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It started as an ordinary day, with Anya Forger heading off to school. Since her dad was busy with paperwork and her mother had to sleep in due to a long night from her assassination job, she decided to go to the bus on her own.

It was hours later that Loid found out Anya never made it to Eden Academy. And it’s only two months that they find out she’s dead.

Dead apple is a SPYĂ—FAMILY Dark Fic, following the Forgers along with the other cast members as they try to cope with the loss of the unknown telepath. It was completed on September 26th, 2024.


Dead apple contains the following tropes:

  • Be Careful What You Wish For: Loathing Loid for taking up his sister’s time, Yuri wishes that something terrible would happen to Loid to knock him down a peg. He regrets his wish after seeing the despair on Loid’s face when the latter sees Anya’s corpse.
  • Bittersweet Ending: The Forgers couple are able to get closure by taking down Project Apple and retrieving Anya's brain for a proper burial, and each becomes the other's Secret-Keeper. However, their daughter is still dead, and without her Operation Strix is over and Twilight must leave his life as Loid Forger. Yor is now alone with only Bond as company.
  • The Cassandra: In chapter 1, Bond barks loudly during the morning of Anya’s kidnapping, implied because he saw a vision of her horrid fate. Unfortunately, Loid doesn’t know the family dog can see the future, so he scolds the family pet for disturbing the neighbors.
  • Dark Fic: While Spy X Family already had dark themes of war and various characters willing to hurt children physically and psychologically, there was never a case of children outright dying, much less the main protagonist.
  • Death of a Child: The story’s summary doesn’t hide the fact that Anya dies.
  • Everybody Has Standards:
    • No matter how much he hates Loid, Yuri takes no satisfaction when the other man grieves over Anya’s death, considering losing a child a fate no one deserves.
    • In chapter 5, despite never getting along with Anya, Damian is furious when Emile and Ewen speak ill of her death, calling them out on it and ordering them to apologize to a grieving Becky. (However, Becky suspects the reason he did so wasn’t just out of principle but because he cared for Anya more than he let on.)
  • Extreme MĂŞlĂ©e Revenge: In chapter 6, Loid beats the head scientist of Apple to death after the man reveals he and the other scientists killed Anya and harvested her brain when they deemed her a lost cause.
  • Internal Reveal: Chapter 6 has Loid and Yor running into each other while they break into Project Apple to find Anya’s killer, and the following chapter has the two revealing their secret lives.
  • It's All My Fault: Both Loid and Yor blame themselves for Anya’s disappearance and death, thinking if they kept an eye on her that morning she’d still be alive.
  • Knight Templar Parent: Once they overcome the depression stage of their daughter’s death, Loid and Yor are immediately on the warpath to hunt down her killer.
  • Trailers Always Spoil: The summary does not hide that Anya gets killed before her family can find her, and the rest of the story is about the characters overcoming their grief.
  • Spotting the Thread: Anya’s death was initially ruled to be by organ traffickers given that several vital organs were cut out. But when Loid and Franky read over her autopsy, they find that she died the Tuesday before her body was found, which is two months too long for any organ harvesters to keep her alive. This sents Loid on the quest to find out who truly kidnapped and killed his daughter.
  • Would Hurt a Child: The scientists of Project Apple were already capable of this trope, having experimented on Anya for her telepathy before she escaped. Chapter 6 reveals that after kidnapping Anya, they deemed her “corrupted” because she thought her parents, rather than Apple, would bring world peace. So they killed her and harvested her brain to prepare for the next test subject.

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