Tarot Motifs / Fan Works

• Fanmade Tarots are occasionally created in fandoms.
  • There are tarots for Revolutionary Girl Utena, Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • There are some for Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon, and also one in a multi-fandom RPG.
  • As well as these official ones from Gundam Wing
  • And Jay Holloway's for Welcome to Night Vale — the entire deck, not just the Major Arcana.
  • SCP Foundation has a fan-made set of major arcana and several minor arcana featured on the site.
  • A.A. Pessimal has an ongoing Discworld version. All the Major Arcana cards are now covered - sometimes more than once - and the author is adding as many Minor Arcana cards as he can.
• In the Pony POV Series, the Major Arcana are used to represent the Alicorns — Celestia and Luna are, obviously, The Sun and The Moon, while Cadence, surprisingly, isn't The Lover (that's actually Venus) but Temperance (since she represents harmony, not love, in this interpretation). Their Mother and Father are The World and The Hierophant, respectfully, while their various siblings fill out the other titles. The Minor Arcana are apparently used for ponies that ascend, as Fluttershy's Alicorn form, Princess Gaia, is referred to as The Queen of Cups. The only exception to this is when Dark World!Twilight fuses with her potential Nightmare self and takes up the vacant spot of The Magician. Comically enough, apparently a Concept getting their fortune read with tarot cards will always end up with at least one of their respective tarot coming up, normally three. This includes Chrysalis, even though the fortune teller didn't have The Hunger in her deck period (the Hunger being a nonstandard card), and kept showing up even when removed. This naturally freaks the fortune teller out. A Temperance was also present, which was her original tarot when she was part of Cadenza.
• In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades and many of its sidestories, tarot cards play a heavy part in the idea of fate and deciding fate. These include:
  • Who Decides? Ryusei is given a fortune regarding whether or not Jiro will be saved. The most notable card is the Nine of Rods, representing how he needs to keep at it to save Jiro, despite the obstacles (ie Gentaro) in his way. In the extra chapter, Why Decide this is reversed as it states that his need to help fix everything he's done is going to end in failure. Which is true seeing as he's now brainwashed and configured into a cyborg...
  • Month of Sundays: Yayoi Tokuda carries a special Four of Swords card on her representing her need to rest and heal. This is in regards to her failure to save Haruto from death and her relentless pursuit to save him.
• The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction Jericho (MLP) features a deck of unique cards mixed with traditional ones. The Oracle, a demoness who offers prophecies to a 15-year-old girl in exchange for essentially being allowed to rape the girl, offers to tell Jericho's future with them in exchange for him sparing her life.
  • There are seven in all, The Sorceress, The Gun, The High Priestess, The King, The Murderer, The Liar, and lastly The Hanged Stallion, the last one seemingly representing Jericho.
  • However, later on, the Blue-Eyed Mare notes that he is not the Hanged Stallion, despite calling him by that name earlier. Using only gestures and two tarot cards, she indicates that Jericho is, in fact, The Fool.
• The final volume of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction Seven Days in Sunny June features a serial killer using the major arcana as his calling cards.
• In Through The Well Of Pirene, goblin civilization is heavily based on the tarot. With the exception of independent traders, goblins belong to one of four major factions; the Wands, the Cups, the Swords, or the Rings, each being a lesser Arcana of the Tarot deck. High ranking goblins are named for the court cards; the King, Queen, Knight, and Page. Each faction is also in the possession of four powerful magical artifacts in the form of its arcana — for instance, the Wand goblins have four Magic Wands that they can use to transform objects and people.
• In No Limit In The Great Sky, the Thieves of the The Tarot Core are based around some of the cards in the Major Arcana, and their code names are the Cards that fit their personalities the most.
  • Aeros is The Hermit. A Shrinking Violet who likes to be alone. He enjoys learning and is always seeking a better answer.
  • Stratos is The Chariot. Likes seeing progress and hates failure. A major Workaholic.
  • Evelyn is The Magician. She is The Smart Girl and the most resourceful member of the Thieves.
  • Lana is The Hanged Man. She is the member of the group who is willing to sacrifice herself for a good cause.
• The Persona franchise has tarot as a major element, so many of its fanfics will have it as a prominent story element.
  • Persona EG has several characters and their Personas represented by a card.
    • Flash Sentry is The Fool. He has untapped potential and this is his journey the story is following. Hilariously, when he is told this, he thought Igor was calling him stupid until Igor explained the card's actual meaning in a tarot deck.
    • Twilight Sparkle is The Magician. She has an obsession with knowledge and studying.
    • Fluttershy is The High Priestess. She has a lot of hidden knowledge of what is truly going on. As Eris, she is the reversed High Priestess, signifying her hidden agenda against her "friends" and her refusal to listen to her own conscience.
    • Rarity is The Empress. She is very creative and prosperous as The Fashionista.
    • Shining Armor is The Emperor. He is a bit controlling and possessive of both Cadence and Twilight.
    • Vice-Principal Luna is The Hierophant. She is a symbol of education and authority, but yields to a higher power, Celestia.
    • Cadence is The Lovers. She is a total Shipper on Deck for several characters, and several boys at Canterlot High lust after her. She's also a sex addict and has cheated on Shining Armor several times, so she has a lot of lovers.
