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The New Retcons (Fanfic)

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The New Retcons (Fanfic)	comment	Many years ago, the website for the newspaper comic For Better or for Worse contained monthly letters from the characters of the comic, which provided supplemental material not shown in the comics themselves. In 2007, that section of the website was ended.Enter a group of Caustic Critics, who took it upon themselves to continue the letters, thinking them necessary especially as the comic approached the endgame.The result was The New Retcons, an interactive story that took on a life of its own as various authors assumed the personas of the characters of For Better or for Worse, and made them more than just plot devices, hindrances, and caricatures. They made them people, with as many flaws as normal people have.What originally started as a supplement to the comic took on a life of its own after the comic ended, in varying directions, ultimately resulting in the murder mystery arc informally known as Who Silenced Elly Patterson?, where Elly Patterson is found dead and the plot explores the family's reactions to it and the police's investigation into it.A table of contents for The New Retcons can be found here, while Who Silenced Elly Patterson can be found here.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_10f35f3a	type	Creator Breakdown
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_10f35f3a	comment	Creator Breakdown: In-Universe; Michael goes through one after both Elly’s death and the realization that she may have never really loved him. It’s years until he snaps out of it.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Elly tried to get Anthony and Elizabeth together by sending Elizabeth to get raped, which would lead to Anthony rescuing her and therefore rekindle their love for each other. John viewed his marriage to Elly as this. Same with Kortney.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: All over the place. It was discussed in the comments for Liz's February 2009 letter, particularly in the context of if Liz was one concerning the going-after.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Liz tried this to explain how she and Anthony had a dark haired baby. Unfortunately for her, Anthony paid attention in biology and figured out the baby wasn't his.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_1b36b313	type	Mandatory Motherhood
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_1b36b313	comment	Mandatory Motherhood: In the sole letter from Carleen, she mentions how she's always asked when she and Weed are going to have kids and is constantly given the 'you'll change your mind' spiel. Particularly from Weed's dad, with some Heir Club for Men overtones. Also overlapping with Heir Club for Men, Therese's father stops speaking to her after she gets a tubal ligation since she can't/won't provide him with a grandson. Elly resented Phil and Georgia because they didn't want kids; she didn't want them either but she thought she had to have them.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_1ea248b4	type	Neat Freak
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_1ea248b4	comment	Neat Freak: Elly attempts to be one to purge her own feelings of dirtiness due to having Claire out of wedlock and being a divorced single mother. It didn't work.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Anthony when he realizes that his father murdered his mother.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_231e8193	type	Mistaken Identity
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_231e8193	comment	Mistaken Identity: John mistakes Claire for a lawyer hired by either Mira or the Mayeses to force John to give up his shares in Gordon's business. He takes it much worse when Anthony inadvertently reveals her true identity as Elly's illegitimate daughter and attacks Elly.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: One of the plot points that was established was that back in the 1960s, the Canadian government decided to simulate what would happen in a nuclear war by seeding the ground of various out of the way places with a radiation source to see what effect low-level fallout would have on wildlife. One of those places was a small farming community near Toronto called "Milborough". The revelation that a corrupt member of Parliament and local businessmen colluded to let the place get built on despite the risks is a bit of off-putting background to the domestic failures of the Patterson family.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: John and Kortney. His coworkers point out how unusual it is that he can say his fiancee is the same age as his daughters.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_23a06c52	type	TheUnReveal
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_23a06c52	comment	The Un-Reveal: It’s never revealed if Elizabeth and Anthony ever decide to tell James and Warren Blackwood about each other. It’s also unknown if Elly’s madness really is hereditary or preventable.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Anthony has next to no filter and is bad at communicating to people, resulting him both causally revealing Claire’s existence to John and Michael and telling Francoise and James that Elly died.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Meredith's toy tiger Roary.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_2504772e	type	Walking Spoiler
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_2504772e	comment	Walking Spoiler: Claire, Fiona and Kortney.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Elizabeth and Michael ultimately manage to avert this, though only with considerable time, effort and soul-searching.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_2be74be	type	Sucky School
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_2be74be	comment	Sucky School: Milborough’s elementary school still uses a blackboard and has no computer lab, despite it being 2009. While some like Elly Patterson are fine with it, Tracey Mayes is unhappy with the quality of education her children are getting and attempts to run for office to fix the problems.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: According to one of her letters, Mira is a Trekkie. Elizabeth, of all people has read Death Note.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_2edf787f	type	Significant Birth Date
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_2edf787f	comment	Significant Birth Date: April and Claire share the same birthdate, April 1st. This is another reason Elly tries to ignore April, her birthday just reminds Elly of Claire's.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Michael (among others) was convinced April and Gerald would eventually marry. He was dead wrong.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_31fa019d	type	All Psychology Is Freudian
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_31fa019d	comment	All Psychology Is Freudian: Elly believes that therapy's all about 'blaming the mother for everything in the patient's life'. This is why she disapproves of Deanna taking the kids to a therapist to deal with their post-fire trauma.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_322ab612	type	I Am Not Your Father
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_322ab612	comment	I Am Not Your Father: John isn't Michael's biological father.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_3327071e	type	Horrible Honeymoon
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_3327071e	comment	Horrible Honeymoon: Elizabeth and Anthony Caine’s honeymoon in Niagara Falls gets off to a bad start when Anthony has a fit about Elizabeth not being a virgin (despite him obviously not being one since he has a daughter from his first marriage). Elizabeth runs out of their room crying and goes to the lobby to calm down. She runs into her ex boyfriend, Warren Blackwood there. They end up having a one night stand that produces James Allen Caine. While the rest of the honeymoon goes smoothly, it kicks off several months of marital discord between each other.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_34b33a09	type	You Should Have Died Instead
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_34b33a09	comment	You Should Have Died Instead: April accuses John of this trope concerning her near drowning and Farley’s death. She also points out that she was never taken to a hospital afterwards and he and Elly went on another kid free vacation less than a year later.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Gavin's opposition to the investigation on the effects nuclear fallout had on the citizens of Millborough. Roger's flip-flopping on the matter isn't much better, he's saying what he needs to to buy property dirt cheap.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_34e15b76	comment	Kindhearted Cat Lover:Fiona. She even took in a displaced Shiimsa.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: Connie said that this happened in the case of Elly's death; the target was actually John. She lied.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_363f94c9	type	Awful Truth
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_363f94c9	comment	Awful Truth: Elly had a daughter when she was a teenager and gave her up for adoption. Note that while April and Elizabeth were rather accepting of this, Michael and John did not take it well. Michael's got an additional one: John isn't his biological father. Anthony has one too. His father murdered his mother.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_3ffce9c2	type	Family Relationship Switcheroo
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_3ffce9c2	comment	Family Relationship Switcheroo: Michael Patterson finds out from John that he’s not his biological son. His real father is Elly’s first husband, Stan Watson. He was conceived as an attempt by Elly to keep Stan from traveling. It didn’t work and he left shortly after Michael’s birth. John married Elly when he was a toddler and Elly pretended that Stan never existed after that, lying to him that Michael hated him. This makes his sisters Elizabeth and April Michael’s half sisters and Stan the biological grandfather of Meredith and Robin. According to Word of God, one of Lawrence’s cousins is actually his half-brother. Connie got pregnant with him as a teenager and sent him to live with relatives. She met Elly at the same mother and baby home when the latter was pregnant with Claire.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The story in general: After Elly’s funeral and the fight, the Pattersons break up and rarely speak to each other. Connie spends a few years in prison, but doesn’t really learn anything from the experience, being a Toxic Friend Influence to Kortney while Lawrence disowns her. However, Kortney is manipulating her and all of Milborough; acting like she is a town leader and naive single mother while buying the town out and absorbing it into Greater Scarborough. But Michael, Elizabeth and April do rebuild their lives and slowly become better people for it. Michael and Deanna end up unpleasantly divorcing due to the strain of the story’s events wrecking their marriage. But after years of soul searching, Michael is at peace with his life, happily in Colorado and is finally out of the closet as bisexual and engaged to a man. Deanna stays in Canada with Meredith and Robin, later remarrying a single father named Matt and having a daughter with him. Elizabeth and Anthony decide to stay together in Vancouver and Anthony adopts James as his own son. However, they’re more settling for each other than love with each other and Warren doesn’t know about James; putting them at risk of repeating Elly and John’s mistakes. April drops out of college when she learns that John and Kortney are having a kid. After some time working in The Farm Sanctuary and North Country Wild Care in upstate New York, she returns to school and graduates, rebuilds some of her family ties and works at an equine center in Vancouver. However, it’s unclear if she ever speaks to Michael and Elizabeth again and she doesn’t get to say goodbye or call out John.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4215e3e	type	Keeping Secrets Sucks
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4215e3e	comment	Keeping Secrets Sucks: In his defense, Anthony didn't know Claire being Elly's daughter was supposed to be a secret.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_424d15ad	type	Love Hurts
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_424d15ad	comment	Love Hurts: Michael suffers a psychological breakdown after both Elly’s death and the realization that she may have never really loved him. It’s years until he snaps out of it.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4376f049	comment	Career Versus Man: Elizabeth says she left her job teaching because she didn't fit in, but it reads more as this. April mulls over this, wondering if she'll ever get married or if she'll end up devoting all her energy to her job. She references Jane Goodall, mistakenly thinking she was never married... because, as she later explains, Elly always referred to Miss Goodall as 'the crazy ape lady who never got married'.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: Elly with Claire. Word Of God is that Connie did this too, and that is how she and Elly met; they ended up at the same school for wayward girls.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Elly got one when she snapped out of her fugue state to symbolize her growing confidence and desire to break away from her past. Not that her family noticed.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: It's implied that John died not long after his twin sons by Kortney were born.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Claire. One of her regrets is she never got to tell her mother how much she meant to her before she died. Elly even ruefully admitted that Claire turned out the best of her children because of this trope.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Deanna does this when she muses that the strangeness that permeated Millborough in September 2008 felt like someone took two years out of their lives because it was no longer in print and tried to sell the rest of it. Of course, then she makes references to how life would have turned out had the comic gone a different direction like it actually happened (ex: Elizabeth marrying Richard Nichols). In truth, Elly's madness was this as well; it's a reference to the 'new-runs' Lynn Johnston attempted to do, combining strips from the eighties with new strips. Various memory problems (particularly with Deanna) are also attributed to the new-runs. And Elly's life flashing before her eyes signaled the return to straight reprints. And Claire came across someone in her travels eerily reminiscent of Lynn Johnston herself. Becky said that her on and off feud with April felt like a sixty-year-old woman writing a story kept forgetting that they made up. April got a chill down her back when she found out her dorm room was located in Johnston Hall. John runs into the man he was based on, Rod Johnston. Neither Rod or his receptionist were amused. At Elizabeth and Anthony’s wedding, Meredith runs into a woman who behaves like Lynn herself. At the fic’s end, Connie muses to Kortney that Milborough once felt both like an Canadian and American town, not entirely sure where it was. It’s a reference to the original strip heavily downplaying its Canadian setting to the point where it could be mistaken for it to take place in America.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Everyone views Mira and Wilf as this, at least in the beginning. Conversely, Mira views the Pattersons, barring April, as this.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Elly justifies taking away Robin's hearing aid as a desire to avoid this trope. Mira thinks it's just so Elly has something to complain about.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4e351021	comment	The B Grade: While April does well in her classes, Elly's response to her getting a couple of A-minuses is to ask why they weren't straight A's. She goes on to harass April about getting a B on one test even though her grade's still an A.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4e4ea654	comment	Workaholic: Mike. Between that and his repressing his bisexual nature, it tore his marriage with Deanna apart.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4e6e4dc7	comment	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: Someone from the coroner's office suspects this with regard to Elly's autopsy, since there are things that didn't make it into the official report such as the contents of Elly's stomach or additional lacerations and puncture wounds, and that the chief coroner took over from the man that put the concerns forward, and that said chief coroner might have connections with someone with enough power and influence to cover it up. It was John. The chief coroner was in the same model railroad club he was in. Uniquely for this trope though, he wasn't the murderer, just did it out of a misguided sense of protecting his children.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line:
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: One of Anthony's failings; being Literal-Minded, he takes sarcasm at face-value.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Gavin opposed investigating whether Millborough being built over a former nuclear site had an effect on its citizens. And why? To get back at Anthony through Tracey and Gordon, first for going to work for them instead of him, then for opposing his expansion plans because they were outdated. Kortney blamed Elly and Moira for getting fired, never mind that she was busted stealing. So she got involved with and engaged to John to get back at the now deceased Elly. Then when John died, leaving her and their two sons the bulk of his wealth, she bought out Lilliput's and fired Moira, then bought out much of Millborough itself to absorb it into Greater Scarborough.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_51509ce7	comment	Convenient Miscarriage: Deanna, twice. Bonus points because the first baby was conceived despite Dee being on a birth control shot. It might have happened because being born in Millborough had an adverse effect on her ability to carry children.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Anthony did not take it well when he found out Elizabeth wasn't a virgin, and the fight drove her out of the wedding suite and into the arms of Warren Blackwood, leading directly to James's conception.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: A friend of Michael's suffered it at the hands of his wife, and that experience made Michael realize that John's negligence at seeking help for Elly was just the same thing.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Connie has the hots for Elly and will do anything to earn her love. Elly rejecting her because she doesn't swing that way pushes Connie to murder her in a jeallous rage.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: Elly's letters after her post-wedding breakdown.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_5d88876d	comment	Chocolate Baby: Warren Blackwood is James Allen's biological father, and it was obvious to Anthony that he couldn't be the father because pale blondes and pale redheads do not make tan brunettes.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: Elizabeth said John had a mean temper and blatantly accused him of murdering Elly and he takes offense at her calling his favorite food 'greaseburgers'.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: This is Elly's excuse for trying to take Robin's hearing aid away: in her mind, she's 'saving him' from getting teased. She's drawing from her own experiences here:
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Happens to Anthony as he puts two and two together that his father murdered his mother and covered it up.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6a4f3cf7	type	Took a Level in Dumbass
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6a4f3cf7	comment	Took a Level in Dumbass: John’s intelligence and self awareness is severely downgraded in the sequel.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: While Fiona was clearly using Elly to take some of John’s money, she is right that none of her family came to visit her in the mental hospital and that the Pattersons barely visited Fiona despite both being John’s cousin and living in Milborough. And she makes better progress in her recovery with Fiona than in the hospital.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Of all things, whether Elizabeth using 'Mrs. Elizabeth Caine' was correct or incorrect. Started a minor Flame War when that happened.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6c3f8ca8	comment	Drama Queen: Elly, more than anyone. If there's not something to confront or fight over, she is NOT happy.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6cb1745e	comment	Streetwalker: Kortney
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6cb53106	comment	When Connie is discovered to be the one involved with Elly’s death, they claim that Elly tripped and fell down the basement stairs. She lied. Connie pushed Elly down the stairs in rage after Elly rejected her Anguished Declarationof Love.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6d892421	type	Teacher/Student Romance
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6d892421	comment	Teacher/Student Romance: Claire expressly suggested to April that she avoid this trope.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6dbf7c8d	type	April Fools' Plot
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6dbf7c8d	comment	April Fools' Plot: April accused Brad of trying to pull this on her when he told her Elly was dead. When he affirmed it was true, she fainted.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6f19054d	type	Coming-Out Story
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6f19054d	comment	Coming-Out Story: Ted does this at Lawrence and Nick's wedding.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6f78d9be	type	Resentful Guardian
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_6f78d9be	comment	Resentful Guardian: According to invokedWord of God, Connie is this to Lawrence because she tried to give him to family members when he was born like she did with her first son. But they refused to take in a biracial child. Elly later admits that she never really wanted children, making her one to her son and daughters.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: After Elly and John’s arrest, Michael’s life completely falls apart: John reveals during his arrest that Michael isn’t his son, which results in him finding his real biological father, who wants little to do with him due to Michael being the result of The Baby Trap. Then Robin is diagnosed with autism on top of his health issues, Deanna miscarries for the second time, he learns that Milborough was seeded with radiation in the 1960s by the government and that it had major effects on the people, he develops Imposter Syndrome and regresses into old habits, Deanna files for a divorce, his repressed bisexuality comes out, Elly dies, he attempts suicide and realizes that Elly never really loved or wanted him. It takes several years before he can rebuild his life and be happy again.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: Learning of Elly’s death and the realization that she never loved or wanted him is the final straw for an already unstable Michael and he attempts to kill himself. But he’s hospitalized quickly and the way he does it would not have killed him.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_73f79f91	comment	Released to Elsewhere: Elly tried to pull the 'sent the pet to a farm' variant on April to explain what happened to an aging and ill Dixie. April was pissed. Not so much because of the lie, but because Elly decided to get rid of her because tending to Dixie was "too much work", even though April was the one tending to her and Dixie was getting better. Later on, as Elly fell deeper into her madness, she said that she would flip a coin and that Edgar would go to a 'farm' if it came up heads. When Meredith asks what would happen if it landed tails she was told that Meredith would be the one going to the 'farm'.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_7a1856ba	type	I Reject Your Reality
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_7a1856ba	comment	I Reject Your Reality: Elly's descent into madness started with her denying April was her daughter and claiming that her two children were little kids and that Eddy was his father Farley. It got worse from there.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_7a555627	type	Honest Corporate Executive
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_7a555627	comment	Honest Corporate Executive: Therese, in stark contrast to her father.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: A big problem with Elly is that she sees the world as this, however, her views on what 'black' and 'white' are so warped they might as well be Blue-and-Orange Morality.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: During therapy with Elizabeth and Therese, the therapist asks Anthony that when he declared that he "didn’t have anything to fight for until now" when he fought Howard to save Elizabeth, if that meant he didn’t consider Franciose worth fighting for. Anthony cannot give an answer.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: The town of Milborough is essentially a harmful environment full of toxic people. This might be because Milborough was built over a former nuclear site, which had a psychological effect on everyone.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Elizabeth jokes that she'll be accused of being this for defending Anthony for his Literal Mindedness. Michael isn't happy with how Blood Cargo turned out, but still plasters on a smile and acts like he is.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Some time after the move to Vancouver, Elizabeth stopped mentioning her cat Shiimsa. It’s later revealed that Fiona took the cat in and it got lost in the chaos of the move and Liz’s pregnancy.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Anthony is heavily implied to see John as a father figure due to his own bad relationship with Gavin. But when Anthony visits John in jail and sees both his refusal to acknowledge what he did wrong and his reaction to James’s parentage and Anthony’s intentions to raise the baby as his son makes him realize that John was never a good father. April spent her childhood idealizing Jim, as he was more involved in her life than Elly and John. But after she meets her half sister Claire and learns that Jim and Marian sent Elly to a mother and baby home to give the baby up for adoption; partly resulting in Elly’s resentment of her and her siblings, she’s hurt and angry at him.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_87572663	comment	Wrong Side of the Tracks: Elly ends up here after Fiona gets her out of the psych ward.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_88f16cee	comment	Go Out with a Smile: Claire's mother. She was found dead with a smile on her face while waiting to go Christmas shopping with Claire.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_89dcfbdb	comment	Quitting to Get Married: Elizabeth quits her job at Milborough Elementary School while she’s planning her wedding to Anthony, claiming that she "didn’t fit in", but it’s heavily implied that she’s making an excuse that it’s not this. She regrets doing this after the family moves to Vancouver, as she’s stuck alone with a preschooler and a baby in an apartment all day.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: It's stated more than once that Claire looks like Elly circa April's birth, but with less stress wrinkles and better fashion sense.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_8fdd68fc	comment	Self-Serving Memory: A lot of people are guilty of this, but the most egregious example would be John choosing to believe that he got off easy for attacking Elly because the judge was sympathetic to his having a crazy wife, understanding of a man with no priors, and because John was a contributor to his campaign. In reality, John got off because he was not worth the effort to prosecute, the judge called him out for being a waste of space, and his 'contribution' was buying a five-dollar bumper sticker.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: John's letters reveal him to be more self-aware from the start. Unfortunately, even when he acknowledges his flaws, he refuses to do anything to correct them. For instance, he acknowledges that it's awful for him to refuse to get Elly help after her psychotic break, but he still won't swallow his pride and act.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: A couple of months after Elly is committed John realizes what he's done and who he is. Because of this he tends to stay away from everyone as he knows he would just make things worse. While not quite being a Heel by any means, Anthony gets something like this when he realizes all the crap he's done to Elizabeth.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Inverted. There are therapists, but John just refuses to seek them out for Elly due to his sexist mindset until he's no longer given a choice in the matter.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: A favorite of the Patterson bunch. Elly especially is keen on blaming April for letting Farley and Sera loose when she and Connie never bothered to spay and neuter them, then when confronted over the gate, she accuses April of dredging up the past. This is also one of the things Connie enabled her on, seeing as she was the same way: blame John for Elly getting better and trying to make amends (or as she sees it, turning Elly against her), Claire for seeking out Elly, and Liz for Lawrence's homosexuality, since she believes Cure Your Gays works.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9970d26b	type	Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9970d26b	comment	Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: Elly's madness in a nutshell, or more to the point, can't tell the past from the present.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: What Elly and John’s relationship essentially is: John only married Elly because he needed a wife and no other woman could stand his sexist behaviors, while Elly was scared to be a single mother after Stan divorced her. While there’s some implication that they grew to love or at least tolerate each other, John had been cheating on Elly long before Elly died. By the story’s end, Elizabeth and Anthony have become this, but they’re more stable than John and Elly thanks to considerable amounts of character development.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: Therese muses that in ten years Millborough will be unrecognizable and just a part of Greater Toronto, a view Liz shares, seeing Elly as the last bastion of what was Millborough. She also chose to attend Elly's funeral to invoke this trope so she can make a clean break of her memories before emigrating to France. This is confirmed in Elizabeth's final letter when she and Anthony went to attend the closing of their alma mater. The only thing that didn't change is her neighborhood. While Kortney accelerates the town’s decline, it’s implied it would have happened regardless.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: John’s attitude towards women can be summed up as this, alongside seeing them as damsels in distress. It’s especially prevalent in why his relationship with his college girlfriend Sylvia Makepeace ended: he told her that she would have to drop out of her master’s program and become a housewife because “it wouldn’t look right for her to work”. Elly and Kortney were the only women who would put up with John, the former because she feared being a single mother after Stan left and the latter because she was a Gold Digger. He also believes that "married men shouldn’t have to grocery shop" when Michael asks him to go to the store instead of coming over to eat his and Deanna’s food after Elly goes insane.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Elizabeth returns from her honeymoon with Anthony pregnant, Elly reacts with delight that she managed to "catch" him, much to Elizabeth’s confusion. Turns out, that’s how Michael came about — she pulled The Baby Trap on Stan. Early on, Carla and Weed visit Michael and Deanna for dinner, and Weed is rather awkward and quiet the entire time. Because he slept with Michael sometime prior to the fic. At one point, Elizabeth recalls overhearing Elly and John fight about Michael and someone named "Sam" or "Dan". they were fighting about Stan-Michael’s biological father.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9d2231a6	comment	Hustler: Fiona.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: Gavin does this to Hanneke after accidentally killing her by erasing traces of her existence and lying to everyone, including his own son.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9ed6761e	type	Death by Woman Scorned
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9ed6761e	comment	Death by Woman Scorned: Connie killed Elly because she did not love her back.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_a0edf122	comment	Good with Numbers: Taken to its logical extreme with Anthony, who sees all of his life as a sort of account system, with seed capital and debts in the people. This causes a disconnect between him and other people.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: When Elly snaps out of her fugue state and is confronted by her doctors about what had happened, she is horrified, particularly when she looks at the letters she had written, and is equally horrified at just how much Connie enabled her.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: The only reason Michael's willing to spend any time around his children is as 'research' for his book, which he considers to be incredibly hard work. When Elly falls into her fugue state, April's her first victim. She only remembers having two children and rejects April as a stranger. After marrying Elizabeth, Anthony leaves most of Francoise’s care to her. She in turn constantly has Francoise babysat by family members so she can "focus on being pregnant".
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Jim acknowledges he screwed up in sending Elly away to give birth and put the baby up for adoption but said that was the norm at the time, a view Iris backed up. In the same vein, Elly admits that she never really wanted kids and clearly never should have been a mother, but due to social expectations, she ended up having them.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Anthony’s literal-mindedness and bluntness constantly get him in hot water with people. Elizabeth’s fear of commitment and settling down damages her marriage to Anthony. Michael’s defeatist attitude, which gets worse in the second half of the fic. John’s worries about what his hometown will think of him drive some of his actions, mainly refusing to get help for Elly. It’s later revealed that his family and hometown don’t really think much or at all of him.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Subverted with Tracy’s political career. She loses dramatically due to voter apathy and is thus unable to do any of the improvements she wanted, such as modernizing the elementary school or getting in a light rail line to the city. But she does kickstart the inquiry into the town’s irradiation and high rate of birth defects.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: It's mentioned early on that John's fellow dentist Everett had to take out a full page ad in the local paper to tell him that cause John kept calling him 'Elliot'.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b0485a20	type	Ditzy Genius
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b0485a20	comment	Ditzy Genius: As revealed in the endgame, just think of Robin as a nicer Sheldon and you're on the right track.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Step-family, more like. Once Elizabeth got pregnant, it was like Francoise didn't exist to the Pattersons. Elly even called her 'someone else's castoff'. Only April showed her decency until Elizabeth got a wake-up call by seeing how unhinged Elly got. Then she started behaving more like a mother. John's piss-poor treatment of Michael makes him a wicked stepfather in light of him revealing that he's not Michael's biological father. Kortney becomes this to the kids, especially April.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Elly is emotionally abusive and neglectful to her children. After her mental breakdown, she throws April out, thinking she’s John’s hygienist. to make matters worse, she set up the “Going After” incident, setting up her own daughter to be potentially assaulted just because she wanted her to be with Anthony. After she recovers, she realizes just how horrible of a mother she was and tries to make things right. She fails to do so, having died before she could fully reconcile with April and never reconciling with Michael and Elizabeth. Gavin is cold and distant to Anthony, treating him like a child instead of an adult. He also refused to get his son help for his Asperger’s Syndrome, resulting in Anthony having No Social Skills.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Obviously, given the title and that they picked and chose what parts of the Strip of Destiny made it into the story, but even minute things like Elizabeth and Anthony's hair colors were retconned. In the earliest color strips, Elizabeth was shown with dirty blonde hair and Anthony with what could only be called orange hair. By the of the series, both their hair colors have lightened to where Anthony could be called blonde too. Yet the distinct reference to Anthony being a redhead indicates that the writers went with the older color scheme.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b2f4114e	comment	Also overlapping with Heir Club for Men, Therese's father stops speaking to her after she gets a tubal ligation since she can't/won't provide him with a grandson.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b41b74ef	type	Got Over Rape Instantly
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b41b74ef	comment	Got Over Rape Instantly: Elly tries to invoke this on Elizabeth and Anthony by arranging the Attempted Rape of Elizabeth so Anthony can rescue her and rekindle their romance.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Another thing Elly is guilty of.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: Many families in Milborough are dysfunctional to varying degrees, with cases of both familial abuse and spousal abuse.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: In-Universe, Michael sees his book editor's attempts to correct his grammar as this. He considers the errors to be part of his characters' Voice.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Mixed with Irony. In his very first letter, Michael laments how difficult spending time around his children is: When April comments that it was irresponsible for Elly and Connie to not have their dogs fixed, Elly blames her for opening the gates, then goes on to say that if Edgar hadn't alerted them the day she wandered down to the creek, she would have drowned. April points out that Elly knew she could open the gate, and since she was only four, it was Elly's job to make sure she couldn't get out. Cue Elly yelling about her 'dredging up the past'. Elly complains about how texting corrupts and ruins the English language, and then April corrects her own English. And then there's this:
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Endgames and Epilogues, the last chapter of Who Silenced Elly Patterson, which covered Elly's death, and final letters from the characters in this story, ranging from six months later to fifteen years later.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b8a13baa	type	Meat Versus Veggies
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_b8a13baa	comment	Meat Versus Veggies: April becomes a vegan, and Elly is in denial about it, constantly trying to get April to eat a burger or tuna casserole. Not to mention she has to try recipes at Mike and Dee's because she gets snide comments from her parents every time she tries at her house. By contrast, Dee is initially skeptical of April's new diet out of concern: one of her friends tried an extreme vegan diet and had all her hair fall out. After being reassured by April's research into the matter, she supports her. The debate was revived later between April, her aunt Bev, and her uncle (Bev's brother) Bill. Bill's also a vegan due to environmental factors, and April is baffled that Bev can't see the contradiction in being a vet to animals that will be slaughtered for food. And then when Who Silenced Elly Patterson began April told Brad that Elly 'forgot' that she was vegan again, and that she threw out the vegan margarine tarts April made cause 'real butter tarts have butter in them'. All this when she was trying to make amends with April! And because she couldn't admit that she ate them all.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Elly. Elizabeth starts to act like this when she gets pregnant. Mike has it worse, particularly in the beginning, when he can only see things in the context of himself and his book. He viewed watching his children as research for pete's sake! Not that John's much better: he wouldn't get help for Elly cause it'd make him look bad, and his eulogy at Elly's funeral was about how he'd miss her cooking. And then there's Connie...
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_bb49a7a	type	I've Come Too Far
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_bb49a7a	comment	I've Come Too Far: Elly says as much after complaining about some of the negativity she'd heard about Anthony and Liz's engagement:
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: "Christ, what an asshole!!" Notable in that Anthony said it, and he's not one prone to swearing.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_bd0d6395	comment	Gavin is cold and distant to Anthony, treating him like a child instead of an adult. He also refused to get his son help for his Asperger’s Syndrome, resulting in Anthony having No Social Skills.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Investigating into Elly's murder ended up opening the cold case on Hanneke Caine's disappearance, when Gavin came under suspicion and a house search found Hanneke's body.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_bd7d0416	comment	Beleaguered Bureaucrat: As much as they'd like to commit Elly without John's consent, unless Elly becomes a danger to herself or others, the law's hands are tied; they can't. This changes when she kidnaps a boy, thinking he's Lawrence.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: For a time, Michael and Deanna thrive alongside their kids in Colorado, giving off the impression that they’ve become the most stable part of the family. But then the truth about Michael’s parentage comes out, Elly gets arrested, Claire arrives and his repressed bisexuality come out, resulting in Michael regressing into old habits and a divorce.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Meredith's toy tiger Roary is based on Hobbes. Meredith also sees Roary as her daemon. Nineteen Eighty-Four gets a few references, comparing Elly's memory with Oceania's mutable war against Eurasia/Eastasia. Francoise's favorite show is The Secret Saturdays. When Mike and Dee pondered the 'what ifs' regarding who they married and Mira said that Dee would have the same life had she married Perry, just in Seattle, she compared it to Star Trek (2009), and how despite Nero changing history the Enterprise crew still got together. Elizabeth said that Elly was due for a verbal smackdown such as Near gave Light.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Elly is Claire's biological mother. Stan Watson is Michael’s biological father.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_c866231c	comment	The Mentally Disturbed: Elly.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Elly's hatred of motorcycles stemmed from being rejected by a man that rode one. That man was Frank Day, Elly's one-time fling and the biological father of Claire. She also became a Neat Freak to cope with her own feelings of dirtiness after her grandmother called her unclean for having a child out of wedlock, a feeling made worse after her first marriage ended. Seeing how his parents treated Elly after she got pregnant with Claire caused Phil to decide he would never have kids. Elly believes that her neglect of Elizabeth and not trying to prevent Michael’s bullying resulted in Elizabeth feeling unsettled anywhere and running away from potentially settling down, damaging her career and relationships. Elly’s resentment of Thèrése is due to the former seeing the latter as the kind of person she wanted to be, but held herself back from becoming.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_c87737d9	comment	Vacation Episode: Michael and Deanna take Meredith, Robin and April to Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida for Christmas 2008.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Gavin Caine and Roger Arsenault.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_cc28f3bf	comment	Not That Kind of Doctor: Claire has a doctorate in geology.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_cc4b45f6	comment	According to invokedWord of God, Connie is this to Lawrence because she tried to give him to family members when he was born like she did with her first son. But they refused to take in a biracial child.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Connie. She was behind a lot of Elly’s actions in her life, such as trapping Stan Watson into a pregnancy.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_d29e9f65	comment	Nature Versus Nurture: All three of Elly's daughters worry if they have inherited Elly's madness or if their different upbringings and paths in life will prevent that from happening.Worries increased further when a letter from their maternal aunt Phyllis gave hints that mental issues were genetic in grandmother Marian's family.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Technically, James Allen Caine. In canon, based on the one image◊ we see of him, he got his looks from Anthony. Since he's a Chocolate Baby in The New Retcons, his hair and skin were darkened to resemble his biological father Warren.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After breaking up the brawl at Elly’s funeral, Brad makes plans to transfer out of Millborough, having had enough of both the town and the Pattersons.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_da9131af	comment	What Frank and Stan both believed Elly to be, with some of The Baby Trap thrown in for good measure for Stan.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_dce6cd15	comment	Family Versus Career: This is a bit of an odd example. Elizabeth wants to break out of this trope, yet at the same time believes she's expected to follow this trope. She's actually surprised when Anthony makes suggestions to put James and Francoise in day-care and get a job if she didn't want to be just defined as 'Anthony's wife, James and Francie's mother'.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_e0dc6390	comment	Go Among Mad People: Elly certainly believes this during her stay there.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: Simply put, it was not worth the court's time to prosecute John for attacking Elly. Thanks to Self-Serving Memory, though, he thought he beat the legal system. However, it proved effective as it led to his Heel Realization.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Elizabeth jokes that she'll be accused of being this for defending Anthony for his Literal Mindedness.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": Only at a Patterson funeral can a food fight break out. And that's where all the Pattersons' dirty secrets and resentments broke out.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_e59ad7c	comment	Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism: Elly (and Connie) was sent to a church-run academy after she got pregnant with Claire to put her up for adoption when she was born. According to Mira, the term they used for girls like her was 'wayward'.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_e9c022ea	comment	Secretly Wealthy: The authors went back and forth on whether John was this or only pretending to be eventually settling on it being true, as Kortney and her twins inherited most of it.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: Elly expresses jealousy that Annie, who's Connie's age and three years older than Elly, looks ten years younger, despite that she didn't try to fight aging like Connie.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: John constantly called his fellow dentist 'Elliot' instead of Everett. He only stopped after the other man published a full-page ad in the paper declaring "MY NAME IS EVERETT, YOU IDIOT!"
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_efadc8dd	comment	Bridezilla: A variation in that the mother-of-the-bride is the one that's overbearing and over the top about it. Though once an actual date is set, Liz steps up to the plate, to the point of delegating one of her letters to a bridesmaid.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: In an odd sense. When Elly lost it, she insisted that April wasn't her daughter and April got thrown out of the house. Since she was still technically a minor, this could be applied to Michael since he let April stay at his house. Definitely more plausible when John gave up on convincing Elly that April was their daughter, effectively disowning her. In an odder sense: Claire didn't even know she had siblings for years, yet she's becoming more of a parental figure to April than Elly ever was. Was made kind of awkward when April nearly said she was old enough to be her mother-they're 22 years apart.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_f19ff224	comment	The Un-Favourite: April, so damn much. She's at best ignored, and at worst effectively disowned, when John gave up on convincing Elly she was their daughter. A good indicator of this is that only Michael and Phil attended her high school graduation. While two people had good excuses (Liz was in Vancouver dealing with her own family crisis and Jim was on his last legs), that does not excuse her parents (Elly still denied that April was her daughter, and John just couldn't be bothered). Not that Francoise was much better at first: Barring April and Meredith, she was practically ignored by the Pattersons and Elly even called her “someone else’s castoff”. It got worse after Elizabeth got pregnant, to the point where she would drop off Francoise to be babysat by April or Mike so that she could “focus on being pregnant”. It wasn’t until Francie had nightmares about being dropped off at the “used kids store” and Elly got worse that things got better. You wouldn't think of it at first, but Lawrence is this for Connie. Connie was able to give her first son to relatives, and had been banking on that when she got pregnant with Lawrence and Paolo refused to marry her, but the relatives wouldn't take him in cause of his mixed race. So Connie resented being stuck with Lawrence. That he later came out of the closet didn't help matters.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_f288cf3	comment	Innocent Innuendo: A nonsexual variant with Elly and Meridith. Elly, thinking Meredith is Elizabeth, threatens to send Meredith to the farm. Since Meredith was told when Elly "sent the dog to the farm" meant the dog was put down, Meredith thinks that Elly wants to kill her.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Elizabeth and Anthony. Mike individually.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: What Frank and Stan both believed Elly to be, with some of The Baby Trap thrown in for good measure for Stan. Who Silenced Elly Patterson? gives us another example: Kortney started out as this, dating and then getting engaged to John for his money. She realizes she fell in love with him when he defended her from Connie at Elly's funeral.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_f8ecb0a1	comment	Glorified Sperm Donor: Wilf regarded both Elly and John as this, with regards to April. Elly had Stan believe that Michael regarded him as this for many years, when in truth he didn't remember Stan at all and never knew that he was his biological father. The ending implies that Warren Blackwood becomes one to James, as it’s never revealed if Warren and James know each other in the future.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_fa3d111f	comment	Maternally Challenged: Therese acknowledges that she is this, and while she does love Francoise and will take care of her, she just can't handle being the primary caregiver and thinks Francoise better off with Anthony and Elizabeth.
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The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: When Connie is discovered to be the one involved with Elly’s death, they claim that Elly tripped and fell down the basement stairs. She lied. Connie pushed Elly down the stairs in rage after Elly rejected her Anguished Declarationof Love. Elizabeth and Clarice believe that Gavin pushed Hanneke into the river by accident, since he would have waited until she cheated on him so he could use it against her in the process of divorce. Still, Gavin didn’t save her and he hid Hanneke’s body for decades afterwards and lied to everyone about what happened to her.
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