History Main / DeconstructionFic

* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5435295/1/The-Bonds-of-Blood The Bonds of Blood]], the same author takes aim at the "Harry Potter soul bond" fic genre, in which Harry and Ginny develop a soul bond as a result of the events in the Chamber of Secrets. First, the bond is actually a mutual horcrux. Second, the kids are mortified and squicked out by the total lack of privacy the bond entails, especially as they end up going through puberty together. Third, having not reached puberty, they are absolutely not ready to get together romantically, and their reaction to the idea is basically, "Ew, gross." Fourth, rather than being a boon, magically speaking, the bond is actually treated as a disability for the pair. Fifth, while the Weasley parents take things better than in some fics, they are nonetheless unsettled by the demands of the bond, with Arthur expressing fears that Harry and Ginny may someday join Neville's parents in the Thickey ward at St. Mungos. Sixth, soul bonds have nothing to do with "true love" or "destined mates", but can happen to literally anyone who experiences a specific set of circumstances. To underline this last point, the fic alludes to a worst-case scenario involving a pair of brothers who were soul bound -- who promptly committed suicide when confronted with the demands of their bond.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/54052510 Lila's Karma]]'' deconstructs the Karma from both ''Fanfic/TheKarmaOfLies'' and ''Fanfic/KarmicBacklash'' not as a cosmic system that either [[KarmicOverkill over punishes]] or [[KarmicMisfire misaims]] punishment but instead as a spiteful Kwami-like entity that not only manipulates the flow of punishment but also [[TheCorrupter twists its various targets both emotionally and mentally for its own purpose]], whether to make them new agents of "justice" or {{Asshole Victim}}s, with Lila becoming his UnwittingPawn after he made her mother suffer the punishment of her co-worker's crime. [[spoiler:The fact that it's an individual means that someone like Lila would eventually figure out its true influence, and she makes sure Karma suffers its own LaserGuidedKarma by manipulating the [[RealityWarper Wish]] into making herself the most powerful human in the world and Karma her personal servant, [[CreateYourOwnVillain all because of his spiteful attitude]]]].

** ''Fanfic/{{Synthesis}}'' deconstructs one of the popular fanon about Vocaloids being singing androids. Here, the Vocaloids are former humans, most are on the brink of death, who had been converted into androids and forced to fulfil their company's demands. Most of the staffs are also seen the Vocaloids as [[JustAMachine nothing but machines]], which frustrated the main protagonist to no end.

** Jesse saving Leslie from the creek, as seen in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3447735/1/Groundhogs-at-Terabithia Groundhogs of Terabithia]]'' and fics by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1173898/NarnianMelody Narnian Melody]]. Unfortunately, this proves to be almost more than Jesse can handle, and he (and Leslie) are hospitalized with serious injuries, requiring physical therapy and treatment that Jesse's impoverished family cannot afford. The Burkes attempt to ease the burden by taking care of Jesse's expenses, but this so offends Jesse's proud father that he initially forbids contact between the two families.

** Leslie's family, being something like hippies, are very casual about nudity, which leads Leslie to be casual about taking her clothes off in front of Jesse and being very affectionate toward him, as seen in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3447735/1/Groundhogs-at-Terabithia Groundhogs at Terabithia]]''. In fact, ''A Life Rescued'' depicts a family that operates this way, and the results are not pretty. First, the nudism tempts thirteen-year-old Tom, an OC, who spies on them and photographs them. Second, the girls' nudism and affectionate nature is directed at all boys, which arouses Leslie's jealousy and results in SlutShaming from an OC friend. Worst of all, [[spoiler:the family's seemingly harmless but quirky habits are a sign that their parents are molesting the girls, and trafficking them for child pornography, with the youngest getting pregnant and being DrivenToSuicide]].
** In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3629124/1/Royal-Court-of-Terabithia Royal Court of Terabithia]]'', Jesse and Leslie find that their skinnydipping is not as surreptitious as they had believed. In this fic, fortunately, their activities are observed only by Maybelle and Joyce Anne, Jesse's sisters. ''A Life Rescued'' depicts a similar scenario with a much different outcome. As noted aboce, the nudist family described in that fic is spied on by a thirteen-year-old classmate of the middle daughter, who secretly photographs them. Additionally, pictures of them end up in the hands of bullies who photoshop them with Leslie's head to sexually harrass her.

