History Fanfic / ChlorineGrownRoses

* PeekABangs: Kimmy, Luna, and Shatter have these.

** The hacker chapter claims that [[MagicalEye Azusa's heart gives her the ability to]] [[GorgeousGarmentGeneration give the yakuza emo clothes]] (and therefore [[DarkIsNotEvil make them emo/good]]), [[TheNapoleon make Masahiko taller]], and [[BuxomIsBetter make Chiriko's]] [[LesYay boobs bigger]].

* MegaTwintails: Azusa's right tail is ridiculous long, usually reaching at least her waist.

* RapunzelHair: Azusa's hair is tied up in pigtails with one of them reaching her waist, even when let down her hair only reaches her waist. Esther and Luna also have long hair but it only reaches their mid-back.

* OddFriendship: Who knows how a [[{{Moe}} cute]] MagicalGirl, a [[NoInsideVoice loud]] [[{{Eagleland}} American stereotype]], a [[ShrinkingViolet quiet]] [[ManChild adult who dresses as anime mascots]], a GenkiGirl who's [[CuteBruiser always looking for a fight]], and [[YaoiGuys Shatter and Yami]] managed to find each other in a mental hospital and become friends despite being from different nationalities?

** For some reason, Makoto is becoming this now that it's been shown that Azusa's getting a crush on Haru. In his own words, he doesn't want her to "play with my boyfriends emotions like a kid in a toy store."
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Every OC introduced either has technicolor hair or hair that gradients in an impossible way. Along with the examples for MulticoloredHair, Aunt Homura has purple hair, Belle Lockhart literally has blue hair, and Yami Yagami's hair is a weird shade of forest green.

* MulticoloredHair: Azusa's hair is black with blond tips, which is shoddily explained as being because [[PatchworkKids her mother had black hair and her father was blond]].
** Similarly, Akira's hair goes from blond to black because the tips got burned in a fire that happened ten years ago, the preteen detective from Canada, Kimmy Sakura, has blond hair and pink bangs, and Hitomi Styles has blonde hair with pink highlights. Among her friends, Luna Moon's hair gradients from platinum blonde to black and at one point, Yami Yagami gets orange highlights in his hair for a single chapter and has regularly black highlights in his hair.

* {{Expy}}: Belle Lockhart, a maid who is introduced in Chapter 5, acts exactly like Mikan Tsumiki from ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2''. When this was pointed out by reviewers, [=SonicXKimmy172=] had to ask in the author's note for Chapter 6 what anime she was from.
** Another ''Danganronpa'' expy includes Akira's Aunt Homura, who is an exact expy of Touko Fukawa from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''. [[spoiler: Additionally, the scene of her murder looks almost identical to the scene of Mahiru Koizumi's murder in ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2''.]] Akira herself acts a lot of like Aoi Asahina, as well, and the character is cited as one of the inspirations for Akira's appearance and personality. Other ''Danganronpa'' expys include Masahiko Kurusu (Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu), Kirumi Kissu (Mikan Tsumiki [[spoiler:in despair]]), and, debatably, Kimmy Sakura (Kyoko Kirigiri).

''Chlorine Grown Roses'' is a Anime/{{Free}} fanfic written by [=NekoTenshi222=] (formerly known as [=SonicXKimmy172=]) that was posted to Website/DeviantArt and Fanfiction.net on December 22, 2015. It is complete, with 46 chapters having been posted. It can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11686052 here]].

* SuddenlySexuality: In the sequel ''Famous Last Words'', Hitomi comes out as a lesbian despite having lusted over Sousuke for a majority of the previous fic.

* PurpleProse: Though most of the fic is full of BeigeProse at its best, the {{MyImmortal}}-esque outfit descriptions are written in an obnoxious display of this trope to the point where ''entire paragraphs'' of clothing descriptions could simply be skipped without anything essential being lost from the story. Even more annoyingly, recent chapters have had ''upwards of seven'' clothing descriptions all in one block of text thanks to the existence of Hitomi's friends.

