History Fanfic / BetweenMyBrotherAndMeMorsOmnibus

** "A new purpose awaits you!" usually used as {{Foreshadowing}} that someone is gonna die. [[spoiler:This ends up becoming a WhamLine of ''14.5th Show'']]

* BookEnds: Chapter 3 begins and ends with someone singing the lines to "Come Little Children".

* CallForward: The end of the third chapter has Sen and Seto trying to find the door that would let them meet "three gay Caballeros" meaning that this is before their appearance in ''Legend of the Three Caballeros: Dark Signs of the Sun'' (which the author confirms)
* CircusOfFear: The Action Field for Yvonne/Yusho and Yuya/Zarc's duel in ''14th Show'' and ''14.5th Show'' takes place at the Carnival of Souls, a dark .

*** Earlier, Yvonne imitates killing herself using a retractable knife. [[spoiler:She uses this same trick on Yuya during the tag team duel in ''14.5th'' Show]]

** There's a lot of hints about the end of ''14.5th Show'' having [[spoiler:Yusho dying by Yvonne's hands.]] This includes:

** In chapter 5, Yvonne puts Yuri into a trance by stating, [[Theatre/TheTempest "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here."]]

** Yvonne continues this after Rin tells the former to let Yuzu go. Yvonne complies...and throws Yuzu onto Rin.

** Chapter 6: while Dawn duels Sen, [[spoiler:Ayu is killed and becomes a Dark Signer.]]
** Chapter 8: [[spoiler:Ryoken has both Seto Kaiba ''and'' Sen under his control, ready to convert them into the Knights of Hanoi.]]
** Chapter 9: [[spoiler:Ayu fully becoming a Dark Signer and she plans on making Reira the Dark Signer for Cusillu.]]
** Chapter 10: [[spoiler:Zarc has fully control of Yuya, Yuto and Yugo, the four have now entered Carroll City along with Edo Phoenix and Obelisk Force members.]]
** Chapter 11: [[spoiler: The invasion into Carroll City begins which includes Yusho reuniting with Yuzu and Yuya, Mieru killed trying to save Yusho from dying and Max defeating Edo and planning to have him transformed just like Ryo was. Oh and Seto has Katsuya hypnotized for nefarious reasons.]]
** Chapter 14: Pretty much ''everything'' about the tag-team duel is this but highlights include: [[spoiler:Yusho revealing that he has Pendulum Monsters and can Xyz Summon, Yvonne getting the Zefra Pendulum Monsters, the climatic final battle at the carousel, Yvonne ''killing Yusho Sakaki in front of a live audience'' and Yusho encountering ''Wiraqocha Rasca''.]]

-->'''Yusho:''' Tell me Yuya, have you mastered [[spoiler:Xyz Summoning?]]\\

* YaoiFangirl: Dawn loves watching her brother and his boyfriend "play paddycake" through security cameras.

* ActionGirl: Every single girl in Carroll City is capable of kicking ass in a duel.

** The second chapter has characters sing "The Jabberwocky" and the "Queen of Hearts" poems.

** In chapter 10, Yuto and Yugo call Yuri their "white rabbit".
** In chapter 11, Yuya after he [[spoiler:stabs Ash in the stomach]] shouts "Oh frabjous day, callooh callay!"

** "A new purpose awaits you!" usually used as {{Foreshadowing}} that someone is gonna die. [[spoiler:This ends up becoming the WhamLine of ''14.5th Show'']]

** In the first chapter, we're lead to believe that Guignol uses a Gimmick Puppet deck due to how she dresses as a puppeteer and fights with living puppets. It's later revealed that she uses Shaddoll monsters, which she lampshades.

** The end of chapter 3 has Seto and Sen unmask the PlagueDoctor who hung himself on a tree to find out that it's [[spoiler: an alternate version of themselves...who quickly reveals that he's not dead (kinda) in the beginning of the next chapter.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: Many of the characters who dueled in their series get an overhaul here with the two major ones being Mokuba and Serenity.

