History Fanfic / KingdomFromTheAshesRise

* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Shingo doesn't accept Yuzu's challenge to a duel until she calls him a chicken. Serena even notes that this is a [[Film/BackToTheFuture movie reference]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Regarding Reiji:
*** Reiji may be the CEO of Leo Corp. and one of the best duelists out there, but he's still technically a kid fighting against his father, and thus is prone to making mistakes. Shuzo tells Yuzu and Serena to not be so hard on the boy because no one was going to honestly believe the story of Professor Leo going off and training children in another ''dimension'' to become child soldiers and that he's been doing this all by himself for the past three years fighting off businessmen older than him because of his age.
*** Yuzu and Serena mention that the Lancers are woefully unprepared for the journey because they don't really know each other well compared to Academia's troops working together like a well-oiled machine because they've been trained to work as a cohesive unit while everyone else had to team up to survive. The only reason (most of) Maiami City could fight off against Obelisk Force was due to the Action Cards and just sheer luck.
*** Reiji is a brilliant duelist, CEO, and technological expert, but he has no people skills at all to compensate for that. He confesses to Yuya that he had no way of telling the truth about Yusho's disappearance or explain ''everything'' about the invasion in a way that would make it believable. Also, if you reveal that your duel schools are going to be turned into military camps and the children you enrolled in them are going to now be training to become soldiers, will the parents be willing to accept it so easily? Hell no. Chapter 9 has Reiji being flooded with phone calls and emails with very pissed off parents threatening to pull their children out because this isn't what they had in mind.
*** Even if it was for a good cause, rewriting someone's memories is ''not'' going to make you likable at all. Masumi and Yaiba are angry at Reiji for this, Yuzu is disappointed and even ''Shingo'' is disgusted.
*** Logically there was no way that Reiji could easily make Shun a student of LDS because there was a slight chance that '''someone'' would've paid notice to someone as powerful as him.[[note]]The only ones who would've known the truth was the LDS Youth Division[[/note]]. The fact that almost ''everyone'' in Maiami City fell for it shows how gullible and complacent they really are.
** Other:
*** If your husband is gone for three years on an interdimensional crusade, there is no way for him to be making money and no way that you will have enough money to pay for the bills, your child's tuition, clothes, food, etc. [[spoiler:Yoko realizes this when she's about to buy gifts for her sons and comes to a conclusion that Reiji has been secretly giving money to her bank account as an apology (which Reiji confirms later).]]
*** Serena's sheltered lifestyle means that she knows little to nothing about the outside world. She doesn't know what a slumber party is, has never eaten in fancy restaurants, and doesn't understand what it means to be loved.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20786591/chapters/49399223 Kingdom From the Ashes, Rise]]'' is a [[Anime/YugiohArcV Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]] AU story, written by Azure_witch13 and Creator/GreenPhantomQueen. And if the latter author sounds familiar, then you might know [[Fanfic/BetweenMyBrotherAndMeMorsOmnibus another fanfic]] she's well known for (Green Phantom Queen herself stated that the former was inspired by her fanfic).

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20786591/chapters/49399223 Kingdom From the Ashes, Rise]]'' is a [[Anime/YugiohArcV Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]] AU story, written by Azure_witch13 and Green Phantom Queen. And if the latter author sounds familiar, then you might know [[Fanfic/BetweenMyBrotherAndMeMorsOmnibus another fanfic]] she's well known for (Green Phantom Queen herself stated that the former was inspired by her fanfic).

* HypnotizeThePrincess: Yoko considers this in regards to how [[spoiler:Zarc is using enchanted bracelets to protect Rin and Ruri.]] Then again, that ''was'' their canonical fate.

