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3	''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5354880/1/Shadow_of_the_Valley Shadow of the Valley]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1366525/Disguise_of_Carnivorism Disguise of Carnivorism]] is an [[AlternateUniverse AU]] ''Manga/DeathNote'' FlashForwardFic. Many years have passed since Light won out against all who challenged him and he is still working towards creating his utopia. Only Light isn't God, he is mortal and is beginning to feel his age... Fearing all his work will be undone upon his death, Light begins to train his heir to take over for him as Kira, and this sacred duty can only be entrusted to his own flesh and blood...
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8	!! ''Shadow of the Valley'' provides examples of:
9	* AbusiveParents: Light isn't really a good father to his daughter. He's extremely controlling of what the outcome of her life will be (ie. Becoming his successor), forced her to kill at a young age, deprives her of love and affection, and subjected her to horrific TrainingFromHell that reenacts all of L's investigations into him.
10	* TheAloner: Light. He spends most of his time now in the graveyard [[TalkingToTheDead talking to his favorite victims.]] Hikari too because her father doesn't let her out much.
11	* AlternateUniverseFic: Unlike canon, Light succeeds in wiping out all who opposed him and continues his work in killing criminals as the god of the new world.
12	* ApocalypseMaiden: An implied case due to the ending being ambiguous on whether or not Hikari will continue her father's work, but she's raised as one who will wipe out countless lives with the Death Note as the successor to Kira.
13	%%* BastardUnderstudy: Hikari
14	%%* CallingTheOldManOut
15	%%* ChildrenAreInnocent
16	* ChildrenForcedToKill: Light forces Hikari to follow in his footsteps, which includes forcing her to use the Death Note to kill people as soon as she's twelve years old.
17	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Hikari notes how Light and Ryuk have several inside jokes about all the people Light has betrayed.
18	* CoolOldGuy: Light is still awesome even as a broken old man. Being in absolute control of the world and having outwitted ''everyone'', including L and Near, adds to this.
19	* TheCorrupter: Light makes sure that his daughter has no one but him and influences her to be the next Kira, which involves killing any who oppose her.
20	%%* DaddysLittleVillain: Hikari
21	%%* DarkFic
22	%%* DarkerAndEdgier: yes.
23	%%* DeadlyUpgrade: [[spoiler:"Give me my goddamn eyes."]]
24	%%* DistaffCounterpart: By the end of the story, Hikari basically becomes a female version of Light.
25	* DownerEnding: Hikari successfully kills Light at the end of the story. However, the AmbiguousEnding leaves it unclear whether or not she will pick up the mantle as the next Kira, but neither outcome is in the world's favor. Either she does and countless more will die, or she doesn't and crimes rates spring back up and countless people die.
26	%%* DueToTheDead
27	%%* DyingAlone: [[spoiler:Light]].
28	%%* DysfunctionJunction: And how!
29	%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Hikari
30	%%* TheEmpire: The whole world follows Kira's will.
31	%%* EvilMentor: Light to Hikari.
32	%%* EvilOverlord: Light.
33	%%* FantasticDrug: Harvested from the corpses of Kira's victims, no less.
34	%%* GenerationXerox: this trope is played with...
35	* GraveRobbing: Robbers harvest something from the corpses of Kira's victims to make drugs. Kira himself ([[KingIncognito who is only known as the crazy guy in the graveyard]]) tries to discourage them.
36	%%* IHateYouVampireDad
37	%%* InTheBlood
38	* KidFic: A very dark version of this. The main focus of the fic is Light raising his daughter, but he's raising her to be the next Kira and ensure that she will become just like him; a ruthless, cold-blooded, manipulative killer.
39	%%* KnightTemplarParent: Light. You win the no-prize if you can guess what happens to anyone that looks at his daughter wrong.
40	%%* LegacyCharacter: Kira
41	%%* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: Light and Ryuk.
42	%%* LonelyAtTheTop: Light got everything he ever wanted that was attainable-and he is miserable.
43	%%* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Hikari again.
44	%%* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:The only force that was maintaining order in the world is now dead... whether Hikari takes up daddy's job or not, LOTS of people are going to die...]]
45	* OlderThanTheyLook: Light ages quite gracefully and still looks much like he did when he was twenty but he feels worn out and used up from the subconscious burden of guilt of having ended so many lives.
46	* OriginalCharacter: Hikari Yagami, Light and Misa's only child. Named Hikari (Japanese for light) by Misa, much to Light's annoyance and discomfort.
47	%%* PapaWolf
48	* ParentalIncest: Played with. Hikari attempts to seduce her own father, but it's not really out of genuine attraction to him. She's just so desperate for some form of love and affection from her father that she'd take romantic or sexual love over nothing.
49	-->'''Light''': Hikari, are you trying to seduce me?
50	* PaterFamilicide: Light in order to "protect" Hikari [[spoiler: from becoming soft kills off the rest of his family.]]
51	%%* PrideBeforeAFall
52	%%* RebelliousPrincess: Hikari
53	%%* ReminiscingAboutYourVictims: Light and Ryuk wax nostalgic about past kills.
54	* RetiredMonster: Light seems to have matured beyond his AGodAmI kick and come to realize he's not going to last forever; if he doesn't want all of his work undone, he [[BastardUnderstudy needs a successor.]]
55	%%* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Hikari]]
56	* ShoutOut: Light refers to [[spoiler: L's grave]] as the resting place of ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing''.
57	* SiblingRivalry: This is why Light decides to bet it all on Hikari and not have any more children- because (in this universe) SiblingRivalry destroyed L's successors.
58	%%* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Hikari]]
59	* SuccessionCrisis: Part of why Light puts so much focus on training Hikari is that he wants to avoid this trope. He notes that L's legacy was brought to waste by in-fighting between his potential successors, Near and Mellow. Rather than risk that, he decides to bet everything on his only daughter.
60	%%* TakeUpMySword: Or rather his [[ArtifactOfDeath notebook]] and pen.
61	%%* TearsFromAStone: The concrete angels in the graveyard cry because [[TheStoic Light]] [[UnableToCry cannot]].
62	%%* ToughLove
63	* TrainingFromHell: Hikari is subjected to this, part of which includes Light reenacting his confinement in the form of roleplay games [[InstantCosplaySurprise where Light plays]] [[IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery the part of L]] and Hikari is suspect Kira.
64	* {{Tykebomb}}: Hikari. Light makes her start killing criminals when she's twelve.
65	%%* TheVamp: Hikari starts acting out like this in order to get daddy's attention.
66	* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Light has one when he sees a grave robber defacing L's grave. Though this reaction was likely helped along by already being under the notebook's control.]]
67	%%* WellDoneSonGuy: Hikari desperately wants her father's approval.
68	* WorthyOpponent: Light laments that out of everyone he knew ''L'' would have made the best heir for Kira. If only he didn't oppose him, the transition would have been seamless...
69	%%* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: Light does this to Mikami when he feels he may be a threat to his daughter...]]
70	%%* YouKilledMyFather: Mother, in this instance.

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