History Fanfic / TheLamentSeriesChaoticNeutral

* RageBreakingPoint: Chloé ultimately snaps at the Derby Hat Contest where, after an EpicFail of an attempt at recreating Marinette's design is capped off by the reveal Marinette ''didn't even enter the contest'' in this universe and Bustier tries to comfort Chloé by offering to ask Marinette to help Chloé learn how to make her own fashion, leading to a BigShutUp and Chloé snapping that [[IRejectYourReality Marinette stole everything from her]] and that she should have used the wish to make Marinette disappear instead.

* ShapedLikeItself: When Marinette announces that Adrien will work at the hotel's kitchen for the year's work-study, Chloé imagines "Her poor Adrikens, forced to slave away in a room meant for servants like... like he was a servant! Where he could get covered in grime and burn his precious skin!"

* ''[[https://nobodyfamousposts.tumblr.com/post/647467408661069824/what-do-you-think-lilas-lament-would-be-like Lila's Lament]]'': Lila Wishes to be rich and famous. The universe grants this wish by having her replace Adrien as Gabriel's Agreste's child, thus making her a member of an immensely wealthy family, giving her a fat bank account, and putting her face on ads and fashion magazines all over the world. But being the daughter of a notorious control freak has its consequences, and Lila quickly learns that all the money and adoration in the world mean nothing when every penny of her cash and second of her time is subject to her father's dictates -- and she can't tell even the smallest falsehood without tabloids reporting it and drawing the ire of those who know the truth.

** ''[[Fanfic/YourWishIsMyCommandMiraculousLadybug Your Wish is my Command]]'' by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/DemiGoddess28/pseuds/DemiGoddess28 DemiGoddess28]] creates an AlternateUniverse where Adrien was raised alongside Felix, and arrives alongside him as a NewTransferStudent on the day Lila 'arrives' in the new world.

* SelfInflictedHell: Because RealityWarpingIsNotAToy, most of the Wishers finds themselves in a world that serves as such for them.

** Chloé absolutely refused to believe that others' treatment of her was linked to her own behavior, and Wished to switch lives with Marinette expecting to get all her friends. Turns out, people like the NiceGirl and hate the AlphaBitch in ''any'' reality, so the only thing she really accomplished was taking away the protection of being the mayor's daughter.

* CatsAreMean: Plagg is this to Gabriel. Aside from heckling him, he has been noted to cause some measure of difficulty in Gabriel's day to day life. He has refused to work with Gabriel to do anything about the new Hawk Moth and has in fact found humor in Gabriel's horrible failures. Justified since the entire mess is Gabriel's fault in the first place and Plagg has plenty of other reasons to be angry with him as well.

* EntitledBastard: In addition to his [[WrongAssumption presumption]] that Plagg appearing before him meant he was going to receive the Cat Ring, Gabriel convinces himself that he needs to [[spoiler:find the former Ladybug]] and get ''them'' to fix the mess he's made, while preserving the positive effects of his Wish.

* FatalFlaw: Gabriel’s is his [[ControlFreak controlling nature]] that gives him [[DidntThinkThisThrough tunnel vision]]. Gabriel simply could not let go of Emilie, and was willing to go to extremes to get her back. The problem is, he was so focused on his mission of resurrecting her, he never thought of any of the damage he might do in the process, and he neglected his only child while devoting everything he had to reaching his goal, to the point where their relationship has been strained. Because of the emotional damage Gabriel thrust onto him, Adrien is akumatized into Chat Blanc. And since Gabriel has become so distant from his son, he is unable to reach out to Adrien. No love in their relationship means Adrien is [[NoSympathy unresponsive to his father’s desperation and shame]].
* ForWantOfANail:
** The Peafowl Pin was never broken, and Emilie becomes one of the heroes of Paris, fighting to protect the city from Hawk Moth... along with trying to save her own son.
** Since he isn't Hawk Moth and no longer benefits from Adrien attending public school, Gabriel yanked him out once the terrorist started attacking. The resulting resentment helped cause his akumatization into Chat Blanc.

