Line #35 FanFic/SevenPiecesOfChalk


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tumblr_mdzpgekkel1qd003ao1_1280_copy_1765.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[BlatantLies Just two friends having fun with each other]]]]
3
4	->''"If you throw someone a life preserver, and they turn around and swim away from it; what can you do but let them drown themselves?"''
5
6	Seven Pieces of Chalk is an ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic by Lady Charity on fanfiction.net. The fic opens with Arthur entering a new school and noticing that everyone is acting strangely. The halls are not like the typical American HighSchool scenery. Students avoid each other. The whole place feels like it has been covered in a thick shroud. And it all seems to lead back to one Alfred F. Jones...
7
8	It is a lot darker than the original work and uses human versions of the anthropomorphized characters. But it is also very touching.
9
10	Tread lightly on this fic, it has some triggers.
11
12	The work can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6329245/1/Seven-Pieces-of-Chalk here]].
13
14	----
15
16	!! Seven Pieces of Chalk contains examples of:
17
18	* AdultsAreUseless: What Lovino thinks of the faculty.
19	* AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler:Matthew]].
20	%%* BittersweetEnding
21	* BullyHunter: Alfred.
22	* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler:Alfred on his first attempt, thanks to Ludwig.]]
23	** [[spoiler: Also happens later on with Gilbert.]]
24	%%* DarkFic
25	* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers to both [[spoiler: the seven people affected by Alfred's suicide, and the seven pieces of chalk they used to write their messages to him.]]
26	%%* DramaBomb
27	* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: The readers figure out that [[spoiler:Alfred did suicide]] long before Arthur does.
28	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Alfred]]
29	** [[spoiler:Later, it almost happens with Gilbert.]]
30	* FollowInMyFootsteps: [[spoiler: Toris is afraid Matthew would follow his twin's suicide.]]
31	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Their English reading is ''Literature/OrdinaryPeople'', everyone freezes or stops mid-sentence whenever Alfred is mentioned, [[spoiler: Gilbert lying to Arthur when he said that he's never been to a funeral, Matthew's SuspiciouslySpecificDenial that he has a brother, Ludwig thinking that Arthur was going to jump off the roof, they all contribute to TheReveal that Alfred committed suicide.]]
32	%%* HighSchoolAU
33	* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:Ludwig does this to Alfred before he can jump off the roof. It doesn't save him though...]]
34	** [[spoiler: Arthur also does this to Gilbert.]]
35	* ItsAllMyFault: What most of the characters feel about [[spoiler:Alfred's death]]
36	* LampshadeHanging: [[Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream Puck the Fairy.]]
37	* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: The later part of the fic.
38	* RedemptionQuest: Alfred tries to go on one of these.
39	* ShoutOut: The trickster fairy Puck hails from Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream.
40	* SurvivorGuilt: Everyone. But mostly Matthew.
41	* TheAtoner: Alfred. And to a lesser extent, everyone else in the cast.
42	* TitleDrop: Happens in the last chapter.
43	* WhamEpisode: Chapter 5.
44	* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler: Alfred realizes that he's saving others from Ivan's bullying precisely because he did the same thing to Makisig.]]

Context FanFic / SevenPiecesOfChalk