Orichalcosplay

Having agreed to Duel against one of Dartz's hired men, Yami faced a heavy challenge. The sliver or orichalcion stone that he'd been given had slowly been poisoning his heart and his mind to act in a certain way, and though he possessed extreme prowess in the field of Dueling, when given the chance to take The Seal of Orichalcos away from Raphael, he took it. Initially, it was to prevent Raphael from playing it, though Raphael told him he would not need it to beat him. Yami foolishly began to think of ways to use the Seal, almost throwing his hand awkwardly with every play. Yugi, his partner, noticed this and made the Pharaoh promise to never play it. Yami had agreed with him... but as the Duel wore steadily on and the stone's gloww intensified, the Seal became nigh irresistable to him. Thoughts of winning at any cost crossed his mind. Thoughts of hopelessness in his Dueling abilities without the Seal began to flood him... until he could no longer resist and he played the Seal, immediately corrupting him with dark energy and fusing his soul with a terrible weight...

The weight of having broken his promises to everyone. Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Tea, The Dark Magician Girl and all of the duel Monsters... and the world.

He'd betrayed them all in his act of greed...

And then he'd lost the duel... he would have lost his soul as well were it not for Yugi. Yugi, who had been against it from the very start. Yugi, whom Yami had ignored.

Yugi took Yami's place and allowed his own soul to be taken away. Wrought with anguish and despair, Yami felt there was nothing left. He had taken Yugi's body from him. If he cried, they were Yugi's tears. Every single waking moment of his life without Yugi there was a constant reminder of his crime... and the pain was unbearable.

- Played by Marcus