History FanFic / CallofDarkness

** Might also be subverted in the case of Yukio. Although he and his twin brother Yuko founded the Knights of Arcadia support group, Yukio is arguably the more terrifying of the two. Maybe because he was the only student of Shimotsuki Setsuka. Yukio is also plenty terrifying on his own, but being trained by the in-universe CompleteMonster really does wonders for his own reputation.

* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Ryuusei tried to set something up involving this. [[spoiler: the plan hinged on no human second-guessing that Yamada Yuuta did anything more than have hatred for the Arcadia Movement. At that time, the new Summer champion Kisara Kaiba was terrified of meeting a similar fate to Ayame. The plan took five months to set up. It went like this: Kisara provided her family heirloom as a giant target, and arranged the KC Grand Prix. During the five months of training, Ryuusei also prepared a second agent and member of the Arcadia Movement, Vanessa Trent, to infiltrate the Movement again, while her twin brother, Leo Sterling, worked as an intermediary between a pair of orphaned siblings, the Sakumo family, where the younger sister Serena was an extremely powerful Psychic to isolate them from the Arcadia Movement's help. The KC Grand Prix worked as a pretext to dump the Chaos Emperor Dragon to anyone except an agent of Winter, and then sending one agent to steal it in an extremely public manner to lure the police investigation to Yamada Yuuta, who would be set up to be killed and therefore publicly discredited when the planted Chaos Emperor Dragon was revealed.

*** Averted with Setsuka. She ''did'' kill people, she did torture people, but there is no evidence because she always disappeared the body.

** Ryuusei gives off flashes of this in the second arc, what with trying to avoid conflict with Winter. So did his former champion, Ayame. This cost her her life.

* MeaningfulName: Often appears in the case of author-created characters. 'Kannazuki' is taken from the old Japanese name of October, and means 'month without gods' or 'month of the gods' depending on who's translating, and Seika means 'star flower' in the Kanji. Ryuusei means 'meteor'. Shimotsuki Setsuka basically means 'snow flower of the month of frost', and Shimotsuki is the old name for November. Rex and Reina, names for the Atlas kids, are different words for 'king' and 'queen' respectively. Chase Princeton: 'Chase' is Old French ''Chacier'' meaning "to catch / seize", which is a reference to his ability to call spirits, and Princeton is a reference to the dub name of Jun Manjoume, and so highlights his relationship to the Pro Duelist. His boyfriend, Nowaki Misawa, better known as Youkai, has the meaning of 'typhoon' in his name and also resembles a Japanese {{Youkai}}, what with his scarlet eyes, pale skin and long white hair. Satsuki is the old name for June, and Kujaku means 'peacock'. Even minor characters such as the Himemiya sisters have meaningful names such as Uzuki (month of the unohana, April) and Hazuki (month of falling leaves, August). Orion is obviously the hunter or the constellation, and Hunter... well, yes.
** ''Code-names'' in the Arcadia Movement have a meaning. Ryuusei's was Regulus, which is a reference to Alpha Leonis, the main star of the Leo constellation. Setsuka's is, depending on the time of writing, either Polaris (for ''stella polaris'' or the North Star) or Winter (as the Winter Queen). Satsuki's codename while she was part of the Movement is Aquila, the old Eagle Constellation. Youkai's is Slyph, the spirit of the air. Hazuki's is Titania, a reference to both her status as one of the four Queens of Queens, and as a Plant-Type Duelist. Her sister, Uzuki, holds the code-name Kraehe, a reference to ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' and TheNutcracker, which covers the general theme of the Madolche deck she plays. So far, we know that within the walls Chase is code-named Zero, and Rex's is King. Seika's code-name is Polaris, having taken over from Setsuka as the implied navigational centre of the Movement.
*** Previously, in a slip-up, Seika was referred to as Pandora.
*** Yukio Yamada is code-named Cold Wolf. This is stylistically incorrect, because orcas, and not sharks, are the 'wolves of the sea' (Yukio plays a Shark-Gishki deck). ItMakesSenseInContext, since Yukio runs the team of Psychics responsible for hunting down rogue Psychics, and was taught personally by the Cold Queen Setsuka. His brother is code-named Hercules, for the beetle as Yuko runs a Steelswarm deck.

* Motifs: Abound in Fanfic/CallOfDarkness. Most significant are the storms that spring up before, during and after any major altercation. Not very significant until you realise that one of the core tenets of the Movement is: ''Let the Storm come. Our will shall shine when the storm has died.''

*** Subverted in the case of the rulers: both of them are the reincarnation of former Duel Spirits who died.

* PapaWolf: Mr Shimotsuki, or Rafael, Setsuka's father. He was a man with only a criminal record and the ability to see spirits with him, and yet he faced down his wife, a dangerous Psychic Duelist capable of killing 200 people in a night to give her a TheReasonYouSuck speech to make the Madame treat Setsuka better. If he had lived, perhaps the Winter Queen would have been a lot nicer.

** It just appeared that in the Winter Court, that the punishment for being a lousy host is ''execution''. According to DeadpanSnarker General Raiho, this was custom ratified by law, and that Summer has similar, if rather more lax, punishments. The reason for this is cited to be that most of the tribes that make up the Winter Court are nomadic, and so need to count on sacred hospitality by tradition and necessity. One way to guarantee a CruelAndUnusualDeath by spirit ruler was to break sacred hospitality by harming any agent of either Court, whether you know it or not.
* ShootTheDog: Hayato Ichimonji was the poor sucker who got suckered into a Duel with a disguised Marguerite, where he unwittingly bet his life and lost in the first arc. In the first arc, we see that he's treated little better than a slave or a toy by Marguerite, and accorded zero rights to live by, and has to follow every command given. We find out his ultimate fate in the third arc: [[spoiler: he was turned over to Ryuusei, who used him as an intermidiary between Ryuusei and Leo Sterling and a few other agents of Summer to steal the Chaos Emperor Dragon, and then murdered with false evidence planted on his bloody body to lead the trail to Attorney Yamada Yuuta.
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: On top of being a [[spoiler: Class V]] Psychic Duelist, Ryuusei Fudo is also written as incredibly hot, until everyone who sees him falls for him. This might sound nice until you find out that [[spoiler: when he was young, he was nearly targeted by a pedophile masquerading as his kindergarten teacher, in middle school two girls stabbed each other over him, and in high school his stalker tried to off his friendly senior and his own best friend in a fit to draw Ryuusei's attention, and that later a woman killed herself over being perceived as ugly by him]]. He has an aura that draws almost everyone to him, but their very obsession over him drives them insane. It's been referred to as ''[[GratuitousFrench je nais sais quoi]]'' by Setsuka before.

*** The author frankly has no comment about sexuality, but the gay is hardly ever played up, though there is only one canonically straight couple right now: Jimmy and Setsuka.

** [[spoiler: Exception applies at Halloween, since Setsuka was defeated (her one and only defeat) by Ryuusei on Halloween night in Boss Rush]].

* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: Only one actual case: Kisara. The others are more of [[SpearCounterpart Spear Counterparts]]: Youkai and Kiyoshi.

** [[spoiler: Surprisingly, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Evilswarm_Ouroboros Evilswarm Ouroboros]] in the first arc. He expresses regret for killing his brothers, the [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] Bahamut and Ophion, and that they must face each other across the battlefield. He is also relatively accepting of the way they died in Seika's Duel against Kiyoshi, and even supplied Seika with a replacement for himself after the Summer-Winter war. Also, Evilswarm Ouroboros is one of the characters who have yet to seek vengeance or show any inclination towards violence.]]

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Setsuka is the Winter Queen, Queen of Air and Darkness. Ryuusei is the Summer King, King of Land and Light. Both of them are the rulers of EldritchAbominations.

** TarotMotifs: The symbol of the revamped Movement is the lightning-struck tower. Before breaking out the HarryPotter reference, it means an explosive change.

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9074168/1/Call-of-Darkness Call of Darkness]] is a series of post-canon YuGiOh! 5Ds fanfiction. Still ongoing as of 8 June 2013. Written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2058862/lalunaticscribe lalunaticscribe]] and posted in FF.net, Call of Darkness is technically the third and last of the series of fanfictions, beginning with [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8526488/1/Infernity-Mirage Infernity Mirage]], followed by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8704455/1/Boss-Rush Boss Rush]], and now by CallOfDarkness, although the last is admittedly the one with the best work invested by the author.

Unlike the full first-person view of Infernity Mirage, which details the better part of two years in Duel Academia Kings, and Boss Rush, which takes on the eventful first year that led to the opening of CallOfDarkness two years later, CallOfDarkness is told in two points of view.

Unlike most other fanfics of the YGO fandom, the Duel Spirits of CallOfDarkness are depicted as surprisingly more amoral and with BlueAndOrangeMorality, in a variety of ways from the debatably benevolent FairFolk types to the fully malevolent EldritchAbominations, and they are split into two different sides named [[{{DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything}}Summer and Winter]]. At the centre of the two Courts of Summer and Winter are the Summer King and the Winter Queen, who act as if they are AboveGoodAndEvil and are also [[spoiler: the main antagonists of the story]]. CallOfDarkness can be said to follow the chronicles of the Arcadia Movement and Chase as they solve crimes both mundane and mystical in nature. All in all? This world's version of [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles a certain wizard]].

A spin-off anthology of one-shots, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9402331/1/Thousand-Strings Thousand Strings]] has been set up to detail the workings of the Arcadia Movement in greater detail.

* BritPick: CallOfDarkness is written entirely in British English.

* CentralTheme: Aside from the fate vs free will thing going on with Summer and Winter, CallOfDarkness also looks at power vs accountability in a more general sense centralised around the Arcadia Movement. The arcs themselves each have a theme:

* FairFolk: The Duel Spirits in CallOfDarkness resembles this more closely than any other.

* Motifs: Abound in CallOfDarkness. Most significant are the storms that spring up before, during and after any major altercation. Not very significant until you realise that one of the core tenets of the Movement is: ''Let the Storm come. Our will shall shine when the storm has died.''

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Setsuka and Seika. Setsuka turned into what she was because of essentially eight years or so of the Arcadia Movement, and even more with the Winter Court. Seika tries, but her own emotions are noted to be very expressive and that Yukio, one of the people within the Movement with the greatest grassroots backing, has open doubts about her ability to lead. Part of the subplot of CallOfDarkness is basically Seika and the Movement struggling along in the wake of Setsuka's disappearance.

* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: In the end, CallOfDarkness has this at the heart of it. The rulers of Summer and Winter cannot change their essential nature, but they can ''choose'' where and when to act. Seika can choose whether to give up the Movement, or remain as the head of the organization. Chase can choose to be actively involved or not. The very nature of the Arcadia Movement's structure and running basically reinforces that, no matter what its members choose, they will always have a choice to make, and the very structure of the Movement reinforces that belief in choice. Sure, choices may be limited, but it is present.

* CentralTheme: Aside from the fate vs free will thing going on with Summer and Winter, CallOfDarkness also looks at power vs accountability in a more general sense centralised around the Arcadia Movement.
** The arcs themselves each have a theme:
*** ''Mythological Age'' covers what does it mean to hold power, or to be powerless in a world where to be powerful could mean all the difference as a powerless person heading a powerful organisation.
*** ''Struggle of Chaos'' is duty vs desire, whether personal desires should interfere in carrying out duties, and the results thereof amongst the powerful.
*** ''Labyrinth of Nightmare'' is family: what does it mean for a family due to power imbalances, or the conflicts between members of a family with/without special abilities. A sub-plot of this could be the Yamada twins, thrown out of their house by their phobic father for having Psychic powers. Chase had observed their father to be "a proud man". Although Yukio and Yuko are characters created by a reader rather than the author, they fit this theme as the consequence of their father being unable to accept that his sons have the power he hates, and also throws in a GreenEyedMonster approach at the situation rather than outright phobia.
*** Likewise, the Misawa family.

** There was a mention of the most recent tiff between Yukio and his father as well in relation to the Hague Convention: a Peruvian Psychic Duelist smuggled a Raigeki (explicitly stated to be banned in tournament use in here) back to Peru and killed his abusers and passers-by. So the trouble between Yukio and Attorney Yamada wasn't just fear on the side of the father; it was having to face his son in a legal tussle that had been hinted to be brutal.
** In the first arc, Seika received Number 39: King of Wishes, Hope (or Utopia, for those playing TCG). It soon became one of her most-seen aces. This card is slated to be important in the future, what with Setsuka relating a story about the Numbers and their relation to PandorasBox.
* ColdBloodedTorture: What Setsuka did to Kiyoshi. Also [[spoiler: to Yuuki]]. Le's just say that in any scene involving torture, she's responsible one way or another.

