History Fanfic / YouWereMyBestFriend

* CompositeCharacter: The fanfic's entire premise is based on the idea that Bloom Peters and Anne, Aisha's FirstFriend, are the same person. {{Justified}} given both girls are white-skinned redheads with blue eyes that know how to dance. Regarding this last point, the Winx girls are shown practicing artistic gymnastics in season three and Bloom doesn't seem to struggle at all. Neither Aisha, for that matter.

* DancingWithMyself: {{Justified}} since, like any person learning how to dance, kid Bloom practices on her own. She mainly dances ballet and jazz, though it's implied she's tried her hand at other styles (such as hip hop).

* OverlyLongName: {{Downplayed}} with Aisha's full name: Princess Laylaisha. However, it's {{justified}} since Bloom is a little kid when she decides to just shorten it to Layla because it was too long.

''You Were My Best Friend'' (found in [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/734655 AO3]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7535365/1/You-Were-My-Best-Friend Fanfiction.Net]]), by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/TabbyKattene/pseuds/TabbyKattene TabbyKattene]], is a ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' fanfic set before the events of canon (when the titular characters were kids) that exploits the similarities between Bloom and Aisha's ChildhoodFriend, Anne.

Additionally, it's a prequel of sorts to ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9500681/1/The-Darker-Side-of-the-Flame The Darker Side of the Flame]]'', a rewrite fanfic of the series.

-> Her happy place was a very tangible thing, to her, at least. And going there was quite an experience. The setting of Madame Morgana's would first fade… then slowly, a new world would appear. This new world featured Bloom high up in a tower, one without walls. She could see blue sky all around. If she looked down (very carefully, at first), it was easy to see the most beautiful water she had ever encountered.
-->-- Excerpt from ''You Were My Best Friend''

Additionally, it's a prequel of sorts to ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9500681/1/The-Darker-Side-of-the-Flame The Darker Side of the Flame]]'', a rewrite fanfic from the same author.

!! If you dance hard enough, ''You Were My Best Friend'' can transport you to these tropes:

* AdaptationalSkill: In this fanfic,

** In the same vein, Bloom takes dance classes for three years because Mitzi, her friend at the time, started attending ballet classes. It's only ballet first, then jazz, and finally, whatever little she gathered about hip hop moves.

* DancingWithMyself: {{Justified}} since, like any person learning how to dance, kid!Bloom practices on her own. She mainly dances ballet and jazz, though it's implied she's tried her hand at other styles (such as hip hop).

* FirstFriend: kid!Bloom is this to Aisha, who up until then, only interacted with her nanny, the royal servants, and, very rarely, her parents; never with kids her age.

* ThatWasNotADream: Regardless of Bloom's thoughts on the matter, she did visit Andros and met kid!Aisha by dancing hard enough. Initially, she's doubtful but she sets her mind after bumping her head on a piano and as she grows up.

* ThatWasNotADream: Regardless of Bloom's thoughts on the matter, she did visit Andros and met kid!Aisha. To be fair, Bloom only truly starts believing it was all a dream after hitting her head on a piano.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Bloom is stated to have skipped two school grades, thus hinting at a superior intelligence to her canonical counterpart.

* OverlyLongName: {{Downplayed}} with Aisha's full name: Princess Laylaisha. However, it's {{justified}} since Bloom is a little kid when she decides to just shorten it to Layla.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the ''Winx Club'' canon, the Wizards of the Black Circle only wiped Klaus' memories of his wife Morgana, which left a plot hole -- did not anyone notice she was missing? In ''You Were My Best Friend'', this is fixed by extending the amnesia laser to everyone who ever met Morgana.

* IKnowYourTrueName: {{Invoked}} by Bloom but ultimately {{averted}}. Thanks to her love for fantasy stories and fairy folklore, Bloom is wary of giving her true name to a person she stumbled upon in a magical world (giving her middle name, Anne, seems to be fine, she reasons). While it's true Aisha is a fairy, [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairy magic doesn't work like that in this universe]].

