History NightmareFuel / WithPearlAndRubyGlowing

* The [[Fanfic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing entire AU]] is built on characters meeting at a sexual assault survivor group. Naturally, this is ''everywhere''.

* Mr. Tweedy/The Bride was relentlessly bullied and attacked for being more feminine, lost loving parents, married what turned out to be a viscous abuser just to make the rumors about incest stop, lost an understanding older brother to war and ultimately fled when threatened with being sold as a SexSlave.

* Marian was sold into marriage by her Uncle John while Robin and Richard were both away and the trauma has affected her relationship with Little John due to [[NamesTheSame him sharing the name of her]] EvilUncle.

* The entire AU is built on characters meeting at a sexual assault survivor group. Naturally, this is ''everywhere''.

* The Owlegories are young children, and are already brainwashed by the church in believing that GWF's in the right. The latter part of their chapter reveals Nuka died, among the other attacks on Palace Members that happened during the chapter before the final remains of the GWF were captured.

* The Owlegories are young children, and already brainwashed by the church in believing that GWF's in the right. The latter part of their chapter reveals [[spoiler: Nuka died]].

** While we already knew the fates of Hector and Cornelius' biological mother, it's still chilling to see what actually happened, especially since the cultists are furious that Hector prays in Spanish and insist that Cornelius' mother is no better than a whore simply for being an unwed mother (never mind that [[ChildByRape there could]] [[IHaveNoSon been several]] [[BastardBoyfriend reasons why]]).

* Della's plane crashed in what was believed to be a fatal accident. Her [[BadSamaritan "rescuers"]] badly break her leg and end up selling her as a [[SexSlave "wife"]] to a rich man who wants to use her as a BabyFactory to produce [[HeirClubForMen strong sons]], with all her daughters and one sickly son being sold off. When Della tried to escape, he sawed off her leg and then "gifted" her with a prosthetic that had a tracking device welded onto it. She has a miscarriage from the stress of bearing so many children, and if Della hadn't conceived the baby she's currently pregnant with, her "husband" [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness would have killed her]], though he does use her as a cleaning lady while in America. Then the Weasels break into her home where she's alone with her young sons; [[EvenEvilHasStandards though they end up helping her]], that scenario is [[AdultFear pure terror for any parent]]. And even though Della is reunited with her family, it's a bad case of DysfunctionJunction and Donald and Scrooge clearly aren't over having given Della up for lost.

* Megan has killed several kids, including Tilly Green, and Drake and Josh can't even tell anyone besides those at the Palace because she'll frame ''them'' for the crime if they try to.

* The entire AU is built on characters meeting at a sexual assault survivor group.

* The entire AU is built on AdultFear.

* The fact that there's now a spy for the Ark in the group, in the form of [[WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain Amelia Hughes]]. How likely is that the Ark wants not only their "merchandise" back, but new victims among an already traumatized group?

*** The worst part? There still isn’t enough evidence to convict the remaining cult members. They’re still out there.
** Manelo spent his entire childhood losing family to the military and is disowned when he refuses to join up. Then when he's walking Maria home, they're mugged and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Manelo's telling Maria to get help gets her fatally shot]]; everyone blames him and he starts to spiral badly despite his band being successful. Then Ratigan starts chatting with him and coaxes him into a suicide pact. Manelo survives but his life is in shambles and his father is dealing with the horror of pushing his son away and into the arms of a SerialRapist.
** Della's plane crashed in what was believed to be a fatal accident. Her [[BadSamaritan "rescuers"]] badly break her leg and end up selling her as a [[SexSlave "wife"]] to a rich man who wants to use her as a BabyFactory to produce [[HeirClubForMen strong sons]], with all her daughters and one sickly son being sold off. When Della tried to escape, he sawed off her leg and then "gifted" her with a prosthetic that had a tracking device welded onto it. She has a miscarriage from the stress of bearing so many children, and if Della hadn't conceived the baby she's currently pregnant with, her "husband" [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness would have killed her]], though he does use her as a cleaning lady while in America. Then the Weasels break into her home where she's alone with her young sons; [[EvenEvilHasStandards though they end up helping her]], that scenario is [[AdultFear pure terror for any parent]]. And even though Della is reunited with her family, it's a bad case of DysfunctionJunction and Donald and Scrooge clearly aren't over having given Della up for lost.

