History FanFic / DecksFallEveryoneDies

** Also, like in other Yu-Gi-Oh fanfictions, Yami has his own body (but it's hinted that this will be explained).

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6474469/1/Decks_Fall_Everyone_Dies Decks Fall, Everyone Dies]] is a parody FanFic by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/479298/Kalarin Kalarin]] that adapts the plot of MoulinRouge for the cast of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}}''. It takes place "after the characters are well into their twenties."

Tristan returns to Domino City, only to find it a hollowed-out shell after the fall of dueling and the rise of dice games. It's up to him and the former great duelists to return Duel Monsters to its former glory through pro-dueling propaganda spread by musical theater and Filk songs. Oh, and he falls in love in the process.

The title appears to be inspired by the trope RocksFallEveryoneDies, likely due to the fact that they based their lives around their decks, and when they fell, life as everyone knew it ended. There also seems to be a lesson about not basing your government on something so frivolous, somewhere in there.

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!!This FanFic provides examples of:

* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: In this case, it's a game and a play. If the play is a success, the players get the money, and possibly credibility, to start their "Card Game Revolution" in a world ruled by dice games. Also, there's the fact that their political system is based on a game.
* AcceptableBreaksFromCanon: Because it uses the abridged series characterization. Also, in one of the musical numbers, it gives Seto and Mokuba a last name (from before they were Kaibas).
** Also, like in other Yu-Gi-Oh fanfictions, Yami has his own body (but it's hinted that this will be explained).
* ADayInTheLimeLight Fic: This was supposed to be one for Tristan, but he seems to have gotten overshadowed. In the source material, Tristan is routinely mocked for being a supporting character.
* AuthorAppeal: The ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' fandom and the ''Moulin Rouge'' fandom don't have much overlap. Add in the fact that the songs seem to be a mish-mash of genres, ranging from obscure to mainstream, seemingly because the author likes them.
* BigFancyHouse: Duke's manor.
* BoastfulRap: In Chapter Nine, Bandit Keith does one about how easily he can read Kaiba after spending so much time with him.
* CrazyEnoughToWork: The play they're planning to put on to bring dueling (and the government based on it) back is this.
* ConflictingLoyalty: Noah's situation.
* ConvenientTerminalIllness: [[spoiler: Joey]] will most likely not have to face the Duke's wrath when the duelists carry out their "Card Game Revolution."
* CostumePorn / ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Played straight: despite the author's attempts to hide the descriptions in the action, if you add up all the details you end up with a fairly detailed outfit.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Duke. See the end of Chapter Four, and anything after that.
* DancesAndBalls: Before and after they become a theater.
* DancingIsSeriousBusiness: Their political revolution depends on attracting people to their shows, where they spread pro-dueling propaganda.
** At various points, Kaiba threatens to perform an AngryDance (or at least a high kick from one).
* DesolationShot: Whenever Domino City outside of the club and Duke's manor is described.
* DespairEventHorizon: The plot happens after this has been crossed.
* DoNotGoGentle: [[spoiler: Joey]] in Chapter Nine plans to go out fighting with their card game revolution.
* EasyImpersonation / WigDressAccent: All Bakura has to do to get Duke excited is put a yellow napkin on his head and imitate Joey's accent.
** Kaiba mockingly offers to do this for Tristan.
*** He does it to Duke in a song in Chapter Ten.
* EndOfAnAge: Takes place after an age where card games ruled, replaced by dice games.
* FallOfTheHouseOfCards: Metaphorically speaking.
* FaustianRebellion: The Black Dragon Theater gets its funding from Duke Devlin. He orders the players to use their play to promote dice games as a way of running the country over card games, but the players, most of whom are duelists, don't agree with this. Apparently, once he signed the contract, he can't take his money back. Though, if he tried, he'd have to deal with Kaiba.
* FictionalCountry: It takes place in Jamerica (fictional Japan-America fusion mentioned in the Abridged Series), in a crumbling Domino City, which borders the fictional territory of "Diceland."
* FilmFic: Meant to be an adaptation of ''Moulin Rouge'', only the author attempts to write it so it makes sense. It's somewhat faithful, but there are extra songs and scenes that don't correspond to any of the ones in the movie (likely, to flesh the plot out more) and it seems to focus more on the revolution than the romance. The fact that it's a musical and the "Star Crossed Lovers" theme of the main plot is basically intact.
* {{Filk}}: Every song in the fic.
