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

[axelrod]

Is there a difference between "woobie" and "angstmuffin"? I tend to define angstmuffins as masculine badasses who feel responsible for things they have no control over and don't like themselves much and feel guilty about stuff and are closed off emotionally. So it's like, an angstmuffin might be woobified and woobies are usually angstmuffins but not always?

There's also the difference that you can kind of croon "woobie" at the TV screen when someone is an angstmuffin is being a total woobie.

[dragojustine]

OMG, so THAT'S what John Sheppard is. He's not a woobie, he's an angstmuffin! (I was having such trouble figuring out why just the woobie label didn't seem to fit...)

[axelrod]

I'm so glad I could help : )

[lilyleia78]

Angstmuffin! I've never heard that - yes, Sheppard - exactly.

[axelrod]

Angstmuffins are often woobified in fandom when they haven't achieved that status in canon *nods wisely*

[calime]

Angstmuffin to me sounds very like what I've heard called 'clam' - a character who's essentially so clammed up (hee!) from the world, in zir hard shell, and hiding the soft angst-mollusc of feelings inside, and that's what makes for the desire to steam and crack them to open them up.
Unfortunately I cannot recall who on my f-list was talking about clams a ways back (on LJ), maybe it was Elynross, or Luminosity? Googling only gives me a line in this post saying:And now this is making me think of Dorinda's theory of clams,..., so...