*** Even though they exercise more caution than Leslie's parents, Jesse and Leslie nevertheless find themselves going further than they intended, physically, and need to deal with their intense passions for one another.

** Jesse and Leslie have a fairytale romance from the time he saves her, and culminating in their marriage, as seen in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3629124/1/Royal-Court-of-Terabithia Royal Court of Terabithia]]''. In reality, they only gradually realize their feelings for each other, and also end up acting their age, for good ''and'' for ill. Problems creep up in the relationship that include jealousy, conflicts resulting from differing values systems (particularly regarding physical intimacy during their teen years), and [[spoiler:being pulled in different directions by divergent career paths]].

** Jesse and Leslie continuing to play at being rulers of Terabithia into their teenage and adult years, as seen in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3629124/1/Royal-Court-of-Terabithia Royal Court of Terabithia]]'' and fics by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1173898/NarnianMelody Narnian Melody]]. As the two grow up and expand their interests and circle of friends, Jesse and Leslie outgrow Terabithia.

* ''Fanfic/AtTheFoodCourt'' was written solely as a TakeThat against Cori Falls's infamous fanfiction, particularly ''The Prodigal Parents'', in which [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Ash]] becomes a FutureLoser with severe delusions and who [[PsychopathicManchild can no longer live unassisted because he has the mental age of a kindergartener]] (in case it isn't clear, ''The Prodigal Parents'' was a [[RonTheDeathEater bashfic]]). ''At the Food Court'' reinterprets everything, taking canon and basic human decency into account, showing that Ash was once a normal kid whose life was ruined by criminals who beat him up so severely, he had to be hospitalized, and permanently regressed to the cognitive level of a kindergartener due to massive brain damage. It doesn't shy away from showing [[FateWorseThanDeath how horrible a fate Ash suffers]] and that [[DesignatedHero no one could possibly inflict that on someone and remain sympathetic]]. Without the ProtagonistCenteredMorality in ''The Prodigal Parents'', Jessie and James are not heroes, but villains.

** Creator/CoeurAlAran is fond of deconstructing certain parts of ''RWBY'' canon in his fics. He regularly pokes fun at Blake's plethora of romantic love interests, and he calls out whip-based weaponry from the show by portraying it as CoolButInefficient.

* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainStarFinder'': Like many stories from the ''Blossomverse'', this story isn't afraid to deconstruct some elements from the show, this time being ''The Loud House'', showing what will happen if some elements from the show was applied to the consequences of real life and how it would affect them in this AU:
** Lincoln is jaded and emotionally exhausted due to the fact that he is the sole boy in a family of chaotic girls, along with the fact that his sisters never learn their lesson and cause problems around Royal Woods, making him stop caring about his family. He is also shown to have a strained mental health, his optimism long since broken and being more isolated than his canon self.
** The chaotic dynamics from the family won't lead to a happy family, it instead leads to a dysfunctional one, with none of the sisters (with some exceptions) going along well with each other due to their different personalities. Along with this, this made them a very loathed family in Royal Woods, as shown with Cynthia.
* ''Fanfic/StuporHeroics'' deconstructs the "[[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Loud siblings]] gain superpowers" plotline. Having superpowers makes their already dysfunctional family dynamics ''incredibly'' destructive. Lincoln, the one sibling with no powers, is in constant physical danger from it. Lori decided that cutting Lincoln out of her and her sisters' lives was the only way he could grow up in a safe environment.

