I recall some Harry Potter fics that seem to fit, but I'm having trouble finding links. I read Harry/Snape, and there's both "Harry was captured and tortured by Death Eaters until Snape rescues him, but it takes a long time for Harry to realize this is a rescue and not just Snape wanting a pet of his own," and "Snape is found guilty after the war, thrown in Azkaban or just tortured by people in general, until he's bonded to Harry 'for his own safety' and" etc. etc.
There's also a whole lot of "Snape believes he's worthless and mostly evil and nobody could ever willingly tolerate his presence, much less fall in love with him," which has similar feels.
I think there's some amnesia fics that fall into this, too, but looking for them at AO3 gets me twenty opened tabs of things I start to read the first few paragraphs and don't want to stop.
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I recall some Harry Potter fics that seem to fit, but I'm having trouble finding links. I read Harry/Snape, and there's both "Harry was captured and tortured by Death Eaters until Snape rescues him, but it takes a long time for Harry to realize this is a rescue and not just Snape wanting a pet of his own," and "Snape is found guilty after the war, thrown in Azkaban or just tortured by people in general, until he's bonded to Harry 'for his own safety' and" etc. etc.
There's also a whole lot of "Snape believes he's worthless and mostly evil and nobody could ever willingly tolerate his presence, much less fall in love with him," which has similar feels.
I remember Black Story by Jay Tryfanstone being one of these, but I haven't read it since before AO3 existed.
Robins and Other Flightless Birds by Ionaperidot (DCU-Batfamily) involves various Robins recovering from canon (or AU-canon) traumas and slowly reclaiming themselves.
I think there's some amnesia fics that fall into this, too, but looking for them at AO3 gets me twenty opened tabs of things I start to read the first few paragraphs and don't want to stop.