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CW: references to amnesia, false memories, plurality-adjacent soul-fusion, possession, murder/violence, self-injury, mass murder, human sacrifice, cannibalism, monster transformation, body horror, self-sacrifice, cults, apocalyptic scenarios/ambitions.
(also one song linked references non-descript animal experimentation)
OOC INFORMATION
Name: Mordrid
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Age: 30+
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CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: "Richard" | the Ring-Spirit *
* (Fandom more commonly calls him "Yami Bakura", but he doesn't have a canon name and I tend to use "the Ring-Spirit" instead... And then in Ryslig he got dubbed "Richard" early on by one of his first friends.)
Assigned Nickname: the Tenant
Age: 3000+
Canon: YuGiOh! (manga/DSoD)
Canon point: Millennium World ch.45 ("Into the Tomb!") | + Ryslig CRAU
Character Information: (canon) | Ryslig (app) CRAU: 4 years, including endgame
CRAU:
The Ring-Spirit was in Ryslig for four years and quite a lot happened. It was hard to stay brief and coherent; if you need more, check here.
RS arrived in Ryslig fully aware that his life’s Purpose was to destroy his world - not end it, but ensure everyone existed in perpetual torment. He hadn’t had very long to consider this at his pull point, which he was perfectly happy with. Why would he want to think about things?? FULL SPEED AHEAD! ...And then he got stuck in Ryslig and was forced to sit there and eventually consider the ramifications.
Eventually, he decided that he couldn't do that to his host, Ryou Bakura. He'd been set on destroying everything to avenge his family, but if Ryou was also family (and RS found he couldn't deny that he considered him such) then RS would only be hurting the one person he had left. Later RS found evidence that Kul Elna might not be entirely beyond help - and eventually he did in fact manage to summon a healed conglomeration of their souls.
Atem and RS worked out their differences - in part forced by Ryou choosing to date Atem, making him an in-law, in part imposed by false "other-life" memories, but also largely on their own terms: when they bothered to look, they realized that they saw and understood each other. They came to consider each other equals, "brother-kings". Noa Kaiba helped RS figure out how to "be a person" and thus reconcile with Ryou. Altair was another good friend who helped RS solidify what he felt and how he wanted to be, as was Jonathan Joestar. Annie Dyer was the first friend RS made in Ryslig, and the first person there to accept him exactly as he was - which in turn was what made him want to be more open and honest about himself in general to begin with. (She's also the one who named him, though it started as an attempt to be snarky.)
RS also adopted a small cult of human monsterkin, who he died to protect at one point when Ryslig was threatened. A lot of the edge was worn off his arrogance as well by the constant stream of horrors - either (rarely) on his own behalf or (more often) from wanting to protect one of "his" people.
CRAU Changes/powers:
Turned into a harpy, and attained Fog-Priest status.
- Physical summary: limbs longer & thinner, with long thin birdfeet & similar hands; long straight talons that resemble golden metal; feathers on his elbows, down his neck & across his shoulders, and mixed in with his hair; has both a heron crest and his "not-horns"; hollow bones, enlarged lungs; large feathered wings; eyes with purple sclerae and glowing red slit pupils; row of human teeth on his tongue.
- Mental/Psyche changes: the urge to chase down moving targets semi-regularly; an urge to build nests; an urge to seek heights (which combines strangely with his natural instinct to seek enclosed underground spaces).
- Power summary: particular weakness to electricity; super-strength; hunger for human flesh (or souls, and the corresponding ability to steal souls), and the ability to tell how soon he had to feed to avoid a frenzy; flight, also speed-boosted flight; he could foretell weather changes; could turn into a swan at will ("travel form"); a curse to make the target hear screaming (he used this on himself as a sleep aid), a shadow bolt power, contact telepathy (details of these three here); his talons were as strong as actual metal; his voice could have a multitude of whispers backing it. He was also technically unkillable outside of targeting his heart or brain.
- ?: fog-priest cloak (I'm not sure whether it's ephemeral enough to count as a summon and thus nerfed away, or if it's clothing and thus just gone...)
- N/a: His neck had been elongated for most of his stint in Ryslig, but it was shortened back to human length during endgame. Additionally he'd had enhanced eyesight throughout his time in Ryslig, but that was reduced to "very nearsighted" during endgame as well.
Personality:
► What is your character's most outstanding personality trait, and why?
