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She felt like a safe place to land.note 
Fan Fiction. We can't ever be sure what is going in our own head when writing them, but if the readers wanted tears, they got their wish.

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  • The fanfic Good Landing (alternate link) by Royce Day (Sir-Talen on DeviantArt) that looks for the first few paragraphs like a normal and even fairly cool story about a group of people gathering to warmly greet the crew of a returning space shuttle. One guy seems to be unduly complaining about the shuttle being unsafe. But then it's revealed that the shuttle is the Columbia and everyone who appears in the story is a ghost, including some astronauts who died in earlier disasters. And the guy who was complaining? He was Gus Grissom, Commander of Apollo 1. As an even bigger punch to the gut, the man he's talking to is Dick Scobee, the commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger on its last, doomed flight.
  • This wrestling fic swings hard between this, Paranoia Fuel, and just plain scary, but the current newest chapter, 18, where Kane has convinced Rey Mysterio that he has died and is in Hell and Rey's begging and pleading reaction after all he's been put through apparently bouncing between two crappy realities...especially while Kane is STILL torturing him during it...just holy crap.
    • Chapter 19 is up...apparently the final chapter and major downer ending...Rey puts a comment from his friend Batista from earlier together with what's happening, and thinks he's caused the damnation of him as well, and completely gives up, just waiting to fall sleep in the hospital bed which will send him back to be tortured by Kane. A sequel is promised with a title that implies things may not stay so bleak though.
  • The wrestling fic, Hello Again, has Molly Holly lose a title vs. career hardcore match against her former protege, the WWE Divas Champion, Natalya. She also gets a public apology from Jerry Lawler for all the jokes he's made about her during her career, Gail Kim cries on her shoulder and ends with a reunion in her dressing room with her former boyfriend, Spike Dudley.
  • A pretty bad fanfiction where a Big Bad kidnapped two people, made one into a robot and the other into a cyborg and wiped their memories. Then the cyborg fell in love with a girl who didn't run and another kid who followed them...then the Big Bad caused a bomb in the organic robot to detonate when they confronted him. Kid survived cause he was pushed out the way, but the girl was blown up too bad to survive, and the cyborg survived...cause he was protected. Then he came too and noticed the Big Bad plotting to make his love interest into a cyborg like him and he just finally snapped, ripped all the implants out, strangled the obsessed genius with his bare, unmodified, and bloody hands before the chip controlling his nervous system cracked, gave him a major spasm and caused his hands to lock around the doctor's neck until he died. Then finally he got out, trashed the life-support equipment hoping his girlfriend would Disney Death but instead she saw his bloody face and said "I'm glad you fixed yourself" before passing away...and then the dude faints and is sent right to the hospital. The utter absurdity is that he wound up blocking the trauma out when the paramedics and firemen pulled his twisted body out so he didn't at even remember the girl he loved or even being a cyborg and only the kid who got pushed out the window at the right moment really remembered.
    • Honestly this was better than the other ending...the girl had a Disney Death, but the guy just collapsed and never got up because he used all his strength to strangle the doctor because he thought he killed the kid and the girl.
  • An author by the name Slash Firestorm has an epic called Sinners. There's one point where the main character's group is crossing the desert, and they get attacked. In order to protect and save his love interest he gives up most of his lifespan.
  • A fic set in a game where one can have wildly different levels of civilization coexisting. In it, a primitive seagoing force (in wooden, oar-powered ships) is repelled by a modern force (metal boats, that ram the wooden ones as missiles won't take and lay down machine-gun fire. One of the survivors, completely broken by the attack into a childlike state, pitifully asks what's going on several times, before one of the soldiers gives him a Mercy Kill.
  • This Writing Prompt on Reddit is about a fictional interview that makes you sympathize with the poacher who killed the very last Western Black Rhino. This is one of the few things that succeeds at making you feel bad for a poacher. As it turns out, he is a father who tried to prolong the life of his sick daughter. You will never look at a poacher the same way again. It ends with him saying these final words in the prompt: "That Rhino was how I was going to help her get better. It's very hard to see the cultural, "moral", or ecological significance in something when the one thing that matters most is slipping away."
  • Despite the Hell's Kitchen Roleplay being upbeat, it's got it's fair share of heartbreaking moments.
    • In Season 1, there's Jake's elimination. Throughout the season, he had been an underdog, sometimes managing to pull off upset victories against some of the stronger chefs. However, during the second black jacket episode, he crashed hard during service, and even still the other four had a hard time finding the energy to put him up. When Jake was eliminated, it was clear that his elimination hit the final four hard, as they had grown attached to him and had a level of respect towards him.
    • Season 2 had a few moments, such as Jangue's bullying behavior towards Danny and Ewan's medical elimination. The latter is even more significant as Ewan genuinely appeared to be the only one capable of defeating Jangue, and it seemed that all hope was lost.
    • Season 3 had the back-to-back eliminations of Pory and Brynn. While Pory was already an Ensemble Dark Horse, Brynn was initially one of the most hated chefs of the season, before her relationship with Pory endeared her to many.

Alternative Title(s): Fanfiction, Fanfic

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