** Skipper has been caring for Private, [[RelatedInTheAdaptation here his little brother]], since childhood and the duo end up on a FBI team with Kowalski and Rico, one that specializes in creating [[SuccessionCrisis inheritance crises]] for the criminal underworld and had a stellar track record. Then a routine undercover mission went south and Skipper winds up merchandise at the nonexistent mercy of the criminals he's been targeting. He got rescued and managed to keep his suffering a secret from Private for a while but a tape sent out of spite reveals the sordid tale, to Private's horror and Skipper's shame.
** The Dillamond twins call August a liar when he tells them what happened to Agatha and ultimately are tortured by the cult for being Jewish, with Abraham dying and Isaac having to deal with both that and the permanent breaking of his friendship with August on top of being crippled, mute and scarred.
** Peter B. caught Kingpin in a drug deal, resulting in the criminal's wife and son fleeing and dying in a car crash. Then, several days later, Peter meets Miles and has to hide the kid when Kingpin shows up for revenge, which involves a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and rape. Miles steels himself enough to film the assault and contact his dad but is still traumatized by what he witnessed and his father is horrified by how close to danger Miles was.
** Jack's mother was a [[TheOldestProfession prostitute]] who wound up murdered and when her husband avenged her, he went to jail and Jack end up in foster care; he runs away repeatedly and wound up at a "school" run by a rapist. He escapes and puts together a group of child thieves that operate as something of a family but loses a close friend to the "school" and ultimately abandons the kids when the rapist implies ShameIfSomethingHappened to them.
** Korra is set up by Asami's father to be tortured by the cult, with her kidnapper tricking her into thinking she's headed for a surprise date, and winds up being trapped in a cabin that causes a MindRape from the trauma. Then her parents take her away from Asami, Mako and Bolin and lock her away in the family home. She's forced to run away so she won't go insane.
** Mercury and Emerald not only suffered through massive amounts of abuse but Emerald is suffering from StockholmSyndrome and misses Cinder horribly despite the way she treated her.
*** Mercury's abuse, to be specific, peaked when his father [[BodyHorror shattered both his shins and spent months treating his gangrenous wounds just enough to make sure he didn't die]], [[AnArmAndALeg eventually necessitating amputation]].
** Bagheera was fingered for Weiss' rape because she mistook him for her actual rapist due to them being the same ethnicity. Then because said ethnicity isn't white (specifically Asian), he was sentenced to ten years for a crime he didn't commit before someone thought to do a rape kit and that was only because Weiss' real rapist was found.
** Zim's parents died and left him in the custody of [[IllegalGuardian Red and Purple]] who enjoyed the use of their nephew's estate but resented having to take care of a child and so started physically and sexually abusing Zim. This naturally took massive toll on his mental state and it took Dib following him home and witnessing the abuse first hand before anyone care about why Zim acted the way he did, with Zim himself hampering progress by claiming there wasn't abuse going on. Then once the story breaks, HeteronormativeCrusaders use it to demonize the ''entire'' queer community including beloved and protective relatives like Riley's aunts. As Dib puts it, "I'm lost and he's angry."
** Gromit is being stalked by Ratigan and his attempts to deal with the problem himself fail miserably. And since they only have the barest circumstantial evidence, the police can't do anything.
** Not only was Elsa LuredIntoATrap by the cult and gang raped, beaten, and left for dead naked in the mountains, but a drunken car crash leads to her suffering the same fate at the hands of Hans (though a group of people who were also in jail ended up helping her). The latter ends up ''finally'' being the thing that leads to Elsa and Anna sharing their suffering but Elsa still has the worry that both she and Anna are on the cult's hit list.
** Mermando ended up at Pleasure Island after an undertow separated him from his parents. He never "got used to" what was happening and the abuse caused him to hit puberty early. The police came before he [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness could be disposed of]] and he was reunited with his parents but when he meets Mabel at the pool, Grunkle Stan doesn't take her talking with an "older boy" well and drives Mermando to tears when he demands to know the boy's "real" age.