* HaveWeMet: {{Averted}}. The fanfic ends when Bloom and Laylaisha meet again but given Bloom's reluctance to believe Princess Aisha is her childhood best friend and Aisha's unconscious state, the opportunity to ask this question is left hanging.

* HaveWeMetYet: {{Averted}}. The fanfic ends when Bloom and Laylaisha meet again but given Bloom's reluctance to believe Princess Aisha is her childhood best friend and Aisha's unconscious state, the opportunity to ask this question is left hanging.

** In the same vein, Bloom takes dance classes for three years because Mitzi, her friend at the time, started attending ballet classes. Bloom learns ballet and jazz.

* DancingWithMyself: {{Justified}}. When not being watched by her instructor, Bloom practices alone. It's only ballet first, then jazz, and finally, whatever little she gathered about hip hop moves.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: When Bloom and Aisha meet again at seventeen, Bloom dismisses the similarities between her ChildhoodFriend Layla and this mysterious princess called Aisha. It's true Aisha is not wearing a beautiful dress but, at this point in canon, Bloom has dealt with all sorts of unexpected, weird magical events -- some of them even being about meeting a real person through dreams.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: Bloom is stated to have skipped two school grades, thus hinting at a superior intelligence than her canonical counterpart.

--> Her happy place was a very tangible thing, to her, at least. And going there was quite an experience. The setting of Madame Morgana's would first fade… then slowly, a new world would appear. This new world featured Bloom high up in a tower, one without walls. She could see blue sky all around. If she looked down (very carefully, at first), it was easy to see the most beautiful water she had ever encountered.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: When Bloom and Aisha meet again at seventeen, Bloom dismisses the similarities between her ChildhoodFriend Layla and this mysterious princess called Aisha. It's true Aisha is not wearing a beautiful dress but. at this point in canon, Bloom has dealt with all sorts of unexpected, weird magical events -- some of them even being about meeting a real person through dreams.

* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: The reason why Mitzi first stops being Bloom's friend and then starts bullying her, bringing the whole school with her (teachers included). She's maliciously nicknamed "little nerd".

** A straight example occurs when Bloom has had enough of her class bullying her and her teachers never acknowledging her. Unfortunately, this leads her to [[FailedASpotCheck miss the recently-placed baby grand piano]] on the dance floor.

* DimensionalTraveler: Although accidentally and unknowingly (she thinks she's just imagining it all), Bloom is able to travel to Andros via dancing. For context, Andros is located in the Enchanted Dimension, a portion of the universe (with planetary systems and even galaxies) existing in a different dimension than the magicless Earth -- the latter being where Bloom currently lives. The why is probably a mix between Bloom's canonical ability to open interdimensional portals, the fact a fairy's magic is activated by positive emotions, and the place she goes from is owned by a fairy. Additionally, Bloom could at first only remain there if she kept dancing and she can only get there if she's in Madame Morgana's dancing studio.

* HappyPlace: Even if she thinks it's all imagined, Bloom's happy place it's the very real Royal Tower of Andros. The reason is that there she can dance without a care for the world and later because she met her first best friend there, Layla.

* HaveWeMetYet: {{Averted}}. The fanfic ends when Bloom and Aisha meet again but given Bloom's reluctance to believe Aisha was her childhood best friend and Aisha's unconscious state, the opportunity to ask this question is left hanging.

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Close friendships are something both Bloom and Aisha canonically [[FriendlessBackground longed for]] before meeting the other [[TrueCompanions Winx girls]]. In ''You Were My Best Friend'', this is given a (positive) twist in the form of making Bloom Aisha's FirstFriend and Aisha, Bloom's first ''true'' friend.

* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: The reason why Mitzi first stops being Bloom's friend and then starts bullying her, bringing the whole school with her (teachers included).

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the ''Winx Club'' canon, the Wizards of the Black Circle only wiped Klaus' memories of his wife Morgana, which left a plot hole. In ''You Were My Best Friend'', this is fixed by extending the amnesia laser to everyone who ever met Morgana.

