History Fanfic / ConsequencesMiraculousLadybug

!! [=EYES OF THE OWL=]

!! [=MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE=]

* ExactWords: Ellie and Kim have an arm-wrestling contest at the start of the story with Ellie winning and Kim having to do a request, which ends up with Kim having to be Alix's servant for a week. Alix is excited to have her rival be her slave until Ellie corrects her that Kim is her servant, along with handing Alix a wad of euros to pay Kim for his work.

* WouldHurtAChild: Hell-ios threatens to drop a young boy to his death unless Lila surrenders. [[SubvertedTrope He's bluffing]]; he asked the boy to play along to bait Lila into exposing her monstrous nature (and she ends up [[CaughtOnTape being recorded by a waitress]] telling Hell-ios that she doesn't care about Daniel's life).

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After being de-akumatized, Ms. Bustier is horrified that she essentially forced dozens of people (many of whom were teenagers) into a non-consensual kiss-fest. She even considers taking a leave of absence from teaching, but ultimately chooses not to once the class assures her they don't blame her at all for what happened.

--> '''Alix:''' So, are none of us going to talk about yesterday?\\

* LaserGuidedKarma: Lila's fate here (while considerably lighter than her fate in several other stories in this series) is poetic justice. She told her lies so she could be queen of the school and have everything she wanted in life handed to her on a silver platter. After she's revealed, she's sent to her grandmother Sophia's farm (as her grandmother regularly takes in troubled youths and teaches them the value of hard work). She sells or trades all of Lila's unnecessary material possessions (including her phone and the necklace she tried to use to frame Marinette) and has her spend all day every day in the sun doing farm chores. To top it all off, Spophia is a no-nonsense woman who would never believe the kind of lies that Lila tells, meaning that [[Film/TheWizardOfOz she has no power in that part of Oz]].

* BodyHorror: Frederick's cutting scars become massive, glowing welts that symbolically trail all the way up his arms when he turns into Inquisitor, horrifying everyone when he reveals them to show [[DrivenToSuicide what Lila drove him to]], and ''why'' he's so intent on exposing [[BarbaricBully everything she's done]] before [[KickTheSonOfABitch carrying out his revenge]].

* [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre We're Better Than You Say We Are]]: Lila, while trying to (badly) defend herself, calls the rest of the class losers, forgetting that Marinette and Adrien (other than secretly being superheroes) are a teen designer and model, respectively, and other classmates have already accomplished feats that are not only impressive for their age, but (unlike Lila) their successes came from honest hard work and passion... well, excluding Chloe.
--> '''Lila''': So what? It's not my fault you neglect me so much that I have to make up stories so my life isn't as boring as these losers are!
--> '''Alya''': Oh, losers are we?! I run the most popular blog in Paris, a blog that will soon be undergoing a massive change because of your poisonous lies!
--> '''Ivan''': We're part of Kitty Section! We've got a contract with Bob Roth records!
--> '''Nathaniel''': Me and my boyfriend created the most popular comic in Paris!
--> '''Chloe''': I'm just utterly fabulous on my own!
--> '''Marinette''': Leaving aside my own accomplishments, this class has accomplished more than most people our age have ever done! If you even bothered to learn about what we had done, you'd probably have determined to tear us all down and make us feel small simply so you could feel bigger.

* [[YoureBetterThanYouThinkYouAre We're Better Than You Say We Are]]: Lila, while trying to (badly) defend herself, calls the rest of the class losers, forgetting that Marinette and Adrien (other than secretly being superheroes) are a teen designer and model, respectively, and other classmates have already accomplished feats that are not only impressive for their age, but (unlike Lila) their successes came from honest hard work and passion... well, excluding Chloe.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Lila shows a ''very'' noticeable bigoted streak here. Among other things, she refers to both Kagami and Marinette as "Oriental eyesores" and the former as a "slant-eyed fish-eater" and "harlot", and when [[WoundedGazelleGambit faking being attacked by Kagami]] -- who is away with her mother on business in London -- she immediately deflects the blame to Marinette, on the basis that her attacker [[InterchangeableAsianCultures "looked Japanese"]]. Needless to say; nobody buys the act for a second thanks to Lila being caught in the middle of a lie, and Marinette (who is actually half-Chinese) immediately calls her out on it.

* PetTheDog: While gearing up for his trip down the warpath against Lila, Gabriel learns about a former classmate of Lila's who killed himself after she framed him for harassing her. When he discovers a charity set up in his name, he makes a mental note to donate substantially to it.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Lila is firmly convinced that the only reason people hang out with Adrien is because he's rich, handsome, famous and give them free stuff. Even when Adrien tells him that his friends care about him as a person and not as a status symbol, Lila brushes him off.