** Sixth chapter: [[spoiler:Ayu goes chasing off a girl who looks similar to Yuzu...and she ends up with her throat slit and revived by an Earthbound Immortal.]]
** Yusho gets a humongous dose of this in the eleventh chapter. [[spoiler:Finally reuniting with his son for the first time in three years, only to learn that Zarc has full control of Yuya like a puppet and no matter what he does, Yuya is completely gone and no longer sees Yusho as his true father.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When Yugo decides to [[spoiler:stab one of his feathers into Yuri's heart, the feather being filled with the 'feelings' Yugo has for Zarc, it looks eerily like he's trying to get Yuri into some sort of drug addiction. What doesn't help is Yuri's reactions after the feather is 'injected' into his body.]]

** The third chapter has each scene open up with lyrics from either "Come Little Children" or "The Hanging Tree". WordOfGod states that this comes from a mash-up with the two songs.
** Chapter 11 has Yvonne, her mother, Ruri and Sora singing "Happyland" by Amanda Jessen while fighting off Obelisk Force.

** Chapter 14: Pretty much ''everything'' about the tag-team duel is this but highlights include: [[spoiler:Yusho revealing that he has Pendulum Monsters and can Xyz Summon, Yvonne getting the Zefra Pendulum Monsters, the climatic final battle at the carousel and, most of all Yvonne killing Yusho Sakaki in front of a live audience and Yusho encountering ''Wiraqocha Rasca''.]]

** "A new purpose awaits you!" usually used as {{Foreshadowing}} that someone is gonna die.

** The end of chapter 3 has Seto and Sen unmask the PlaugeDoctor who hung himself on a tree to find out that it's [[spoiler: an alternate version of themselves...who quickly reveals that he's not dead (kinda) in the beginning of the next chapter.]]
** in ''5th Show'', Brendan approaches Ruri for she has done something bad. Said something...taking his Blue Angel plushie without permission.

** Mieru dresses up like Alice while Yvonne's puppets are dressed as the Knave of Hearts (Yuya), the White Rabbit (Yuto), the Mad Hatter (Yugo) and the Cheshire Cat (Yuri).

* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the citizens of Carroll City ''drip'' with snark. Yvonne is probably the snarkiest out of them all.

* IronicEcho: Yvonne's remark about Yusho in the fourth chapter become this chapters later...

'''[[spoiler:Yuya]]''': I can't believe you fell for my sob story, Yusho~! But then again, that was your biggest flaw. You're. just. too. SOFT!

** She later has one for [[spoiler:Sora]] five chapters later by stating, [[spoiler:[[Theater/{{Macbeth}} Sora, hide your fires; and let not light see my dark and deep desires."]]]]

** Yvonne's backstory has her watch her brother be stuck in a coma and having the doctors pull the plug of him before she's kidnapped by the very same guy who caused her brother's coma about to kill her. Then she sees her puppets come to life and kill people before...

* AssholeVictim: Viren, the mob boss who caused Yvonne's older brother, Xavier, to be forced into a coma and then decides to make the girl watch as his goons burn her beloved puppets before killing her. The minute the puppets come to life to kill everyone, you probably won't be shedding tears for them.
* BaitAndSwitch: In the first chapter, we're lead to believe that Guignol uses a Gimmick Puppet deck due to how she dresses as a puppeteer and fights with living puppets. It's later revealed that she uses Shaddoll monsters, which she lampshades.

** Despite losing to Moon Knight, Yuzu does manage to destroy one of his Xyz Monsters, which is something he praises.

*** Chapter 11 has a flashback that full expands on how Yvonne hypnotized Sora.

** Misty uses her ability to read faces to reveal that a new purpose awaits Ayu. Scenes later, [[spoiler:Ayu becomes a Dark Signer.]]

** Zarc intervenes right at the time Yuto was absorbed into Yuya, taking them into an unknown location and brainwashing them to be his sons.
** Carroll City gets involved with the chaos because Yusho Sakaki somehow landed in their world years ago; when he showed off Action Duels to Yvonne, May and Dawn, it spurred them to help create their own You Show Duel School and build the resistance force to stop Academia.
*** Due to Yvonne and May going in for their massacre, Celina decides to leave for the Standard Dimension earlier than expected. [[spoiler:This leads to her bumping into Ayu earlier than expected, Ayu chasing after Celina and then promptly killed by an Obelisk Force soldier.]]

* PlagueDoctor: Tadzio's attire is this. What doesn't really help is that [[spoiler:he has the face of Seto Kaiba...]]

