this is incredibly tentative, but the temptation is here and real. i'm sorry.

CHARACTER: Atem / The Nameless Pharaoh / Yami Yugi
CANON: Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Monsters, and I am sorry


AU NAME: Atem Montgomery? Look it's a work in progress
AU AGE: 22 to 25
AU OCCUPATION: Student / Spoiled Rich Brat / Online Gamer??
BLURB:

▼ If he's a college student, he is looking to try and get into archaeology. Atem's a good student with passable grades but he's not an overachiever and tends to prefer passing under the radar.
▼ His dad owns Montgomery Suites, a rather large luxury hotel chain. As such, Atem was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and doesn't really need to be studying history. He's doing the father-deemed-necessary business focused classes also, like Law, of course, but he still keeps taking more work on that interests him. If anyone cares to notice, he has a strong interest in the history of games, actually.
▼ His dad used to live in Recolle but moved out of the country to start his business. Atem's mother is from Egypt. Since his family's Rich^(TM), he's traveled a lot! They summer vacationed in Recolle most years, but he's moved here to study since this is where his father studied, too. He's under a lot of pressure to inherit the hotel chain but isn't sold on the idea.
▼ Obviously he loves games. Board games, video games, card games - he tends towards things that require strategic thought but Atem will go for some chill platformers from time to time.
▼ If he's a college student, Atem moonlights online under Trinity, where he plays competitively. He doesn't have a huge online presence but he's got the usual suspects in terms of social media. Twitter is usually for keeping up with game devs, but he'll give it out to people if they ask after a match. As far as competitive gamer goes, he's well ranked, but a bit of an enigma because his online presence is surprisingly minimal. He'll talk to people but he blocks out his face in pictures or only takes photos of things not of himself. Instagram is attached, and he uses it for... OOTD type things. Atem still dresses like, uh. Yugi. Snapchat is close friends only and he will be cross if you give it to the paparazzi or something, though probably not enough to actually scold you? Atem.
▼ BEFORE YOU ASK ABOUT HIS HAIR he bleaches it blonde, it is naturally black and he likes to let his roots grow out a lot. HE HAS TO REGAIN THAT HAIR? I'M NOT HAVING IT ANY OTHER WAY. I'M SORRY. That said he probably looks more like Roxas than Yugi because he does the obvious circa mid-2000s hair spiking.
▼ He lives in a ritzy apartment with a "family friend" (read: butler/nanny) because if you leave Atem to his own devices for too long, he'll forget to eat or go out...in general...or wake up... His father is paying for it, and Atem doesn't actually work.
▼ So he stays up all night playing video games.
▼ And studies all day.
▼ ...He drinks a lot of energy drinks.
▼ If he's not a college student, he has a strained relationship with his father and is debating whether or not to accept the offer to build up a Montgomery Suites for Atem to run on his own.
▼ So tl;dr: Paris Hilton AU where she moonlights as a really good Widowmaker and lives a double life as an online gamer

LOOKING FOR:

▼ Friends, of course! If you'd like to have known Atem from a summer he vacationed in town, that's doable. He's a friendly enough guy, if kind of awkward. He takes a little nudging with friendship because he can lose track of time. On the other hand, college buddies are great; some ideas I have are that Atem's the Designated Driver friend. He doesn't drink but he goes with his friends when they do to make sure they get home safe. He speaks a few languages thanks to traveling a bunch, so if your character wants someone they can chat to in their first language or practice with, Atem could help. He speaks English, Arabic, French, Spanish, uhh. Maybe some Chinese and/or Japanese? He lived in the dorms for a short period until he moved out to the apartment he shares with a butler or nanny, so ex-roomies is up for grabs, maybe? Shoot something at me and I'll make it work.
▼ Online pals that he eventually can meet offline or people who know his ~secret identity. Atem keeps his online persona and real life completely separate. I'd prefer to keep those things separate for as long as possible in game, or kept on the dl. Since he's in Recolle for the Family Business, he wants to keep his hobbies separate and not let his family know too much about his interests. Atem's pretty eclectic in things he might read or keep up with, but he's also a surprisingly friendly person despite his bizarre appearance, so if your character would have interacted with him once, he might have remembered him!
▼ Liiiitle but of a subset of online pals but I think it'd be fun to have an online gamer crew so if you'd want to be on a like... in game equivalent of an Overwatch team with Atem hey. Talk to me.
▼ For the adults: Teachers, obviously, but I'd love to have people who might know Atem from weird and awkward social interactions from him venturing outside. He's not like, purposely weird, but he tends to very obviously not be fully awake when he's shopping. Maybe he accidentally stole your basket at Freshens one late night and now you keep tabs on the guy because he needs several adults, all the time? Maybe he wandered into a game shop and you grabbed the last copy of Call of Duty: MAN WAR GUN WAR or something and now you see him around and the running joke is you keep grabbing the same copy of games. Lay it on me.
▼ People who might have had similar life styles! Atem's basically Paris Hilton. He's been in magazines, spotted with celebrities, has a few friends who are actors or musicians or whatever. People who might want in on that, lmk!
▼ If anyone wants to play his caretaker....... let me know..... you have full permission to embarrass him on Retrospec.
▼ Seriously, just come at me, I'll make a thing work.

OPTIONAL ENABLE ME: no, look, this is already tentative, i just want to see how the au would fair and go from there, please, no, save me