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* ''Fanfic/BurningSecret'': Lincoln is put through the wringer with his guilt and fear, but eventually, his name is cleared, he gets to sleep, and he gets his appetite back.

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* ''Fanfic/StevenUniverseAlternateFuture'' and its followups have endings like this where the heroes all get a happy ending as a reward for surviving so much strife.
** The original story ends with [[spoiler:Steven having overcome his mental struggles, Black Rutile finally defeated and forced to join Little Homeschool for her crimes, and the Crystal Gems being hailed as heroes of Earth.]]
** ''The Black Pearl Brigade'' [[spoilers: ends with the titular team defeating Cinnabar and freeing Homeworld from her grasp at around the same time as the climax of the previous story. They also gain a new member in the form of Nacre, aka Shell, who gains a new body after helping to free the Black Pearls from their reprogramming.]]
** ''Little Homeworld Life'' [[spoiler:shows the Crystal Gems imprisoning Black Rutile on Revanche-666 once and for all after her attempted takeover of Little Homeworld and becoming stronger together as a team with help from the people of Beach City.]]
** ''Snake Eyes'' [[spoiler:has Black Rutile making a HeelFaceTurn and helping Steven save the universe from an EldritchAbomination bent on consuming everything, after which the Slytherophidians decide to open up relationships with Earth and allow new alien species to inhabit their planet.]]
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* ''Fanfic/ToServeInHell'': Equestria suffers a lot under Nightmare Moon's reign, and a lot of friends and heroic characters die to put an end to it, but by the epilogue, all three main characters are still alive and either happy or at least safe and in a place where they might recover from their trauma, and Equestria is under the rule of a new princess who promises to be far more benevolent than Nightmare Moon ever was.
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* ''Fanfic/BlueSky'': Wheatley's road to redemption comes at a heavy cost, but his willingness to face [[spoiler:death and separation from Chell]] helps ensure the safety of [[spoiler:Eaden, and Caroline restores his original human body]]

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* ''Fanfic/BlueSky'': ''Fanfic/BlueSkyWaffles'': Wheatley's road to redemption comes at a heavy cost, but his willingness to face [[spoiler:death and separation from Chell]] helps ensure the safety of [[spoiler:Eaden, and Caroline restores his original human body]]
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* ''Fanfic/LightOfTheMoon'': After the emotional abuse Gothel put her through her whole life, Rapunzel is finally safe with her parents. Varian gets this, too; he spent six years as a hostage who knew that his father would die if he tried to escape. Now, he's finally back with Quirin and can resume a semi-normal life.
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* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/273834 The Naekawa Project]]'' has Toko suffering severe parental abuse and mockery from other students, causing her to not only develop severe social anxiety and self-loathing but create a serial killer split personality in Genocider Syo. One of the biggest threads throughout the series is her boyfriend Makoto working to dispel a lot of her negative feelings about herself, assuring her that she's beautiful in his eyes. Fortunately, [[spoiler: she ultimately ends up marrying Makoto, feeling more confident about herself and gaining better in-laws in the form of the Naegis, while also having two kids that utterly adore both her and Syo, with the latter stopping her serial killing]].

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* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/273834 The Naekawa Project]]'' ''Fanfic/TheNaekawaProject'' has Toko suffering severe parental abuse and mockery from other students, causing her to not only develop severe social anxiety and self-loathing but create a serial killer split personality in Genocider Syo. One of the biggest threads throughout the series is her boyfriend Makoto working to dispel a lot of her negative feelings about herself, assuring her that she's beautiful in his eyes. Fortunately, [[spoiler: she ultimately ends up marrying Makoto, feeling more confident about herself and gaining better in-laws in the form of the Naegis, while also having two kids that utterly adore both her and Syo, with the latter stopping her serial killing]].
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* ''Fanfic/TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange'': [[spoiler: Mary is reunited with her father and sister, heals from her mother’s abuse with the help of therapy, and gains new friends and hangs onto her old ones throughout middle school and high school (including Greg and Julius). Furthermore, she’s pursuing her dreams as an author as a fifteen-year-old, writing fanfictions and having the short story about her adventures on the Infinity Train published in a short story anthology as part of her winning a contest. The latter earns her several fans from readers, who all sent her emails telling her how her story helped them feel seen and accepted, especially from the ones who are autistic themselves]].
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** The central conflict of the story is between Marinette and Future!Alix/Bunnyx, who has become a TimeTravelingJerkass trying to force events to play out the same way they did as in canon after accidentally SayingTooMuch and revealing just how bad things were going to get. Thus, Marinette [[ForWantOfANail retires]] and selects a SuperiorSuccessor, with Future!Alix hellbent upon [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight undoing everything]] for the sake of her own agendas. Ultimately, all of Marinette's efforts pay off, creating a much better timeline.

