History StepfordSmiler / FanFic

* Delaney Pollack of ''Fanfic/Fargo'' acts like a cheerful ProperLady when the cameras are on, but beneath that persona she's a cruel, stab-happy sociopath. Later chapters imply ''that's'' an act too, and that the real Delaney is actually a contemplative, distant EmotionlessGirl. [[spoiler: Her persona in the afterlife suggests that the latter interpretation is the most accurate of the three.]]

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*** [[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/10617970/4/I-didn-t-sign-up-for-this I didn't sign up for this]] has an explanation of something like this from Hiashi about 'Asura'.

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* Nui Harime in this aptly titled fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10915210/1/Dollhouse Dollhouse]]. Somewhat justified, as she doesn't want to worry anyone in about [[AbusiveParents her]] [[AlcoholicParent con]][[YourCheatingHeart ditions]] [[DomesticAbuse at home]].
* Implied to be the case with Reimu in ''Gensokyo 20XXV'', as it is found out that not all her smiles are genuine, actually, she smiles out of acceptance towards her situation and to comfort everyone else.
-->'''Ren''': [...]If anything her smile is her way of comforting others and herself mostly, diverting attention away from her sorrow and pain, much like how Chen purred to herself.

* Nui Harime in this aptly titled fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10915210/1/Dollhouse Dollhouse]]. Somewhat justified, as she doesn't want to worry anyone in about [[AbusiveParents her]] [[AlcoholicParent con]][[YourCheatingHear ditions]] [[DomesticAbuse at home]].
* Implied to be the case with Reimu in ''Gensokyo 20XXV'', as it is found out that not all her smiles are genuine, actually, she smiles out of acceptance towards her situation and to comfort everyone else.

* Nui Harime in this aptly titled fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10915210/1/Dollhouse Dollhouse]]. Somewhat justified, as she doesn't want to worry anyone in about [[AbusiveParents her]] [[AlcoholicParent con]] [[DomesticAbuse ditions]] [[YourCheatingHeart at]] home.
* Implied to be the case with Reimu in ''Gensokyo 20XXV'', as it is found out that not all her smiles are genuine, actually, she smiles out of acceptance towards her situation and to comfort everyone else.

* It can be surmised that [[spoiler:Tsuruya]] has been raised to be a Type A from the first chapter of the Initial Conflict arc of ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero''.

* ''FanFic/DespairsLastResort'' has [[spoiler: Shizuka Matsuki]] as a Type A, and reveals that she started acting this way to give herself a new image upon starting at Hope's Peak Academy.

* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]] can appear anywhere on the spectrum in fanfics. In ''Fanfic/ThePartyNeverEnded'', Pinkie Pie is a Type A, as she breaks under her GenkiGirl cover as she dreads over [[HoYay her love for Rainbow Dash]]. As for ''Fanfic/{{Cupcakes}}'', well, let's say she's a Type C and leave it at that.
* [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rarity]] is a type C in ''Fanfic/TheKillerRarityverse'' fic ''The Secret life of Rarity'', in which she maintains her social life over a period of 16 years in which she murders over 100 ponies/other races. She starts to slip towards the end, leading to her confrontation by Applejack

* Ruth in ''FanFic/CIAAgents'' is clearly a Type A, she is so affected by her parents' divorce that ends being obsessed with the photography rather than just taking it as a hobby.

* In ''Fanfic/CodeGeassMaoOfTheDeliverance'', the titular character not only displays a blend of Type A and Type C--exuding cheerfulness and cool self-satisfaction while really [[UnhappyMedium suffering from insanity]] and desperately [[LoveMakesYouCrazy pining after C.C.]]--but deliberately affects an image of wealth and taste so people won't treat him with suspicion.

* Robin, in ''FanFic/{{Pretender}}'' is type one, who can raise the spirits of the demoralized Shepherds with a smile even after attempting [[DrivenToSuicide to take his own life.]]

* Harry Potter in the DarkFic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8488388/1/Void-of-Emotion Void of Emotion]]'' is a Type C--he's a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] that hides behind an [[CuteAndPsycho adorably cheerful persona.]]
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10048990/1/Laughing Laughing]]'' not only is Harry a Type A but Ron and Hermione are helping him keep up the pretense.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10536445/1/The-Lily-Potter-Foundation The Lily Potter Foundation]]'' Harry's been a Type A for much of his life, thanks to his abusive relatives and the indifference of the wizarding world.

* In fanfic ''Fanfic/SomeSemblanceOfMeaning'', Obsidian is the first type, in that he sometimes uses lighthearted jokes and smiles to mask his more [[BrokenAce troubled and unhappy side]].

