History Main / HatesBeingAlone

* [[TheDividual Kindred]] from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has a piece of dialogue where Lamb tells Wolf about a man who was very lonely, because [[TheGrimReaper all things must meet him yet all things shun him]]. Because he could not bear to be alone, he took an axe to himself and split himself in to.
-->'''Wolf:''' So that he would always have a friend?\\
'''Lamb:''' So that he would always have a friend.

* [[LoveableSexManiac Miu Iruma]] from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' may be a crazy and perverted inventor, but she is also a desperately lonely girl at heart, and evidently her loneliness is a sore spot for her. In Ultimate Talent Development Plan, she quickly gets dispirited when Toko points out that people cannot put up with her vulgarities, perpetuating her lack of friends. Ultimate Summer Camp shows that Miu is at least aware of this, and she tells Kaede that she is bewildered that Toko, whom she claims is an even bigger pervert than she, has a friend in Komaru (to which Kaede replies that Toko is much less abrasive). Her Love Suite Event also suggests that Miu has severe abandonment issues, making her loneliness worse; in the middle of an otherwise pleasant ChildhoodFriendRomance fantasy, Miu tries to invoke a BabyTrap plan, believing that it is the only sure way to keep her beloved by her side and prevent him from abandoning her.

* Delia has abandonment issues in ''LightNovel/PocketMonstersTheAnimation'' because her father [[DisappearedDad abandoned her]] and later her husband did as well. Delia, however, [[StepfordSmiler refuses to show]] her pain.

%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* The anime adaptation of [[Anime/Persona4TheAnimation Persona 4]] does this with [[spoiler: the protagonist, of all people. It's ''heavily'' implied in Episode 12, and pretty much confirmed in the True Ending episode.]]

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', it is the grander issue in what initially appears to be just Zenitsu wanting flirt with girls, he really has developed a fear of living his life alone and unloved as an orphan; at first when he was a kid Zenitsu just wanted to be friends with wandering orphans like him, but his moods pushed them away, then when he grew up to be a teenager Zenitsu desperately wanted to become a family with a bride as soon as possible, opening the path for him to get scammed by several shady girls who took advantage of that. After all the bad past experiences Zenitsu is then found by the old man Jigoro, who would go on to become his beloved master, someone Zenitsu considers to get his own grandpa, then his demon slaying colleagues Tanjiro and Inosuke, eventual close brother-in-arms, and finally his demon girl crush, Nezuko; by then Zenitsu's fear of being alone is en route to disappear, as he finally found people who made him feel like has a family to belong.

** In the second episode, Lestat opens up to Louis about how terrified he is of being alone over long stretches of time.

* One of ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'''s defining traits, to the point that the first season had him [[spoiler: sabotaging Todd's rock opera]] in order to keep him as [[TheThingThatWouldNotLeave an unwanted houseguest]].

** In the pilot, Lestat de Lioncourt reacts very poorly when Louis de Pointe du Lac ignores him after the first time they make love.
--->'''Lestat''': I wait on my balcony every night. You've been avoiding me. [...] Miss Lily proved herself a poor substitute. [[{{Understatement}} And I don't take kindly to being avoided.]]

** It's taken to a violent extreme in the fifth episode when Lestat's volatile mind ''snaps'' after Claudia declares that she only came back home to bring Louis on her trip to Europe. [[DomesticAbuse Lestat then brutalizes Louis]] and drains part of his blood to weaken his lover even further so that Louis can't physically go anywhere.

** In the pilot, Lestat de Lioncourt reacts very poorly when Louis de Pointe du Lac ignores him after the first time they make love. He inappropriately brings up a lover's spat during a funeral procession for ''Louis' brother'' of all people, being totally inconsiderate of the fact that Louis is in mourning, so the last thing the latter wants is to deal with Lestat complaining about feeling neglected.

** In the pilot, Lestat de Lioncourt reacts very poorly when Louis de Pointe du Lac ignores him after the first time they make love. Lestat initially hopes that Lily can be a ReplacementGoldfish for Louis, [[SubvertedTrope but she is unable to fill in the void Louis left behind to Lestat's satisfaction]], so Lestat seeks out Louis directly. He inappropriately brings up a lover's spat during a funeral procession for ''Louis' brother'' of all people, being totally inconsiderate of the fact that Louis is in mourning, so the last thing the latter wants is to deal with Lestat complaining about feeling neglected. Lestat then psychically bombards Louis with the summon "Come to me/''Viens à moi''" over and over again, and when that doesn't work, he stalks Louis to a church, determined to turn him into a vampire so that Lestat has an eternal companion. It's obvious from Lestat's obsessive conduct that he's desperately lonely without Louis.

