Vengenaceshipping (Marik x Bandit Keith)

(…why?)

For a former Duel Monsters champion, "Bandit" Keith Howard had been surprisingly easy to brainwash. Marik assumed it was because of the alcohol: after all, he had stumbled across the former American champion collapsed in an alleyway behind a bar, completely and utterly wasted.

The smell had been hard to deal with.

Now, looking through Keith's blurred, drunken eyes and directing his fuzzy mind, Marik was seriously regretting his choice for his first attempt on the pharaoh's life.

He's a brute, Marik thought. All he can think about the is alcohol, and revenge on a man who's dead.

Sounds like you. Minus the alcohol.

Marik shuddered slightly. Lately, his own thoughts seemed more separate from him, as though someone else was talking to him in his mind.

His thoughts of revenge are futile, Marik argued with himself irritably. Pegasus is dead and gone for good. The pharaoh is back in this world.

But it is all you think about. You're more like him than you care to admit.

Marik brushed the thoughts aside irritably. Arguing with himself…either the stress or the jetlag was getting to him, or he was actually going insane.

Still, the longer he occupied Keith's mind, the more he couldn't reconcile his distaste for Keith and his own vengeful thoughts.

Perhaps we are alike, aren't we, he thought reluctantly. Maybe that's the real reason I could control you so easily. Our minds are virtually the same.

Keith couldn't answer.

And Marik wasn't sure he wanted to hear what the man would say if he could.

A/N: super super short, because there's not much more you can do with this. If someone else wrote something longer than this, I want to know. This pairing is just…gross. And I had to work with anime canon instead of the manga canon, which I don't like doing, because Keith is dead before Duelist Kingdom ends in the manga. Anyways…next is…Velcroshipping (Thief King Bakura x Haga). Really…who comes up with these? Someone please tell me why this one is even a thing.