This is my Better Half
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agonyofraMarik is a tall young man of Middle Eastern origin—specifically Egyptian descent—with dark brown skin, amethyst eyes, and white-gold hair (flaxen) blonde hair. At 16 years of age, he stands at 180 cm (5'11) and weighs in at 55 kg (121 lbs), with a slender, but surprisingly muscular and athletic body, which comes from his years training as a tomb guardian. His hair—in typical YGO fashion—is spiked upwards and explodes out in all directions via several large spikes. Marik also retains the same wing-like bangs of his progenitor’s, but his are far more spread out and claw-like in comparison.
Since he picked up the Millennium Rod, which he keeps in his belt while not carrying it, he bears the Eye of Wdjat on his forehead, which glows even when he’s not using his power. As far as body decorations go, Marik sports a pair of black tribal tattoos beneath his eyes that slice out from the corners and sharply cut a path to the middle of his cheekbones, vaguely outlining and accenting them. However, covering his back is a nigh-literal “slab” of detailed Egyptian symbols and language that were ritualistically carved into his skin with a burning knife.
Marik's usual outfit consists of a black sleeveless tank top, khaki combat trousers, a black belt, and black shoes. Owing to his tribe’s ancestry, he is heavily jeweled, wearing large golden earrings, three bands of golden neckwear, a golden armband around his biceps, and five golden bracelets on each arm starting from close to his elbows down to his wrists. Most memorably, he sports a massive purple cape, wrapped around his neck and spiked up at the shoulders. A golden chain decorates the neck folds of his cape, but serves little other visible purpose, and the rest is allowed to flow down behind him and spread at his sides in a strange physics-defying style. There is no suggestion in canon about such a cape being brought abord the ship, and no one questions Marik’s sudden arrival in it, making the whereabouts of his new clothes a trivial mystery. Finally, like many of the other Duelists in the series, he wears a KaibaCorp Duel Disk on his left arm.
As he is merely a split personality of the normal Marik, unlike Yami Yugi and Yami Bakura, who are both entirely different entities from their associated hosts in their own right, Yami Marik shares his progenitor’s body, save for adding some extra muscle. While his facial structure looks almost identical to his true self, he appears to be far more manic with his expressions and incorporates a wide range of them during his appearance.
At random times, faint ghastly images of his face stretch out from his head, unclear as to whether they’re illusions or mental projections. As his emotions grow more intense, Marik begins to strain his muscles to the point that his veins slowly start to appear on his face, giving the impression that they’re popping out of his skin. He’s well known for his disturbing and grotesque facial exaggerations as his stress and delight get the better of him, resulting in his eyes bulging wide open, his irises contracting into focused pinpoints, his mouth stretching into gleeful visages, and a recurrent habit of sliding his tongue out in serpentine movements.
Since he picked up the Millennium Rod, which he keeps in his belt while not carrying it, he bears the Eye of Wdjat on his forehead, which glows even when he’s not using his power. As far as body decorations go, Marik sports a pair of black tribal tattoos beneath his eyes that slice out from the corners and sharply cut a path to the middle of his cheekbones, vaguely outlining and accenting them. However, covering his back is a nigh-literal “slab” of detailed Egyptian symbols and language that were ritualistically carved into his skin with a burning knife.Marik's usual outfit consists of a black sleeveless tank top, khaki combat trousers, a black belt, and black shoes. Owing to his tribe’s ancestry, he is heavily jeweled, wearing large golden earrings, three bands of golden neckwear, a golden armband around his biceps, and five golden bracelets on each arm starting from close to his elbows down to his wrists. Most memorably, he sports a massive purple cape, wrapped around his neck and spiked up at the shoulders. A golden chain decorates the neck folds of his cape, but serves little other visible purpose, and the rest is allowed to flow down behind him and spread at his sides in a strange physics-defying style. There is no suggestion in canon about such a cape being brought abord the ship, and no one questions Marik’s sudden arrival in it, making the whereabouts of his new clothes a trivial mystery. Finally, like many of the other Duelists in the series, he wears a KaibaCorp Duel Disk on his left arm.
As he is merely a split personality of the normal Marik, unlike Yami Yugi and Yami Bakura, who are both entirely different entities from their associated hosts in their own right, Yami Marik shares his progenitor’s body, save for adding some extra muscle. While his facial structure looks almost identical to his true self, he appears to be far more manic with his expressions and incorporates a wide range of them during his appearance.At random times, faint ghastly images of his face stretch out from his head, unclear as to whether they’re illusions or mental projections. As his emotions grow more intense, Marik begins to strain his muscles to the point that his veins slowly start to appear on his face, giving the impression that they’re popping out of his skin. He’s well known for his disturbing and grotesque facial exaggerations as his stress and delight get the better of him, resulting in his eyes bulging wide open, his irises contracting into focused pinpoints, his mouth stretching into gleeful visages, and a recurrent habit of sliding his tongue out in serpentine movements.