* Masumi from ''VisualNovel/FamilyProject'', up to the point of genuine codependency. This is one of the primary reasons she stayed with [[spoiler:and briefly returns to]] her controlling and emotionally abusive ex-husband prior to the main story, and the self-stated reason she participates in the titular Family Project.

time with girls who only bully and take advantage of her due to her shy, non-confrontational nature.

* This is pretty much the PrimalFear of most protagonists in ''Franchise/SilentHill'' games. Which doesn't help since they're always exploring a desolate ghost town that has non-sentient creatures hiding around every corner with the urge to kill.

* D's friend Frannie from ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'' is described as being like this. He comments that Ashley is like this as well. She denies it, but some of her behavior in the games suggests this is true.

* Perhaps Dean Winchester from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. His main fear is that everyone will eventually leave him, likely stemming from seeing his mother killed by a demon when Dean was a young child.

** Something similar happens to Doctor Phlox on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise ''. His people, the Denobulans, are even more social than humans.

** In the pilot, Lestat de Lioncourt reacts very poorly when Louis de Pointe du Lac ignores him after the first time they make love. Lestat inappropriately brings up a lover's spat during a funeral procession for ''Louis' brother'' of all people, being totally inconsiderate of the fact that Louis is in mourning, so the last thing the latter wants is to deal with Lestat complaining about feeling neglected.
--->'''Lestat''': I wait on my balcony every night. You've been avoiding me. [...] [[{{Understatement}} And I don't take kindly to being avoided.]]

* Spinel in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'', due to deep-seated trauma. Not even amnesia can get rid of that BerserkButton.

* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': Asuka, [[BrokenBird obviously]]. The difference here is that she's actually explicit about showing it to Shinji (and, eventually, Rei) after they become a couple. Unlike in canon, she isn't alone anymore thanks to having Shinji, and she is extremely protective of that as a result.
** When Gendo [[spoiler:has Shinji and Asuka detained for insubordination]] after the fight with Bardiel, Asuka is starting to panic as the forced isolation sets in...until she hears Shinji knocking a familiar beat against the wall [[spoiler:in the cell next to hers]]. It immediately pulls her out of the spiral and helps her get through the whole thing.

* AxCrazy PyroManiac PsychoForHire Dilandau Albatou from ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' suffers from an extreme pathological case of this, considering all the trauma he went through via the Sorcerers [[spoiler: and the fact that he was originally Allen's younger sister Selena who got kidnapped and mutilated by said Sorcerers through experiments, had her ParentalSubstitute Jajuka forcibly taken away right before said experiments, and nobody came to save her.]]

* The anime adaptation of [[Anime/Persona4TheAnimation Persona 4]] does this with [[spoiler: the protagonist, of all people. It's ''heavily'' implied in Episode 12, and pretty much confirmed in the True Ending episode.]]
** The adaptation of [[Anime/Persona3TheMovie Persona 3]] follows suit with [[spoiler:the protagonist as well]], although it doesn't become obvious until the second movie.

* This is the main reason Kanna from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' used to pull pranks on her parents, as they purportedly have a hands-off approach to parenting and believed in leaving Kanna to her own devices. Thing is, she went too far and they banished her from their presence. When her only means of companionship in their world, Tohru, supposedly died, she was elated when she found out that she had indeed survived and followed her to the human world to try to bring her back. Unsuccessful in this endeavor, powerless and effectively homeless, Kobayashi invites her into her home to live together. This earns Kobayashi a place in her heart.
** One chapter in ''Kanna's Daily Life'' focuses on her fears of being home alone when she wakes up from a nap to discover that Kobayashi and Tohru have not yet returned home.

** For those who need to know a bit of her DarkAndTroubledPast, she became an [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer outcast of society]] because it is [[MindOverManners afraid and offended]] by her [[PowerIncontinence uncontrollable]] {{Telepathy}} [[LivingLieDetector which allowed her to expose everybody's lies]] even though [[InnocentlyInsensitive she wasn't aware of her power before the backlash]].