* ComesGreatPerks: Debatable. Powers don't seem to be really worth the number of enemies you seem to make in this universe, or the trouble you'll get into. Either you're looked down on society, or you have to fight off psychic-haters, or a Duel Spirit might enslave you and make you do morally questionable stuff, and might even outright kill you ForTheEvulz.
* CombatPragmatist: Nearly all Psychic Duelists are this. Although just owning a Duel Disk places them at a comparative advantage and gives them access to monsters, several of them are armed with knives and also keep spare cards on their person. And that's in Japan. Other Psychics presumably keep guns around. They teach camps on how to inflict burn damage, in the middle of the desert around Satisfaction Town. The camp is called [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Camp Kaboom]], and they turn acres of sand into glass ''every year''. Just in Neo Domino. Imagine how the other Movements must train their Psychics.
* CommanderContrarian: Yamada Yukio held the ConflictBall for the start of the entire story. His rationale was that a powerless minor had no truck running an organisation of Psychics where there were others. Though his stance had relaxed somewhat when Seika proved herself WeakButSkilled, and he did keep his protests to within earshot of Seika rather than declaring public revolt or splitting the Movement to two different ideals. Yukio is savvy enough to do so, and Seika knows that not courting his opinion is akin to causing a rift in the Movement, and that he does have a point. It still doesn't stop Yukio's presence from scaring her; Yukio is the ''only'' person Seika refers to as "Yamada-san" in her thoughts, but twin brother Yuko gets "Yuko-kun" or "Yuko" and cousin Yuuki gets "Yuuki-san" or "Yuuki-kun" or just Yuuki. This from the girl with balls enough to call Setsuka "Setsu-chan". To her face.

* CutenessOverload: Himemiya Uzuki uses a Madolche deck. They're cute little buggers until you realise that being clobbered by a giant fork, a teapot or the Puddingcess's shoes hurts. And Uzuki fights ''dirty''.
** A minor character acknowledges this by saying that while the Madolche may look cute, but a weapon is a weapon, and a ton of plush soldiers beating you to death with candy-cane swords is not nice at all. He also said that the Puddingcess has a nasty habit of stomping nuts. We presume he didn't mean things like walnuts...

** [[spoiler: Likewise, the Infernity clan of Duel Spirits, alongside the Apes, the Spiders, the Fortune Ladies, the Reptilianne, the Inca, and the Reactors, serves as [[BarrierMaiden guards]] to protect a maximum-security prison in another dimension that currently holds their former masters, the Earthbound Gods, with a lot more prisoners. The Earthbound Gods are minimum security.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Arcadia Movement seems to be of this mind. Despite taking in many of its members in dormitories with free room and board, members that live-in are still made to study and, on occasion, work in a limited capacity while they remain with the Movement. The same applies to criminal cases taken in by the Movement.
** The idea being that while they remain in Sanctuary, or the Arcadia Movement, they work and decide the next steps of their lives, since some time is needed to recover from any SuckyBackstory. Despite providing sanctuary, the idea is mostly understood that there is no free lunch in the world, so members of the Arcadia Movement are obliged to work for room and board. Usually it becomes a small office job or administrative capacity within the Castle, but occasionally powerful Psychics ends up with the Knights of Arcadia, where they undergo urban combat training and a host of other modules to work with the Neo Domino Police Department, or as bouncers.
*** The Movement also owns real estate, as evidenced by the deserted training ground near Satisfaction Town, and the headquarters itself. One presumes they rent out for funds.
*** It can be assumed that each member working pays a set fee for room and board, and added to the tax stipend doing government work and being a charity can prove gain tax breaks. It can also be interpreted as a form of community service, albeit one with the potential to get violent.
*** The Summer and Winter rulers seem to share this as well. Despite being dealt heavy responsibilities, they certainly try to fulfill those to their fullest ability, which may or may not give them a happy ending.

''Probably'' meant as a homage to Series/Sherlock.

*** The entire first arc had a chance to start because Ryuusei turned his champion into stone. Granted, there were calls to have her torn apart, or drawn and quartered, so he might have good reasons.

* LamarckWasRight: It's revealed that Psychic power follows [[spoiler: inheritance through matrilineal patterns, i.e. mothers who are Psychic Duelists are likely to produce Psychic Duelists as well, but no guarantees for fathers. So far it's ascribed to the size of the x chromosome]].

** Chase tried it once or twice, and he summoned [[spoiler: the Winter Queen and the Summer King.]] They weren't amused.
** So far, Chase has been shown to be able to summon the actual Duel Spirit by stating their name [[RuleOfThree thrice]]. The problem is that the summoned spirit might think nothing of crushing him once they have come.

** Setsuka, the Winter Queen. Considering the restrictions placed upon her by a bizarre set of rules, it might be justified, but she really could have found a less painful way to go about her schemes.
*** In an interlude, Setsuka is shown to have cut herself off from her near-sister Seika and throw her to another family to protect Seika while Setsuka revamped the Movement. She was twelve, so youth might have cut her some slack, and she was partially justified when we consider her actions: Setsuka would become the Cold Queen, and the head of the Arcadia Movement with one of the highest estimated kill-counts in the history of the whole Movement, including Divine (who, in canon, was a child kidnapper and torturer who may be responsible for more than his fair share), and that she was alone with only one parental figure who was also broken and incapable of standing up to her. Considering that she chose to leave Seika with the Fudo family, who has a caring patriarch, a mother figure and a KnightTemplarBigBrother sort of person, Setsuka was focused not only on Seika's material well-being but also her psychological health by leaving her with a loving family. It's also known that she left money to pay for Seika's schooling and family upkeep, so Setsuka isn't shirking her responsibility as much as distancing Seika from her clandestine work as much as possible.

** In one of the side stories, we have the butler Nakamura's view of the Shimotsuki murders which made Setsuka an orpha, plus aftermath. We see that Nakamura was really trying to take the headstrong Setsuka down a peg, and that despite his loyalties he was already trying to exercise some parental guidance and control over his current charge over the decision to cut Seika off, ignore her older cousin, and basically take over the Arcadia Movement, not to mention trying to defend an eight-year-old girl who just saw her guardians gunned down in front of her and mostly likely has traumatic memories from being discarded by the only other person she has in her life. Setsuka screwed that up by whistling up the Duel Spirit Dewloren and making a contract for all of the power of the Ice Barrier tribe at her command, in exchange for herself. That contract was the catalyst which served to release the rest of Setsuka's power, turning her into the Winter Queen, and where there was Winter, Summer had to follow, so Ryuusei followed suit. Really NiceJobBreakingItHero. Even so, Nakamura tried to save her by going to her older cousin, Orion Hunter, and telling him the entire story. Orion tried to get Setsuka taken off of the Movement's leadership. Setsuka defeated him in a Duel, landed him in hospital for two weeks, and we can assume cut him off afterwards that Orion left Neo Domino to find a way to defeat her, after which she had him declared dead. Is it no wonder that the remains of the Hunter-Shimotsuki family is dysfunctional when the cousins refuse to even speak together?[[spoiler: In the second arc, she ''disembowelled'' him with her bare hands after beating him again in a Duel. This was revealed later as a ploy to ensure that he never got to Duelist Kingdom and so couldn't stop her gambit. And she did it in front of Seika.]]

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9074168/1/Call-of-Darkness Call of Darkness]] is a series of post-canon YuGiOh! 5Ds fanfiction. Still ongoing as of 8 June 2013.

Written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2058862/lalunaticscribe lalunaticscribe]] and posted in FF.net, Call of Darkness is technically the third and last of the series of fanfictions, beginning with Infernity Mirage, followed by Boss Rush, and now by Call of Darkness, although the last is admittedly the one with the best work invested by the author.

Call of Darkness is told in two points of view. One side is told by Seika Kannazuki, the YoungAndInCharge girl without powers that is the fourth head of the now-revamped Arcadia Movement of the 5Ds canon. The other side is told by Chase Princeton, an older Duelist who looks too much like his uncle [[Characters/YuGiOhGX Manjoume Jun]] and therefore has a complex regarding himself and his worth. His only power is to see and call Duel Spirits, and allow others to see them upon skin contact.

Both of them work for (and with) the Arcadia Movement, which is an organisation of Psychic Duelists that usually act in the interests of Psychic Duelists but are relegated to the extra-legal police force of Neo Domino City against the spirits of Duel Monsters.

Unlike most other fanfics of the YGO fandom, the Duel Spirits of CallOfDarkness are depicted as surprisingly more amoral and with BlueAndOrangeMorality, in a variety of ways from the debatably benevolent FairFolk types to the fully malevolent EldritchAbominations, and they are split into two different sides named [[{{DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything}}Summer and Winter]]. At the centre of the two Courts of Summer and Winter are the Summer King and the Winter Queen, who act as if they are AboveGoodAndEvil and are also [[spoiler: Chase's friend and Seika's friend respectively]].

CallOfDarkness can be said to follow the chronicles of the Arcadia Movement and Chase as they solve crimes both mundane and mystical in nature. All in all? This world's version of [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles a certain wizard]].

Arc the First: Mythological Age, is starting from the prologue (Chapter 0) and covering up to Chapter 21, or XXI. It covers the disappearances of Psychics, attacking Duel Spirits, WeatherDissonance, weird activities, and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt brewing on the horizon.

Arc the Second: Struggle of Chaos, covers Chapter XXII to XLI (22 to 41). Armageddon being averted and Ryuusei returned to the mortal plane, all is not well as the Movement is lured onto Duelist Kingdom Island under the guise of a tournament, and then literally found themselves Dueling for their lives with the cohorts of various Duel Academias, including Seika's classmates and Chase's alma mater. There is a castle siege, a jailbreak, and in the end someone dies. Though, the Movement rescues them!

Arc the Third: Labyrinth of Nightmare (XLII onwards) is currently ongoing as of 11 June 2013.

* Fridge
** [[FridgeHorror Horror]]: [[spoiler: The current head of the Misawa family was present during the White Witch Massacre, which was an iconic moment where a gang-fight was broken up and the first recorded use of the Spell card [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Raigeki Raigeki]] in the context of Psychic powers. The implications of the Misawa family's background [[FellOffTheBackOfATruck that were never quite explained]] meant that Ryokai and his cousin actually witnessed about two hundred or so of his own associates being [[ShockAndAwe vaporized]] by the White Witch, Madame Seiran Shimotsuki who also was Setsuka's mother, and his background meant that he couldn't tell anyone without getting into trouble. The FridgeHorror only heightens when we find out that his older brother Tsugare, and younger cousin Youkai, ran away to the Movement to escape his grandfather TheDon Idaten Misawa, so two of his remaining family just became hostages to the very organisation that produced the horror he witnessed.]]
*** [[spoiler: He admitted this only to Seika after more than ten years, stating in so many words that he was so relieved she knew what it felt like to be powerless amongst the powerful. Makes this AscendedFridgeHorror]].
** [[FridgeLogic Logic]]: The entire gambit of Duelist Kingdom was Setsuka setting everything up to corner all Duelists on the island to drain Duel energy to restore Kisara. Yet Ryuusei had proven that Setsuka could have healed Kisara just as easily, by her own power if not by using Kiyoshi as a sacrifice. The only reason this gambit succeeded was because no one believed that Setsuka's plan was constructed to kill Ayame as its primary goal, and that everyone was too focused on the threat of Seto Kaiba. That was also why Setsuka didn't stop Ayame from leaving Duelist Kingdom with Judai Yuuki in the middle of the arc; she knew that with the right incentive Ryuusei would call her back.

** Ryuusei gives off flashes of this in the second arc, what with trying to avoid conflict with Winter.
*** So did his former champion, Ayame. This cost her her life.
*** Subverted with Chase and Youkai. Chase and Youkai discussed the possibility of this together in the first arc. As a couple. One of the first couple-y things we see them do (aside from kicking the ass of an Evilswarm Thanatos together) is deciding that they like the adrenaline and risk far more than they like having a routine.
** There are probably members of the Movement who want this.

* PsychicPowers: Most of the Arcadia Movement. The other part usually can see spirits, or have some other talent that makes them useful in the Movement.

