Application in all its tl;dr
PLAYER
NAME: Calai’di
JOURNAL: calaidi
IM: AIM & Yahoo: calaidi
E-MAIL: calaidi@yahoo.com
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: (Dark) Bakura, aka the Spirit of the Ring, aka Zorc Necrophades
FANDOM: Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga-verse)
CHRONOLOGY: Vol 1, chap. 3 of Millennium World, right after he returns the God Cards and gives the Millennium Eye to Yuugi
BACKGROUND:
The world of Yu-Gi-Oh! starts 3000 years ago in ancient Egypt. Invading armies were slowly pushing closer and closer to the capital. In a desperate move, the Pharaoh authorized the creation of the seven Millennium Items, magical objects that held the power of the Shadows and could protect the country from invaders. Pharaoh’s brother, Akhenadin, failed to mention that to make the Items, they would require a sacrifice of 99 people. Akhenadin took soldiers to the village of Kul Elna and used the people their as the sacrifices for the Items. They successfully created the Items, and the invaders were pushed out.
Fifteen years later, the Pharaoh’s son Atem took the throne. Atem and six high priests inherited the seven Millennium Items and used them to judge the hearts of evil doers. People’s souls are split into two parts, the ba and the ka. The ba is a person’s metaphysical energy while the ka is their true nature. The ka can take the form of a monster, either good or bad, weak or powerful, which can leave a person’s body if that person is strong enough to summon it. The Millennium Items judge a person’s soul by drawing out his/her ka monster to see if it is good or evil, and can seal the evil ka into stone tablets. The Items can also summon the ka from tablets once they’re sealed.
These ka tablets later became Pegasus Crawford’s model for the game Duel Monsters.
In ancient Egypt, Bakura was the King of Thieves and the sole survivor of Kul Elna. Because of what happened at Kul Elna, Bakura had mass amounts of hatred for the old Pharaoh and then his son Atem. In his quest for revenge, he assaulted the palace and tried to take on all six priests at once. His own ka beast, Diabound, was strong enough to let him not only hold his own against all six but even inflict damage on them. He was forced to retreat only when Atem stepped in with one of the Egyptian Gods.
Later, he started going after the priests one by one. He managed to defeat Mahaado and steal the Millennium Ring from him, which gave him even more power. He then went after Akhenadin, but instead of stealing the Millennium Eye from him, he sealed a piece of his soul inside it instead, so he would be able to control the priest. He also manages to steal the Puzzle from Atem later on.
It turns out his true goal is to steal all seven Millennium Items and return them to the slab where they were first formed. Anyone who could do that would revive the Dark God Zorc Necrophades and be able to make a contract with him. In the end, it was actually Akhenadin who was able to place all the Items back in the stone and release Zorc. Zorc and Akhenadin lead an assault against Atem and his priests.
At the end of the battle, Zorc had the upper hand and Atem was very weak. In a move of desperation, Atem sealed both his soul and Zorc’s into the Millennium Pendent. The Pendent shattered into pieces and became the Puzzle and was put into Atem’s tomb for safekeeping. Atem’s memories, along with Zorc, were locked away.
Bakura’s history gets confusing about there. He’s claimed to be both Thief King Bakura and the Dark God Zorc. Somehow, a part of Zorc’s soul ended up sealed in the Millennium Ring along with the soul of Bakura the Thief. It’s also confusing as to how much he remembers. He seems to remember some aspects of being the King of Thieves, such as his quest for the Millennium Items and the basics of what would happen if he collected all seven and put them back in the slab. However, he doesn’t seem aware that he’s also Zorc until after the point he’s being pulled from, and he doesn’t remember details or Atem’s name.
After 3000 years, the Millennium Puzzle found its way to Yuugi Mutou, the boy destined to solve it and help Atem, now Dark Yuugi, regain his memories. Ryo Bakura’s father found the Millennium Ring and took it home to his son as a souvenir. After that, any time Ryo played his favorite game, a table-top RPG called Monster World, with his friends, they ended up falling into a coma. Eventually, he had to switch schools several times because no one would interact with him any more. He finally ended up going to Yuugi’s school and played a game against Yuugi and his friends.
However, Dark Bakura possessed him and sealed the souls of Yuugi and his friends into their game pieces. Dark Yuugi was unaffected and was able to play out the game and win. It turned out Dark Bakura had been doing that to all of Ryo’s opponents so Ryo could always have friends to play with. When Dark Yuugi beat him, he retreated back into the Ring and the sealed souls were returned to their proper bodies.
