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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

• The Assassination of Twilight Sparkle had a Bittersweet Ending while the sequel Aftermath of a Fallen Star further explored how it effected her loved ones while developing into a Deconstruction of Equestria's Sugar Bowl setting. This increasing darkness culminated in a Happy Ending Override revealing the seeming good to come out of it played into the hands of the true mastermind behind the assassination and Equestria was so intolerant and backwards the attempt to modernize the country is met with civil war, leading to a Genre Shift away from the personal tragedy that made the story popular. In its place was an increasingly Crapsack World so bleak it now came off as meaningless shock value^exampleSeremora's bio reveals countless innocent souls (including ones whose afterlives she attacked, meaning you're not even safe in Heaven) are stuck in a Fate Worse than Death in her belly, and her own mortals must put their souls in Soul Jars to avoid the same "afterlife.", villains too evil to be compelling yet would inevitably come out ahead, and the heroes being useless to stop this or making things worse trying, leaving seemingly no chance of a worthwhile ending. The sequels to Aftermath of a Fallen Star took over six months to receive 100 likes while the author's later one-shot stories easily breached that number in a couple weeks. They later admitted they mishandeled the story such they're canceling the series.
• The Dear Sweetie Belle Continuity shifting to foreshadowing/setting up an apocalyptic conflict has put off many who enjoyed the series character-driven Slice of Life, especially since the characters it made them so attached to are now at high risk of getting unhappy endings. Not helping is said conflict is being caused in part by the controversial actions of the series more controversial characters while likable characters are denied agency, most notoriously Pinkie Pie dying of unspecified causes prior. The first story fully set in this darker direction, The Changelings Have a King, had a high body count and higher ratio of dislikes to likes than any other work in the seres. While later works were much better received, their having only one-fifth the likes shows a large majority, all save the most dedicated fans, stopped caring about the series to the point its cancelation went largely without notice.
• While the original Inner Demons was fairly dark, it still ended up being a case of Earn Your Happy Ending... then the sequels pulled some downright brutal Happy Ending Override, especially where Rarity is concerned, which turned off many readers. The author admitted to losing interest in the work, which they later canceled promising a reboot.
  I think with this story, I let things get so dark that even I don't know how they can save their world, or even if they can win. I want them to win, but when even the actual angel meant to save the world (Vale) is powerless, what hope do they have.
• The Killer Rarityverse gets worse in this regard with every sequel, as their plot boils down to "how else can we screw Sweetie Belle over".
• After waiting over a year for the fifth episode, some viewers of My Little Portal were turned off by the exponential increase in both gore and a sense of hopelessness, thanks to the past fall of Canterlot and a great deal of character mutilation, along with the death of most of the original show's cast in gruesome ways. By the end of it there's practically nothing Twilight can return to. Illustrating this phenomenon is the fact the next episode has around one fifth of Episode 5's views, with the drop in views remaining for the one after that.
• Volume I of Spectacular Seven has been noted by commenters as being a chore to sit through. The fic keeps piling up angst and stress on top of Sunset Shimmer, from being the only person not affected by a Hate Plague, to making her an Unwitting Instigator of Doom with the Sirens, to having a Third-Act Misunderstanding with Twilight Sparkle. The heroes all act like jerks to each other, the villains seem almost impossibly hard to defeat, and the few ways that everything can be fixed keep becoming vanishingly less likely. While thing ultimately work out well and latter volumes made fixes and better handled conflict, the author admitted Volume I lost so many fans they had to disable its ratings to maintain the drive to continue the work.
  I already lost half my audience just by writing a sequel, and a third of that audience left during volume I because it was so fucking apathetic!

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• The After series is a romantic drama focusing on the trials and tribulations of Tessa and Hardin's relationship, while also dealing with issues like Hardin's childhood trauma and the resulting behavioral problems. However, many readers have a hard time caring what happens because almost all the characters are insufferable jerks who constantly make each other miserable, including the Official Couple themselves. Hardin is supposed to be a flawed person, but he's so awful to the people around him (especially Tessa, his supposed true love) and lacking in redeeming qualities that he comes off as deeply unsympathetic. Tessa is better than Hardin (not that this is difficult) but still comes off as highly judgemental and naive to the point of foolishness, and if readers aren't exasperated by her they're often pitying her for being used as Hardin's emotional punching bag. Considering that every book in the series generally follows the same formula, it's unsurprising lots of readers get emotionally burnt out.
