Seto Kaiba (DSOD)

Seto Kaiba is the older brother of Mokuba Kaiba. Adopted into the Kaiba family as an orphan, Kaiba is at the helm of the world's largest multinational gaming conglomerate, Kaiba Corp, serving as its majority owner and CEO. An intellectually gifted and innovative computer programmer, engineer, and inventor during his youth, he invented virtual software for playing video games as a young child prodigy. Nonetheless, an estranged relationship with his adoptive father and outsmarting him auspiciously led Kaiba towards a seamless corporate takeover of KaibaCorp. With access to vast wealth, technological resources, and a wellspring of scientific and business expertise, Kaiba seeks to expand Kaiba Corp not just across Domino City but the entire world. A competitive businessman and cutthroat investor, Kaiba also seeks to become the world's greatest player in Duel Monsters. To accomplish this goal, he must defeat his arch-rival, the pharaoh Yami Yugi. The sole issue is that Yami Yugi has passed on to the afterlife, and Kaiba will stop at absolutely nothing to get one final duel. Seto Kaiba has been forced on occasion to deal with either people adversely affected by Gozaburo Kaiba's actions, wanting to take their revenge on Seto himself, or people from within KaibaCorp attempting to take over the million-dollar corporation. Kaiba omits honorifics and has a rude pattern of speech. Kaiba usually calls Joey Wheeler names, such as mediocre, pathetic dog, loser, a nobody, insignificant person, and weakling. Kaiba plays as an arch-rival to Yami Yugi and has a certain snobbish contempt for Yugi's group of friends, namely Joey Wheeler; he refers to them constantly with derisive nicknames such as "the nerd herd", "the dweeb patrol", or "the geek squad". He can be condescending, selfish, no-nonsense, and narcissistic, but can be oblivious at times. It is stated by Mokuba ever since being adopted by Gozaburo, Kaiba became much colder than he used to be. Despite this, Kaiba still has strong brotherly instincts for Mokuba and will put his life in danger in a heart beat to safeguard Mokuba's life. Apart from Mokuba, Kaiba has compassion for children—especially orphans (as he himself was one and knew what it felt like). He goes on to achieve his goal to make KaibaLands, a place where all children can play. Sometimes he opens up momentarily, performing kind acts, though always covering them up with sarcasm, and denying them if asked. Although Kaiba may seem very unkind toward his brother Mokuba, he has a brotherly love for him. When their adoptive brother Noah had hypnotized Mokuba into not remembering him and thinking Noah was his real brother, Kaiba revealed how much he cared about him to try to make him remember; in one Season 1 episode of the NAS anime, after Pegasus is defeated, Kaiba tells Yugi that Mokuba "means everything to me". This is shown when Kaiba risks his own life by standing on a ledge to win the Duel against Yugi so that he can get to Pegasus to save Mokuba. Even when Kaiba preaches that no one gets away with trying to take over his company, he risks KaibaCorp itself when Dueling for Mokuba. Kaiba also deeply trusts Mokuba as an assistant in running KaibaCorp, even willing to leave KaibaCorp in Mokuba's hands if need be. Pride is Kaiba's strength and weakness; he never backs down from a fight and gives everything he can in a Duel. This results in his sense of superiority and sense of arrogance, making it extremely difficult to earn his respect, and causes him to look down on and treat others as inferior until they do so. This gives him difficulty when forced to rely on others and work as a team. His pride in himself and his accomplishments is a prominent part of his character, and he reacts harshly to those who threaten or infringe on it. His pride's somewhat fragile, evidenced by his extreme fury when The Pharaoh moved on to the afterlife. Also, Kaiba dislikes other people using his cards, namely his Blue-Eyes White Dragon (his favorite and signature card; notably, he uses its motif to decorate a large portion of his personal effects - e.g., Kaiba Land, his jet, and his clothing). This goes as far as destroying all but his own three copies of Blue Eyes White Dragon so that no one else can use them. He also despises Maximillion Pegasus' "Blue-Eyes Toon Dragon", saying it strips the original of all its pride. This may be due to Kaiba's affinity for Dragon-Type monsters, though more than anything would be it having to do with wanting to have the strongest Deck possible out of any Duelist, as he went through great lengths to acquire the three copies he presently has. While Kaiba does not take it very well, he is accepting of the magic that occurs in the world and seeks to overcome it. Understandably, Kaiba gains a lot of contempt and disdain from virtually every single person he knows (with the exception of Mokuba) - mostly Joey, Tristan and Tea in particular. Yugi constantly holds out hope for him, as did Yugi's other self in The Pharaoh. Kaiba, for the most part, could not care less about what they think about him and returns the contempt in kind. Kaiba, although self-centered and egotistic, he does have some morals in that he is against stealing. He has a vast belief that hard work and determination is what gets you ahead in life, not stealing from others to advance your situation. Kaiba also seems to take great pride in the Duel Disks he developed. Kaiba is obsessive over getting his final duel with The Pharaoh, creating The Neurons VR System, The Crystal Cloud Netwok, and the world of Duel Links as a means to connect to the afterlife and challenge The Pharaoh after Yugi failed to reawaken the Pharaoh from the Millennium Puzzle. In spite of Duel Links reaching far beyond the intended target and drawing in people and threats from many different time periods and universes, Kaiba doesn't care and continues on his path recklessly. Kaiba has severe PTSD from his first Shadow Game with The Pharaoh, in which he experienced dying firsthand and was comatose for a long time.