''Chlorine Grown Roses'' is a Anime/{{Free}} fanfic written by [=NekoTenshi222=](formerly known as [=SonicXKimmy172=]) that was posted to Website/DeviantArt and Fanfiction.net on December 22, 2015. It is complete, with 46 chapters having been posted. It can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11686052 here]].

* BiTheWay: Rin, Haru, and Shatter are bi, Yami and Akira have been confirmed to be bi by their respective creators, and the fandom has pretty much declared that Azusa is bi too. The author once stated in a Skype chat that Luna "could be pan", although she has not said anything further on the matter.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Nagisa Hazuki has been mistakenly called [[VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls Shingetsu Nagisa]], [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Nagito]], [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Naegi]]sa, [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Nagisa Momoe]], and [[WebVideo/FiftyPercentOff Thugisa]] by the author by this point.[=SonicXKimmy172=] does blame the first 'Nagisa' slip on her beta reader, but the rest have no excuse.

* AlphaBitch: Chiriko is described as having a snobby and smug voice and a 'bitchy smirk'. It's also implied that she's wealthy due to her admission into an all-boys school such as Samezuka. [[spoiler: Later on, it is revealed that Chiriko was actually Chiasa in disguise, to the surprise of no one. According to WordOfGod, Chiriko was a real person, but Chiasa murdered her and took her identity. It is also said that the real Chiriko may not have been as nasty as Chiasa!Chiriko.]]
* AlternateUniverse: To [[WebAnimation/TrueLovesStory True Love's Story]], although it was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally set in the same universe, just two years earlier]].

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Somehow, Akira is back even though the chapter in which she "died" explicitly states that she, well, died.]]

* BadDate: Azusa and Rin have their first date at 7/11 of all places.
* BiTheWay: Rin, Haru, and Shatter are bi, Yami and Akira have been confirmed to be bi by their respective creators, and the fandom has pretty much declared that Azusa is bi too.

* DeadSidekick: [[spoiler: Ever since Azusa killed Akira, the story has taken a much darker tone and become much less lighthearted. In fact, this is getting to the point where some readers want Kim to bring her BackFromTheDead (though this may just be because Azusa x Akira is a very popular ship among fans of the fic). [[AscendedFanon Eventually, the fans seem to prevail, as Akira is later revealed to be A-OK, just bedridden in the hospital.]]]]

** In fact, in later chapters, even ''Rin'' has less of a purpose in the story than the OCs, especially after Azusa gets sent to the psych ward. Oddly enough, the only canon characters with roles prominent to the plot by this point are Nagisa (because he's in the yakuza as [[WebVideo/FiftyPercentOff Thugisa]]) and Makoto because of his OOC portrayal as a {{Yandere}} who's jealous of Azusa for getting Haru's attention.

* [[spoiler: DevilInPlainSight / PaperThinDisguise]]: [[spoiler: It's commonly speculated that the character introduced in Chapter 25, Chiriko Kasane, is the main villain Chiasa Tachibana in disguise. This was a theory popularized by character-critique-central based on the grounds that they have similar names and Chiriko's animosity towards Azusa seems to come out of absolutely nowhere. They also share physical similarities, such as red/scarlet eyes (at least in Chapter 25, before they were [[{{Retcon}} Retconned]] and became pink).]]

* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Azusa's middle name is Kimber, [[EpicFail which is actually a surname, not a given name.]]

