Ryou Bakura

Ryou Bakura is the Regent Archon of the Imperial Archonal Union, as well as the Baron of Ryoujing. He also runs a bookstore called Bakura's Books, where he sells his own works.

Appearance
Ryou is commonly considered "pretty" by people. He has a charming, youthful face and tends to be dressed very well in rich fabrics. He has long, fluffy white hair, usually styled partially tied up, and with two longer strands that frame his face, as well as as two "bat wing" locks  that stick out. Ryou's eyes are red, and he has long, dark eyelashes and very pale skin. He also has small fangs, but only on his upper canines.

Ryou wears a black trench coat with a blue-white horizontally striped shirt and grey trousers underneath. When he is not wearing these things, he still maintains a colour scheme of black, blue, and white, accented by gold.

Ryou talks with a British accent, and when he laughs, people describe his laugh as demonic or unsettling.

Personality
Ryou is often described to be a snarky, straight-forward person. He often makes sarcastic remarks and is not afraid to tell somebody the truth. He likes to think of nicknames of people, often with the purpose of mocking the person in a subtle way. Along with that, Ryou is seen as a competent, cool-headed yet cold-blooded person. It is said that Ryou has a thirst for blood, aswell.

The Son of Heaven
Ryou has always been possessed by a spirit called the "Son of Heaven". Despite sounding friendly, the Son of Heaven is infact a creature of pure darkness. Cunning, manipulative with a lust for grandeur. He is infact the dark part of Ryou's personality.

Usually, it seemed as if the Son of Heaven was kept in-check. As soon as the Second Purple Insurrection started, Ryou started showing harsher behaviour. He became more reckless and ruthless. When Ryou eventually lost his position in Adytum and migrated to Silvay, the Son of Heaven finally took control. He renamed Findara to "Ryoujing", ordered people, regardless of rank to adress him as "The Son of Heaven", instead of "Ryou". He still claims to be the one and only Ryou Bakura, despite aforementioned demonic behaviour already showing.

Early life
The specifics of Ryou's origins are unknown. What is known, is that he first appeared in Viodoxa City as a child. He lived together with his two brothers, Pelagius and Dausnd, and his parents whose names are unknown.

Their parents were killed during their childhood. It is said that they died due to food poisoning. Given that the three boys did not have anywhere else to go, they were seperated. Ryou was put into an orphanage in Viodoxa City, till he became eightteen years of age. It was later discovered that Ryou's parents had bought raw fish, from the Von Nachtig Clan. When Ryou became an adult, he moved into Ethreon, a poor neighbourhood in Viodoxa City. It is from here, that his on record journey in Rathnir began.

Career in the Second Archonate
Ryou spent most of his time, gathering knowledge. He read books about history, but also about characters that are unknown to the world of Rathnir. As such, he himself started thinking: "should I start writing books, myself?" He did this, and set up his book store, named "Bakura's Books".

Due to his enthousiasm, he was able to exceed expectations and sell a few books to the local populace. This caught the attention of the organiser of Viodoxa City at the time, CPaulos. He noticed Ryou's intelligence and way with words, that he had granted him a position on Viodoxa City's new City Council. During the weekly council meetings, Ryou would often take the charge during meetings and at one point become the council's unofficial "Speaker".

As Viodoxa City had returned from its recent inactivity, CPaulos felt as if his job was done, and wanted to focus on his job as "National Economist". The current Archduchess of Adytum, Blanc McSpiegel then appointed Ryou to become the new Baron of Viodoxa. Ryou had gone from an orphan, to a nobleman.

As Baron, Ryou worked had to solidify Viodoxa's guilds and the connection between the citizens and the local government. All new members were required to become a part of a guild. Those that had shown their willingness to achieve and had proven to be hard workers, would be promoted by Ryou to the head of their respective guild.

After some time, Ryou would be promoted to the position of "Count of Hanu". This meant that he now was responsible for Viodoxa City and the neighbouring city, Barbatlas. It is during his time as Count of Hanu, that he re-united with his two brothers and that he adopted a son, Delta von Nachtig.