* RealityEnsues:
** Regarding Reiji:
*** Reiji may be the CEO of Leo Corp. and one of the best duelists out there, but he's still technically a kid fighting against his father, and thus is prone to making mistakes. Shuzo tells Yuzu and Serena to not be so hard on the boy because no one was going to honestly believe the story of Professor Leo going off and training children in another ''dimension'' to become child soldiers and that he's been doing this all by himself for the past three years fighting off businessmen older than him because of his age.
*** Yuzu and Serena mention that the Lancers are woefully unprepared for the journey because they don't really know each other well compared to Academia's troops working together like a well-oiled machine because they've been trained to work as a cohesive unit while everyone else had to team up to survive. The only reason (most of) Maiami City could fight off against Obelisk Force was due to the Action Cards and just sheer luck.
*** Reiji is a brilliant duelist, CEO, and technological expert, but he has no people skills at all to compensate for that. He confesses to Yuya that he had no way of telling the truth about Yusho's disappearance or explain ''everything'' about the invasion in a way that would make it believable. Also, if you reveal that your duel schools are going to be turned into military camps and the children you enrolled in them are going to now be training to become soldiers, will the parents be willing to accept it so easily? Hell no. Chapter 9 has Reiji being flooded with phone calls and emails with very pissed off parents threatening to pull their children out because this isn't what they had in mind.
*** Even if it was for a good cause, rewriting someone's memories is ''not'' going to make you likable at all. Masumi and Yaiba are angry at Reiji for this, Yuzu is disappointed and even ''Shingo'' is disgusted.
*** Logically there was no way that Reiji could easily make Shun a student of LDS because there was a slight chance that '''someone'' would've paid notice to someone as powerful as him.[[note]]The only ones who would've known the truth was the LDS Youth Division[[/note]]. The fact that almost ''everyone'' in Maiami City fell for it shows how gullible and complacent they really are.
** Other:
*** If your husband is gone for three years on an interdimensional crusade, there is no way for him to be making money and no way that you will have enough money to pay for the bills, your child's tuition, clothes, food, etc. [[spoiler:Yoko realizes this when she's about to buy gifts for her sons and comes to a conclusion that Reiji has been secretly giving money to her bank account as an apology (which Reiji confirms later).]]
*** Serena's sheltered lifestyle means that she knows little to nothing about the outside world. She doesn't know what a slumber party is, has never eaten in fancy restaurants, and doesn't understand what it means to be loved.

Both authors have also made another fanfic called ''Fanfic/ZeroHour'', which is another take on the ''Arc-V'' anime.

Zarc takes over Yuya and quells the anger within the hearts of Yuto and Yugo's dragons before having his sons return to his arms. It's then revealed that Yuya, Yuto, Yugo and Yuri are the sons of the (much more benevolent) Supreme Dragon King, whose soul has been split and carried within the souls of his sons. Zarc is not pleased with the state of affairs though: Professor Akaba and his tireless pursuit to revive Ray, his sons separated and not knowing of their past selves, and Ray Akaba's presence in Yuzu and her counterparts.

Fans will get a unique twist on an AU where Zarc is the father of the Yu-boys, the Bracelet Girls gaining much more prominent roles, connections to the previous series before it, characterization for nearly all characters involved, a story that can be considered canon compliant to the anime and, as the authors proclaim, "awesome and badass Yoko" to see how Zarc decides to end Professor Akaba's scheme and become resurrected as the true Supreme King that he is.

** Yoko was shown to be okay with her husband disappearing and had her full faith with him. In this story, she's ''pissed'' to learn just what he was doing and how he never went to her or Yuya to explain himself.

** Serena carding Hokuto is only mentioned but the consequences are never expanded on. In here, Serena realizes that she carded an innocent victim, someone who had friends and parents, and after that she feels absolutely horrible at what her impulsiveness caused.

** In Chapter 9, Part 2, Reiji comes clean about rewriting Masumi, Yaiba and Hokuto's memories and confesses the truth about what happened to Yusho to Yuya.

** Yuto is said to have feelings only for Ruri, whereas this fic shows that he's quite...possessive of Shun also.
** Likewise there are hints of Shun having feelings for Sayaka Sasayama. Instead he's shown to be having a crush on Yuto.
** Raphael, Alister and Valon are a couple in this universe (it's never shown what orientation Raphael and Alister displayed in the anime) with Valon telling Mieru that he's into girls too.

* AwesomeByAnalysis: Yoko's love of horror tropes makes it easy for her to spot ''something'' wrong in regards to Yuya, Yuto and Yugo early on. Zarc is quite impressed with this skill.

** In Chapter 8 (Part 1), Yuya wakes up to a scream and rushes downstairs to see his mom surrounded by three bikers. Turns out that these bikers are people Yoko asked to help create a kidnapping scenario for Yugo so he can experience an Action Duel and the bikers (Raphael, Alister and Valon) are his former babysitters.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: In their action duel, Serena and Yaiba are thrust into a cutesy playroom of bubbles, clouds and plushies. Serena starts making a comment to which Yaiba responds that it's not a battlefield for the two...before Serena exclaims that it's cute and ends up splashing into a pile of plushies.

