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Ryou Bakura/Yami Bakura || Yu-Gi-Oh || Not Reserved || 1/?
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[Canon OC] Ryou Bakura || Yu-Gi-Oh || Not Reserved || 2/?
Character Name: Ryou Bakura
Canon: Yu-Gi-Oh
Age: 16
Timeline: After the Yu-Gi-Oh: Duelist manga, but not the resolution of the Millennium World arc
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: The only time this would become relevant is in both Bakuras referencing each other, in which case I would be applying them both because they coexist with each other. They’re used to sharing headspace and talk to each other often, so it’s not so much playing another character as two sides of the same coin! I just thought it prudent to apply them both so as to show all sides of them. :3
Personality: Ryou Bakura is a most confusing young boy. For the most part, he’s identified mainly as a member of Yugi’s group of friends, the least mentioned one and of course, the owner of the Millenium Ring. He is most infamously known to house the soul of the dark entity of the Ring which goes by his name for brevity’s sake, and there is little more to him than that in the storyline, particularly the anime storyline.
Ryou, however, is more than just a host. The dark entity—his Yami—only has access to what he has access to as a student and as a citizen of Domino. As such, their deck is one they both share an interest in. Judging by the conversation that Ryou shares with Jonouchi around the start of the Battle City tournament, it can be inferred that he is interested in occult themes, and study of his overall Duel Monsters deck structure shows that this is very true. Necromancy, spiritualism, ghosts, and demonlike creatures are a part of the deck Yami Bakura uses against Yugi in the finals of Battle City.
Ryou also shows a deep interest in table-top RPG games, including “Monster World,” which is arguably a Yu-Gi-Oh variant of Dungeons and Dragons or something similar. He has admitted to spending an entire night awake thinking up a campaign, and he owns a great deal of table-top RPG paraphernalia.
More specifically to his personality…as stated, Ryou is usually considered in-canon as a side-character when he’s not possessed by his Yami. And this is true, as well as proven consistent by the way he is excluded from even joining Yugi, Anzu, Honda, and Jonouchi in viewing the Pharaoh’s memories for “containing evil in his heart.” It boils down to his unimportance without his Yami.
Because of this, and in part due to his penchant to dwell on the side of dark themes, he tends to take a fatalistic outlook on things concerning himself when the chips are down. And he can be very overemotional when pushed, as seen again, when he was banned from viewing the Pharaoh’s memories. He bolted from the room in tears. But just as he can express his sorrow openly, Bakura also has a strength of heart that cannot be dampened entirely. The very first time he met Yugi and friends, his Yami arranged for them to start a campaign of “Monster World,” and through cheating and use of the Millennium Ring, sealed all of the others’ souls into their lead figures…with the exception of Yugi’s alter-ego, Yami Yugi. Later in the game, Bakura makes his presence known by controlling the game's computer, influencing his own alter-ego’s rolls negatively, imposing his own NPC character into the game, and eventually sacrificing his soul to make sure his friends were safe.
Bakura has a very polite outward demeanor, which makes him easy to be taken advantage of, and leads to bullying. Karita, the gym teacher at his high school, even went so far as to demand he cut his hair, yanking on it and saying he was not to return without having gotten a crew cut by the next school day. Ryou doesn’t say anything to this, and just asks to be left alone by his peers once the teacher stops picking on him.
Another attribute that should be noted is that Bakura is quite smart. Being one of Yugi’s only friends short of Jonouchi who actually follows the game of Duel Monsters, he is the one who usually makes commentary on the matches in the anime, and explains strategy out. He would probably be far more successful and independent if not for the spirit of the ring, given that he successfully—if unwillingly—is able to live alone in his apartment, and run his own campaigns in Monster World as the “Dark Master” (It pretty much equates to a DM for a DnD game, let’s be real).
History: (Note that, because of how little is actually expressly stated about Ryou Bakura’s personal life, a lot of this is headcanoned, as it would be for a Fandom OC)
Ryou is the son of an archaeologist, a man who is infrequently around to see his son. The fact of the matter is that his father is the only immediate family Bakura has left. When first speaking to Yugi and friends about his circumstances, Ryou appears to be forthcoming with saying that his family no longer lives with him, and that his constant transferring has estranged him from living with them at all. The truth of this is that his mother and sister are deceased, passed away in a car accident years ago. He still writes letters to his sister Amane in a manner akin to diary entries, referring to both her and his mother as if they might just be living in an estranged environment. This isn’t the first time Bakura’s been untruthful with information, but it is one of the few times he gets away with it entirely. No one in the series really asks him much about his family anyway, so he doesn’t have to talk about it. Call it lying by omission.
