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Another Yugioh fanart, this time with Odion, Ishizu and Marik's mother Mrs. Ishtar, who I name Aziza. This picture is based off of a headcanon I thought of that explains Marik's Yami and how it manifested in him without an item. While some would say he developed a second personality to protect him and it got worse from the items, I think otherwise and it has something to do with the clans of Egypt, as well as the Egyptian Gods themselves.Headcanon: In the clans of Egypt, not only are they secret and guard the Pharaoh's tombs and the items, these clans also worship a certain God. With the Ishtar clan, they worship Ra, the King of the Egyptian gods and are basically the highest clan of all because Pharaoh Tut became Ra after his death. That is why Mr. Ishtar was so stubborn and refused to let another clan look after the Items as Mr. Ishtar considered his clan more superior and that the Ishtars must guard the items as they would be close to royalty and believed when the Pharaoh returns, he would find favor in his glory.
With Aziza's clan, she came from a clan that worshipped Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of protection and retribution. Mr. Ishtar married Aziza as he believed that with her heritage and the fact Sekhmet protected the Pharaoh in war and sought vengeance for him when wronged, the Items would be more protected as the Goddess would make certain that whoever dared tried to take them would face serious consequences. However, what he didn't know is that Sekhmet did not like Mr. Ishtar for his arrogance and how he acted towards her disciple and her children, especially when Aziza died in childbirth and he was to busy proclaiming his heir.
Then when Marik's back was carved, the lion Goddess's wrath started to manifest in Marik, while he was born in the clan of Ra, he was still the child of a lioness and his bloodlust steadily grew as Marik's Yami was getting worse from Mr. Ishtar's cruel treatment. A year later, when Mr. Ishtar tried to kill Odion and attack Marik and Ishizu for heading to the outside, his Yami was unleashed, but it wasn't like any Yami, it was a Yami born from the wrath of a boy who had the blood of Sekhmet in him, and he took revenge on the man who carved his back and punished him for the years of abuse he bestoded on him and his siblings.
Not only was Mr. Ishtar killed by his own son, he envoked the wrath of a God upon him.
And when Shadi told him it was the Pharaoh who caused his family's suffering, like Sekhmet, Marik wanted the Pharaoh dead and for the world to be covered in blood and enjoyed torturing those around him.
On the left of Mrs. Ishtar it says himayatan, which means protection in Arabic, and on her right it says antiqam, which means vengeance. The words of her clan which proved true in her son.
Mrs. Ishtar and Yugioh belong to Kazuki Takahashi.
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Well it is a good thing to see artwork of her somewhere. She definitely needs more attention out there.
As for your description, I think we had discussed it in your status update right?
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Agreed, because she is just as important to the Ishtar family.
We have
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Yes indeed.
Unless there is something more you want to discuss...
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She saved Odion and gave him the love he would give Ishizu and Marik.
What would you like to discuss regarding dear Mrs. Ishtar
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Yes. In reality I think she saved him also because of her own yearning of becoming a mother since she was childless when she found him.
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Indeed, and she seemed very unhappy in her marriage to Mr. Ishtar.
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I wouldn't say "unhappy" because she always kept a stoic face.
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True, but Mr. Ishtar was quite rude when she had Ishizu.
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Rude? Yes perhaps but I will have to remind you that the gravekeepers were raised in an old-fashioned way. In the old times men often longed for sons more than daughters. Ms. Ishtar should know about this and perhaps she even has the same ideals. It is complicated to think about.
I am not saying that his behavior to his wife was the proper one, but it was not an unusual one either, for the old times so...she maybe expected that behavior from him since she gave birth to a girl instead.
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Yeah, it's sad
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No I don't think so. On the contrary she said to her husband that IF they do not have a boy, then they should let Rishid take the ritual because to them above all it was important to continue the clan and continue carrying the secret. I think that to her Rishid was the last solution if she wouldn't get a boy.
I am not saying she didn't love him. On the contrary she loved him as if he were her own son and maybe that was the reason she asked from Rishid and not her husband to protect him.
And yes I know that Mr.Ishtar is not stable mentally if we can say this but I do not think he felt pleasure by causing pain to his son. I think the pleasure was because he would continue the clan's history. Somehow it is the wild pride of a patriot, if someone can say that. It was the phanatism of his duty that made him the way he was. When someone is phanatic, he is dangerous too.
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Yeah, the tradition proved to be dangerous and a Phanatic even more so.
I wonder how she would have reacted to Yami Marik?
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I think it is the phanatism that is destroying everything. Not the tradition itself
Who knows? Would she have the chance to react?
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Good point because it's one thing to be dedicated to an old tradition, it's another when you isolate people and abuse your family in the name of that tradition.
