History FanFic / MyStupidReality

* ForYourOwnGood: Light's MeddlingParents get him into a lot of trouble. This is also L's justification in hunting down Light.

* MeddlingParents: Light's parents. Also Watari objects when L's obsession becomes obvious.

* {{Asexual}}: Light identifies himself as such.

* StalkerWithACrush: L begins having interesting [[FoeYay dreams about Light as his obsession continues to grow.]]

'''''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7385390/1/My_Stupid_Reality My Stupid Reality]]''''' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2905211/TwistedGrim Twisted Grim]] is a ''Manga/DeathNote'' FanFic in which the GreatDetective L is rounding up genius children for some nefarious purpose and so Light Yagami has [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretended to be stupid]] for all his life. It works up until his senior year of high school when Light makes JustOneLittleMistake that puts L on his trail...

* AlternateUniverseFic
* AmbiguouslyGay: Light, {{Lampshaded}} by Sayu

* BattleOfWits: Light vs L of course.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Watari.
-->'''Watari:''' L, you are not going to lock up the poor boy just because he has no wish to be a detective.
* BeneathTheMask
-->'''Naomi:''' How often do you find yourself lying?\\
'''Light:''' Ha! My whole life has been a lie.\\
'''Naomi:''' That's sad.
* BigNo: Sachiko upon finding Light has been kidnapped by L.

* BreakTheHaughty: Light on the TraumaCongaLine. Mello as well when he's realized he's failed.
* BrilliantButLazy: Light

* CatapultNightmare:
-->'''Light:''' '''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments L'S TRYING TO KILL ME WITH DIABETES!]]'''
* ChaseScene
* ChickMagnet: Light, much to his dismay seeing as he has no interest.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Takada and Misa for Light.

* ContinuityNod: To ''LightNovel/AnotherNote''
* CosmicPlaything: Light
* CrazyJealousGuy: L for Light.
* DeadpanSnarker: Light

* [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Morally Grey Anti-Heroes Have Standards]]: Watari frequently kidnaps children for L but he has clear lines he won't cross and he objects to L's obsessive stalking of Light.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Some of the Returned...
* FirstPersonSmartass: Light

* GuiltComplex:
-->'''Light:''' Stupid conscience. [[{{Irony}} I wish I could just give it up with a few magic words and live the rest of my life with no problems.]]
* HeroWithAnFInGood: L.

* InstantSedation: Watari's primary mode of kidnapping genius kids.

* LoveableRogue: Light

* MindScrew: Ryuk's warning to Light.

* PerkyGoth: Ryuk and Rem.
* PlayfulHacker: Light, Ryuk, and Matt.

* ProperlyParanoid: Light, but his family doesn't seem to realize it until after he's kidnapped.

* ScareEmStraight: or rather Scare 'em Stupid [[ShoutOut The first books Light read that had any substance to them were]] ''[[Literature/EvilGeniusTrilogy Evil Genius]]'', ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'', ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', ''Literature/EndersGame'', and ''[[{{Literature/BattleRoyale}} Battle Royale]]''. It had quite an impact on him as a kid. In each of those books all the characters' problems came from people knowing they were genii so Light decided it was safer to play dumb... and luckily he already had his mask in place by the time L began stealing children in the middle of the night.

* SuperIntelligence: Light and L. {{Lampshaded}} by Takada.
* SuperOCD: Light

* TheydCutYouUp: One of the popular theories of what's happening to the genius kids that go missing.
* TooCleverByHalf: Light

* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Light's parents say this to Light, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor not knowing that he is...]]
* WordAssociationTest: Part of L and Watari's [[HollywoodPsych Psych exam]].

* YaoiFanGirl: Sayu

* ShoutOut: see Light's reading list. Also to ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''SuperMarioBros''. Also Light sets up a false trail for his pursuers that leads [[Film/{{Fargo}} through Minnesota to Fargo, North Dakota.]]

-->'''Light:''' '''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny L'S TRYING TO KILL ME WITH DIABETES!]]'''

* ShoutOut: see Light's reading list. Also to ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''SuperMarioBros''. Also Light sets up a false trail for his pursuers that leads [[{{Fargo}} through Minnesota to Fargo, North Dakota.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: L begins having ''[[FreudWasRight interesting]]'' [[FoeYay dreams about Light as his obsession continues to grow.]]