* FunetikAksent: The author has chosen to write out Joey's accent.
** Also, whenever another character imitates Joey.
* FusionFic: Character Conversion List:
** Satine: Joey
** Christian: Tristan
** Toulouse-Lautrec: Yugi (Toulouse was the main character of the novel of the same name, just as Yugi was the main character of the source material)
** Zidler: Turned into two characters: Bakura, the less money-hungry side; and Kaiba, the more business-oriented side.
** The Duke: Duke Devlin
** Warner (the Duke's manservant): Noah (who plays a bigger role in this adaptation than Warner did in the original)
** Narcoleptic Argentinian: Yami, the Narcoleptic Egyptian Pharaoh
** Satie (the guy on piano): Mokuba
** Audrey (the guy originally writing the Bohemians' play): Pegasus
** Green Fairy: Kaiba, the Blue-Eyed White Fairy (an Abysmalinth hallucination)
* GenreSavvy: The characters have occasional moments of lucidity:
-->'''Marik''': Sounds like someone's drug-induced fanfiction.
* GloryDays: What everyone except Duke is trying to bring back.
* GoalInLife: Everyone's goal seems to be bringing back/continuing the game of their choice and bringing down the popularity and power of the opponent's game.
* GreenEyedMonster: Duke, figuratively and literally.
* GratuitousSpanish: In Chapter Nine's "Josephino."
** GratuitousLatin: One of the shorter song bits is just a bunch of Latin phrases strung together into a non-sequitur.
* HeyLetsPutOnAShow: The show is meant to be the vehicle to bring dueling back.
* [[HighClassCallGirl High Class Rent Boy]]: [[spoiler: Kaiba only seems to service former high-status businessmen and top duelists.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Joey, and [[spoiler: possibly Kaiba (but only to Mokuba)]].
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: They tend to be parts of the chapter's plot mashed together with puns and look as if they are meant to set the mood of the chapter. Examples:
** Chapter One: "A Very Strange Enchanted Tristan"-A reference to the way MoulinRouge started: "A very strange, enchanted boy."
** Chapter Two: "Heigh Ho, Black Dragon Top Dog!"-Stating the name of the club and Joey's stage name, in a CrackFic-ish way.
** Chapter Three: "Hellacious Fallaciousness"-A reference to the show from the movie, "Spectacular, Spectacular" and the fact that they're lying to Duke about having the script to the play already written.
** Chapter Four: "Desperately Seeking Duke's Dollars"-Patterned after the name of the movie "Desperately Seeking Susan." Also refers to Bakura and Kaiba's goal for the chapter.
** Chapter Five: "Love Is Like Oxygen Laced With SARS"-A reference to the line from the movie, "Love is like oxygen." Also the comparison of love to a disease foreshadows [[spoiler: Joey's eventual demise, though, not due to SARS]]. It's also a bit of cynicism on the author's part.
** Chapter Six: "Defibrillating the Heart of the Cards"-An IncrediblyLamePun.
** Chapter Seven: "Coyote Bakura and Doctor Duke"-A reference to CoyoteUgly, particularly, the bar-dancing scene.
** Chapter Eight: "Harmony, Harmony, Card Love!"-A reference to the song parodied. Also (posted on chapter seven, as a teaser):
-->"In the next chapter comes the 'Robot Unicorn Dance Number' and 'Secret Song of Secretive Secrets.'"
** Chapter Nine: "Don't Say His Name, Just Play Card Games"-Probably a rejected lyric from the song used in the chapter.
** Chapter Ten: "The Hoedown Must Go on for Lover Puppy"-Refers to the two songs in the chapter.
* IDoNotOwn: The author has written that he/she does not even own any of the products spoofed in the story.
* IKnowYourTrueName: Bandit Keith pulls this on Kaiba in a musical number. It's [[spoiler: O'Brien]], but the author writes that's only because it was the only name that rhymed with the previous line.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler: Joey]].
* InvisibleAliens: We never see the aliens that abducted Kaiba and there is no flashback to the abduction (so far).
* ItsProbablyNothing: [[spoiler: Joey]] thinks this about his spells of coughing up blood and fainting.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Every time anyone wonders about the impromptu musical numbers.
* LighterAndSofter: Duke Devlin is markedly less evil than the Duke from ''Moulin Rouge''.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Tristan, regarding [[spoiler: Joey's tuberculosis]]. Duke ends up being this, but only because [[spoiler: he doesn't believe that Joey really has tuberculosis]].
* MacGyvering: Must have happened for Kaiba to build the hologram-emitting fingerless gloves.
* ManInAKilt: Yami wears a Scottish kilt, then a shendyt kilt.
* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Happens a lot, especially since the author seems to be using the "card games as intercourse" metaphor jokes from the abridged series.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Because dice games are Serious Business.
* MusicalWorldHypothesis: Played with a lot. Seems to be mostly the AlternateUniverse variety. The only songs that are justified are the Robot Unicorn Dance Number and the numbers from Chapter Two.
