OOC INFORMATION
Name: Krystal
Contact: athensbrat
Permissions: Here
Age: 34
Other characters?: N/A
Who Invited you?: See here - opening round mod invite.

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: the other Yuugi (No, really, this is how he's referred to at this canon point. His real name is Atem, but he has forgotten.)
Assigned Nickname "the other one"
Age: 17 (but he died at sixteen, three thousand years ago)
Canon: Yu-Gi-Oh
Canon point: Just before the Monster World arc.
Character Information: Link here
CRAU: N/A
CRAU Changes/powers: N/A

Personality:
Currently, the other Yuugi's personality is a combination of three things. He is influenced by traits of Yuugi himself, by aspects of his living personality that still exist despite his lost memories, and by being steeped in darkness for 3000 years. He does not remember the 3000 years, but the darkness and magic definitely, uh, warped his mind and personality.

The traits he retains from Atem the pharaoh revolve around his insane self-confidence. This kid will walk into a room wearing giant ankhs on his sleeves and leather clubwear and challenge you to a game like he sees nothing wrong at all with what he's wearing. He is shamelessly dramatic and completely comfortable with this. He is very short, but the way he carries himself makes him seem taller; this is a person who is very secure in himself and his decisions. He's very positive he is right (although to his credit, being proven wrong results in self-reflection and adjustment without any true tantrums) and will fearlessly take extreme measures based on his own understanding of the situation. He puts himself at incredible risk, believing the whole time that he's going to win. The other Yuugi does what the other Yuugi wants to do, and strong-arming him into anything else will be met with sharp resentment. He is very, very proud.

He also has a sense of justice that could stand to be a little less powerful. When the other Yuugi sees that someone's feelings have been hurt in a way he thinks is significant, or if they've been put in danger, he'll leap right in and make the whole incident way more extreme than it has to be. He does not believe in just walking away. However, his moral core is very influenced by Yuugi himself, and so his sense of right and wrong is very.....high-school-student. He doesn't care about politics, unless a politician personally comes in and harms a friend of his. Systemic injustice matters less than punishing a schoolyard bully. A man has died for running a grift over a set of sneakers, man. Important to note is that hurting someone's feelings is just as significant as physical assault: he cares about other people caring about things. That's probably the fastest way to get the other Yuugi to care about you: if you give a sincere damn about something, then he recognizes that as important, and he'll react to someone attacking your dream with extreme, vengeful force.

Therefore, what matters to Yuugi matters to him. In canon, he tends not to emerge from the Puzzle if Yuugi himself is being harmed. Only once Yuugi's friends are in danger or otherwise hurt does the horror show start, since Yuugi puts his friends' safety and feelings above his own to an extremely unhealthy degree. He'll step in for Yuugi sometimes, but it's less frequent and is very, very last-second. Yuugi also influences his fashion choices: Yuugi Mutou is a little 90s goth who loves wearing chokers and six bracelets at once, so the other Yuugi chooses to punish people in ankhs and leather. He expresses romantic appreciation for Anzu, Yuugi's long-time crush, briefly early on, but it never seems to occur again as the other Yuugi gets a stronger sense of himself; I read this as Yuugi Classic-Other Yuugi bleed.

Since he is still early-canon, though, that sense of himself is weak. His only memories are what's bled over from Yuugi and a whole lotta darkness. The Millennium Puzzle is a dark magical artifact made from shadow alchemy in a ritual that killed nearly a hundred people, and spending 3000 years in it has left the other Yuugi not quite sane. He's creepy, he smiles like a maniac, he has no idea how to casually socially interact, and he is, deep down, afraid of losing a game. This fear of losing comes from his main method of problem-solving being high-stakes punishment games; he nearly kills Seto Kaiba rather than lose in a game whose only stakes were a delay halfway through Duelist Kingdom, a much later canon point than this one. He is capable of enjoying games, but it has a "it's work and play" bent right now; he enjoys the process of battling and defeating someone who he thinks deserves it, forcing them to show their flaws and then punishing them. It's only later that he starts to enjoy games for their own sake, even though he is much too proud to not fight at his full strength even when there aren't stakes. He's also (quite well) hiding some lingering fear of the Puzzle itself: he has "the powers and knowledge of darkness," which here means he's got access to centuries' worth of gaming knowledge and the ability to perform a Shadow Game, but the other Yuugi doesn't know what its full powers truly are. He's operating on instinct, flying by the seat of his pants, and he's firmly not thinking about how dangerous the forces he's messing with without truly understanding them are.

