Author's Note: This was written during the portion of high school where everything about my brain was crazy. So there's that.
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Malik didn't see the world the way they did, although he knew how they saw it.
His father saw the world as disorder and hardship, and had made it his duty to have as much order as he could, in his tiny corner.
Isis saw problems to be fixed – a shirt to be mended, a heart to be broken – and never reflected on her actions.
Rishid saw him, which was mildly discomfiting. To be the center of someone's world was confusing enough in Malik's mind, but to know that they saw you that way and why was a completely different matter.
Later, Marik saw destruction, and for a while Malik shared that vision, in the hopes that something better would come out of it. But then, that was before he realized that his yami's sort of destruction was final.
Bakura saw pain, and that was something he was afraid to understand, because he had known pain as well, it didn't wish to revisit it.
The Pharaoh saw a puzzle, which was fitting, but made him furious, for someone who looks at the world as a riddle to be solved obviously isn't seriously thinking about their actions.
Otogi saw the game, too, but he also saw the results, and sometimes Malik had a hard time following his line of thinking, because it was a bit too critical.
Malik saw everything.
He saw the desperation of being trapped, and the light in the darkness, and the surcease of pain, and the order amidst the chaos.
He saw the people who were often forgotten, and the cycle of creation and destruction and rebirth, and the solution to the puzzle, and the consequences of your actions.
He saw the way the game played out in the end, and the people narrowed their worlds to just a few things, and the freedom of the sunlight, and the bitterness of living without love.
He saw the darkness waiting for him and he tried to see the happiness in everything as well as the sadness, because if this was all the time he had left to see all the things he'd missed, then he was going to use it as best he could.