* NoSympathy: Plagg towards Gabriel and his constant failures to correct the situation. Justified in that this entire mess is Gabriel's fault in the first place and his idea of "correcting" things mainly involve restoring his family to ''his'' idea of normal while ignoring the impact on everyone else.

* TheUnreveal: Who's the new Hawk Moth, how did they get their hands on Nooroo and why are they terrorizing the city?

* WistfulAmnesia: PlayedForDrama; while neither Adrien or Marinette recalls anything about the original world, Plagg suggests that they could subconsciously recall details... such as the notion that [[spoiler:they were meant to be partners]].

** According to the author, in the new reality rather than marry André and have a fling with Mr. Lee, here due to André's lack of wealth or prestige it was the other way around. Being married to a man with a spine that refused to let her disregard her family and with the aid of a counselor Audrey [[AdaptationalNiceGuy has made strides to be a better wife and mother to her husband and Zoé, who she has grown closer to since she still values merit and personal achievement]]... however, her relationship with Chloé is even worse now since that same approval of self-reliance makes her disdain her daughter’s desire to be handed everything rather than earn it, and the girl acting like how her mother used to prior to her becoming a better person comes off as insulting.

** Averted with Tom and Sabine. Sabine is noted to be a competent Mayor who takes steps to better the city and work with the heroes to counter Hawk Moth. And Tom runs the Grand Paris Hotel with efficiency and a positive atmosphere for both workers and clients that helps make it more popular and successful than it was in canon. Add to that how both stepped in to intervene with Chloé’s bullying before the events of canon even started and it’s pretty clear the two are substantially more useful than they were in canon.
* AffluentAscetic: Despite now being the rich heiress Marinette doesn't define herself by her wealth like Chloé did. She doesn't dress in the latest and most expensive fashions, prefers to make gifts for others by hand, and helps out cleaning in the hotel. The author even said that Marinette's family in this world are even wealthier than Chloé's had been because they live more modestly [[note]] Chloé took up the entire top two floors of the hotel for herself. The Dupain-Cheng's use that space for more facilities for the guests[[/note]], treat their workers well[[note]]without having to overpay them so they put up with anybody's SpoiledBrat behavior [[/note]], and don't have to spend a fortune catering to a spoiled brat's desire for the most expensive of everything.

* AlphaBitch: Chloé was this in the old reality, but she assumes Marinette will become this after being reborn as the Mayor’s daughter. She’s wrong. Chloé retains the attitude of one in the new reality, but soon finds out there are consequences to acting like you're the queen of the school when you don't have the means to back it up.

** Chloé tries to justify her betrayal by telling everyone, herself included, that Marinette[=/=]Ladybug is a BitchInSheepsClothing who only pretends to be good to get everyone to fawn over her, and that she took away Chloé’s Miraculous to snub and stick it to her. Therefore, Chloé deserves to be an adored hero more than she does. Even when faced with a hundred signs that say otherwise, Chloé only doubles down and insists to herself that Marinette is out to get her, and that she is getting the short end of the stick.
** Adrien has defended Chloé over and over again to everyone who rightfully hated her under the justification that she had HiddenDepths, that she was a good person deep down, that he knew who she really was. Seeing her betray him and Ladybug to Hawk Moth and dismiss everyone else in favor of her own selfish desires finally shatters his illusions, and he admits that he was just making excuses and deluding himself.

* BullyingADragon: Marinette and Chloé's dynamic remains the same in the new world, except here, Chloé is the daughter of a mere baker [[note]]Her mother is still the extremely famous Audrey "Style Queen" Bourgeois, but the fact that she lives in New York means Chloé can't use her influence as leverage. Which considering that according to the author the woman underwent CharacterDevelopment and now has an even lower opinion of her daughter, that's unlikely to happen.[[/note]] while Marinette belongs to a very wealthy and powerful family, so most people think Chloé is downright crazy for harassing Marinette instead of settling for a more low key target, and the story stresses that, if Marinette were a vindictive person, she could have (rightfully) ruined Chloé's life several times over. Which while ''she'' is willing to overlook the mistreatment, her parents ''are not'' as Mr. Bourgeois is strapped for cash having to pay for his daughter's mistakes, and Chloé herself is on probation with possible expulsion hanging over her head.

