Yūri Sakaki


 * This is the manga version of Yūri. For the anime character, see here."Everyone hides darkness inside their hearts...darkness they refuse to reveal..."

Yūri is one of main characters in Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V (manga) series. He is one of four personalities residing within Yūya Sakaki.

Appearance
Yūri's appearance is similar with his original counterpart, he has very short, thick, pink eyebrows and purple eyes. Like his counterparts, his hair is two-toned, in his case being uniformly violet with pink underneath - his fringes extending to frame his face, with two pointing upwards.

His outfit appears to be an officer's uniform of sorts, consisting of a purple and light blue waistcoat, pink cravat, a two-part cape of red and purple coat, a purple abbreviated coat with thick cuffs and gold shoulder bands with an amber-colored setting, fastened at the collar bone, and light blue pants tucked into silver-tinted leather boots.

When in control of Yūya's body, his clothes stays the same for exception of his two-part red and purple cape that was replaced with Yūya's cloak.

Personality
Yūri's character is almost a total opposite of his original counterpart. Yūri is on friendly terms with Yūya, Yūto, and especially Yūgo, the man whose his original counterpart hate the most. While he still retain his cruel and somewhat sadistic side, he has a justified reason for being so. Believing that every people are carrying darkness inside their heart, Yūri is very perceptive in seeing through lies.

Despite being the politest (referring himself as "boku", and using "desu" at the end of sentence and suffix "masu" when speaking, which is used for formal spoken Japanese), Yūri always speaks in direct emotional way without thinking of how the person he talks to feels, which is quite similar with the original Yūgo, but Yūri is fully aware of how his words would impact others. And when he is extremely angered, he even dropped his politeness altogether and instead speaks in the same manner as Yūgo.

He is also quite a narcissist, considering himself as handsome after seeing Yuzu's fondness for handsome guys and assumed she would be interested in him for being one. Like Yūto and Yūgo, Yūri cares for Yūya and protective of him, though his level of protectiveness goes farther to the point he would mercilessly punish anyone who harms or deceive Yūya in anyway regardless of the reason.

Past
Based on Yūgo's reminiscence, Yūri has been close friends with Yūya, Yūgo, and Yūto since childhood. However, due to certain incident at yet unknown point in the past, Yūri somehow shared body with Yūya, Yūgo, and Yūto. The incident also made Yūya lost his memories about them and instead believed that he was suffering a quadruple personality disorder. Together with Yūgo and Yūto, they went along with Yūya's belief and became his three other personalities while erasing all of Yūya's scattered memories about them. The exact reason they were doing this is not yet revealed, but the incident that happened before has made Yūya sad enough to make them decided to erase his all memories that involved them for his own good.

Erasing Yūya's Memories
Yūri first appeared along side Yūgo, riding on the back of the latter's D-Wheel, touring inside Yūya's mind. He told Yūgo that if they didn't go back immediately, Yūya might started to become suspicious, but Yūgo assured him that he already entrusted the matter to Yūto to make a cover up for them. They then stopped when they spotted a shard of broken glass that Yūgo picked up and stated it might be a fragment of his memories. Yūri questioned was Yūgo thinking of wanting Yūya to remember him. Yūgo denied this, reminding that if he wishes so then he won't purposely erased Yūya's memories. Yūri then reminded him that it's better for their memories to remain disappear inside Yūya, to which Yūgo replied that he understood since there's only sadness if Yūya remember it.

