This character sheet is for the original characters of The Numbershots. All other tropes for the canon characters should go on the original page.
Allies
Ariel
Ryoga's girlfriend, who he met after Yuma told him to get a grip on himself. Part of a dueling gang. Her dad was also the one who created the card "Ritua/Gishiki Erial/Ariel", which was based off her.
- Cuddle Bug: Shark refers to it as her "Octopus Grip".
- Making a Splash: She uses a Gishiki/Ritua deck, which consists of WATER monsters.
- Official Couple: With Ryoga Kamishiro/Shark, and they have a kid together in future fics — Tryga Kamishiro.
- Psychic Powers: Starting in Numbershot C32, she can seemingly cause monster cards to become real a la Aki Izayoi, with Rio pointing this out in a Deckshibition chapter. This mysterious power of hers has saved her friends more than once: the first time was when Shark was possessed by Vector, using a corrupted Number C32: Shark Drake Veiss. Ariel begged for Shark to return, which in turn caused Shark Drake to become more aware of himself. As such, instead of Shark Drake obeying the Vector-possessed Shark, it lashed out against him, freeing his master from the Barian's control. The second time was during Double Numbershot 70 & 92, where in a moment of desperation after being beaten by Mitsume, Sophia, Goddess of Rebirth somehow manifests into reality, which stopped Mitsume from taking the two Numbers she was after.
- Red Baron: Her title among the Terminal Gang is the Raging Gishki Torrent.
- Rescue Romance: She met Shark when he saved her from being hit by a truck.
- Write Who You Know: An in-universe example, where she was the inspiration behind the monster card that her father would design.
Jenaveve
Kaito's girlfriend. She possesses a strange power that can comfort people's souls, which allows Kaito's Photon Hand to take Numbers without people's souls.
- Bad "Bad Acting": In Deckshibition Chapter 16, she and Rio try to see if they can induce a Traumatic Superpower Awakening with Ariel, by having Jenaveve pretend she's being corrupted by her Number card. Rio can clearly see that she's phoning it in, but it's enough to convince Ariel during their "friendly" duel. Despite her self-admitted terrible performance, they were successful in causing Ariel to be stressed but unsuccessful in having Ariel's powers to emerge like before.
- Childhood Friend Romance: She used to play with Kaito and Haruto when they were little.
- Good Hurts Evil: In Numbershot S43, it appears that Jenaveve's powers are a direct counter to Vector, which forces the Barian to try and eliminate her.
- Light Is Good: Uses the LIGHT Attribute Sacred/Stellar archetype, and is on the side of the good guys.
- Power Glows: Her hands glow pink when she activates her powers.
Spade Stranahan
A boy who was granted super speed after coming in contact with a Number.
- Medium Awareness: He is very aware of the fact he is in a Fanfiction.
- Ship Tease: With Akari.
- Super-Speed: Number 48 grants him these powers.
Yamoto/Moyen Kamazuki
Originally, Moyen was someone that the Number Distributor tried to corrupt into a Number Hunter. However, since Moyen’s desire was to find his parents, the Number instead guided him to become a noble Number Hunter to save the corrupted Number Holders. To hide his identity, he took on the name Yamoto.
During his first appearances in the Numbershots, Yuma initially saw Yamoto as an enemy due to his actions. However, once Yamoto learned of Yuma’s true intentions, he became a friend.
He uses a deck based on rapid summoning Dark type monsters to bring out his monsters. His number and signature card, Dark Matter Dragon, grants him the ability to manifest a blade of Dark Matter to extract Numbers.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He uses the DARK Attribute Verz/Evilswarm archetype, but is a Number Hunter who allies with Yuma and his crew, looking to stop the Numbers Distributor.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Inverted. He actually defeats Yuma in a duel, but when he learns of Yuma's true intentions, he lets him keeps his Numbers.
- Embarrassing First Name: He only lets his parents call him by his real name.