* ForWantOfANail: The whole class is present for Hawk Moth's confrontation with the heroes and Lila exposes her true self by running out to hinder Ladybug.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Lila is willing to destroy lives, friendships and even push people to suicide just to get back at them for little things like petty slights or insults, or simply not giving her everything she wants on a silver platter.

* EntitledToHaveYou: Lila's attitude towards Adrien. She seems to firmly believe that Adrien is hers and his permission or consent, or lack of, does not change this matter in the slightest.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Despite being an evil supervillain, Gabriel has the firm moral high ground when he comes into direct conflict with Lila. Lila is cruel simply for the sake of her own advancement or for its own sake, while Gabriel is at least driven by genuine love for his family and spends the story acting on his better qualities.

* PapaWolf: After catching Lila [[spoiler: forcing herself on his son]], Gabriel fires her on the spot. He then sues her for her assault on Adrien and unravels all her lies to her mother, including the school being closed and Marinette "bullying" her. This even carries over into his Hawk Moth alter ego as he sends an akuma to Lila with the specific intent of her getting caught going for it and deliberately hobbles her during the battle so Ladybug and Cat Noir can beat her up unhindered.

* PullingTheThread: When Lila claims she was the one that got Nathaniel and Marc their place by talking to the convention organizer, Nathaniel replies that the organizer never mentioned her. Lila replies that she asked him not to mention her involvement because she didn't want Nathaniel to know - so Nathaniel points out that, if she did not want him to know, ''why did she just announce it to the entire class?''

* BarbaricBully: The class as a whole pretend to be this, at the prompting of Lila. When the ruse is revealed, they point out that what Lila wanted them to do to Marinette (and which she likely would have done herself if they hadn't faked it) would have crippled or even killed her, not that Lila cares.
* TheChessmaster: What seemed like the class siding with Lila and bullying Marinette was all a hoax to gather evidence against Lila. After figuring out Lila's lying ways, the class does not confront her right away but rather pretends to still trust her. They notice how Lila always accuses Marinette of bullying her and expresses desires for her to "know how it feels". So they pretend to bully Marinette, like applying fake injuries on her with makeup to look like they hurt her, and ripping up a decoy sketchbook which they passed off as her main one. When Lila is at her most confident, Alya lures Lila to an assembly where she claims the class set up "a little something", implying they plan to publicly humiliate Marinette. Once the assembly begins, however, they turn the tables and announce LILA as the bully. Lila is so confident that she will get away with it because she never actually did anything to Marinette, the class did it for her, that she admits gloats about her plan, only for the class to reveal their parlor tricks to her, and reveal that the whole assembly was an EngineeredPublicConfession with her mother and the school staff hiding, having heard the whole thing.

* DirtyCoward: Lila, once again. When Inquisitor makes himself known and approaches to seize her with intent to make her pay for her crimes, she immediately responds by [[HumanShield shoving Nathaniel into his path to be grabbed instead]] before fleeing. Fortunately, [[YouWillNotEvadeMe it doesn't work]].

* DrivenToSuicide: Frederick, just like in the last installment. After Lila poisoned all his friends against him and manipulated them into bullying him mercilessly, Frederick tried to slit his wrists, and was [[InterruptedSuicide only saved by his favorite cousin Hugo finding him]] in the nick of time. [[ScarsAreForever The scars stay on his Inquisitor form]], which he shows Ladybug and Cat Noir as proof of what Lila has done when they try to stop him.

* KnightTemplar: Frederick's akumatized form. Though his actions go too far, his motive is pure—he wants to expose Lila for the BitchInSheepsClothing she is and prevent her from hurting him or anyone else like she did in the past.

* ForWantOfANail: Lila bullies a random little girl in the park and rips up her Ladybug doll out of pettiness. Thing is, that random girl is Manon, who goes crying to her IntrepidReporter mother Nadja. When Nadja goes to Marinette to get the doll fixed, she describes the girl Manon accused of ruining the doll and Marinette confirms it was Lila Rossi. Nadja goes to Lila's address to confront her, only to catch her plotting with Hawk Moth. She records it and goes digging through Lila, getting testimonies from Marinette, Ladybug, and Chat Noir, plus Lila's past victims, of which there is no shortage. In the end, she releases all this on TV, exposes Lila, and gets her arrested and put in solitude for at least forty years. Leaving her trial, Lila officially meets Nadja, who reveals that it was HER daughter Lila bullied in the park that fateful afternoon. Lila is taken away from Paris, reflecting on how that single badly-thought-out act of cruelty had set in motion her demise.

* SkewedPriorities: Among all the crimes Lila has been proven to commit, working with the BigBad, trying to frame Marinette, deliberately targeting her classmates to get akumatized… Kim seems most offended by the fact that she stole his lucky ring above all else, cueing this Lampshade via Alix.

* PunBasedTitle: Since the magical feathers that creates sentimonsters are called amoks.