*** ''DeconstructionFic/FallOfStarfleetRebirthOfFriendship''

* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainStarFinder'': Like many stories from the ''Blossomverse'', this story isn't afraid to deconstruct some elements from the show, this time being ''The Loud House'', showing what will happen if some elements from the show was applied to the consequemces of real life and how it would affect them in this AU:

** The chaotic dynamics from the family won't lead to a happy family, it instead lead to a dysfunctional one, with none of the sisters (with some exceptions) going along well with each other due to their different personalities. Along with this, this made them be a very loathed family in Royal Woods, as shown with Cynthia.

** ''Fanfic/TheNewRetcons'' starts as a DeconstructionParody running alongside the final strip. But after the strip ended, it soon deconstructed everything about the cast and setting: Elly’s NeatFreak tendencies? [[spoiler: stems from unresolved trauma from a TeenPregnancy.]] Robin’s inconsistent behavior? [[spoiler: He’s autistic.]] The various {{Gonks}} that were shown in the background? [[spoiler: They’re victims of radioactive damage from Milborough’s past as a test site.]] And that’s only scratching the surface.

*** The story deconstructs the ways metahumans were treated in Season One and Season Two. While it acknowledges that circumstances Barry and co. were under forced them to make hard choices, in addition to being unknowingly manipulated by Eobard Thawne/"Harrison Wells" and later Hunter Zolomon/"Jay Garrick", that doesn't change the fact that Team Flash illegally held multiple metahumans in subpar conditions for several months and outright killed those they couldn't contain. Those conditions did severe psychological damage to the prisoners (some of whom, such as Peekaboo/Shawna Baez, weren't hardened criminals before their imprisonment but certainly were after), in addition to leaving their various families, friends, and acquaintances in the dark over their fates. That in turn led to several metahumans coming to fear the Flash, since they associate him with all these mysterious disappearances.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''

** Joseph Kahn's fan film ''Power[=/=]Rangers'' features a notable deconstructive portrayal of [[Series/PowerRangersZeo the Machine Empire]], taking a very {{Cyberpunk}}-influenced approach in showing how an aggressively imperialistic race of MechanicalLifeforms might operate in real life. Instead of a royal court of petulant robots with an army of mechanical {{Mooks}}, they're a hyper-advanced HiveMind that manages to take over Earth by integrating themselves into its technology and advancing human society by several centuries, while quietly doing away with pesky things like individuality and free will. Most disturbingly, their takeover ends up causing a rift in the Rangers themselves, as many of them honestly find it easier to join the Machine Empire than to fight them.

*** It also deconstructs the idea that Oliver "destroyed" the Lance family by "seducing" Sara. In addition to the above point of Sara choosing to go with Oliver on her own, the events of the story show that [[BigScrewedUpFamily the Lance family already had several preexisting problems on their own]] even before the ''Gambit'', and that what happened to Sara just blew all out in the open and made those problems worse, eventually culminating in Laurel's horrific forced induction into the League. All of this suggests that even without the ''Gambit'', some other tragedy would've eventually caused the Lances to fall apart as a family. Ultimately, Oliver's role in what happened to Laurel is so minor that both Sara and Laurel herself refuse put the blame on him, rightfully blaming either themselves (in the case of the former) or their mother (in the case of the latter) instead.

** ''Fanfic/BlackbirdArrow'': The story deconstructs the show's favoritism towards Sara, including the tendency to gloss over her betrayal of Laurel by choosing to go on the Gambit with Oliver, and pin the blame on what happened on Laurel. While yes, what happened to Sara was horrible and by no means any way deserved, it doesn't absolve her of the guilt of her choices, and pinning the blame on Laurel is ultimately wrong. In this story, such favoritism leads to Dinah (who was the one who let Sara go in the first place) using Sara's trauma to justify trading Laurel to the League of Assassins in exchange for her younger daughter's freedom and convincing Sara to go along with it. Instead, this act effectively dissolves whatever sympathy anyone outside of Dinah might have for Sara's situation, as Laurel did absolutely nothing to deserve such a cruel fate and had been mourning Sara as much as the rest of her sister's friends and family. Oliver, Tommy, Thea, and Moira are all appalled with Sara and Dinah when they find out, while Sara herself is now a guilt-ridden wreck with DeathSeeker tendencies.