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* In the ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' fanfiction [[The Not So Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (Fanfic)|The (Not So) Short Second Life of Bree Tanner]] and its companion piece ''Ashes through an Hourglass'', the offered back story of the Volturi's evil twin enforcers, Alec and Jane, helps rationalize their monstrous personalities in ways that elicit understanding and pity from the readers without undermining their sinister deeds. This more applies to Alec, though, since he has been featured far more than Jane and has demonstrated occasionally redeeming qualities through an amoral lens.

* Another ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' fanfiction: ''[[Luminosity (Fanfic)|Luminosity]]''.

** Chelsea is a [[Mind Rape|Mind Rapist]], and screws up people's relationships regularly. She also has a desperate need to be loved, to the point that anyone she passes who doesn't love her [[Why Did It Have to Be|disturbs her]].

* Dawn Schafer from the ''[[Babysitters Club]]'' fanfic ''When Forever Wasn't Enough''. She starts out as the closest thing to an [[Alpha Bitch]] the story has, attempts to further drive the already-existing wedge between the former BSC members, and is incredibly self-absorbed the point where {{spoiler|she neglects Stacey's growing depression and accuses ''her'' of being the self-absorbed one.}} However, she is also shown to be struggling with self-esteem issues, and longs to go back to California where she feels she belongs. But the part where this trope ''really'' kicks in? {{spoiler|After Stacey's suicide, Dawn is so devestated that she takes her grief out on the other girls and accuses ''them'' of not being there when Stacey needed her [[Hypocrite|(pot, kettle; kettle, pot)]]. While she continues to go through the stages of grief, she grows more rebellious and refuses to acknowledge that she wasn't there when Stacey needed her...until the girls start reading each suicide note Stacey addressed to them, and Dawn realizes that ''she'' wasn't there for Stacey when she needed her, which drives her to tears.}}

* {{spoiler|Fluttercruel}} from the ''[[Pony POV Series (Fanfic)|Pony POV Series]]''. She is most certainly a [[Jerkass]], but that's not entirely her fault as {{spoiler|she was created by Discord and the only thing she came into existence knowing was how to be mean and cruel. Fluttershy manages to guide her from a complete [[Jerkass]] to a [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]] (and in the [[Bad Future]] where this never happened, she apparently "grew up" into an outright [[Complete Monster]]). On top of that, due to how she came into being, she just sees herself as a "Fluttershy ripoff" and is ''physically'' incapable of having a life of her own, since, no matter what, she's just [[Sharing a Body|sharing Fluttershy's body]] and looks identical to her. She doesn't even consider herself alive. Yes, she's a jerk, but it's impossible not to feel sympathy for the poor girl.}}

* Angel, from the AU Roleplayverse [http://otherborn.proboards.com Otherborn], is a half-demon who physically, mentally, and emotionally abuses his charge, Namine, who he claims to be in love with. In fact, he's come close to pushing her over the [[Despair Event Horizon]] more than once, and the general reaction to this was to declare him a [[Complete Monster]]. [[It Got Worse]] when he was revealed to have killed his best friend in a jealous rage over the girl they both liked. And then... well, then the author started writing oneshots and revealed that Angel was, actually, so completely broken by this event that he literally went crazy. Namine was the only person who could put him back together again, but the damage done to his psyche was so immense that his demonic instincts began to take over, turning him into the Jerkass he is today. To the point where when Namine's abusive parents kidnap her back to their mansion, Angel goes into a catatonic state where the only thing he is capable of forming into a coherent thought is that he ''wants to die.'' The poor guy just [[The Woobie|seriously needs a hug.]]

* [[New Dawn (Darth Wiki)|New Dawn]]: Shuuji Muzoku / Kazeshima. Emotionally reclusive, a bully early on, and does not really say much when him saying something might help. {{spoiler|And he was abused to an utterly horrifying degree by his [[Complete Monster|father]], went through [[Cloning Blues]] due to that bastard The Seer, learned the sister he is trying to save might not even exist, [[Heroic BSOD|goes temporarily crazy and utterly shuts down, only concentrating on whatever is the biggest threat this week.]]}}

** Queen Anathema herself. The [[Big Bad]], yeah, but what she wants is {{spoiler|to just make a Utopia, and she has forgotten the costs of this due to grief at her lover's passing, she had to kill her own best friend when he turned against her and tried to shoot her numerous times, calling her a wretched villain for what she did. All she wants is love. Not to mention she is being manipulated by nearly everyone around her, even her most loyal man has betrayed her in the backstory, leading to a violent persona taking over and trying to rule through fear.}}

** [[Combat Sadomasochist|Shira]]. {{spoiler|Raised as a girl to demean him by his psychotically misogynistic father, his mother was always out drinking and when she was home, she and his father always fought and ripped and tore at one another with their bare hands, leading to Shira getting a [[Love Hurts|pretty nasty idea]] about what love really is. And when he came out as bisexual...it only got worse. Both his parents tried to drown him in a lake, while saying, "We love you too much to let you grow up a faggot." His discovery of his spell core in that very lake resulted in him accidentally killing both of them...and being psychotically devoted to killing, because otherwise he thinks they'd emerge from the lake as ghouls.}}

 

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