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[egyptianmage.livejournal.com]

Mahaado can hear! This is good, great even! So how does he opt to celebrate it? By sticking himself at the nearest beach he can find and listening to the ocean. Occasionally an illusion manifests, seemingly on it's own. Right now there are Egyptian children running about playing along the beach. But he can't see them because he's facing the ocean and they're behind him. Sometimes it's pure shadow images of four kids running about playing, two older kids and two little ones. But they've got no solid form or substance. Sometimes the images of the Pharaoh's private boat floats along the ocean as it would down the Nile.

And yet Mahaado is oblivious to it all. Feel free to poke him though. He doesn't bite....

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[believethebonds.livejournal.com]

[And look who's here! A man who can hear just fine as well is standing nearby, full of questions brimming as he approaches]

Hello.

[egyptianmage.livejournal.com]

The illusions disappear as he snaps out of his near daydream state. Looking about he spotted the guy he met before. "Greetings," he replied bowing slightly... Japanese people seem to do a lot of that. Oh well... He'll master greetings one day!

[believethebonds.livejournal.com]

[Yusei nods back, not fazed by the greeting ever so slightly. Its all these questions he had earlier that he wants to get to as soon as he could]

Who are you?

[egyptianmage.livejournal.com]

"Who am I or who was I? There is a difference at this point," Mahaado replied politely, he didn't look like a three thousand year ago High Priest because he was anymore after all.

[believethebonds.livejournal.com]

Both.

[egyptianmage.livejournal.com]

"When I was alive, my name was 'Mahaado', I served as the High Magician for the Pharaoh. After I died in battle, I fused Ka and Ba to be reborn... Now to the masses I'm simply the 'Dark Magician' Mouto, Yugi's Signature Monster."

It was odd, having been dead and sealed for so long, Kaiba was allowing him to simulate being alive enough that he could even 'feel' the breeze of the ocean.

[believethebonds.livejournal.com]

[Oh so many confusing terms, looks like Mahaado would have to answer a lot of questions] Ka and Ba?

[egyptianmage.livejournal.com]

Kaiba has a paper on this topic somewhere in the back of his mind.... But Mahaado isn't a rude monster SO...

"Ahh... do you play 'Duel Monsters'?" because that would ultimately be the best way he could possibly explain what he's going to HAVE to explain.

[believethebonds.livejournal.com]

[Yusei nods, of course who wouldn't back in his time and place] Aa.

[egyptianmage.livejournal.com]

Good, good this makes things easier... he hopes...

"Very well, what you call 'Life Points' is what we call 'Ba', what you would refer to as your signature monster, is an alternate version of what we call 'Ka'. I say, Alternate, because normally people do not have a wide variety of monsters to utilize."

At least Yusei isn't a squirming bundle of Mana.

[believethebonds.livejournal.com]

[He nods, understanding the explanation and keeping it noted]

So Stardust Dragon would be my Ka then?

[egyptianmage.livejournal.com]

"Yes, a Ka is..." Hello translating problems...

"Your life force is like a flame, your spirit the body, your Ka the shadow created by that..." Somehow he felt he was missing a connection. "Yes, though you can form partnerships with other Ka's as well. Because all require your life force to be able to manifest, and because it is draining, the numbers are quite few."

[believethebonds.livejournal.com]

Mmm, its like a bond between monster and duelist, working together to win a duel.

[egyptianmage.livejournal.com]

"Just so, but these are not meant as a child's games." Mahaado tilted his head a bit to the side in thought. Really though, he was unhappy to think of small children playing with such powerful forces with no training. "The power to do this was banned after my Pharaoh's death... At least those founded in my native lands."

[believethebonds.livejournal.com]

Mmm. I can see why. [Pondering those statements before piping up again] Why were they banned? Too dangerous?

[egyptianmage.livejournal.com]

"Yes, that and because the Items that were created during my time called forth a terrible Demon God. Because the Pharaoh died to hold him back from the world, Pharaoh Set, sealed the powers and such before his death."

Then went against his own decree... Mahaado didn't always understand that General.

"I apologize for the confusion I must have caused at the time when I came across you. Though I was able to communicate slightly with the girl I met before... with both of us unable to hear..." annnnnnnnnnd he looks a bit apologetic.