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* ''[[http://sarcasticfreedom.tumblr.com/fanganronpa Fangan Ronpa: Universal Despair Sale]]'' follows an alternate cast in an alternate school in the US, as usual Monobear appears and they are forced to kill each other in the Mutual Killing in the Mall of Monomerica. It mostly follows the same structure of the game: six chapters, and trials, except that in the last chapter when the remaining survivors defeat the Mastermind and earn their freedom, and then after having their last night at the mall remembering their fallen friends and vow to never forget about them, once they're out, they end up in a different room, not the mall but not outside either, being part of a new batch of students and Monobear's voice:
-->Upupupu...It's time for round two!
-->Upupupu...It's time for round two!
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* ''[[http://sarcasticfreedom.tumblr.com/fanganronpa Fangan Ronpa: Universal Despair Sale]]'' follows an alternate cast in an alternate school in the US, as usual US. As usual, Monobear appears and they are forced to kill each other in the forces them into a [[DeadlyGame Mutual Killing game]], this time set in the Mall of Monomerica. It mostly follows the same structure of the game: After six chapters, and trials, except that in the last chapter when the remaining survivors defeat the Mastermind and earn their freedom, and then after having their spending one last night at the mall remembering their fallen friends and vow vowing to never forget about them, once they're out, them. Upon leaving, however, they end up find themselves stranded in a different room, not the mall but not outside either, being part of ''different'' location, incorporated into a new batch of students and hearing Monobear's voice:
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-->'''Monobear:''' Upupupu... It's time for round two!
-->Upupupu...
-->'''Monobear:''' Upupupu... It's time for round two!
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** The name of the book that the legend came from should have tipped somebody off, as it was supposedly titled "How the Sea-Pony Wished Upon a Star and Unknowingly Started Racial Prosecution Under An Emergent Fascist Regime: A Collection of Filly’s Tales and Legends That Start Off Whimsical But End in Destruction and Death".
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** The name of the book that the legend came from should have tipped somebody off, as it was supposedly titled "How the Sea-Pony Wished Upon a Star and Unknowingly Started Racial Prosecution Under An Emergent Fascist Regime: A Collection of Filly’s Filly's Tales and Legends That Start Off Whimsical But End in Destruction and Death".
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* ''Fanfic/TheCrownAtomic'': After the Totalist government in Britain is defeated and the island is fully under Canadian control, Edward VIII recognizes that reconstruction will take time. So he establishes the British Reconstruction Authority, placing Lord Mountbatten in charge. Meanwhile, the various dominions are reluctant to surrender any of their newfound autonomy, resulting in the rise of an unstable and decentralized federation of Imperial Dominions.
* ''Fanfic/TheCrownAtomic'': After the Totalist government in Britain is defeated and the island is fully under Canadian control, Edward VIII recognizes that reconstruction will take time. So he establishes the British Reconstruction Authority, placing Lord Mountbatten in charge. Meanwhile, the various dominions are reluctant to surrender any of their newfound autonomy, resulting in the rise of an unstable and decentralized federation of Imperial Dominions.
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* {{Discussed}} in ''Fanfic/PoniesAndDragons'': Zephyr Breeze, who believes that [[invoked]] TrueArtIsAngsty, pitches several ideas to remake various video games so that all of the endings turn out absolutely ''awful'', with cruel twists aplenty and RocksFallEverybodyDies. 8-Bit and his friends are so disgusted that they end up ''firing him out of a cannon'' to make him stop.
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* ''Fanfic/BrutalSeries'': The aptly-named ''Unsurvivable'' makes it appear that Turk has survived the Games, only for him to die of his wounds on the hovercraft. The actual winner? Riben, who had gone into shock after being buried by an avalanche. Those running the Hunger Game were going to leave him to [[DyingAlone die alone]] so that Turk could win, but Turk's death forces them to retrieve Riben. Nobody is happy about this, least of all Riben -- not only does he have to deal with painful memories, but he's ForcedToWatch as his parents are tortured to death as punishment for how he didn't kill anyone during the Games, and the same fate befalls anyone else he becomes close to. Riben becomes a drug addict to cope, and it's implied that he's later killed during the Quarter Quell.