*** In one of the side stories, we have the butler Nakamura's view of the Shimotsuki murders which made Setsuka an orpha, plus aftermath. We see that Nakamura was really trying to take the headstrong Setsuka down a peg, and that despite his loyalties he was already trying to exercise some parental guidance and control over his current charge over the decision to cut Seika off, ignore her older cousin, and basically take over the Arcadia Movement, not to mention trying to defend an eight-year-old girl who just saw her guardians gunned down in front of her and mostly likely has traumatic memories from being discarded by the only other person she has in her life. Setsuka screwed that up by whistling up the Duel Spirit Dewloren and making a contract for all of the power of the Ice Barrier tribe at her command, in exchange for herself. That contract was the catalyst which served to release the rest of Setsuka's power, turning her into the Winter Queen, and where there was Winter, Summer had to follow, so Ryuusei followed suit. Really NiceJobBreakingItHero. Even so, Nakamura tried to save her by going to her older cousin, Orion Hunter, and telling him the entire story. Orion tried to get Setsuka taken off of the Movement's leadership. Setsuka defeated him in a Duel, landed him in hospital for two weeks, and we can assume cut him off afterwards that Orion left Neo Domino to find a way to defeat her, after which she had him declared dead. Is it no wonder that the remains of the Hunter-Shimotsuki family is dysfunctional when the cousins refuse to even speak together?
*** [[spoiler: In the second arc, she ''disembowelled'' him with her bare hands after beating him again in a Duel. This was revealed later as a ploy to ensure that he never got to Duelist Kingdom and so couldn't stop her gambit. And she did it in front of Seika.]]
** The Madame frankly wasn't any better. The Madame was implied to have favoured Seika over her own daughter (whom she probably knew was going to be taken away by Duel Spirits) and specifically pointed Seika to be the next head of the Movement, even though it was unclear by that stage if Seika would even be a Psychic. To that end, the Madame placed several psychological triggers into Seika's mind. The situation was so bad that Kaido, the resident psychometrer, was forced to recommend therapy for Seika. That's right, the guy who could read a person's entire past by looking at them couldn't stomach the damage from looking at Seika. It was universally agreed that the Madame was nice only if the receiver of her kindness fulfilled a purpose relative to herself and the Movement. In comparison, Setsuka was rather more altruistic.

** Our protagonist, Seika Kannazuki, the fourth head of the Arcadia Movement and apparently able to throw a Death-match Duel Rope, aka a rope with a cuff attached, accurately enough to latch onto a DuelDisk.
** Setsuka Shimotsuki, the leader with the ''highest kill count'' next to the late Divine. Also being the Winter Queen. Two years later and mentioning her can still scare the crap out of people.
** Michiru Tenjouin, Setsuka's ''friend''/minion and a Fabled Duelist. She managed to pull a draw with Rex Atlas, against Scar-Red Nova Dragon.

*** So far, there are a lot of strong female characters, despite Duel Monsters, by its nature being a testosterone-laden field. There might be some merit to the idea that female Psychics are more dangerous than male ones.

* AdultsAreUseless: Somewhat averted... probably. Iemitsu Nakamura and Kaido Ariyashi are Class IV Psychics, and yet allow an underage girl, Seika, to helm the Arcadia Movement.

** Aki Izayoi is a doctor, on top of assisting Seika in her work (somewhat). Yet Yusei Fudo is noticeably absent (researching a way to 'recover' Ryuusei and Setsuka, during the time where the two were still presumed MIA. Afterwards, one guesses that he oversees technical matters of the Movement in between scientific research and his actual job at MIDS).
** Chase is twenty, and so has actually reached his majority. He's actually an ''adult''. Being in his majority and the heir of the Manjoume Group means that he can afford to devote his time to cases involving Duel Spirits. It's also implied that there's a payment plan between Chase and the Movement, and that Chase is officially listed as a consultant or employee, so we can presume that he gets a regular cheque and/or insurance for his injuries during downtime.
*** Or this is his form of philanthropy? How unusual.
* AntiHero: Chase is this. He tends to waver between Classical and Disney, although he could be pragmatic as well.

** Might also be subverted in the case of Yukio. Although he and his twin brother Yuko founded the Knights of Arcadia support group, Yukio is arguably the more terrifying of the two. Maybe because he was the only student of Shimotsuki Setsuka. Yukio is also plenty terrifying on his own, but being trained by the CompleteMonster really does wonders for his own reputation. Being the only known apprentice of her also gave him quite a fearsome reputation.

* BadAss: For given values of the term, applied to various characters throughout the series.

* BatmanGambit: The third head of the Arcadia Movement and the current Winter Queen, Setsuka Shimotsuki, seems fond of this trope. Example: she wants to kill the otherwise useless champion of Summer [[TheDragon Yuuki Ayame]] without starting a war with Summer. She wants to train Seika to handle chaos and trouble better. She wants to drive Ryuusei crazy and make him take his responsibilities as Summer King seriously, ''without'' causing trouble between Summer and Winter after the fiasco of the first arc. And, she wants to get rid of her debt to [[ContinuityNod Seto Kaiba]] quickly, by healing his sick niece Kisara. [[spoiler: Her solution involves throwing most Duelists and a select team of Psychics, including Seika and Ryuusei, onto the Duelist Kingdom island in the guise of a tournament to drain everyone of their energy to heal Kisara and toss them about in the chaos, and ''then'' allowing them to contact the mainland for help. This is with the idea that Captain Yuuko Kaname, a friend of the two girls, would brave hell and high water for Seika. Since police forces in Japan are allowed guns, including Captain Kaname, Setsuka then, over a series of steps, deliberately baited Yuuko to shoot at her before directing the bullet to Ayame. So Ayame died by an accident, Seika is traumatised by that her childhood friend could carry off such a cold-blooded plan while also pulling off the ActionSurvivor part of what Setsuka intended, and Ryuusei had his first [[TheDragon champion]] killed right in front of him as a direct consequence of allowing his employees so much leeway when he needed the champion to serve him]].

* BlessedWithSuck: On the surface, having Psychic powers tend to be fantastic. You can summon monsters, you can destroy objects with holograms, you're a living weapon... until you realise that, not only do Psychics still face fear and hate and discrimination in some ways, 30% of all abandonment and abuse cases in Neo Domino itself stem from Psychic Duelists being involved one way or another. It's explained as a misunderstanding that Psychics hurt everyone and destroy everything around them, but the Movement has proven that there is an inherent choice in Psychic Dueling. So it's really a lot of misplaced hate and fear. The Arcadia Rights Bill does something to help, but it also effectively places all Psychics under the debt of the Movement and Neo Domino City itself. See CursedWithAwesome below too.
** Ryuusei Fudo seems to have it really bad. Not only is he a powerful Psychic and a good Duelist of his own right, but his mother's shadow falls over every action he takes. Also that he's the Summer King, and so has WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity due to the cognitive dementia the mantles of power seem to give their bearers. His looks had also plagued him in his life before being spirited away. See SoBeautifulItsACurse.
** Setsuka is this as well. Though she's the Winter Queen, you have to consider what this means to a girl who's still essentially eighteen. She's been isolated all her life because of her incredible power and intelligence, which makes her a capable ruler, but also hardly sociable. Or normal for any given value of the word. Or expressive.

*** In the first arc, Seika received Number 39: King of Wishes, Hope (or Utopia, for those playing TCG). It soon became one of her most-seen aces.

** Chase and Youkai meet an Evilswarm Thanatos running full speed at them. Chase distracts it by making like a bullfighter, and Youkai prepares to drive a knife into the side of the horse, instead of running away. Before that, they deal with a Grinder Golem and a Lava Golem.
*** It gets overblown by people who don't know all the details. In the Duelist Kingdom, a team of elite Duel Corps from West Academia were defeated by the Winter Queen, but about ten Psychics led by Seika succeeded in gathering the remaining sixty Duelists still running around to charge the castle and rescue the hostages. Of course, they failed to discount that this was part of a BatmanGambit by Setsuka, and that Setsuka never intended to kill every Duelist on the island, but the fact that about ten people did what an entire contingent of about twenty hardened Duelist soldiers couldn't made the Arcadia Movement seem even more awesome to terrified plebeians more than it actually was.

--> Jimmy: After you. *untucking his shirt. It rode up to show his abs*

--> Jimmy: The club has an image they strive to maintain.

** Horror
*** [[spoiler: The current head of the Misawa family was present during the White Witch Massacre, which was an iconic moment where a gang-fight was broken up and the first recorded use of the Spell card [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Raigeki Raigeki]] in the context of Psychic powers. The implications of the Misawa family's background [[FellOffTheBackOfATruck that were never quite explained]] meant that Ryokai and his cousin actually witnessed about two hundred or so of his own associates being [[ShockAndAwe vaporized]] by the White Witch, Madame Seiran Shimotsuki who also was Setsuka's mother, and his background meant that he couldn't tell anyone without getting into trouble. The FridgeHorror only heightens when we find out that his older brother Tsugare, and younger cousin Youkai, ran away to the Movement to escape his grandfather TheDon Idaten Misawa, so two of his remaining family just became hostages to the very organisation that produced the horror he witnessed.]]

** Logic: The entire gambit of Duelist Kingdom was Setsuka setting everything up to corner all Duelists on the island to drain Duel energy to restore Kisara. Yet Ryuusei had proven that Setsuka could have healed Kisara just as easily, by her own power if not by using Kiyoshi as a sacrifice. The only reason this gambit succeeded was because Setsuka's plan was constructed to fulfil more than one aim: to pay off her debt to Seto Kaiba and punish him for the slight in calling upon her debt with him, to train Seika in stressful situations, and to kill Ayame while healing Kisara. Therefore she deliberately constructed Duelist Kingdom to discredit KaibaCorp in the aftermath, a high-stakes situation was constructed for Seika to resolve, Kisara was healed, and Ayame was led to her death due to misdirection. That was also why Setsuka didn't stop Ayame from leaving Duelist Kingdom with Judai Yuuki in the middle of the arc; she knew that with the right incentive Ryuusei would call her back.

* {{Foil}}: WordOfGod says that the basis for Ryuusei Fudo was [[CodeGeass Suzaku Kururugi]]. Betrayal and misunderstood consequences was to be a theme about him, as is being unable to fight what is fated. Having to choose between his duties as the Summer King and his loyalties to Ayame and her boyfriend leads to him turning the both of them into stone, therefore creating the opportunity by which the entire first arc of CallOfDarkness arose. His well-meaningfulness ultimately made things worse, which prompted someone to call Ryuusei 'the curse disguised as a blessing' once.
** If Ryuusei is Suzaku, then Setsuka would probably be his Lelouch. She can certainly run a GambitRoulette better than him, at any rate. They also have a sort-of enemy-ish relationship where they can still exist in the same room without anything bursting into flames or freezing into ice, but that's probably the common history talking. Also that where Ryuusei ultimately made the situation worse when he set out to resolve it his way, Setsuka's methods leave a lot to be desired and cause her to be hated and feared but they ''work'' in the sense that the victim usually benefits or learns AnAesop from it. Setsuka is the 'blessing disguised as a curse' to Ryuusei's state.

** Also the case with Yukio Yamada. His primary concern for demanding to kill Kiyoshi is because Kiyoshi tried to kill his twin and his cousin.

* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: The Arcadia Movement headquarters, also known as the Castle, or La Castle, had been rebuilt since its canonical destruction by [[{{YuGiOh5Ds}} a giant hummingbird]]. Seika described it as : 'placed between the rich Tops district and the rather run-down Daimon Area, exactly where the original was established. It is barely a skyscraper. The outside of the building was black stone, some panels polished smooth as mirrors, some panels craggy as cliffs, some etched with symbols and esoteric art. The main entrance itself was dominated by an arch of black marble, which, if you looked at it right you would see the mica gleaming from reflected light like so many stars in the night sky'.
** The purpose of the black outer surface is quickly revealed in the first arc: They are all solar panels that are meant to convert sunlight into power. Not for everyday use, but to power the emergency defence system in the case of the Arcadia Movement being under attack.
*** The placement of the Movement also makes sense, because it places the Movement itself at a site of social divide and therefore bridges the gap between rich and poor by making itself accessible by the upper-middle and lower-middle classes.

** And it's the Summer Court that mostly does this for reasons yet to be explained.

*** WordOfGod places that Setsuka has a distant aunt named Martha Wayne in certain DCU crossovers. So... [[{{Batman}} Little Miss Badass, indeed.]]

