Remorse by Trismegistus is a Death Note AU and Dark Fic best summed up in two words: "People Change."
Remorse provides examples of:
- Alternate Universe Fic
- Amnesiac Dissonance: Light suddenly remembers what he did without remembering why he would take so many lives.
- Angst
- Artistic License – Gun Safety: Matsuda has his gun stored on him in such a way that it's easy for Light to lift it off him. But then again it is Matsuda.
- Dark Fic
- The Ditz: Matsuda
- Driven to Suicide: Light
- Fandom-Specific Plot: The Yotsuba arc
- Good Is Not Nice: L only cares about solving the case. He does not care about Light at all.
- The Guards Must Be Crazy: Matsuda
- Heel Realization: Light remembers he was Kira and is horrified.
- Horror
- Jerkass: L
- Psychological Horror
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Light