Bakura’s mother was Japanese, but his father is English, which accounts for his being bilingual and for his English accent. He was born in Japan, but his father’s archaeology work naturally brought the family to many places, not the least of which was, conveniently enough, England itself. They lived there for a short period when Ryou was young in order for his father to pursue studies in the field of Egyptology, and it wasn’t a permanent settlement by any means, because Ryou’s mother had a tendency towards homesickness, and her husband could only indulge her. It was something he eventually came to regret, as it was in Japan that both wife and daughter were killed.
The years leading up to it were not nearly so bad, however. At least, not as bad as they could have been. Ryou and Amane were bright, happy children; perfect siblings who got along, took care of each other, and shared every moment they could. Even though Amane was some years younger, she was something of a support system to her older brother, who unfortunately had a very big physical difference from her and her father, yet something he shared with his mother.
Ryou was born with a degree of albinism. His hair is silvery white while his skin is pale, though his eyes are dark brown. His mother shared this trait with him. Amane however, turned out with black hair and brown eyes, albeit in a similar style to her brother’s. She was a full year younger than him and attended different classes than he did, so for the most part, Amane did not see how her brother was ostracized at first, and didn’t understand it. She just knew he was unhappy with himself, and chose to try and uplift him in any way she could. She would style her hair like his, clamor for his attention until he was too distracted to be upset…do anything to make him laugh. Ryou was ever so appreciative…it was quite endearing to him.
So when his family was broken apart…things became different. Radically different.
His father threw himself into his work more than ever, and they moved to a different part of Japan. Ryou drew into himself. There was a length of time that he wouldn’t speak at all, he’d just go along with his schoolwork. He was intelligent and answered when spoken to, but only at that time. And all of the bullies, all of the boys that would make fun of him for his white hair and pale skin…those boys that Amane never really understood she helped protect his feelings from…he could ignore them because he simply didn’t care anymore. His sister wasn’t there, why should he care?
His behavior was eventually noticed by a counselor in school, someone who realized the young boy was not presenting as happily as he should, nor socializing with his classmates like the other gradeschoolers should be doing at his age. And while she couldn’t get him to talk too much about the issue, she did get him to discuss a little bit about Amane, enough for the woman to discern what Ryou was feeling. She suggested a small exercise that might help him feel better—writing letters to his sister.
…Admittedly, Bakura never stopped. And honestly, there wasn’t much need to. He felt like he was able to socialize again, and it made him happy to talk to his sister again. Even if he couldn’t really speak to her, sending letters to a pen pal…it felt real. Even if they never wrote back. So he’d write diaries of letters to Amane. It was a habit he never disclosed to his father.
The older Ryou got, the more his father became estranged from him. And the older Ryou got, the more he began to feel that it had something to do with the way he looked. He harbored no illusions here: he had his father’s facial structure perhaps, his severe eyebrows if he ever got angry. But his eyes, the hair…and the smile. It was his mother’s. It probably hurt to see…and he didn’t fault his father for wanting to look away from that a bit. But the man seemed to feel neglectful of his only family, and while he would travel for his archaeology career, he would visit sometimes, spend days at home and ask Ryou how he was, what he was up to and his interests, how he was doing in school..and he would always bring a gift for Ryou’s birthday.
It was on Ryou’s fifteenth that his father brought him the Millennium Ring. Ryou thought it was extremely impressive, and it seemed to resonate with him. By this point in his life, he’d begun to take an interest in the occult, and his father had therefore bought him this ring in a merchant’s bazaar, hearing that it possessed some sort of link to Ancient Egyptian lore steeped in darkness, and that it was supposedly “cursed” or some such thing. He didn’t believe in such things, but it was an interesting piece of history, with an interesting shape at that. So he brought it to his son. Ryou took a very keen liking to the Ring, and wore it at all times. It was a very tangible and nice reminder that yes, he did have family, and yes, his family did still care about him, even if he wasn’t always around.