During Duelist Kingdom, a large-scale Duel Monsters tournament, Dark Bakura makes himself known again. The group was trapped in an underground maze, wandering in circles. The exit of the maze was near the castle of the person running the tournament, Pegasus J. Crawford, who also had a Millennium Item, the Eye. Dark Bakura manipulated the Ring’s powers to point them toward the Millennium Eye and the exit of the maze.
After the tournament, Dark Bakura possessed Ryo again so he could steal the Eye. Pegasus, already weakened from his duel with Dark Yuugi, didn’t put up much of a fight.
Some time after Duelist Kingdom, Ryuji Otogi challenged Yuugi to a game that he’d created, under his father’s direction to make Yuugi lose a game and have to give up the Puzzle. Otogi’s father wanted the Puzzle for himself, but it wouldn’t accept anyone other than the person who solved it or who beat that person in a game. Dark Bakura wandered in sometime in the middle of the game, mostly to taunt Otogi’s dad for thinking Yuugi would lose so easily. Otogi’s dad broke the Puzzle in a fit of rage, and Dark Bakura helped Yuugi pick up the pieces. Dark Bakura sealed a piece of his soul into one of the pieces before giving it back.
After that, Seto Kaiba started another tournament, Battle City, prompted by another Millennium item holder. Pegasus had asked Ishizu Ishtar, holder of the Millennium Necklace, to keep three cards safe for him: the God Cards. However, her brother Marik, in his quest to destroy the Nameless Pharaoh, stole two of the three cards. Ishizu requested that Kaiba borrow the remaining God Card and start a tournament to draw her brother out into the open and get the other two back. Of course, Yuugi and his friends were able to and did participate.
It worked; Marik came to Domino City with his group of rare card hunters to take the last God Card. But, since he also had a Millennium Item, Dark Bakura was the first to approach him. They made a deal: Dark Bakura would help Marik obtain at least one God Card and Marik would give him the Millennium Rod in return. To seal the deal, Dark Bakura stabbed his own arm so Marik could pretend to find Ryou and try to help him in front of Yuugi’s friends. This worked, and Marik had the chance to befriend and kidnap them. Of course, Yuugi managed to save them.
For his part of the deal, Dark Bakura easily dueled his way to the semi-finals of Battle City. Only eight people were allowed to get that far. Then, the first person he had to face in the semi finals was Yuugi. He had the upper hand for almost the entire duel, losing only when Yuugi managed to summon a God Card.
During the next duel, Marik’s own dark personality takes him over. Marik flees to Dark Bakura and Ryou’s head and asks for help in defeating him. Dark Bakura challenges Dark Marik the next night. Dark Marik turns it into a shadow game where pieces of a person’s body are consumed by the darkness as that person loses lifepoints. Again, Dark Bakura is ahead most of the game and he loses when Dark Marik summons his God Card. Marik flees to hang out with Anzu and Dark Bakura flees to the Puzzle through the bit of his soul that he sealed there. He stayed in the Puzzle for the rest of the finals, until Dark Yuugi beat Dark Marik and won, giving Dark Bakura and Ryou their body back.
Some time after Battle City, a thief breaks into Yuugi’s room and steals the God Cards. Yuugi goes after him only to find that Dark Bakura had found and taken care of the thief first. He gives the God Cards back to Yuugi, saying that he should have taken better care of them, as well as the Millennium Eye he’d stolen from Pegasus. He claimed the Eye was a symbol of his changed ways and his loyalty to Yuugi. In fact, he wants Yuugi to complete his mission and open the door to the underworld with the Items not to get there himself but to take the dark power that resides there.
The next day, Yuugi and friends head to the museum. Marik had told them that Dark Yuugi would have to hold the three God Card before a stone carving their to regain his memories. This draws him into the World of Memory, where he has to relive events up to the moment of his death and have his battle with Zorc come to a real conclusion. However, the entire World of Memory turns out to be a Shadow Table-Top RPG based on the actual events that had occurred that Dark Bakura had set up beforehand to play out this battle.
In the end, Dark Bakura/Zorc is defeated again, Dark Yuugi gains back his memories, and he’s able to leave for the afterlife.