* {{Expy}}: Belle Lockhart, a maid who is introduced in Chapter 5, acts exactly like Tsumiki Mikan from ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2''. When this was pointed out by reviewers, [=SonicXKimmy172=] had to ask in the author's note for Chapter 6 [[TooDumbToLive what anime she was from.]]
** Another ''Danganronpa'' expy includes Akira's Aunt Homura, who is an exact expy of Fukawa Touko from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''. [[spoiler: Additionally, the scene of her murder looks almost identical to the scene of Koizumi Mahiru's murder in ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2''.]] Akira herself acts a lot of like Asahina Aoi, as well, and the character is cited as one of the inspirations for Akira's appearance and personality. Other ''Danganronpa'' expys include Masahiko Kurusu (Kuzuryuu Fuyuhiko), Kirumi Kissu (Tsumiki Mikan [[spoiler:in despair]]), and, debatably, Kimmy Sakura (Kirigiri Kyouko).
** Conchita Fuentes has some parallels to the Vocaloid song Conchita, The Epicurean Daughter of Evil. The author has stated numerous times that she loves Vocaloid and Conchita even mentions [[ImAHumanitarian being hungry enough to eat Masahiko in one chapter]].

* GenreShift: The fic abruptly goes from being a slice of life story centered around Azusa to [[spoiler: a strange ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' fanfiction in which a character is murdered and the characters from Free, along with OCs created by the author, try to solve the murder without any police intervention or investigation that has any meaning]] in Chapter 10. Everything seemed to be forgotten following Chapter 11, though, with the only long-lasting effect appearing to be Akira's status as Azusa's new roommate.
** After this, the story becomes some sort of crime thriller with Azusa having a run-in with the yakuza, [[spoiler: who reveal that her LongLostRelative Chiasa Tachibana holds a high position in their ranks and is responsible for most all of the unfortunate things that have befallen Azusa and her companions]]. One begins to question what the Free fandom has to do with the story by this point.

** Apparently, Kimmy Sakura, a twelve year old from Canada, is such a great investigator that she qualified to be sent to Japan to investigate a serial killer case. She has yet to do anything that an adult detective couldn't do, as so far all she's done is add almost nothing to [[spoiler: the investigation of Homura Tomuson's murder]], [[spoiler: name Chiasa Tachibana (a long-lost cousin of Azusa) as the main suspect behind most all misfortunes in the fic]], attempt (and fail) to interrogate Masahiko to get information about the yakuza (and she probably would have killed him in the process, [[spoiler: if Azusa hadn't of let him go free]]), and [[{{Expy}} be a ripoff of]] [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Kirigiri Kyouko]].

** This overlaps with [[spoiler: SelfMadeOrphan]] for Hitomi Styles, who [[spoiler: killed her parents by accident in a Ferris wheel accident using her 'majic powers'.]]

** Similarly, Akira's hair goes from blond to black because the tips got burned in a fire that happened ten years ago, the preteen detective from Canada, Kimmy Sakura, has blond hair and pink bangs, and Hitomi Styles has blonde hair with pink highlights. Among her friends, Luna Moon's hair gradients from platinum blonde to black and at one point, Yami Yagami gets orange highlights in his hair and has regularly black highlights in his hair.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Kirumi Kissu, a pop idol who is essentially the antithesis of Azusa and her merry bunch of emo friends and is immediately looked at with scorn by Azusa. [[spoiler:Her baseless suspicions later turn out to be legitimate when it turns out that Kirumi works in the yakuza.]]
* OddFriendship: Who knows how a [[{{Moe}} cute]] MagicalGirl, a [[NoInsideVoice loud]] [[{{Eagleland}} American stereotype]], a [[ShrinkingViolet quiet]] [[ManChild adult who dresses as anime mascots]], a GenkiGirl who's [[CuteBruiser always looking for a fight]], and [[TheGenericGuy Shatter and Yami]] managed to find each other in a mental hospital and become friends despite being from different nationalities?

** Forget the Makoto from the anime; in this fanfic, he's a {{Yandere}} who randomly hates his cousin for getting Haru's attention and unreasonably blames her for Haru breaking up with him.

