Once again, Yumil's dreams read aloud the epilogue, and by then it was routine. Undress, wash face, tuck himself in, watch the world die. Wake up, have breakfast. It wasn't odd to him because he had no one to tell him so, nor did he have someone to explain.
When he wakes up from his favorite napping spot on Sunny Hill, he sees a red bookmark drifting to him and catches it. This in turn causes the monolith near him to shine and the Book of Prophecy to appear before him. But this also catches the attention of an Imperial Knight of Waisen, who sheds his armor to reveal his monstrous form and is dead set on killing Yumil for knowing too much.
Fortunately, Yumil's screams for help are heard by Rempo, one of the Book's Spirits who emerges from his bookmark and guides Yumil in wielding the Book's powers to slay the monster. Unfortunately, Yumil learns from Rempo that the recurring dreams he's had are not only the Book's prophecy of an inevitable future but also proof of his new role as The Chosen One to "write the new world"... and he won't even get to live to see that world.
Since Rempo handily points out that ditching a reality-rewriting book won't dissuade monsters from ripping his legs off, Yumil decides to hold onto the book for the moment while he struggles with his newfound destiny.
Avalon Code: A Guide to Wasting Awesome Ideas
is a rewrite of the game script of Avalon Code by Something Awful user Didja Redo to stylize his narrative Let's Play of the game. He acknowledged that his definition of "narrative" (in his words, "combing the dialogue with my bastardizing fingertips until I like it more") was unconventional for an LP, so he also included "The Real Deal", a conventional LP referencing the game's actual script and spiced with his unique brand of snark.
Note that this page is specifically about Didja Redo's script rewrite; tropes about his conventional LP/"The Real Deal" should be filed under his page instead.
This rewrite provides examples of:
- Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Yumil thinks Tuoni is just a sweet-talking minion of Kullervo trying to kill him through a facade of sympathy, even dangling the mystery of his missing parents over him to lower his guard. In the game this guess can be confirmed by rematching him after retrieving the Book of Prophecy so you can scan him, but in this rewrite he's left as Ambiguously Evil.
- Adaptation Personality Change: In the original game, Lauca was a Third-Person Person. Didja Redo thought that was dumb and changed her to have a more normal speaking style.
- Ambiguously Evil: Tuoni claims to be the Chimera that Yumil killed, while Yumil posits that he's just a sweet-talking minion of Kullervo. Since Yumil doesn't have the Book of Prophecy at this point and can't scan him, it's never confirmed what his deal really is.
- Bittersweet Ending: Yumil foils Kullervo's plot, a victory earned through General Heath's offscreen sacrifice to delay Kullervo and Werman; Princess Dorothea learns that Prince Valdo has been Dead All Along since his assassination; and ultimately the world ended despite Yumil and Lauca's travels beyond Kaleila. In Yumil's new world the Book appears before Tia, which means even the world he created is fated to end. But he did leave a message for the new Chosen One and the Spirits, and the latter's shackles are already gone.
- Broad Strokes: The fanfic tells approximately the same story as canon, but it definitely does not tell it the same way.
- Can't Refuse the Call Anymore: Yumil would rather not have monsters ripping his legs off, but holding onto the Book of Prophecy at least gives him a fighting chance. When he breaks out of Xenonbart's prison, he's no longer able to stay in Rhoan unless he wants his head lopped off, so finding the other Spirits is his only choice.
- The Chosen One: Yumil had the dreams long before he received the Book of Prophecy.
- Conveniently an Orphan: Yumil's parents abandoned him in the slums of Rhoan Town when he was young for an unspecified reason. The hanging question haunts him in his fight against Tuoni.
- Darkest Hour: Yumil is near-catatonic after escaping Rhoan the second time, considering everything he just went through in one night: Rex stole the Book from him and gave it to Kullervo, Heath knocked the wind out of him, Kullervo sealed the Spirits away, Fana was sucked into the Book, Rhoan got destroyed, Xenonbart branded him a criminal (again) because most of the townsfolk blamed him for the devastation, and he just broke out with Heath. Lauca's persistence slowly gives him the motivation to pull himself up.
