History EasilyForgiven / FanWorks

* ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'': At the end of Part 1, [[spoiler: Doctor Connors takes a blood sample from Raphael while he's unconscious and uses the mutagen in the sample to make a serum to regrow his arm. This serum, [[DoomedByCanon of course]], not only grows his arm back but turns him into [[CompositeCharacter a lizard/crocodilian mutant nicknamed Leatherhead]].]] The Hamatos are furious when they learn, but none moreso than Raphael. Splinter both deconstructs and reconstructs this trope, saying that Raph has every reason to be angry for what happened, but that he must eventually forgive [[spoiler:Connors]] so he can move on.

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* ''Fanfic/AceCombatTheEquestrianWar'': Fluttershy holds no grudges against Firefly when she initially berates the timid pegasus for not fighting the griffins. When Firefly apologizes for her behavior, Fluttershy gives her a hug; she ''is'' [[TheHeart Fluttershy]], after all.

* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', Izuku is amazingly willing to forgive Bakugou for years upon years of bullying because he sees Bakugou as an inspiration: someone who is strong, intelligent, and confident with an unyielding drive to succeed. He doesn't even blame Bakugou for actively trying to make him miserable, calling him a product of the society they live in. Even when Bakugou makes it clear that he plans on beating the crap out of Izuku, the latter continues to rationalize it and harps on Peter for faceplanting Bakugou.

* Invoked in ''Fanfic/LifeOreDeath'' after an attempt to assassinate Ferris [[spoiler:by the Forever People]] is stopped, because Ferris felt how powerful [[spoiler:Infinity Man]] was and has been convinced that they were genuinely misguided, so she tells her teammates to talk it out instead of holding a grudge.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]''[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, Samantha Shepard receives near-instant forgiveness for her actions while undergoing a HeroicBSOD ([[AMillionIsAStatistic killing millions of civilians]]). {{Justified|Trope}} InUniverse due to the belief that she is one of the few who could lead the galaxy to victory, despite the fact that people notice this dissonance and [[LampshadeHanging comment on it]]. This even comes up in Jackie's subplots--Shepard's crimes are likely far worse but it's Jackie who everyone is suspicious of. The cast is also troubled by Sarah post-HeelFaceTurn because they wonder if they're engaging in this trope. Then somebody else points out [[GodzillaThreshold who they're fighting against]].

* ''Fanfic/TemporalAnomaly'': Despite learning the fact One was willing to let Zero kill them all without doing a thing to stop her, Two, Three, and Five reassure her that they still love her, understanding it was due to a combination of preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and due to them themselves [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity becoming increasingly immoral and insane thanks to the Flower's influence.]] Four takes a while to get there.
** Speaking of which, Four is on the receiving end from Two, even after the former gives a tear-inducing rant towards the latter when she inadvertently [[spoiler: convinces Sougo to go and fight the Flower by himself.]]
--> '''Two:''' It's okay. We're all having a bit of a bad time right now.

* ''Fanfic/TheOopsCycle'': Saaminga, the Demon Prince of Death, was a member of Lucifer's rebellion against God and spent the millennia since as the patron of undead and necromancy, causing a great deal of evil and suffering in the world. After his HeelFaceTurn, his sheer usefulness and thorough and quick undoing of his prior work make him almost universally welcomed by even the most skeptical archangels. The worst he gets is Eli and him butting heads over whether the best works are the ones completed or left unfinished.

* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', Izuku is amazingly willing to forgive Bakugou for years upon years of bullying because he sees Bakugou as an inspiration: someone who is strong, intelligent and confident with an unyielding drive to succeed. He doesn't even blame Bakugou for actively trying to make him miserable, calling him a product of the society they live in. Even when Bakugou makes it clear that he plans on beating the crap out of Izuku, the latter continues to rationalize it and harps on Peter for faceplanting Bakugou.

** {{Downplayed|Trope}}: Sunset forgives Timmy for sneaking out on her... but still forces him to do chores for her and her friends to make up for it.