I think if she were alive and saw Yami Marik kill Mr. Ishtar, she would be in shock, and when she recovers I think she would blame herself for what happened to Marik and the birth of his Yami because she would feel like she failed to protect him and not standing up to her husband when he was going to far with his traditions and how he treated their children. While getting the tattoo was part of the Ishtar tradition, she would realize what her husband did by keeping everyone underground, mistreating everyone and not anyone have a choice is what is destroying their family and the Ishtar tradition because he was a fanatic. And I think she would apologize to Odion for how Mr. Ishtar treated him and almost killing him and how she couldn't help him truly be part of their family, and to Ishizu for being ignored because she was a woman and would tell her to live her own life and not let tradition run it and was proud of her for owning her own Museum artifact collection, and to Marik she would apologize to the most because she gave birth to him in a clan that became a cult and he suffered because he was what his father wanted and because of the abuse he and his siblings endured, Yami Marik was born and did to his father what Mrs. Ishtar would have done had he not stepped in.
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The isolation could be part of the tradition. I mean the fact that Mr. Ishtar apeared to be feeling pleasure by doing it to his son might be part of fanatism.
I do not know about that but yes perhaps that could be the case indeed. It is a possibility at least.
But this "keeping everyone underground" I disagree because it is part of the tradition. I do not know
if she disagreed to that or not but this is how she grew up herself after all so the "keeping underground"
is part of their tradition so...it is matter of culture here...as cruel as it sounds.
As for Ishizu being ignored and stuff... She didn't do much while alive either. If Ishizu was ignored even
when she was born... Mss Ishtar was also, most likely, afraid of her husband so she didn't do much to
prevent certain things to happen. Therefore we do not know whether she agreed with it or not.
Anyway I do not know about all of that because Yami Marik would probably kill her too along with Marik's father
unless Rishid woke up before doing it. In any case those are things we'll never know since she died in childbirth.
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I believe it to, as it might have taken his humanity away.
True but she was in the outside world when she found Odion so it could be the caseshe might have some disapprovment of the tradition in some degree.
That is sad if she was afraid of Mr, Ishtar.
Right. I think if she lived and she saw him become Yami Marik she would blame herself for everything.
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I have the theory that the females of the family had some point of liberty to go to the outside world, maybe to bring food down the cave -in the manga there are no servants and stuff to bring them food or at least they are not mentioned- so I guess the females could get upstairs.
Remember that Ishizu too knew a few things about the outside world while Marik did not even know what TV was and what picture book was. I would guess that the females could move on the outside world only in occasions it was needed and they were forbidden of talking about the outside world to the males of the family.
Maybe she was but maybe she also believed in this tradition as well. I mean she was raised with it so it would be no wonder if she believed in it. For sure she has more tenderness inside her and not the cruelty coming from men such as her husband because she asked from Rishid to protect Marik in her deathbed, however she was proved quite submissive to everything.
I don't know about that. She didn't seem this kind of person to blame herself for EVERYTHING but then again we do not see much of her.
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That would make sense since women were in charge of the home.
That could be. She also saw how her husband was happy to have a male heir and realized her husband was insane and her children were in danger.
She did have a stotic and sad face so maybe, and she also felt ashamed to give Mr. Ishtar a a daughter.
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Yeah and also because the males were supposed to carry the Pharaoh's secret and not have contact with other people but women did not give such vow but I would think they wouldn't be able to go far either. They could probably simply walk to the nearest town and not have much of contact with other people.
I wouldn't use so heavy words but anyway I know what you mean.
I don't think so. Stoic yes but ashamed...? I do not know. It is hard to tell whether she was too loyal to her duty or not.
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Probably.
True, but we all saw what Mr. Ishtar has become and she probably saw it to late as she was dying.
I would say 50 percent on both.
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What she saw was his great joy when he got his male heir... But maybe she saw that who knows...
Perhaps.
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I think she sensed something bad will happen to.
Indeed.
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Perhaps she did and that was the reason she asked from Rishid to take care of him I suppose
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Well no one knows for sure
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And that's a shame because I like to know more about the characters.
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Indeed but it gives fans such as ourselves to imagine backstories
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It does, it provides the opportunity for that.
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Wow, what an interesting theory!! Very well done! I really wish the Ishtars were explored more. Your analysis on why Mr. Ishtar was so arrogant makes sense. So you think he invoked the wrath of a God ultimately leading to his demise?
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Thank you
I do, because Yami Marik has the same charateristic's of Sekhmet, the lust for blood, vengeance against those who wronged him, and Mr. Ishtar CERTAINLY wronged him in more ways than one. And with Sekhmet, anyone who wronged her or the Pharaoh will pay the price with their blood.
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You're welcome! For sure, I feel like we were teased a little lol
You're right, Yami Marik was out for vengeance against everyone.
The regular Marik was confused and felt vengeance on pharaoh. If only know more about his Yami. It seemed like a combination of personality disorder and magic from the Mill rod and maybe a curse from the carving ritual.
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Same, we never knew more about the clans.
