History Fanfic / Regrets

Leni Loud is in a deep depression, finding herself a victim of constant bullying and constantly living in her sister Lori's shadow, while feeling neglected by said sister. On the night before her birthday, Leni decides to end it all but is stopped and rescued by one Carol Pingrey, a popular student at Leni's school, whom Leni barley interacted with in the past, but quickly a friendship between them blooms. Things don't get any easier when they discover a mutual romantic attraction for one another, especially when they don't stay on the down low for long; the main problem being that Carol is a longstanding rival of Lori's. Besides all that, despite Carol's attempts to put Leni's emotional pieces back together, Leni can't seem to permanently escape her depression, be it bullies, family drama or a terrible secret that Leni is keeping both from Carol and her own family.

* BigBad: Nick Lambert, a popular student at Leni and Lori's school functions as the main antagonist as a close friend of Lori's [[spoiler: who sexually assaulted Leni AND got her to consent on camera by threatening to do the same to Lori (in front of her no less)]] and played an major factor in her depression. In the story present, he's constantly tormenting Leni over it.
* BigSisterBully: Leni begins to see Lori as this due to being a BrokenPedestal and AloofBigSister. It doesn't help that Lori has a few KickTheDog moments on the story, not that she doesn't end up regretting it.
** Lola has an age-inverted version of this trope when she yells that Leni is the worst thing to happen to the Loud family and they'd be better off if she had never been born. Though to her credit, she's horrified with what came out of her mouth once she realizes just what she said.

** [[spoiler: Also inverted with Leni as one of the reasons she complied with Nick is because he threatened to go after Lori.]]

** Nick Lambert is ''much worse''. Not only does he start things off by [[spoiler: raping Leni at a party while filming the incident]], this guy is seemingly singlemindedly determined to ruin Leni's life and keep her miserable and when [[spoiler: he thinks Leni is going to reveal the truth about their sexual encounter, ''decides to kill her''!]]
* BullyHunter: Carol uses her position in student council to start an anti bullying campaign at her school when she learns what Leni's been through. Naturally she's targeting Leni's bullies.

* BrokenBird: Leni is already this at the time of the first chapter. She has to be talked out of suicide by Carol. We later find out its due to a combination of bullying, Lori being the AloofBigSister, and [[spoiler: a sexual assault that left her with a PregnancyScare.]]
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: A Zigzagged example. Carol reveals that she had feelings to Leni ever since she was a kid, back when she was friends with Lori. [[spoiler: This is complicated by the fact that she also had a crush on Lori back then as well, leaving Leni worried that she is a ReplacementGoldfish.]]

* HiddenHeartOfGold: Carol as part of her AlphaBitch routine acts accordingly in public. In actuality, it's all a front and she's a nice girl whose got Leni's best interests at heart. It works to her advantage when she pretends to befriend one of Leni's bullies, only to lure said bully into being expelled. However RealityEnsues when Lori, who has no reason to believe the facade isn't genuine, tries to break off the friendship Leni and Carol form and goes ballistic when said friendship turns romantic.

* RealityEnsues
** Carol starts an Anti Bullying Campaign at her school, which seems to take the place by storm but there are students that aren't as up for it as they would appear, seeing it as an image deal (Carol uses this during her {{Jerkass}} facade against Karen, who admits to not caring about the campaign). Many of the students are secretly outright against it!
** [[spoiler: Leni's sexual assault was her first and only experience in sex at the time she started dating Carol. It took such a toll on her she is described as being subconsciously aggressive about sex which comes up during TheirFirstTime. Not that either seem to mind.]]
** Lori seems like an AloofBigSister but that's only from Leni's perspective. In actuality, Lori cares about Leni very much and is devastated to learn she was suicidal.
** Despite Carol saving Leni from suicide and trying to keep her happy in their relationship, Leni still has a lot of baggage on her plate and goes back and fourth between her anxiety and depression. She describes her emotions as a constant "grey area" and eventually decided to seek professional help.
** Carol's public reputation as an AlphaBitch does ''not'' help people accept her relationship with Leni; in fact, it's perfectly understandable why Lori is so furious about Leni falling for Carol.
** [[spoiler: Nick not only raped Leni but filmed and edited it to make a sex tape to blackmail her. Leni mentions to Dr. Hudson that Nick is older than her, and a legal adult, while Leni was beneath the age of consent when it occurred. Dr. Hudson points out that even if Nick releases the edited "sex tape" he could still be charged with statutory rape and child pornography.]]
** [[spoiler: Nick is a sociopath who prides himself on his reputation so when Leni appears to be on the verge of revealing him raping her, he opts to kill her.]]

The story itself is on hiatus because the author took the current story down due to rewrites. They recently reposted the original as a separate work which can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13079680/1/Regrets-Original here]].

The story itself is on hiatus because the author took the current story down due to rewrites. They recently reposted the original as a seperate work which can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13079680/1/Regrets-Original here]].

* AscendedExtra: Lynn Sr

* JerkassFacade: Carol as part of her AlphaBitch routine acts accordingly in public. In actuality, it's all a front and she's a nice girl whose got Leni's best interests at heart. It works to her advantage when she pretends to befriend one of Leni's bullies, only to lure said bully into being expelled. However RealityEnsues when Lori, who has no reason to believe the facade isn't genuine, tries to break off the friendship Leni and Carol form and goes ballistic when said friendship turns romantic.

* LovableAlphaBitch: Carol is one of the most popular and influential girls in her school and does put up a JerkassFacade when she needs to. This gives her something of a typical AlphaBitch reputation to the other students. Luckily we see her true personality as a caring and compassionate girl who starts an anti bullying campaign to look out for Leni.

** Carol starts an Anti Bullying Campaign at her school, which seems to take the place by storm but there are students that aren't as up for it as they would appear, seeing it as an image deal (Carol uses this during her JerkassFacade against Karen, who admits to not caring about the campaign). Many of the students are secretly outright against it!

* SpoiledSweet: Carol comes from a rich family that gives them plenty of influence at the school, which in turn is part of what makes Carol popular. That and Carol's status at the student council designates her as a seeming AlphaBitch. In actuality, her family are a pretty close and happy unit and Carol is a genuinely caring individual who wants to make the school a better place, especially for her new girlfriend. Although she can put up a JerkassFacade when need be.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Carol dishes this out to Karen when she learns how she bullied Leni, and of how Karen's greatest fear is being sent to a reform school. When the first meet, Carol pretends to befriend Karen, only to lure her into a trap as part of her Anti Bullying Campaign that gets her in trouble with the school, and her expelled and sent to a reform school.

!!Tropes present in the Rewrite Regrets:

* KnightTemplarBigSister: Lori explains that her basis of her rivalry with Carol stems from seeing her as the AlphaBitch and legitimately thinks she's out to hurt Leni. She gets over this though.