History HappilyAdopted / FanWorks

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* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14199641/1/Spider-Ninja Spider-Ninja]]'': Four-year-old Petra Parker, after losing her Aunt May and Uncle Ben in a traumatic event, is taken in by Master Splinter and raised alongside his four turtle sons (who were also adopted). She grows up with the group, accepting them as her family and doing all she can to help and protect them. She even refers to herself as Petra Parker-Hamato at one point.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12802215/1/A-More-Realistic-Hope A More Realistic Hope]]'', Monaca is adopted by Makoto's family after she is genuinely crippled by Haiji, having meet Makoto earlier.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12802215/1/A-More-Realistic-Hope A More Realistic Hope]]'', Monaca is adopted by Makoto's family after she is genuinely crippled by Haiji,

* In ''Fanfic/EverydayLifeWithUltimateGirls'' after Makoto [[InterruptedSuicide saves Monaca and the rest of the Warriors of Hope from committing suicide]], Monaca is adopted into his family. The other Warriors of Hope are adopted into much better families afterwards, with Masaru living with his second cousin ([[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony Himiko Yumeno]]) and her father, Jataro is adopted by Chihiro Fujisaki's family (his mother was the sister of Taichi Fujisaki, Chihiro's father), Kotoko lives with her aunt, and Nagisa lives with his grandparents.

* ''When In Doubt, Obliviate'' (a parody fic): Franchise/HarryPotter is kidnapped and adopted by Gilderoy Lockhart, of all people. In spite of Gilderoy's not at all altruistic motivation, it turns out to be this trope.

* ''Fanfic/HarryTano'': Ahsoka Tano, fresh from escaping Order 66, is sent via a mysterious device to Earth. Specifically, she lands in the Dursley house, where she sees a terrified and clearly abused four-year-old Harry. She mistakes him for an enslaved child, and immediately takes him under her wing. With [[spoiler: [[DeadPersonConversation Lily's permission]], Ahsoka becomes Harry's adoptive mother, and spends the rest of the fic being a parental figure to him, as well as training him in the ways of the Force and protecting him in every way she can. He even takes her last name, and corrects anyone who assumes he's referring to Lily whenever he says "mum".

* [[Fanfic/HarryTano Harry Tano]]: Ahsoka Tano, fresh from escaping Order 66, is sent via a mysterious device to Earth. Specifically, she lands in the Dursley house, where she sees a terrified and clearly abused four-year-old Harry. She mistakes him for an enslaved child, and immediately takes him under her wing. With [[spoiler: [[DeadPersonConversation Lily's permission]], Ahsoka becomes Harry's adoptive mother, and spends the rest of the fic being a parental figure to him, as well as training him in the ways of the Force and protecting him in every way she can. He even takes her last name, and corrects anyone who assumes he's referring to Lily whenever he says "mum".

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* ''Fanfic/BetterOffNotKnowing'': the implied biological daughter of [[spoiler:[[ArcVillain Zaheer]] [[UnholyMatrimony and]] [[TheBrute P'Li]]]] is occasionally [[TellMeAboutMyFather curious]] about her [[HugeSchoolgirl unusual height]] and her [[NoInfantileAmnesia distant memories]] of being [[SeasonalBaggage unseasonably cold]], but nonetheless draws a distinction between "[[GoodParents her parents]]" and the (unknown [[DramaticIrony to her]]) "people who'd brought her into the world."

* In "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20174284 Harry Potter in the City of Angels]]", Harry is abandoned in Los Angeles and is taken in by Mazikeen (''Series/Lucifer2016''), who assumes that he is some kind of demon as his bite was able to hurt her. Since Mazikeen shows genuine interest in Harry's well-being and doesn't care about his 'freakishness', Harry swiftly accepts her as his new mother.

* In ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheIcePrincess'', while [[spoiler:Harry isn't officially adopted by Elsa's parents, they make him a ward of Arendelle when he comes to visit the summer before third year, granting him similar protection to the spells that kept him safe at the Dursleys so long as the trolls perform appropriate rituals]].

** Aerith, from the same fic, is [[AvertedTrope not this]]; her adoption by Lucrecia was... rather less happy.

* Padme invoked this with her biological son in ''Fanfic/{{Precipice}}''. To hide his identity as Anakin's and her son, she poses him as a war orphan that she took in to cope with the death of her miscarried daughter (which is actually a case of DeathFakedForYou). Regardless, Luke was immensly happy living with Padme and never once had any issues with not knowing who his "real" parents were, as he was perfectly content as Padme's son.

