After Chloe Bourgeois gets overthrown and evicted from Paris, she finds herself in a strange finishing school which seems to accept only the cruelest and most monstrous girls as students. Chloe hates everything about it, from the bland and unsatisfying food to its enforced isolation which prevents her from calling people she knew back home. But as she learns the horrifying truth of her new institution, she soon realizes that petty creature comforts are the least of her problems.
Chloe's Inferno
is a short Miraculous Ladybug Religious Horror story posted on the SpaceBattles forums. It is complete.
This fanfic contains examples of:
- Accidental Suicide:
- The police's theory of Chloe's death is that she deliberately ate something she was allergic to in the hopes of getting sick on the flight to New York, thus forcing the plane to turn around and land back in Paris so Chloe could stay there longer and rebuild her power base. The police also think that Chloe's plan went awry when she ate too much of whatever she was allergic to and thus accidentally killed herself instead of just sickening herself.
- Alessia died this way, slitting her wrists and expecting her parents to save her, only for her timing to be off.
- Dead All Along: Chloe learns that she died before the events of the story, and the finishing school is the start of her afterlife. It's not a very good afterlife.
- Demon of Human Origin: The ultimate fate of Chloe and the other students in the 'finishing school.'
- The Devil Is a Loser:
- Demons are incapable of experiencing human pleasures, meaning Chloe will spend her eternity tempting humans into sins that she herself can't enjoy.
- Chloe's demonic transformation also gives her pretty much everything she wanted in the canon series itself — she has magic powers which rival even that of a Miraculous, she can hurt people all she wants with no real fear of being punished for it, etc. — but she no longer wants those things (and in fact detests them) due to finally understanding the depths of her own sin and depravity. Unfortunately for her, it's too late for her to change, so she has to keep hurting people and ruining lives as she always has while feeling nothing but shame and self-contempt.
- Foil: All of the other students in Chloe's 'finishing school' represent one of Chloe's particular sins.
- Katie, the gang leader, represents Chloe's love of pointless conflict.
- Fatima, the collaborator, represents Chloe's willingness to work with evil powers in order to get what she wants.
- Jan, the revolutionary, represents Chloe's willingness to do horrible things to attain political power.
- Julie, the romantic, represents how Chloe treated Adrien as a plaything and arm-candy rather than an actual person.
- Alessia, the artist, represents Chloe's melodramatic tantrums and her willingness to cause massive problems to get what she wants, no matter how expensive or inconvenient for others.
- Ilsa, the Nazi, represents Chloe's racism and bigotry (as shown in episodes like 'Kung Food').
- Katya, the soldier, represents Chloe's zeal to inflict pain on others.
- Luna, the gourmand, represents Chloe's contempt for workers and others she sees as 'lesser' than her.
- Bethany, the 'princess,' represents Chloe's willingness to exploit her privileged position and the power her social status gave her, no matter who it hurt.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: Chloe begs Mr. Sconce for one last chance, swearing that if they send her back to Earth she'll live a good and righteous life. Sconce, of course, says no.
- Hell: Where Chloe and her classmates wind up.
- Ironic Hell: After spending years tormenting her classmates in a terrestrial school, Chloe finds herself endlessly tormented in an infernal one.
- Karmic Death: Pretty much everyone in Chloe's 'class' died in a karmic way. Special mentions go to Jan, who burned herself to death in a fire she started, and Julie, who brained her boyfriend after he said they should pause their relationship and then dragged his body away to be eaten by alligators, only for her to get stuck in the muddy bayou and eaten alongside him.
- Leave No Witnesses: Mr. Sconce reveals that Gabriel Agreste, leery of Chloe possibly revealing that he gave her the police robots which she used for her coup, poisoned her using a tiny spike hidden within her Alliance ring.
- Lonely Funeral: While Chloe doesn't get a funeral proper, it's mentioned that Zoe and Andre tried throwing a wake for her, but nobody showed up.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Gabriel's poison simulated a massive and lethal allergy attack, so police don't suspect foul play.
- Meaningful Name: A sconce is a device used to mount flaming torches. Mr. Sonce being a demon, his job is to support an entirely different kind of fire — Hellfire.
- Yandere: Julie's boyfriend paused their relationship after his father threatened to cut him off financially. Julie responded by braining him with a lamp and then dragging his body out to be eaten by alligators.
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: Chloe's demonic training lasts an unfathomably long time for her, but when she's finally sent back to the surface to begin tempting people, only a day or so has passed.