* BigNo: Yuya, Yuto and Yugo shout this twice when Yoko suggests Yuya introducing his new "brothers" to Sora and Yuzu.

** A minor one in Chapter 9 (Part 2): Shingo wanted to humiliate Serena by making her Action Duel against Yaiba be in a cutesy bubbly playroom with stuffed animals. Unfortunately 1) Serena absolutely ''loves'' the field and 2) the stuffed animals made it impossible for Yaiba to find an Action Card in the final turn of the duel, causing Shingo look in embarrassment that his plan was foiled.

* CutenessProximity: Serena adores the cats in the Sakaki household and she coos when her and Yaiba's Action Duel is in the field called "Plush Playland" (a playroom with bubbles, clouds and lots and lots of plushies.) Her Lunalight monsters also feel the same way, wanting to play around with everything compared to Yaiba's X-Sabers ignoring it for the sake of the duel.

* DraconicHumanoid: Zarc, Yuya and his brothers are dragons and can take on draconic features (claws, reptilian eyes and tails) if they get significantly pissed off.

* TheDreaded: [[spoiler:Jaden Yuki/Supreme King of Darkness is this and is said to be on equal footing to ''Zarc'', a ten thousand year old dragon king. It's apparently so bad that Masumi's Gem-Knights -- who were the loyal soldiers of both Jaden ''and'' Jesse in their previous lives -- are shuddering and crying in fear on the prospect of dueling Jaden.]]
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: A meta example. The first two chapters were around less than 5000 words and had a few mispellings (the comments for the story on [=AO3=] reveal that this is because English is Azure's third language). Once Green Phantom Queen arrived starting in chapter 3, the chapters become much longer and broken into multiple parts.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Shingo is a narcissistic prick who was willing to let four children fall to their deaths in his duel against Yuya for his Pendulum cards and didn't give two qualms about how he nearly made Reiji buy out You Show Duel School. But when Reiji states that he rewrote Masumi, Yaiba and Hokuto's memories about Shun, Shingo states that Reiji is stating bs for his reason why he rewrote those memories.

* FatalFlaw: Yugo's flaw is that he jumps to conclusions too quickly. In the beginning of the story, had it not been for Zarc possessing Yuya and commanding Yugo and Yuto to stop, Yugo would've killed either Yuya or Yuto with Clear Wing. And in Chapter 8, his determination to save Yoko from some evil bikers without telling this to Zarc, would've clued him in that the whole situation was fake [[spoiler:and would've saved him from nearly being possessed by the Orichalcos.]]

** First off, the duel between Yugo and Yuto ends because he interferes -- via possessing Yuya's body -- and commands their dragons to stop. Not only that, but Yuto and Yugo also regain their memories of being brothers and become clear-headed to realize that it was Yuri who kidnapped Rin and Ruri, not each other. Zarc also takes the three boys far away so that Yuzu isn't there to accidentally separate them. Then, Yuya then takes his brothers home, leading to...

** Because Yuto isn't killed, Shun doesn't become as moody or have an IWorkAlone attitude than he did in canon.

** Zarc warning Serena, Rin and Ruri of their fates if Professor Akaba captures them leads to all three enacting a DealWithTheDevil. This later extends to Yuzu too.

* InSpiteOfANail: Hikage is spared carding by Sora, but Reiji tells Yuya that the ninja is not joining because he felt like he failed when Yuzu, Teppei and Michiyo saved him from Obelisk Force.

* LonelyAtTheTop: Chapter 9 shows us that Reiji is the best duelist in Standard, a CEO at 16 and the leader of the Lancers. He also has no friends, nobody to support him barring Reira (and even then she's not able to help much) and is guilt-ridden by all the decisions he made.

* MeaningfulEcho: Yuri's dream in Chapter 5 (Part 2) has a younger him and Yugo apologizing with Yugo giving Yuri a pink lily all while stating that he was "very stupid and mean and didn't mean it" and Yuri replying with a simple "I know". [[spoiler:Before Yugo and Yuri drive home two chapters later, the roles are reversed with Yuri giving Yugo the pink lily and apologizing and Yugo replying, "I know".]]

** Yugo also gets this when his assumption that Raphael kidnapped Yoko (when it was really a pretend heist) nearly had him corrupted by the Seal of Orichalcos and put Raphael, Alister, Valon and Yoko in danger.
** Reiji confesses to Yuya that he felt horrible for letting Yusho to alone to the Fusion Dimension once he saw Yuya being mocked at on the day of Yusho's big fight against Strong Ishijima as it ended up with ''horrible'' repercussions. He also feels angry at himself for getting multiple people carded and rewriting three people's memories.