* ArchetypalCharacter: Happens a lot. Can also be classed as {{Expy}} and StructuralArchetypes. For example, Seika is an orphan child thrown into a position of responsibility, not by choice but by fate, and her parents' influence doesn't end despite their deaths... so we have a HarryPotter archetype. Chase Princeton is someone who throws himself headlong into danger, pyrotechnics has a strange habit of happening in his view... more of an {{Expy}} of [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] instead. The main difference was that Chase is mainly powerless, and that Chase had a (relatively) happy family background and childhood despite his own status as an orphan. In fact, it can be argued that the both of them had had relatively invested parental figures that still give a shit about them.
*** The same argument for Ryuusei Fudo is [[CodeGeass Suzaku Kururugi]]. Betrayal seems to be a theme, as is being unable to fight fate. Having to choose between his duties as the Summer King and his loyalties to Ayame and her boyfriend leads to him turning the both of them into stone, therefore creating the opportunity by which the entire first arc of CallOfDarkness arose. His well-meaningfulness ultimately made things worse.
** If Ryuusei is Suzaku, then Setsuka would probably be his Lelouch. She can certainly run a GambitRoulette better than him, at any rate. They also have a sort-of enemy-ish relationship where they can still exist in the same room without anything bursting into flames or freezing into ice, but that's probably the common history talking.

* CostumePorn: Setsuka's gowns are often described as this, being richly decorated as a WinterRoyalLady. So are Michiru's and Satsuki's and the clothes of many, many agents of the Arcadia Movement.

* CutenessOverload: Himemiya Uzuki uses a Madolche deck. Yes, they're cute little buggers until you realise that being clobbered by a giant fork, a teapot or the Puddingcess's shoes hurts. And Uzuki fights ''dirty''.

** On Duelist Kingdom, there were a series of stone statues arranged outside of the combined Duel Academia+Arcadia Movement camp. We have word that they used to be eliminators before they met Ryuusei.

* HeroicSacrifice: Dante Swartzvauld was a Changeling born between a Witty Phantom and a human woman. An Invader of Darkness, a Jinzo and a Kozaky who were later involved in the first arc as mooks killed his parents. He was present when Jinzo was killed by the Winter Queen, he helped to kill Kozaky, his part played a role in killing the Invader of Darkness, and his HeroicBSOD followed his embracing of his Spirit side and charging armed with an Amulet of Ambition towards the Despair of the Dark and finally killing the EldritchAbomination. His sacrifice also helped save the world.

** Ryuusei gives off flashes of this in the second arc, what with trying to avoid conflict with Winter. So did his former champion, Ayame. This cost her her life.

* IronLady: A lot of female figures, but mainly Setsuka. The very mention of her name, even two years after her disappearance, is enough to terrify Psychics into submission, and it's openly stated that her disappearance served as the ElephantInTheRoom for a good two years.

* LoopholeAbuse: The rulers of the two Courts of Summer and Winter cannot directly kill any mortal unconnected to either Court, nor can they interfere directly with mortal affairs. Their champions ''can''. Therefore the disappearances of Psychics is a way for the Courts to gather pawns to employ in such business as extremely violent diplomacy and means of interfering in the human world. "Oh, I'm supporting this candidate by giving him freaky magical powers because he's my employee" goes over a lot better than "I'm supporting this candidate with freaky magical powers because I want to/I find it funny/I'm just screwing around with humanity".
** The rulers of the Courts are not allowed directly, so they must approach a lot of things indirectly unless [[spoiler: called upon by mortals or repaying a personal debt]].

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Setsuka is the Queen of Air and Darkness. Ryuusei is the King of Land and Light. Both of them are the rulers of EldritchAbominations.

* CommanderContratrian: Yamada Yukio held the ConflictBall for the start of the entire story. His rationale was that a powerless minor had no truck running an organisation of Psychics where there were others. Though his stance had relaxed somewhat when Seika proved herself WeakButSkilled, and he did keep his protests to within earshot of Seika rather than declaring public revolt or splitting the Movement to two different ideals. Yukio is savvy enough to do so, and Seika knows that not courting his opinion is akin to causing a rift in the Movement, and that he does have a point. It still doesn't stop Yukio's presence from scaring her; Yukio is the ''only'' person Seika refers to as "Yamada-san" in her thoughts, but twin brother Yuko gets "Yuko-kun" or "Yuko" and cousin Yuuki gets "Yuuki-san" or "Yuuki-kun" or just Yuuki. This from the girl with balls enough to call Setsuka "Setsu-chan". To her face.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: If you thought Setsuka was bad, just see what Ryuusei wrecked upon a pair of abusive guardians: he brought death by freak virus plague down upon them. Literally 'a pox upon their houses'. To get an idea of how bad it was, the pox killed both the abusers in a space of less than twenty-four hours. When Chase broke into the apartment for an investigation, the only clue of unusual (Duel Spirit) activity other than seeing Ryuusei do a vague motion, was black stuff left by one of them having clawed into the plaster walls. It was said to be necrotic tissue. To be left in so much pain as to claw the walls, and necrosis being induced in less than twenty-four hours... yes, though warmer, in no way can Summer be considered ''nice''.

* CostumePorn: Setsuka's gowns are often described as this, being richly decorated as a WinterRoyalLady. So is Michiru's and Satsuki's and the clothes of many, many agents of the Arcadia Movement.

** [[spoiler: Surprisingly, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Evilswarm_Ouroboros Evilswarm Ouroboros]] in the first arc. He expresses regret for killing his brothers, the [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] Bahamut and Ophion, and that they must face each other across the battlefield. He is also relatively accepting of the way they died in Seika's Duel against Kiyoshi, and even supplied Seika with a replacement for himself after the Summer-Winter war.]]
** [[spoiler: Likewise, the Infernity clan of Duel Spirits, alongside the Apes, the Spiders, the Fortune Ladies, the Reptilianne, the Inca, and the Reactors, serves as [[BarrierMaiden guards]] to protect a maximum-security prison in another dimension that currently holds their former masters, the Earthbound Gods, with a lot more.]]

*** The entire first arc had a chance to start because Ryuusei turned his champion into stone. Granted, there were calls to have her torn apart, so he might have been on to something...

* LadyOfWar: Setsuka and Michiru are these. Setsuka led the Winter army in the Ancient Battlefield against Summer in the first arc, and Michiru is shown to have led an assault as well.

* LoopholeAbuse: The rulers of the two Courts of Summer and Winter cannot directly kill any mortal unconnected to either Court, nor can they interfere directly with mortal affairs. Their champions ''can''. Therefore the disappearances of Psychics is a way for the Courts to gather pawns to employ in such business.

*** The Winter Court is known to keep about sixty of these Psychics. One of them, Suiren Yukina, certainly seems happy to stay with the Winter Court.

* MeaningfulName: Often appears in the case of author-created characters. 'Kannazuki' is taken from the old Japanese name of October, and means 'month without gods' or 'month of the gods' depending on who's translating, and Seika means 'star flower' in the Kanji. Ryuusei means 'meteor'. Shimotsuki Setsuka basically means 'snow flower of the month of frost', and Shimotsuki is the old name for November. Rex and Reina, names for the Atlas kids, are different words for 'king' and 'queen' respectively. Chase Princeton: 'Chase' is Old French ''Chacier'' meaning "to catch / seize", which is a reference to his ability to call spirits, and Princeton is a reference to the dub name of Jun Manjoume, and so highlights his relationship to the Pro Duelist. His boyfriend, Nowaki Misawa, better known as Youkai, has the meaning of 'typhoon' in his name and also resembles a Japanese {{Youkai}}, what with his scarlet eyes, pale skin and long white hair. Satsuki is the old name for June, and Kujaku means 'peacock'. Even minor characters such as the Himemiya sisters have meaningful names such as Uzuki (month of the unohana, April) and Hazuki (month of falling leaves, August).
** Even ''code-names'' in the Arcadia Movement have a meaning. Ryuusei's was Regulus, which is a reference to Alpha Leonis, the main star of the Leo constellation. Setsuka's is, depending on the time of writing, either Polaris (for ''stella polaris'' or the North Star) or Winter (as the Winter Queen). Satsuki's codename while she was part of the Movement is Aquila, the old Eagle Constellation. Youkai's is Slyph, the spirit of the air. Hazuki's is Titania, a reference to both her status as one of the four Queens of Queens, and as a Plant-Type Duelist. Her sister, Uzuki, holds the code-name Kraehe, a reference to ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' and TheNutcracker, which covers the general theme of the Madolche deck she plays. So far, we know that within the walls Chase is code-named Zero, and Rex's is King. Seika's code-name is Polaris, having taken over from Setsuka as the implied navigational centre of the Movement.

** Chase tried it once, and he summoned [[spoiler: the Winter Queen. She was not amused]]. So far, Chase has been shown to be able to summon the actual Duel Spirit by stating their name [[RuleOfThree thrice]]. The problem is that the summoned spirit might think nothing of crushing him once they have come.

* SlidingScaleOfFreeWillVsFate: In the end, CallOfDarkness has this at the heart of it. The rulers of Summer and Winter cannot change their essential nature, but they can ''choose'' where and when to act. Seika can choose whether to give up the Movement, or remain as the head of the organization. Chase can choose to be actively involved or not. The very nature of the Arcadia Movement's structure and running basically reinforces that, no matter what its members choose, they will always have a choice.

** Setsuka, the Winter Queen. See a girl who was coerced/manipulated to taking up the position of Summer's champion (which was her fault to begin with) shirk her responsibilities led to an immediate death for the girl, and for another to take the mantle. Considering the restrictions placed upon her by a bizarre set of rules, it might be justified, but she really could have found a less painful way to go about it.
*** In an interlude, Setsuka is shown to have cut herself off from her near-sister Seika and throw her to another family to protect Seika while Setsuka revamped the Movement. She was twelve, so youth might have cut her some slack, and she was partially justified when we consider her actions: Setsuka would become the Cold Queen, and the head of the Arcadia Movement with one of the highest estimated kill-counts in the history of the whole Movement, including Divine (who, in canon, was a child kidnapper and torturer who may be responsible for more than his fair share), and that she was alone with only one parental figure who was also broken and bloodthirsty. Considering that she chose to leave Seika with the Fudo family, who has a caring patriarch, a mother figure and a KnightTemplarBigBrother sort of person, Setsuka was focused not only on Seika's material well-being but also her psychological health by leaving her with a loving family. It's also known that she left money to pay for Seika's schooling and family upkeep, so Setsuka isn't shirking her responsibility as much as distancing Seika from her clandestine work as much as possible.

Call of Darkness is told in two points of view. One point is told by Seika Kannazuki, the YoungAndInCharge girl without powers that is the fourth head of the now-revamped Arcadia Movement of the 5Ds canon. The other side is told by Chase Princeton, an older Duelist who looks too much like his uncle [[Characters/YuGiOhGX Manjoume Jun]] and therefore has a complex regarding himself and his worth. His only power is to see and call Duel Spirits, and allow others to see them upon skin contact.

Both of them work for (and with) the Arcadia Movement, which is an organisation of Psychic Duelists that usually act in the interests of Psychic Duelists but are relegated to the extra-legal ''police force'' of Neo Domino City against... the spirits of Duel Monsters.

Arc the Second: Struggle of Chaos, covers Chapter XXII to XLI (22 to 41). Armageddon being averted and Ryuusei returned to the mortal plane, all is not well as the Movement is lured onto Duelist Kingdom Island under the guise of a tournament, and then literally found themselves Dueling for their lives with the cohorts of various Duel Academias, including Seika's classmates and Chase's alma mater.

* AdultsAreUseless: Somewhat averted... probably. Nakamura Iemitsu and Kaido Ariyashi are Class IV Psychics, and yet allow an underage girl, Seika, to helm the Arcadia Movement.

* ArcWords: ''A storm is coming''. See also {{Motifs}} below.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Somewhat researched upon, and therefore subverted. [[spoiler: Archibald O'Brien is stated to be a Specialist, which meant that though enlisted, Archie isn't technically an officer. Austin O'Brien of GX fame is a Sergeant, which ain't that impressive either. Rafael de Santos, though assumed to be holding Misgarthian citizenship, is an enlisted Private. Although it doesn't change that the Arcadia Movement is liaising with US military when the central branch is set in Japan, and that North America has two perfectly serviceable branches of the Movement on its own.]]

** Ryuusei Fudo seems to have it really bad. Not only is he a powerful Psychic and a good Duelist of his own right, but his mother's shadow falls over every action he takes. Also that he's the Summer King. His looks had also plagued him in his life before being spirited away. See SoBeautifulItsACurse.

