History Fanfic / Outcasts5Ds

* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Ironically, despite the fact that she's trapped on Satellite, Aki ends up making a lot of friends at Martha's orphanage and gets control of her powers much faster. This is in contrast to the anime, where she suffered a FriendlessBackground, was manipulated by a cult, and being unable to control her powers was the biggest source of her problems.

* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Ironically, despite the fact that she's trapped on Satellite, Aki ends up making a lot of friends at Martha's orphanage and gets control of her powers much faster. This is in contrast to the anime, where she suffered a FriendlessBackground, was manipulated by a cult, and her inability to control her powers was her biggest source of angst.

* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Ironically, despite the fact that she's trapped on Satellite, Aki ends up making a lot of friends at Martha's orphanage and gets control of her powers much faster. This is in contrast to the anime, where she suffered a FriendlessBackground and her inability to control her powers was her biggest source of angst.

* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:Yusei, Crow, and Aki meet Kiryu while looking for cards in the BAD area.]]
* EmotionalPowers: While helping Aki train her abilities, the squad finds out that her attacks hurt much less if she's in a good mood - for example when Jack is set on fire he feels warm instead of getting burned. Aki sarcastically comments that she must ThinkHappyThoughts then.

* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Despite the fact that she ends up trapped on Satellite, Aki ends up making a lot of friends at Martha's orphanage and gets control of her powers much faster. This is in contrast to the anime, where she suffered a FriendlessBackground and her inability to control her powers was her biggest source of angst.

* ForWantOfANail: Aki runs away from home after awakening her powers, causing her to get stuck in a shipping container and sent out to Satellite by mistake.

* AdaptationalBadass: Thanks to receiving emotional support and wellbeing from living at Martha's place and losing her FriendlessBackground, Aki is more competent with her psychic powers than in canon. She learns to control her output up to a degree, and [[spoiler:can manifest monsters without a Duel Disk]].

* ChildProdigy: Aki shows a lot of proficiency at Duel Monsters even as a kid. In her time at Martha's orphanage, she easily defeats everyone (including Jack) and has never been defeated. Jack dismisses it as her having better cards than everyone else, while Yusei points out that it's more on the skill of the duelist, not the cards themselves.

* AdaptationalBadass: Aki is more competent with her psychic powers than in canon. She learns to control her output up to a degree, and [[spoiler:can manifest monsters without a Duel Disk]].

* AdaptationalBadass: Aki is more competent with her psychic powers than in canon. She learns to control her output up to a degree, and [[spoiler:can manifest monsters without a Duel Disk.]]

* ChildProdigy: Aki shows a lot of proficiency at playing Duel Monsters even as a kid. In her time at Martha's orphanage, she easily defeats everyone (including Jack) and has never been defeated. Jack dismisses it as her having better cards than everyone else, while Yusei points out that it's more on the skill of the duelist, not the cards themselves.

* TraumaCongaLine: Aki has a pretty rough time over the course of the first two chapters. [[labelnote:Long story short]]She awakens her psychic powers, promptly setting fire to her home and injuring her father with them. Instead of receiving any comfort or support, she's branded a monster by her own family and can think of no other recourse but to run away. She spends a full night running through Neo Domino, haunted by the name and unable to make sense of the world anymore. When she finally exhausts herself and takes a break, she accidentally falls asleep inside a shipping container bound for Satellite. Awakening in the middle of a battle between Security forces and local criminals, she activates her powers in a panic, hurting yet more people. Alone in a strange place, she ends up wandering endlessly until she realizes that she's in [[WretchedHive Satellite]], and spends the rest of the day just trying to get something to eat, dodging people who frighten her on all sides. Coming up short and wearing herself down to the point of exhaustion, she grows so desperate that she resorts to picking through trash, cutting open her hand in the process. Homeless, hungry, and tired, she doesn't even have the strength to cry herself to sleep.[[/labelnote]] Did we mention she is only eight years old when all this happens? Thankfully, things do start getting a bit better after she gets taken in by Martha.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Aki is subjected to this trope twice over. Firstly because she's convinced that she's a monster and that her family doesn't want her home anymore. Secondly, she's accidentally shipped over to Satellite with no way to make it back to Neo Domino even if she did want to return.