As far as his social life went after Amane and his mother’s passing, Ryou did suffer some stress and bullying. He was always accustomed to the bullying before, and now was no different. Writing letters helped to distract him, and just because he was different didn’t mean he couldn’t find a shared interest with others. His calling, it seemed, was in table top RPGs. A few years before he transferred to Domino High, he was introduced to Monster World, and took a liking to the concept. By the time he was in his freshman year, he was an accomplished Dark Master making his own campaigns, creating his own boards, and crafting his own pieces. He was quite good at it too. Of course…it was also around this time that strange things began to happen. Friends he made, the sparse few that took an interest in what he did…they began to fall into strange comas after playing with him. It became enough of a burden that even he couldn’t avoid the sheer discrimination and blame for it. He transferred many times, and while his father did pay for it…he was unhappy until he finally settled at Domino High. There, he met Yugi, Jonouchi, Anzu, and Honda. All of them seemed to accept him fairly well, and although he did have a nasty brush with the gym teacher that ended in a threat and an unfair order to cut his long, white hair…Bakura didn’t seem to mind.
It was that night, though…that he finally became aware of the spirit housed in his pendant. A spirit that insisted it only wanted to protect its “landlord,” and to “pay rent” for sharing a body with him. That was the first time he was aware that he’d been possessed, not that he knew what had happened. But the spirit hinted enough for him to infer previously that it was he who had hospitalized Ryou’s friends, by way of shadow games, and that he sought to steal Yugi’s Millenium Puzzle now.
Bakura does very little, and there isn’t much he can do, while his Yami steals his new friends’ souls and runs them through the Monster World gauntlet. Only through their luck are they able to injure the enemy boss, Zorc, enough to affect Yami Bakura, to whom he seems to have a connection. Severing Zorc’s hand seems to free Ryou to use it, and he sabotages the dark spirit several times before that very hand is impaled upon a castle spire. Through Zorc’s wound, his own NPC is willed into the game to help his friends, and by sheer force of will, he interrupts Yami Bakura’s soul sealing spell, which is meant to put a piece of the dark spirit’s soul into a set of “Doppleganger Dice” so that he will roll perfect for his last turn. Instead of using part of Yami Bakura’s soul, Ryou forces his own soul into the dice to destroy them.
This is the first time he’s foiled his Yami, showing great resolve and bravery, as well as self-sacrifice, but not the last. Throughout Duelist Kingdom, he’s fairly free of his Yami’s influence, though he does still, for whatever reason, wear the Millennium Ring. It proves helpful in leading the group through the caves they get trapped in by Bandit Keith Howard, though it is then that he is beseeched again by the supposedly-long-gone spirit to accept his help. The spirit offers to help Ryou solve the riddle that the Meikyuu brothers are subjecting Yugi and Jonouchi to, which he seems to accept, because the spirit does indeed speak out in assistance. Then he’s gone again, and Ryou seems not to notice.
The next time he appears…is to steal Pegasus’ Millennium Eye fresh from the socket, something Ryou once again seems unaware of. Just as he’s unaware of his spirit offering to “help” Yugi in Otogi’s game shop, when he’s faced with a maddened old man possessed with the thought of revenge against the Mutou line, and the subsequent sealing of the spirit’s soul—partially—into Yugi’s Puzzle.
Ryou remains woefully unaware of anything his spirit does during Battle City for the most part too, including his escapades through the museum searching for the Millenium Necklace/Tauk, his deal with Malik, and he’s pretty clueless on the fact that it’s his Yami who had cut his arm open in the first place and hospitalized him through half of the tournament.
Hell, he hardly seems aware that he’s a finalist in the tournament because he never meant to participate. Of course…that’s how it usually is…and it wouldn’t be the last time he would be used.
[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.
[Canon] Yami Bakura || Yu-Gi-Oh || Not Reserved || 4/4
Name: Yami Bakura (He also just goes by Bakura, but that can become confusing.)
Canon: Yu-Gi-Oh
Age: Apparently 16. Really…a 3000 year old spirit.
Timeline: After the Yu-Gi-Oh: Duelist manga, but not the resolution of the Millennium World arc
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: The only time this would become relevant is in both Bakuras referencing each other, in which case I would be applying them both because they coexist with each other. They’re used to sharing headspace and talk to each other often, so it’s not so much playing another character as two sides of the same coin! I just thought it prudent to apply them both so as to show all sides of them. :3
Personality: Yami Bakura is a spiritual entity that has resided in the Millennium Ring for 3000 years. Like the pharaoh in Yugi’s Millennium Puzzle, he has little to no memory of his past life, though he does seem a little bit more aware of things than the other dark side is. While Yami Yugi is a predominantly benign persona—at least later in the manga—Yami Bakura does not share any similarity with him. He is rude, uncaring, and seeks to share no bond with his host. Rather than cooperate with Ryou Bakura as he should, he overpowers his host’s weak will and controls him in order to get what he wants, be it the Puzzle, locator cards, or a chance at another Millennium item.
