Forum:Certain Questions!!!

1. In Japanese tradition, when you don't know a person well, are not close enough, or truly respect them, then you call them by their surname, such as Ryo Bakura only being called "Bakura" since he and Yugi are not best friends. However, Seto Kaiba and Yugi Muto both respect each other, such as Kaiba giving Yugi a 5-star rating in the Battle City arc, and are definitely not friends, although Yugi is kind enough despite Kaiba's attitude towards him, but Kaiba calls Yugi by his first name instead, while Yugi calls him by his last. Is this just because: Yugi/Yami Yugi is the main character, so it's okay to call him by his first, and in order to not be confused with Mokuba when talking to or about Kaiba, he is normally called Kaiba (besides Mokuba of course calling him Seto)?

2. I haven't (yet) watched the episodes after Kaiba blows up his Battle City island, like when Marik and siblings meet the gang at Egypt, but does Odion, after both his adoptive father and Marik, as the Rare Hunter leader, act like he was a servant, still behave like a servant to Marik or behave as the brother that good young Marik thought of him as? I really think Odion deserves to be called a brother again, and would think that Marik, after his apology in the final Battle City duel, sees Odion as a bro again. However, how does Odion see his siblings, always being treated like a servant by his "dad" and ordered to be one as well to young Marik by this dad?

3. I can understand Marik's grudge and resentment against the Pharaoh, starting from not being able to go above ground and have a true/good life, having to go through the tombkeeper's ceremony against his will and thus causing him extreme pain especially on his back, believing that the Pharaoh ordered the loyalist Shadi to kill/send his dad to the Shadow Realm, so of course he would want revenge. I am glad that Marik redeemed himself, completing his tombkeeper's duty and becoming good, such as when he apologized to Odion and was willing to sacrifice himself for the Pharaoh to win the duel against Yami Marik. But do you think that Marik is now good (or good enough)? He is usually considered to be the foremost adversary in the series.

4. Speaking of apologizing to Odion in the Yami Marik--Pharaoh duel, how could the parts of Marik's spirit that faded away first go to Odion, instead of going straight to the Shadow Realm? I understand that this was a very important part of the series, in order to wake Odion and show how Marik still did have good like Ishizu said, but how did this happen? Mistystar31 (talk • contribs) 18:50, June 17, 2014 (UTC)