It's a Kid's World is a Fan Fiction based on The Loud House written by Tales of Interest
, who has also written The Quest for Glory.
It is a story that is divided into seasons, with 10 chapters per season.
The links for each season are listed below:
This story is about a scenario where everyone in the world 16 years old or above suddenly vanishes from the face of the earth without warning, leaving all the children and teenagers of the world behind to fend for themselves. With the parents, Lori and Leni all gone, the first season primarily focuses on Luna trying to step up and be a good leader and carer to her siblings, but she soon turns 16 and vanishes, too.
As the story goes on, multiple story arcs all take place alongside each other. The remaining Loud siblings get split up after a house raid by Hank and Hawk's gang. Lincoln and Lucy end up joining the Mortician's Guard and their fight against an army of zombies in the forest. Luan, the twins, Lisa and Lily end up in a camp site on Groove Hill where Lisa reunites with Darcy and David and begins to work on finding a way to bring back all the adults. Elsewhere, Lynn makes a new friend through combat after being forced to fight in a ring of fire for her life. Meanwhile, Ronnie Anne tries to raise an army to fight against an evil group of mafia kids, while Chandler tries to set up a committee in Royal Woods which is challenged by a troublemaker named Chester.
Eventually, the story lines come together as the Loud family reunites in Royal Woods and Lincoln has a reunion with Ronnie Anne. After defeating the likes of Chester and Queen Xanakano, the only threats left to deal with for our heroes are the mafia, now ran by Carl, and the army of zombies and robots in the forest.
This Fan Fiction includes examples of:
- Action Hero: Lincoln becomes one as the story progresses, going from a passive nerd to a highly skilled swordfighter and slayer of the dead.
- Amazon Chaser: Maxie befriends and eventually even falls in love with Lynn precisely because she's so strong, tough, and tomboyish. Maxie admits she's easier to get along with than girly girls for him, as he never really knew how to interact with them, given his own brutish and brash nature.
- Back from the Dead: Lincoln in season 4, chapter 3, much to Chester's horror.
- Big Bad: Each storyline has one, but the primary threat of the story as a whole seems to be the zombie army and its mysterious leader who turns out to be Boris Durvil AKA Lord Viribus.
- Don Morito is this for Carl's storyline, quickly managing to take over Great Lakes City after the adults disappear.
- Chester Bundy is this in the committee storyline, being The Starscream against Chandler and the other committee members.
- Dennis is this for Lynn and Maxie's story arc in season two.
- Queen Xanakano of the New World Order is this for Ronnie Anne's story arc in Detroit in season three.
- Big Damn Reunion: Lincoln and Ronnie Anne finally meet again in the mid-point of season four after having been separated since the first chapter of the very first season. Needless to say, it's an emotional moment for both characters.
- Bittersweet Ending: How the story is eventually wrapped up. The robots and zombies of Viribus are defeated and the adults return, and the threat of the mafia is swiftly dealt with shortly after by the police and military. However, the world has been plunged into a state of decline in the time that the adults have been gone and it is mentioned it is likely there will be social and economic consequences of what happened. Also, the children have been permanently changed due to having to spend months fending for themselves and many relationships have been strained from the tough situations people had to deal with. On top of all that, Lynn is now in a wheelchair and Carl is in prison.
- Catfight: Luan (as well as Lola briefly) and Asherah get into one of these in season four after the former finds out the latter willingly allowed Lisa to get captured by David and Boris.
- Children Are Innocent: Utterly subverted. This Fan Fiction takes the child characters of the show and puts them in a situation where they are left to fend for themselves and are ungoverned by the likes of the adult populace. While some of them rise up and become heroes, others take the opportunity to seize power for themselves at any cost, stepping over the other children and ruling over them with an iron fist in the process. There are plenty of non-innocents in this tale.
- Civil War: In season three, Ronnie Anne, Sid and the monks walk into Detroit and get involved in a civil war between some Viking kids and a cultist faction called the "New World Order".
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Chester is very fond of this.
- Crapsack World: The world without adults is one without electricity or online communication. It is also one where the kids are left alone without their parents or carers to look after them, and children end up cutting each other's legs out from underneath them to survive or gain power.