* PresentDayPast: Despite taking place in 2008, the fic features a mentioning of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' (which came out in 2010), Adele's song 'Hello' (which came out in 2015), and other such anachronisms.
* PurpleProse: Though most of the fic is full of BeigeProse at its best, the outfit descriptions are written in an obnoxious display of this trope to the point where ''entire paragraphs'' of clothing descriptions could simply be skipped without anything essential being lost from the story. Even more annoyingly, recent chapters have had ''seven or eight'' clothing descriptions all in one block of text thanks to the existence of Hitomi's friends.

''Chlorine Grown Roses'' is a Anime/{{Free}} fanfic written by [=xXNekoAngel172Xx=](formerly known as [=SonicXKimmy172=]) that was posted to Website/DeviantArt and Fanfiction.net on December 22, 2015. It is complete, with 46 chapters having been posted. It can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11686052 here]].

* AlphaBitch: Chiriko is described as having a snobby and smug voice and a 'bitchy smirk'. It's also implied that she's wealthy due to her admission into an all-boys school such as Samezuka.

* CerebusSyndrome: Though Azusa's backstory, the fic was fluffy to begin with...until [[spoiler:Aunt Homura's death, Azusa's apparent murder of Akira, and the inexplicable inclusion of the yakuza.]]

* AccidentalMisnaming: Nagisa Hazuki has been mistakenly called [[VideoGame/AbsoluteDespairGirls Shingetsu Nagisa]], [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2 Nagito]], [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Naegi]]sa, [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Nagisa Momoe]], and [[WebVideo/FiftyPercentOff Thugisa]] by the author by this point.[=SonicXKimmy172=] does blame the first 'Nagisa' slip on her beta reader, but the rest have no excuse.
** Whether this counts as RougeAnglesOfSatin or this trope is uncertain, but the author also calls Kou Matsuoka '[[VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2 Ko Maeda]]suoka' at some point because 'I forgot hwo to spell her last name becuase its 3 in the morning and im to lazy to google it lol'. She also calls Kou 'Ko' frequently, a fandom nickname for the same character whose name got inserted into Kou's above.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Even though ''Free!'' hardly has anything to do with the fic anymore besides the occasional swim [[{{Malapropism}} meat]], ''Chlorine Grown Roses'' can best be described as ''Free!'' with orphans, murder, and the yakuza involved.

** In fact, in later chapters, even ''Rin'' has less of a purpose in the story than the OCs, especially after Azusa gets sent to the psych ward. Oddly enough, the only canon characters with roles prominent to the plot by this point are Nagisa (because he's in the yakuza as [[WebAnimation/FiftyPercentOff Thugisa]]) and Makoto because of his OOC portrayal as a {{Yandere}} who's jealous of Azusa for getting Haru's attention.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Nagisa Hazuki has been mistakenly called [[VideoGame/AbsoluteDespairGirls Shingetsu Nagisa]], [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2 Nagito]], [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Naegi]]sa, [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Nagisa Momoe]], and [[WebAnimation/FiftyPercentOff Thugisa]] by the author by this point.[=SonicXKimmy172=] does blame the first 'Nagisa' slip on her beta reader, but the rest have no excuse.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Nagisa Hazuki has been mistakenly called [[VideoGame/AbsoluteDespairGirls Shingetsu Nagisa]], [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2 Nagito]], [[VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}} Naegi]]sa, [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Nagisa Momoe]], and [[WebAnimation/FiftyPercentOff Thugisa]] by the author by this point.[=SonicXKimmy172=] does blame the first 'Nagisa' slip on her beta reader, but the rest have no excuse.

