Yami Bakura

Character
Name:	Yami Bakura, Dark Bakura, Thief King Bakura, Bakura, King of Thieves (Official Names); Akefia, Florence (Popular Fan Nicknames)
Occupation:
Relationships:	Ancient egyptian version of Ryou Bakura, enemy of Yami Yugi.
Fandom:	Yu-Gi-Oh
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Yami Bakura, also known as Thief King Bakura or Dark Bakura in the Japanese version, is the main antagonist of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! series.

Fandom

Fanon Names

Often in fanworks, people would try to find ways to differentiate between Yami Bakura and Ryou Bakura, since they both go by the same name in the series. One very popular solution is to refer to the modern counterpart exclusively as Ryou, and the spirit goes only as Bakura, something not really accurate to the series but simple enough.

Another solution is to give Yami a new fan name: two of the more popular ones were Florence, a nickname given to him in Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series, and Akefia, a name that was passed around as his real name from the Japanese version of the series in the early years of the fandom, but that actually was never official in any language. The name seens to have been invented in around 2004 or 2005, and a popular theory about it's creation was that some fan heard the phrase "I am a Thief and a stealer of souls" that Yami Bakura says in the anime incorrectly as "I'm Akefia, stealer of souls", and passed this mistake around.

This meta essay (The Hot Mess That is Akefia) by Ariasune goes into the issue in more detail.

Thief King Bakura Did Nothing Wrong

Over the years, it became a popular belief in some parts of the fandom, especially on Tumblr, that Thief King Bakura was justified in his actions: the argument pointing at his very sympathetic backstory, and at the way that neither Atem nor other characters really try to solve the problem that made him become a villain in the first place. People that disagree with this usually point at the Sins of the Father trope, and how Atem should not be blamed for something he did not do.

• Ziggy, why are you so sure about TKB being right, meta by bakugouisabitch (Archive link)

Shipping

His most popular ships are Tendershipping, which pairs him up with Ryou Bakura, and Thiefshipping, that pairs him up with Marik Ishtar.