History NoSocialSkills / FanWorks

* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': Due to CharacterDevelopment Shinji grows a spine and some few social skills before returning to the past. His attitude utterly befuddles his father, since Gendo expected him being meeker and more pliable. However Shinji keeps being bad with people. It comes up several times, such like Shinji realizing -- too late -- he might have given several female classmates hints he was interested in them, or blurting out to Hikari that he knows she likes Touji.

* ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'': At the beginning Asuka is the most popular girl in her school, but in reality she is frightened of other people, so that she uses her anger as a shield to keep and drive everyone away. However she changes during her super-heroine tenure, becoming a little more sociable with a bit of Shinji's help.
* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', Shinji had no social skills whatsoever before being raised and trained by his teacher. Asuka and Rei were horrible at socializing, and their inability to talk with each other was the origin of a massive disaster that the main characters had to fix after the TimeSkip.

* Jade Chan from ''Fanfic/WebWork'' still acts like a child much of the time despite spending eight years [[spoiler:in a demon dimension slowly turning into an Oni/ Jorogumo hybrid]], because her teachers had more important things to focus on at the time than teach her how to talk to people and act like an adult, and realises this may present a problem to their future plans.

* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': After returning to the past the three pilots talk about how they are so socially inept that they run away from other people (Shinji), push them away (Asuka) or don't know how interacting with other persons (Rei). However they agree to try to get better at socializing.

* ''Fanfic/AKnightsTaleAsInquisitor'' presents Arturia having shades of this, as a result of [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask throwing away any notion of being a normal being in order to properly rule her kingdom]] [[SheIsTheKing as the perfect king]]. While she is currently putting in the effort to become a more personal person and wants to bond with the people she's working with in this [[AnotherDimension new life]], she tends to come across as stiff and no-nonsense ''all the time'' without even noticing it, while others who DO notice it from an outside perspective [[EpicFail see her attempts as both hilarious and pure cringe-inducing]].

* The protagonist of ''Fanfic/TheBombshell'', Ada, has this as a pretty big part of her character. She had a complete breakdown when her mentor/resident AlphaBitch, Liana, chews her out for not jumping on joining an alliance, kick a girl for surprise hugging her when she was in kindergarten, and plenty more. She has an autism-spectrum AmbiguousDisorder.

** Penny Polendina is a RobotGirl who does a terrible job of hiding it, [[UnEntendre often uses words that sound sexual out of context]] (such as using the word "intercourse" for conversation), and fully expects she can make friends just by walking up to random people and asking them. And even ''she'' can tell that her father, Doctor Polendina, has no social skills whatsoever. When General Ironwood asked Doctor Polendina to provide Penny with material on how people her age interact, he gave her porn. She did watch it, but wisely deleted it after.

* ''Fanfic/TheEchoRemainsButTheSongIsNotTheSame'': Since Shikamaru was his OnlyFriend for the longest time, Chouji has difficulty understanding certain social conventions. For instance, when Asuma teases his new teammates [[TeamMemberInTheAdaptation Sakura and Hinata]] by asking whether there's any boys they like, Chouji casually answers for them, revealing that he's picked up on their respective crushes. He's very confused by their flustered reactions, not understanding why Sakura insists that information was meant to be ''secret''; it seemed quite obivous to him...!