- Cruel and Unusual Death:
- Lincoln's crucifixion at the end of season 3.
- After his defeat, Lucy has Chester devoured by bats in his prison cell.
- Darker and Edgier: The story is obviously this compared to the actual show, but there's even an internal example within the story itself. Because the story continues to utilize this trope more and more as it goes on, the author decided to change the rating from K+ to T on Fan Fiction.net from season three onwards.
- Depopulation Bomb: The Big Vanish, the major event in the first chapter that eliminates all the world's adults in an instant, is this.
- Designated Girl Fight: When Ronnie Anne and her army of monks run into Lynn and Maxie in chapter 10 of season two, the two girls naturally end up fighting it out after Maxie took on a couple of the monks.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Whenever a villain in a particular story line is defeated, this trope applies, as the primary threat of Viribus and his army of monsters is still out there.
- In season two, Carl kills Don Morito in the finale and effectively takes over his mafia and the city since Don's successor Dickie is a complete doormat of a boss.
- In season three, Ronnie Anne defeats Queen Xanakano in Detroit, but she is merely a roadblock in her quest to gain a bigger army.
- In season four, Chester Bundy is brought down by the main heroes, but even then there is still a bigger threat lurking in the woods.
- Don't Go in the Woods: Considering there are wolves, zombies, and even giant mechs hanging around in there, it's best to stay out of the forest.
- Dork Knight: Lincoln, the archetypal effeminate nerd, ends up becoming this after he trains in sword-fighting and becomes a zombie-slaying knight. His friends also become this.
- Downer Ending: The end of season 3. Chester has usurped the committee and taken over Royal Woods, the Mortician's Guard has been imprisoned, and he murders Lincoln by having him crucified.
- Dystopia: With all the conflict and death that goes on in the world without adults... yeah, it's pretty much this.
- Everything's Deader with Zombies: For the most part, the story is just about the world's children being left behind after all the adults vanish, and different groups of kids fighting for power and resources. Of course, there is a more supernatural storyline added to the mix involving Lincoln, Lucy, Lincoln's friends, and the Mortician's Club/Guard battling and fending off an army of zombie children in the woods.
- Eye Scream: Chester cuts out one of Lucy's eyes while torturing her.
- Faux Action Girl: Sid. Considering she's Ronnie Anne's second in command among an army of monks, Vikings, and tigers, she's actually one of the least physically capable characters herself, often getting captured by enemies. This makes sense, however, because Sid canonically is not very aggressive and has trouble tapping into her tough side.
- Fortune Teller: Asherah, the 14-year-old girl in the campsite on Groove Hill, is a young version of this. Her visions spook out the likes of the twins, while Luan just views her as someone to distrust and ignore.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Downplayed with Maxie. He has blonde hair, and while he's certainly abrasive, violent, and crass, his heart really is in the right place. He puts his misogynistic friends in their place after they mistreat Lynn, and is relatively friendly towards Lynn's ex-boyfriend Dexter.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: There is a chapter in season three which is named after this trope, and it's fitting. Boris Durvil turns out to be Lord Viribus in disguise, and he and David are behind the big vanish.
- Hoist Hero over Head: In the climax of "The Human Harvest", Viribus catches Lynn in mid-air, raises her over his head, and then breaks her back in a similar way to how Batman's back is broken by Bane.
- Humans Are the Real Monsters: Played with. Many of the human children in this story are morally corrupt, selfish, or just downright evil, but they are still not as bad as the zombies.
- Implied Death Threat: Luan thinks Asherah gives her one of these to her family in part nine of season two when Asherah says "You would do best to show me some respect. One day your family may depend on it." While it's unclear whether or not it was intended as a threat, Luan took it as such and responded with a knockout punch, before warning her to stay away from her family.
- Kiddie Kid: Luan tries to hold onto her childish nature, but after she and a few of her sisters end up being separated from Lincoln and the others, she is forced to grow up and look after her remaining sisters. Downplayed as she finds herself surrounded by kindergarten kids, which allows her to embrace her comedic nature at times, much to their amusement.
