Happy Tree Friends: Origins is a fanfic that explains the non-canonical backstories of the Happy Tree Friends characters. The story itself can be read on Wattpad.
This has nothing to do with the Happy Tree Friends Adventures side game of the same name.
Happy Tree Friends: Origins provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents: Nutty's parents. They abused him even from the littlest mistake he did and occasionally even burned him on a cross.
- An Arm and a Leg: Handy loses—you guessed it—his arms after a platform squishes them and his dad. Not that it stopped him from becoming a carpenter anyway.
- Fantastic Racism: Apparently, no one wanted to be with Petunia because she was a skunk. They even threw mud at her.
- Freak Out: Flaky was once calm until she met Flippy...well, just Flaky meeting Flippy.
- Missing Mom: Handy’s mother left him at the age of two. It’s exactly unknown what happened to her, as the story does not say.
- Intoxication Ensues: Non-accidental example. Nutty, who had just fled from his Abusive Parents and is now hungry, grabs a lollipop a child dropped on the sidewalk and eats it. And that is what started his addiction on candy.