* ShoutOutToShakespeare: The title of the first act is called "Theatre/AComedyOfErrors" while Yvonne quotes phrases from various works.

** During his duel with Edo, Max tells Toon Dark Magician Girl to attack directly. When Edo points out that there's no Toon World on the field so she can't, Max drops on his knees in despair...before revealing that Toon Dark Magician Girl is the ''only'' Toon who doesn't need Toon World for her to attack directly.

* BaitAndSwitch: In "Karakuri Circus", Serenity states a long story about the origin of the "Court of Strings" and about the flower-girl who was pivotal to it all. When Brendan and Max asks if she was that little girl, Serenity answers that she wasn't. [[spoiler:The end of the story reveals that it was Lady Shirobara.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Yusho Sakaki is explained in the narration on having been hurled to Carroll City in his attempt to stop Professor Akaba. That, plus his encounter with Yvonne, May and Dawn is what would set up the You Show Duel School of Carroll City.

* {{Flashback}}: Each chapter starts with a flashback involving either a character that is the focus of said chapter or Zarc with Yuya, Yuto and Yugo.

** Rin, Ruri and Yuzu keep getting called their dub names (Rinrin, Lulu and Zuzu)

* WhatIsThingYouCallLove: Yuri has never been shown signs of affection before, so he's unsure of himself when Saki decides to hug him in the tenth chapter.

* SomethingAboutARose: Lady Shirobara in the first story uses the Black Garden Field Spell and Rose Dragons. Her name even means "White Rose".

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before their duel starts, Yvonne tells Sora "Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my dark and deep desires." [[spoiler:She states this nine chapters...but replace "Stars" with "Sora" and we learn that it's become his TriggerPhrase.]]

* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Mieru screams the TropeNamer when she sees the Puppet Yus.

* LaughingMad: Another trait from people of Carrol City is that they all have a crazy laugh.
* LightIsNotGood: Moon Knight dresses in white and uses the LIGHT based tellarknight monsters. He's also very deranged and cuckoo.

** In the second chapter, Dawn is munching on popcorn when she communicates with Willow (May) as she is watching her older brother and his boyfriend "play paddycake".
** The duel in the eight chapter takes place in a café so the audience is eating while Rin and Ruri duel Miette and Kelly.

* RevengeFic: Comments on AO3 reveals that the author has little esteem for the Akabas or Yusho Sakaki, the former for having very apathetic personalities or being utterly useless and the latter for just up and abandoning his family ''without'' telling them why.

** One that is PlayedForDrama: people telling Yusho of his very [[SarcasmMode smart move]] to leave his family behind to stop Professor Akaba's scheme.

*** In that very same chapter earlier on, Shoichi Kusanagi is ready to help [[spoiler:create cookies based off of Sen and Seto]] with Dawn stating,

** Justified in the eleventh chapter; the audience is munching on popcorn while Max duels Edo.

** Sixth chapter: [[spoiler:Ayu goes chasing off a girl who looks similar to Ayu...and she ends up with her throat slit and revived by an Earthbound Immortal.]]

** Chapter 11: [[spoiler: The invasion into Carroll City begins which includes Yusho reuniting with Yuzu and Yuya, Mieru killed trying to save Yusho from dying and Max defeating Edo and planning to have him transformed just like Ryo was.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Boy howdy. The Pokémon characters in this story are not squeaky clean at all, and show now qualms in killing people, Yuya, Yuto and Yugo are dead in the beginning of the tale and Zarc is using mind control to get all of his "sons" together.
* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the citizens of Carroll City ''drip'' with snark.
* {{Deconstruction}}: In the anime, there's no reprecussions or people calling Yusho out for his very reckless move on going to the Fusion Dimension to stop Professor Akaba. Here, many characters -- Yusho included -- state that what he did was very ''very'' stupid, stating that his approach has done nothing over the past three years and that it's only made Yuya more susceptible to Zarc's influence in the end.
* {{Elseworld}}: The author specifically uses this word to describe the story and its universe.

* HowWeGotHere: ** The end of the eighth chapter has Ayu sobbing in the ruins of the warehouse district of Maiami City with the following chapter describing what happened prior.