** Daffy was viciously verbally and emotionally abused by his mother and sexually abused by his father. On top of that, he tends to repress the memories of any abuse he suffers so he doesn't realize there's anything to prove in the first place. And his fears are ruining all his relationships because he can't trust anyone to stay nice.
** Tulio's mother suffered DeathByChildbirth and his father [[MaternalDeathBlameTheChild blamed him]], saying that since Tulio killed her, he needed to fill her shoes...[[ParentalIncest up to]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil and including sex.]] He ran away and ended up on the streets, where he met Miguel. Tulio skips most of the middle part of his story because Miguel already shared the details but he does come back for the end. Said end starts after an escape attempt gone wrong leads to Tulio being forced to abandon Ginger and deal with Rocky, who keeps trying to offer himself up sexually, to Tulio's disgust given the massive age difference.
** Ginger was given up for adoption as a baby and never adopted. She was close friends with Gormit and later Shaun but the latter friendship winds up getting Ginger kidnapped and sold into slavery because she and Shaun defaced Mrs. Tweedy's house. While in captivity, she and Tulio are forced to have sex on film and when their escape goes wrong, she stays behind so Tulio and Rocky would be able to escape. She ends up pregnant by a client with a baby she's too far along to abort safely.
** Margo, Edith and Agnes were [[SexSlave child prostitutes]] and while being adopted by Gru brought temporary safety, Margo propositions Gru to [[BigBrotherInstinct to protect Edith and Agnes]]. [[EveryoneHasStandards Gru was horrified]] and tried to help the girls start over but Nefario ends up sending the girls back, leading to Vector bringing the girls home to keep their "services" to himself. Margo told Edith to take Agnes and run; they're found by Stan, who takes them to Gru but Margo is still missing and Gru can't go to the police without losing the girls.
** Courtney was gang-raped for being a higher achiever than some white male classmates and when Duncan beat up the boys who did it, a cop forced him into sex in exchange for keeping quiet. They can't report the guy without Duncan going to jail and they're both pretty sure no one is going to care either way.
** Peter relates the sexual abuse that he suffered and how Smee [[BystanderSyndrome knew but never did anything]], leading to him having no trust for adults at all.
** Elphaba was a ChocolateBaby, leading to her going to live with the Wizard and Nessa's mother was a racist bitch. Then during her work as a CNA, the Ice King/Simon, deep in Alzheimer's, mistakes her for his wife Betty and tries to initiate sex; she tells only the other nurses and leaves the facility.
** Sabrina was ditched by Gem (and technically Harvey) at a party they were too young for and ends up drugged. She calls Salem so he can get Quigley to pick her up but since Quigley and her aunts were at the movies and had their phones off, Salem came himself. Then once Salem gets Sabrina to the hospital, he's rearrested for breaking his house arrest protocols. Then Sabrina's temper starts to ''really'' get the better of her and when Gem mocks Salem for being sent back to prison and insinuates Sabrina is too ugly for PrisonRape, Sabrina unleashes a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that she doesn't regret in the slightest.
** Cornelius was groomed so subtly by Ratigan that he didn't realize how the professor viewed him until the assault Wilbur witnessed prior to his own trauma. And to make matters worse for Cornelius, Wilbur enters just as Cornelius reaches the boy's unintentional intervention...and Cornelius knows ''exactly'' why people come to the Palace.
** Ford was gaslit by Bill (not to mention Ford's pretty sure he drugged him too) and repeatedly forced into sex, with Bill shredding his self-esteem the entire time. Bill also encouraged Ford to favor Dipper while subtly degrading Mabel and it took Mabel's rape for anything to change and it only did because [[INeverSaidItWasPoison Bill knew Mabel had been taken away before Ford said anything more than "she got assaulted"]], which turns out to be on purpose because Bill wanted Ford to find out he was "Norman"; then he erased all the evidence.
** The Honey Bees got lost on a simple camping trip and then got kidnapped by a pedophile who held them for 4 months before dumping them in Calisota...and he still hasn't been caught.
*** If you recognise the character who took them, you'll realise he's not been caught because he's currently out in the desert, [[WardensAreEvil in a position of power over many vulnerable teenagers]]. Admittedly those include [[AssholeVictim the tutor who raped Buster]], but that doesn't really help.
** Darla Dimple not only murdered her parents but set Danny up [[PaedoHunt as a pedophile]], ruining not just his career but probably ''his entire life''. [[DisproportionateRetribution And all because he stole a little bit of spotlight]].
