[fic] Switching places - Yugioh, YnYxYugi, general, G, theme 052 (100_chances)
Theme: 052 - Switching places; for 100_chances
Author: Chey (duelist_gurl163)
Genre: General
Rating: G
Pairings: Yami no YugixYugi implied
Archive: Here
Warnings: None
Spoilers: The Yami/Pegasus duel in DK...but is that really a spoiler anymore?
Summary: The spirit did well hiding his fears, but not well enough.
Disclaimer: Still not mine. Still.
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“I can see everything in your mind. Your hopes, your dreams…even your fears.”
The man standing across from him - never for a moment had Pegasus assumed that he was the true Yugi Mutou - stiffened visibly at the words. The sight made Pegasus smile. “And what you fear most right now is me.”
And while the visions the Eye gave him were never wrong, that last statement was a lie.
The spirit inhabiting Yugi Mutou could scowl and glare to his heart’s content, but there were some things no man, human or otherwise, could hide forever. The Eye saw past the outer shell and into the tightly locked soul beneath it.
A terrified soul.
He had pushed aside everything else for now. His mind was focused solely on the match. His most pressing fear was of losing and letting everyone down. Of letting Aibou down.
And there it was, the crack that brought all his other fears to the surface. The concerns he was dismissing for the moment, but which would return to torment him the moment he had the chance to rest.
A lingering worry of hurting his vessel again. The terrible ache of knowing that, even though he referred to Sugoroku Mutou as “my grandfather,” he did not have a family. Fear of someday returning to the darkness of the uncompleted Puzzle and equal fear of discovering who and what he really was.
And another tiny, hidden fear that the spirit himself wasn’t even aware existed. The fear that caused him to be so deeply protective of the boy he possessed and to be so laughably vulnerable. He had allowed his vessel, who should be no more than a tool, the power to utterly destroy him and he didn’t even know it.
It brought a new, twisted smile to Pegasus’ lips. It was just the weakness he needed, a weakness that he had fallen prey to himself.
And therefore a weakness he knew exactly how to exploit.
X - X - X
Notes: In one way it’s “switching places” because Yami is being viewed from an outside character. In another, it does take place during the duel in which Yugi and Yami switch places. xD It’s meant to be a bit cryptic.
Dialogue is from the 4Kids dub, but I changed part of the dub canon and made it so that Pegasus was aware of who Yami was. Because I can.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YUGI (and Yami by extension)!!!! =D I give you vague angst on your birthday. /o/
Author: Chey (duelist_gurl163)
Genre: General
Rating: G
Pairings: Yami no YugixYugi implied
Archive: Here
Warnings: None
Spoilers: The Yami/Pegasus duel in DK...but is that really a spoiler anymore?
Summary: The spirit did well hiding his fears, but not well enough.
Disclaimer: Still not mine. Still.
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“I can see everything in your mind. Your hopes, your dreams…even your fears.”
The man standing across from him - never for a moment had Pegasus assumed that he was the true Yugi Mutou - stiffened visibly at the words. The sight made Pegasus smile. “And what you fear most right now is me.”
And while the visions the Eye gave him were never wrong, that last statement was a lie.
The spirit inhabiting Yugi Mutou could scowl and glare to his heart’s content, but there were some things no man, human or otherwise, could hide forever. The Eye saw past the outer shell and into the tightly locked soul beneath it.
A terrified soul.
He had pushed aside everything else for now. His mind was focused solely on the match. His most pressing fear was of losing and letting everyone down. Of letting Aibou down.
And there it was, the crack that brought all his other fears to the surface. The concerns he was dismissing for the moment, but which would return to torment him the moment he had the chance to rest.
A lingering worry of hurting his vessel again. The terrible ache of knowing that, even though he referred to Sugoroku Mutou as “my grandfather,” he did not have a family. Fear of someday returning to the darkness of the uncompleted Puzzle and equal fear of discovering who and what he really was.
And another tiny, hidden fear that the spirit himself wasn’t even aware existed. The fear that caused him to be so deeply protective of the boy he possessed and to be so laughably vulnerable. He had allowed his vessel, who should be no more than a tool, the power to utterly destroy him and he didn’t even know it.
It brought a new, twisted smile to Pegasus’ lips. It was just the weakness he needed, a weakness that he had fallen prey to himself.
And therefore a weakness he knew exactly how to exploit.
X - X - X
Notes: In one way it’s “switching places” because Yami is being viewed from an outside character. In another, it does take place during the duel in which Yugi and Yami switch places. xD It’s meant to be a bit cryptic.
Dialogue is from the 4Kids dub, but I changed part of the dub canon and made it so that Pegasus was aware of who Yami was. Because I can.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YUGI (and Yami by extension)!!!! =D I give you vague angst on your birthday. /o/