Dreleanor

"You might be the only real friend I've ever had."

- Drea to Eleanor

Dreleanor is the femslash ship between Drea Torres and Eleanor Levetan from the Do Revenge fandom.

Canon
After Drea's boyfriend, Max, leaks an intimate video of her at school, it also spreads across the tennis camp where she works for the summer. When Eleanor, who attends the camp, hears another camp attendee, Erica, admitting to sharing the video, she lets Drea know about it, commenting on Erica's meanness. Although Drea dismisses her, saying that she does not need Eleanor's pity, Drea later gets her revenge on Erica by framing her for doing drugs.

While leaving the camp at the end of summer, Drea encounters a problem with her car and Eleanor offers her a ride. In her car, Eleanor tells Drea that she did not watch the video, to which Drea scoffs that she is the only one. When Eleanor asks whether Drea's boyfriend is the one who leaked it, Drea is surprised that Eleanor knows that he is behind it. Eleanor replies that she saw a post about it since she is transferring to Rosehill Country Day, Drea's school. After Drea says that Max got away scot-free while she was humiliated, Eleanor confesses that she was also hurt by someone she thought could be trusted. She shares that at a summer camp when she was thirteen, she confessed to a girl that she was a lesbian, and while the girl initially made her feel safe, she later told everyone that Eleanor attempted to hold her down and kiss her, turning her into a predator and an outcast. Drea is shocked and assumes that the girl faced no consequences, which Eleanor confirms. Eleanor adds that the girl also goes to Rosehill and her name is Carissa, whom Drea recognizes. Eleanor proceeds to scream, which she says helps her deal with stuff. She urges Drea to try it and although the latter refuses at first, she ends up doing it, which relieves her.

As they have grilled cheese sandwiches, Eleanor asks Drea why she did not transfer to another school after the incident, to which Drea replies that she cannot afford to do so since her mother is a nurse who has been working her whole life to provide Drea with a better future, and Rosehill is also her only way to Yale University. Drea, in turn, asks why Eleanor wants to go to the same school as Carissa since she ruined her life, and Eleanor replies that she does not want to but her parents think that Rosehill will lead her to an Ivy League school. Eleanor and Drea then express that they are both dreading the future.

At the start of senior year at Rosehill, Eleanor witnesses an awkward exchange between Drea and her old friends, who turned their back on Drea following the incident. After Max humiliates Drea again and makes a show of being a feminist ally, Eleanor finds Drea while she is alone, and expresses her disgust for Max. Drea wonders how she will be able to spend a whole miserable year at Rosehill and Eleanor replies that she felt the same when she talked to Carissa earlier. When Eleanor says that she wishes that they could hire someone unconnected to them to take Max and Carissa down, Drea realizes that they can team up and "do each other's revenge" since no one knows that they know each other. Although Eleanor is reluctant at first, Drea convinces her and says that to make it work, they have to give Eleanor a makeover.

As they prepare for the makeover, Drea and Eleanor go over their plan for revenge. Drea has to do mandatory community service and she requested the school farm since it is run by Carissa. Eleanor, on the other hand, will join Max's group of friends in an effort to find incriminating evidence against him. As they intended, a transformed Eleanor catches Max's attention and he invites her to a pool party at his house, where she discovers, through Max's messages, that he is cheating on Tara, his new girlfriend who also used to be a friend of Drea. She shares this with Drea who compliments her for discovering this but expresses disappointment over Eleanor not getting screenshots of the messages. The two then find out that Carissa is growing marijuana plants and magic mushrooms in a greenhouse on the school farm. Drea proposes to put the mushrooms in the food Carissa is cooking for the school's senior ring ceremony dinner to expose her, and while everyone is drugged, Eleanor is to steal Max's phone to get the messages. Their plan suceeds and they manage to download Max's messages while Carissa is expelled.

Eleanor spends the night at Drea's house, where they view the texts and discover that Max is cheating with multiple girls at Rosehill. Drea realizes that Max has been cheating since they were together and she holds back tears as she says that they should expose the texts on Valentine's Day. Eleanor tells Drea that she does not have to be brave with her and things are allowed to suck. Drea then opens up, expressing how angry she is all the time and how the knot in her chest gets tighter every day. She says that existing hurts and she wishes that she could feel normal again, to which Eleanor replies that she knows exactly what Drea is feeling. As Drea lies her head on Eleanor's chest and Eleanor runs her fingers through Drea's hair, Drea says that she likes Eleanor and remarks how similar they are, which Eleanor acknowledges.