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* Franchise/{{Superman}} in ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn''. It's several times noted by both Kal and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] that most of his personal problems stem from his inability to open up to and empathize with someone on a personal level. Helping total strangers, he can and will do. Being honest with his non-powered friends, baring his soul to his life's love, reaching his cousin out... he cannot do.
* ''Fanfic/AKnightsTaleAsInquisitor'' presents Arturia having shades of this, as a result of [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask throwing away any notion of being a normal being in order to properly rule her kingdom]] [[SheIsTheKing as the perfect king]]. While she is currently putting in the effort to become a more personal person and wants to bond with the people she's working with in this [[AnotherDimension new life]], she tends to come across as stiff and no-nonsense ''all the time'' without even noticing it, while others who DO notice it from an outside perspective [[EpicFail see her attempts as both hilarious and pure cringe-inducing]].
* ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'': Shinji is shy and quiet, but he is somewhat better at socializing than his canon counterpart because his altered backstory. So, when Asuka comes along, and she is as socially inept as her canon self, he is better prepared to deal with her mood shifts and see the real Asuka under the "leave me alone" mask. Even so he completely misses many clues hinting Asuka's feelings.
* ''Fanfic/{{Metro}}'': The titular Metro, due to AbusiveParents, and ChildSoldier training.
* ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'': Zigzagged with the Wolf, who ''does'' have the social skills to navigate polite society... he just rarely if ever uses them, on top of his constant antagonizing of everyone he talks to (whether he seems to intend to or not). Even the people he respects enough to address by what he thinks is their last name (Snow, Seaworth, Worm) or non-derogatory nickname (Dragonqueen, Shield-slayer) have to deal with his InnocentlyInsensitive remarks, BloodKnight tendencies, and the fact that he leaves when he decides he has nothing left to do there rather than ask permission to leave or even say goodbye. Then again, this is probably the most diplomatic a confirmed champion of the Chaos gods will ever be.
* In ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'' Shinji, Asuka and Rei are awful at socializing. They had gotten a little better at interacting with others at the beginning of the War, but as their traumas piled up, their mental scars got worse. At the beginning of the story they're barely functional and they have to relearn how open up to other people.
* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': Due to CharacterDevelopment Shinji grows a spine and some few social skills before returning to the past. His attitude utterly befuddles his father, since Gendo expected him being meeker and more pliable. However Shinji keeps being bad with people. It comes up several times, such like Shinji realizing -- too late -- he might have given several female classmates hints he was interested in them, or blurting out to Hikari that he knows she likes Touji.
* ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'':
** Shinji knew he was not good with people, but he thought Asuka was more sociable. However he slowly realizes he is very, very wrong: Asuka is popular but she has never dated anybody, has very few real friends and has a hard time to open up.
** Rei is lonely and asocial at the beginning. After opening up to Shinji she gets better and she even makes some friends (she eventually befriends Asuka).
* Some examples from ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'':
** In Ash's group, there's Iris, [[ParentalAbandonment who was abandoned by her birth parents as a baby]] and [[RaisedByWolves raised by a family of Dragon-type Pokémon.]] As a result, she doesn't ''quite'' know how to interact with humans, and can be quite blunt on how she says things. One of the biggest examples is asking Misty, without any kind of preamble or subtlety, what was her relationship with Ash, then stating that she plans to put the moves on Ash once she figures out how human courtship works, depite knowing that Misty has indeed a crush on him as well (albeit in her defense, Iris thought that, like with Dragonites, poligamy is the norm with humans).
** Red as well. He's a bit of loner and doesn't seem to like getting too close to people more than necessary, and as a result he lets Yellow handle the talking for him.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* In ''Fanfic/{{Progress}}'', Luna has poor social skills thanks to a combination of guilt and being a FishOutOfTemporalWater.
* In ''Shadow Snark'', due to [[LonersAreFreaks self-caused isolation]], the titular character has no way to gauge his normality.
-->'''Shadow Snark''': My desire to run out of here screaming and possibly causing over-the-top violence is barely contained.\\
'''Rainbow Dash and Rarity''': ...
* In ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'', Shinji and Asuka had no social skills whatsoever. Ironically, they got better at socializing after all remaining humans were gone.
** Near the end of the story, Shinji comments that he and Asuka were so bad, that [[spoiler:despite spending the first three years of her life with only her parents for company, their daughter Aki makes more friends on her first day of school than either of her parents ever had]].
* ''Fanfic/SeventhEndmostVision'' has one true example and one kind-of example. [[WorldsStrongestMan Aerith]] was awful at social stuff; she was a bad leader while she was in SOLDIER, mostly only doing DirtyBusiness, and coming off as a weird combination of passionate preacher and whipped dog to everyone around her. Nobody who reminisces about her has a high opinion of her social skills. [[TheHero Tifa]], meanwhile, has a sort-of case; she's socially awkward at fic's start, but it's because she's still reeling from the [[DoomedHometown Nibelheim Incident]] and trying to construct a new personality after Aerith [[EtTuBrute betrayed]] her. She's normally more socially adept, but her unwillingness to get involved with other people's problems now makes her stilted and cold, which combines poorly with how easily violence comes to her after years in the [[GreatOffscreenWar War.]]
