Not a request for recs, I swear.

[dira]

terrio and I were talking last night about the tragedy that is fanon!Rodney McKay's childhood--rivalled, she pointed out, only by fanon!John Sheppard's.

Oh, I don't know, I said. Fanon!Daniel Jackson and fanon!Xander Harris could give both of them a run for their money.

Hmmm, I said a little later. Surely there is a way to determine ~empirically~ who fandom has bestowed with the most horrible fanon!childhood! How about a poll?

But I can't do an ~authoritative~ poll until I have had some help coming up with contestants, so, fandom, tell me: who has the worst fanon!childhood?

To be clear: this is neither about who has had, say, for instance, a canonical childhood bad enough to turn him into a canonical serial killer, Dexter, nor about the fact that one time you read this one story where it turned out that the Kents belonged to a Satanic cult that tortured young Clark over and over and he developed multiple personalities in response so that while Clark/Superman is totally well-adjusted after an idyllic Kansas childhood, Kal-El is a time bomb of psychotic rage.

Uh, not that that story exists. As far as I know.

Anyway: I'm looking for the general trend of fanonical horrible childhoods, not canon or outlying crackfic/evil mirrorverse, is what I am saying. Help?


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Comments

[dira]

Duly noted!

[niqaeli]

Well, sexual abuse didn't figure into the first five (I still haven't read six and seven, but I'm going to guess it didn't figure in there!), but that's, um, a canon abusive childhood -- physically and emotionally. The physical was relatively minor, admittedly, and more in the service of the emotional abuse but between alternating between that and the neglect, well. Rowling wrote him much saner than anyone really has a right to expect after that! But canonical sanity in spite of it does not make it less a canonically shitty and abusive childhood.

I dunno, I guess I just feel like fandom adding sexual abuse to that table doesn't feel like it's as much of a fanon invention as maybe you're looking for? Up to you! Thought I'd point it out, though. :P

[dira]

Well, we'll let the poll sort it out. I suspect reboot!Jim Kirk is going to give him a run for his money. :)