That Guy with the Glasses in Space

Despite the silly sounding title, this is Dark Fic written by freya_sacksen on live journal. It basically takes group of nerdy, fun internet personas of That Guy With the Glasses and turns them into broken but very, very Badass woobies due to war and experiments. They have been split up into Factions. The main focus is on the Anti-Factionists, which consists of Spoony, Linkara, Nostalgia Chick, Angry Joe, That Chick with the Goggles, and Marz Gurl.

It can be read here. The prequel fic "I Have Heard The Voices Dying" starts here.

Seeing as how this is a verse, others in the fandom and freya herself have done other one-shot fics for it. These have a lot more pairings, can be anywhere in the timeline and to be fitting, most of them are also Dark Fic: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, I See No Wrinkles Here, Despair, Tears and Home, Lonely, Music and Forever in The Black, Till The Sun Breaks Down, Blood, Loneliness and Hope, Spun Sugar and the sequel Heavy Things, What We Are In The Dark, The Persistence Of Memory and Cold Comfort.

That Guy With the Glasses In Space has examples of:
"Linkara: Keep the Foe Yay to a minimum guys."
 * Action Girl: All the females of the cast.
 * Adaptational Badass: The cast in general, especially if you see the characters as unthreatening in real life.
 * Artificial Limbs: The majority of the cast has these, or they are cyborgs.
 * Badass
 * Boom Headshot:
 * Break the Cutie: Well, yeah... The prequel's worse in this regard, as we get to see the breakage of these funny, adorable people in full detail.
 * Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Sure sounds like this is happening to the cast.
 * Cyborg: Lots of the cast.
 * Darker and Edgier: Oh yes!
 * And had an impact on the fandom too. Before this came along, the fics were all fun and light and cracky. Afterwards, half of the new fic was and is some serious Dark Fic.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Did you really think otherwise?
 * Deceptively Silly Title
 * Determinator:
 * Distressed Dude: After the battle of Santa Muerte,.
 * Dying Alone: In the epilogue,
 * Dying Moment of Awesome:
 * Downer Ending:
 * Well...according to the author herself,
 * Faux Action Boy: Narrowly averted. In the main fic, Critic doesn't really do anything other than show up captured and fail to save everyone. In the prequel, we find out why he was worthy as a leader.
 * Foe Yay: It's even referred to by name after Benzaie and Suede get on the Tandem together.


 * Go Out With a Smile:
 * General Ripper: The Battalion Faction is commonly viewed as having deliberately adopted a philosophy that will justify Suede's repeated attempts on Benzaie's life. Suede's dialogue does nothing to convince us otherwise.
 * Hammerspace: Where in the hell do Paw's guns come from?!
 * Healing Factor: Linkara. Suede has one, too.
 * Hope Spot:  Everything will be okay, right? Wrong!
 * Impaled With Extreme Prejudice:
 * I'm Standing Right Here: The Nostalgia Chick goes on about how Spoony could possibly kill himself slipping on a set of scaffolding and falling to his death, leaving Linkara in charge. She then runs down the list of bad things that could happen if that happens. Linkara is about five feet away from her when she does.
 * It Has Been an Honor:
 * Knight Templar Big Brother: Linkara for Marz Gurl. Hurt her and you will suffer. More than you will now, even.
 * My Favorite Shirt: You do not break Paw's headphones. You just don't.
 * Nice Job Breaking It Hero: Sorry,.
 * Not So Harmless: Doctor Insano, Z, Marz Gurl.
 * Only Sane Man: Spoony and Handsome Tom, although sanity is relative.
 * Playing With Syringes: The whole cast has been experimented on in some way or another.
 * Rasputinian Death
 * Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Why  Doesn't work.
 * Stable Time Loop: Suggested by the Epilogue.
 * The Future Is Noir: At least in theme and tone.
 * Unwilling Roboticisation: Sounds like this happened to the cast.
 * Weapon of Choice: Linkara's magic gun, Paw's arsenal and Kyle's guitar.
 * Wrench Wench: Goggles.