History Characters / YuGiOhEastAcademy

* NightmareFace: A hint that Haine is not a normal kid.

* [[spoiler: NotSoHarmlessVillain: He mostly just stood around shouting and saying random things, with no real consistency to his arguments. However, he is apparently some sort of EvilSorcerer, he is currently dueling Marcus and Sylvestre, and he apparently uses a nasty deck full of traps.]]

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: What, exactly, is a kid doing seemingly living with the Apophis Cultists? And what is more, those cards he gave out have some outright disturbing names and effects.

* DarkIsEvil: He uses Yami Marik's Fiend-Immortality Deck.
* DeadlyUpgrade: Haine's cards. Just going by effects, they are quite powerful, and have an equal chance of ruining you as they do defeating your opponent.

** During the duel with Gretel, he used Obfuscating Stupidity both to lure Gretel into a false sense of security, and also to simply [[{{Troll}} annoy the crap out of her]]. (She had ''really'' pissed him off with her arrogant attitude before the duel, so he was trying to not just beat, but humiliate her) When Marcus saw the face down cards on Gretel's side of the field, he was almost positive that they were traps. However, he also realized that it was better to spring them ''now'', and lose a weak monster, than to spring them later and lose one of his trump cards. Furthermore, he also had three separate traps of his own that he could use to counter her retaliation. Now, if he were to use the same cold, confident and eloquent attitude he had been using in the previous duels, then it would be obvious to Gretel that he had a plan. And Marcus knew that Gretel was intelligent enough to easily figure it out. (After all, if ''he'' could figure it out, then so could she.) But by acting like a fool, he could make his reckless actions look like the work of an incompetant amateur who didn't know what he was doing. Furthermore, by being as annoyingly retarded as possible, he manipulated Gretel into wanting to end the duel as quickly as possible, which meant she would be quick to play her strongest monsters in order to take him down as quickly as possible, little knowing that he had a surprise waiting for them. His plan worked perfectly. She wasted her backrow and Mystical Space Typhoon on cards that could easily be replaced, and in her impatience to end the sham of a duel and shut up the babbling idiot, she threw one of her beloved XYZ monsters right into the path of a Mirror Force. leaving Alien Hypno free to attack her directly.

* {{Troll}}: He acts like an idiot in the first part of his duel against Gretel, partially [[ObfuscatingStupidity to lure her into a false sense of security]] and partially just to piss her off.

* NotSoDifferent: One of the points of the Skull Knight's [[BreakThemWithWords speech]]. Sigmund agrees.

* GoodIsNotSoft: Definately shows signs of this during his duel with the Skull Knight.

* GoodisnotSoft: Definately shows signs of this during his duel with the Skull Knight.

* DarkIsNotEvil: His entire deck are dark monsters but he still tries to be nice and friendly. This becomes the main point of his {{World Of Cardboard speech}} to SkullKnight.

* DarkIsNotEvil: His entire deck are dark monsters but he still tries to be nice and friendly. This becomes the main point of his WorldOfCardboard speech to SkullKnight.

* OlderThanHeLooks: Its hinted Haine was around during ''Battle City'', and somehow knows about the battle between Seto and Yugi and Umbra and Lumis.

A strange young child who seems to work for the Apophis Cult, he mainly appears to spy on the heroes, and gave out certain cards to his allies. Otherwise, he is basically a normal kid...or is he?

** And possibly had something to do with Skull Knight becoming what he is now.

A strange young child who seems to work for the Apophis Cult, he mainly appears to spy on the heroes, and gave out certain cards to his allies. Otherwise, he is basically a normal kid.

* DarkIsNotEvil: His entire deck are dark monsters but he still tries to be nice and friendly.
* TeamMom: Genderflipped. What he ''tries'' to act like at times.

On a larger scale, Marcus is also setting up a Heads I Win Tails You Lose situation. If Gretel loses, then she just lost to an idiot, but if she wins, then she just wasted half an hour of her time.

** During the finals of the tournament, Marcus tricks the others into believing that his partner can read minds. This leads Denero (Who is terrified that Marcus will recognise him as a son of thieves and expose him to the other duelists.) Tries to turn the others against Marcus. Both Denero and Jurrac Meteor believe they have outwitted Marcus, but it was infact the other way around. Marcus lied about Gol'gar's mind reading ability in order to gauge the reactions from the others, [[BatmanGambit knowing that the ones who panicked would be the ones with something to hide]]. And [[UnwittingPawn Denero had fallen right into his trap.]]

