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The Faceless by Disguise of Carnivorism is an AU Death Note Dark Fic. Before the events of the series, a journalist discovers the Death Note and the Shinigami and exposes it to the world, altering the course of history. Years later welcome to a world where everyone hides their name and face, a world of permanent war and where everything is dying and a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits are Fighting for Survival.

Tropes used in The Faceless (fanfic) include:

Action Girl: Naomi Penber, Catherine
After the End: Civilization has already pretty much collapsed at the beginning of the story.
Alternate Universe Fic
Anyone Can Die: Sayu, Misa, Naomi, Catherine, Mello and Near, L...
Arranged Marriage: Light's parents had arranged it so that Light would marry Misa for her fortune.
Awful Truth: Most of the surviving humans still hold out the hope that L will save them from Kira...
Axe Crazy: Light, Catherine, Matt
Badass Crew: Light's squad.
Blondes Are Evil: Misa and Catherine.
Blood Splattered Warrior: Light
Break the Cutie: well, everyone.
Broken Masquerade: The story begins when a journalist named Neelan Adessi discovers the death note and exposes the secrets of Kira and the Shinigami to the world.
Conscription: As part of the Crapsack World, everyone is getting sucked into the war against Kira either by force or out of desperation.
Cosmic Plaything: Light Yagami, Naomi Misora, Neelan Adessi.
Crapsack World
Crazy Sane: Light. He goes crazy pretty early on but in a way that makes him the sanest one there.
Dark Fic
Dead Little Sister: Light lost his sister, Naomi lost her husband, Marcus lost his daughter…
Despair Event Horizon: Light, after his sister is killed. Also L while imprisoned. And Catherine in the middle of the siege.
The Determinator: Light
- Determined Defeatist
Deus Angst Machina
Draft Dodging: Attempted by Nathaniel. It didn't work out too well.
Dramatic Unmask: When Light takes his mask off. His troops are shocked and horrified when he doesn't die.
The Dreaded: Kira, also Light Yagami
Driven to Suicide: Catherine, L
Dying Like Animals: the humans of this world and then after the human race takes to wearing masks the Shinigami begin to starve.
Dysfunction Junction: Everyone has serious issues. EVERYONE!!!
Dystopia: The world becomes one for sure after Neelan Adessi broke the masquerade.
Emo Teen: Light at the beginning of the story (before Character Development and Taking Several Levels In Badass) but with good reason-his life really does suck.
Enfant Terrible: A cherub-like Shinigami taunts Neelan.
Expecting Someone Taller: when they find the "Great L" at the POW Camp.
Eyes of Gold: Light
Face Heel Turn: Matt. Mello and Near stop to free Matt from his prison cell at the POW Camp and in return... Matt kills them.
Faceless Goons: Duh.
Fighting for Survival
For the Evulz: Ryuk is bored so he spends his time telling stories that gives the lil' Shinigami nightmares, stories of a legendary human hero named Light Yagami... and so Ryuk's stories take on a life of their own...
Ghost Planet: The Shinigami world. The Human world doesn't look much different these days.
Heroic Blue Screen of Death: At various times Light, Naomi, Matt, Catherine... are all so afflicted.
Horrifying the Horror: Thanks to Ryuk's stories just the name "Light Yagami" strikes fear among the Shinigami, so when a real human shows up with that name, they surrender en masse.
Humans Are the Real Monsters: EVERYONE, but special mention goes to The Shinigami Servitors that feed the Shinigami "undesirables" so that they themselves won't be killed.
Hurting Hero: Light and Naomi.
Hypocritical Humor: Nathaniel realizes he's being a Hypocrite and a heartless bastard when he hypothetically considered murdering someone to avoid being drafted into the military.
I Control My Minions Through... Authority, Fear, and Fanatical Loyalty
I Have the High Ground: Light after being put in command of his squad... and learning his sister is dead.
In Love with Your Carnage: Catherine to Light at first...
Jade-Colored Glasses: because of the events of this AU Light isn't the Wide-Eyed Idealist he is in canon.
Knife Nut: Catherine
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In this fanfic Light is skeptical about having Naomi Penber, a woman, serving among his soldiers complaining that she might get pregnant and slow them down. Naomi counters that there was more of a chance of Light getting pregnant than her.
Life Drinker: The Shinigami
Malevolent Masked Men: In this world everyone wears masks... and Humans Are the Real Monsters.
The Man Behind the Man: The cherub-like Shinigami that taunts Neelan. He and the King of Death made a bet and they are the reason everything has happened this way.
Meaningful Name: Light, mainly
Mirror Universe: In canon Light kills L but is seen as admirable by the men he's deceived. In this universe Light rescues L and is met with derision by his soldiers as they realize the Awful Truth about what they were fighting for.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: This all started because L won his battle against Kira (Teru Mikami) and so a journalist like Neelan was able to find and steal the notebook.
Nietzsche Wannabe: pretty much everyone becomes this over the course of the story.
No One Gets Left Behind: Playing with a Trope Naomi can either carry the wounded Nathanial or the currently crazy Light back. She chooses Light.
- Later Light carries Naomi's corpse back after the others leave them to die.
Occult Blue Eyes: The Enfant Terrible Shinigami bonded to Neelan.
Original Character: Neelan, Marcus, Nathaniel, Catherine
POW Camp: where Kira is detaining L.
Power Born of Madness: Since he's still alive after everything he's been through Light determines he must be immortal.
Rage Against the Heavens: Light in his diary and in his Inner Monologues.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Light's squad. Lampshaded when the the cast stops at a bar and Hilarity Ensues:

