Post by mugenginga on Sept 14, 2010 16:41:18 GMT -5
Full Name (Both): Malik Ishtar
Nicknames (Surface): N/A
Nicknames (Secondary): Malik's Evil Personality
Age (Surface): 18 (Island Time)
Actual Age (Secondary): ~8
Effective Age (Secondary): 18 (Island Time)
Height (Both): 180 cm/5'11"
Weight (Both): 52 kg/~115 lbs
Gender (Both): Male
Race (Surface): Human
Race (Secondary): Human (Secondary Personality)
Alliance (Surface): Neutral (With Evil Leans)
Alliance (Secondar): Chaotic Evil
Home (Both): Egypt
Franchise: Yu-Gi-Oh! (Japanese)
Physical Description
Malik is a tall pure-blooded Egyptian young man. His skin has an impossible deep tan to it in fitting with his ethnicity. His hair is a sandy platinum blond, enough so that some have mistakenly called it bleached. He is rather muscled and hits the heavy ends of lean. The muscling shows best in his arms.
His hair is a bit wild, but he does have a level of chaotic organization to it. It is long, and the longest of the uneven tips falls to the base of his shoulder blades. His bangs are very pronounced and the entire thing seems to be chunks that end in points.
Malik's eyes are intense and capable of giving a somewhat surprising range of emotion. He has pronounced harsh eyelashes, but they give no illusions of being feminine. They tend to be pretty narrow looking and are dark violet in color. He has a black tattoo under each eye, extending to the eyelid in a fashion that seems to come down from the eye itself. At the top of the cheek bone, they take a sharp turn inwards and angle downward at a slight angle. The thin points are a few finger widths away from his nose.
The teenager favors tight sleeveless shirts and normal fitting pants during summer. In winter, he tends to favor layers of tight fitting clothes that cover most of his skin, his colors shifting from violets and tans to dark purples and blacks with grey accents. When he accessorizes, he does so with gold jewelry. He's only guaranteed to have his gold earrings, one in each ear. Their shape resembles dowsing pendulums and hang down to just above his shoulders. If it came up, they are sharp enough at the tips to draw blood.
Physical Description (Secondary)
It should be stated immediately that Malik and his evil personality are just imbalanced aspects of the exact same person. While one of the appearance differences are true differences (an uncommon case of similar phenomena in their world), most of them are simply perceptual.
Malik's evil personality carries himself with such overwhelming arrogance that despite Malik's general confidence level, he still manages to appear an inch or so tallerr than the surface. That arrogance screams with every step he takes. The evil personality also has a less organized appearance overall, and less of a care for how he appears. This tends to make him come across as more chaotic, and his hair does tend to get unruly quickly. The evil personality also prefers outfits that give him an air of superiority, or would if his expressions and bearing weren't so damn insane.
The evil personality's one true difference is the tendency for the veins on his head to pop out. This doesn't happen to the surface personality. It seems to happen most often when the evil personality is forced into a stressful situation or gets extremeley angered. It isn't always a sign of true distress, but more that he is pushing himself more than he might otherwise do. It also pops up fairly frequently when the surface personality is trying to wrest control. On the rare case it shows up on the surface personality, it is a sign that the evil personality is gaining control.
Weapons (Both)
Malik will sometimes carry a dagger or two on him, but its no guarantee. He seems to be able to turn up with concealable weapons with ease. He also has a deck of Duel Monsters cards, quite a few of which are very rare in the context of his home world. They have a bit of a torture theme to them, as well. They are weapons because he is able to summon the monster spirits depicted on them and use his life force to cast the spells and traps.
Abilities/Powers (Both)
Both Malik and his evil personailty have the ability to summon Ka from their Duel Monsters cards. They can each utilize the power of their Ba (life force) to activate the traps and spells in a very literal sense. Malik doesn't have a signature card and hasn't discovered his native Ka. The evil personality does, however, favor Ka and spells/traps that can directly torture his targets.
Two of the seven ancient Millenium Items accept his usage of them, and there is high probablity he could use others as well. Both the Millenium Rod and the Millenium Ring allow his usage of them, although they do favor their "rightful" owners (Kaiba and Bakura, respectively). The reason for this acceptance is his (unknown to him) blood desceandance from one of Atem's circle of priests as well as his status as sibling to the reincarnation of one of them.
Skills (Both)
Malik and his evil personality share the same skills, but not always the same knowledges. While the evil personality has access to every single one of Malik's memories and abilities, he has been known for keeping things from his surface self. But he has never had control long enough to develop skills, but it does create a slight schism in the knowledge they share.
