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

[jmtorres]

I think fanon decided reboot!Kirk got molested by his stepfather?

[fox]

Obi-Wan Kenobi, dude.

[sanj]

- Dean Winchester: TWoP still calls John "Bad Touch Daddy" or something.
- Severus Snape, though that's basically canon.

... thinking about this, might have more after coffee.

[cereta]

Tom Paris, hands down. Well, maybe not hands-down, but it was pretty bad. IIRC, in canon, his father was one of those demanding, distant types. In fanon, that turned into physical and sexual abuse.

[rheanna]

The first one that springs to mind for me is Fox Mulder - as I recall, there was a lot of fanon about him being abused by his father as a child.

[silver_spotted]

Harry Potter himself. Staying with the Dursleys, to quote Cereta, "turned into physical and sexual abuse."

[ellen_fremedon]

Bruce Wayne. Actually, the entire Bat family probably belongs on this list.

[alexseanchai]

I don't know if Sam and Dean Winchester count, because their canon childhood was pretty awful, but...

[noracharles]

Harry Potter. Canonically it wasn't very nice, but in fic he regularly suffered outright torture and rape. I read primarily Harry+mentor!Snape, Severitus, and Harry/Severus, it might be different in other subgenres.

[kuwdora]

I cannot, for the life of me, read this entry and the comments without laughing my ass off.

[dira]

What, no fanon horrible childhood for Sylar? :D

[dira]

Yeah, Harry's going on the list. :)

[dira]

Eh, we'll put them on the list and let the poll work it out. :)

[dira]

Does Bruce have a fanonically horrible childhood apart from the Single Horrendous Incident? I'm trying to figure out if he goes with Dexter in the "yes, that's canon" category.

[dira]

Duly noted!

[dira]

OMG, how did I not immediately think of Mulder? The ~MANPAIN~ started early!

[dira]

Oooh, all right. I would have missed him. :)

[dira]

On the list!

[dira]

On the list! With a little asterisk because I am still kind of scared of TPM fandom!

[dira]

As soon as I typed mirrorverse I realized who I had been forgetting. Reboot!Jim is definitely on the list!

[kuwdora]

Honey, I may write fic, make vids and do the squee thing for the show, but I try my damndest not to have anything to do with Heroes fandom if at all possible because it just makes my soul ache in a way that I didn't think was possible.

I think the closest thing I can recall from fanon is that Gabriel was a wee virginal choir boy and blah blah his mommy being crazy religious, blah blah he was socially awkward and I dunno if it was ever fanon that he was physically or emotionally abused by the crazy mom or crazy dad. I'm sure someone made something up but I stayed far, far away from them.

Cause. There are sincere people in Heroes fandom who think that Sylar is a fluffy fucking bunny who wouldn't actually hurt Claire (Or Mohinder. Or Peter or *insert a person's preference*) and is really truly in love with her and would never, ever rape anyone because he knows rape is bad and oh, god, he would never do anything to hurt a woman like that or anyone else.

*twitch*

*edit* to say: Okay this is not everyone in Heroes fandom but there are a lot of... questionable fen. I miss the days when people were still writing lovely IC domestic Matt/Mohinder stuff. sigh.

[dira]

Understood, understood. Some fandoms are just like that. I will, uh, hold off on putting Sylar on the list unless I get a suggestion elsewhere.

And, ahahahaha, BEST ICON EVER OMG.

[kuwdora]

GREG GRUNBERG COULD NEVER MOLEST ANYONE.

.....

on second thought, why isn't there a Britney Spears ballad and lots of emo external source visualizing this fanon assessment?

[dira]

Because you haven't vidded it yet, clearly!

[kuwdora]

noo, you can't do that to me. because you see, I am still over here, glorifying the dumbass crack of Heroes. because Peter nailed Sylar.

LITERALLY.

in case you missed my epic squee:





best. birthday. ever. for me.


clearly I do not have time or brainspace to be illustrating reboot Kirk's mainpain in vid-form. cause I also have a festivid that I'm working on, too.

also. Peter nailed Sylar. Also in the balls or leg (it was offscreen but he screamed and omg *comes undone in this comment*)

My vid suggestion is FREE TO A GOOD HOME. Fandom already knows that Britney Spears is the only music that fully expresses the emoangst symphony in Jim's heart and soul.