** Brutally defied with [[spoiler:the Dazzlings, who try putting on a show of redemption and forgiveness, only for nobody to seriously buy it due to their self-serving entitlement. This culiminates in them being brutally beaten, tied up and gagged, with Twilight planning to dump them into Tartarus]].

* ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'': After Sam genuinely apologizes to both Danny and Kara, they both forgive her no problem. Danny admits that he never hated Sam and he was afraid that he lost his best friend forever. Kara forgives her because she saw that Sam regretted what she did and also because she don't like holding grudges. It's played more realistically as Sam is aware that she still has to earn back their trust back, despite being forgiven.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]''[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, Samantha Shepard receives near-instant forgiveness for her actions while undergoing a HeroicBSOD ([[AMillionIsAStatistic killing millions of civilians]]). {{Justified|Trope}} InUniverse due to the belief that she is one of the few that could lead the galaxy to victory, despite the fact that people notice this dissonance and [[LampshadeHanging comment on it]]. This even comes up in Jackie's subplots--Shepard's crimes are likely far worse but it's Jackie who everyone is suspicious of. The cast is also troubled by Sarah post-HeelFaceTurn because they wonder if they're engaging in this trope. Then somebody else points out [[GodzillaThreshold who they're fighting against]].

* ''Fanfic/TemporalAnomaly'': Despite learning the fact One was willing to let Zero kill them all without doing a thing to stop her, Two, Three, and Five reassure her that they still love her, understanding it was due to a combination of preventing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and due to them themselves [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity becoming increasingly immoral and insane thanks to the Flower's influence.]] Four takes awhile to get there.
** Speaking of which, Four is on the receiving end from Two, even after the former gives an tear-inducing rant towards the latter when she inadvertently [[spoiler: convinces Sougo to go and fight the Flower by himself.]]

* Subverted in ''[[Fanfic/BlackbirdArrow Blackbird]]''. After Laurel is freed from her forced membership of the League of Assassins, it's clear she hasn't forgiven any of the people that have wronged her (specifically her parents and her sister) so much as that her training and self-hatred are preventing her from mustering up the energy to get angry at them. If she has forgiven anyone, it's Oliver, and even then that's because he's probably the only one who has genuinely earned it, since he may have cheated on her with her sister but he then came back and risked death to rescue her. The fact that he followed up the rescue with a genuine apology for his actions helped, even though it was probably unnecessary at that point since his later actions spoke for themselves.
* Played with in ''Fanfic/TheCuttingEdge''; as far as most are concerned, Laurel appears to have quickly forgiven those who wronged her (Sara, Samantha, and Oliver- even before he comes home), but in truth she's just had a few years to process it. She does muse at one point that she's going to need to come up with a better explanation for it all eventually.

* During ''Fanfic/CodeGeassCorneliaOfTheDefection'', Lelouch gets chewed out by both Euphie and Cornelia about him killing Clovis, but both wind up forgiving him for it afterwards, though in the latter's case she admits that this is partially because he is Marianne's son.

* In ''Fanfic/AGunToLovesHead'', [[ArchEnemy L and Light]] forgive each other because they didn't want to have to kill [[FriendlyEnemy their friend.]] Also [[spoiler:after Mello's stunt of pulling a gun on and [[ScarpiaUltimatum sexually harrassing L and Light]] (to which Matt and Near were accessories)--[[YouAreGrounded Mello is grounded]] [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment and forced to go a week without chocolate, Near is forced to socialize,]] and Matt gets away with it as usual]].

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' fic ''Fanfic/TheFifthAct'', Cloud doesn't hold a grudge against Angeal for kidnapping him and selling him out to be experimented on. At the same time, no one holds it against Cloud for attempting a MurderSuicide with Sephiroth. They all learned to forgive and forget so they can start over and move on for the horrible mess.

