OCD Goth Cowboy Jesus FOR GREAT JUSTICE

[nenena]

Festibility is a fandom festival accepting all kinds of fanworks (fic, meta, art, icons, podfic, vids, recs, picspams, drabble sets etc) about disabled characters. Works can focus on canonically disabled characters or canonically able-bodied characters that you reimagine as disabled. Pieces can be as long or short as you like.

On the prompt post, the very first prompt offered is this: "Canonically able-bodied character has OCD or major depression to an extent that significantly affects hir everyday life, but ze saves the world/universe/someone, regardless."

This person is basically asking for excellent DtK fic, whether they know it or not. ;)

Flist, I challenge you! It would be great if somebody could write a DtK fic that fulfills the parameters of the prompt: that is, he must be dealing with OCD and doing something heroic at the same time. The fic should also be accessible to people outside the Soul Eater fandom (and yes THIS WILL BE A CHALLENGE, but remember that the powers of the Captain Exposition Hat and the Colonel Inner Monologue Hat can judiciously be used for good, not evil). Finally, it would be nice if said fic doesn't regurgitate any annoying stereotypes about OCD at the same time. Considering that the Soul Eater canon already takes care of two out of three of those requirements for y'all, however, this isn't a terribly impossible task. Stick to the canon depiction of Kid's disorder and you're already 80% of the way there.

OR if somebody could come up with some recs for DtK fics that fulfill all of the above requirements - dealing with OCD and being heroic at the same time, accessible to people outside the fandom, not drowning in obnoxious tropes about mental illness - that would be awesome, too. (And before anybody comments about this, no, none of my own fics would fit the bill, I don't think.)

I'm going to try to challenge myself to do the fic part. Dunno if I'm going to pull it off in time, but I'll try. Unfortunately, I am woefully bad at remembering other people's fics and I haven't had time to read any fanfic at all since The Semester from Hell started, so I won't be much help on the recs side of things. Any help from anybody would be appreciated in that regard.

Now hark ye, good youth, wilt thou join me and write DtK fic for GREAT SOCIAL JUSTICE?

Or if Soul Eater isn't your thing, there are seven other pages of delicious prompts, too.