Malik has a lot of skills. He can manipulate, lie, and lead, although the lattermost is by the former two as much as by true leadership. He has skills relating to robbery and forgery. Malik is a skilled fighter, being skilled in both hand to hand and melee weapons. He has some basic knowledge of explosions. He is good at politics and knowledgable about the laws of Egypt and Japan. He knowledge on Ancient Egypt can pretty much only be beaten by those who lived/existed there. He speaks and reads near fluent Ancient Egyptian due to his upbringing. His first language is modern Arabic, and he speaks fluent Japanese and English with near fluent reading skills in both.
He can also drive a motorcycle with phenomenal skill. He is skilled at more then a few stunts and has almost supernatural reaction time on said vehicles. He could probably win competitions if he could be bothered to enter.
Personality (Surface)
Malik is a mostly quiet individual. He appears to be in varying degrees of brooding most of the time, and he has a thick emotional wall set up around himself. He makes an effort to not let people get close to him and the only people he realy opens up to are those he considers family. He isn't known for speaking unless he considers it necessary, but he's good at telling when that moment has come.
He tends to have a flat or glaring expression. He has a fairly short temper, but in most situations he approaches things with a cold neutrality. The most common exception to this rule is in things relating to the Pharaoh who he has felt has disregarded the hundreds to thousands of years his clan has been forced to suffer to protect his memory. He tries to keep his anger under check, but once he loses it the best result is generally him putting an end to the conversation and walking away.
Personality (Secondary)
Malik's evil personality is an insane individual who wants nothing more then to cause mass chaos and destruction. He has Malik's manipulative skills without the conscience to pull back on them. His hatred of the Pharaoh seems to be less then his surface personality's merely because he won't let it intefere with his goals. Where as Malik would redesign whole plans for a shot at the Pharaoh, the evil personality would likely pick the route that let him pile up more bodies. He's rather calculating at times as well, though, going for plans that let him cause more havoc.
He's not a patient individual, though. Things tend to... explode when he gets bored. He won't sit still for long. He seems to enjoy receiving pain as much as he enjoys giving it, and tends to only show any vestige of sanity when his life is in danger. That's the only time you'll see him show fear, and while his pain tolerance is high as a result of the endorphins it seems to give him, he isn't invincible. His life is the most important thing to him, and he'll seem to do things completely out of character to preserve it.
History (Both)
Malik was the second born child of a secret clan who lived hidden in Egypt, the first born son. He followed the adoption of a baby that would be named Rishid and the birth of his older sister, Ishizu. His mother died in childbirth and his father gave him nothing in the way of a caring hand. The man did not mean ill will by it, he just viewed that the way to get Malik to accept his purpose was the stick rather than the carrot.
Malik's purpose was a grim one. As the only blood son of the Ishtars, it was his purpose to bear the secret to unlocking the "nameless Pharaoh's" memory. It had to be in a way that could not be stolen, in a way that would remain with the eldest Ishtar boy for his life. Rishid had known about it. In fact, his adoptive mother had requested that Rishid undertake the ritual when their first born child was female. The ritual was for a series of pictures and hieroglyphs to be carved onto the back of the eldest Ishtar boy.
After Malik was born, he was groomed to undertake the ceremony. He was afraid of the pain he knew it would cause. He knew it would last for months, as the wounds would have to be kept open and carefully maintained for the scars to form right. With much begging, Rishid begged their "father" to let him take it instead. He was beaten by the man and called nothing more than a servant, told never to mention it again. Malik was dragged to where he would get the carving and Rishid was forced to watch his tears.
The carving was done with a hot knife. It took the time of a full pure wax candle to burn out. Malik woke up later in his bed. A dark side to his personality was beginning to form, and it might have come out then and there if it weren't for an act by Rishid. Being unable to take the ritual himself, Rishid had carved his own face with a similar set of glyphs. That was the beginning of the bond between the two boys that would keep Malik's other self suppressed.
After Malik recovered, he began to pester his sister to take him to see the outside world. He wanted to see it once. He promised Ishizu he would never go out again, but just once he wanted to see more than the circle of sky the well above where they lived granted. After much begging, Ishizu consented.
It was only supposed to be for an hour. They snuck out in the morning and Malik had a joyful overload of the outside world. He saw a television for the first time and found a magazine on the ground. As he was looking at the pictures a sound caught his eye. It was an advertisement for a motorcycle, and his fascination with the vehicle would carry into his teenage years. Ishizu told him they had stayed far too long, and she finally convinced Malik to return home. With some begging he convinced her to let him rip out the image of a motorcycle from the magazine.
