4 0 s e c o n d s

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4 0 s e c o n d s by calysto-antonsen is an Alternate Universe Death Note Fanfic told in a series of Drabbles which charts Light Yagami's evil ascent to power (as seen from the perspectives of those around him.) Warning: whole series spoilers.

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Tropes used in 4 0 s e c o n d s include:

• Antagonist in Mourning: There is apparently only one death Light grieves over...
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Tsen (the crook using Kira's name) didn't believe that "Kira" actually existed as an actual individual who would react poorly to having his name abused...
• Badass Longcoat: Mikami
• The Bad Guy Wins
• Balance Between Good and Evil: Light
• Berserk Button: Suggesting that what Light is doing is wrong... Ryuk has the misfortune of pressing it...
• Bodyguard Crush: Mikami to Light.
• Boys Love
• By the Lights of Their Eyes: in this case goes along with Glowing Eyes of Doom
• Cain and Abel: poor, poor Sayu.
• The Caligula: Light. He has only gotten crazier with time.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Light does this to Ryuk.
• Comedic Sociopathy
• Continuity Nod: Mentions of the deaths of Shiori, L, and Souichiro. He's NOT grieving over them and feels no remorse about killing them or causing their deaths.... Really.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: Light is creative in his sadism.
• Curb Stomp Battle
• Curtain Fic: Mikami has to go buy God some potato chips.
• Depraved Bisexual: Light in this fic.
• Don't Tell Mama
• Drunk on the Dark Side
• Dude, Not Funny: Ryuk's reaction to the whole thing. [invoked]
• Due to the Dead: Light regularly visits L's grave... and leaves him cake. *sniffle*
• The Empire
• Evil Duo: Light and Mikami.
• Evil Gloating
• Evil Laugh
• Evil Overlord: Kira
• Eviler Than Thou
• The Extremist Was Right
• Face Framed in Shadow: Light seems to have developed a habit where he likes to creep around in the shadows in the corners of rooms.
• Fascinating Eyebrow: Light does this when Ryuk asks him for an apple right after Light gave him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• Fix Fic
• A God Am I: of course!
• God-Emperor: Light when he comes out to claim his kingdom.
• God of Evil: Light
• Good Scars, Evil Scars
• Happiness in Slavery: Mikami
• Hates Being Touched: Light when Mikami dares to touch him without his permission, he loses an eye (however because it's a shinigami eye it grows back but it leaves a cool scar behind).
• Incurable Cough of Death: Mikami... Subverted
• It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Inverted, when Light kills Sayu himself to "protect" her because she was a weakness and she would always be in danger of his enemies as long as she was alive...
• Kick the Dog: Light's all over this...
• Love Martyr: Mikami.
• Maximum Fun Chamber: Mello is being kept alive and tortured... and they're eating chocolate in front of him!
• Morton's Fork: Crowning Moment of Evil awesomeness: When Light tells the hapless ignorant crook: "Write your name [in the notebook]... or I'll kill you."
• Mugging the Monster: Tsen, a crook posing as Kira attempts to mug Mikami. Mikami invites him to meet the REAL Kira...

Mikami: He wishes to speak with you... Follow me. Tsen: Who wishes to speak with me? Mikami: Why, Kira of course. Tsen: Kira! * hyperventilating*

• Neck Lift: Just to show Near how utterly owned he is...
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: PowerUpgraded!Light decides to teach Ryuk some manners...
• Pet the Dog: Light has a couple of moments with Mikami.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Ryuk thinks of Light this way.
• Psychotic Smirk
• Red Right Hand: Light gets a free Evil Makeover courtesy of prolonged usage of the Death Note... (imagine the deleted funeral scene only worse.)
  • Fangs Are Evil
  • Femme Fatalons
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: You know how his eyes will flash all glowey red whenever plotting something particularly devious, yeah they've become mode locked...
  • Good Wings, Evil Wings
  • Hellish Pupils
  • Not Even Human
  • One-Winged Angel
• Religion of Evil
• Revenge Fic
• Rooting for the Empire: (invoked)
• Rule of Cool
• Take Over Both Worlds
• Scars Are Forever
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Ryuk
• Secret Keeper: Mikami
• Shadow Dictator: Kira
• Shrouded in Myth: Kira
• Sinister Scythe: Light has Ryuk go fetch him one from the Shinigami realm. To avoid Crippling Overspecialization from always relying on the Death Note (and because it looks Badass).
• Slash Fic: It's (non-explicit) Light/Mikami
• So Last Season: Light also gets a free power upgrade courtesy of aforementioned prolonged notebook usage...
  • Evolutionary Levels
  • Half-Human Hybrid: it seems he's become part Shinigami...
  • Humanoid Abomination: ...but even the Shinigami are freaked out by what Light is becoming...
  • Immortality Begins At Twenty
  • Power Gives You Wings
• Stroke the Beard: Chin stroke of doom!
• Subordinate Excuse
• Team Pet: Ryuk is reduced to this...
• Tranquil Fury: "The first time his god had gotten angry never left his mind. It hadn't been a human anger. In all its intensity it was cold, and deadly."
• Understatement: for comedic effect and beacuse Nothing Is Scarier.
• Unequal Pairing: Light and Mikami.
• The Unmasqued World: When Light comes out to claim his kingdom after the Time Skip.
• Villains Out Shopping: Mikami has to buy his God some consomme-flavored potato chips.
• What If Light won at the warehouse.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
• The World Is Not Ready: When the Press began to insist they had the right to know their "Saviour..."
• Worthy Opponent: the narrative refers to L as this, word-for-word.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: Light.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Misa and Takada.
• You Will Be Spared: But Light still has use for Mikami.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry: Ryuk discovers that Raito is a sadist.