- Family Theme Naming: His real name, Moyen, is French for "middle", like how his parents' names, Gauche and Droite, are French for "Left" and "Right" respectively. His last name, "Kazamuki" means "the direction of the wind", serving as a reference to his and his parents' direction-based names.
- Fan-Created Offspring: Droite and Gauche's son, as they both got an Age Lift in this continuity to be in their mid-30s.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: The revelation of him being Gauche and Droite's child was a big reveal and shocking moment to the cast, including Kaito. Later fics don't even bother hiding the fact that he's their son.
- Luke, You Are My Father: He’s in Heartland to find his parents, who are Droite and Gauche. When he summons Verz Thanatos, Gauche puts the pieces together, along with Yamoto revealing that he's his son later on in the duel.
- Meaningful Name: His alias, Yamoto, is taken from "Yami", the Japanese word for darkness. He uses a deck that contains DARK Attribute monsters, and his ace monster is Number 95: Dark Matter Dragon.
- My Nayme Is: His name is spelled and pronounced as "Yah-moh-toh" instead of the more common, "Yamato".
- Power Dyes Your Hair: His hair is naturally black, but is dyed purple whenever he duels.
- Ship Tease: With Sachi.
Mia
A female astral spirit and Astral's lover in the Astral World. She had tried to go with Astral in his journey, but her body was damaged in a lightning storm and was forced to merge with Astral. She was set free during the events of Numbershot C13, and became Kotori's personal astral spirit.
- Amnesiac Lover: Not her, but Astral. His memories of her relationship were erased when they reached Earth.
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Ascended Fanon: Originally was created by Yin-Yang Yoh for his "My Maiden" series, a fan of Taylor's Numbershots series. - Early-Bird Cameo: She appears in the memories Astral gets in 39 and 13 equals love.
- Foreshadowing: She’s hinted at in Number 13’s debut story, where she's then being fully revealed in the debut story of the Number's Chaos form.
- Laser Blade: Is able to summon one from her arm, as an extension of her own personal D-Pad.
- Mythology Gag: Her ability to summon the above detailed Laser Blade is carried over from her My Maiden series.
- Official Couple: With Astral.
- Orwellian Retcon: Her Early-Bird Cameo above replaces a set of completely different flashback scenes in the prologue fanfic, 39 & 13 Equals Love, after Astral absorbs the memories of Numbers 13 and 90.
Villains
Yugra
A former member of a gang that the Terminal Gang were rivals with, who was beaten by Ariel sometime before the events of the Numbershots. He makes his debut in Deckshibition Chapter 2.
- The Bus Came Back: Initially only showed up in Deckshibition Chapter 2, which took place before the events of the Numbershots, and was his only appearance for a while. It took until Double Numbershot 70 & 92: Terminal Clash for him to re-appear, disrupting the duel between the Terminal Gang and his former Gang to cause chaos and throw a Number-shaped wrench into their tag duel.
- Freeze Ray: Has a firearm that can shoot out beams of ice, which he demonstrates on Ariel to freeze her in place.
- An Ice Person: His deck consists of WATER Attribute monsters that are themed around hail, snow and ice.
- Kill It with Ice: His Deck focuses on the distribution of Ice Counters, which weaken his opponent's monsters. He also has a field Spell known as Reito Umi that is a frozen wasteland that can cripple most WATER decks.
- Mythology Gag: His deck consists of the Snow archetype, whose monsters can distribute Ice Counters. This deck was previously used by Asuka Tenjoin/Alexis Rhodes in the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX manga.
Karaan
The villain of Deckshibition Chapter 4, who uses a Gagaga deck, much like Yuma himself. He's a callous duelist, treating his cards like tools in comparison to Yuma, and has a major disdain of the Gagaga Girl card. He makes his debut in Deckshibition Chapter 4.
- Internal Homage: Kaaran is one to Pandora of the Ghouls/Rare Hunters from the original Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Battle City arc.