PERSONALITY:
Dark Bakura is cold, callous, and calculating. He trusts no one but himself; even when it seems he’s placing his trust in someone, he’s only acting like it for his own gain. He’s also a chronic lier and an very good actor when he needs to be. He only says what he thinks he needs to say to get what he wants. Sometimes this results in a flat out lie (he states multiple times throughout the series that he’s Yuugi’s friend, only to backstab him later), and sometimes in some truth with only an omission of facts. If Dark Bakura does tell someone the truth, it’s only if he feels he has nothing to lose or if he thinks telling the truth is the only way to get what he wants.
He also has very little respect for authority or even other people in general. This is shown in the Japanese version by his style of speech; he uses no honorifics for other people whatsoever. In fact, the only time he uses an honorific is when talking about himself-he uses “ore-sama” instead of just “ore” for “I.” He also tends to switch back and forth between speaking harshly and to the point and speaking in riddles.
Also, Dark Bakura is arrogant and extremely confident in himself. Even when he fails or things don’t go his way (although usually they do), it hardly fazes him. In fact, he usually tries to pin his failure on someone else. He has an extreme, almost foolish, amount of determination and pride. He’ll keep trying to succeed until he’s physically unable to, and even then he’ll try to find a way.
To top it all off, he is mildly insane and has no feelings whatsoever, other than distain, for his victims. And almost everyone else. He won’t hesitate to hurt someone if it will get him what he wants. It is possible for him to care for someone, as he used to care a great deal for the people of Kul Elna, but he’s much more likely to only act like he cares because he thinks someone is useful.
CLASS: Villain, will probably be pretending not to be one, he’ll ditch those tags as soon as he finds out they’re a tracking system
SUPERHERO NAME: Diabound
ALTER EGO: Ryo Bakura, will probably end up working at a museum
POWER:
As the spirit of the Millennium Ring, Dark Bakura has an extreme amount of control over the powers of the Ring and can use it to its full potential. These powers include:
Games of Darkness-All Millennium Items have the power to start Games of Darkness, games which judge the character(s) of the person or people involved. These tend to take the form of a game of Duel Monsters, but can be as simple as flipping a coin and calling it. Dark Bakura tends to completely bypass this step and go straight to punishing the other person involved.
Soul Sealing-This is the power unique to the Millennium Ring; it can remove a person’s soul and seal it in an inanimate object. The victim’s soulless body falls into a coma rather than dies, so it’s possible to put the soul back. If the object is something like a doll or figurine, the soul itself can animate it. Sealed souls can be returned to their bodies either through the power of another Millennium Item (or equally powerful object/being) or if Dark Bakura chooses to put it back.
Mind Parasite-Because the Millennium Ring has the power to seal souls, Dark Bakura can use it to seal pieces of his own soul into other objects, including other Millennium Items. After Otogi’s father broke the Millennium Puzzle, Dark Bakura got his hands on one of the pieces and sealed a piece of his soul inside. This means that as long as Dark Bakura is in the same world as the Puzzle, he’s aware of everything the owner, Dark Yuugi, knows and has been through.
Millennium Compass-All Millennium Items have to power to sense darkness/evil intentions in someone’s heart. The Ring itself is the Item most sensitive to this and can be used to seek out and find people with evil hearts. Dark Bakura himself can take this one step farther and use it to seek out other Millennium Items.
The Ring’s powers would require a permissions post.
COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE:
[voice: Japanese; translated]
I can’t believe my luck. Just as I was about to-
Ah, I got it to work! And there’s a translator. Useful.
[a soft chuckle]
So I was brought here to be a hero? Interesting concept.
I wonder how many people here actually fit the general definition of “hero.” Or even what the general consensus is on that definition. After all, it’s easy to be “good” once you know what’s expected of you.
Good and evil are such subjective concepts like that.
Is there anyone named “Yuugi” here? An old friend would like to see him.
THIRD PERSON:
This entire affair was bothersome. Him a hero? Once he might have though of himself that way, once a long time ago when he was a thief, before he’d spent 3000 years in the Millennium Ring. The King and his priest and the former King and his priests and their blasted Millennium Items had been the bad guys, the villains, the ones who were hurting Egypt. They had destroyed his home and killed everyone in his village, after all. He’d been avenging his people. He’d been the good guy.
But now...he chuckled softly, ignoring the looks he got from the people around him. Now he knew he was anything but a hero. He may have helped the King and Yuugi and their friends now and then, but he held no illusions that it was out of kindness. They had to trust him to help him after all.