- His flexibility: the ability to roll with the punches and adjust to radical shifts in both situation and working comprehension of said situation. He is much more accustomed to improvisation than actually knowing what he's doing at any given time. He's had 3000 years of being a Driven Entity With A Goal To Achieve while lacking almost all memory of what said goal even was. All that said, his tenacity is a very close runner-up, possibly tying. His very existence is based on neither of his component souls knowing when or even how to give up. They both looked death in the eye and said "no thanks" and... that worked? They fused into a whole new other person rather than admit defeat.
After his time in Ryslig, he's no longer as driven as he once was; he's learned to slow his roll just a tad, to doublecheck that whatever he's doing is, in fact, a thing he wants to be doing. He never wasted time on that kind of self-reflection in canon. He should feel more regret for that than he does, but he believes that he wouldn't have had the context necessary to make better decisions without all his time in Ryslig anyway, so why regret something unavoidable?
► What would make the character happiest? What is their ultimate goal?
- Originally his ultimate goal - well to be honest he couldn't remember what it was, due to some high-grade magic amnesia, until close to his original pull point. He was always sure it was important though, and that he'd achieve it! Which meant he HAD to eventually remember! ...It's frankly shocking that this attitude actually got him anywhere.
Anyway, his original goal was to turn the world into a sort of hell made from Darkness, to make everyone who'd ever lived suffer as badly as his own family. This was due to him being sure there was no way to help his family. His priorities changed when he realized he still had some family who he hadn't failed yet. This thinking stemmed from his mortal component, the Thief-King Bakura; his "divine self", Zorc, had just wanted to wreck everything for the lols. It sounded fun. And someone had made him stop previously so now there was spite involved.
However, as the Ring-Spirit, eventually the part of him that cared about his family's welfare cared just a little more than the part of him that wanted to burn everything and prove a point. If he could burn everything while laughing maniacally without harming "his" people, he still would! But he can't. So he's decided to settle for making sure "his" people are happy and protecting them as best he can. Maybe don't put him in a dimension devoid of people he cares about.
► If they had to sacrifice their own life to save someone else, would they do it? Why, or why not? Where do they draw the line?
- It'd depend on who it was. Some rando? No way. One of "his" people? Absolutely, without hesitation. The truth is, he's always been this way - it's just that, he's only like this for people who make the List. And until Ryslig, the List consisted of one name with a huge asterisk beside it.
Before RS remembered Kul Elna or the details of his own Grand Plan, he managed to get attached to his host and decided to kill time by helping him out. He did a spectacularly bad job at "helping" Ryou, but he was in fact trying - he just really sucked at being helpful. But of course, there was still that asterisk: despite a genuine attachment, RS prioritized the Grand Plan. It really wasn't until quite late in the game that he realized just how incompatible Ryou's welfare WAS with his Grand Plan - and in canon, once he realized, he made a point of never leaving himself with enough time to think about this conflict of interest. In Ryslig, he was finally forced to confront the dilemma and actively choose: his Goal or one of "his" people? Despite feeling like it was a betrayal of Kul Elna, he chose Ryou.
As time passed in Ryslig, the List grew to include a few others as well, even a handful of local humans - even his "mortal self", the Thief-King Bakura, ended up on it. This is particularly notable in that RS himself has never been on the List. It was only after interacting with one of his component souls as a separate individual that he decided TKB qualified. RS is too self-sacrificing to put himself on the List. (Even his original Grand Plan, as malicious as it was, had involved unmaking himself to achieve.)
► If your character was trapped in a small room with another character with no way out, how would they cope? What would they do?
- Define "trapped" and "no way out". It would depend heavily on how convinced he was of this confinement - if he thought there was any chance at escape, he'd keep an eye out for it. He's impulsive, but not impatient; he can bide his time. If he was really convinced he was stuck with this other person though, he'd talk to them, learn all about them, and befriend them - as aggressively as needed. The other person does not get a say in this, they will. be. FRIENDS. If the other person hates him, well that's a shame for them, isn't it? Considering that they're STUCK forever with their new BEST FRIEND. 8)
...All that said, if freedom seemed even remotely still on the table he wouldn't give up on it, and might be willing to betray New Friend to get it, depends; but ASSUMING he doesn't think there ARE options, he can definitely make the best of such a situation. "Best" being a very relative term, and only taking his own comfort into account. If stuck together long enough though, he'd eventually start to For Real care about them, which could be inconvenient for him if their freedom ever became a concern again. This sort of situation was exactly what led to him caring so much for Ryou Bakura - although in that case he was far more isolated, being stuck inside Ryou's head but unable to even talk to his host let alone anyone else casually. RS doesn't do "complete isolation" well.
Post-Ryslig, he'd also be worried about all his companions from the ship...
