Switchshipping (Mokuba x Princess Meyari)

He couldn't understand why his brother had designed the character the way he did. It was almost too creepy to think about. Or too depressing, since it could mean that his older brother thought of him as a weakling who was only good for being kidnapped.

Either way, it was too weird to be looking at this obviously female figure and still feel like he was looking into a mirror.

Meyari smiled blankly at him, completely unaware that she was just a sequence of numbers in the game code, a collection of pixels being broadcast across his mind. Mokuba almost hated himself for taking advantage of that ignorance, but if he was going to save his brother, he had to do this. He had to switch places with her, play on that programming that was telling her that she was the princess of this fantasy land. He had to use her programmed emotions that told her to defend her country as the key to finding his brother.

Mokuba hated himself. He hated lying to her, confirming this lie she was living in by playing the game, because when he looked at her, he saw himself.

But even if he had told her...even if he had revealed to her that the world she lived in was not real...she wouldn't have understood.

So he had to lie to her. He had to lie to himself.

A/N: Hard one to work with, considering Meyari is just programming. I still think that's weird...how Seto decided "oh, let's make this fantasy princess look like my younger brother!" Weird, Seto, weird. Okay, next up is Swiftshipping (Jonouchi x Ishizu).