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thetombkeeper) wrote2034-12-23 12:00 am
thetombkeeper) wrote2034-12-23 12:00 am
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WARNINGS/NOTESWarnings: Physical abuse, scarification, manipulation, murder, fratricide, mind control, multiple personality disorder, sociopathy, endogamy, polytheism (Kemetism) Notes: I take Marik from the 4KIDS version with the only difference being that the Seal of Memories on his back is carved rather than a tattoo. Marik refers to all of the Duel Monster characters as their 4KIDS names in passing unless your character solely goes by the original, then he'll use that instead. If your character refers to another by the original name or Marik as "Malik," I handwave that it's auto-translated to which ever one applies to him so he'll know who is being mentioned. I don't mind him being referred to by his original name if that's what you prefer. Example of the character names: Yugi mentions "Anzu," Marik hears "Teá" unless she's being played as well and only goes by "Anzu." Then he'll refer to her as such. Marik will also hear whatever your voice preference is for your character. If you play from the 4KIDS dub, he'll hear it as that and think nothing of it. If you play from the original Japanese dub, he'll hear that and be a little confused as to why the character doesn't sound quite like he remembers. I generally play Marik from post-Season 3 (Digital World/End of Battle City) but I'm more than happy to play him from any canon point. Post-Season 3 gives me more room to explore his character and I enjoy having him work through his past issues while his soul is in the process of healing after Yami Marik's been ripped from it. I can play him post-Season 3 with Yami Marik still being a part of him as well. BACKGROUNDMarik's family guarded the tomb of the Pharaoh for generations and two Millennium Items (the Millennium Rod and Millennium Necklace) were passed on to Marik and his sister Ishizu Ishtar. Marik was forbidden to leave the Pharaoh's tomb due to his father's fear that the freedom and marvels of the outside world would further divert Marik's attention from his heritage. Marik no longer wanted to become a Tomb Keeper, so his adoptive brother Odion Ishtar asked if he could take Marik's place but Marik's father rejected the thought of Odion taking Marik's place. When Marik was forced to take the initiation ritual to become a full Tomb Keeper, Marik spawned his second personality Yami Marik from the pain he endured. A year later, Marik and Ishizu took a forbidden trip to the surface but their father found out and attempted punish Odion, for not stopping Marik and Ishizu, by killing him. In the midst of his father's torturing Odion, Marik blanked out and his second personality Yami Marik emerged for the first time to resist his father's punishment and stole the Millennium Rod for himself. Ignoring his father's orders to put it down, Yami Marik used its powers to hold him against the wall. When Ishizu protested, she suffered the same strike. Yami Marik then proceeded to kill his father with the the power of the Rod. After Yami Marik was sealed away in Marik's body by Odion, Marik believed that the Pharaoh had ordered the loyalist Shadi to kill his father, due to Odion saying Shadi had killed him, trying to be a big brother and hiding from Marik that it was actually his alter ego who had done so. This increased Marik's grudge and resentment to the Pharaoh, causing him to leave and start the Rare Hunters. As a teenager, Marik was the leader of the Rare Hunters organization and he uses the Millennium Rod to obtain the three Egyptian God Cards so that he could take their powers, gain the title of "Pharaoh" and use it to rule the world. He also has a second agenda, to get revenge on the Nameless Pharaoh's soul for killing his father as he mistakenly believed that it was the Pharaoh's fault. Although he and his Rare Hunters uncovered "The Winged Dragon of Ra" and "Slifer the Sky Dragon" from where Maximillion Pegasus had hidden them, they were unable to get "Obelisk the Tormentor", which was taken by Ishizu and given to Seto Kaiba. During Battle City, Marik and his Rare Hunters hacked into Battle City's computer system and entered themselves in the tournament. After the Pharaoh defeated the weakest Rare Hunter, Marik used the Millennium Rod to take over the Rare Hunter's body to introduce himself to the Pharaoh. After the Pharaoh defeated Arkana, Marik used the Millennium Rod to take over Arkana's body to explain his goals to Yugi Muto. While arriving at Domino City, Marik used the Millennium Rod to have a Rare Hunter use Slifer against the Pharaoh to win the Millennium Puzzle from him. Marik has a huge advantage against the Pharaoh, with him using the Egyptian God card "Slifer the Sky Dragon". Using a five-card combo involving "Slifer", "Revival Jam", "Infinite Cards", "Jam Defender", and "Card of Safe Return", Strings puts Yami in a tight situation. Every time he attacks, Strings can redirect the attack to "Revival Jam", which regenerates itself after being destroyed and thanks to "Card of Safe Return", he draws three cards from his Deck whenever this happens and because of "Infinite Cards", he can hold as many cards as he wants. With Slifer's ATK and DEF proportional to the number of cards its