Beautifully Broken
is a Disventure Camp fanfic written by Shi_Daisy
. There is also a version of the story translated into Spanish named Hermosamente Destrozados
by the same author.
Riya gets medically discharged during the Final 3 of All-Stars; Alec ends up helping to save her life and they end up healing together. However, in spite of being injured, an ex of Riya’s (as well as the leader of the "Heroes") believes that she escaped justice...
This story contains examples of:
- Adaptational Jerkass: Connor’s actions and mindset towards Riya during All-Stars are given a lot more scrutiny than portrayed in canon. He also becomes obsessed with ruining Riya’s acting career afterwards.
- Adaptational Sympathy: Riya is put in a lot more sympathetic light than in canon.
- Age-Gap Romance: Reynold is a decade older than Fabio.
- Alliterative Title: Beautifully Broken.
- Alternate Universe Fic: Riya ended up being medically discharged during the finals with Jake and Ally being the final two.
- Attack on One Is an Attack on All: Riya's staff and co-workers swear revenge on her behalf after she's blacklisted from Blackbird Studios.
- Berserk Button: Alec can take being insulted, but when it comes to his loved ones being treated horribly for whatever reason, he doesn’t let it slide.
- Bite of Affection: Alec to Riya in chapter 17 when he's drunk. He feels both guilty and flustered by it afterwards.
- Brains and Bondage: Alec.
- Break the Badass: Riya at the start of the fanfic.
- Break-Up Bonfire: Alec and Riya throw their last memento of their former lovers into the fire in during chapter 8.
- Career Versus Man: Averted. Riya was asked by Connor to forego her career in favor of their relationship. She refused and it eventually led to their break-up.
- Casual Kink: Played for Laughs. It's implied Çelik men are always into dominant women. In more ways than one.
- Citizenship Marriage: One of the reasons Alec and Riya get married as Alec needs US citizenship.
- Confession Triggers Consummation: Riya and Alec confess their love before having sex for the first time in chapter 24.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Connor, while merely the owner of his family’s perfume company who basically just signs papers for it, nonetheless qualifies when he uses money from his company’s savings account to buy Blackbird Studios, all for the express purpose of blacklisting Riya and her supporters.
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Sergei to Fiore in Chapter 3 when Fabio kills Giovanni.
- Crush Blush: Used with almost every couple.
- Cry into Chest: Riya to Alec on various occasions.
- Dance of Romance: Alec and Riya in chapter 25.
- Deliberately Cute Child: Fiore often tried to use this as manipulation tactic before the story starts.
- Delusions of Parental Love: Fiore before Chapter 2.
- Differing Priorities Breakup: Riya breaks up with Connor during All-Stars because of this.
- Disowned Parent: Fiore to the Ricci's.
- Disproportionate Retribution:
- In his vendetta against Riya, Connor buys the studio she works for and has her and her supporters blacklisted, all to teach her a "lesson" for her villainy on Disventure Camp.
- Daniel’s soccer team attempt to attack him for causing them to lose. They even smack Fiore away for daring to reach for her brother.
- Dominatrix: Riya
- Its implied Catherine is one too.
- Driven to Suicide:
- Riya attempts suicide at the start of the fanfic, due to her loss and injuries.
- Alec was close to shooting himself in the head before he was called to compete in All-Stars.
- It's implied Fiore considered it during her time in boarding school.
- Eating the Eye Candy: Alec and Riya during their "honeymoon" in Chapter 6.
- Everyone Can See It: Alec and Riya and to a lesser extent Reynold and Fabio.
- Everyone Has Standards: Unlike Connor, who laughed at Riya’s injured state, absolutely no one else took any joy in her pain, even though she lost to Jake and Ally.
- Fake Relationship: Alec and Riya both agree to marry each other in order to adopt Fiore, as well as to escape Riya’s parents’ attempts at setting her up. It doesn’t stay one for long...
- Goodbye, Cruel World!: Riya writes a suicide note before her attempt.
- Happily Adopted: Fiore by Alec and Riya.
- Happily Failed Suicide: Both Riya and Alec.
- Hurt/Comfort Fic: The main premise of the fic.
- Indirect Kiss: Alec lighting up his cigarette with Riya's flame in Chapter 4.
- Interrupted Suicide: Kristal's recruitment call to Alec interrupts his suicide attempt.
- Intimate Lotion Application: Alec to Riya in Chapters 6 and 7.
- Intimate Psychotherapy: Averted In chapter 17, where it looks like Alec and Riya are about get intimate when the former has a breakdown. They don't go through with it.
- Karma Houdini: Subverted. Connor sees Riya as one as she has "escaped consequences" (not seeing all the rest of the contestants at the end of the show); when she was the one wheelchair bound and forced to bail out of the competition.
- Kinky Cuffs: Riya handcuffs Alec in Chapter 31.
- Life-Saving Encouragement: Alec to Riya in Chapter 1 which kickstarts the story.
- Little Miss Snarker: Fiore.
- Long-Distance Relationship: Sergei and Porscha fall for one another before meeting during their correspondence days.
- Marriage Before Romance: Riya and Alec's relationship truly blossoms once they're married.
- Marriage of Convenience: Alec and Riya get married in Vegas to secure custody of Fiore, citizenship for Alec and to keep Riya in LA.
- Meet the In-Laws: Riya meets Alec's parents in Chapter 2. It goes well. Alec meets Riya's parents in Chapter 11. It does not go well.
- Menace Decay: Fiore.
- Parent-Preferred Suitor: Riya's parents preferred Connor to Alec.
- Parents Are Wrong: Riya's parents in Chapter 11.
- “The Reason You Suck” Speech: After learning that Connor bought the studio just to have Riya and whoever supported her blacklisted and hearing him insult Riya again, Alec angrily lays into him over his actions and how short-sighted his attempts at petty revenge are in the long run.
- Romantic Rain: The dance under the rain in Chapter 25.
- Second Love: Riya to Alec.
- Signed with a Kiss: Porscha to her letters with Sergei.
- Sleep Cute: Riya and Alec on various occasions
- Suicide by Pills: Riya's attempt involves an oxycodone overdose with alcohol.
- Tautological Templar: In Connor’s eyes, anyone who sides with Riya is as "wicked" as she is, and deserves to be affected by his actions when targeting her.
- There Is Only One Bed: Alec and Riya's honeymoon suite only has one bed.
- Trauma Button: Chapter 25 reveals that Daniel still has trauma over sand. He asks Riya if they can go to the beach in hopes of facing his fear and even then, it wasn’t easy.
- When Harry Met Svetlana: A gender-inverted example with Porscha, an American woman, and Sergei a Russian man.