Malik delayed the return even longer when they got to the ruins that hid where they lived. Malik spent a bit of time daydreaming before Ishizu finally managed to drag him home. When she opened the hidden doors that would return them home, she realized their father had set up a system that would let him know whenever the doors opened. She realized that the only person the man could take his anger out on was Rishid.
Panicked she and Malik rushed into the underground area. The two would find Rishid being whipped by their father for his negligence. There would not be another Ishtar child of either gender born, and the man had placed all responsibility for Malik upon Rishid. The young man slipped out of consciousness from the attacks, and the hold he had on Malik's other self went with it. It was the first time Malik's "evil personality" would surface.
The evil personality took one of the two Millennium Items their family guarded, the Millennium Rod, which amused him greatly by accepting him. He used the mind control powers of the Rod to pin his father to the wall. When Ishizu tried to interfere, he did the same to her. He took off the bottom of the Rod, which concealed a thick needle like blade, and proceeded to kill his father with it. Rishid woke up around this time and events quickly lead to the normal Malik regaining dominance. He had no idea what his other self had just done, and Rishid tried to spare him the site. He failed, and Malik saw his father's dead body.
He wanted to know who had caused such a fate. It was then that a spirit presence of sorts appeared to him. It did not give its name, but it chose to "answer" Malik's question. It told him that the one responsible for the turn of events was the Pharaoh whose memory Malik's family was supposed to guard. Malik swore revenge on the Pharaoh and left home with Rishid.
Many years passed with Malik committing many atrocities and deeds via the Millennium Rod. He managed to obtain two of three "God Cards". His sister used the power of the Millennium Torque to anticipate his moves. She knew her brother was doomed by the foretelling power of the necklace, but wanted to change that fate. To that end she gave the one God Card she possessed, Obelisk, to the reincarnation of the nameless Pharaoh's successor, Seto Kaiba.
Malik was aware of Yuugi's status as the vessel for the Pharaoh. He used the power of the Millennium Rod and the small army he had managed to create during his manipulations over the years to try and draw the Pharaoh within the Puzzle out. Malik wanted to kill him, to take revenge for the fate the Pharaoh had caused him, and to end the destiny that had been forced upon his family line. During all of this, Kaiba arranged a tournament he called Battle City. It was an "ante" tournament, which meant anyone who lost would have to give up a rare card. He did it in hopes of gathering the two God Cards that Ishizu had mentioned.
Yuugi and the entity known to most as "The Other Yuugi", the Pharaoh Malik was targeting, ended up thwarting Malik's plans. Malik tried kidnapping his friends, and eventually used the Millennium Rod to force Yuugi to fight his best friend, Katsuya Jounouchi, in a death match. He caused Yuugi to learn that the Pharaoh had to be on the surface or he would not die when his "vessel" was killed. Malik was enraged when Yuugi managed to do the impossible and free Jounouchi from his brainwashing. The two teenagers almost died, but Jounouchi's sister Shizuka managed to save Jounouchi after he tried to sacrifice his life to prevent Yuugi from drowning.
During the main Battle City event, Malik had also been doing other operating behind the scenes. He had met the spirit within the Millennium Ring that had attached itself to the teenager named Ryou Bakura. The spirit referred to itself as Bakura and was known by many simply as Bakura's evil personality. Working with thsi evil personality and using the normal Bakura as a puppet, Malik managed to get close to Yuugi's friends. He took the alias "Namu" to fool them.
"Namu" made it through the first cut in Battle City. The only one of those who had made it that was aware of his true identity was the other Bakura, and he was still working with Malik. It was on the "Battle Ship" that Kaiba had made that the group met Ishizu and Rishid, although they were under the assumption the latter was Malik due to more stringpulling he had pulled. There were several Duels on the Ship. Malik's cover was blown, but Kaiba's interest in obtaining all the God Cards prevented him from disqualifying Malik from the tournament.
The events that lead to Malik's cover being blown also lead to Rishid being injured. He had used a copy of a God Card that he had been given by Malik. With Rishid removed, there was nothing stopping the hateful and homicidal dark side of Malik's personality from surfacing. Malik's evil personality managed to make it to the semi-finals and sent a Duelist named Mai Kujaku into a coma and seemed to erase both Bakura and his other personality from existence via Dark Games the power of the Millennium Rod let him run. However, Malik was not fully sealed. Due to actions Bakura's evil personality and he had taken before, Malik was able to communicate with the others, such as apologizing to his sister. While the Ship was approaching the special stage Kaiba had arranged for the semi-finals and finals, something hacked into the Ship's computer and lead them astray.
