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A fanfic by UsagiSquared of Fanfiction.net, ''Skin'' originally began as an attempt to prove to a fellow fanfic authoress that it was in fact possible [[Million-to-One Chance|to write a good]] [[Gender Flip|gender-bent fanfic]]. She arguably ''succeeded'', though the fanfic has more reputation for its character focus and accurate characterization than as a genderswap fanfic as a whole.
Skin is what you get when you decide to re-write the ''entire'' ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' series as though Seto Kaiba was a [[Wholesome Crossdresser|woman]] [[Sweet Polly Oliver|disguised]] [[Bifauxnen|as a man]], with otherwise little difference to anything else to start off.
Of course, as soon as Jonouchi Katsuya, whose point of view takes up a majority of the fiction itself found out about this little fact, things began to spiral into [[Hilarity Ensues|something else]]... ...Including [[Cosmic Horror]], [[Dreaming of Things to Come]] (Among things) with [[Power Incontinence]], intensive shows of [[Darker and Edgier]], and that's all before we finish off with the Duelist Kingdom. Needless to say, it's far more than a 'puppyshipping' fanfic, and definitely more than a re-write of the series.
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* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Probably the only reason why Mokuba didn't completely lose it after his own sister tried to kill him in death-t After which she had her soul [[Cruel Mercy|shattered by Dark Yugi's mind crush]].]] Thank you, Jonouchi.
* [[Big Fancy House]]: The Kaiba Mansion. Not only does it have three floors with countless bedrooms, it also has its own stables, a ballroom with size comparable to a football field, a rec. room of comparable size, and ''four acres of land to spare.'' Recall that this is in a shore-line district of Tokyo Japan.
* [[Blessed
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Played with. To be fair, Jonouchi was technically hired by ''Mokuba'', and ''against'' Seto's wishes for security in general.
** Straightened out before Battle City, when Seto's recently flushed staff list makes Jonouchi the only trusted back up.
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{{quote| 'Hey, do you feel like we just missed something important?'<br />
'YES.' }}
* [[Converse
** Seto later returns the favor before her fight with Yugi, and even screams at him for getting himself comatose in the first place. {{spoiler|Yugi saw this.}} [[Love Epiphany| {{spoiler|He also saw her crying.}}]]
* [[Die for Our Ship]]: Subverted; characters such as Rebecca and Mai are treated quite fairly- Mai in fact, holds a status of [[Cool Big Sis]].
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Dark Yugi early on. Topped by Yakou in the Yu-Gi-Oh R arc; {{spoiler|turns out he knew Yugi didn't kill Pegasus the entire time.}}
* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: Jonouchi finds out Seto's a woman by attempting to break into her house to find out what was in her briefcase that was so important she asked ''him'' to get it for her. [[Naked People Are Funny|She was naked by the way]].
* [[Dude, She's Like, in
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The 'evil influence' of the Millennium Eye was given a physical form for the fanfic and we don't like it.
** Topped off by the form of the Millennium Rod, {{spoiler|along with a good reason why the items should never have access to human emotion. Ever.}}
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* [[Just a Flesh Wound]]: Jonouchi says this {{spoiler|when struck by Zorc after having his figurine self immobilized by a spike trap in Dark Bakura's monster world.}}.
** Lampshaded in the same instance by Mokuba, who tells him that he's never letting him watch Monty Python movies again.
* [[Leaning
** A shining example comes when he compares Jonouchi's 'future' speech to the 'kind of thing you would see in a [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Shonen Anime about Friendship]]'.
* [[Love At First Sight]]: ...Without clothes.
* [[Mind Screw]]: Pegasus' actions during the re-done Duelist Kingdom arc pretty much sum this trope up.
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* [[Reality Ensues]]: The author seems to have a lot of fun with this.
** So does everyone else; the phrase [[This Is Reality]] is almost amusingly common.
* [[Red String of Fate]]: Played with early on- [[What Happened to
** {{spoiler|Played for [[Rule of Funny|laughs]] when lines from actual cannon referencing the implied [[The Not Love Interest|relationship]] between Yugi and Kaiba appear... And are spoken by Pegasus.}}
*** Even better when Seto herself uses one of those lines.
* [[Shipper
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The author's notes are full of these, to the point where they take up a ''quarter'' of the already lengthy chapter.
** Humorously subverted when a little known character trait Jonouchi has was recognised by a reader; after being congratulated on putting in the fact, the author embarrassingly admited that she had completely forgotten about the canon involved and given the trait to Jonouchi because '[[Sure Why Not|It suited him]]'.
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