or if i like him hiding his pain with dark humor because he does not want your pity because pity will make his failure that much more real

Duel Links: Yami Marik’s Return

I like to believe that a bit of Shadow Magic managed to taint
Kaiba’s Duel Links System. Causing to not only be able to accurately
portray the characters right, but little by little, the gate IS turning
into a portal to the Shadow Realm. And Yami Marik is crazy enough to
not only be aware that he’s a hologram in some game, but to also destroy
this gaming dimension and find a way to permanently appear in the real
YGO world and to destroy their world too.

Also, I guess Bakura can go talk to Ai Bakura to come up with a strategy to either try to defeat the Pharaoh again, or to stop this from becoming something very chaotic.