Anagramshipping (Marik Ishtar/Karim)

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Rishid asked him once, almost off-handedly—perhaps a little too off-handedly—what Marik thought of the ancient priest who had once born the Scales during the time of the pharaoh.

At the time, Marik had said he didn't really think too much about him at all. There was little information about him left behind, beyond a few scraps that said he had probably died during the shadow war that had killed the pharaoh, and that he was one of the seven Millennium Priests. What was there to think about someone who was long dead and long gone, who couldn't ever tell their story again?

Still, for one reason or another, Marik found himself standing below the only image of Priest Karim of the Scales today, staring up at the painting that loomed over head. This was the Hall of Priests, the place where images of all of the owners of every item were added. The first seven and the second seven had the largest images, large enough that Marik had to crane his neck to try and see Karim's face in the dark.

The stone was a little too cold under his fingers when he touched it.

And he still wasn't sure why he was here.

His lips tightened against the tears that threatened to spill out over his cheeks. His eyes had found the image of the Scales in his hand. The Scales were in the possession of another branch of the Tombkeepers, so he had never seen them in real life. They were being used to judge the sinners who had broken into the tombs of the kings, he had heard.

He wrapped his arms around himself and tried to force back the tears in the corners of his eyes. He tried not to think about the strange, violent thoughts he had been having ever since the ritual that had scarred his back. The lashing desire to strike out, to destroy, to rip, to maim, to do something, anything, with this darkness roiling inside of him.

If you were here now, he thought, feeling the painting's eyes heavy on top of him. Would you judge me as a sinner, too?

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A/N: I literally have no idea what I'm doing. Does Karim have a personality, even? Next is Amoshipping (Jonouchi x Mai x Shizuka).