I'm not sure what canons you know and/or read, so I'm going to suggest four things that are from fairly widely known sources. I've ordered them, more or less, from most applicable to least.
The Very Self of the Storm - Smallville (mostly based on fandom osmosis of the first few seasons and also canon divergent) and broader DC Comics and DC Animated universes. 2998 words. T rated (mostly for implied things). Clark Kent/Lex Luthor. Amnesia. All of the dark stuff is implied. The POV character (Lex) has some degree of memory repression after being held captive by invading aliens. The story takes him from denying what he sees to accepting that there are things he's forgotten and will have to deal with soon. The other character (Clark) doesn't notice the problem as being what it is because he's focused on the physical injuries.
I wrote this for a pinch hit request for someone who wanted h/c, heavy on the comfort, with these two post-apocalypse.
There are two sequel stories, but they have less of that walling things off. People still do it because people do.
Where the Mind Is Without Fear - Star Wars OT. 1431 words. M rated for non-explicit but clearly referenced rape and torture. Luke Skywalker is Emperor Palpatine's prisoner after events of Return of the Jedi go differently. Most of what Luke is doing here is deliberate. It's long term damaging, but he's trying to hold onto certain parts of himself at the cost of others. This is open ended, more of an introspective thing than a plot thing.
Repairs (The Mary Ellen Carter Remix) - MCU (1st Avengers movie only). G rated, but I'd probably rate it T if I were posting it now. 3577. SHIELD benches Clint for a while after the movie so that he can see someone who specializes in trauma. I think I handled the flashbacks and the triggers a bit clumsily, but the idea is that he's having occasional moments when he thinks people asking him questions are Loki trying to get more information about SHIELD's weak points. It's not focused on the psychotherapy. A good chunk of it is him talking to Bruce about waking up and realizing that you did things you thought you'd never do and knowing that, whatever mitigating circumstances apply, it was still you doing it.
Faded Colors - Chronicles of Narnia. 3782 words. T rated, villain POV. These are vignettes from the life of Jadis, the White Witch, both in her home world, Charn, and after she came to the world of Narnia but before she conquered Narnia. The partitions in her mind are potentially harder to see because they're so deeply rooted. She doesn't even know they're there.
Some of my Sky High stories would work. I think they might be very close to what you want, particularly anything in the Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion series which has things going in that direction for all the POV characters.
The canon is 1.5 hour Disney movie about a high school for superheroes. It is fluffy and silly and very obviously a dystopia underneath. Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion kind of has a 'here be dragons' on it because it's more than 100K words with some stories being AUs of others. It has shifting POV with each character seeing different truths and refusing to look at certain other things. The first story in the series ends with potential happiness. After that, things get darker for the characters, and they have to partition themselves more. An annotated index for the series can be found here.
Stealing What Little I Can is another Sky High story with a character who's deliberately not letting himself know all of the things he knows. It's about 13K words and complete. It's potentially happier at the end.
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Date: 2019-01-30 05:10 am (UTC)The Very Self of the Storm - Smallville (mostly based on fandom osmosis of the first few seasons and also canon divergent) and broader DC Comics and DC Animated universes. 2998 words. T rated (mostly for implied things). Clark Kent/Lex Luthor. Amnesia. All of the dark stuff is implied. The POV character (Lex) has some degree of memory repression after being held captive by invading aliens. The story takes him from denying what he sees to accepting that there are things he's forgotten and will have to deal with soon. The other character (Clark) doesn't notice the problem as being what it is because he's focused on the physical injuries.
I wrote this for a pinch hit request for someone who wanted h/c, heavy on the comfort, with these two post-apocalypse.
There are two sequel stories, but they have less of that walling things off. People still do it because people do.
Where the Mind Is Without Fear - Star Wars OT. 1431 words. M rated for non-explicit but clearly referenced rape and torture. Luke Skywalker is Emperor Palpatine's prisoner after events of Return of the Jedi go differently. Most of what Luke is doing here is deliberate. It's long term damaging, but he's trying to hold onto certain parts of himself at the cost of others. This is open ended, more of an introspective thing than a plot thing.
Repairs (The Mary Ellen Carter Remix) - MCU (1st Avengers movie only). G rated, but I'd probably rate it T if I were posting it now. 3577. SHIELD benches Clint for a while after the movie so that he can see someone who specializes in trauma. I think I handled the flashbacks and the triggers a bit clumsily, but the idea is that he's having occasional moments when he thinks people asking him questions are Loki trying to get more information about SHIELD's weak points. It's not focused on the psychotherapy. A good chunk of it is him talking to Bruce about waking up and realizing that you did things you thought you'd never do and knowing that, whatever mitigating circumstances apply, it was still you doing it.
Faded Colors - Chronicles of Narnia. 3782 words. T rated, villain POV. These are vignettes from the life of Jadis, the White Witch, both in her home world, Charn, and after she came to the world of Narnia but before she conquered Narnia. The partitions in her mind are potentially harder to see because they're so deeply rooted. She doesn't even know they're there.
Some of my Sky High stories would work. I think they might be very close to what you want, particularly anything in the Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion series which has things going in that direction for all the POV characters.
The canon is 1.5 hour Disney movie about a high school for superheroes. It is fluffy and silly and very obviously a dystopia underneath. Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion kind of has a 'here be dragons' on it because it's more than 100K words with some stories being AUs of others. It has shifting POV with each character seeing different truths and refusing to look at certain other things. The first story in the series ends with potential happiness. After that, things get darker for the characters, and they have to partition themselves more. An annotated index for the series can be found here.
Stealing What Little I Can is another Sky High story with a character who's deliberately not letting himself know all of the things he knows. It's about 13K words and complete. It's potentially happier at the end.
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