4 0 s e c o n d s
40 Seconds (written 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.
40 Seconds provides examples of:
- 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...
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Mikami: He wishes to speak with you... Follow me. |
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- 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.