| 1 | [[https://scribal-goddess.livejournal.com/61331.html Poor Unfortunate Souls]] is a ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' DeconstructionFic and UrbanFantasy AU. In it, Private Adept Detectives Lindsey Pilot and Aliea Veldon are hired by Katherine 'Kate' Kavanaugh to save her best friend, Anastasia 'Ana' Steele, from the clutches of her abusive boyfriend, Christian Grey. The two proceed to investigate by coming into contact with his exes and gathering all they can about his nefarious deeds. |
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| 3 | !!''Poor Unfortunate Souls'' contains examples of: |
| 4 | * AdaptationalVillainy: Christian Grey in canon is Ana's LoveInterest, but in here, he is the BigBad simply by [[DeconstructionFic portraying his abusive actions as abusive]]. That said, this version of Grey does have some crimes that weren't in the original as well, such as blackmailing Taylor into working for him by withholding medical care from his daughter and devouring people's auras (something not possible in the original books due to their realistic setting). He's also said to have had Leila falsely committed, when in the original books she legitimately did need to be in an institution (albeit there was always an implication that this might be Grey's fault). |
| 5 | * BigBad: Christian Grey himself is Ana's abusive boyfriend who had previously ruined the lives of about a dozen girls prior, and the two detectives, Lindsey and Ailea, have the job of saving Ana and apprehending Christian. |
| 6 | * DeconstructionFic: The fic takes Christian Grey's canonical acts of DomesticAbuse that were depicted as love and examines just how horrible they really are. It also shows that Christian's exes, who in canon were 'other girls', are more his victims than anything else. |
| 7 | * DomesticAbuse: What Christian does to Ana and what he did to his exes, including rape thinly disguised as BDSM and [[FinancialAbuse stealing from their bank accounts]]. |
| 8 | * FinancialAbuse: Christian would access the bank accounts of his exes and take all their money for himself, in addition to his physical abuse. |
| 9 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Even after all the evidence piles up, Ana refuses to see that her boyfriend Christian is a bad man, and accuses Lindsey and Aliea of conspiring with Leila (one of his victims) to take him down out of jealousy. Once Ana realizes that Kate called them in the first place, she cuts off all ties with her. |
| 10 | * IHaveYourWife: Christian Grey agreed to give Sophie Taylor the bone marrow transplant she needed, but only if Jason Taylor became his accomplice in his various crimes. |
| 11 | * SerialRapist: Christian Grey is shown to have raped all his exes beforehand. |
| 12 | * UrbanFantasy: The fantasy part deals with magic like telepathy and auras, but actually takes a back seat to the realistic drama. |
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