History Fanfic / MyStupidReality

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7385390/1/My_Stupid_Reality My Stupid Reality]]'' by Twisted Grim is a ''Manga/DeathNote'' FanFic in which the GreatDetective L is rounding up genii children for some nefarious purpose and so Light Yagami has [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretended to be stupid]] for all his life. It works up until his senior year of high school when Light makes JustOneLittleMistake that puts L on his trail...

** Light can modify a cheap laptop to work better with pieces ripped out of L's refrigerator.

* {{Anti-Intellectualism}}: In this world if you're too smart L's people will kidnap you in the middle of the night. Many disappear forever. [[FateWorseThenDeath Some are returned damaged.]]

* FateWorthThenDeath: Some of the Returned...

* {{Anti-Intellectualism}}: In this world if you're too smart L's people will kidnap you in the middle of the night. Many disappear forever. [[FateWorseThanDeath Some are returned damaged.]]

* FateWorthThanDeath: Some of the Returned...

* {{Anti-Intellectualism}}: In this world if you're too smart L's people will kidnap you in the middle of the night. Many disappear forever. Some are returned damaged.

* MindRape: This seems to be the effect of L's training program. If they aren't instantly rejected and if they return at all they return as [[EmptyShell Empty Shells]].

* {{Anti-Intellectualism}}: In this world if you're too smart L's people will kidnap you in the middle of the night.

* SueDonym: Many of Light's aliases are variations on his own name. When he has to quickly think up a new one he comes up with... [[GhostMemory "Kira Asahi"]]

* WildGooseChase: Light sets up a fake trail that has Mello looking all over for him through Fargo, North Dakota

* PeggySue: There's the implication that it's a do-over without the players having conscious knowledge that it's a do-over. There is no Death Note in this universe and the Shinigami appear to Light once as human goth kids to deliver [[CrypticConversation a cryptic warning.]] Light subconsciously remembers his past life-he has an implicit fear and distrust of L that goes beyond even his moral objections of L's mass kidnapping of children, he once refers to himself as Kira, and he has a "HaveWeMet" reaction to several characters. As for L, he lives in fear of his own mortality and is ''obsessed'' with finding the right successor.

* PeggySue: There's the implication that it's a do-over without the players having conscious knowledge that it's a do-over. There is no Death Note in this universe and the Shinigami appear to Light once as human goth kids to deliver [[CryticConversation a cryptic warning.]] Light subconsciously remembers his past life-he has an implicit fear and distrust of L that goes beyond even his moral objections of L's mass kidnapping of children, he once refers to himself as Kira, and he has a "HaveWeMet" reaction to several characters. As for L, he lives in fear of his own mortality and is ''obsessed'' with finding the right successor.

* PeggySue: There's the implication that it's a do-over without the players having conscious knowledge that it's a do-over. Light subconsciously remembers his past life and so he has an implicit fear and distrust of L that goes beyond even his moral objections of L's mass kidnapping of children, he once refers to himself as Kira, and he has a "HaveWeMet" reaction to several characters. As for L, he lives in fear of his own mortality and is ''obsessed'' with finding the right successor.

* PeggySue: There's the implication that it's a do-over without the players having conscious knowledge that it's a do-over. Light subconsciously remembers his past life and so he has an implicit fear and distrust of L that goes beyond even his moral objections of L's mass kidnapping of children, once refers to himself as Kira, and he has a "HaveWeMet" reaction to several characters. As for L, he lives in fear of his own mortality and is ''obsessed'' with finding the right successor.

* GhostMemory: Light. There's the implication that [[EternalRecurrence all the events of Death Note canon happened before]] and that Light subconsciously remembers his past life and so he has an implicit fear and distrust of L that goes beyond even his moral objections of L's mass kidnapping of children and he has a HaveWeMet reaction to several characters. Also when forced to make up an alias on the spot he blurts out:

-->'''Light:''' One does not just randomly select a question or 2 and try to get them wrong. No. Nor do you do it to every 4th question or some other such ridiculous, predictable pattern like that. The key lies in, like all things, strategy. You need to choose ahead of time a subject or 2 your awful at, a few your neutral, and 1 your good at. Then whenever you get homework, consistently get the same basic principals wrong, and get it wrong on the test as well. Also, you have to make a show of not paying attention in class, or else suspicions will be raised, and you'll be given a special "learning disability," and assigned a tutor pronto.

* EternalRecurrence: There's the implication that the original plot of ''Manga/DeathNote'' happened to all of them in a past life. [[CosmicPlaything Light wonders what he has done to deserve this.]]

* PopularIsDumb: an Invoked trope of Light's "Stupid" persona- he pretends to be a dumb, BrainlessBeauty, jock type.

* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: Light has deliberately tried to look BookDumb and scored average all his life. [[SpringtimeForHitler So when Light aces every subject in the Touhou entrance exam L realizes just how smart Light must be to keep up that act and is determined to make him his successor.]]

* ShoutOut: see Light's reading list. Also to ''{{Portal}}'' and ''SuperMarioBros''. Also Light sets up a trail for his pursuers that leads [[{{Fargo}} through Minnesota to Fargo, North Dakota.]]