''Ladybug's secret identity is exposed, courtsey of Lila Rossi! Fortunately, Cat Noir is more crafty than he lets on.''

* ArmedWithPepperSpray: At the insistence of his parents, Marc carries around pepper spray to protect himself from bigots as he is openly gay. He winds up using it against Lila when she attacks Marinette.

* OhCrap: Marinette begins to panic when she's unable to find the Miracle Box after the reveal of her identity. Fortunately, Adrien was the one that stole it, as he knew it was a matter of time before Hawk Moth tried to do it.

* RevengeBeforeReason: Lila reflects that she doesn't care what happens to the city, so long as she could take down Ladybug once and for all.
* SilentTreatment: The class's revenge back at Lila for (in their eyes but Marinette and Adrien) trying to frame Marinette as Ladybug and put her in danger from Hawk Moth. As brought up by Marinette during their planning, Lila is an AttentionWhore that thrives on people fawning themselves over her lies. Being ignored by everyone drives Lila insane.

* LaserGuidedKarma: On multiple counts. When Max tricks Lila into outing herself as a cheat and a bully in front of the whole class (complete with meticulously-recorded evidence from Markov), she earns a taser-like electric shock from Markov himself when she [[VillainousBreakdown throws a violent tantrum afterward]], receives a blistering hour-long rant from her mother when she regains consciousness (all with a splitting headache from being physically dragged to the nurse's office and bumped into walls repeatedly by Kim) and before being shipped off in disgrace to a strict reform school in Italy and forgotten about, [[CurbStompBattle ends up completely thrashed and humiliated by Max's self-defense robot]] after akumatizing herself and trying to get revenge.

* TakeAThirdOption: When given a SadisticChoice by Lila to either do her schoolwork for her or have her ruin his life like she did with Marinette's, Max instead chooses neither and [[BatmanGambit sets up a convincing decoy report]] to expose her various crimes and [[BitchInSheepsClothing true nature]].

* ApologeticAttacker: As Cocorico, Nathaniel feels guilty everytime he has to hit, throw or trip his mind-controlled classmates.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: After learning from Nathaniel about Lila's frequent lying, Ellie decides to use one of Lila's lies against her. Namely her lie that she has a lying disease. Ellie bringing it up whenever Lila's spews her tall-tales and getting the class to think that her disease is flaring up, giving Lila unwanted sympathy while they don't believe her words.

** Vam-Power's appearance and personality are based on [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage Lady Dimitrescu]] and her abilities are based on [[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Countess Rajine]]. Adding on to the former, when Rose, Juleka and Alix are brought under her control, they start acting like Dimitrescu's daughters.

* AtrociousAlias: Max's and Kim's respective aliases of Bug-a-Boy and Jaguaro elicit snickers from Puppet-Mistress and even a few members of her captive audience.

--> '''Alix:''' I thought that the Underworld would freeze over before I agreed with that meathead, but Kim is right.

''Adrien Agreste is happy. So happy he feels like he could walk on air, lasso the moon and hogtie a charging hippo. Why is he so happy? Because he’s in love with Luka Couffaine, and Luka Couffaine is in love with him. Both boys are in love and happy, so that should be the end of it, yes? Unfortunately, Lila Rossi is determined to have Adrien for herself, and deems Luka an obstacle to be removed.''

** When the class are talking about how they'd mutilate Lila if she tried to keep them away from their hospitalized loved ones, Alix is noticeably disturbed by the violent threats they're throwing around - the same Alix who the author typically writes as a BloodKnight and the most willing to resort to violence where Lila is concerned.

* SocialMediaBeforeReason: One of the people hiding inside the Eiffel Tower's first floor restaurant attempts to stealthily film Hell-ios, only to get yanked back down by one of the other civilians, who scolds them for risking discovery.

* AristocratsAreEvil: Félix and Amelie are British nobility, the former is a willing conspirator of a mass-murdering terrorist and the latter tries to protect her son from the consequences of his actions, and that leads them [[spoiler:to have their status stripped by the queen after they are found guilty on their trials]].

* MomentKiller: Jesse delays TheBigDamnKiss between the Aarons by pointing out that the rest of the band are still tied up. He does it again at the elevator (albeit this time ''during'' said kiss rather than delaying it).

''Adrien Agreste is used to hiding secrets (he’s a freaking superhero, after all!), but it’s not something he likes doing. In an ideal world, he’d be able to love whoever he wished with no consequences at all but his is not an ideal world. As such, his relationship with Luka Couffaine is confined to clandestine rendezvous, faked study sessions and outings with friends who support them. Unfortunately Lila is snooping around and rats them out to Gabriel, who demands that Adrien end this “unacceptable dalliance” and takes extreme measures to do so when Adrien defies him. But as all shall learn, there are terrible, terrible consequences to meddling with affairs of the heart……''

** Gabriel expects Adrien to obediently comply with his demands (as is usual when he manipulates Adrien's amok), and is completely flabbergasted when Adrien manages to stand his ground and refuse.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Damocles asks Alix how she knew how to pick locks, she responds with no comment while Juleka gives her a quick wink. Later as Ahkari, [[ChekhovsSkill Juleka would use her own skill in lockpicking to help break her and Ladybug free of one of Cage-Master's cage]].

