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Waxing Philosophical
Jul. 28th, 2004 05:03 pmAh, the famed tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Have you read this? Once, when I was trying to explain to my Mom about Marik and Yami Marik, she compared them to these two book characters. I didn't realize how right she was until I myself actually looked through a copy of the story. There is a passage where Dr. Jekyll says that there are now two beings within his body: himself, Jekyll, who still has a good side and an evil side, and Hyde, who is a being of darkness with no goodness whatsoever. True, the whole problem started when Jekyll was experimenting about and thought that if he released his evil side, he would be more free (which of course is different from Marik, but that's not the point), but the point is that when Hyde was released, he became Jekyll's evil side out of control. This is very important. Jekyll says that he himself, Jekyll, still possessed both a good side and an evil side, but Hyde was also his evil side. But because Hyde was out of control, he had become his own entity.
This is how I believe it is with Marik and Yami Marik. Hopefully it's a clearer explanation than the garbled mess I tried to type out a few entries back. Marik's dark emotions of anger, confusion, and hatred created Yami Marik accidentally, but Marik still did create him. Because the fibres of Yami Marik's very being were the dark feelings of Marik, he is, basically, the dark version of Marik himself, hence the title "Yami," or "Dark," Marik. However, this being was no longer the actual Marik himself, as Marik still possessed both a good and an evil side. Like Jekyll, Marik now had two beings fighting for control in his body: himself, the true Marik, and Yami Marik, the evil side out of control. Marik suffered all manner of injustices at the hands of his Yami, not the least of which was being kicked out of his own body. But he never gave up and eventually triumphed over the creature, defeating him.
It is not known what happened to Yami Marik after this. Some believe he was completely obliterated. Others, that he took the place of the ones he sent to the Shadow Realm and perhaps is still residing there, waiting for the perfect chance to strike again. I personally believe a theory that I constructed for my Paper Flowers fanfiction: Now that Yami Marik had no physical body in which to live in after Marik became strong enough to overpower him, he waited in the shadows, gathering his strength. He took the dark energies from every being in existance, as all of us have an evil side within us, whether we like it or not, and he combined the powers from all of these energies to create a new body for himself. He tells Marik in Paper Flowers that even if Marik had not accidentally created him, someone else would have. Such is the essence of darkness.
And truly, he is the manifestation of darkness. I do not like it when this title is given to Yami Bakura, because he does have good within him and really was a real person who lived in Egypt. Yami Marik has no goodness, on the other hand, and he never lived as a real person, with all the emotions and feelings we as humans possess. He was created from the darkness and only can be darkness forever more.
This is how I believe it is with Marik and Yami Marik. Hopefully it's a clearer explanation than the garbled mess I tried to type out a few entries back. Marik's dark emotions of anger, confusion, and hatred created Yami Marik accidentally, but Marik still did create him. Because the fibres of Yami Marik's very being were the dark feelings of Marik, he is, basically, the dark version of Marik himself, hence the title "Yami," or "Dark," Marik. However, this being was no longer the actual Marik himself, as Marik still possessed both a good and an evil side. Like Jekyll, Marik now had two beings fighting for control in his body: himself, the true Marik, and Yami Marik, the evil side out of control. Marik suffered all manner of injustices at the hands of his Yami, not the least of which was being kicked out of his own body. But he never gave up and eventually triumphed over the creature, defeating him.
It is not known what happened to Yami Marik after this. Some believe he was completely obliterated. Others, that he took the place of the ones he sent to the Shadow Realm and perhaps is still residing there, waiting for the perfect chance to strike again. I personally believe a theory that I constructed for my Paper Flowers fanfiction: Now that Yami Marik had no physical body in which to live in after Marik became strong enough to overpower him, he waited in the shadows, gathering his strength. He took the dark energies from every being in existance, as all of us have an evil side within us, whether we like it or not, and he combined the powers from all of these energies to create a new body for himself. He tells Marik in Paper Flowers that even if Marik had not accidentally created him, someone else would have. Such is the essence of darkness.
And truly, he is the manifestation of darkness. I do not like it when this title is given to Yami Bakura, because he does have good within him and really was a real person who lived in Egypt. Yami Marik has no goodness, on the other hand, and he never lived as a real person, with all the emotions and feelings we as humans possess. He was created from the darkness and only can be darkness forever more.
