Eleven Stories About the Spectrum Suit

"Eleven Stories About the Spectrum Suit" is a chapter in *The Water of the Womb*

## Plot

The Loud siblings discuss their stories of abuse, some of which overlap with each other.

### A Story about the Ace of Shades

Lori was accused of molesting Lola, and no one believed her because she's a bully to her siblings. The corrupt cops assaulted her, and the next morning Lola confessed to lying. The case still went to trial and Lori was found innocent, but people at her school still thought she did it due to rumors being spread before then and she switched schools after being beat up. She tried to kill herself, and after the cops were caught, her parents were called, but she's worried her new classmates will find out.

### A Story about the Two of Shades

Leni was kidnapped by a man when she was fourteen and he raped her. She managed to escape and Officer Whittaker Sherriff, one of the corrupt cops that later hurt Lori, found her and took her to the hospital.

### A Story about the Three of Shades

Luna went to a concert and someone fingered her in a mosh pit. She auditioned for America's Next Hit Maker as a pop singer, and her agents made her change her look and her stage name to "Lulu". Luna got creepy letters and she overheard her agents planning to pimp her out, so she went back to her old style.

### A Story about the Four of Shades

Luan made fun of Ricky and Vicky and they got mad, asking her to meet them behind the school on a Saturday. She went and they assaulted her while filming her. Luan wet herself during the ordeal, so Ricky cut everything else out and posted that, causing everyone at school to bully her. She called Ricky and threatened to tell on him, but when he asked for sex in exchange for taking down the video, she accepted it.

### A Story about the Five of Shades

Lynn Jr. came out as trans really young and had minimal issues in elementary school. When she got to middle school, someone walked in on her changing and outed her to several people, including Foxy, who's dad was a God's Will First member. Foxy challenged Lynn to race her through the woods, but during the race, Foxy and several boys of GWF members cornered and assaulted her. She didn't tell her parents because she was afraid that they would make her detransition, and she became a bully to protect herself from being hurt. A year later, when GWF was caught, some of those kids confessed and gave up their victims names, including Lynn's. Foxy moved in with her brother Gideon Grey and sent her a letter months later to apologize, but she's still mad at her.

### A Story about the Six of Shades

Lucy's gothic interests led to two of the boys that hurt Lynn attacking her when she went to an abandoned church, calling her a "devil worshipper". She didn't understand what she did wrong and kept going back, so they kept coming after her, and when all the kids were arrested, the two who hurt Lucy didn't confess to anything, so no one knew what happened to her. Lucy became afraid of men and Lincoln was one of the only ones she trusted not to hurt her, so she drew pictures of all the sisters' kids with him, which creeped him out. Lucy stayed at home when the family went out, but overheard Ricky's voice and witnessed him on top of Luan, so he threatened them with a knife, made Luan molest her, and left without taking down the video.

### A Story about the Seven of Shades

Lana was friends with Vicky's now-deceased younger brother, but when Vicky molested her and she asked her brother about it, he denied it. This made her think that boys couldn't be hurt that way and drew gender-swapped drawings of herself and her siblings. When Lola lied about Lori, Lana told her about what Vicky did, but got mad at her when the lie was revealed. She told a friend about the incident, but everyone found out and Lola had to switch schools due to being made fun of.

### A Story about the Eight of Shades

Lola went into Lori's room and used her nail polish, but she spilled it and Lori slapped her. She overheard Luan threatening to tell on Ricky, so she got the idea to claim that Lori molested her, but she thought she would just get grounded since no one told her that child molestation was illegal, just that it was bad. Lola freaked out during the forensic exam and confessed, but Lori still hasn't forgiven her because of what the corrupt cops did to her.

### A Story about the Nine of Shades

Lisa was in Mayu Sugimori's gifted kids study and she looked enough like a boy for Ratigan to abuse her. Ratigan told the other children to bully her when she threatened to tell on him, and he also told Dexter to molest her too. Lisa developed severe anxiety and didn't tell anyone, even after the study got cancelled, but her parents found out when Ratigan was busted. Rita and Lynn Sr. made everyone talk to the cops afterwards to make sure no one else was hiding anything, resulting in them finding out what happened to Luna, Luan, Lucy, and Lana.

### A Story about the Ten of Shades

Lily is actually Leni's biological daughter from her kidnapper, but Rita and Lynn Sr. pretended that she was one of their kids. Nothing has happened to her, but the family's worried that her bio father will come back and hurt her.

### A Story about the Joker of the Spectrum Suit

Lincoln has been unharmed and helped his sisters with their traumas, but for some of them he didn't notice the signs until later. He feels like he doesn't belong since he wasn't hurt, but the girls assure him that he's still one of them.