Hair: White(silver, grey, whatever you prefer to call it)
Eyes: Brown
Height: ?
Weight: ?
Status: Soul within the Millennium Ring
Quote: "You cannot kill me! For I am the shadows...."
Voice Ted Lewis (Tsutomu Kashiwakura, You Inou, Rika Matsumoto)
Character Description:
The much more sinister soul hidden within the Millennium Ring, Yami
Bakura is the soul of a grave robber who had been on a quest to seek
out the seven Millennium Items in order to throw open the dark gates
that they sealed.
But something went wrong. His soul became trapped within the
Millennium Ring.
As time went by, the Ring changed hands, until it eventually came into
the possession of a boy named Ryou Bakura. It was around this time
that the other Millennium items (such as Yugi's Millennium Puzzle)
began to awaken to their power. The Ring (and this Yami Bakura) could
sense those items, and so he began to "nudge" his host towards the
items.
When necessary, he can awaken from the Millennium Ring and take over
his host's body, and this was how he and Yami Yugi first met. He had
sealed Yugi Moto's soul in his own Dark Magician card, but this
automatically caused Yami Yugi's soul to emerge from the Puzzle and
set the stage for a dangerous Shadow Game. It didn't turn out so well
for him, and he had to spend precious time getting out of the Shadow
Realm before returning to the Ring...just in time to come up with a new
plan. Seeing the vulnerable Mokuba Kaiba ripe for the taking, he tried
to get Ryou over so he could switch, but Tristan unexpectedly set him
back when he snatched the Ring and threw it away. By the time the
Ring was magically returned to its keeper, his opportunity had
passed...but a new one had emerged. He sought out the just-defeated
Pegasus and challenged him to a test of wills. He knew he could best
the powerless Pegasus easily, and with that, he claimed the Millennium
Eye.
As time passed, Yami Bakura could sense powers growing as the Battle
City tournament progressed, but as he continued his search, another
dark soul confronted him: Marik Ishtar. They soon realized that they
were after different goals (Bakura the Millennium Items, Marik the God
Cards) and agreed on a temporary alliance so that each could claim his
prize (each thinking that he was getting the better of the deal). Bakura
kept up his end of the deal, helping Marik get to Yugi's friends and
then joining him in the Battle Ship. But does Yami Bakura really know
what he is getting himself into?
Like Yami Yugi, Yami Bakura is a bit of an unknown. All that is known
about him is that he seeks the seven Millennium Items, which when
brought together open a gateway to unimaginable dark powers. He
seems extremely ruthless in his quest for the items (we see that both
in Duelist Kingdom and in Battle City). But is that all there is to Yami
Bakura?
The Story Of Yami Bakura:
When Yami Bakura was a little kid, he was very poor and became a
Tomb Robber so he and his family could at least eat. One day when he
came home from some place, he found out that his village had been
destroyed and his family and friends were killed (well, except his
brother, who survived but was sealed inside an item). The reason was
because Yami's father, Pharaoh Akunumkanon, needed to put away the
shadow powers which made the Millennium items.
He found out a few years later (at age 18) that it was Yami (the
pharaoh) who did it (even though it wasn't Yami that did it, but rather
Pharaoh Akunumkanon's brother). He thought of a plan to get revenge.
When everything was set, he went off to the palace. He got there and
got past many of the guards, killing whoever got in his way. He made it
to Yami. They then had a shadow duel and Yami Bakura was locked
away in the Millennium Ring for 5,000 years.
Now, 5,000 years later, Yami Bakura comes back, and like Yami, his
memory has been erased of what happened. He doesn't remember why
he is getting revenge on Yami, he just has this urge to.
Other Info:
In Ancient Egypt, when the priest Akunadin created the seven
Millennium Items, the ritual also created a being of pure evil. This
being's name was Zork Necrophedious and he dwelled inside of the
Millennium Ring. Zork Necrophedious possessed the Thief Bakura and
controlled Akunadin's mind in an attempt to destroy the world. But
Pharaoh Atem sealed Zork back inside the Millennium Ring.
3000 years later, Ryou Bakura gains the Millennium Ring. Zork possesses
Bakura as he did Thief Bakura back in Ancient Egypt. Zork wishes to
gain all seven Millennium Items so that he may return to his former
power. In the Memory World arc, Yami Bakura reveals to Yami Yugi that
he is Zork and merges with the past incarnation of himself. When that
incarnation of Zork is destroyed, so is Yami Bakura.