* In the few fics that actually center around and/or care to develop Big Macintosh he's generally portrayed as being a Type A or B for one reason or another. Hinted at in the example below, from the heretofore-unfinished shipfic "Like I Imagined":

* From ''Fanfic/OnePieceParallelWorks'', we have Daisuke Saburo, a Type A. He's an IdiotHero / FunPersonified teenager who seems to be always smiling and having fun. Then came the [[WhamEpisode Project Mei Arc]] and the revelation of his {{Backstory}} and how he met [[spoiler: Yulia]] when she [[spoiler: killed his grandmother and was involved in a huge ransacking of his home island]].

* ''Fanfic/ThoseWhoStandForNothingFallForAnything'' has Light putting so much energy into being what he believes he ''should'' be that he doesn't even really know what he wants. He comes off as a Type A that's turning into a Type C and his wife, Takada, [[BirdsOfAFeather is much the same.]] There's also Naomi who's a Type A as she plays the LoveMartyr to all the men in her life.

* ''FanFic/{{Hivefled}}'': The Condesce is Type C. She also demands Gamzee keep smiling through every horrible thing she does to him, and [[GlasgowGrin has extreme measures taken when he won't]].

* FanFic/TheConversionBureau, along with its RecursiveFanfiction, has the [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul Newfoals]], who are Type B with elements of Type C.

* The author of FanFic/TravelsThroughAzerothAndOutland writes [[WorldOfWarcraft draenei]] rather like [[Literature/GreenSkyTrilogy Kindar]]. You do, however, get a few eccentrics ([[PerkyGoth Vasalyan]]), basket cases ([[BrokenBird Balaa]]), and characters who mean well but really don't ''get'' other races (Kastoor).

* In the ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' fanfic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1871955/chapters/4031307 Out of the Dead Land]]'', Bucky starts out as one: he memorizes information from history books, carefully parrots details of Steve's stories of their youth back to him, and even practices his facial expressions in the mirror to act as the good-natured, easygoing best friend Steve remembers and cover up the fact that he doesn't actually remember anything about his past. It works for a while, until Natasha exposes his act.

* The author of FanFic/TravelsThroughAzerothAndOutland writes [[WorldOfWarcraft draenei]] rather like [[GreenSky Kindar]]. You do, however, get a few eccentrics ([[PerkyGoth Vasalyan]]), basket cases ([[BrokenBird Balaa]]), and characters who mean well but really don't ''get'' other races (Kastoor).

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* The AU series "Fanfic/SithAcademy" initially portrays young Obi-Wan Kenobi as pathetically cheery and happily co-dependent in a rather sick relationship with Qui-Gon. It eventually got to be [[{{Flanderization}} too much]], so authors decided to explain his demeanor as the result of a super-Prozac drug called Perkium, that was being used to medicate the formerly rebellious punk padawan into perfect Jedi conformity.

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* The author of FanFic/TravelsThroughAzerothAndOutland writes [[WorldOfWarcraft draenei]] rather like [[GreenSky Kindar]]. You do, however, get a few eccentrics ([[PerkyGoth Vasalyan]]), basket cases ([[BrokenBird Balaa]]), and characters who mean well but really don't ''get'' other races (Kastoor).
* FanFic/BecomingPonies has Reid, who is suddenly placed into Pinkie's body and constantly reassures everyone that [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial he's still in control and]] [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody his mind is NOT being taken over by Pinkie's personality.]]
* FanFic/TheConversionBureau, along with its RecursiveFanfiction, has the [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul Newfoals]], who are Type B with elements of Type C.
* ''FanFic/{{Hivefled}}'': The Condesce is Type C. She also demands Gamzee keep smiling through every horrible thing she does to him, and [[GlasgowGrin has extreme measures taken when he won't]].

* It can be surmised that [[spoiler:Tsuruya]] has been raised to be a Type A from the first chapter of the Initial Conflict arc of ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Total Drama|Island}}'' {{fanon}} sometimes portrays Sierra with tinges of this, suggesting that her LoonyFan antics are either the cause or effect of an inability to form any close, real-life friendships.

* In the fanfiction Fanfic/{{Composure}}, [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Celestia]] is so trapped in her own image of composed benevolence that she breaks when Luna attempts to get her to acknowledge her feelings, releasing a millennium worth of repressed emotions all at once.
* The receptionist of Eve Hill Corporation in the ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' fanfic ''[[FanFic/StarlightSeries Aliens!]]'' does everything with cheer and a smile. Including knocking [[spoiler:Jumba]] unconscious for snooping around.
* Ruth in Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog fanfic ''FanFic/CIAAgents'' is clearly a Type A, she is so affected by her parents' divorce that ends being obsessed with the photography rather than just taking it as a hobby.

* Zirah, from ''Fanfic/TheSacredAndTheProfane''.
-->"He won't stop crying."\\
"And you're going to stop him by killing him?" Hastur said.\\
Zirah stared at him in wide-eyed innocence. He looked puzzled.\\
"Why not?"
* From ''Fanfic/OnePieceParallelWorks'', we have Daisuke Saburo, a Type A. He's an IdiotHero / FunPersonified teenager who seems to be always smiling and having fun. Then came the [[WhamEpisode Project Mei Arc]] and the revelation of his {{Backstory}} and how he met [[spoiler: Yulia]] when she [[spoiler: killed his grandmother and was involved in a huge ransacking of his home island]].
** And, then there are the [[UncannyValley Stockholm Syndrome Pirates]].

