History Fanfic / AllBecauseOfUncleGary

While preparing for family dinner with the Stringers, Uncle Gary and Rodrick do a satanic ritual on Greg [[RitualMagic that is supposed to make him irresistible to girls]], but ends up reversing his gender. After Laurel is unimpressed with Greg’s cover-up as a member of the Stealthinators, Greg passes herself at school as transfer student “Greta Hauser”. After a food fight during the Valentine’s Day dance resulting in most of the couples breaking up, Greta starts dating Rowley, until Rowley starts dating Abigail. This results in various personal struggles surrounding further dates and fears of her identity exposed.

* AdaptationNameChange: After becoming a girl, Greg changes his name to Greta.

%% ** Manny is also this for the story.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Wesley Stringer was found dead in the ballpit at Corny's. This resulted in the restaurant getting shut down due to health violations.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Wesley Stringer was found dead in the ballpit at Corny's. This resulted in the restaurant getting shut down.

* GenderBender: Uncle Gary's ritual swaps the sex of whoever it's performed on if fewer than three people chant the incantation. This happens multiple times across the comic: Greta is first, followed by [[IdenticalStranger Julie Webber]], and finally [[spoiler:Abigail's entourage]].

* TemptingFate: Greta notes that Manny is still expressing transphobia towards her after coming out to her parents, but decides to brush it off because he's only three and the rest of the family supports her, wondering "what can he do anyways?" [[spoiler:Manny insisting on continuing to call Greta "bubby" gets filmed by Abigail, kickstarting the climax of the story.]]

* CanisLatinicus: The incantation for the Satanic ritual is a mix of psuedo-Latin fragments and names that aren't even in dog Latin.

** Wesley Stringer is found dead in the ballpit at Corny's, while he made it to the end of''The Third Wheel'' alive.

** Uncle Gary's driving skills are suggested to be the result of playing an excessive amount of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', with one illustration suggesting that the specific game he plays is ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]''.

** FirstLawOfGenderBending: It is outright stated that the gender-swap ritual cannot be reversed at all.
** SecondLawOfGenderBending: Greta comes to like being a girl; she is explicitly described as a trans girl multiple times.

* ShoutOut: The name "Greta" was also used in another LLB, ''Greg Gets a Girlfriend''.

* IKnowMortalKombat: Uncle Gary proves to be so skilled at evading the cops while driving a motorhome that he only gets arrested once his vehicle runs out of gas. While a newscaster jokingly wonders how long Gary's spent playing ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', Greta's comment of "a lot" suggests that playing the game is how Uncle Gary picked up his driving skills.

* LongRunner: Ran for 119 pages.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Abigail Brown gets suspended for [[spoiler: humiliating Greta at school through the intercom. She and her cronies also get turned into boys by Uncle Gary at the end. Manny also dies]].

* BookEnds: The fanfic opens with Uncle Gary using the recurring satanic ritual on Greg. It ends with Greta and Uncle Gary just about to use it on another transgender girl.
* {{Crossover}}: [[spoiler:The last few pages introduce the titular protagonist of Webcomic/Rain2010.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Manny ends up dying in the process of Abigail and her cronies getting turned into boys.]]

* GenderBender: Uncle Gary's ritual does this when performed incorrectly. This happens multiple times across the comic: Greta is first, followed by [[IdenticalStranger Julie Webber]], and finally [[spoiler:Abigail's entourage]].

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Manny ends up dying in process of Abigail and her cronies getting turned into boys.]]

* DeathByAdaption: [[spoiler:Manny ends up dying in process of Abigail and her cronies getting turned into boys.]]

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Rodrick is the DJ for the Valentine’s Day Dance and plays his band’s music there. Many of the girls at Greta’s school adore him for this reason alone.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Rodrick is the DJ for the Valentine’s Day Dance and plays his band’s music there. Many of the girls at Greg’s school adore him for this reason alone.

* BookEnds: The fanfic opens with Uncle Gary using the recurring satanic ritual on Greg. It ends with Greta and Uncle Gary just about to use it on a transgender male passing as a girl.
* HateSink: Abigail Brown is worse here in the story. Her transphobic comments and teaming up with [[TheFundamentalist Laurel Springer]] near the end sells it. Her father is just as bad as she is and tells Susan [[spoiler: to have frank "beat some sense into [Greta]"]].