Light pulled himself up to the counter, putting on his, 'I'm completely normal and if you don't believe me, I'll kill you,' façade. Evidently, it didn't work; the bartender simply continued to stare apprehensively at the faded blood-stain on Light's uniform before slowly reaching for his gun. Best not to trust soldiers.

"He's going to shoot us, isn't he?" Nathanial watched as the bartender froze and carefully removed his hand from the vicinity of his rifle, noticing for the first time, perhaps, just how many weapons the rag-tag team had.

"Someone's always trying to shoot us." Marcus was very apt in pointing things like this out, creating a philosophy that predicted all manner of reactions to their ensemble.

The bartender made an inward estimate of the money he would lose through property damage. Damn foreign soldiers.

By the end of the night, it was difficult to decide whether Naomi was scarier drunk or sober. At least when she was sober, she had better aim and didn't attempt to have a sense of humor. Either way, everyone was disturbed.

The Resenter: Matt. He feels that L, Mello, and Near have all abandoned him. Also from the beginning of the story Light resents pretty much everyone and everything.
Rousing Speech: Light gives one to the ragtag army he gathers together in the wastelands.
Sanity Slippage: pretty much everyone.
Scars Are Forever: Light when he goes a little crazier than usual and shoots his gold wedding ring. The shrapnel fragments of it embedded in his face.
Secret Diary: Light uses a simple black notebook which he keeps hidden in his desk drawer.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: For shits and giggles Ryuk tells stories to the young Shinigami of a legendary hero and Godslayer named Light Yagami (it was just a human name Ryuk remembers from before but never got around to writing down).
Shrouded in Myth: Kira, L, Light Yagami
Sociopathic Soldier: Light, Catherine, Matt
Song Fic
The Squad
- The Butcher: Catherine is the team cook. She’s also Axe Crazy and loves knives.
- Communications Officer: Nathaniel
- Friendly Sniper: Matsuda
- The Neidermeyer: Light
- New Meat: Matt
- Number Two: Naomi
- Sad Clown: Matt, Nathaniel, Marcus
- The Quiet One: Mogi
- Tagalong Kid: Matt
Stepford Smiler: Light and Catherine.
Took a Level in Badass: it's the cast of Death Note as wartorn soldiers
Took a Level in Jerkass: As Sayu points out: "Everyone used to love my brother. Now, he is a complete asshole." It Got Worse.
Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Light
Trauma Conga Line: for everyone but Light's story is the one we see in detail.
Unwitting Pawn: Light gathers himself an army to do his bidding.
Up to Eleven: It's Darker and Edgier than Death Note. Think about that.
Villain with Good Publicity: Matt watches and comments when "their" crazy Light pulls an entire army together out of the various scattered and ragtag squads in the wastelands with just his own notoriety and his bullshitting skills.
War Fic
War Is Hell
We Have Reserves: this is the attitude of the whole army.
Whole-Plot Reference: Recursive version to Death Note Light keeps a Secret Diary which an outside observer can see charts his descent into madness.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Light, Matt...
X Meets Y: Death Note meets All Quiet on the Western Front meets Mirror Mask.
You Are in Command Now: Naomi Penber has to step up and take command when Light loses it for a time.
You Monster!: Matsuda shouts "What have you done!" at Light after he rescues L.