*** [[spoiler: Likewise, the Misawa family. The current head of the Misawa family was present during the White Witch Massacre, which was an iconic moment where a gang-fight was broken up and the first recorded use of the Spell card [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Raigeki Raigeki]] in the context of Psychic powers. The implications of the Misawa family's background [[FellOffTheBackOfATruck that were never quite explained]] meant that Ryokai and his cousin actually witnessed about two hundred or so of his own associates being [[ShockAndAwe vaporized]] by the White Witch, Madame Seiran Shimotsuki who also was Setsuka's mother, and his background meant that he couldn't tell anyone without getting into trouble. The FridgeHorror only heightens when we find out that his older brother Tsugare, and younger cousin Youkai, ran away to the Movement to escape his grandfather TheDon Idaten Misawa, so two of his remaining family just became hostages to the very organisation that produced the horror he witnessed. He admitted this only to Seika after more than ten years, stating in so many words that he was so relieved she knew what it felt like to be powerless amongst the powerful.]]

** [[spoiler: Likewise, the Infernity clan of Duel Spirits, alongside the Apes, the Spiders, the Fortune Ladies, the Reptilianne, the Inca, and the Reactors, serves as [[BarrierMaidens guards]] to protect a maximum-security prison in another dimension that currently holds their former masters, the Earthbound Gods, with a lot more.]]

* HairTriggerTemper: Michiru.

* LoopholeAbuse: The rulers of the two Courts of Summer and Winter cannot directly kill any mortal un-connected to either Court, nor can they interfere directly with mortal affairs. Their champions ''can''. Therefore the disappearances of Psychics is a way for the Courts to gather pawns to employ in such business.

** FromACertainPointOfView, Kiyoshi as well.

** Even ''code-names'' in the Arcadia Movement have a meaning. Ryuusei's was Regulus, which is a reference to Alpha Leonis, the Heart of the Leo constellation. Setsuka's is, depending on the time of writing, either Polaris (for ''stella polaris'' or the North Star) or Winter (as the Winter Queen). Satsuki's codename while she was part of the Movement is Aquila, the old Eagle Constellation. Youkai's is Slyph, the spirit of the air. Hazuki's is Titania, a reference to both her status as one of the four Queens of Queens, and as a Plant-Type Duelist. Her sister, Uzuki, holds the code-name Kraehe, a reference to ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' and TheNutcracker, which covers the general theme of the Madolche deck she plays. So far, we know that within the walls Chase is code-named Zero, and Rex's is King or Prince. Seika's code-name is Polaris, having taken over from Setsuka as the implied navigational centre of the Movement.

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: 'I will not forgive you.' Said by Seika.

* TemporalThemeNaming: Summer and Winter. Shimotsuki Setsuka and Kannazuki Seika. Also Seika's father, Kannazuki Shiwasu. Shiwasu is the old name for December.

Arc the Second: Struggle of Chaos, covers Chapter XXII to XLI (22 to 41). Armageddon being averted and Ryuusei returned to the mortal plane, all is not well as the Movement is lured onto DUelist Kingdom Island under the guise of a tournament, and then literally found themselves Dueling for their lives with the cohorts of various Duel Academias, including Seika's classmates and Chase's alma mater.

* AboveGoodAndEvil: Most Duel Spirits seem to feel so, and so do some other people. See BlueAndOrangeMorality below as well.

** Ryuusei Fudo seems to have it really bad. Not only is he a powerful Psychic and a good Duelist of his own right, but his mother's shadow falls over every action he takes. Also that he's the Summer King. His looks had also plagued him. See SoBeautifulItsACurse.

*** ''Labyrinth of Nightmare'' is family: what does it mean for a family due to power imbalances, or the conflicts between members of a family with/without special abilities. A sub-plot of this could be the Yamada twins, thrown out of their house by their phobic father for having Psychic powers. Chase had observed their father to be "a proud man". Although Yukio and Yuko are OCs created by a reader rather than the author, they fit this theme as the consequence of their father being unable to accept that his sons have the power he hates, and also throws in a GreenEyedMonster approach at the situation rather than outright phobia.

* ComesGreatPerks: Debatable. Powers aren't really worth the number of enemies you seem to make in this universe.

** Even before that, in the first arc we had a random victim, ascribed to Kiyoshi.
* CostumePorn: Setsuka's gowns are often described as this, being richly decorated as a WinterRoyalLady.
* CursedWithAwesome: Psychic Duelists in general.

** A minor character acknowledges this by saying that Madolche may look cute, but a weapon is a weapon, and a ton of plush soldiers beating you to death with candy-cane swords is not nice at all.

** Likewise, the Infernity clan of Duel Spirits, alongside the Apes, the Spiders, the Fortune Ladies, the Reptilianne, the Inca, and the Reactors, serves as [[BarrierMaidens guards]] to protect a maximum-security prison in another dimension that currently holds their former masters, the Earthbound Gods, with a lot more.

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Setsuka is often described as this. As a SpearCounterpart, Chase describes himself as this.

** BlowYouAway: Youkai runs a Psycho-Gusto deck, and on a bad day Neo Domino's storms could be blamed on him. Satsuki is this as well, by virtue of a Harpie and/or Black Feather deck.
** MakingASplash: Yukio Yamada runs a Gishki deck, and Setsuka uses an Ice Barrier deck. Setsuka also [[KillItWithIce Kills It With Ice]].

** AnIcePerson: Setsuka. 'Nuff said. Yukio to some degree, given that Setsuka is his teacher.

** LightEmUp: Michiru. And now [[spoiler: Kisara]]
** ShockAndAwe: YMMV. Any Psychic with a Raigeki or a Lightning Vortex is proven to do this. The former is Canonically banned, but the latter is not. More than one massacre by Psychic happened due to this.

*** Subverted with Chase and Youkai. Chase and Youkai discussed the possibility of this together in the first arc. As a couple. One of the first couple-y things we see them do (aside from kicking the ass of an Evilswarm Thanatos together) is deciding that they like the adrenaline and risk far more than they like routine.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Given that OC submissions are often entertained, yeah.
* LocationThemeNaming: The ''Arcadia'' Movement, or La Castle. Setsuka's stronghold is ''Lia Fáil'', for the stone at Tara. The castle on Duelist Kingdom, named Pegasus Castle, is clearly stated to be a mirror image of Edinburgh Castle.

* MeaningfulName: Often appears in the case of author-created characters. 'Kannazuki' is taken from the old Japanese name of October, and means 'month without gods' or 'month of the gods' depending on who's translating, and Seika means 'star flower' in the Kanji. Ryuusei means 'meteor'. Shimotsuki Setsuka basically means 'snow flower of the month of frost', and Shimotsuki is the old name for November. Rex and Reina, names for the Atlas kids, are different words for 'king' and 'queen' respectively.
** Chase Princeton, 'Chase' is Old French ''Chacier'' meaning "to catch / seize", which is a reference to his ability to call spirits, and Princeton is a reference to the dub name of Jun Manjoume, and so highlights his relationship to the Pro Duelist. His boyfriend, Nowaki Misawa, better known as Youkai, has the meaning of 'typhoon' in his name and also resembles a Japanese {{Youkai}}, what with his scarlet eyes, pale skin and long white hair. Satsuki is the old name for June, and Kujaku means 'peacock'.
*** Even minor characters such as the Himemiya sisters have meaningful names such as Uzuki (month of the unohana, April) and Hazuki (month of falling leaves, August).
** Even ''code-names'' in the Arcadia Movement have a meaning. Ryuusei's was Regulus, which is a reference to Alpha Leonis, the Heart of the Leo constellation. Setsuka's is, depending on the time of writing, either Polaris (for ''stella polaris'' or the North Star) or Winter (as the Winter Queen). Satsuki's codename while she was part of the Movement is Aquila, the old Eagle Constellation. Youkai's is Slyph, the spirit of the air. Hazuki's is Titania, a reference to both her status as one of the four Queens of Queens, and as a Plant-Type Duelist. Her sister, Uzuki, holds the code-name Kraehe, a reference to ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' and TheNutcracker, which covers the general theme of the Madolche deck she plays. So far, we know that within the walls Chase is code-named Zero, and Rex's is King or Prince.
*** Yukio Yamada is code-named Cold Wolf. This is stylistically incorrect, because orcas, and not sharks, are the 'wolves of the sea' (Yukio plays a Shark-Gishki deck). ItMakesSenseInContext, since Yukio runs the team of Psychics responsible for hunting down rogue Psychics, and was taught personally by the Cold Queen Setsuka.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Setsuka is the Queen of Air and Darkness. Ryuusei is the King of Land and Light. Both of them are [[CertifiedBadass Certified Badasses]].

** Chase tried it once, and he summoned [[spoiler: the Winter Queen. She was not amused]].

*** Word of God places the series as a homage.

** [[spoiler: Firearms is included under the classes covered in advanced combat. This is rather strange with the fact that Japan's strict anti-gun law means that guns are somewhat extraneous.
*** Hardly extra when the concept of other branches is brought up. The reason for teaching guns in a country that doesn't allow civilians to have guns is so as to mitigate the extra training needed for those going to countries with guns.]]
* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Somewhat researched upon, and therefore subverted. [[spoiler: Archibald O'Brien is stated to be a Specialist, which meant that though enlisted, Archie isn't technically an officer. Austin O'Brien of GX fame is a Sergeant, which ain't that impressive either. Rafael de Santos, though assumed to be holding Misgarthian citizenship, is an enlisted Private. Although it doesn't change that the Arcadia Movement is liaising with US military when the central branch is set in Japan, and that North America has two perfectly serviceable branches of the Movement on its own.
** Actually, it's been stated that when West Academia and West Point approached the North American branches to devise a special anti-Psychic curriculum, the Movements referred them to the Central Movement. Despite that each Movement branch is capable of implementing autonomous policy that would benefit the geographic region of its station, what ails one ails the others together. The North American Movements not only have noted bad history with the US military complex, but also don't want to be the guys responsible for arming them with the knowledge of taking Psychics down. Yet they can't give up this opportunity and don't know if the military is playing on the level, hence the whole guise of references to the Central Movement.]]
*** The apparent reason why the US military didn't intervene sooner was accorded to Setsuka working something out. In short, the very reputation of Shimotsuki Setsuka kept the Movement out of military interference for two years even without her around.

** YMMV: Seika is the adopted daughter of the Fudo family, and taught by not only Fudo Yusei, but also her predecessor. Despite her choice of a Fortune Lady deck, she's shown as winning more often than not.

** Might also be subverted in the case of Yukio. Although he and his twin brother Yuko founded the Knights of Arcadia support group, Yukio is arguably the more terrifying of the two. Maybe because he is the only student of Shimotsuki Setsuka, whose reputation extended to ten years of peace because everyone was terrified of pissing her off. Yukio is also plenty terrifying on his own, but being trained by the CompleteMonster really does wonders for his own reputation.

** BadassBookworm: Kaido Ariyashi is a short bespectacled man who rarely leaves headquarters, since he mostly monitors the archives and the accounting departments of the Arcadia Movement. He's also a Class IV Psychic with the unique ability of sight-psychometry: i.e. ''reading your entire life history by looking at you''. He can also fight, and once nearly burned the face off someone for not respecting Seika. While reciting the principles of the UN Declaration for the Rights of the Child, and pointing out that he could justifiably murder the guy and his comrades for that.

** BadassFamily: Diana Hunter, or Madam Seiran Shimotsuki, is a Psychic Duelist who is still respected ten years after her death. She also killed over 200 gang members in an event which would be known as the White Witch Massacre. Rafael is, canonically, the only guy who has ever managed to corner and defeat the Pharaoh. Both of them married, and it resulted in Setsuka Shimotsuki.

** SubmissiveBadass: Kaido. Nakamura Iemitsu. Arguements could be made for Yukio.

*** Played straight for the emotional impact. Apparently the Movement cares a lot about the impact imparted by nice apparel, and it happened all the way back to the Shimotsuki era, when Chase was commenting on Setsuka's choice of tailor and actually ''asking her outright'' who does her couture.

* BattleButler: Nakamura Iemitsu is a [[spoiler: Class IV]] Psychic and also one of the most respected Psychic Duelists in the whole Movement, no matter in the Oceanic, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic or Antarctic regions, and also the administrative in-charge of the Movement. Yet he seems content to keep serving his former young lady [[spoiler: Setsuka Shimotsuki]] and now Seika.
* BlessedWithSuck: On the surface, having Psychic powers tend to be fantastic. You can summon monsters, you can destroy objects with holograms... until you realise that, not only do Psychics still face fear and hate and discrimination in some ways, 30% of all abandonment and abuse cases in Neo Domino itself stem from Psychic Duelists being involved one way or another. It's explained as a misunderstanding that Psychics hurt everyone and destroy everything around them, but the Movement has proven that there is an inherent choice in Psychic Dueling. So it's really a lot of misplaced hate.
** Ryuusei Fudo seems to have it really bad. Not only is he a powerful Psychic and a good Duelist of his own right, but his mother's shadow falls over every action he takes. See SoBeautifulItsACurse and CursedWithAwesome below as well.
** Setsuka is this as well. Though she's the all-powerful Winter Queen, you have to consider what this means to a girl who's still essentially eighteen in mind. She's been isolated all her life because of her incredible power and intelligence, which makes her a capable ruler, but also hardly sociable. Or normal.