* NeverRecycleABuilding: Inverted. Instead of setting the Heigh-Ho-Good-Bi-Black-Dragon Palace in a completely different building, this fic puts it in a heavily renovated Kaibaland. Also, the apartment block where the characters live is the Kaiba mansion, converted into apartments, with the brothers as landlords.
* NeverSayDie: Inverted, just like in the abridged series.
-->'''Bakura''': Um, Joey, you're not going to the Shadow Realm. You're actually going to die.
-->'''Joey''': Come again?
-->'''Bakura''': [[spoiler: You have tuberculosis.]]
-->'''Joey''': Oh. Crap.
* NoIndoorVoice: There is no way the characters aren't disturbing the peace with their constant singing.
-->From Chapter Nine: The hip-hop synth waltz faded into the sound of one of the neighbors yelling at them to "Shut off that racket and stop disgracing rap songs!"
* NoSympathy: Most anyone who is not a main character gets this (at one point, Yami is throwing bottle glass at a down-and-out Rex for attempted deck theft). Kaiba also falls victim to this trope. Not to mention the fact that everyone's situation (mass economic depression due to the fall of card games) is played for laughs.
* NoTellMotel: The Mastodon.
* OutOfCharacter: Serenity, to the point where after Kaiba implies that Joey is stupid for [[spoiler: not going to the doctor for tuberculosis]], she snaps at him.
** Possibly Kaiba in Chapter Ten, but only because he's lost his mind.
* ParodyNames: Fracdonalds, Abysmalinth, Lolmart, Eau de Douche, Pizza Shack.
* PerfectHealth: Everyone, no matter what their income bracket and despite the fact that they can't get proper health care. Even Joey has this, except for his IncurableCoughOfDeath.
* [[PlotArmor Plot Surgical Mask]]: Tristan is constantly around [[spoiler: Joey]], and even shares a drink with him, yet doesn't contract tuberculosis. Same with Serenity, minus the drink sharing.
** Also, if Duke's comment at the end of Chapter Ten is to be believed, Kaiba's lucky he's still alive, if it's advanced that far. (He probably doesn't have a disease, though.)
* PressurePoint: Keith uses this on Kaiba to further his argument that [[spoiler he knows him too well]].
* PowerIsSexy: Duke's appeal.
* RecycledInSpace: It's ''Moulin Rouge'' with CARD GAMES!
** ...In Jamerica!
* RedLightDistrict: Domino is written as the liberal version.
* ReferenceOverdosed: There are many references to jokes used in ''Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series'', in an attempt to imitate the tone of it:
** In Chapter Six, Joey uses Duke's ImageSong, "Sexy Back" as propaganda for the card game revolution (to get Tristan to join the movement).
** There are lots of references to Duke's sexiness and jokes about him falling under his own spell (with the exception of being able to look into his own eyes).
--> "He had no tissue. He'd used the last one while he was looking at his own reflection in the restroom. Thank god nobody but him had been in there at the time."
** One of Tristan's lines in a song in Chapter Three: "My voice gives me strength!"
** When Joey tries to distract Duke from finding out about Tristan: "Brooklyn lust! Brooklyn lust!"
** Bakura's stereotypical Britishness is emphasized:
--> "Joey just melted into his (Duke's) arms like cheese on a hot plate of [[StockBritishPhrases chips]]."
--> '''Bakura:''' (upon realizing Joey's meeting with the Duke has gone terribly wrong) "What the [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch bloody]] hell is all that?"
*** One of the songs has Bakura singing about the subway being derailed, calling it the Tube (London's underground railway).
** A reference to the original dub in a song from Chapter Seven:
--> "I better check your pulse."
** Kaiba's catchphrase gets mangled a lot:
--> "Like the rules, the Black Dragon is screwed."
--> "Why is it so hard to screw my conscience, I have money?"
--> "Screw dis date, he has no rhythm!"
--> "We're endin' it our way and if Duke doesn't like it, he can screw himself because we have a revolution."
--> "We may win; we may lose! But I was born to screw the rules!"
** Possible meta-reference: The fact that everyone gets to screw Kaiba because they have money.
** The "card games as sex" analogy is used:
--> "Someone told me that love is like playing card games," Yami began. "I hope you used protection, both on the field and off because nearly everyone here is an experienced duelist, especially Joey."
** From Chapter Nine:
--> '''Duke:''' "How do you feel about dice games on motorcycles?"
*** Also:
--> '''Bakura''': "Because dice games are serious business." (regarding why Duke will [[spoiler: kill Tristan if the play doesn't end his way]].
** Also, see below.
* ShoutOut: The entire story shows the author must be a fan of ''Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series''. Also:
