And that further explains why Rishid “totally random baby we swear” Ishtar shared a bunch of their physical features like unique eye colour…. maybe the cousins donated a baby just to make sure the information they needed would still be available for them to steal once they figured out how to pull it off.
Which implies that they had eyes on their Weird Underground Cousins, or maybe even a spy. Maybe Papa Ishtar knew the rumours of such and that’s another reason so be so overly paranoid about his children going to the surface. After all, can you imagine the problems if the heir himself was recruited by thier Weird Aboveground Cousins?
That’s why the Ishtars carved the secret in their sons’ backs. They could hold off their rival Tombkeepers by going “well we have knowledge about opening the door that you don’t, and you can’t touch us without causing it to be lost forever”
Wait oh my god, the Tombkeepers had a feud…..Shadi’s side had four of the Items, but they weren’t any closer to getting the other three after 3000 years because the Puzzle was protected, and they couldn’t get at the Necklace and Rod without starting an all-out war with their Weird Underground Cousins, which could risk destroying the bearer of the god card secret or damaging the Tablet…..that whole weirdass “this is the will of the pharoah” thing was specifically a ploy to lure Malik aboveground and get those two Items into play
Is it only me or does Rishid also look strikingly similar to Shada/Shadi?
I mean, it could of course be that they look just similar because they’re both bald and maybe Takahashi was only able to draw the generic face™.
But honestly? Last weekend, @kittykaibasblog flipped through some of my mangas and while passing by and just glancing at the page I actually mistook younger Rishid without the scars for Shadi and I went back to take another closer look. And we were both immediately reminded of the theory above.
I have no idea what’s up now with Shadi, whether he’s an ancient spirit guarding the tomb or whether he was a human until Bakura killed him in DSOD or how old he is/was, but all I can think now is “oh gods, plz don’t let Shadi be Rishid’s dad.”
What has been seen cannot be unseen so suffer with me
WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO US Rishid is a good boy and we like him.
If there’s any truth to this, the apple fell a very, VERY long way from that particular f-ed up tree. :P
Considering the Dad Track Record of other Yu-Gi-Oh dads….this checks out
The fact that Rishid never got an official character profile is a crime. I wanna know Rishid’s birthday and favorite food. Kazuki Takahashi give me the Rishid lore.
Update: Despite not being documented on the wiki it turns out we do in fact have the lore.
and I want to say A) let the record show that in one of my fics I managed to somehow guess his height within an inch of accuracy and B) I fucking KNEW he was a scorpio. Looking forward to celebrating Rishid Ishtar’s birthday with you all this autumn.
