It wasn't a side he hated, but it wasn't a side he liked, either. Humans were powerless. More importantly... This was awkward. Malik was the only one who'd managed to get him as flustered as that before. That Harriet was able to get under his skin like that... Did that mean he liked her?

Stupid human emotions.

He stares at her curiously in response to the shoulder bump, smiling slightly despite his embarrassment.]

Don't think anything major of it! I wasn't in control of my words.

[whiterosefoes]

[At first, she wonders if he wants her to trust him... Then she remembers that he already knows what happened to the last person who tried to endanger her life and soul. Harriet shrugs.]

Hm, fair enough.

[And now that he's calmed down, she's not sure why he's staring at her like that. She finally lets out a laugh, a little awkward sounding.]

Well, if you weren't, who was?

[fluffydeathdealer]

Kh-! I say stupid things when I get flustered, dammit! I don't think before I speak!

[He's just glad she didn't hear half the shit he said to Malik when Malik started making those crossdressing jokes a while back.

Social butterfly, he is not.]

[whiterosefoes]

[Doesn't that just mean you're being more honest than usual... well, she'll let him off the hook this time.]

All right, all right. It happens to the best of us.

[then why is she still grinning]

[fluffydeathdealer]

...

[Yes, why is she still grinning?]

Of course it does. It happened to me.

[...he is only joking. Though there's enough of his own bloated self-respect in there to make it sound less so.]