History Fanfic / MyDarkKing

''My Dark King'' is a {{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}} {{Alternate Universe Fic}}. It leads off from the halfway point of Jack's duel with Carly as a Dark Signer with one very simple question; "What if Jack had lost that duel, died, and fulfilled Carly's vision, becoming a Dark Signer?" From [[ForWantOfANail that one change]], events go drastically differently, mostly in ways that aren't good. Yusei ends up not being around to help Aki in her duel with Misty and instead gets severely injured by a load of falling debris, Crow nearly winds up with his face beaten in by a {{Brainwashed and Crazy}} Aki, and then the [[EldritchAbomination King of the Underworld]] gets involved and everything just starts falling straight into Hell. Literally! Suffice it to say, this is one fic that takes the already kind of {{Darker and Edgier}} plot of the Dark Signer arc and ramps it straight {{Up to Eleven}}.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Barbara stays true to form, [[spoiler: choking Lotten to death when he refuses the Reaper's offer.]] Hinted at with Wiraqocha Rasca, but It's managed to be a lot more subtle about it so far.

* BeyondTheImpossible: The 12-way duel of [[spoiler: Team Kizuna vs Nicolas and Barbara]]. For perspective, in the series proper only 1 duel had a comparable number of participants. That duel was also dramatically one-sided, something the writer goes to great lengths to avoid for this duel.

* AxCrazy: Player Killer of Darkness

* SoftWater : [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the side-story "Second Sun." While Goodwin does manage to leave Satellite by speeding off a bridge, the impact into the waters below destroys one of his arms.

* SummoningRitual: A more scientific variant. Wiraqocha Rascha plans for the Momentum Reactor to set off a cataclysmic explosion that will release every remaining Eartbound God from their seals. Doubles as [[RaceAgainsttheClock Race Against the Clock]]

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Yusei is very hard on himself for his failures even when they aren't his fault.

* SoftWater : [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the side-story "Second Sun." When Goodwin attempts to leave Satellite by speeding off a bridge he succeeds...and destroys one of his arms in the process.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Yusei is very hard on himself for his failures, sometimes even when they aren't his fault.

* BeyondTheImpossible: The 12-way duel of [[spoiler: Team Kizuna vs Nicolas and Barbara]]. For perspective, in the series proper only 1 duel prior to this had a comparable number of participants. That duel was also dramatically one-sided, something the writer goes to great lengths to avoid for this duel.

* JawDrop: The reaction of all present parties to Leo's [[Spoiler summoning of Time Wizard.]]

* JawDrop: The reaction of all present parties to Leo's [[Spoiler: summoning of Time Wizard.]]

* Troperiffic: Unsurprising, considering the writer is [[OneofUs One of Us]]

* TheStoic: One thought that occurs to Yusei during t

[[spoiler: Barbara as well, after realizing that her death is likely imminent.]]

* InvincibleHero: Subverted. The Signers have been getting their asses kicked up and down the street starting with Jack's death in the first chapter right up to Yusei getting his shit ruined by a pack of ravenous birds in Chapter 12, with no end in sight.

* UnstoppableRage: Jack unleashes his on [[spoiler: Divine]] when he threatens Carly's life.
* VillainousBreakdown: Goodwin gets one when [[spoiler: Jack takes control of Wiraqocha Rasca and it goes without a fight]].

* BadassNickname: "The High Ruler of Hell, Dark King."

* XanatosRoulette: Subverted. Goodwin's falls outside its ridiculously small margin of success, and he ends up having to try something else.

"My Dark King" is a {{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}} {{Alternate Universe Fic}}. It leads off from the halfway point of Jack's duel with Carly as a Dark Signer with one very simple question; "What if Jack had lost that duel, died, and fulfilled Carly's vision, becoming a Dark Signer?" From [[ForWantOfANail that one change]], events go drastically differently, mostly in ways that aren't good. Yusei ends up not being around to help Aki in her duel with Misty and instead gets severely injured by a load of falling debris, Crow nearly winds up with his face beaten in by a {{Brainwashed and Crazy}} Aki, and then the [[EldritchAbomination King of the Underworld]] gets involved and everything just starts falling straight into Hell. Literally! Suffice it to say, this is one fic that takes the already kind of {{Darker and Edgier}} plot of the Dark Signer arc and ramps it straight {{Up to Eleven}}.

** Chapter 15 takes it a step even further, positing that the King is in fact [[spoiler: a member of an entire ''species'' of EldritchAbominations, which also includes the already-deceased Zorc Necrophades, Leviathan, and Darkness from the previous two series.]]

It's worth noting that the author has also written three one-shots that fit neatly into the same "universe", [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6048880/1/The_Devil_and_the_Star The Devil and the Star]], a story about Takuma Saiou from {{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}} founding the Arcadia Movement and how it was taken from him by Divine, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6494911/1/Second_Sun Second Sun]], a story elaborating on Rex Goodwin's past and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6732194/1/Heroes_of_Justice Heroes of Justice]], a story about a young Sherry Leblanc meeting Edo Phoenix. The former two work perfectly well as standalones, not having to read "My Dark King" to really get them and not having to read them to get the main story, but "Heroes of Justice" at least pretty much requires having read "The Devil and the Star" first. More recently, he's also added an ongoing miniseries running alongside the main story: [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7135968/1/I_Am_Become_Death I Am Become Death]], a series of [[BlatantLies short]] drabbles featuring each of the original seven Dark Signers.

"My Dark King" is a {{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}} {{Alternate Universe Fic}}. It leads off from the halfway point of Jack's duel with Carly as a Dark Signer with one very simple question; "What if Jack had lost that duel, died, and fulfilled Carly's vision, becoming a Dark Signer?" From [[ForWantOfANail that one change]], events go drastically differently, mostly in ways that [[ItGotWorse aren't good]]. Yusei ends up not being around to help Aki in her duel with Misty and instead gets severely injured by a load of falling debris, Crow nearly winds up with his face beaten in by a {{Brainwashed and Crazy}} Aki, and then the [[EldritchAbomination King of the Underworld]] gets involved and everything just starts falling straight into Hell. Literally! Suffice it to say, this is one fic that takes the already kind of {{Darker and Edgier}} plot of the Dark Signer arc and ramps it straight {{Up to Eleven}}.

The story is currently being written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/832399/Masterdramon Masterdramon]], and is 15 chapters in. It can be read [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5670368/1/My_Dark_King here]]. The story's greatest strengths are its familiarity with and respect towards the entirety of the Yu-Gi-Oh! canon, its expert ability to flesh out and develop minor characters, and juggling a ''lot'' of viewpoints at once, not to mention just being really damn well-written. The author is [[OneOfUs a lover of this site]] and a self-professed believer that TVTropesWillRuinYourLife, even going so far as to write a one-shot in gratitude to the troper, Tropers/{{Lale}}, who wrote the first [[FanficRecs recommendation]] for it.

* AscendedExtra: And how. One of the story's defining traits is how it takes the most minor one-note characters of 5D's and completely fleshes them out.