History Fanfic / TheIronGiant

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Taylor [[spoiler:finally taking down James Sr]] in chapters 83 to 85.

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/34116817/chapters/84878749 The Iron Giant]]'' is a ''Series/TedLasso'' fanfic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/ArdenDrifter/pseuds/ArdenDrifter ArdenDrifter]].

* ShellShockedVeteran: James Tartt Sr. He was amoral and fundamentally dangerous even before he went to war, but after he lost an eye and suffered a brain injury on campaign in Yugoslavia, he became a whole new kind of unstable.
--> '''John:''' He’s caught in a blast in Kosovo, and it might be his own recklessness and it might be an assassination gone wrong, but the shrapnel destroys the cunning charmer I met, the one with a head full of schemes and the mission tucked close to his chest. Gone is his impulse control, his effort at sobriety, the mask that hides his narcissism.

* Polyamory: [[spoiler:Keeley, Roy and Jamie]] end up in a poly relationship.

-->'''Roy:''' ''[still looking lovinging at Keeley]'' Of ''course'' you're fucking invited, Jamie.

--> '''John:''' I’m telling you now, Jamie, that man was a horror even before the shrapnel destroyed whatever he had that could pass for a conscience.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Jamie, Taylor, [[spoiler:James Sr]]. They get over it.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Jamie, Taylor, [[spoiler:James Sr]].

--> Football, he tells her. Fucking football.

-->“Every time you came to us for a patch-up. All those times. Jamie, those times.” Her eyes keep tracing the half-moon carved into his hip. “Kept telling me you got injured ''playing''—”
-->“Yeah,” Jamie mumbles. “I fucked up playing. I ''told'' you.”
-->He remembers those conversations. Dominance and submarines and stuff James Sr. would put him in the ground for fucking knowing about.
-->“''What'' were you playing, Jamie?” {{ZeeJay}} asks. The colour's gone from her skin but she's not shaking anymore. Not really looking at him, either. Like her eyes are still open but she's not looking at anything at all.
-->It's like... Jamie gets it that not everyone's into sport and all—but doesn't she know him at all?
-->Football, he tells her. Fucking football.

--> '''{{ZeeJay}}:''' Jamie, all those times you came to us for a patch-up. All those times. Those times. Kept telling me you got injured ''playing''-
--> '''Jamie:''' Yeah, I fucked up playing. I told you.
--> '''{{ZeeJay}}:''' ''What'' were you playing, Jamie?
--> Football, he tells [hir]. Fucking football.

* OddFriendship: On paper, {{ZeeJay}} and Jamie don't make sense. [[spoiler:Until you find out that xe basically raised him.]]

** Taylor turns a collection of Mars Bars and half a bottle of adderall into a six-week course of Clozapine in the space of a single afternoon in a public library, via a very complex barter system.

** '''Jamie:''' The fuck is it now, Colin?
--->'''Colin:''' ''[after having run back and forth for an entire chapter]'' Coach says I need the exercise.

---> '''Taylor:''' ''[to Jamie]'' Why were you getting beauty treatments at thirteen?
** '''James Sr.:''' In me whole entire life, I’ve only ever heard one story worth shedding tears over. Ask me how me father died. ''[How?]'' He never did.

** Jamie's mother is revealed to have been a teenager when she had him [[spoiler:after being taken advantage of and raped by the much older James Sr.]] who ran with him to keep him safe, and spent her life working dead-end jobs only to end up [[spoiler:in a coma she's not expected to ever wake up from]].

* MissingMom: Jamie's mother, [[spoiler:who is in a coma]].

** Jamie's mother is revealed to have been a teenager when she had him [[spoiler:after being taken advantage of and raped by the much older James Sr.]] who nevertheless ran with him to keep him safe as a toddler.
** Keeley's supremely normal parents, John and Flora, turn out to have been [[spoiler:placed in Witness Protection for the past few decades]] and as such are very different people to how they present themselves to the wider world and their daughter.

** Dani spending a whole day scoring goals with Jamie, when Jamie's on the verge of a breakdown.
** Taylor and AFC Richmond smuggling Colin's dog into see him at [[spoiler:the hospital ward where he's being monitored]].

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Jamie and [[spoiler:Mikey.]] Both of them thought the other hated them for something that happened back at the Academy, but [[spoiler:Jamie still considers Mikey to have been the best friend he ever had, and Mikey watches all of Jamie's matches a decade after they last spoke]].