** From one of the songs: "I was so blind, before/My heart was so broken/What do I find, but your/''Reverse card open''." A reference to either the original and/or the MAD anime music videos on Youtube.
*** From the same song: [[SuburbanCommando "Today, I was frozen."]]
** Lines about "rolling/heel bones" are references to something Yami said in the manga about astragali (dice bones).
** The {{Kesha}} parody Kaiba does in Chapter Two sounds like a reference to Mega-Ultra Chicken (Winged Dragon of Ra).
** From Chapter Two: [[WaynesWorld "Schwing!"]]
** The windmills on the Heigh-Ho-Good-Bi-Black-Dragon Palace are a reference to the giant windmill on the Moulin Rouge in the movie.
** In a musical number, Joey imitates {{Flashdance}}, complete with bicycle riding through a puddle to soak him.
** Tristan's angsting ("Angst, angst, angst") references a line from PotterPuppetPals.
** The "Unicorn Dance Number" was a reference to both RobotUnicornAttack and [[KatyPerry Firework]].
** A lyric from the Doctor Duke song (probably only censored because the rest of the quote couldn't fit in the meter):
--> [[Film/DieHard "Yippie ki yay, mutha!"]]
** This whole story seems to be reference overdosed, like its source material.
* SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty: Descriptions alternate between the tacky splendor of the club/theater and the ghetto around it.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Starting with Chapter Five, there is some serious MoodWhiplash, to the point where the author made a note that the last part of Chapter Five could be skipped, "If you want this to stay a light and fluffy parody in your mind."
* SnicketWarningLabel: In Chapter Five: "If you want this to stay a light and fluffy parody in your mind, skip this last section and go to the next chapter."
* SoiledCityOnAHill: This is what Domino gets for basing their whole life on a children's card game.
* SomewhereSong: To the tune of the Numa Numa song (Dragostea Din Tei by Ozone).
* SongParody: Most of the dialogue is this.
* SpontaneousChoreography: To the point where it's Lampshaded in Chapter Five.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Bakura, Duke, and ''all three'' Kaiba brothers. The author writes more about their situations than Tristan's. Of course, he/she may just be trying to capture the feel of the source material by having the other characters overshadow Tristan.
* STDImmunity: Averted, the characters must "take proper precautions."
* StoryWithinAStory: The main story, then the play the characters are working on. It differs from ''Moulin Rouge'' because it's not solely Tristan's flashback.
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Inverted, because it's named.
** Played straight, too, because the author never says what Joey supposedly got tested for in Chapter Seven.
* TheSongBeforeTheStorm: Either the hoedown in Chapter Ten, or Kaiba's negotiation with Duke.
* ToiletHumor: The toilets on the roof flushing become musical accompaniment.
* TookALevelInBadass: Serenity. It's explained that off-screen she'd been modeling Téa and Mai's behavior.
* TookALevelInDumbass: Quite a few characters. Most notably, Duke.
* TriangRelations: Type 7, with Joey, Tristan, and Duke.
* UnequalPairing: Joey and Duke. Also Bandit Keith and Kaiba.
* UnnecessarilyLargeInterior: The Heigh-Ho-Good-Bi-Black-Dragon Palace/Theater is this, but that may be because it used to be Kaibaland.
* UnproblematicProstitution: Apparently, the protection they use is 100% reliable, the customers [[spoiler: (even the bums that Kaiba solicits)]] always pay their bill and never get unruly, and there is no social stigma. Of course, it could just be that the main characters are lucky and only the non-speaking characters have problems, and it is stated that they do odd jobs as well.
** And of course, none of the customers mind the impromptu musical numbers.
* UrbanSegregation: Averted. Duke has hobos camping out on his front lawn.
* VillainBall: Duke gets it in this story.
* VillainSong: "Dukey," in which Duke sings about his sexiness and involvement in the death of dueling, to the tune of Britney Spears's Lucky.
* WaxingLyrical: In addition to parody lyrics, there are single lines from actual songs mixed in with the dialogue (sometimes mangled):
-->'''Tristan''': [[{{U2}} Is this good for your mind?]]
-->'''Joey''': Let's say we could [[LadyGaga write more den just a sub-par romance.]]
-->'''Joey''': [[TheBeatles I came in thru da bathroom window.]]
-->'''Bakura''': [[BlackEyedPeas Where is the love?]]
--> '''Kaiba''': [[{{Kesha}} "Don't be a little bitch."]]
-->'''Kaiba''': [[PanicAtTheDisco Haven't you ever heard of closing your goshdarned mouth?]]
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: If only the duelists could stop stealing each other's cards and throwing bottle glass at each other long enough to fight for card games together....A sort of summary of this can be seen in how Noah and Kaiba fight over whether or not Noah should stop working for Duke and trying to bring dice games down from the inside (that last bit may be implied).
* WholePlotReference
* WorldHalfFull: Domino City, after the fall of card games.
* WritersBlock: The fic starts with Tristan's writers block, and will probably end that way, too, based on the whole plot reference.
* WrongSideOfTheTracks: This is what Domino has turned into after the fall of card games.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Joey, but he thinks he's just going to the Shadow Realm.