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 ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4797162/1/The_bFaceless_b The Faceless]'' by ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1366525/Disguise_of_Carnivorism Disguise of Carnivorism]'' is an [[Alternate Universe Fic|AU]] ''[[Death Note]]'' [[Dark Fic]]. Before the events of the series, [[Broken Masquerade|a journalist discovers the Death Note and the Shinigami and exposes it to the world]], altering the course of history. Years later welcome to a world where everyone hides their name and face, [[Crapsack World|a world of permanent war and where everything is dying]] and a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] are [[Fighting for Survival]].
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-== ''The Faceless'' provides examples of ==
 * [[Action Girl]]: Naomi Penber, Catherine
 * [[After the End]]: [[Crapsack World|Civilization has already pretty much collapsed at the beginning of the story.]]
 * [[Alternate Universe Fic]]
 * [[Anyone Can Die]]:  {{spoiler|Sayu, Misa, Naomi, Catherine, Mello and Near, L...}}
 * [[Arranged Marriage]]: Light's parents had arranged it so that Light would [[Meal Ticket|marry Misa for her fortune.]]
 * [[Awful Truth]]:  {{spoiler|Most of the surviving humans still hold out the hope that L will save them from Kira...}}
 * [[Axe Crazy]]: Light, Catherine,  {{spoiler|Matt}}
 * [[Badass Crew]]: Light's squad.
 * [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Misa and Catherine.
 * [[Blood Splattered Warrior]]: Light
 * [[Break the Cutie]]: well, everyone.
 * [[Broken Masquerade]]: The story begins when a journalist named Neelan Adessi discovers the death note and exposes the secrets of Kira and the [[Shinigami]] to the world.
 * [[Conscription]]: As part of the [[Crapsack World]], everyone is getting sucked into the war against Kira either by force or out of desperation.
 * [[Cosmic Plaything]]: Light Yagami, Naomi Misora, Neelan Adessi.
 * [[Crapsack World]]
 * [[Crazy Sane]]: Light. He goes crazy pretty early on but in a way that makes him the sanest one there.
 * [[Dark Fic]]
 * [[Dead Little Sister]]:  {{spoiler|Light lost his sister, Naomi lost her husband, Marcus lost his daughter…}}
 * [[Despair Event Horizon]]:  {{spoiler|Light, after his sister is killed. Also L while imprisoned. And Catherine in the middle of the siege.}}
 * [[The Determinator]]: Light
 ** [[Determined Defeatist]]
 * [[Deus Angst Machina]]
 * [[Draft Dodging]]: Attempted by Nathaniel. It didn't work out too well.
 * [[Dramatic Unmask]]:  {{spoiler|When Light takes his mask off. His troops are shocked and horrified when he doesn't die.}}
 * [[The Dreaded]]: Kira, also Light Yagami
 * [[Driven to Suicide]]:  {{spoiler|Catherine, L}}
 * [[Dying Like Animals]]: the humans of this world and then after the human race takes to wearing masks the Shinigami begin to starve.
 * [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Everyone has serious issues. ''EVERYONE!!!''
 * [[Dystopia]]: The world becomes one for sure after Neelan Adessi [[Broken Masquerade|broke the masquerade.]]
-* [[Emo Teen]]: Light at the beginning of the story (before [[Character Development]] and [[Took a Level In Badass|Taking Several Levels In Badass]]) but with good reason-his life really does '''''suck'''''.
+* [[Emo Teen]]: Light at the beginning of the story (before [[Character Development]] and [[Took a Level in Badass|Taking Several Levels In Badass]]) but with good reason-his life really does '''''suck'''''.
 * [[Enfant Terrible]]: A cherub-like Shinigami taunts Neelan.
 * [[Expecting Someone Taller]]:  {{spoiler|when they find the "Great L" at the [[POW Camp]].}}
 * [[Eyes of Gold]]: Light
 * [[Face Heel Turn]]:  {{spoiler|Matt. Mello and Near stop to free Matt from his prison cell at the [[POW Camp]] and in return... Matt kills them.}}
 * [[Faceless Goons]]: [[Title Drop|Duh]].
 * [[Fighting for Survival]]
 * [[For the Evulz]]: Ryuk is bored so he spends his time telling stories that gives the lil' Shinigami nightmares,  {{spoiler|stories of a legendary human hero named Light Yagami...}} and so Ryuk's stories take on a life of their own...
