[He bites his lip, wanting to comfort her but... she's good told him to keep going.
So Marik tells her that when he underwent the ritual as a child, Odion carved his face in both an attempt to make up for failing his brother as well as keeping his darker side sealed. With the older Ishtar now unconscious from the Duel, Yami Marik was able to emerge... and kick Marik from his own body.
He goes on, telling her of how he tried to get the attention of Ishizu, begging her to help him to get his body back. How he possessed Teá to try and kill Yami because if he couldn't get his body back, then it would be better without either of them around. About how he teamed up with Bakura again and semi-possesed his host so he wouldn't lose his soul entirely. How they fought against Yami but that only wound up getting Bakura banished temporarily to the Shadow Realm and handing over the Ring to him. Marik himself would go to possess Teá again to warn Ishizu that Yami would be coming to kill Odion.
The rest is spotty after that. He vaguely recalls the Shadow Games Yami played, how he tormented Joey and Mai, almost ripping their souls from their bodies and casting them into the Shadow Realm to suffer for eternity in a nightmare. His presence grew weaker and weaker. At the finals, Yami pulls Marik to him and uses him as a bargaining chip during his Duel with the Pharaoh. Marik told them to destroy Yami, not to worry about saving him... but Ishizu was the one to come forward and beg the Pharaoh to save Marik's body so the good part of him could regain control.
In the end, he was saved, Yami was ripped from his body and banished to the Shadow Realm, and... everyone forgave him for all the terrible things he did. Like none of it ever happened. He surrendered the God Cards and Millennium Items to Yugi and showed him the carving on his back, the one remaining hint to rediscovering who he once was.]
And that's... what happened in Battle City.
[There are obvious details he's skipped over. She doesn't need to know exactly what the Shadow Games consisted of. Or how angry he is at himself for just rolling over and giving up like the servant dog he is.
Marik sits in silence, waiting to hear Usagi's thoughts on the matter or for her to just leave.]
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So Marik tells her that when he underwent the ritual as a child, Odion carved his face in both an attempt to make up for failing his brother as well as keeping his darker side sealed. With the older Ishtar now unconscious from the Duel, Yami Marik was able to emerge... and kick Marik from his own body.
He goes on, telling her of how he tried to get the attention of Ishizu, begging her to help him to get his body back. How he possessed Teá to try and kill Yami because if he couldn't get his body back, then it would be better without either of them around. About how he teamed up with Bakura again and semi-possesed his host so he wouldn't lose his soul entirely. How they fought against Yami but that only wound up getting Bakura banished temporarily to the Shadow Realm and handing over the Ring to him. Marik himself would go to possess Teá again to warn Ishizu that Yami would be coming to kill Odion.
The rest is spotty after that. He vaguely recalls the Shadow Games Yami played, how he tormented Joey and Mai, almost ripping their souls from their bodies and casting them into the Shadow Realm to suffer for eternity in a nightmare. His presence grew weaker and weaker. At the finals, Yami pulls Marik to him and uses him as a bargaining chip during his Duel with the Pharaoh. Marik told them to destroy Yami, not to worry about saving him... but Ishizu was the one to come forward and beg the Pharaoh to save Marik's body so the good part of him could regain control.
In the end, he was saved, Yami was ripped from his body and banished to the Shadow Realm, and... everyone forgave him for all the terrible things he did. Like none of it ever happened. He surrendered the God Cards and Millennium Items to Yugi and showed him the carving on his back, the one remaining hint to rediscovering who he once was.]
And that's... what happened in Battle City.
[There are obvious details he's skipped over. She doesn't need to know exactly what the Shadow Games consisted of. Or how angry he is at himself for just rolling over and giving up like the servant dog he is.
Marik sits in silence, waiting to hear Usagi's thoughts on the matter or for her to just leave.]