Rebecca Hawkins



Rebecca Hawkins, known as Rebecca Hopkins (レベッカ・ホプキンス) in the original Japanese anime, is a character in the second anime series Yu-Gi-Oh! (known in East Asia as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters).

Rebecca Hawkins does not exist in the original manga series; she is exclusive to the second anime series.

Rebecca is, in the original Japanese version, the American Duel Monsters champion. In the English anime, she is the Intercontinental Champion. Rebecca is also the granddaughter of Arthur Hawkins (Arthur Hopkins in the original Japanese). She is 12 years old in the original Japanese anime. In the English anime, she is 8.

Character biography
Rebecca is the granddaughter of Arthur Hawkins (Arthur Hopkins), an old friend of Yugi Muto's grandfather, Solomon Muto (known as Sugoroku Mutou in the Japanese versions and the English-language manga). Rebecca encounters Yugi as Yugi returns from Duelist Kingdom. She accuses Solomon of stealing her grandfather's prized Blue-Eyes White Dragon and demanded he duel her for it. As he was recently discharged from the hospital, Solomon cannot duel, so Yugi duels Rebecca in his place.

While they duel, Solomon recounts of how he met Arthur, an archaeologist who believes that the ancient Egyptians played an ancient form of Duel Monsters. Arthur's colleagues laughed at his strange ideas, and he set out on an expedition with Solomon to find proof. They were trapped when a tomb caved in, and as there were only enough supplies for one person to live, they dueled for them. Now, Yugi and Rebecca are fighting, card for card, the very same duel, and Solomon claims he knows how it will end.

Rebecca discards various monsters to her graveyard to power up her Shadow Ghoul monster, and Yugi concedes defeat. Rebecca demands the card, but Solomon reveals it was destroyed. An angry Rebecca yells at Solomon until Arthur arrives, telling her to behave. He shows Rebecca the card Yugi had drawn, and it is a card that would have weakened her Shadow Ghoul for Yugi to destroy and win. (the card was Soul Release which would've allowed Yugi to remove 5 monsters from her Graveyard.) Yugi admits he surrendered on purpose, just as his grandfather did to let Arthur take the supplies. When they were rescued, Arthur was so grateful he gave his Blue-Eyes card to Solomon. After learning about the story, Rebecca quickly apologizes. Yugi gives Rebecca his The Ties of Friendship as a reminder of this lesson, which she keeps ever since.

She and her grandfather return in the Orichalcos arc to help Yugi fight Dartz. Here Rebecca helps by researching Dartz's Three Swordsmen and hacking into Kaiba Corporation's computer system to track others via their Duel Disks. She also seems to become convinced Yugi is her boyfriend, something which makes Téa Gardner (Anzu Mazaki) jealous.

Rebecca also takes part in the KC Grand Championship, where she duels Abe the Monkey Boy and Vivian Wong. She loses to Leon von Schroeder in the semi-finals and spends the rests of the tournament cheering from the sidelines. She is absent after the tournament ends, telling Yugi that she will duel him one day and telling Téa (with a coy look) that she will miss Téa.

In the Japanese version of the final episode, Rebecca makes her final appearance by hugging Yugi at the airport while Anzu stares at the scene; the scene does not exist in the English-language version of the episode.

Deck
Rebecca's first deck is a Shadow Ghoul Deck, focusing on sending cards to the Graveyard to power up her Shadow Ghoul. Her second deck is a Dragon/Burn/Recovery Deck, with many powerful dragon cards and cards to replenish her Life Points while Fire Princess inflicts equal damage to the opponents Life Points.