** '''[[BadassNormal BADASS]]''' [[BadassNormal Normal]]

** During the duel with Gretel, he used Obfuscating Stupidity both to lure Gretel into a false sense of security, and also to simply [[{{Troll}} annoy the crap out of her]]. (She had ''really'' pissed him off with her arrogant attitude before the duel, so he was trying to not just beat, but humiliate her) When Marcus saw the face down cards on Gretel's side of the field, he was almost positive that they were traps. However, he also realized that it was better to spring them ''now'', and lose a weak monster, than to spring them later and lose one of his trump cards. Furthermore, he also had three separate traps of his own that he could use to counter her retaliation. Now, if he were to use the same cold, confident and eloquent attitude he had been using in the previous duels, then it would be obvious to Gretel that he had a plan. And Marcus knew that Gretel was intelligent enough to easily figure it out. (After all, if ''he'' could figure it out, then so could she.) But by acting like a fool, he could make his reckless actions look like the work of an incompetant amateur who didn't know what he was doing. Furthermore, by being as annoyingly retarded as possible, he manipulated Gretel into wanting to end the duel as quickly as possible, which meant she would be quick to play her strongest monsters in order to take him down as quickly as possible, little knowing that he had a surprise waiting for them. His plan worked perfectly. She wasted her backrow and Mystical Space Typhoon on cards that could easily be replaced, and in her impatience to end the sham of a duel and shut up the babbling idiot, she threw one of her beloved XYZ monsters right into the path of a Mirror Force. leaving free to attack her directly.
*** On a larger scale, Marcus was also setting up a HeadsIWinTailsYouLose situation. If Gretel loses, then she just lost to an idiot, but if she wins, then she just wasted half an hour of her time.

** During the duel with Gretel, he used Obfuscating Stupidity both to lure Gretel into a false sense of security, and also to simply [[{{Troll}} annoy the crap out of her]]. (She had ''really'' pissed him off with her arrogant attitude before the duel, so he was trying to not just beat, but humiliate her) When Marcus saw the face down cards on Gretel's side of the field, he was almost positive that they were traps. However, he also realized that it was better to spring them ''now'', and lose a weak monster, than to spring them later and lose one of his trump cards. Furthermore, he also had three separate traps of his own that he could use to counter her retaliation.
Now, if he were to use the same cold, confident and eloquent attitude he had been using in the previous duels, then it would be obvious to Gretel that he had a plan. And Marcus knew that Gretel was intelligent enough to easily figure it out. (After all, if ''he'' could figure it out, then so could she.) But by acting like a fool, he could make his reckless actions look like the work of an incompetant amateur who didn't know what he was doing. Furthermore, by being as annoyingly retarded as possible, he manipulated Gretel into wanting to end the duel as quickly as possible, which meant she would be quick to play her strongest monsters in order to take him down as quickly as possible, little knowing that he had a surprise waiting for them. His plan worked perfectly. She wasted her backrow and Mystical Space Typhoon on cards that could easily be replaced, and in her impatience to end the sham of a duel and shut up the babbling idiot, she threw one of her beloved XYZ monsters right into the path of a Mirror Force. leaving free to attack her directly.

* ButtMonkey: He seemed like this in his first two duels, being [[CurbstompBattle Curbstomped]] ''twice'' and failing to inflict any damage in either duel. [[NotSoHarmless However...]]

* NotSoHarmless: He starts of as an absentminded CloudCuckooLander who get's Curbstomped during his first two duels. But during his duel Gretel he shows a surprising level of competance, Turning Gretel's own monsters against her, while unleashing a vicious psychological maniplulation against her.

* CuteShotaroBoy: Cheerful and apparently quite enthusiastic.

* GadgeteerGenius: Can hack all sorts of technology, such as giving the group''s Duel Disks two-way radios

* ShownTheirWork: Did enough researching into Duel Academies prior to attending that both the large quantity of Duel Spirit-seeing people and an OmnicidalMaciac trying to revive himself left him mostly unphased.