 * [[Ghost Planet]]: The Shinigami world. The Human world doesn't look much different these days.
 * [[Heroic Blue Screen of Death]]: At various times  {{spoiler|Light, Naomi, Matt, Catherine...}} are all so afflicted.
 * [[Horrifying the Horror]]:  {{spoiler|Thanks to Ryuk's stories just the name "Light Yagami" strikes fear among the Shinigami, so when a real human shows up with that name, ''[[Moment of Awesome|they surrender en masse]].''}}
 * [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]]: EVERYONE, but special mention goes to The Shinigami Servitors that feed the Shinigami "undesirables" so that they themselves won't be killed.
 * [[Hurting Hero]]: Light and Naomi.
 * [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Nathaniel realizes he's being a [[Hypocrite]] and a heartless bastard when he hypothetically considered murdering someone to avoid being drafted into the military.
 * [[I Control My Minions Through...]] Authority, Fear, and Fanatical Loyalty
 * [[I Have the High Ground]]:  {{spoiler|[[Evil Overlooker|Light after being put in command of his squad...]] [[Sanity Slippage|and learning his sister is dead.]]}}
 * [[In Love with Your Carnage]]: Catherine to Light [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth|at first...]]
 * [[Jade-Colored Glasses]]: because of the events of this AU Light isn't the [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]] he is in canon.
 * [[Knife Nut]]: Catherine
 * [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: In this [[Fan Fiction|fanfic]] [[Politically Incorrect Hero|Light is skeptical about having Naomi Penber, a woman, serving among his soldiers complaining that she might get pregnant and slow them down.]] Naomi counters that there was more of a chance of [[Slash Fic|Light getting]] [[Mister Seahorse|pregnant]] than her.
 * [[Life Drinker]]: The [[Shinigami]]
 * [[Malevolent Masked Men]]: In this world everyone wears masks... and [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]].
 * [[The Man Behind the Man]]: The cherub-like Shinigami that taunts Neelan.  {{spoiler|He and the King of Death made a bet and [[Gambit Roulette|they are the reason everything has happened this way.]]}}
 * [[Meaningful Name]]: Light, mainly
 * [[Mirror Universe]]: In canon Light  {{spoiler|kills L}} [[Villain with Good Publicity|but is seen as admirable by the men he's deceived.]] In this universe Light  {{spoiler|rescues L}} and is met with derision by his soldiers as they realize the [[Awful Truth]] about what they were fighting for.
 * [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]:  {{spoiler|This all started because L won his battle against Kira (Teru Mikami) and so a journalist like Neelan was able to find and steal the notebook.}}
 * [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: pretty much everyone becomes this over the course of the story.
 * [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: [[Playing with a Trope]]  {{spoiler|[[Sadistic Choice|Naomi can either carry]] the wounded Nathanial or the [[Heroic Blue Screen of Death|currently crazy Light]] back. She chooses Light.}}
 ** Later  {{spoiler|Light carries Naomi's corpse back after the others leave them to die.}}
 * [[Occult Blue Eyes]]: The [[Enfant Terrible]] Shinigami bonded to Neelan.
 * [[Original Character]]: Neelan, Marcus, Nathaniel, Catherine
 * [[POW Camp]]: where Kira is detaining L.
 * [[Power Born of Madness]]:  {{spoiler|Since he's still alive [[Trauma Conga Line|after everything he's been through]] Light determines he must be immortal.}}
 * [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: Light in his diary and in his [[Inner Monologue]]s.
 * [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Light's squad. [[Lampshaded]] when the [[You All Meet in An Inn|the cast stops at a bar]] and [[Hilarity Ensues]]:
 {{quote|''Light pulled himself up to the counter, putting on his, '[[Stepford Smiler|I'm completely normal]] [[Cute and Psycho|and if you don't believe me,]] [[I'll Kill You!|I'll kill you,]]' façade. Evidently, it didn't work; the bartender simply continued to stare apprehensively at the [[Blood Splattered Warrior|faded blood-stain on Light's uniform]] before slowly reaching for his gun. Best not to trust soldiers.'' <br />
