History BlessedWithSuck / FanWorks

* ''FanFic/ThePowersOfHarmony'': Rarity's insomnia inspires some of her best work, but leaves her very weak (due to denying her magic font time to recharge). [[spoiler: Turns out, [[SealedGoodInACan Harmony]] engineered this as part of her [[GambitRoulette master plan]].]]

* Within the [[FanFic/TriptychContinuum Tripytch Continuum]], ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/131321/a-mark-of-appeal A Mark Of Appeal]]'' kicks off when a character supposedly "blessed" with ludicrous sex appeal comes to Luna with a simple request: to destroy her Cutie Mark, magic, or both, and damn the cost. Her "talent" has been growing stronger as she's aged, starting from simply inspiring look-here-first interest in her classmates. It's currently at the point where it crosses gender and species barriers within '''minutes''', creating infatuation, arousal, and then steadily strengthening both. ''Anyone'' she tries to speak with will eventually attempt seduction -- or worse -- and she can't turn it off. In effect, the "talent" offers the character a life of being sexually assaulted or being a hermit avoiding literally everyone until she dies. However, the act of directly changing or destroying a Mark is beyond even alicorn magic... [[spoiler: It ultimately turns out that she fell afoul of a naturally occurring FantasticDrug that has kicked her Mark magic into overdrive, and once a specimen is found, a cure is derived from it.]]
* [[Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds The Hasbroverse]]: In a RecursiveFanfiction of ''FanFic/TheConversionBureau'', [[spoiler: Megan Richards]] gets transformed into a powerful alicorn by the Conversion Bureau potion, instead of a "newfoal". That would seem like a dream come true. Unfortunately, the potion also had the added side effect of allowing TCB!Celestia to brainwash her if she gets too close. [[spoiler: Megan]] spends much of the story trying to shield her mind from TCB!Celestia's influence.

* In the [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/430654/chapters/727997 Lies On]]'' Light Yagami is revealed to be an [[SuccubiAndIncubi incubus]] on his [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday eighteenth birthday]] meaning he's really a super-powered [[{{Immortality}} immortal]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] and that he can't go anywhere without someone trying to molest him. Also if he ever wants to pursue a relationship with anyone he has to take extra care not to suck out their lifeforce.

* The Worm\Nanoha crossover ''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/hybrid-hive-eat-shard-worm-mgln.55056/ Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard]]'' raises dangerous implications to Aisha's PerceptionFilter powers. Her powers make people forget her. Not just that she's there, but that she ever ''existed''. And it takes conscious effort on her part to turn them off. This means she can't hold down a job because employers will forget that they hired her, she can't have a lasting relationship because her boyfriends will forget about her and move on to someone else, and if she's in an emergency situation, rescue workers will inevitably fail to help her because they won't even realize that she's there. Once it comes out that Taylor can remove powers, Aisha volunteers to give hers up.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10600870/1/A-Semblance-of-Failure A Semblance of Failure]]'' is set in a support group for people with useless Semblances. One guy can tell exactly how much salt there is in his proximity; another can grow her nails at an accelerated rate.

* ''Fanfic/TheThreeKingsHunt'': The Mages who get magical powers which can be very powerful but are also very specific and limited; these same powers also cause mages to be hunted down and killed by wizards. Further according to the author not all these magical powers are very useful (for example generating globes of light)
* [[Anime/CodeGeass Shirley Fenette]] in ''Fanfic/JusticeSocietyOfJapan'' has technopathic powers and a clockwork body. On one hand, this gives her total control over machines and super-strength. On the other hand she can't heal naturally, frequently suffers PowerIncontinence, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking has this pink antenna things that make her look like a robot]].

* [[Literature/{{Worm}} Taylor Hebert's]] new friend in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12849311/1/Snuggles-the-Symbiote Snuggles the Symbiote]]'' is a mutant whose power amounted to super hormones that ruined her immune system and kept medication from working. Luckily, her symbiote "Snuggles" feeds of hormones and can keep her from getting sick, along with giving her the standard Spider-man powers.