- Like Pandora, he is a specialist in an archetype used by the main character (Kaaran and Yuma use Gagaga monsters, while Pandora and Yugi have decks that support the Dark Magician), their Signature Mon is an Evil Counterpart of the main character's ace card (Gagaga Magician for Kaaran and Yuma, Dark Magician for Pandora and Yugi), and Kaaran's name is a Significant Anagram of Pandora's name in the English dub, Arkana.
- Kaaran's defeat in his Deckshibition chapter debut sees Yuma's Gagaga Girl (the apprentice of Gagaga Magician, and was dismissed by Kaaran) being powered up by the Gagaga monsters that Kaaran sacrificed without care to his graveyard alongside Yuma's. This is exactly how Pandora lost his duel against Yugi, where Yugi's Dark Magician Girl (a card the former didn't even know about despite it being the apprentice of the Dark Magician) got a boost in power due to the Dark Magicians that were in both players' graveyards (that Pandora also sacrificed without remorse).
- Mirror Boss: To Yuma, where both have Gagaga Magician as one of their ace cards. He however uses three copies of the spellcaster as opposed to just one.
The Number Distributor
The Big Bad of the entire Numbershots fanfic continuity, and is the one responsible for giving out the Numbers and setting the events of each fanfic into motion. While it was believed to be just one man behind it all, it's later revealed that Vector of the Barian World is involved in his sinister plot.
- Arch-Enemy: With everyone, but more specifically with Yuma, Shark, and Kaito, where he manages to make it personal with those three.
- Big Bad: Of the entire Numbershots continuity.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: With Vector, where he was responsible for even bringing the Number Distributor to life. The two are joined at the hip quite often, but Vector can act autonomously, where they can engage in a tag team duel against Haruto and Jenaveve.
- Discard and Draw: He never uses the same deck twice, switching it out for a different archetype whenever he duels. He has used no less than three different ones throughout the continuity. They all however either have the same consistent "Chaos" theme or are utilized to quickly summon Photon Number Destroyer.
- Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: He is the second variant of this trope, where he takes sadistic glee in tormenting the heroes and torturing others, finding it hilarious. When paired with Vector, they both revel in being unrepentantly evil, treating the reveal that the Number Distributor is Yuma's father, Kazuma Tsukumo, whose body has been revived with an evil soul from the Barian World as a "funny story".
- Hero Killer: Twice. He once killed Yuma during Numbershot C13, where he took an attack that was meant for Kotori, though Kotori managed to awaken her own ZEXAL transformation and revived him. The Number Distributor successfully kills Dr. Faker however, who had pulled a Heel–Face Turn in Numbershot 99.
- Knight of Cerebus: Whenever he shows up or duels against the main cast, things become much more serious.
- Man of Kryptonite: Not him, but his ace card, Photon Numbers Destroyer, is specifically designed to destroy Number cards, with its "official" card game variant also being a hard counter to Xyz monsters that can negate their effects.
- The Reveal: Numbershot 99 gives some revelations that flips what the cast knew about the character on its head.
- The true identity of the Number Distributor is Yuma's father, Kazuma Tsukumo, whose body was sent to the Barian World, but his soul was sent to the Astral World. Vector then imbued Kazuma's body with a different soul, which gave him a new appearance.
- The power source of his Signature Mon is actually Kazuma's wife, Mirai Tsukumo, which is unveiled after also debuting the first Rank-Up-Magic card in this continuity; Rank-Up-Magic Barian's Heart.
- Signature Mon: Photon Numbers Destroyer/Photon Numeral Destroyer. It also has an evolved form known as Photon Future Destroyer, used in conjunction with Rank-Up-Magic Barian's Heart.
- Yin-Yang Bomb: Some of his decks utilize this, where they consist of LIGHT and DARK Attribute monsters. During a tag duel where he partners with Vector, he has a Photon deck that uses all LIGHT monsters, with Vector utilizing the DARK attribute Umbral monsters.