** Not only did all of Blake and Weiss's trauma deeply scar Yang but she got roofied by a bartender and ended up committing arson and murder, neither of which she regrets.
** Not only is Kovu confirmed to be a ChildByRape but Zira nearly beat Nuka to death when he tried to take his siblings and run.
** Fiddleford not only had his friendship with Stanford ruined by Bill and the drug-dealer he was set up to tutor but gained the attention of Ratigan and ultimately got raped by both Ratigan and Bill.
** DW got kidnapped by a pedophile despite doing exactly what she was supposed to in that situation and her kidnapper convinced all the bystanders he was her stepfather and she was being a brat because she was cranky. Nadine is implied to be another one of the kidnapper's victims, ultimately murdered and only remaining as a figment of DW's imagination. Muffy and her father eventually come over, with DW getting Muffy to go for help but both girls are traumatized and Arthur isn't being told what happened to his little sister so he won't be frightened despite this making DW resentful and that, because of what happened to Buster AKA Arthur's best friend, he already has at least some idea of what happened.
** Lightning's parents raised him without consequences for his drinking and while ending up in Radiator Springs helped him turn himself around, he still had a drinking problem that lead to him being raped with no memory of the attack. He doesn't say anything to anyone except an online friend...who turns out to be Ratigan and when Lightning meets up with him for a "therapy session", a single unwanted kiss brings everything back. Lightning gives up and lets Ratigan have his way and runs to Mater after the attack's over. Despite Lightning's protests, Mater rushes him to Doc and the truth comes out. Now Lightning isn't sure what he deserves but he's pretty sure his friends and Sally are better than whatever it is.
** Misty's mother was obsessed with making Misty "pretty", disregarding her wants, choices and privacy in the process, and no one, not even Ash, understood why Misty was so upset. She turned to violence and SelfHarm to try to cope but it didn't work and when her mother died, Misty couldn't and still can't feel anything at all, positive or negative. On top of all of it, she's not completely sure she should even be at the Palace since no actual assault happened at any point.
*** And her sisters are still doing some of what their mother did, namely stealing Misty's clothing if they don't think it's "pretty", because they [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror think it's not only normal but appropriate]] though thankfully they don't do things like inappropriate touching or sleeping with her to "keep her safe".
** Vixy was Hans' first victim, back when they were both only children and she serves as an example of how telling your daughter [[ExactWords not to let a man touch you inappropriately may not protect her since as Vixy states, a boy isn't a man]].
** Not only was Hiccup [[ParentalNeglect neglected by his father]] and bullied incessantly by his peers but his torture at the hands of the cult ''was a case of MistakenForGay'' (admittedly Hiccup isn't quite sure what his orientation is but he's never shown interest in men) brought on by his personality.
** [[CassandraTruth No one believes Chicken Little's story about King Candy raping him]] and he spends two years being bullied while [[AdultsAreUseless the teachers do nothing]]. Even the truth about King Candy coming out doesn't fix things since no one who knows the story can do anything about it and Candy will never be punished for what he did to Chicken Little.
** Fenton gets hired by Waddle Tech and Mark Beaks not only treats him in a racist manner but also started gaslighting him after Fenton rightly calls him out.
** Noah is a ChildProdigy now in his teens who contracted alpha-gal syndrome from a lone star tick bite, freaking the hell out of his parents when he had his first allergic reaction, and went on Total Drama to try to improve his family's life. Then, after he got voted off and thought his future was dead, Ratigan found him and offered him a scholarship; this was followed by subtle grooming and the expected rape but this story also includes Ratigan [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink deliberately slipping Noah red meat so he wouldn't be able to tell anyone about it]]. This murder attempt made the process of seeing a doctor and getting to the police station go faster but as soon as Noah named his rapist as Ratigan, [[DramaticIrony here a well-known criminologist]], the police, who were already condescending and skeptical, dropped the case immediately.