* In the ''Assassin's Creed'' and ''Temeraire'' crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/TradeWinds'', William Laurence turns out to have two Assassin ancestors, which allow him to develop [[AuraVision Eagle Vision]] that lets him not only spot the true gravity of his beloved [[BondCreatures dragon's]] illness, but also allows him to locate and secure enough of the cure to send home to England's dragons. Hooray! However, his manifestation of the ability also makes him TheEmpath, which causes him to immediately pick up on the pain, sickness, and suffering of those around him whenever he turns it on... which he also feels. Oh...
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11905736/1/Fate-Gamer-Night-SE Fate: Gamer Night]]'' Shirou gains a blessing from [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Lilith]] that reduces the costs of his various skills and increases the growth rate of sex related skills but he has to have sex daily or the costs of his skills are all doubled. When she upgrades the blessing, Shirou also gains a mana drain ability and further reduction of his skill costs but now going without sex makes skills cost five times as much. And because of Shirou's Gamer Body, he's never tired until he runs out of stamina and Lilith's blessing makes sex cost no stamina at all, leaving him perpetually sexually frustrated.

** Victims of the villain Priestess get access to their past life's memories and skills, and thus, by extension, their past life's personality and habits. 96% of those affected quit the hero life because they weren't warriors in their past lives and lack the drive to continue their hero career. Of the remaining 4%, one fourth of them turn to villainy because their past life was evil. Those that remain still have to deal with having perpetual personality shifts for the rest of their lives.
** Of the five UA students affected by Priestess, the girls got off lightly. Izuku Midoriya, meanwhile, became absurdly overpowered in exchange for his past life's [[ChivalrousPervert perversion]], [[WouldNotHitAGirl inability to hit women]], and [[MustHaveNicotine chain smoking]]. As bad as that is, however, it's nothing compared to Mashirao Ojiro, who got increased martial art skills in conjunction with [[NoSenseOfDirection the worst sense of direction in all of anime]].

* ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack'': Hanna, a.k.a. Action Girl, has no fear response whatsoever as part of the SuperSoldier mods she recieved in vitro. While this is very good for keeping a cool head in combat situations and lets her do things no-one else can due to panic, it also causes her to ''severely'' misjudge how dangerous certain things are, and she needs to be constantly monitored (and on occasion physically restrained) so she doesn't try to do things like ColossusClimb {{Franchise/Godzilla}}, wrestle a car-sized spider or go bare-knuckle against a mutant shark in waist-deep water.

** Cyclops, Rogue and Jamie all demonstrate this to varying degrees when it comes to their powers, since they cannot turn them off and have to be careful not to hurt others or expose their existence as mutants to the general public. However, after Peter Parker joins the Institute, he [[spoiler:eventually develops a set of power nullifiers that allow the three of them turn off their powers when they aren’t wanted]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' story ''Fanfic/HereThereBeMonsters'', the same magic which makes Billy, Mary and Freddy powerful enough to move mountains or fly into the sun causes them to be eternally fifteen, which makes their lives harder.

* Several [[https://jolleycomics.com/DoodleComics/ fan comics]] drawn by Sarah Jolley aka modmad (author of Webcomic/ThePropertyOfHate) paint Gladstone Gander's supernatural luck in an even worse way. Sure, it provides him great wealth and shields him from physical harm... but it seems to actively interfere with his romantic life, conspiring to prevent him from being with Magica De Spell, whom he loves. Moreover, his good luck comes with the drawback of turning into bad luck on the day on his birthday. In "The White Balloon", his one attempt to get rid of said bad luck [[spoiler:seemingly causes the death of his parents, something that gives him PTSD and haunts him to this day]].