- Killed Off for Real: While at first, characters mainly just get erased because of 'The Big Vanish'. Starting from the end of season two, however, death begins to take center stage. First mafia boss Don Morito gets killed by Carl, and then in season three, Lynn's buddy Maxie dies in the middle of a brutal fight in the EWF.
- Killer Robot: Starting with season three, fully converted humans placed into mechanical bodies begin to roam the forest and attack on site.
- Magic Versus Science: Asherah's character highlights this trope. At first, it seems like she's a fortune teller with a crystal ball that can magically see into the future. It turns out it's only a gimmick, the magical part isn't really there, and instead, she is just a scientist with a device she made, meaning her visions into the future are done through technological means.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Lynn and Lincoln. Deconstructed as the story progresses. Lynn tells Lincoln in season one that he isn't 'Man' enough to be a leader after Luna picks him to lead the family over her. Later they get split up and Lincoln becomes a stronger and tougher heroic leader of the Mortician's Guard, but he still feels insecure about being a leader in part because of what Lynn said to him. Lucy reassures him he's wrong to doubt himself.
- Meaningful Name: Chester's last name is Bundy, after Serial Killer Ted Bundy. Chester turns out to be just as vile.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: The zombie army gets this a couple of times. In season two, it is revealed the zombies are only the beginning and whatever force is behind their presence is moving on to making cyborgs. Later in season three, giant mecha men appear as the superior soldiers in their army.
- Nepotism: The mafia in Great Lakes City suffers from this after the competent and commanding if ruthless Don Morito gets killed off in the season two finale. His replacement is his younger brother Dickie. Dickie is only five years old (to be fair, nobody else around him is much older since everyone else in the world is also a child at this point, much like the name of the story implies), is naive, overbearingly nice and passive, and not tough or decisive enough to be a competent leader. Carl Casagrande uses this to his advantage and gains more power.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Lincoln gives one to Chester in "All His Enemies".
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Ronnie Anne may have once been the toughest girl in school in Royal Woods and is certainly a good fighter in her own right, but when she encounters the Shaolin Temple and ends up taking on a monk in season two, she struggles greatly against him and after barely winning the fight, is informed the one she beat was merely a novice. Shi, a more accomplished and advanced monk, easily manages to overwhelm her when they spar later on.
- Only Fatal to Adults: The Big Vanish only affects people 16 or over in physical age. It turns out it's actually an ongoing invisible force that continuously erases children after they turn 16, meaning that everyone left is doomed to follow in the footsteps of their elders once they reach that age.
- Our Zombies Are Different: The zombies in this story seem to be powered by little earpods that wedged inside them, and their method of infecting others is physically killing them before placing an earpod into their head. They seem to be signal-controlled corpses rather than anything else.
- Panthera Awesome: Ronnie Anne bonds with a tiger she takes from the zoo that she names Maria after her mother. The tiger acts like an over-affectionate housecat with her.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Lincoln beats Chester within an inch of his life before he's thrown in a cell, and later that night, Lucy has him devoured by bats.
- Redemption Equals Death: After Lisa eventually persuades David to betray Viribus and help her sabotage his plans, they are caught out by the Big Bad and he is taken away to be wired up, slowly drained, and ultimately killed.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Chandler ends up being the blue to his fellow committee member Chester's red. Chester has radical ideas of expansion and reducing population numbers, and has very violent forms of punishment. Chandler is the more level-headed and reasonable leader, in contrast.
- Reflexive Response: When Lori gets mad at Lincoln and approaches him threateningly, he reflexively pulls out a sword. Lincoln isn't the same little boy she remembers, he's a hardened fighter who learned he needed to respond to threats quickly or die.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Lynn's boyfriend Maxie is the tough and abrasive manly man to her ex-boyfriend Dexter's nerdy and nice sensitive guy when they meet in season three. There's also Dickie and Don Morito (see Sibling Yin-Yang below).
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Don and Dickie Morito, who are both heirs to the throne as far as the Great Lakes City mafia is concerned. Don is forceful, tough talking, ruthless and capable of commanding respect through fear. He also seems to be rather intelligent considering his cunning nature and how much he paraphrases philosophical thinkers. His younger brother Dickie is a naive, soft-centered, easily manipulated and somewhat gullible little boy who Carl is able to run rings around after he replaces Don.