-->'''Yvonne:''' [[spoiler:[[TriggerPhrase "Sora, hide your fires; let not light see my dark and deep desires."]]]]

In the center of this all is Yuzu Hiiragi, who only wants to her best friend back, only to find that her best bet to get Yuya back is to team up with a set of duelists who don't really care for her troubles as they are on stopping Academia's plans.

** The city of that world is known as "Carroll City", named after Lewis Carroll. One location is known as Bandersnatch Park which has two theaters called the Toadstool Outdoor Theater and Wonderland Marionette Theater.

* OnceMoreWithClarity:
** The first chapter has Guignol (Yvonne) ask Sora if he wants to be her friend and follows it with a scream. The flashback for the fourth chapter reveals [[spoiler:that she transformed Sora into a wooden puppet.]]
* PassThePopcorn:

** The duel in the eight chapter takes place in a café so the audience is eating while Rin and Ruri duel Miette and Kelly.

** The duel in the eight chapter takes place in a café so the audience is eating while Rin and Ruri duel Miette and Kelly.

** The tenth chapter has Sora trying to save Yuri and his MadnessMantra is already terrifying enough, it's what Yvonne says next that clearly shows that he's long gone.
-->'''Yvonne:''' [[spoiler:[[TriggerPhrase "Sora, hide your fires; let not light see my dark and deep desires."]]

** Rin and Ruri nearly defeat Miette and Kelly in their tag-team duel; had it not been for Kelly's Shrink card, they would have won.

* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the citizens of Carroll City drip with snark.

** The duel in the eight chapter takes place in a café so the audience is eating while Rin and Ruri duel Miette and Kelly.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: How Yvonne shows her passive-aggressive side to Yusho.

** Chapter 10: [[spoiler:Zarc has fully control of Yuya, Yuto and Yuri, the four have now entered Carroll City along with Edo Phoenix and Obelisk Force members.]]

** The city of that world is known as "Carroll City", named after Lewis Carroll. One location is known as Bandersnatch Park.

* CurbStompCushion: Despite losing to Moon Knight, Yuzu does manage to destroy one of his Xyz Monsters, which is something he praises.

* {{Flashback}}: Each chapter starts with a flashback involving either a character of Carroll City or Zarc with Yuya, Yuto and Yugo.

* PassThePopcorn: Dawn is munching on popcorn when she communicates with Willow (May) as she is watching her older brother and his boyfriend "play paddycake".

* WhamEpisode: Chapter 6: while Dawn duels Sen, [[spoiler:Ayu is killed and becomes a Dark Signer.]]
* WhamLine: The second chapter has Guignol about to return to her world only to stop when she senses someone behind him. Said someone?

* {{Flashback}}: Each chapter starts with a flashback involving the focus character from Carroll City.

A collection of stories that take place three years prior to ''Mors Omnibus'' is being written. ''Mors Tua, Vita Mia'' depict the lives of everyone in Carroll City as they build You Show Duel School, encounter strange beings and struggle with their feelings in this crazy and chaotic world.

* DeadpanSnarker: All of the invaders drip with snark.

* {{Prequel]}: The collection takes place three years prior to ''Mors Omnibus''.
* SomethingAboutARose: Lady Shirobara in the first story uses the Black Garden Field Spell and Rose Dragons.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Citizens from Carroll City are...off, to say the least. The most notable one is Carroll City's version of ''Seto Kaiba'' who is shown napping by ''hanging himself on a tree'', and thinks it's fun to joke around [[ItMakesSenseInContext on eating his brother's corpse]] to the point that he makes ''Sen'' (who those who read ''Legends of the Three Caballeros: Dark Signs of the Sun'' would know) is crazy enough as it is.

-->'''Guignol:'' ''(smirks)'' [[spoiler:Yusho Sakaki]]...I knew'd you come.

* YaoiFangirl: Dawn loves watching her brother and his boyfriend "play paddycake" through security cameras.

* BloodierAndGorier: The end of the prologue has three members of Obelisk Force and the first chapter involves Grande Lorde Guignol slicing someone's neck before she and her puppets massacre an entire classroom of Osiris Red students.

* WhatIf: The author based this story after one called "Signs of Renewal" which is what would happen if Rin and Ruri became Dark Signers. Instead, she now asks what if the ''boys'' became Dark Signers.