controller holds, and with "Revival Jam" able to absorb and reform from any attack Yugi is able to make with the aid of "Jam Defender", Marik boasts the strategy is unbeatable. Yami is just about to give up until Kaiba arrives and encourages him to fight on. The two manage to figure out the weakness of this combo and turn it against Marik. Yami attacks "Revival Jam" with "Buster Blader", and then uses "Brain Control" to take control of "Revival Jam" as it regenerates so it regenerates under his control, forcing "Slifer" to attack it with its second mouth. Then "Revival Jam" is destroyed and regenerates, forcing Strings to draw three more cards due to "Card of Safe Return". Then "Slifer" must attack "Revival Jam" again, since it reformed under Yami's control, destroying it and allowing it to regenerate again, and forcing Strings to continue drawing due to "Card of Safe Return". This continues in a never-ending loop until Strings' Deck is empty, much to Marik's anger, and inability to stop the loop and thus he loses the Duel through a Deck Out. Yami subsequently gets "Slifer the Sky Dragon" for his victory. When he was getting ready to brainwash Joey Wheeler, Yami Bakura stood in his way, telling him to hand over the Rod. Instead, they made a deal where if Bakura obtains Slifer for him by defeating Yami Yugi, he would give him the Millennium Rod. Yami Bakura then stabbed himself in the arm and gave control back to his host, Bakura Ryou. Marik then showed the injured Bakura to Joey, Solomon, and Téa, gaining their trust and taking the guise of Namu. While Kaiba and the Pharaoh Dueled Lumis and Umbra, Marik used his Millennium Rod to brainwash Joey Wheeler and Téa Gardner. After Kaiba used Obelisk to defeat Umbra, Marik used the Millennium Rod to take over Lumis's body and brag about having Yugi's friends. Having a Rare Hunter hold Téa hostage, the deadly Duel between the Pharaoh and Joey went through. In the midst of the Duel, Yugi took over for the Pharaoh much to Marik's anger, as he wanted to see the Pharaoh's demise instead of his teenage vessel's. When Marik forced Joey with the Millennium Rod's full power, Joey was able break free with his willpower. Marik, Bakura and Odion took places in the quarter-finals. Marik took the guise of Namu while Odion pretended to be "Marik" as nobody had actually met Marik in person and known his true name. Yami Bakura and Yami Yugi were the first ones to Duel in the quarterfinals; throughout the Duel, whenever it seemed Yami Bakura would lose, Marik would insist that he should take control of the Duel, much to Yami Bakura's annoyance. Once Yami Yugi had Summoned "Slifer the Sky Dragon", Marik had Odion appear and pretend to release Bakura Ryou from Yami Bakura's control (while in reality Yami Bakura simply did it himself). This was in an attempt to have Yami Yugi lose the Duel, as he wouldn't attack and thus fatally injure Bakura Ryou. However, deciding he needs his host, Yami Bakura regains control of Bakura Ryou and lets "Slifer" attack. Following this, Téa, partly under Marik's control, kept the Millennium Ring. During Odion's Duel against Joey, Marik has Odion use a counterfeit Ra card in his quarter-final against Joey. When Joey suspected that he was not Dueling the real Marik, as Odion had been Dueling with honor while Marik was cruel, sadistic and, as far as Joey is concerned, a dirty cheater, Marik ordered Odion to use the counterfeit Ra to "show" he's Marik but Ra was angered by this and wrathfully struck both Duelists with lightning, ultimately rendering Odion and Joey unconscious. After Joey defeated Odion, the latter reveals to the Pharaoh and Joey that he is really Marik's servant while Marik began to suffer sudden headaches. After Odion was further rendered unconscious, Marik revealed himself to the Pharaoh, Joey, Kaiba, Téa, Tristan Taylor, Duke Devlin, Mokuba Kaiba, Serenity Wheeler and Mai Valentine. Suddenly, Marik cried out in pain as his darker personality gained control of his body. While Ishizu Dueled Kaiba in the fourth quarter-final match, Marik tried to call out to Ishizu but his dark personality trapped Marik in a "prison" built out of his own fear and pity. Through Tea's mind, Marik listened to Ishizu's story of how he became evil and created his darker side, thus beginning to reform himself. After the quarter-finals, his reformed soul confronted his other self, claiming that he would make up for everything he had done and apologizing to his father, before a Duel with him. In this Duel, Marik teamed up with Yami Bakura to stop him, but failed when Yami Marik used Ra's other abilities, which were unknown to Marik. However, Marik (through Téa) warned Ishizu to hide Odion from Yami Marik in order to save his life. In the final Duel between Yami Marik and the Pharaoh, their weaker selves were the victims of the Shadow Game being played. As the Duel went on, Yami Marik became the dominant host of Marik's body while the real Marik's soul slowly faded out of existence. This Shadow Game gave him a clear edge, for when the Pharaoh lost Life Points, Yugi's body would fade away, and when Yami Marik lost Life Points, the original Marik would fade away. As Marik realizes his mistakes of making people suffer, he speaks out through Téa, begging the Pharaoh for his forgiveness and asking him to defeat Yami Marik, even if it meant