On Yami and Mokuba~

I actually got out of bed this morning thinking about brushing my teeth, and ended up writing a drabble about Mokuba having dirty thoughts about Yami while sitting through a sexual harassment seminar for KaibaCorp employees.

Yep. This is how all of my mornings go.

In any case, I'm taking a bit of time to write down how I feel about the two of their personalities based on the "Be Cool" universe. The drabble in question, which will surely be up on fanfiction.net very soon, is oddly from Mokuba's point of view. It really only could be, considering the setting. Now, I know that I've pegged both Yami and Mokuba with the badass! personality for this particular universe, but at the same time, there are differences between the two of them, made obvious in the story. I'm hopeful that these differences would become more apparent through the drabbles and one-shots that I'll be posting.

In my opinion, regardless of personality, Mokuba has always been the softer of the two Kaibas, and I imagine that it will always be that way unless something really fucked up happens to Mokuba while he's away from Seto. Even though he sort of has a devil may care attitude, he does *care* a little about how his actions affect others. I showed him pulling away from Seto a bit in "Be Cool," but even in that story he acknowleged that he wouldn't desert his brother completely--beause he knows how that would affect his older brother.

Yami, on the other hand--he's this spirit, thrust into a world he has no background in or any hope to become fully assimilated into--he addresses this at some point by expressing his being content at running the Kame Game Shop for Gramps. He has no educational background, no hope for what could be considered a functioning future--and while he's the same valiant man, willing to protect others, when it comes to his own personal health he's a bit self-destructive. I'm not sure that it was particularly clear in the story, but for example, he smokes. A lot. Mokuba has a few more cigarettes near the end of the story than he did in the middle, but Mokuba was actually being truthful when he told Yami he rarely smokes. Yami...just happened to have a new pack on him, and I think it worked at fooling readers into thinking that it was the same case with him. Just that alone is one of the functioning analogies between them that represent subtle differences.

Another example of this are their roles while having sex with each other. Yami is always ridiculously loud, regardless of where they are or what they're doing--even when he's bottoming, Mokuba's the most quiet. He's just a quiet type of lover, reserved. He would be louder if someone asked him to, but Yami doesn't care enough to even ask.

Similar, but very different. And I like that characterization of them. I can't wait to write more about the two of them together.