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* ConcertEpisode: One chapter sees Diana taking Lanie and Rachel to an Olivia Rodrigo concert.

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* ConcertEpisode: One chapter sees Diana taking Lanie and Rachel to an Olivia Rodrigo Music/OliviaRodrigo concert.
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''Lanie's Journey'' is a serialized story on the TG fiction website Website/BigClosetTopShelf. The story revolves around a teenager named Landon Evans who is admitted to an all-girls foster home and turned into a girl named Lanie in order to fit in. However, as Lanie gets to know her new roommates, she finds that there's more to her new foster home than what she thinks.

All the chapters can be found [[https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book-page/95363/lanies-journey here.]]
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!!Contains Examples Of...
* AbusiveParents: Landon's father Richard is shown to be abusive. [[spoiler: This is revealed to be a contributing factor in Angelina's misandry.]]
* ActionSurvivor: None of the main characters have any combat training, and yet they still manage to [[spoiler: defeat all the witches.]]
* AllUpToYou: When Lanie finds out the truth about Pretty And Pink, she opts to put a stop to it because, well, who else is gonna do it?
* AlphaBitch: Diana, at first.
* AttractiveBentGender: Lanie is apparently much hotter as a girl than Landon was as a guy.
* BandOfBrothers: Or, more accurately, sisters: Lanie, Rachel, and Jenny do get in a lot of trouble together.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: In the sequel/crossover Swarms And Sisterhood, Lanie is pretty furious when she learns [[spoiler: Rachel has been kidnapped.]]
* BigBad: Angelina Aguilar.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Angelina and Ruth act as this. [[spoiler: Until Ruth is killed.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Rachel, Conner, Diana, and Bryce show no mercy storming Pretty And Pink's Virginia location.]]
* TheBreakfastPlot: None of the girls [[spoiler: who were once boys]] at Pretty And Pink asked to bunk with each other, but they apparently have really strong bonds.
* BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler: It turns out Lanie is not the only girl at Pretty And Pink who was a boy before the witches changed her gender-the whole organization is a front for Angelina to turn young boys into girls and get them to start new lives.]]
* BrokenPedestal: Many of the girls at Pretty And Pink seemed to like Angelina...before they learned she was a witch.
* TheCakeIsALie: Ruth promises Lanie her new life at Pretty And Pink will be amazing. Which it is...until the truth comes out.
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: Conner saves Lanie right before Angelina can kill her.]]
* TheChase: After Lanie, Rachel, and Jenny escape Pretty And Pink, they become Angelina's targets.
* ConcertEpisode: One chapter sees Diana taking Lanie and Rachel to an Olivia Rodrigo concert.
* TheCorrupter: [[spoiler: Angelina's goal is to be this to Lanie.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: Sort of. This is the first of mysteryman's stories to have cussing in it.
* Deuteragonist: Rachel and Conner.
* FirstLawOfGenderBending: Zigzagged. [[spoiler: While a cure for the gender transformations is revealed at the end, Lanie and Rachel opt not to take it.]]
* FirstPeriodPanic: Played with. When Lanie witnesses Taylor get her period, she fears for when her time of the month comes. However, when it does come, Lanie seems to welcome it with more excitement than fear.
* ForGreatJustice: Lanie doesn't seem to have much motivation for toppling Pretty And Pink beyond it just being the right thing to do.
* GenderBender: Like many stories on BigCloset TopShelf, Lanie's Journey's premise revolves around this.
* GirlPosse: Diana has one of these with Penelope and Nicole. [[spoiler: That Lanie and Rachel end up joining.]]
* TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin: Despite the odds stacked against them, [[spoiler: the protagonists manage to defeat the witches.]]
* Herald: When Lanie finds out that [[spoiler: all her roommates are changed boys like her,]] she is prompted to get to the bottom of Pretty And Pink Foster Care.
* TheHero: Landon/Lanie.
* TheHighQueen: Angelina sees herself as this.
* HomelessHero: [[spoiler: Lanie, Rachel, and Jenny are briefly this, until Mr. Ryan takes them in.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At first, Diana firmly tells Lanie that her ex Conner is off-limits. [[spoiler: However, she ends up lifting this rule because she doesn't want to lose her friendship with Lanie.]]
* JumpedAtTheCall: When [[spoiler: Lanie is kidnapped,]] Rachel and Conner immediately coordinate a rescue plan.
* KidHero: Lanie is only fifteen.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Conner becomes this.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Angelina is revealed to be Landon/Lanie's birthmother.]]
* MentorArchetype: Rachel has many talks with Lanie that help her adjust to her new life.
* NiceGuy: Rachel.
* ParentChildTeam: [[spoiler: Angelina's motivation for capturing Lanie is to groom her into becoming the "child" part of this.]]
* AProtagonistShallLeadThem: Lanie convinces Rachel, Melody, and Jenny to help her infiltrate Angelina's secret basement.
** Later, Rachel and Conner round up Diana and Bryce to help them rescue Lanie.
* SecondLawOfGenderBending: Lanie's character arc is about her coming to terms with her new life as a girl, and realizing how much she prefers it.
* Sidekick: Rachel becomes this to Lanie.
* TerribleTrio: Diana's clique seems to be this, with Diana being the most dominant of them all.
** Also Angelina, once Anna and Elena come into play.
* ThirdLawOfGenderBending: Lanie eventually starts crushing on Conner and trying on girly clothes.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Anna and Elena are never seen without each other.
* VillainHasAPoint: Rachel seems to think this about Angelina's misandry.
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