Yami Bakura is shown to be sadistic, to the point where he behaves without actual rhyme or reason, other than to amuse himself. An example of this is his capturing the souls of Ryou’s former friends and trapping them into Monster World figures, then forcing them to play out roles properly. He manipulatively insists to his host that he only does this to ensure that Bakura always has his friends around, and wasn’t it his wish to play games with his friends forever? He seems to take great enjoyment in manipulating Bakura to his will. Seeing as he has no real need to ask his host for permission to take over, as demonstrated once during the Monster World arc when he cut Ryou off from warning Yugi to stay away, and again many other instances spread across Duelist Kingdom and Battle City, him bargaining and insisting he’s only there for Ryou’s best interest, and his actions are a form of “rent” payment are nothing but lies.
He may also be masochistic, as he seems never to be troubled by pain for too long. Impaling his hand on a Monster World prop only made him laugh madly, and the same result was yielded during Battle City, when he struck a deal with Malik and sealed it in blood, slicing open his own arm to injure his host. Similarly, during one of the preliminary matches of the Battle City Finals, he seems far more tolerant of this injury later than his host, and withstands the blast from the Saint Dragon, God of Osiris card to spare his host any terrible shock or further injury.
While on the subject of madness, he does seem to express a shade of it himself. His facial expressions and rather enthusiastic laughing fits at the most inappropriate things seem to insinuate that to some degree, the dark spirit is unhinged. He neither denies nor hides this. Sanity is hardly his greatest concern, and what others’ opinions of him are never seemed to matter. The only thing that matters to him is his mission.
And Yami Bakura is very task-oriented. His focus is firmly set on stealing the remaining Millennium items he does not yet own, and unlocking the dark energies that they contain. To this end, he seems the most informed of all the characters on the items themselves. Or perhaps that’s just how he likes people to believe it. The truth is, the thief has just as few memories as the pharaoh does. Well…more or less.
As far as personality goes, Yami Bakura comes off kind of as a foil to Yami Yugi, and they tend to clash so violently because of how very opposite they are. An example of how different they are is that while Yami Yugi is in a cooperative relationship with Yugi, Yami Bakura sees no need to cooperate with his host, and underestimates his worth often. He takes Ryou over completely and mistreats his body without much care.
Background: SERIOUSLY whereas Ryou has one wiki, this guy has like infinity wiki links.
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yami_Bakura
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dark_Bakura_(manga)
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Thief_Bakura
NOTE: This might conflict a little with both the way its portrayed in one medium or the other, I’m really not quite sure, but it has always been my idea and my belief that Yami Bakura is a mixture of the Thief King Bakura and Zorc Necrophades sealed into the Ring. There’s too much conflicting in manga statements throughout all of Yu-Gi-Oh for me not to make this assumption. The fandom seems to take different stances on it anyway.
Abilities: Yami Bakura is an accomplished game master, much like Yami Yugi. He, however, relies on his skill as a thief and cunning “strategies” that may or may not involve cheating. Okay. They sometimes involve cheating. He tends to set up games with everything in his favor, a prime example being that in the Monster World campaign of the seventh manga volume, he was the game’s Dark Master. He also holds this position in the last table top campaign in the Millennium World arc, and therefore controls the most powerful villain characters. It’s only after he’s thoroughly manipulated the situation in his favor that the pharaoh even realizes it’s a game at all.
As he is the bearer of the Millenium Ring, Yami Bakura is also privy to several other abilities linked to it. Primarily, it behaves as a Millennium item locator, though it has been shown in the anime in at least one occasion—without manga canon to back it up—to lead him to whatever he particularly wishes to find at the time. Because canons conflict on that, I’m going to assume that he needs to invoke shadow magic for that particular trick, to a degree where it’s not really cost-effective even for him.
The Ring is also infamous for its soul manipulation abilities. That is, it can be used to seal souls into objects completely, or partially. In the Monster World arc, Yami Bakura was revealed to have been doing this to many of his hosts friends, rendering them comatose and forcing him to transfer to different schools. While the occurrence had never truly been blamed on Ryou, it was proven eventually that his Yami was sealing his gamer friends’ souls into the lead figures used to play on the table top RPG Ryou often created campaigns for. During a shadow game between Yami Yugi and Yami Bakura, the Ring spirit revealed that he is also capable of sealing part of his soul into objects with no detriment to himself, in order to manipulate them. His final move was an attempt to seal a portion of his soul into a set of ten sided dice in order to achieve a perfect roll, which would have succeeded if his host hadn’t mitigated his own soul into the dice instead. However, a more successful example is when he sealed part of himself into a piece of Yugi’s Millennium Puzzle during the DDM arc. Two entire arcs later, he is able to access the pharaoh’s Puzzle and attempt to stop his friends from attaining any information on the Puzzle spirit’s name.