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* Mob in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13226631/1/Shigeko-Kageyama-AKA-Mob Shigeko Kageyama AKA Mob]]'' though she gets better as she socializes more. The jury is still out about Sho though in his case it is justified because he was raised in a criminal organization and was never socialized with people who own age.
* Zephyros Veloi Sonic, in ''Fanfic/SonicBoomBeyondTheBlackHorizon''. He's spent thirteen of his eighteen years living a solitary life in the forest, and the only person he's ever interacted with up until the beginning of the story is Dr. Eggman. The first time Sonic's approached by friendly people (namely Amy, Knuckles, and Tails), he locks up and retreats for his house; even as he adjusts to their presence, there's some things he has trouble wrapping his head around--for instance, Sonic manages to startle the bejeezus out of Knuckles ''twice'' (first by sneaking up on him, then jumping onto his doorstep via someone else's roof) without understanding how or why.
* ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'': At the beginning Asuka is the most popular girl in her school, but in reality she is frightened of other people, so that she uses her anger as a shield to keep and drive everyone away. However she changes during her super-heroine tenure, becoming a little more sociable with a bit of Shinji's help.
* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', Shinji had no social skills whatsoever before being raised and trained by his teacher. Asuka and Rei were horrible at socializing, and their inability to talk with each other was the origin of a massive disaster that the main characters had to fix after the TimeSkip.
* [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Marina]] and [[CloudCuckooLander Riko]] in ''Fanfic/TwilightPrettyCure'' have this in varying degrees due to their [[FriendlessBackground friendless backgrounds]]. Marina does have some social insight in regards to normal people, but not with autistic people, and her HairTriggerTemper tends to get the better of her. [[UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome Riko]] is a very nice girl in her own eccentric way, but she tends to be InnocentlyInsensitive and has trouble understanding and keeping up with social conventions, which has [[KidsAreCruel caused a lot]] [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer of problems]] [[BreakTheCutie when she was younger]]. It doesn't help that she grew up in a closed-minded city that didn't want to properly understand her, so they just assumed she was a bad kid and constantly treated her as such.
* Having spent ten years with no one but her uncle and a living house, Mirabel from ''Fanfic/TwoButterfliesGoneWithTheWind'' comes across as rather blunt when reunited with the rest of her family.
* In ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'', Princess Luna is a NightmareFetishist who shouts "Blooooooooood!" at everyone she meets, without even realizing that she's doing it. When pressed to say something normal, her first attempt is ''"I will devour your soul!"'' And when she finally does make some friends, she has no idea how she did it: "Wait, I don't know what I did! What did I do?!"
* Jade Chan from ''Fanfic/WebWork'' still acts like a child much of the time despite spending eight years [[spoiler: in a demon dimension slowly turning into an Oni/ Jorogumo hybrid]], because her teachers had more important things to focus on at the time than teach her how to talk to people and act like an adult, and realises this may present a problem to their future plans.
* ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'':
** A great deal of the comedy comes from Jaune's almost complete naivety in regards to normal interaction. Since his only human interaction growing up was with his family and his mother's minions, he doesn't understand almost any form of slang, metaphor, or simile (a comment from Ruby about not wanting to be "the bees knees" and wanting to just be "normal knees" causes him to assume people compliment each other on their knees). Jaune frequently comes off as flirting or insulting (calling Yang pretty and offering Cardin a cookie respectively) when he's just trying to have a friendly conversation.
** Turns out that most of Jaune's sisters (except for Sapphire, the eldest) are even worse. Coral's idea of a normal social interaction is to show a man a smutty book and hop into bed with him, Lavender [[TheFakeCutie plays up her cuteness]] because it lets people excuse her weird behavior, and Amber [[TheBeastmaster set a flock of nevermore]] on a boy who was making fun of her friend. Weiss dryly notes that while Jaune managed to hide at Beacon for months, his sisters barely lasted a week at a normal school.
** Penny Polendina is a RobotGirl who does a terrible job of hiding it, [[UnEntendre often uses words that sound sexual out of context]] (such as using the word "intercourse" for conversation), and fully expects she can make friends just by walking up to random people and asking them. And even ''she'' can tell that her father, Doctor Polendina, has no social skills whatsoever. When General Ironwood asked Doctor Polendina to provide Penny with material on how people her age interact, he gave her porn. She did watch it, but wisely deleted it after.

* Mako Tsunami from ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' is portrayed as having very bad social skills, as his obsession with the ocean and enjoyment of throwing harpoons at people earned the nickname "Freaky Fish Guy". In fact, when Mako first met Yugi and his friends, he threw a harpoon at them because he ''wanted them to stay and didn't know how else to get their attention''.