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* ''[[Fanfic/BecomingFree Becoming Family]]'': Elsa and her wife Freya adopt a recently orphaned girl named "Katja". Katja loves her [[HasTwoMommies Mama and Mam]], though she doesn't grasp their full relationship until she's nine.
* ''Bringing Me To Life'': The A.I. named Cole Anderson to Neo and Smith, after being abandoned in the Matrix by his machine parents.
* The ''Crystal Tokyo'' series of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/56283/Bill_K Bill K]] have [[Franchise/SailorMoon Neo Queen Serenity]] adopt orphans over the years she has rule.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13945286/1/ Crossed Lines]]'': Luffy mentions offhand that Yamato was adopted by Oden in his timeline.
* The ''Fanfic/{{Dangerverse}}'' has this happen to Harry and Hermione [[spoiler:and Draco]] (though in Hermione's case one of the adoptive parents is her older sister).
* ''Fanfic/EvaSessionsSomeplaceVastAndDry'': Gendo and Yui Ikari adopted Misato Katsuragi after her father's death in Antarctica, and as a result of having [[GoodParents stable parent figures]] throughout her late childhood, Misato grows up to be more emotionally stable than her canon counterpart. However, she retained her original surname of Katsuragi.
* In ''The Five Earths Project'', Superboy-Prime has been adopted by the Golden Age Superman of Earth-2 and his wife Lois Lane Kent after the events of ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''.
* ''Fanfic/AGemAHumanAndABaby'': an inverted version takes place in Chapter 3 - Greg officially declares Pearl to be Steven's guardian, and a member of the Universe family.
* ''Fanfic/HarryAndTheShipgirls'' sees Franchise/HarryPotter get adopted by none other than [[VideoGame/KanColle Nagato of the Big Seven]]. [[spoiler:They are later joined by Hoppou the Northern Ocean Princess and Seiko the Northern Little Sister.]]
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3505392/13/Hell-is-a-Martial-Artist Hell is a Martial Artist]]'': In an interesting twist on this trope, [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ranma]] isn't just adopted by [[Manga/AhMyGoddess Hild]] in; they rewrite reality to make Hild his/her biological mother. Furthermore, so far as Ranma was concerned, Hild was his mother even before then.
* ''Fanfic/HorseshoesAndHandGrenades'': In the story ''A Month of Sundays'': Quetzalcoatl was adopted by the gods of Aztec Mythology.
* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'':
** Happens on occasion, both on a temporary basis (variant loops with adoption) or on a permanent basis (one looper adopting another). Some of the permanent ones include:
*** [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny]] getting his family to adopt Dani after she becomes a looper. Both of the Fenton parents are not looping, but love her anyways.
*** [[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Meta Knight]] adopting both [[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Duncan]] and [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Vivian]] following both of them Awakening. Both of them highly regard him and Meta Knight is highly [[SoProudOfYou proud]] of both of them.
** ''Fanfic/TheMLPLoops'': Considering Equestria is built on ThePowerOfFriendship, it shouldn't be surprising that this happens pretty often:
*** When Fluttershy first looped into ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', she found an infant in a stasis pod and raised him as her son. This turned out to be Leman Russ, Primarch of the Space Wolves. He proudly refers to Fluttershy as "Little Mother", and it was her influence that kept him sane enough that he became an Anchor and started his entire universe looping. Because of the quasi-logic of variant loops, it's not uncommon for them to find themselves in a loop where they are biological mother and son. But even when they're not, he still treats her as his mother.
*** Twilight was the only one Awake in a ''Fanfic/PastSins'' variant loop, where, long story short, Twilight becomes the adoptive mother of a young and amnesiac version of Luna's dark side. When the loop ends she has a breakdown because she knows she's never going to see her daughter again... and then it turns out that Nyx managed to slip through a loophole in the "no children" rule and begin looping as a separate entity to Luna. Like Fluttershy and Leman, there will often be variants where Twilight is Nyx's biological mother.
*** Due to MultipleChoicePast, Scootaloo often Awakens to find herself in a terrible home life with AbusiveParents. She generally walks off and gets herself quickly adopted by whoever else is Awake, top of the list being Rainbow Dash.
** ''Fanfic/TheRWBYLoops'' has many as well. However, there are so many that it would impossible to list them all. [[https://i.imgur.com/foHG7m7.png Here]] is the most updated list of the family tree(and some are still missing at the time of this writing)
* ''Fanfic/ItsNotTheRaptorDNA'': Rexy, the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' from ''Film/JurassicPark'' takes Elise under her wing after [[MamaBear saving her from a prion-infected Triceratops]].