- Simultaneous Arcs: Each chapter (usually) takes place throughout one day in particular and features numerous different story arcs focusing on different characters. For example, the first chapter of season three includes a segment of Carl and Dickie Morito in Great Lakes City, Lincoln being nominated by Lucy to be the new leader of the Moritician's Guard, Lynn and Maxie running into a Burpin' Burger, Ronnie Anne and her army arriving in Detroit and witnessing a civil war, Chandler having his authority challenged by Chester Bundy and his growing number of expanionist buddies, and the sisters on Groove Hill being attacked by an outside gang called the "Mucky Girls". All of this takes place in the span of one day, in completely different locations.
- Straw Misogynist: Maxie's friends in season two are this. Eventually, Lynn and Maxie bail on them and head off on their own because these guys are completely unreasonable in their views and attitude.
- The Cavalry: Lincoln, his sisters and all the children from Groove Hill arrive in the nick of time to save the Mortician's Guard and the committee kids from being trounced by Chester's goonies in season four.
- The Starscream:
- Chester Bundy is this to Chandler in the committee storyline. Chester clearly does not agree with Chandler's way of running things, and constantly goes behind his back to undermine his authority and get his own way.
- Carl ultimately is this to Don Morito. After being his personal servant for a whole season, Carl was found out by Don for conspiring to overthrow him with his naive little brother. Carl manages to kill Don before the fearsome mafia boss could finish him off, and quickly made his way up the ladder of power afterwards. He appears to be trying to do the same thing to Dickie that he's taken charge.
- Teenage Wasteland: Everyone in the world who are 16 years old or above mysteriously vanished, leaving all the children and teenagers of the world behind to fend for themselves. Even after the adults come back things don't go a hundred percent back to normal. Their children have all underwent months of Lord of the Flies-style struggles even without all of the sci-fi elements trying to kill them and had to either toughen up or die, such trauma and growth doen't just fade in an instant.
- The Worf Effect: In season three, Rusty and the rest of Lincoln's gang run into and befriend a group of wolves in the forest. The wolves prove to be powerful allies, slicing through entire hordes of zombies to protect their new friends. But they ultimately just end up getting overpowered by one of the new robotic generals that encounters them, fully demonstrating the prowess of the new threat.
- This Cannot Be!: Chester has this reaction when he sees the resurrected Lincoln Loud leading the charge against him in season 4.Chester: But... HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?!
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Luan and Asherah interact this way after becoming friends in season four. One interaction the sixth chapter has Asherah call Luan's pranking unladylike and immature, while Luan discovers Asherah secretly likes the ultra girly Princess Pony franchise, similar to her gothic sister Lucy.
- Took a Level in Badass: Just about everyone in the story, to varying extents. Notable examples including Lincoln, and to a lesser extent the rest of the Mortician's Guard (they renamed their club after they decided to take on the zombie threat), who all become sword and knife wielding zombie slayers. There's also Ronnie Anne, who has become 'The Tigress' and is leading an army of Shaolin monks and Berserker Vikings against tyrannies across various cities.
- Unwilling Roboticisation: The plan of Lord Viribus is to convert all the world's remaining populace of children into either mindless zombie servants or robotic beings, depending on the worth he places on the given particular child.
- Viler New Villain: While Chandler was never 'evil' in the show itself (though he has Took a Level in Jerkass in season five), here he is a lot more noble and less of a jerk, mainly out of necessity as he feels he needs to step up and be a leader for the other kids. Instead, he finds his own antagonist in Chester Bundy, who is a sadistic and tyrannical young man with very cruel and merciless methods of getting what he wants. Both Lincoln and Chandler fall victim to his vile ways at different points in the story.
- Worf Had the Flu: Ronnie Anne was only able to beat Lynn in their fight in the season two finale because the former's pet tigers intervened just as Lynn was about to choke her out. Had they have not rushed in to protect their master, Ronnie Anne would have lost.
- Zombie Apocalypse: It seems to be the climax the story has been slowly building up to since the first season. Asherah the fortune teller regularly refers to an upcoming event called 'The Human Harvest' which may possibly be when the zombies decide to come out of the woods and attack outright.