* FanficChopSuey: The ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' fandom and the ''Moulin Rouge'' fandom don't have much overlap. Add in the fact that the songs seem to be a mish-mash of genres, ranging from obscure to mainstream and it appears to fit the bill.

The title appears to be inspired by the trope RocksFallEveryoneDies, likely due to the fact that they based their lives around their decks, and when they fell, life as everyone knew it ended.

* OfCorsetsSexy: Kaiba, in Chapter Ten, as outerwear.

** Also, if Duke's comment at the end of Chapter Ten is to be believed, Kaiba's lucky he's still alive, if it's advanced that far.

* FridgeLogic: Joey is the only one who [[spoiler: gets tuberculosis]], despite being in close contact with several other people, one of whom he ''shares a drink with''. Never mind the fact that this story (judging by the music used and technology) takes place in 2010-2011 and medicine is a lot more advanced than it was in late 19th century France.

* AnachronismStew: The play they're writing takes place in ancient Egypt and involves same-sex romance, thrift shops at which the penniless duelist buys the Pharaoh's old clothes, Riverdance, Rap music, holographic disco balls, and copious amounts of glitter.

* {{Camp}}: All of it, but Chapters Six through Ten particularly.

* ComedicSociopathy: The world (as the characters know it) ends, one of the main characters eventually [[spoiler: dies slowly of tuberculosis]], and the other main character spirals into despair over these events. The story makes light of this. And Duke is mocked endlessly for his vanity.
** Also, the characters seem to love making fun of Kaiba's other job.

* CoolestClubEver: The Heigh-Ho-Good-Bi-Black-Dragon Palace is meant to be this, at least to the customers (who are drunk).