** Tikki warns Chloé that it's her personality that causes people to dislike her, not her fortune. That nothing would change even if her and Marinette's positions were switched, and that people wouldn't like her any more, or like Marinette any less. Chloé refuses to believe that and makes her Wish to prove her wrong. Lo and behold, one alteration of reality later, and Chloé is even more hated and Marinette even more loved.

*** And the last one is her belief that Marinette, regardless of the different situation, would run along the exact same path her canon self did to create her hat. Not only does this not happen, in the end Marinette doesn't even ''participate'', because since she's friends with Adrien, if she won it would look like she used her connections to do it.

** Chloé's biggest fault; she can understand ''how'' events play out, but never ''why'' they did- which inevitably boils down to other people being genuinely nice without ulterior motives- and consequently fails to understand how they would turn out differently. She makes her Wish thinking that her and Marinette's social situation was the direct consequence of their different circumstances, so that the new Marinette would be rich, but a pariah like Chloé originally was, while Chloé would be the ClassPrincess superheroine that Marinette once was. What she fails to realize until it's too late was that these things actually depended on what they ''chose to do'' with their lives; Chloé was hated because she used her status to bully others, while Marinette passed a SecretTestOfCharacter to become Ladybug. Chloé's wish thus ''actually'' allows Marinette to use Chloé's assets to become ''even more'' beloved, while Chloé almost immediately convinces Fu to give someone else the Earrings by treating him rudely.

* FatalFlaw: Chloé’s is that she [[LackOfEmpathy lacks any sort of empathy]] or [[EvilCannotComprehendGood understanding of kindness]]. She sees people as [[ExtremeDoormat servants]] like Sabrina, [[ForTheEvulz victims]] like her classmates or {{troph|yWife}}ies like Adrien. She doesn’t understand why everyone else prefers Marinette to her, nor why they think Marinette is more deserving of being a hero than Chloé, never once considering that it’s because Marinette is a genuinely good person who goes out of her way to help others in their time of need and learns from her mistakes, unlike Chloé who treats everyone like garbage and [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency expects them to kiss her feet just for being nice for five minutes]]. Chloé thinks that just being in Marinette’s old position will automatically guarantee Chloé the latter's popularity and Miraculous, even if she retains her spiteful and entitled personality.

** It has been stated that Chloé actually ''could'' still turn things around at any point and make her new life better for herself[[labelnote:*]]she might never regain her previous wealth or position again, but they note that given the class’s habit of [[EasilyForgiven forgiving others with little prodding]] all she would have to do is apologize and just stop antagonizing others for her to actually start making friends[[/labelnote]], but since that would require her to admit she was wrong and allow Marinette to remain happy in what had formerly been her life (a happiness Chloé herself couldn’t have despite the same position), Chloé just doubles down on her anger, resentment and her selfish entitled behavior.
* HiddenDepths: Played with. Adrien had convinced himself that there ''had'' to be more to Chloé than just what she let people see on the surface. However, it's sadly averted. Breaking his heart, she proves that no, there is no depth to her. She’s exactly as one-dimensionally wicked as she appears to be.

** Chloé's ill-considered Wish lands her in a world where she's no longer shielded from the fallout of her actions, losing all of the perks, pampering and protection she took for granted.

** Adrien in the original timeline, who realizes too late that he [[SelectiveObliviousness willfully ignored Chloé's cruelty]] since she was his ChildhoodFriend, convincing himself that nobody else knew her as well as ''he'' did. He's more aware in the rewritten reality.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Chloé decries how Marinette arranged the work study program as "free child labor", conveniently forgetting that not only did she do the same, but took advantage of it to stick the classmates she disliked into the worst jobs.

