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

[derryderrydown]

Charlie Brooker/David Mitchell fandom is almost non-existent. However, David Mitchell is still the woobie. He's even been a woobie zombie.

Lawrence of Arabia: TE Lawrence. The canon makes it kind of tricky to paint anybody else as woobier, although Ali gives it his best shot.

Top Gear: Richard Hammond. He is small and cute with big eyes and has nearly died.

[melannen]

Is there David Mitchell fandom somewhere? I have found bits of fic by way of QI fandom but I kind of need more. (Also: totally a woobie.)

Also, I would say Richard Hammond is more likely to get randomly tortured for fun, but James May is more likely to voluntarily sell himself into sex slavery, and will probably angst about it more (at least in the slash part of the fandom...)

[(Anonymous)]

I totally agree with this analysis! (Funny how it's never Jeremy, isn't it? *g*)

For all your "David Mitchell is adorable and would suffer beautifully" needs, I direct you to mitchellwebfic. :D

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