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fics that wish to portray him as [[MartyStu secretly a badass all along]] tend to call his canon characterization the "idiot facade."
** Though it's just as common for the "idiot facade" to be the only think keeping him sane from the abuse he receives from almost everyone (which is usually a lot harsher than canon, with mobs beating him and sometimes even being raped).
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fanfics about [[CheerfulChild Keef]] are pretty rare, but those that exist often portray him as having neglectful of abusive parents. Given JhonenVasquez' style, this is entirely plausible (compare ''{{Squee}},'' for example.)
* [[Literature/HarryPotter Draco Malfoy]] often gets this treatment in sympathetic fics that don't actually [[DracoInLeatherPants put leather pants on him.]] I.e., he's spent his whole life trying to be what his father expects him to be and has no idea what he is. More of a Stepford ''Smirker'', of course, but it's entirely possible he does smile at people who aren't Harry Potter and his friends; we'd never know.
* In the ''{{Redwall}}'' fanfic [[http://www.rovl.org/vi/?p=display&e=8482 It Makes Me Happy That I'm Not Them]], Swartt Sixclaw's IronicHell involves him being forced to become one of these. He's stuck with demonic copies of the wife and son he abused, and is forced to perpetually be the perfect husband and father figure to them. It's not really shown what'll happen if he doesn't, but considering [[{{Gorn}} what happens to the point-of-view character later]], we can guess it's not good.
* In the few fics that actually center around and/or care to develop Big Macintosh from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', he's generally portrayed as being a Type A or B for one reason or another. Hinted at in the example below, from the heretofore-unfinished shipfic "Like I Imagined":
-->Applejack glanced at her friend. "Usually he's just all plain an' sleepy-like, but sometimes he gets this look on his face like..."\\
"Like?" Rarity echoed.\\
"Like there's a bunch a' gears workin' in his noggin." Applejack frowned. "An' I don't much think I'd like to know what they're puttin' out."\\
"Why not?" Rarity looked over, concerned.\\
"'Cause when he gets like that, he looks darn near fifty." The earth pony shook her head. "It ain't right for a colt to look twice his age."
* ''Fanfic/TilYouFeelItAllAroundYou'' reveals that Usopp was already developing into one of these at the tender age of ''seven''. At one point, when Sanji affects a false cheer to try and reassure his temporarily deaged nakama, Usopp shows him how to 'fix' it and smile more convincingly. Sanji's rather freaked out by the demonstration.
* [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] in ''{{FanFic/Solitude}}'':
-->''But he got it now. He got what everyone was looking for. It wasn't for him to be happy, and he wasn't trying to be mean thinking about that. People wanted other people to fit into a nice, neat package with smartly tied bows that were the right color to match the wrapping paper. People wanted to be able to classify other people, and for them to behave according to code.''
-->''Light found his code.''
-->''His role is son, older brother, protector, student, genius, role model, kind, earnest. His role is to be perfect so they don't have to worry again, so they won't say he's abnormal, strange, worrisome (all whispered in the dark night across the kitchen table when they thought he was asleep).''

* Franchise/HarryPotter in the DarkFic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8488388/1/Void-of-Emotion Void of Emotion]]'' is a Type C--he's a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] that hides behind an [[CuteAndPsycho adorably cheerful persona.]]
* In the HungerGames fanfic ''Fanfic/SomeSemblanceOfMeaning'', Obsidian is the first type, in that he sometimes uses lighthearted jokes and smiles to mask his more [[BrokenAce troubled and unhappy side]].

* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' AU series "Fanfic/SithAcademy" initially portrays young Obi-Wan Kenobi as pathetically cheery and happily co-dependent in a rather sick relationship with Qui-Gon. It eventually got to be [[{{Flanderization}} too much]], so authors decided to explain his demeanor as the result of a super-Prozac drug called Perkium, that was being used to medicate the formerly rebellious punk padawan into perfect Jedi conformity.
* Robin, in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' fanfic ''FanFic/{{Pretender}}'' is type one, who can raise the spirits of the demoralized Shepherds with a smile even after attempting [[DrivenToSuicide to take his own life.]]
* In ''FanFic/ACharmedLife'' Light is very emotionally stunted so while he thinks he's alright in reality he is actually quite miserable. Ryuk and L are the only ones to ever figure out what's BeneathTheMask and Ryuk is the only one to never judge him for it.

* In ''FanFic/ACharmedLife'' Light is very emotionally stunted so while he thinks he's alright in reality he is actually quite miserable.

* In ''FanFic/ACharmedLife'' Light is very emotionally stunted so while he thinks he's alright in reality he is actually quite miserable.