Do and Don't
Chapter 15
Don't Give into Darkness
His family had a strict observance of the ways of the Tomb Keepers. At least his father had. Marik couldn't remember his mother. She had died when he was young but he remembered the darkness. They had lived in the darkness for too long, waiting for someone to solve the puzzle and allow the Pharaoh to return to the land of the living. In that darkness they played, ate, slept, and grew.
He hated it so he had tried to leave. He plotted to kill the Pharaoh and take his place so that he could remain in the land of light. But it was dark there too. It wasn't until he split from his darker side that he learned why. In trying to escape the shadows, he had become so tangled in it that there was no escape.
As the shadows swallowed him and Bakura, he realized that and wept.
Disclaimer: I am not Kazuki Takahashi.