Abilities: Living alone for as long as he has, Ryou is somewhat endowed with domestic skills. He can cook, do his own laundry, shop, and basically take care of himself. He’s pretty sensible too, enough to take care of himself. While he is weak-willed, he makes up for it in intelligence. He also retains information quite well. He’s got a poor memory, as can be expected of a boy who blacks out quite as often as he does. He can thank Yami Bakura for that.
Were he inclined too, Ryou could make use of the Millennium Ring to its most basic degree. The most he’s able to do willingly is use its ability to locate other Millennium Items. Anything else that isn’t fueled by his yami is actually detrimental to his health and there’s virtually no chance he personally will ever use the Ring anyway.
He is very good at games though, and because he makes his own dioramas and table top figures for Monster World, it can be assumed that he’s good at crafts.
Ryou is also bilingual! He can speak both English and Japanese, and he knows a smattering from a handful of languages. It comes from being part of a worldly family.
Relationships to Canon Characters: Bakura is a part of Yugi’s group of friends, which includes Yugi Mutou, Katsuya Jonouchi, Hiroto Honda, and Anzu Mazaki. Of all of them, he has the better relationship with Yugi because of all four, they seem to speak the most. Though Bakura tends to fade into the background of the group as kind of a fifth wheel. Jonouchi has on some occasions expressed fear of Ryou’s interest in the occult (such as in the manga preceding Jonouchi’s duel with Ryota Kajiki, when Ryou explains his deck type. Jonouchi finds it creepy). Yugi on the other hand, is one of the first ones in the Monster World arc to insist on visiting Ryou despite his insistence that perhaps the four should keep their distance from him.
He really doesn’t have many connections with other people aside from that, though there is a point in which, under the alias of Namu, Malik “finds” and takes care of him while he is supposedly injured in Battle City. The truth of that matter was that his Yami had injured him with a knife however.
Bakura has no family but his father, and aside from a brief mention in the anime that his father was the one who gave him the Millennium Ring, and that he is the caretaker of the museum in which the final arc of the Yu-Gi-Oh manga takes place, there is little mention of the man.
His relationship with his yami is…somewhat parasitic. At this point, and for the sake of RC roleplay, he is, as of now, aware of his dark side’s existence. Like he did in the underground maze in Duelist Kingdom, and as he did in the Monster World arc, he does hear Yami Bakura’s voice independently in his head. They are able to communicate with each other, if that is Yami Bakura’s aim at all. Of course his darker side is condescending and usually just speaks down to him, or plays mind games with him to irritate him. Ryou just tries to ignore him for the most part, especially if he’s talking to someone else. If the topic of interest shifts to something that would interest his darker half though, he won’t hesitate to overtake the weaker-willed Ryou’s consciousness, obviously or not.
Third Person: Ryou smiled, folding the letter up and tucking it into an envelope. Despite the fact that he knew he wasn’t going to be mailing it out, it still felt nicer to properly prepare what he’d written, at least on this particular day. Usually he kept the letters to Amane in his journal. Only on two days did he ever tear them out gingerly and slide them into envelopes. And that was when he meant to visit on her birthday, or the day she’d passed away.
He let out a soft exhale, glancing offside to his desk. There, he had his tarot cards out on display. It had been quite a while since he remembered doing a reading…and yet the cards were spread. He chose to ignore that fact. Whatever his yami chose to do with either his tarot cards or his duel monsters deck did not concern him, so long as none of it left the house. He desperately hoped his dark side didn’t leave home to cause trouble anyway. The truth of the matter was that if Yami Bakura didn’t want Ryou to know, then the young man wouldn’t know.
Without another thought on the matter—he was mentally preoccupied enough that he chose not to worry about this—he took up the note along with his wallet. He was going to visit Amane and his mother today. His father would be in soon, so…he had to make this a quick trip. Some things he just preferred to do on his own, and while he loved his father very much, his personal time with his deceased family members was something he appreciated.
[Canon OC] Ryou Bakura || Yu-Gi-Oh || Not Reserved || 3/?
Were he inclined too, Ryou could make use of the Millennium Ring to its most basic degree. The most he’s able to do willingly is use its ability to locate other Millennium Items. Anything else that isn’t fueled by his yami is actually detrimental to his health and there’s virtually no chance he personally will ever use the Ring anyway.
He is very good at games though, and because he makes his own dioramas and table top figures for Monster World, it can be assumed that he’s good at crafts.
Ryou is also bilingual! He can speak both English and Japanese, and he knows a smattering from a handful of languages. It comes from being part of a worldly family.
Relationships to Canon Characters: Bakura is a part of Yugi’s group of friends, which includes Yugi Mutou, Katsuya Jonouchi, Hiroto Honda, and Anzu Mazaki. Of all of them, he has the better relationship with Yugi because of all four, they seem to speak the most. Though Bakura tends to fade into the background of the group as kind of a fifth wheel. Jonouchi has on some occasions expressed fear of Ryou’s interest in the occult (such as in the manga preceding Jonouchi’s duel with Ryota Kajiki, when Ryou explains his deck type. Jonouchi finds it creepy). Yugi on the other hand, is one of the first ones in the Monster World arc to insist on visiting Ryou despite his insistence that perhaps the four should keep their distance from him.
He really doesn’t have many connections with other people aside from that, though there is a point in which, under the alias of Namu, Malik “finds” and takes care of him while he is supposedly injured in Battle City. The truth of that matter was that his Yami had injured him with a knife however.
Bakura has no family but his father, and aside from a brief mention in the anime that his father was the one who gave him the Millennium Ring, and that he is the caretaker of the museum in which the final arc of the Yu-Gi-Oh manga takes place, there is little mention of the man.
His relationship with his yami is…somewhat parasitic. At this point, and for the sake of RC roleplay, he is, as of now, aware of his dark side’s existence. Like he did in the underground maze in Duelist Kingdom, and as he did in the Monster World arc, he does hear Yami Bakura’s voice independently in his head. They are able to communicate with each other, if that is Yami Bakura’s aim at all. Of course his darker side is condescending and usually just speaks down to him, or plays mind games with him to irritate him. Ryou just tries to ignore him for the most part, especially if he’s talking to someone else. If the topic of interest shifts to something that would interest his darker half though, he won’t hesitate to overtake the weaker-willed Ryou’s consciousness, obviously or not.
First Person: Test Drive Link
Third Person: Ryou smiled, folding the letter up and tucking it into an envelope. Despite the fact that he knew he wasn’t going to be mailing it out, it still felt nicer to properly prepare what he’d written, at least on this particular day. Usually he kept the letters to Amane in his journal. Only on two days did he ever tear them out gingerly and slide them into envelopes. And that was when he meant to visit on her birthday, or the day she’d passed away.
He let out a soft exhale, glancing offside to his desk. There, he had his tarot cards out on display. It had been quite a while since he remembered doing a reading…and yet the cards were spread. He chose to ignore that fact. Whatever his yami chose to do with either his tarot cards or his duel monsters deck did not concern him, so long as none of it left the house. He desperately hoped his dark side didn’t leave home to cause trouble anyway. The truth of the matter was that if Yami Bakura didn’t want Ryou to know, then the young man wouldn’t know.
Without another thought on the matter—he was mentally preoccupied enough that he chose not to worry about this—he took up the note along with his wallet. He was going to visit Amane and his mother today. His father would be in soon, so…he had to make this a quick trip. Some things he just preferred to do on his own, and while he loved his father very much, his personal time with his deceased family members was something he appreciated.