* In ''[[http://tgs.gargoyles-fans.org The Gargoyles Saga]]'', Demona gives up trying to destroy humanity, and becomes one of the good guys all because Angela waves a finger in her face. Less than two months after attempting mass genocide of the human race, Demona is eating Christmas dinner with the heroes.

* In ''Fanfic/ErikaTheRadical'', Karen Nakahashi and her band of rebellious students had organised what basically '''mutiny''' against the Kuromorimine school. The list of heinous acts committed, but are not limited to: forging signatures to official documents (tank repairs and acquisition), {{Blackmail}}ing the ''Headmistress of the Nishizumi School'', the commandeering of the Kuromorimine heavy tank fleet, resisting arrest by assaulting members of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil, blatantly breaking Sensha-do rules, disrupting everyday school events and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking publicly broadcasting Erika's drunken escapades from the school's media room]]. What punishment does she receive from all this once defeated and caught? A literal slap-on-the-wrist and verbal warning from Shiho herself not to disrespect her again.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Second Chance|MoDaoZuShi}}s'', Jin Zixuan mentioned that while he was previously rather bitter that Wei Ying's ghost general killed him, epecially, after hearing how his death affected his mother, he realized that Wei Ying was genuinely shocked and horrified when Wen Ning killed him. Besides, he wasn't in complete control, so he finally forgives him.

* A common plot thread in HP fanfics is Dumbledore preaching the necessity of easy forgiveness, sometimes even of foes that not only haven't sought forgiveness at all, but are still actively trying to kill the protagonists.

* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2205019/1/Harry-Potter-the-Azkaban-Parody Harry Potter & the Azkaban Parody]]'' where everyone demands that Harry forgive them for wrongfully sending him to Azkaban Prison for "one year, three months, two weeks, four days, seven hours, thirteen minutes, and twenty six seconds," killing his owl right in front of him, stealing from him, and destroying his property without actually ''asking'' him for their forgiveness. And instead of taking him to a doctor or allowing him to recover from the effects of starvation and the Dementors they immediately force him back into school "where you will be constantly bombarded with all the people you don't want to see until we break you down and force you to forgive us." Needless to say, Harry is less than impressed.

** After her sister Tsuruko drills many hard truths into her, Motoko apologizes for all the times she unjustly assaulted Keitaro and Anthony. Both initially assume that she's been ''[[OrderedApology ordered]]'' to apologize. After learning that she's sincere, both men declare that her actions have been ForgivenButNotForgotten; they might forgive her, but that doesn't mean they ''trust'' her, or have forgotten how she easily she resorted to violence against them and others. Faye, meanwhile, simply [[RejectedApology rejects her apology outright]], finding her behavior to have been completely unforgivable.
** Su ''assumes'' everyone will forgive her after she apologizes, since she honestly wasn't aware that Naru's plans for the Inn would actually be bad for everyone. Nobody agrees with her.

* ''Fanfic/WhatIsAPersonWorth'': [[DefiedTrope Defied]]; Lincoln is not going to forgive his family easy, even though he gives them a chance to redeem themselves. Played straight with Lincoln forgiving Ronnie Anne for her bullying and falling for Chandler's plot of revenge. [[spoiler:While it took a long time, the family worked hard to earn Lincoln's forgiveness.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheOtherSideMemoriaeterna'' begins with essentially the other half of the universe being killed in the Snap (''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''), with the result that Wanda triggers the Westview Hex (''Series/WandaVision'') a few days after the Snap rather than a few days after it was undone. As a result, characters observe that the Westview residents actually found it easier to be under Wanda's influence than they did in canon, as dealing with another person's grief let them get away from their own for a time whereas canon saw Wanda unwittingly force her own pain on others when they should have been enjoying the reunion.