► Choose five horror-themed songs to create a playlist for your character, and detail why each song resonates with them.
- Skullcrusher Mountain - Jonathan Coulton [CW: non-descript ref to animal experimentation]
"But I get the feeling that you don't like it / what's with all the screaming?"
While RS has gotten better in tune with what mortals expect and actually want... it's still technically guesswork on his end.
- Wonderland - NEONI
"So this is Wonderland / where all your dreams come true / you gotta go get yours / before they come get you"
This encapsulates how RS saw Ryslig - if you were willing to just go out and take it, you could have whatever you wanted! - at least until someone else came to take something from you. This environment played a huge role in allowing - even requiring - him to grow in the ways that he did. The "smashed to smithereens" lows did a lot to wear some of the edge off of him as well.
- The King of Villains / When I Said I Was Evil - Voltaire
"When you're truly evil / it's so much fun / it's kind of like a game / where some get maimed"
In Ryslig, his destructive urges were tempered - but also indulged. Destruction is fun! As long as what he destroys isn't the people he cares about, it doesn't matter (to anyone important).
- Shots - Imagine Dragons
"Oh I'm wishing I had what I'd taken for granted / I can't have you when I'm only gonna do you wrong"
RS doesn't really "do" regret, particularly for things he feels were unavoidable given what information he was working off of at the time... but he does regret some things: namely all the harm he's caused his loved ones, both unintentionally and just because he didn’t care enough yet. He’s naturally inclined towards destruction, and sometimes he only realizes how much something (someone) actually matters to him after he's done something he can't take back. If he truly cares for someone, maybe he should stay far away from them?
- This is How I Disappear - My Chemical Romance
"There's things that I have done / you never / should ever know / and without you is how I disappear"
But he hates losing "his" people, hates being isolated; if he had to go without anyone he'd lose his mind. So maybe he'll keep some aspects of himself... a little leashed, at least when he's not sure about someone - because if he were to lose one of "his" due to himself, he wouldn't be able to bear it. While he's always been capable of forming attachments, finally realizing it frankly surprised him. He'd assumed he was too proud to actually need anyone. "Can you hear me cry out to you / words I thought I'd choke on."
Roommates?: One!
Triggers/sensitive topics you'd like to avoid?:
Main: Unsanitary usage of poop, especially eating it. To a lesser extent: auto-cannibalism, graphic eye trauma.
RP SAMPLES: TDM Thread with TKB
(also one song linked references non-descript animal experimentation)
OOC INFORMATION
Name: Mordrid
Contact:
Permissions: Here
Age: 30+
Other characters?: n/a
Who Invited you?: the Mods! here
CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: "Richard" | the Ring-Spirit *
* (Fandom more commonly calls him "Yami Bakura", but he doesn't have a canon name and I tend to use "the Ring-Spirit" instead... And then in Ryslig he got dubbed "Richard" early on by one of his first friends.)
Assigned Nickname: the Tenant
Age: 3000+
Canon: YuGiOh! (manga/DSoD)
Canon point: Millennium World ch.45 ("Into the Tomb!") | + Ryslig CRAU
Character Information: (canon) | Ryslig (app) CRAU: 4 years, including endgame
CRAU:
The Ring-Spirit was in Ryslig for four years and quite a lot happened. It was hard to stay brief and coherent; if you need more, check here.
RS arrived in Ryslig fully aware that his life’s Purpose was to destroy his world - not end it, but ensure everyone existed in perpetual torment. He hadn’t had very long to consider this at his pull point, which he was perfectly happy with. Why would he want to think about things?? FULL SPEED AHEAD! ...And then he got stuck in Ryslig and was forced to sit there and eventually consider the ramifications.
Eventually, he decided that he couldn't do that to his host, Ryou Bakura. He'd been set on destroying everything to avenge his family, but if Ryou was also family (and RS found he couldn't deny that he considered him such) then RS would only be hurting the one person he had left. Later RS found evidence that Kul Elna might not be entirely beyond help - and eventually he did in fact manage to summon a healed conglomeration of their souls.
Atem and RS worked out their differences - in part forced by Ryou choosing to date Atem, making him an in-law, in part imposed by false "other-life" memories, but also largely on their own terms: when they bothered to look, they realized that they saw and understood each other. They came to consider each other equals, "brother-kings". Noa Kaiba helped RS figure out how to "be a person" and thus reconcile with Ryou. Altair was another good friend who helped RS solidify what he felt and how he wanted to be, as was Jonathan Joestar. Annie Dyer was the first friend RS made in Ryslig, and the first person there to accept him exactly as he was - which in turn was what made him want to be more open and honest about himself in general to begin with. (She's also the one who named him, though it started as an attempt to be snarky.)