- Dead All Along: Yumil realizes Meenya is a ghost once he sees her name on a tombstone in Rhoan's graveyard. The canon game didn't even present this as a twist, revealing it unceremoniously in her second cutscene.
- Death by Adaptation:
- General Heath dies in his Hold the Line moment, which he survived in the original game despite the bit where Werman throws his wrecked shield at the protagonist very clearly indicating otherwise.
- Prince Valdo doesn't inexplicably get better after being assassinated to serve as Kullervo's vessel as he did in canon.
- Dysfunctional Family: Yumil would consider Gustav and Duran's father-son relationship strained if it actually existed. As in canon, Duran has the false belief that Gustav ran away after murdering Rex's family, but Gustav was looking for the actual culprits and never told Duran about it; the difference is that it's implied that even the truth didn't make them family again (if ever).
- Heel–Face Turn: After seeing Prince Valdo's true nature, General Heath helps Yumil escape Hidden Meia and trains him in the Unarmed Style.
- I Lied: When Yumil asks Rempo why he can't revive Meenya, Rempo admits that he embellished the Book's powers since Yumil was gonna throw the Book away otherwise.
- Jerkass: The guard that sees Yumil heal Guri Guri calls Yumil a sorcerer and Waisen spy without definite proof, has him arrested and brought before King Xenonbart, and is all too happy to see him starve in a cell.
- Last Episode, New Character: In the epilogue, the Book's newest holder is revealed to be Tia, who had just finished reading the message Yumil left behind for her and the Spirits.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: After Guri Guri is mortally wounded by Orobas (the aftermath lovingly described as "exposing splintered bone and sickening fatty tissue"), Yumil uses the Book to heal the damage; for his trouble, the guard who witnessed his "black magic" calls him a sorcerer and later arrests him on suspicion of being a Waisen spy, culminating in King Xenonbart throwing him into a cell to rot.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Yumil never lets Heath forget that unprovoked literal gut punch in their first meeting. He only agrees to drop it when Heath is about to lose his life.
- Reality-Writing Book: Rempo explains how the Sword page in the Book of Prophecy works:Rempo: What you have there is The Sword. It's the image that the word "sword" evokes, made real. It can be copper or iron or whatever you want it to be, but it wasn't made from those things. Even without the metal, the idea is still there, holding it together. That idea comes with a purpose, and that purpose is to cut things. So when you kill something with those swords, it isn't because of your skill. It's just an idea coming to fruition through you. Get it?Yumil: ...
- Relationship Upgrade: Yumil and Lauca become an item after he decides to tell her about the Book and everything related to it.
- Rescue Romance: Yumil gradually finds himself falling for Lauca after she saves him from his Darkest Hour.
- Second Love: Lauca becomes this for Yumil, especially since he symbolically cuts himself out of Fana's life by gifting her the Stone-cutter when he dreams of her (implied to be him visiting her in the preview of his new world).
- Shadow Archetype: Kullervo turns out to be a dark mirror of Yumil: a child who became a target of humanity's irrationality despite saving them from certain destruction. Unlike Yumil having Lauca (and Heath), Kullervo had no one on his side, which led to his desire to erase humanity by sparking the apocalypse himself to summon the Book and not writing humanity into it this time around. Yumil regretfully has to kill him because he brought the end too close.
- Snark-to-Snark Combat: Yumil and Rempo's bond is defined by this.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: Yumil defeats Gustav in a duel to kick him off his high horse, even flaunting how he learned Gustav's technique quickly, but Gustav doesn't grovel for a second. Yumil ends up walking away from Gustav no more satisfied than when he approached him.Beat him. Should have been satisfying.
- Villain Respect: When Kullervo is slain in his original body, he calls Yumil by name for the first and last time as he makes his Last Request.Kullervo: HUMAN! Human. Yumil. Don't...let them...forget...
- Wandering the Earth: After defeating Kullervo and saying his farewells to the people of Rhoan (promising Kamui that he'll show Kamui new flowers should he ever return), Yumil travels the world with Lauca. He initially tried to give Lauca his house in Rhoan since he'll be traveling the world, but she points out there's no reason she can't join him. He agrees to meet up with her after he has one last nap on Sunny Hill.