* ''Fanfic/ASeriesOfFortunateEvents'': {{Averted|Trope}}. Saki Yoshida, while grocery shopping with her daughter Hana ran into her mother, who threw her out of the house when her father lied to her mother about Saki seducing him when he was molesting Saki and forcing her to sleep with him. To Saki's shock, her mother grabbed and hugged her while crying; shock, especially since the last time they talked, her mother threw her out; she asked her mother why she was talking to her. Saki's mother begged her to forgive her, revealing that her father told her everything; shocked, Saki asked why her father would tell her the truth; Saki's mother revealed that her father came home drunk and accidentally revealed that he forced himself on Saki. While Saki was not angry or resentful towards her mother, she was not interested in forgiving her either because of her actions, with the love and trust Saki had in her mother gone. When Saki's mother asks if they can talk and notices Saki's daughter and uneasily ask if her daughter's father is Saki's father, Saki coldly tells her mother that her father is not the father of her daughter and that she has to go. Saki's mother said please, if I had known the truth earlier, I would've never kicked you out, only for Saki to say while holding back tears, you left me when I needed you most, I always came to you when I was sad, and I trusted you. I'm glad you know the truth, but I can't not in front of my Hana; she then bought groceries and left with her daughter.

** {{Downplayed}} with Adrien. When the rest of the class learns that he knew about Lila's true nature, but refused to warn them, they're furious, and leave it to Rose to decide how they handle it. Rose opts not to forgive him immediately, but encourages him to work for their forgiveness by showing that he's learned from this and changed.

** Sabine is ThePerfectionist who psychologically abused her daughter by refusing to recognize any of Marinette's accomplishments as noteworthy, claiming that perfect grades and any other achievements are just "as it should be" and complaining when she scored [[TheBGrade "only 99%"]] on a test. While she has come to realize the damage she's done and is trying to be better, and Marinette doesn't hold it against her, all of Marinette's friends do, with Kagami declaring that she's being far too lenient with her mother.
** After Lila's true nature is fully exposed, Kim loudly apologizes to Marinette... and when she doesn't respond, starts shouting apologies to everyone around him. Juleka finally calls this out as purely ''performative'', noting that he's not actually promising to ''change his behavior'' or not to do it again, but just looking for reassurance that he won't be ''punished'' or have to deal with the consequences of his actions. This effectively shuts him up.
* In ''Fanfic/HopToIt'', Marinette spends weeks treating Jack coldly out of misguided jealousy because of her friendship with Adrien, and when she's asked to help Jack with a new outfit, she goes so far as to set her up with a replica of Chloé's favourite outfit. When she and Alya find out in the nick of time that Jack already has a boyfriend back in the US, they both scramble to get her out of Chloé's sight, including spraying her with water to distract her, and once they're back at the bakery, Marinette comes clean about her actions.

** Adrien also expects to be forgiven for skipping the FinalBattle with Hawkmoth, since he didn't ''know'' it was going to be the final fight with him. He ''did'', however, know that Ladybug had warned him that she'd need his help later that day, asking him to come running at a certain signal... and decided to throw a party at his place while waiting.

** Worth noting: while Adrien preaches the importance of '[[TurnTheOtherCheek taking the high road]]' and forgiving all transgressions, his belief in this falls apart once ''he's'' the one who's been hurt. After [[TheFarmerAndTheViper falling for one of Lila's scams himself]] despite his belief that [[OriginalPositionFallacy she couldn't touch him]], Adrien becomes increasingly obsessed with getting back what's his... along with a heaping helping of {{Revenge}}.

* ''Fanfic/OfPatienceAndPettiness'' [[DefiedTrope defies this]] as well - or rather, takes the approach that those seeking forgiveness have to ''acknowledge what they did wrong'' first. When Lila's true nature is [[LiarRevealed quickly exposed]] by Jagged Stone, the majority of Ms. Bustier's class act as though ''she'' was [[TheScapegoat solely responsible]] for [[NeverMyFault how they acted]]. Only a handful of them [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone recognize their own mistakes]] and try making amends; the rest expect things to [[StatusQuoIsGod revert back to normal]] with no real ''effort'' on their part, much to Marinette's dismay.