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** The central conflict of the story is between Marinette and Future!Alix/Bunnyx, who has become a TimeTravelingJerkass trying to force events to play out the same way they did as in canon after accidentally SayingTooMuch and revealing just how bad things were going to get. Thus, Marinette [[ForWantOfANail retires]] retires and selects a SuperiorSuccessor, with Future!Alix hellbent upon [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight undoing everything]] for the sake of her own agendas. Ultimately, all of Marinette's efforts pay off, creating a much better timeline.



* ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'', an extended retelling of "A Canterlot Wedding", takes this further with everyone involved; right after [[ForWantOfANail the Changelings are stopped by Twilight herself]], [[ManipulativeBastard Prince Jewelius]] usurps Equestria's throne by turning the entire city of Canterlot against the princesses, Shining Armor and Twilight's friends by exposing their mistakes and framing them as traitors, even [[CorruptTheCutie manipulating Twilight into forsaking them]]. Exiled and/or sentenced to slavery, the [[HeroWithBadPublicity now hated heroes]] must go through extended pain -- physical and emotional -- as they try to [[MustMakeAmends atone for their failings]] and [[CassandraTruth expose the truth]] of [[spoiler:Jewelius' [[EvilAllAlong true nature and role]] in the events that took place]]. The truth is particularly hard for Celestia and Cadance because [[spoiler:their beloved nephew/cousin Jewelius turns out to be an irredeemable psychopath who worked with the Changelings before double-crossing them and desires to have his aunt and cousin killed so that he can overshadow their memory]]. Twilight also has this as she gradually realizes how her mind's being poisoned, [[JerkassRealization prompting her to let go of her resentment toward the loved ones she disowned]] and reconcile with them. Eventually, the heroes reunite, bring the usurper down, prove their innocence, regain their lives, and finally get to enjoy Shining Armor and Cadance's delayed wedding in the epilogue.

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* ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'', an extended retelling of "A Canterlot Wedding", takes this further with everyone involved; right after [[ForWantOfANail the Changelings are stopped by Twilight herself]], herself, [[ManipulativeBastard Prince Jewelius]] usurps Equestria's throne by turning the entire city of Canterlot against the princesses, Shining Armor and Twilight's friends by exposing their mistakes and framing them as traitors, even [[CorruptTheCutie manipulating Twilight into forsaking them]]. Exiled and/or sentenced to slavery, the [[HeroWithBadPublicity now hated heroes]] must go through extended pain -- physical and emotional -- as they try to [[MustMakeAmends atone for their failings]] and [[CassandraTruth expose the truth]] of [[spoiler:Jewelius' [[EvilAllAlong true nature and role]] in the events that took place]]. The truth is particularly hard for Celestia and Cadance because [[spoiler:their beloved nephew/cousin Jewelius turns out to be an irredeemable psychopath who worked with the Changelings before double-crossing them and desires to have his aunt and cousin killed so that he can overshadow their memory]]. Twilight also has this as she gradually realizes how her mind's being poisoned, [[JerkassRealization prompting her to let go of her resentment toward the loved ones she disowned]] and reconcile with them. Eventually, the heroes reunite, bring the usurper down, prove their innocence, regain their lives, and finally get to enjoy Shining Armor and Cadance's delayed wedding in the epilogue.
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* ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': R2 ends on this note. After over a year of war and and struggle, losing comrades and having their homes decimated and threatened, the Black Knight/Autobot alliance finally triumphs over both Britannia and The Decepticons. Some from the start of the series found their redemption. Some found peace they never knew they needed. Some experienced heartbreak and loss in the process along with AnArmAndALeg for some. But as they world begins to pick itself back up, the future looks bright with a grand and glorious future in store for everyone.
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* Severus Snape had a hard road without a happy ending in canon, but has a second chance in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12369512/23/The-Peace-Not-Promised The Peace Not Promised]]''. However, his second road is full of bumps and thorns, too, from Lily's mistrust of his motives in uniting Slytherin House, to her discovery of his second chance [[spoiler:which brings them much closer together, except that then he has no choice but to remove her memories of it lest Voldemort learn of the future, setting them almost back to square one]], her friends' distrust and ridicule of him, her father's disapproval, [[spoiler:and then, when her father begins to come around and approve of him, their planned family Christmas is interrupted by the father's death of heart failure]]. Snape is desperately poor [[spoiler:and when Lily inherits her father's house, it's burdened by a mortgage due to earlier legal debts, and its sale doesn't turn much profit; they have a pauper's wedding]] and there's really no choice but to accept Dumbledore's offer of employment [[spoiler:as a professor, even though Severus never liked teaching Potions and can only take a one-year contract teaching Defence]] - especially after Voldemort [[spoiler:kidnaps Lily, and Snape loses his wand hand in the course of barely rescuing her, leaving him unemployable in most non-teaching roles, even greatly hindered in teaching, and they also need to be at Hogwarts for their security]]. With everything that happens, though, Snape is happier than he's ever been because Lily loves him back.

