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Victory Road App
Aug. 8th, 2024 12:50 amPlayer
Name: Absol
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Timezone: PST
Current Characters in Victory Road: Ryou Bakura (Note: the Zexal timeline is considered a completely separate timeline from the original manga timeline that Ryou is from, so III and Ryou have absolutely no way of knowing each other and no reason to interact.)
Character
Name: III (Birth name: Michael Arclight)
Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
Timeline: Episode 49/Immediately after his Duel against Yuma but before he returns home.
Canon Resource Links: Here! Note that the wiki preferences dub names over the original names and will refer to III as 'Trey'.
Personality: III is, by initial appearances, a very polite, sweet young man. He's introduced defusing an argument between his two older brothers, is visibly uncomfortable when he has to watch his father torture Haruto for his power, and in general is the nicest person of the Arclight family.
Of course, when the rest of the family consists of a father obsessed with getting revenge against the man who wronged him, an emotionally distant eldest brother, and a second older brother who barely masks his sadism behind a veneer of kindness, it's not hard to come off as the nicest.
III is shown to be willing to do just about anything for his family. He willingly follows through on his father's orders to deliver a Number card to Ryoga, knowing full well that the Number card would try to take control of Ryoga on delivery. He also provides very little pushback on his older brother IV's behaviour, standing by and watching quietly as IV tormented two duelists in a curbstomp of a duel. (And the one time he did object to anything IV did, it was because IV was deliberately showing footage of Haruto being tortured to Kaito, something that made III deeply uncomfortable due to his discomfort with torturing a child.)
At his worst, he's downright cruel, demonstrating a willingness to go out of his way to torture and eventually kill Astral during a duel in a fit of desperate envious rage, along with simultaneously tormenting Yuma in an attempt to hurt him/make Yuma feel just how alone III felt. Additionally, III has a tendency towards trying to sacrifice himself for the sake of others, best seen when he attempted to use the card Final Prophecy to force a tie between him and Yuma, fully accepting that this would mean sacrificing himself in the process.
On top of all this, III also has a tendency towards intense jealousy of anyone with a healthier family than him; as shown when meeting the Tsukumo family only resulted in him running off in tears at how messed up his own family was by comparison, followed by resolving himself to follow his family's revenge scheme more closely.
So, you might ask, why is III like this? The answer is intense, undying loyalty.
III is ridiculously loyal to and protective of his family, despite everything. To that end, everything he does is generally done in the hopes that things will go back to normal/how things used to be once the revenge scheme is done. He has essentially put himself in the role of a protector or a metaphorical 'sword and shield', willingly doing whatever it takes to keep his brothers and father safe.
(Even murder. Even self sacrifice. III will dirty his hands and make himself complicit in his family's schemes and kill potential threats and sacrifice himself if he thinks that's what he has to do to see his family safe and restored to normal.)
That said, he does (mostly) maintain his polite, sweet nature. He willingly apologizes to Yuma for his role in the Haruto torture incident, deeply regretting what happened. He also ultimately places his trust in Yuma to save his family where he could not, explicitly calling Yuma his first and only friend in the process. However, that politeness can be twisted into something distinctly more smug when faced with an opponent, as he turns out to have a surprisingly sharp (but still technically polite!) tongue when he wants to.
Finally, III has a deep interest in history, expressing strong excitement at finding himself in an attic full of ancient artifacts. This ties to his sense of curiosity, something that drove him to go out of his way to investigate how Yuma could duel without hatred after meeting him for the first time. However, his curiosity towards history is tempered by his belief in 'out of place artifacts'/Ancient Aliens type beliefs, with III once expressing his belief that said out of place artifacts came from other dimensions. His Duel Monsters deck even uses the Chronomalies archetype, an archetype themed around historic artifacts with an Ancient Aliens bent.
(To be fair, III's father was investigating interdimensional portals, providing a reason for why III would believe in this stuff, but.)
As nice as he can be though, III is at the end of the day an Arclight, and none of the Arclights escaped being messed up by the family drama, not even the nicest of the lot.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Rocket
Starter: Deerling and Vulpix
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: Here!
Victory Road Sample: III has set up camp for the night, marking his first night on the road ever since he finally got out of Rocket training and became able to do...pretty much whatever he wants.
(Though, 'setting up camp' is a bit of a generous term when Team Rocket didn't give him much in the way of camping equipment. It's really more like picking a good flat spot and being very thankful it's still warm.)
"Well, they really aren't generous with giving out gear, huh?" The Vulpix beside III is silent, apparently content to curl by his side as he looks up at the stars. III goes silent too, thinking about how he wound up here and what he left behind in his own world.
"...I wonder what IV and V would do if they wound up here?" III muses, trying to remain upbeat about his circumstances. "This is kind of like what happened to my father, if he'd ended up in a world like this instead of the Barian World..."
And oh, he can't hold it together. III is quietly sniffling, homesickness kicking in as he thinks about his absent family.
Beside him, the Vulpix blinks, then cuddles closer, letting III absently pat him as he struggles to pull himself together.
"...Sorry, I've just never been completely on my own before. Even when I was in the orphanage, I at least had IV with me." III honestly doesn't know how much the Vulpix understands, but it's nice to be able to talk to someone about all this. At the least, he does seem to understand that III is upset, so III will take that much.
For a while, III lapses into silence, watching the stars as he pets his Vulpix, before eventually rolling over to try to get some sleep.
"We should sleep. It's going to be a trip to get to those ruins I heard about." The Vulpix blinks again at his trainer's words, then curls up, tucking his nose under his tails next to III as the duo settle in for sleep.
