History Fanfic / ConsequencesMiraculousLadybug

* EveryoneHasStandards: While Ladybug and Chat Noir are, just like everyone else present, disgusted by Lila's actions -- including bullying him to the point of him attempting suicide, outing herself as a willing ally of Hawk Moth and showing absolutely no remorse for it while simultaneously [[DirtyCoward fake-crying and portraying herself as the victim to try and get out of it]] -- they do ultimately stop Inquisitor from torturing her to death and defeat him, [[BeatTheCurseOutOfHim restoring him back to Frederick]]. It's on the basis that though they understand ''why'' he wants revenge, him [[ThouShaltNotKill violently killing her is not the way to do it]].

* AxCrazy: When Lila's plans go toes-up, it often unhinges her to the point of outright attempted murder.

* AxCrazy: When Lila's plans go tits up, it often unhinges her to the point of outright attempted murder.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Shows up in nearly every story, with characters established to be nice or kind turning scarily dangerous towards Lila when her true character is revealed.

** 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]], 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]]]].

* [[MistakenForRacist Mistaken For Homophobe]]: When Mr. Damocles requests Jean and Frederick to avoid PDA at school, Jean implies Damocles is only doing it because they are both boys. Damocles replies by pointing out that two of his children are homosexual (one of them married and with children, the other will marry soon) and his youngest grandson is transitioning from male to female - all with his full blessing.
* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: Two times for Miss Bustier, who is known for being sweet and motherly towards her students. But this just means that when one of said students is in danger, she becomes a MamaBear.

* RonTheDeathEater: This part of the series is all about subverting this. In many salt fics of the fandom, Mr. Damocles is a spineless moron who is throughly incompetent and unfit for his job, while Miss Bustier is an abusive teacher who lets Lila get away with murder and blames Marinette for standing up to her, foisting all the responsibility for the rest of the class on her shoulders and expecting her to TurnTheOtherCheek to the bullying she endures. The author says in the description that they believe the teachers get a raw deal in the series, and they believe them all to be good-hearted people who genuinely want the best for their charges and try their hardest to provide them with a safe environment.

* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: After reading Lila's worksheets and discovering that they are written in a font only Max's computer has -- thus confirming that she forced him to do them -- Ms. Bustier actually snaps at her in a steely voice, as opposed to talking in her usual warm, motherly tone.

* BerserkButton: Lila’s already on the verge of insanity due to her HumiliationConga. When Adrien kisses Marinette, it’s the final straw, and Lila tries to attack Marinette with a broken bottle.

* GoodCounterpart: A sentimonster is created resembling Lila as Pavona, only she is on the heroes’ side and tricks Hawkmoth into getting them close to him and bringing him down. After his defeat, she teams up with Prince Ali and uses her powers to help his charitable causes by creating pets to give to sick children or to sell for charity funds.

** As seen in TooDumbToLive below, Lila ignoring all the rules Hawk Moth laid for her (such as staying away from the fights and limiting herself to create Sentimonsters) ends in her defeat and the heroes claiming the Peacock Miraculous that Hawk Moth had just repaired. This in turn, thanks to Duusu's information, leads to the heroes finding out about Hawk Moth being Gabriel Agreste, and thus his definitive defeat and arrest.
** And the above point happened because Hawk Moth, against Nathalie's advice, insisted on giving one of his two Miraculous to an obviously unreliable girl that's in way over her head, just to make sure it was indeed repaired. Then again, he knew that the authorities were starting to develop means to discover his identity, and he was quite desperate.

* TheStarscream: Upon learning from Duusu that Ladybug and Chat Noir's Miraculous can grant a wish when used together, Lila decides to betray Hawkmoth and keep the Miraculous herself.

* UnskilledButStrong: Not so much Pavona as the Peacock Miraculous itself. Its powers are highly formidable and versatile, able to create fully sentient beings if the user wishes, but as such it is not very strong in direct combat. Hawk Moth explicitly warns Lila when he gives her the Miraculous that she is to stay off the front lines and not engage Ladybug and Cat Noir directly as they are more skilled and able fighters, ordering her to restrict herself only to creating sentimonsters and commanding them from afar, but she disobeys and finds herself severely outclassed.

* EpicFlail / ExoticWeaponSupremacy: Inquisitor makes use of a meteor hammer when fighting Ladybug and Cat Noir and manages to take the fight early on, with it being noted that Cat Noir's fencing skills and weapon are finding it difficult to counter such a tricky weapon. That said, he does manage to get Inquisitor to fall victim to the weapon's drawbacks as well, namely the risk of getting tangled up in the chain if not careful, forcing him to switch it out for a sword.