So of course, that robot’s machine had to think he was hero material and bring him here. He couldn’t believe his luck. Just as he’d given little Yuugi the Millennum Eye, just as he’d been sure his plan would go off without a hitch...
Bakura felt like stomping up the stairs to the doors of the museum. He didn’t-that would have been childish-but he entertained the thought for a moment. He had to check to make sure the sealing stone was in this world too-to make sure his plans hadn’t gone to waste. If he’d been brought to a world where his triumph couldn’t be realized...
He couldn’t help himself. He slammed his hand against one of the doors, flinging it open. Walking through the doorway however…that he managed to do with a little more composure. It wouldn’t do to have these people think he was crazy from the get-go.
Thankfully, the help desk wasn’t busy. Dark Bakura strode over, smiling in his best imitation of his old host.
“Excuse me,” he said, catching the woman’s attention. He held up the Millennium Ring, letting it catch the light. “I found this in a box in my attic the other day and I was wondering if your staff could help me research it. My father found it on a dig in Egypt, but he didn’t leave many notes behind.”
“Oh! That does look interesting!” She leans forward to get a closer look. “Normally, we wouldn’t accept that sort of request...Egyptian design, possibly...”
“That’s what I was thinking,” Dark Bakura said, waving the Ring about a little. “But I’ve looked in books and on the internet, and I couldn’t find anything that looked like it. I thought the museum might be able to help.”
Her eyes followed the Ring as it moved, her expression slowly changing from hesitance to curiosity. Dark Bakura almost smirked. Perfect.
“I guess it wouldn’t hurt if I asked the director to take a look at it,” she said finally, holding her hand out. His grip tightened around the cord and he pulled the Ring back toward his chest.
“It’s the only thing I have left to remember my father,” he said. “Couldn’t you bring him out here or let me go with you? I don’t want to let this out of my sight.”
She took another moment to consider it before getting up with a sigh. “Wait here.”
Dark Bakura watched her leave with a faint smirk. It was troublesome that she claimed not to recognize a Millennium Item, but then, he’d never been sure how much publicity Duelist Kingdom or Battle City had gotten with the main-steam public.
Still, he had confidence that sealing stone had to be in this universe as well. It had to be. And if it wasn’t...
He might just have to pay Iron Man a little visit.
NAME: Calai’di
JOURNAL: calaidi
IM: AIM & Yahoo: calaidi
E-MAIL: calaidi@yahoo.com
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: (Dark) Bakura, aka the Spirit of the Ring, aka Zorc Necrophades
FANDOM: Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga-verse)
CHRONOLOGY: Vol 1, chap. 3 of Millennium World, right after he returns the God Cards and gives the Millennium Eye to Yuugi
BACKGROUND:
The world of Yu-Gi-Oh! starts 3000 years ago in ancient Egypt. Invading armies were slowly pushing closer and closer to the capital. In a desperate move, the Pharaoh authorized the creation of the seven Millennium Items, magical objects that held the power of the Shadows and could protect the country from invaders. Pharaoh’s brother, Akhenadin, failed to mention that to make the Items, they would require a sacrifice of 99 people. Akhenadin took soldiers to the village of Kul Elna and used the people their as the sacrifices for the Items. They successfully created the Items, and the invaders were pushed out.
Fifteen years later, the Pharaoh’s son Atem took the throne. Atem and six high priests inherited the seven Millennium Items and used them to judge the hearts of evil doers. People’s souls are split into two parts, the ba and the ka. The ba is a person’s metaphysical energy while the ka is their true nature. The ka can take the form of a monster, either good or bad, weak or powerful, which can leave a person’s body if that person is strong enough to summon it. The Millennium Items judge a person’s soul by drawing out his/her ka monster to see if it is good or evil, and can seal the evil ka into stone tablets. The Items can also summon the ka from tablets once they’re sealed.
These ka tablets later became Pegasus Crawford’s model for the game Duel Monsters.
In ancient Egypt, Bakura was the King of Thieves and the sole survivor of Kul Elna. Because of what happened at Kul Elna, Bakura had mass amounts of hatred for the old Pharaoh and then his son Atem. In his quest for revenge, he assaulted the palace and tried to take on all six priests at once. His own ka beast, Diabound, was strong enough to let him not only hold his own against all six but even inflict damage on them. He was forced to retreat only when Atem stepped in with one of the Egyptian Gods.