Yuugi, his friends, Kaiba, and Mokuba were drawn away from the Ship. Eventually Malik's personality became tired of the wait and set a series of events into motion that would end with the Island being destroyed. He didn't care to learn what had happened to the group. After that chaos, the Battle Ship landed on the Island that housed the structure Kaiba called Duel Tower. He and the other three semi-finalists (Yuugi/The Other Yuugi, Jounouchi, and Kaiba) had a four way battle to decide how the semi-finals would be run. The matchups ended with The Other Yuugi against Kaiba and Jounouchi against Malik's other personality.
Jounouchi lost to the evil personality and nearly died as a result of him using the powers of the God Card of Ra. Kaiba lost to The Other Yuugi. Both Yuugis almost had a breakdown over Jounouchi's injuries. He went comatose and his grasp on life seemed low. Still, they decided to fight the other Malik. Malik's evil personality set up a Dark Game where they used their surface selves as a representation of their life points. Whoever lost would lose their surface self. With help he had gained from Kaiba, The Other Yuugi managed to use the power of Ra against Malik's evil personality, forcing him to switch places with the original personality. Malik surrenders the Duel, and his evil personality is destroyed as an effect of the Dark Game.
After the fight, Malik takes off his shirt and shows The Other Yuugi the carving on his back. The Other Yuugi isn't able to read it, but he understands it enough that he knows what he has to do. Malik, Ishizu, and Rishid remark that one day The Other Yuugi will come to Egypt and that they will meet him. A few months pass before the two Yuugis head to Egypt accompanied by their friends. There the Ishtars meet them. Malik, Ishizu, and Rishid lead the Yuugis to the place where he can regain his memories. A short amount of time passes and the three hear the group coming back up the stairs.
That is when the problem occurs. The three siblings feel an earthquake forming. Ishizu informs them that this isn't the way things are supposed to go and they rush forward. Malik manages to be just a bit faster due to being smaller than Rishid and wearing clothes that are easier to move in than Ishizu. A hole in the ground opens up underneath him just as the entrance is about to cave in on top of him. The next thing he'll know, he will be on Dimension Island... and facing things even the Millennium Torque would have been hard pressed to predict.
On the Island, Malik learned that this world was where the Pharaoh and his host had gotten too from a teenager named Atsuro Kihara. He mostly ignored the fact that Atsuro knew about him, finding that returning the Rod which had somehow gotten back to him to the Pharaoh was important. When he got to the Pharaoh's apartment, it was revealed to him that the Pharaoh had chosen not to die. This sent him into a somewhat calm rage. He left the Rod with the Pharaoh and his apparent boyfriend.
Later he would get a hold of the Millenium Ring from Atem. He wanted Malik to try and find and return it to Bakura, as the "Thief King" of Ancient Egypt was the surface personality and the former Pharaoh wanted to give Bakura a chance. Malik was the one they knew with the most understanding of the criminal world. Thief King Anpu managed to dodge Malik's sight for quite some time, but he eventually ran into him when the Ancient Egyptian was cornered by the god Izanagi using the man Tohru Adachi's body as a host.
He set up a Dark Game against Adachi using the Ring, with the wager being the life of both him and Anpu. The game pitted the inner darkness of a person against themselves along with a test of strength involving daggers. Malik would have likely lost had his inner darkness not seen an opportunity. When Izanagi knocked him out, Malik's evil personality took dominance and managed to defeat Izanagi in the confusion. When Izanagi threatened him, he handed over the Ring and both he and Anpu left the scene.
The next few days alerted the local police stations to a series of tortured serial murders. It was a disturbingly high number given the number of days. After about half a week of this, Malik's evil personality managed to target the wrong people. He targetted Atsuro and Seth of the Bel Court, and proceeded to use his Ka and Ba to torture them. He was in the middle of cutting off Seth's back when their ruler and friend, the demon Abel, arrived and almost killed Malik's other self. He only survived because he passed out from the pain.
Atem and his friends found Malik's evil personality thanks to a message from Abel. Malik's other personality proceeded to try and attack the group, and Atem was saved by a last second intervention by a man that introduced himself as the human avatar of the god represented by the Obelisk card. This "Asim" tried to inform Atem of a few things, and Atem consented to letting Malik's unconscious body be taken to the apartment.
When Malik woke up again, his surface personality had regained dominance. He and a man named Haytham almost got into a fight by Mailk's hand. He discovered that Haytham was the avatar of the god Ra, and eventually left the apartment. He indirectly informed Atem that he was going to try to kill him for his actions, making the promise to not involve his friends unless the former Pharaoh forced his hand.
Other
Malik takes mainly from the second series Japanese anime known as Duel Monsters. A few minor details of his backstory are taken from the manga, and he does use some cards that are manga only.
