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Character's Name: Kiryu Kyosuke
Series: Yu-gi-Oh! 5D's (Episode 32 - Kiryu is about to confront Yusei and Crow for the first time)
History: Yu-gi-Oh 5D's is set in the same Universe as, though several decades after, Yu-gi-oh DM and GX. Domino City, the battleground of the original series, has evolved and changed into Neo-Domino City, which is praised as an utopia. Responsible for the safety within the city is the Public Security Maintenance Buerau (PSMB) and it's executive arm "Security". The PSMB appears to have almost limitless resources as well as a strong connection to the Kaiba Cooperation, which has evolved from being a simple gaming company under Seto Kaiba and seems to be accountable for all technological matters within Neo Domino City. Further, there is a special department within KC, the Momentum Investigation and Development Section (MIDS). This section researches a phenomenon named Momentum. The Momentum is a generator that can generate enough energy to supply all of the city through its rotation.
Another major factor is "Duel Monsters". The card game that had been just created in YGO DM has become a great part of everyone’s life. The concepts of Duel Academies (schools that have an emphasis to teach the students strategy as well as raise them into professional duelists), which was already introduced in Yu-Gi-Oh GX, was kept and developed. Pro-duelists have become idols; sometimes the game is the last straw to solve conflict and some would equal their deck with their life. The idea that somebody might not know how to duel seems foreign. Since the era of GX, a new form of Duel Disc, the D-Wheel (a motorcycle with a built-in duel disc) has been developed and that form of dueling, the "Riding Duel" has become quite popular.
Important to the plot of YGO 5D's are the People of the Stars, a pre-incan tribe - and their god, the Dragon Star. When threatened by wicked gods, the tribe prays to the star and it answers by sending the Crimson Dragon, the embodiment of god, to the earth. The Crimson Dragon manages to seal the Evil into the earth, creating the Nasca Lines. A seal that over the course of five thousand years has started to weaken. To prevent the reawakeing of the wicked gods, the Crimson Dragon gave five humen the power to call it out, marked them with its birthmark and gave them control of one of it's servants. Those people are called Signer. Oppose to them are the ones chosen to serve the wicked gods, the Dark Signer.
Seventeen years before the main story, one of the Momentums researchers, Rudger Godwin, believing that to be his destiny, overloads the Momentum prototype, causing a massive explosion that would from that day on be known as "Zero Reverse". Zero Reverse splits the city, into two parts - the larger part that continues to be called Neo Domino and one small island where the old/original Momentum as well as the original Domino district are located, named "Satellite". After that incident the city denies to take any responsibility, instead of rebuilding the island they create a pipeline to transport the city's trash there and let the Satellite's population sort it for recycling. To keep the population of the island from rebelling against the city, Security is stationed on the island, who control all of the island aside of one district: the "Bad Area after Damage" (B.A.D.), the area around the old Momentum where the criminals start to gather.
Little is known about Kiryu's past, except that he has spent his childhood and teenage years growing up in the Satellite. Around the age of eighteen he encounters three other teens - Crow Hogan, Jack Atlas and Fudo Yusei. In that time the Satellite is shaken by a harsh gang war, in which Teams/Gangs of four duelists fight each other over their "Zones", the area they resist in. Intent to make himself and the other three "satisfied", Kiryu and the other three form "Team Satisfaction", with Kiryu as the leader. In order to reach their goal, Kiryu decides that they should take over all of the Zones, defeating all of Satellites Duelgangs in process.
Eventuelly they draw closer to their goal until only one Zone - Zone M - is left. However there they encounter trouble, as the Duel Gang reigning over Zone M, consists of about twenty members instead of the usual four. Kiryu accepts their challenge, saying that otherwise they (Team Satisfaction) wouldn't be satisfied. Everything goes well until one of Team Satisfaction's members, Yusei, confronts the other gang's leader and is pulled over the edge of a roof, and almost falls down an at least four storey building. It is only in the last second that Kiryu manages to intervene, rescuing Yusei at risk of his own life. With Crow's help he manages to pull Yusei back on the roof and Jack knocks out the other team's leader. After that, they officially declare Zone M and therefore all of the Satellite as dominated by Team Satisfaction.
However their triumph doesn't last long. Soon after their victory, Kiryu grows restless again and begins to search for another goal, another enemy for them. The other three only follow him reluctantly as he seeks out other Duel Gangs, saying that their conquest still isn't finished. Kiryu soon crosses the line by almost injuring one of their opponents, a kid, on purpose, saying that he doesn't have the guts for the world of duelists. As consequence, Crow and Jack leave the team in the very same night - only Yusei stays behind, assuring the slightly devastated Kiryu that despite everything, they were still all friends.
