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

[twtd]

I never watched it, and I've only read maybe three fics about it, but it seemed like the angst potential was there. Again, I read almost exclusively in femslash fandom, so in the fic I saw, all of the focus was either on Sarah or Cameron. Femslashers, almost to the point of pathology, do not seem to write about men, so John was barely mentioned and even having not read in the fandom, I can pretty confidently say that his uncle never showed up in a femslash fic (though I'm happy to admit to being wrong about that). Seriously, if you just read the femslash for that show, you'd probably be surprised to find that men even existed.

[axelrod]

... I mixed up Cameron and John's names in my previous comment.

Anyway. Yeah, never read any SCC fanfic whatsoever. And I guess there are so few characters like Sarah and Cameron and so few dynamics between two female characters like that, that I find I can't predict what tropes the ficcers are likely to utilize. Also, I've never been into femslash all that much.