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Beneath a Phrygian Sky

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Beneath a Phrygian Sky (formerly "Under the Milky Way") is an original Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfic is written by Jack Wayne, where the setting of the story takes place in the real world, but with its own minor differences.

Raymond Novak is a poor Canadian teenager who is struggling to get by while paying for his older sister's hospital bills. One day, he came to the altar and prays to "Jack" for a chance to save his sister, and not a second later, he spots a flyer that shows Konami hosting "Duelist Kingdom-themed" tournament. The grand prize is 3 million to the first-place winner, and Raymond couldn't decline and sees this as his destiny. At the same time, however, he's obviously not the only person who is gunning for that prize.

Can he really win the money to cure his sister, or will he fail miserably?

The sequel to the original fic, Of Father's Sin Begotten, can be found here.

Spoilers near the ending of Beneath a Phrygian Sky and entirety of Of Father's Sin Begotten will be marked.


Beneath a Phrygian Sky provides examples of:


Of Father's Sin Begotten provides examples of:

  • Anti-Villain: By the start of the fic, Raymond cements his role as the Big Bad against his younger half-brother Eugene. While he's driven by revenge, Raymond is also following God's will to have Eugene suffer for the sins of their father.
  • Downer Beginning: Similar to the start of the previous fic, it begins on a low note as Eugene loses against Raymond in a Yu-Gi-Oh! duel during a live demonstration of the virtual reality. Jumpstarting Eugene's original idyllic life slowly crumbling and suffering like Job.
  • Expy: Ironically, Raymond has become one for Seto Kaiba by the time of the sequel fic. The only difference is that Raymond is playing his new role of being a puppet of God to become an instrument to someone's tragedy (i.e. his father and his new family) whereas Kaiba is known to not let higher powers dictate his fate (and would capitalize on these forces for his own convenience).
  • False Rape Accusation: After his defeat by Raymond from the Yu-Gi-Oh! tournament, Travis ends up getting a heaping dose of karma long overdue after sleeping with one "crazy woman" who wanted to have a committed relationship with him despite agreeing beforehand to "keep it casual", only to slander him for rape when he refuses. This leads to Travis losing everything thanks to the loss of his good luck and being forced onto the streets as a bum for years and has gone insane by the time Eugene finds him.
  • Have We Met?:
    • Upon reuniting with Raymond again after the end of the previous fic, Eugene only got a familiar feeling that he had met him before. It's only until Raymond stated that "God was watching" is where Eugene quickly remembered him.
    • After failing to commit suicide from Dylan's intervention, he's confused about this stranger apparently knowing who he is.
  • Rags to Riches: As a result of gaining Travis' Born Lucky status, Raymond manages to go from a poor teenager to a founder of a start-up tech company called, "Neural Virtual Kinetics". The icing on the cake is where Raymond's company has gained more stock upon defeating Eugene in their Yu-Gi-Oh! duel on a live demonstration of the virtual reality technology he created and won the divine bet he made his half-drunken half-brother sometime before the fic; gaining Eugene's birthright and now Eugene having to suffer a similar fate to the biblical Job. By chapter 4, Eugene awakens from his 8-month long coma only to find out that nearly all of his money, financial connections, and birthright to his father's company is handed over to Raymond.
  • Revenge of the Sequel: At the beginning of the fic, Raymond has jumpstarted his revenge plot by beating Eugene in Yu-Gi-Oh! duel using virtual reality. Along with winning a divine bet that he made with an unknowingly Eugene sometime before due to the latter being drunk.
  • Riches to Rags: As of chapter 1, Eugene loses his birthright to Raymond in a half-drunken bet he made with the latter sometime before the fic, and things just spiral from there on out.
  • Sins of Our Fathers: It's in the title. The premise of the sequel has Eugene dealing with the fallout of his father's infidelity to Raymond's late mother; losing his birthright to Raymond in the first chapter and now having to suffer a Trauma Congo Line in a similar vein to the biblical Job.
  • Virtuous Character Copy: Downplayed. By the time of the sequel fic, Raymond is one for Seto Kaiba; a Self-Made Man from Rags to Riches and running a company that creates Hard Light holograms. However, despite Raymond being a villain on a revenge mission similar to Death-T!Kaiba, he's far more sympathetic and is only aiming at ruining the lives of people who are guilty of leaving his late mother and sister to die from chronic illness.

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