History Characters / YuGiOhArcVPendulumsFifthSwing

Originally, he was much like Yuya and wanted to bring smiles to the crowd, but when the crowd cheered for him when he accidentally wounded his opponent, he began to perform violent duels, eventually becoming more ruthless. At the height of his career after winning the championship, Zarc fused himself with the Four Dimensional Dragons and went on a rampage, destroying much of the Original Dimension before he was eventually stopped by Ray Akaba, whose efforts resulted in Zarc, and the Original Dimension, being split into four different dimensions. Zarc's soul was inherited by his Standard counterpart: Yuya Sakaki.

* AmbiguousSituation: The purpose of the Bracelet Girls is to keep Supreme King Z-ARC from resurrecting while also pacifying his fragments. Not only is Zarc somehow alive and whole, albeit without any memories of his past as the Demon Duelist, he's also unaffected by the power of the bracelets, as he can be in close proximity to his fragments while the Bracelet Girls are nearby without the bracelets reacting accordingly. In one instance, when Zarc first meets Yuto in ''Scale 04'' with Yuzu present, only Yuto is transported away when Yuya approaches.

* BloodLust: PlayedForDrama. Zarc's desire for violent duels, as pushed upon him by the crowd, has not faded away, even with his amnesia. It has been immensely pushed to the back of his mind, but there are a few occasions when Zarc realizes he takes joy in the prospect of seriously hurting someone, much to his horror. Much of his characterization is focused on trying to push away from his penchant for violence, in favor of Entertainment Dueling. More specifically, Yuya's Entertainment Dueling, which is bringing smiles to the audience and to be as reckless as possible.
* CatchPhrase: Has two. His primary one is: "Ladies and gents, iiit's showtime!" A more minor one is somewhat based on Yuya's: "The fun...has yet to begin!"

* DarkIsNotEvil: The Supreme King deck's strongest cards are [[EvilCounterpart corrupt versions]] of the Four Dimensional Dragons, and all of the cards are DARK Attribute. Zarc, however, is far from evil. At least in this story, anyway.

* EveryoneHasStandards: He makes it clear that he looks down on Duelists who use [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections connections to get what they want]], or ''even'' using [[CombatPragmatist potentially life-threatening tactics]] to get an advantage in a Duel (regardless if the said tactic wasn't ''technically'' illegal). Sawatari finds this out the ''hard'' way when he uses an Action Card inflict 500 LP damage to Yuya riding on Supreme King Servant Dragon Clear Wing in the form of a small comet, which went ''through'' them and hit the tower where Yuzu, Ayu, Futoshi and Tatsuya is stuck on, leading to Yuya changing course to save them from danger and the event stall him long enough to where his turn automatically ends due to a time-limit, preventing the FinishingMove for Yuya and Zarc. This act of endangerment enrages Zarc to where he tricks Kakimoto by provoking the latter into attacking Clear Wing as a DeliberateInjuryGambit so his Synchro Dragon's effect can deal an OneHitKill that would not only cause Sawatari and his tag partner lose, but could also likely get killed by the solid mass-induced fire if hadn't been for [[BigDamnHeroes Yuya]] saving them. Later on, in the duel between Hokuto and Yuya during the "LDS vs You Show" Arc, Zarc had to ''restrain'' himself from flying into a murderous rage when Hokuto deliberately timed his monster's effect to bounce Yuya's Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon off the field while the latter was ''riding'' on it in the air in an attempt to get an Action Card.
* EasilyForgiven: Even though he could've nearly kill Sawatari and Kakimoto in the Tag Duel in ''Scale 02'', Yuya, Yuzu, Ayu, Futoshi and Tatsuya doesn't hold it against him for his RageBreakingPoint towards the LDS' students. It's also justified considering what Sawatari pulled prior to and ''during'' the Tag Duel in the first place.

** To his fragment, Yuya Sasaki. Yuya has confidence issues, especially in regards to his status as the founder and pioneer of Pendulum Summoning, and wants nothing more than to bring smiles to his audience. Zarc is confident in his skills, but enjoys the idea of hurting others in a duel, much to his horror, and yearns to duel in a way that brings smiles to both his opponent and to the crowd. Their respective journeys as an Entertainment Duelist are diametric opposites, with Yuya learning to become more confident and to resolve issues without losing his ideals while Zarc learns to temper his BloodLust and to overcome obstacles without losing himself to it.
** He also one to his past self. As the Demon Duelist, Zarc was slowly driven into madness from his obsession of making his audience happy by being brutal to his opponents and is all too happy into becoming a PhysicalGod so he could never lose and enjoys hurting others. In the current time, Zarc is reverted back into his original personality after losing his memories and is horrified when he nearly harm someone in a duel to the point where he would limit himself as a Duelist by adhering to Entertainment Dueling.
* FreakOut: When [[spoiler:Yami Marik]] wipes out his whole field and goes in for a direct attack, Zarc starts to panic and thinks he's going to die of he loses. [[spoiler:This causes him to relapse into his Demon Duelist persona.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Suffers this during the Tag Duel between him, Yuya, Sawatari, and Kakimoto. When he realized that he was about to seriously injure, or worse kill Sawatari, he's so in shock and in utter horror that he can barely put any effort into his turns (which have further put himself and Yuya at a disadvantage). Thankfully, Yuya's comeback and skills, as well as the trust displayed by his Performapal monsters, helps Zarc get back into his funk.

* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: When he had another nightmare of his past with a remorseful Ray being in it, he woke up only to find himself crying for unknown reasons.

* NiceGuy: Since he no longer remembers his past as the Demon Duelist, he plays this straight and is more focused towards You Show's ideology of Entertainment Dueling.

* WalkingSpoiler: His very ''existence'' spoils much of the mysteries surrounding Yuya's Berserk Mode, the Four Dimensional Dragons, and the meaning behind the "We will become one" MadnessMantra Yuya and his counterparts spew whenever the dragons are out on the field together.

-->'''Zarc''': --how annoying. You act high and mighty...[[HesBack but insects]] '''''[[PersonOfMassDestruction will always be insects]]'''''.

!!!'''Archetype''': Entermate (Performapal), Odd-Eyes

* BadassAdorable: His joyful personality, plus his adorable looking Performapal monsters, help solidify this trope for him, especially when you consider that his ace monster is a dragon.

* CatchPhrase: Has two. "Ladies and gentlemen!" and "The fun has just begun!"

* CoatCape: He wears his school uniform over his shoulders, not too differently from how Yami Yugi wore the Domino City high school's blazer. [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes How it never falls off his shoulders is a mystery]].

* CatchPhrase: "[[ApologeticAttacker Apologies]]" appears to be one, as she says it quite often during a duel when countering or about to make a major move.

!!!'''Archetype''': Furnimal (Fluffal), Edge Imp, Death-Toy (Frightfur)

* CatchPhrase: "HOT-BLOODED!"

* CatchPhrase: Turns out Yuya's own catchphrase is a BorrowedCatchPhrase, as "The fun has only just begun!" was originally his.

!!!'''Archetype''': Sacred (Constellar)

* AdaptationalBadass: In canon, his winning streak was 40 Duels whereas in the fic is ''95''. Furthermore, per the advice of Kurosaki, Hokuto is probably switching to the Tellarknight Archetype.

!!!'''Archetype''': Predator Plant (Predaplant)

!!!'''Archetype''': Moonlight (Lunalight)

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* EvilCounterpart: To Yuzu and Ray. She's dead set on proving herself to the Professor and wants to join the front lines, including carding anyone who is defeated at her hands.