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== ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' ==
* Both of the Stark daughters, [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|Arya and Sansa]]
== Other Examples ==
* David Wingrove's ''[[Chung Kuo]]'' has Sweet Flute, a young and innocent prostitute at a high-end brothel, who is sold as a concubine before she has time to toughen up. It does not go well for her, especially not after she has a child.
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* In ''[[War and Peace]]'', [[Casanova|Anatole Kuragin]] does this to Natasha Rostov by seducing her into abandoning her marriage with Prince Andrei and running away with him. People manage to foil Anatole's plan, but she's never the same afterwards.
* ''[[Kingdom Rattus]]''' Tranah. Joins her brother's quest on a lark, {{spoiler|and sees everyone she knows and loves either die or turn out to have been lying to her her whole life}}. It gets so bad for her that at the end, {{spoiler|she swears that, given the opportunity, she would betray her own family.}}
▲* Both of the Stark daughters, [[Tomboy and Girly Girl|Arya and Sansa]], from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. Arya lives on the run as a [[Street Urchin]], sees her father, mother and older brother die without being able to do anything to stop such deaths, progressively falls into insanity and is taken in by a murderous cult; Sansa is abused by almost every person she trusts, witnesses several horrific machinations and has to put on a [[Jerkass Facade|bitch facade]] to survive.
▲** Sansa much more so than Arya, since Arya was always rather more sensible and fiery. Sansa starts out sweet, frivolous, and naive, convinced that life is like a song: true knights, elegant princesses, chivalrous princes, all the fairytale rot. Then the breaking begins, kicked off by {{spoiler|watching the guy she was all starry-eyed over murder her father right in front of her}}, and by the end of the second book, all such illusions have been crushed. By book four, she's almost as cynical as the [[Manipulative Bastard]] that's training her.
▲** The aforementioned [[Manipulative Bastard]], Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish, mentioned as having been [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid|adorably mischievous as a child]], went through a similar process to Sansa, leading to his [[Start of Darkness]].
▲** What, no mention of their brother [[Genius Cripple|Bran]]? He got tossed out a window and broke his spine! [[It Got Worse|And that was just the first book...]]
▲** Also present with Daenerys's storyline. To start off, her brother Viserys is the only close surviving relative, and they were both kicked out of the only home she ever truly knew about. Her brother is horribly abusive, both mentally and physically, seeing her only as a pawn for power and marries her off to a scary barbarian warlord at the age of 13. Although they do both eventually fall in love, {{spoiler|nearly everything goes horribly wrong. Her brother is eventually killed, her husband nearly dies of an infected wound and becomes comatose after using blood magic to heal him, and she smothers him out of mercy. Her unborn son Rhaego dies as a result of said blood magic and she is betrayed by nearly everyone she comes across. The end of the first book shows that she's clearly not someone to fuck with anymore as she burns alive the witch that killed her son and made her husband a [[Soulless Shell]] and she hatches the only three dragons in the world.}}
▲** These books are pretty much 'break everyone', Arya and Sansa just happen to be the only available cuties.
▲** In the fifth book, {{spoiler|Sansa's friend Jeyne Poole, who is perhaps even more idealistic than Sansa,}} is married off to the [[Bastard Bastard|Bastard of Bolton]]. Rape only begins to describe what follows.
* [[Mercy Thompson]] of the eponymous series. She's cheerful and helpful, but in ''Iron Kissed'' she got {{spoiler|[[Rape as Drama|physically]] and [[Mind Rape|mentally raped]]. She breaks, and while beating her rapist's head in with a blunt object helped, her slow recovery is the plot of the fourth book and she's still not one hundred percent by the end.}}
* Frodo in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. [[Word of God|Tolkien]] even wrote a letter explaining that Frodo failed and can't be called a hero, that he was doomed to fail from the start ("he could not even throw the ring into his own fireplace!") and that his failure was in ''wanting'' to be called a hero, since nobody could have willingly destroyed the ring without divine intervention, and that the only thing that saved Frodo from [[A Fate Worse Than Death]] was his kindness to Gollum. The film version takes pains to emphasize Frodo's cuteness and [[Woobie]]-ness, but eventually turns Gollum into a pantomime villain in the third act, which sort of undermines the [[Anvilicious|original point]]... but Frodo ends up a broken shell of himself anyhow.
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