Woobies Wanted

[thefourthvine]

brown_betty and I have been discussing woobies. Further research - for the good of science! - is now required, and so I come to you for help. I need a list of woobies.

TVTropes has a great page on woobies [Warning: cherry_ice and I have determined that TVTropes is a black hole. If you click on this link, there is a chance you will never escape from the website. Leave a message for your loved ones before you click. Also it's a good idea to pack a lunch.], which features this definition:

"[The woobie] is that character you want to give a big hug, wrap in a blanket and feed soup to when he or she suffers so very beautifully."

And there is, of course, a huge long list of woobies attached, but a lot of those people are woobies in canon more than in fan fiction, and I want the fannish ones. I'm looking for the person in a given fandom who is always being hurt (and then comforted), the person who you just know is going to have a secret shame or a secret trauma or a secret disease, probably while he is being raped and beaten in prison by Nazis with spiky boots. In other words, I want to know who, in your fandom, is the character who you'd immediately think of if you read this header:

Title: Recovery and Revelations Part 7, 1/???
Series: Hold Me Tight Tonight (Confronting the Darkness)
Author: I <3 Woobies!
Summary: To protect the ones he or she loves, Character X sold his or her body to evil slaver alien wizards. Now Character X is finally back home. Can the [team/family/friends/loved ones/etc.] help him or her recover?
Warnings: Noncon, dubcon, torture, past child abuse and incest, betrayal, cutting, slavery, underage sex, involuntary drug use, porn, some swears.

In the future, there will be a poll. But first, I need the names to go in the poll. So tell me: in your fandom, who is the woobie? To make this extra-challenging, especially for you people in Harry Potter and Supernatural: you can only nominate one person per fandom. I want to hear about the Woobiest in All the Land.

Comments

[dragojustine]

I am going to assume that I don't need to say Daniel Jackson or Ianto Jones, right? Those are sort of a baseline.

But over in SPN, Dean Winchester was clearly the woobiest woobie to ever woobie. I mean, I was an early-seasons SPN fangirl, so it's possible things have changed from the Ultimate Woobiness of Season 2, but still.

West Wing: Toby Ziegler. But West Wing was awfully low on actual physical violence (I mean, by the standards of other fannish things that involve wands and swords and automatic weapons), and his woobiness was mostly emotional.

Sports Night: Dan Rydell. See above with the "mostly emotional," but he sure did angst pretty on the show and that was multiplied several-fold in fic.

BSG: For a time there, Kara Thrace was pretty woobilicious.

Leverage: I started to say Eliot, only to realize I've never actually seen a fic that does this. It just seems pretty self-evident to me. But I might be completely making that up.

[brownbetty]

Def. Eliot Spencer for Leverage. I mean, he gets beat up in canon, and is personally abrasive, meaning he's hiding all of his desperate manpain and really just needs love!

[lady_ganesh]

Agreed!

[maevele]

I was hoping someone would say Elliot. He's the one I most want to wrap up in a warm blankie and give him cocoa with marshmallows.

[shalom]

the woobiest woobie to ever woobie

Gosh, no matter what they do with this list, I have to hope and pray that they use your line as a subtitle. I haven't stopped laughing over it.

[thedivinegoat]

I've seen several Eliot woobie fics, but then I've also seen a really bad woobie!Sterling fic.