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Player Name: Absol E-mail: N/A, Plurk or Discord please. Preferred Contact:darkestabsol, Discord @ darkestabsol#8531 Timezone: PST Current Characters in Victory Road: Narancia Ghirga (orangesmith)
Character Name: Ryou Bakura Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! Timeline: Immediately post Dark Side of Dimensions Canon Resource Links:Here!
Personality: On a basic level, Ryou is a sweet, kind hearted guy who cares deeply for his friends and kept letting himself be possessed by the spirit of the Millennium Ring for far longer than he should have. And all that is true, but it's a very surface level view of him.
Ryou is very genuinely a nice guy at heart, caring immensely for his friends and family. In fact, he cares about them to an almost self sacrificial level, putting their needs ahead of his own if he thinks that's what he has to do. Examples of this range anywhere from moving out on his own to prevent any more people close to him from going into the mysterious comas that had been happening at the time, to claiming he was fine with being left out of the Memory World trip after being told he was Too Evil To Go (he wasn't fine and ran away crying, not to mention that it was the presence of the Ring that got him deemed Too Evil To Go), to sacrificing his own soul in a last ditch effort to stop the Ring Spirit from killing his friends (he got better, but had no idea he would come back from that at the time). This level of caring also leads him to write letters to his dead sister, telling her about his life and how he's been doing.
Tying into this, he's rather determined, putting up quite the fight against the Ring Spirit in his intro despite being possessed and largely unable to stop the spirit from trying to steal the souls/kill off his new friends via a heavily rigged TTRPG game. This fight included using what little control he had to fudge several dice rolls in favour of his friends and type out a message to the spirit on his laptop just to tell him that he's fighting too, and ultimately escalated to the last ditch effort of sacrificing his own soul to stop the spirit.
With all this, you'd think Ryou is the straightforward angel to the Ring Spirit's devil, but that's not quite true. Ryou has a mischievous/trollish streak just under the surface, which comes out during the Battle City arc when he tries to get his friend Jonouchi to look at his occult themed Duel Monsters deck despite knowing that Jonouchi was afraid of the supernatural. This streak came out again at the end of the arc when he helped Mai briefly fake her own death as a prank, with Ryou finding the whole thing funny when the 'death' was revealed to be a prank. He's also got a strong interest in the weird/creepy/occult, building the aforementioned occult themed Duel Monsters deck for himself with a heavy focus on cards like Dark Necrofear and Spirit Message. Ryou is also notably curious, expressing interest in learning more about the Millennium Items after finding out the Ring was haunted. However, this curiosity also gets him in trouble sometimes, most notably when, as a kid, he followed his father to the tomb the Millennium Ring was being kept in, only to end up being claimed as the Ring Spirit's unwitting host.
This brings us to the Millennium Ring and why Ryou kept it for so long. Part of why he kept it after realizing it was haunted was likely his own curiosity into the Millennium Items, along with his general interest in the occult. But a major influence was likely the Ring Spirit's own manipulations. During the Duelist Kingdom arc, the spirit is shown manipulating Ryou into putting the Ring back on by claiming that he'd turned good and knew how to get out of the puzzle Ryou and his friends were currently stuck in. Ryou, wanting to help, chose to put the Ring back on, despite distrust in the Spirit at the time. This paved the way for the spirit to further manipulate Ryou, hiding his true actions in the memory lapses the possessions caused so Ryou would think the spirit really had turned good. Obviously, this was all untrue, and the spirit was as evil as ever with Ryou once more the unwitting host.
However, by the events of Dark Side of Dimensions, Ryou is now permanently freed from the Ring and seems aware of the spirit's true nature, as shown when he desperately tries to explain to Aigami that the spirit's actions weren't his own. He also seems to have some degree of guilt for the Ring Spirit's actions, as despite trying to explain what happened to Aigami, he ends up tearfully apologizing anyways. His confrontation with Aigami also reveals that Ryou apparently buried his memory of when he first got the Ring as a child and didn't want to remember it, forcing Aigami to make Ryou (painfully) recall what happened that day.
All in all, Ryou is a very unfortunate young man who manages to stay the polite, kindhearted guy he is despite everything that happens to him in canon.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Hisuian Zorua Password: Atomic Fireball
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Ryou Bakura | Yu-Gi-Oh! | Reserved
Name: Absol
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Current Characters in Victory Road: Narancia Ghirga (
Character
Name: Ryou Bakura
Series: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Timeline: Immediately post Dark Side of Dimensions
Canon Resource Links: Here!
