History Fanfic / Couturiere

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Lila wanted to break Marinette. She succeeded - and Marinette became an akuma that proceeded to ruin her life by revealing her lies [[spoiler:and traumatizing her so thoroughly that she's left permanently mute.]] Couturiere also invokes this by pointing out that everyone wanted her to be the bad guy - so now she has actually become the bad guy.

"... yes, Hawkmoth."

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21628033 Couturiere]] is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/hattafan2593/pseuds/hattafan2593 hattafan2593]] in which [[FandomSpecificPlot Marinette is akumatized thanks to Lila]]. Unlike most fics of that nature, however, this one is mostly light on the [[AccusationFic salt]] and instead focuses mainly on the effectiveness of Marinette as an akuma.

* AdultsAreUseless: Mme. Bustier is aware that she embodies this trope. It doesn't help that her higher-ups themselves told her to keep her head down where students [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections with influential parents]] like Chloé are concerned. [[spoiler: However, after Marinette's akumatization, she decides to {{subvert}} this by contacting Lila's mother and telling her everything.]]

* AndThenWhat: Jagged Stone and Alya almost manage to get through to Couturiere, when Hawkmoth intervenes. While it's true that they both know the truth about Lila ''now'', he points out that even if Lila is exposed, there's no guarantee that something similar won't happen in the future. After all, Marinette was bullied by Chloé Bourgeois for ''years'' while her classmates did nothing to stop it. And Alya has already proven herself to be a FairWeatherFriend...

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Hawkmoth fully admits to Couturiere that he sees her as nothing more than a means to an end. However, he points out that unlike Marinette's [[AllTakeAndNoGive friends]] and [[UngratefulBastard classmates]], ''he'' at the very least is willing to give her something back in return.
-->'''Hawkmoth:''' ''I'' have kept my promise. Can you say the same for ''them''?

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Marinette is saved, but her relationships with her friends are ruined due to how much they had used her and how quickly they abandoned her for Lila (or in Adrien’s case, did nothing to help her). Despite that, she is willing to try to rebuild the bridges... though she makes it clear that she is NOT going to be doing things for free anymore: Something the class gracefully accepts, since they had realized how awful they were to her and genuinely want to make it up to her. Lila is healed, but the trauma has left her unable to talk and she is unable to return to school due to that and her lies finally being exposed. And due to Adrien getting wounded, Hawk Moth has decided to never akumatize Marinette again, deeming it to be ‘too dangerous.’]]

* BrokenBird: Lila's constant bullying and her classmates' isolation has pushed Marinette to the breaking point, allowing Hawkmoth to finally akumatize her. [[spoiler: Lila herself is later turned into this as Couturiere exposes her lies and breaks her arm and leg before putting her through ColdBloodedTorture that renders her mute and traumatized for life.]]

* EtTuBrute: The reason behind Marinette getting akumatized: Her classmates had turned on her in favour of Lila, Alya had implied the reason she didn’t believe Marinette is because she sees her as bad, untrustworthy friend, and Adrien had simply stood by and let it all happen despite knowing the the truth.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Couturiere tells everyone that she doesn't intend to kill Lila - after all, that would mean she got off too easily. [[spoiler: Lila does survive the ColdBloodedTorture she's put through afterwards but by the end of it, she's so traumatized she's rendered mute.]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: One of the reasons Lila kept harassing and framing Marinette for things she hadn't done was so she would be so stressed Hawkmoth would be able to akumatize her. She succeeds when Marinette is turned into the titular Akuma... who not only proceeds to prove her lies to their classmates, but then breaks her arm and leg, tortures her by hurting her [[spoiler:and sews her mouth shut, something that traumatizes Lila so hard she becomes an ElectiveMute]].
* HopeSpot: A couple of times (once by Jagged Stone, another by Alix) it seems like they're getting through to Marinette, but it fails to take. The second time seems like Couturiere doing it deliberately to rub it in.

-->'''Couturiere:''' ''Really?'' Well, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis imagine. My.]] [[SarcasmMode Shock.]] (''slowly turns to a very pale Alya'') Well, this ''is'' embarrassing. I mean, I can’t ''imagine'' why Lila would ''lie'' like that. I mean, my friend Alya certainly thought she was telling the truth. Even posted it on her blog. After all, ''"A good journalist always checks their sources."''

* SlowClap: Couturiere does the [[SarcasticClapping sarcastic]] version of this when Lila falls into her trap.

* TastesLikeDisdain: To apologize to Lila for traumatizing and injuring her as Couturiere, Marinette visits her house and brings her a box of éclairs from her family's bakery. When Lila sees them, she grabs the box and stomps it flatter than a pancake before slamming the door in Marinette's face.

* YouWillBeSpared: [[spoiler: When Couturiere captures Adrien and [[WhatTheHellHero brutally tears into him]], Adrien immediately owns up to his mistakes. This causes Couturiere to let him go, considering it a waste of thread.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: [[spoiler:Played With and Subverted at same time: The real reason why Adrien did nothing to stop Lila is because he had wrongfully assumed Lila is just like him: a person who constantly has to lie to fulfill people’s expections and felt sorry for her. Needless to say, he had to learn the hard way that this does NOT give him an excuse to essentially abandon Marinette and that Lila is ultimately nothing like him.]]

* AllTakeAndNoGive: Marinette practiced the inverse for so long that the others started to take it for granted and never realized how much she did for them, which contributed to her state of mind.

* AdultsAreUseless: Caline Bustier is aware that she embodies this trope. It doesn't help that her higher-ups themselves told her to keep her head down where students [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections with influential parents]] like Chloé are concerned. [[spoiler: However, after Marinette's akumatization, she decides to {{subvert}} this by contacting Lila's mother and telling her everything.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Couturiere tells everyone that she doesn't intend to kill Lila - after all, that would mean she got off too easily.

** [[spoiler: The reason Ms.Bustier had never punished Chloé or Lila is because she was told to simply let them be and to keep them happy due their positions of being daughters of rich political figures if she wanted to keep her job. Even though she finally wises up at the end, it does not excuse how she allowed her students to endure their bullying for so long.]]

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21628033 Couturiere]] is a ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fanfic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/hattafan2593/pseuds/hattafan2593 hattafan2593]] in which [[FandomSpecificPlot Marinette is akumatized thanks to Lila]]. Unlike most fics of that nature, however, this one is mostly light on the [[AccusationFic salt]] and instead focuses mainly on the effectiveness of [[ForWantOfANail Marinette as an akuma.]]