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Rishid's got a new buddy! Commission for @acrylicfirefly ♥︎

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They wanna sleep in ... For an event by @rainstormcolors original event post >here<

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I have a similar HC, that Rishid would get into painting so he could make a picture of his late mother (as a form of grieving) . However, in his personal pursuit to get his mother JUST right he ends up getting really good at painting.

I feel like Rishid would write poetry. It might be private for a while until one of his siblings notices and discovers it's very good poetry.

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rishid would kill marik first in among us and then go on call and act extremely serious about finding the unforgivable person who killed his brother in among us. send post

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oh he so smol

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I just want us all to take a second and acknowledge that like. Rishid is a really fucking weird character right? Like it's weird to have a character who is explicitly a slave and have his entire story being just, dedicating his life to his "master" and eventually getting the hollow title of "family" as his reward right? Can we all just. Keep that in mind. That this is a weird arc.

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For me, there is some subtle text alluding to more than just his role as a slave. The contrast between how eager his mother was to have him vs how his father felt. A child that just wanted to be welcomed who clearly felt pressure against them for existing. Setting the expectations that is he could just do "x", "y", or "z" than it would magically change how his father would think of him. The one two punch of losing his mother and place in the family. The guilt, fear, anger, resentment, non of which he was given time to process. Those emotions basically control him for the rest of the show. Flipping between anger/resentment at Marik to getting PTSD of this mothers death and being overcome with guilt and regret. I truly think he had long given up on living for himself, and coped by using Marik and Ishizu as reasons to keep going. I wonder often if his self inflicted scars were a form of self punishment. That they weren't just in solidarity with Marik's scars but because of Rishids own guilt and depression. He follows Marik out to start the Ghouls not just because of the years of mistreatment and conditioning, but also because he feels responsible for Marik. If he hadn't let them leave non of this would have happened. (the only reason Marik and Ishizu left was because Rishid agreed to cover for them, i.e. it was his fault) I imagine that Rishid stays with Marik in the Ghouls as a form of self punishment for is own perceived wrongs. It's easier to convince himself that he deserve this than to question why its happening. Everything had always been his fault before, what makes now any different. Just a shell of a person, surviving but not living.

His arc is hollow because the show never concluded it. Rishid didn't want a title(family), he wanted to be accepted. His story proper would have ended better with him not getting the title and trying to leave as a failure only for his siblings to panic and look for him. Showing they have concern and sadness at his absense because they had accepted him long ago. (not to say their treatment of him was okay, just that Rishid wasn't the outsider he believed he was)

But I love Rishid regardless. A character that was meant as a literal accessory to another has given me more introspection and intrigue than any other in this series.

I just want us all to take a second and acknowledge that like. Rishid is a really fucking weird character right? Like it's weird to have a character who is explicitly a slave and have his entire story being just, dedicating his life to his "master" and eventually getting the hollow title of "family" as his reward right? Can we all just. Keep that in mind. That this is a weird arc.

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what's rishid's favorite genre?

trap music

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Happy birthday Marik, I love you!!

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Happy birthday to the boy who deserves freedom in all its facets. Freedom, family and love.

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alternatively...

Hot take

Yami Rishid

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Hot take

Yami Rishid

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Both want the best for their siblings but one is clearly more family focused than the other. Kaiba only seems to care if his sibling is in immediate physical danger. Beyond that he doesn't seem to show interest in Mokuba's psychological needs at all. He really out here thinking all he gotta do is keep Mokuba feed, clothed, and homed and thats it.

Rishid does seem to genuinely care about Malik and Isis. It's only because of the limitation of his social status that he doesn't have the tools to act as he wants and what he wants is to be the BESTEST BIG SIBLING TO HIS DEAR FAMILY!!

NO CONTEST

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Well you see, Rishid can't be Karim reincarnated because he is already one of Shadi's plana orphanage children that were being farmed to keep the tombkeepers from dying out and taking the pharaoh's name with them. Shadi has been switching out weak, sickly underground babies for healthy orphan babies for so long guys.

I don't understand the insistence that Karim is Rishid. Surely Atem would have made a point to recognize him along with Set and Isis. The anime gave them different voice actors (unlike every other past-present life pair). If Rishid were a millennium item chosen all along, why would Ra zap him? Doesn't track.

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For anyone that's interested in the color breakdown of the 3.0 update. I think its pretty interesting that Bakura is actually depicted with purple or blue eyes more than brown. Yami B is mostly magenta or brown. Thief King seems pretty consistent in color comparatively.

praying that this is the final time i have to do this. Bakura Chart 3.0