** {{Averted}} during "Despair Bear"; after Adrien [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls her out]] for all her bullying and breaks off their friendship, Chloé convinces herself that he'll forgive her if she throws a party and acts nice to all of their classmates. Adrien notes to Marinette that Chloé isn't actually ''[[TheUnapologetic apologizing]]'' to anyone, and when Chloé goes compliment fishing and asks if he's ready to forget all about their little fight and be friends again, responds with a BluntNo.

* ''Fanfic/TellingLiesNoMama'': After it’s revealed that Lila is indeed a liar with cruel, selfish intentions like Marinette said, the class feels terrible for reducing her claims to petty jealousy and apologize sincerely. While Marinette does express that she was hurt that no one considered her feelings when they pushed her to the back without her permission and easily dismissed her warnings about Lila, she does reconcile with them, and admits that she has let her jealousy over Adrien get the better of her on other occasions.

** After learning that [[TheUnmasking Marinette is Ladybug]], Alya expects to reap the rewards of being her 'BFF' despite having grown estranged from her thanks to Lila's manipulations. She declares that they can move past this 'blip' in their relationship ''before'' offering a token apology, and makes clear that she expects ''Marinette'' to be making more restitutions toward '''her''' for not revealing her SecretIdentity sooner.

* ''Fanfic/AftermathOfTheGames'': Justified InUniverse and {{Deconstructed|Trope}}; Everybody forgives Sci-Twi for what she did as Midnight Sparkle, as they're aware of the fact that Cinch blackmailed and bullied her into unleashing magic, and because she was not as cruel as Sunset had been. However, Sci-Twi is still haunted by her actions and fears the chance she could give into her dark side again. She's also left wondering why Cinch doesn't deserve the same treatment until Sunset explains that, unlike Sci-Twi, [[NeverMyFault the principal refused to take responsibility for her actions]] and [[TheSociopath didn't care if people were almost hurt or killed in order to guarantee her legacy]].

* ''Fanfic/RainboomsAndRoyalty'': Played straight with Celestia and most of Ponyville forgiving Princess Luna for her actions as Nightmare Moon. Averted with Rainbow Dash, who finds it difficult to overlook that just a few hours ago she tried to take away her mentor, tried to conquer Equestria, brainwashed her friends, tried kill her new friends, and tried to kill her. An encounter and a bonding moment with Luna during the celebratory party that followed Equestria's salvation leads to Rainbow letting go of her anger and forgiving her partially, but withholds complete forgiveness until Luna fully proves her redemption.

* ''Fanfic/IAmNotGoingThroughPubertyAgain'': A justified case. After the protagonists (with the Hokage's backing) arrange things so documents revealing the Uchiha Clan's attempted coup are released to the public, Itachi is allowed to return to Konoha, where they "commend" him for his "initiative" but punish him still for "subverting the chain of command". He's promptly kicked out of ANBU and demoted to chunin. It's a slap on the wrist, and everyone with half a brain ''knows'' it, but it gets the village leadership out of admitting that they ordered a thirteen year old boy to slaughter his entire family, so they all go along with it. The epilogue mentions that Itachi was even named Godaime Hokage.

** [[spoiler:After he gets his ass kicked by Naruto and makes his HeelFaceTurn, Sasuke learns that Sakura still loves him. However, she reinforces the fact that while she still loves him, she also knows he doesn't deserve it, and informs him that he will not only have to earn her forgiveness, but also that of the rest of the Konoha 12 along with the village at large.]]

* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': Gendo has been placed under permanent house arrest in punishment for collaborating with SEELE’s attempted global genocide. If he has faced worse punishments, the story does not tell. Likewise, Shinji and Asuka have forgiven him for everything he did to them, directly or indirectly. Gendo is pretty aware of how lucky he is.

* In ''Fanfic/AllMixedUp'', Olive, Otto, Oscar and Oprah are all quick to forgive Mariana Mag for her actions. Oprah in particular even allows her to stay in Toronto and continue her FamilyBusiness of running her aquarium rather than turning her in to the proper authorities and having the local papers brand her as a dangerous villain, as the Director realizes that she was completely in the wrong and takes the blame for causing her to have a FaceHeelTurn. To top it off, she permits all cases involving subjects outside of mathematics to be handled by agents accordingly.

* ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/shadowlvr15/gallery/39266966/vengeance Vengeance]]'' (later by the author of ''Fanfic/{{Suffer}}'') has Shadow groping his wife Blaze as a way to prepare to ''{{rape|asdrama}}'' her multiple times, as well as attempting to kill her and their son Ryan multiple times, just to get his {{Revenge}} for being [[FalseRapeAccusation falsely accused and convicted of rape]] by Blaze[[note]]When the couple were caught stealing a Chaos Emerald, she didn't want to be go to prison pregnant and have her baby there[[/note]]. At the very end, Shadow and Blaze quickly forgive each other and become a happy couple again as if nothing happened.

** [[spoiler:Guilty!Patrick]] is also forgiven, or at least left alone by the remaining citizens of Bikini Bottom as they rebuild. The only one who doesn't, and thinks he got off too easy is [[spoiler:Pearl, because [[YouKilledMyFather Mr. Krabs is dead]] and she could've stopped the Tortured One due to being a [[MonsterWhale sperm whale]]]]. She also derides Patrick (all of them) for being cowardly by waiting to attack until she was away. Unfortunately, she's the only one who wants revenge for Mr. Krabs, as Sandy points out that the greedy man started the whole thing and got what he deserved.

* Zigzagged with Hux in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/24510043/chapters/59167681 The Things that Don't Destroy Us]]'' and its sequel ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27420301/chapters/67024510 The Ones who Rebuild Us]]''. Most of the Resistance members were understandably wary of him after Leia and the Council decides to let him continue serving their cause after discovering that he is the First Order spy (with limited freedom, of course), and Finn continues to hate him even after a year, and he's proven himself a changed man. But one of the few people to welcome Hux into their cause is a guard named Betton, whose half-sister was killed during the Hosnian cataclysm. Even Hux is incredulous with the man's ready trust in him, and initially thought Betton was just trying to lower his guard and assassinate him.
* In ''Fanfic/ASwordToPass'', When Elair Hayon comes to Ezra to apologies for her earlier behavior towards him; he forgives her right away much to her surprise. She actually rather annoyed by it because she had a whole speech planned. When she asks Ezra why he can forgive her so easily he says that he is a Jedi. Which only serves to frustrate her because that doesn’t explain anything.

** Also averted with Rose/Pink Diamond and the other Diamonds. Her 'relationship' with them largely consists of her gritting her teeth and ignoring their wishes, hiding her disgust by being a ConsummateLiar, or flat-out screaming at them when she can't take it any more. Overall, it's clear that their relationships with her are entirely one-sided, and the only reason she feigns any interest in reconciliation is for the sake of her own goals.

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* In ''Fanfic/OnTrial'', Cassandra is sorry what she did while under the influence of the Moon Stone and Zhan Tiri. Rapunzel, Eugene, Varian, Lance, her father, and the Queen readily forgive her...but the story kicks off because the King doesn't.

* A key point of ''FanFic/TouhouIbunshu'' is {{Forgiveness}} and ThePowerOfLove, with not forgiving people being treated as a terrible sin that corrupts the soul and loving the perpetrator treated as a better fix than any punishment. Actions that are Easily Forgiven range from assault to attempted murder to ''successful'' murder to schemes that would wipe out all life in Gensokyo, with no-one questioning the trend. Admittedly, the perpetrator has to show they're trying to make amends before they're forgiven (Mokou, who remains unrepentant, is never forgiven by anybody), with Yukari especially devoting huge amounts of time and effort to fixing the damage she caused.

* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaLegends'': Zig-zagged with [[TookALevelInJerkass Noah's newfound cruelty]]. After Noah realizes he alienated himself from the rest of his team, even Owen, he apologizes for how he was acting. Owen accepts the apology almost immediately, [[spoiler:and convinces the team to vote him off in order to save Noah]]. Jasmine however, the main target of Noah's bullying, rejects Noah's apology, not believing it to be genuine. It takes several more chapters before Noah finally earns Jasmine's forgiveness.

