[ESSAY] Dark Bakura in Aather

Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Card Games, in convenient fake FAQ format.

So I hear you're playing Dark Bakura in an amnesia game, how's that working out for you?

CRY. I mean, uh.

The trouble with Yu-Gi-Oh! as a canon is that it's, well, not a single, coherent canon. The manga, the anime, and the dub anime (not to mention TAS, which is pretty much a version of canon in its own right at this point) all handle important events and character motivations very differently. For fans, this can lead to pretty heavy confusion over… pretty much everything, actually! It doesn't help that Dark Bakura is one of the most important characters plotwise and yet receives what is possibly the least definitive answers about things as simple as who he is.

Because of all this, I feel like I should basically sit down and explain the assumptions I'm making in my play of him and the reasoning behind them. Just so people know where I'm coming from!

( Cut for people who don't care. )

What if I have a real question and not just a hypothetical one posed by you in order to have a convenient format with which to respond to various issues?

THEN ASK IT. No, seriously, go ahead, I'll do my best to answer.