• All He Ever Wanted: When almost every character is either an unlikable bastard/bitch or being constantly tortured, readers may not be sure who to root for at all. Or if there's any character worth rooting for. In canon Hetalia: Axis Powers, all nations are given at least some sympathetic and/or kind moments, even the worst Jerk Asses... and yet the fic removes almost all of them; i.e., seeing Prussia as a megalomaniac, abusive, rapist Nazi Card-Carrying Villain when he's at most a Hot-Blooded Butt-Monkey in canon is all kinds of NO.
• All You Need Is Love. Even if it is a Crack Fic and based on Death Note, it can be hard to maintain interest when everyone is either an asshole if not outright villainous, an idiot or a Butt-Monkey. Or a combination of the three.
• Ambience: A Fleet Symphony: Even if one able to get past Damon's questionable behavior, almost everyone is revealed to not have clean hands, the obvious villains notwithstanding. Even the "good" factions that Damon works with aren't above things such as highly questionable experiments, hostage-taking, and "retiring" people. This makes it really difficult to cheer for anyone.
• Be My Escape is widely considered one of the most depressing Adventure Time fanfics in existence, and for good reason. The story revolves around Finn never getting adopted by Jake's parents and instead lived most of his life inside a Circus of Fear, where he was emotionally and physically abused before finally seizing a chance to escape. The land of Ooo is written as being a Wretched Hive devoid of any law or morality, a good chunk of the characters are either psychologically unwell or straight-up jerks, there are themes of racism (Fantastic Racism but still) and Existential Horror, and there's overall a strong sense of hopelessness in the tone.
• Blue Moon Nursery is a The Smurfs fanfic about an unnamed narrator adopting a baby Smurf. While the story starts off lighthearted enough, it gradually dives into much darker territory the longer it goes on, with other baby Smurfs suffering gruesome injuries several times throughout the story (and one even being murdered by his abductor to make an example out of him) to the point that it borders on being Torture Porn. The dearth of momentary breaks from the hectic plot can eventually make some readers feel numb to the graphic depictions of babies being brutalized or just simply lose interest altogether.
• Some readers of Digimon Adventure 02: The Story We Never Told were either turned off by the much more cynical and angsty version of the story compared to canon to the point of being grimdark, or the fact that certain characters (Matt, Mimi, and Cody in particular) are much more unpleasant than they ever were in the show. However, once Ken dies, most of their jerkass traits disappear and the series slowly but surely becomes more optimistic as the Digidestined starts to make their own resolve, thus lessening this reaction from audiences.
• Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness and its sequels want to be a "serious" take on the Harry Potter series. Unfortunately, the author has mistaken gratuitous gore and bloodshed for seriousness. People die en masse even when canon insists they lived, morally-ambiguous characters are transformed into pure evil, nobody gets out without severe injury (physical or mental), and if it looks like something good is about to happen, the heroes will destroy it with their own stupidity or selfishness—and yet the narrative expects us to sympathize with them, especially in the case of Neville Longbottom. Once hailed as a work of art, it's now seen as a mass of potential buried in overdone "drama".
• Faery Heroes: A Peggy Sue in which Harry, Hermione, and Luna go back in time. This in of itself is not apathy-inducing, but the story suffers from both Demonization and Designated Hero, and the resulting Evil Versus Evil conflict is so bland and cliché-riddled that you'll want everyone to be killed by the fae.
• Fantasia Times: The Designated Heroes have an alarming tendency to act like Psychopathic Manchildren, enact Disproportionate Retribution on anyone who opposes them, whine every other paragraph, and generally act like idiots so that many of the plots can happen; and yet they always come out on top while the narrator shills them to hell and back (especially the OCs). The antagonists they face usually have no personality beyond "wants to take over Fantasia and/or do (insert awful thing here) to the heroes", and they always lose, usually with the tension being killed long beforehand. Between all this and the repetitive writing style the author employs, you'd be forgiven for not caring about anyone or anything in the series.
