Care Bears: The Story of Nathaniel Coldheart

"Care Bears: The Story of Nathaniel Coldheart" is a Care Bears AU that was originally supposed to be a modern spin on the classic DiC episodes of the Care Bears TV series in the '80s. When I realized that the AU's version of Professor Coldheart, Professor Nathaniel Coldheart, was getting far more characterization and backstory than any of the other characters, I decided to retool the AU to make him the protagonist (dang it, it happened again!). He starts out as a man who views all displays of love and caring as hypocritical and wants to destroy what he believes is a harmful pretense, even if it destroys the world around him. Over the course of the story, he learns that not only is love not entirely a farce, but he actually has deep feelings of affection for his assistant and his daughter, and that helps him to learn to love life and other people again.