* ''Fanfic/TheDimensionalDrifter'': When Yoko sees Judai after three years of him being AWOL, she just slaps him and forces him in the house again. Yuya is nowhere close to as forgiving at first, but after questioning his mother he decides to say nothing, and soon gets sidetracked by more important stuff. It's implied that part of Yoko's reason for putting him in the house again is her EmptyNest syndrome, which nobody is willing to discuss.

** Chloe initially thinks that Ladybug has forgiven her when she comes to her with a request; however, Ladybug makes clear that this is TeethClenchedTeamwork on her end, and that Chloe will ''not'' be getting the Bee or any Miraculous after how she betrayed her. This spurs a HeelRealization that leads Chloe to [[CharacterDevelopment start trying to change for the better]]; her recognition that she's not ''owed'' forgiveness gradually convinces Marinette to give her another chance while still keeping her at arm's length. Eventually, Ladybug completely forgives Chloe because she genuinely wants to make amends to become a better person, gives Chloe a second chance to be a superhero, and even becomes friends with her.
** Alya and [[FairWeatherFriend most of Marinette's classmates]] figure that Marinette will accept them back with open arms after they learn that [[spoiler:she's actually Ladybug]], only for her to cut them off, having realized that they were AllTakeAndNoGive. The only one she's willing to give any leeway is Juleka, as like Chloe, she's the only one who recognizes how badly she hurt her by going along with the crowd and admits that she's not ''entitled'' to being forgiven.

** Adrien also expects his parents to benefit from this, despite his father being exposed as Hawk Moth and his mother [[AdaptationalVillainy fully supporting his criminal endeavors]], including [[spoiler:breaking him out of jail]]. The same logic applies to Lila and Chloe -- despite them being arrested as suspected accomplices to Hawk Moth, he believes that [[StatusQuoIsGod everything will be worked out]] by the time their vacation from school ends.

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20868983/chapters/49605089 With Time]]'', Marinette forgives Chloe for years of bullying and even tentatively becomes friends with her. However, this happens ''after'' Chloe comes through for Marinette during one of her lowest moments and while Marinette is struggling with depression and poor self-esteem thanks to a different bullying incident. In addition, their friendship isn't solidified until months later, by which point Chloe has taken serious steps to change and make up for her past behavior.

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* In ''Fanfic/GoldPoisons'', the trope is zigzagged with [[spoiler: Mo Xiulan]]. While [[spoiler: she]] still goes to prison for nearly killing Lan Xichen, he forgives [[spoiler: her]] easily given both the fact that [[spoiler: she]] was acting under duress and because he is a very forgiving person by nature.
* In ''[[Fanfic/SecondChanceMoDaoZuShi Second Chances]]'', Jin Zixuan mentioned that while he was previously rather bitter that Wei Ying's ghost general killed him, epecially, after hearing how his death affected his mother, he realized that Wei Ying was genuinely shocked and horrified when Wen Ning killed him. Besides, he wasn't in complete control, so he finally forgives him.

* ''[[Fanfic/LivingTheDreamKickass222urmom Living The Dream]]''

* ''Fanfic/WarOfTheBiju'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]].

* ''[[Fanfic/AwakeningStevenUniverse Awakening]]'':

* ''Fanfic/DespairIsland'': When the contestants are all rescued, Duncan is surprised by how easily Geoff forgives Justin [[spoiler:for almost getting him executed at the end of the challenge just minutes earlier. This especally sticks out as Bridgette adamantly refuses to accept Justin's apology, and even forbids Geoff from inviting him to their wedding in the years afterwards.]]
* ''Fanfic/TDWTReducksRedux'': When Harold apologizes to Courtney for getting her kicked off through unfair circumstances back in the first season, she quickly accepts it, telling him she stopped caring about it long ago. Even he's surprised by this.