 ''"He's going to shoot us, isn't he?" [[Original Character|Nathanial]] watched as the bartender froze and carefully removed his hand from the vicinity of his rifle, noticing for the first time, perhaps, just how many weapons the [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|rag-tag team]] had.'' <br />
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 ''The bartender made an inward estimate of the money he would lose through property damage. Damn foreign soldiers.''<br />
 ''By the end of the night, it was difficult to decide whether [[Action Girl|Naomi]] was scarier drunk or sober. At least when she was sober, she had better aim and didn't attempt to have a sense of humor. Either way, everyone was disturbed.''  }}
 * [[The Resenter]]: Matt. He feels that L, Mello, and Near have all abandoned him. Also from the beginning of the story Light resents pretty much everyone and everything.
 * [[Rousing Speech]]: Light gives one to [[Unwitting Pawn|the ragtag army]] he gathers together in the wastelands.
 * [[Sanity Slippage]]: pretty much everyone.
 * [[Scars Are Forever]]:  {{spoiler|Light when he [[Heroic Blue Screen of Death|goes a little crazier than usual]] and shoots his gold wedding ring. The shrapnel fragments of it embedded in his face.}}
 * [[Secret Diary]]: [[Whole-Plot Reference|Light uses a simple black notebook which he keeps hidden in his desk drawer.]]
 * [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]:  {{spoiler|[[For the Evulz|For shits and giggles]] Ryuk tells stories to the young Shinigami of a legendary hero and Godslayer named Light Yagami (it was just a human name Ryuk remembers from before but never got around to writing down).}}
 * [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Kira, L, Light Yagami
 * [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: Light, Catherine,  {{spoiler|Matt}}
 * [[Song Fic]]
 * [[The Squad]]
 ** [[The Butcher]]: Catherine is the team cook. She’s also [[Axe Crazy]] and [[Knife Nut|loves knives.]]
 ** [[Communications Officer]]: Nathaniel
 ** [[Friendly Sniper]]: Matsuda
 ** [[The Neidermeyer]]: Light
 ** [[New Meat]]: Matt
 ** [[Number Two]]: Naomi
 ** [[Sad Clown]]: Matt, Nathaniel, Marcus
 ** [[The Quiet One]]: Mogi
 ** [[Tagalong Kid]]: Matt
 * [[Stepford Smiler]]: Light and Catherine.
-* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: it's the cast of Death Note as wartorn soldiers
+* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: it's the cast of Death Note as wartorn soldiers
 * [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: As Sayu points out: "Everyone used to love my brother. Now, he is [[Jerkass|a complete asshole.]]" [[It Got Worse]].
 * [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: Light
 * [[Trauma Conga Line]]: for ''everyone'' but Light's story is the one we see in detail.
 * [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Light gathers himself an army to do his bidding.
 * [[Up to Eleven]]: It's [[Darker and Edgier]] than ''[[Death Note]]''. Think about that.
 * [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: Matt watches and comments when "their" crazy Light pulls an entire army together out of the various scattered and [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|ragtag squads]] in the wastelands with just his [[The Dreaded|own notoriety]] and his [[Bastardly Speech|bullshitting skills]].
 * [[War Fic]]
 * [[War Is Hell]]
 * [[We Have Reserves]]: this is the attitude of the whole army.
 * [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: Recursive version to ''[[Death Note]]'' Light keeps a [[Secret Diary]] which an outside observer can see charts his descent into madness.
 * [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Light,  {{spoiler|Matt...}}
 * [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Death Note]]'' meets ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' meets ''[[Mirror Mask]]''.
 * [[You Are in Command Now]]:  {{spoiler|Naomi Penber has to step up and take command when Light ''[[Heroic Blue Screen of Death|loses it]]'' for a time.}}
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