#ballau

This was my first AU I had thought of before the BallAU. It was very different and I couldn't think of anything for it other than trauma happened to Chloe after she went to London and it resulted in her cutting off all her emotions. The idea spawned when I thought she would look cute in a bob and sundress(and boy does she). But you can't write a story on design alone. I was playing with the idea of her only showing her emotions when transformed with a miraculous and being stone faced the rest of the time. But I couldn't think of how she would get one. My first thought was giving her the Bee Miraculous but how would she get it? I don't see this Chloe reaching out for attention from Amaya and Trent. But it was around this time I learned that Chloe did ballet in ML and that sparked the idea of making an Odette costume with Breezee(I had actually started thinking of the Celestial Kwamis years ago and Breezee has pretty much been unchanged since the beginning while I only refined the rest recently). So that is what sparked the idea of Dovely. I designed her and I slowly started to turn away from this AU that I couldn't think of anything for to the BallAU where ideas where just flowing.

Chloe here is older than in the series. She's in her early 20's. She works as Audrey's assistant. All of Audrey's assistants get fired really quick and one day she started ordering Chloe to do the jobs her assistants would do. Chloe, no longer caring, would just do them. If Audrey got upset with her and "fired" her, Chloe would just go home for the day and come back the next as if nothing would happen. Audrey wouldn't notice and now she no longer went through a hoard of assistants.

The only thing I could think of with her was when her and Audrey would go back to Paris. Basically Chloe leaves her classmates feeling very unsettled when they meet her one by one. First they are in disbelief it's her. Then when they realize it's true their feelings change. Some don't care(it's just Chloe after all, serves her right). Some feel pity. Some think it's an act. And some feel guilty because they helped drive her away and that resulted in her becoming this shell of a person. Luka feels unsettled by her. She has NO melody. He hears nothing from her. She sneaks up on himself and startles him without meaning to because he can't hear or sense when she's coming. I feel like she would actually connect with all the heroes positively when she transforms into Dovely and is able to express herself freely.

Then there's Andre. I'm nicer to him in the BallAU but I make him suffer more in this AU. His first time seeing his daughter in like 6 years he is stunned, obviously, by her behavior. He doesn't even recognize her at first until it's pointed out to him. That's when he learns what happened to her and he wasn't there for her. He tries to make it up to her. Showers her with gifts. Tries to get a smile from her. And when he finally breaks down, crying, begging her for forgiveness he gets the same reaction. None.

What happened to Chloe exactly? I'll try not getting to explicit(but trigger warning just in case). Well, obviously, it was bad! I see her at 16 making friends with the wrong crowd. They pretended to like her because she was throwing her money around at them but in reality they hated her. Eventually they couldn't stand her anymore and they hurt her. She ended up in the hospital(that choker she wears hides a scar). She was there for a whole month. Audrey was told because she was her legal guardian but she NEVER told Andre. He, Zoe and Armand would of been there in a heart beat if they knew(Also Noe didn't exist when I started this AU. Not that that would of really mattered). She stayed there for an entire month. No one visited her. No family. No friends. And when she was finally released she still had to do physical therapy(she walks a little funny now). But what did she hear from her mother when she finally came home? "Oh. There you are Kelly. I got a fashion show to attend to tonight so don't wait up" This absolutely snaps her. She has a crash out pretty similar to the one in the Prequel chapter but this has an added part. She cuts all her hair and finally gives up on happiness. Gives up on hate. Gives up on sadness. Gives up on anger. As you can see it's starting to get on edge lord, fanfic territory which is partially why I wanted to stop on this idea. I never intended to touch on certain aspects that sometimes comes with physical assault(if you know what I mean...) but she does almost die and it had to be traumatic enough to justify the complete personality change.