* ''Fanfic/BrutalSeries'': The aptly-named ''Unsurvivable'' makes it appear that Turk has survived the Games, only for him to die of his wounds on the hovercraft. The actual winner? Riben, who had gone into shock after being buried by an avalanche. Those running the Hunger Game were going to leave him to [[DyingAlone die alone]] so that Turk could win, but Turk's death forces them to retrieve Riben. Nobody is happy about this, least of all Riben -- not only does he have to deal with painful memories, but he's ForcedToWatch as his parents are tortured to death as punishment for how he didn't kill anyone during the Games, and the same fate befalls anyone else he becomes close to. Riben becomes a drug addict to cope, and it's implied that he's later killed during the Quarter Quell.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Best Served Cold|IAmHoussem17}}'': The finale reveals that Matthew is a VillainProtagonist, who proceeds to detail exactly how he manipulated Richy into helping him get revenge on Lily, then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness got rid of Richy as well]]. As for Hannah, she winds up DrivenToSuicide after her sister's death, while Matthew [[KarmaHoudini gets away with everything]].
* ''Fanfic/{{Best Served Cold|IAmHoussem17}}'': The finale reveals that Matthew is a VillainProtagonist, who proceeds to detail exactly how he manipulated Richy into helping him get revenge on Lily, then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness got rid of Richy as well]]. As for Hannah, she winds up DrivenToSuicide after her sister's death, while Matthew [[KarmaHoudini gets away with everything]].
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* One arc of ''FanFic/YouGotHaruhiRolled'' ends with Emiri having joined the Anti-SOS Brigade, giving them enough strength to kill all of the good guys except for Kyon and his family, and dooming the entire world. And all because Kyon told Emiri to [[BeYourself Be Herself]]. It's retconned away in the next chapter due to NegativeContinuity, but still...''ouch''.
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* One arc of ''FanFic/YouGotHaruhiRolled'' ''Fanfic/YouGotHaruhiRolled'' ends with Emiri having joined the Anti-SOS Brigade, giving them enough strength to kill all of the good guys except for Kyon and his family, and dooming the entire world. And all because Kyon told Emiri to [[BeYourself Be Herself]]. It's retconned away in the next chapter due to NegativeContinuity, but still...''ouch''.
''ouch''.
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* ''Fanfic/LuminaryUprise'': Just as the heroes have reached the rim of Mount Doom, Jack Sparrow falls under the Ring's glamour and turns on the others.
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* ''Fanfic/LuminaryUprise'': Just as the heroes have reached the rim of Mount Doom, Jack Sparrow falls under the Ring's glamour and turns on the others.
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* ''Fanfic/TheCymbalDragon'': Fluttershy's friends throw a party for her while she recovers from her injuries, the dragon is seemingly destroyed, and all seems well only for Pinkie to reveal she found the dragon, which clashes its cymbals together causing the ceiling to collapse, seemingly killing all of them.
* In the [[NestedStory story within a story]] of''FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', ''Fanfic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', the fic's version of the end of the Hearts and Hooves Day legend certainly qualifies as this.
* In the [[NestedStory story within a story]] of
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** Midway through the story, Bubbles accidentally splashes some Antidote X on a revived Butch. This cures his murderous desires... much to Bubbles' horror, as during the events of ''Syndrome'', Buttercup had been subdued in the same fashion. Whom they'd promptly killed, unaware that it was no longer necessary.
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** Midway through the story, Bubbles accidentally splashes some Antidote X on a revived recently-revived Butch. This cures his murderous desires... much to Bubbles' horror, as during the events of ''Syndrome'', Buttercup had been subdued in the same fashion. Whom they'd promptly killed, unaware that it was no longer necessary.
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* ''[[http://sarcasticfreedom.tumblr.com/fanganronpa Fangan Ronpa: Universal Despair Sale]]'' follows an alternate cast in an alternate school in the US, as usual Monobear appears and they are forced to kill each other in the Mutual Killing in the Mall of Monomerica. It mostly follows the same structure of the game: six chapters, and trials, except that in the last chapter when the remaining survivors defeat the Mastermind and earn their freedom, and then after having their last night at the mall remembering their fallen friends and vow to never forget about them once they're out just to end up in a different room, not the mall but not outside either, being part of a new batch of students and Monobear's voice:
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* ''[[http://sarcasticfreedom.tumblr.com/fanganronpa Fangan Ronpa: Universal Despair Sale]]'' follows an alternate cast in an alternate school in the US, as usual Monobear appears and they are forced to kill each other in the Mutual Killing in the Mall of Monomerica. It mostly follows the same structure of the game: six chapters, and trials, except that in the last chapter when the remaining survivors defeat the Mastermind and earn their freedom, and then after having their last night at the mall remembering their fallen friends and vow to never forget about them them, once they're out just to out, they end up in a different room, not the mall but not outside either, being part of a new batch of students and Monobear's voice:
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* '' Fanfic/PokemonStrangledRed'' has an in-universe example. In the eponymous hacked game, the aftergame consists of a '''giant''' cruel twist. After winning the championship, Steven first loses Miki in an accident, then he turns into a monster in trying to bring her back to life, and finally kills Mike by strangulation.