RS also adopted a small cult of human monsterkin, who he died to protect at one point when Ryslig was threatened. A lot of the edge was worn off his arrogance as well by the constant stream of horrors - either (rarely) on his own behalf or (more often) from wanting to protect one of "his" people.
CRAU Changes/powers:
Turned into a harpy, and attained Fog-Priest status.
- Physical summary: limbs longer & thinner, with long thin birdfeet & similar hands; long straight talons that resemble golden metal; feathers on his elbows, down his neck & across his shoulders, and mixed in with his hair; has both a heron crest and his "not-horns"; hollow bones, enlarged lungs; large feathered wings; eyes with purple sclerae and glowing red slit pupils; row of human teeth on his tongue.
- Mental/Psyche changes: the urge to chase down moving targets semi-regularly; an urge to build nests; an urge to seek heights (which combines strangely with his natural instinct to seek enclosed underground spaces).
- Power summary: particular weakness to electricity; super-strength; hunger for human flesh (or souls, and the corresponding ability to steal souls), and the ability to tell how soon he had to feed to avoid a frenzy; flight, also speed-boosted flight; he could foretell weather changes; could turn into a swan at will ("travel form"); a curse to make the target hear screaming (he used this on himself as a sleep aid), a shadow bolt power, contact telepathy (details of these three here); his talons were as strong as actual metal; his voice could have a multitude of whispers backing it. He was also technically unkillable outside of targeting his heart or brain.
- ?: fog-priest cloak (I'm not sure whether it's ephemeral enough to count as a summon and thus nerfed away, or if it's clothing and thus just gone...)
- N/a: His neck had been elongated for most of his stint in Ryslig, but it was shortened back to human length during endgame. Additionally he'd had enhanced eyesight throughout his time in Ryslig, but that was reduced to "very nearsighted" during endgame as well.
Personality:
► What is your character's most outstanding personality trait, and why?
- His flexibility: the ability to roll with the punches and adjust to radical shifts in both situation and working comprehension of said situation. He is much more accustomed to improvisation than actually knowing what he's doing at any given time. He's had 3000 years of being a Driven Entity With A Goal To Achieve while lacking almost all memory of what said goal even was. All that said, his tenacity is a very close runner-up, possibly tying. His very existence is based on neither of his component souls knowing when or even how to give up. They both looked death in the eye and said "no thanks" and... that worked? They fused into a whole new other person rather than admit defeat.
After his time in Ryslig, he's no longer as driven as he once was; he's learned to slow his roll just a tad, to doublecheck that whatever he's doing is, in fact, a thing he wants to be doing. He never wasted time on that kind of self-reflection in canon. He should feel more regret for that than he does, but he believes that he wouldn't have had the context necessary to make better decisions without all his time in Ryslig anyway, so why regret something unavoidable?
► What would make the character happiest? What is their ultimate goal?
- Originally his ultimate goal - well to be honest he couldn't remember what it was, due to some high-grade magic amnesia, until close to his original pull point. He was always sure it was important though, and that he'd achieve it! Which meant he HAD to eventually remember! ...It's frankly shocking that this attitude actually got him anywhere.
Anyway, his original goal was to turn the world into a sort of hell made from Darkness, to make everyone who'd ever lived suffer as badly as his own family. This was due to him being sure there was no way to help his family. His priorities changed when he realized he still had some family who he hadn't failed yet. This thinking stemmed from his mortal component, the Thief-King Bakura; his "divine self", Zorc, had just wanted to wreck everything for the lols. It sounded fun. And someone had made him stop previously so now there was spite involved.
However, as the Ring-Spirit, eventually the part of him that cared about his family's welfare cared just a little more than the part of him that wanted to burn everything and prove a point. If he could burn everything while laughing maniacally without harming "his" people, he still would! But he can't. So he's decided to settle for making sure "his" people are happy and protecting them as best he can. Maybe don't put him in a dimension devoid of people he cares about.
► If they had to sacrifice their own life to save someone else, would they do it? Why, or why not? Where do they draw the line?
- It'd depend on who it was. Some rando? No way. One of "his" people? Absolutely, without hesitation. The truth is, he's always been this way - it's just that, he's only like this for people who make the List. And until Ryslig, the List consisted of one name with a huge asterisk beside it.
