Best Thiefshipping Betrayal Fanfics
The best betrayal Thiefshipping (Marik Ishtar/Yami Bakura) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Betrayal hurts in proportion to love, which makes it fiction's most efficient heartbreak; readers brace for the reveal scene the way they brace for a dropped glass.
Top Thiefshipping Betrayal Fic Recs
1 betrayal Thiefshipping fic matched, followed by other top-rated Thiefshipping stories.
Amour
Betrayalby Asmodeus (xXMoonlicious616Xx)
Love is a powerful trap that can be able to betray someone you love, a trap of manipulation, but how something could be called love when Bakura wants to prove his own power for not handling with Marik's betrayal?
As you were, as you've always been.
by Keeperofate
It's been nearly ten years since Ryou Bakura last wore the Millennium Ring, and time has done nothing to quell his ache for answers. Working and studying in egypt, he starts finding himself pulled towards an artifact found at the dig site near Kul Elna, and what he thought were nightmares soon revea
I Come With Knives
by sitabethel
Getting railed by five dudes in front of Zorc hadn't been the answer to healing Bakura. He had needed to cry with Ryou, to learn how to kiss, to learn how to apologize, to lay tipsy on Malik’s floor and play games with his new village. Bakura had needed a human life, and all the joys and sorrows tha
A Story Told (By the Victors)
by kitsuneFaux
With the Millennium Items recovered and dispersed, the games begin anew. Bakura must shovel through the mess his host left behind to prevent the resurrection of his ultimate enemy.
Thick as Thieves
by crackedmary (crushedmary)
Beef King Bakura is back and he's come for his one true love. Malik reciprocates, but when he's propositioned by Bakura, there's one problem: BKB is too jacked to fit through Malik's door.
The Return of The Thief King
by MimBear
Yami Bakura, now named Sariq, is brought back after his defeat and stripped of Zorc's influence. Still a thief, but with the added guilt of how he treated those he cared for. Ryou and Marik. Now he's back, Bakura and Marik pick up from where they left off, but there are those who don't approve. Are
Sound of Silence
by Mammon (Sightless_Angels)
Seto knew he'd messed up, but he hadn't expected this when he returned with Atem from aaru. Now, he has to deal with the repercussions of his actions - all of them.
Millennium Discovery, Millennium Love
by HandwrittenValentine
Months after the events at the end of Yu-Gi-Oh! (DM) Bakura Ryou is feeling completely lost. He is haunted by the memories of his life possessed by his darker side, and with all of his friends moving on with their lives he is left all alone to suffer with these memories. Painful questions wrack his
What Means Freedom (you're my freedom)
by xXMoonlicious616Xx
Marik hated his permanent scars used as the Pharaoh's secrets, but Bakura even if he can't do too much, does his best for the boyfriend.
Go Eat a Pussy
by Asmodeus (xXMoonlicious616Xx)
Life is full of mysteries that sometimes are either scary, shocking, disappoint or even in another times can be useful in a good way just like Marik have found in Bakura while they were busy together after a good time spend stealing.
Bakura Can't Read Nor Write
by xXMoonlicious616Xx
The day where Marik Ishtar was trying to have entire patience to make an ancient bandit spirit learn to read and write, something he never got during 3000 years.
Heart Stealer
by Asmodeus (xXMoonlicious616Xx)
Mariko after a failed attempt to steal the millenium puzzle from Yuki, realized that her partner in crime is also inside the bar and both decided to spend crazy nights together as a break.
Bakura and Marik goes to Nudism Beach
by Asmodeus (xXMoonlicious616Xx)
Nudity wasn't seen as indecent than in modern days, except in appropriate places made for this exactly intention, what Bakura thought it was a stupid idea he immediately changed his mind about Marik's idea.
Marik's New Outfit
by Asmodeus (xXMoonlicious616Xx)
When Marik wanted to make a little surprise for Yami Bakura.
A Thiefshippy Winter
by DragonWolfZero
A few winter days and two boys who finally can't keep denying their feelings. They are the Yu-Gi-Oh Abbridged series personalities.
Desert Rose
by xXMoonlicious616Xx
Marik Ishtar is Dead and Bakura wishes to see him again somewhere inside the desert through sand, where the rose was born.
In Our Times
by Asmodeus (xXMoonlicious616Xx)
Walls between past and present can be united, so also Yami Bakura and Marik Ishtar who belongs from different generations.
Noisy
by Asmodeus (xXMoonlicious616Xx)
An almost common day of Yami Marik and Ryou dealing with noisy neighbors next door.
Two Lights Under Darkness
by Asmodeus (xXMoonlicious616Xx)
Bakura's perspectives after developing intimate feelings inside of a bubble they weren't supposed to have proximity, until things changed for both sides of the families.
Here Lies Akefia
by angelbxbie
"Here lies Akefia Bakura; Beloved Husband, Father, and Son" That's what the headstone read... Sometime after everyone became adults and went on about their lives, Yami Bakura was given his own body and name. Akefia Bakura, 22, student at one of the best universities in Domino. But most importantly,
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Why Betrayal Thiefshipping Fanfiction Works So Well
Marik Ishtar/Yami Bakura — Battle City's scheming tombkeeper allied with the spirit of the Ring to take down the Pharaoh, a partnership of mutual use, double-crosses, and motorcycle rides. The Abridged series' bickering-villains take supercharged the ship, making it one of YGO's most enduring.
Betrayal — Someone trusted turns the knife — a defection, a lie unraveled, a secret sold — and the story measures the wound. Betrayal fic covers the act itself, the discovery, and the long question of whether the breach can ever be repaired.
Two backstabbing conspirators who can't decide whether to betray or flirt are endlessly entertaining to write. Betrayal hurts in proportion to love, which makes it fiction's most efficient heartbreak; readers brace for the reveal scene the way they brace for a dropped glass. That's why betrayal Thiefshipping fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.
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Thiefshipping · Enemies to Lovers
Characters who start as adversaries and gradually develop romantic feelings for each other.
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Thiefshipping · Dark Fic
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