Riches To Rags / Fan Works

Riches to Rags in Fan Works

• After That Fateful Night: Prince Blueblood offends Nightmare Moon with his behavior in the royal court, and is stripped of his title and has his estate confiscated by the government. He protests this and approaches the queen, getting himself sent to the dungeons until he agrees to become a civil servant.
• Boop the Snoot for Critical Damage!: The Schnee family after Hyperion takes over Wunderwinter. While they're no longer wealthy, Willow was able to steal multiple syringes of Insta-Youth, which she plans to sell so she can make enough to start a new life with her children.
• Finding a Place to Call Home: Hera punishes Lucius Malfoy by turning him into a pauper and a beggar for aiding, abetting and planning a genocide to ensure his twisted legacy, as well as the attempted robbery of Ginny's soul with the diary of Tom Riddle, making sure the Malfoy name is forever removed from time. Lucius tries to strike Hera, only to lose his right arm in the process.
• A Gamer In South Blue: Jack accumulated a small fortune that would last him for about ten years through the first dozen chapters. It all gets wiped out when he pours it into repairing Kivuruk from Kid's attack; he doesn't mind the funds going to a worthy cause, but it does mean he's got more bounty hunting to do.
• The Gentle Art of Making Enemies: Played with. When Weiss's father disowns her, she loses her status as the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company and all the financial security that comes with it. She panics about this but then remembers that she still has her trust fund, and has really only been bumped down a few notches from "obscenely wealthy" to "very wealthy".
• The Ice Behind Bars: After having had enough of the king's abusive treatment of her and their daughters, the queen decides it would be better to live among thieves than with her husband in a castle.
• In Incarnation of Legends, Haruhime is part of the incredibly influential Sanjouno family that is at the center of politics in the Far East. But her independent streak and desire to leave her Gilded Cage and one day meet Bell again leads her father to cast her out and disown her. It stings, but it's also freeing, as she heads to Hachiman for both shelter and the opportunity to train and head to Orario.
• The Karma of Lies: After his father is exposed as Hawkmoth, Adrien finds his family's fortunes fading fast. Especially after he dips into the Agreste emergency fund account in front of Lila, giving her a chance to memorize the passcodes and help herself. While the family still has plenty of wealth, he can't access any of it, and his new legal guardian isn't willing to provide the same level of luxury he's familiar with. He specifically complains that his new apartment is smaller than his old room's closet.
  • Karmic Backlash, a Recursive Fanfiction to The Karma of Lies, has this happen to Marinette. Once Karma finally catches up to her courtesy of her friends and the court of public opinion discovering that she let Lila go with a Paranoia Gambit and (thanks to a Heinousness Retcon) actually had evidence that Adrien did not gave the Cat Miraculous to Hawk Moth willingly but decided not to expose it because she dislikes Adrien, she has her work as a fashion designer destroyed and she is fired, she is run out of Paris and she ends the story living what may be the rest of her life as an apprentice (in reality more of a slave in all but name) in the Miraculous Order's monastery.
• The Last Lion of House Reyne: After miraculously fleeing from House Lannister's retribution for their attempted rebellion, the Reynes are cut off from their wealth, land, and titles and forced to live in hiding as members of the peasant class.
• In The Masks we Wear (JiggleWigs), Ursa and her two children are forced into exile after an attempted Ruling Family Massacre. They live in the Earth Kingdom as simple nonbender civilians.
• Of Elder Scrolls and Huntsmen: Dragon Rose: Weiss Schnee, the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, learns that all of her Lien is absolutely worthless in Skyrim. As a result, she begins acting... well, more like a typical Skyrim player, to tell the truth. She doesn't go around stealing from people's homes, but she does ensure that whatever tombs and bandit camps they go through are thoroughly looted. She actually cries Tears of Joy upon becoming rich again.
• Perfect Diamond World: Elsa and Anna run off together and go from royalty to normal middle-class civilians.
• Strange New World: Haru gives up her life of luxury and comfort when she ditches her Arranged Marriage to Sugimura to join the Phantom Thieves. She doesn't mind it though, as her old life was absolutely miserable, and her fiance was an abusive Jerkass.
• It's implied that Bruno's Fortune Teller job in where the dandylions play can just barely keep him and Mirabel afloat, a far-cry from Familia Madrigal's arguably modest affluence. With that said, they seem comfortable enough with what little they have, Bruno managing to get her a high-quality education through sheer luck.

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