* In ''FanFic/DragonAgeTheCrownOfThorns'', the [[GuileHero dwarven noble]] protagonist is a Magic Knight because he harbors a tear in the veil. Unfortunately, while he did get some of the spirit warrior abilities form Awakening, this seems to have caused at least as may problems, some of them rather serious.

* ''FanFic/RedLightning'' gives us [[spoiler: Jimmy]], who is completely immortal. Unfortunately, this rendered him unable to sleep or fall unconsious, and did nothing to numb his sense of pain. The poor kid had to stay consious while pulling himself back together as ''atoms in the air!''

* Compared to Bruno's ability to talk to animals and Pepa creating flowers from nothing, Julieta in ''Fanfic/HowFarDoTheseRootsGoDown'' has a much harder time with her SuperHearing. This also applies to her oldest daughter Isabela, who's future-telling ability has made her TheUnFavorite to Alma due to its unpredictable nature.
* In ''Fanfic/TheTwoSeers'', Dolores and Oscar's abilities (SuperHearing and {{Telepathy}} respectively) are considered this by most of the family as they make privacy virtually impossible, to say nothing of the challenges for the Madrigals in question. [[spoiler:It's when she sees how much the miracle makes Oscar suffer does Mirabel decide to end it all and snuff the candle out]].

* In ''Fanfic/AGameForTheFool'', Wei Wuxian has intimate knowledge of his and world's future and knows exactly what they are all capable of. But he also knows how he and his loved ones will suffer in that future and knows from the very beginning he is going to die.

* In ''[[Fanfic/AndIWillBurnForYou For What, For All For Myself]]'', the corrupted River spirit gives these out, granting blessings in an unpleasant or even fatal way. In Jiang Cheng’s case it’s ''definitely'' one of these: yes, he'll have an heir, after going through a painful, humiliating and dangerous experience which he expects will kill him in the end. [[spoiler: Even though he survives, it's clear he has some lingering issues with just how Jiang Xi ended up coming into being.]]

* ''Fanfic/{{Mistakes}}'' uses the common {{Fanon}} that the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification nations]] can't be killed by physical means and [[GoodThingYouCanHeal can recover from apparent "death"]]. This isn't necessarily a good thing when the fic starts with China being effectively [[{{Squick}} gang-raped to death]] and being thoroughly traumatised on waking (particularly since up until it happened to him he thought rape was unimportant and murder actually fun, since human morality doesn't quite work with immortals), and the Koreas [[spoiler:trapped in Unit 731, where they get dissected again and again and again]] ...

* In ''Fanfic/ProjectDelta'', Jane's implants. Her SuperSenses keep her in near constant pain. She gets constant nightmares from the memories in her implants. And, due to her increased body density, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking she cannot swim]].

* ''Fanfic/AGreenDragonsHoard'': Izuku has SuperStrength, NighInvulnerability, and can turn into a massive dragon. The former two cause him to break a lot of objects growing up, including several cars that struck him when he wandered into the streets. The latter is so big as to be near worthless for most activities. It also paints a massive target on his back for people looking to steal powerful Quirks.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/44303308/chapters/111416848 The White Stuff]]'': Izuku's power turns him into a super intelligent LightningBruiser, but only when he snorts cocaine. Furthermore, it doesn't actually negate any of the effects of being high on cocaine. He discovered how his quirk works on accident when he turned to drugs to deal with how lousy his childhood was.

