Rebecca Hawkins

Rebecca Hawkins

Rebecca, during the Grand Championship
Names
English	Rebecca Hawkins
Japanese translated	Rebecca Hopkins
Japanese Japanese レベッカ・ホプキンス Rōmaji Rebekka Hopukinsu
Personal
Age	12 (debut; Japanese version) 8 (debut; English version)
Gender	Female
Relatives
Arthur Hawkins (grandfather)
Duelist
Tournament Position Grand Championship Top 4
Anime Deck	Shadow Ghoul Burn/Dragon
Other Decks
Nightmare Troubadour	Big Bang USA
Appearances
Anime debut	Yu-Gi-Oh! episode 04141: "The Wrath of Rebecca"
Video game debut	Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction
Appears in Anime Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series)
Voice actors
English	Kerry Williams
Japanese	Kaori Tagami
Other languages
German	Jill Schulz
Spanish	Leyla Rangel (Latin America; 1st voice) Mayra Arellano (Latin American; 2nd voice)
Hawkins, Rebecca

Rebecca Hawkins, known as Rebecca Hopkins in the Japanese version, is a character in the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime.

Rebecca is, in the original Japanese version, the American Duel Monsters champion, formerly held by Bandit Keith. In the English anime, she is the Intercontinental Champion. Rebecca is also the granddaughter of Arthur Hawkins. She is twelve years old in the original Japanese anime. In the English anime, she is eight.

Biography

Duelist Kingdom

Linework

Rebecca is the granddaughter of Arthur Hawkins, an old friend of Yugi Muto's grandfather, Solomon Muto. Rebecca encountered Yugi as he returns from Duelist Kingdom. She accused Solomon of stealing her grandfather's prized "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and demanded he Duel her for it, when asked about how she knew that Solomon "stole" the card, she replies that Keith Howard told her, although it can be presumed that Keith merely lied to her out of annoyance, indicating that she tried forcing the information out of him. As he was recently discharged from the hospital, Solomon cannot Duel, so Yugi Dueled Rebecca in his place.

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Rebecca in her original appearance.

While they Dueled, Solomon recounted how he met Arthur, an archaeologist who believed that the ancient Egyptians played an ancient form of Duel Monsters. Arthur's colleagues laughed at his strange ideas, and he set out on an expedition with Solomon to find proof. They were trapped when a tomb caved in, and as there were only enough supplies for one person to live, they Dueled for them. Now, Yugi and Rebecca are fighting, card for card, the very same Duel, and Solomon claims he knows how it will end.

Rebecca discarded various monsters to her Graveyard to power up her "Shadow Ghoul" monster, and Yugi conceded defeat. Rebecca demanded the card, but Solomon reveals it was destroyed. An angry Rebecca yelled at Solomon (unaware that it was really Seto Kaiba that destroyed it) until Arthur arrived, telling her to behave. He showed Rebecca the card Yugi had drawn before he forfeited. That card was "Soul Release", which would've allowed Yugi to remove five monsters from her Graveyard, which would've weakened the "Shadow Ghoul" just enough for Yugi's "Dark Magician" to destroy it. Yugi admitted that he surrendered on purpose, just as his grandfather did to let Arthur take the last of the water that they had. When they were rescued, Arthur was so grateful that he gave his "Blue-Eyes" card to Solomon. After learning about the story, Rebecca quickly apologized for being mean to Yugi and not listening to his side of the story. Yugi gave Rebecca his "The Ties of Friendship" as a reminder of this lesson, which she kept ever since.

Waking the Dragons

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Rebecca as she appears in the Waking the Dragons arc.

She and her grandfather returned in the Waking the Dragons arc to help Yugi fight Dartz. Here Rebecca appears noticeably older-looking and wearing glasses (to the point that everyone barely recognizes her) and is also in college, much to the shock of Yugi and the gang.

She helped by researching Dartz's Three Swordsmen and hacking into KaibaCorp's computer system to track others via their Duel Disks. She also seemed to be slaving under the delusion that Yugi was her boyfriend (her "darling" in the Japanese version, a reference to Urusei Yatsura), something which made Téa Gardner jealous. This didn't seem to be a pretend crush as she was devastated when Yugi's soul was taken and tried to defeat Valon in vengeance, showing she had true feelings for Yugi. However, she and Duke were defeated by Valon easily.

KC Grand Championship

After Dartz was defeated, the gang stayed with Rebecca and her grandfather for a while. Rebecca then took part in the KC Grand Championship, where she defeats Chinese champion Vivian Wong and Abe the Monkey Man. She lost to Leon von Schroeder in the semi-finals which she's greatly upset about it and she wanted a rematch with Leon again. She spent the rest of the tournament cheering from the sidelines. She is absent after the tournament ended, telling Yugi that she will Duel him again one day, and telling Téa (with a coy look) that she will miss her.

Her appearance in this arc is different from her appearance in Waking the Dragons. She still keeps the short skirt, but wears it to cover her legs. She also wears a light blue top over a grey T-shirt and reverted back to having two pigtails.

Dawn of the Duel

In the Japanese version of the final episode, Rebecca made her final appearance by hugging Yugi at the airport while Tea glares at the scene. This scene was placed at the end of the Grand Championship arc in the English dub.

Decks

Anime

Duelist Kingdom

Record
Opponent(s)	Episode(s)	Outcome(s)
Yugi Muto	41-42	Win

Rebecca originally utilizes her grandfather's Shadow Ghoul Deck, focused around loading the Graveyard with Monster Cards through cards such as "Judgment Blaster". In addition, she also uses a large quantity of cards which give her a Hand advantage such as "Skelengel" and "Sangan".

Waking the Dragons

Record
Opponent(s)	Episode(s)	Outcome(s)
Valon	165	Lose (with Duke Devlin)

In the Waking the Dragons arc, Rebecca played a Dragon Deck.

Grand Championship

Record
Opponent(s)	Episode(s)	Outcome(s)
Vivian Wong	189	Win
Abe the Monkey Man	191	Win
Leon von Schroeder	192-193	Lose

During the Grand Championship, Rebecca uses a Dragon/Anti-Cure Deck. Her main strategy is using "Fire Princess" along with "Marie the Fallen One" to constantly inflict damage. She also utilizes a large quantity of stall cards such as "Gravity Bind" and "Imperial Order".

Nightmare Troubadour

Decks

In Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour, Rebecca plays a Burn Deck similar to her third anime Deck called Big Bang USA.