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thefourthvine) wrote2010-02-27 06:56 pm
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Woobies Wanted
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TVTropes has a great page on woobies [Warning:
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"[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.
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ST:ToS: Spock
DCU: Dick Grayson.
Merlin: Um… Lancelot?
Firefly: …unexpectedly difficult! Possibly the answer is Jayne. I'm uncertain, though.
Bones: Booth!
Angel tS: Wesley Windham-Price
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Oh my god I did not expect that there were this many woobies in the WORLD.
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For the sake of having a system, where people nom. > 1 per fandom, just take the first?
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Thank you! This will be SO HELPFUL, because honestly I was not expecting quite the, um, outpouring of woobieness. It has made me think Deep Thoughts about the whole trope, honestly.
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