** In Chapter 8 Part 1, Serena begins to retell various rumors of Academia ranging from Shadow Hunters, Dark Magician Girl on Spirit Day, a hero in a silver trenchcoat and dragon mask and more which are references to the first season of ''Yu-Gi-Oh! GX''. [[spoiler:Dragon Vassal of the Colorless Void -- later revealed to be Jesse Andersen -- starts listing all of the crazy stuff to Seto, Mokuba and Joey about all of the shit that happened in the first three seasons.]]

** Yoko loves anything of the horror genre, to the point that she's developed awareness of all the tropes in play.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Yuzu, Michiyo and Teppei dueled three members of Obelisk Force all by themselves in order to save Hikage.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Yuzu is quick to remind Shingo that she's not forgiving him for taking Yuya's Pendulum cards and risking her life -- along with Tatsuya, Ayu and Futoshi's -- in their Action Duel or how Shingo nearly made Reiji take over You Show Duel School.

** Yugo is known for having a huge appetite whenever he eats any of Yoko's cooking. But in Chapter 5 (Part 2), he's shown eating slowly and is quiet the entire time since he's upset of his brothers getting more attention to their problems in contrast with Zarc doing nothing to save Rin.
** Shingo is usually known as a pompous braggart. He drops this and his voice turns icy when Serena (accidentally) taunts him about running home to his mother. Also, even ''he'' looks at disgust when Reiji confesses that he erased Masumi, Yaiba and Hokuto's memories.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: Yuya, Yuto and Yugo start doing and saying things that they never did before -- like Yuya eating strawberries even though he hated them, and the three boys calling each other pet names that they've never used before. [[spoiler:Zarc is the only one who catches on about these since they were quirks of his previous sons.]]

* ThePowerOfLove: Discussed. After watching ''Wonder Woman'' and its aesop about believing in love, Serena feels like it's too optimistic. Yuzu goes onto explain that Diana was talking about the love of humanity and how people can make the choice to follow the light then the darkness. That Steve's love for Diana motivated her to help fight Ares and being the reason to protect humanity even if they didn't deserve it.

*** Reiji is a brilliant duelist, CEO and technological expert, but he has no people skills at all to compensate for that. He confesses to Yuya that he had no way of telling the truth about Yusho's disappearance or explain ''everything'' about the invasion in a way that would make it believable. Also, if you reveal that your duel schools are going to be turned into military camps and the children you enrolled in them are going to now be training to become soldiers, will the parents be willing to accept it so easily? Hell no. Chapter 9 has Reiji being flooded with phone calls and emails with very pissed off parents threatening to pull their children out because this isn't what they had in mind.

*** Serena's sheltered lifestyle means that she knows little to nothing about the outside world. She doesn't know what a slumber party is, has never eaten in fancy restaurants and doesn't understand what it means to be loved.

* TheReveal: Chapter 9 has a big one in that [[spoiler:Zarc had two sons prior to the Yu-boys, Tempest and Haze, and when they destroyed their souls, the Yu-boys were born.]]
* RuleOfThree: Yoko's reasonings as to why she's not going to upload her recording of Dennis talking to Yuri.

** After Futoshi brings it up, Ayu and Futoshi start referring to Yuya and Yuzu's counterparts as dopplegangers.
** Raphael, Valon and Alister constantly tell Yoko to hire an exorcist in regards to Zarc. Likewise, Yoko keeps calling Zarc a demon.

** In-universe. After watching ''Wonder Woman'', Serena starts using it as references (Example: she states that Shuzo's cooking is wonderful and he should very proud and encourages Yuzu in her duel against Shingo by crossing her arms like Diana does with her bracers). And after watching ''Lilo and Stitch'', Serena calls Yuzu her ''ohana''. WordOfGod states that this aspect of hers was written because this is how Serena conveys her feelings to others.
** In Chapter 9 (Part 2), Yuzu, Yuya and Yaiba make references to how [[WesternAnimation/{{Moana}} Serena is a princess]], particularly the "wearing a dress and animal sidekick" part and Yaiba stating he'll puke if she starts singing during the duel.

* SlapSlapKiss: [[spoiler:Seto and Joey's relationship is described as this: they constantly bicker before they make out in forgiveness to the point that Zarc wonders if it's some kind of kink for the two.]]