On Valentine's Day, they expose Max's texts but Tara manages to minimize the situation by pretending that they are a non-monogamous couple, which boosts Max's popularity. When Drea learns that Yale rejected her, she goes to Eleanor's house but when Eleanor tries to console her, Drea says that she does not want Eleanor to pity her. Drea expresses how she lost everything because of Max and her old friends, and that she wants to go after all of them. Drea then tells Eleanor about the upcoming Admissions Party, where she plans to destroy their lives.

Blinded by revenge, Drea forgets about Eleanor's birthday, while Max and his friends throw her a party at her house. Drea finds out about the party and goes to Eleanor's house where she privately confronts her. Eleanor emotionally points out that Drea did not remember that it was her birthday when they spent an entire year together. When Drea says that Max and the others are not her friends and will drop her the minute she is no longer useful to them, Eleanor says that Drea is no different than them. Drea reminds Eleanor that Max leaked her video but Eleanor replies that there there is no evidence that he did it. Drea tells Eleanor to take her words back, which she does not, and Drea curses her before leaving.

When Drea's car does not start, she calls the person who fixed it the day Eleanor gave her a ride, believing it to be the same issue. However, the man tells her that someone had purposefully meddled with her car that day, and he assumes that it was a jealous ex-boyfriend, but Drea suspects that it was Eleanor. Drea then seeks out Carissa who reveals that Eleanor is actually Nora, a girl who attended a summer camp with Drea and Carissa when they were kids. It was not Carissa but Drea who outed Eleanor and caused her to become an outcast, an incident Drea forgot about. Drea realizes that all along, she was the one Eleanor was getting revenge on.

Eleanor goes to Drea's house after figuring out that Drea learned the truth about her. Drea confronts Eleanor for having her destroy Carissa's life for no reason but Eleanor retorts that Carissa did not support her after Drea started that rumor about her even though they liked each other. Eleanor points out that Drea did not remember ruining her life even after she told her the whole story. Drea asks if things would have been different if she had remembered, but Eleanor says that it does not matter since she did not remember. When Drea asks when will Eleanor stop her revenge, Eleanor replies that she will ensure that Drea is stuck with her pain forever since she knows that she is stuck with hers. She then instructs Drea to expose herself and her old friends at the Admissions Party, threatening to frame Drea's mother for drug possession if she refuses.

Later, as Drea is driving, Eleanor hits Drea's car with hers to put Drea in the hospital and enable her to get back on good terms with her old friends so that she can then destroy them at the Admissions Party, as per Eleanor's plan. However, as Eleanor later reflects on her plan, she realizes that she should be happy about Drea's downfall but for some reason, she is not content. She then thinks back to the times that she spent with Drea before shutting them out.

At the Admissions Party, Drea reveals Eleanor as Nora to Max's group of friends but immediately regrets it as she watches Eleanor leave. Drea catches up to her outside and apologizes, realizing that she is just as toxic as her old friends. She says that she does not want to hurt Eleanor anymore and knows it is the same for Eleanor. She adds that the only times she ever felt happy this year were when she was with Eleanor, and that Eleanor might be the only friend she ever had. They are interrupted by Max who discovered their plan to take him down. Unaware that Eleanor is carrying a recording device, Max confesses to leaking Drea's video. When he leaves, Eleanor shows Drea the recording device and they happily reconcile. The two then expose Max's confession at the party, revealing his true colors and turning everyone against him. After the party, Drea and Eleanor go to the beach, where they drink champagne and play in the water.

After Drea receives the news that Max has been expelled from Rosehill, she and Eleanor skip graduation and go on a drive.

Fanon
Ever since the trailer for the movie was released, many were shipping Drea and Eleanor together, having noted the chemistry between them, and were disappointed when they did not end up becoming a couple. Nevertheless, people did love them with their respective partners and still appreciated Drea and Eleanor's friendship, however twisted it was, with many loving the idea of them being, as Drea said, "fucked-up soulmates".

Fandom
FAN FICTION