While preparing for family dinner with the Stringers, Uncle Gary and Rodrick do a satanic ritual on Greg [[RitualMagic that is supposed to make him irresistible to girls]], but ends up reversing his gender. After Laurel is unimpressed with Greg’s cover-up as a member of the Stealthinators, Greg passes herself at school as transfer student “Greta Hauser”. After a food fight during the Valentine’s Day dance resulting in most of the couples breaking up, Greg starts dating Rowley, until Rowley starts dating Abigail. This results in various personal struggles surrounding further dates and fears of her identity exposed.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Uncle Gary was originally a wannabe millionaire obsessed with scratch tickets in The Third Wheel, but here, he is hinted to be a local criminal. Known acts include shoplifting, credit card robbery and kidnapping. He also creates a “fake Greg” by using the ritual on a lookalike girl (hinted to be Julie Webber) to prevent Susan from discovering the truth. Although he is actually ALighterShadeOfBlack compared to the other villains.
** Abigail Brown is '''MUCH''' worse her than she was in the books. She ridicules Female!Greg's popularity and makes a lot of transphobic comments towards her. Including playing a [[spoiler: clip of Susan telling Manny to call Female!Greg "Sissy" instead of the usual "Bubby"]].
** Manny is also this for the story.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The writer has claimed ''FanFic/IrreversibleDamage'' was an excuse to write a fanfic in which Greg turns into a girl, hence why portions feel like a rewrite of that LLB.
* BigDamnHeroes: Uncle Gary saves Female!Greg by [[spoiler: turning Abigail and her minions into boys]].
* BookEnds: The fanfic opens with Uncle Gary using the recurring satanic ritual on Greg. It ends with Greg and Uncle Gary just about to use it on a transgender male passed himself as a girl.
* HateSink: Abigail Brown is at the very worse here in the story. Her transphobic comments and teaming up with [[TheFundamentalist Laurel Springer]] near the end sells it. Her father is just as bad as she is and tells Susan [[spoiler: to have frank "beat some sense into [Female!Greg]"]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: Abigail Brown get's suspended for [[spoiler: humiliating Female!Greg at school through the intercom and she and her cronies get turned into boys by Uncle Gary at the end. And Manny dies]].

* RomanticFakeRealTurn: [[spoiler: Baylee and Female!Greg both originally were just pretending to be lesbians to get the guys in their school to back off just because of them being single. Eventually it becomes an actual relationship for good since in this fanfic, Baylee ends up coming out as bisexual during it.]]

* SettingUpdate: The original book was set in the early 2010s, while this fanfic appears to be set in the early 2020s, as face masks[[note]]A symbol of the COVID-19 pandemic[[/note]] are shown during one of Greg and Rowley's dates.

* FakeRelationship: [[spoiler: Baylee and Greg both originally were just pretending to be lesbians to get the guys in their school to back off just because of them being single. Eventually it becomes an actual relationship for good since in this fanfic, she ends up coming out as bisexual during it.]]
* HateSink: Abigail Brown is at the very worse here in the story. Her transphobic comments and teaming up with [[TheFundamentalist Laurel Springer]] near the end sells it. Her father is just as bad as she is and tells Susan [[spoiler: to have frank "beat some sense into Female!Greg"]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The writer currently disowns FanFic/IrreversibleDamage, and because most people enjoyed Greg’s gender-flip the most, Icy decided to write a stand-alone fanfic based on that plot point. A few smaller ideas from that LLB were also expanded on.

* LongRunner: Ran for 119 pages.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Uncle Gary was originally a wannabe millionaire obsessed with scratch tickets in The Third Wheel, but here, he is hinted to be a local criminal. Known acts include shoplifting, credit card robbery and kidnapping. He also creates a “fake Greg” by using the ritual on a lookalike girl (hinted to be Julie Webber) to prevent Susan from discovering the truth. Although he is actually ALighterShadeOfGray compared to the other villains.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Uncle Gary was originally a wannabe millionaire obsessed with scratch tickets in The Third Wheel, but here, he is hinted to be a local criminal. Known acts include shoplifting, credit card robbery and kidnapping. He also creates a “fake Greg” by using the ritual on a lookalike girl (hinted to be Julie Webber) to prevent Susan from discovering the truth. Although he is actually a LighterShadeOfGray compared to the other villains.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Uncle Gary was originally a wannabe millionaire obsessed with scratch tickets in The Third Wheel, but here, he is hinted to be a local criminal. Known acts include shoplifting, credit card robbery and kidnapping. He also creates a “fake Greg” by using the ritual on a lookalike girl (hinted to be Julie Webber) to prevent Susan from discovering the truth. Although he is actually a LighterShadeOfGrey compared to the other villains.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Uncle Gary was originally a wannabe millionaire obsessed with scratch tickets in The Third Wheel, but here, he is hinted to be a local criminal. Known acts include shoplifting, credit card robbery and kidnapping. He also creates a “fake Greg” by using the ritual on a lookalike girl (hinted to be Julie Webber) to prevent Susan from discovering the truth.