• Forged Destiny, starting from Book 5. While the first four Books of Forged Destiny have elements of darkness and each Book had a Bittersweet Ending, there was usually still enough of a balance between the darker moments with moments of levity, worldbuilding and character building moments to counteract it. However, from Book 5 onwards, many of the arcs end with progressively darker and more bitter consequences with very little levity or time to relax and process the events properly in between. The end result is that the story feels like it's determined to drag Jaune through the dirt, breaking down his friendship with the Guild, putting him into an environment of extreme paranoia and distrust, killing off several people who he had come to respect and trust and overall undermining any sense of growth or levity for the sake of drama. An arc in Book 8 only seems determined to continue this trend with the reveal that Blake's family might have been attacked and murdered by Ruby's mother, a person who for all intents and purposes was seen as a decent person with, at worst, a bad case of Chronic Hero Syndrome.
• Heimatfront, a crossover series that takes place in Nazi Germany during the last days of the war, focuses on Maria Nitzchmann (aka Miho Nishizumi), a BDM conscript who delivers some tanks to the German army; but finds herself caught up in the fighting and wants to do whatever she can to ensure a more favorable outcome for Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, not only do you know how this will end, especially considering that Maria's lucky to even survive her battles, but when Maria finds out about the Holocaust, her superior Roy Messner (aka Roy Mustang) bluntly tells her that he knows about it, too; and says she has two choices - fight a losing battle and enable crimes against humanity to continue, or let Germany fall to its enemies, who will take revenge on the people. While it's historically accurate, not only do you know that Maria won't succeed, but you have to question whether she should succeed.
• The Jaded Eyes Series: Word of God said that they wanted to write a Harry Potter darkfic, and they definitely did. The Series Fic starts with a six-year-old Harry being beaten and abused by the Dursleys to such an extent that he ought to be dead (how a six-year-old survives being kicked around a basement by his considerably larger uncle is never made clear), and apparently not one single person in the neighborhood or school notices any of his copious injuries. From there, Harry murders all three Dursleys in their sleep, sets out on his own, and every single person he meets from there on out is either selfish or put through circumstances that are horrible. Characters like Lily and James Potter, Dumbledore, and Lupin are demonized so they're completely unlikable; but the characters who show Undying Loyalty to Harry come across as equally horrible because they know he's doing things like dissecting kidnapped Muggles and overlook it because he's somehow just that charismatic. When the protagonist is a nihilistic kid who only views others as tools, the supporting cast are either Jerkasses or his enablers, and the story ends with his helpers gladly helping him take over the world and murder countless Muggles and his adopted mother magically aborting her conscious-but-unborn baby so she can birth him after he's turned into stone; the entire thing is incredibly unpleasant.
• Latias' Journey is a prime case of such, right where the Your Secret Admirer prequel (which goes to hell rather quickly in its own right) left off. Almost right out of the gate, there is plenty of moments of over-the-top violence, Gratuitous Rape, sex, profanity, and Ri2's refusal to show and not tell with a side-order of Wangst (mostly from the titular heroine, but May also has her moments of such as well.) and Flanderization, among the cast. The real kicker is that Latias falls in love with the Ghost King, the being responsible for destroying Latias' home in the first place. The author himself eventually gets fed up with making the characters suffer and decides to give them all a happy ending at the last minute, except for James who is left in outer space.
• The Longest Road every once in a while, especially when it tries to make scenes that are supposed to be emotional. Perhaps the most egregiously dark moment is during the Pokémon League, when Ash battles Lance and, despite winning, his Squirtle (evolving to Wartortle during the match) ends up badly injured because Ash refused to switch him out (never mind he had the rest of the team available). Not only does Ash fall into a blatant case of Wangst about it, but he also somehow decides that it's Misty's fault because she failed to convince him to switch Pokémon.
• Mean Rabbit: The major characters are a case of serious Adaptational Jerkass. Aizawa is a Sadist Teacher to the point of being more hostile to Izuku than Bakugou, almost all of his classmates (save Hagakure, his friends Tetsutetsu and Tokage, and Koda) hate him to the point of trying to abandon him while he has a mild concussion during the USJ. This causes Izuku (justifiably) to hate UA and everyone in it (or at least everyone in his class) and thus acts like a jerk to them in return. And the decent ones (Eijiro, Setsuna, Inko, All Might) are minor characters, leaving the focus mostly on all the Jerkasses. And the society at a whole is quick to hate Izuku to the point of trying to cause him injury by throwing pieces of the stadium at him during the Sports Festival seemingly without reprisal from the school.