** Rocky got kidnapped when he was 3 and spent the intervening years as a SexSlave...and even after everything, he still doesn't realize exactly what happened, to the point that Ginger had to explain what rape was to him and even then he's still confused. Meanwhile, Foghorn Leghorn, [[RelatedInTheAdaptation here his father]], knows exactly what the boy went through and how he's taking a long time to give up the lifestyle; on top of that, he very nearly sends Rocky to a therapist who knows that Rocky is the name the boy is using despite Foghorn having called him "Junior", meaning he made use of the kid's "services".
*** Said therapist was also re-victimising Daffy by putting him in trance so he didn't notice anything was wrong, demanding he describe his trauma in unnecessary detail, and masturbating to it.
** Not only did Vicky physically and sexually abuse Timmy and every other kid she babysits for but she does the same thing to her family, including her parents and ''murdered'' her younger brother...and she's gotten away with all of it.
*** Tootie is so messed up by Vicky's abuse she tried to force herself on Timmy, [[WouldntHitAGirl who couldn't bring himself to strike her]], and Timmy himself turned into a stalker for Trixie because she unintentionally intervened on Tootie's attempt, with Veronica stalking him in turn.
** Lenny's attempt at initiation into his father's gang ended with his brother getting shot during a scuffle over the gun. Then when he fled the scene, he wound up gang-raped by underlings of one of his father's rivals. He can't go home because even if his father forgives him for accidentally killing his brother, which he's almost certain wouldn't happen, he'd start a gang war over the gang-rape and Lenny doesn't have anything in him that could stomach that.
** Gary and Daisy were [[ParentalIncest sexually abused by their parents]] and Gary's method of handling it, interpreting their nightly visits as monster attacks, has severely and possibly permanently damaged his mental facilities.
** Not only did God's Will First torture Hector to death after Ernesto convinced them he liked men but ''they kept the corpse on display until the police figured it out''.
** Mew and Mewtwo were abused by their parents who expected perfection, leading to Mew developing an eating disorder and Mewtwo anger issues. Then when Mewtwo snapped and killed their mother while [[FrameUp framing their father]], the trauma left Mew so messed up that all she can say is "Mew".
** Roddy was kidnapped from his bedroom by hired thugs and kept as a SexSlave by Toad, who proved subtly how easily [[IHaveYourWife he could hurt Roddy's family]]. And his escape was pure luck.
** Penny was a sickly baby and though she recovered, her father got overprotective. But none of his efforts saved her from getting caught in the White Fang bombing or the rape she suffered in the aftermath.
** Wendy spent her childhood with racist and sexist babysitters and got gang-raped due to being mistaken for Merida.
** Hans used "I'm a homeless person in need of a place to stay" to get into Foster's and rape Frankie, and the assault has completely wrecked her ability to do her job so now she's at risk for becoming homeless herself.
** Not only was Lionel gang-raped but he was also [[GroinAttack emasculated]]. And it was out of petty pride on the part of Stenk.
** Milo was another of Ratigan's victims, lured into an "expedition" that landed him alone in a boat with Ratigan and given [[MortonsFork the "choice" between being raped or jumping out of the boat in the middle of the ocean in the dead of night]]. Milo submitted but Ratigan threw him out of the boat anyway, wanting him to drown; obviously he didn't but the time he spent in the water washed away any evidence of the assault and Milo refused to press charges because he didn't want to anger Ratigan.
** Chel spent her childhood in a dangerous neighborhood with a mother who didn't want her and ultimately threw her out when the drug-dealer the mother hooked up with turned out to be more interested in Chel. Meeting Tulio and Miguel spent her life in a better direction but a single distracted night wound up landing all 3 of them in the Ark's clutches. And even after she escapes and is reunited with her boyfriends, she's plagued with nightmares and self-blame.
** Not only were Kenai and Koda used for race fetishes but Kenai was forced to molest Koda and later severely punished for letting Koda and Chel escape, to the point of temporarily going mute. Koda is touch-shy, flinching to something as simple as an AffectionateGestureToTheHead if he can't see it coming; Kenai has responded to this by seeing himself as a monster.
** Huan wound up the victim of gang rape at the hands of police officers due to the actions of Bataar Jr. and Kuvira and literally the only reason any of them saw justice was because Toph and Lin were both powerful and well-connected and neither were remotely happy about what happened. Huan also notes that the story of Medusa is ''nightmarishly'' unfair and if Medusa were real, she'd be at the Palace.