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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]].

* [[Action Girl]]: Naomi Penber, Catherine

* [[After the End]]: [[Crapsack World|Civilization has already pretty much collapsed at the beginning of the story.]]

* [[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

* [[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]]

* [[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

* [[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

* [[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 Inin Badass|Taking Several Levels In Badass]]) but with good reason-his life really does '''''suck'''''.

* [[Enfant Terrible]]: A cherub-like Shinigami taunts Neelan.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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]]:

* [[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.}}

* [[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).}}

* [[Song Fic]]

** [[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

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Light and Catherine.

* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: it's the cast of Death Note as wartorn soldiers

* [[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.

* [[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]].

* [[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...}}