• The Nowakverse as a whole. It is a product of the late '90s, Under the Bridge being amongst the first Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers fanfics. The very first one, Rhyme and Reason, set the tone for most of these early works, and that tone was pretty dark, taking the possibilities that the crime-fighting setting of CDRR offered its creative fans to extremes without time constraints or Disney's in-house rules. And although they don't have Downer Endings, John Nowak's fics in particular can get very dark. This sort of fic was very popular back in those days, not only, but particulary in the CDRR fandom. However, seen from the point of view from some ten years later or even today, this can be too much darkness at once. And Nowak himself was convinced enough of having overdone it shortly after publishing Under the Bridge that he MSTed his very own fic together with Matt Plotecher, himself famous for his Chip Noir Dales Rescue Rangers series which doesn't have "Noir" in its name for nothing either.
• This was one of the many reasons Bobsheaux gave for opposing The Pixar Theory. The fact that some parts of this theory undo happy endings for some characters across the films has made them too grim for some people to follow. For the theory to work as written, it requires multiple offscreen genocides to occur^note At the absolute least, the dinosaurs since they're never seen after The Good Dinosaur and oil/gasoline are mentioned in multiple films, suggesting they all died and their remains went on to create fossil fuels; the cars, since they're not in Monsters, Inc. and no remains of their civilization seem to be left; and the machines responsible for the Robot War that's an essential part of the theory's interpretation of events leading up to WALL•E, for the same reason as the cars. In particular, the idea of WALL•E's hopeful ending leading directly to Monsters, Inc. is hated, because the world seen in that film is a heavily industrialized capitalist society that heavily resembles the modern world, and is on the verge of a major energy crisis, implying that the monsters failed to learn from humanity's mistakes and are headed towards the same hyper-capitalist dystopia that destroyed the Earth once before.
  • On a smaller scale, the idea of Boo becoming the Witch is similarly controversial, since it means the end of Monsters, Inc. that shows Mike and Sully have found a way to visit her never actually happened. The experience of being abandoned by "Kitty" leads to Boo being unable to live a normal life, becoming obsessed with door portals until she becomes a time traveling witch who dedicates her entire life to finding Mike and Sully again - which she seemingly fails to do, considering that she's an old woman by the time of Brave and still hasn't found them yet. Earlier versions of the theory even have her experimentation with magic be the thing that leads to animals and robots becoming intelligent, dooming the entirety of human history just because she wants to see her friends again.
• The Road to Cydonia, soon after Reflections Lost on a Dark Road begins; Inuyasha shows up as a more idealistic figure, but is revealed as All Just a Dream of a schizophrenic psionic Kagome. Or rather her mother. But even that pales before the introduction of the Dark Titans—all are quickly neutralized by UNETCO forces, upon which they are repeatedly subjected to intense, proselytizing cynicism.
  • Starfire runs right into Herb of the Musk, who is so dedicated to Just Following Orders that despite realizing that she's desperately trying not to kill him, he just uses her hesitation to casually beat her unconscious. X-COM then Mind Rapes her to try to deduce her origins. Only the appearance of the other Titans proves her a non-combatant (due to voluntarily allowing their minds to be read), which leads them to instead cautiously draft her and return her to the rest of the Titans with the intention of turning her into an ally while they research the dimensional crossover. When most of the other Titans petition for national citizenship to register to fight the aliens, it is mentioned that according to UN legislation aliens have no rights, and she's not an exception.
  • Jinx makes a friend for the first time since she left both the HIVE Academy and the Titans, a rogue alien clone of Akari Unryuu, only for X-COM to accidentally-on-purpose return her to alien control, rather than let her die, so they can experiment on her to discover weaknesses in human-ethereal hybrids.
  • Raven gets a pat on the head by X-COM psi researchers, who refuse to acknowledge her Eldritch Abomination father as a "demon" rather than an alien, instead encouraging her to abandon her training and tap into her new-found Mind Control abilities, as being in the X-COM dimension actually dulls Raven's darker emotions and demon power and allows her to tap into her human-side's powers instead. This presents other dark temptations, however, and after a return to Azarath, she gets Drunk on the Dark Side, bringing the Raven/Ryoga/Jinx love triangle back to square one (if not pulling a flat-out three-way Ship Sinking) via mind raping Jinx into forgetting her love for Ryoga and (in Ryoga's eyes) crossing the Moral Event Horizon. Thanks to this, Jinx starts to believe that being a heroine just isn't her calling in life.