Later, he started going after the priests one by one. He managed to defeat Mahaado and steal the Millennium Ring from him, which gave him even more power. He then went after Akhenadin, but instead of stealing the Millennium Eye from him, he sealed a piece of his soul inside it instead, so he would be able to control the priest. He also manages to steal the Puzzle from Atem later on.
It turns out his true goal is to steal all seven Millennium Items and return them to the slab where they were first formed. Anyone who could do that would revive the Dark God Zorc Necrophades and be able to make a contract with him. In the end, it was actually Akhenadin who was able to place all the Items back in the stone and release Zorc. Zorc and Akhenadin lead an assault against Atem and his priests.
At the end of the battle, Zorc had the upper hand and Atem was very weak. In a move of desperation, Atem sealed both his soul and Zorc’s into the Millennium Pendent. The Pendent shattered into pieces and became the Puzzle and was put into Atem’s tomb for safekeeping. Atem’s memories, along with Zorc, were locked away.
Bakura’s history gets confusing about there. He’s claimed to be both Thief King Bakura and the Dark God Zorc. Somehow, a part of Zorc’s soul ended up sealed in the Millennium Ring along with the soul of Bakura the Thief. It’s also confusing as to how much he remembers. He seems to remember some aspects of being the King of Thieves, such as his quest for the Millennium Items and the basics of what would happen if he collected all seven and put them back in the slab. However, he doesn’t seem aware that he’s also Zorc until after the point he’s being pulled from, and he doesn’t remember details or Atem’s name.
After 3000 years, the Millennium Puzzle found its way to Yuugi Mutou, the boy destined to solve it and help Atem, now Dark Yuugi, regain his memories. Ryo Bakura’s father found the Millennium Ring and took it home to his son as a souvenir. After that, any time Ryo played his favorite game, a table-top RPG called Monster World, with his friends, they ended up falling into a coma. Eventually, he had to switch schools several times because no one would interact with him any more. He finally ended up going to Yuugi’s school and played a game against Yuugi and his friends.
However, Dark Bakura possessed him and sealed the souls of Yuugi and his friends into their game pieces. Dark Yuugi was unaffected and was able to play out the game and win. It turned out Dark Bakura had been doing that to all of Ryo’s opponents so Ryo could always have friends to play with. When Dark Yuugi beat him, he retreated back into the Ring and the sealed souls were returned to their proper bodies.
During Duelist Kingdom, a large-scale Duel Monsters tournament, Dark Bakura makes himself known again. The group was trapped in an underground maze, wandering in circles. The exit of the maze was near the castle of the person running the tournament, Pegasus J. Crawford, who also had a Millennium Item, the Eye. Dark Bakura manipulated the Ring’s powers to point them toward the Millennium Eye and the exit of the maze.
After the tournament, Dark Bakura possessed Ryo again so he could steal the Eye. Pegasus, already weakened from his duel with Dark Yuugi, didn’t put up much of a fight.
Some time after Duelist Kingdom, Ryuji Otogi challenged Yuugi to a game that he’d created, under his father’s direction to make Yuugi lose a game and have to give up the Puzzle. Otogi’s father wanted the Puzzle for himself, but it wouldn’t accept anyone other than the person who solved it or who beat that person in a game. Dark Bakura wandered in sometime in the middle of the game, mostly to taunt Otogi’s dad for thinking Yuugi would lose so easily. Otogi’s dad broke the Puzzle in a fit of rage, and Dark Bakura helped Yuugi pick up the pieces. Dark Bakura sealed a piece of his soul into one of the pieces before giving it back.
After that, Seto Kaiba started another tournament, Battle City, prompted by another Millennium item holder. Pegasus had asked Ishizu Ishtar, holder of the Millennium Necklace, to keep three cards safe for him: the God Cards. However, her brother Marik, in his quest to destroy the Nameless Pharaoh, stole two of the three cards. Ishizu requested that Kaiba borrow the remaining God Card and start a tournament to draw her brother out into the open and get the other two back. Of course, Yuugi and his friends were able to and did participate.
It worked; Marik came to Domino City with his group of rare card hunters to take the last God Card. But, since he also had a Millennium Item, Dark Bakura was the first to approach him. They made a deal: Dark Bakura would help Marik obtain at least one God Card and Marik would give him the Millennium Rod in return. To seal the deal, Dark Bakura stabbed his own arm so Marik could pretend to find Ryou and try to help him in front of Yuugi’s friends. This worked, and Marik had the chance to befriend and kidnap them. Of course, Yuugi managed to save them.
