#also rishid

[lully-jo]

Ishizu Ishtar doodle cuz she is gorgeous and deserves much love

[kujakumai]

People seem to be under the impression that Jonouchi hates his dad but he. doesn't. He never says anything like that. The only thing Jou ever says about his relationship with his dad is an earnestly expressed optimism and wish that if he just does well enough then the guy will quit drinking and they will return to a happy family life. He never seems to blame his dad at all, and is instead knee-deep in denial while hiding it from his friends and externalizing the problem--that it's not that his dad is awful, it's the debts, it's the drink, it's that Jonouchi hasn't fixed it yet.

And that's frustrating because we as the audience know that he's 16 and being abused and needs to get the hell out of there, and that as he gets older he'll need to come to terms with those facts. But as far as analyzing past and canon-present behavior goes, I don't think it ever makes sense to say that Jonouchi Is Doing X Because He Hates His Dad. He doesn't. Jonouchi is still deeply attached to the always-just-steps-away fantasy world where his dad cleans up his act and tells him how proud he is and they go play catch together.

[alliebirb]

Had to cut the title slide so: welcome to vol. 2 of brainrotted ygo fan assigns character styles, boys edition!

[acrylicfirefly]

I was looking at the YGO Master shipping list

and it's no secret that there are LOOOOTS of ships but i'm genuinely surprised that RishidXMahad isn't a ship people have thought of before. I know they could never meet in canon but I feel like that has never stopped people. To be fair, for every time Marik revives Bakura from the millenium ring he could also be reviving Mahad and Alexander the Great sooooooo Also the list has RishidXMai as Falseshipping... a pair so rare the like 4 people that ship it do so independently and have named it different things. I like Soloshipping better

[hourly-yugi]

[nicnacsnonsense]

God, I love the Ishtar siblings so much. I want a show just about them post series recovering from trauma and finding a way to fit together as a family again.

[hopefulstarfire]

Rishid loves Maddoxs twins more than anything. They are just as much his daughters as they are Maddoxs in his eyes. Becoming their Abi, their other Dad, is one of the greatest blessings he's ever received and he's so beyond proud of them.

Marik and Ishizu adore these kids. They're their nieces, after all, of course they love them.

But Marik has turned them into his new sidekicks. He's trying to install a second side car on his motorcycle so he can take them on rides. He spoils them rotten. He's the uncle hyping them up on sugar all the time.

[blue-eyes-white-boy]

⚠️Scars⚠️

Made this just bc I like to suffer

[ectoplasmer]

more dvds for the dvd hoard <3

[bakawitch]

Oh my god

Au where after Mr Bakura fuckin dies from ring/zorc exposure (dsod) and Yami Bakura/Zorc kills Shadi (and the child cult???) Ryou is left alone in the temple. A few days later, representatives from the Ishtar clan arrive, and they decide to take Ryou in since a Millennium Item chose him as its true host. So underground he goes!

Upon his arrival, Forefather (Mr Ishtar) tries to take away the ring from him because surely this heathen can't be the one true bearer of the ring, but the ring spikes dig themselves into poor baby Ryou's chest so that's a no go. Ryou is down for a few days, and Rishid ends up taking care of him during that time. Malik barges in once, demanding Ryou to play with him, but Rishid manages to persuade him to leave Ryou to recover.

After he gets back on his feet, Forefather graciously allows him to keep the ring, and he gets adopted into the Ishtar clan to the same degree as Rishid. So he's sort of like a lower class servant? Rishid and Ryou grow closer while he teaches Ryou about his duties and chores, while Malik gets increasingly more jealous in the background because Rishid is paying some newcomer kid more attention than him. It gets even worse for him when Isis starts babying the timid kid despite Ryou literally being older than him and not even being the sane class as them. He gets a bit more aware of his alter, and he starts getting more withdrawn.

Something happens, which causes Ryou and Malik to get trapped in an abandoned dark room together, and they are forced to confront each other. Malik is fully on the offensive, but Ryou is mostly just trying to diffuse the situation. Malik freaks out when their oil lamp flickers, but Ryou manages to distract him with stories of the surface world. They talk a little, and Ryou opens up about the ring and the voices which Malik can sort of relate to. After the light burns out, Malik nearly snaps and switches, but his new friend(?) is able to soothe him with a big warm hug and maybe lullabies his mother used to sing to him and Amane. Rishid and Isis manage to find them.