During the end of Viodoxa's existence, Ryou was made Captain of the Viodoxan Army, after he had successfully defended the fortress of Sun's Gate during the first battle of the War for Sun's Gate.

Establishing of the family
During his time as Count of Hanu, Ryou had re-united with his two siblings. He also adopted a son, Delta von Nachtig. Given that Delta's clan had "murdered" Ryou's parents, Ryou spanked Delta one-hundred times, before accepting Delta as his legitimate son. Delta cried throughout the torture, but did eventually survive. Delta's new name was now Delta Bakura.

The three brothers talked for hours about how their lives went since they had seperated. Dausnd had become the Baron of Kalai-Bali, a town with unique Oriental architecture. Pelagius had become Archbishop within the Church of Guhen, while also being the Lead Architect of the O.P.T.C.

After having caught up, the family decided to construct their family estate in Dausnd's Kalai-Bali. They built a Chinese-style palace named "The Palace of Longlasting Joy".

Later on, when Ryou became Marquis, he adopted Cassiath Potentia. Cassiath had lost his family long ago, so Ryou felt as if he should take care of him. As time went on, he grew fond of Cassiath and this resulted in Ryou adopting Cassiath. Cassiath thus became known as Cassiath Bakura.

Cassiath went on to marry Sardina Dem Spheniscidae, thus establishing a link between the Bakura Dynasty and the Dem Spheniscidae Family. This led to the Bakura Family replacing the Karlpfen Family as one of the Cymrian Families. Cassiath and Sardina went on to have a child, named Schuyler Dem Spheniscidae-Bakura.

After the fall of the Third Archonate and the establishing of Ryoujing, Ryou went on to marry Llyre es vel volaerys wir O’Valmeñ kes dem Spheniscidae, who now became Llyre wir O’Valmen sel Bakura. Llyre even made a drawing of Ryou!

Career in the Seratovian State
As the Second Archonate of Viodoxa collapsed, the mainland of Cymru had split up. Ryou remained in Viodoxa City, which had then become a part of the short-lived Kingdom of Adytum. While the continent was in chaos, Viodoxa City seemed to be peaceful and stable. Soon enough, the Kingdom of Adytum joined the Seratovian State. In the Seratovian State, Ryou started out with the same ranks as in Viodoxa, but with different names. He now was the Mayor of Viodoxa City and Lord of Hanu.

Tasked by the government, who was aware of Ryou's writing skills, he was commissioned to write a piece on the founding of Seratovia (it's literally the wiki of Seratovia). He was paid handsomely, and he was satisfied by the recognition he had gotten.

Since Ryou had become the most prominent and most recognised administrator in Adytum, he was promoted to the title of "Marquis of Adytum", which put him only second to the Archduchess of Adytum, Hazel McSpiegel. This also led to Ryou resigning from the Barony of Viodoxa and being Count of Hanu. As Baron, Ryou centralised the power of the Baron, made the Viodoxan Council an advisory organ. He also organised the guilds so that they would be able to function. The population rose and Viodoxa City expanded its area to border BarbAtlas in the South and is set to expand to the Mainland. Ryou resigned in favour of Cassiath, who was not adopted yet.

Career in the Third Archonate
Cymru was once more being invaded by "Lying Loic the Divider" as Ryou calls him. Thus, the Imperial Archonate was reformed. Due to Hazel McSpiegel once again ascending to become Archon, she promoted Ryou to the rank of "Archduke of Adytum". In reality, this meant nothing other than him now having the title of "Archduke".

The war had dragged out for a long time, with the Viodoxan side losing twice. Ryou had put hours upon hours on grinding, to make sure his citizens would be able to fight during the war. However despite his efforts, blunders by the Viodoxa High Command during both battles had led Ryou to believe that the war was a lost cause. Ryou had thus decided to lay down arms, to force Archon Augustine Salvay to surrender. Some days later, it happened.