Name: Absol
E-mail: N/A
Preferred Contact: Plurk @
Timezone: PST
Current Characters in Victory Road: Ryou Bakura (Note: the Zexal timeline is considered a completely separate timeline from the original manga timeline that Ryou is from, so III and Ryou have absolutely no way of knowing each other and no reason to interact.)
Character
Name: III (Birth name: Michael Arclight)
Series: Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
Timeline: Episode 49/Immediately after his Duel against Yuma but before he returns home.
Canon Resource Links: Here! Note that the wiki preferences dub names over the original names and will refer to III as 'Trey'.
Personality: III is, by initial appearances, a very polite, sweet young man. He's introduced defusing an argument between his two older brothers, is visibly uncomfortable when he has to watch his father torture Haruto for his power, and in general is the nicest person of the Arclight family.
Of course, when the rest of the family consists of a father obsessed with getting revenge against the man who wronged him, an emotionally distant eldest brother, and a second older brother who barely masks his sadism behind a veneer of kindness, it's not hard to come off as the nicest.
III is shown to be willing to do just about anything for his family. He willingly follows through on his father's orders to deliver a Number card to Ryoga, knowing full well that the Number card would try to take control of Ryoga on delivery. He also provides very little pushback on his older brother IV's behaviour, standing by and watching quietly as IV tormented two duelists in a curbstomp of a duel. (And the one time he did object to anything IV did, it was because IV was deliberately showing footage of Haruto being tortured to Kaito, something that made III deeply uncomfortable due to his discomfort with torturing a child.)
At his worst, he's downright cruel, demonstrating a willingness to go out of his way to torture and eventually kill Astral during a duel in a fit of desperate envious rage, along with simultaneously tormenting Yuma in an attempt to hurt him/make Yuma feel just how alone III felt. Additionally, III has a tendency towards trying to sacrifice himself for the sake of others, best seen when he attempted to use the card Final Prophecy to force a tie between him and Yuma, fully accepting that this would mean sacrificing himself in the process.
On top of all this, III also has a tendency towards intense jealousy of anyone with a healthier family than him; as shown when meeting the Tsukumo family only resulted in him running off in tears at how messed up his own family was by comparison, followed by resolving himself to follow his family's revenge scheme more closely.
So, you might ask, why is III like this? The answer is intense, undying loyalty.
III is ridiculously loyal to and protective of his family, despite everything. To that end, everything he does is generally done in the hopes that things will go back to normal/how things used to be once the revenge scheme is done. He has essentially put himself in the role of a protector or a metaphorical 'sword and shield', willingly doing whatever it takes to keep his brothers and father safe.
(Even murder. Even self sacrifice. III will dirty his hands and make himself complicit in his family's schemes and kill potential threats and sacrifice himself if he thinks that's what he has to do to see his family safe and restored to normal.)
That said, he does (mostly) maintain his polite, sweet nature. He willingly apologizes to Yuma for his role in the Haruto torture incident, deeply regretting what happened. He also ultimately places his trust in Yuma to save his family where he could not, explicitly calling Yuma his first and only friend in the process. However, that politeness can be twisted into something distinctly more smug when faced with an opponent, as he turns out to have a surprisingly sharp (but still technically polite!) tongue when he wants to.
Finally, III has a deep interest in history, expressing strong excitement at finding himself in an attic full of ancient artifacts. This ties to his sense of curiosity, something that drove him to go out of his way to investigate how Yuma could duel without hatred after meeting him for the first time. However, his curiosity towards history is tempered by his belief in 'out of place artifacts'/Ancient Aliens type beliefs, with III once expressing his belief that said out of place artifacts came from other dimensions. His Duel Monsters deck even uses the Chronomalies archetype, an archetype themed around historic artifacts with an Ancient Aliens bent.
(To be fair, III's father was investigating interdimensional portals, providing a reason for why III would believe in this stuff, but.)
As nice as he can be though, III is at the end of the day an Arclight, and none of the Arclights escaped being messed up by the family drama, not even the nicest of the lot.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Rocket
Starter: Deerling and Vulpix
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: Here!
Victory Road Sample: III has set up camp for the night, marking his first night on the road ever since he finally got out of Rocket training and became able to do...pretty much whatever he wants.
(Though, 'setting up camp' is a bit of a generous term when Team Rocket didn't give him much in the way of camping equipment. It's really more like picking a good flat spot and being very thankful it's still warm.)
"Well, they really aren't generous with giving out gear, huh?" The Vulpix beside III is silent, apparently content to curl by his side as he looks up at the stars. III goes silent too, thinking about how he wound up here and what he left behind in his own world.
"...I wonder what IV and V would do if they wound up here?" III muses, trying to remain upbeat about his circumstances. "This is kind of like what happened to my father, if he'd ended up in a world like this instead of the Barian World..."
And oh, he can't hold it together. III is quietly sniffling, homesickness kicking in as he thinks about his absent family.
Beside him, the Vulpix blinks, then cuddles closer, letting III absently pat him as he struggles to pull himself together.
"...Sorry, I've just never been completely on my own before. Even when I was in the orphanage, I at least had IV with me." III honestly doesn't know how much the Vulpix understands, but it's nice to be able to talk to someone about all this. At the least, he does seem to understand that III is upset, so III will take that much.
For a while, III lapses into silence, watching the stars as he pets his Vulpix, before eventually rolling over to try to get some sleep.
"We should sleep. It's going to be a trip to get to those ruins I heard about." The Vulpix blinks again at his trainer's words, then curls up, tucking his nose under his tails next to III as the duo settle in for sleep.