A few days later Security arrives and starts to hunt and arrest the Duel Gangs of Satellite. Kiryu, who has witnessed their arrival together with Yusei, declares now that he has found the last enemy of Team Satisfaction - Security itself. Yusei is against that plan, calling it insane and after a confrontation with Kiryu he leaves the team as well, thinking that Kiryu would never dare to assault them on his own.
Yusei is proven wrong, since a few nights Kiryu starts his attack on Security by booby-trapping duel discs, having Security confiscate them and blowing them up in the heart of Securities Satellite HQ. After that he is chased by them and manages to slip for their gasp for a while until they trap him in an abandoned building. However by that time, Yusei, Crow and Jack have heard of the situation and come to help him. Kiryu thrilled by the sight of his team mates, laughs and says that he knew they would come and help him fight, stepping towards the window and declaring their fight "Team Satisfaction's Last Duel". The other three have other plans, refuse to fight and urge Kiryu to flee with them.
Bitterly disappointed by their rejection Kiryu collapses, doing as they wish for a short time. But Security's reach is far and not even Team Satisfaction can escape them for long. Soon Kiryu finds himself trapped again in a back alley by a single officer. Cornered and unwilling to run away any longer, Kiryu attacks instead, managing to strike the officer down after a short struggle. However just when he is about to deliver the killing blow, he is interrupted and brought down by Yusei, who drags him away with help from Jack and Crow.
Yusei then, in an attempt to keep the rest of the team safe, sets out to confront Security himself and tries to offer himself to them by telling them that he is Team Satisfactions leader and responsible for the attacks on them. But by then Security had already found and separated Kiryu from the other two. The last thing Kiryu sees before being transported off is the image of the commanding officer clapping Yusei's shoulder, which leaves him thinking that he has been betrayed by the rest of his team.
After being tried, Kiryu is branded with a criminal marker on his right cheek, his card deck is taken from him and he is sent into prison. There, due his assault on authority, he is often beaten and abused by the guards. Through the constant circle of violence as well as Kiryu slowly despairing over the loss of his deck and the betrayal of the rest of the team, he starts to wish for death.
At this moment he is approached by an entity that calls itself "Envoy of Darkness", that offers him to bring him back from the dead as Dark Signer so that he may fulfil the desires that tie him to life. Kiryu accepts and wishes for vengeance, but voices one more request: He wants to finish Team Satisfaction's Last Duel. His terms are accepted and Kiryu becomes the Dark Signer with the giant mark. He joins up with the rest of the already awakened Dark Signer and resigns to waiting beneath the old Momentum until their ultimate enemy, the Signer (two of which happen to be his old team mates Jack and Yusei) awaken as well. The night after the Fortune Cup, the tournament that served to awaken the Signer, the Dark Signer start their first attack to test the abilities of their enemy. This attack drives Yusei to return to the Satellite and to search out the old Momentum together with Crow.
Kiryu, knowing of Yuseis approach, intercepts them and challenges Yusei immediately to duel. He almost wins, using the strength of his new deck as well of his god Ccapac Apu, however Yusei's D-Wheel breaks down a second before his defeat and Kiryu decides to spare him, telling him to experience the same fear and terror as he has until their next encounter. When returning to the Dark Signers hideout, Kiryu is confronted by the Dark Signer leader Rudger about why he didn't finish off Yusei. Kiryu tells him that they must not by hasty as long as their number isn't complete and that he has Yusei living through "living hell", due confronting him with the absolute strength of the Earthbound God.
A few days later, Kiryu sees Yusei again after the later’s duel with Rudger and Kiryu is all to glad to remind Yusei of his fear of the Earthbound Gods and Kiryu himself and that their duel still needs to resolve. About half a day later, they finally confront for a last time, a duel in which all emotions are laid bare and after a hard struggle Kiryu loses. He dies in Yuseis arms, revealing that he couldn't quite hate neither Yusei nor the rest of their team mates and that his greatest wish was to finish their Last Duel, as he couldn't stand not having realized it. He calls himself pathetic since he still doesn't feel quite satisfied by the result before disappearing into dust.
After the Signer defeat the last Earthbound God and the King of the Underworld, he is brought back to life.
Personality: Kiryu Kyosuke has pretty much everything you would want in a leader. He is calm, he is confident, he is systematic and once he considers someone a friend will go to hell and back for them. Abandoning a friend in distress is the last thing he'd ever do. However he asks for the same loyalty in return. And help the person that betrays him, because that is by far the worst crime possible in his mind. He also likes things being done his way, and even though he'll listen to advice given to him in the planning stage, he won't be led astray once he's started to move according to it.