* OverlyLongName: {{Downplayed}} with Aisha's full name: Princess Laylaisha. Not that long, but it's justified since Bloom is a little kid when she decides to just shorten it to Layla.

* ThatWasNotADream: Regardless of Bloom's thoughts on the matter, she did visit Andros and met kid!Aisha. To be fair, Bloom only truly started believing it was all a dream after hitting her head on a piano.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/734655 You Were My Best Friend]]'', by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/TabbyKattene/pseuds/TabbyKattene TabbyKattene]], is a ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' fanfic set before the events of canon (when the titular characters were kids) and exploits the similarities between Bloom and Aisha's friend, Anne.

* GirlOfMyDreams: {{Subverted}}. Bloom believes her trips to Andros were products of her imagination, therefore making Layla her ImaginaryFriend. Following that, Aisha is a girl Bloom met first in her dreams, as the former is a real person, even if Bloom doesn't recognize her. However, both girls were very much awake whenever they interacted with each other as Bloom got there thanks to her magic.

* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: The reason why

* CompositeCharacter: The fanfic's entire premise is based on the idea that Bloom Peters and Anne, Aisha's FirstFriend, are the same person. {{Justified}} given both girls are both white-skinned redheads with blue eyes that know how to dance. Regarding this last point, the Winx girls are shown practicing artistic gymnastics in season three and Bloom doesn't seem to struggle at all. Neither Aisha, for that matter.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Even though Bloom correctly identifies the place she's landed in as a magical land where fairies live, said faires are quite different from the FairFolk of Earth's mythologies. As a consequence, security measures such as [[IKnowYourTrueName never giving her true name]] are rendered moot.

!! If you dance hard enough, ''You Were My Best Friend'' can lead you to these tropes:

* ChildhoodFriend: As it turns out, Layla's canonical FirstFriend Anne was actually Bloom, so the two of them have been friends since they were ten years old even if they had to terminate their friendship rather abruptly -- Bloom was forbidden to attend her dancing classes after an unfortunate accident.

* DanceOfDespair: Although {{downplayed}}, this is how Bloom initially accesses Andros. After having a rough day in school, where she's isolated because of her geekiness and intelligence, she dances until her problems fade away. Literally.

* DancingWithMyself: {{Justified}}. When not being watched by her instructor, Bloom practices alone. It's only ballet first, then jazz, and finally, whatever little she gathered about hip hop moves.

* ChildhoodFriend: As it turns out, Layla's canonical FirstFriend Anne was actually Bloom, so the two of them were friends since they were ten years old even if they had to terminate their friendship rather abruptly -- Bloom was forbidden to attend her dancing classes after an unfortunate accident.

* FirstFriend: kind!Bloom is this to Aisha, who up until then, only interacted with her nanny, the royal servants, and, very rarely, her parents; never with kids her age.

* AmnesiaMissedASpot: When Bloom turns seven, her dance teacher, Madame Morgana, suddenly disappears and everyone else forgets the woman existed in the first place. Everyone but Bloom. Seeing Bloom is actually a fairy from another dimension, it makes sense she'd remember. It is a little odd, however, that she remembers more than Roxy, who is Morgana's daughter. Probably due to being older.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: When Bloom and Aisha meet again at seventeen, Bloom dismisses the similarities between her ChildhoodFriend Layla and this mysterious princess called Aisha by handwaving their previous encounter as a mere dream. It's true Aisha is not wearing a beautiful dress but. at this point in canon, Bloom has dealt with all sorts of unexpected, weird magical events -- some of them even being about meeting a real person through dreams.

* DimensionalTraveler: Although accidentally and unknowingly (she thinks she's just imagining it all), Bloom is able to travel to Andros via dancing. For context, Andros is located in the Enchanted Dimension, a portion of the universe (with planetary systems and even galaxies) existing in a different dimension than the magicless Earth -- the latter being where Bloom currently lives. The why is probably a mix between Bloom's canonical ability to open interdimensional portals at sixteen and a fairy's magic being activated by positive emotions. Additionally, Bloom could at first only remain there if she kept dancing.

