History ParentalAbandonment / FanWorks

* In [[Fanfic/TheDearSweetieBelleContinuity "Dear Scootaloo"]], it is mentioned that some pegasi (much like the Spartans) abandon their foals for appearing too weak or sickly. This seems to have happened to Fluttershy, [[AllThereInTheManual Derpy]], [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. Dash always preferred to think her parents had died and made sure she would be left in good hooves, making it very difficult at first to accept the evidence that Scootaloo is her sister]].

** In''Foundling'' (a branch-off), we have Reimu again and that is because she, for some reason, wasn't wanted, leaving her to be taken in youkai. Apparently, she wasn't the first human child to be abandoned in that particular forest, as the practice of doing so is age-old.

** In Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX, later in the series, we meet Maribel and Renko, two very small children, and the natural question is: ''What the hell happened to their parents?'' Well, we never find out and being that the story in which meet them in this particular series, Gensokyo 20XXIV, takes place in the aftermath of a nuclear war, it is a safe assumption that they died when the bomb was dropped or of radiation sickness, though, Yukari makes note that both of the two were fairly healthy and well-fed, suggesting that someone took care of them but died or the two were close to a food source.

* Popular in earlier ''WesternAnmiation/CodeLyoko'' works and EpilepticTrees in some form or another due to the sheer number of unseen or unmentioned parents. Now that all of the parents (that are [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter minor characters,]] [[MissingMom anyway]]) have been proven to be alive and well ([[spoiler:(except for Sissi's mother, who is never seen or mentioned]]) this has fallen into disuse.

* Popular in earlier ''CodeLyoko'' works and EpilepticTrees in some form or another due to the sheer number of unseen or unmentioned parents. Now that all of the parents (that are [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter minor characters,]] [[MissingMom anyway]]) have been proven to be alive and well ([[spoiler:(except for Sissi's mother, who is never seen or mentioned]]) this has fallen into disuse.

* [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/81159/1/racer-and-the-geek/predawn Hinted at]] in ''FanFic/RacerAndTheGeek'' for Sunny's backstory.

* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', Empath seems to think this about Papa Smurf when he reveals the true nature of their relationship in the novel. [[spoiler:Empath is Papa Smurf's only son, but was brought to Psychelia in order to be trained in the use of his abilities.]]

* In the AhMyGoddess fic ''Fanfic/AhArchfall'' Lind was abandoned by her mother for having a single wing. [[spoiler:It was actually because her mother was forced to abandon her, on pain of death after it was discovered that she was the Almighty's bastard daughter. The Almighty himself is forbidden from telling her due, on literal pain of death.]]

** [[spoiler:Jessika]] is buried together with her father, so she had also lose at least one of her parents.

* This happens to [[spoiler:Tenten]] in the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'', as her parents were killed in an attack by the Kyuushingai prior to the start of the story.

* In the FanFic/BattleFantasiaProject, Magical Girl Star Reverie/Akiko Yamaguchi has had a rough life, having her career being [[{{Deconstruction}} more like]] SailorNothing than, say, SailorMoon. After years of steadily escalating suspicious behavior, Mr. and Mrs. Yamaguchi kick her out, [[AscendedFridgeHorror as may very well happen to a Magical Girl whose parents have been out of the loop all this time]]. However, instead of putting her on the streets, they put her in a reform school... with kids who are ''genuine'' delinquents. For some time nothing was done to cover their reaction to [[DrivenToSuicide Akiko's jump]] that starts the whole story off. That is, [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=6296570&postcount=660 until recently]] with Akiko's mother. The shock of seeing her girl attempt suicide after outing herself as a MagicalGirl (which was indeed news to her) [[TearJerker is played for as much drama as possible]].

* Chico, a supporting character in ''[[Fanfic/YuGiOhTheThousandYearDoor Yu-Gi-Oh: The Thousand Year Door, Redux]]'' was a victim of this, and was old enough to remember his parents doing this; he nearly starved after being left by his parents in the New Mexico desert, but was rescued by a Native American man who later adopted him; the police were never able to find his parents, and he never even found out ''why''. This uncertainty about why he was abandoned makes him [[GrumpyBear bitter and anti-social.]]

* Since the focus of the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic MLP:FiM]] fan fiction ''Fanfic/OurTrueColors'' is on orphans this trope is quite prominent.

** Reimu, to some extent, is this being she is currently in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9354387/1/Gensokyo-20XX-Rise-Of-Earth-full-Version Yukari's]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9758731/1/Gensokyo-20XXI-The-Outside-World care]] and has no contact with her mother during the ending events of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9413185/1/The-Woman-Whose-Hair-Smelled-of-Violets The Woman Whose Hair Smelled of Violets]], now, Reimu can't even remember what she looks like.

*** Reimu, to some extent, is this being she is currently in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9354387/1/Gensokyo-20XX-Rise-Of-Earth-full-Version Yukari's]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9758731/1/Gensokyo-20XXI-The-Outside-World care]] and has no contact with her mother during the ending events of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9413185/1/The-Woman-Whose-Hair-Smelled-of-Violets The Woman Whose Hair Smelled of Violets]], now, Reimu can't even remember what she looks like.

*** Reimu, to some extent, is this being she is currently in Yukari's care [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9354387/1/Gensokyo-20XX-Rise-Of-Earth-full-Version]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9758731/1/Gensokyo-20XXI-The-Outside-World]].

* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', Empath seems to think this about Papa Smurf when he reveals the true nature of their relationship in the novel. [[spoiler:Empath is Papa Smurf's only son, but was brought to Psychelia in order to be trained in the use of his abilities.]]

* Used in the Pokemon fic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9525026/1/When-Ash-Was-a-Kid When Ash Was A Kid]], a prequel to one of the author's other stories. It depicts a young Ash's father being too busy to see his own child, and thus Ash acts out and grows alienated, soon even being [[spoiler:put on medication]] in an easy to miss paragraph.

* In the AhMyGoddess fic "AhArchfall!" Lind was abandoned by her mother for having a single wing. [[spoiler:It was actually because her mother was forced to abandon her, on pain of death after it was discovered that she was the Almighty's bastard daughter. The Almighty himself is forbidden from telling her due, on literal pain of death.]]

* Used in the Pokemon fic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9525026/1/When-Ash-Was-a-Kid When Ash Was A Kid]], a prequel to one of the author's other stories. It depicts a young Ash's father being too busy to see his own child, and thus Ash acts out and grows alienated, soon even being ([[spoiler:(put on medication]]) in an easy to miss paragraph.

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* ''FanFic/TheOdyssey Not outright, but Ulyssian has been noticeably ostracized by House Sesus due to his failure to Exalt.

* In the Ah! My Goddess fic "Ah! Archfall!" Lind was abandoned by her mother for having a single wing. [[spoiler:It was actually because her mother was forced to abandon her, on pain of death after it was discovered that she was the Almighty's bastard daughter.]]