* ''Fanfic/TheLoneTraveler'': Happens several times, often because of changes the Traveler makes as he travels around the multiverse, usually to a version of Literature/HarryPotter.
* In the ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18306785/chapters/43331582 Permanency]]'' Teru's apartment is destroyed after the end of the second season so Reigen takes him in after realizing that Teru's parents are oceans and continents away. Teru is not adopted on paper but he still views Reigen as a father figure.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6752793/1/Shadows-Of-The-Past Shadows Of The Past]]'': [[spoiler:Will]] is this, though his 'parents' are still alive; he states he just likes his adoptive ones better.
* ''Fanfic/SlightlyAltered'' has Buwaro adopted by Azurai and Iratu, and living a MUCH happier life than in canon [[spoiler: at first]].
* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'':
** Naruto ends up growing ''very'' happy with Jiraiya and Tsunade.
** Shizune actually expresses relief that she ''isn't'' Jiraya and Tsunade's biological child in chapter 58 [[spoiler:after finding out what happens when the Senju and Uchiha bloodlines mix. Having to raise her and Shisui's kids is hard enough without worrying about the possibility that they might suddenly turn into demigods.]]
** {{Downplayed}} with Haku. He isn't very happy with being Hayate and Yugao's adopted son, but he eventually warms up to them.
* ''Fanfic/TheTaintedGrimoire'': Adelle a Hume is the adopted daughter of Sir Loin, a Seeq.
* Many ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' fanfics set in either a post-despair or non-despair setting have [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Nagito]] adopting [[VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls the Warriors of Hope]]. Whether he adopts all of them, just Monaca, or all of them ''except'' Monaca depends on the author. [[FanPreferredCouple Hajime]] also sometimes serves as [[HasTwoDaddies the second parent]].
** In ''Blog/AskTheNewHopesPeak'', the Warriors of Hope are adopted not by Nagito, but by Komaru and Toko. They adore both girls and Komaru is overjoyed when Jataro asks if he can call her mom.
** ''Blog/AStudentOutOfTime'': After the Quantum Crew expose their parents, Kotoko is adopted by Mikan, Jataro is taken in by Iroha, Emma (herself an example of this) gets her parents to adopt Masaru, Nagisa is taken in by [[HasTwoMommies Umeko and Setsuka]], and Monaca is taken in by Kyoji.
** Similarly, there are fics that have Monaca adopted by Makoto and Komaru's parents instead, making her Monaca Naegi. These include ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12802215/1/A-More-Realistic-Hope A More Realistic Hope]]'', where she's adopted by Makoto's family after she is genuinely crippled by Haiji, and ''Fanfic/EverydayLifeWithUltimateGirls'' after Makoto [[InterruptedSuicide saves her and the rest of the Warrios of Hope from committing suicide]].
*** For the latter fic, the other Warriors of Hope are adopted into much better families afterwards, with Masaru living with his second cousin ([[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony Himiko Yumeno]]) and her father, Jataro is adopted by Chihiro Fujisaki's family (his mother was the sister of Taichi Fujisaki, Chihiro's father), Kotoko lives with her aunt, and Nagisa lives with his grandparents.
* The Project Motherhood series by [=Gamer95=] on Fanfiction.Net runs almost entirely on this trope, having female or sometimes genderswapped versions of fictional characters rescuing Harry Potter [Sometimes Crona from Soul Eater or Isaac from The Binding of Isaac] from an intensely abusive living condition and raising them as their own child.
* ''Fanfic/UsAndThem'': [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] manages to have a fairly happy and normal childhood being raised by Gast and Ifalna.
* ''Fanfic/HalfPastAdventure'': Despite a bit of GeneHunting in the first chapter, Macy overall seems extremely happy with her adopted family.
* ''FanFic/TotalDramaLegacy'': Tina, the adoptive daughter of Chris [=McLean=]. While she was originally adopted as a publicity stunt, Chris and Chef [[MoralityPet eventually grew genuinely fond of her]].

