History Fanfic / HowYouLived

* RejectedMarriageProposal: When [[spoiler: Polly proposes to Vicky,]] they offer to let [[Isis]] marry in as well, but she turns them down, feeling it is too soon and too fast.

* RejectedWeddingProposal: When [[spoiler: Polly proposes to Vicky,]] they offer to let [[Isis]] marry in as well, but she turns them down, feeling it is too soon and too fast.

** Liam and Miranda [[spoiler: Though it's been revealed that they broke up.]]

* SexForServices: Polly mentions in one post [[https://www.tumblr.com/askundeadbluelesbians/685784089136136193/sooooo-what-got-you-two-evicted?source=share]] that she was sleeping with her landlord to live there rent-free, and that she and Vicky were evicted after she stopped.

* SexForServices: Polly mentions in one post that she was sleeping with her landlord to live there rent-free, and that she and Vicky were evicted after she stopped.

* SexForServices: Polly mentions in one post that she was sleeping with her landlord to live there rent-free, and that they evicted them after she stopped.

** Dahlia and Aaravi, [[spoiler: both have since broken up and gotten with Susanne and Sawyer, respectively]].

** Dahlia and Aaravi

On August 1, 2020, ''[[https://askundeadbluelesbians.tumblr.com/ Ask Undead Blue Lesbians]]'' was announced, serving as a sideblog to the main stories. The blog mainly focuses on Vicky's romantic relationship with Polly after both have graduated from Spooky High and started living together, [[spoiler: And as of December of 2021, their new partner, Isis]]. The first story is alluded to occasionally, while the sequel was teased during one of the Halloween posts.

* {{Joisey}}: Monstropolis is set here. Considering the source material, this demonstration of the trope best represents Type 3: the WeirdnessMagnet.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Brian and Vicky.

* DarkFic: The story’s main focus is on a character’s death, naturally considering who our lead is, but also the resulting trauma that came of it decades later.

%%* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Vicky’s days leading up to her death involve this.]]

* AWizardDidIt: [[spoiler: How Polly and Vicky explain their sudden temporary revivals to their respective families. Which isn't far from the truth, to be honest.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Art by [[https://shslbs.tumblr.com/ shslbs]] [[labelnote:Click here to see the sequel artwork.]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/how_you_loved_finished.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The official ship name for Vicky and Polly is, “Double Dead Dames.”
** The official ship name for [[spoiler: Vicky and Isis]] is, “ Preserved to Perfection.”

* InformedJudaism: Vicky canonically, which is brought over into this canon as the religion Vicky and her mom practice. Polly is also revealed to be Half-Jewish on her mother's side.

** OffWithHerHead: [[spoiler: Her head in particular is placed in a trash receptacle outside her dad’s auto shop.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Vicky, oh ''God, Vicky''.
* ChainedToABed: [[spoiler: Vicky in her captivity, and probably her killer’s other victims.]]

* CompositeCharacter: In-universe example. The movie Vicky and her friends watched [[spoiler: condensed her real-life boyfriend and Brian, as well as her sister and Frances.]]
** [[spoiler: Vicky’s killer was [[https://askundeadbluelesbians.tumblr.com/post/639084322504196096/so-what-made-you-decide-to-have-vicky-die-the-way loosely inspired by 90s serial killers]], though Jeffrey Dahmer was the main inspiration]].

* MurderersAreRapists / SerialRapist: [[spoiler: Vicky’s killer, and it's implied that she wasn't his only victim.]]

* PastLifeMemories: What ultimately jumpstarts the plot.
* PromotionToParent: Dr. Schmidt, after reanimating Vicky [[spoiler: and after Vicky’s own parents turned her away in grief.]]
* RapeAsBackstory / SexSlave: [[spoiler:Vicky’s days leading up to her death involve this.]]
* ShamefulStrip: Vicky [[spoiler: while she was alive]] is made to do this.
* TraumaButton: Happens twice in the story. Particular mention goes to Chapter 3, wherein while watching a horror movie with her friends, Vicky becomes physically sick during a scene with a murderer luring a victim to her death, and then blacks out when the murderer attacks a couple. [[spoiler: Brian is angered during the former for reasons he's not initially sure of, and all four of them recognize the “couple,” as being nigh-identical to Vicky and Brian themselves.]]

* {{Calacas}}: The story is set during Dia de Los Muertos, so these end up factoring in significantly. Both the artistic and literal types as well, including Vicky's own grandparents, [[spoiler: as well as her past self.]]

* GratuitousSpanish: It doesn’t happen often, but it usually occurs with Vicky’s birth parents speaking to each other and their children. It even appears in the final scene with the family; [[spoiler: when the time comes for Vicky and Polly to return home, the conversation she has with her parents almost [[MeaningfulEcho mirrors the last time she spoke with them when she was alive]].]]

* LighterAndSofter: Also longer. This sequel seldom has any of the darker elements of the first story and focuses more on Vicky's relationship with Polly and her birth family, as well as getting closure. It's also ten chapters long, double the length of the original story.

* AffectionateNickname: Vicky calls Polly, "Honey-Bunny," and Polly calls Vicky, "Kitten."

* CallBack: The main ending this series stems from is the LOCKET ending. However, the Crime App, Furry King, Sun Punch, and Prom King/Queen endings have all been referenced to as well. There’s also a visual callback to the Reverse Romanian Wilkinson ending.

* OfficialCouple: Polly and Vicky, who are dating and live together, are the main focus, but there's also

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: An in universe example explains what might've happened had these girls been able to continue living their lives. Vicky would've been able to inherit her dad's auto mechanic shop and she and Frances remain close friends and life partners. Polly, meanwhile, would've gotten a nursing degree to help her dad and people like him who suffer from alcoholism.

On August 1, 2020, ''[[https://askundeadbluelesbians.tumblr.com/ Ask Undead Blue Lesbians]]'' was announced, serving as a sideblog to the main stories. The blog mainly focuses on Vicky's romantic relationship with Polly after both have graduated from Spooky High and started living together. The first story is alluded to occasionally, while the sequel was teased during one of the Halloween posts.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The official ship name for Vicky and Polly is, "Double Dead Dames."

* SuddenlyEthnicity: While she has a Germanic surname to go with the Frankenstein theme, [[spoiler: her flashbacks and her adoptive mother's recounts reveal she was Hispanic in life.]] We even meet her birth family in the sequel.

* BrokenBird: Vicky, oh ''God, Vicky''.

* PolyAmory: During the October 2021 question batch, it's revealed that [[spoiler: Polly and Vicky]] invited a third person to their relationship.

** Liam and Miranda

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21368668/chapters/50900053 How You Lived]]'' is a ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'' fanfiction written by {{Tropers/SEGASister}}. It was originally published on November 1, 2019.

* SliceOfLife: The blog's main focus is Polly and Vicky's life as a couple and their daily lives.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Vicky's dismembered remains were scattered all over town by her killer.]]