* WouldHitAGirl: Violence between children in Satellite is unisex, as Aki finds out to her surprise after trying to invoke [[WouldntHitAGirl the opposite to her advantage]].

* CombatPragmatist: Everyone on Satellite is this, due to having to fight as hard as they can for any little advantage. It's pretty much required for survival.

* CombatPragmatist: Pretty much everyone on Satellite is this, due to having to fight as hard as they can for any little advantage. It's pretty much required for survival.

* CombatPragmatist: Pretty much everyone on Satellite is this, due to having to fight as hard as they can for any little advantage.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13867641/1/Outcasts Outcasts]]'' ([[Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn AO3]] [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30851867/chapters/76168544 Link]]) is a ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' AlternateUniverseFic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1385812/LordGinger LordGinger]], the same writer behind the ''Anime/KillLaKill'' AU fic, ''Fanfic/NaturalSelection''.

* ChildProdigy: Aki shows a lot of proficiency in Duel Monsters even as a kid. In her time at Martha's orphanage, she easily defeats everyone (including Jack) and has never been defeated. Jack dismisses it as her having better cards than everyone else, while Yusei points out that it's more on the skill of the duelist, not the cards themselves.

* BreakTheCutie: This basically sums up everything Aki goes through for the first couple chapters as she's subject to a long, non-stop TraumaCongaLine.

* FatBastard: The Security officer that Aki is forced to duel in Chapter 6 is described as being very large and lumbering. He also has no problem with intimidating children, as well as abusing and trying to arrest them on false charges.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: {{Implied|Trope}} on the part of Aki's parents. One of the many things that haunts Aki during her escape from Neo Domino is the memory of her mother begging for her to come back.
* NiceMeanAndInBetween: Yusei, Jack, and Crow form this. Yusei is the most considerate of others, the cool head of the trio, and always polite, even to Security officers. Jack by contrast is quite hot-headed and blunt, willing to do whatever it takes to get his way and ready to throw a punch over minor teasing. And while Crow constantly needles people to get under their skin and is quick to jibe his friends and their flaws, it's never truly mean-spirited, and he's shown to have people's best interests at heart.

* ShoutOut: After a young Jack gets backhanded by a security officer, his response is "[[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Thank you sir, may I have another?]]"
* TraumaCongaLine: Aki has a pretty rough time over the course of the first two chapters. [[labelnote:Long story short]]She awakens her psychic powers, promptly setting fire to her home and injuring her father with them. Instead of receiving any comfort or support, she's branded a monster by her own family and can think of no other recourse but to run away. She spends a full night running through Neo Domino, haunted by the name and unable to make sense of the world anymore. When she finally exhausts herself and takes a break, she accidentally falls asleep inside a shipping container bound for Satellite. Awakening in the middle of a battle between Security forces and local criminals, she activates her powers in a panic, hurting yet more people. Alone in a strange place, she ends up wandering endlessly until she realizes that she's in [[WretchedHive Satellite]], and spends the rest of the day just trying to get something to eat, dodging people who frighten her on all sides. Coming up short and wearing herself down to the point of exhaustion, she grows so desperate that she resorts to picking through trash, cutting open her hand in the process. Homeless, hungry, and tired, she doesn't even have the strength to cry herself to sleep. [[/labelnote]]Did we mention she's only eight years old when all this happens? Thankfully, things do start getting a bit better after she gets taken in by Martha.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Crow and Jack spend a lot of time sniping, fighting and otherwise arguing with one another, but they're also thick as thieves and have the other's back in a heartbeat.

* WretchedHive: The Satellite is a broken down slum of crime and poverty suffocated under a totalitarian police rule, with conflicts between Security forces and gangs being very frequent. Aki's first experience in the Satellite is her getting caught in the crossfire of one such altercation. In Chapter 4, Rex Goodwin's narration reveals that this trope was actually invoked by his predecessor, who dropped the city's criminals onto the island and perpetuated the belief that all Satellite residents were dangerous.