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* Severus Snape had a hard road without a happy ending in canon, but has a second chance in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12369512/23/The-Peace-Not-Promised The Peace Not Promised]]''.''Fanfic/ThePeaceNotPromised''. However, his second road is full of bumps and thorns, too, from Lily's mistrust of his motives in uniting Slytherin House, to her discovery of his second chance [[spoiler:which brings them much closer together, except that then he has no choice but to remove her memories of it lest Voldemort learn of the future, setting them almost back to square one]], her friends' distrust and ridicule of him, her father's disapproval, [[spoiler:and then, when her father begins to come around and approve of him, their planned family Christmas is interrupted by the father's death of heart failure]]. Snape is desperately poor [[spoiler:and when Lily inherits her father's house, it's burdened by a mortgage due to earlier legal debts, and its sale doesn't turn much profit; they have a pauper's wedding]] and there's really no choice but to accept Dumbledore's offer of employment [[spoiler:as a professor, even though Severus never liked teaching Potions and can only take a one-year contract teaching Defence]] - especially after Voldemort [[spoiler:kidnaps Lily, and Snape loses his wand hand in the course of barely rescuing her, leaving him unemployable in most non-teaching roles, even greatly hindered in teaching, and they also need to be at Hogwarts for their security]]. With everything that happens, though, Snape is happier than he's ever been because Lily loves him back.
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* ''Fanfic/CulDeSac'': After the events of ''Big Picture Show'', the kids are allowed to ascend to heaven at last, while Eddy's brother descends into Hell and is tortured by the demonic Kankers.

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* ''Fanfic/CulDeSac'': ''Fanfic/CulDeSacEdEddNEddy'': After the events of ''Big Picture Show'', the kids are allowed to ascend to heaven at last, while Eddy's brother descends into Hell and is tortured by the demonic Kankers.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Game Theory|LyricalNanoha}}'', beyond its ForWantOfANail premise and intricate WorldBuilding, is a DeconstructionFic where good intentions, a strong will, and liberal application of offensive magic does ''not'' solve all your problems and can in fact make them worse. [[DeconReconSwitch And despite this]], it ends with [[spoiler:Precia successfully bringing her daughter back to life]].

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* ''Fanfic/{{Game Theory|LyricalNanoha}}'', beyond its ForWantOfANail premise and intricate WorldBuilding, Theory|LyricalNanoha}}'' is a DeconstructionFic where good intentions, a strong will, and liberal application of offensive magic does ''not'' solve all your problems and can in fact make them worse. [[DeconReconSwitch And despite this]], it ends with [[spoiler:Precia successfully bringing her daughter back to life]].
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* ''Fanfic/LucysSecret'' ends with a note that after all her struggles trying to deal with [[EmbarrassingDampSheets wetting the bed]] and trying to keep it secret, Lucy is finally getting a good night's sleep.

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