-->'''Ladybug:''' (''reasoning'') Frederick, this isn't you!
-->'''Inquisitor:''' I’m not Frederick anymore. I am The Inquisitor, and I’ve got a few questions for you once I’m done with her!
-->'''Ladybug:''' Lila may have hurt you, but this is ''not'' the right way to go about things. This is revenge and torture, not justice.
-->'''Inquisitor:''' Revenge? Torture? You have no idea what she did to me! (''pulls back his sleeve to reveal [[BodyHorror his mutated cutting scars travelling all the way up his arm]], horrifying everyone present'')
-->'''Nadja:''' My god...!
-->'''Inquisitor:''' She filled my friends’ heads with lies and falsehoods. And when I tried to stop her, tried to point out the truth, she turned them against me. Beatings, insults, sabotaged schoolwork, threatening text messages and emails, destroyed property, public humiliation, all of it! Days and weeks and months of it, [[DrivenToSuicide until finally, I couldn’t take it anymore]]. I nearly died... '''BECAUSE OF ''HER!''''' And now, I have a chance to get my own back, to [[KnightTemplar make sure she]] ''[[KnightTemplar never]]'' [[KnightTemplar does this to]] ''[[KnightTemplar anyone]]'' [[KnightTemplar else]]. Hawk Moth has given me the power to do that. Who am I to refuse?
-->'''Ladybug:''' [[VillainHasAPoint As much as I agree with Lila being an awful person]], I can’t let you do this. This isn’t right.
-->'''Inquisitor:''' [[ShutUpKirk Then you leave me no choice]]. (''restrains her and Chat Noir with magically-enhanced chains'')

-->'''Inquisitor:''' [[EvenEvilHasStandards Pathetic. Truly pathetic]]. You hurt me and all those people, told all those lies, ruined all those lives... for things like [[DisappointedByTheMotive free lunches and popularity in school?]] You utterly disgust me.
-->'''Lila:''' (''sneering'') [[IRegretNothing Like I care]]. I played your little game, confessed, so let me go.
-->'''Inquisitor:''' Let you go? I’m afraid that’s not possible.
-->'''Lila:''' (''reduced to cowardly whimpering'') [[OhCrap But... you said you’d let me go if I confessed!]]
-->'''Inquisitor:''' Guess what, Lila? ILied. (''drops a fourth slab'') You know, this wasn’t just a method of interrogation. It was used as a method of execution as well. They would place increasingly heavy stones on top of the victim until they confessed... ''or died''. They did it to Giles Corey during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials Salem Witch Trials,]] you know. Each time they asked him to confess, he would reply “More weight!”. It took him three days to die, you know. I wonder how long you’ll take? (''drops a fifth slab'') [[ColdBloodedTorture It won’t be a quick or painless death]]. As the pressure on your torso increases, your vital organs will begin to shut down. Your ribs will begin to crack and then collapse in on themselves. You’ll suffer internal bleeding, slowly and painfully. Perhaps, if you’re lucky, your brain will shut down from the lack of oxygen flow it's getting, and you’ll be unconscious at the end of it. Or, '''maybe not'''.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Once Lila is exposed as Hawkmoth’s accomplice, said villain cuts off all ties with her, since she can no longer create discord to make akumas if everyone knows what she’s trying to do, giving her a wide berth.

** Subverted: Unlike other fics, everyone retrains their canon personalities for the most parts.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Downplayed somewhat. Lila stole the comic pages and claimed them as her own creation stolen by Marc and Nathaniel despite possessing no artistic talent whatsoever, but planned on announcing that the trauma of the ordeal made her decide to halt the comic and brought along her lawyer, thinking that Marc and Nathaniel would be too intimidated to fight back. What she didn't bank on, however, was Marc and Nathaniel challenging her to replicate the work (which she can't but they can, naturally) on the spot, thereby exposing her as a fraud. She also didn't bank on Marc and Nathaniel bringing along Nathaniel's aunt, who is a retired lawyer with a reputation for being the most feared one in all of Europe in her prime.

* MoralEventHorizon: The in-universe author's notes directly refer to Lila [[spoiler:sexually assaulting Adrien]] as crossing the Moral Event Horizon.

* AttentionWhore: Lila has a pathological need for attention, to the point that in ''SEXUAL HARASSMENT'' Adrien actually directly refers to her as such after a binge of [=TVTropes=].

* PapaWolf: After catching Lila [[spoiler: forcing herself on his son]], Gabriel fires her on the spot. He then sues her for her assault of 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 for 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.

