⛧ Heretic ⛧

Inktober day 6 'Trek'

The longest road

drowned in gold 99 times

he stole it

more summer time cleaning. was rearranging my shelf but got distracted when I pulled out the complete anime guidebook to make room, so I started reading.

ryou section.

first part that I found interesting: his "innocent nature".

to preface all of whats going to be written here, this is all anime stuff. cant apply manga logic on here.

with that said, when I read "innocent", Im like, no this boy is not, not when he keeps wearing the ring!!

but in the anime, yeah ok sure ryou gets a pass for being "innocent" since its the ring that keeps coming back. 無邪気 can also mean "thoughtless" so it can also pertain to ryou having no idea what the heck is going on.

this one was the most interesting to me: hes a "big eater"

so contrary to popular belief that bakura doesnt feed the body when hes in control, its more of a "energy spent while being controlled by the ring takes a lot of energy".

I mean, flip that on its head, if bakura doesnt eat for hours on end and does all the running around he does chasing after the items, energy WILL get spent without getting replenished, so ryou has to do that when hes back.

or maybe getting possessed just takes a toll on ryous body in general. cursed item feeding on his energy. "eating for two" trope since bakura is a parasite.

(ok I said manga logic cant apply here but it did make me think of how ryou's body contains hellfire on a daily basis and yet hes fine so maybe thats where all his energy is going)

ok lets throw away the manga logic again.

also of note is that it says ryou likes meat dishes.

bakura section.

if you ever need confirmation or affirmation or whatnot on who bakura really is: "hes thief king bakura who rampaged during ancient times"

I mean, we knew that. but throughout the series, bakura makes a lot of different claims on who he is (darkness, zorc). I dont recall a single time he actually said he was thief king bakura in the anime, so correct me if he did.

(he claims to be a thief in the manga twice iirc, but in the anime, which is this writeups focus, it was atem who says bakura plays the character of the thief king during the dark rpg)

speaking of claiming identities, I found it interesting that the terms 名乗る (introduced, identify as) and 称す (calls, claiming to be) were used. now Im not a jp expert, not a native speaker, but a lot of nuance can go in the language. so while this book claims its thief king bakura sealed in the ring, under the "evil of ancient times" part, it says "a soul that identifies as thief king bakura". and then in the "darkness" part below, it says "calls himself an entity of darkness".

leads me to believe that hes the really really really really really really really really corrupted soul of thief king bakura to be precise. which we all knew.

with all the claims of who he is, bakura probably doesnt know or care where thief king bakura starts and where zorc ends anymore. whatever he is, he is.

tldr: ask bakura who he is and he gives a different answer each time.

anyone who can speak better jp than me, please help me out with the 名乗る and 称す usage. maybe Im just reading into it.

thief king bakura section.

nothing stands out in the little blurb here, but the image does. so Im going to just reiterate what I said on twitter:

"sir you are such a meaty man. I can accept that youre shorter than ryou due to poverty/malnourishment. I can also accept that you look older than you really are due to stress despite being 16 like ryou. but how are you LIGHTER in weight than ryou??? look at you!! have you seen yourself?? you scale buildings with that body! meanwhile skinny ass ryou doesnt get enough sun or do cardio!"

obligatory hashtag what is up with the bakuras, the true headscratcher

again, this is all anime stuff.

Surviver of KulElna

Pocket sized yugioh :D

When you find out TBK is just a tiny lil guy

Moonlit date night with tkb = stealing from the Pharoah

I don’t usually draw animal related art but I just had to draw the wife with horns

Commission. Client wished to remain anonymous.

i haven't actually finished S5 but this was the plot as far as i can tell original meme under the cut: