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"This story will be told by Luna. We will discover what happened to her after Lina's birth as well as how Lincoln and Sam learned to love each other."
— JaviSuzumiya
It's (Not) Your Fault is a The Loud House Fan Webcomic created by DeviantArt user JaviSuzumiya. It serves as an explanation for much of Javi's art that involves his OC Lina Loud, specifically the events that led up to her birth.
The series is currently ongoing. It can be found here
and the second part is here on Javi's DeviantArt page.
This webcomic contains examples of:
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Sam is revealed to have a Dark and Troubled Past involving her family (namely her father), something that is never implied in the show.
- Adaptational Jerkass:
- Luna is given some of this, being more aggressive and prone to anger than she was in the show. It is also strongly hinted throughout the story that she handled the Loud family's breakup. We do see part of this later, as due to Rusty's fake photo, she ends up nearly beating the two up and essentially disowns Lincoln.
- Sam, for the rape of Lincoln alone.
- Rusty. In the show, while he had his jerk moments, he was an overall normal and good person. In the comic, when he gets jealous of Lincoln and Stella's relationship, he sets out for revenge by altering a photo of Lincoln and Sam.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the series, Lincoln and Sam do not have many interactions, but in the comic, they end up forming a good friendship and we know they will later end up together.
- Adaptational Sexuality:
- Luan dates Maggie in the background, while in the show, Luan only shows interest in boys.
- Sam also qualifies in the opposite direction. In the show, she is a lesbian who is only shown with Luna. In the comic, in addition to having been with Luna, she had a boyfriend in the past and would later end up with Lincoln.
- Acquitted Too Late: After the scandal of Lincoln and Sam kissing, Lisa found out that the photo was indeed doctored and is fake. But by then, Sam had already raped Lincoln during the fallout from the incident before.
- All Gays Are Pedophiles: A complicated case. Sam is bisexual and rapes Lincoln at one point in the story. While they are both underage, there's still a noticeable age gap since Sam is 16 while Lincoln is 12. However, no one ever calls Sam a pedophile or even hints at her being one, so it's debatable how avoided this trope really is.
- Bait-and-Switch: On Page 44, Luna hears some kissing noises, and it leads the audience to believe that it is Lincoln and Sam, but the following page reveals that Lincoln was kissing Lucy's statue as practice for Stella.
- Child by Rape: Lina turns out to have been the result of Sam raping Lincoln during an alcohol-induced mental breakdown.
- Content Warning: Page 130 has one in the description since this is the page where Sam rapes Lincoln. A similar one is also given on Page 131.Just as a warning, I want to add that I don't approve of this type of behavior or actions in real life. Remember that this is just a fictional story with fictional characters. No pixels were harmed in the making of this comic page.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Sam tells Lincoln that she did not have a happy childhood. Her mother and father started fighting constantly, and eventually, her dad abandoned her, causing her mom to become an alcoholic and her brother Simon to become super rebellious. Sam has even hurt herself.
- Darker and Edgier: This comic does not hold back with how depressingly dark it is. When comparing it to the show it is based on, the difference is very plain, with the comic dealing with stuff such as abandonment, trauma, mental problems, relationship problems, Self-Harm and eventually a rape leading to a Teen Pregnancy. Ironically, among Javi's works, the comic is his most SFW in terms of content.
- Despair Event Horizon: After being raped by Sam, Lincoln ends up crossing this. He becomes even more distant and isolated from everyone, not even answering his cellphone and spending most of his time in bed, crying and replaying images of what Sam did to him.
- Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: It's revealed on page 130 that Sam raped Lincoln while drunk. While the immediate fallout is portrayed realistically, with Lincoln being left traumatized by the whole ordeal, this eventually falls by the wayside when Sam finds out she's pregnant with Lina and she and Lincoln decide to raise their child together.
- Downer Beginning: The comic starts with an older Luna arriving back at the Loud House, presumably to try and reconnect after what happened, but she runs away at the last second, crying, then the comic cuts to flashbacks of what led everyone to this place.
- Downer Ending: The first part ends on a grim note. Lincoln is raped by Sam after she gets super drunk, and he is mentally broken as a result. Sam, meanwhile, has no idea what she has done, due to memory loss, and finds out that she ended up getting pregnant, freaking out and wondering what happened and what she is going to do now.
- Drowning My Sorrows: After the faked photo destroys her life, Sam drinks quite a bit. The drinking ends up going very, very badly.
- Faint in Shock: Luna has one when she finds out that Mazzy signed the band up for a contest without asking the rest of the band.
- Fan-Created Offspring: Lina Loud, the child of Lincoln Loud and Sam Sharp. The comic primarily explains what is implied to be her dark origins.
- Foregone Conclusion: Due to the nature of the comic being an explanation story for much of Javi's art, combined with us seeing the present during the opening, multiple things are certain to happen; Luna and Sam's relationship will not last, something horrible is going to happen that causes Luna to break away from her family, and Sam and Lincoln are going to end up having Lina by some means.
- Frame-Up: Rusty takes a photo of Lincoln and Sam, then edits it to make it look like they are kissing and posts it as revenge for Lincoln getting with Stella despite their promise. This ends up going badly for both.
- From Bad to Worse: This summarizes a good chunk of the first part of the story. Rusty, due to his jealousy, fakes a photo of Lincoln and Sam kissing to break up Lincoln and Stella. It ends up working and both Lincoln and Sam sink into despair and stop going to school. Then Sam ends up drinking and calls Lincoln to see her, and she ends up eventually raping him, destroying Lincoln mentally. Lastly, Sam, having undergone some sort of amnesia from the alcohol, discovers she is pregnant.
