Lanie's Journey is a serialized story on the TG fiction website Big Closet Top Shelf. 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 here.
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- Abusive Parents: Landon's father Richard is shown to be abusive. This is revealed to be a contributing factor in Angelina's misandry.
- Action Survivor: None of the main characters have any combat training, and yet they still manage to defeat all the witches.
- All Up to You: 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?
- Alpha Bitch: Diana, at first.
- Attractive Bent-Gender: Lanie is apparently much hotter as a girl than Landon was as a guy.
- Band of Brothers: Or, more accurately, sisters: Lanie, Rachel, and Jenny do get in a lot of trouble together.
- Beware the Nice Ones: In the sequel/crossover Swarms And Sisterhood, Lanie is pretty furious when she learns Rachel has been kidnapped.
- Big Bad: Angelina Aguilar.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Angelina and Ruth act as this. Until Ruth is killed.
- Big Damn Heroes: Rachel, Conner, Diana, and Bryce show no mercy storming Pretty And Pink's Virginia location.
- The Breakfast Plot: None of the girls who were once boys at Pretty And Pink asked to bunk with each other, but they apparently have really strong bonds.
- Broken Masquerade: 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.
- Broken Pedestal: Many of the girls at Pretty And Pink seemed to like Angelina...before they learned she was a witch.
- The Cake Is a Lie: Ruth promises Lanie her new life at Pretty And Pink will be amazing. Which it is...until the truth comes out.
- The Cavalry: Conner saves Lanie right before Angelina can kill her.
- The Chase: After Lanie, Rachel, and Jenny escape Pretty And Pink, they become Angelina's targets.
- Concert Episode: One chapter sees Diana taking Lanie and Rachel to an Olivia Rodrigo concert.
- The Corrupter: Angelina's goal is to be this to Lanie.
- Darker and Edgier: Sort of. This is the first of mysteryman's stories to have cussing in it.
- Deuteragonist: Rachel and Conner.
- First Law of Gender Bending: Zigzagged. While a cure for the gender transformations is revealed at the end, Lanie and Rachel opt not to take it.
- First Period Panic: 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.
- For Great Justice: Lanie doesn't seem to have much motivation for toppling Pretty And Pink beyond it just being the right thing to do.
- Gender Bender: Like many stories on Big Closet Top Shelf, Lanie's Journey's premise revolves around this.
- Girl Posse: Diana has one of these with Penelope and Nicole. That Lanie and Rachel end up joining.
- The Good Guys Always Win: Despite the odds stacked against them, the protagonists manage to defeat the witches.
- Herald: When Lanie finds out that all her roommates are changed boys like her, she is prompted to get to the bottom of Pretty And Pink Foster Care.
- The Hero: Landon/Lanie.
- The High Queen: Angelina sees herself as this.
- Homeless Hero: Lanie, Rachel, and Jenny are briefly this, until Mr. Ryan takes them in.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At first, Diana firmly tells Lanie that her ex Conner is off-limits. However, she ends up lifting this rule because she doesn't want to lose her friendship with Lanie.
- Jumped at the Call: When Lanie is kidnapped, Rachel and Conner immediately coordinate a rescue plan.
- Kid Hero: Lanie is only fifteen.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Conner becomes this.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Angelina is revealed to be Landon/Lanie's birthmother.
- Mentor Archetype: Rachel has many talks with Lanie that help her adjust to her new life.
- Nice Guy: Rachel.
- Parent-Child Team: Angelina's motivation for capturing Lanie is to groom her into becoming the "child" part of this.
- A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: 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.
- Second Law of Gender-Bending: 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.
- Terrible Trio: 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.
- Third Law of Gender-Bending: Lanie eventually starts crushing on Conner and trying on girly clothes.
- Those Two Guys: Anna and Elena are never seen without each other.
- Villain Has a Point: Rachel seems to think this about Angelina's misandry.
