Character app for xi_rpg
- CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Bakura; any family name he had is either long forgotten or discarded.
CODENAME: N/A, but if he ever does get one it’s likely to be Diabound.
SERIES/SOURCE: Yu-Gi-Oh!
AGE: 17
GENDER: Male
ROLE: Student
BACKGROUND: Bakura was born in a tiny village in Egypt known as Kul Elna. This village, while remote and peaceful on the surface, was far from it. Although they were descended from architects and the like who had built the Pharaoh’s palace many centuries ago, they’d become thieves over the years, mostly robbing graves and solitary travelers on the road. Despite this, they posed little to no threat to the overall welfare of Egypt, mostly content to take what they needed or wanted and then going back to their own lives.
However, it all changed when someone in a high position in the government decided to “take a position of action against these domestic enemies of our country” and launched an offensive against the village of Kul Elna. The soldiers sent to purge the little village did so late at night, and caught the defenseless villagers off guard, slaughtering every man, woman and child in the village. None were able to escape… except a very young Bakura, whose powers manifested and turned him insubstantial as well as invisible to the soldiers who looked around. He remained hidden behind his parents’ doorway (where he’d been thrown by his parents to hide) and watching the slaughter from there. The bloody affair lasted all night-quick, for the small amount of soldiers ordered to commence the annihilation of around ninety-nine human lives. They left at dawn, leaving a very traumatized young boy to attempt to pick up the pieces.
Days passed, and Bakura’s third power manifested-the ability to see and communicate with ghosts. Come nightfall (and even during the daytime, when ghosts were supposedly less likely to manifest), the spirits of his fellow villagers and even his parents howled around him, crying out in pain and howling vengeance in the boy’s ears. This, combined with the horrors he’d seen so recently, drove him stark raving mad and instilled in him a fierce desire to survive… and survive he did. As the years passed, Bakura’s fierce determination turned into ambition, and by the time he was thirteen he’d already developed impressive skills as a thief, more than enough to survive. This wasn’t enough, however, and by the time he was seventeen, Bakura had a plan, which involved tearing down the government that had allowed the heartless destruction of his home and his people. This plan, whatever it was, never was put into place, as Bakura got caught while he was in the early stages of implementation. Rather than be executed, however, he was sent to Xavier Institute once he was proven to be X-Gene positive. But that was all right with Bakura; after all, Rome certainly wasn’t built in a day…
PERSONALITY: Despite his horrific past, Bakura’s not one to make a big deal of it. He usually tends to keep it to himself even when pressed, going tight-lipped and quietly threatening, even (and perhaps especially) towards authority figures. He generally acts cocky and careless, and yet he’s anything but the latter-in reality, he’s calculating (albeit heatedly so), his hatred fuelling his rage, which feeds his ambitions in turn. Due to his harsh life, he’s cruel and ruthless, willing to do anything to achieve his goals and avenge himself and his people. He’s still quite mad, as well, but he’s less obvious about it-his rage simmers rather than boils most of the time, and he no longer responds aloud to his memories of the ghosts, except when he’s alone or asleep.
Bakura isn’t terribly social, usually responding sarcastically, if at all (except when faced with those he feels is responsible for the events in Kul Elna, and then his rage comes to the surface). Although he’s a fast learner, he thinks of school as a general waste of time-after all, he knows all he needs to know, as far as he’s concerned-and only participates grudgingly when he bothers to do so. He doesn’t think of people as anything but tools or obstacles, and doesn’t see the point in forming personal relationships, never stopping to consider others’ feelings or any loneliness he may or may not be hiding beneath the surface. In general, he’s completely unaccustomed to city or school life, and will find himself completely lost in America, whether he wants to admit it or not.
APPEARANCE: Tall and handsome-and Bakura knows it. He stands at about 6’0”, with shaggy silvery hair that falls a little past his shoulders and dark blue eyes that remain eerily focused most of the time. He has dark skin from spending so much time in the sun, and his hands and feet are calloused and rough from his years of fighting for survival. He looks a few years older than he actually is, although it’s mostly due to his muscular physique and the (not entirely hidden) haunted look in his eyes. He tends to wear clothing that shows it off, a subtle threat to those who believe they can take him down, and moves with a deadly grace. He has a scar on his right cheek (a long vertical line with two horizontal slices through it), but as for where and how he got it, he’s not telling.
POWERS: Bakura has the ability to turn invisible and incorporeal. As of yet, he’s only ever done it in situations where stealth is needed, as he prefers to fight “in the open”, so to speak. He can do that to others as long as he keeps a hold of them (and a few seconds after he lets go), but he has no inkling of that or even the desire to use it. (Teamwork is for those too weak to handle it themselves, after all.)
Oh, and he can hear/see/communicate with ghosts. It’s half the reason he’s nuts, really, but he keeps it to himself.
ANYTHING ELSE?: The President of Egypt suffered a heart attack and died shortly after learning of Kul Elna’s fate. Bakura doesn’t know this, however, and is extremely bitter about not being able to kill the man himself.
To this day, it’s not clear exactly who ordered the destruction of Kul Elna although there is speculation that the President of Egypt was involved, and Bakura blames him vehemently-although how accurate this speculation is remains highly debatable to this day)
Bakura was known in Egypt as “The King of Thieves”, and although it’s something he made up himself, he reinforced it. Anyone who’s kept up on current events in Egypt during the past four or five years has likely heard of him in some manner.