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I have seen the anime (it’s been awhile since I watched season 2 though, so I might be rusty), but not there yet in the manga. Okay this ended up a little long, but this is a very interesting question. 

I guess this boils down to how much of regular Malik’s evil behavior you blame on Yami Malik’s presence/influence throughout that part of his life. What I mean by that is, whether you believe those actions/ideas were entirely Malik’s own, or if having Yami Malik’s sadistic presence inside his head/soul exerted some influence on what he did from the point YMalik manifested forward. 

Some people attribute Malik’s rapid 180 in personality post-Battle City to Malik being freed of Yami Malik and therefore reverting to his “original” personality he had as a child. Some people attribute it to him being shaken by seeing the actual effects his actions have/losing his body/almost losing his brother and therefore becoming remorseful from that point forward. 

I personally fall somewhere in the middle. I don’t think Malik was just immediately “fixed” by being separated from YMalik or that Malik was just an innocent soul possessed by an evil spirit. I don’t like it when people try to paint the situation that way. (After all, YMalik was born from his bitterness, pain, and hatred. YMalik isn’t a ghost the way Atem and Bakura are. He never had a life of his own. He is composed entirely of Malik’s emotions and motivations.) 

But, I do also think that Yami Malik’s existence probably exerted some sort of influence on him or, if nothing else, acted as a magnifier for those emotions. And I’m not sure I’m comfortable saying YMalik doesn’t know the difference between right or wrong, or going so far as saying that absolves him of being bad. Yeah, he’s just going through with Malik’s plans because it’s what he knows, but I think he does, at least on some level, understand that what he’s doing is wrong. He just doesn’t care. He is incredibly sadistic and takes genuine pleasure in hurting people. 

To sum all this rambling up, I guess you have to decide whether you think Malik is a product of YMalik or if YMalik is a product of Malik. Did YMalik’s sadism make Malik act like he did or did Malik’s anger entirely create YMalik’s personality? How much independent thought did YMalik have (especially before they were separated)? Or was he just a split personality that acted on Malik’s darkest desires?

I personally sort of fall somewhere in the middle and think they fed off of each other’s anger and hatred. Malik, however, had a personality that existed before YMalik’s existence and that gave him a foothold to work towards remorse and reparation for his actions. 

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“For a shadow, you’re cast pretty thin,” Bakura commented, leaning back against the kitchen counter and studying Mariku with a coppery gaze. Metallic, but pitying. He thumbed the Millennium Ring, the tines creating a pretty sound as he drew attention to it. “You need something like this, huh? Give you some real bite?”