Torture(d) Boys: Give(n) Up
Fics in which (a) character(s) are sold/given/delivered/give themselves up to an enemy; often accompanied with/by a hefty dose of despair.
(May (also) include (temporary) suicidal ideation.)
Also fics where characters refuse to give up, against the odds, & suffer for it.
Orphans/abandoned children.
(Lack of care)
(Painful Rejections)
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Child's Play: An 11-year-old Ezra Standish arrives in Four Corners with a full carpetbag and a letter addressed to Sarah Larabee.
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Settling In: It's not always easy to settle into a new home, especially with Chris Larabee as your Guardian, but Ezra is nothing if now capable.Wordcount: 13.5k
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Phobias, Soulmates, & Bats by Lulu_Rhythm
Fandom Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
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16 Nov 2024
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In a world where soulmate rejection means decaying skin, Tim Drake is cursed. It's okay, though. He's used to "The Rot". Only one soul-mark to go before he can get on with his life in peace.
It's possible he did not plan for this exact situation.
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Zuko realizes his destiny much earlier. As in, as soon as he wakes up in the palace after his Agni Kai and is told he is banished. Unfortunately, he's never been a patient one. So he storms right up to Ozai and tells him what he's going to do. And gets locked up for over three years. Then, one day, he's being pulled out and told he's the new Fire Lord.
A "Zuko never meets the Gaang and suddenly becomes Fire Lord after three years of literal torture" AU. In which the Gaang doesn't know what to think of the new Fire Lord who happens to be the missing nephew of Aang's firebending teacher, Iroh constantly has a headache, and, sure, maybe the world hates the Fire Nation, but the Fire Nation LOVES Zuko, and he can work with that.
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- Part 1 of Fractures
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Bobby Nash wasn’t sure what he had expected from his first foster child. Maybe he thought Evan would be some sort of teenage delinquent. Maybe the kid would think he was too old to be parented or be mean to May and Harry. Maybe he would run away or try to get moved to a different home. Maybe he would be nothing but trouble and make Bobby and Athena regret fostering in the first place. They should have just stuck to the plan and gotten a younger kid like Athena had wanted.
But what Bobby didn’t expect was for the social worker to show up at their house at nine o’clock at night. He didn’t expect for the kid by her side to simultaneously look way too young for 14 and at the same time so much older. Evan was curled in on himself, making him seem far smaller than he should be but the fear and wariness in his eyes was something far too mature for him. Bobby didn’t expect for his first foster child to stand there on his porch, shivering in the pouring rain with nothing but a sweatshirt and a blooming black eye on his face. But what he certainly didn’t expect was for the kid to worm his way into his heart so quickly.
______________________A series of one-shots of Bobby and Athena fostering a teenage Buck
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Evan Buckley wasn’t born - he was made.
Fifteen (almost sixteen) years later, he’s learned a few things. He knows not to put his fate in someone else’s hands. If he wants to get anywhere in life, he needs to do it on his own. He has a plan. Keep his head down. Survive foster care. Go to school. Turn eighteen. Get a full ride to college. Make something of himself.
Then Athena Grant shows up and makes a deal with him. Suddenly he has the family he’s always wanted, and he starts thinking that maybe this time he won’t screw it up.
Unfortunately, trouble from his past is lurking in the shadows.
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(M: ch.12; violence)