Meanwhile, Ryou had told both sides how he believed would resolve the conflict. A "Government of National Unity" had to be formed, according to him. This would be a government with people from both sides, while also sparing the people that were in charge of most towns. This had happened, most of the Barons in Adytum kept their position, with only Ryou being demoted. He had given up his position, so that the rest of Adytum was able to continue life as if nothing happened.

Departure from Adytum
Ryou walked from Checkpoint Charlie to his emptied house in Viodoxa City. He looked around, packed some things he was able to grab and left.

Before he would leave the city, the city where it had all started for him, he would first make a last trip around the city, to see how things were going. Just like he had done as Baron, Count, Marquis and Archduke.

He started off in Ethreon, where Ryou had lived in his early days. The slums, which he would soon move out of as soon as the Southern district of Viodoxa was constructed.

The Southern district, called Coalition Square. He had his bookstore here, which had been robbed too. The Glapsvid apartments, which was his second home. He was not even able to open the locked door.

Ryou then went to the Hexturnal, a place he used to work at very often, when he was an Archbishop of the Church of Guhen. Last but not least, Ryou went to the Farmer's guild. The place he had been working long and hard in the recent years, to make sure the people of Viodoxa would be able to fend off the invaders.

All of that, gone to waste.

Ryou then went to the Palace of Longlasting Joy in Kalai Bali, the town of his brother Dausnd Bakura. He ordered his room, put some of his belongings there and went to sleep.

But sleeping, he could not.

Soon enough, Ryou recieved a letter from Hanzerhouenn Hávi Asagrim, of Silvay. Due to the peace having been signed, Hávi had offered Ryou a place to start over.

Ryou, as arrogant as he is, would name the city Ryoujing, after himself.

Back at the very start, he was.

Career in the Archonal Union
After the second battle of Viodoxa City, Ryou doubted the ability of the government to continue fighting the war. He wanted to save the people in Adytum and thus decided to lay down arms, aiming to force the new Archon, Augustine Salvay to surrender by founding Checkpoint Charlie and mending bonds between both sides. This worked. Along with this, Ryou wrote letters to Hiiro Dem Spheniscidae and Archon Augustine, with his ideal future for Viodoxa. "A government of National Unity, with people from both sides in government as to not alienate either side". His wish was granted, and most people in Adytum held their position.

In the aftershock of the surrender, the Bakura family had internal squabbles, due to the emerging J Horde managing to recruit a few of the Adytans into their ranks, including Ryou's own son Cassiath. This however, would soon fall apart with the Bakuras being reunited and Cassiath apologising to Ryou for his past actions.

While Ryou was building up Ryoujing, his city grew to become the second-largest in all of Silvay. He was even promoted by Hanzerouenn Hávi Asagrim, to become Silvay's new Minister of Humanities. A title that would be ridiculed by practically everybody that heard of it.

After some time, Regent Archon Hiiro wanted to have a legislature in the IAU, to help him govern. And as such, Ryou found his way back into high government, as he was appointed by Hiiro to the Regents Council.

Spouse(s)

 * Llyre es vel Volaerys (foolscrow) - Ryou believes that Llyre is physically attractive, which is the primary reason why they got married in the first place. However, this does not mean that their marriage is a happy one-- Ryou regularly abuses Llyre emotionally and psychologically, often threatening him or testing how far Llyre will let him go before he lashes back out. While Llyre has recently regained some of his confidence, Ryou still seems to have his way in manipulating Llyre to do his bidding.



Friends
Ryou has no friends, as he looks down on basically everybody.

Enemies




Works
Ryou has written five books:

- The Stability of a Nation

A book, as the title suggests, about the stability of a nation. This book discusses how stability is maintained, lost and what the effects are of the loss of stability.

- Bakura's Guide to Warfare

This book outlines Ryou's view on warfare and focuses on the psychological and theoretical part of warfare.

- Power and its Tributaries

A book that discusses power dynamics and how these theories can be applied to any given situation.

- The Basis of Sociology

This book discusses human behaviour and what shapes oneself.

Trivia & Meta

 * Both portraits done by foolscrow (who's also helping with this wiki :P)