Pictures
Gallery of Images: yuugiou.fran-web.net/Image/Malik/
Nicknames (Surface): N/A
Nicknames (Secondary): Malik's Evil Personality
Age (Surface): 18 (Island Time)
Actual Age (Secondary): ~8
Effective Age (Secondary): 18 (Island Time)
Height (Both): 180 cm/5'11"
Weight (Both): 52 kg/~115 lbs
Gender (Both): Male
Race (Surface): Human
Race (Secondary): Human (Secondary Personality)
Alliance (Surface): Neutral (With Evil Leans)
Alliance (Secondar): Chaotic Evil
Home (Both): Egypt
Franchise: Yu-Gi-Oh! (Japanese)
Physical Description
Malik is a tall pure-blooded Egyptian young man. His skin has an impossible deep tan to it in fitting with his ethnicity. His hair is a sandy platinum blond, enough so that some have mistakenly called it bleached. He is rather muscled and hits the heavy ends of lean. The muscling shows best in his arms.
His hair is a bit wild, but he does have a level of chaotic organization to it. It is long, and the longest of the uneven tips falls to the base of his shoulder blades. His bangs are very pronounced and the entire thing seems to be chunks that end in points.
Malik's eyes are intense and capable of giving a somewhat surprising range of emotion. He has pronounced harsh eyelashes, but they give no illusions of being feminine. They tend to be pretty narrow looking and are dark violet in color. He has a black tattoo under each eye, extending to the eyelid in a fashion that seems to come down from the eye itself. At the top of the cheek bone, they take a sharp turn inwards and angle downward at a slight angle. The thin points are a few finger widths away from his nose.
The teenager favors tight sleeveless shirts and normal fitting pants during summer. In winter, he tends to favor layers of tight fitting clothes that cover most of his skin, his colors shifting from violets and tans to dark purples and blacks with grey accents. When he accessorizes, he does so with gold jewelry. He's only guaranteed to have his gold earrings, one in each ear. Their shape resembles dowsing pendulums and hang down to just above his shoulders. If it came up, they are sharp enough at the tips to draw blood.
Physical Description (Secondary)
It should be stated immediately that Malik and his evil personality are just imbalanced aspects of the exact same person. While one of the appearance differences are true differences (an uncommon case of similar phenomena in their world), most of them are simply perceptual.
Malik's evil personality carries himself with such overwhelming arrogance that despite Malik's general confidence level, he still manages to appear an inch or so tallerr than the surface. That arrogance screams with every step he takes. The evil personality also has a less organized appearance overall, and less of a care for how he appears. This tends to make him come across as more chaotic, and his hair does tend to get unruly quickly. The evil personality also prefers outfits that give him an air of superiority, or would if his expressions and bearing weren't so damn insane.
The evil personality's one true difference is the tendency for the veins on his head to pop out. This doesn't happen to the surface personality. It seems to happen most often when the evil personality is forced into a stressful situation or gets extremeley angered. It isn't always a sign of true distress, but more that he is pushing himself more than he might otherwise do. It also pops up fairly frequently when the surface personality is trying to wrest control. On the rare case it shows up on the surface personality, it is a sign that the evil personality is gaining control.
Weapons (Both)
Malik will sometimes carry a dagger or two on him, but its no guarantee. He seems to be able to turn up with concealable weapons with ease. He also has a deck of Duel Monsters cards, quite a few of which are very rare in the context of his home world. They have a bit of a torture theme to them, as well. They are weapons because he is able to summon the monster spirits depicted on them and use his life force to cast the spells and traps.
Abilities/Powers (Both)
Both Malik and his evil personailty have the ability to summon Ka from their Duel Monsters cards. They can each utilize the power of their Ba (life force) to activate the traps and spells in a very literal sense. Malik doesn't have a signature card and hasn't discovered his native Ka. The evil personality does, however, favor Ka and spells/traps that can directly torture his targets.
Two of the seven ancient Millenium Items accept his usage of them, and there is high probablity he could use others as well. Both the Millenium Rod and the Millenium Ring allow his usage of them, although they do favor their "rightful" owners (Kaiba and Bakura, respectively). The reason for this acceptance is his (unknown to him) blood desceandance from one of Atem's circle of priests as well as his status as sibling to the reincarnation of one of them.
Skills (Both)
Malik and his evil personality share the same skills, but not always the same knowledges. While the evil personality has access to every single one of Malik's memories and abilities, he has been known for keeping things from his surface self. But he has never had control long enough to develop skills, but it does create a slight schism in the knowledge they share.
