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What's in a name? (Bakura) ROUND 3?!?!? WHAT?!

A post by @ravij OHOHOHO! You lil shites thought we were done?! ( • ̀ω•́ ) Nearly a year later and my obsession and curiosity has only grown STRONGER! Mwahaha! Anyway to recap: Round 1 - Round 2 Now for some preface of Ancient Egyptian knowledge! Most if not ALL names of Ancient Egypt had double or even multiple meanings. Bakura's is no different except his double meaning DRASTICALLY changes the tone of his name from something positive and uplifting.... to something far more deviant. We're not going to recap what each syllable translate to because it's ALL different. But it can still be broken up into 3 parts. Ba-Ku-Ra. So let's start with Ba - this word more often than not is related to the Soul. It can be used to describe being endowed with one or simply the soul itself. But it can also be used to label a soul that is damned. Now for Ku - While the base means "Move" a synonym for move is also "Bring" and this is the term we will be using.

Be prepared my friends... Now we get to Ra - Hold on to your butts folks cause this is the one that will turn his name upside down. Most often written as R(r)ā, it has several meanings other than just one way to say the Sun Gods name. When used as a basic word though one of the meanings is..... "Malice". Ohoho, ya'll are seeing it, right? So let's bring it all together now. 〜⁠(⁠꒪⁠꒳⁠꒪⁠)⁠〜 Bakura - The damned soul (who*) brings malice. It could have very well been that Bakura's original meaning that his family intended was "Endowed with the soul to move Ra" but upon the destruction of his village, the genocide of his people, and his subsequent falling on the road to vengeance, people would likely hear the name as it is correlated with this new meaning. Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of people to know that the "damned soul who brings malice" was sighted near their village/town. :> *You can remove the 'who' and it'll still mean the same thing. ˙ᵕ˙

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I am so tired rn

I drew Scian in a dress yesterday and now I'm drawing him in a military uniform for the propaganda shit

I love that guy. I wasn't expecting to.

Literally gonna pat his head and say "it's going to get worse from here my friend, sorry bucko" and then kiss his forehead before I throw him into the trauma bin

Say goodbye to whatever "sanity" that you've convinced yourself that you have, sweet child

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Post by @ravij Either I'm seeing things because of how my YGO au fanfic is going or Mr. Kazuki Takahashi was a god damn genius in disguise.

Ok here me out folks. It's about Bakura and his name, the potential meaning behind it and how it could potentially NOT be some random name the creator came up with on a whim. I promise I'll be quick. So we break his name into three syllables with how its often pronounced in the series.

Ba-Ku-Ra.

Anyone who knows just the absolute basics of Ancient Egyptian mythos knows that Ra is one of the names of the Sun God. One of the most important gods of Egypt as he commanded the very power of the sun and the prosperity it brought to Egypt by bringing daylight every time he rode his barge. He was one of the most popular gods in the naming conventions of a King's "Horus name" spanning several dynasties. He was essentially the God King of King's. The word Ba; while just a pinch more complex for those just beginning to look into Egyptian lore means soul/to be endowed with a soul. Are you all starting to put the puzzle together? Good cause there's one more lil tid bit left. Which brings us to Ku. When pronounced by the series characters it gives a 'khu' sound. Bah-khu-ra. Now are you ready for the drop? Khu translates to "flame" from Ancient Egyptian. Now put that all together and you roughly get this. "Endowed with the flaming soul of Ra."

Personal names were extremely important in Egyptian culture as they had great meanings or significance, often revealing what god someone believed in and/or their aspirations. Someone clearly gave this kid a passionate name during his era hoping he'd accomplish great things only for him to trash that hope because of a tragedy. He STILL went on to achieve great feats but they were for all the wrong (right in his mind) reasons.

And then came Ryou's family and the rest is in the text. Thanks for coming to my ted talk. I'll let you all stew on this. :v If this was already all figured out then please disregard my asinine assumptions because I have been outside of the fandom for years and have only been recently reminded of my love for the series. (But wait! Theres more! Round Two of a potential meaning behind Bakura's name. AND AN ALL NEW ROUND 3!)

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What's in a name Round 2!

Post by @ravij You thief king freaks ready? Because we're back for round two of potential namesplaining the meaning behind Bakura's name! (Round one can be found here. We also have.. a round 3!)

Now you may be wondering; 'Ravi why another one? The first was already too good!" That is because my dear friends that the actual 'ku' translations are in the back of the second book of my most gloriously THICK translation tomes and that the Egyptian Alphabet has two sections of different 'K' starting words.

So quick summary:

Ba means Soul/Endowed with a soul.

Ra: one of the names pointing to the most famous of Sun Gods favored to represent Egyptian's King's.

Now with the refresher out of the way let me reveal to you the official * translation of 'ku'. It means "move".

Now in my years of amateur translating I've discovered that a lot of conjunction words have no direct translation into ancient Egyptian. The Egyptians had such a way with being able to smash words with no connecting verbiage and be like "ah yes this man is an amazing smith of gold and silver making the finest jewelry" while using like 3-5 words In Ancient Egyptian when talking to someone about this smith and their conversation buddy going "I know the smith of which you speak!" in two words.

So what does this new possibility with "move" bring us to?

"Endowed with a soul to move Ra."

This as equally a powerful name as before as it suggests once again that someone had great hopes for our poor little ball of suffering and despair that they expected him to become an notable and renowned member of society. It highlights the notion that Bakura was supposed to do such amazing things that it would move the Sun God himself to praise his accomplishments.

But once again, tragedy wins the day and completely dashes the dreams of the person who gave this vengeful little mew mew his name. Enjoy the food and the possibility for your own little head canons.

(also please forgive me I'm reposting this as its own separated post because I forgot how tumblr works.) * Ku actually has several different meanings but "Move" makes the most sense if Kazuki Takahashi truly planned out his name an understood the message it could give.