For his part of the deal, Dark Bakura easily dueled his way to the semi-finals of Battle City. Only eight people were allowed to get that far. Then, the first person he had to face in the semi finals was Yuugi. He had the upper hand for almost the entire duel, losing only when Yuugi managed to summon a God Card.
During the next duel, Marik’s own dark personality takes him over. Marik flees to Dark Bakura and Ryou’s head and asks for help in defeating him. Dark Bakura challenges Dark Marik the next night. Dark Marik turns it into a shadow game where pieces of a person’s body are consumed by the darkness as that person loses lifepoints. Again, Dark Bakura is ahead most of the game and he loses when Dark Marik summons his God Card. Marik flees to hang out with Anzu and Dark Bakura flees to the Puzzle through the bit of his soul that he sealed there. He stayed in the Puzzle for the rest of the finals, until Dark Yuugi beat Dark Marik and won, giving Dark Bakura and Ryou their body back.
Some time after Battle City, a thief breaks into Yuugi’s room and steals the God Cards. Yuugi goes after him only to find that Dark Bakura had found and taken care of the thief first. He gives the God Cards back to Yuugi, saying that he should have taken better care of them, as well as the Millennium Eye he’d stolen from Pegasus. He claimed the Eye was a symbol of his changed ways and his loyalty to Yuugi. In fact, he wants Yuugi to complete his mission and open the door to the underworld with the Items not to get there himself but to take the dark power that resides there.
The next day, Yuugi and friends head to the museum. Marik had told them that Dark Yuugi would have to hold the three God Card before a stone carving their to regain his memories. This draws him into the World of Memory, where he has to relive events up to the moment of his death and have his battle with Zorc come to a real conclusion. However, the entire World of Memory turns out to be a Shadow Table-Top RPG based on the actual events that had occurred that Dark Bakura had set up beforehand to play out this battle.
In the end, Dark Bakura/Zorc is defeated again, Dark Yuugi gains back his memories, and he’s able to leave for the afterlife.
PERSONALITY:
Dark Bakura is cold, callous, and calculating. He trusts no one but himself; even when it seems he’s placing his trust in someone, he’s only acting like it for his own gain. He’s also a chronic lier and an very good actor when he needs to be. He only says what he thinks he needs to say to get what he wants. Sometimes this results in a flat out lie (he states multiple times throughout the series that he’s Yuugi’s friend, only to backstab him later), and sometimes in some truth with only an omission of facts. If Dark Bakura does tell someone the truth, it’s only if he feels he has nothing to lose or if he thinks telling the truth is the only way to get what he wants.
He also has very little respect for authority or even other people in general. This is shown in the Japanese version by his style of speech; he uses no honorifics for other people whatsoever. In fact, the only time he uses an honorific is when talking about himself-he uses “ore-sama” instead of just “ore” for “I.” He also tends to switch back and forth between speaking harshly and to the point and speaking in riddles.
Also, Dark Bakura is arrogant and extremely confident in himself. Even when he fails or things don’t go his way (although usually they do), it hardly fazes him. In fact, he usually tries to pin his failure on someone else. He has an extreme, almost foolish, amount of determination and pride. He’ll keep trying to succeed until he’s physically unable to, and even then he’ll try to find a way.
To top it all off, he is mildly insane and has no feelings whatsoever, other than distain, for his victims. And almost everyone else. He won’t hesitate to hurt someone if it will get him what he wants. It is possible for him to care for someone, as he used to care a great deal for the people of Kul Elna, but he’s much more likely to only act like he cares because he thinks someone is useful.
CLASS: Villain, will probably be pretending not to be one, he’ll ditch those tags as soon as he finds out they’re a tracking system
SUPERHERO NAME: Diabound
ALTER EGO: Ryo Bakura, will probably end up working at a museum
POWER:
As the spirit of the Millennium Ring, Dark Bakura has an extreme amount of control over the powers of the Ring and can use it to its full potential. These powers include:
Games of Darkness-All Millennium Items have the power to start Games of Darkness, games which judge the character(s) of the person or people involved. These tend to take the form of a game of Duel Monsters, but can be as simple as flipping a coin and calling it. Dark Bakura tends to completely bypass this step and go straight to punishing the other person involved.
