Fire Emblem has this in spades, the most common victims being Eliwood, Guy, Wil, Sain and Lucius of The Blazing Blade and Marth of the Archanea series (particularly in fics from the Super Smash Bros. fandom). It doesn't help Marth does display more vulnerable traits in the OVA, that he went from a boyish looking moderate Bishounen to an infamously feminine looking one in Smash Bros., and is canonically somewhat of a a bleeding heart and/or childish in every game except the Shadow Dragon remake.
- In the Tellius verse, Soren gets this with almost no exception. Physically, he may look somewhat like one, but many yaoi fans tend to forget about his personality. The justification they have for it, though, isn't present unless you get an A level Support between Ike and Soren, so it's a case of Flanderization as well.
- Reyson, Naesala, and Zihark also get this in varying degrees.
- Poor Inigo is doomed when he's paired with Gerome. Whether Laurent gets hit with this or not whenever paired up with Gerome, it depends heavily on the work.
- Chrom, too. Oddly, this shows up more in Chrom x female Avatar fanworks... The kind, stubborn and brave Prince of Ylisse? He's only seen getting either super romantic or super melodramatic with his more often than not perfectly chickified Avatar ~waifu~.
- Henry's gotten this a few times as well, taking his canon abandonment issues and turning them into total co-dependency; to the point where, in two particularly egriguous examples he'd fling himself off a cliff over Ricken not loving him back (and this is after Henry has spent the whole fic secretly and wangstily pining after an Oblivious to Love Ricken); or going mad and self-harming for at least a year over Robin's disappearance after slaying Grima and being temporarily erased from existence... and commiting suicide in front of the returning Robin.
- In a rare non-romantic example, a Female Avatar's son Morgan is also subjected to this
via being reduced solely to his close relationship with his mother. Apparently, the boy's only real personality trait is his thoughts on the mother he adores and idolizes; therefore, rabid Female Avatar fans kinda "shape" him into some sort of bland "accessory" for his mother without any personality of his own.
- The male Avatar in Fire Emblem Fates is subject to this now and then due to his canon displays of vulnerability, especially during the Conquest path.
- Takumi gets this quite a bit, especially in fics that pair him with Leo or Hinata, due to his nightmares and horrifically low self-esteem.
- Leo gets this in post-Birthright fan works, portrayed as an angst-filled, weeping mess over the loss of two siblings plus the possibility of Odin going back to his own lands as well as Camilla leaving Nohr to find herself. While some of his anxieties and grief are plausible, a lot of the portrayals of them run a direct contrast to canon, in which he's quite confident in his upcoming reign as King and shows no objection to Camilla's decision.
- Edelgard from Fire Emblem: Three Houses is typically portrayed as the confident, headstrong leader she is in canon... up until she runs into the female Avatar, at which point she can't so much as look at her for two seconds without babbling incoherently. Notably, this is generally not the case with stories that pair her with a male Avatar, where writers of those fics tend to have her remain cool and level-headed.note
- Felix gets hit with this, mostly from people who ship him with Sylvain, quite far cry from his actual brash, blunt Jerk with a Heart of Gold self.