* DisneyAcidSequence: If it were a movie, all the musical numbers would be this, especially the "Toilet Tango" from Chapter Four and "The Secret Song of Secretive Secrets" from Chapter Eight.

* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Yami's pyramid-patterned underwear and Duke's dice-patterned...thing.

* {{Lime}} and SexyDiscretionShot

* StockholmShnozzing: The only reason why Kaiba and Bandit Keith have any semblance of a relationship is because [[spoiler: Keith repeatedly pays Kaiba for sexual favors]].

* WorldOfHam: Almost everyone with a speaking/singing role in the story. The fact that it's a musical pretty much requires this trope to pop up.

Character Conversion List:
** Satine: Joey
** Christian: Tristan
** Toulouse-Lautrec: Yugi (Toulouse was the main character of the novel of the same name, just as Yugi was the main character of the source material)
** Zidler: Turned into two characters: Bakura, the more caring side; and Kaiba, the more business-oriented side.
** The Duke: Duke Devlin
** Warner (the Duke's manservant): Noah (who plays a bigger role in this adaptation than Warner did in the original)
** Narcoleptic Argentinian: Yami, the Narcoleptic Egyptian Pharaoh
** Satie (the guy on piano): Mokuba
** Audrey (the guy originally writing the Bohemians' play): Pegasus
** Green Fairy: Kaiba, the Blue-Eyed White Fairy (an Abysmalinth hallucination)

--> '''Duke:''' "Syphilis is a hell of a disease."

* CrowdSong: Lampshaded in Chapter Five.

* EveryoneIsBi
* EverybodyMustGetStoned: Everybody must drink Abysmalinth.
* ExoticEquipment: Kaiba's "new bits" he got from the aliens, mentioned in Chapter Nine. The narration hints at this as an explanation for the musical accompaniment in some of the random musical numbers.

* FingerlessGloves: The hologram-emitting gloves introduced in Chapter Eight.

** Zidler: Turned into two characters: Bakura, the more caring side; and Kaiba, the more business-oriented side.

** Warner (the Duke's manservant): Noah

** Green Fairy: Kaiba (probably for Fanservice)

* HoYay

* IntoxicationEnsues: Copious amounts of Abysmalinth are consumed.

* InvisibleBackupBand: Not so much invisible as, "covered up by Kaiba's clothing."

Imagine a world built on card games. Then imagine a giant pair of dice, swooping in like a wrecking ball to demolish the houses of cards that make up the world. Put it on a Sliding Scale Of Shiny Versus Gritty and use its weight to catapult large chunks of ham at the plot. Marinate in Absinthe. Add music, and you have "Decks Fall, Everyone Dies."

* CrazyEnoughToWork: The play they're planning to put on to bring dueling (and a the government based on it) back is this.

* STDImmunity: Averted, the characters must "take proper precautions."
* StoryWithinAStory: The main story, then the play the characters are working on. It differs from ''Moulin Rouge'' because it's not solely Tristan's flashback.

--> [[DieHard "Yippie ki yay, mutha!"]]

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Joey, but he thinks he's just going to the Shadow Realm.
* ZeroSumGame: In order to have a card game revolution, dice games (and Duke) must die. In order for dice games to remain, the card game revolution must be squashed. Nobody seems to consider the fact that they could use both games at the same time (possibly played for laughs?).

* {{Narm}}: This whole story, but that's probably intentional.

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6474469/1/Decks_Fall_Everyone_Dies Decks Fall, Everyone Dies]] is a parody FanFic by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/479298/Kalarin Kalarin]] that adapts the plot of MoulinRouge for the cast of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}}''.

* IDoNotOwn: The author has written that he/she does not even own any of the products spoofed in the story. This editor finds the claim about never drinking Absinthe hard to believe, though.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Joey, but he thinks he's just going to the Shadow Realm.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Bakura, Duke, and the Kaiba brothers. The author writes more about their situations than Tristan's. Of course, he/she may just be trying to capture the feel of the source material by having the other characters overshadow Tristan.

* DoNotGoGentle: [[spoiler: Joey]] in Chapter Nine plans to do this with their card game revolution.