Malik has a lot of skills. He can manipulate, lie, and lead, although the lattermost is by the former two as much as by true leadership. He has skills relating to robbery and forgery. Malik is a skilled fighter, being skilled in both hand to hand and melee weapons. He has some basic knowledge of explosions. He is good at politics and knowledgable about the laws of Egypt and Japan. He knowledge on Ancient Egypt can pretty much only be beaten by those who lived/existed there. He speaks and reads near fluent Ancient Egyptian due to his upbringing. His first language is modern Arabic, and he speaks fluent Japanese and English with near fluent reading skills in both.
He can also drive a motorcycle with phenomenal skill. He is skilled at more then a few stunts and has almost supernatural reaction time on said vehicles. He could probably win competitions if he could be bothered to enter.
Personality (Surface)
Malik is a mostly quiet individual. He appears to be in varying degrees of brooding most of the time, and he has a thick emotional wall set up around himself. He makes an effort to not let people get close to him and the only people he realy opens up to are those he considers family. He isn't known for speaking unless he considers it necessary, but he's good at telling when that moment has come.
He tends to have a flat or glaring expression. He has a fairly short temper, but in most situations he approaches things with a cold neutrality. The most common exception to this rule is in things relating to the Pharaoh who he has felt has disregarded the hundreds to thousands of years his clan has been forced to suffer to protect his memory. He tries to keep his anger under check, but once he loses it the best result is generally him putting an end to the conversation and walking away.
Personality (Secondary)
Malik's evil personality is an insane individual who wants nothing more then to cause mass chaos and destruction. He has Malik's manipulative skills without the conscience to pull back on them. His hatred of the Pharaoh seems to be less then his surface personality's merely because he won't let it intefere with his goals. Where as Malik would redesign whole plans for a shot at the Pharaoh, the evil personality would likely pick the route that let him pile up more bodies. He's rather calculating at times as well, though, going for plans that let him cause more havoc.
He's not a patient individual, though. Things tend to... explode when he gets bored. He won't sit still for long. He seems to enjoy receiving pain as much as he enjoys giving it, and tends to only show any vestige of sanity when his life is in danger. That's the only time you'll see him show fear, and while his pain tolerance is high as a result of the endorphins it seems to give him, he isn't invincible. His life is the most important thing to him, and he'll seem to do things completely out of character to preserve it.
History (Both)
Malik was the second born child of a secret clan who lived hidden in Egypt, the first born son. He followed the adoption of a baby that would be named Rishid and the birth of his older sister, Ishizu. His mother died in childbirth and his father gave him nothing in the way of a caring hand. The man did not mean ill will by it, he just viewed that the way to get Malik to accept his purpose was the stick rather than the carrot.
Malik's purpose was a grim one. As the only blood son of the Ishtars, it was his purpose to bear the secret to unlocking the "nameless Pharaoh's" memory. It had to be in a way that could not be stolen, in a way that would remain with the eldest Ishtar boy for his life. Rishid had known about it. In fact, his adoptive mother had requested that Rishid undertake the ritual when their first born child was female. The ritual was for a series of pictures and hieroglyphs to be carved onto the back of the eldest Ishtar boy.
After Malik was born, he was groomed to undertake the ceremony. He was afraid of the pain he knew it would cause. He knew it would last for months, as the wounds would have to be kept open and carefully maintained for the scars to form right. With much begging, Rishid begged their "father" to let him take it instead. He was beaten by the man and called nothing more than a servant, told never to mention it again. Malik was dragged to where he would get the carving and Rishid was forced to watch his tears.
The carving was done with a hot knife. It took the time of a full pure wax candle to burn out. Malik woke up later in his bed. A dark side to his personality was beginning to form, and it might have come out then and there if it weren't for an act by Rishid. Being unable to take the ritual himself, Rishid had carved his own face with a similar set of glyphs. That was the beginning of the bond between the two boys that would keep Malik's other self suppressed.
After Malik recovered, he began to pester his sister to take him to see the outside world. He wanted to see it once. He promised Ishizu he would never go out again, but just once he wanted to see more than the circle of sky the well above where they lived granted. After much begging, Ishizu consented.
It was only supposed to be for an hour. They snuck out in the morning and Malik had a joyful overload of the outside world. He saw a television for the first time and found a magazine on the ground. As he was looking at the pictures a sound caught his eye. It was an advertisement for a motorcycle, and his fascination with the vehicle would carry into his teenage years. Ishizu told him they had stayed far too long, and she finally convinced Malik to return home. With some begging he convinced her to let him rip out the image of a motorcycle from the magazine.