** [[spoiler: Sora leaving early during the Battle Royale means Hikage never gets carded (but he's not going joining the Lancers like his brother). Likewise, Teppei and Michiyo are also alive because they, along with Yuzu, dueled and defeated three Obelisk Force soldiers.]]

* UglyCute: In-universe. Black Mirror Xyz Dragon is a menacing dragon made of black iron with sharp teeth and eyes that look like cracked mirrors. But it's also very shy and self-aware of its appearance, crying and covering his face with his wings when people call him a monster. Ayu and Reira find him to be adorable despite its gruesome appearance.

* WhatTheHellHero: When Reiji confesses how he rewrote the memories of Masumi, Hokuto and Yaiba in regards to Shun, everyone in the vicinity -- even ''Shingo'' -- look in utter disgust, anger and disappointment and Masumi close to punching him in the face.

** When Reiji assaults Jaden with his D/D/D monsters -- Flame King Genghis, Gust King Alexander and Wave King Caesar -- Jaden uses the effect of his Supreme King Castle to boost Evil Hero Inferno Wing's ATK (which has been deducted to 1100 due to Deceitful Contract with the War King)...but offers Evil Hero Adjust Gold so Inferno Wing only gets 800 ATK. Yoko even questions why Jaden didn't use a ''stronger'' Evil Hero so Inferno Wing not only could destroy Reiji's first monster but also inflict burning damage. Turns out that Jaden was doing it just for show.

* AntiChrist: Zarc mentioning a ''Human'' Supreme King has Yoko surmirse that they're this. [[spoiler: Turns out they're more AntiAntiChrist when she sees said Supreme King, Jaden Yuki, in battle.]]

* EvilDetectingDog: En suddenly barking at Yuya in the second chapter is what gets Yoko suspicious since, any dog that suddenly starts barking at someone they know/empty space usually means a dark presence. This later escalates to all the other animals howling and hissing at Zarc and his sons.

* FlowerInHerHair: Gender flipped example; Yuri has a dream of a younger version of him having a younger Yugo place a pink lily in his hair. [[spoiler:When he wakes up, he sees that he also has that same lily tucked in.]]

** Serena is shown to be quite {{Adorkable}} upon watching ''[[Film/WonderWoman2017 Wonder Woman]]'' and experiencing a slumber party for the first time. She also is known to go into CutenessProximity too.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Yuzu, Michiyo and Teppei dueled three members of Obelisk Force all by themselves.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Yuzu is quick to remind Shingo that she's not forgiving him for taking Yuya's Pendulum cards and risking her life -- along with Tatsuya, Ayu and Futoshi's -- in their Action Duel.

** [[spoiler: Sora leaving early during the Battle Royale means Hikage never gets carded (but he's not going joining the Lancesr like his brother). Likewise, Teppei and Michiyo are also alive because they, along with Yuzu, dueled and defeated three Obelisk Force soldiers.]]

* EasilyForgiven: Yuya forgives Reiji for not confessing anything about Yusho's disappearance because Yuya already knows about it and because he can see that Reiji is already suffering as it is from everything else in regards to stopping the invasion.

*** Reiji is a brilliant duelist, CEO and technological expert, but he has no people skills at all to compensate for that. He confesses to Yuya that he had no way of telling the truth about Yusho's disappearance or explain ''everything'' about the invasion in away that would make it believable. Also, if you reveal that your duel schools are going to be turned into military camps and the children you enrolled in them are going to now be training to become soldiers, will the parents be willing to accept it so easily? Hell no. Chapter 9 has Reiji being flooded with phone calls and emails with very pissed off parents threatening to pull their children out because this isn't what they had in mind.

*** Logically there was no way that Reiji could easily make Shun a student of LDS because there was a slight chance that '''someone'' in the school would've paid notice to someone as powerful as him[[note]]The only ones who would've known the truth was the LDS Youth Division[[/note]]. The fact that almost ''everyone'' in Maiami City fell for it shows how gullible and complacent they really are.

* DraconicHumanoid: Yuya and his brothers are dragons and can take on draconic features (claws, reptilian eyes and tails) if they get significantly pissed off.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: The end of Chapter 9 Part 1 has Yugo staring at someone. Said someone? They're eating a bowl of rice topped with fried shrimp [[spoiler:and are wearing a familiar red jacket...]]

