#𓆗𓆃thief king

[iarethedj]

The Thief King 𓆗𓆃

True name: Bakura. Nothing was more protected than one's true name. He often gives an alias.

Alias: Iaret Hedj

Nicknames: Tou, Touzie. Both in modern era.

Age: 25

Height: 5'11 ish

Body: Muscle definition, but still lean enough to fit into tight spaces. Typical scar down right side of face, has various sizes of scars all over the rest of his form. He is capable of taking physical blows quite easily, so punches won't have much effect.

Eye color: Gray-violet

Hair color: white, but can have a very pale purple undertone

Personality: He's fairly detached from people emotionally unless he's given time to bond with someone. This is mostly due to his traumatic childhood. He's wary of people who try to show good intentions, and will keep them at arm's length. Bakura is used to stealing, and it's a habit from instinct and necessity. If he finds something he fancies, he takes it and doesn't think of consequences. He's more into stealing for the thrill.

He also speaks roughly and behaves roughly. Not quite feral, but not quite domesticated either. Once he bonds with someone, though, he showers them with adoration and gifts and is very protective of them.

He's hard-headed and not put off by threat of conflict whether physical or verbal. He will just dig in his heels all the more. Highly confrontational and nearly just as volatile, but calculating and cunning all the same.

Orientation: Complex. In the past, he'd sneak into brothels and the like, but he never developed an actual romantic attachment. Mostly due to not liking vulnerability. Even in the modern era, he has his guard up. He can fall in love, but it's a process.

Ka: Diabound. The ka was originally of divine origin, pure, and strong even without the influence of Zork or the Items. Holy though it was, the darker Bakura's thoughts became and the more the Ring darkened his heart, the more twisted and warped Diabound became. Diabound can also interact with the environment by appearing as a white, winged cobra, and can be seen in glimpses around the thief.

-- Abilities Diabound gives: cloaking, ability to pass through walls, steals abilities of defeated ka.

Childhood - Teens: Mostly he was by himself in Kul Elna from age 7 onwards, with some rather direct or indirect aid from some of the local desert dwelling peoples, travelers and even times when he returned to the actual kingdom a time or two. The help was a rarity. Normally, he'd steal food or other items whenever the opportunity arose and perfected using Diabound for this purpose by the time he was 10. He also heavily communicated with Zorku as time wore on, and the angry spirits of the village. The communication between them darkened his mind more.

Teen years was when he really started dipping into the royal tombs, and he had never been truly captured until his final day alive. It was also during this time he gathered together a small group of robbers, and they had a crime ring (no pun intended) that would steal from tombs and sell off the later melted down gold.

Scar: He received the scar during later childhood and early teen years during his first major attempt at tomb robbing. Bakura was nearly killed during the ordeal, but managed to fully summon and use Diabound to save himself. The monster guarding the tomb managed to scar his face, but had been initially aiming to take off his head. They defeated the monster, and Diabound gained an ability. Bakura also learned a valuable lesson and retreated only temporarily to care for his wounds.

Kul Elna:

Contrary to what the passed around story was, Kul Elna was not a village of thieves, but a village of tomb builders. Similar to the real-life Deir el Medina, the residents helped to create the Valley of the Kings. There were artists, scribes, masons and various others who lived there full time.

However, just like the real life equivalent, Kul Elna had its own share of tomb robbers. Who better to break into the tombs than those who made them and knew of every trap?

Kul Elna had at least six families in on the raiding, a total of about 1,000 residents whose numbers were steadily increasing as the money and support from the Pharaoh ran dry. Ironically, Bakura's family wasn't included with the thieves.

With the villagers starving, it pushed the limits of the people until they were chosen for the ultimate sacrifice to create the Items.

This is how Bakura will often explain things, if he's relaxed enough with the individual to do so. He'll also admit that he can at least read hieroglyphic script because his father was the scribe of the village. He cannot, however, read demotic or hieratic near as well, if at all.

Modern Version:

Resurrected in the modern world, he's often curious about how things work since the main personality of the Ring wasn't really him but Zork. So he finds most modern conveniences to be startling, yet will also adapt quickly.

Otherwise, he's the same in personality. Standoffish to strangers, distrusting, tenacious and vulgar.

He's interested in tech to some extent because he figured out how to hack into Kaiba's monetary accounts at least once. He will steal things that are not bolted down, unless he highly respects the individual and that doesn't happen often.

Bakura's modern clothing style could be seen as more 'relaxed' or casual. T-shirts, jeans, hoodies, tennis shoes (or some boots), etc. Stolen jewelry is also worn. Rings, necklaces, bracelets...

He often will have one tattoo on his left, upper arm, of a cobra swallowing a sun disk.

Diabound is still very much accessible and Bakura is careful about using his Ka unless necessary or during modern raids.

Bakura doesn't really 'work' unless it's considered more part-time along with Mariku (dementedxshade) at a bar. Bakura often produces the objects for selling through thievery by raiding wherever necessary, but can also be seen working as a bouncer at the same locale. It's really dependent on how he feels at the time.

Note: I have been role-playing this character since 2005 or so. Any headcanons here I've had since then and merely brought along with me from platform to platform.

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