- Green-Eyed Monster:
- Rusty gets a bad case of this. Getting jealous of Lincoln and Stella's relationship, he wants to break them up, which he succeeds in by photoshopping a picture of Lincoln and Sam kissing.
- Luna also gets some of this. When Lincoln and Sam start spending more time together, Luna gets paranoid believing something is going on between the two and when she sees the fake photo of the two kissing, she flies into a fit of rage and nearly beats them up, only barely being stopped by Mazzy.
- Hallucinations: In the present segments, Luna apparently became schizophrenic, since she hallucinates Lincoln telling her that what happened is her fault.
- Has a Type: When Lincoln and Stella are admitting their feelings for each other, Lincoln says that he likes tall girls after Stella mentions the bullying she faced due to her height. This also serves as a bit of foreshadowing, as Lincoln would later end up with Sam, who is also tall.
- Height Angst: According to herself, Stella has some sort of condition that makes her so much taller than everyone else, and as a result, she was bullied.
- Home Nudist:
- Lincoln enters the bathroom and deposits Luna's nightgown while Sam showers. He doesn't get to see her naked, but he's ashamed, saying that what he's feeling is different from what he feels about his sisters. This suggests that he sees the sisters' nakedness without any malice, and that they don't care either.
- Not only does Lincoln like to be in his underwear at home, but Sam's brother does too.
- Idiot Ball: The story is driven primarily by the cast making poor choices or lacking common sense. Sam choosing to rape Lincoln after getting pissed-face drunk and deciding to prove the rumors true is just one example.
- I Have Your Wife: Lina has a variation. When Lina can't get the truth about what happened 11 years ago out of Lucy, due to the promise she made to Lincoln, she threatens to destroy her prized old bust of Edwin if she doesn't tell her. In Part 2, we see that Lina has succeeded!
- Makeup Is Evil: When Sam is reunited with Lincoln at High School after her disappearance, not only is she drunk, but she also has a mysterious pink blush in her eyes. It quickly becomes clear she did this to make herself more attractive to Lincoln.
- Masquerade: Judging by what Lina says in the present, her family has been giving her a big one, covering the existence of Luna as well as what happened that led to her birth. Turns out there was a damn good reason for the latter.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Sam discovers she is pregnant and the kid belongs to Lincoln, she starts having this reaction, wondering how this happened and what she did while freaking out, as she seems to have lost her memory.
- Not What It Looks Like: What led to the whole mess; Rusty, jealous that Lincoln was getting close to Stella, saw Lincoln and Sam together, snapped a photo of the pair while they were talking, and doctored it to make it look like they were kissing. In truth, Lincoln was comforting Sam while they were waiting for Luna and, while they did consider kissing each other, they caught themselves and refused to do so. But apparently, Rusty did a convincing job, because when he sent it out through his phone, nearly everyone thought that it was real, Luna especially, despite Sam and Lincoln trying to explain otherwise.
- Moment Killer: When Lincoln and Stella admit their feelings for each other, they kiss, which is interrupted by Clyde, Liam, Zach, and Rusty.
- Never My Fault: In a way, playing on the title, Luna has a case of this. Luna insists that the cause of the family being torn apart and her running away was not her fault, but her hallucinations of Lincoln implies that it is her fault, and she can't accept that.
- Rape as Drama: At the end of the flashback, Sam, having been pushed to the edge due to the fallout of the picture, run away from home, drinks, calls up Lincoln in the dead of night to come to the school, forces herself on him and...well, we think you can imagine.
- Rape Discretion Shot: When Sam has Lincoln pinned to the ground, it cuts away, though it is obvious what happened.
- Recursive Fanfiction: The story has inspired one in the form of Really Isn't Your Fault, a six-shot by Cornholio4 that gives a critical view towards the original story.
- Relationship Sabotage: Rusty attempts this with Lincoln and Stella after they get together. It works.
- Replacement Goldfish: Sam reveals to Lincoln that the reason she has been spending so much time with him is so she can relive a time when her brother wasn't so cold.
- The Runaway:
- After the fake photo of her and Lincoln kissing comes out, Sam apparently runs away from home, according to Luan.
- Luna herself apparently did so at some point, judging by her comments in the present.
- Sanity Slippage: After the fake photo of Lincoln and Sam kissing comes out, Sam's mind cracks and she ends up going crazy. This is made even worse after she starts drinking and she starts to believe that if people say she is a child molester, she must be, and this is topped off by her raping Lincoln. She does eventually sober up, and while she does forget exactly what she did, she has an idea that she did something bad.
- Shadow Discretion Shot: When a drunken Sam forces herself on Lincoln, we're mercifully spared the details. The last shot is her forcing him to kiss her before the next panel cuts outside the school. The older Lincoln narrates things from there to give you an idea of what happened.
- Self-Harm: Sam has a habit of self-harming because of her Dark and Troubled Past. Maggie also self-harms.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: Sam has a variation of this after she undergoes her Sanity Slippage while drunk. She starts thinking that if people say she is a child molester, it must be true. She brings Lincoln over to the school and, at first, gives him a Forceful Kiss. Lincoln nearly snaps her out of this state, but Sam ends up giving in and raping Lincoln. She later sobers up with no memory of what happened and is horrified to discover she ended up pregnant.
- Trauma Button: Sam's past with her father is clearly a sore subject for her, as when Luna brings it up during their argument, it causes Sam to run away crying.
- What Did I Do Last Night?: When Sam sobers up, she seems to have no clue about what she did while she was intoxicated, as she keeps asking "What did I do?" and ends up discovering she is pregnant.
- Whole Episode Flashback: The comic is mostly made up of flashbacks, with occasional forays into the present day.