** The arcs themselves each have a theme.

** Likewise, the Misawa family. The current head of the Misawa family was present during the White Witch Massacre, which was an iconic moment where a gang-fight was broken up and the first recorded use of the Spell card Raigeki in the context of Psychic powers. The UnfortunateImplications of the Misawa family's background [[FellOffTheBackOfATruck that were never quite explained]] meant that Ryokai and his cousin actually witnessed about two hundred or so of his own associates being [[ShockAndAwe vapourised]] by the White Witch, Madame Seiran Shimotsuki who also was Setsuka's mother, and his background meant that he couldn't tell anyone without getting into trouble. The FridgeHorror only heightens when we find out that his older brother Tsugare, and younger cousin Youkai, ran away to the Movement to escape his grandfather TheDon Idaten Misawa, so two of his remaining family just became hostages to the very organisation that produced the horror he witnessed. He admitted this only to Seika after more than ten years, stating in so many words that he was so relieved she knew what it felt like to be powerless amongst the powerful.

* CombatPragmatist: Nearly all Psychic Duelists are this. Although just by owning a Duel Disk places them at a comparative advantage and access to monsters, several of them are armed with knives and also keep spare cards on their person. And that's in Japan. Other Psychics presumably keep guns around. They teach camps on how to inflict burn damage, in the middle of the desert around Satisfaction Town. The camp is called [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Camp Kaboom]], and they turn acres of sand into glass ''every year''. Just in Neo Domino. Imagine how the other Movements must train their Psychics.
** Chase and Youkai meet an Evilswarm Thanatos running full speed at them. Chase distracts it by making like a bullfighter, and Youkai prepares to drive a knife into the side of the horse, instead of running away.
*** It gets overblown by people outside of context. In Duelist Kingdom, a team of elite Duel Corps from West Academia were defeated by the Winter Queen, but about ten Psychics led by Seika succeeded in gathering the remaining sixty Duelists still running around to charge the castle and rescue the hostages. Of course, they failed to discount that this was part of a BatmanGambit by Setsuka, and that Setsuka never intended to kill every Duelist on the island, but the fact that about ten people did what an entire contingent of about twenty hardened Duelist soldiers couldn't made the Arcadia Movement seem even more awesome to terrified plebeians more than it actually was.
* CommanderContratrian: Yamada Yukio held the ConflictBall for the start of the entire story. His rationale was that a powerless minor had no truck running an organisation of Psychics where there were others. Though his stance had relaxed somewhat when Seika proved herself WeakButSkilled, and he did keep his protests to within earshot of Seika rather than declaring public revolt or splitting the Movement to two different ideals. Yukio is savvy enough to do so, and Seika knows that not courting his opinion is akin to causing a rift in the Movement, and that he does have a point. It still doesn't stop Yukio's presence from scaring her; Yukio is the only person Seika refers to as "Yamada-san" without her thoughts, but twin brother Yuko gets "Yuko-kun" and cousin Yuuki gets "Yuuki-san" or "Yuuki-kun" or just Yuuki.

** Seika's mother is not usually referred to, although there is good evidence to show that Seika's mother is alive, and a Duel Spirit. See ParentalAbandonment below.
** Averted with Ryuusei: his parents are still alive.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: If you thought Setsuka was bad, just see what Ryuusei wrecked upon a pair of abusive guardians: he brought death by freak virus cocktail down upon them. Literally 'a pox upon their houses'. To get an idea of how bad it was, the pox killed both the abusers in a space of less than twenty-four hours. When Chase broke into the apartment for an investigation, the only clue of unusual (Duel Spirit) activity other than seeing Ryuusei do a vague motion, was black stuff left by one of them having clawed into the plaster walls. It was said to be necrotic tissue. To be left in so much pain as to claw the walls, and necrosis being induced in less than twenty-four hours... yes, though warmer, in no way can Summer be considered ''nice''.

** And Seika, to some degree. I mean, how many can claim to be the leader of what is effectively fifty thousand WMDs or tanks across a whole city, and even more across the globe? Of course, there's also that pesky matter of being ''in charge''...
* CutenessOverload: Himemiya Uzuki uses a Madolche deck. Yes, they're cute little buggers until you realise that being clobbered by a giant fork, a teapot or the Puddingcess's shoes hurts. And Uzuki fights ''hard''.
** A minor character acknowledges this by saying that Madolche may look cute, but a weapon is a weapon, and a ton of plush soldiers beating you to death with candy-cane swords is not nice. At all.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Setsuka is the queen of wicked monsters, and yet she's relatively AffablyEvil and a NobleDemon.
** Likewise, the Infernity clan of Duel Spirits serves as [[BarrierMaidens guards]] to protect a maximum-security prison in another dimension that currently holds their former masters, the Earthbound Gods.

*** The Movement also owns real estate, as evidenced by the deserted training ground near Satisfaction Town, and the headquarters itself.

*** The Summer and Winter rulers seem to share this as well. Despite being dealt heavy responsibilities, they certainly try to fulfil those to their fullest ability, which may or may not give them a happy ending.

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Setsuka is often described as this. As a SpearCounterpart, Chase describes himself as this sometimes.

* ActionGirl: Most, if not all female members of the Arcadia Movement need to be this. Since it's revealed that [[spoiler: Psychic power can be conferred by Salic inheritance, i.e. mothers who are Psychic Duelists are likely to produce Psychic Duelists as well]], therefore most female Psychics are automatically targets should the Psychic Duelist population begin to be actively discriminated against. Also considering that their most famous members include, but not limited to: Izayoi Aki, or the AxCrazy Black Rose Witch. Setsuka Shimotsuki, the leader with the highest kill count next to Divine. Ryuusei Fudo, who could and did blow up a city block just by wishing it. There might be some merit to the idea that female Psychics are more dangerous than male ones.

* AntiHero: Chase is probably this. He tends to waver between Classical and Disney, although he could be pragmatic as well.
** Yukio is also this, but more of an UnscrupulousHero. He would [[spoiler: kill the catatonic Kiyoshi]] just on the off chance that Kiyoshi could wake up, and to save the Arcadia Movement money from keeping Kiyoshi on life support.

* ArcWords: 'A storm is coming'.
* ArchetypalCharacter: Happens a lot. Can also be classed as {{Expy}} and StructuralArchetypes. For example, Seika is an prphan child thrown into a position of responsibility, not by choice but by fate, and her parents' influence doesn't end despite their deaths... so we have a HarryPotter archetype.
** Chase Princeton is someone who throws himself headlong into danger, pyrotechnics has a strange habit of happening in his view... more of an {{Expy}} of [[TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] instead. The main difference was that Chase is mainly powerless, and that Chase had a relatively happy family background and childhood despite his own status as orphan.
*** The same arguement of archetypes could probably be made in more than one YuGiOh fanfic.

** Amongst fifty thousand Psychic Duelists, only about a thousand are active members that work for the Movement. Fifty or so have advanced combat training. Assuming that the population of Neo Domino is about five million, this means that about 1% of the population of Neo Domino is Psychic, but only 0.02% to police it for Psychic crimes, and 0.001% to have advanced combat training. Not too shabby, but also means that the Movement is quite stretched.

* BadAss: For given values of the term, applied to various characters.

** BadassInANiceSuit/HotChickInABadassSuit: Happens quite a few times. Helps that the Arcadia Movement likes to dress its members up in undercover assignments that require socialisation. This is so important that in the first arc, there was serious debate as to what to wear to a war.

* CentralTheme: Aside from the fate vs free will thing going on with Summer and Winter, Call of Darkness also looks at power vs accountability.

** Actually, it's been stated that when West Academia and West Point approached the North American branches to devise a special anti-Psychic curriculum, the Movements referred them to the Central Movement. Despite that each Movement branch is capable of implementing autonomous policy that would benefit the geographic region of its station, what ails one ails the others together. The North American Movements not only have noted bad history with the US military complex, but also don't want to be the guys responsible for arming them with the knowledge of taking Psychics down. Yet they can't give up this opportunity and don't know if the military is playing on the level, hence the whole guise of references to the Central Movement.
*** The apparent reason why the US military didn't intervene sooner was accorded to Setsuka working something out. In short, the very reputation of Shimotsuki Setsuka kept the Movement out of military interference for two years even without her around.]]

*** Played straight for her predecessor, Setsuka Shimotsuki. Setsuka took over the Arcadia Movement and proceeded to rule it by a combination of making everyone play nice and being the BigBad. At ''twelve years old''. She's also the Winter Queen because of how terrifying she is.

** Might also be subverted in the case of Yukio. Although he and his twin brother Yuko founded the Knights of Arcadia support group, Yukio is arguably the more terrifying of the two. Maybe because he is the only student of Shimotsuki Setsuka, whose reputation extended to ten years of peace because everyone was terrified of pissing her off.

** BadassBookworm: Kaido Ariyashi is a short bespectacled man who rarely leaves headquarters, since he mostly monitors the archives and the accounting departments of the Arcadia Movement. He's also a Class IV Psychic with the unique ability of sight-psychometry: i.e. ''reading your entire life history by looking at you''. He can also fight, and once nearly burned the face off someone for not respecting Seika. While reciting the principles of the UN Declaration for the Rights of the Child, and pointing out that Kaido could justifiably murder the guy and his comrades for that.

** SubmissiveBadass: Kaido. Nakamura Iemitsu.
** AwesomeAussie: Jimmy Cook, or James Crocodile Cook II, is Australian. He is badass enough to attempt to take Setsuka with him ''to the death''. Granted, it was more of a fool in love sort of thing, and he failed, but you've got to give him points for effort. He tried, and arguably would have succeeded if Setsuka didn't jump in and stop it.
** BadassInANiceSuit/HotChickInABadassSuit: Happens quite a few times. Helps that the Arcadia Movement likes to dress its members up in undercover assignments that require socialisation, and that in the first arc, there was serious debate as to what to wear to a war.

* ExactWords: Duel Spirits are bound to the ''letter'' of their promises. This can lead to gratuitous LoopholeAbuse amongst them.
* FemaleGaze: or GayManGaze. Chase is CanonicallyGay, so you read it and you notice that, aside from really hot girls, he tends to laver more description onto guys. Even though he's attached... and his boyfriend approves.

* GoodIsNotNice: Fudo Ryuusei is the Summer King, Setsuka's counterpart and the only one with the power to take a stand against her. He certainly doesn't seem keen on stopping her when she's about to [[spoiler: kill Kiyoshi]]

** Ryuusei gives off flashes of this, what with trying to avoid conflict with Winter.

* IronLady: A lot of female figures, but mainly Setsuka. The very mention of her name, even two years after her disappearance, is enough to terrify people to submission, and it's openly stated that her disappearance served as the ElephantInTheRoom for a good two years.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Setsuka is the Queen of Air and Darkness. Ryuusei is the King of Land and Light. Both of them are [[CertifiedBadAss Certified Badasses]].
* ParentalAbandonment: The series bring up the subject of Changelings, who are born between a Duel Spirit and a human being. Spirit parents (with one notable exception) tend to abandon their children for the human parent to raise, or outright treat them as slaves, until the child comes of age and Chooses to be human or to become a Duel Spirit.
** Since Duel Spirits, by all definitions aren't human, this ups the SquickFactor a fair bit.
*** Subverted in the case of the rulers: both of them are the reincarnation of former Duel Spirits who died. Although considering the most recent interlude, we can conclude that Setsuka received this from Madame Shimotsuki from a young age.
** Some Psychics are this as well. Yukio and Yuko were disowned and chased out of their house for having Psychic powers.

*** Heck, Ryuusei Fudo started his gig on the Summer King (not by choice) at eighteen, and had yet to graduate then.
*** This trope could imply a lot of people in this fic.

* FountainOfExpies: Chase and [[TheDresdenFiles a certain wizard]] have way too much in common for it to be anything but deliberate, the only difference between them being that one's a certified wizard with pyrotechnic tendencices, and Chase is a barely-held-together vanilla human whose only power is contacting spirits, and the pyrotechnics that happen around him is a hazard of this. Seika represents a [[HarryPotter different Harry altogether]], as her story is all about getting caught in situations beyond her control and trying her best to survive all of it while being flung into a position of responsibility.
** Interestingly, the descriptions for Michiru reads like that of Stormy in WinxClub. A homage to Michiru's temper and power-mad tendencies? Setsuka is Icy, and Satsuki could be radically interpreted as Darcy, so... the three girls associated with Winter are the Trix?