Crossovers
Zaman/Zeke Driscoll
The villain of the crossover story, Yu-Gi-Oh! 4D Love Surpassing Time. A time traveler who kidnaps Tea Gardner, Alexis Rhodes, Akiza Izinski, and Kotori Mizuki, prompting their boyfriends to go after him and rescue them. After his loss against Yugi, Jaden, Yusei, and Yuma, he turns over a new leaf, teaming up with Kohaku Yudin to stop the Sykonetyks from destroying the timeline, the latter planning on making it so Yuma and Astral never ended up collecting all the Numbers, forming a bad future where Vector wins.His signature card is Temporal Future King.
- Big Bad: Of the 4D story.
- Blessed with Suck: He got time manipulation powers, but it also made him immortal.
- Expy: Of Clockman.exe from Rockman.EXE Operate Shooting Star, where both characters are The Collectors of women from several different time periods.
- Heel Realization: Once he got defeated, he realized that his quest for love had gone too far.
- Heel–Face Turn: Originally started as a villain when he became time displaced and couldn't find love. After his defeat, he stops being a villain, seeing the errors of his ways and become a hero in the long run.
- Humans Are Special: A human with time travel powers ended up creating an entirely new Attribute for Duel Monsters, the TIME Attribute, along with an entirely new Timewarp Summoning Method.
- I Just Want to Be Loved: He kidnaps women so he can find someone that can cure his lonely heart
- Master of All: Can utilize all of the summoning methods introduced when 4D: Love Surpassing Time was released and was close to beating the four protagonists.
- Meaningful Name: His name is Arabic for "Time", which is fitting for a time traveler
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Is the blue oni to Kohaku's Red Oni in Numbershot 64.
- That Man Is Dead: His opinion on his true identity.
- Time Master: His deck and powers are themed around this. He exists outside of time and space, protecting the timestream and uses a TIME deck.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: He realized that his powers mean he’ll outlive the people he loves.
Kohaku Yudin
The Main Protagonist of Yu-Gi-Oh! GSTART and one of the main protagonists of Numbershot 64. A kid who ends up with a special card that ends up unlocking his potential and changing his life forever.- All-Loving Hero: He is the Main Protagonist of his home series, and has a kind and joyful personality to boot.
- Godlike Gamer: Kohaku is an expert gamer, with his deck, the Pixel HEROes, being based on Super Smash Bros. a character from his home series uses a deck called Pixel Soldiers based on Playstation All-Stars.
- Playing with Fire: His Signature Mon is FIRE Attribute, who is based on Fire Mario.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Is the red oni to Zaman, the other protagonist also the former villian of Yu-Gi-Oh! 4D Love Surpassing Time following his Face–Heel Turn at the end of the fic
- Signature Mon: Pixel HERO - Red Burner/Alpha HERO - Wonderful Red
Chrono and Ourano:
Two of the major of villains of Numbershot 64, and upcoming antagonists in Yu-Gi-Oh! GSTART. A pair of criminals that have access to tech able to warp time and space with ease. They travel back to the era of Yuma Tsukumo to use one of The Numbers Distributor's Numbers to destroy Kohaku Yudin before he reaches his true potential.- Evil Is Petty: Chrono gets extremely petty when Zaman waltz in, upstages Chrono's time powers, summons never-seen before monsters and just leaves.
- Lesser of Two Evils: Is this to Vector and Their Boss
- Meaningful Name: Their names are derivative of the words "Chronokinesis" (The Mastery of Time) and "Ouranokinesis" (The Mastery of Space), a fact shared with their Sykonetyk teammates.
- Space Master: Ourano can control Space, opening wormholes and portals.
- Time Master: Chrono can control Time, not to extent of that of someone like Zaman, but he can control time.
- Would Hurt a Child: Their plan involves them trying to kill a teenage boy because of his destiny in becoming the Alphaomega.