* FirstFriend: Bloom is this to Princess Laylaisha, who up until then, only interacted with her nanny, the royal servants, and, very rarely, her parents.

* GirlOfMyDreams: {{Subverted}}. Bloom believes her trips to Andros were products of her imagination, therefore making Layla her ImaginaryFriend. Following that, Aisha is a girl Bloom met first in her dreams, as the former is a real person, even if Bloom doesn't recognize her. However, both girls were very much awake whenever they interacted with each other. Bloom got there thanks to her magic.

* HappyPlace: Even if she thinks it's all imagined, Bloom's happy place it's the very real Royal Tower of Andros. The reason is because she can dance there without a care for the world and later because she met her first best friend there, Layla.

* IKnowYourTrueName: {{Invoked}} by Bloom but ultimately {{averted}}. Thanks to her love for fantasy stories and fairy folklore, Bloom is wary of giving her true name to a person she stumbled upon in a seemingly magical world. While it's true Aisha is a fairy, fairy magic doesn't work like that in this universe.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: In the ''Winx Club's'' canon, the Wizards of the Black Circle only wiped Klaus' memories of his wife Morgana, which left a plot hole. In ''You Were My Best Friend'', this is fixed by extending the amnesia laser to everyone who ever met Morgana.

* PerceptionFilter

* SmallSecludedWorld

* ThatWasNotADream

* WrongGenreSavvy:

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Close friendships are something both Bloom and Aisha canonically longed for before meeting the other [[TrueCompanions Winx girls]]. In ''You Were My Best Friend'', this is expanded further. As a result of their {{FriendlessBackground}}s, the two girls quickly become friends when Bloom accidentally travels to Andros by dancing.

* IKnowYourTrueName

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Like in canon, everyone on Earth forgot about Morgana's existence after she was captured by the Wizards of the Black Circle.

!! ''You Were My Best Friend'' provides examples of:

* DimensionalTraveler: Although accidentally and unknowingly (she thinks she's just imagining it all), Bloom is able to travel to Andros via dancing. For context, Andros is located in the Enchanted Dimension, a portion of the universe (with planetary systems and even galaxies) existing in a different dimension than the magicless Earth -- the latter being where Bloom currently lives. The why is probably a mix between Bloom's canonical ability to open interdimensional portals at sixteen and a fairy's magic being activated by positive emotions.

* FirstFriend: Bloom is this to Princess Laylaisha.

* GirlOfMyDreams

* HappyPlace:

* IJustWantToHaveFriends

* AmnesiaMissedASpot:

* ArbitrarySkepticism: When Bloom and Aisha meet again at seventeen, Bloom dismisses the similarities between her ChildhoodFriend Layla and this mysterious princess called Aisha by handwaving their previous encounter as a mere dream. It's true Aisha is not wearing a beautiful dress but. at this point in canon, Bloom has dealt with all sorts of unexpected, weird magical things -- some of them even related to dreams (like when her sister Daphne was reaching out to her through dreams).

* DimensionalTraveler: Although accidentally and unknowingly (she thinks she's just imagining it all), Bloom is able to travel to Andros via dancing. For context, Andros is located in the Enchanted Dimension, a portion of the universe (with planetary systems and even galaxies) existing in a different dimension than the magicless Earth -- the latter being where Bloom currently lives. The why is probably a mix between Bloom's canonical ability to open interdimensional portals at sixteen and a fairy's magic being activated by positive emotions. Although none of this is explicitly explained in the narrative.

* DanceOfDespair:

* DancingWithMyself:

* FirstFriend

* WrongGenreSavvy

* AmnesiaMissedASpot
* ArbitrarySkepticism
* DimensionalTraveler
* DanceOfDespair
* DancingWithMyself

* HappyPlace

* InvisibleToNormals
* LaserGuidedAmnesia

* GirlOfMyDream

* IJustWantAFriend