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Discussed between Cat Noir and Viperion at the end of the story. While Viperion discuss how love can act as a strong motivation for great acts both good and evil, as seen with Gabriel, Cat argues that whatever love his father held for his mother had been twisted into a dark obsession that refuses to let him give up on her, no matter the consequences. Viperion also brings up an inversion, of how his own love for Adrien was twisted by the akumazation, locking his boyfriend in a GildedCage [[HeWhoFightsMonsters despite Adrien being locked away being the main source of his rage]]. It shows that love can be corrupted by evil just as it acts as a motivation.

* {{Demonization}}: Simultaneously subverted and played straight when compared to [[FandomSpecificPlot/MiraculousLadybug other fics in the fandom]].
** Subverted: Unlike other fics, everyone retains their canon personalities for the most part.
** Played Straight: While Lila is still the HateSink she is in canon, the scale of it goes up to eleven in this fic series. On top of everything else, she also repeatedly uses Anti-Asian and homophobic slurs, [[ItsAllAboutMe doesn't care what happens to anyone or anything as long as she comes out on top]] -- to the point where she states on more than one occasion that [[DisproportionateRetribution she'd happily lay waste to Paris]] ''[[DisproportionateRetribution herself]]'' [[DisproportionateRetribution just to hurt Marinette/Ladybug]] -- and among other things, [[spoiler:[[BarbaricBully bullies various victims]] to the point [[DrivenToSuicide they attempt or even outright commit suicide]], takes a [[{{Sadist}} disturbing amount of pleasure in how much pain she causes said victims]], shamelessly [[DirtyCoward endangers other students to protect herself]], comes within a hair's breadth of [[WouldHarmASenior killing a blind elderly woman for an extremely petty reason]] and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil attempts to rape Adrien]]]].

* AnArmAndALeg: When Lila asks Sabine if she can remove the box clamped shut on her wrist, Sabine cheerfully offers to remove her whole arm whilst holding a meat cleaver. Lila wisely shuts up.

* BatmanGambit: Max pretends to submit to Lila's demands while setting her up by using a fake report written in a font that he made. As such, because only ''his'' computer has it, it would raise questions of why Lila's homework would have it, and when Miss Bustier asks Lila why, the liar claims she borrowed Max's computer. When asked for confirmation, Max strikes and lets everyone know what ''really'' happened, complete with video evidence recorded by Markov projected to a nearby display, as Max asked Markov to record in video the protocols for his next batch of upgreads in case things went wrong they could if them easier.

Like many fans of the show, [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/OminousPredictions/pseuds/OminousPredictions OminuousPredictions]] craved some LaserGuidedKarma for Lila, and created a series of stories where her KarmaHoudiniWarranty finally expires. Most of the stories are titled after one of her crimes, and shows how that particular crime leads to [[CatharsisFactor her swift and brutal downfall]].

* BatmanGambit: Max pretends to submit to Lila's demands while setting her up by using a fake report written in a font that he made. As such, because only ''his'' computer has it, it would raise questions of why Lila's homework would have it, and when Miss Bustier asks Lila why, the liar claims she borrowed Max's computer. When asked for confirmation, Max strikes and lets everyone know what ''really'' happened, complete with recorded evidence recorded by Markov projected to a nearby display.

** Max and Kim are portrayed as a couple in several of the stories. While they do have some HoYay moments in the show, Max hasnt shown any interest in dating, while Kim's only shown interest in girls (first [[AlphaBitch Chloé]] and then [[BirdsOfAFeather Ondine]]).

''Lila Rossi doesn't view other people as people. Rather, she views them all like puppets to be strung along and made to dance to whatever tune she fancies. But what happens when the puppets realise the presence of the strings and cut them? Max and Kim prompt such an event, and Lila reacts in her usual way by getting herself akumatised for revenge. And with Marinette and Adrien neutralised by her, someone else will need to take up the mantles of Ladybug and Cat Noir...''

* LogicalWeakness: The locks of Cage-Master's cages cannot be opened by any magical means. However, since they have no defense against ordinary methods of lockpicking, Ahkari is able to open them with a hairpin.

* LogicalWeakness: The locks of Cage-Master's cages cannot be opened by any magical means. However, since they have no defense against ordinary methods of lockpicking, Akari is able to open them with a hairpin.