C'est la Vie (fanfic)

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C'est La Vie is the most recent in a series of Crossover fanfics between the two spin-offs of Yu-Gi-Oh!, GX and 5D's, whose names are all literary or musical references. A sixth fanfic is in the works, one which parallels the Yu-Gi-Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie. Said fic has recently been published.

The plot is a slightly different take on the plots of 5D's Story Arcs, tailored to a theme more to the author, Genma no Ou's (and by association, he assumes, his fans') liking. It overlaps events and characters from GX in order to add an extra layer of complexity to the story; and given that it is much like any other fic about overly dramatic children's card games, it attempts to entertain by adding new situations while trying to keep everyone in character.

Tropes used in C'est la Vie (fanfic) include:
  • A God Am I: As with in 5D's, Rex Godwin; but less enthusiastic this time.
  • Adaptation-Induced Plothole: The way the story begins shows that it does originally fit in the 5D's timeline up until that point. It also makes it confusing exactly when the two diverge.
  • Aerith and Bob: Between mixing two series with greatly opposing name themes and adding characters, these fics have this in spades.
  • A Form You Are Comfortable With: X.
  • Ancient Conspiracy: Placido has been planning his big scheme for an indeterminate amount of time.
  • And Then John Was a Zombie: The end of Chapter 38 seems to heavily imply that Paradox is Placido, the man he has been fighting since before the story started.
  • Anime Hair: Yes, in a fanfic. Kyojo has black flames for hair, Taiyou has black and red messed-up hair, Alessandro has pointed dreadlocks...
  • Apocalypse How: By biological warfare, if Paradox is to be believed.
  • Applied Phlebotinum: Momentum's energy seems to do whatever is needed based on the plot.
  • Artificial Human: The X-Units, the Diablo, the Emperors of Yliaster save for Alessandro. Now includes Paradox.
  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Placido; after he dies in the past, he is brought back to life by God himself as his servant. A bionic servant.
  • Ascended Extra: Saiga. In the anime, he's a minor character; in Best of Times, Worst of Times, he is One of Darkness' henchmen. For about a chapter and a half.
    • The Saviour Dragons become a significant part of the plot, instead of just Ass Pull plot elements.
    • Placido, while by no means an Extra in 5D's, is far more important in this fic, being the leader of the group.
  • Author Appeal: The Yugioh franchise mixed with Ancient Conspiracy, science, Gnosticism and many other things.
  • Bi the Way: Johan admits offhandedly to being bi in Comme Les Fleurs Du Mal. The fans knew it all along.
  • Back for the Dead: In The New Morning, Professor Cobra returns to complete his goal from before. Or, as it later turn out, to die at the hands of an enraged Rex Godwin.
  • Badass Biker: Everyone with a D-Wheel. Including GX characters.
  • Badass Creed: Summoning chants for everything important.
  • Badass Longcoat: Half the damn cast. Between Jack, Hell Kaiser, cameos like Manjyoume, and OC Kyojo... there must have been a sale on longcoats.
    • The evil counterpart to this is Alessandro wearing his cloak as a trench coat.
  • Bald of Evil: Jose averts this in these fics, as instead he has a long ponytail.
  • Bat Family Crossover: Basically the plot of the story.
  • Batman Gambit: Aki stages her own kidnapping so she and Johan can finish off Reggie and David.
  • Big Damn Heroes: The gang does this during the Diablo surge.
  • Black Bra and Panties: Aki.
  • Bloodless Carnage: When fights occur, this trope is completely averted.
  • Body Horror: Placido's transformation is played up as more disturbing than in 5D's.
  • Boring Immortal Hero: Somewhat avtered, as characters will die, but Death Is Cheap is is full effect so...
  • Boring Invincible Hero: Subverted; all Main Characters have lost at some point.
  • Bottomless Magazines: A twist, and one that's played with. The only time the number of cards in a player's Deck comes into question is if one player is running Deck Destruction; otherwise, it seems irrelevant how many cards a player has left, and there will always be some.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Yusei and Hell Kaiser get this in the first two fics.
  • Butt Monkey: Arguably Judai. While not mistreated the same way as most examples, most of the unfortunate things in this stopry happen to him.
  • Cannot Spit It Out: Part of the conflict between Placido and Yusei's group is that Placido's information to them consists of vague comments which make him seem like a Manipulative Bastard (not to say he isn't...)
  • Canon Immigrant: The Summoners.
  • Canon Foreigner: Four characters from the GX manga make very short cameos.
  • Card Games: subverted
  • Chekhov's Gunman: Alessandro, who appears to be a randomly-placed lackey in C'est La-Vie, later turns out to be Lucciano's replacement.
  • Church Militant: Considering they work for God, Yliaster somewhat come across as these.
  • Cluster F-Bomb: The f-word is tossed around a fair bit, especially by Crow.