Before RS remembered Kul Elna or the details of his own Grand Plan, he managed to get attached to his host and decided to kill time by helping him out. He did a spectacularly bad job at "helping" Ryou, but he was in fact trying - he just really sucked at being helpful. But of course, there was still that asterisk: despite a genuine attachment, RS prioritized the Grand Plan. It really wasn't until quite late in the game that he realized just how incompatible Ryou's welfare WAS with his Grand Plan - and in canon, once he realized, he made a point of never leaving himself with enough time to think about this conflict of interest. In Ryslig, he was finally forced to confront the dilemma and actively choose: his Goal or one of "his" people? Despite feeling like it was a betrayal of Kul Elna, he chose Ryou.
As time passed in Ryslig, the List grew to include a few others as well, even a handful of local humans - even his "mortal self", the Thief-King Bakura, ended up on it. This is particularly notable in that RS himself has never been on the List. It was only after interacting with one of his component souls as a separate individual that he decided TKB qualified. RS is too self-sacrificing to put himself on the List. (Even his original Grand Plan, as malicious as it was, had involved unmaking himself to achieve.)
► If your character was trapped in a small room with another character with no way out, how would they cope? What would they do?
- Define "trapped" and "no way out". It would depend heavily on how convinced he was of this confinement - if he thought there was any chance at escape, he'd keep an eye out for it. He's impulsive, but not impatient; he can bide his time. If he was really convinced he was stuck with this other person though, he'd talk to them, learn all about them, and befriend them - as aggressively as needed. The other person does not get a say in this, they will. be. FRIENDS. If the other person hates him, well that's a shame for them, isn't it? Considering that they're STUCK forever with their new BEST FRIEND. 8)
...All that said, if freedom seemed even remotely still on the table he wouldn't give up on it, and might be willing to betray New Friend to get it, depends; but ASSUMING he doesn't think there ARE options, he can definitely make the best of such a situation. "Best" being a very relative term, and only taking his own comfort into account. If stuck together long enough though, he'd eventually start to For Real care about them, which could be inconvenient for him if their freedom ever became a concern again. This sort of situation was exactly what led to him caring so much for Ryou Bakura - although in that case he was far more isolated, being stuck inside Ryou's head but unable to even talk to his host let alone anyone else casually. RS doesn't do "complete isolation" well.
Post-Ryslig, he'd also be worried about all his companions from the ship...
► Choose five horror-themed songs to create a playlist for your character, and detail why each song resonates with them.
- Skullcrusher Mountain - Jonathan Coulton [CW: non-descript ref to animal experimentation]
"But I get the feeling that you don't like it / what's with all the screaming?"
While RS has gotten better in tune with what mortals expect and actually want... it's still technically guesswork on his end.
- Wonderland - NEONI
"So this is Wonderland / where all your dreams come true / you gotta go get yours / before they come get you"
This encapsulates how RS saw Ryslig - if you were willing to just go out and take it, you could have whatever you wanted! - at least until someone else came to take something from you. This environment played a huge role in allowing - even requiring - him to grow in the ways that he did. The "smashed to smithereens" lows did a lot to wear some of the edge off of him as well.
- The King of Villains / When I Said I Was Evil - Voltaire
"When you're truly evil / it's so much fun / it's kind of like a game / where some get maimed"
In Ryslig, his destructive urges were tempered - but also indulged. Destruction is fun! As long as what he destroys isn't the people he cares about, it doesn't matter (to anyone important).
- Shots - Imagine Dragons
"Oh I'm wishing I had what I'd taken for granted / I can't have you when I'm only gonna do you wrong"
RS doesn't really "do" regret, particularly for things he feels were unavoidable given what information he was working off of at the time... but he does regret some things: namely all the harm he's caused his loved ones, both unintentionally and just because he didn’t care enough yet. He’s naturally inclined towards destruction, and sometimes he only realizes how much something (someone) actually matters to him after he's done something he can't take back. If he truly cares for someone, maybe he should stay far away from them?
- This is How I Disappear - My Chemical Romance
"There's things that I have done / you never / should ever know / and without you is how I disappear"
But he hates losing "his" people, hates being isolated; if he had to go without anyone he'd lose his mind. So maybe he'll keep some aspects of himself... a little leashed, at least when he's not sure about someone - because if he were to lose one of "his" due to himself, he wouldn't be able to bear it. While he's always been capable of forming attachments, finally realizing it frankly surprised him. He'd assumed he was too proud to actually need anyone. "Can you hear me cry out to you / words I thought I'd choke on."
Roommates?: One!
Triggers/sensitive topics you'd like to avoid?:
Main: Unsanitary usage of poop, especially eating it. To a lesser extent: auto-cannibalism, graphic eye trauma.
RP SAMPLES: TDM Thread with TKB