Yūri vs. Sora
Deeming Yūya was too kind as he saw him starting to falter after hearing Sora's story about his younger sister, Yūri decided to take matters into his own hands by forcefully switched place with Yūya in the middle of his Duel against Sora, stating that it would be appropriate for Sora's Fusion Deck to face his own Fusion Deck, and he himself felt that Sora reeks of vulgar scum. Yūri warned Sora that he wasn't as soft as Yūya did, much to the latter's protest from the inside. Surprised at Yūya's sudden change of attitude (not knowing about his split personalities), Sora tried to reason with Yūri by once again bringing up his sick younger sister, but Yūri coldly shouted at Sora that he could just go to hell with his younger sister because it has nothing to do with him, showing he doesn't care a slightest bit about it. Yūri first got an Action Card by using his whip and then used magic card "Pendulum Fusion" to Fusion Summon "Chimerafflesia" by using "Entermate Barracuda" and "Entermate Ballad" as the Fusion materials. Sora tried to counter its effect by using his magic card, but Yūri countered it with the Action Card that he got. Sora cried out about his sister, but Yūri once again reminded him that it has nothing to do with him and declared whatever the reason is, he won't forgive anyone who hurt Yūya as he ruthlessly attacked Sora. This worried Yūya who told him that he has gone too far, but Yūri revealed that everything Sora has said was nothing but a lie, pointing out the fact that Sora was talking nonstop about his sob story is the proof of his lie. Yūri then taunted Sora that he will give him terror for being a bad boy. Furious and realised there was no point in continuing his facade any longer, Sora confirmed that everything he said was indeed a lie as Yūri ripped the photo that Yūya picked earlier. Yūri tried to get an Action Card, but got into another trap as Sora revealed that the photo he had ripped was the switch to that trap. Yūri tried to destroy the Action Card using his own, but the moment he destroyed it, Sora activated its effect to draw cards and countered attack by using the Pendulum prototype cards  Reiji  gave to him, summoning " Edge Imp Cotton Eater ", shocking Yūri and Yūya. Sora activated his monster's effect to reduce Yūri's LP to 1600. The pain from the shockwave made Yūri realized that something was wrong. He then noticed Yuzu and wondered who she is. Yūya answered that she is his manager, and Yūri then wondered if she has interest in him, to which Yūya immediately denied. They were interrupted by Sora who performed another Fusion Summon that reduce his LP to 100. Yūri felt that the damage impact shook his brain, something that wasn't normal if the damage setting was in half and suspected Sora had done something. Sora revealed that he had tripled the Solid Vision damage in their Action Field, which explains Yūri's injuries. Seeing Yūri's injuries, Yūya asked Yūri to switch back with him, but Yūri was worried that even if they switch place now there's no guarantee Yūya could even stand in his body's current condition, and he blamed himself that their LP has been reduced so much. However, Yūya assured Yūri that if he wasn't there, he wouldn't have known of Sora's true colour, and there was something he wants to tell to Sora. Yūri looked at Yuzu and thought she may got sad if a handsome guy gone, to which Yūya retorted that she would be okay. Finally relented, Yūri allowed Yūya to be in control once again, entrusting the Duel to him.

Yūgo vs. Ren
After successfully escaped from LC and back to their hideout, Yūto told Yūri and Yūgo who noticed something about Yuzu, that Yūya has yet to noticed it because his memories are confused, worrying Yūri who asked how it could happened. Yūto shifted the the subject to Yūya's current condition. Yūri apologized, blaming himself for the damage Yūya took even though he was with him. Yūgo tried to assure that it wasn't his fault because Sora was a strong opponent, but Yūri instead told him to stop because being pitied by Yūgo only gave opposite effect to him, causing a one-sided argument that stopped by Yūto. Yūri then noticed electricity started to appear from the cables and realized that someone was hacking them through Yūya's Duel Disk. Yūto told them to quickly take off the Duel Disk from Yūya, but Yūri revealed it was already too late because someone has already entered into Yūya's mind to get access to his memories. Yūgo volunteered to go and handle the intruder, followed by Yūri who also volunteered, but Yūgo told him not to because Yūri was still injured and to just leave everything to him. Once Yūgo left, Yūto expressed his worry since Yūgo was easy to be angered, worries that Yūri also shared. But Yūri assured Yūto that Yūgo's skill in riding D-Wheel is top-notch, so he'll find the intruder soon. However, their worries resurfaced when Yūya weakly uttered Yūgo's name, indicating something has happened to Yūgo.

Abilities
Yūri is athletic and acrobatic like Yūya and Yūto. Compared to the other two, he has exceptionally strong tolerance for pain, being able to remain standing while enduring severe pain from the damage impact from the tripled damage of Solid Vision's damage setting that's supposed to be enough to make normal person collapse. Like Yūya, he is able to manipulate Solid Vision system at will, though not as much as Yūya does with his magic tricks, pigeon, and paper plane. In his case, he is able to manifest a thorn whip to take an Action Card that is faraway from him and at the same time prevents his opponent from getting the Action Card. Like Yūto and Yūgo, due to unknown connection between him and Yūya, he is able to appear and manifest himself as a spirit that only Yūya can see and hear.

Deck
Like his original counterpart, Yūri uses "Predator Plants" Deck that consists of carnivorous plant-like monsters. Yūri also uses a magic card like "Pendulum Fusion" that enables him to perform Fusion Summon by using counterparts' cards.