he would go to the Shadow Realm. While they Dueled, Odion woke up and made Marik realize he had to accept his responsibility for being a Tombkeeper. With this confidence, Marik overpowered his evil self and made him the victim of the Shadow Game, and then forfeited, destroying Yami Marik. Marik gave the Pharaoh the Millennium Rod and the Ra card. Marik then revealed the Tomb Keeper's initiation. The carving of the pharaoh's memory onto the back of a tomb guardian on his back. Fulfilling his duty as a Tombkeeper, Marik returned to Egypt to start a new life with his sister and Odion. PERSONALITYHaving been raised in a secret religious order, Marik is extremely sheltered and spoiled. He believes the world revolves around him, that the world owes him for the cards he's been dealt in life. He is shown to be borderline sociopathic in how he views other people, understanding what he's doing is wrong as well of the concept of wrong and right -- he simply doesn't care. The tomb keeper is a master of manipulation and is sadistic. Watching others suffer at his hand makes him feel alive. (More on this below.) He is selfish, childish, egotistical, and suffers from delusions of grandeur. Marik will stop at nothing until he achieves his goals, throwing anyone to the wind if need be, even his own family. Heaven help anyone who insults his pride and ego as well. The tomb keeper enjoys hearing himself talk, whether outloud or in his head, and often goes on monologues over explaining what he's trying to achieve. A part of him cannot cope with his own emotions and experiences though, and so he suffered from a disassociative break at a young age, splitting his personality into two to deal with this trauma. The second, "darker" personality is Marik ramped up to eleven while the dominant, original personality is dull, almost muted in most matters. He's far more prone to spikes of emotion that fizzle out quickly while the darker personality is more stable. The muted emotions he experiences are part of the reason he looks to hurting others. If he can't feel things in a normal way anymore, surely he can through others, right? Marik is, strangely enough, similar to a cat in the sense that when caught doing something wrong and having no way of escape, he surrenders, only to return to his bad behavior once he deems it safe. His sister would tell you otherwise, saying there is a good part in his soul. And while it may still be there, buried under all of the trauma and baggage, falling into bad behavior is very easy for him. He is shown to be remorseful for some of his actions at times but this is most likely due to the fact that he thought he was going to die and had no where else to run to. He can learn to be good. He just needs to be held accountable for his actions. Like all bad cats, they need to get used to understanding they're not the top of the food chain. After his defeat at the hands of Atem and having his split personality ripped from his soul, Marik slips into some form of normalcy for the remainder of his life. HEADCANONS❂ Practices the ancient ways, which includes the ancient Egyptian polytheistic religion. He doesn't have a particularly high opinion on monotheism considering what it has done to the world as well as his home country since coming "into vogue." ❂ The shine in his eyes fluctuate depending on his mental state and those around him. If he's happy and outside influences guide him towards betterment, his eyes begin to regain the shine he had when he was a child. If upset and around negative influences that push him towards his old habits and enable his bad behavior, his eyes become dull. ❂ Uses perfume made similar to how it was in ancient Egypt. Generally smells of Frankincense, Myrrh, Cedarwood, Patchouli, Amber, Rose Petal, and Ambrette seed oil. ❂ You know those hilarious bootleg cards? That's due to Marik's bad quality control. Because you don't have a 16 year old who stopped his education at 12 run a syndicate that deals with cards with short stories on them. ❂ Due to the nature of cults, closed communities, and the history of the Pharaohs, the Ishtar family has likely partaken in endogamy. (Might explain why he and Ishizu look exactly like their parents.) The concept doesn't bother him although he's aware that practice is unusual/taboo in the modern outside world. ❂ Obsessed with his appearance and grooming. There isn't an ounce of body hair on him anywhere. SHIPPINGMarik is bisexual switch with a preference towards females. Virgin, never been kissed, his only knowledge is what he was taught during homeschooling of the ancient culture, what he's seen in passing, and a very small amount of 90s media. Marik himself doesn't understand the concepts of modern day sexuality, having been taught in the old ways of women generally being spouses/child bearers but a lover can be either male or female. Labels in that regard aren't important to him. Main Pairings: Powershipping/Pokémon World AU: Seto Kaiba blue_iceExploding Sun: Katsuki Bakugou explosivevictoryCougar and Kitten: Aramat Drawdes madame_neriumLiberaship/Pharaoh's Wings: Yuugi Mutou puzzleshounenJuban AU: Usagi Tsukino moonlightshineVictory Road: Fluttershy shiningkindnessTomb Keeper AU: Ritsuka Fujimaru commandseal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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