Plot progresses as usual, but now Ryou is present. He goes up with Malik and Isis to the surface to show them around and unconsciously lifts the motorcycle magazine Malik liked. When they go back down, they see the Forefather nearly killing Rishid and Malik snaps. Yamima comes out to front and catches the whip midair before it could strike them. Yami B also subtly takes over just in case to protect the host body and to observe. Yamima gets the rod but is embarrassingly clumsy with it, clumsy enough to warrant Bakura tell him the key to using it properly. Isis is mortified but quickly puts two and two together and realises that the baby is possessed by a fuckin demon. Yamima does the murder/skinning bit, and Bakura just laughs. He says goodbye and gives control back to Ryou while Yamima goes after Rishid. Ryou again manages to calm him down and Rishid whisks them away after he comes to, leaving Isis and the rest of the clan behind.

Ryou and Malik grow up and start the Ghouls together. Bakura takes care of a lot of food and resources in the early days, but Ryou eventually learns from him and becomes just as good. He's also trying to tame Yamima part-time, which is not going as well as he'd like.

Timeskip to when Yugi lends the puzzle to the museum. Malik gets notified of the completed puzzle being exhibited in Japan, so he sends Ryou ahead to scout and establish himself as a friendly face to Yugi. The rest of the plot again progresses as normal with the difference of Ryou being a bit more cheeky and pushier than in canon, Bakura and him actually working together and an extra reveal of him being involved Malik the whole time.

I'm gonna cut it off here because I don't know how to continue from here... But rest assured, there's definitely some weird ass conspireshipping dynamics involved here XD

[yugiohmangaoutofcontext]

i do admire the way that the villains in ygo became incredibly nuanced vs how the generic episodic villains of s0/beginning of the manga are (rambling below the cut)

by no means is yami bakura a good guy, but there's the conflict of the fact that he's using the body of a completely innocent person who is also yugi's friend, so you can't just kill him outright or anything. also yami bakura/tkb's motivations are sorta justified, given kul elna. kul elna was labeled "the village of thieves" but who's to say that they were all bad people inherently? i like to think they were just outcasted and/or marginalized and very poor/low class (hierarchy in ancient societies was very rigid, and can still be incredibly rigid today). i mean, the guys that forged the millennium items KNEW what they were doing was fucked up. also marik/yami marik, with yami marik not being a ghost or anything but a literal split in marik's being from his trauma. and the way rishid, despite not being accepted by his adoptive father, was such a devoted brother to their clan and to isis and marik, that he went out of his way to also get carvings to help marik to contain the hatred and evil within him. pegasus is also done wonderfully, he has his own motivations and wasn't a totally evil dude at first. and kaiba is sort of a villain? mainly a constant antagonist/rival, but he changes and grows thanks to yami yugi, and it's revealed that he was fucked up because of trauma also, and he's learning to overcome it and become better as a result of yami yugi helping him, making his relationship with his brother better. i fucking love yugioh man this shit rocks

[kujakumai]

On the subject of being good with children, which characters do you think WOULD be good babysitters?

YUGIOH CHARACTERS AS BABYSITTERS, RANKED

TOP PICKS:

Seto Kaiba runs an entire company dedicated exclusively to safely entertaining children, and unless his parks are getting continually sued I believe he knows how. Your kindergartner is not only safe with him but will probably leave knowing how to play chess and write in C++. He may allow them to play with knives, but only if they're 9 or over, plus he has all the emergency numbers on speed-dial.

Hiroto Honda babysits his niblings on the regular. Can warm a bottle and change a diaper. A level-headed and practical guy. He’ll be fine as long as his friends don't drag him into a horrible game-themed deathtrap. Don't ask why that caveat exists.

Rishid Ishtar is safe, experienced, has dad energy, however he will crumple like wet paper at the first sign of conflict re: ice cream for dinner / no bedtime / blood-soaked cross-country quest for revenge / an extra episode of cartoons over the screentime limit.

Ishizu Ishtar would make a great babysitter. I don't really have a quirky joke here she just would.