* Within the [[FanFic/TriptychContinuum Tripytch Continuum]], ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/131321/a-mark-of-appeal A Mark Of Appeal]]'' kicks off when a character supposedly "blessed" with ludicrous sex appeal comes to Luna with a simple request: to destroy her Cutie Mark, magic, or both, and damn the cost. Her "talent" has been growing stronger as she's aged, starting from simply inspiring look-here-first interest in her classmates. It's currently at the point where it crosses gender and species barriers within '''minutes''', creating infatuation, arousal, and then steadily strengthening both. ''Anyone'' she tries to speak with will eventually attempt seduction -- or worse -- and she can't turn it off. In effect, the "talent" offers the character a life of being sexually assaulted or being a hermit avoiding literally everyone until she dies. However, the act of directly changing or destroying a Mark is beyond even alicorn magic... [[spoiler: It ultimately turns out that she fell afoul of a naturally occuring FantasticDrug that has kicked her Mark magic into overdrive, and once a specimen is found, a cure is derived from it.]]
* [[Fanfic/TheElementsOfHarmonyAndTheSaviorOfWorlds The Hasbroverse]]: In a RecursiveFanfiction of ''FanFic/TheConversionBureau'', [[spoiler: Megan Richards]] gets transformed into a powerful alicorn by the Conversion Bureau potion, instead of a "newfoal". That would seem like a dream come true. Unfortunately, the potion also had an added side effect of allowing TCB!Celestia to brainwash her if she gets too close. [[spoiler: Megan]] spends much of the story trying to shield her mind from TCB!Celestia's influence.

* In ''FanFic/AGrowingAffection'', Kohaku's status as a living PerceptionFilter is this. Her parents forgot her when they went on vacation a couple of times (doesn't help that its a big family), and she gets passed over for promotion because no-one can remember what she did in the Chunin Exams. But as a ninja being functionally invisible and easily forgotten is a very useful ability.
* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7115615/1/Shinigan Shinigan]]'' Naruto gains the [[Literature/TheGardenOfSinners Mystic Eyes of Death Perception]]. While his power has a surprising amount of versitility (such as removing Sasuke and Anko's Cursed Seals with a senbon), for a long time anything he looked at with his Shinigan on would fall apart along the lines. Seeing walls and furniture randomly collapse in pieces freaks Naruto out but seeing ''people'' falling apart nearly drives him insane. Naruto had to learn the Bringer Of Darkness technique to temporarily blind himself to save his sanity.

* The [[Myth/CelticMythology Bradan Feasa/Salmon of Knowledge]] in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheWesternSea'' possesses [[TheOmniscient all the knowledge in the world]], including being able to see the prophecies of others but excluding exact knowledge of the future, but being unable to use it (due to being a fish) and being sought after to be eaten to gain that knowledge. By the time Percy runs into the Salmon, it is so depressed that it's existence has been almost forgetten and that it cannot do anything meaningful with all of that knowledge that Percy is concerned that it might Fade. When the Salmon tries to convince Percy that the prophecy means Percy would have to eat it to gain that knowledge, Percy states that he wouldn't want all the knowledge in the world, because then what would be the point of traveling?

** Doubled. Not only is he half a blob of magma, but if he absorbs mud or stone, he begins to heat and get fire powers, which is awesome... until you realize that, as his body temperature goes up, major tissue and organ damage would result. He's only (part) human. Special mention also goes to Mia Kerrigan, the Scyther morph, who has bladed arms, lightning reflexes, accelerated growth and is probably the strongest of the cast... but does not understand empathy, limits or self-control.

* Weiss's Passive is this in ''FanFic/ForgedDestiny''. [[RPGMechanicsverse Passives are unique abilities given to people at birth in addition to what Skills they gain over time.]] Weiss's makes it mandatory for her to use a sword, a weapon that, unlike a staff or wand, is never enchanted towards enhancing a Mage's stats. This means that she can't MinMax like everyone else and will almost always be objectively weaker than any properly-equipped mage at a similar level.

* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', Kara feels her great powers get her isolated them from normal humans and are a hindrance to have a normal life.

** Paul is [[SuperStrength so ridiculously strong]] that he can barely move without causing chaos. He has practiced day and night to get to the point where he can walk around, but he has to keep constant watch on himself, keep his arms at his sides, etc. To revert to his more manageable lower level of strength, he has to explode, creating a large glassy crater and wiping out everything around him. Even at his lower level of strength he has to fiercely regulate his behavior. In neither case does he dare have sex. Oh, and neither of them can go home as is...