Malik delayed the return even longer when they got to the ruins that hid where they lived. Malik spent a bit of time daydreaming before Ishizu finally managed to drag him home. When she opened the hidden doors that would return them home, she realized their father had set up a system that would let him know whenever the doors opened. She realized that the only person the man could take his anger out on was Rishid.
Panicked she and Malik rushed into the underground area. The two would find Rishid being whipped by their father for his negligence. There would not be another Ishtar child of either gender born, and the man had placed all responsibility for Malik upon Rishid. The young man slipped out of consciousness from the attacks, and the hold he had on Malik's other self went with it. It was the first time Malik's "evil personality" would surface.
The evil personality took one of the two Millennium Items their family guarded, the Millennium Rod, which amused him greatly by accepting him. He used the mind control powers of the Rod to pin his father to the wall. When Ishizu tried to interfere, he did the same to her. He took off the bottom of the Rod, which concealed a thick needle like blade, and proceeded to kill his father with it. Rishid woke up around this time and events quickly lead to the normal Malik regaining dominance. He had no idea what his other self had just done, and Rishid tried to spare him the site. He failed, and Malik saw his father's dead body.
He wanted to know who had caused such a fate. It was then that a spirit presence of sorts appeared to him. It did not give its name, but it chose to "answer" Malik's question. It told him that the one responsible for the turn of events was the Pharaoh whose memory Malik's family was supposed to guard. Malik swore revenge on the Pharaoh and left home with Rishid.
Many years passed with Malik committing many atrocities and deeds via the Millennium Rod. He managed to obtain two of three "God Cards". His sister used the power of the Millennium Torque to anticipate his moves. She knew her brother was doomed by the foretelling power of the necklace, but wanted to change that fate. To that end she gave the one God Card she possessed, Obelisk, to the reincarnation of the nameless Pharaoh's successor, Seto Kaiba.
Malik was aware of Yuugi's status as the vessel for the Pharaoh. He used the power of the Millennium Rod and the small army he had managed to create during his manipulations over the years to try and draw the Pharaoh within the Puzzle out. Malik wanted to kill him, to take revenge for the fate the Pharaoh had caused him, and to end the destiny that had been forced upon his family line. During all of this, Kaiba arranged a tournament he called Battle City. It was an "ante" tournament, which meant anyone who lost would have to give up a rare card. He did it in hopes of gathering the two God Cards that Ishizu had mentioned.
Yuugi and the entity known to most as "The Other Yuugi", the Pharaoh Malik was targeting, ended up thwarting Malik's plans. Malik tried kidnapping his friends, and eventually used the Millennium Rod to force Yuugi to fight his best friend, Katsuya Jounouchi, in a death match. He caused Yuugi to learn that the Pharaoh had to be on the surface or he would not die when his "vessel" was killed. Malik was enraged when Yuugi managed to do the impossible and free Jounouchi from his brainwashing. The two teenagers almost died, but Jounouchi's sister Shizuka managed to save Jounouchi after he tried to sacrifice his life to prevent Yuugi from drowning.
During the main Battle City event, Malik had also been doing other operating behind the scenes. He had met the spirit within the Millennium Ring that had attached itself to the teenager named Ryou Bakura. The spirit referred to itself as Bakura and was known by many simply as Bakura's evil personality. Working with thsi evil personality and using the normal Bakura as a puppet, Malik managed to get close to Yuugi's friends. He took the alias "Namu" to fool them.
"Namu" made it through the first cut in Battle City. The only one of those who had made it that was aware of his true identity was the other Bakura, and he was still working with Malik. It was on the "Battle Ship" that Kaiba had made that the group met Ishizu and Rishid, although they were under the assumption the latter was Malik due to more stringpulling he had pulled. There were several Duels on the Ship. Malik's cover was blown, but Kaiba's interest in obtaining all the God Cards prevented him from disqualifying Malik from the tournament.
The events that lead to Malik's cover being blown also lead to Rishid being injured. He had used a copy of a God Card that he had been given by Malik. With Rishid removed, there was nothing stopping the hateful and homicidal dark side of Malik's personality from surfacing. Malik's evil personality managed to make it to the semi-finals and sent a Duelist named Mai Kujaku into a coma and seemed to erase both Bakura and his other personality from existence via Dark Games the power of the Millennium Rod let him run. However, Malik was not fully sealed. Due to actions Bakura's evil personality and he had taken before, Malik was able to communicate with the others, such as apologizing to his sister. While the Ship was approaching the special stage Kaiba had arranged for the semi-finals and finals, something hacked into the Ship's computer and lead them astray.