Soul Sealing-This is the power unique to the Millennium Ring; it can remove a person’s soul and seal it in an inanimate object. The victim’s soulless body falls into a coma rather than dies, so it’s possible to put the soul back. If the object is something like a doll or figurine, the soul itself can animate it. Sealed souls can be returned to their bodies either through the power of another Millennium Item (or equally powerful object/being) or if Dark Bakura chooses to put it back.
Mind Parasite-Because the Millennium Ring has the power to seal souls, Dark Bakura can use it to seal pieces of his own soul into other objects, including other Millennium Items. After Otogi’s father broke the Millennium Puzzle, Dark Bakura got his hands on one of the pieces and sealed a piece of his soul inside. This means that as long as Dark Bakura is in the same world as the Puzzle, he’s aware of everything the owner, Dark Yuugi, knows and has been through.
Millennium Compass-All Millennium Items have to power to sense darkness/evil intentions in someone’s heart. The Ring itself is the Item most sensitive to this and can be used to seek out and find people with evil hearts. Dark Bakura himself can take this one step farther and use it to seek out other Millennium Items.
The Ring’s powers would require a permissions post.
COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE:
[voice: Japanese; translated]
I can’t believe my luck. Just as I was about to-
Ah, I got it to work! And there’s a translator. Useful.
[a soft chuckle]
So I was brought here to be a hero? Interesting concept.
I wonder how many people here actually fit the general definition of “hero.” Or even what the general consensus is on that definition. After all, it’s easy to be “good” once you know what’s expected of you.
Good and evil are such subjective concepts like that.
Is there anyone named “Yuugi” here? An old friend would like to see him.
THIRD PERSON:
This entire affair was bothersome. Him a hero? Once he might have though of himself that way, once a long time ago when he was a thief, before he’d spent 3000 years in the Millennium Ring. The King and his priest and the former King and his priests and their blasted Millennium Items had been the bad guys, the villains, the ones who were hurting Egypt. They had destroyed his home and killed everyone in his village, after all. He’d been avenging his people. He’d been the good guy.
But now...he chuckled softly, ignoring the looks he got from the people around him. Now he knew he was anything but a hero. He may have helped the King and Yuugi and their friends now and then, but he held no illusions that it was out of kindness. They had to trust him to help him after all.
So of course, that robot’s machine had to think he was hero material and bring him here. He couldn’t believe his luck. Just as he’d given little Yuugi the Millennum Eye, just as he’d been sure his plan would go off without a hitch...
Bakura felt like stomping up the stairs to the doors of the museum. He didn’t-that would have been childish-but he entertained the thought for a moment. He had to check to make sure the sealing stone was in this world too-to make sure his plans hadn’t gone to waste. If he’d been brought to a world where his triumph couldn’t be realized...
He couldn’t help himself. He slammed his hand against one of the doors, flinging it open. Walking through the doorway however…that he managed to do with a little more composure. It wouldn’t do to have these people think he was crazy from the get-go.
Thankfully, the help desk wasn’t busy. Dark Bakura strode over, smiling in his best imitation of his old host.
“Excuse me,” he said, catching the woman’s attention. He held up the Millennium Ring, letting it catch the light. “I found this in a box in my attic the other day and I was wondering if your staff could help me research it. My father found it on a dig in Egypt, but he didn’t leave many notes behind.”
“Oh! That does look interesting!” She leans forward to get a closer look. “Normally, we wouldn’t accept that sort of request...Egyptian design, possibly...”
“That’s what I was thinking,” Dark Bakura said, waving the Ring about a little. “But I’ve looked in books and on the internet, and I couldn’t find anything that looked like it. I thought the museum might be able to help.”
Her eyes followed the Ring as it moved, her expression slowly changing from hesitance to curiosity. Dark Bakura almost smirked. Perfect.
“I guess it wouldn’t hurt if I asked the director to take a look at it,” she said finally, holding her hand out. His grip tightened around the cord and he pulled the Ring back toward his chest.
“It’s the only thing I have left to remember my father,” he said. “Couldn’t you bring him out here or let me go with you? I don’t want to let this out of my sight.”
She took another moment to consider it before getting up with a sigh. “Wait here.”
Dark Bakura watched her leave with a faint smirk. It was troublesome that she claimed not to recognize a Millennium Item, but then, he’d never been sure how much publicity Duelist Kingdom or Battle City had gotten with the main-steam public.
Still, he had confidence that sealing stone had to be in this universe as well. It had to be. And if it wasn’t...
He might just have to pay Iron Man a little visit.