* In ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'', Ringo discovered during the interim between ''Strings'' and ''Keys'' that he was also Blessed with Suck, because he had become intensely addicted to his mindsight—which could not return with him to Earth.

* In ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheEmperasque'' the Emperor merges with [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Tarrasque]], giving him phenomenal psychic power, resilience and physical strength, but first, he's really, really large, which carries its own batch of problems, and second, a Tarrasque is a daemon in this setting, causing panic and multiple friendly fire incidents nearly everywhere he appears.

* In ''Fanfic/GoldPoisons'', Jin Guangyao's eidetic memory comes across as this. It means he is incapable of forgetting any of the bad deeds he has committed. He has recurring nightmares as a result.

* A NSFW [[http://magic-robot.tumblr.com/post/50065262183/the-commanders-secret-superpower-nsfw Aquabats fanfiction]] does this with The MC Bat Commander, claiming his superpower is giving amazing blowjobs, making him quite literally [[IncrediblyLamePun blessed with suck]].

* ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack'': Hanna, a.k.a. Action Girl, has no fear response whatsoever as part of the SuperSoldier mods she recieved in vitro. While this is very good for keeping a cool head in combat situations and lets her do things no-one else can due to panic, it also causes her to ''severely'' misjudge how dangerous certain things are, and she needs to be constantly monitored (and on occasion physically restrained) so she doesn't try to do things like ColossusClimb {{Film/Godzilla}}, wrestle a car-sized spider or go bare-knuckle against a mutant shark in waist-deep water.

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* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7115615/1/Shinigan Shinigan]]'' Naruto gains the [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners Mystic Eyes of Death Perception]]. While his power has a surprising amount of versitility (such as removing Sasuke and Anko's Cursed Seals with a senbon), for a long time anything he looked at with his Shinigan on would fall apart along the lines. Seeing walls and furniture randomly collapse in pieces freaks Naruto out but seeing ''people'' falling apart nearly drives him insane. Naruto had to learn the Bringer Of Darkness technique to temporarily blind himself to save his sanity.

* ''FanFic/TowardABrightFuture'': The main character Y/N's Quirk of [[{{Seers}} seeing the future]] counts on many levels. [[PowerIncontinence She has no control over what triggers her visions]], she gets a splitting headache if she tries to tell anyone else anything important that she learns from them, any pain from any injuries that she manages to butterfly away is instantly inflicted onto her, and she has never received any visions of her own future. Other characters have commented that they've never seen a Quirk with that many drawbacks.

* ''TheLuckyOnes'': Cheong-san's hambie powers also lead to him losing control and leaving his friends in order to protect them. The fact that he got said powers in the wake of his friends Su-hyeok and Nam-ra's deaths only make it worse.

* In ''Fanfic/DeadlyNightshade'', having poisonous skin (inherited from his ''real'' mother, [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]]) certainly protected Harry from the Dursley's physical abuse, but it put a crimp into his social life since he's unable to attend school without risking to bump into someone. He also considers a link to the Green falls into the category, since he and his mother can hear plant-life crying for help. Constantly.

* Luna Lovegood in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7382549/1/When-Is-It-a-Contract When Is It a Contract?]]'' can answer any question she's asked directly even if she doesn't know the answer (i.e. "Why are we required to have dress robes?" Or "How can I make sure I have a better year?"). However, since she also doesn't remember giving said answers, she often appears crazy whenever someone asks an indirect question.

* In the [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/430654/chapters/727997 Lies On]]'' Light Yagami is revealed to be an [[HornyDevils incubus]] on his [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday eighteenth birthday]] meaning he's really a super-powered [[{{Immortality}} immortal]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] and that he can't go anywhere without someone trying to molest him. Also if he ever wants to pursue a relationship with anyone he has to take extra care not to suck out their lifeforce.