Line #3 Fanfic/HeartsAflutter


1	Taylor will be hers. ''She doesn't have a choice''.
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3	''[[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/hearts-aflutter-worm-lovesick-yandere-simulator.381524/ Hearts Aflutter]]'' is a ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' and ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' crossover where Taylor becomes Ayano's Senpai.
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5	This fanfic can also be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11843013/1/Hearts-Aflutter here]] on Website/FanFictionDotNet. [[DeadFic Has not been updated since 2019]].
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9	!!''Hearts Aflutter'' provides examples of:
10	* AdaptationalHeroism: Zig-zagged due to the multiple routes of the game, but Hearts Aflutter!Ayano is this to a murderous canon!Ayano. She's still killing people, but her targets in this case aren't innocent girls who just happened to like this one boy, but [[AssholeVictim brutal bullies]] who'd been relentlessly tormenting Taylor for years.
11	* AscendedExtra: [[TheEmpath Gallant]], who is killed off early into ''Worm'' during Leviathan's attack, has a more prominent active role in this story due to his emotion-reading powers being very relevant to the situation involving [[EmotionlessGirl Ayano Aishi]]. He gets his own interlude, for example.
12	* AssholeVictim: All of Ayano's murder victims are Taylor's bullies, as well as an armed mugger.
13	* BerserkButton: Don't try to hit on Taylor and definitely don't bully her. Ayano will make sure you don't live long enough to regret it.
14	* BigBrotherInstinct: After hearing from Lisa that one of his little sister's friends' is a dangerous killer that is targeting her next, Brian walks Aisha to and from school acting as her bodyguard her whether she likes it or not.
15	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ayano can act like an nice, innocent schoolgirl while still being a dangerous SerialKiller and StalkerWithACrush.
16	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Madison when she kills Emma]].
17	* BrokenBird: Madison and Ayano's father Hizashi are this. Madison is forced to confess for crimes she [[spoiler: committed while Mastered]], while Hizashi is married to a {{yandere}} he legitimately doesn't love but can't leave and has resigned himself to his fate. When Sophia's viewpoint rolls around, it turns out that she has shades of this herself.
18	* BullyMagnet: Taylor is this at Winslow which some meet a bloody end at Ayano's hands.
19	* CreepyChild: Maiko and Sophia see Ayano as this, which Taylor will deny.
20	* CuteAndPsycho: Ayano is willing to go extreme lengths for her goal of having Taylor and is sometimes described as adorable.
21	* DramaticIrony: Taylor at one point in the police station fears that Ayano could be the killer's next victim, completely unware that Ayano ''is'' the murderer.
22	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Sophia/Shadow Stalker is really torn up by [[spoiler: brainwashed!Madison]]'s murder of Emma, her best friend. She becomes even more ruthless and engages in much [[HeroicSelfDeprecation Villainous Self-Deprecation]], further distancing herself from the other Wards.
23	* FalseFriend: Ayano is this to Aisha and many of her victims.
24	* GreenEyedMonster: Ayano is intensely jealous of anyone who might take her precious Taylor away from her (looking at you Brian). Emphasis on the "Monster" part since she's a SerialKiller.
25	* HiddenBadass: Ayano makes herself appear as plain as possible, so that she would be BeneathSuspicion.
26	* KarmaHoudini: Ayano manipulates events to point the evidence accusing Taylor of killing her bullies onto Madison, who is also killed, letting both of them get away without any consequences.
27	* LoveInterest: Taylor is this to Ayano. Not that she knows it.
28	* ManipulativeBitch: Ayano murders most of Taylor's bullies, then forces Madison to write a letter pinning it on herself and kill Emma, which results in her own death. Ayano--and Taylor, who had come under suspicion for the murders earlier--get off Scot free.
29	* NothingIsScarier: While Taylor is in police custody, she meets a teenaged member of the ABB, who asks what she's in for. Taylor explains what the police found in her diary, which detailed [[PowerFantasy all of the things she would've liked to have done to the Trio in]] {{Revenge}}. While we are not told what she fantasised about doing, it's enough to scare a gang member into sitting as far from Taylor as possible in the cell.
30	* OnlyFriend: Ayano is this to Taylor, unaware she wants to become more than friends.
31	* PayEvilUntoEvil: What Ayano did to the Trio was certainly horrible, but considering how maliciously they abused Taylor, it's not like it wasn't unwarranted.
32	* PsychoLesbian: Ayano is madly in love with Taylor and is actively killing off anyone who dares threaten her or tries to "steal" Taylor from her.
33	* RevengeByProxy: Ayano uses [[spoiler: Madison]] as a proxy to murder [[spoiler: Emma]].
34	* SecretDiary: When the police investigate Ayano's murders, they end up finding Taylor's diary which records everything the trio has done to her. Just as quickly, Taylor becomes a major suspect.
35	* SerialKiller: Ayano Aishi is this.
36	* SherlockScan: Lisa's powers, which tells her that the person behind the brutal murderer is [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse someone with a good reputation who no one suspects]]... and shares a class with one of Lisa's friends.
37	* StalkerWithACrush: Ayano is Taylor's stalker who actively tries to be as close to her as possible and is madly in love with her.
38	* TerseTalker: Taylor describes Ayano as this [[spoiler:when they're talking about Emma's murder]].
39	* TheUnfettered: There's nothing Ayano won't do in order to keep her precious Taylor to herself from the bullies — murder, torture, kidnapping, threats, the works.
40	* UnknownRival: It seems Ayano sees Brian as a potential love rival to Taylor, who has no idea that Ayano has a crush on her.
41	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Ayano Aishi and her mother are this.
42	* VillainProtagonist: Granted, ''Worm'' practically ran on these, but while Taylor was a reluctant villain with standards, Ayano is an unapologetic murderess who kills anyone who gets between her and Taylor.
43	* {{Yandere}}: Ayano and Ryoba, of course, only this time, Taylor is the one Ayano pines for. There's also a chart on the fic's thread that indicates which characters are also yanderes. According to it, Amelia is also one and she pines for Victoria as in canon.

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