  • Titans!Ryoga efforts at bonding with his fellow Titans are at one time mocked by his militaristic counterpart, saying that pretending to be a Nice Guy will compromise his ability to command a team in the field. The two Ryougas spend much of the story unable to see eye-to-eye for a variety of reasons.
  • Cyborg gets it the lightest—his courageous superhero act is typically less valued by X-COM, who want him to Stay In The Lab building superweapons. He tried to skirt both areas, helping in the lab and in the field. He decides to shut down the empathic parts of his mind to be more effective, with the predictable backfire that follows.
  • All in all, you don't read the fic wondering what will happen to anyone from the X-COMverse, as it's mentioned multiple times that they will likely all die in the titular assault on Cydonia. Some profess that they don't care if they live or die, or what happens to their civilization after they kill all the aliens, as long as there is a civilization at all to return to, so why should the reader? What you wonder is if Our Heroes the Teen Titans will make it out of the Waffen-XX dimension alive, or if they'll even get to die sane.
  • Though, conversely, many characters speak often about the end of the war and their desire to survive it, for example, X-COM's Ryouga, who has slowly and painfully found a way out of his previous depression, and Ryu, who hopes to rebuild his family dojo and have a family, and the Amazons who want to rebuild their village after the terror site, but all have heard that Cydonia is likely to be a suicide mission and as a result of recent alien assaults on X-COM bases, morale is at a low point. Mental states are further stretched thin by efforts to investigate other dimensions and attempt to return the Titans to their home.
• Sonic X: Dark Chaos, before the rewrite, was strongly criticized for it by several reviewers. The Sonic characters were even bigger jerks than their original depictions. The extremely grimdark setting didn't help, with the entire universe doomed in an over-the-top Cosmic Horror Story filled with gruesome violence and a generous topping of Evil Versus Evil and Black-and-Gray Morality for good measure. Maledict and Tsali being absurdly overpowered didn't help. The author rewrote it several years later, partially to make it more upbeat - while the setting is actually darker than before, the story itself has a somewhat happier conclusion.
  • The author also discontinued the prequels Fall of the Seedrians and Battlestar Dandelion for being too bleak. In particular, the latter has Tsali (a genocidal mass-murdering fox android) as the protagonist against the Metarex in a blatantly Evil Versus Evil war, while Hertia and her people slowly descend into religious fanaticism, civil strife, and He Who Fights Monsters in their desperation to stay alive. And all of them are Doomed by Canon anyway.
• Super Sentai vs. Power Rangers, despite the author aiming for a Lighter and Softer tone. Given that most of the heroes are extremely OOC Designated Heroes who punish characters the author hates for minor offences (and in one chapter, when the Power Rangers Operation Overdrive die, they show up to the funeral purely to mock them. Fortunately, this was later deleted due to the backlash it received.). Normally this would lead to a Rooting for the Empire situation, but the villains are all assholes and depraved individuals with no moral ambiguity who commit wanton murder with no remorse. The only character remotely likeable is Flurious, who exists to be humiliated by everyone and is killed off with no fanfare.
• Whenever Super Smash Bros. The Animated Series isn't being mind-bogglingly weird, it's incredibly bleak. The author clearly intends for it to be a Darker and Edgier take on the world of Super Smash Bros...which apparently equates to poorly-described fight scenes, random swearing, lots and lots of Gratuitous Rape, and most of the cast becoming completely interchangeable Jerkasses. This, combined with being outright boring, makes the series unbelievably hard to get through.
