Jame Alan Gardner's 'League of Peoples' books, any character: "Kids deemed too stupid or too excessively 'broken' for field work? Get their differences fixed. Bright kids are deemed 'broken' just badly enough to make them visibly different from their peers? Get recruited to the Explorer Corps. A character's reaction to finding out that they're not 'broken' badly enough to dodge the draft." AUs, crossovers, etc are all welcome. :)