His main ambiation in life is to reach "Satisfaction", which he defines as the best perfermance possible for whatever goal he has in mind, for himself and his comrades. The concept of Satisfaction is most important to him and the only way he knows to find it is through duel. That makes his cards and the duel itself very important to him; not being able to duel or being seperated from is deck is as much of a noghtmare to him as being betrayed.
Even before becoming Dark Signer, he tended to have a sadistic streak; he enjoys making his opponent suffer and doesn't mind rough play or unfair conditions coming from either side, because proving to be able to deal with that is way more satisfying than anything else, he thinks.
Something that must not be forgotten is that ultimately Kiryu is forged by the rules of the Satellite: Survival for the fittest. Because of this he tends to seem slightly selfish, putting his own well being, as well as that of everyone he considers a friend, before everyone else. He does seem to have slight issues with abandonment, the thought of loosing the rest of his team terrifies him, but he is unable to recognize that his actions to prevent that are actually the trigger of the teams break up.
After becoming a Dark Signer he tends to almost unpredictable mood-swings, laughing in one second and sneering angrily in the next. He is even more sadistic and wants to deal as much pain as possible to those who have dealt him wrong. Around people he likes he is still almost like his old self, though the slight madness that seems to have gripped him cannot be denied.
Powers and Abilities: Kiryu is a Dark Signer, chosen servant of the Earthbound God Ccpac Apu, who was sealed into the Nasca line of the Giant. Since only people who have died become Dark Signer, Kiryu is effectively undead. With the god comes also the ability to invoke Duels of Darkness. In those duels the participating duelists are surrounded by a barrier of purple flames (which in Kiryu's case has the form of the Giant Nasca Line) and all damage dealt within the duel is real. The Dark Signer have been shown as able to switch into an alive form at will. Even though Kiryu hasn’t shown that particular ability, it can be presumed that he has it as well.
Memory Lost: Loss of Love | Team Satisfaction (Fudo Yusei, Jack Atlas, Crow Hogan and the entire history that connects them)
Reason: Team Satisfaction is the most important thing in Kiryus life. Yusei, Jack and Crow are his family and from the moment the team is founded, Kiryu's life pretty much resolves around the other three. His loyalty to them is absolute and he doesn't hesitate to put his own life on line when one of the others is in danger. He feels responsible for them, since they at one point describe him as their saviour, the one that kept them from becoming "trash" like everyone else in Satellite. This is why he is so desperate to find a new goal for them after having taken over the island - he doesn't want to lose them. Ironically it is exactly those actions that drive them away, though Kiryu never quite realizes that. Their supposed betrayal devastates him, though even after swearing revenge he can never quite bring himself to keep hating them.
First Person Sample:
[A quiet, yet slightly insane sounding snicker sounds through the communicator.]
Well, well… now just what kind of place have I wound up at? It kind of looks like the Satellite. Or… what it most probably did look like seventeen years ago anyway.
But you know I'm actually not very amused about this. There is somebody waiting to be brought proper justice to and I'd rather not keep him waiting~
So… [The voice turns low and deadly serious.] Whoever is responsible for this, be better prepared. Because I'm going to track you down and make you go through living hell.
And then you'll see that there is nothing more lethal than invoking a Dark Signers wrath.
Third Person Sample:
Kiryu turned his head a bit, wordlessly taking in his surroundings, and wondered: Just how had he wound up here? And why?
At another point he might have presumed this to be a test of his god - Demak would have certainly declared it as such - but considering that he had just been about to confront a Signer, their sworn enemy, it seemed very unlikely. No, this was no test of Ccpac Apu.
He narrowed his eyes and pulled his hood deeper into his face, amber eyes gleaming angrily at the angry streets signs. Most of them were in English he noted. Lovely.
How very, very lovely…
Especially when there was a Signer waiting, Kiryu could already feel the hate, the thirst for revenge rising up in him, dark and warm and wonderful… only that when he tried to remember just why exactly he hated that particular Signer, when he tried to summon a face, a name he hit a blank. Kiryu shook his head, as if almost in panic, just what the fuck was going on here!
But then he fell into a quiet snicker, laughing lowly while still shaking his head, though now more in amusement than in panic. Somebody was trying to play a game with him it seemed. How rude, they hadn’t even told him beforehand. Well perhaps this was the Signers way of greeting him; so absurd it seemed it was still possible.
Still chuckling, he started to walk down the street. If they wanted to play hide and seek, then fine by him. He had always been quite good at that game. And once he had found his still unidentified prey, he would make them go through living hell. Any other result just wouldn’t be satisfying after all.