thefourthvine | Woobies Wanted

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.

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Seconding Archie Kennedy! Like having epilepsy wasn't enough... he had to be wounded and imprisoned too, and look pretty the whole time.

And there was actual comfort. Canon has everything except the sex.

And oooooh god Jamie Bamber is gorgeous. Archie Kennedy has that gorgeous smile, Lee Adama is all tense and angsty and in love with Starbuck and has that adorable buzzcut.

Legolas: ... yeah it's a fanfic thing. Canonwise, definitely Frodo. But I think the fact that Biggest Woobie depending on canon vs fanon (in more than one fandom) is very very interesting.

Yes, Jamie Bamber=so gorgeous.

I feel like I've learned a lot about fanon Legolas from this discussion. This sounds to me like the most dramatic example of a woobie being entirely created by fanon, because (as far as I can remember) Legolas is probably the character who suffers least in LOTR books and even in the movie.

Putting Archie Kennedy (canon h/c!) together with Legolas, we get another layer of complexity for acafannish analysis. Conference panel topic: "Woobies: canon creation or fannish fabrication? *grin*

(Um, I think I was planning to get back to my real work about 10 minutes ago... signing off from LJ/DW before it's too late!)

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