** First off, the duel between Yugo and Yuto ends because he interferes and commands their dragons to stop. Not only that, but they also regain their memories of being brothers and become clear-headed to realize that it was Yuri who kidnapped Rin and Ruri, not each other. Zarc also takes the three boys far away so that Yuzu isn't there to accidentally teleport Yugo away. Then, Yuya then takes his brothers home, leading to...

** Yuto's presence means that he confronts Serena about Academia's ''true'' nature earlier on, instead of waiting until Yuzu meets up with her. Because of this, she doesn't have any antagonism over Dennis, nor does she duel him and she is the one who warns Yuzu about what's going on. Yuto also makes her realize early on that carding Hokuto has consequences and it's this act that leads to her CharacterDevelopment.

* MiddleChildSyndrome: Yugo as the middle between Yuri (the eldest) and the youngest (Yuto and Yuya) gives him slight insecurity issues as he feels like his needs aren't as important as his brothers. This becomes PlayedForDrama in Chapter 8 (Part 3) when [[spoiler:an Orichalcos possessed Raphael taunts Yugo that his father truly never cares for him.]]

* AntiChrist: Zarc mentioning a ''Human'' Supreme King has Yoko surmirse that they're this. [[spoilerTurns out they're more AntiAntiChrist when she sees said Supreme King, Jaden Yuki, in battle.]]

* ActionMom: Yoko Sakaki decides to join in the fight against Academia by fighting off Obelisk Force soldiers ''with her bare hands''.

** Zarc warning Serena, Rin and Ruri of their fates if Professor Akaba captures them leads to all three enacting a DealWithTheDevil.

** Zarc also feels that way when [[spoiler:he sees his sons replicating actions and names from his ''previous'' sons, Tempest and Haze because he tried everything he could to revive them and nothing worked. It becomes more prevalent in his nightmare in Chapter 9, Part 1, when he tells the Tempest and Haze there that he doesn't want them back because the pain is just too much.]]

* InSpiteOfANail: Hikage is spared carding by Sora, but Reiji tells Yuya that he's not joining because he felt like he failed when Yuzu, Teppei and Michiyo saved him from Obelisk Force.

* OrWasItADream: [[spoiler: The end of Chapter 5 Part 2 has Yuri in a dream/memory of him with his family and young Yugo placing a pink lily in his hair. When Yuri wakes up, he places a hand on his head to find the pink lily there.]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: Yoko's fake hostage situation and Yugo's confusion over it could've been avoided if Yugo talked to Zarc about Yoko being kidnapped (as Zarc would've easily sensed if Yoko was in real danger).

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: In their duel, Yuri offers up Seed Cannon (which has 2 counters, each one inflicts 500 points of damage) to strike Yuya...but it drops his lifepoints down to 200. Yuya even questions why Yuri didn't summon another Plant monster to make it 3 then offer up Seed Cannon. Yuri replies that he'd rather have his Starving Venom Fusion Dragon go into battle and land the striking blow instead.

* DealWithTheDevil: Zarc is essentially the demon making deals to Serena, Rin and Ruri and Yoko can see that these types of things usually involve giving up one's soul in the process.

* TheDreaded: [[spoiler:Jaden Yuki/Supreme King of Darkness is this and is said to be on equal footing to ''Zarc'', a ten thousand year old dragon king.]]

** Zarc warning Serena, Rin and Ruri of their fates if Professor Akaba captures them leads to them enacting a DealWithTheDevil.

* CuteAndPsycho: ''All four Yu-boys'' are apparently this. Yuya explains to Shun that all four of them have ways of hurting people if you mess with them.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Yoko and Zarc come to the agreement that all Akabas suffer from short-sightedness but Reiji stands out the most -- his plan to let Yusho go to the Fusion Dimension also meant that he never sent backup nor tell Yoko nor Yuya about what Yusho was going through. In Chapter 9 (Part 2), Reiji confesses that he didn't think about the consequences of Yusho going to Fusion alone until after the deed was done and he saw Yuya being laughed at by the crowd on the day of Yusho's duel against Strong Ishijima.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Shingo is narcissistic prick who was willing to let four children fall to their deaths in his duel against Yuya for his Pendulum cards and didn't give two qualms about how he nearly made Reiji buy out You Show Duel School. But when Reiji states that he rewrote Masumi, Yaiba and Hokuto's memories about Shun, Shingo states that Reiji is stating bs for his reason why he rewrote those memories.

* NoSocialSkills: WordOfGod by both authors state that this is how they see Reiji as, given that he was unable to tell Yuya and his mom the truth about Yusho ''for three years'' and him trying to buy out You Show Duel School was him trying to apologize for this action and wanting to make Yuya and Yuzu stronger for when Academia struck.