* ''ChildOfTheStorm'':

* In ''[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-11473/restive+When+It+Changes.htm When It Changes]]'', Max (''Series/DarkAngel'') is rescued by the Winchesters (''Series/{{Supernatural}}'') when she ran away from Manticore (the EMP just being a more local event rather than the global catastrophe of the series), and swiftly becomes part of their family, with John and Sam easily accepting Max as a new daughter/sister (although her relationship with Dean is more complicated given a potential romantic relationship).

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10445141/1/Megorama Megorama]]'' (''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' & ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''): This sees Meg Griffin being accidentally sent into the year 3000, where she meets the Planet Express staff and is essentially adopted by Leela.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11178093/1/My-Simpsons-Guy-Story My Simpsons Guy Story]]'' (''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' & ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''): Sees the ten-year-old Meg Griffin essentially adopted by the Simpsons after she spends a summer in Springfield as a child as part of a student exchange program. Although Meg is forcibly returned to Quahog during the events of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', when the Simpsons reunite with Meg in her teens, Meg falls in love with Bart, with Homer and Marge being far more supportive parents to her than Peter and Lois.

* "[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Series-201 Scattered Hearts]]", a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''/''Series/StargateSG1'' crossover, features an unconventional inversion of this, where Daniel Jackson only learns that he has a daughter conceived during a brief relationship when he was in foster care after his daughter has died, his daughter being Buffy Summers. As a result of the circumstances of her creation, Dawn Summers is technically Daniel's daughter as well, considering that the Monks created her from Buffy's blood even though Daniel wasn't in a position to conceive her naturally, Dawn and Spike realising the truth when Daniel visits Buffy's grave and explains the circumstances of the conception to Dawn. While the Scoobies are struggling to cope after Buffy's resurrection, Dawn runs away to Colorado to get away from their troubles and spend time with her father even if he doesn't know about their true relationship, with the rest of SG-1 accepting her in their lives even when none of them know that Dawn is Daniel's ''actual'' daughter and assume she's just the sister of his dead daughter.

* ''Fanfic/FacingTheFutureSeries'' (a ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fic): According to rumors, if the original cartoon had been allowed to continue, [[spoiler:[[OppositeSexClone Danielle]] would've been adopted into the Fenton family]]. The author of this fic series rectified that.
* ''Fanfic/ResurrectedMemories'' & ''Fanfic/TheReturnOfDaniPhantom'': In both these separate fics, the Fentons have adopted [[OppositeSexClone Dani]] into the family.

* "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13561742/1/Devilish-Savior Devilish Savior]]" opens with Trixie being abducted from Dan and Chloe when she's only two and sold to a man named Matthew Davis because his wife wanted children and they couldn't have any of their own. However, Davis was an abusive, neglectful parent, and after his wife died, he tried to make a deal with Lucifer to sell Trixie (now just known as Beatrice) because he wasn't interested in being her father on his own. Lucifer is so disgusted at this even before he sees Davis hit Beatrice that he adopts the girl himself, unaware for years that Beatrice wasn't Davis's biological child thanks to the fake paperwork drawn up, although after he starts working with Chloe they soon determine Beatrice's true identity. Beatrice is so happy with Lucifer that Chloe immediately makes arrangements to keep Lucifer as Beatrice's guardian even as she wants to be a part of her daughter's life once her identity is established, while Chloe and Lucifer both agree that Dan doesn't deserve to be part of her life and even Chloe and Dan's lieutenant agrees to bend the rules so that she ignores the legal difficulties of this situation.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1857017/1/The-New-Teacher The New Teacher]]'', after Peter Parker takes a teaching role at Xavier's, an unusual chain of events leads to Peter and Mary Jane essentially adopting X-23 after Spider-Man finds her fighting off a group of potential rapists. Even after they identify her as Logan's clone, Logan concedes that he wouldn't be a good fit to be a parent to the girl when she has already genuinely bonded with the Parkers.

* In "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33226231/ We Are One]]", when Lila Barton rather than Clint is the only member of her family to survive, she is swiftly taken in by the remaining Avengers and officially adopted by Natasha, to the extent that she soon starts calling Natasha 'Mama'.

* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13561742/1/Devilish-Savior Devilish Savior]]" opens with Trixie being abducted from Dan and Chloe when she's only two and sold to a man named Matthew Davis because his wife wanted children and they couldn't have any of their own. However, Davis was an abusive, neglectful parent, and after his wife died, he tried to make a deal with Lucifer to sell Trixie (now just known as Beatrice) because he wasn't interested in being her father on his own. Lucifer is so disgusted at this treatment that he adopts Beatrice himself, unaware for years that Beatrice wasn't Davis's biological child thanks to the fake paperwork drawn up, although after he starts working with Chloe they soon determine Beatrice's true identity.