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* '' Fanfic/PokemonStrangledRed'' ''Fanfic/PokemonStrangledRed'' has an in-universe example. In the eponymous hacked game, the aftergame consists of a '''giant''' cruel twist. After winning the championship, Steven first loses Miki in an accident, then he turns into a monster in trying to bring her back to life, and finally kills Mike by strangulation.
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!!This is a SpoileredRotten trope, which means that ''EVERY SINGLE EXAMPLE'' listed below is a spoiler by default and will be unmarked without a tag. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Only proceed if you really believe you can handle this list]].
{{Cruel Twist Ending}}s in FanWorks.
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* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaTheImmersiveLearningProgram'' ends on a {{Cliffhanger}} with the titular Immersive Learning Program crashing, and the fate of the surviving students unknown. However, a single HopeSpot precedes this with Kaede reaching for Shuichi's hand. Unfortunately, the fourth chapter of the sequel ''Danganronpa: Academy of Discontent'' reveals that neither Shuichi or Kaede were able to get out in time, and were in fact two of the only three people not to do so, resulting in it becoming this instead.
* ''[[http://sarcasticfreedom.tumblr.com/fanganronpa Fangan Ronpa: Universal Despair Sale]]'' follows an alternate cast in an alternate school in the US, as usual Monobear appears and they are forced to kill each other in the Mutual Killing in the Mall of Monomerica. It mostly follows the same structure of the game: six chapters, and trials, except that in the last chapter when the remaining survivors defeat the Mastermind and earn their freedom, and then after having their last night at the mall remembering their fallen friends and vow to never forget about them once they're out just to end up in a different room, not the mall but not outside either, being part of a new batch of students and Monobear's voice:
-->Upupupu...It's time for round two!
[[AC:''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'']]
* In ''Fanfic/DOOMRepercussionsOfEvil'', the protagonist is suddenly transformed into a zombie with no explanation or foreshadowing.
-->"[[MemeticMutation No, John. You are the demons]]." AndThenJohnWasAZombie.
[[AC:''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'']]
* One arc of ''FanFic/YouGotHaruhiRolled'' ends with Emiri having joined the Anti-SOS Brigade, giving them enough strength to kill all of the good guys except for Kyon and his family, and dooming the entire world. And all because Kyon told Emiri to [[BeYourself Be Herself]]. It's retconned away in the next chapter due to NegativeContinuity, but still...''ouch''.
[[AC:''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'']]
* In the [[NestedStory story within a story]] of ''FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', the fic's version of the end of the Hearts and Hooves Day legend certainly qualifies as this.
** The name of the book that the legend came from should have tipped somebody off, as it was supposedly titled "How the Sea-Pony Wished Upon a Star and Unknowingly Started Racial Prosecution Under An Emergent Fascist Regime: A Collection of Filly’s Tales and Legends That Start Off Whimsical But End in Destruction and Death".
[[AC:''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'''']]
* ''Fanfic/ImmortalitySyndrome'': The sequel ''Immortality Relapse'' provides two:
** Midway through the story, Bubbles accidentally splashes some Antidote X on a revived Butch. This cures his murderous desires... much to Bubbles' horror, as during the events of ''Syndrome'', Buttercup had been subdued in the same fashion. Whom they'd promptly killed, unaware that it was no longer necessary.
** Then comes Relapse's climax, where the heroes stopped Boomer from activating his doomsday machine... only for him to survive just long enough to turn it on after all, killing everyone else on the planet. [[SoleSurvivor Only Bubbles survives]], thanks to the Professor's HeroicSacrifice.
[[AC:''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'']]
* '' Fanfic/PokemonStrangledRed'' has an in-universe example. In the eponymous hacked game, the aftergame consists of a '''giant''' cruel twist. After winning the championship, Steven first loses Miki in an accident, then he turns into a monster in trying to bring her back to life, and finally kills Mike by strangulation.
[[AC:''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'']]
* ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'' has Sonic and his friends defeating Dark Tails and saving the galaxy. JUST KIDDING! Dark Tails' death allows an entire race of ''even worse'' Lovecraftian horrors to finally escape. Which they do - and then promptly exterminate nearly all life in the universe.