"You know what? Fuck you Judai!" Crow snapped at the red-haired man, shoving him and almost making him drop Kyojo. "Don't give me that fucking teamwork speech after you fucking went and fucking ditched the lot of us just for a fucking shot at fucking Placido! You don't know the first fucking thing about fucking group efforts!"

  • Combat Pragmatism: Placido. When a guard sees his metal eye, he shoots the guy through the forehead with a laser beam from said eye. Then jumps down the hole like it was nothing.
  • Crazy Prepared: Half the cards people run at any given time are about drawing cards.
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome: Yes, you counted right. Five Synchro Monsters at once.
    • Yusei pulls a similarly awesome move, summoning 3 Synchro Monsters with 1 combo about 15 chapters earlier.
    • Arguably, Paradox gets one in the first chapter of Redeem Us. Yusei has already summoned Saviour Star Dragon, on his first turn no less, a card which has spelled doom for countless opponents before; and not only does it do nothing to stop Paradox, he bests it in one turn, with one straight-up attack.
  • Crowning Moment of Funny: "The fact that one: you don't own a D-Wheel," Crow counted by opening a single finger from his hand and tapping it. Holding out his second finger off that hand, he added, "and two… you're FUCKING DEAD."
  • Darker and Edgier: At times, these fics can be this in contrast to GX and 5D's.
  • Defeat By Cameo: Kaiba and Fubuki show up briefly to become victims of Paradox.
  • Defeat Means Friendship: Mostly averted.
  • Demoted to Extra: Yugi. Justified in that he's not really the main character anymore.
    • Ushio gets this treatment as well, getting a single off-handed mention.
    • Misty and Carly in Best of Times, Worst of Times. This is due to Darkness making meals out of them.
    • Sherry Le Blanc. Justified in that it wasn't actually her.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: See They Just Didn't Care.
  • Did Not Do the Research: Several sudden changes in the course of the plot appear to be the result of having suddenly discovered relevant information that was not researched to begin with.
  • Dramatic Green Lightning
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: Bommer
  • Dub Name Change: Played with; as of Redeem Us In Our Solemn Hour, the character originally called "ZONE" is apparently now called "Ylaidus".
  • Eagleland Osmosis: Speaking Japanese with a Texan accent? What?
  • Everything's Better with Rainbows: Rainbow Neos becomes a regularly-played monster, despite having only 3 appearances in GX.
  • Evil Versus Oblivion: Paradox versus Placido, Jose and Lucciano. The latter 3 want to overthrow the Signers to create a better world by eliminating the bad people; Paradox wants to destroy humanity altoegther.
  • Expy: The characters referred to as "Summoners" are in fact borrowed from the canon of Genma no Ou's friend, Tenebrius, from a story called "Yu-Gi-Oh! Tensei". Beacause of a mistranslation of "Tensei" as "Summoner", when it in fact means "Rebirth". Oops.
  • Eye Scream: Placido.
  • Eyepatch of Power: Placido sports one over his right eye when he doesn't wear the conspicuous metal eyepiece. He still has the Infinity Mark on it, however.
  • Fan Disservice: The end of Comme Les Fleurs Du Mal seems like it will lead into a Lemon, but it doesn't.
  • Flanderization: Placido's extremist attitude gets more extreme as the story goes on.
  • Foreshadowing: Seemingly one line in Chapter 38 to the Tenth Anniversary Movie:

"I will strip away the Paradox and show you truth..."