* {{Expy}}: Belle Lockhart, a maid who is introduced in Chapter 5, acts exactly like Tsumiki Mikan from VisualNovel/{{Super Danganronpa 2}}. When this was pointed out by reviewers, [=SonicXKimmy172=] had to ask in the author's note for Chapter 6 [[TooDumbToLive what anime she was from.]]
** Another Danganronpa expy includes Akira's Aunt Homura, who is an exact expy of Fukawa Touko from VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}. [[spoiler: Additionally, the scene of her murder looks almost identical to the scene of Koizumi Mahiru's murder in VisualNovel/{{Super Danganronpa 2}}.]] Akira herself acts a lot of like Asahina Aoi, as well, and the character is cited as one of the inspirations for Akira's appearance and personality. Other Danganronpa expys include Masahiko Kurusu (Kuzuryuu Fuyuhiko), Kirumi Kissu (Tsumiki Mikan [[spoiler:in despair]]), and, debatably, Kimmy Sakura (Kirigiri Kyouko).

* GenreShift: The fic abruptly goes from being a slice of life story centered around Azusa to [[spoiler: a strange VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}} fanfiction in which a character is murdered and the characters from Free, along with OCs created by the author, try to solve the murder without any police intervention or investigation that has any meaning]] in Chapter 10. Everything seemed to be forgotten following Chapter 11, though, with the only long-lasting effect appearing to be Akira's status as Azusa's new roommate.

** Apparently, Kimmy Sakura, a twelve year old from Canada, is such a great investigator that she qualified to be sent to Japan to investigate a serial killer case. She has yet to do anything that an adult detective couldn't do, as so far all she's done is add almost nothing to [[spoiler: the investigation of Homura Tomuson's murder]], [[spoiler: name Chiasa Tachibana (a long-lost cousin of Azusa) as the main suspect behind most all misfortunes in the fic]], attempt (and fail) to interrogate Masahiko to get information about the yakuza (and she probably would have killed him in the process, [[spoiler: if Azusa hadn't of let him go free]]), and [[{{Expy}} be a ripoff of]] [[VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}} Kirigiri Kyouko]].

* PresentDayPast: Despite taking place in 2008, the fic features a mentioning of VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}} (which came out in 2010), Adele's song 'Hello' (which came out in 2015), and other such anachronisms.

* GenreShift: The fic abruptly goes from being a slice of life story centered around Azula to [[spoiler: a strange VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}} fanfiction in which a character is murdered and the characters from Free, along with OCs created by the author, try to solve the murder without any police intervention or investigation that has any meaning]] in Chapter 10. Everything seemed to be forgotten following Chapter 11, though, with the only long-lasting effect appearing to be Akira's status as Azusa's new roommate.

* DeathByOriginStory: Azusa's parents, to date, have never been seen alive in the story. Even in a flashback before their murder, they were working away from home and were never seen or heard. The only purpose they've ever served is to [[SympathySue make Azusa sympathetic]] and give her something to {{Wangst}} about.

* GenreShift: The fic abruptly goes from being a slice of life story centered around a flat SympathySue to [[spoiler: a strange VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}} fanfiction in which a character is murdered and the characters from Free, along with OCs created by the author, try to solve the murder without any police intervention or investigation that has any meaning]] in Chapter 10. Everything seemed to be forgotten following Chapter 11, though, with the only long-lasting effect appearing to be Akira's status as Azusa's new roommate.

** Hitomi Styles says that she has 'majic powers', but besides a vague description of how they were used to kill her parents in an accident, a device for WizardDidIt explanations or a DeusExMachina, and a means for her to push herself on a swing, they have yet to be explained or seen again.

** The [[FluffyTheTerrible hacker named Jeff/Zookaman]] who added Chapter xddddddd/Chapter 69 to Kim's DeviantArt is also a fan favorite. He was immediately embraced by the fanbase and became a celebrity of sorts, with his ban from the official CGR Discord channel causing great outrage among the fans.

* {{Shotacon}}: Nagisa is described as a 'blond shota' on more than one occasion.

''Chlorine Grown Roses'' is a Anime/{{Free}} fanfic written by [=SonicXKimmy172=] that was posted to Website/DeviantArt and Fanfiction.net on December 22, 2015. It is still ongoing, with almost forty chapters having been posted at the time of writing this. It can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11686052 here]].