*** Reiji may be the CEO of Leo Corp. and one of the best duelists out there, but he's still technically a kid fighting against his father, and thus is prone to making mistakes. Shuzo tells Yuzu and Serena to not be so hard on the boy because no one was going to honestly believe the story of Professor Leo going off and training children in another ''dimension'' to become child soldiers and that he's been doing this all by himself for the past three years fighting off businessmen older than him because of his age. In relationship to that, Yuzu and Serena mention that the Lancers are woefully unprepared for the journey because they don't really know each other well compared to Academia's troops working together like a well-oiled machine because they've been trained to work as a cohesive unit while everyone else had to team up to survive. The only reason (most of) Maiami City could fight off against Obelisk Force was due to the Action Cards and just sheer luck.
*** Reiji is a brilliant duelist, CEO and technological expert, but he has no people skills at all to compensate for that. He confesses to Yuya that he had no way of telling the truth about Yusho's disappearance or explain ''everything'' about the invasion in away that would make it believable. Also, if you reveal that your duel schools are going to be turned into military camps and the children you enrolled in them are going to now be training to become soldiers, will the parents be so willing to accept it so easily? Hell no. Chapter 9 has Reiji being flooded with phone calls and emails with very pissed off parents threatening to pull their children out because this isn't what they had in mind.

** In Chapter 9 (Part 2), Yuzu, Yuya and Yaiba make references to how [[Disney/{{Moana}} Serena is a princess]], particularly the "wearing a dress and animal sidekick" part and Yaiba stating he'll puke if she starts singing during the duel.

** Reiji never feels anything for his actions throughout the series. Chapter 9 Part 1 and 2 rectifies it by stating that the stress of running Leo Corp. for three years while preparing the invasion all by himself ''and'' how letting Yusho go alone to see Professor Akaba has made Yuya and You Show Duel School a laughing stock causes him to break down into tears.

** Serena is shown to be quite {{Adorkable}} upon watching ''[[Film/WonderWoman2017 Wonder Woman]]'' and experiencing a slumber party for the first time.

** For Azure, her favorite series was ''GX'' and her favorite protagonist is Jaden. [[spoiler:Hence, Jaden is given a more prominent role in this story.]]

* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: Ruri is the Light Feminine (nurturing, concerned for others, has birds as her monsters) and Rin is the Dark Feminine (she can be cold, will jump into a deal with a devil, will bite back when attacked, uses witches as her monsters and she even wears black when she enters Yugo's dream).

** Yugo is cheering in excitement during the "It's Terror Time" sequences of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' and gushes over the Hex Girls in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost''.

** If your husband is gone for three years on an interdimensional crusade, there is no way for him to be making money. [[spoiler:Yoko realizes this when she's about to buy gifts for her sons and comes to a conclusion that Reiji has been secretly giving money to her bank account as an apology.]]
** Serena's sheltered lifestyle means that she knows little to nothing about the outside world. She doesn't know what a slumber party is, has never eaten in fancy restaurants and doesn't understand what it means to be loved.
** Reiji may be the CEO of Leo Corp. and one of the best duelists out there, but he's still technically a kid fighting against his father, and thus is prone to making mistakes. Shuzo tells Yuzu and Serena to not be so hard on the boy because no one was going to honestly believe the story of Professor Leo going off and training children in another ''dimension'' to become child soldiers and that he's been doing this all by himself for the past three years.
*** In relationship to that, Yuzu and Serena mention that the Lancers are woefully unprepared for the journey because they don't really know each other well compared to Academia's troops working together like a well-oiled machine. The only reason they could fight off against Obelisk Force was due to the Action Cards and just sheer luck.
*** Reiji is a brilliant duelist, CEO and technological expert, but he has no people skills at all to compensate for that. He confesses to Yuya that he had no way of telling the truth about Yusho's disappearance or explain ''everything'' about the invasion in away that would make it believable.

* ShoutOut: In-universe. After watching ''Wonder Woman'', Serena starts using it as references (Example: she states that Shuzo's cooking is wonderful and he should very proud and encourages Yuzu in her duel against Shingo by crossing her arms like Diana does with her bracers). And after watching ''Lilo and Stitch'', Serena calls Yuzu her ''ohana''. WordOfGod states that this aspect of hers was written because this is how Serena conveys her feelings to others.