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9074168/1/Call-of-Darkness Call of Darkness]] is a series of post-canon YuGiOh! 5Ds fanfiction.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Subverted. The head of the Arcadia Movement, while usually depicted as the strongest [[spoiler: Class V]] Psychic Duelist, is headed by the powerless Seika Kannazuki in the fic.

*** Played straight for her predecessor, Setsuka Shimotsuki. Setsuka took over the Arcadia Movement and proceeded to rule it by a combination of making everyone play nice and being the BigBad. At ''twelve years old''. She's also the Winter Queen because of how terrifying she is. Starting from eighteen.

** BadassBookworm: Kaido Ariyashi is a short bespectacled man who rarely leaves headquarters, since he mostly monitors the archives and the accounting departments of the Arcadia Movement. He's also a Class IV Psychic with the unique ability of sight-psychometry: i.e. ''reading your entire life history by looking at you''.

* BatmanGambit: The third head of the Arcadia Movement and the current Winter Queen, Setsuka Shimotsuki, seems fond of this trope. Example: she wants to kill the otherwise useless champion of Summer [[TheDragon Yuuki Ayame]] without starting a war with Summer. She wants to train Seika to handle chaos and trouble better. She wants to drive Ryuusei crazy and make him take his responsibilities as Summer King seriously, ''without'' causing trouble between Summer and Winter after the fiasco of the first arc. And, she wants to get rid of her debt to [[ContinuityNod Seto Kaiba]] quickly, by healing his sick niece Kisara. [[spoiler: Her solution involves throwing most Duelists and a select team, including Seika and Ryuusei, onto the Duelist Kingdom in a tournament guised to drain everyone of their energy to heal Kisara and toss them about in the chaos, and ''then'' allowing them to contact the mainland for help. This is with the idea that Captain Yuuko Kaname, a friend of the two girls, would brave hell and high water for Seika. Since police forces in Japan are allowed guns, including Captain Kaname, Setsuka then, over a series of steps, deliberately baited Yuuko to shoot at her before directing the bullet to Ayame. So Ayame died by an accident, Seika is traumatised by that her childhood friend could carry off such a cold-blooded plan while also pulling off the ActionSurvivor part of what Setsuka intended, and Ryuusei had his first [[TheDragon champion]] killed right in front of him as a direct consequence of allowing his employees so much leeway when he needed the champion to serve him]].

* CutenessOverload: Himemiya Uzuki uses a Madolche deck. Yes, they're cute little buggers until you realise that being clobbered by a giant fork, a teapot or the Puddingcess's shoes hurts. And Uzuki fights hard.

*** Since Setsuka left, it seems that quite a few Psychics are jumping ship because they don't see Seika as a suitable leader.

* IronLady: A lot of female figures, but mainly Setsuka. The very mention of her name, even two years after her disappearance, is enough to terrify people.

* {{Royal "We"}}: Setsuka.

* StraightGay: Chase is canonically gay. He just doesn't play it up.

* WeatherDissonance

** Also applied in the first arc. [[spoiler: Kiyoshi knew that Ayame, the then-champion of Summer, was dissatisfied with serving]]
* BattleButler: Nakamura Iemitsu is a [[spoiler: Class IV]] Psychic and also one of the most respected Psychic Duelists in the whole Movement, no matter in the Oceanic, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic or Antartic regions, and also the administrative in-charge. yet he seems content to keep serving his former young lady [[spoiler: Setsuka Shimotsuki]] and now Seika.
* BlessedWithSuck: On the surface, having Psychic powers tend to be fantastic. Until you realise that 30% of all abandonment and abuse cases stem from Psychic Duelists being involved one way or another.
** Ryuusei Fudo seems to have it really bad. Not only is he a powerful Psychic and a good Duelist of his own right, but his mother's shadow falls over every action he takes. See SoBeautifulItsACurse below as well.

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Hazuki and Uzuki are redheads, Setsuka and Seika are brunettes. Satsuki is blonde, by virtue of having Katsuya Jounochi and Mai Kujaku as her grandparents.
** Interesting note: Ryuusei is described as having red bangs, due to his mother. So since Chase is a brunet and Rex is blond, therefore having Ryuusei fulfil the redhead aspect would give us the SpearCounterpart of this.

* CombatPragmatist: Nearly all Psychic Duelists are this. Although just by owning a Duel Disk places them at a comparative advantage and access to monsters, several of them are armed with knives and also keep spare cards on their person. And that's in Japan. Other Psychics presumably keep guns around. They teach camps on how to inflict burn damage, in the middle of the desert around Satisfaction Town. The camp is called [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Camp Kaboom]], and they turn acres of sand into glass ''every year''.
** Chase and Youkai meet an Evilswarm Thanatos running full speed at them. Chase distracts it by making like a bullfighter, and Youkai prepares to drive a knife into the side of the horse. Instead of running away.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Arcadia Movement seems to be of this mind. Despite taking in many of its members in dormitories with free room and board, members that live-in are still made to work in a limited capacity while they remain with the Movement. The same applies to criminal cases taken in by the Movement.
** The idea being that while they remain in Sanctuary, or Arcadia, they work and decide the next steps of their lives, since some time is needed to recover from any sucky backstory. Despite providing sanctuary, the idea is mostly understood that there is no free lunch in the world, so members of the Arcadia Movement are obliged to work for room and board. Usually it becomes a small office job or administrative capacity within the Castle, but

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Setsuka is often described as this.

* FriendlyEnemy: Seems like that between Ryuusei and Setsuka, also between Setsuka and Seika. In fact, Setsuka is barely enemy-ish until you realise that [[spoiler: she manipulated her childhood friend to fire a bullet to deliberately kill a girl who wanted no part of the Summer-Winter conflict and was thus shirking responsibilities]].

** Subverted with Chase and Youkai. Chase and Youkai discussed the possibility of this together in the first arc. As a couple. One of the first couple-y things we see them do (aside from kicking the ass of an Evilswarm Thanatos together) is deciding that they like the adrenaline and risk far more than they like routine.

* LandmarkingTheHiddenBase: The Arcadia Movement headquarters, also known as the Castle, or La Castle, had been rebuilt since its canonical destruction by [[YuGiOh!5Ds giant hummingbird]]. Seika described it as : 'placed between the rich Tops district and the rather run-down Daimon Area, exactly where the original was established. It is barely a skyscraper. The outside of the building was black stone, some panels polished smooth as mirrors, some panels craggy as cliffs, some etched with symbols and esoteric art. The main entrance itself was dominated by an arch of black marble, which, if you looked at it right you would see the mica gleaming from reflected light like so many stars in the night sky'.

* LotusEaterMachine: It is implied as early as the first arc that the Summer and Winter Courts have been spiriting away Psychic Duelists from the Movement worldwide. They do this by spreading word-of-mouth the fact that the Courts can take away pain of the heart. Since a majority of the Arcadia Movement suffers a modicum of PTSD and also has no confidence in Seika as a competent leader, this is the main reason why Psychics defect from the Movement or choose to side with the Courts.
** And it's the Summer Court that mostly does this.
*** The Winter Court is known to keep about sixty of these drugged Psychics. One of them, Suiren Yukina, certainly seems happy to stay with the Winter Court.

** From a certain point of view, Kiyoshi as well.

** Some Psychics are this as well. Yukio and Yuko are disowned and chased out of their house for having Psychic powers.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: On top of being a [[spoiler: Class V]] Psychic Duelist, Ryuusei Fudo is also written as incredibly hot, until everyone who sees him falls for him. This might sound nice until you find out that [[spoiler: when he was young, he was nearly targeted by a pedophile masquerading as his kindergarten teacher, in middle school two girls stabbed each other over him, and in high school his stalker tried to off his friendly senior and his own best friend in a fit to draw Ryuusei's attention, and that later a woman killed herself over being perceived as ugly by him]]. He has an aura that draws almost everyone to him, but their very obsession over him drives them insane. It's been referred to as je nais sais quoi by Setsuka before.

* XanatosGambit: Setsuka certainly exemplifies this trope. No matter what, she has another plan ready to go. She even quotes Queen Mab from TheDresdenFiles/ColdDays.

*** This trope could imply a lot of people in this fic.

Call of Darkness is told in two points of view. One point is told by Seika Kannazuki, the YoungAndInCharge girl without powers that is the fourth head of the now-revamped Arcadia Movement of the 5Ds canon. The other side is told by Chase Princeton, an older Duelist who looks too much like his uncle [[Manjoume Jun|Characters/YuGiOhGX]] and therefore has a complex regarding himself, and whose only power is to see and call Duel Spirits. Both of them work for (and with) the Arcadia Movement, which is an organisation of Psychic Duelists that usually act in the interests of Psychic Duelists but are relegated to the extra-legal ''police force'' of Neo Domino City against... the spirits of Duel Monsters.

* AboveGoodandEvil: Most Duel Spirits seem to feel so, and so do some other people. See BlueAndOrangeMorality below as well.

** BadassBookworm: Kaido Ariyashi is a short bespectacled man who rarely leaves the headquarters, since he mostly monitors the archives and the accounting departments. He's also a Class IV Psychic with the unique ability of sight-psychometry: i.e. ''reading your entire life history by looking at you''.

* ElementalPowers: Usually follows Psychics with only one Attribute in their deck.
** BlowYouAway: Youkai runs a Psycho-Gusto deck, and on a bad day Neo Domino's storms could be blamed on him. Satsuki is this as well, by virtue of a Harpie or Black Feather deck.
** MakingASplash: Yukio Yamada runs a Gishki deck, and Setsuka uses an Ice Barrier deck. Setsuka also [[KillItWithIce Kills It With Ice]]
** PlayingWithFire: Played straight. Ryuusei and Ayame has been shown as having mastery over fire. Given that Black Rose Dragon is a Fire-Attribute... Jimmy Cook, a Jurrac Duelist, also does this.

--> Jimmy: After you *untucking his shirt. It rode up*

* FriendlyEnemy: Seems like that between Ryuusei and Setsuka, also Setsuka and Seika.

* MeaningfulName: Often appears in the case of author-created characters. 'Kannazuki' is taken from the old Japanese name of October, and means 'month without gods' or 'month of the gods' depending on who's translating, and Seika means 'star flower'. Ryuusei means 'meteor' and Shimotsuki Setsuka basically means 'snow flower of the month of frost'. Rex and Reina, names for the Atlas kids, are different words for 'king' or 'queen'. For Chase Princeton, 'Chase' is Old French ''Chacier'' meaning "to catch / seize", which is a reference to his ability to call spirits, and Princeton is a reference to the dub name of Jun Manjoume, and so highlights his relationship to the Pro Duelist. Nowaki Misawa, better known as Youkai, has the meaning of 'typhoon' in his name and also resembles a Japanese {{Youkai}}, what with his scarlet eyes, pale skin and long white hair. Satsuki is the old name for June. Even minor characters such as the Himemiya sisters have Uzuki (month of the unohana, April) and Hazuki (month of falling leaves, August).
** Even codenames in the Arcadia Movement have a meaning. Ryuusei's is Regulus, which is a reference to Alpha Leonis, the Heart of the Lion. Setsuka's is, depending on the time, either Polaris (''stella polaris'') or Winter (as the Winter Queen). Satsuki's is Aquila, the Eagle Constellation. Youkai's is Slyph, the spirit of the air. Hazuki's is Titania, a reference to both he status as one of the other three equal to Satsuki, and as a Plant-Type Duelist. Her sister, Uzuki, holds the code-name Kraehe, a reference to ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' and therefore TheNutcracker, which covers the general theme of the Madolche deck she plays.

* FountainOfExpies: Several characters created by the author are based on other characters of real-world media. Example: Chase Princeton is one for [[AntiHero Harry Dresden]], Setsuka Shimotsuki as [[Queen Mab/Vetinari/Wu Zetian GodSaveUsFromTheQueen]], Ryuusei Fudo as [[TragicHero Diarmuid Ua Duibhne]], and Seika as [[spoiler:HarryPotter]].
** Not so much expies as archetype characters.

** Even codenames in the Arcadia Movement have a meaning. Ryuusei's is Regulus, which is a reference to Alpha Leonis, the Heart of the Lion. Setsuka's is, depending on the time, either Polaris (''stella polaris'') or Winter (as the Winter Queen). Satsuki's is Aquila, the Eagle Constellation. Youkai's is Slyph, the spirit of the air. Hazuki's is Titania, a reference to both he status as one of the other three equal to Satsuki, and as a Plant-Type Duelist. Her sister, Uzuki, holds the code-name Kraehe, a reference to PrincessTutu and therefore TheNutcracker, which covers the general theme of the Madolche deck she plays.