"Stop being so f**king naive!"

  • Plot Hole: Attempts at averting it are made by the author, who tries to explain literally everything at some point or another.
  • Random Events Plot: Even with a back story, C'est La-Vie comes across as this at times.
  • Real Life Writes the Plot: Several Decks used in ths series include themes of real-world Tournament winners: X-Sabers, Lightsworn, etc. This is even lampshaded by Kyojo.
    • later, it's revealed that the Apocalypse was caused by war between the United States and North Korea.
  • Redemption Equals Death: Kiryu, Bommer
  • Refuge in Audacity: Used In-Universe with Yliaster. According to Zone, Yliaster used groups such as the Freemasons, the Knights Templar and the Illuminati as fronts for itself. Using other secret societies as a cover for another one? Sure, why not?
  • Retcon: Several as a result of Redeem Us in our Solemn Hour, including the changing of ZONE into Ylaidus, and the changing of The End of the World as We Know It from biological warfare to machine warfare hijacked by God.
  • The Reveal: Godwin is revealed to be the enemy part way through his final battle; big brother got it wrong.
  • Robotic Reveal: Other than Placido, Alessandro is revealed to have many mechanical parts, and Lucciano is revealed as a Robot.
  • Rouge Angles of Satin: "Placido" is at one point accidentally referred to as "Placid". The spelling also randomly changes from American to Canadian standard, resulting in a lot of random name changes.

"–When this card inflicts Battle Damage, make the ATK of 1 face-up monster 0, and it cannot change its ballet position."

  • Rule of Cool: Come on, speaking Japanese with a Texan accent. That really can only come from this trope.
    • Many of the moves made by characters. For example, Taiyou's Five Synchro Move.
  • Running Gag: Crow swearing with the twins around, then cupping his mouth as though it will fix something. Dropped very quickly.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Both Paradox and Placido have this goal. It's even invoked almost by name.

"When next we meet, you will know the truth of this world; and then, perhaps we can make right what once was wrong…"

"Next, due to the effect of Core Releaser," Placido explained, holding his hand as though to receive a card. "Do not forget the effect of Core Releaser;

  • Timey-Wimey Ball: The GX characters and 5D's characters are explained to not have aged evenly because Zero Reverse somehow messed with the flow of time in the Neo Domino area. Riiight...
  • Translation Convention: The author makes it clear that the characters are actually speaking Japanese, even if the story itself is in English.
  • Tron Lines: Placido gets these emanating from his face whenever God takes over.
  • Tsundere: A rare male example in Alessandro. He can go from polite to rude to hostile really for no reason at all.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Paradox seems to have started one at the end of Chapter 38 of C'est La-Vie.
  • The Virus: Accorrding to Paradox's flashback, one is responsible for the end of the world.
  • What an Idiot!: Taiyou. Despite being an incredibly intelligent and skilled apprentice of the Magician Deity, he doesn't fell it necessary to hell his allies that he gave Placido the three most powerful beings he ever came across for safe keeping.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Several characters randomly go missing by C'est La-Vie and never return. Not really explained why.
    • As of the start of Redeem Us, Paradox's outfit is slightly different, with no idea how it got that way; and his mental conversation with Placido has long since ended, leaving no indication how it ended.
  • Wham Chapter: A few, but C'est La-Vie's Chapter 34 stands out. Not only does Paradox defeat Kyojo, the guy who mentored Jack, but Placido trashes Jack, Kiryu and Kyojo.
  • Zerg Rush: The Diablo and the X-Units. Oh god.
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