I understand it's because Malik has pushed the emotions and thoughts that he can't handle on his own onto his other self thus partially explaining the following, but there's this interesting contrast of how the base Malik so very deeply loathes the dark and yet he still harbors love for his father who was the one who trapped him there, and then Yami Malik of course embraces and oozes with all the hatred Malik has for his father that Malik can't handle or face yet but Yami Malik also has fondness for being in the dark and feels a sense of place there.
In some way, it's possible that Malik -hates- the part of himself who found some sense of meaning and comfort underground, instead espousing his rebellion with his all and everything, and so those feelings ended up buried and vested into Yami Malik. To admit to those in-some-form nuanced memories and emotions might feel like a betrayal and might be devastating in its own right for the base Malik and Malik's need to exist in the full world is so bright (he could exist in the full world with nuanced feelings but it's so rough - he killed it).
Someone else pointed this out to me, and this is probably a more subtle thing that would require more long-term passionate fans of Yami Malik to notice, but Base Malik is actually a lot more volatile and impulsively angry while Yami Malik does a much better job at staying calm even if he's being such an "edgy" character.
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