Being an amalgamation of both the former Thief King Bakura’s and a portion of Zorc Necrophades’ soul, Yami Bakura is also a skilled thief. This includes remembering traps that he’s encountered before (he’d make a better adventurer than Indiana Jones), being great at sneaking around places, and he is one hell of a good liar. In fact, he’s so good at lying and acting that he can easily fool Yugi’s friends into thinking he’s his host, imagine that! He emulates the voice, tames his hair, and takes on his mannerisms. At least…when it suits his needs.
Yami Bakura’s very good at Duel Monsters, and uses an occult deck with undead monsters, which also makes use of the Ouija Board card.
Most importantly…due to the nature of his status as a Millenium Item bearer, he can summon the realm of shadows in order to initiate a “Shadow Game” (Yami no Game), to which he will explain the rules, which must be followed to the letter. If the rules are broken, or a loser is decided, that person suffers a penalty game. Penalty games usually result in death or driving their victim insane, though…the tomb robber’s done his fair share of weaseling out of permanent death for losing games against Yami Yugi and Yami Malik. Perhaps there’s a reason for his affinity with the occult…
First Person: [Yami Bakura is as well-versed in the ways of technology as his landlord is, if only because he draws upon Ryou’s memories to do anything. However, there’s no memories to draw on for this damned watch. It doesn’t seem to operate like a normal watch, that much he can ascertain. Like a proper strategist and tactician, he’s conditioned to find what doesn’t belong.
Pocket watches don’t typically have that many buttons.
Unfortunately, he’s an uncultured thief’s soul and decides the best way to deal with his problem is to push all of the buttons until he gets a result he likes. This only ends in him accidentally sending a keysmash of FSKDJFLSKSDFSD across the network, and then activating the video.]
Damn it, what is this thing? I’ve never seen a watch with so many buttons! Tch!
[He lets his hands fall to his sides, dangling the watch so that the view to his face—which wasn’t exactly clear and who wants to see an unpleasant brown-eyed fellow glaring at them anyway—is shifted instead to his pant leg. He’s still audible though.]
This is the first time my dear landlord’s taken me on a trip. I’ll have to talk to him about his little game later…or hear his excuses that it isn’t his fault perhaps. Haha.
Third Person: Pain was a trifling thing, Yami Bakura laughed in the face of it. If not, he’d have hesitated in the deal he made with Malik earlier, the deal he’d signed with his own blood. Then again…it wasn’t really his own blood, was it? It was Ryou’s blood, easily spilt and used to sign his name and body over to the darkness with. It was his landlord’s fault. He was so damned interested in the dark and occult of the world, well here he stood possessed by the darkness for his trouble.
Hah. Even Yami Bakura knew it was more than that. They were linked beyond that, in ways he wasn’t entirely aware of…but then neither did he care. The Ring spirit wasn’t nearly as sentimental as the pharaoh that inhabited little Yugi’s mind, and he was also much less noble; a thief took what they wanted.
That’s what he was doing here. Faced with imminent loss at Osiris’ godly force, he’d been left with no option but to listen to Marik’s advice. The spirit had released his landlord’s soul in the middle of this duel, to let him suffer the pain and blood of their shared injury. Ryou was weak, he couldn’t handle it. And Yugi…he would never attack a friend. At least, Yami Bakura was fairly sure the pharaoh was too sentimental to attack. The world depended on this, but he was a sentimental fool.
…A sentimental fool who was looking a little too determined in his actions. The dark spirit had been aware of what the pharaoh was going to do in Duelist Kingom if little Yugi hadn’t stayed his hand, and how Kaiba would have died. But was Ryou worth half as much to these fools as even Seto Kaiba was? Did they…really accept him enough not to sacrifice him?
Perhaps…it was too much to risk. Ryou Bakura was his vessel. He was not sure he could sacrifice the boy. No deal with some foolish Egyptian brat would cause him to risk imprisonment in that blasted Ring for another thousand years or more. He still had work to do! He was so close…!!
Sorry Yugi. I can’t risk your ethics hurting my host after all! As for our deal, Malik… and yes he could hear the purple-eyed teen raging angrily at his rebellious actions, retaking Ryou’s body, There are other ways. I offered my assistance, not my LIFE!
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