History Fanfic / AuthorsOfOurOwnFate

* TheyDo: John asks Anna to marry him. She says yes.

''Authors of Our Own Fate'' is a ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' fic written by Creator/MrChaos and can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12783920/1/Authors-Of-Our-Own-Fate here]]. Told using revolving POV chapters, it focuses on how Matthew will alter the events of the series to prevent the heartbreak and drama that came about in the previous timeline.

''Authors of Our Own Fate'' is a ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' fic written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/464973/Mr-Chaos Mr Chaos]] and can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12783920/1/Authors-Of-Our-Own-Fate here]]. Told using revolving POV chapters, it focuses on how Matthew will alter the events of the series to prevent the heartbreak and drama that came about in the previous timeline.

** [[spoiler:Sybil]] is quite put out at having to deal with the Greys, but Matthew says he needs them to carry out his plan to get himself (and, hopefully, William) out of the trenches. When she mentions that the wheelchair looked ''really'' comfortable, Matthew cracks up.
* AffectionateNickname: Subverted. It is revealed that ‘Sybie’ was a nickname Cora used for Sybil that she hated. [[spoiler: When Matthew reveals to her that her daughter went by that she’s less than thrilled]].

* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler: Future!Sybil. She drugs Larry Grey with the same pill he, in the future, used on Tom as revenge and later plans Pamuk’s murder, hiring Bates to do it. She states she would have done it herself but didn’t know how to find time alone with him.]]

* BloodierAndGorier: In the show Pamuk dies off screen and we just see his bloodless corpse. Here? [[spoiler:Bates kills him by both giving him an heroin overdose and making sure there was an air bubble in the syringe. To make it worse Pamuk is the POV character for this final chapter and we get to experience his death with him in horrid detail.]]

** [[spoiler:He then offers Thomas a job, because he knows Thomas is precisely the sneaky kind of person that would be able to detect those of his type.]]

* DeadGuyJunior: Sybie, though [[spoiler: Sybil is highly displeased with this trope]]

* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Much of the first two ‘arcs’ are about Matthew getting Season 1 Mary to see him as her Season 2 and 3 self did. By the time Matthew [[spoiler: saves her from Pamuk before he can rape her]] he has succeeded and the two are now on much better terms, [[spoiler:even sharing a kiss.]]

** [[spoiler:Also Bates while he kills Pamuk in a way that looks like an accidental overdose.]]

* DoubleStandard: Sybil brings this up concerning [[spoiler:Kemal Pamuk’s "relationship" with Mary. She states that people forgive men for having sex outside of marriage as they can’t control themselves while women who do the same are shunned... yet women are seen as the weaker of the species.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several readers noticed that Sybil was acting differently in the first few chapters. [[spoiler: She soon reveals that she also traveled back in time at the moment of her death and has been doing the same thing Matthew is doing.]]

* GoodOldFisticuffs: Carson [[spoiler: when Pamuk calls Mary a whore. William joins in when Pamuk gets Carson on the ground.]]

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Robert's introspective chapter post-TimeSkip reveals he blames Matthew for everything that has gone wrong since their fight.]]

* OutOfCharacterAlert: Sybil acts a bit oddly during the first dinner. [[spoiler: It is later revealed she went back in time too. Matthew having his own Alert is what clued her in that he’d gone back too.]]

* PeggySue: Matthew [[spoiler:and Sybil]].
* PetTheDog: One of Anna’s P.O.V. chapters has O’Brien taking charge of the downstairs since Mrs. Hughes is bone tired and Carson [[spoiler:is in bed after Pamuk beat him up]]. She does so without being asked and tells Mrs. Hughes to go and get some rest. When Bates offers to fill in as butler O’Brien has no complaints.

* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:Matthew and Sybil become this to each other, as they are the only two to travel back in time.]]
** Bates is this for Sybil after [[spoiler:he helps her kill Pamuk and she helps him find a lawyer to free him from Vera.]]

* SlippingAMickey: Larry Gray once again is involved [[spoiler: except this time it is Future!Sybil putting it in his glass as revenge for what he did to Tom in the future.]]

* TheyDo: [[spoiler:John asks Anna to marry him. She says yes.]]

** [[spoiler:Sybil arranges for Pamuk to die, and does it in such a way that not only does it look like an accident, but he also suffered greatly and his reputation will be forever destroyed.]]

* TrustPassword: [[spoiler:Sybil tells Tom she's come from the future, and says all she knows about him, but Tom thinks Lord Grantham had someone do a background check on him. Then she drops the WhamLine. Tom ends up fainting.]]

** [[spoiler:In Chapter 41, it is revealed that Violet also came back in time when her mistakes caused her family to collapse.]]
** [[spoiler:In chapter 49, it turns out that Isobel has figured out that Matthew and Sybil may have time-traveled.]]

** [[spoiler:Cora Crawley: Sanctuary.]]

* GenreShift: For the subplot regarding Bates's ex, it becomes a revenge/spy thriller with the P.O.V as the villain.

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