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Ryo(u) Bakura's quick biography *read please* |
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Okay, lemme start off by saying that I'm not male and my other account is MIst_eternal_l0nely_l0ner...and yes, I hate those zeros just as much as you do. But I lost the PWs to my others. gonk
Second, lemme tell you about this anime character I worship so highly. His name's Ryo Bakura, Bakura Ryou in the anime, of the series Yu-Gi-Oh. When he was little his father came home from his job as an archeologist and gave him a gift for his birthday from work [Egypt]--a golden medallion known as the Millennium Ring. Since then, he's been a recluse and people stayed away from him because every time he played a game with his friends, he'd blink and find them all in comas. When Ryo(u) transferred schools he met up with another item, which fully woke up the power of the guy who had been possessing him. He's heard voices and been possessed more often since then. Around the middle of the series, his mother and little sister died in a car crash back in the country he lives in (supposedly Britain due to talk of British archeologists, his choice of clothes, and that thick faint accent in the 4kids dub). He didn't tell his friends because he doesn't like to make them worry. The Millennium Ring always winds up back on him one way or another, as part of his twisted sense of luck. He's died for his friends one or two times. He wasn't allowed to come with them when the gang went to find Yami Yugi's (another spirit of a Millennium item) memories; in fact, when the fat guy yelled at him to leave, telling him that his heart was too dark and impure, he cried and yelled "I hate him!" and we see the spirit of his Millennium Ring smirking satisfied in the corner.
And what do they do...? They make a friendship-smiley-vow together, Yugi, Tristan(Honda), Joey(Jou'), and Tea(Anzu), without him, that they talk about all the time, Like it was the most normal thing in the world! [Not to mention he's only mentioned in Tea's friendship-speeches when he's on-screen.
Ryo(u)'s rarely seen--that is, he's usually either being possessed, unconscious, in the hospital, etc., etc.
Best darn character ever.
Oh, almost forgot: his yami was a tomb robber 5000 years ago, in Egypt. As a kid, his family was too poor to eat so he robbed tombs to feed them. One day, he returned home from a raid to a village that had been burnt to a crisp, bodies of the inhabitants sprawled everywhere. Atem's father had sacrificed them to Ra in exchange for the Millennium items, which would help provide order and such. Yami Bakura was misinformed as to who did it. Since then, he became insane, and he's developed a liking for blood. A mix of hate towards Yami Yugi(Pharaoh Atem(u)), a pact with the creator of the Shadow Realm, the idea that because his village was sacrificed for the them they should be his, and the quest to open something called "the dark door" gave him this drive he can't remember the full cause of to collect all the Millennium items, most importantly Yami Yugi's. The thing he's known for by his host's (Ryou) friends his liking of sending people to the Shadow Realm and using the fact that he uses the same body as Ryou [in other words, Ryou as a hostage most of the time by a voice in his head] and so any physical harm would directly affect Ryou. Once, during the Battle City finals I believe, in the manga, the guy was using this hostage technique again. At the last minute, he took back the vessel and told Malik (an control-freak Egyptian guy who can possess people's minds and hearts) that he knew what the Egyptian had done to his heart. Malik had possessed his heart apparently without Yami Bakura's previously knowing and he had a "change of heart" (as Ryou's favorite Duel Monsters card is called) about using his hikari/host as a hostage when he was so weak at the moment, the first and last glimpse of a conscience in the yami.
He didn't get to go on to the afterlife with Yami Yugi in the end, I've heard in several places. He became trapped in the darkness of the Millennium Ring for eternity. (A little bit harsh, in my opinion...)
Note: The anime's partly about selling cards; though I like the anime too, don't humiliate this good character by judging his series on the anime. Not saying there are no spontaneous card-duels in the manga too; just a lot less. Plus it's a bit more PG-13.
 Ryo Bakura manga version · Tue Jul 18, 2006 @ 11:45am · 0 Comments |
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