[[AC:''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'']]
* ''Fanfic/ADashOfLogic'' does this to several episodes that originally had positive endings.
** In "Squid Baby", [=SpongeBob=] and Sandy travel back in time to prevent the former's past self from causing Squidward to suffer the head injury that caused him to revert back to an infant. [[BadFuture This somehow results in Squidward, [=SpongeBob=], Patrick, and Mr. Krabs all suffering head injuries and Sandy being stuck taking care of them]]. [[ANaziByAnyOtherName On top of that, they now live in a dystopian future where Man Ray rules over Bikini Bottom as a fascist dictator and Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy have to hide in their basement]].
** "Pest of the West" ends with Dead Eye Plankton [[TheBadGuyWins successfully stealing the deed to the Krusty Kantina and throwing [=SpongeBuck=], William Krabs and Hopalong Tentacles out]], [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished all because [=SpongeBuck=] took pity on him earlier and unwittingly gave him the idea to build a giant steampunk robot to steal the deed]]. To make matters worse, we then learn that the three met Sandy's ancestor, Adalynn Cheeks, and volunteered to be test subjects for her experimental aquarium. They all died in the process.
** At the end of "Truth or Square", Tom Kenny tries to quit his role as [=SpongeBob=]/Patchy after finally realizing that the Nickelodeon execs no longer care about maintaining any quality with their flagship show, but is then reminded that he has signed a contract that makes him Nickelodeon's legal property and gets strongarmed by a pair of "Human Resources" thugs into staying. The poor guy can do nothing but whimper in resignation. The [=SpongeBob=] segment also reveals that the Krabby Patty formula is nothing but a sham made up by Mr. Krabs to market his food brand without spending a nickle.
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* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10858911 New Appreciation]]'' starts with [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Julian Bashir]] discovering his coworkers find him annoying and getting a replacement everybody hates whilst temporarily assigned elsewhere, and continues with the universe compounding the lesson by dumping [[TranshumanTreachery Colonel Bashir]] on them. At the end, the senior staff throw a little 'welcome back' party for the Bashir native to their universe, he and Garak get a RelationshipUpgrade...and the very last line reveals that this is ''still'' Colonel Bashir. [[FridgeHorror Given how he talked about killing his counterpart if they ever met]], [[KillAndReplace the 'original' Bashir is almost certainly dead]], and probably never even knew how everyone else really felt. And the fic implies that Garak had a hand in arranging the original's transfer and replacement, making it even ''worse''...
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!!This is a SpoileredRotten trope, which means that ''EVERY SINGLE EXAMPLE'' listed below is a spoiler by default and will be unmarked without a tag. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Only proceed if you really believe you can handle this list]].
{{Cruel Twist Ending}}s in FanWorks.
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[[AC:''Franchise/DanganRonpa'']]
* ''Fanfic/DanganronpaTheImmersiveLearningProgram'' ends on a {{Cliffhanger}} with the titular Immersive Learning Program crashing, and the fate of the surviving students unknown. However, a single HopeSpot precedes this with Kaede reaching for Shuichi's hand. Unfortunately, the fourth chapter of the sequel ''Danganronpa: Academy of Discontent'' reveals that neither Shuichi or Kaede were able to get out in time, and were in fact two of the only three people not to do so, resulting in it becoming this instead.
* ''[[http://sarcasticfreedom.tumblr.com/fanganronpa Fangan Ronpa: Universal Despair Sale]]'' follows an alternate cast in an alternate school in the US, as usual Monobear appears and they are forced to kill each other in the Mutual Killing in the Mall of Monomerica. It mostly follows the same structure of the game: six chapters, and trials, except that in the last chapter when the remaining survivors defeat the Mastermind and earn their freedom, and then after having their last night at the mall remembering their fallen friends and vow to never forget about them once they're out just to end up in a different room, not the mall but not outside either, being part of a new batch of students and Monobear's voice:
-->Upupupu...It's time for round two!
[[AC:''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'']]
* In ''Fanfic/DOOMRepercussionsOfEvil'', the protagonist is suddenly transformed into a zombie with no explanation or foreshadowing.
-->"[[MemeticMutation No, John. You are the demons]]." AndThenJohnWasAZombie.
[[AC:''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'']]
* One arc of ''FanFic/YouGotHaruhiRolled'' ends with Emiri having joined the Anti-SOS Brigade, giving them enough strength to kill all of the good guys except for Kyon and his family, and dooming the entire world. And all because Kyon told Emiri to [[BeYourself Be Herself]]. It's retconned away in the next chapter due to NegativeContinuity, but still...''ouch''.