** BadassBookworm: Kaido Ariyashi is a short bespectacled man who rarely leaves the headquarters. He's also a Class IV Psychic with the unique ability of sight-psychometry: i.e. ''reading your entire life history by looking at you''.

* BatmanGambit: The third head of the Arcadia Movement and Winter Queen, Setsuka Shimotsuki, seems fond of this trope. Example: she wants to kill the otherwise useless champion of Summer [[TheDragon Yuuki Ayame]] without starting a war with Summer. She wants to train Seika to handle chaos and trouble better. She wants to drive Ryuusei crazy and make him take his responsibilities as Summer King seriously, ''without'' causing trouble between Summer and Winter after the fiasco of the first arc. And, she wants to get rid of her debt to [[ContinuityNod Seto Kaiba]] quickly, by healing his sick niece Kisara. [[spoiler: Her solution involves throwing most Duelists and a select team, including Seika and Ryuusei, onto the Duelist Kingdom in a tournament guised to drain everyone of their energy to heal Kisara and toss them about in the chaos, and ''then'' allowing them to contact the mainland for help. This is with the idea that Captain Yuuko Kaname, a friend of the two girls, would brave hell and high water for Seika. Since police forces in Japan are allowed guns, including Captain Kaname, Setsuka then, over a series of steps, deliberately baited Yuuko to shoot at her before directing the bullet to Ayame. So Ayame died by an accident, Seika is traumatised by that her childhood friend could carry off such a cold-blooded plan while also pulling off the ActionSurvivor part of what Setsuka intended, and Ryuusei had his first [[TheDragon Dragon]] killed right in front of him as a direct consequence of allowing his employees so much leeway when he needed the champion]].

* BlessedWithSuck: On the surface, having Psychic powers tend to be fantastic. Until you realise that 30% of all abandonment and abuse cases stem as Psychic Duelists being involved one way or another.

** Setsuka is this as well. Though she's the all-powerful Winter Queen, you have to cnsider what this means to a girl who's still essentially eighteen. She's been isolated all her life because of her incredible power and intelligence, which makes her a capable ruler but also hardly sociable.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Direct quote: "Good and evil are human concepts, and so cannot apply to those who are not human."
** Ryuusei and Setsuka tend to end up as this. Two years with non-human Duel Spirits would do that to anyone.

** With great influence by Japanese media

** Seika's mother is not usually referred to, although there is good evidence to show that Seika's mother is alive, and a Duel Spirt. See Parental Abandonment.

** And Seika, to some degree. I mean, how many can claim to be the leader of what is effectively fifty thousand WMDs or tanks across a whole city, and even more across the globe?

** The idea being that while they remain in Sanctuary, or Arcadia, they work and decide the next steps of their lives, since some time is needed to recover from any sucky backstory.

** BlowYouAway: Youkai runs a Psycho-Gusto deck, and on a bad day Neo Domino's storms could be blamed on him. Satsuki as well, by virtue of a Harpie or Black Feather deck.

** AnIcePerson: Setsuka. 'Nuff said.
** GreenThumb: Ryuusei, and Hazuki. Ryuusei turned a desert into an oasis within ten minutes.

* FountainOfExpies: Several characters created by the author are based on other characters of real-world media. Example: Chase Princeton is one for [[AntiHero Harry Dresden]], Setsuka Shimotsuki as Queen Mab/Vetinari/Wu Zetian, Ryuusei Fudo as [[Characters/FateZero Diarmuid Ua Duibhne]], and Seika as [[spoiler:HarryPotter]].

* HeroicSacrifice: Dante Swatrzvauld was a Changeling born between a Witty Phantom and a human woman. An Invader of Darkness, a Jinzo and a Kozaky who were later involved in the first arc as mooks killed his parents. He was present when Jinzo was killed by the Winter Queen, he helped to kill Kozaky, his part played a role in killing the Invader of Darkness, and his HeroicBSOD followed his embracing of his Spirit side and charging armed with an Amulet of Ambition towards the Despair of the Dark and finally killing the EldritchAbomination.

* MeaningfulName: Often appears in the case of author-created characters. 'Kannazuki' is taken from the old Japanese name of October, and means 'month without gods' or 'month of the gods' depending on who's translating, and Seika means 'star flower'. Ryuusei means 'meteor' and Shimotsuki Setsuka basically means 'snow flower of the month of frost'. Rex and Reina, names for the Atlas kids, are different words for 'king' or 'queen'. Chase Princeton: 'Chase' is Old French ''Chacier'' meaning "to catch / seize", which is a reference to his ability to call spirits, and Princeton is a reference to the dub name of Jun Manjoume, and so highlights his relationship to the pro Duelist. Nowaki Misawa, better known as Youkai, has the meaning of 'typhoon' in his name and also resembles a Japanese {{Youkai}}, what with his scarlet eyes, pale skin and long white hair. Satsuki is the old name for June. Even minor characters such as the Himemiya sisters have Uzuki (month of the unohana, April) and Hazuki (month of falling leaves, August).
** Even codenames in the Arcadia Movement have a meaning. Ryuusei's is Regulus, which is a reference to Alpha Leonis, the Heart of the Lion. Setsuka's is, depending on the time, either Polaris (''stella polaris'') or Winter (as the Winter Queen).

*** Subverted in the case of the rulers: both of them are the reincarnation of former Duel Spirits who died.
* PersonofMassDestruction: Any Psychic with enough power and a card of Mass Destruction.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: On top of being a [[spoiler: Class V]] Psychic Duelist, Ryuusei Fudo is also written as incredibly hot, until everyone who sees him falls for him. This might sound nice until you find out that [[spoiler: when he was young, he was nearly targeted by a pedophile masquerading as his kindergarten teacher, in middle school two girls stabbed each other over him, and in high school his stalker tried to off his friendly senior and his own best friend in a fit to draw Ryuusei's attention, and that later a woman killed herself over being perceived as ugly by him]]. He has an aura that draws almost everyone to him, but their very obsession over him drives them insane.

** The prologue opens with parts adapted from [[spoiler: TheDresdenFiles/DeadBeat Dead Beat]] and [[spoiler: TheDresdenFiles/BloodRites Blood Rites]].

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: The first arc seems to demonstrate so. Seika is still in Duel Academia when she has to [[charge with a team of Psychics directly into a battle of Duel Spirits in the skies above the Neo Domino Harbour]].
* XanatosGambit: Setsuka certainly exemplifies this trope. No matter what, she has another plan ready to go.

* Badass: For given values of the term, applied to various characters.
** LittleMissBadass: Seika and Setsuka both carry this trope. Setsuka managed the Arcadia Movement with an iron fist from ages twelve to eighteen, and empowered it. Seika took over and then proceeded to [[spoiler: charge into a battlefield of Duel Spirits despite having no Psychic powers and no weapons except for her Duel Disk]].

* CostumePorn: Setsuka's gowns are often described as this, being richly decorated as a WinterRoyalLady.

* CursedWithAwesome: Psychic Duelists.

** BlowYouAway: Youkai runs a Psycho-Gusto deck, and on a bad day Neo Domino's storms could be blamed on him.

** PlayingWithFire: Played straight. Ryuusei and Ayame has been shown as having mastery over fire.

** GreenThumb: Ryuusei, and Hazuki.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: On top of being a [[spoiler: Class V]] Psychic Duelist, he is also written as incredibly hot, until everyone who sees him falls for him. This might sound nice until you find out that [[spoiler: when he was young, he was nearly targeted by a pedophile masquerading as his kindergarten teacher, in middle school two girls stabbed each other over him, and in high school his stalker tried to off his friendly senior and his own best friend in a fit to draw Ryuusei's attention, and that later in Boss Rush a woman killed herself over being perceived as ugly by him]].

* ShoutOut: Given the author's a fan of TheDresdenFiles as well, this fic seems to borrow heavy influence, especially from certain books and characters in the series. I mean, The Table? The Unravelling? It practically follows the plot of [[TheDresdenFiles/SummerKnight a certain book]].
** The prologue opens with parts adapted from [[TheDresdenFiles/DeadBeat Dead Beat]] and [[TheDresdenFiles/BloodRites Blood Rites]].

** LittleMissBadass: Seika and Setsuka both carry this trope. Setsuka managed the Arcadia Movement with an iron fist from ages twelve to eighteen, and empowered it. Seika took over and then proceeded to [[spoiler: charge into a battlefield of Duel Spirits despite having no Psychic powers and no weapons except for her DuelDisk.]]

[Call of Darkness [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9074168/1/Call-of-Darkness]] is a series of post-canon YuGiOh! 5Ds fanfiction.

Written by [lalunaticscribe[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2058862/lalunaticscribe]] and posted in FF.net, Call of Darkness is technically the third and last of the series of fanfictions, beginning with InfernityMirage, followed by BossRush, and now by CallofDarkness, although the last is admittedly the one with the best invested.

Call of Darkness is told in two points of view: one point is taken up by Seika Kannazuki, the YoungAndInCharge girl without powers that is the fourth head of the now-revamped Arcadia Movement of the 5Ds canon. The other side is told by Chase Princeton, an older Duelist of the Infernity who looks too much like his uncle Manjoume Jun and therefore has a complex regarding himself, and whose only power is to see and call Duel Spirits. Both of them work for (and with) the Arcadia Movement, which is an organisation of Psychic Duelists that usually act in the interests of Psychic Duelists but are relegated to the extra-legal police force of Neo Domino City against... the spirits of Duel Monsters.

Unlike most other fanfics of the YGO fandom, the Duel Spirits of CallOfDarkness are depicted as surprisingly more amoral and with BlueAndOrangeMorality. They are depicted in a variety of ways, from the debatably benevolent FairFolk to the fully malevolent EldritchAbominations, and they are split into two different sides named Summer and Winter. At the centre of the two Courts of Summer and Winter are the Summer King and the Winter Queen, who act as if they are AboveGoodAndEvil and are also [[spoiler: Chase's friend and Seika's friend respectively]].

All in all, CallOfDarkness can be said to follow the chronicles of the Arcadia Movement and Chase as they solve crimes both mundane and mystical in nature. All in all? This world's version of a certain wizard.

!!!This show provides examples of:

* Above Good and Evil: Most Duel Spirits seem to feel so, and so do some other people. See BlueAndOrangeMorality below
* Anti-Magic: The Unravelling in the first arc. Also see Shout Out below.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Subverted. The head of the Arcadia Movement, while usually depicted as the strongest [[spoiler: Class V]] Psychic Duelist, is headed by the powerless Seika Kannazuki.

* BattleButler: Nakamura Iemitsu is a [[spoiler: Class IV]] Psychic and also one of the most respected Psychic Duelists in the whole Movement, no matter in the Oceanic, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic or Antartic regions, and also the administrative in-charge. yet he seems content to keep serving his former young lady [[spoiler: Shimotsuki Setsuka]] and now Seika.

* ShoutOut: Given the author's a fan of TheDresdenFiles as well, this fic seems to borrow heavy influence, especially from certain books and characters in the series. I mean, The Table? The Unravelling? It practically follows the plot of a certain book.

* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: The first arc seems to demonstrate so.
* YoungAndInCharge: WordOfGod says that Seika is technically eighteen, and so still a minor - indeed, there are some scenes which show her in Duel Academia Queens. Yet, she is in charge of ''fifty thousand'' Psychic Duelists in Neo Domino itself and of even more across the globe, the Central Movement in Neo Domino City, Japan being the flagship of the Arcadia Movements in Louisiana, New York, Europe, Peru, Brazil, Tel Aviv, Jordan, the UAE, Russian, Indian, Chinese, Southeast Asian, Polynesian and Oceanic Movements.
** The same applies to Shimotsuki Setsuka, her predecessor and the third head of the Arcadia Movement. This MafiaPrincess made the Arcadia Movement what it was in less than ten years, and she did it starting from twelve year old until she was eighteen, as WordOfGod says.

[[Call of Darkness: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9074168/1/Call-of-Darkness]] is a series of post-canon YuGiOh! 5Ds fanfiction. Written by [[lalunaticscribe: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2058862/lalunaticscribe]] and posted in FF.net, Call of Darkness is technically the third and last of the series, although the last is admittedly the one with the best invested.

All in all, CallOfDarkness can be said to follow the chronicles of the Arcadia Movement and Chase

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