I think I am the only person to think of Marik as his hikari’s protector who takes things to an awful extreme and doesn’t grasp when a plan has changed but here me out… Imagine Malik, who is afraid of the dark, to be on the verge of tears and breaking down only for Mariku to slip on into the room and want to be comforting be he doesn’t do touchy-feely things like hugs but instead sits in his own corner and softly starts singing The Light by Disturbed to him. His own voice oddly soft but rusty as if he hasn’t used it much.
Yeah… little things like that that put him out of his own comfort zone in favor to make sure Malik will be okay amuses me…
Thanks so much to all my amazing supporters on Patreon that help make this fan-comic happen! ♥ (If is wasn’t for you it would be a lot harder for me to have time to work on this and keep up with the bills so I’m super grateful)
If you would like to help out as well the link is hereand, again, thanks so much! 🙂
—★Archive below
Read the comic from the start on one continuous page Here (*if you’re on a computer. It doesn’t seem to work on mobile)
I’m not sure but I think Marik is just a variant of the Arabic name, Malik (
ملك)
. It’s just the Japanese don’t have an L in their language system so their L turns into an R so the audience/readers get quite confused in that aspect. Although I got informed by an Arab friend that there are variants of the name Malik which include Marik so either name is cool. I use the name, Marik for the light one and Mariku for his dark half, though. ( I use Mariku, no matter how weaboo-ish it sounds because there’s this certain personality whenever I think of that name. )
What’s interesting is that Yami Marik doesn’t have an (official) name.
That’s the reason why a lot of people have all sorts of (nick)names for him and you’re free to name him (and train) like some sort of pokemon, lol. You can name him whatever you want, Mariku, Malik, Marik, Tategami, Kek, John Cena, etc…whatever comes to your mind.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! *tackles and adopts in a nanosecond*
Seriously though, allow Terra to explain a few things.
The thing is Marik IS Malik in every sense of the word. Marik is everything Malik ever wanted to be, could be, and hoped to become. (Not necessarily a murderer but free, confident, strong, and so very much alive and allowed to do anything he wanted with no limitations.) But since he still had lingering feelings for his father he could not kill him but his hatred was too strong. That with the lifestyle he had growing up that he came to loath combined with the dark ritual carved into his back, this allowed an outlet that allowed Marik to be. You see, they are still the same person and that is why even the other characters in the show are always saying “Malik’s dark half” and not any other name.
As for the fans though, well we were sick of saying “Malik’s dark half” when writing fanfiction or roleplaying that we decided since Malik was a real name as well as the name given to him in Japanese that it would belong to the one who was there first and seen as the good side. Marik was the dub name and we all liked it because it was nice and easy to say but it still looked very similar to Malik in written works so half of us adopted adding a u to the end and took to calling him Mariku since it was easier to spot and tell the difference.
The newer fans to this great fandom though seem to find that silly or have no idea of our ancient ways so they took to calling him other names and calling Malik by the name Marik because that is the way of the Abridged series for when it came out years later.
I’ve always headcanon Mr. Ishtar locking his children in a basement (could be after beating them up or an alternative if he doesn’t have time to beat them up.). Also, he blames stuff on his children even if they weren’t necessarily at fault especially Mariku ‘cuz that kid has some “serious” issues and he’s the “most problematic” of the family…so blame all the bad things on him or Rishid, lmao.
With Mariku, I headcanon him finding refuge in darkness, opposite to Marik who fears darkness. (nothing far from the manga, lol. )
He doesn’t even get socks! ❤ </3
I love it and it is perfect. Torn page in a book, still closed boxes in storage, just enough light to see~ Ah… And I though the light change was on purpose to show that time passed so that was a happy little mistake, no?
Watch Amen come back later at the top of the stairs in wait for that apology. “…I’m sorry that I did absolutely nothing worthy of this punishment.” His father’s forehead vein throbs in rage at his own child’s words. “Next time I’ll make sure I step up my game so you don’t have to waste your time on me but I’ll have actually earned it!”
The world sees us as different. Not just different but too similar to ever be together. It’s funny really. How they think of it as a bad thing when really it is what helps me to understand you.
Marik, you beautiful idiot. How can they be so blind? To not see that we were meant to be together. Sure, you are still learning and struggling with this feeling but isn’t it worth it? Isn’t the pain of love worth having?
Everytime I look at you I see myself when I was but a boy. All that hatred and fear. Hate for the world shaping you up to be a monster and fear because it is too blind to see to potential of good buried within you and rather watch you burn.
It’s so strange how they have come to adore me. All those years of hatred and fighting only for them to show mercy when another tells them of how I came to be… And how they will not hear your story. These wicked beasts wanting nothing more than to hate you and watch you suffer. They care not that all you were ever shown till now was violence. Your entire existence is interwoven in it and soaked in blood till I found you and saw what they could not.
I see your rage rising up and protecting your heart that is falling apart with every ill spoken word about you. I see the dim light just flickering within and so desperately trying to keep from going out. I know this wretched loneliness that that consumes you and I am not going to let it win.
I got my second chance after a lifetime of waiting and I’ll be damned before I allow them to end you before you can start your’s…
I am Terra 