Personality: On a basic level, Ryou is a sweet, kind hearted guy who cares deeply for his friends and kept letting himself be possessed by the spirit of the Millennium Ring for far longer than he should have. And all that is true, but it's a very surface level view of him.
Ryou is very genuinely a nice guy at heart, caring immensely for his friends and family. In fact, he cares about them to an almost self sacrificial level, putting their needs ahead of his own if he thinks that's what he has to do. Examples of this range anywhere from moving out on his own to prevent any more people close to him from going into the mysterious comas that had been happening at the time, to claiming he was fine with being left out of the Memory World trip after being told he was Too Evil To Go (he wasn't fine and ran away crying, not to mention that it was the presence of the Ring that got him deemed Too Evil To Go), to sacrificing his own soul in a last ditch effort to stop the Ring Spirit from killing his friends (he got better, but had no idea he would come back from that at the time). This level of caring also leads him to write letters to his dead sister, telling her about his life and how he's been doing.
Tying into this, he's rather determined, putting up quite the fight against the Ring Spirit in his intro despite being possessed and largely unable to stop the spirit from trying to steal the souls/kill off his new friends via a heavily rigged TTRPG game. This fight included using what little control he had to fudge several dice rolls in favour of his friends and type out a message to the spirit on his laptop just to tell him that he's fighting too, and ultimately escalated to the last ditch effort of sacrificing his own soul to stop the spirit.
With all this, you'd think Ryou is the straightforward angel to the Ring Spirit's devil, but that's not quite true. Ryou has a mischievous/trollish streak just under the surface, which comes out during the Battle City arc when he tries to get his friend Jonouchi to look at his occult themed Duel Monsters deck despite knowing that Jonouchi was afraid of the supernatural. This streak came out again at the end of the arc when he helped Mai briefly fake her own death as a prank, with Ryou finding the whole thing funny when the 'death' was revealed to be a prank. He's also got a strong interest in the weird/creepy/occult, building the aforementioned occult themed Duel Monsters deck for himself with a heavy focus on cards like Dark Necrofear and Spirit Message. Ryou is also notably curious, expressing interest in learning more about the Millennium Items after finding out the Ring was haunted. However, this curiosity also gets him in trouble sometimes, most notably when, as a kid, he followed his father to the tomb the Millennium Ring was being kept in, only to end up being claimed as the Ring Spirit's unwitting host.
This brings us to the Millennium Ring and why Ryou kept it for so long. Part of why he kept it after realizing it was haunted was likely his own curiosity into the Millennium Items, along with his general interest in the occult. But a major influence was likely the Ring Spirit's own manipulations. During the Duelist Kingdom arc, the spirit is shown manipulating Ryou into putting the Ring back on by claiming that he'd turned good and knew how to get out of the puzzle Ryou and his friends were currently stuck in. Ryou, wanting to help, chose to put the Ring back on, despite distrust in the Spirit at the time. This paved the way for the spirit to further manipulate Ryou, hiding his true actions in the memory lapses the possessions caused so Ryou would think the spirit really had turned good. Obviously, this was all untrue, and the spirit was as evil as ever with Ryou once more the unwitting host.
However, by the events of Dark Side of Dimensions, Ryou is now permanently freed from the Ring and seems aware of the spirit's true nature, as shown when he desperately tries to explain to Aigami that the spirit's actions weren't his own. He also seems to have some degree of guilt for the Ring Spirit's actions, as despite trying to explain what happened to Aigami, he ends up tearfully apologizing anyways. His confrontation with Aigami also reveals that Ryou apparently buried his memory of when he first got the Ring as a child and didn't want to remember it, forcing Aigami to make Ryou (painfully) recall what happened that day.
All in all, Ryou is a very unfortunate young man who manages to stay the polite, kindhearted guy he is despite everything that happens to him in canon.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Hisuian Zorua
Password: Atomic Fireball
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We'd also like to take this moment to inform you of the Eastern Kanto Ferry! For only P2000, you can take a three day, all-inclusive ferry ride from New Bark Town to Pallet Town and begin a new pokémon journey in the Kanto region! Otherwise, feel free to start in Johto!
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