"MAYBE"S

Jonouchi used to watch his little sister and I think he'll do about as well as any other teenager you're paying minimum wage, and with a lot of earnest enthusiasm. Your child will be fine at the end of the night, though they will probably have eaten some junk food and played a T rated videogame.

I do not think Atem would know what to do with a baby, and may panic about it, though if you have an older child he will be happy to offer a rousing speech and some deep-voiced mentorlike advice while teaching them to play board games. Not a bad choice, just try not to leave him with anyone under seven.

Yugi knows zilch about kids and often appears a little annoyed by them. Same general rules as Atem--do not leave him with a baby, but he'll probably just teach an older kid to play shogi or something.

Mai Kujaku will put the kid in front of the television and order pizza while she paints her nails. Honestly, though, what more are you paying her for?

Listen, I love Anzu. I do. She’s smart, driven, and big-hearted, but she is also sort of short-tempered and impatient, and patience is like 90% of child-rearing. Please do not ask Anzu Mazaki to watch your children. She WILL say yes because she needs the money, and she WILL go into it with optimism and gumption, and yes, both she and your child will both be in one piece at the end of the night, but it will be clear from both of their frazzled expressions that she lost most of her sanity an hour in after the fifth "Why?"

DEFINITELY NOT

Ryou Bakura would in theory be a perfectly good, if kind of spacey, babysitter, but you cannot trust him to remain Ryou Bakura, and the other guy is definitely not someone you want anywhere near your children.

I don't think Marik Ishtar has ever interacted with a child for very long and the number of people he talks to that are even his own age is in the single digits. And he is definitely not getting spat on or dealing with any bathroom stuff. I'm not saying he can't figure it out but the learning curve is going to be steep.

I have to put Yami Bakura here in principle and yet for some reason I think it wouldn't go that bad? I mean he definitely doesn't care about the safety of your child. And he may enlist them to the armies of darkness. And he's not cleaning anything up. But he's like, a weird socially awkward over-the-top guy? And children love those? Honestly I think they would both have fun. For at least an hour until everything goes horribly wrong.

Please do not summon Zork Necrophades to babysit your child.

[superspecial-awesome]

Yugioh DM english localized names list I have no idea who this is gonna be useful for but it's out there now

Feel free to tell me if I missed something or got something wrong.

Jonouchi Katsuya: Joey Wheeler

Anzu Mazaki: Téa Gardner

Hiroto Honda: Tristan Taylor

Other Yugi: Yami

Ryuji Otogi: Duke Devlin

Mai Kujaku: Mai Valentine

Shizuka Kawai: Serenity Wheeler

Pegasus J. Crawford: Maximillion Pegasus

Insector Haga: Weevil Underwood

Dinosaur Ryuzaki: Rex Raptor

Ryota Kajiki: Mako Tsunami

Esper Roba: Espa Roba

Ghost Kotsuzuka: Bonz

Sugoroku Mutou: Solomon Muto

Rishid Ishtar: Odion Ishtar (I'm like 90% sure "Rishid" is also a failed localization of the Japanese spelling of "Rashid" but I'm mostly chosing not to be annoying about the Ishtars' names here)

Rebecca Hopkins: Rebecca Hawkins (Arthur Hopkins got the same last name change)

Miho Nosaka: Melody

Tomoya Hanasaki: Lint Greendale

Isono: Roland

Amelda: Alister

Cyndia Pegasus: Cecelia Pegasus

Princess Mary: Princess Adena

Pandora: Arkana

Doll/Pantomimer: Strings/The Quiet One

Mask of Light: Lumis

Mask of Darkness: Umbra

Mei: Para

Kyū: Dox

Player Killer of Darkness: PaniK

Imitator of Death: Mimic of Doom

Mr. Crocketts: Croquet

Saruwatari: Kemo

Soichiro Ota: Nezbitt

Chikuzen Ouka: Johnson

Konosike Oshita: Gansley

Kogoro Daimon: Leichter

Shuzo Otaki: Adrian Randolph Crump III

Takaido: Sid

Satake: Zygor

Juan: Aaron

Tom: Sam

Miruko: Mikey/Micheal

Barry Ginger: Balfry Ginger

Theodore Iwalaos: Totani Ialos

Essel Jansen: Shane Jordan

Mr. Morita: Coah Morty

Tetsu Ushio: Tetsu Trudge

Blankey: Lucky

Sunny: Skye

[koutone]

Hey do you subscribe to the theory that marik's eye markings are makeup or just like. something he has?