Saying he's a good game player is like saying Goku's a good martial artist. The other Yuugi picks up game rules quickly, is a skilled strategist, is lucky in a pinch, and reads others well while engaged in games with them. His poker face is good when he's focused on maintaining it, but it slips sometimes if he's truly worried. He does not always maintain perfect confidence through the entire game; it's possible to make him sweat. However, he's a determined little fucker and just doesn't quit.

The most important thing that his partnership with Yuugi Classic gives him over the course of the series is an idea of the power kindness and mercy can have. The other Yuugi is not kind, and he is not merciful. He is capable of dialing it back, and he is capable of recognizing someone who can change if they get a second chance (Kaiba, specifically) but he hasn't experienced that yet. He will announce that he'll never forgive someone for what they've done, and he'll mean it at the time, but if he realizes that person could use a second chance and is also a good gaming opponent (Kaiba, specifically....) he'll later fiercely defend that person if he feels they've been insulted. He's got anime worthy-rival-itis hypocrisy real bad.

Uh, what else. The power of the Millennium Puzzle is "unity" - a whole bunch of parts working together all at once. He won't have that power here, which means he won't be able to use Shadow Games, or cheat at cards. That'll be fun. Despite this, the other Yuugi keeps his friends at arm's length, to his detriment -- he's a very lonely person, but he defines himself very much by what he can do, what his purpose is, and currently, he believes his purpose is to protect Yuugi's happiness. Therefore, despite caring incredibly deeply for Yuugi's friends (his friends), interactions with them are rarely demonstrative. At this canon point, the other Yuugi doesn't take over the body except for when there's trouble, and he retreats when the conflict's over, letting Yuugi Classic give the tearful hugs. It's only during Death-T that he interacts with them directly, with them knowing he's not the usual Yuugi, and a notable exception to his lack of demonstrativeness is when, during his Death-T rematch with Kaiba, he's too afraid to draw the next card, but he realizes he's not alone and his friends are with him, and he looks incredibly happy. But after that he goes right back to caring-but-businesslike, withdrawing almost immediately and letting Yuugi celebrate instead of himself.

Roommates?: One please

Triggers/sensitive topics you'd like to avoid?: Drowning in an enclosed space.

RP SAMPLES: Test drive thread here

If there's any crit you'd prefer to give privately, here's your standard anon-enabled, comment-screened, no-IP post.

Also, a few subjects might come up with this character that can be opted out of, no questions asked.

Torture of minors, both of himself and people he knows and also inflicted by him.

Mental effects of shadow games include unreality/illusory entrapment, insanity, and mental influencing.

Various physical effects of shadow games, including burning alive, assault/assault of minors, poisoning, stabbing, electrocution, strangulation, threat of removal of a hand, and if you just want to opt out of him discussing the shadow games, that's entirely fine.

Self sacrifice, both in that he occasionally offers to let the other player kill or torture him if they win and as a part of his older backstory that he doesn't remember yet.

Kidnapping, which sure has happened to him.

Possession, of Yugi by him.

Finally, his view of Ryslig is that it's one big shadow game, which I'm going to keep from getting too meta but which might be uncomfortable for some characters.

Though he doesn't talk about any of this regularly, you can absolutely request that they don't come up, no questions asked. He can engage characters without getting into it easily.

One more note: while his whole deal in early canon is brutal vengeance, OOC comfort takes priority. If you prefer for him to leave your character alone even if he'd have an IC reason to seek them out, that's fine with me. Just let me know and I'll work it out!