* LonelyAmongPeople: Chloé's selfishness and bullying makes her a social pariah; in the post-Wish world, this isolation is more ''overt'', as she can't brute force her way out of consequences with her money or [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections her father]].

** So far as Chloé's concerned, Ladybug[=/=]Marinette ''betrayed her'' by denying her ''her'' Miraculous. She also insists that Marinette went out of her way to "ruin" and sabotage her, as if ''she'' were the one bullying ''Chloé'' rather than the other way round.

--> '''Adrien:''' I had already enabled you enough, Chloé. And I encouraged others to do the same, thinking it would help you. That if they got to know you — if you had enough support, eventually you would open up and finally be the great person you always seemed to think you were. That they just needed to give you a chance and you would be satisfied and everyone would finally get along. But I was wrong. You're the sort of person who is never satisfied with anything.

** When Chloé discovers that Marinette isn't even participating in the hat making contest to avoid accusations of using her connections to win, Chloé is shocked because ''she'' would have used them shamelessly.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Chloé gets called out several times over, as Adrien, Tikki and Plagg each spell out all of her worst character flaws and how she's responsible for her own problems, no matter how much she tries to deny it.

* SayingTooMuch: After the fiasco at the hat contest, [[spoiler:Chloé lets out that she made a Wish to take Marinette's life in front of Mme. Bustier... and one student]].

* ShaggyDogStory: Chloé teamed up with the BigBad, betrayed the heroes, stole the Miraculous and made a Wish to have Marinette’s life, thinking she would get her popularity and Miraculous. When the new reality is created, not only is Chloé still HatedByAll and lacking any Miraculous, she has also lost her wealth and connections as the Mayor’s daughter, [[AlwaysNeedWhatYouGaveUp which were pretty much the only things she had going for her in her old life]], making her worse off than when she started.
* ShapedLikeItself: When Marinette announces that Adrien will work at the hotel's kitchen for the year's work study, Chloé imagines "Her poor Adrikens, forced to slave away in a room meant for servants like... like he was a servant! Where he could get covered in grime and burn his precious skin!"

** Since the Dupain-Chengs now own the hotel, they offer for Alya's family to stay there until they can find apartment arrangements of their own, since her mother has just started working there. As a result, Alya already knows Marinette and is friends with her before the school year officially begins.
** Without Chloé being the "Daughter of the Mayor", Sabrina never becomes her follower, and instead ends up being closer to the other classmates and more well regarded.
** Neither Marinette or Chloé is the Class Rep; ''Sabrina'' is, being far more confident without being stuck as the latter's BetaBitch.

*** Furthermore, since Marinette has been his childhood friend in addition to Chloé, and because he has had better friends for longer, he has a much better idea on what true friendship is, as opposed to when he only had Chloé to go off of. As such, he’s already well aware of how much of a brat she is and is much less willing to defend her, even openly agreeing with someone that he likes the idea of her leaving forever. He's also crushing on Marinette.

** She figures that Marinette must have become the Class Rep, since she originally held that role before Marinette ran against her. Again, that's not the case; ''Sabrina'' took the job instead.

* BetterTheDevilYouKnow: When Plagg is trying to get Ladybug to make the Wish, he suggests that she wish that Hawk Moth never found the Miraculous. Marinette considers it, but rejects it on the basis that someone far ''worse'' could replace him.

* TakeAThirdOption: Plagg tells Marinette that she can either have him unleash his full Cataclysmic power, or let Tikki use ''her'' full power. Their third option is having her make a Wish.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15578427 Gabriel's Lament]]'': Gabriel may have gotten what he wanted, but his Wish caused the play to be rebooted and recast, and the ''new'' Hawk Moth reveals the spiderwebbing cracks beneath the façade of his "happy ending".