While I do love Melvin from YGOTAS, please do not refer to Marik as that in my work. I was going for canon as I love that so much more because I adore how dark Marik can get.
I know a lot of you like the sillier and more cartoonish characterization of the abridged version and I totally respect that, but please, please stop saying that I am out of character. I am not. You are confusing canon with a delightful fanmade series.
Side note: I have been calling the darker half of the youngest Ishtar, Marik way before YGOTAS was a thing and made the shift to Melvin and the hikari from Malik to Marik so…. yeah. I am gonna keep calling my favorite half Marik or Mariku till I die unless doing Abridged related things/references…. so don’t expect me to change that any time soon.
tl;dr: To me Marik = Yami side. Malik = Hikari side. That’s not gonna change for me any time soon.
I am Terra 