Call to all Ryuuji-lovers...

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So, we know that everyone's favorite snarky gamer has a dark and tragic past, with an insane father who immolates himself, but can anyone give more details on that? I ask for it on behalf of otakugyrl who is a goldmine of information on Yami no Bakura but needs to be told more about the wonderfully sarcastic brat that is Ryuuji.

To read her heartbroken pleas and distress at not knowing enough about his past, click here.

*waves a little "Yami no Malik for Total Dictator" flag*

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Part two.

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(continued, shockingly, from above)

Long story short, Ryuuji loses. He apologises to his father for losing, but finds that he can’t hold any bad feelings against Yugi because he’s starting to like him. Ryuuji comments that perhaps this has all gone to far, and his father agrees. Apologetic!Ryuuji’s father goes to put the puzzle back around Yugi’s neck, but instead uses the actual puzzle to choke Yugi, pulling him away into a secret room, but not before blasting his son for being useless/a waste of space/a simple pawn who couldn’t even achieve it’s only purpose in life/ a disgrace etc, etc. Poor, poor Ryuuji. When it comes to shitty fathers, he got the worst of them. In the separate room, the puzzle is nailed to a table and Ryuuji’s father and Yugi participate in an occult game that Ryuuji’s father loses before then going completely mad, and ends up accidentally setting the room on fire. Ryuuji’s father escapes, but Yugi refuses to leave without the puzzle, which he’ll be able to remove from the table only if he can put the pieces back together. What happens next is basically the same as the Yugi x Keith duel from Battle City, Jounouchi comes in, tries to get Yugi to leave. Yugi refuses, saying he can’t leave until he fixes the puzzle. Yugi fixes puzzle, collapses, and Jounouchi has to carry him out.

Once they’re all outside, a fireman comes up and asks if anyone else is still inside, and it is YUGI who has to say that Ryuuji’s father is. Whether Ryuuji would have mentioned it isn’t really known, and I think the scene is up to interpretation. I think we see his father get carted off in an ambulance, and that is the last we ever see or hear of him.

A lot of it comes down to the actual feel of the scenes between Ryuuji and his father. I mean, there is somehting freaky about the fact that the man wears a clown suit in the first place, let along the whip he carries along with it. The complete contrast in Ryuuji's character when he's around his father as opposed to others is pretty huge, and the scene where Ryuuji is actually hit by his father is just done perfectly. His father makes it pretty damn clear that Ryuuji's only purpose in life was to act out his revenge - which Ryuuji's father himself couldn't do, and it's always made me wonder personally exactly how much Ryuuji's father lived through his son.

Anyway, hope that was of some help! I could talk for hours on ym various opinions and interpretations of those scenes, but I doubt that that is hardly a surprise!

Re: Part two.

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*read it all and will possibly leave a *better* comment later - for now I've saved this in memories and can say -

WOW to the info you know
and
WOW to his life...