    • Rainbow Dash is The Chariot. She's obsessed with moving forward and winning at everything.
    • Principal Celestia is Justice. She keeps law and order in Canterlot High.
    • Coco Pommel is The Hermit. She is a Shrinking Violet and hardly interacts with others, at least until Flash and the others befriend her and boost her confidence.
    • Apple Bloom is The Wheel of Fortune. Her luck with her bullying and family problems is constantly changing.
    • Applejack is Strength. She needs a lot of courage and fortitude to deal with her family's problems.
    • Octavia Melody is The Hanged Man. She starts considering a relationship with Vinyl Scratch, a relationship that would require a lot of compensation and sacrifice because Vinyl is slowly going blind and Octavia's parents are conservative and don't approve of same sex relationships.
    • Sonata Dusk is Death. She's experienced a lot of changes in her life after a car accident killed her sisters and robbed her of her ability to speak.
    • Sweetie Belle is Temperance. She is a much more reserved version of Rarity.
    • Juan the Janitor is The Devil. While not necessarily evil, he's a very mysterious and shifty individual.
    • Chrysalis is The Tower. She's a disgraced CEO and her business suffered disasters.
    • Pinkie Pie is The Star. She is pretty much joy personified.
    • Trixie Lulamoon is The Moon. She knows magic tricks and illusions.
    • Vinyl Scratch is The Sun. She's ironically sensitive to bright light and slowly going blind, but she remains optimistic and resolves to live life to the fullest.
    • Flash and his friends are collectively Judgement. It is up to them to save everyone.
    • Flash Sentry's parents are The World. They spend almost all their time traveling.
    • Sunset Shimmer is the non-standard Jester. She has succumbed to the temptation to abuse her power within Zodiac.
  • Persona: The Sougawa Files has these - the main character, Rina, represents the Fool Arcana, and the friends she makes each represent another one of the Major Arcana. This is taken a step further with each of the Freedom Fighters' Shadows representing the reversed forms of their Major Arcana.
  • Just like in its inspiration, the major characters of the Persona 5 Adult Confidant AU each represent a different card in the major arcana. While most of the characters retain the arcana they represented in canon, two characters, Sojiro and Sae, have had their arcana changed from the Hierophant and Judgement to the Fool and Justice, respectively.
  • A Year To Fill An Empty Home has some All There in the Manual examples; just like their son Akira, the four pseudo-Confidants that Takeshi and Chou Kurusu bond with over the year are based on aspects of the Tarot; specifically the suits of the Minor Arcana. The ambitious Fukuyama represents the Pentacles suit (wealth, career, vision), the baker with a strained familial bond Sachiko represents the Cups suit (creativity, emotion, relationships), the listless middle-schooler Hana represents the Wands suit (passion, motivation, determination), and the confrontational Sadist Teacher Morita represents the Swords suit (conflict, intellect, communication).
• When Ben Tennyson is sent to the time of Stardust Crusaders in JoJo's Alien Adventure, he ends up developing his own Stand with its own Ultimatrix and thus has the ability to perform a Fusion Dance with Ben if he and his Stand are in alien form. Given that, at the time, Stand names were based on tarot cards (Jotaro's Star Platinum, Joseph's Hermit Purple, Avdol's Magician's Red, etc.), he too has his Stand named after a tarot card. Since all major arcana are taken in canon, though, he ends up getting associated with a card of the minor arcana; in his case, his creativity, confidence, enthusiasm, and courage has him associated with the Ace of Wands, thus his Stand gains the moniker of Emerald Ace.
• In the RWBY fanfiction It Might Even Be Great, during their double date in the museum, Weiss and Blake assign each member of RWBY a tarot card: Yang is given the Sun, Ruby the Stars, Blake the Moon and Weiss is Judgement.
  • In the sequel Panoply Weiss and Blake perform an actual tarot reading for her team. When the final card for each team member is the card they chose in the museum, Weiss outright breaks down at the implications. In the interpretation she was taught, these cards are sacred. She basically sees this as a divine prophecy of a great and difficult destiny.
• Infinity Train: Blossomverse: The Queen of Swords. Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily and Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail primarily tries to paint Grace Monroe as an inverted Queen of Swords, which can represent a manipulative woman who doesn't learn from her mistakes nor care of the consequences. And while this does apply to her in regards to how she worked with the Apex for years, the end of The Fog Car Saga has her become an Upright Queen of Swords, meant to symbolize a woman who's willing to protect those under her care and be honest; not only does she actually fight to protect everybody from Henry and Walter, but she eventually tells the truth to the rest of The Apex over how she didn't know any better about the Train, so they can start working on themselves. Fittingly her weapon is a knife, which is essentially a tiny sword.
• Vow of Nudity: In one story, Haara challenges a sailor to a game of 'Fate's Mate,' which involves drawing cards from a tarot deck and then competing in head-to-head minigames that correspond to each card. Each card's challenge seems to correspond to its face thematically, if the three we see (Strength = arm wrestling, four of cups = music battle, seven of swords = darts) are any indication.
• The Haunting of Villa Layla takes all of it's chapter names from the Major Arcana.

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