* ScareEmStraight: or rather Scare 'em Stupid [[ShoutOut The first books Light read that had any substance to them were]] ''[[EvilGeniusTrilogy Evil Genius]]'', ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'', ''{{Matilda}}'', ''EndersGame'', and ''[[{{Literature/BattleRoyale}} Battle Royale]]''. It had quite an impact on him as a kid. In each of those books all the characters' problems came from people knowing they were genii so Light decided it was safer to play dumb... and luckily he already had his mask in place by the time L began stealing children in the middle of the night.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7385390/1/My_Stupid_Reality My Stupid Reality]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2905211/TwistedGrim Twisted Grim]] is a ''Manga/DeathNote'' FanFic in which the GreatDetective L is rounding up genius children for some nefarious purpose and so Light Yagami has [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretended to be stupid]] for all his life. It works up until his senior year of high school when Light makes JustOneLittleMistake that puts L on his trail...

!! ''My Stupid Reality'' provides examples of:

* {{Anti-Intellectualism}}: In this world if you're too smart L's people will kidnap you in the middle of the night. Many disappear forever. [[FateWorseThanDeath Some are returned damaged.]]

-->'''Naomi:''' How often do you find yourself lying?
-->'''Light:''' Ha! My whole life has been a lie.
-->'''Naomi:''' That's sad.

* AntiHero: In this universe [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Light is Type II, L is Type V]]

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* {{Pride}}: Light realizes it's his FatalFlaw when he outs himself by acing the Touhou entrance exams just to prove to his father he's not a failure.

* ScareEmStraight: or rather Scare 'em Stupid [[ShoutOut The first books Light read that had any substance to them were]] ''[[EvilGeniusTrilogy Evil Genius]]'', ''ArtemisFowl'', ''{{Matilda}}'', ''EndersGame'', and ''[[{{Literature/BattleRoyale}} Battle Royale]]''. It had quite an impact on him as a kid. In each of those books all the characters' problems came from people knowing they were genii so Light decided it was safer to play dumb... and luckily he already had his mask in place by the time L began stealing children in the middle of the night.

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* BizarroUniverse: In this universe Light is a genuinely NiceGuy who has spent all his life pretending to be ''imperfect'' and it's ''L'' that [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumps off the slippery slope.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero [=/=] NiceJobFixingItVillain: A little bit of both. [[spoiler: Mello and Matt get into a fight that results in them accidentally destroying all of L's data on Light. When L finds out he uses it as the excuse he needs to justify his continued pursuit of Light to Watari.]]

* ObfuscatingInsanity: When it becomes impossible for Light to deny that he's a genius he tries to get out of L's program by deliberately failing the psych exam. [[SpringtimeForHitler Unfortunately he failed too well and L knew he was faking.]]

* ShoutOut: see Light's reading list. Also to ''{{Portal}}'' and ''SuperMarioBros''. Also Light sets up a false trail for his pursuers that leads [[{{Fargo}} through Minnesota to Fargo, North Dakota.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero [=/=] NiceJobFixingItVillain: A little bit of both. [[spoiler: Mello and Matt get into a fight that destroys all of L's data on Light. When L finds out he uses it as the excuse he needs to justify his continued pursuit of Light to Watari.]]

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7385390/1/My_Stupid_Reality My Stupid Reality]]'' by Twisted Grim is a ''Manga/DeathNote'' FanFic in which the GreatDetective L is rounding up genius children for some nefarious purpose and so Light Yagami has [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretended to be stupid]] for all his life. It works up until his senior year of high school when Light makes JustOneLittleMistake that puts L on his trail...

* YoureNotMyType: Takada says this to Light when he's playing dumb (despite the fact he isn't interested). Later when Takada finds out how smart really Light is she starts throwing herself at him.

* SlashFic: Set up to be one eventually with the usual fandom pairings of L x Light and Mello x Matt.

* PopularIsDumb: an InvokedTrope of Light's "Stupid" persona- he pretends to be a dumb, BrainlessBeauty, jock type.