"As you can see, Watterson, your kids are being lowered into an acid pit. But I don't want them all to die. Oh no, my dear. I want you to choose. Choose who will die, and I'll let the others go free." Nicole is asked to make a terrible choice. It doesn't go how anyone expects."
Unwanted is a The Amazing World of Gumball fanfic. It was written by a user going by St Elmo's Fire on FanFiction.Net and A_Friendly_Irin on Archive of Our Own.
Gumball, Darwin and Anais have been kidnapped by an unknown assailant, their lives on the line. Nicole and Richard arrive to the scene, and Nicole is forced to make a Sadistic Choice: Which one of her children gets to die?
This One-Shot Fic can be read here
or here.
This fic provides examples of the following tropes:
- Big Bad: Even though, he only appeared for the first half, Rob is responsible for the Inciting Incident of this story.
- Dirty Coward: Once he's caught, Rob can only pathetically whimper for mercy. As soon as Gumball lies about the whole thing being his idea, the cyclops happily exploits it and runs away.
- Face Palm: When Anais keeps scaring Darwin, Gumball wishes to do this but can't, since he's tied up.
- Sadistic Choice: Nicole is forced to choose who die between her children. Her choosing Gumball under pressure sets up the conflict of the story.
- Ungrateful Bastard: In an attempt to save Rob from his mother's wrath, Gumball lies that the incident was his idea. Rob cruelly throws him under the bus then flees.