* 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 taking his revenge on live television]].

** 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 herself just to hurt Marinette]] -- and among other things, [[spoiler:bullies various victims [[DrivenToSuicide to the point they attempt or even outright commit suicide]], 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 sexually assault Adrien]]]].

** 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 herself just to hurt Marinette]] -- and among other things, [[spoiler:bullies various victims [[DrivenToSuicide to the point they attempt or even outright commit suicide]], shamelessly [[DirtyCoward endangers other students to protect herself]], comes within a hair's breadth of [[WouldHarmASenior killing an elderly woman for an extremely petty reason]], and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil attempts to sexually assault Adrien]]]].

** Played Straight: While Lila is still the HateSink she is in canon, in this fic series she also repeatedly uses Anti-Asian slurs, homophobic slurs, and tries to [[spoiler:sexually assault Adrien]] - among other things.
* DiplomaticImpunity: Lila has diplomatic immunity thanks to her diplomat mother (or always ''thinks'' she does); however, her actions always lead to it being revoked and faces the worst punishments. And even in stories where Lila's mother reveals that her diplomatic immunity doesn't extend to her family because she's a ''junior'' diplomat, she makes it clear that she wouldn't let it protect Lila from punishment.

** Played Straight: While Lila is still the HateSink she is in canon, in this fic series she also repeatedly uses Anti-Asian slurs, homophobic slurs, and tries to [[spoiler:sexually assault Adrien]] - among other things - over the course of the fic series.

* [[MistakenForRacist Mistaken For Homophobe]]: When Principal Damocles requests Jean and Frederick to avoid PDA at school, Jean implies Damocles is only doing it because they are both boys. Damocles replies by pointing out that two of his children are homosexual (one of them married and with children, the other will marry soon) and his youngest grandson is transitioning from male to female - all with his full blessing.

* TheAtoner: Once Principal Damocles and Madame Bustier realize Lila is a BitchInSheepsClothing who fooled them, and that Adrien and Marinette have been suffering because of their lackluster attempts, they are remorseful and seek to punish Lila and make amends to the students they have wronged.
* CoolTeacher: After dressing Jean down for implying he's an homophobe, Principal Damocles mentions things Jean and Fréderic might ''hypothetically'' do that would not be considered PDA, as well as a place where the two students can have a "private discussion" if they so fancy the need.
* CrazyPrepared: Mlle. Mendeleiev collects samples of all her students’ handwriting in case one of them tries to forge something given to her. That was how she was able to spot Lila’s forgery of her mother’s signature.
* FixFic: Principal Damocles and Madame Bustier are not the moronic and/or abusive authority figures who are unapologetic for their misdeeds that they are in many salt fics. In this story, they realize their mistakes and try to make up for them, giving Lila the punishment she deserves for playing truant, harassing Marinette and Adrien, and grabbing akumas to dodge rightful justice. It’s also explained how Lila was able to fool them for so long, like passing off her email as her mother’s to avoid Damocles contacting her.
* [[MistakenForRacist Mistaken For Homophobe]]: When Principal Damocles requests Jean and Fréderic to avoid PDA at school, Jean implies Damocles is only doing it because they are both boys. Damocles replies by pointing out that two of his children are homosexual (one of them married and with children, the other will marry soon) and his eldest grandson is transitioning from male to female - all with his full blessing.
* OutOfCharacterIsSeriousBusiness: Two times for Madame Bustier, who is known for being sweet and motherly towards her students. But this just means that when one of said students is in danger, she becomes a MamaBear.
** She gets gruff with Gabriel on the phone when he dismisses the dismay of his son’s emotional health and personal happiness, telling him firmly that Adrien developing friendships is less of a “frivolity” and more of a necessity if he wants to grow as a person. It actually works, and Gabriel takes her word for it and allows Adrien more freedom to be with his friends.
** She goes into full MamaBear mode when she witnesses Lila threaten, slap, and force herself on Adrien, all in that order. She screams at Lila, glares at her murderously, then drags her by the arm rather roughly to the principal’s office to face punishment.
* RonTheDeathEater: This part of the series is all about subverting this. In many salt fics of the fandom, Principal Damocles is a spineless moron who is throughly incompetent and unfit for his job, while Madame Bustier is an abusive teacher who lets Lila get away with murder and blames Marinette for standing up to her, foisting all the responsibility for the rest of the class on her shoulders and expecting her to TurnTheOtherCheek to the bullying she endures. The author says in the description that they believe the teachers get a raw deal in the series, and they believe them all to be good-hearted people who genuinely want the best for their charges and try their hardest to provide them with a safe environment.