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• Beside You In Time by tomodotch

  Fandoms: Smiling Friends (Cartoon 2020)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  07 Jun 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Charlie Dompler/Pim Pimling
  • Charlie Dompler
  • Charlie's Uncle (Smiling Friends)
  • Pim Pimling
  • Probably more in the future
  • Drug Abuse
  • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
  • Child Abuse
  • Homophobia
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Internal Conflict
  • Denial of Feelings
  • serious ish fic for comedic cartoon
  • Verbal Abuse
  • Physical Abuse
  • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
  • lowkey looks puppy love-esque even though they're almost adults
  • Based Loosely on Reality
  • heart problems
  • Child Neglect
  • Parentification
  • Minor Charlie Dompler/Pim Pimling
  • C-PTSD

  Summary

  Charlie Dompler is a senior in high school that has to deal with the physical and mental abuse of his uncle, but meeting someone with an oppositional world view changes everything.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  22,081

  Chapters:

  7/?

  Comments:

  24

  Kudos:

  34

  Bookmarks:

  6

  Hits:

  485