** [[spoiler: Sora leaving early during the Battle Royale means Hikage never gets carded. Likewise, Teppei and Michiyo are also alive.]]

** Those who read ''Mors Omnibus'' will recall that Black Mirror Xyz Dragon was mostly there to show that Yugo could Xyz summon. In this story, he's given a playful personality akin to a puppy, and Green Phantom Queen states that he's like a little brother who [[BigBrotherWorship idolizes Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon.]]

It turns out that Yuya, Yuto, Yugo and Yuri are the sons of the Supreme Dragon King, Zarc whose soul has been split and is carried within the souls of his sons. Zarc is not pleased with the state of affairs though: Professor Akaba and his tireless pursuit to revive Ray, his sons separated and not knowing of their past selves, Ray Akaba's presence in Yuzu and her counterparts...

Fans will get a unique twist on an AU where Zarc is the father of the Yu-boys, the Bracelet Girls gaining much more prominent roles and, as the authors proclaim, "awesome and badass Yoko" to see how Zarc decides to end Professor Akaba's scheme and become resurrected as the true Supreme King that he is.

* NamedInTheAdaptation: The two cats Yoko adopted (but never named) are called "Show" and "Time" by Yugo.

** Yoko only got one duel and it wasn't even a duel as it just was a therapy session for Yuya. In this series, she decides to follow Gongenzaka's route and learn Synchro Summoning from Yugo.

* BreakTheHaughty: Chapter 5 (Part 2) has Zarc turn the smug Himika into a whimpering mess once he reveals his draconic form and has her spill the beans in regards to Reiji's plans of the Lancer Division and Yusho's disappearance.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Yoko and Zarc come to the agreement that all Akabas suffer from short-sightedness but Reiji stands out the most -- his plan to let Yusho go to the Fusion Dimension also meant that he never sent backup nor tell Yoko nor Yuya about what Yusho was going through. In Chapter 9 Part 2, Reiji confesses that he didn't think about the consequences of Yusho going to Fusion alone until after the deed was done and he saw Yuya being laughed at by the crowd on the day of Yusho's duel against Strong Ishijima.

* InTheHood: Zarc appears to Serena dressed as Performapal Empyrean Magician (who is Zarc but with a silver hooded cloak). Yuya's "Dragon Mage" monsters are essentially him and his brothers in hooded cloaks (The author notes state that the latter was based on Empyrean Magician).

* AccompliceByInaction: In Chapter 9, Part 2, Reiji tells Yuya that he is this for letting Yusho go to stop his father three years prior because Reiji never told Yuya the truth about what happened, culminating in Yuya's SadClown attitude and You Show Duel School falling into decline.

** Reiji never feels anything for his actions throughout the series. Chapter 9, Part 1 and 2 rectifies it by stating that the stress of running Leo Corp. for three years while preparing the invasion all by himself ''and'' how letting Yusho go alone to see Professor Akaba has made Yuya and You Show Duel School a laughing stock causes him to break down into tears.

** In Chapter 8, Part 1, Yuya wakes up to a scream and rushes downstairs to see his mom surrounded by three bikers. Turns out that these bikers are people Yoko asked to help create a kidnapping scenario for Yugo so he can experience an Action Duel and the bikers (Raphael, Alister and Valon) are his former babysitters.

* HopeIsScary: Yuri hates Zarc and his brothers giving him the idea that he has a loving family because he's too afraid to hope that it's real. [[spoiler:Thankfully Zarc is able to reach out to Yuri, making him remember his past life.]]

** Reiji never feels anything for his actions throughout the series. Chapter 9, Part 1 and 2 rectifies it by stating that the stress of running Leo Corp. for three years while preparing the invasion all by himself ''and'' how letting Yusho go alone to see Professor Akaba has made Yuya and You Show Duel School a laughing stock.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Yoko and Zarc come to the agreement that all Akabas suffer from short-sightedness but Reiji stands out the most -- his plan to let Yusho go to the Fusion Dimension also meant that he never sent backup nor tell Yoko nor Yuya about what Yusho was going through.

*** In relationship to that, Yuzu and Serena state that the Lancers are woefully unprepared for the journey because they don't really know each other well compared to Academia's troops working together like a well-oiled machine. The only reason they could fight off against Obelisk Force was due to the Action Cards and just sheer luck.

** Shingo is usually known as a pompous braggart. He drops this and his voice turns icy when Serena (accidentally) taunts him about running home to his mother.