Yuugi, his friends, Kaiba, and Mokuba were drawn away from the Ship. Eventually Malik's personality became tired of the wait and set a series of events into motion that would end with the Island being destroyed. He didn't care to learn what had happened to the group. After that chaos, the Battle Ship landed on the Island that housed the structure Kaiba called Duel Tower. He and the other three semi-finalists (Yuugi/The Other Yuugi, Jounouchi, and Kaiba) had a four way battle to decide how the semi-finals would be run. The matchups ended with The Other Yuugi against Kaiba and Jounouchi against Malik's other personality.
Jounouchi lost to the evil personality and nearly died as a result of him using the powers of the God Card of Ra. Kaiba lost to The Other Yuugi. Both Yuugis almost had a breakdown over Jounouchi's injuries. He went comatose and his grasp on life seemed low. Still, they decided to fight the other Malik. Malik's evil personality set up a Dark Game where they used their surface selves as a representation of their life points. Whoever lost would lose their surface self. With help he had gained from Kaiba, The Other Yuugi managed to use the power of Ra against Malik's evil personality, forcing him to switch places with the original personality. Malik surrenders the Duel, and his evil personality is destroyed as an effect of the Dark Game.
After the fight, Malik takes off his shirt and shows The Other Yuugi the carving on his back. The Other Yuugi isn't able to read it, but he understands it enough that he knows what he has to do. Malik, Ishizu, and Rishid remark that one day The Other Yuugi will come to Egypt and that they will meet him. A few months pass before the two Yuugis head to Egypt accompanied by their friends. There the Ishtars meet them. Malik, Ishizu, and Rishid lead the Yuugis to the place where he can regain his memories. A short amount of time passes and the three hear the group coming back up the stairs.
That is when the problem occurs. The three siblings feel an earthquake forming. Ishizu informs them that this isn't the way things are supposed to go and they rush forward. Malik manages to be just a bit faster due to being smaller than Rishid and wearing clothes that are easier to move in than Ishizu. A hole in the ground opens up underneath him just as the entrance is about to cave in on top of him. The next thing he'll know, he will be on Dimension Island... and facing things even the Millennium Torque would have been hard pressed to predict.
On the Island, Malik learned that this world was where the Pharaoh and his host had gotten too from a teenager named Atsuro Kihara. He mostly ignored the fact that Atsuro knew about him, finding that returning the Rod which had somehow gotten back to him to the Pharaoh was important. When he got to the Pharaoh's apartment, it was revealed to him that the Pharaoh had chosen not to die. This sent him into a somewhat calm rage. He left the Rod with the Pharaoh and his apparent boyfriend.
Later he would get a hold of the Millenium Ring from Atem. He wanted Malik to try and find and return it to Bakura, as the "Thief King" of Ancient Egypt was the surface personality and the former Pharaoh wanted to give Bakura a chance. Malik was the one they knew with the most understanding of the criminal world. Thief King Anpu managed to dodge Malik's sight for quite some time, but he eventually ran into him when the Ancient Egyptian was cornered by the god Izanagi using the man Tohru Adachi's body as a host.
He set up a Dark Game against Adachi using the Ring, with the wager being the life of both him and Anpu. The game pitted the inner darkness of a person against themselves along with a test of strength involving daggers. Malik would have likely lost had his inner darkness not seen an opportunity. When Izanagi knocked him out, Malik's evil personality took dominance and managed to defeat Izanagi in the confusion. When Izanagi threatened him, he handed over the Ring and both he and Anpu left the scene.
The next few days alerted the local police stations to a series of tortured serial murders. It was a disturbingly high number given the number of days. After about half a week of this, Malik's evil personality managed to target the wrong people. He targetted Atsuro and Seth of the Bel Court, and proceeded to use his Ka and Ba to torture them. He was in the middle of cutting off Seth's back when their ruler and friend, the demon Abel, arrived and almost killed Malik's other self. He only survived because he passed out from the pain.
Atem and his friends found Malik's evil personality thanks to a message from Abel. Malik's other personality proceeded to try and attack the group, and Atem was saved by a last second intervention by a man that introduced himself as the human avatar of the god represented by the Obelisk card. This "Asim" tried to inform Atem of a few things, and Atem consented to letting Malik's unconscious body be taken to the apartment.
When Malik woke up again, his surface personality had regained dominance. He and a man named Haytham almost got into a fight by Mailk's hand. He discovered that Haytham was the avatar of the god Ra, and eventually left the apartment. He indirectly informed Atem that he was going to try to kill him for his actions, making the promise to not involve his friends unless the former Pharaoh forced his hand.
Other
Malik takes mainly from the second series Japanese anime known as Duel Monsters. A few minor details of his backstory are taken from the manga, and he does use some cards that are manga only.
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