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Fanfic idea: "Duel Monsters: Firestorm"


Just Crouton

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Because my previous topic is old and outdated.

 

Unlike the high fantasy "save the world" stories of standard Yu-Gi-Oh!, the card game here is a hobby.

 

As such, Firestorm is mainly about the people who play the game instead of a complex story and mythology.

 

Nash Thunder is a popular, but arrogant high school football player, and one of the toughest guys at school. His cousin Sam is a bully magnet with autism who lives with the Thunders after recently losing his parents in a car accident. Nash's father learns that Sam is into Duel Monsters, and both he and Nash tease Sam for it, while Nash's mother is more supportive of Sam's hobby. Taking Sam to the local card store one day at his mother's insistence, Nash is challenged by the players there to give the game a try. After being annihilated in his first duel by the quiet and reserved Penny Hart, Nash's macho pride and his refusal to accept defeat forces him to continue playing so he can get even with Penny. At his first tournament, Nash meets Sunny Lang, the comic relief of the series and a potential love interest for Nash.

 

Story-wise, the game is used mainly as a social tool to communicate with others; Nash finds himself using the game to connect with Sam better, and later with Penny. Through their duels, Nash learns humility and respect for others, while Sam learns confidence, and Penny learns to open her heart to others.

 

After some events early on, Nash, Penny, Sunny, and Sam compete in tournaments as Team Firestorm with the goal of winning Nationals while dealing with their own personal issues on the side.

 

Villain-wise, there's Victor Throne, who is basically pre-Duelist Kingdom Kaiba. There is also the Arcadia Movement, based on the 5D's version, who are downsized for this story's universe. This Arcadia Movement focuses on evolving humans into, basically, NewTypes through genetic research, with a team of escaped subjects taking interest in the game to hurt people with their new powers.

 

For this fic, all of the existing cards in the TCG don't exist, replaced by new ones seen in this thread. This is to give the story more of its own personality by abandoning the lore and mythology, and to separate it further from its source material. Furthermore, archetypes won't be seen except by two characters as the new card pool is focused on deck-building instead of the more linear method in archetypes.

 

Because Firestorm is set in a world where Duel Monsters isn't the center of human civilization, the technology is downsized to Game Tables, which are based on the Duel Boxes from the manga, and the Duel Arenas for the tournament arcs.

 

To give realism to the series, the heroes lose a lot, including losing tournaments. Nash loses several games early on, and loses at points later on as well.

 

For decks, Nash runs an aggro deck with Fiends, Beast-Warriors, and Dinosaurs, and the football-themed "Berserk Tackler, Super Bruiser" (Summoned Skull's stand-in) as his main card. Penny runs a more Yugi-like deck with Spellcasters, and the Japanese-themed "Wicked Monk, Hondo" (Dark Magician's stand-in) as her boss. Sam is Warrior-heavy, with no specific boss. Sunny runs Beasts that swarm Tokens.

 

Team Firestorm occasionally switch up their decks, such as Penny testing a new boss.

 

That's all I got for now.

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