I think it could be partially from the personality disorder and the carving ritual, but Marik's Yami was unleashed before he even touched the rod, which is why I believe now that he was partially possessed by a God from his mother's clan. And when he went into Yami mode, his hair became wild and looked like a lion's mane and wanted everyone dead like Sekhmet did in the legends.
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Yeah
that's true, he existed before owning the rod but the fact that he was able to wield it seemed suspect.
Those are interesting connections. Its not known if Yami Marik had a prior existence, it seemed he was created around the time he surfaced. I so hope they make more canon stories in the future, like with dark side of dimensions.
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It does, I think it has something to do with the fact the items were not only forged from the blood of Kul Elna, but also the fact it unleashed Zorc, the God of darkness who also happens to be Ra's brother, so maybe those in the royal family and clans could wield them because they each have a god that protects them. That mean in Yugioh it was Ra (Yugi) VS zorc (Bakura) VS Sekhmet (Marik)
I think because his mother is from the clan of Sekhmet, Sekhmet watches over all her members, including those related but are born in different clans if marriages happen, and because Marik is to be the keeper of the Rod and suffered abuse from Mr. Ishtar, Ra forsakened Mr. Ishtar and let Sekhmet's powers be unleashed on him to punish him for his crimes. Of course Shadi made it worse when he blamed Atem for what happened.
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I fell Shadi made things worse too. Maybe things would have gone differently if he didn't say it was Atem's fault.
Thankfully Odion was around to help a little.
In the process of punishing Mr. Ishtar, Marik was hurt too. Pretty tragic story all around.
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Same here, I don't understand why he would tell Marik that, I'm sure Atem never would have given such an order for a family to live underground for centuries.
Oh yes, Odion managed to help Marik, he and Ishizu were basically parents to him afterall.
Mr. Ishtar brought a lot of pain to his family for what he did.
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I don't know what Shadi meant by it either. Maybe he means fate will make him meet pharaoh, but still his words bred a lot of hate inside poor Marik.
Odion went through the suffering as well, but had such a good heart and real love for his family. Took good care of Marik. Ishizu on the other hand could have done better in my opinion.
He sure did. From the beginning he was so strict in his clan that he mistreated anyone that didn't fit the traditions. Very sad, but maybe its how he was treated too, they have been in the tomb or centuries.
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Agreed, what he said was uncalled for and made Marik hate Atem for something he didn't do and made things worse for Atem and for Marik and his family. Heck, Marik started abusing Odion like hos his dad did because he was so angry. Shadi screwed up on that part big time.
He did, he had Mrs. Ishtar's love since she saved him and because of that he took care of his siblings learning from her love. I think Ishizu was so indoctrinated by her father at a young age that women were to be obedient and quiet and taught to live by the old ways Ishizu never thought she could do anything about her father's teachings. I think when she saw Yami Marik and how everything became terrible that she realized her father and Shadi created this mess with her family and now she was stepping up to the plate and taking charge of her situation and life.
True, but he also brought it upon himself, especially if he was willing to kill Odion. I think if Yami Marik didn't show up Mr. Ishtar would killed all of them, even it was an accident on Marik and Ishizu.
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It also sucks Marik couldn't figure it out himself and just took shadi's word for it, sad.
I hated how Marik treated Odion, I understand he was hurt but Odion didn't deserve it. I especially hated his words when Odion fell in the match with Joey and Marik acted like he didn't care about him. Probably because of Yami Marik, but still!
I see what your saying about women roles back then, but I fell she could have been more loving towards Marik like Odion was and less parental. Maybe I'm just picky.
I agree, he brought it on himself, what happened to him was cruel but he was cruel too.
It's shocking but true he might have gone far enough to kill all the children. He'd probably start over with another child and start the cycle all over again.
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I know right? Shadi was turning him into his own father.
Indeed, Ishizu pissed me off a bit as well because she knows what her father wa slike and for her to ask Marik to continue the tradition of living underground at first is obsurd, especially when it caused this mess in the first place.
Yep, of course he deserved it, and it was poetic as he was killed by the son he wanted. That is karma.
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Yes, he didn't help at all
Exactly! Ishizu was a bit too rooted in the traditions for my taste. Not a good match for the situation, Marik needed more love.
You're right. he created Yami Marik and it was his undoing.
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And Marik almost made the Ishtar family go extinct because of it.
Exactly, she should know how her father was, I think when he realized Ishizu brought Marik to the outside world he hated her more and would give her a more brutal death for bringing Marik outside. some traditions need to die and Ishizu must realize that, and know her father was wrong.
Yep and he invoked the wrath of a god on himself.
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How so?
Yeah, the fact she watched Marik suffer and not have a moral opinion at first didn't make sense to me.
Their father was so cruel, I think you're right, he would have punished her harshly for that.
In your theory yes.
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Because Marik could have killed his family ad died from his Yami.
Indeed, it's a good thing he's gone.
Yep, of course it was his own son.
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Very very true
Yes, he would have continued to make their lives hell if he spared them. Especially Odion who would have died
Yeah, the irony.
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