It's kohl! it's interesting to note that in the ygo series, only the male heir of the Ishtar clan is shown wearing those specific markings, most likely meaning they're worn only by the head of the clan. in the manga, Marik's only shown wearing them after he undergoes the initiation ritual, for instance. this post is very good at going more in-depth into the topic and also explaining why Rishid wears them as well

but thinking it's just something he has is very intriguing LOL

[antaresr]

Ok, but listen (and welcome back to another crazy analysis that I came up with out of nowhere because I had a lot of free time)

The Ishtar as representations of the Egyptian gods.

Bastet's mission was to protect the home and symbolizes the joy of living, as she is considered the deity of harmony and happiness. She is the personification of the warm rays of the Sun, she is the representation of femininity and elegance.

Marik was supposed to be the leader of the clan and protect it, but he wanted to be happy and be out of the tombs, he wanted to live, he wanted to be under the sun's rays, plus his hair is blonde, a color associated with the sun, He is handsome, he is masculine and elegant.

Plus his eyes look like cats' eyes if you ask me, with his outlined like the stripes of tabby cats.

But he was traumatized and filled with anger and wanted revenge, so he created Yami Marik.

She was a symbol of strength and power. She was considered the goddess of war and revenge, but also the goddess of healing, she was the protector of the pharaohs and guided them in war.

In some cases she was considered an ally and protector of Ra, since she killed those who dared to confront or attack the divine or earthly monarchy.

She had an insatiable bloodlust, to such a degree that she did not distinguish between allies or enemies.

Like YamiMa, he is powerful, the representation of Marik's fight and revenge, he protected Marik from everything that could harm him to keep him safe, he caused death/coma to those who stood in the way of Marik's wishes (Jounouichi , Mai, Rishid, his father).

Plus we've all seen the thousands of references to YamiMa's hair to a lion's mane and both YamiMa and Sekhmet have many names.

And YamiMa only calmed down when he saw Rishid.

She represented music, dance, joy, love, sexuality and maternal care, and acted as consort to various male deities and mother to their children. These two aspects of the goddess exemplified the Egyptian conception of femininity. She served as a wet nurse for the king and his court, and in this way she fed all the people of Egypt since the prosperity of the country was closely linked to the health, well-being and stability of the king.

She was part of the divine entourage that accompanied Ra as he sailed through the sky in his boat.

Rishid was a fundamental part of Marik's upbringing, he was like a father to him, replacing the biological father as a wet nurse, he wanted Marik's happiness, he loved him like a brother and took care of him like a father, he took the punishment when Marik and Ishizu came out of the tombs, and he wanted to take Marik's place in the ritual to avoid the pain and trauma it would cause him.

He was also part of the Ghouls to continue with Marik, after leaving the tombs, we can assume that he was the one who was in charge of maintaining his mental and physical health.

But his role as a father was also slightly overshadowed by Ishizu.

She is typically depicted as the generous and selfless mother, wife, and protector who puts the interests and well-being of others before her own. She was considered the divine mother of the pharaoh, who was identified with the god Horus. She as well as the most powerful sorceress Egypt ever saw. With this power she managed to save her son Horus, but she also became the patron goddess of people who practiced magic.

Ishizu is the selfless mother who fulfills the role assigned to her, fulfilling her duty to the pharaoh was important and almost a priority, however when it came to her brothers, mainly Marik, she did not mind leaving her duty relegated in favor of hera brother's well-being.

Just like Isis, she sought help from humanity (Yugi and company) to unite the pieces of her brother and return him to normal.

She is feminine, selfless, protective, maternal, she took care of Marik when they were children, stopping living her own childhood so that Marik could be happy, she helped him see what it was like outside the tombs because that is what he wanted to do.

Furthermore it is quite clear that she is Isis when we remember that her past life in ancient Egypt was called that.

[everyrishidpanel]

I'll be honest I do not know anything about the card game or why there's booster packs in a gba game but I do know that Rishid is on one of them in 7 Trials to Glory

Also i edited him out of the box. Get rendered idiot.