[[AC:''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'']]
* In the [[NestedStory story within a story]] of ''FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', the fic's version of the end of the Hearts and Hooves Day legend certainly qualifies as this.
** The name of the book that the legend came from should have tipped somebody off, as it was supposedly titled "How the Sea-Pony Wished Upon a Star and Unknowingly Started Racial Prosecution Under An Emergent Fascist Regime: A Collection of Filly’s Tales and Legends That Start Off Whimsical But End in Destruction and Death".
[[AC:''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'''']]
* ''Fanfic/ImmortalitySyndrome'': The sequel ''Immortality Relapse'' provides two:
** Midway through the story, Bubbles accidentally splashes some Antidote X on a revived Butch. This cures his murderous desires... much to Bubbles' horror, as during the events of ''Syndrome'', Buttercup had been subdued in the same fashion. Whom they'd promptly killed, unaware that it was no longer necessary.
** Then comes Relapse's climax, where the heroes stopped Boomer from activating his doomsday machine... only for him to survive just long enough to turn it on after all, killing everyone else on the planet. [[SoleSurvivor Only Bubbles survives]], thanks to the Professor's HeroicSacrifice.
[[AC:''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'']]
* '' Fanfic/PokemonStrangledRed'' has an in-universe example. In the eponymous hacked game, the aftergame consists of a '''giant''' cruel twist. After winning the championship, Steven first loses Miki in an accident, then he turns into a monster in trying to bring her back to life, and finally kills Mike by strangulation.
[[AC:''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'']]
* ''Fanfic/SonicXDarkChaos'' has Sonic and his friends defeating Dark Tails and saving the galaxy. JUST KIDDING! Dark Tails' death allows an entire race of ''even worse'' Lovecraftian horrors to finally escape. Which they do - and then promptly exterminate nearly all life in the universe.
[[AC:''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'']]
* ''Fanfic/ADashOfLogic'' does this to several episodes that originally had positive endings.
** In "Squid Baby", [=SpongeBob=] and Sandy travel back in time to prevent the former's past self from causing Squidward to suffer the head injury that caused him to revert back to an infant. [[BadFuture This somehow results in Squidward, [=SpongeBob=], Patrick, and Mr. Krabs all suffering head injuries and Sandy being stuck taking care of them]]. [[ANaziByAnyOtherName On top of that, they now live in a dystopian future where Man Ray rules over Bikini Bottom as a fascist dictator and Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy have to hide in their basement]].
** "Pest of the West" ends with Dead Eye Plankton [[TheBadGuyWins successfully stealing the deed to the Krusty Kantina and throwing [=SpongeBuck=], William Krabs and Hopalong Tentacles out]], [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished all because [=SpongeBuck=] took pity on him earlier and unwittingly gave him the idea to build a giant steampunk robot to steal the deed]]. To make matters worse, we then learn that the three met Sandy's ancestor, Adalynn Cheeks, and volunteered to be test subjects for her experimental aquarium. They all died in the process.
** At the end of "Truth or Square", Tom Kenny tries to quit his role as [=SpongeBob=]/Patchy after finally realizing that the Nickelodeon execs no longer care about maintaining any quality with their flagship show, but is then reminded that he has signed a contract that makes him Nickelodeon's legal property and gets strongarmed by a pair of "Human Resources" thugs into staying. The poor guy can do nothing but whimper in resignation. The [=SpongeBob=] segment also reveals that the Krabby Patty formula is nothing but a sham made up by Mr. Krabs to market his food brand without spending a nickle.
[[AC:''Franchise/StarTrek'']]
* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10858911 New Appreciation]]'' starts with [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Julian Bashir]] discovering his coworkers find him annoying and getting a replacement everybody hates whilst temporarily assigned elsewhere, and continues with the universe compounding the lesson by dumping [[TranshumanTreachery Colonel Bashir]] on them. At the end, the senior staff throw a little 'welcome back' party for the Bashir native to their universe, he and Garak get a RelationshipUpgrade...and the very last line reveals that this is ''still'' Colonel Bashir. [[FridgeHorror Given how he talked about killing his counterpart if they ever met]], [[KillAndReplace the 'original' Bashir is almost certainly dead]], and probably never even knew how everyone else really felt. And the fic implies that Garak had a hand in arranging the original's transfer and replacement, making it even ''worse''...
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