• Super Smash Bros.: Guardians Arise! is a weird case of this, but a notable one nonetheless. The world that grew out of the century of the Smashers' disappearance is utterly bleak and depressing, with many of the Smashers' allies from their homeworlds dead or reduced to hopeless messes, and most of the Smashers spend most of their presence wallowing in angst over leaving them and not actually considering doing anything to move on. The Guardians are just as bad, if not, worse in this regard, as almost all of them have dark backstories that are on par with the Smashers' bleakness and hopelessness, and some of them aren't exactly heroic in this regard. In fact, much of the time they spend with each other is dedicated to them either trying to kill each other for no reason whatsoever, wallowing in their own angst, or for shallow reasons that amount to equally egregious amounts of angst. One would think that you'd consider taking in the villain Tabuu's perspective, but his actions are rather monstrous in nature as he's the one responsible for all of their trauma on top of enforcing the slavery that some of the Guardians underwent, that even having some form of Freudian Excuse doesn't excuse his actions. The strange and weird case of this comes for those who actually tried to read the entire fic, and that comes in the form of severe Mood Whiplash, consisting of borderline homophobic jokes that don't age well and outright cringe comedy that utterly detracts from the bleakness of the work to the point that those that actually do stick around to read it would find themselves turned off by the brand of humor present. By the end of the story many of the Smashers that end up gaining their bodies back either get killed or go out of commission due to the battle itself taking such a huge toll on them. Ultimately, it's a premier example of a dark piece of fanfiction that alienates people wanting a lighthearted or a somewhat moderate story but also does the same to those that actually do want to read it due to its dark tone.
  • Said work also has a sequel, The Awakening, but by then, you're utterly left wondering what was the point of the trauma and hardship that the cast went through at first if they're going through another challenge that's just as grim.
• Their Bond is a Doorstopper of a Zelda fic that ships Zelda and Impa, but it's also a Dark Fic with emphasis on the "dark". There's a major plot thread about Zelda dealing with her Dark and Troubled Past. The first 20 chapters alone go into great detail about how deeply troubled Zelda is but there's little levity between the chapters of suicidal depression and descriptions of her past abuse and Rape as Backstory. It doesn't get much better when other characters are revealed to have their own problems, such as Link's alcoholism. This can make the story difficult to get through.
• Another Death Note fanfic, Those Who Stand for Nothing Fall for Anything, can easily induce apathy. While it IS supposed to be satirical, it's difficult at times to care about the characters when they're not only mostly sleazy politicians, but exhibit few redeeming qualities among them and seem increasingly bent on making their lives and each other's miserable. L and Light are the worst of the bunch, and they don't get much comeuppance for any of the rotten things they do.
• Two Letters: On the one hand, you have the general citizens of Paris, who are suffering under a Nominal Hero yet refuse to actually learn anything from their experiences, still acting entitled to the former Ladybug's aid and offering nothing but judgement of her decisions in return. On the other hand, you have Marinette, who's finally gotten out of the toxic arrangement...except she's Stopped Caring to such a degree that she believes even the most innocent Parisians deserve their suffering, with the last chapter revealing she’s become just as bad as the villains she used to fight. The sheer amount of jerkassery and entitlement on display from pretty much every character subsequently makes it hard to get through the story.
• Prolific fanfic writer PerkyGoth14 is probably best known for her Pooh's Adventures fics, but she also had a series based on Cartoon Network City with OCs thrown in the mix, but has lost interest in the series due to her collab partner making the series a bit too mean-spirited with the heroes being Designated Heroes and not any better than the villains, especially characters such as Jo from Revenge of the Island being tough and brutal, but is expected to get away with her bad behavior because of her so-called Freudian Excuse of being neglected by her foster parents and other characters just being rather unlikeable.
• KnightMysterio, the author for Waking Nightmares, is aware of this and has mentioned in this tumblr post that he is attempting to make sure that things don't get too dark. (Given that the story has Slenderman as the main villain.)
• The now lost Fire Emblem: Awakening "Future of Despair" webcomic. Some fans used to criticize it for its contrived melodrama, its portrayal of the female characters as weaker or weepier than they are in canon (and, in at least one case, as downright Too Dumb to Live), the Cliché Storm and how it downright ignores/handwaves some parts of the canon itself solely to force sympathies out of the readers.
  Random commenter: I like drama, don't get me wrong. But there's drama...and well, there's drama.
• Almost everything ever written by Dakari-King Mykan. The fanfics that play this straight involve either Daisuke/Davis Motomiya or Beast Boy level-grinding in douchebaggery because they didn't get Kari/Terra (respectively), and pushing away their friends...or their friends turning unsympathetic for no reason. Needless to say, it's all downhill from there. The End of Ends is a notable example, except for the other Titans being woobies compared to Count Logan. In short, it's virtually impossible to be invested in any of his fanfics...unless you're masochistic enough to put yourself through reading them.

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